Blood from Daming

Chapter 553 Ambush
When Mao Youde's team could see the shadow, Mao Wenlong's messenger guerrilla general Liu Xingzuo came again. Liu Xingzuo had come to Zuo Ming's army for the third time. After all, Mao Wenlong was worried about Zuo Ming's gunpowder array. After all, Mao Wenlong took out [-] soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town as abandoned pieces, but abandoned pieces are also pawns. If the sacrifice was for nothing like this, Mao Wenlong would still die of heartache.

Zuo Ming asked: "General Liu, are all the people in Mao Zong Town ready?"

Liu Xingzuo said: "General Zuo, the Tatars have come after us according to the plan planned by our two armies. The Lord of the town has ordered the reserved troops of all ministries to come to join the battle. It is estimated that after the battle starts here, within one to two quarters of an hour, all of them will be able to join the battle." fighting."

Zuo Ming nodded, and Liu Xingzuo said: "General Zuo, the success or failure of this ambush depends on the effect of General Zuo's gunpowder array."

Zuo Ming didn't answer Liu Xingzuo, but just stared at Mao Youde's men who were getting closer and closer. Mao Youde was two or three miles away from Zuo Ming's ambush circle, and fired two rounds of feather arrows at Jianlu's pursuers, and then A counter charge came, and Zuo Ming saw with his own eyes through a binoculars that Mao Youde ate up the hundred elite cavalry that Jian Lu rushed to the front.

Then Mao Youde led more than 2000 cavalrymen under the guidance of Dongjiang Army and Xue Jiajun soldiers through the ambush circle. Zuo Ming saw Mao Youde's wit and bravery with his own eyes. Winning over Mao Youde, he sighed in his heart that sooner or later this person would become Xue's army's deadly enemy.

Jianlu, who suffered repeatedly, was going crazy. He waited for the rear team for a while, and then desperately chased after him. The entire area is basically flat, and the Dongjiang Army, which relies mainly on infantry, can retain the Jurchen warriors who fight on horseback.

But these Jianlu forgot about the Xue Family Army on the Yalu River. In fact, even if these Jianlu thought of the Xue Family Army, they would not believe that the Xue Family Army had any deadly magic weapon that could kill thousands of Jurchen warriors. The captives, no longer considering other interests, just chased after them with a single brain, just to take the Dongjiang town cavalry of the Ming army who had been provoking the pride of the Jurchens.

The Xue family army led by Zuo Ming waited for Mao Youde's troops to walk out of the gunpowder formation, and removed the door panels on the trench. In this way, there were horse traps on three sides of the entire gunpowder formation ambush circle, only the north side did not have a horse trap. It will become the most intense death zone for the Dongjiang Army and Jianlu to compete.

According to the prior arrangement, when Jianlu entered the ambush circle with more than half of the horses and horses, the Xue family army and the five thousand civilians from Dongjiang Town who cooperated in the battle unfurled the flag and rushed out of the hiding place as an ambush. The team's Jianlu couldn't control the speed of his horse and quickly gathered in the ambush circle.

"Chi" "Chi" "Chi" "Chi" "Chi"

Many Jianlu also heard this voice. These Jianlu began to look around, and soon found that there were burning sparks in the distance. I have made friends, or I have heard more or less that Xue Jiajun used even more expensive Jianlu, and I know that everyone was ambushed, and it was an ambush similar to Xue Jiajun's gunpowder, but I seriously underestimated the consequences.

However, Jianlu immediately sent hundreds of people to extinguish the sparks, but how could the gunpowder array of the Xue family army be so easy to extinguish? It is composed of fifty long fuses, and it burns very fast. The actions on the surface, in the dark, the entire grassland is covered with sulfur powder, which means that the fuse is extinguished. As long as Xue Jiajun can ignite the sulfur powder in the grass, it will also cause a big explosion, but the order of the explosion is different, and the effect of the explosion will be different. The gap will be much smaller than expected.

Jianlu's efforts were still effective. At least a dozen fuses were extinguished. Unfortunately, Xue Jiajun ignited fifty fuses. Soon, the fuses first ignited the sulfur gunpowder powder in the grass. The sulfur gunpowder powder "chi", "chi" and "chi" flew, and quickly spread in all directions.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

A loud, dull sound continued to ring out, followed by bursts of powerful shock waves, followed by fireball smoke permeating the air, and the entire Jianlu cavalry was shrouded in the smoke. Within a radius of more than ten miles, They all felt the vibrations like landslides and ground cracks.

This kind of power was beyond Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang army's expectation. Mao Wenlong was stunned by the violent explosion, and forgot to order the Dongjiang army to besiege the remnants of Jianlu for a while, and the deputy general Chen Jisheng who was anxiously on the side urged him again and again. At this time, Mao Wenlong Only then did he wake up from the sound of the explosion, and quickly ordered the entire Dongjiang Army to attack.

This time Zuo Ming used 6000% of the remaining explosives he brought from Changtu Island, which weighed more than [-] catties. This is because Zuo Ming especially liked to play with gunpowder. When he was leaving, he begged Lu Bo for a batch.

