After separating from Hu Guozhu, Xia Wanchun and others, Zhu Cijiong called Xu Wuniu to him.

"Xu Wuniu, let's change positions today." Zhu Cijiong smiled and said, "I took the scout team to explore the way, and you took the thousand cavalry team to follow up, how about it?" ”

"Dingwang, how can this work?" Xu Wuniu's face turned green when he heard this.

Let King Ding, you be the scout captain? What do you think, it's absolutely not okay.

"What? Are you not happy? Zhu Cijiong's face fell.

"It seems that it is necessary for this king to move you to the infantry town."

"Don't, don't be the king." As soon as Xu Wuniu heard this, he hurriedly begged for mercy.

After being a cavalryman, especially after tasting the taste of a scout cavalry, Xu Wuniu never wanted to be an infantry again, where is the majesty of cavalry when he is an infantry? More importantly, when the cavalry was on family leave, they could ride their horses back to their hometowns.

Xu Wuniu had long been looking forward to the day when he would take family leave and ride a tall horse back to his hometown.

At that time, not only will the parents' faces shine, but the matchmaker will also be able to break through the threshold of their family.

He can choose the best-looking woman in ten miles and eight towns as his wife, and that day will be beautiful.

persuaded Xu Wuniu with the "truth", and Zhu Cijiong set off with the scout team.

At this time, there were Mongolian cavalry everywhere near the coastline between Dengzhou and Dagukou, which was more than 900 miles long, so Zhu Cijiong walked forward with more than ten horsemen not far before he encountered the Mongolian cavalry at night.

The Mongol cavalry did not collect about thirty cavalry at night, probably relying on the advantage of numbers, so they did not rush to flee, but only sent a night not to withdraw to report to the cavalry brigade.

The rest of the cavalry scattered in all directions.

In the constant struggle with the Ming cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry also summed up experience.

The Ming army's flintlock pistols were indeed sharper than bows and arrows, but the rate of fire was much slower than that of bows and arrows, so if the two sides were hedged, the Ming cavalry usually only had one chance to shoot, and if one shot missed, it was their turn to bow and arrow.

Of course, if the Ming cavalry is numerous, and dismounts and lines are lined up, then how far can they escape.

But now the scout cavalry of the Ming army only had a dozen horses, so the Mongolian cavalry felt that the opportunity had come, and immediately scattered in all directions, and then quickly approached from different directions.

Zhu Cijiong smiled and raised the Type 20 rifle with a "scope" attached.

Soon, Zhu Cijiong locked on to a Mongolian cavalry through the scope, and the distance between the two sides was at least more than five hundred paces, because the distance was far enough, so the Mongolian cavalry was defenseless, and the upper body stood up from the horse.

Raising the muzzle of the gun slightly, Zhu Cijiong gently pulled the trigger, and the gun rang out.

"Horn!" A shot rang out, and after about a second, the Mongol cavalry fell from their horses.

The other Mongol cavalry were taken aback for a moment, and shrank their bodies to the side of the saddle, and at the same time increased the speed of their horses, entering the sprint speed in advance, obviously wanting to quickly engage the Ming army in close combat.

Zhu Cijiong reloaded as quickly as possible.

The cartridges and tulle primer packs are great inventions.

It took less than six seconds for Zhu Cijiong to reload.

During this period, the Mongol cavalry only rushed forward more than 50 paces, and was still more than 400 paces away.

Zhu Cijiong raised his gun again, and this time it was no longer a person who was aiming, but a war horse, because the Mongolian cavalry had already hidden on the side of the saddle and could no longer see anyone.

"Horn!" Another crisp gunshot rang out.

In the field of vision, the galloping war horse immediately fell to the ground, and the Mongolian cavalry on horseback was also swept away.

Almost at the same time, more than a dozen scout cavalry around Zhu Cijiong also fired one after another, and the Type 20 rifles of these scout cavalry were not equipped with scopes, so the hit rate was very embarrassing.

But two horses were still killed or wounded.

One of the horses was wounded and not dead, and let out a wail.

The rest of the Mongol cavalry was stunned, what was going on?

It was not without fighting the Ming scout cavalry before, and in most cases, the Ming army's scout cavalry would only fire after the two sides had entered a hundred paces, and rarely fired at a hundred paces away.

But this time, the two sides were still separated by 500 paces, and the Ming army scout cavalry actually opened fire?

And what makes them feel even more terrifying is that they can actually hit even five hundred steps away? Immortal God, how could the self-generated fire of the Ming army's scout cavalry hit so far?

However, these Mongolians still did not give up easily.

They are the elite of the Mongolian cavalry, and their will to fight must be firmer.

The remaining twenty riders continued to pick up speed, trying to keep the distance as short as possible.

However, what awaited them was an extremely tragic fate, because these more than ten cavalry scout cavalry were all equipped with rifled rifles, and the bullets used were also smokeless powder bullets, with greater kinetic energy and longer range.

Imagine the 12.8mm large-caliber rifle cartridge of the later generations, just that power.

What's even worse is that the loading speed of the Ming army's rifled rifles is also very fast.

For a flintlock pistol, the reload time of less than six seconds is already superb.

Six seconds, no matter how fast the war horse runs, it can only run forward fifty or sixty steps, and it takes at least six or seven six seconds to run four hundred steps, which is almost half a minute, which is enough for each Ming scout cavalry to fire at least five shots.

