Tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry charged in the same direction. This momentum not only made the elite border troops of the Ming Dynasty, who were supposed to be marching forward, uneasy, but even Zhu Su, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, had the hairs on his back standing on end at this moment. He just felt The back of the head feels tight and the roots of the ears feel numb.
In fact, the Mongolian cavalry rarely charged in groups like this. Most of them are horse archers, and their best tactic is "mounted shooting and harassing", which is to shoot arrows on horseback while galloping.
This tactic is extremely difficult to deal with. In the past, when the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry dominated the world, battles like this often occurred: a certain army should have had an advantage in fighting the Mongols. In order to expand the victory, it pursued them, but the Mongolian cavalry were running away. Shooting, shooting, shooting, the attack and defense gradually changed, but the Mongols turned around and ran away.
In later generations, there was a word that was particularly appropriate to describe this Mongolian method of warfare, and its name was: "kite flying."
When outflanking the Ming army of Guo Xing's tribe in front, these Mongolian cavalry also adopted the tactics of harassment by riding and shooting. They did not engage in close combat with the Ming army head-on. Instead, they continued to use bows and arrows to slowly slow down the flesh and blood of the Ming army.
But when facing Zhu Su, perhaps it was because Zhu Su's troops did not have many soldiers and horses, and the commanders of these cavalry had a mentality of underestimating the enemy; or perhaps it was because of the two "King of Wu" and "King of Yan" flags raised high. , it’s really too tempting. In short, after a round of ejection, this part of the cavalry did not choose to use the mounted shooting tactics that the Mongolian cavalry was best at. Instead, they tried to make a quick decision and were determined to use their numerical advantage to directly defeat Zhu Su's "accidentally entered the battlefield" "The Lost Lamb".
And this also gave Zhu Su a chance!
"Firegun, fire!"
Following Zhu Su's hoarse roar, the first row of King Wu's guards, who had been waiting on the hillside with firecrackers, directly released the firecrackers they had been aiming at for a long time. In an instant, the sound of "bang bang bang" gunfire even overshadowed the momentum of tens of thousands of horse troops galloping together, and a burst of choking smoke rose from the Ming army's formation.
"Ah!" The Mongolian cavalry in the first row fell off their horses in unison, as if they had suffered a heavy blow. In the cavalry formation, a group of people suddenly fell on their backs. The charge momentum of the entire cavalry team couldn't help but stagnate.
"Such a long shooting range, what kind of fire gun is this?" The leader of this cavalry team was named Tabin Timur. Seeing that the warriors in the front row were hit one after another, he reined in his horse and was a little stunned for a moment.
As a tribal leader of the Dayuan Dynasty, Tabin Timur was not unfamiliar with fire guns. At this time, the Ming army also had a reasonable number of firearms troops. Although it was not as specialized as the "Shenji Camp" in the Yongle period, the power of the Hongwu firecrackers allowed the Yuan army to sweep the north after Chang Yuchun in Xu Da. By that time, I had already seen something.
However, the range of the Hongwu Fire Gun is very short, and most of the shots are "gun arrows", which is to put a special arrow for the Fire Gun in the mouth of the gun and use the power of gunpowder to push it out.
But now, the Ming army's fire blunderbuss not only has a shooting distance of an astonishing more than 200 steps, but also shoots not blunderbuss and arrows, but frighteningly powerful lead pellets.
And unlike ordinary lead pellets, the force of the lead pellets fired by these fire guns is extremely terrifying! Tabin Timur saw with his own eyes that the skulls of several war horses were shattered because they were hit by lead shot!
Not to mention those flesh and blood bodies wearing leather armor!
"Don't stop! The fire gun can only shoot once in a short time! Warriors! You are all blessed by the Immortal Heaven!"
Although he was surprised, there was no time to think too much on the battlefield. Seeing that the cavalry's momentum was blocked, Tabin Timur, the general, quickly raised his arms and shouted.
After being reminded like this, these cavalrymen reacted. Fireguns have been used on the battlefield since the Song Dynasty. As soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty, they all know the biggest drawback of this fancy Central Plains weapon: that is, the rate of fire is too slow, often in a battle , only had time to shoot once.
Just now, although I was momentarily frightened by this powerful new fire gun, so what? As long as the rate of fire of this kind of fire gun does not change much, with their horses, they will be able to rush in front of this Ming army very quickly.
"Come on! The Immortal Heaven will protect us!" This long series of psychological changes actually lasts only a moment in reality. The Mongolian cavalry only hesitated for a moment and then quickly reacted. They stepped over the bodies of their fallen comrades in the front row and continued to charge towards the smoke-filled Ming army formation.
"Bang bang bang!"
However, contrary to everyone's expectations, in the smoke that had not yet dissipated from the Ming army's formation, there were once again nightmare-like dots of firelight, followed by another row of lead bullets sweeping over the top of the mountain just now. The cavalrymen in the front row suddenly fell to the ground again.
"What..." Tabin Timur was shocked!
How can it be! The Ming army could actually fire a second shot so quickly?
What he didn't expect was yet to come. The second wave of smoke has not yet dissipated, and the sound of gunfire just now seems to be still echoing in the eardrums, followed closely by the sound of the third wave of gunfire, then the fourth wave, the fifth wave...
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang..."
As if there were no gaps at all, the sound of frying beans kept exploding in this place. The Mongolian cavalry that kept advancing seemed to have become shallots in the hands of the cook. ), being peeled off layer by layer, layer after layer by these weird and roaring fire guns in the hands of the Ming army.
"This...how is it possible! How is it possible!"
Tabin Timur was already standing there.
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"Ahem, cough, cough, the next team comes forward! Hurry!" In the Ming army formation, Zhu Su personally commanded the gunmen. Behind him, the gunmen standing on the slope were running non-stop. After firing a shot from the front row, they immediately ducked back. The next row that was ready immediately stepped forward and raised their hands to fire the guns.
Several rows of Ming troops, like the tracks of a machine operating in an orderly manner, kept moving up and down the slope, pouring lead shot at the cavalry.
Yes, this is exactly what Zhu Su once told Zhu Di about the art of fire fighting. In addition to the mandarin duck formation, Wu Wangwei had another killing move that he had trained for several years. It should have been invented by Mu Ying's art of musket shooting: three Duan hit!
It is not appropriate to call it a three-stage attack. In order to ensure the continuous and intensive firepower, Zhu Su arranged these Ming troops into six rows. Even so, Zhu Su still felt a little frightened as he looked at the approaching Mongolian cavalry.
"Hey, firepower, firepower! The firepower is still not enough!" Zhu Su, with beads of sweat on his forehead, felt like he was a patient suffering from the phobia of insufficient firepower.
(End of chapter)
