The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 670

Tun Duo reined in his horse and shouted, "Calm down!" He glanced at the soldier who had just been shot from the corner of his eye, and saw a bloodstain the size of a fist on his cotton armor, which was obviously shot by a firecracker.

He raised his head and looked towards the place where the gunpowder smoke was rising, and was immediately shocked, the dead wood was about 120 steps away from him!

Can it shoot through cotton armor from such a distance? !This is not a firecracker, it's a small cannon!
He had previously heard that the southern army had excellent firearms, but he thought it was just an exaggeration. Now it seemed that instead of exaggerating, he had belittled the southerners.

A soldier on the side asked urgently: "My lord, what should I do?!"

After all, Tun Duo fought with Zhengbai Banner for six or seven years. At this time, he calmed down and thought to himself, listening to the sound just now, there should be no more than twenty guns. I still have thirty cavalry here. It may not be impossible to charge over immediately Chance!

It's just that he ignored it in a hurry, why he could kill twelve of his subordinates with one blow with less than twenty guns.

Immediately he swung his bow and shouted: "Everyone spread out, follow me to attack the enemy's formation!"

Thirty or so Xiao cavalrymen had no choice but to respond bravely, circled the horses and opened the distance from left to right, then drew their bows and arrows, and rushed towards the dead tree with strange screams.

Just when they ran fifty or sixty steps away, the roar of "bang" firecrackers came again.

This time the distance was even closer, and when even sixteen captive riders were covered with blood spray, the corpses were either carried off the horses, or crooked on the saddle, and the horses under their crotches ran away indiscriminately.

Tun Duo was also considered lucky, a bullet flew past his ear, accompanied by burning pain, and his ears were full of the terrifying "whoosh" sound of piercing through the air, but he managed to save his life.

"Damn! Why is there an ambush?!"

He cursed secretly, turned around and saw that the soldiers under him showed hesitation, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't stop! While they are reloading, rush over!" Then he raised his hand and shot an arrow at the bush, but only heard There was a ding sound, like being shot at an iron plate.

Sure enough, he was right in his estimation. As the distance got closer, he could already see soldiers of the Ming army in shiny steel armor holding an extremely long firecracker and pulling the trigger.

Tun Duo was overjoyed, he threw away his bow and arrow and drew out his saber, there were only twenty steps left, those barbarians had no time to aim, and he could rush to their side!

However, at this moment, he suddenly felt his mount jerk, and before he knew what was going on, he flew out of the horse, and immediately there were "plop" and "ouch" sounds from all around.

Fortunately, the soil was still soft. He struggled to get up, and saw that most of the remaining dozen or so warriors, including himself, were overturned on the ground. On the way they ran over, there were two iron nails wrapped around them. The thick hemp rope was lying a little off the ground, and the horse tripped over it.

"Damn barbarian!"

Tun Duo was about to pull out the dagger at his waist to fight desperately, but unexpectedly a burst of flames burst out from a very close distance, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, and finally heard someone cheering: "President Zhang, I seem to have killed an official!" It's..." Then his vision went dark and he completely lost consciousness.

The platoon chief said in a deep voice: "Good job. But no matter how fast the ammunition is loaded, if we hadn't laid down the 'barbed wire' in advance according to the signal of the hussars, I'm afraid someone would be injured."

It turned out that the three signal flares were sent by the hussars patrolling around. According to the color and the order of launch, Zhang Paizong could know the distance and position of the enemy in advance, and then calmly choose the ambush location to annihilate the Jianlu reconnaissance squad.

This is Zhu Linmi's newly established ranger unit, which uses a combination of eight hussars and twenty hunters.The former are separated by a few miles from each other, and they pull the net to search for the cavalry who are out to inquire about Jianlu. Once the enemy is found, they will use signal flares to notify the nearby hunters.The latter relies on the terrifying range and accuracy of the three-type hunting gun in his hand to snipe and kill the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry from a long distance.

At present, there are 22 teams of hunting soldiers wandering more than ten miles outside the Doduo army, and they have hunted and killed more than a dozen teams of cavalry. The suddenness of the encirclement of the army against the enemy.

"Yes!" The soldier who shot Zhongtunduo just now saluted and responded, patted the plate armor and breastplate on his body, and said with a smile, "These Tartars only know how to shoot horses and shoot arrows, which is easier to handle than the big exam in the New Army Academy... ..."

Although he was just a recruit, he was only qualified in the military academy assessment when he had to deal with two "enemy cavalry" armed with blunderbusses and retreat completely. Moreover, he was using a Type [-] Jaeger blunderbuss, which was more serious than the current situation tricky.

As he was talking, he heard someone yelling, "President Zhang, there is one running away!"

The latter hurriedly looked around, and saw a captive riding hurriedly fleeing to the north, it was the one named Ule Ersu before, it turned out that this man was timid, so he didn't rush up with Tun Duo at all, but he lost his life.

"Chase!"

Immediately, two hussars in charge of covering chased after him with short guns.

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"General, the recent situation must be abnormal." Chitat said solemnly, "If the southerners really ambushes along the way, the army will inevitably be damaged..."

Suke Saha said indifferently: "It's just some barbarian bandits."

Chitat glared at him, "That's more than 300 people, with fine armor inlaid with white flags! How can the bandits be so capable?!"

It turned out that the troops of the Xiangbai Banner Division of the Qing Army did not have enough food and grass due to repeated rapid marches yesterday, so Chitat sent more than 300 people out to grab food. Only one escaped with serious injuries.And since the incident happened in the evening, the man who ran back didn't even see who the enemy was.

Duoduo pondered: "Have you sent someone to investigate?"

Chitat said with a bitter face: "Back to the general, all the people who went out to investigate in the past two days have not returned. This time, the last general has sent two teams out for a whole day, and there is still no news..."

Duoduo asked suspiciously, "Tanma didn't come back? Why didn't anyone mention it to me?"

Doduo usually doesn't ask about such trivial things as going out to investigate.This time the Qing army was busy besieging Nanjing. Although they all lost some scout horses, they just continued to send more troops to scout, and no one came to report to him.

"This, the last general thought it was just bandits at first..."

At this time, a guard outside the tent said loudly: "General, the King of Chengze County is asking to see you."

This Duke of Chengze is Duoduo's confidant general Shuosai, he raised his hand to signal, "Let him in."

Shuosai brought a person into the tent, saluted Duoduo first, then waved to the person behind him and said, "Tell me about what happened to you today."

"Whoo."

The person who stepped forward was Ule Ersu, who knelt aside and told the story of the ambush with lingering fear.

"What?" Duoduo frowned when he heard the words, "Forty-three brave cavalry were defeated in two rounds by more than twenty firearms, and you alone survived?!"

Shuo Sai continued: "General, I just went to the battalions to ask about it. In the past two days, we have lost more than 300 Xiaoqi just because we went out to inquire..."

Doduo suddenly remembered the "one more and three nos" that Dorgon had told him before going south, and he couldn't help staring at him, shaking his head and saying, "It's not right!" Then he ordered Shuo Sai, "Send the order, the army stops advancing, and quickly gather towards the central army. !"

"Whoo!"

Before Shuosai had time to leave, he heard the sound of horseshoes outside the tent, and someone shouted loudly, "Report! Urgent military situation! The rear army was attacked, and the casualties exceeded [-]..."

(End of this chapter)