Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 884 Xin Ai is captured!

Two hundred steps!
The first salvo fired with a bang.

This is the maximum effective killing distance of the Wanli No. [-] musket in the practice code given by Qi Jiguang.

Qi Jiguang himself thinks that it should not be shot at such a distance. He thinks that it should be at least 150 steps closer, and it is even better to shoot at a hundred steps or so. But this theory is mainly aimed at normal situations, such as today's In this abnormal situation, the frontline generals can of course make temporary adjustments in order to try to shoot one more round of volleys before the opponent gets in front of them.

The effect of this round of volley is indeed not very good, but the main problem may not be the musket itself, but the mental state of the soldiers of the Ming army-the power of nearly ten thousand cavalry charging straight forward is so amazing that even The ground was shaking, and the hands of many soldiers of the Ming army were shaking like a pendulum, and the bullets fired didn't know where they flew.

In fact, Zhang Wanbang can fully understand that this may not be real timidity, but it may be just a normal reaction. After all, everyone is human. Although many people have combat experience against the Mongolian Tartars, they are defending themselves. The experience gained in the situation of the strong city and Xiongguan, such as today in the wild with such a thin line of defense to fight against the Mongols' charge, it was really the first time for a big girl to get on a sedan chair.

Not to mention the ordinary soldiers below, even the servants around him all looked nervous, and many of them were shaking with their weapons in their hands.

Even himself, the young general who has always been known for his daring, his heart was beating faster than the drumbeat at this moment, the blood in his body was almost coagulated, his eyes were bloodshot and red as red, and there was no one in his eyes except the Mongolian cavalry who was approaching quickly. Another scene.

It's easy to say "life and death are irrelevant", but how many people can really do it casually?

Ants are greedy for life, what's more, people!
In many cases, being brave is just what you have to do, but if you are not brave, you will die even worse!
The first round of bad volley, hundreds of gunshots, in exchange for the loss of only fifty Mongolian riders, not worth mentioning in front of thousands of people rushing into battle.

Fortunately, Zhang Wanbang memorized Qi Jiguang's drills by heart, and subconsciously shouted: "The second row retreats to reload ammunition, and the third row moves forward, ready to shoot!"

The soldiers who were so nervous that they couldn't help themselves carried out his orders mechanically. It might even be because of being too nervous. The fastest speed switched the firing queue.

When the Mongolian cavalry entered within 150 steps, Zhang Wanbang had no room to think, and subconsciously shouted: "Fire!"

There was another burst of "bang bang bang", this time the effect was much better, and the Mongols lost at least 150 cavalry.

But the brigade of cavalry continued to rush forward, and many cavalry were still shouting "Genghis Khan".

Zhang Wanbang's brow was sweating, the two rounds of salvos only knocked out two hundred riders, and the opponent had already entered 150 paces—no, now only a hundred paces away.

"The third horizontal team retreats, and the fourth horizontal team moves forward, ready to throw grenades!"

"Get ready... long shot!"

There are several ways to throw a grenade, or a grenade. The farthest way is to run up and then drop the bomb, but now Zhang Wanbang has no time to do this, so he can only let them handle the point bomb.

Fixed-point bombing is divided into standing type and crawling type. Now of course it is standing type fixed-point bombing.

"Drop the bomb!" Zhang Wanbang yelled, "Get the bomb and get ready! - Drop the bomb!"

The throwing grenade is obviously faster than the musketeers of this era. Even if the Wanli style has evolved to the era of the flintlock, it is still inferior to the throwing grenade.

After all, the flintlock mainly removes the process of ignition and firing, but the non-integrated bullets of the pre-loading era have to be charged first and then reloaded. The program is more time-consuming.

As for the grenade, as long as you get it in your hand, you can throw it when you pull the ignition, which is natural and fast.

Although the power of the gunpowder at this time was far less than that of later generations, hundreds of grenades were thrown over at once, still blowing up the Mongolian cavalry, and even knocked them into a daze.

The results of this wave of grenades could not be counted for a while, and Zhang Wanbang estimated that the Mongols lost at least 400 people. In normal times, it has formed a victory that is enough to sacrifice to the Taimiao.

But the Mongols were only a little slow, and immediately rushed over even more frantically, and Zhang Wanbang only shouted the second "bomb", and the Mongols rushed to the front of the formation after another wave of grenade bombing.

At this time, Xin Ai's troops had lost more than a thousand personnel. If it was normal, he would have ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, but today Xin Ai's eyes were red, staring at the battlefield without saying a word, and he had no intention of withdrawing his troops at all.

He wanted to see the scene where his iron cavalry destroyed the Ming army's phalanx in one fell swoop and slaughtered wantonly!
However, an accident happened.

After two rounds of musket volleys and two rounds of grenade bombing, the horses of the Mongolian cavalry were visibly restless. Many of the horses were frightened and began to run around.

The knight on horseback tried his best to keep himself from being knocked off the horse, but he couldn't quickly appease the horses and let them fight honestly.

