The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 399: With my determination to break through the enemy lines, I am invincible!
After the swordsmen and axemen are the archers and musketeers, and they are responsible for the actual killing output of the military formation.

Thanks to the efforts of Zhongshan Marquis Tang Hao, the three-barreled gun and the Rumi gun have now become popular in the Ming army, especially among the Beijing army soldiers, who are now standard equipment for almost every soldier.

The military formation also became more powerful with the addition of firearms, especially the current situation of the cavalry breaking through the formation.

Before these Mongolian cavalrymen who broke through the shield soldiers' defense and charged into the formation had time to rejoice, they fell one after another in a pool of blood accompanied by a dense, thunderous sound, and could not even resist.

After all, the Mongolian cavalry was trapped in the military formation at this moment, surrounded by their own army and unable to charge, so they naturally became sitting ducks!
No matter how poor the accuracy of these archers and musketeers is, they can hit the enemy with their eyes closed at such a close distance!
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The dense rain of arrows like locusts shot down violently, causing considerable casualties to the Mongolian cavalry.

After all, at such a close distance, it is simply impossible for them to dodge!
But this is not the point. The musket is what makes the Mongolian cavalry most desperate!
Dalhan, who was attacking left and right, suddenly stiffened. A hole appeared between his eyebrows and his brain stopped thinking. Before he could react, he fell off his horse and died on the spot!
Dayan Khan Batu Mengke's beloved son-in-law and the chief of the left-wing Kashgar tribe was killed in the battle of the Ming army!

Dalhan died in battle!
According to common sense, the Kashgar Cavalry would retreat at this point.

However, before the battle, Dayan Khan Batu Mongke issued a death order, never withdrawing troops!
No matter who dies in battle, even if Batu Mongke dies in battle, the Khanship will be passed on to his descendants, who will continue the fight and win this battle that will determine the fate of the Mongol Empire!

Therefore, if Dalhan died in battle, his descendants would lead the tribal warriors to continue the war. If his descendants died in battle again, the captain of ten thousand men of the Kashgar tribe would continue to lead the troops to fight. After the captain of ten thousand men died, there would be the captain of a thousand men. After the captain of a thousand men died, there would be the captain of a hundred men!

Even if he fights to the last soldier, Dayan Khan Batu Mongke will win this war!
Furthermore, once the cavalry stopped fighting, it would be basically impossible for them to launch another charge and escape from the battlefield!

These Ming army soldiers are not fools, how could they just watch you attack them in and out?

Therefore, the warriors of the Kashgar tribe had no other choice but to charge madly at the musketeers and archers under the dense rain of arrows and bullets!

As long as we get rid of them, the Ming army's front line will naturally be destroyed!

This is a life-and-death battle!
Not only the Xianzhen Camp, but also the Xiandeng Camp, the Zhanjiang Camp, the Geqi Camp and other Ming army formations all suffered crazy attacks from the densely packed Mongolian cavalry!
Tang Mu held a sword and killed the enemy himself, standing at the front with the shield soldiers.

Chang Kuohai wielded the giant Xuanhua axe and chopped wildly. His entire body was covered in blood, and no one knew whether it was his own or the enemy's.

An Guo also shouted angrily with gritted teeth!
"The will to break the formation!"

"There is only death and no life!" Tens of thousands of soldiers in the Xianzhen Camp shouted in unison.

At the same time, Tang Hao took a comprehensive look at the entire battlefield situation and responded quickly.

He sat high on his horse far away on the battlefield, and issued orders one by one through the messengers beside him.

Changes on the battlefield always happen in an instant!
The general is the brain of an army. Only under the command of the brain will the torso make corresponding movements.

Ever since he learned the military tactics from Zhang Fu and Zhu Yong, Tang Hao has always kept them in mind, so he seldom leads his troops into battle unless he has to do so in a critical moment.

Under Zhu Di's timely command, the three cavalry units of 30,000 households on the right wing have already charged into the battlefield. They are responsible for cutting the battlefield, cutting off the left-wing army in the middle, and forcibly dividing the 100,000 cavalry into small battlefields!
Under the banner of the left wing, Dayan Khan Batu Mengke also keenly discovered this!
This is a godsend for him!
The Ming army’s firearms are as sharp as ever!
However, they were also unable to resist the charging Mongolian cavalry!

Thinking of this, Dayan Khan Batu Mengke immediately gave the order.

"Cannon, fire!"

The left wing of Mongolia also had artillery, which came from the Ming army in Hetao. At the beginning, Dayan Khan Batu Mengke exchanged 50,000 cattle and sheep for 100 tiger squat cannons, but he never used them. He regarded them as the last trump card that could change the direction of the war!
Following his order, a shrill horn sounded.

After receiving the order, the Mongolian artillerymen all took a deep breath.

After observing the distance and adjusting the direction, they immediately fixed the gun body to the ground with large iron nails to prevent the recoil from overturning the gun body.

To put it simply, this tiger squat cannon is the simplest mortar, like a large grenade launcher with a low depression angle.

Because the gun body is too light, it must be fixed to the ground with large iron nails before firing.

Moreover, each time the gun is fired, it can be loaded with a hundred small lead bullets or small stones weighing five cents, and a large lead bullet or a large stone bullet weighing thirty taels is used to press down on the top. When fired, large and small bullets fly out together with a thunderous sound. The lethality and radiation range are very large, which is especially suitable for field battles.

In fact, facing the stubborn formation of the Ming army, the best way to counterattack was undoubtedly the catapult.

However, the catapult's launching efficiency is too low, and manpower is needed to carry the heavy stones. In such a rapidly changing battlefield, it can only launch a few times!

Therefore, Dayan Khan Batu Mengke can only hope to use the tiger squat cannon to cover the Ming army’s positions with firepower!
"put!"

"Tear their army apart for me!"

Dayan Khan Batu Mengke gave an order.

The artillery, which had been prepared long ago, fired quickly. A row of fifty tiger-crouching cannons suddenly issued a deafening salvo of artillery fire, aiming directly at the Ming army's positions.

In an instant, stones and lead bullets shot out from the sky, heading straight for the Ming army!

Thirty tiger squat cannons fired at the same time, and in an instant the front of the battle was filled with bullets as dense as rain, covering the sky and the earth.

"not good!"

"Raise your shield! Quick!"

An Guo's face changed drastically and he gave the order hurriedly.

But it was still a step too late.

The Ming army had the most say in the power of the Tiger Crouching Cannon, which had a longer range than bows and arrows.

Although the Tiger Crouching Cannon did not fire the kind of shells that could explode like in later generations, the explosion of hundreds of lead bullets was actually no different from an artillery shell explosion, and the destructive power was equally astonishing.

On the Ming army's position, facing the overwhelming swarm of bullets as dense as locusts, the soldiers of the Beijing army reacted quickly, holding steel shields to protect themselves and their comrades, but many of them still had no time to react and fell directly in a pool of blood.

The most ironic thing is that most of the people who died under the Tiger Crouching Cannon were Mongolian soldiers!

Because the firepower covered the entire battlefield and the existing conditions made it impossible to achieve precise strikes, the Mongolian soldiers who were fighting to attack the Ming army were directly shot into sieves by the bullets shot from behind, and they didn't even know how they died!

The entire battlefield was silent!
(End of this chapter)