Qamdo assassination.
As night fell, the Ming army's military camp became quiet. Except for the sergeants who patrolled the military camp, everyone seemed to be asleep.
Harry once again observed the Ming army camp and asked Qiangzhi Li: "Have the people who went to notify Karachi come back?"
Qiang Zhili looked to the northeast with worry: "There is no news yet. It is probably intercepted by people from the Ming Dynasty. Do you want to send another manpower?"
Harry looked up into the night.
The stars are shining brightly tonight, and the starlight makes the earth full of gentleness, like a gentle woman, gently looking down at the world.
"Report, someone from Karachi is here."
"Let him come quickly."
Qiang Zhili shouted quickly.
Harry saw the person coming, and he was very familiar with it. This was Karachi's guard and Karachi's younger brother, named Adan.
Adan looked at Harry and handed over Karachi's paperwork.
Harry took the document and looked at it carefully. Karachi agreed to attack at midnight, which was a good time. When he saw a wound on Adan's face, he couldn't help but ask: "Why, is there anyone in the Ming Dynasty who can hurt you?"
Adan's heart tightened and he quickly said: "When I shot Changji down, I was a little careless and got hurt a little."
Harry didn't think much and said to Adan: "Go back and tell Karachi to launch the attack at the time he said. I hope he will kill the enemy bravely and wipe out the Ming army in one fell swoop."
Adan's heart was full of bitterness, but he still kept smiling: "May Harry pioneer make immortal contributions."
After leaving Camp Harry, Adan looked up at the stars and said to the sergeant following him: "You know, we have no choice. If we don't follow Song Sheng's instructions, those brothers will die."
The sergeant was silent.
Adan did not want Karachi to die, nor did he want so many brothers to be massacred by the Ming Dynasty. As for Harry, he can just wish himself well. There is no canyon here. After he knows that he is no match for Ming Dynasty, he will definitely withdraw.
Harry can run away, but Karachi and those more than 8,000 brothers cannot!
The only hope now is the great Sultan. Only when the Sultan comes here personally can he find a way to break the Ming Dynasty. He, Karachi and others may be rescued.
Harry, please take care of yourself for the sake of our survival.
Adan clapped his hands and left, feeling heavy in his heart.
Song Sheng was not worried that A Dan and others would reveal the actual situation of the battle in Beita Mountain. Those who could be selected to deliver the letter were those who had relatives in the army and were greedy for life and fear of death. Thousands of heads were hung around their necks and they had to obey.
Even if the secret was really leaked, Song Sheng was not worried. Qamdo had already become a huge encirclement. The quick victory in the Battle of Beitashan and Harry's hesitant waiting gave Ming enough time to allocate strength. Achieve wider coverage.
At this time, Song Sheng had already led the cavalry out of Beita Mountain, making a large detour to the west, approaching Harry's rear. Even if Harry wanted to retreat, he might not be able to do so.
midnight.
Qiangzhi Li led seven thousand cavalry and looked at the Ming army camp three miles away. He summoned Fetullah, Shakarov, Akhtam and many other generals to make arrangements for the battle.
"According to observation, Zhu Di's right wing only has 5,000 cavalry. I need one of you to lead 3,000 cavalry into the Ming army's camp and defeat the opponent's cavalry. Who will take on this important task?"
Qiang Zhili looked at everyone.
Fetullah asked for a fight: "I will win the first battle!"
Akhtam was not happy and argued, and Shakarov also wanted to come out on top.
The Qiang Zhili saw that the soldiers were eager to fight, and was very satisfied. He said, "Leave this battle to Fetullah. We must tear apart the Ming army's formation in one fell swoop."
"rest assured!"
Fetulla's mouth was full of confidence. As a brave warrior, there was no way he would lose to the vulnerable Ming Dynasty!
The military order arrives and the battle begins!
Fetullah led three thousand cavalry and charged straight out. The distance of three miles was very close to the cavalry, and it was also an excellent distance for the cavalry to charge. That is, there was enough distance for the horses to run as fast as possible, and also
It won't consume too much of the horse's energy.
Zhu Di's right wing was controlled by Xu Huizu, Tan Yuan, Li De and others.
Xu Huizu didn't sleep, and neither did many Ming soldiers. Some of the resting personnel also wore armor and lay down anywhere. Xu Huizu took control of the gathering and mobilization of the Qiangzhili army immediately.
Li De, the commander of the fifth military camp and one guard of the Beijing Army, was good at infantry combat.
Facing the attack of the first batch of Qiangzhi cavalry, Li De deployed five thousand infantry. The weapons of these infantry were neither firecrackers nor swords and guns, but crossbows and arrows.
Li De was very excited. During the training of the Beijing Army, many weapons and equipment and many tactics could not be tested realistically, and the damage effects could only be estimated. But now this is a battlefield, facing the enemy. There is no need to be merciful, there is no need to wrap the arrow, and there is no need to use some non-lethal weapons for confrontation training.
Actual combat is the only criterion for testing all tactics. This is the slogan of the Beijing Army.
It is said that the infantry will decline and that the Shenji Battalion will become the absolute mainstream, but Li De does not believe it. Infantry is infantry, and firearms are firearms. There is no one to replace whom, and there is no decline of any type of arms. There is only oneself. It's just that you don't make any progress.
Who said that infantry cannot restrain cavalry? Who said that infantry will definitely lose to cavalry?
I, Li De, don’t believe it!
Li De looked at the sergeants in front of him. Each sergeant held a broad-headed crossbow in his hand. The crossbow arrows were pointed coldly at the charging cavalry. The metal arrows looked bright and dangerous under the starlight.
Fetullah took the lead in the charge and saw the Ming army in front through his mask, and a sense of danger arose spontaneously.
"Speed up the charge!"
