Chapter 230: Heavy losses
Looking at the thistles shining in the sun on the ground in front of him, Yue Tuo only felt that his eyes were a little black, in just a few days, he had encountered this kind of despicable and shameless tactics twice in a row, is it that the Ming army now has so much silver that there is no place to spend it, and everywhere they go, they throw thistles everywhere to play? And what's that gray-white row up ahead?
"Damn Minggou, I actually put an iron thistle ...... again"
"Thank you, Minggou is so despicable that he actually placed thistle terrestris......"
The angry roars of the Houjin Tartars rang out from the battlefield, and the iron thistles everywhere made them suffer enough. Although in order to protect the horses' hooves, everyone will put horseshoes on their horses, it is clear that even horseshoes cannot prevent those thistles from harming the horses.
Although the Tartars were eager to cut all the Ming troops on the opposite side into pulp, the only thing they could do at this time was to advance...... Keep advancing, even if people were constantly knocked down by thistles and lead bullets on the way to charge, they could only grit their teeth and continue to advance, and no one dared to say the word retreat easily. One of the cavalrymen fell, and the cavalry behind did not hesitate to step on the body of their companion and continue to advance, so to speak, the road was full of fallen horses and the corpses of cavalrymen.
"Rush in...... Rush in and ......"
"Kill all those Nikans!"
"Bang ......"
The only thing that answered them was the sound of firecrackers.
The speed of more than 100 meters was originally less than ten seconds for the cavalry at best, but now this road has become a road of death paved with corpses and wounded soldiers, and there are dense corpses everywhere.
But something that made them even more troubled appeared, when the first group of cavalry rushed to a distance of fifty meters from the phalanx, they found that there were rows of things in front of them that looked like rejecting horses, and unlike ordinary rejecting horses, these Ming troops were still pulling barbed wire fences full of thorns.
This thing is too vicious, although the rejection of the horse is only half a person so high, the general war horse can cross over, but the rejection of the horse is very particular, the row of rejection horses is less than two meters away, your war horse can not jump up continuously, the barbed wire on these rejection horses is very vicious, if the stomach is scratched by these wires when jumping up, the fun is great, you must know that their war horses are not armored.
Just when the Tartars were in a hurry, a Niu Lu Zhangjing found that the passage more than 100 meters wide in front of him was very empty, and there was neither a horse nor an thistle, so he quickly pointed to the right and shouted: "Go from there, there is no horse rejection!" ”
After saying that, he took the lead in riding his horse and rushed towards that road, and after seeing him take the lead in rushing over, the nearly three hundred horse armor soldiers under his command followed without hesitation.
"Keep up...... Keep up! ”
"Rush over!"
The ecstatic Tartar followed his boss and rushed towards the only passage where there were no thistles and no horses.
In fact, it is not that no one has doubted why the Ming army would be so kind to leave such a safe passage for themselves, but there is no time for people to think about it on the battlefield, and everyone has a kind of conformity in their hearts, seeing that everyone has entered, they naturally will not stay outside to taste the taste of thistle terrestris and horse rejection alone.
In fact, as the Tartars expected, they rode their horses along the passage without thistles and rejected horses, and soon rushed into the Ming army's large array. And not only them, but in several places, many Tartars have found passages to the Ming army's great array.
"Lord Belle, they rushed in, they rushed into the big array of the Ming army."
Seeing that someone had really rushed in, one of the Baya Raka Lazhangjing pointed ahead and shouted ecstatically.
"Good...... Okay, notify the whole army, rush in and crush in to annihilate those Ming troops! ”
Seeing this, Yue Tuo, who was still a little suspicious of the Ming army's ghosts, finally put his heart down, in his opinion, as long as Dajin's iron cavalry can rush into the Ming army's big array, even if the other party has any tricks, it will be all in vain in front of absolute strength, but Yue Tuo was still too happy, and those Houjin Tartars who rushed into the Ming army's big array soon found themselves as if they had fallen into an endless trap.
