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"Why haven't the tiger bandits moved? What's their intention?" Fan Wencheng stood side by side with Daijin's leader, looking at the tiger-shaped flag cavalry surrounding the caravan.
Dajin's assistant leader frowned and said uneasily: "I would rather the other party attacks."
"Now we can only use troops to cover up the water and the soil." Fan Wencheng was worried.
The more unknown, the more unsettling it is.
However, soon there was movement in the surrounding Tiger Flag cavalry team.
Small cannons were pulled out by horses and appeared in front of the formation.
Just when these small cannons were placed in front of the formation, the expressions of Daikin's assistant leader and Fan Wencheng changed.
This kind of small cannon is light and easy to carry, and is very suitable for cavalry operations. Each cavalry unit in the Tiger Banner will prepare several such small cannons.
In terms of range and power, this small cannon far surpasses the Crouching Tiger Cannon.
"Can you block it?" Fan Wencheng asked Da Jin Zuoling beside him.
The other party shook his head and said: "The tiger thieves have even brought cannons. The caravan's few manpower alone cannot stop them, unless they are Dajin's white-armored soldiers here."
"I'll go to the people of the Ming Dynasty and ask for the credentials. You should be prepared for the worst." After Fan Wencheng finished speaking, he trotted towards where the Ming Dynasty officials were.
The two sides were not far apart, and they were close in three to five steps.
Before Fan Wencheng could speak, an official from the Ming Dynasty took the initiative and said: "You don't say that you only have a few hundred tiger and bandit cavalry, but here are hundreds of cavalry. I really don't know how to count. There are at least several thousand cavalry in front of me." .”
Faced with questions from Ming officials, Fan Wencheng did not respond directly, but asked: "Where are the credentials brought by your Excellency from Nandu?"
"What are you going to do?" Ming officials looked defensive.
Seeing this, Fan Wencheng did not directly ask for the credentials, but said: "I'm afraid the caravan can't be saved. Your Excellency, take the credentials. I will arrange to protect you in a while to break out of the siege of the tiger thieves and escape to the Hanhetao. "
"Can you escape?" Ming officials asked worriedly.
He was surrounded by cavalrymen with tiger flags. In his opinion, it would be extremely difficult to escape while being surrounded.
Fan Wencheng glanced at the people around him and said in a low voice: "My people from Daikin will protect you all the way, but the others can only be given up."
"You are only a few people, but there are so many tiger and bandit cavalry around you." Ming officials still did not expect to be able to escape.
Fan Wencheng said: "If we fall into the hands of tiger thieves, do you think the tiger thieves will let us people go? The only way to survive is to get out."
"Okay then!" Ming officials did not want to fall into the hands of the Tiger Flag, so they chose to follow Fan Wencheng's instructions and forcefully break through the Tiger Flag's siege.
After all, this is the only way to survive.
At this time, Dajin's assistant leader retreated to the side of the two people and asked: "Are you okay? I don't have much time to continue spending here."
"Your Excellency will follow us." Fan Wencheng said.
After hearing this, Jin Zuoling understood that he didn't have to get the credentials, otherwise he wouldn't be a drag.
However, he knew that not much time was wasted, so he immediately called all the people from Daikin over.
The officials of the Ming Dynasty also called for the Jin Yiwei and some cavalry, and told them to prepare to break through the siege of the Tiger Flag.
Everyone here in Dajin has their own mounts, so naturally they have to take them all away.
These people have good skills on horseback, which will come in handy when breaking through the siege.
The ordinary soldiers of the Ming army and the coachmen and gangsters in the caravan naturally became the targets of abandonment.
Without a horse there was no possibility of escape.
boom! boom! boom!
The small artillery prepared by the Tiger Flag began to bombard the caravan.
There were many large carts filled with goods in the caravan. These carts blocked many incoming cannons, but a small number of cannonballs still fell into the crowd.
Seven or eight soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were hit by cannons, and several died on the spot. The remaining few also screamed, seeing that there was more air coming out and less air coming in.
"We can't wait any longer. Let's leave immediately." Dajin Zuoling said to Fan Wencheng and Ming officials.
He knew that the caravan would collapse completely if it could not withstand a few shots. Instead of waiting for the people in the caravan to collapse on their own, it was better to take the people who could bring them to attack the siege of the Tiger Flag while the caravan had not yet collapsed. .
The people of Dajin immediately gathered around the leader, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty also gathered most of the people.
"Protect your lord, let's go." Fan Wencheng said.
Before the second round of bombardment with the Tiger Flag on the outside began, a cavalry team of dozens of people rushed out from behind the caravan, and the direction was exactly the east.
boom! boom! boom!
A second round of shelling followed.
However, the place where the artillery shelled was the caravan, so the cavalry that had just escaped from the caravan was not threatened by artillery fire.
The movements of the caravan were naturally noticed by the Tiger Banner Cavalry blocking the east direction.
"kill!"
Xu Guang, captain of the Tiger Banner Cavalry who was guarding in the east, drew his saber and led some of his men to charge head-on.
The two sides soon collided.
The cavalry of the Tiger Banner are fully armed with iron helmets and armor, and the sabers in their hands are also forged from fine iron.
On the other hand, most of the cavalry in the caravan did not have armor on them, and their weapons were very ordinary. Only Dajin's cavalry had six or seven armors.
After a fight, nearly half of the cavalry on the caravan's side stayed behind, while the rest continued to flee forward without looking back.
Xu Guang and others immediately turned their horses and chased after him.
The cavalry left behind by Xu Guang formed a formation to face the remaining cavalry of the caravan and rushed over again.
With this collision, most of the people who escaped from the caravan were left behind again. In the end, less than ten people broke through the siege, and then fled eastward without looking back.
The east is the direction leading to Chahan Loop. No matter which direction you go, you have to go east in the end.
During these two battles, cavalrymen with tiger flags from other directions came over from both sides and once again trapped these people in the middle.
"Don't bother, you can't escape." Zhou Shuiqing, the leader of the Tiger Banner Cavalry Battalion, said as he looked at the people who were stopped in front of him.
The big Jin leader cursed a few words in Jurchen dialect, and then rushed over with two men who were also from Jin.
boom! boom! boom!
This time there was no close combat between the cavalry, only a series of firecrackers were fired.
The three Jin people were all hit by gunshots before they could rush forward, and fell off their horses one after another, turning into breathless corpses.
"Isn't it good to just wait for death? If you have to take the initiative to seek death, bah!" Zhou Shuiqing turned his head and spat on the ground, then turned to look at the remaining people again.
