Dozens of Mongolian cavalry saw the armored cavalry with the tiger flag rushing over. They bent their bows and pulled the strings, and shot feather arrows from the strings of the cavalry bows in their hands.
Dozens of feather arrows shot out less than a hundred steps before falling to the ground feebly.
There was no threat to Tu Sha and others who were still two hundred steps away.
After a round of arrow rain, some of the Mongolian cavalry took out the daggers in their scabbards, while others raised their spears. A small number of Mongolian cavalry who only rode bows once again took out arrows and hung them on the bow strings.
The Mongolian cavalry holding weapons began to accelerate towards Tu Sha and others. The Mongolian cavalry using the bow once again shot the arrows in their hands.
The size of the arrow rain has been reduced by more than half, less than one-third of the previous round. On the contrary, because the distance between the two sides has shortened, the threat has become much greater.
Less than half of the arrows fired hit the target, especially Tu Sha who was at the front. He received three feather arrows, but they were all blocked by his breastplate.
"kill!"
Tu Sha shouted and took the lead in holding a saber and rushed towards the approaching Mongolian cavalry team.
Other armored cavalry followed closely, waving their sabers and killing them.
Tu Shawu, who was rushing at the front, kept slashing with the saber in his hand. As long as the person in front of him was not wearing the breastplate of the armored cavalry battalion, he would raise his hand and slash with the sword without any hesitation.
After slashing seven or eight times in a row, his eyes were empty. It was not until there was no figure blocking his eyes that he realized that he had fought his way out of the Mongolian cavalry.
He turned his horse's head and looked around.
All around him were the armored cavalry of his squad, but compared to before, all of them had a lot more dark red blood stains on their bodies.
He raised his eyes and looked at the Mongolian cavalry opposite. There were only a dozen cavalry left, and there were more than a dozen corpses on the ground, all dressed as Mongolians. There were also a dozen ownerless horses scattered around.
"Raise the sword!" Tu Sha raised the saber in his hand, and the blood beads on it slid down the blade.
The armored cavalry following him raised their sabers.
"kill!"
Tu Sha knocked his horse's belly with both feet, and once again raised his sword and charged towards the Mongolian cavalry in front.
Dozens of armored cavalry wearing black breastplates, like black waves, pounced on the Mongolian cavalry who had not recovered from the previous killing.
The Mongols have not had a decent fight between the two armies for more than ten years. Most of the Mongolians who have experienced a battle with the Ming army have grown old. Most of the Mongolian army and the Mongolian cavalry of this generation have grown up in a stable life. When I got up, at most I had only faced horse bandits on the grassland.
In the eyes of the Mongols, the Han people were weak and could be bullied.
Tiger Character Banner is just a business name of the Ming Dynasty, and is not considered in the eyes of the Mongols at all. Before coming to Daheihe, many Mongolians thought that as long as they sent troops, they could easily capture Tiger Character Banner's pier in Dahei River. Fort, forcing the people of the Tiger Flag to surrender.
The brief fighting just now made most of the Mongolians who were still alive completely confused. The weak and bully Han people in their hearts turned into ferocious steppe wolves, which made many Mongolians lose their minds.
When the armored cavalry of the Tiger Banner rushed over again, the remaining dozen Mongolians panicked, and some even turned their horses and fled in the opposite direction.
The previous confrontation had caused these Mongolians to lose the courage to fight again. As soon as some people fled, other Mongolian cavalry also began to flee for their lives.
Tu Sha, who was charging at the Mongolian cavalry, was stunned for a moment. The Mongols' retreat was beyond his expectation.
However, he reacted very quickly and hurriedly shouted: "Prepare hatchets and spears, throw yourself at these Mongols, don't let them escape."
As he said that, he put away his saber, took out the gun from his waist, started filling it with iron beads, and tamped it down with a rod.
The other armored cavalry took out their short axes or short spears and threw them at the back of the fleeing Mongolian cavalry.
After one round, only five or six Mongolian cavalry were hit and fell off their horses. The remaining Mongolian cavalry fled further and further away without looking back.
Tu Sha led the armored cavalry around him and chased them for more than a mile. Seeing that it was difficult to catch up with the fleeing Mongolian cavalry, he stopped the pursuit and retreated towards the Dunbao.
Returning to the battlefield where he fought with the Mongolian cavalry before, Tu Sha said: "Hurry up and clean the battlefield, kill the Mongolians who are not dead, and don't leave anyone alive."
The armored cavalry of more than thirty people dispersed according to the size of the team. Some went to touch up the Mongolian corpses, while others gathered the ownerless horses together.
"Dezi, are your injuries okay?" Tu Sha looked at a cavalryman beside him.
The other party shook his head and said, "I was just bitten by an arrow on my leg. I'll be fine if I go back and put some medicine on it."
Tu Sha nodded.
In this battle, their number was about the same as that of the Mongolian cavalry. In the end, only one person was injured, but they killed more than twenty Mongolian cavalry. It can be said to be a great victory.
The battlefield was quickly cleaned up, and only the horses left by the Mongols were of some use. As for the weapons and armor worn by the Mongols, they were not as good as their armored cavalry, and no one picked them up even if they were thrown on the ground.
"Captain, there are a total of thirteen intact war horses, and a few are injured. They have been raised and can be used as livestock." Zhang Chong came to Tu Sha and said.
Of course, there were more than this number of ownerless horses. Some of them ran far away and were taken away by the Mongols.
Tu Sha said: "Take this capture and let's go back to Dunbao."
"Yes." Zhang Chong agreed, and then gathered his team to return to the Dunbao.
When the last armored cavalry walked across the moat and entered the pier, the suspension bridge on the moat was raised again, disconnecting the two sides of the moat again.
On the fort wall, Zhang Hong watched the battle between the armored cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry and said: "The Mongols are becoming more and more useless. They all fled after just one fight. With this little ability, they still want to attack our pier." I don’t know who gave them the confidence.”
"If we switch to cuirassiers and fight against the Mongolian cavalry just now, there will be no need to fight." Ma Yunjiu said, "We can defeat this Mongolian cavalry with cavalry muskets, and the range and damage of cavalry muskets are greater than those of Mongolian cavalry." The bow is much stronger.”
Zhang Hong said: "I just saw that someone in our cavalry seemed to be injured. If it were cuirassiers, these Mongolian cavalry would probably be defeated without even being able to touch the sides of our cavalry."
"Most of the cavalry in the armored cavalry battalion are horse bandits and don't like to use our tiger-shaped flag's cavalry muskets. Only a few cavalry teams are equipped with some cavalry muskets. The team led by Tusha is not equipped with cavalry muskets. Cavalry squad." Ma Yunjiu said.
Li Shuheng on the side looked at Ma Yunjiu and said: "Because of this, you must make good use of the cavalry of the armored cavalry battalion, give full play to the strengths of the armored cavalry battalion, and try to avoid using the shortcomings of the armored cavalry battalion."
"I understand." Ma Yunjiu nodded.
At the same time, I was thinking about how to use the armored cavalry battalion rationally in the future.
