A thousand new muskets, which were used to exert amazing power in the defense of the city.

If it is an old-fashioned musket, the lethality of defending the city is extremely limited. Because loading ammunition is too slow, and the power is also small. Siege soldiers holding shields and wearing leather armor will greatly reduce their lethality.

But the new muskets had a longer chamber with a primitive rifling structure, and the projectile also creatively changed from round to pointed, which greatly increased the lethality of the musket.

Moreover, the integration of ammunition makes the reloading speed very fast, and the only thing that can affect the firing speed is the overheating of the barrel.

After several volleys, some of the muskets had to be physically cooled, such as pouring water to cool down.

Later it was too late to send water to the walls, the soldiers had to help each other, and there were shouts everywhere.

"Who the fuck still has pee, help me take a dip! I can't pee! ”

"I don't have it anymore, I pee twice!"

"I still have it, I'll come, damn, what are you doing, stay away, Mao'er is baked!"

"Then you're peeing on time, waste!"

With the rotation of muskets, the besieging nomads got a respite and began to attack even more frantically. Bows and arrows and bullets flew in the air, so dense that it was breathless.

There were layers of corpses under the city walls, and there were many dead and wounded on the city walls. Although the bow and arrow were not as good as the musket, the damage caused was also terrifying, especially since the Jurchens were even stronger than the Mongols.

Xiao Feng grabbed a flying feather arrow in his hand, looked at the enemy who was crawling against the wall under the black pressure under the city, and took a deep breath.

"Yang Zhao! Open the one with the tightest wrap in the ammunition cart, take out the thunderbolts inside, find the best one, and throw it at the most crowded place under the city! ”

Thunderbolts the size of bean bags were thrown into the city, exploding with a bang, and the soldiers around the explosion were instantly overturned. Some got up and continued to fight, while others never got up again.

The base of the ladder is the place where it is greeted the most. Because the ladder is supported by people, it is a place where people gather.

The blast tossed over the crowd, and the tall ladder gradually tilted, and was pushed down by the soldiers on the city wall and smashed to the ground.

The power of the bolts threw the besieging soldiers into confusion and gave the muskets plenty of cooldowns, and when the bolts were almost depleted, the muskets reappeared!

Wang Gao's face turned pale: "Great Khan, nearly half of our people have been killed and injured, and it is not a way to fight like this!" Let's retreat first! ”

Altan Khan gritted his teeth and thought for a moment: "We underestimated their strength in defending the city. It's to retreat, but not to retreat! Regroup your troops and go with all the cavalry to attack the farming area! ”

Wang Gao was stunned: "Do you want to feint or really fight?" ”

Altan Khan sneered: "Both! If he dares to send the main force out of the city to rescue, I will turn back and fight him. In this wilderness, can he beat our iron horsemen?

If he doesn't send the main force out of the city, I will kill all his farming areas and leave no chickens and dogs, and burn all the tiles and leaves!

In the reclamation of the farming area outside the pass, it was Xiao Feng who pushed it, I killed the farming area, and no one dared to go out of the customs to farm in the future, how could he explain to the imperial court? ”

Wang Gao was a little hesitant, because these days, there are actually more than just Han people in the farming area.

Many Jurchens, who were captured in war, or who fled as slaves and took the initiative to defect, also lived together in agricultural areas.

It's okay to fight and grab something, but if you really want to massacre, all Han and Jurchen people will inevitably die, and this thing is not good for his reputation.

But at this time, Altan Khan already had red eyes, and Wang Gao did not dare to object, after all, the two were now grasshoppers on the same line.

Wang Gao gritted his teeth and let people give orders. The Mongol Jurchen coalition forces besieging the city began to retreat, retreated to a certain distance, and mounted their horses one after another.

The besieged soldiers, who had been beaten to ashes, immediately straightened their waists and turned into majestic nomadic iron horses.

There were a lot of horses, because many of them never had a chance to get on their horses again, they were lying outside the walls, some were silent, some were still rolling and struggling, but no one dared to turn back and save them.

Altan Khan shouted: "Mongol warriors, Jurchen warriors! The Han people are cunning, we don't fight hard with them on the city walls!

Let's go and kill the farming area, kill them and leave nothing behind! Avenge the fallen warriors! ”

The cavalrymen, who gnawed at the city walls and gnawed at all confidence, immediately felt that they could do it again! They raised their long knives and screamed, under the leadership of the two leading brothers, and rushed directly to the nearest farming area!

