'Crack! Rumble~~~~'
'Huh huh huh...'
There was lightning and thunder, rain was falling, and there was mud under the feet of both sides. The cavalry horses were either cheerful or irritable.
The two armies formed a formation, and the Ming army naturally had more people than Wang Baobao. As soon as the formation was set, a sense of oppression came oncoming.
An ordinary general would have knelt down when he saw the disparity in numbers.
Wang Baobao is not the case. This is the wilderness, there is room for maneuver, and attacking on rainy days, how can we fight like this?
If I don't move, I'll just see what you do? My archer is affected, so I wait, and when the time comes, I will shoot when the range is close.
Xu Da on the other side smiled. The fusiliers wore special big hats to protect them from the rain.
The flintlock gun is front-loaded when loading ammunition, so it cannot be exposed to rain. With a big cap to cover it, everything else will be easy to handle.
The opponent waved a flag, and then nearby messengers began to deliver orders by voice.
Xu Da took a telescope and looked at it: "It's a little blurry, but fortunately I can see that the cavalry on both wings dispersed with two more fusiliers, preparing to engage the enemy.
The Chinese cavalry feinted and the flintlock array closed up. The front army and the Chinese army came out together, with 12,000 men divided into six groups.
The spearmen followed, and the sword and shield men were ready to charge at any time and kill the enemy's retreating troops. Blow horns and sound gongs randomly to disrupt enemy troops. "
Xu Da ordered his flag to fly, and the generals and junior generals used telescopes to look at it. They knew immediately and made arrangements quickly.
Then the sound of horns and gongs in the war became chaotic. Anyway, the Ming army did not use these things. They only had telescopes to read the flags.
Under special circumstances, there are two types, one is to attack and the other is to retreat. This will be informed in advance before the war.
When attacking and retreating, both the enemy and us must first make peace with their own people. Otherwise, with the same rhythm, during the melee, who knows where the sound is coming from?
The Yuan soldiers were disturbed by the sound and were stunned. However, the Ming army was not affected and acted step by step.
Wang Baobao wiped the rain off his face, his teeth itching with hatred. But he still wondered, if you are causing trouble, how will your army be deployed?
'Pa bang bang...' In the rain and fog, gunshots rang out, and the troops in front of Yuan Bing fell down one after another.
Wang Baobao: "..."
Other generals of Yuan Bing: "..."
Boom, boom, boom, the cavalry on both sides were about to come into contact, and then... 'Pah, pah, pah...'
"Retreat! Retreat quickly! Follow me." Wang Baobao saw that his cavalry movement was suddenly blocked in the rain and fog. When he listened to the sound again, he understood everything.
He shouted, special horns and gongs sounded, and he turned around and ran with the people.
"The fusiliers load their ammunition, and the others follow me and follow the plan."
Xu Da also tried his best, and Da Huang followed him forward, even though he was soaked in the rain like a drowned rat.
Both sides chased each other and ran for more than thirty miles at a stretch. They arrived at Broken Rock Mountain. Someone in the Ming army rushed over quickly, threw something down, and then ran back, running fifty or sixty steps, using his big gun. Hats cover what's underneath.
For a moment, the Ming army's pursuit slowed down, dodging things. The fusiliers behind got off their horses and stood in line.
"Kill! Capture Xu Da alive."
"Charge! Capture Lan Yu alive."
Xu Da and Lan Yu had just chased through Broken Rock Mountain, and there were shouts of killing coming from the east. Then there were rumbling sounds, and the ground shook more and more intensely.
"Retreat quickly!" Xu Da shouted, calling on the cavalry in front to run with him.
As soon as they ran away, Wang Baobao suddenly turned around: "Kill! The Ming army has fallen into a trap!"
"The Ming army fell into a trap!"
"The Ming army fell into a trap!"
His men shouted in unison to boost morale while also demoralizing the enemy.
"Go up the mountain, go up the mountain quickly." Xu Da continued to shout as he ran away.
So he rushed up Broken Rock Mountain with a team of less than 10,000 people, and the people behind continued to chase.
The person who had thrown something before and ran back, estimated the distance, grabbed a handful of matches and rubbed them against the matchbox, whoosh! When flames appeared, they lit the fuse under them, turned and ran.
There is a layer of oil paper on the outside of the fuse, just to deal with today's rain.
He Zongzhe rushed over with his cavalry, waiting for work, intending to decide the male and female in a battle.
He is a fierce general with extraordinary strength. He follows the advancing team.
Then……
"Boom~~Boom~~Boom~~Boom..."
At a place two hundred steps long and two hundred steps wide, roars appeared one after another. On a rainy day, a small mushroom cloud actually rose there.
The yellow gunpowder bag whose fuse was broken by one of our own people before also exploded, and he died!
For a moment, the sky and the earth seemed to change color. Many horses overturned and the people on them were thrown off.
Xu Da also fell off his horse. Fortunately, these horses had undergone explosion training before and had a certain degree of resistance.
He sat dazedly in the rain, feeling that he had made a mistake in his judgment. With such great power, was he still using it to lure the enemy to surround the mountain?
"Quick! The plan has changed. Give me the chase. Mobilize all the horses. The fusiliers come forward. Chase! The archers are riding. The others will camp on the spot."
Xu Da turned over and got up, temporarily changed the order, and everyone reorganized their team, rushed through the explosion area, and chased the enemy.
Wang Baobao ran away, not encircling the mountain according to Xu Da's previous plan. His men followed him, no, pushed him.
Yuan Bing was frightened. It was the first time they saw the mushroom cloud, and many people were shocked to the point where blood spurted from their mouths and noses.
Not to mention the horses, some of which crashed directly into the cliff.
At this time, Xu Da didn't care what Zhu Yuanzhang said, he pushed forward steadily and didn't pursue, that's nonsense! If you don’t wait for when now?
He led his team in pursuit for more than fifty miles. When the horses could no longer bear it, he stopped to collect the prisoners and the enemy's baggage and horses.
The Ming army went crazy, and some people’s ears are still buzzing...
Many Yuan soldiers were killed by their own people. On the way to escape, those in front were too slow! The ones behind couldn't find the way, so they just waved their swords.
Before the afterglow dissipated, the Ming army organized their troops at the front.
They captured more than 20,000 people, more than 30,000 horses, and all kinds of baggage.
Everyone hurriedly set up camp and then set up lanterns inside. The oil-paper lanterns were brought out. The prisoners had just been tied up, and the wounded had no time to treat them.
Xu Da stood in the rain, looking at Lan Yu opposite, not knowing what to say.
No one expected that the war would end like this, let’s say it was a success... The original plan was to use Broken Rock Mountain as bait to gradually destroy Wang Baobao’s army.
Now it seems that it obviously failed.
Call it a failure! Wang Baobao ran away with less than 10,000 people, the others were either dead or captured, and there was also a large amount of baggage.
The Ming army also suffered casualties this time, only one hundred and eighty people. It is normal for people to die in battle, but it feels abnormal now.
"Shuai Xu! Wang Baobao can't fight us unless he can find an army command. His seven or eight thousand men can't stop our 100,000 men.
He couldn't do it even if the God of War was alive, his men were already frightened. On the other hand, the morale of our army is soaring to the sky. "
Lan Yu let the rain flow down her face. Her face was a little pale, but her eyes were full of joy.
(End of chapter)
