Water Margin farming to become powerful

Duan Pengju was stunned when he saw the tragic scene in front of the barbed wire fence. He could hardly believe what he saw.

How could the cavalry rushing forward be stopped by the thin barbed wire?

And at this time, the slightly nervous group of supervisors behind the barbed wire fence were still harvesting the lives of these cavalrymen at a fast speed.

Duan Pengju was stunned. He couldn't imagine that just over 100 infantry could resist a round of impact from the same number of cavalry on the frontal battlefield.

Based on his previous combat experience, it is normal for a hundred cavalry to charge and defeat a phalanx formed by five hundred to one thousand infantry in one fell swoop.

That's why he thought the hundred infantrymen were very brave for daring to fight.

At this time, Pengju also had to pay attention to the effectiveness of the barbed wire.

He regretted it very much, he really didn't expect that the firearms and barbed wire fence of the protection army were so powerful.

This is more than 100 cavalry, they were rushed away in a blink of an eye

In order to be able to capture the cities along the way as soon as possible, almost all the cavalry he brought this time were heavy cavalry who were good at charging. When the team is weak, it may not have a good effect, but it is obviously an unwise choice to use heavy cavalry to punch the barbed wire at this time.

He turned around and saw the cavalry who came with him, and all the cavalry with a single card were stunned, so he quickly adjusted his tactics, and changed the horse archers who had already put their bows and arrows into their quiver and wanted to charge together, and asked them to take out The bows and arrows fired at the guards behind the barbed wire opposite.

More than 100 horse archers formed five teams of twenty cavalry, and rushed up in batches.

Then soon Duan Pengju felt that the more difficult problem came, because it was inconvenient to draw a hard bow with his legs immediately, so the horse bows carried by the cavalry were not powerful and the range was not far.

He soon discovered that the distance that the cavalry bows of his cavalry could shoot was not as far as the muskets of the guards on the opposite side!
Before the first batch of more than 20 cavalrymen could shoot the enemy on the opposite side, one of the cavalry was shot down by the muskets issued by the guards.

The horse archers who rushed out could only charge forward in front of the formation, constantly adjusting the distance between themselves and the group of guards.

They rushed to the closest position to the guards on horseback and shot arrows at the army behind the barbed wire on the opposite side. After firing a round of arrows, they quickly rode away and ran away with care. Can't aim.

Using this method, the horse archers fired several rounds in front of the formation, and the guards on the opposite side finally panicked.

The reloading speed of the musket is far lower than the shooting speed of the bow and arrow, and the aiming skills of this group of "protectors" are not very good, so after the horse archers on the opposite side were shot to death two more people, behind the barbed wire The number of casualties of the protection army had risen to more than ten people in an instant.

Seeing this situation, Duan Pengju's heart was bleeding. You must know that the training of horse archers is very difficult. The price of compensation for the three horse archers who were shot to death would be hundreds of guan. In the blink of an eye the protector had inflicted great losses on his horse archers.

And this kind of loss was just to open up the first line of defense on the opposite side. Duan Pengju regretted not listening to Li Ping just now. This time he really underestimated the enemy and rushed forward.

But now he can only grit his teeth and force himself. There are only more than 100 guards rushing out of the city gate in front of him. They must have reinforcements in the future.

We must not allow them to increase their numbers. This small army must be broken up immediately, and then enter the city as soon as possible, so as to reduce losses!
Just as Duan Pengju was thinking this way, he saw red flags erected on the hills on both sides of the Chengguan, and the people rushed out of the flags.

Duan Pengju took a deep breath, this is the reinforcements from the enemy!
Fortunately, he was also prepared.

"Fifty riders to the left and fifty riders to the right, be sure not to let the thieves hold their ground!"

Duan Pengju now knew the advantages and disadvantages of the barbed wire. Fortunately, he saw that there was no such barbed wire on the hills on both sides, and the advantage of the cavalry over the infantry could still be revealed.

Following Duan Pengju's order, the following cavalry generals led a large group of horses and horses to rush over immediately.

Duan Pengju knew that as long as his cavalry rushed up to disperse the infantry on the opposite side and prevent them from rushing down the mountain, these infantry using long-range weapons would not be very effective in the woods.

When he was thinking this way, he saw that the guards who came down from the mountains on both sides were also nervous when they saw the cavalry coming, and then they slowly pushed down several heavy-looking vehicles from the mountain roads on both sides.

Duan Pengju saw that there was a thick and large bronze cylinder on the car, and the cylinder was aimed at the place where Duan Pengju was at the bottom of the mountain. There were people holding instruments there who seemed to be nervously doing some measurements, and constantly adjusted the inclination of the cylinder while measuring. direction.

The moment Duan Pengju saw the metal cylinder, he couldn't help but think of the small bronze cannon that Li Ping mentioned earlier.

Could it be this thing?

Duan Pengju had never taken this bronze cannon seriously before, but when he saw the appearance of the cannon carriage, Duan Pengju felt his heart tense instantly.

It was a natural tension with weapons.

Just by looking at the well-made and light weapon, Duan Pengju seemed to have expected that it would be very sharp on the battlefield.

His first reaction was to let the team that rushed up just now retreat first, but before his order was issued, the artillerymen on the mountains on both sides had already adjusted their directions.

I saw that almost at the same time, the artillerymen on both sides waved the red flags, and the soldiers standing next to the small artillery vehicles ignited and quickly avoided.

Then there were two loud cannon shots.

The sound of cannon resounded through the hill, light smoke drifted past, and the chain bullets came down from the hill with a whistling sound.

Contrary to what Duan Pengju had guessed, the target of this group of guards was not the cavalry who went up to attack them, but Duan Pengju's main formation!

But it was too late when Duan Pengju found out all this. He was dumbfounded as he watched the chain bullets fired by the cannon fly five or six hundred steps away and landed in the cavalry formation.

At this distance, which is almost close to the longest range of the small bronze cannon, if only ordinary solid shells are used, they will basically fall to the ground and hit a hole without much lethality.

But changing to a chain bomb is different, especially when facing Duan Pengju's cavalry.

These cavalry rode tall horses, both man and horse were two meters high, all of them were huge targets, and if they were scratched by shells casually, they would be fatally injured.

It was also the first time for those cavalrymen to encounter the baptism of artillery. Many people didn't realize how dangerous this thing was when the chain bombs flew over!

(End of this chapter)