The cavalry of the Han army and the Zhenglan Banner cavalry under Mang Gurtai occupied separate places.
The Han cavalry received the order to attack and had no choice but to start attacking the pass guarded by the Tiger Flag.
In order to prevent the Han army from not using all its strength, Mang Gurtai sent a group of Eight Banners soldiers to supervise the battle.
The Tiger Flag artillery team guarding the pass began to bombard the approaching enemy cavalry.
"The slaves really don't take their Han soldiers seriously. This is the third time. They are going to use these Han soldiers to death!" Zhao Wu paid attention to the battlefield through the monocular telescope in his hand. Condition.
The invading cavalry was riding two men on one horse. Such an obvious thing was naturally seen clearly.
Some of these Han cavalry were charging at the pass for the third time, and some were charging for the second time.
Such a hasty attack in a short period of time was not only tiring for the men, but also for the horses.
Especially when two people are riding one horse, it is obvious that the horses cannot charge, and the speed at which the horses charge is much slower than the previous two times.
boom! boom! boom!
The sound of artillery continued from the pass, and cannonballs fell from the sky above the heads of the invading enemy cavalry.
Previously, a cannon only had time to fire twice before the enemy cavalry could rush to the horse pit in front of the pass. However, this time the cannon at the pass has fired three times in a row, and the enemy cavalry will appear on the periphery of the horse pit. edge.
There is still some distance from the trapping pit to the pass guarded by the Tiger Flag, and there are Luzhai and Juma in the middle to block it, which is enough to ensure that the artillery of the Tiger Flag will let each cannon fire two or three more times.
After suffering some casualties, the Han cavalry finally reached the place where Ju Ma was.
The Han infantry who were riding on the same horse as the cavalry jumped off their horses one after another and began to move these Juma and Luzhai to open a passage for their cavalry.
However, when they were carrying the horses and other items, the Tiger Flag would not watch them carry the horses and remain indifferent.
A squatting cannon began to fire at the infantry.
Each Tiger Crouching Cannon will take away several lives after being fired, but this still cannot stop the number of Juma and Luzhai blocking the pass from getting smaller and smaller.
As more and more horses were removed, a passage to the pass was opened.
At this time, the Han cavalry and the infantry carrying the horses suffered many casualties.
"E Bilun, you stay, the others will follow me to kill!" Mang Gurtai drove his horse and rushed out first, followed by the ordinary flag soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner.
Six to seven hundred Zhenglan Banner cavalry followed him and rushed towards the pass guarded by the Tiger Flag.
The Han cavalry, which was already about to be defeated, discovered that reinforcements from the Zhenglan Banner had arrived. It boosted their morale out of thin air, so that they could not reverse the defeat and charge again.
After the Tiger Flag artillery guarding the pass fired a few more shots, they simply dropped the cannon and chose to evacuate. Before leaving, they took away all the Tiger Crouching Cannon and medicine.
These abandoned cannons blocked the middle of the pass. If the cavalry wanted to pass, they had to either slow down and go around, or they had to move these cannons away.
The infantrymen who had previously moved the Juma finished moving the Juma, and then moved the cannon in the middle.
After such a delay, Mang Gurtai rushed up with the cavalry of Zhenglan Banner.
The pass was abandoned by the Tiger Flag. Mang Gurtai and the remaining Han cavalry rushed into the pass and rushed towards the Fifty Village Post in front, preparing to capture the Fifty Village Post in one fell swoop.
When Mang Gurtai led the cavalry to the military fort of Fuzhaiyi, the Zhenglan Banner soldiers who followed from behind also entered the pass.
At this moment, gunfire began to sound on the slope on the side of Wuzhaiyi.
A convoy of large vehicles also appeared on the other side, with small cannons inside, bombarding the enemies under the Wuzhaiyi City.
"Master, this is an ambush set by the enemy, retreat quickly!" A Bagala wanted to protect Mang Gurtai and retreat from the pass.
However, the pass they wanted to retreat to was blocked again by the people of the Tiger Flag.
Only this time it's not outward, but inward.
"fire!"
The cannons were swaying with enthusiasm, and the fiery cannons fell on where Mang Gurtai and the others were.
From a high place not far from the pass, Zhao Wu held a monocular in his hand and looked at the situation in front of him. He slightly raised the corner of his mouth and said, "I don't know about that guy named Mang Gurtai." Among these people who are not surrounded."
Through the flags, one can identify which of the Eight Banners the slaves surrounded in front of them come from.
Therefore, it is not difficult for Zhao Wu to recognize Zhenglan Banner.
The Tiger Character Banner had also known for a long time that the commander of the army sent to Gaizhou by Huang Taiji was Daishan, and the deputy commander was Mang Gurtai of the Zhenglan Banner.
Although Mang Gurtai was at odds with Huang Taiji, that was internally, and externally Mang Gurtai was still an important figure in the senior management of Daikin.
When the Tiger Flag was guarding the pass, the number of cannons placed was limited due to the limited location.
Now that we are surrounded from the inside, there is naturally not enough space to place more cannons.
Cannons fired one after another at the surrounded slave thieves.
More and more Zhenglan Banner soldiers and Han soldiers were killed by artillery bombardment. In addition, whenever an enemy wanted to approach the pass or break out from other places, there would be firecrackers from the Tiger Flag. Soldiers block the attack.
Although firecrackers are not as powerful as cannons in terms of power, and their range is far inferior to cannons, when there are more firecrackers, they are more useful than cannons in blocking attacks at close range.
Because the gun reloads faster, it is easier to adjust the shooting direction and target.
In less than half an hour, the surrounded slave thieves were dead and injured, and the few remaining slave thieves all chose to surrender.
As for the slave thieves and the Han army outside the pass, they were only repulsed once when they came to the rescue, and they did not dare to come to the rescue again. They watched the slave thieves surrounded by the tiger banner army being eaten bit by bit.
"Deputy Commander, we caught a big fish in this net." A detachment leader came to deliver a message to Zhao Wu with an excited look on his face.
Hearing this, Zhao Wu smiled and asked, "Really? Who did you catch? Could it be Mang Gurtai, the leader of the slave bandits?"
"It was Mang Gurtai, but we didn't catch him and were beaten to death by us." The detachment leader said excitedly.
Mang Gurtai was a high-ranking figure in Dajin, and he was beaten to death by them in Fifty Village Post.
Zhao Wu smiled and said, "Well done, I'll take credit for you."
It was the same to him whether Mang Gurtai was alive or dead. Even if Mang Gurtai was caught alive, he would definitely die in the end, and his tiger-character flag would be wasted for several days.
"Hehe." The detachment leader chuckled.
Killing Mang Gurtai is no small feat.
"By the way, deputy commander, what should we do with those prisoners? Although there are not many, there are still many, and a large part of them are Han soldiers and horses from the slave bandits." said the detachment leader.
(End of chapter)