The effect of the explosion soon became apparent. Except for a few cavalry at the tail who were not surrounded by the explosion circle, the Jianlu cavalry of more than [-] was injured by the explosives, and Jianlu’s casualties reached more than [-]%. , Horse casualties also accounted for more than [-]%, but many Jianlu who were not injured were either deaf in their ears, burned by gunpowder all over their bodies, or even became demented, anyway.

The most serious thing is that Jianlu's war horses are basically all frightened, and they run wildly among each other. Although the horses are frightened, there is still a natural way for the animals to avoid, but Jianlu who is riding on the horse and falling on the ground It was a disaster, the galloping horses kept hitting and trampling the Jian captives. These Jian captives did not die in the big explosion just now, but they were trampled to death by their own scolding and killed thousands of people.

Although Jianlu tried his best to control the situation, it is a pity that most Jianlu have not experienced such an explosion, and they will not be able to greet them for a while. After seeing the large ambush circle of the Dongjiang Army of the Ming Army, the Jianlu people fell into even greater panic.

The reason why Zuo Ming used the fuse to ignite the group of explosive packs was to allow the soldiers of the Xue family army to quickly evacuate from the scene of the explosion from the horse trap in this short period of time. When it was suitable for the Xue family's army to attack, Zuo Ming would go all out to cooperate with the actions of the Dongjiang army.

At this time, the guerrilla general Liu Xingzuo looked at the chaotic Jianlu, and couldn't help but persuade Zuo Ming to join the battle as soon as possible. Zuo Ming said: "General Liu, Jianlu's frightened horses are still running around. Enter the ambush circle at this time." It's not the time."

Liu Xingzuo saw that Zuo Ming refused to be fooled, so he had to wait patiently for the arrival of the Dongjiang Army's ambush, but Liu Xingzuo couldn't help but said: "General Zuo, I heard that your young master of the Xue family is seriously ill, and General Polu is missing again. If you are so capable, if you come to our Dongjiang Army, my family's headquarter will definitely give the general one of the second and third gold chairs."

Zuo Ming's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he said perfunctorily, "General Liu, the Xue family army, and the Dongjiang army are all Ming troops. Only the imperial court transfers this general to obey orders. This kind of job-hopping in private is despised."

Liu Xingzuo saw that Zuo Ming's words were loose, and was about to strike while the iron was hot to persuade Zuo Ming. The Dongjiang army from all directions had already surrounded him. Zuo Ming took advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Liu Xingzuo's entanglement. Command Xue Jiajun soldiers into the ambush circle.

At this time, the Dongjiang army saw that the Jianlu army was defeated, and everyone was fighting for the first place. A piece of wood and door panels were laid on the ditch where the horses were trapped. More than 3 soldiers and civilians of Dongjiang Town swarmed past. The mutilated human corpses and horse corpses trampled on the Jianlu and livestock who had not yet died, and attacked the Jianlu who had not yet returned to normal, so a large-scale fight between the Ming army and the Jianlu began.

After gaining the advantage of the explosion, the Dongjiang army showed amazing combat effectiveness. This was a good opportunity to beat the dog in the water. However, the trapped Jianlu did not lose their combat effectiveness. With color, he shot the feather arrow in his hand, and the people on both sides fell into the dust one after another.

Jianlu shot three rounds of feathered arrows, and the Dongjiang Army shot two rounds of feathered arrows. After that, the two troops got mixed up, and the next thing was the most direct white knife in and red knife out. The soldiers on both sides thought the fastest He greeted the enemy with the most ruthless weapon, and the soldiers in the front all fell down in the fight.

Zuo Ming saw that the number of Jianlu who could still fight was only about [-], but they lacked a unified command and formed several large combat teams. Overall, the Dongjiang Army suffered losses, and the Dongjiang Army was ten times larger than Jianlu. , The morale of the soldiers was high, and the front fell and the back made up for it. But it didn't take long for Jianlu to have greater chaos after the battle.

Zuo Ming knew that at this time, Jianlu was surrounded by the Dongjiang army, basically unable to use bows and arrows, and his horses could not charge up. Now is the best opportunity for Xue's army to attack. Zuo Ming didn't want his Xue's army to suffer too many casualties. Still unwilling to let the soldiers and civilians of the Dongjiang army, who were also citizens of the Ming Dynasty, suffer too many casualties, finally, under Liu Xingzuo's urging, they lined up to the place where Jianlu was.

"呯" "呯" "呯"

The Xue family army fired from the gap made by the Dongjiang army, and the crowded Jianlu fell off the horse in groups, but when there was no gap in the gunshots of the Xue family army, a cavalry team of five or six hundred cavalrymen from Jianlu, A big gap was forcibly punched by Xue Jiajun. At least 200 Jianlu were killed or injured by Xue Jiajun's guns. This group of Jianlu completely collapsed and could no longer form a formation. The meat was basically allowed to be slaughtered wantonly by the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army.

(End of this chapter)