Blood from Daming

Chapter 93
Xue Yun's Chinese army has only now set up the catapults. Twenty-five catapults have been erected on the north and south facades. The soldiers are preparing for the release of explosive packages. Among the Jianzhou Tartars, Abatai's attack was more like a gamble, leaving no room for maneuver.

Li Xiaoyong's firearms battalion finally fired 500 three-eyed blunderbusses, and more than 300 blunderbusses were fired in four sections. More than 100 cavalry Tazi soldiers fell down more than 300 people at the last fifty steps. The Ming army protected by the two wings The arrows of the cavalry guards were like flying locusts. Except for thirty or forty clever Tazi soldiers who turned around and ran away, the more than [-] cavalry soldiers who came up stayed in front of the Ming army's position.

More than half of the casualties in this wave of Tazi soldiers were due to the brains of these savages. They knew that they would not be able to attack, so they rushed forward. It was too late and then the second wave of Tazi soldiers rushed over, but the formation was even more scattered. The distance between each other was even greater. When this wave of Tartar cavalry entered five hundred paces, the third wave of Tartar cavalry trotted over.

The 25 catapults in the south continuously delivered 90 double explosives to the Tartar soldiers within a distance of [-] to [-] steps. Hundreds of cavalry were killed or injured during the distance of three or four hundred steps, but the torrent of iron cavalry quickly filled the gap of one hundred steps. Groups of warriors rode their horses over the chariot formation, and finally rushed up to Abatai Long. He let out a long sigh of relief.

The car formation to the south of the Datong Army was breached by Abatai several times in a row. The brigade cavalry jumped into the car formation, and the guards began to show signs of retreating. Mr. Lu Yaojinqian led a 50-man explosive pack squad to rush forward. to the largest gap.

Lu Yaojin: "Brothers, throw the explosives out of the traffic."

Several soldiers of the Ming army threw the ignited explosive packs out of the vehicle formation, and the sound of "boom" "boom" and "boom" blasted a large area of ​​the Tartar soldiers gathered in the gap. On the faces of those Tartar soldiers, A large number of iron sheets were inserted into the body, and the iron beads howled and rolled there. Some of the horses hit by the iron sheets and iron beads fell to the ground and twitched, and some jumped up to a height of one or two feet.

Lu Yaojin: "Hurry up and pull two carts over to block the gap." More than a dozen soldiers of the Ming army had already pushed the chariots over.

General Zhang Shen commanded his [-] cavalry to shoot at the Tartar soldiers rushing into the gap, and stood behind the chariot formation to prevent Abatai's Tartar soldiers from taking a step forward. Commander Wei Luo of Datong led five hundred The military master came to surround and kill the Tartar cavalry who broke into the chariot formation, and saw that three or four hundred guardsmen had left their positions and retreated.

Commander Luo Xin Yiheng swung his knife and knocked down two guards. The soldiers immediately shouted: "You son of a bitch, get out of here immediately, and the guards will kill all those who don't go back."

The soldiers of the Commander of Datong Guards brandished swords to drive away the rout soldiers. Seeing that the Commander was furious, the rout soldiers ran to their positions one after another. A dozen or so who refused to go back or ran around were all killed by the soldiers in the end. The law was enforced, and because Lu Yaojin's explosive pack squad desperately blocked several gaps, Abatai's Tartar soldiers failed to further expand the results of the battle. A large number of cavalry crowded in front of the Ming army's chariots after their horses lost momentum. .

When Xue Yun saw three or four hundred Tatar soldiers rushing in from the south road, Xue Yun secretly sighed in his heart. He guessed that the north road was the main attack. It turned out that the Tartars were both roads, and Abatai had bet on them all. Now he himself Only when the reserve team is used, say to Harijula: "Let your Mongolian warriors also see blood."

Harizhula called over and Gilgrad ordered him to lead the Mongolian warriors to kill the Tartar soldiers who rushed into the chariot formation. After Gilgrad went down, two Mongolian cavalrymen each had a thousand riders and surrounded them from east to west.