Yang Zhao watched the enemy retreat and breathed a sigh of relief: "Lord Xiao, this time we will win more with less and inflict heavy losses on the enemy army, and they will never dare to be presumptuous in the future!" ”

Xiao Feng looked at the direction of the enemy's retreat and shook his head: "They haven't retreated yet, they are going to slaughter the farming area." Concentrate the musket team, bring enough ammunition, and the cavalry are ready to go out of the city with me! ”

Yang Zhao was startled and hurriedly stopped: "My lord, we also have cavalry patrols in the farming area, and we also sent Li Chengliang with two thousand cavalry to support just now."

Although it was to lure the enemy to attack the city, with the addition of the original patrol, there were 5,000 cavalry in the farming area, and it may not be impossible to fight, and the lower officials thought that the adults did not have to risk going out of the city. ”

Xiao Feng shook his head and said: "The enemy army still has eight or nine thousand cavalry, and they are concentrated on attacking a farming area, and the cavalry patrol cannot withstand it.

Although I ordered in advance that all the population of the farming areas should be evacuated from the settlements, it was not far enough away that it could be discovered.

Don't worry, I'm not a helpless scholar, it's really dangerous, and it's okay for me to escape.

You wait on the city walls, and if you see me setting off fireworks, you will rush out with five thousand infantry and go into battle. If you don't see me set off fireworks, the whole army will be wiped out, and you won't leave the city. ”

Yang Zhao couldn't stop it, so he could only watch Xiao Feng go out of the city with the only two thousand cavalry left in the city.

Now the rest of the city is infantry, and there are no muskets, in case the enemy returns to attack the city...... Yang Zhao couldn't help but shudder.

Xiao Feng had a thousand cavalrymen with muskets and ammunition pockets hanging from their saddles. Another thousand cavalrymen marched side by side, each with two shields, one to protect himself and the other to protect his comrades with muskets.

Two thousand cavalry waited for work in the city, and at this time the speed was very fast, and the tail of the Ouroboros pursued, biting the Mongol and Jurchen coalition forces rushing in front.

Altan Khan was overjoyed, and he was afraid that the people in the city would not be able to survive or die, so that no matter how many agricultural areas he burned and killed, he could only be regarded as a better defeat.

At this time, seeing Xiao Feng's plan, Altan Khan immediately ordered the cavalry to change direction, make a big turn, and turn back to meet the two thousand cavalry in this area.

The biggest difference between the cavalry and the infantry is the U-turn. It is very simple for the infantry to turn around, give an order, turn backwards, and the rear team can change to the front team to complete the U-turn on the spot.

And the U-turn of the galloping cavalry is like a car, and it must be completed by turning an arc and making a turn. If you want to force a U-turn on the spot, it is not only chaotic and dangerous, but it is not as fast as this.

Xiao Feng held the binoculars, and saw that the direction of the opponent's formation began to change in the night, and ordered loudly.

"Cavalry accelerate! Don't wait for them to turn around completely, shoot a salvo while they're in range while they're turning! ”

The two thousand cavalry suddenly accelerated, like a fan, and rushed forward at the ranks formed when the enemy turned and circled, and fired with their guns raised!

Altan Khan's tactics were correct, and he calculated the distance between the two sides with precision.

If he turned around too early, Xiao Feng's team would have enough time to turn around and return to the city, and he would not be able to catch up.

So he deliberately lowered the speed of the team, and waited for Xiao Feng's cavalry to rush to a certain distance before ordering a turnaround.

This distance is accurate, if Xiao Feng also let the cavalry turn around, his own team rushed forward faster than Altan Khan's team, and it would take longer to turn around.

This also means that after Altan Khan's team completed the U-turn, Xiao Feng's team has not yet completed the U-turn. In this case, Altan Khan would be able to lead the cavalry to bite the tail of Xiao Feng's team.

One cavalry team bites the tail of another cavalry team, and the battle turns into a one-sided slaughter, and the pursued cavalry does not even have a chance to turn around and meet the enemy.

Xiao Feng can only run back to the city all the time, and he can live as much as he wants. Altan Khan could bite his tail and break through the gates and slaughter in the city, when the muskets would be useless.

If Xiao Feng could take this into account and not dare to turn around, but desperately charge forward, then this distance between the two sides could also ensure that Altan Khan's team had completed the U-turn before Xiao Feng rushed to the land of a stone's throw.

In that way, the two sides will be hedging head-on, and at such a close distance, the Mongolian Jurchen United, which has a crushing advantage in numbers, will definitely be able to crush the other party at once. Even if the other party is holding a musket, it has nothing to do with the overall situation.

