Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 17
Seeing that the Ming army was hiding behind the protective wall and not showing their heads, two rows of Mongolian cavalry kept their bows and walked forward.

Chongzhen looked at it with his head, and then shouted: "Hold on, don't show your head, no one is allowed to show your face without my will, let alone light a match, or fire a gun indiscriminately!"

Mongolian cavalry can draw bows and shoot arrows on galloping horses, and the hit rate is not low, so shooting arrows on foot is even more of a problem. At this time, showing up is looking for abuse.

Matchlock guns at this distance are no match for bows and arrows.

Such unnecessary casualties are completely unnecessary.

Wang Chengen and several eunuchs repeated loudly.

The eunuch's voice was high-pitched and thin, but extremely penetrating.

Hearing the eunuch's order, all the Ming troops stood still.

In a blink of an eye, two rows of Mongolian cavalry had arrived in front of the trench.

When the two head of a hundred households gave an order, more than two hundred Mongolian cavalrymen threw away their bows and arrows one after another, drew their scimitars from their waists, and jumped into the ditch like dumplings.

These Mongolian cavalry were a little too arrogant.

Normally, it should be half on alert and half on offense.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden clattering sound from both ends of the trench.

The Mongolian cavalry looked around anxiously, but it was the Ming army who used hemp rope to pull away the sacks that had been blocked at both ends of the trench in advance, and the cold river immediately poured into the trench from both ends.

The river flooded over, and the Mongolian cavalry suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

In the face of sudden changes, normal people will be confused.

"Don't worry about the river water!" The two centurion heads were used to seeing the battlefield, so they quickly reacted and issued an order, "Climb the wall with a ladder and kill the Guangming Dynasty dog!"

The Mongolian cavalry teamed up in groups of three and quickly set up a human ladder.

The third Mongolian cavalryman in the same group stepped on the human ladder built by his companions, and easily climbed up the earth wall with only one body.

About seventy Mongolian cavalrymen successfully climbed onto the earthen wall, but before these Mongolian cavalrymen could take off the scimitars in their mouths, hundreds of spears stabbed fiercely.

The dozen or so Mongolian cavalry who reacted slowly were directly smashed into a sieve.

Although most of the Mongolian cavalry escaped the stabbing of the Ming army's spears, they couldn't stand firm on the earth wall, so they could only jump back off the earth wall and fall back into the trench.

Only a few fierce Mongolian cavalry jumped into the earthen wall.

However, a few Mongolian cavalry are not enough to determine the trend of the battlefield.

After barely cutting off a few spears, more spears stabbed over.

These few most fierce Mongolian cavalry were soon stabbed into a sieve.

The first wave of the Mongolian cavalry attack was disintegrated, and more than a dozen people were killed.

The first wave of attacks was disintegrated, and the Mongolian cavalry quickly organized a second wave of attacks.

But the result was worse than the first wave of attacks, and almost twenty more were killed.

By the time the Mongolian cavalry wanted to organize a third wave of attack, the river had already filled the trenches.

This is a big trouble. Standing in the waist-deep river, the action has been greatly affected. It is even worse for the cavalry who are responsible for climbing the wall and attacking upwards. Because the river water was poured into the inside of the riding boots, the feet are slippery and even stand. Unsteady, [-]% of the combat power can't be used even [-]% of it, and the final result can be imagined.

The third wave of attack was soon disintegrated by the Ming army.

And this wave of losses was even greater, more than [-] people were stabbed to death.

The two centurion heads finally realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered to retreat.

But at this time, it was too late to think of retreating. The remaining Mongolian cavalry had just crawled back to the ground from the trench when the musketeers of the Ming army appeared behind the parapet.

Now it really became a queue to shoot!

It was less than ten meters away, and even a musket with poor shooting accuracy could hit it.

Accompanied by the sound of "bang bang bang bang", the Mongolian cavalry fell one by one in a pool of blood.

This wave of Mongolian cavalry was really at a loss. Because their riding boots were flooded, they could not stand still or run fast, so they could only be shot and killed by Ming army musketeers one by one like rabbits.

In the end, none of the more than two hundred Mongolian cavalry who participated in this wave of attack could escape back alive.

The gunpowder smoke shrouded in front of the parapet gradually dissipated, and the entire river bend soon became silent again. Only the Mongolian cavalry who were seriously injured and survived continued to wail, which sounded a little scary.

But even though he won a small round, Chongzhen couldn't be happy.

Because the Ming army musketeers also suffered many inexplicable casualties.

Some exploded, some escaped and killed their own people, and more were accidental injuries caused by matchlocks.

When many musketeers were charging the gunpowder, they were in a hurry to ignite the medicine tank with the matchlock caught in their fingers. The gunpowder detonated, and the musketeer was seriously injured in an instant.

It even spread to others.

This is the flaw of the matchlock gun. The most fatal flaw of the matchlock gun is the matchlock.

In the last Battle of the Nameless Valley, this problem did not arise because of sufficient preparation and only three rows of guns were placed, and there was no need to reload the ammunition. Only a few musketeers were injured by the explosion.

This time, because it was multiple rounds of shooting, the problem was immediately exposed.

The most fatal flaw of the matchlock gun is that it is easy to misfire when charging the powder, so you must be very careful.

