"Well done! I've caught you."
In the convoy transporting food, there was a man wearing cotton armor watching the Ming army rushing over through the monocular in his hand.
The grain transport team was robbed before, so Huzi Banner sent people to find the whereabouts of this Ming army.
However, this Ming army is all cavalry, and they can't be caught wherever they run.
This time, in order to catch the Ming army cavalry, the Tiger Flag once again walked on this road to escort grain and grass. In order to prevent the Ming army from being too cautious and afraid to take action, no ambush was arranged. Only the guard of the grain team was here. A team of thousands.
Although the Thousand-Man Army has a large number of people, it does not have much advantage over the cavalry. Especially since the Ming Army has more than 200 cavalry, the more than 1,000 infantry have no advantage at all.
Two grain trucks were lying across the official road, directly blocking the official road. People with tiger flags were hiding behind them holding firecrackers.
With these two grain trucks present, it was almost impossible for the cavalry to rush past them unless they bypassed them from both sides, buying more time for the grain trucks behind them.
After the Ming army cavalry approached the grain transport team, they had to slow down their horses.
It is difficult for a war horse to jump over such a tall grain cart. If you rush forward regardless, you will only be loaded onto these grain carts.
Moreover, if the car is full of things and the war horse hits it, the car may be fine, but the war horse will definitely not be able to bear it.
Regardless of whether the Ming army's cavalry slowed down or detoured to both sides, it would slow down the charge of the horses and buy more time for other people in the grain transport team to prepare.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
A dozen arrows were shot out from the ranks of the blind army cavalry.
At the same time, some Ming army cavalry began to pass from both sides, trying to insert themselves into the escort team transporting food from the middle.
The towering grain cart blocked most of the arrows. As long as you stayed close to the side of the grain cart, it was impossible for the arrows fired from outside to hurt the people behind the grain cart.
Unless the arrows shot by the Ming army cavalry would fall straight down or spin backwards.
No matter which of these two possibilities it is, the Ming army cavalry cannot do it, so the people behind the grain cart are very safe.
The Ming army cavalry also discovered that the arrows fired could not threaten the people behind the grain cart, so they no longer wasted arrows, stopped shooting, and instead attacked from both sides.
The official road is not wide, and there are drainage ditches on both sides. When there is rain, drainage can be drained through the drainage ditch, so that the official road will not be destroyed by long-term rain soaking.
Although these drainage ditches are not too deep, they are very troublesome for the cavalry.
Fortunately, it hasn't rained recently, otherwise the horses would easily slip and fall when they step on the slope of the drainage ditch.
Precisely because of the existence of the drainage ditch, the speed advantage of the war horse is almost nonexistent.
boom! boom! boom!
Fire muskets from the grain transport team were fired at the Ming cavalry near the drainage ditches on both sides.
Because the distance between the two sides is not far, the hit rate is extremely high.
Similarly, the Ming cavalry also began to shoot arrows at the grain transport team.
Because the Ming army cavalry rushed over so fast, except for the first few grain trucks that had been positioned in advance, the grain trucks behind them were not fully prepared.
Some people exposed outside the grain truck became the targets of the Ming cavalry's arrows.
Some people began to fall down after being hit by arrows.
The Ming cavalry in the grain transport convoy used firecrackers to attack the surrounding Ming cavalry, while the Ming cavalry used bows and arrows to shoot at the people in the convoy.
Both sides suffered casualties, and neither side took much advantage.
The Ming army cavalry was also blocked in the drainage ditch and could not pass through the drainage ditch to reach the convoy transporting grain.
As the situation became stalemate, the advantage began to slowly shift to Tiger Flag's side.
The grain trucks were placed in good positions, and more and more people in the convoy had hiding places to avoid arrows. The threat to the convoy from the arrows shot by the Ming army cavalry was also gradually reduced.
This situation made Cao Wenzhao very anxious.
Before taking action, in his expectation, the grain transport team of Tiger Character Banner should have no resistance under the attack of cavalry. Even if there was a little resistance, it would be difficult to change the overall situation.
The current situation is that their cavalry is entangled and cannot break through the grain transport team in front of them for a while.
Not only that, but the cavalry under his command also lost at least ten or twenty people.
These were the elites he brought back from Liaodong. He was heartbroken that one person was killed or injured, but now so many were killed and injured in the hands of a guard transporting food.
For a moment, he had the idea of retreating.
boom! boom!
Two gunshots suddenly reached my ears.
Cao Wenzhao was suddenly startled, looked around hurriedly, and asked loudly: "Where is the cannon shooting!"
"It's the team transporting food. They have cannons. They are tiger cannons." The person on the side replied.
Upon hearing this, Cao Wenzhao's expression changed and he hurriedly shouted: "Retreat, retreat, retreat quickly, don't get entangled with them, retreat immediately."
He knew that the tiger-character flag's grain transport convoy brought a cannon, and he knew that this attack on the grain transport convoy was unacceptable. If he continued to waste it, the points he brought would probably be lost here.
Turning the horse's head, he and his men began to retreat.
However, many Ming army cavalry were in the drainage ditch. Whether they were leaving or rushing over, there was a slope on both sides. If nothing happened, they could climb up by urging the horses in a few steps. But at this time, there were people around. , it’s not that easy to climb the slope.
Several more squatting tiger cannons were carried out.
This time, the muzzle of the Tiger Crouching Cannon was pointed in the direction where Cao Wenzhao was.
The biggest advantage of the Tiger Crouching Cannon is that it is lightweight and has a closer range than the Fran cannon and general cannons. Especially when using shotgun shells, the range is even closer.
But the advantage of its lightness is that it is not only easy to carry, but also easy to move. One person can pick it up and put it where they want to place it.
The Crouching Tiger Cannon has a longer range than other cannons, but wherever the fire cannon can hit, the Crouching Tiger Cannon can also hit.
The Ming cavalry in and near the drainage ditch became the target of the Tiger Crouching Artillery attack.
boom! boom! boom!
A squat cannon was fired, and countless iron sand and iron balls flew out.
Many Ming cavalry who were unable to evade, or were unable to evade at all, became the targets of the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
Sixty-seven Ming army cavalry were killed on the spot.
Cao Wenzhao escaped this round of bombardment because he was protected and was not in a position to be bombarded by the Crouching Tiger Artillery.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon reloads slower than the Fire Gun.
Taking advantage of this gap, Cao Wenzhao escaped from the drainage ditch.
However, although the Tiger Crouching Cannon was reloaded, the firing of the firecrackers did not stop. From time to time, Ming army cavalry were hit by firecrackers, causing the cavalry on horseback to fall off their horses.
Cao Wenzhao, who escaped from the drainage ditch, did not dare to stop at all. Under the protection of the people around him, he fled in a direction away from the Tiger Flag grain transport convoy.
As soon as he fled, the Ming army on the other side of the grain transport convoy also began to flee.