Fetullah didn't know where the danger came from, but he knew very well that no matter what the danger was, as long as the cavalry came close, everything could be solved!
One mile, two miles...
Fetullah's cavalry had already started running very fast. The sergeant took out his bow and arrow, preparing to show the Ming army the tactics of the top cavalry.
Get closer, get closer!
As long as you enter one hundred and fifty steps, you can give the Ming army a fatal blow!
Three hundred steps to go!
At this moment, Li De pulled out the sword from his waist with a cold and serious face, and shouted loudly: "Let go!"
The crossbow's machine expansion was opened, the bowstring suddenly buzzed, and hundreds of crossbow arrows rose into the sky, like a black cloud covering the starry sky, and the shadow covered the sky where Fetullah and other cavalry were charging.
"Dodge!"
Fethullah shouted sharply.
Powerful crossbow arrows shot through the air, and dozens of cavalrymen were shot and fell to the ground without even reacting. The cavalryman who charged at the front was pierced by more than a dozen crossbow arrows. When a person fell, he could not fall off his horse. If he looked carefully, he saw that the crossbow arrows had actually pierced the cavalryman's thigh with the horse, catching the bones.
Flesh and blood flying everywhere!
The men and horses howled!
Fetulla raised his small shield, looked at the crossbow arrow that penetrated the shield, and suddenly pulled it out, feeling cold all over when he looked at the pure iron crossbow arrow.
The Ming Dynasty actually used pure iron crossbows? This crossbow is also a bit too powerful.
"Go, go!"
Fetullah did not dare to retreat, otherwise these people would die in vain!
Facing the arrow array, the only thing you can do is charge forward and close the distance. As long as you get within 150 steps, your cavalry will definitely destroy them!
The cavalry galloped, and the distance continued to shorten.
But before it reached two hundred steps, Ming's crossbow arrows flew out again. The dense rain of arrows caused heavy losses to Fetullah's cavalry.
Round three!
Round 4!
Fifth round!
When Fetullah led the cavalry to charge until he was only 150 steps away from the Ming army, the sixth round of crossbow arrows flew again.
Fetullah looked at the extremely sparse cavalry around him and shouted: "What on earth is this?"
The cavalry of hundreds of battles followed Timur to destroy countless countries and kill countless people. Fetullah considered himself a well-informed person, but he had never seen such a powerful crossbow arrow, let alone such a dense crossbow arrow.
!
Is it possible for the Ming Dynasty's crossbow arrows to be replaced easily and in a short time? Don't they need time?
Li De would not tell Fetulla that it really didn't take time to change the Ming Dynasty's crossbows. As one of the few in the Beijing army, Li De, who was a perverted infantryman, heard the strange term "double insurance" when he was studying at the Imperial Academy, so he improved the infantry combat method.
Considering that the range of ordinary bows is only more than a hundred steps, and although big things like bed crossbows are extremely powerful, they cannot be carried by a single soldier. In the end, Li De chose the crossbow as the main weapon of the infantry.
The maximum range of the crossbow is between 500 and 800 steps. Of course, the lethality is not guaranteed, but within 300 steps, the lethality of the crossbow is very considerable, and this distance is just the distance where the cavalry cannot launch an attack.
In order to study the ability of crossbows to restrain cavalry, Li De gave several memorials to Zhu Yunwen, and hired a group of people from the Military Academy, the Craftsman Academy and the Military War Bureau to improve the performance of crossbows. The Craftsman Academy applied pulleys to the crossbows, which greatly saved money. The force of loading the crossbow without losing the range of the crossbow.
Even so, Li De was still dissatisfied and asked that all the crossbow arrows be replaced with pure iron arrows, and asked a sergeant to equip two crossbows. Before the battle, the two crossbows should be prepared first, and then the continuity of the two rounds of shooting could be guaranteed. , in the third round, you can easily change the equipment, or arrange for other sergeants to install crossbow arrows specifically for the crossbow archer to form a complete and continuous arrow rain coverage.
Fetullah rushed within a hundred steps of the Ming army with tears in his eyes. He was followed by only a dozen cavalry, and many of the cavalry behind him had been shot into hedgehogs by crossbow arrows. Both men and horses died in the attack. on the way.
Li De looked at the Timurid cavalry who charged bravely and refused to retreat even though they knew they were dead. There was admiration in his eyes. It had to be said that the enemy's cavalry was indeed elite. If it were ordinary cavalry, they would have suffered such huge losses. Gone long ago.
Praise and admiration are one thing, killing someone is another.
Without any hesitation, Li De ordered the crossbowmen to aim at the approaching cavalry in front. Watching them enter fifty steps, he shook his head slightly, waved his hand and said, "Let go!"
Such a close distance, such a fierce crossbow, such a powerful force, such a dense crossbow arrows, directly shot Feratu off the war horse. The ring armor protected his vitals, but the quality of the face armor was really average, not Protect his face.
The war horses also lay on the ground whining, and a gust of wind blew on the battlefield, full of the smell of blood.
There is still one cavalryman alive, I wonder if it is just good luck. It's just that he lost his horse, his bow and arrows. He only held his long sword and rushed to the front of the Ming army. Looking at the Ming sergeant in front of him, he stabbed him with a cry.
Li De picked up a crossbow, aimed it and pressed the trigger.
This great cavalryman who was the first to charge in front of the Ming Dynasty sergeant died. No one knew his name, and no one recorded his courage.
The Qiang Zhili who was observing the battle formation from the rear trembled. Is this the vulnerable Ming army? Such powerful crossbow arrows and such intensive attacks have never been defeated by even the most powerful enemy!
Three thousand fine cavalry were all destroyed like this?
Qiang Zhili held his hands tightly and looked at Shakarov, Akhtam and others. Although Shakarov and Akhtam did not speak, they all took a step back...
