"Brothers, follow me and kill all the Han dogs and rob his mother."
The bearded horse bandit shouted loudly and rushed out first.
Following him, more than a hundred horse bandits rushed toward the Ming people's convoy, spontaneously making strange screams from their mouths.
The horse bandits' horses were not very fast at first, but gradually increased their speed. When they were less than a mile away from the Tiger Flag convoy, the horse bandits' horses had already reached their fastest speed.
The bearded horse bandit was the one at the front, deliberately controlling the horse's speed, and slowly retreated to a position further back among the horse bandits.
This was his trick to save his life. Every time the horse bandits robbed, the first ones to die were always the horse bandits who rushed forward.
When he could vaguely see the faces behind the Mingguo convoy, he had a bad feeling in his heart. He felt that this robbery would not go as smoothly as he imagined.
Based on years of experience, in the past when horse bandits like them roared and screamed, many ordinary caravans would collapse directly under such roars. Some people had already started running for their lives, some were crying, and some were begging for mercy.
The Ming caravan in front of them was already within 200 steps away, and the faces of the people could almost be seen clearly. However, no one in the Ming caravan ran for their lives or begged for mercy. On the contrary, it was unusually calm, which made people feel uncomfortable.
"Fire guns, damn, why are there so many fire guns?"
As the distance between the two sides got closer, the horse bandits rushing at the front noticed black muskets protruding from the backs of the carts.
At this time, it was too late for the horse bandit in front to retreat.
The bearded horse bandit looked at the situation of the Ming Dynasty's convoy, and at the same time shouted, "Are you afraid of a bird? Is this kind of thing rare in the Ming Dynasty? If you hit me and scratch your body, I will charge them all. Kill all these Ming people." "
There were also other horse bandits who shouted, "Don't be afraid, this thing can't hit far. We'll charge at most with just one shot."
At this time, it was too late for the horse bandits to retreat, so all the horse bandits raised their horses to the fastest speed.
Zhang Hong was in charge of commanding behind the car formation, and Li Shuheng had been arranged to hide behind the cart. Although it was not absolutely safe, the horse bandits could not hurt him until the car formation was broken.
"Firegunners, get sixty steps closer to the horse bandits and fire in three stages. As for the artillery crew, as long as the horse bandits come into range, shoot the hell out of them." Zhang Hong shouted loudly and gave the order.
All the gunmen are already gearing up.
Many of them had fought against horse bandits, and a few soldiers who had not fought against horse bandits on the grasslands also fought against bandits and other bandits in the Ming Dynasty when escorting carts.
Not to mention having experienced hundreds of battles, they are all masters who have seen blood and killed people.
Even though these horse bandits were coming menacingly, they were not afraid at all, but eager to try.
"put"
Following the order, nearly seventy gunmen fired their guns.
The musket tube glowed with flames, sparks flew everywhere, and white smoke rose. After firing the musket, the musket hand did not even look at the results. He directly stepped out of the gap and began to charge.
These fire gunners had been trained thousands of times, and without any panic, they started to reload the fire guns they had just fired step by step.
The horse bandits who were galloping gathered quite tightly. Most of them had spears and knives in their hands, most of which were inferior weapons. Only a few Mongolian horse bandits used bows and arrows to shoot arrows, and the arrows they shot were sparse.
Many of the arrows are wooden or bone arrowheads, and they use soft bows. It is okay to shoot wild animals such as hares and pheasants, but it is difficult to shoot the armor-piercing tiger flag soldiers.
There is a serious iron shortage on the grassland. Even the Mongolian nobles do not have enough iron to build soldiers and armors, let alone horse bandits.
Most of the arrows fired by the horse bandits missed, and the few arrows fired into the car array were weak and wooden arrows, so they did no harm at all.
On the contrary, it was the fire cannon of the tiger-shaped flag. The first round of fire cannons was fired, almost hitting the thick part of the horse bandit.
More than seventy muskets were fired at the same time, and more than a hundred horse bandits who rushed over were immediately shot down.
This is because the horse bandits are pulling very wide. Otherwise, nearly half of the more than a hundred horse bandits would be killed or injured in the first round of firing.
It was not only people who were hit by the fire cannons, but also war horses. Both people and war horses made miserable screams, which was simply a kind of mental torture for the other horse bandits.
There has been some chaos among the horse bandits. Several ownerless horses are running around among the horse bandits, disrupting their formation.
"put."
Without waiting too long, the second round of firecrackers started.
The lead shot from the fire blunderbuss fell into the horse bandits like a shower, making the horse bandits' formation even more chaotic.
Because the gap between the horse bandits was relatively large, the results of the second round of fire guns were not as great as the first round, but they also knocked down more than 20 war horses and horse bandits at once.
The third row of firecrackers moved up, and the first row of firecrackers were almost fully loaded.
The distance between the horse bandits and the convoy was only about forty steps.
At this moment, several roaring sounds like thunder were heard.
The tiger crouching cannon in the formation of the tiger-shaped flag was fired.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon uses shotgun shells, and the iron sand it shoots out is in the shape of a fan. Anyone who touches it within forty or fifty steps will be beaten into a sieve.
Some horse bandits happened to be within the firing range of the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
Along with the sound of cannons, more than a dozen horse bandits and war horses were hit by iron sand. They fell to the grass with their horses, and their blood stained the area red.
At this time, the battlefield was already shocking. The corpses of war horses and horse bandits fell on the ground. A dozen frightened horses were running around randomly. Several horses whose stomachs were punched were not dead for a while, and their stomachs were full of intestines. Lying on the ground and wailing.
The total number of horse bandits who were beaten and thrown to death was more than half, but there were not many injured horse bandits. Most of them had their legs broken by the falling horses.
The surrounding grass was a shocking dark red. The broken limbs bent the grass on the ground, and some colorful things flowed to the ground.
The gunmen on the side of the Tiger Flag all had very calm expressions. They were all soldiers who had killed people and seen blood. They were not disturbed by the tragic situation in front of them.
At this time, the horse bandits had already rushed within thirty steps of the car formation.
It's not that the horse bandits weren't afraid and didn't want to retreat, it was the inertia of the horses that forced them to rush forward.
boom
There was another volley of fire cannons, with almost no miss. All the lead shot by the fire cannons fell on the horse bandits or the horses under them.
Many horse bandits and war horses received more than one lead.
Horses fell, people fell, and screams continued.
The bearded horse bandit was originally at the rear of the horse bandit, but he was also hit by a lead, and there was burning pain in his right shoulder.
At first, he did not take the fire blunderbuss in the hands of the Ming people as one thing. The Ming frontier army used a lot of bird blunderbuss. The only real threat to horse bandits like them was Ye Bushou and his relatives in the Ming army. As for the soldiers and cavalry, as for the gunmen, he didn't care at all.
But the scene in front of him taught him a profound lesson, and he understood how terrifying the fire blunderbuss was. In other words, it was the fire blunderbuss of the Ming Dynasty businessmen in front of him that was terrifying.
