Chapter 47: Covering Up
In the battle line of hundreds of paces, even if they shouted killing from three sides, no one could ignore the loud sound of hundreds of bird salvos.
It's just that the change of the battle array between the two wings is not as delicate as Wu Dui, who is nervous with a telescope on the artillery position, looking exquisite, in his eyes, Chen Mu's two wings are on the verge of rout, and the Tatar cavalry from the north changes the formation in an instant, as if the green mountains are about to fall, and nothing can be done.
There were already six or seven hundred enemy horsemen crossing the bridge, and when they were divided into two formations to kill the fragile two wings, it would bring disaster to Chen Mujun, Wu Dui couldn't help but tell Chen Ju to fire the first cannon, so he suddenly made up his mind to put down the binoculars and turned his head to Chen Ju and shouted: "To be defeated, Chen You ......"
Bang bang, bang!
The muffled sound of the birds in unison sounded in front of the formation.
There was no need for a telescope, and Wu Dui, who hurriedly turned his head, could not see the fire from the trenches, but only saw a large piece of gunpowder smoke rising from the left and right in front of the trench canopy, and then was extinguished by the rain curtain in a blink of an eye.
Regardless of men and horses, regardless of shields.
Nothing can stop the bird from killing.
The telescope that Chen Ju clenched tightly in his hand was pinched and creaked by the eunuch who claimed to be a gentleman, and he saw the military formation panicking. Not only the Northern Cavalry Formation, which was about to change formation, but even the recruits on both flanks were suffocated by the sudden sound of guns, whether they rushed forward under pressure or were afraid to leave the team because of nervousness, they all seemed to be frozen for a moment.
Within thirty or fifty paces, Chen Ju didn't know how many Bei captives had been killed by a volley, but he could clearly see a whole row of foot cavalry falling down on the side of the Bei captives near the side of the trench.
Bang bang bang, bang!
After a few breaths, the smoke of gunfire rose again, and the uninterrupted salvo of bird guns stunned the fierce and fierce cavalry of the northern captives, and the whole battle formation was almost in a state of stagnation, and among the neighing of people and horses, many horses stood up because of the sudden sound of guns and the collision of the war horses in front of them falling to the ground, and fell immediately after the second salvo.
Fast, too fast.
Then the third salvo had arrived, and Chen Ju could even imagine that if it hadn't rained, the smoke from the three salvos would have even been able to form a large white mist in the air.
In just a few breaths, three salvos were fired, and 300 bird guns spewed projectiles one after another, harvesting the lives of the enemy soldiers in pieces, breaking up the entire Qiaodong cavalry formation, and in an instant, hundreds of people fell to the ground, and more were injured.
Almost for a while, the offensive and defensive positions were easy, and many of the captives near the bridge came back to their senses, and their first reaction was to turn their horses and run towards the bridge.
But where can they run on the bridge, which has long been crowded with follow-up cavalry?
The one behind continued to move forward without knowing what happened, and the one in front was frightened by the bird gun and suddenly retreated, and the formation was chaotic.
In addition to a large number of cavalry being frightened, there are always brave people beyond ordinary people in the middle, rushing on war horses over the corpses of people and horses, or holding strong bows or raising bones, rushing towards the trenches, and the momentum is incomparable.
But in the rain they couldn't see the barbed spears in front of the trench, and when they got close to see clearly, they didn't have time to turn around, and before the bow and arrow in their hands were shot, the healthy horse struck the spear with its strong chest, and in the crisp sound of the wooden spear breaking, they exclaimed together, and the feather arrow didn't know where to fly, and the knight on the horse was also lifted up, and then fell heavily in front of the trench.
Bang!
Chen Mu put down the smoking handgun and threw it to the soldiers, killing an enemy who was pushed forward two steps away by the horse corpse after falling, and shouted in the trench: "Raise the gun in front!" β
They had more than 300 shots, but the total of the three salvos was less than 300.
Wu Dui and Chen Ju, who were on the artillery position, saw that they were wonderful, and what Chen Mu saw was that the strongest banner army under his command still had a lot of room for improvement in the battle.
At the end of the first three salvos, there was a stagnation of nearly ten breaths in the middle, and the front team of the bird gun loaded the ammunition and re-raised the salvo, although this was the reason for being frightened by the single charge of the captive horse, of which the panic of changing ammunition in the battle also accounted for a large part, and it took the front team of gunners to load the bird gun at a speed of nearly forty breaths.
They are still not very familiar with wheel strikes.
Bang bang!
After a while, Chen Mu was not satisfied with the results of the battle, except for a few captives who rushed forward, most of the enemy troops had figured out that there was a brigade of gunners who were not afraid of rain hidden in the trenches, and they were the most elite gunners of the Ming army - they were all equipped with three-eyed guns!
And it's a three-eyed gun with a super long range!
They had seen the Three-Eyed Gun, although this thing was not much equipment in Northern Xinjiang, but for the Tumut people, it was the second only weapon of the Ming people's individual firearms after the Divine Arrow, and they had to keep a distance.
Therefore, Chen Mu watched the enemy army rush towards the bridge like a pile, and the nearest Beiyu was seventy or eighty paces away from the trench after four salvos, which was no longer enough to kill the enemy cavalry directly as before.
That's not good.
"Wave the black flag and blast them back!"
On Chen Mu's left, the herald soldiers ran out of the trench, and the three black flags on the trench waved in the rain curtain, and the fifth salvo under the trench arrived as scheduled.
"General Chen is mighty!"
In the artillery position, Wu Dui looked at the battlefield and was very excited, although he was wearing a cloud goose robe, he punched on the canopy pole like a military attachΓ©, his face overflowed with great joy that could not be hidden, the telescope had already been thrown aside, and he gritted his teeth and smiled at Chen Ju with two fists: "General Nan is good at decisive victory in an instant, and the offensive and defensive position is easy, if this is the case, the fierce and fierce captives are so weak in front of General Chen's formation, just like ...... This murder is like wheat! β
"That's not it! Let's just say that this General Chen is capable! You can't go wrong! β
Chen Ju is also excited, even more exciting than Wu Dui, he is a witness to the change of Gengxu in Beijing, that will be only twelve years old with the great eunuch Gao Zhong fully armed to set up the city, Hu Lu broke through the siege of the city fiercely left him too many terrible impressions, so when a military is cautious and cautious, the imprint left by childhood often accompanies people for a lifetime.
When have you ever seen such a scene?
Sixteen cannons were placed in the position without fire, and the cavalry was beaten to the point of crying and shouting like wheat by the birds, like cutting wheat, and the cavalry was so frightened by the infantry that they retreated a hundred paces, and even the horses did not dare to move.
Huh!
Chen Ju stared at his face with a smile, and thought about it, he seemed to think of something very important just now, what was it?
Looking around, Chen Ju saw sixteen black-painted artillery pieces on the position!
"Cannon, cannon!" Chen Ju was still young after all, he panicked all of a sudden, raised his hand and pulled his big sleeves to find it left and right, and then grabbed the hanging telescope on his chest and looked at the front of the formation, and saw that the three black flags were floating left and right like fluffy grass in the wind, "Artillery listen to the order - release!" β
In the high-pitched and bright voice of the eunuch, sixteen artillery pieces bombarded towards the preset target, the place where the captives of the West Brigade of the Horse Bridge were assembled.
Rumble! Boom!
Although it came a little late, it was not in the way for Chen Mu, General Chen led the banner army to abandon the gun and jump out of the trench with his troops, drew his waist knife, and shouted: "Pass the order to the two wings, cover the past!" β