Furthermore, the team should not be too dense, otherwise the match will ignite the companion's medicine pot if you are not careful.

Through this battle, Chongzhen finally had the most intuitive understanding of the shortcomings of the matchlock gun, so it is no wonder that the matchlock gun must be assisted by spearmen.

Because the firepower density of the matchlock gun alone is not enough to stop the cavalry's charge.

This shortcoming can only be solved when the flintlock gun appears, so there is no need to think about the hollow phalanx. There is no such condition at all. Forcibly using it is courting death.

……

Chongzhen's mood is not easy, and Bori Tie China's mood is even heavier, so heavy that he doesn't even have the mood to settle accounts with Hai Rigu.

Because the conflict with Hai Rigu was just a conflict within the tribe.

But the battle with the Ming army is a life-and-death struggle!

If the defeat of this battle was due to the liquidation of Hai Rigu, it would be a small loss, and as the leader of the tribe, Bori Tiechi still understood such a simple truth.

Therefore, Bori Tie China had to comfort Hai Rigu in turn.

"Hai Rigu, when an eagle on the grassland breaks its wings, a failure is nothing."

However, Boritie China's consolation made Hai Rigu even more ashamed, and immediately said with a dark face: "Leader, this failure is only because I underestimated the enemy, please give me another chance, this time I will not do it again." If you underestimate the enemy, you will definitely break through this earthen wall, and kill all the Ming Dynasty people hiding behind the earthen wall, leaving no one behind!"

Boritie China frowned again, not knowing how to dissuade Hai Rigu.

A strong attack is definitely not possible anymore, because a frontal strong attack can only lead to death. The camp built by the Ming army in Hara Hetao is no less than a small military fortress.

But this can't be said directly, because it will easily hurt Hai Rigu's self-esteem.

Just when Boritiechina didn't know what to do, there was a distant sound of cow horns on the grassland behind him.

The low-pitched ox horn blew three times, and Hai Rigu's expression changed instantly, saying: "The horn blew three times, a strong enemy is coming! Could it be that the reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty have arrived?"

"Quickly end the formation! Quickly end the formation!"

Boritie China roared immediately.

The horn sounded, and the cavalry of the Gongtu tribe began to form again.

After a while, more than [-] cavalrymen lined up in more than [-] horizontal formations facing south.

After a while, dozens of riders galloped back from the south, and they were scattered by the Gongtu tribe.

"Headman!" the leading head of the ten households said loudly, "There are more than two thousand cavalry heading north from the direction of Baimachuan. Judging from the banners and outfits, they look like cavalry from the Ming Dynasty."

"It's really a Ming army!"

Bori Tie China's expression froze.

Hai Rigu, who was used to being arrogant, was also listless now.

The [-] Ming army in Hara Hetao has not yet been resolved, and more than [-] cavalry have come.

If the cavalry of the Ming army from the south were also so difficult to deal with, then their Gongtu troops would really be hanging this time, and they might suffer a big defeat and ruin their last vitality.

Soon the Ming army cavalry appeared in the field of vision.

……

"Woo!" Li Yan gently stopped the horse under his crotch.

Li Nian, Li Mou and more than two thousand riders also stopped.

Li Yan took out the binoculars from the leather pouch on his waist and pointed it at the river bend in front of him.

This telescope was seized by Li Nian from a general of the Ming army during the Battle of Tongguan. It is said that it was a treasure presented by Westerners to the Ming army. It can clearly see the battlefield several miles away.

After adjusting the focal length a little, Li Yan could see the entire battlefield clearly.

Seeing that the two sides were still confronting each other, Li Yan couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Fortunately, we finally caught up."

"Old Chongzhen is okay, right? That's great." Li Nian also breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "If the Mongols kill old Chongzhen, we'll be wasting our trip."

Li Mou said eagerly: "Don't say anything, let's do it quickly."

"Do it?" Li Nian said angrily, "Then which one do you think should be hit first?"

"Nonsense, of course, beat Chongzhen old man first." Li Mou said angrily, "We ran for hundreds of miles, isn't it just to catch Chongzhen back?"

Li Nian said: "What should we do when the Mongols outflank us?"

"How could it be?" Li Mou asked in astonishment, "The Mongols are the enemies of the Ming army, and we are also the enemies of the Ming army. Then we should be friends with the Mongols. They have no reason to beat us."

"I can't tell you clearly." Li Nian said, "I don't understand anything."

"Hey, who are you talking about?" Li Mou said angrily, "I'm your elder brother."

"Okay, stop arguing." Li Yan put away the binoculars and said, "Ignoring the Mongols, it is definitely not possible to directly attack the Ming army, but we can get in touch with the Mongols, maybe we can get what we need , as long as the Mongols are willing to let us take away Chongzhen, the Ming army prisoners and war horses can be given to them.”

Li Nian volunteered and said, "Brother, I'll go talk to the Mongols."

"No need." Li Yan said, "I'll go and tell them in person."

After a pause, Li Yan said again: "Find someone who can speak Mongolian."

Li Nian really found someone from his team who could speak Mongolian.

Li Yan took this cavalry and headed straight to the cavalry formation of the Gongtu Department.

(End of this chapter)