Smuggling Daming

With the current technology of the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally impossible to manufacture the flares of later generations. The main key is that the flares must be filled with magnesium powder or aluminum powder, and these two metals cannot be extracted now, but this is not a big deal After all, ordinary fireworks can also illuminate when they burn in the sky, but the brightness is lower and the time is shorter, but it is much stronger than using torches.

When Da Ming's army fired flares into the sky, the burst of light finally showed the situation on the battlefield clearly. Although the time lasted very short, the follow-up flares were still fired continuously, so Zhengde was easily killed. Seeing the situation of the entire battlefield in his eyes, he also had some calculations in his heart at the moment, and immediately conveyed his orders one by one.

The role of the flares is two-way. Not only Zhengde saw the situation on the battlefield clearly, but also Huadang on the opposite side finally took advantage of this opportunity to see the situation around him. Speaking of them, when the prairie cavalry attacked, if they failed to break through at the beginning The opponent's camp, then they will fall into a very disadvantageous situation. After all, the cavalry has no charge speed, and it simply loses the biggest advantage. In addition, the number of Ming's troops is larger than theirs, so it is time to see clearly. In the battlefield situation, he found that many cavalry troops on his side had already intertwined with Daming's army, and it was very difficult to withdraw.

"Assemble the team and prepare to retreat!" Hua Dang was also a very decisive person. He saw that his sneak attack had failed to achieve any effect. Instead, he had trapped the army in the siege of the Ming army.He might not even be able to escape, so he immediately gave the order to retreat without hesitation. Anyway, they are cavalry, even if they are surrounded, as long as they can speed up their horses, they can rush out of the relatively weak encirclement of the Ming army It was still very easy, and even if there was a loss in the end, it was within his tolerance.

Huadang's thousands of elites are the core strength of Duoyanwei, after hearing the order from the leader.Immediately began to assemble with Huadang as their loyalty, and then formed a retreating formation and began to leave. As long as the surrounding cavalry of Duoyanwei did not fall into the encirclement of the Ming army, they would also turn around and run away. Started to charge back.As long as they could break out of the encirclement, it would be impossible for Da Ming's army to catch up with them.

However, although Huadang was decisive, Zhengde was not easy to provoke. Just when Huadang had just withdrawn from Daming's barracks with several thousand elites, a group of Daming cavalry suddenly rushed out from the west side of the camp. It was Jiang Bin.He had prepared his cavalry long ago, only because it was too dark.As a result, he didn't dare to charge without authorization, but now that he had flares and received orders from Zhengde, he immediately rushed out to stop Huadang from escaping.

Although Jiang Bin had a problem with his character and wanted to go up to the camp, he was a famous warrior of Ming Dynasty, and the cavalry he led was also the elite of Ming Dynasty.So when he saw Huadang's cavalry, he rushed up without hesitation.Naturally, Huadang would not show weakness, so the two cavalry started a tragic fight under the flickering flares. This kind of fight was not only a comparison of strength, but also depended on luck. After all, the flares flickered Suddenly, sometimes you can't even see the enemy on the opposite side, so no matter how strong the cavalry is, it is difficult to show their true strength. Everything can only be determined by courage and luck.

The duel between cavalry has always been known for its cruelty. After each confrontation, a considerable number of people died under the horses. In the end, only those who survived were the most courageous and quite lucky, especially now It was night again, and the competition between the two elite cavalry led by Jiang Bin and Hua Dang was even more cruel. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of cavalry had fallen from their horses. It also marks their death, because no one can escape from a thousand horseshoes.

But Huadang didn't intend to go all out. He just wanted to escape from the Ming army's camp as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the infantry of the Ming army caught up, they would really be unable to escape. After entangled for a while, he fled immediately with his troops. Although Jiang Bin wanted to chase, Zhengde was worried that Huadang would plot against him in the dark, so he ordered them to turn around the barracks and continue to intercept the other Duoyan guard cavalry.

The farce of this sneak attack lasted until dawn. The [-] cavalry led by Huadang attacked the Ming army camp, but failed. In the end, more than [-] cavalry corpses were left behind, and more than [-] people were captured. , it can be said that the defeat was extremely miserable.But comparatively speaking, Daming didn't feel too well this time. The number of dead and injured soldiers was no less than that of Duoyanwei. It's just that Daming's military strength already had an advantage, so in general, Daming took advantage.