The final result can be imagined, the Mongol cavalry was completely wiped out, and there was no chance of escape.

When only half of the Mongol cavalry remained, they were finally frightened, and they turned their horses and wanted to run.

But at this time, the distance between the two sides was less than a hundred steps, how could they run away?

Soon, all the horses that the Mongols did not collect at night were shot, but the people were still alive, so they all jumped up, threw off their lap legs and fled frantically.

Zhu Cijiong waved his hand, and more than ten scout cavalry dispersed.

The scout cavalry of the Ming army followed unhurriedly behind the Mongolian night without a war horse, and shot one after another, shooting all the more than 30 night horses in the wilderness like a rabbit.

This is by no means a fair fight, but a dimensionality reduction blow.

……

Two days later, Hong Chengchou, who was far away in Jinghai, received the news.

However, Hong Chengchou did not take Bart's defeat to heart.

Because Bart's defeat was more due to the tricks of the Ming army, he mistook the Ming infantry for the people's strong grain transportation team, and suffered a big loss without defense.

So, as long as you are vigilant, this will not happen again.

However, the cruel reality soon dealt a heavy blow to Hong Chengchou.

Since then, reports of the defeat of the Eight Banners Mongols have been received almost every day.

Either the Thousand Cavalry was attacked, or the Nightless Cavalry was heavily damaged.

What worries Hong Chengchou even more is that the losses of the Eight Banners Mongolia are getting bigger and bigger day by day.

Ten days later, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the casualties of the Eight Banners Mongols had accumulated to 4,000!

Due to the passive situation, the Eight Banners Mongolia was forced to move away from the coast of Laizhou Bay and retreat to the vicinity of Jinghai.

After the withdrawal of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the grain route of the Ming army from Dengzhou to Dagukou immediately became busy again.

"Hong Butang, it's not okay to go on like this!" Kong Youde said in a deep voice, "It's only been half a month, and the Eight Banners Mongolia has actually lost more than 4,000 horsemen, and what's even more troublesome is that the Eight Banners Mongolia has obviously been scared by the Ming cavalry, or it has a shadow on the fact that the Minfu Baggage Brigade is pretending to be the infantry of the Ming Army, and it is easy not to make another move." ”

"Hou joins the army?" Hong Chengchou's gaze turned to Hou Fangyu, "What do you say?" ”

Hou Fangyu's brows were already furrowed, this situation was something he didn't expect.

Hou Fangyu couldn't understand, how could the good situation suddenly become like this?

Just because of the cavalry of the Ming army? However, the cavalry of the Ming army was obviously only seven or eight thousand, but the Eight Banners Mongolia had 40,000, and the number of cavalry on both sides was not an order of magnitude at all!

Are the cavalry of the Ming army really so powerful?

Hou Fangyu couldn't figure it out.

"Hong Butang, the lower officials really don't understand."

"The Eight Banners Mongolia has 40,000 elite horsemen, why can't they beat the Ming army's 8,000 horsemen?"

After a pause, Hou Fangyu said again: "Why don't you find a few Mongolians to ask, what's going on?" How did they fight this battle? Why can't you win? ”

"It makes sense, but you should ask clearly."

Hong Chengchou immediately asked Hong Da to find the Eight Banners Mongolia.

It didn't take long for a dozen Mongol soldiers to be taken to Xingyuan.

Hong Chengchou interrogated more than a dozen Mongolian soldiers separately.

The first to be questioned was Agula, the deputy capital of the Eight Banners of Mongolia.

Hou Fangyu said: "Agoura means 'mountain' in Mongolian, and I believe that Agoura must be as calm as a mountain on the battlefield, but I heard that your five Niulu cavalry were defeated by a thousand cavalry of the Ming army?" Please tell the official the deputy commander of Agoura, why? ”

"Nothing else, because we really can't beat the Ming army."

Agoura's face showed a look of shame, and he was also sad that he couldn't defeat the Ming army.

But no matter how sad I was, I couldn't help it, the firearms of the Ming army were too sharp.

Hong Chengchou said: "Can you tell the governor why he can't beat the Ming cavalry?" ”

"Because the firearms of the Ming army are too sharp." "Not only is it accurate, but it's also far, much farther than our Qing Dynasty's self-generated firearms." ”

"How far?" Kong Youde asked.

Agoura said: "Our Qing Dynasty's self-generated firearms can only hit one or two hundred steps, but the Ming cavalry's self-generated firearms can hit four or five hundred steps, and even if they are four hundred steps away, they can kill a war horse with one shot!" ”

"The Ming army's firearms are so sharp?" Hong Chengchou and Hou Fangyu changed color.

"Is there such a thing?" Kong Youde was a little unconvinced, "Why doesn't this king believe it?" ”

Agoura had no respect for Kong Youde: "If King Pingnan doesn't believe it, you can try it." ”

Hong Chengchou and the others then interrogated more than a dozen other Mongolian soldiers, and found that the rhetoric was similar.

At this time, it is impossible for Kong Youde to believe it, because these more than a dozen Mongolian soldiers are from more than a dozen thousand cavalry, and even if they lie, they can't make up a story in such a short time and unify their voice.

"Hong Butang, it seems that this is true." Kong Youde said in a deep voice.

"The cavalry of the Ming army is really equipped with a very powerful self-generated firearm."

【Kneel and beg for a commuter pass】

(End of chapter)