The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 400 Battle Strength
The battlefield was eerily silent.

Hundreds of tiger squat cannons fired at the same time, directly taking the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers.

There were more Mongolian soldiers, and this scene made the Ming generals dumbfounded.

What is Dayan Khan Batu Mengke doing?
Even if it's for victory, you don't have to be so cruel and ruthless, right?

Seeing this, Tang Hao couldn't help but smile and shook his head.

Mongol barbarians are Mongol barbarians!

Even if we sell them the Tiger Crouching Cannon, they won't be able to use this lethal weapon well!
There’s nothing we can do, the work is too rough!

"Tiger Crouching Cannon, ready!"

Lord Zhongshan gave the order and the flag was waved.

The 40,000 Ming troops also began to change their formations following the drum beats. Rows of artillerymen quickly moved forward, and under the cover of the shield soldiers, they nailed the Tiger Crouching Cannons to the ground, then directly loaded ammunition and fired quickly!
"fire!"

Tang Hao gave an order.

The artillery that had been prepared long ago fired quickly, and a row of fifty Tiger Crouching Cannons suddenly issued a deafening salvo of artillery fire.

In an instant, stones and lead bullets shot out from the sky, and the Mongolian cavalry rushing in the front were instantly shot into sieves!

Fifty tiger squat cannons fired at the same time. In an instant, the bullets in front of the formation were as dense as rain, shooting at the Mongolian cavalry. The Mongolian cavalry had never thought that the Yan army's firearms were so fierce. From the beginning, they formed a dense charge formation, so that they instantly became rare good targets!

The artillery fired the tiger squat cannon, and the musketeers were not idle either.

After hard training day and night, they have already mastered the firing procedures and can fire the muskets with their eyes closed.

After the front row of musketeers finished firing, they quickly retreated to the back, and the second row of musketeers took over. When they finished firing, the third row took over, and this cycle repeated itself, greatly improving the efficiency of musket firing.

However, in the blink of an eye, the Mongolian cavalry who had been charging forward with roars and howls before were now wailing everywhere, with internal organs flying around and limbs scattered all over the ground. There were countless people with broken hands and feet, and those who were charging in the front were beaten into sieves.

Their fall caused the Mongolian cavalry formation to be in chaos, but the dense lead bullets kept firing at them, giving them no chance to resist. One after another, the Mongolian cavalry fell in a pool of blood, and either died on the spot or were trampled into meat paste by the horses behind them.

Because the distance was too close, it was impossible for the Mongolian cavalry to stop the charge, and they had no time to buffer. They could only keep moving forward and face the hail of bullets from the Ming army!

After the artillerymen finished firing, they continued to load the second round of ammunition, while the musketeers filled the time gap and, according to the three-stage shooting method they had trained in daily life, frantically poured the lead bullets in their muskets at the enemy.

In just a blink of an eye, the once invincible Mongolian cavalry were instantly beaten to the point of wailing all over the ground. Broken limbs were everywhere, and blood was flying in the sky. There was not a single intact person to be seen.

With the stomping of horses' hooves, the Mongolian knights who fell off their horses were trampled into meat paste!
This sudden and horrifying scene frightened everyone so much that they stood there in a daze, except for the Shenji Battalion, which was still carrying out military orders and frantically pouring out the ammunition in their hands.

And then the tiger squat cannon fired again, and another round of bloody massacre began!

After this counterattack by the Ming Dynasty's tiger crouching artillery, the Mongolian cavalry suffered heavy losses!

But at the same time, they also exposed their position.

Dayan Khan Batu Mengke immediately gave orders to adjust the angle of the Tiger Crouching Cannon. Even if he did not attack the Ming army's formation, he had to deal with the Ming army's sharp artillery first!
The trump cards are revealed, no one can hide it!

Following Dayan Khan Batu Mengke's order, lead bullets whizzed down with unparalleled force.

Tang Hao hurriedly ordered a retreat upon seeing this, but the Tiger Squat Cannon was nailed to the ground when it was fired and could not be pulled out in such a hurry. Many soldiers of the Shenji Camp were unwilling to abandon such a sharp weapon on the battlefield and were still trying to take the Tiger Squat Cannon away as much as possible, but they were directly hit by the stones and ammunition and died on the spot!

