Chapter 42: The Prison Army
The man turned on his horse, younger than Meda, and Xiao Ji, who was in the prime of life, could break the horsewhip.
When he first turned over and fought in the Quartet, the power of 30,000 households on the right wing of Tumut was still in the hands of his father, and when his father was old and ignored the military and politics, the power fell into the hands of his uncle Alta, and the new era of Tumut was started, and he continued to fight in the Quartet under his uncle's subordinates, and it has been more than 20 years now.
The Southern Ming Dynasty has always been their main enemy, and in the perennial war, he learned how to dodge the artillery, and take advantage of the Ming army to charge the artillery to seize the city, in the face of artillery fire, such tactics have been tried and tested.
In the battle he led his subordinates to the south and the north, he had seen all kinds of enemies, and the only one who could get his admiration was the new Datong commander-in-chief, Ma Fang.
This respect was almost always with him, and when he was a child, he respected Ma Fang, who served as a bodyguard at the side of his uncle Altan Khan, and Ma Fang's continued respect from a captive slave to a skilled archer and horse to Alta's close attendant, especially when he fled back to Han China.
And in the Ming Dynasty, from the mouth of Emperor Jiajing, there was such a saying from the border generals - brave but not Ma Fang.
In June of this year, when Chen Mugang escorted artillery into Beijing, Ma Fang led the cavalry to attack from Datong, directly attacked Xianning Haizi, the main force of Alda, and broke through its camp in one fell swoop, pursued dozens of miles to the west, beheaded and counted, and captured more than a dozen tribal leaders.
Even in the Mongolian tribes, there is no one who does not respect Ma Fang, so they call Ma Fang Ma Taishi.
Ji Neng is very smart, he knows that he can't beat Ma Fang in Datong, so he is like his uncle I answer in Datong with Ma Fang, he directly attacked Taiyuan, and then Taiyuan divided his troops into Baoding, this battle he had high hopes for, is to see the Ming Dynasty emperor.
The result?
Ji Neng is also well-informed when he asks himself, but when he is about to attack on a large scale, the broken mound behind the tethered horse bridge suddenly shines with blinding light, and then the earth shakes the mountain and countless large iron bullets smashed into the cavalry formation he had just gathered, and the sergeants sent on the bridge were directly crushed into a puddle of meat sauce.
The cavalry formation gathered under the bridge also suffered a terrifying blow, and those big iron bullets with unparalleled power could bounce up when they hit the ground and then crush two more formations, and the good men who could ride horses and shoot in rows were gone.
Even in Datong, they can fight with Ma Fang's soldiers!
Ji Neng didn't feel distressed at all, because the things that gave him a headache were behind.
The Qianchang who was sent up was hit by a cannonball and died on the spot, his attendant brought back the war horse, and the lower half of Qianchang's body, the casualties were calculated and nearly thirty percent were killed and wounded directly by the shelling, and the soldiers behind said that they would not go to the bridge - this was his real trouble.
Although only more than 200 people died directly from the artillery fire, the more than 5,000 soldiers and horses in the battle did not dare to move, and the 5,000 commanders under his command did not obey the order to withdraw three and a half miles back to their subordinates, saying that they would no longer mobilize their troops to come forward.
"Bypass? Where to go around? If you want to go to Beijing, there is only one way! ”
Ji Neng also wanted to go around, in the south of the Juma River, any road can be detoured, but when they reach the Juma River, there is no way to detour, they can only take this road, and then they have to go around to Tianjin Wei...... If they take that road, their back road will definitely be cut off, and it will be even more difficult than facing the Ming generals on the other side of the river.
"He can only kill 300 people in one round of artillery, what are you afraid of!"
Qianchang, who used to be known as brave, took two deep breaths and said weakly: "But only 100 horsemen are allowed to pass on the bridge." ”
Ji Neng tried to throw him with his horsewhip, but found that his horsewhip had broken when the front army was shelled. It was not unheard of that he had never seen artillery bombardment, on the side of the Great Wall, at Bauhinia Pass, and everywhere on the ground of the Ming army, but he had never seen so many artillery pieces in the hands of such a small army.
After several expeditions by the scout cavalry before the battle, the Ming army on the other side of the river had killed 2,000 men, and these 2,000 still looked like they were untidy recruits, and it seemed that it only took a few roundabout charges to cross the bridge, and the rain of arrows fell on their heads and collapsed.
Because of this, he decided to try to attack the river valley in the northwest, and the main force gathered here to break through first, but he did not expect that the Ming army stationed here was completely different from other places.
It was only a common occurrence to sprinkle thistles on the bridge deck, and it was not in the way to injure some horses, but they actually put the firecrackers in the horse rejection trench, and the trench was used to stand people?
Forget about the people standing in the trench, then how many people can stand in a hundred-step-wide trench, and it is a big deal to shoot with a bow and arrow with them when crossing the bridge, and the first to die must be the Ming army, and they should dig their own graves in advance.
But what happened to at least six guns next to the trench?
Ji Neng can also understand that since there are people standing in the trenches, it is not strange that the Ming army will move the city defense artillery to the river bank, after all, it is the hinterland of the southern dynasty, this defense line that stretches for dozens of miles, tens of thousands of defenders, and there are so many six guns, although he does not have a car battalion, but there is nothing strange about it.
Twenty-four artillery salvos on the broken mound, this is not normal!
Crusade to the east and west, let alone Xiao Ji Neng, even his father Lao Ji Neng, or his uncle I Da, it is impossible to see the Ming army bring so many artillery pieces in the field without a car battalion!
"I'll let him know I'm good somewhere else! Send someone to ask him to bring the money, and I will take a detour and ask me who the leader is! ”
Unbeknownst to Ji Neng, his retreating soldiers and horses who did not obey the order saved his life.
General Chen was standing on what he called the 'Broken Mound', and asked him to hold the telescope steadily, exert his strength against the artillery, and search for his location, and finally couldn't help but sigh: "Fuck, retreat too fast!" I can't hit it! ”
Although they resisted the three formations, the Beiyu cavalry did not even face the hair of his soldiers, but judging from their spontaneous retreat, these Tumut cavalry were battle-hardened and retreated for three and a half miles, and the maximum range of the best jack Franc machine used by the Ming army was almost like this.
They retreated three and a half miles to ensure that the Ming artillery could not hit them.
If Chen Mu had a ten-catty cannon in his hand, he could try to bombard the enemy commander with the help of a telescope, but the largest caliber gun in his hand was only five catties, a distance of more than eight hundred steps, even if the nine five-catty cannons were adjusted to the same target, they might not be able to hit accurately, but they might directly drive the enemy away.
"But I can't help it, where is this exploit?"
Chen Mu clenched his right wrist and tightened his arm, and listened to the cavalry left on the mountain above to report quickly: "General, Wu Bingbei is here!" ”
Yo, the Overseers are here!
"It's just in time, this battle has just begun." Chen Mu rubbed his hands and laughed, and called Long Junxiong and said: "Junxiong, you take the right artillery team to support Commander Jiang, the eight artillery pieces are divided into four formations, and the enemy is nearly 600 steps to the death!" ”