Xue Yun called Wang Erwa, his personal soldier, "Erwa brought 200 people up, and each took two boxes of hand-held bombs to beat the Tartars back to me."

Wang Erwa went up with 200 people. Xue Yun looked at how little ammunition was left, and shook his head. It seemed that the battle had just begun.

The second wave of Tartar soldiers on the northern line of the Ming army rushed up. Lian Xiong Wei used the grenadiers under the command to launch bombs at the Tartar cavalry with a giant slingshot, attacking the area between 120 and 150 paces, and then followed As the Tartar cavalry gradually adjusted, the Tartar soldiers suffered a loss once, and this time when they saw something flying in the air, they rode their horses to dodge one after another. In addition, the men and horses were scattered for the first time. The first round of explosive pack attacks by the Ming army only let three or four The ten-riding Tartars were killed and wounded, which was much less effective than the first wave of Tartar attacks, but this is also the best platform for normal wars to learn from each other and improve each other.

After the second wave of thousands of Tartar troops escaped three rounds of blows from the Ming army's giant slingshots, more than 800 cavalry rushed to the front of the Ming army's chariot formation. Army cavalrymen fired back.

Li Xiaoyong's Firearms Battalion, under the protection of the shield pikemen and guards of Yusizong and Ji Tianen's two headquarters, is still waiting for the best opportunity to shoot. At this time, the third wave of Tartar cavalry consists of thousands The team set off at a gallop.

Yue Tuo and Sahalian saw that more than half of the cavalry of the first batch of probing cavalry were killed and injured, and they had already let go of their contempt for the Datong Ming army, and adopted the method of sending troops continuously,

The distance between the second and third batches of thousand-man teams was only [-] paces. Yue Tuo personally led five thousand-man teams ready to go. The retreated soldiers organized themselves to help my brother and me at the most critical moment, um, understand."

Sahalian nodded: "Brother, you must be extra careful with the powerful weapons of the Ming army."

Yue Tuo: "Don't worry, third brother, hey, the barbarians of the Ming Dynasty want to hurt me in the next life." Yue Tuo, with the saber in his hand, let the five thousand Tartar cavalry gallop forward.

Yuetuo's [-] Jianzhou cavalry had just started, and the third cavalry team of [-] cavalry was bombarded by the Ming army's explosive package at a distance of about three or four hundred steps. , completely disrupted the attacking formation with the cavalry, and the horses ran in panic and seriously delayed the attack speed of the Tartar cavalry. Yue Tuo watched the second cavalry team rushing to the front of the Ming army's chariot formation, and then came a burst of " With the sound of "bang", "bang" and "bang", the Jurchen soldiers under him kept falling off their horses.

Yue Tuo's heart was constricting and his whole body trembled inexplicably. When did the firearms of the Ming army become so powerful? No way. I don't know how many of my 1 horses will be left after fighting like this. How can I explain it to Ama?

Yue Tuo raised his eyes and saw Huang Taiji's military flag waving. This was the signal for Seventh Uncle Abatai to attack the Ming army's chariot formation. Yue Tuo was excited in his heart and secretly encouraged himself. As long as he defeated the Ming army and killed Xue Yun, Mafa, Ah Ma will definitely not blame herself, thinking of Xue Yun, the mortal enemy of the Dajin Kingdom, Yue Tuo secretly gritted his teeth and must get rid of him, no matter how high the price is, it is worth it, so he urged the horse to rush forward.

Huang Taiji in the east did not take his time to rush towards the center of Xue Yun's chariot formation with five miscellaneous troops from the Mongolian Khalkha, but the terrain between Huang Taiji and the Ming army was uneven and there were several ditches, which seriously hindered the formation of the cavalry. Charged, the cavalry of the five Khalkha tribes of Mongolia who had crossed the ditch depression had slowed down, surrounded the Ming army chariots and shot at each other with the Ming army officers and soldiers, forming a stalemate. The leaders of the five Kabuya tribes rushed forward.