However, although Huadang suffered a loss, he did not escape too far. Instead, he set up camp [-] miles north of the Daming military camp. It seemed that Huadang did not intend to hide anymore, but was planning to fight against Daming here. After all, Daning is behind them. If they retreat again, they can only let their tribe directly face Daming's army.

Zhengde laughed happily when he saw Huadang camping thirty miles away. After all, since entering the grassland, Huadang has led an army to hide in Tibet. Delaying, the pressure on Da Ming's army is also great, especially the army of 7 people, the daily consumption is not a small number, no matter how selfish and rich Da Ming is, he can't continue to waste like this, and now the other party is finally ready to fight This, he decided, suited him as well.

Zhengde and Zhou Zhong are brothers, and it is a coincidence that although the two have not lived together since childhood, their personalities have some similarities. Although the sneak attack on the Ming army's camp was unsuccessful, it also caused many unnecessary casualties to Daming, so Zhengde was going to teach Hua a lesson so that he would never forget it for the rest of his life.

Three nights after Huadang attacked the Ming army's camp, Daming's cavalry also launched a surprise attack on Huadang's camp, but Huadang, as a hero of the generation, was naturally prepared, so when Daming's cavalry approached the barracks At that time, Duoyanwei's soldiers had already noticed it, but Duoyanwei didn't have Daming's flares, so they could only defend in the battalion, and did not dare to rush out to fight the Daming cavalry.

What makes Hua Dang feel strange is that these sneak attacking Ming cavalry don't seem to want to fight, they just leave the camp as soon as they touch it, at most they shoot a few rounds of rockets into the camp. For Duoyanwei, there was no threat at all. This strange situation made Huadang instinctively feel that something was wrong, and even intuitively made him feel a little uneasy, as if there was a feeling of imminent disaster.

It has to be said that Huadang himself has a keen sixth sense. When he was thinking hard about why the Ming cavalry would use such harassment tactics, in an open space not far from the Duoyanwei camp, following Zhengde's order Suddenly, hundreds of artillery pieces fired almost at the same time, and the scorching shells rushed into Duoyanwei's camp with a sharp whistling sound. There were screams for a while, and it is unknown how many people were injured in this round of shelling.

It turned out that Zhengde had no intention of using cavalry to attack Duoyanwei's barracks at all. He just let the cavalry attract Duoyanwei's attention, and then mobilized all the artillery brought this time from the rear to a place two miles away from Duoyan's camp. Then directly bombard the opponent's camp with artillery. Although the lethality of a single artillery is limited, if hundreds of artillery are used together, it will form a terrifying force, especially the psychological pressure on the enemy. It can be directly determined. The outcome of a war.

It is not that Hua Dang has never seen the power of artillery, but this is the first time he has seen the power of hundreds of artillery firing at the same time. In his feeling, hot iron balls descend from the sky from time to time. Horses, as long as they are hit by this kind of iron ball, they are almost dead without injury. What is even more frightening is that some hot iron balls can even set the tent on fire. There are fires everywhere, dead bodies everywhere, and what is even more frightening is that no one knows when he was killed by the shells falling from the sky, even he, the leader of the Duoyan Guard, is no different from those ordinary prairie knights now On the other hand, if you are unlucky, you may be directly smashed to death.

Seeing this situation, Huadang knew that they could not wait any longer. They had to withdraw from the firing range of the artillery, otherwise the morale of the army would collapse sooner or later. Even if he was really crushed to death by the artillery, I am afraid that the entire Duoyan Guard would immediately fall into disintegration At that time, Da Ming only needs to send one envoy, and the entire Duoyan Guard can be completely merged into Da Ming.

Thinking of this, Huadang immediately ordered to retreat, but unfortunately the Daming cavalry harassing outside would not let them leave easily. As flares hit the sky one after another, the Duoyan Guard cavalry who had just withdrawn were immediately besieged by countless Daming troops Among them were not only cavalry, but even infantry quietly ambushing outside the Duoyan camp, so as soon as Huadang withdrew from the camp, he immediately fell into the siege of the Ming army. suffer a huge loss.

Huadang led his cavalry team to charge left and right in the encirclement of Daming, but no matter which direction he fled, he would be blocked by the Ming army in the end, especially some of the Ming army was equipped with muskets and a throwing weapon. The sound of firearms is no worse than that of cannons, and they will explode when they hit the ground. Many cavalrymen of Duoyanwei have their horses' legs injured by this weapon, and the cavalrymen who lost their horses can only stand there and wait to die. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)