Chapter 203: Cavalry
At this time, Li Youcheng, who returned to the camp, felt more and more that something was wrong.
If the Ming army had arrived, it would have converged with the Ming army in the camp, but his sentry outside the camp did not return.
"Report." A cavalryman who had been sent out earlier to reconnoiter returned.
"My lord, a Ming army suddenly appeared on a hill two or three miles outside the city, numbering about more than 100 people." The cavalryman reported.
"Only a hundred people?" Li Youcheng stood up directly and looked at the fan rider in front of him in disbelief.
"There are really only more than 100 horsemen in the Ming army outside the city?" Li Youcheng asked, with a hint of doubt in his tone.
"What the villain said is true, there are indeed only more than 100 reinforcements from the Ming people, but the villain is watching from a distance, and the Ming people have prepared a lot of artillery on the hills, and the number is no less than five." The fan rider hurriedly said.
"This is really a strange thing, how could the Ming army of Nainong send a force of more than 100 people to reinforcements?" Mo Xin on the side also frowned, very puzzled.
Just when the people in the big tent were puzzled, the messenger sent by the hidden Wu had already arrived outside the tent.
Only then did Li Youcheng and the others know what happened last night.
"Humph!" Li Youcheng slammed his fist on the desk.
"Ming people are cunning, and they dare to tease me." When Li Youcheng learned from the messenger sent by the Hidden Guards that the Nainong garrison had attacked the camp outside the city last night, and a convoy of more than 100 people had secretly taken this opportunity to leave the city, a wave of anger and shame surged into his heart.
"Pass it on, the troops will make fires and make food, and in two quarters of an hour, the army will set off to destroy this Ming army for me." Li has attained enlightenment.
"My lord, I came to inform the general that Lord Hidden Wu and Lord Ruan Youjing are about to gather troops to attack Nainong City, and Lord Ruan Youjing hopes that Lord Ruan Youjing will immediately lead five hundred Guangnan soldiers back to the army and participate in the attack on Nai Nong City." The messenger of the hidden stalk said coldly.
"We have almost captured the Ming camp, and now the west wall of the Ming camp has been burned down by fire, and we will definitely take the Ming camp in a day." Mo Xin on the side was also anxious, he lost nearly 200 people under the Ming camp, and saw that the Ming camp was about to be breached, but he actually wanted to return to the army.
"This is the meaning of Lord Hidden Wu and General Ruan Youjing, if the general wants to disobey." Then the envoy looked at Mosin coldly.
Li Youcheng is a general of Guangnan, and he doesn't dare to take care of it as a messenger of the supervising army, but you Mo Xin is just a general of Zhenla, can it be true that you really dare to disobey Lord Hidden Wu?
When Mosin heard this, he closed his mouth and said no more.
"Give me one day, and within one day I will break through the Ming camp and kill the nearby Ming army." Li Youcheng looked at the envoy of the prison army and said.
"General Ruan Youjing's side, I will personally go to ask for guilt."
Seeing this, the envoy of the prison army also knew that he would not be able to bring back this army today, so he had to glare at Mosin, and then left angrily.
"Thank you, General." Mosin clenched his fists in gratitude.
"In one day, I will take the camp and destroy the Ming army three miles away, this..."A Guangnan general shook his head, it had already taken a lot of effort and energy to attack the Ming camp, and now there was another Ming army.
"I'll destroy that Ming army first, and then wave my troops to capture the camp." Li has attained enlightenment.
"General Mosin, please hand over your horse team to me, and I will personally lead the cavalry to destroy the Nainong reinforcements." Li Youcheng patted Moxin's shoulder and said.
"This!" Mosin looked embarrassed, this horse team was accumulated by Mosin with great pains, and he was reluctant to use it on weekdays.
The loss of seven or eight cavalry under the camp had already made him sad before, and now he was asked to hand over all the cavalry, which he naturally refused.
Seeing Mo Xin's hesitation, Li Youcheng said with a smile, "Now it is Zhenla who is fighting to recover Dongpu, if the general is reluctant to even have dozens of cavalry, then how can Zhenla take Dongpu." ”
"The general has been fighting bloody battles with the Ming people these days, and his bravery has been well known, if he takes Dongpu one day, we will definitely play Lord Ruan and reward Dongpu to the general."
Facing the big cake drawn by Li Youcheng, Mosin's eyes lit up, and after a little thought, he gritted his teeth and agreed.
Seeing that Mosin agreed, Li Youcheng immediately set off with his cavalry and Mosin's horse team without saying a word.
When Ruan Youjing went south to Dongpu, in addition to bringing 500 Guangnan soldiers, he also brought more than 100 cavalry and horses.
At this time, more than half of them were under Li Youcheng's hands, plus dozens of horsemen under Mo Sin, and at this moment Li Youcheng had a cavalry with a scale of more than 100.
"Kill." Looking at the more than 100 cavalry around, Li Youcheng was also enthusiastic, and ordered more than 100 cavalry to kill the Nainong reinforcements in the distance.
Just in case, there were 200 Quang Nam soldiers who set off with the army.
However, they were soon left far behind by Li Youcheng's cavalry.
"My lord, the Ming people have fierce firearms, do I want to test it." In the distance, I saw the hill where the Ming people were stationed, and a cavalry general asked.
"The Ming artillery is at most twenty paces away, and we can rush to the horse with just a few breaths, and the Ming artillery is just a small cannon, and it can't threaten my elite iron cavalry." Li Youcheng was obviously also carried away by the momentum of the collision of the hundred horsemen.
From a distance, I saw the artillery pieces arranged by the Ming people on the hills, about no less than ten.
He Li Youcheng is not a fool, and naturally knows that Ming people are good at using firearms.
Therefore, everyone is watching the Ming artillery, and Li Youcheng is not afraid, so he is worried about these artillery.
However, at this moment, the cavalry had already rushed into a mile away from the Ming army, but the Ming artillery was slow to fire, which couldn't help but make the Fanren cavalry more courageous.
If the Ming people opened fire at this time, then it proved that the Ming people must have heavy artillery, and then more than 100 cavalry would inevitably withdraw quickly, but now the cavalry has rushed into a mile, and the Ming artillery has not moved for a long time.
"See, the Ming people have some small cannons in their hands." Li Youcheng laughed when he saw this.
That's right, for example, the artillery on Nainong City is more than 1,000 catties at every turn, and the red-coated cannons are tens of thousands of catties at every turn, how can it be carried here in one night.
"Rush me." Li Youcheng held a spear and personally led more than 100 cavalry to rush towards the Ming army.
At this moment, they were only seven or eight hundred steps away from the Ming army.
Thirty Ming gunners were on standby, and they aimed their guns at the cavalry not far away.
This can be said to be the first time that the Luzon Ming army encountered a cavalry charge.
In the distance, more than 100 cavalry charged, and the horses' hooves stepped on the mud of the rice field, and the soil flew for a while.
The sound of horses' hooves and the neighing of war horses came and went.
"My lord, Fanqi is about 500 steps away from me." A flag officer reports.
"Fire!" Lin Xu said coldly.
The five Francophone guns of the forward artillery team were condescending, and the crosshairs were aimed at the horse team more than 500 paces away.
"Put!" Five gunners shouted.
A torch lit the arquebus on the pistol.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! With five loud bangs, five buckshot bullets flew out.
The lead bullet smashed directly into the fan riding room with lightning speed.