Spending most of the past two months hanging out with the lower-level soldiers, Geng Zhanghua's cavalry fighting skills have improved further.
Although he was being paid special attention to by Geng Qi, Liu Chuanzong, Yang Shihu, etc. today, he still took the opportunity to cut off the head of a Jiannu armored man.
He also worked with Liu Chuanzong and Yang Shihu to kill a white-armored soldier.
Of course, no one will compete with Geng Zhanghua for credit. Geng Zhanghua did the job of cutting off the white-armored soldier's head himself.
Geng Zhanghua's clothes and armor are distinctive, and his white-armored soldiers are all battle-hardened and experienced. Of course, it is obvious that he is a Ming army general.
So there were a few white-armored soldiers, more than 20 people in vests, infantry, and armor, who rushed towards Geng Zhanghua with all their strength.
Geng Zhanghua was surrounded by carefully selected armored servants, who of course did their best to protect the family head.
After a head-to-head battle, all Jiannu who tried to attack the general and reverse the defeat were killed. Geng Zhanghua even chopped off the head of a white-armored soldier with his own hands.
At this moment, he was covered in blood, extremely excited, and his voice was hoarse from shouting.
The red-eyed Huang Dazhi, Huang Dayong and other Liaodong knights thought of their relatives who were massacred by the slaves, and shouted at the top of their lungs: "This is the time to take revenge! Kill the slaves!"
"Bang! Crack, crackle..." A sound of firecrackers sounded, which seemed particularly unusual among the shouts of killing.
That was when Zhang Dong took the empty gun handed by Huang Yi and immediately dismounted to reload. He did not participate in the charge. At this time, Jiannu began to flee from him and the distance got closer and closer.
Being prepared, he caught the opportunity, "Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and a white-armored soldier fell from his horse.
"Hahaha..." Zhang Dongle was broken. He reloaded skillfully while saying "Bah!" and laughed: "Bayala is nothing, I guarantee that I can kill one of them with one shot."
Huang Yi's men included 60 musketeers who used Rumi guns. Of course, they would not participate in such an intense mounted battle.
Each one of them was waiting for the opportunity with their loaded Lumi gun. Seeing Zhang Dongkai kill Bai Jia, they were jealous and opened fire one after another.
The range of Lumi gun is far inferior to Huang Yi's unique Mini gun, but it is worse than bow and arrow.
Lead bullets are much more powerful than feathered arrows.
Sixty musketeers fired one after another. Although the accuracy of Rumi's gun was worrying, the target of the cavalry was too large. Even if the lead bullets could not hit people, they would have the same effect on horses.
Jiannu was running at high speed, and his horse was killed or injured with the following consequences.
Those who fell directly to death, fell half to death, or were trampled to death by horses. Those who were lucky enough to survive had no good consequences. They were either captured or received last-ditch blows. It was impossible to escape anyway.
This was in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. How could Jian Nu escape without his war horse? Will he be swallowed up by the vengeful Han people?
Zhang Dong's hatred for Jiannu was unforgettable. He showed no mercy at this time. After completing the reloading, he fired another shot and hit the back of a Jiannu rifle. When he tried again, he couldn't find the target at all and the enemy fled far away. .
No, no, many of them did not run away, but knelt on the ground and kowtowed to beg for mercy.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Dong shouted: "All Han people, listen up. Surrender to avoid death. Come over slowly with your hands raised!"
Bao Zhide, He Shiyuan and other musketeers also shouted: "Surrender and avoid death!"
Sixty musketeers, sixty sword-shielders, and spearmen were enough to catch the coated slaves, but all the knights still bit the enemy cavalry and pursued them.
The Ming army with high morale pursued them until they could see Yongping Fucheng before withdrawing their troops.
In this fight, Huang Yi took the greatest credit. He shot and killed Niu Lu'erzhen and a white-armored soldier, killed two white-armored soldiers, and six vests... Anyway, the total number of Jin soldiers killed was at least thirteen.
Therefore, this battle ended perfectly with less than half of Jiannu's losses, which made the cavalry with all beards and tails full of confidence. They were all shouting that they hadn't killed enough yet and they had to charge him a few more times!
The war declared that the army suffered more than 200 casualties, of which more than 70 were killed, including 27 knights under Huang Yi's command.
After a total of more than 340 Jin troops were killed, 27 people were captured, more than 400 war horses, nearly 500 draft horses, and several hundred oxen, donkeys, and mules each.
Nearly three thousand Han people were rescued, of which more than 500 were young women and more than 500 were slaves.
Zhang Dong, Bao Zhide, and He Shiyuan have all been slaves who have been slaves since they were young, and of course they are good at identifying them.
But Huang Yi gave the order to kill as few people as possible, and only selected a few of the most heinous slaves to be beheaded in public.
He did not kill the Han people with his own hands, but only humiliated and whipped the Han people's coated slaves to give them a way out, and brought them back to the base area to mine coal and iron ore.
Although more than half of the Jin army was able to escape, they abandoned their baggage and lost most of their looting results.
Therefore, Huang Yi and Geng Zhanghua's seizures were huge. According to rough statistics, the gold, silver, silk, etc. they obtained amounted to hundreds of thousands taels in silver.
Huang Yi didn't bring any nourishment, but he did bring bandages, alcohol and the best gold sore medicine prepared by Li Yongtai.
Not only Huang Yi can suture wounds and fix fractures, Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Peng, Zhang Dong, etc., as long as they are young cavalry, basically everyone has mastered this skill.
A cavalry charge would inevitably result in being struck down by arrows. Huang Yi carried as much equipment as possible and ensured that every cavalry member participating in the charge wore three layers of armor. Even if the weather was too hot and everyone was covered in sweat, it would be better than losing their lives.
It was because Huang Yi's men obeyed his orders, endured the heat willingly or not, and put on three layers of armor before charging into battle. Therefore, even if twenty-seven knights fell from their horses, only three were unlucky. The soldiers died on the spot.
The remaining seven or eight people may be disabled. Whether the four who were trampled by horses' hooves and injured their internal organs depends entirely on luck. Although the others have broken muscles and bones, it is estimated that they will be able to fully recover after a period of training.
Having won a battle, the more than 1,100 cavalrymen who were still wearing their beards and tails were all high-spirited without exception.
Geng Zhanghua and Huang Yi were in a very good mood. After a while of discussion, Geng Zhanghua announced the good news.
Because of the rich harvest in this battle, and because the brothers killed the enemy wholeheartedly without hiding anything, the reward was increased from twenty taels of snowflake silver to twenty-five taels, and the head reward was based on the actual 50 taels of first-level real slaves.
what does this mean?
Of course, just accept it as soon as you see fit, divide the captured points, and don’t fight!
When Geng Zhanghua announced the increase in reward silver, more than a thousand cavalry cheered loudly. When they heard Geng Zhanghua said that they would set up camp on the spot and wait for the infantry to arrive, many cavalry asked, "Jiannu is so easy to fight, why don't you catch up and fight a few more times?"
What's interesting next is that the vast majority of the cavalry expressed their trust in General Geng and the Governor-General. They were not in a hurry to receive the reward money. The top priority was to continue their efforts and strive to double their gains and seizures.