Seeing this scene, Tang Hao instantly became furious. What on earth does this bastard An Guo do for a living?
Why did they sell so many weapons and ammunition to the Left Mongols?
Can't you just sell cannons?

Why sell so much ammunition?
An Guo doesn't seem like a brainless person!

Aren't you aiding the enemy?
Dayan Khan Batu Mongke was very happy because he finally had the capital to counter the Ming army's powerful firearms.

But before he could be happy for a moment, one of his captains came over to report.

"Khan, we are out of ammunition!"

After hearing this, Dayan Khan Batu Mongke became extremely furious.

"What did you say?"

"How come there is no ammunition?"

"I spent a full ten thousand cattle and sheep to buy the ammunition. How come it's gone?"

"Even if there's no ammunition left, wouldn't it be the same if you guys just go in and shoot some rocks?"

The captain had no choice but to explain: "Khan, the problem is not the ammunition, to be precise, we have no gunpowder!"

"The damn Ming people only gave us enough gunpowder for one shot. Without gunpowder, we can't fire any more bullets!"

After hearing this, Dayan Khan Batu Mengke finally understood.

Damn Ming people!
God damn beast!
They actually used such despicable tricks!
At the beginning, he used 50,000 cattle and sheep to buy 100 tiger-crouching cannons, and used another 10,000 cattle and sheep to buy a large amount of ammunition, all for this decisive battle!
But these damn Ming army beasts actually tampered with the transaction!

Now that he has no gunpowder, no matter how much ammunition and tiger squat cannons he has, they will all become a pile of scrap metal!
The Mongolian tribes couldn’t even produce iron pots, let alone gunpowder!

When Dayan Khan Batu Mengke thought of this, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood!

Their firearms and artillery misfired, but those of the Ming army did not.

Rows of Tiger Crouching Cannons were quickly nailed to the ground, then quickly reloaded and fired, with almost no pause!

The Mongolians only had cannons, no matchlock guns.

In fact, the first individual handheld bamboo musket in human history was a fire lance invented by a firearms developer in Shouchun Prefecture in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Temujin, the leader of the Qiyan tribe of the Later Mongolia, was enthroned as the Great Khan of Mongolia at the Onon River and was honored as Genghis Khan.

After the rise of the Mongols, they not only destroyed the Western Xia, defeated the Western Liao, and destroyed the Jin in a short period of time, but also went south to overthrow the Song Dynasty.

In the process, they learned how to make and use gunpowder weapons. Genghis Khan and his descendants tried their best to expand their foreign military operations, conquering the east and the west, heading south to Southeast Asia, and west to Europe, spreading primitive tubular firearms to many countries and regions in Europe and Asia.

In particular, the Mongolian army led by Hulagu, the grandson of Genghis Khan, the sixth son of Tolui, and the brother of the three great Khans Kublai Khan, Mongke and Ariq Boke, invaded Iraq and Syria, which led to the introduction of the manufacturing and use methods of primitive firearms at that time into the hands of the Arabs. After more than a hundred years of development, China's firearms manufacturing technology was introduced to Europe through the Arabs and developed rapidly in Europe.

However, in Dayan Khan Batu Mengke's impression, although the matchlock gun made a lot of noise and had considerable lethality, it was difficult to operate and inefficient. Firing this thing required a total of ten processes and twenty-five steps, which was extremely troublesome!
If they had that much time, the cavalry would have already charged at you and chopped off your head with one blow!
Therefore, the matchlock gun was not taken seriously by the Mongols. Even Dayan Khan Batu Mongke himself only valued the cannon with great destructive power and had no interest in the matchlock gun.

The most unbelievable thing for Batu Mengke was that the matchlock guns in their hands could not shoot so far, and there was basically no accuracy at all, they were just shooting with luck!

As a result, the muskets in the hands of the Ming army can accurately shoot and kill Mongolian soldiers at such a long distance. Isn't this kind of sharp firearm a little too terrifying?
(End of this chapter)