This is the experience that Altan Khan has summed up in countless battles with his opponents, and there is no mistake in tempering it! But he overlooked an extremely important issue.

A place of arrows is not a place of shots, and this small difference makes his carefully calculated winning distance become a death trap.

The new musket after the improvement of the WTO concept has a range of at least three times longer than that of ordinary bows and arrows! Therefore, when the formation of the wing was still turning a big bend, the Ming cavalry, far away from the land of three arrows, opened fire!

This salvo was almost aimed at the human wall, and it didn't even need to be aimed.

The cavalry team that was turning, like a man who had been kicked in the ribs, was not just a matter of breaking a few ribs.

The people in the fast-turning team turned on their backs, and the formation suddenly became chaotic! Xiao Feng waved his hand to slow down the cavalry while quickly reloading ammunition.

Altan Khan also realized the fatal mistake he had made, and he desperately shouted orders, ordering the team to quickly regroup and continue to turn!

But the regrouping of the formation took time, and when they managed to re-establish order and accelerate the turn, the second shot rang out again.

Altan Khan knew that it was too late to turn around the brigade according to the original plan, so he had to take a risk and shouted.

"Chenger, take the outer cavalry out of the brigade and rush up to meet the enemy!"

This is a last resort, only the outermost layer of cavalry can quickly break away from the large army, but this part of the men and horses will not be too many, that is, about a thousand.

These thousand cavalrymen must use their flesh and blood to face the muzzle of the black hole and buy precious time for the turn of the large army!

Cheng Ge did not hesitate, brandished a broadsword, flicked the horse's head, and rushed out of the large army diagonally.

The outermost cavalry followed him, like a piece of cake cut by the big brother of Xinjiang, which looked very thin, but because the length was sufficient, the weight was not small.

The death squad rushed forward as they drew their bows and fired arrows in return. However, the distance between the two sides was too far for the bow and arrow to reach at all, and the musket rang out again, and half of the thousand cavalry fell.

When the muskets were reloaded, the bows and arrows of the remaining 500 men were finally able to arrive, but at the end of the crossbow, they were easily blocked by the wingman with the shield.

The muskets fired another volley, and the death squads fell off their horses, and Inger roared, covering half of his face, and rushed out with the remaining dozen or so cavalrymen.

The precious time gained by using a thousand cavalry as meat shields allowed the large forces of the coalition army to finally bypass the big bend and form a face-to-face situation with Xiao Feng's cavalry.

Altan Khan ordered the army to charge as fast as possible, while Xiao Feng ordered a thousand musketeers and horses to continue to slow down and shoot as fast as they could. The coalition forces kept falling, but they were getting closer.

Altan Khan's heart was dripping blood, and the ten thousand cavalry were mainly from his tribe, and they were all the most elite warriors of his own tribe.

Because of the speed of this rescue force, he simply didn't have time to recruit more fighters from other tribes. What's more, he also has selfishness in it.

The Mongolian steppe has never been a peaceful place, and the tribes are not under the Gan people.

He was able to rule the steppe, not only because he was the strongest, but also because he had accumulated prestige, and the tribes believed that they could protect them.

But the impact of food shortages is huge, and if you can't do anything about it, leaders from other tribes will naturally stand up. If anyone solves the food problem, they will be able to establish greater prestige on the grasslands.

Altan Khan couldn't let that happen. Therefore, whether it is negotiating with Daming to buy grain, or going to hunt bacon jerky outside Liaoxi Road, he must control the opportunity in his own hands.

It wasn't entirely in the plan to turn his face with Xiao Feng, but Altan Khan was still very pleased that he secretly left the rescue force on the periphery as an ambush.

As long as he can kill Xiao Feng, he believes that Da Ming will return to his previous state, and all his problems will be solved.

But now, their own warriors are constantly falling! The Jurchens led by Wang Gao also suffered heavy losses, and now the momentum of the charge also lagged behind the Mongols, intentionally or unintentionally.

But Altan Khan believed that it was necessary for the battle to start early. Because Xiao Feng didn't have much time to prepare, this can be seen from the number of muskets.

If in two years, Daming has tens of thousands of such muskets, then the battle will really not be fought! Take advantage of the present to extinguish Xiao Feng and destroy the future of Daming!

The guns were like thunder, the horses' hooves were like rain, this life-and-death duel between the Ming and the nomads, the battle of national fortune, actually started at a time when both sides were not fully ready!

