Chapter 11: Dai Shan
The feathered arrows were fired at the light cavalry galloping across the wilderness in chain mail and armed suits, and in the panic, the cavalry drew his sword and reined in his horse and looked around, but there was no movement around, only a dead silence.
The rider kept turning his horse around with his sword in his hand, lowering his voice to soothe the frightened mount, and the uneasiness in his heart grew heavier, and just as he was about to abandon his mission and ride his horse north to escape from this wasted field with wild weeds, there was a sudden sound on his right, and he quickly grabbed the reins and turned the horse's head in that direction.
At this moment, as the rider turned around, there was a tooth-aching sound of drawing a bow in the grass, accompanied by the sound of a broken string, and the blade shot out with a heavy armor-piercing arrow with long collars, and the next moment collided with the armed suit behind the cavalry, and then penetrated into it.
The rider who was hit by the arrow on the horseback looked in disbelief at the shaft of the arrow with the thickness of his tail finger coming out of his chest, and kicked the horse's belly with all his might.
But before he could take two steps, three Jurchen archers wearing thick sheepskin jackets and felt hats flashed in front of him, throwing tripwires hanging two stones one after another.
The front hooves of the huge French war horse were restrained, and the owner who was wounded on his back was violently thrown into the air, but because of the presence of Takahashi's saddle and stirrups, he could not shake it off, and smashed it to the ground together.
The horse's struggle stirred up a cloud of dust, and the rider was pressed down on one leg and suffered the secondary damage caused by the heavy horse's constant crushing, and the long sword flew out of his hand as early as the arrow, even so, he tried his best to pull out the injured leg, while pulling out the short sword on the saddle and trying to resist stubbornly.
One of them took the young chief's heavy bow, and saw the former glance at the arrow that had been broken, and pulled out the short-handled bone that was stuffed on his waist, and put the wounded cavalry down with just one stroke, and then complained: "Bad our arrow, it's cheap for you." ”
Soon the long sword carefully forged by the royal armory, the short sword crudely made by the blacksmith at the head of the village, the chain mail turban with several broken rings, the chain mail with many iron rings damaged by heavy arrows, and the piercing plate armor, one plate armor shoulder guard were neatly placed in front of the little chief.
There were even worn-out leather gloves, stinking brown boots, deflated money bags, dirty crotch leggings and shade bags thrown into the weeds along with the corpses, and when the people came out again, the retinue with two heads hanging from their waists presented the long collar arrowhead to the little chief.
Despite penetrating the cavalry and chain mail, the arrow remained unscathed, and the young little chief took a fancy to the leather money bag in the relics of the French cavalry, raised the first few silver and copper coins to his subordinates, and carefully took out seven identical arrowheads from his waist, put them in the money bag and put them in his arms, and the little Jurchen leader took back the big bow and looked into the distance.
People are usually not so generous, and they don't take a penny from silver coins, and if they use them to buy people's hearts, they must have a plan in their hearts.
He is the Daishan of the Haixi Jurchen Hada Tribe, the former Ming Right Pillar State, the Dragon and Tiger General, the grandson of the Hada Governor Wan Khan, and the nephew of the Baishan Battalion General Kanggulu, who was forced by his uncle's subordinates to join the Baishan Battalion with knives, and the troops on the battlefield were always assigned to the most dangerous work, and after the battle, they always got the worst war profits, and they reaped more war exploits than most of the Tiefutu, but now only seven people have died in the thirty tribes, and they have not yet gotten a decent war horse.
It took Dai Shan a long time to figure out why his uncle Kangguru had to let him lead his troops to meet the recruitment of the imperial court - if he died on the battlefield, wouldn't Kangguru, who had the status of a Ming army general, return one day and be able to dominate the Hada tribe?
It's such a simple thing, Dai Shan has never been able to figure it out, and even if he understands it now, he still thinks it doesn't matter.
On the one hand, he did not want to and did not dare to challenge Kangguru, and on the other hand, because Dai Shan bet all his future on the expedition of the Ming army, believing that as the war progressed, his treatment would gradually improve.
For example, in this battle, what they respected was no longer the order of Kangguru, but the order of Yuan Zizhang, the general of the vanguard army of the Oriental Military Government.
Six miles behind him, there were 1,400 Beiyang banner troops led by Yuan Zizhang and Wang Youlan, who were marching north with them.
In fact, many young true warriors and Dai Shan's thoughts are similar, since they set foot on the land of the New World, many of them do not plan to go back, and the past grievances and grievances can naturally be thought of.
What is there to miss in my hometown, do I miss the excitement of freezing for half a year for a year, or do I miss the excitement of waking up and the entire tribe being buried in the snow?
Dai Shan's bow is a heavy bow that is nearly human-high, why would he use this kind of armor-piercing arrow between the white mountains and black waters? The original intention of this thing was not to break the armor, but to protect against bears and tigers running out of the mountains.
Europa is much better, there are no big beasts here, there are bald monks running around who have no fighting power, the land is suitable for planting and the climate is very pleasant, and it will rain in winter.
It is more than 18,000 times more comfortable than the outside of the mouth.
When Uncle Guan Wai sees this, who can move his legs?
That's what Dai Shan thinks, he doesn't plan to follow his uncle Kangguru who doesn't know the reward and punishment anymore, he wants to take advantage of this trip to send troops and make more meritorious contributions to General Yuan, if he can be appreciated, even if he is not incorporated into the Beiyang Army, it is much better to be a thousand households in this place than to go back.
Bang!
Just when Dai Shan's subordinates gathered in front of the war horse to train the horse for self-taught and fateful horse, a gunshot rang out in the distance, Ling Daishan shrewdly put the big bow in front of him, and quickly pointed to the helmet armor that was placed on the ground and said: "You put it on, call a few others, don't care about this lame horse, if someone misses, let's go quickly." ”
At the same time, almost all of the foot archers, who were scouts and stragglers of the former army, gradually converged and slowly retreated, as Dai Shan's choice.
Yuan Zizhang led the army to leave the bridgehead fortifications, because the Kangguru Department of plate armor iron floating slaughter tired army strategy to achieve great results, such an effect is to harass a night in exchange, in order to deal with the continuous harassment of the heavy bow cavalry, Billon almost tried all kinds of means, and finally approached the early morning was really by the French army to figure out a method - foot knight.
This method even narrowed the way into the Ming trenches at the bridgehead, and if it weren't for the artillery bombardment that caused the knights, who were exhausted from preparing for the day and night, to retreat, they would most likely have entered the trenches.
Dai Shan didn't know what that method was, but judging from Yuan Zizhang's military order to ambush and rob them, and retreat immediately in the event of a head-on conflict, he thought that in Yuan Zizhang's judgment, it was very likely that the enemy army on the west bank also knew this method, and this method might also pose a huge threat to the Beiyang Banner Army that was rampant all over the world.