In fact, because horse milk is the Mongols’ military supplies, the war horses in the Mongolian army are indeed mainly mares. Although mares are usually more docile, they are also more likely to be frightened.

The charge was chaotic and delayed a lot, but due to the superiority in numbers, in anyone's opinion, this wave of charge was still enough to penetrate the defense line of the Ming army's phalanx.

But the fact is that they are going in the opposite direction - when the remaining Mongolian cavalry rushed to less than 20 meters away from the bayonet array, the horses under their crotch suddenly slowed down significantly, and refused to follow the orders of the knights on the horse. , and even some war horses leaned forward with all four hooves, and the horses turned backwards, making a "braking" forceful deceleration action!
Especially the war horses on the edge of the charge began to turn towards the open spaces on the left and right without listening to the call.

Some of the war horses were either more courageous, or the horse riders had better riding skills. They wanted to continue to charge forward, but they were blocked by those decelerated war horses and had to slow down.

"Damn it, if I knew this, I put hundreds of Qinglong Yanyue knives in the front row, and I don't even need Juma and Luchai!" Zhang Wanbang couldn't help but see that the Mongolian cavalry were in chaos after they rushed to the front of the formation. I was overjoyed and laughed.

However, he was not completely carried away, and immediately remembered Gao Yushi's order, and shouted: "Continue to burst! The second column stepped forward again, and hit me!"

Now that the two sides are close to the distance of hand-to-hand combat, the grenade cannot be thrown, and the gun can only be fired after the bayonet array.

And at the same time he yelled, Xin Ai's hands and feet on the opposite side were cold, and his back became weak all of a sudden, and he almost fell headfirst. Fortunately, Hamu Duer saw the opportunity and quickly supported him.

"Abu, the situation is wrong! The Ming army's palm thunder has also become more powerful, it is better to withdraw troops quickly!"

Xin Ai's eyes had gradually lost focus, and she said blankly: "I lost again, I lost again...why?"

He really couldn't figure it out, even though his cavalry didn't show much decline in combat effectiveness during the "Ten Years of Peace", why did they suffer consecutive defeats?why?Do you really have no destiny?

Seeing that Xin Ai was just in a daze, Hamu Badu'er didn't give any orders, and was sweating profusely.

He reminded her a few more times, but Xin Ai was still in a daze, and her eyes gradually showed despair.

Hamu Du'er gritted his teeth, stopped pleading for orders, but turned his head and shouted: "Huang Taiji has an order, withdraw troops and reorganize!"

Just as the order was about to be sent to Mingjin, who knew that the sound of rumbling horseshoes suddenly came from the rear where they came just now. It sounded like at least [-] to [-] cavalry.

Hamu was taken aback for a moment, looked back in amazement, was greatly surprised in his heart, and thought to himself: Could it be that Tumen Khan found out with conscience, or heard some news, and sent us a brigade of reinforcements?

Unexpectedly, looking back and looking closely, there was a clear line of Chinese characters on the opponent's flag: Fen Shou Xuanfu North Road Dushimaying Participating Mahjong Mahjong!
Ha Muba was shocked to the point of death - the horse battalion in the Xuan Mansion was the direct cavalry brought out by Ma Fang and Malanxi. When Ma Fang was in office, he even dared to chase the Tumed cavalry with the same force!

Big bad...

Hamu turned pale with fright, and shouted: "Retract the troops! Retreat the troops and regroup! Quick! Quick! Quick!"

However, it was too late, Zhang Wanbang and the others also noticed the arrival of the cavalry and the panic of the Mongols.

Although Zhang Bingzhong and Zhang Wanbang were not standing together at the moment, they obviously knew what to do.

Zhang Wanbang ordered the Mongols in front of the formation to be held back to prevent them from evacuating easily, but Zhang Bingzhong was more direct and ordered a change of formation—changing the hollow square formation into a wild goose formation, with the intention of encircling the Mongolian army.

The wild goose formation is a forward "V" formation, a bit like the mouth of a crocodile that opens its mouth to swallow.In fact, Zhang Bingzhong's troops also suffered a lot of losses just now. It is estimated that the current strength is only more than 5000. It is theoretically impossible to encircle nearly [-] Mongolian cavalry.

But at this time, the Mongols themselves knew that they had already been attacked. The Ming army infantry in the front could not penetrate it as if they had cast a demon spell, and there were more Ming army cavalry behind them than their own. How could they fight?
All of a sudden, the Mongolian army was in chaos, and the various ministries began to flee.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, Hamu took Xin Ai's rein with one hand and was about to lead him away, but Xin Ai slapped his hand away and said, "Hamu, you can go, Abu doesn't want to go. gone."

Hamu was taken aback for a moment: "Abu, what are you?"

"Tumen can't defeat the Ming army, and I will only be captured a little later when I go to him. Why do such white jobs?"

Xin Ai straightened her clothes and hat, glanced in the direction of Zhang Wanbang's bayonet formation, and said calmly, "I'm a Huang Taiji, so envoy Gao Qin should meet me before killing him? I want to see him, see how he is. What a hero."
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