When a cavalryman named Houjin couldn't wait to rush into the Ming army's large array and wanted to kill as much as he wanted, he found that with the sound of fire, cavalry continued to fall from his horse. And what frightens them the most is that the gunshots are not coming from just one place, but everywhere. The first to rush into the big array, Niu Lu Zhangjing, with more than 200 horse armor soldiers under his command, went to the front of a phalanx to kill, but was killed by the fire from the front, more than 30 people were killed at once, when he was angry and rushed towards the phalanx, there was a burst of fire from both sides, and the casualties were even heavier, and people in the entire team continued to fall off their horses, and soon nearly half of the casualties were lost.
The heavy casualties finally made this fanatical Niu Lu Zhang Jing wake up, he raised his eyes, and found that he had rushed to the center of the Ming army's large array, in front of him, on the left and on the right There were Ming army phalanxes, and in these three phalanxes, the Ming army in full armor and holding a firearm was constantly bombarding his men and horses with firearms in his hands, and his Niulu lost nearly half a centaur in just a quarter of an hour under the three-sided attack.
"Hit the mark...... Hit the mark...... Hurry up! ”
Niu Lu, who had come to his senses, was so frightened that he pulled out a handful of iron bones from the saddle and threw it towards a Ming gunsmith who was less than thirty meters away from him.
Iron Guduo is a three-foot-long throwing weapon made of eight pieces of wrought iron, with a wooden handle made of willow wood, and it is very powerful.
The sergeant who had just finished shooting was about to turn and retreat, when he was hit on the head by the heavy shield that fell from the sky over the heavy shield in front of him, and the sturdy helmet was immediately dented by the iron bones, and the sergeant fell to the ground without saying a word.
With this Niu Lu taking the lead, the horse armor soldiers behind him also bent their bows and arrows, or took out the flying axes and iron bones from the saddle and threw them towards the phalanx in front of them.
I have to say that the throwing weapons of the Hou Jurchens are very vicious, as long as they are hit by their throwing weapons, even if they don't die, they will be injured, but fortunately, the plate armor that Yang Feng equipped for the Jiangning army is very strong, otherwise this round of attacks alone is enough for the Jiangning army to drink a pot.
However, the good fortune of the Jurchens also came to an end, and before Niu Lu Zhangjing could rejoice after knocking down a sergeant, a lead bullet hit him, and the lead bullet with the thickness of his little thumb hit his right arm and touched the nail leaf on his arm and instantly deformed, wrapped in huge kinetic energy, the lead bullet penetrated the nail leaf and broke his arm in two.
"Ah......h
The huge pain made this Niu Lu Zhangjing almost faint in pain, and the whole person almost fell off the horse. Looking at his empty right arm, he almost howled and shouted, "My arm...... Where is my arm! ”
He forgot for a moment that he was on the battlefield, pulling the reins of his horse and stopping in circles, intending to dismount and pick up his arm, and what better target on the battlefield than a cavalryman who had stopped advancing?
"Smack...... Bang bang ......"
Within seconds of this Niu Lu Zhangjing stopping, three lead bullets hit him. Two of them hit him in the back, and one hit him in the head, and his head was smashed to pieces like a rotten watermelon.
In fact, the case of this Niu Lu Zhangjing is not unique. The Jiangning army led by Yang Feng formed a total of twelve hollow arrays, and Yang Feng's phalanx was the largest, consisting of 3,000 heavy soldiers, 500 families, medical battalions and 1,000 sergeants, and his phalanx was also the core of the entire array. Each hollow phalanx was spaced more than a hundred meters apart, so that at first glance, the large array of the Jiangning army looked full of loopholes, and it seemed that as long as they rushed in, they could be torn apart.
Even Yue Tuo thought so about this, so he couldn't wait to lead 10,000 red flags and blue flags to rush in, but after entering, Yue Tuo found that he seemed to have fallen into a labyrinth, and there were dense Jiangning troops everywhere, and the sound of fire was everywhere.
It stands to reason that such a phalanx full of loopholes should be broken with a single stab, but when Yue Tuo went in, he found that he was wrong. This large array is not so much leaking as it is full of traps and crises, and in the face of lead bullets fired from all directions, the experienced Houjin warriors of the battle array felt at a loss for the first time.
