The sun is about to set before it sets, and the sky is about to faint before it gets dark.
Oqier felt his body tilt suddenly to the left, and felt bad for a moment. He seemed to hear the sound of the horse's leg breaking, and then he was thrown out!
The heavy fall almost killed Orqir.
Before Orqier could get up, a horse's hoof stepped on the visor, and the heavy force directly pressed the visor into his face. When the war horse passed by, only Orqier was left twitching unconsciously.
Xidurigu looked at the heavy cavalry in front. The horses fell to the ground one after another. The leg bones of some horses were exposed, and they whined continuously.
Looking at the ground, there are all potholes.
No wonder the Ming Dynasty's firearms no longer covered the heavy cavalry, but chose to bombard the ground in front. It turned out that their real plan was not to use firearms to kill the heavy cavalry, but to use horse traps to deal with the heavy cavalry!
The heavy cavalry is very fast, heavy, and has high requirements on the running environment. If it runs into an area with dense potholes, it will be a dead end. If the war horse loses its stability, and if one of the hoofs of the war horse steps on a pit, it will be a dead end. The entire heavily armored war horse was destroyed!
"Damn it!"
Xidurigu was very unwilling, but the road in front of him had been covered with Ming army weapons for two rounds, and the ground was full of potholes. Although these potholes were not deep, they were fatal.
If the heavy cavalry slows down and runs over quickly, they will suffer heavy losses. They can only slow down and move forward carefully.
But without speed, the heavy cavalry is no different from a turtle.
Xu Huizu had no intention of coddling this group of people. When they got within a hundred steps, he issued a military order: "Tiger crouching cannon bombarded the rear cavalry, eight oxen crossbows took full action, Qu Tao led the cavalry to prepare for battle, and fire gun soldiers prepared to charge! "
Zhou Dazhi put down his telescope and said to Xu Huizu: "These *** actually protected the belly of the war horse. Such heavy cavalry cannot be built by Tatars. I doubt..."
Xu Huizu interrupted Zhou Dazhi: "Tell your Majesty your suspicions. This is likely to be a major case."
Zhou Dazhi took a deep look at Xu Huizu.
Yes, this must be a big case.
The presence of a few heavy cavalry in the Tatars is understandable, but the presence of as many as 3,000 heavy cavalry is someone's fault.
It is impossible for the Tatars to have such heavy armor, and it is impossible for the Walas to have such heavy armor. The Uliangha tribe has been exterminated and they have not found much heavy armor. This thing is not something that the defeated grassland can have in large quantities.
Unless someone secretly gave them heavy armor, and the person who could give it to the Tatars must not be a simple person. In fact, there were very few people in the entire Ming Dynasty who could give this kind of heavy armor.
"As long as you ask the craftsman, you will know where the heavy armor is."
Zhou Dazhi stared.
The eight oxen crossbows shot together, knocking away the heavy cavalry with tyrannical force. Some thick arrows hit the armor of the horse's head, and the huge force even broke the horse's head.
The winch turned and the Eight Bull Crossbow fired again. And above the long arrows of the Eight Bull Crossbows, a group of black gunpowder bombs flew across the sky and flew straight to the rear of the heavy cavalry.
Arutai and Benya never expected that the seemingly fierce and powerful heavy cavalry would be blocked in front of the Ming army's formation! And the main force he invested were light cavalry, which couldn't stop gunpowder bullets.
An area is covered, an area is dead, and an area seems to have become an insurmountable ravine, lying between the front army and the rear army.
Arutai directed the sergeants to charge, but to no avail.
No matter how dispersed the formation, no matter how many cavalry rushed over, no matter how much combat power was invested, the Ming army just mechanically and ruthlessly threw gunpowder shells. What they wanted was to blockade, a complete blockade!
Having lost its reinforcements and rear strength, the heavy cavalry finally understood that it was at the end of its rope. Xidurigu issued an order to have all the heavy cavalry dismount their horses and charge towards the Ming army as heavy armored sergeants!
Although this approach made them lose the advantage of cavalry combat, they did not have to worry about being thrown off the horses and being trampled to death by standing horses. But this method is somewhat pitiful, because the Ming army has a large number of eight-oxen crossbows, and Zhu Yunwen has almost turned them into individual weapons...
The force of the crossbow arrows was so great that it directly flew the heavy armored troops away. Those who fell to the ground were almost unable to get up. .
Xidu Rigu was lucky enough to rush to the front of the Ming army camp alone.
He was the first Tatar sergeant to fight in front of the Ming army.
Then he became a prisoner.
After Zhu Di learned about the situation on the front line, he looked at Liu Qixia, Gao Zhongguang, and Zou Peng: "Let the cavalry artillery battalion take action!"
Liu Qixia, Gao Zhongguang, Zou Peng and others have been waiting for a long time.
The cavalry and artillery battalion began to mobilize. Six thousand elite cavalry divided into two groups and rushed to the left and right wings of the front army, taking the initiative to attack from the corners of the two wings.
Xu Huizu received Zhu Di's order to counterattack.
At the same time, the Ming army's central army heard the dull sound of drums. The drums were loud and thunderous, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.
Ping An's left army, Duan Yun's right army, Tan Yuan's rear army, Xu Huizu's front army, and Zhu Di's middle army finally launched a full-scale counterattack!
The sound of drums lifts the heart.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon was not stingy with gunpowder bombs and threw them into the farthest range. The Ming Dynasty's cavalry took the lead in rushing out of the camp. After approaching the Tatar cavalry, they first shot and killed the Tatar cavalry with three-eyed fire blunderbuss. After damaging the main forward of the Tatar force, they then reversed the three-eyed fire blunderbuss. Gun, round it up and hit it!
The fire gun soldiers held fire guns, their bayonets emitting cold light, and charged amidst the shouts of the sergeants. Following the cavalry, they stabbed the fallen Tatar cavalry hard!
Duan Yun was even more aggressive. He forcibly turned a shield-level team like the Modao Team into an offensive team. He used the Modao Team to sweep and attack. The cavalry behind him could only stare, and the fire gun soldiers behind him could only cheer. Cheer.
Wherever Mo Dao passed, there were no living people, only corpses, and many of them were mutilated corpses of Ya.
Ping An is not to be outdone. For many years, Ping An has been as conceited as any military commander. Even Zhu Di wants to compete with him! Although this expedition to the Tatars is not his best opportunity, it may be his only opportunity.
During the imperial court's several campaigns, it was never his turn. During the eleven years of Jianwen, except for cooperating with Zhu Di and Zhu Quan to attack the Tatars and Oara, he did not appear on the battlefield.
This time, as the third-in-command in the army, Ping An finally got his chance.
What Ping An leads is not the main force of the Beijing army, but the main force of the Peking cavalry. This is the strongest combat force that Ping An has trained in Peiping for many years. For eleven years, isn't it just to kill the enemy on the battlefield?
"kill!"
Ping An took the lead and led the cavalry to launch a counterattack.
It’s also a three-eyed fire gun, and it’s also a three-hit combo of firearms! But unlike the Beijing army, after three consecutive attacks, this cavalry put away the three-eyed blazing guns and replaced them with sabers.
The saber is the sharpest weapon and the best weapon of this cavalry.
This is the pride of the Ming cavalry and the last stubbornness and persistence of the cavalry era.
