Ming Empire

Chapter 309 Dodo is Captured
This battle finally came to an end when the sun was setting to the west.The entire battlefield is full of chaos, gunpowder smoke fills the air, there are broken limbs and arms everywhere, the sound of shouting and killing continues one after another, and the sound of musket shooting continues.

Hot weapons are far more lethal than cold weapons. The continuous shooting and throwing of muskets and grenades has reaped a large number of Jiannu's lives.

The successive charges of tens of thousands of Jiannu doubled the lethality of the muskets in the hands of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as massacre.Cao Yue really couldn't understand why Jiannu adopted this kind of crowd tactics instead of using other strategies, and rushed forward to the musket formation on his own side, which was tantamount to suicide.A sergeant on a horse is really like a gun target.In the later generations, an army equipped with very modern weapons would hardly achieve such brilliant results in wars. No army was so stupid as to charge in such a way.

It turns out that in the Battle of Baliqiao in history, the European coalition forces paid the price of a few people and wiped out tens of thousands of Qing troops. Cao Yue was originally quite difficult to understand.But now, after many wars, he fully understands.

Cao Yue believed that the weapons and equipment of the European Allied Forces in history would not be better than those of the Ming Guards led by him, and the number of Musketeers was not so large. It is also normal to achieve brilliant victories.

Cao Yue was not surprised by today's victory.It's just that he didn't expect that his own side would suffer so many casualties. According to reports from the battlefield, the Ming cavalry had thousands of casualties, and the Musketeers also suffered at least one or two thousand casualties, and there were hundreds of casualties.

Fortunately, the initiative on the battlefield has always been held, and now the battle is coming to an end, no matter how heavy the casualties are, Cao Yue doesn't care.The only thing he asks now is to wipe out all the remnants of Jiannu at any cost, and never let the large-scale Jiannu break through and escape.

One thing that Cao Yue didn't quite understand was that Jiannu didn't seem to have the idea of ​​breaking out and escaping, but was still fighting hard.

This also led to more and more casualties of the Ming cavalry, and the Musketeers had to take the initiative to charge to end the battle as soon as possible.

With this kind of tactics, the casualty rate of musketeers will definitely increase, but the lethality against Jiannu will also definitely increase.

However, it is worth paying a higher price than expected. Jiannu's last power is destined to be destroyed today.

In order to end the battle as soon as possible, Cao Yue ordered all the horses to fight on the battlefield, and he himself led the guards and joined the battle group.

It's just that Cao Yue himself didn't shoot any enemy. He was tightly surrounded by thousands of guards. The guards were equipped with the latest bursting muskets and killed all the enemies they encountered.

The barrels of these muskets are all made by punching machines, and the bullets used are copper-cased bullets, which have high shooting accuracy, long range, and far greater lethality than other muskets.Because it also adopts rear-loading and fixed-loading ammunition modes, the production process is far more complicated than other muskets, so the cost is expensive, and only a small part of the army is equipped with it now.

And Cao Yue's personal guard, that is, the Jiading army, was the first army equipped with this rifle.

At this time, Jiannu had fallen into a state of chaos. Although Duoduo was in a desperate posture, his sergeants didn't think so.After several battles, they already had a deep fear of the Great Ming Musketeers.Today's huge casualties have also completely broken the fighting spirit of many sergeants. Seeing the musketeers of the Great Ming Dynasty rushing in neatly lined up with rifles in hand, many Jiannu turned around and fled, not daring to charge again.

Amidst the huge explosion of grenades and the sound of musket bullets, contiguous Jiannu soldiers fell to the ground, and further casualties hit the morale of other Jiannu even more. Finally, they couldn't stand it anymore and rushed to escape, not daring to fight against the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. fight.

The Jiannu who were about to charge in front collapsed and fled, and also impacted the other Jiannu who were entangled with the Daming cavalry army. The morale of the Jiannu army whose morale was greatly affected also fell into a state of collapse under the influence of the defeated army.

Naturally, the generals of the Ming Dynasty would not miss such an opportunity, and they heard that Cao Yue also personally led the army to the battlefield, and their morale was even more encouraged.

The battlefield that was originally twisted quickly turned into a one-sided situation. Jiannu, whose confidence had collapsed, no longer listened to the orders of Duoduo and Yue Le, and became a mess.In the chaos, Yue Le was smashed into a sieve by a row of random guns, and died on the battlefield. The guards around him were basically wiped out.

Cao Yue rode his horse up to a high ground, holding up his binoculars to check the situation on the battlefield.

Suddenly, he saw a group of nearly a thousand Jiannu in the distance, rushing towards the high ground where he was standing.

This Jiannu, ignoring the other Ming soldiers along the way, and ignoring the muskets that kept shooting at them, rushed towards this direction desperately.This is completely different from the chaotic situation in other places where the slaves were established. Cao Yue subconsciously believed that it was probably the troops led by Duduo or other nobles who established slaves.He knew that in this day and age, the general's personal soldiers were the most effective in fighting, just like the army of the Ming Dynasty, and so was Jiannu.The team of Jiannu who kept order all the time must be the personal soldiers of a Jiannu leader.

Cao Yue was full of passion in an instant, and he ordered the soldiers around him to prepare for the battle.Since the pair of Jiannu came towards him, let the most elite musketeers of Ming Dynasty welcome them.

Under Cao Yue's order, the [-] guards around him lined up in three opposing arc-shaped defensive formations, raising their guns to aim at Jiannu who was rushing towards this direction.They also ignored the other Ming soldiers who were chasing them all the way, and they would not stop shooting even if they accidentally injured their own side after the battle started.

Soon the team of Jiannu rushed within the range of the rifles, and under Cao Yue's personal order, the guards began to shoot.

The rifle makes a different shooting sound than other muskets, which is very pleasant to listen to.With the concentrated shooting of the guards, the Jiannu who came on the attack were shot over.But the Jiannu behind was still not intimidated, and continued to charge forward.

They also knew that the Ming army on the high ground was likely to be Cao Yue, so they rushed to kill at any cost, trying to rush to the high ground and fight hand-to-hand with the Ming army.But Jiannu would never have such an opportunity. The shooting of more than 2000 rifles could completely intercept them who only had more than [-] people.Round after round of musket fire, Jiannu kept falling, and finally only the innermost people remained.

Looking at their attire, Cao Yue knew that the few in the middle were nobles who built slaves, and their status must not be low.He ordered the guards around him to stop shooting and prepare to capture those slave nobles alive.

Cao Yue's orders were strictly carried out, and most of the remaining slaves were wounded, and only the most important one was left without being shot.

The only remaining slave nobleman, seeing all the soldiers around him being shot to the ground, sighed dejectedly, threw away the saber in his hand, and gave up resistance.The soldiers around Cao Yue swarmed up, subdued the injured Jiannu, and then dragged the Jiannu noble sitting on the horse off the horse, and brought him to Cao Yue.

"I'm Cao Yue," Cao Yue gestured to let go of the slave nobleman, and after reporting his name, he asked, "Who are you?"

"This king is Aixinjueluo Duoduo," the Jiannu gritted his teeth and announced his name, then raised his head, stared at Cao Yue, and tried to struggle.

"It turned out to be Duoduo," Cao Yue chuckled, and approached Duoduo, "I've heard about Prince Yu's name for a long time, and it's a pleasure to meet you today!"

(End of this chapter)