Several times Yue Tuo saw with his own eyes that there were several Niu Lu who wanted to concentrate their forces to take down a phalanx, but they were attacked by four phalanxes from the front and back at the same time, and this Niu Lu lost most of it in just half an hour, and the space of these phalanxes was destined not to accommodate too many people and horses, in the face of fierce firepower, they could only go around in various phalanxes like headless flies, but the Jiang Ning army could shoot them calmly, although during the period, they also relied on bows and arrows and throwing weapons to shoot some Jiang Ning troops, But the losses they have suffered are too great in comparison.
"No, it's a trap, we can't go on like this!" After suffering a series of casualties, he immediately realized that this was probably a trap laid by the Jiangning army against them, and in this way, I am afraid that the Jiangning army will not be eliminated, but his men and horses will be consumed first, in view of this, he immediately issued an order to retreat.
"Retreat...... Retreat in the direction of Dry Grass Ridge ......"
"Woooooooooo......oo The sound of a hurried horn immediately sounded. ”
After hearing the sound of the horn, the Houjin Tartars, who had long been frightened, hurriedly beat their horses and ran towards the way they came. Two quarters of an hour later, the Tartars finally fled from the Jiangning army's large array to the foot of the dry grass ridge to make peace with Daishan and Amin. After Yue Tuo and them retreated, the two thousand horse armor soldiers with blue flags who were teaching them to fight fiercely also withdrew.
Stumbling to Dai Shan, Yue Tuo knelt down and sobbed, "Amma...... No, we lost this battle! ”
"You ...... You ......"
Dai Shan raised his hand and was about to give Yue Tuo a slap, but in the end he took it back, he and Amin could see clearly in the mountain in the battle just now, this battle really can't be blamed on Yue Tuo, it is really that the formation put forward by Jiang Ningjun is too lacking in morality. More than a dozen hollow phalanxes formed a large array, these phalanxes are like hedgehogs everywhere full of thorns, the warriors of Houjin are like tigers catching hedgehogs, they have no way to start, they can only watch them use fire guns to shoot the Houjin warriors off their horses, if it is not for Yue Tuo's cleverness to withdraw people as soon as he sees that the situation is not good, they don't know how many people they will lose.
Amin gritted his teeth on the side, he strode over and grabbed Yue Tuo's collar and shouted: "Yue Tuo, how did you promise me at the beginning, you said that as long as our iron horse is dispatched, it won't take half an hour for those Ming dogs to collapse immediately, but now what about you? Is that how you fight? ”
"Second Baylor, this time I'm the one who defeated." Yue Tuo laughed miserably: "If you want to beat or punish me, I have nothing to say." ”
"You ......"
Amin is not angry, and they have lost a lot of money in today's battle with the blue flag.
"Okay, it's useless to quarrel now, let's count the losses first!" On the side, Gushan Belle Enteheng played a round on the side.
"Humph!" Seeing Enteheng come out to play the round, Amin let go of Yue Tuo stupidly.
When the people below counted the losses, everyone was stunned, and in less than half an hour, the army of one or two thousand led by Yue Tuo lost nearly four thousand people. Among them, the Zhenghong Banner and the Blue Banner lost nearly 2,000 people, and the remaining 2,000 people were the two men and horses of the Mongolian Korko tribe, Taiji Gurbush and Fugol. Coupled with the dead soldiers composed of more than 2,000 coats and auxiliaries that were lost just now, plus the 2,000 men and horses lost the day before yesterday, this time he lost a total of more than 5,000 people in the Zhenghongqi alone, which can be described as a wound to the Zhenghongqi.
Listening to the losses reported by the people below, Amin, Daishan and others were stunned on the spot, while Gulbush and Gol wept bitterly, this time they did not get any benefits from the expedition, and the Mongolian warriors who went out on the expedition lost nearly half, which can be described as a great loss of vitality.
You must know that the Mongols do not have any benevolence and morality, this time their tribe has lost so many people and horses, and they will definitely be spied on by the surrounding tribes after they go back, although they are not worried that their tribe will be swallowed by people with the support of Houjin, but what is this called, the benefits were not caught but were beaten half to death, and this time they came out and lost their bottoms.
Yue Tuo grabbed Dai Shan's hand and begged: "Ama, you can't fight anymore, the firearms of this Jiangning army are too sharp, if we continue to fight, our people will be exhausted." ”
Dai Shan looked at the large array of Jiangning troops that were still standing at the foot of the mountain, and his teeth were clenched......