The coalition forces were gradually approaching in the constant back-to-back of people, and Xiao Feng saw the horror on the faces of his own cavalry.

Two shots, at most two shots, will inevitably engage the enemy, and the enemy will still outnumber your own side.

Although the cavalry combat power of the Ming Dynasty has been improving in the past two years, mainly because the phenomenon of arrears of military salaries has improved a lot, the same number of cavalry hedging is still more advantageous for nomads.

What's more, now, there are at least four or five thousand people left on the other side! His own 2,000 people are fighting together, and the defeat is decided!

At this moment, behind the coalition army, a flash of fire suddenly appeared, and Li Chengliang with two thousand cavalry roared and slammed into the ass of the coalition army!

After the two thousand cavalry left the city, they pretended to disperse and reunited in the distance, and they did not go to the rescue of the agricultural areas that had been harassed by feints, but waited in the dark.

As Xiao Feng expected, Altan Khan, who was suppressed by muskets and besieged the city wall for a long time, resorted to the hooligan methods of massacring the farming area with the main force to force the Ming army out of the city.

Xiao Feng followed with a musket team to pursue, without any fireworks, as soon as the gun rang out, it was an order, and Li Chengliang in the distance immediately charged back with two thousand cavalry.

The chaotic noise of the battlefield muffled the sound of the hooves of Li Chengliang's cavalry, and Altan Khan and Wang Gao were both red-eyed and bent on eating this musket cavalry, no one expected Li Chengliang to appear so soon.

Just as Xiao Feng's musket team released the last shot, Li Chengliang's cavalry also caught up with the ass of the coalition army and inserted it fiercely!

Altan Khan, who was flanked from the front and back, knew that if he turned back to meet the enemy, it would inevitably be even more chaotic, so he gritted his teeth and yelled.

"There is no advance or retreat! Kill the musketeers, keep rushing forward, and take the city! ”

Xiao Feng's musket team did not rush forward, and the thousand cavalrymen with shields threw down their shields, drew their swords, and shouted to meet them.

These thousand Ming cavalry, just like the thousand cavalry of Cheng Geer who fell under the gun, are also meat shields to help their comrades buy time, the difference is that they know that the final winner must be their own side.

Xiao Feng looked coldly at the coalition cavalry that was blocked by the hedged cavalry, and the coalition cavalry who were in a mess pulled out the embroidered spring knife from the ground.

"Musketeers! Shoot! ”

A thousand cavalrymen with muskets hesitated slightly, in front of them, not only the enemy, but also the comrades who were entrapped in it and fought to the death!

But the military orders were like a mountain, and they knew very well that the opportunity for such a high-speed cavalry to cut down was fleeting, and if the enemy rushed in front of them, the musket would become a burning stick.

Rumble! The musket went off, and although it was not as neat as it used to be, it was still powerful.

The already chaotic situation became even more chaotic, and with Li Chengliang leading people from behind to desperately chop, the coalition charge was completely disrupted.

Once the cavalry loses its speed, it also loses its power. Muskets fired again and again, and the flesh and blood of both sides flew and became entangled with death.

Xiao Feng raised his hand, and a firework flew into the air and exploded, making it particularly eye-catching in the night sky.

Yang Zhao gritted his teeth, jumped on his war horse, and led the five thousand infantry that had been prepared for a long time, and rushed out of the city gate.

The battlefield was far away from them, and the infantry rushed all the way, and as Xiao Feng commanded, they raised their torches and shouted wildly.

This momentum greatly boosted the morale of the Ming army in the bitter battle, and plunged the Mongol and Jurchen coalition forces into despair.

In peacetime, even if there were only 1,000 cavalry, they would not take this 5,000 infantry seriously.

But now, both sides have reached the end of the crossbow, and these 5,000 infantry are a heavy weight smashed on the scales!

Altan Khan knew that if he didn't run quickly, he would be driven in front of him by these 5,000 infantry and surrounded, and he would be able to stab the remaining cavalry to death with his spears alone!

He couldn't care about Wang Gao anymore, and shouted: "Break through!" Breakthrough! Rush east! ”

The coalition forces desperately reopened a hole and rushed frantically to the northeast, Li Chengliang wanted to chase, but was stopped by Xiao Feng.

"Don't chase him, let him run. It was almost dawn, the wounded soldiers were treated, and the prisoners were held.

Send people to welcome the reinforcements from Shanhaiguan, and use the reinforcements to strengthen the patrol force in various farming areas! ”