Chapter 665: The Cossack Tragedy (1)

The Cossack Khan, feeling that the enemy's situation was unknown, began to retreat with less than 60,000 Cossack cavalry left.

"Killing" them is faced with the pursuit of 40,000 Ming army iron cavalry.

For the pursuit of the Ming army's iron cavalry, the Cossack Khan did not care, because in the battle between the cavalry and the cavalry, the fleeing side had an advantage over the pursuing side, the advantage of the bow and arrow, and the cavalry fleeing in front shot arrows with a longer range and greater power against the cavalry chasing behind.

Often, there are not many casualties in battles, but there are even more casualties in pursuits.

When the Mongol iron cavalry swept through a territory of 20,000 miles and fought all the way to the middle of Europe, how many steppe khanates and nomadic tribes were destroyed in the process, relying on the strategy of shooting and killing the enemy's pursuers while fleeing.

In the process of constantly shooting and killing local pursuers, the local cavalry suffered heavy losses, so that when many pursuers chased a certain distance, most of the casualties were unknowingly annihilated by the Mongol iron cavalry.

Today this trick is popular among all steppe khanates and nomadic tribes.

"Humph! Look for death! The Cossack Khan sneered, didn't even bother to turn his head, and ran away with the Cossack cavalry under his command, thinking of finding a place to rest, and then come back to retaliate against the Ming army after figuring out the specific situation of the Ming army.

However, the Cossack Khan thought quite well, but he soon learned that it was powerful.

The Ming army did not use bows and arrows, but rifles with a range far more than twice that of bows and arrows, and ordinary cavalry and cavalry could not be used on the Ming cavalry.

"Bang! Bang! Bang"

"Ah" a large number of Cossack cavalrymen were killed by bullets while running.

The Ming cavalry hung dead more than 100 meters away from the Cossack cavalry, constantly shooting at the fleeing Cossack cavalry, in the process, the Cossack cavalry also shot arrows at the Ming cavalry who pursued them, but unfortunately, the range of the Ming rifles far exceeded them, and the Ming cavalry consciously avoided the range of the Cossack bow and arrow, so the threat of the arrows shot by the Cossack cavalry to the Ming cavalry was extremely limited.

When this was discovered, the Cossack Khan was so angry that his face turned blue.

"Why are the muskets of the Ming army so powerful?" The Cossack Khan had doubts in his heart.

The Cossack Khan of the musket team of Tsarist Russia has not never seen it, even the more advanced Spanish flintlock pistol Cossack Khan has heard of it, but he found that the muskets of the Ming army seem to be more powerful I don't know how many times, the range is extremely long, and the power is also great, and most of the Cossack cavalry who were almost hit fell from their horses on the spot, whether they were hit or not.

The Cossack Khan realized that the way the cavalry bows and arrows were used against the cavalry pursuers did not work at all against the Ming cavalry.

Now it is obviously unrealistic to turn around and go back to fight the Ming army again, and the wisdom of the Cossack Khan is also limited, and he has not come up with any better way for a while, so he can only flee first.

"Bang! Bang! Bang"

The Ming cavalry still hung behind and kept shooting at the fleeing Cossack cavalry, as the Cossack cavalry was hit and fell from the horse one after another, the Cossack cavalry suffered a large number of casualties, and the loss rate was extremely fast, and soon 2,000 cavalry were lost under the guns of the Ming army in the escape.

What to do! If this continues, sooner or later they will be shot by the Ming army while fleeing.

Under the threat of the Ming army's rifles, it seemed that a Cossack cavalry fell from his horse at every shot, and the other Cossack cavalrymen couldn't help but be frightened, for fear that the next one would be themselves, and this feeling of being taken away by death at any time without being able to guard against it was the most torturous.

Time passed little by little, and the Cossack cavalry lost more than 4,000 people under the guns of the Ming army in the escape.

At this time, the Cossack Khan, although he was not a man of great talent, knew that he could not go on like this.

"Damn!" The Cossack Khan roared angrily and wanted to order the Hui army to fight the Ming army, but he did not overdo it after all, and finally endured it and did not do so.

At this moment, the only way is to sacrifice a group of people to keep more of the main cavalry.

"You, take some people to intercept the enemy pursuers." The Cossack Khan said with a hideous expression pointing at a Cossack general who was running in front of him.

This Cossack general was just a captain of a thousand people, and he originally ran by the side of the Cossack Khan to find an opportunity to make meritorious service, but he did not expect to be discarded by the Cossack Khan as a flag, which is really tragic.

However, the Cossack general did not dare to disobey the order of the Cossack Khan, so he had no choice but to turn his horse and return to the army with some of his men to intercept the Ming cavalry.

"Killed" less than a thousand Cossack cavalry, followed the Cossack general back to intercept the Ming cavalry.

"Hmph, I want to escape, ridiculous!" Ji Feng sneered.

The Ming Dynasty 40,000 iron cavalry, how could less than a thousand Cossack cavalry intercept it, under the order of Ji Feng, a large number of Ming cavalry detoured from both sides and continued to pursue and kill the main Cossack cavalry such as the Cossack Khan.

In the end, only 1,000 Ming cavalry stayed in place and less than 1,000 Cossack cavalry, and the other large Ming cavalry continued to hang more than 100 meters away from the Cossack cavalry.

"Bang! Bang! Bang" behind him there was a constant burst of gunfire, and there were still Cossack cavalrymen being shot and killed as they fled.

The Cossack Khan turned around and saw that the pursuers of the Ming army were not intercepted, but continued to pursue and continue to kill and wound the Cossack cavalry under his command, and immediately his face turned blue again, and he couldn't help but curse in Cossack language.

However, no matter how much the Cossack Khan scolded, it could not change the fact that the Ming cavalry had been chasing after him and constantly shooting the fleeing Cossack cavalry.

The Cossack Khan realized that he needed to leave more Cossack cavalry behind in order to completely intercept the Ming pursuers.

This means that he has to abandon more Cossack cavalry, now there are only about 50,000 Cossack cavalry left under his command, if he abandons a few thousand, then there are only more than 40,000 left, the heart of the Cossack Khan is dripping blood, but he has to do this, unless he is willing to directly order the whole army to return to the army and fight with the Ming soldiers, but this is obviously very unrealistic, more unrealistic than abandoning thousands of cavalry to intercept the Ming army.

"You, go back with five thousand Cossack cavalry to intercept the Ming army, you must intercept! If one more enemy hangs behind the army, Ben Khan will destroy your whole people! The Cossack Khan, pointing to a convoy of 10,000 Cossack horsemen, commanded, threatening the whole of this man.

The Cossack cavalry general was furious, but did not dare to resist, and after all, the lives of his whole people were still greater than his lives.

The Cossack 10,000-man cavalry had no choice but to return to the army with 5,000 Cossack cavalry to intercept the Ming pursuers.

Of course, the Cossack Khan's two abandonment of his subordinates chilled many Cossacks, and unconsciously, the morale of the Cossacks dropped considerably.