Gilgrad and he led 300 Mongolian warriors to quickly kill more than [-] Tartar soldiers who rushed into the car formation. Some Tartar soldiers also surrendered to the Mongolian cavalry in Gilgrad, but the Mongolian Anti-Gold National Guard Army The warriors regarded the Tatars as a pile of silver and refused to keep them alive. After finishing their work, they tied the heads of the Tartars to the saddle. Stare dead.

After Wang Erwa went up with 200 people, the vehicle formation to the south of the Datong Army was consolidated. Wang Erwa cooperated with Lu Yaojin's explosive pack team and threw a bomb out of the vehicle formation, forming a thick formation outside the vehicle formation. The dead men and dead horses that encircled the Tartars erected a wall of flesh and blood around the Ming army's chariot formation. The mixed blood of the dead men and dead horses flowed into the chariot formation and soaked the feet of the soldiers of the guards.

At least 400 soldiers of the Ming army guards were killed in this Tazi army's breakthrough, and more than 100 people were also killed in the troops of General Zhang Shen, who had been strictly guarding the cavalry formation.

25 catapults have been continuously throwing explosives to the Abatean Tartar soldiers within a distance of [-] to [-] steps. The attack torrent of Tazi cavalry from Tai was quickly stopped by the Ming army. The cavalry of Abate had no way to cross the thick circle of dead horses outside the chariot formation. Come.

Abatai's blood was almost exhausted. While forcing his men to continue to charge forward, he called Niu Luzhang Jing Yaxichan and ordered his troops to go around to the west to attack Xue Yun. Seeing that the ground was full of dead For the Jianzhou soldiers, Abatai gritted his teeth and allocated 500 five Jurchen Niulu to Yaxichan, hoping that his attack would bring good luck.

The Jurchen Tartars still came to challenge the golden tent of the Lin Dan Khan every day, but today the Tartar soldiers did not return to the camp in a hurry, but continued to rest in front of the Dan Khan camp.

Lin Danhan and the leaders of Chahar and Monan were discussing matters in the Golden Tent. The reinforcements from the Ming army Datong Xue Yun were coming tomorrow, and everyone was gearing up to vent their anger on Huang Taiji. Bursts of thunder continued to roar continuously.

At first, Lin Danhan, Chahar, and the chiefs of various ministries in Monan thought it was thunder, but seeing that the sky was cloudless and the thunder continued to ring, everyone couldn't help but listen carefully.

After a while, a tribal leader in Chahar said to Lin Danhan: "It seems to be the sound of artillery from the Ming army, but the sound is not quite like it."

The leaders of Chahar and Monan ministries listened more carefully.

Suddenly Minister Keshiketeng stood up and said to Lin Danhan: "It should be the sound of the Ming army's cannons. It's no good that the Jurchen Tartars went to besiege the Datong Ming army. Our reinforcements have already been surrounded by the Jurchen Tartars."

Lin Danhan, Chahar, and the leaders of the various ministries in Monan suddenly realized that Lin Danhan looked up into the distance, and a sense of humiliation surged into his chest, and immediately shouted: "So all the ministries summoned soldiers and horses to kill me. The traitors and scum of the Mongolian people outside the tent." Thinking of his majestic Mongolian Khan being trapped here by some miscellaneous teams sent by Huang Taiji, he was extremely annoyed.

The gate of Lin Dan Khan's camp was opened. Minister Keshiketeng led five thousand Mongolian warriors from his tribe to rush out of the camp first. Later, Lin Dan Khan led all the soldiers and horses of the Monan tribes out of the camp under the escort of the Chahar tribe. Camp, Jianzhou Niu Luzhang Jingboerjin saw this posture and knew that Babeile Huang Taiji's empty city plan was over.

In Borjin's hands, only the [-] soldiers around him are Jurchen cavalry, and the rest are fake Jurchen cavalry composed of non-combatant soldiers from the five Khalkha tribes. Borjin has not waited for the news of Huang Taiji's victory, so he is cruel and immediately retreats. The retreating team blocked Lin Dan Khan's way out, and some Mongolian soldiers pretending to be Tartars were hacked to death by Borjin's men as soon as they tried to escape.

(End of this chapter)