"They're coming!"

In fact, there is no need to shout, when this sentence was shouted, all the people on the mountain saw the Hu people riding horses all over the mountains in the distance, and the trembling sound of the horses' hooves and the whistling sound from the Hu people's mouths pierced the ears of the people on the mountain.

The captive held a musket, a grass stalk in his mouth, chewed too much, and some pale green bubbles flowed from the corners of his mouth.

He licked his tongue, spat between his teeth, shook his head, and said, "How can there be such a war?" ”

After scolding, he stood up and shouted at the fifty people under his command: "Wait until they get close before shooting!" ”

Among these people, there were both regular foot knights and experienced men who had traveled tens of thousands of miles with Solushen, and the mistake of shooting before the enemy approached would have been avoided for a long time.

The slope of the hill is not steep, and the horses can be approached to within thirty or fifty paces, but there are logs and barracks in front of it, and there is not much force at all.

Shu Prisoner Mi looked at the two small cannons weighing dozens of pounds on the van next to him, and said in his heart that this thing is really useless except for defending the city, but it is good to let Hu Ren see it today.

The swarthy muzzle of the cannon was stuffed with a bag of gravel, and unlike the expensive copper cannons of the past, this small cannon weighing dozens of pounds placed on the car was already made of iron. Although Sishang did not yet have the ability to forge large cannons from iron, he was already experimenting with such small cannons.

In the distance, the Hu people didn't know the power of these firearms, nor did they know how the Mo family's army fought, but with a wave of greed turned into courage, they rushed up the hillside in a swarm.

The war on the grassland is generally a surprise encirclement, or a bow and arrow shot away from a distance and then rushed up.

Against the infantry of the Central Plains, these Hu people obviously did not have enough experience, and they only relied on instinct to fight.

The first wave of the attack was all the brave men of the tribe, who wanted to get close and shoot the defenses with short bows.

This kind of impact left the most elite condor shooters of the Hu people with no room to play...... Of course, the condor shooter can ride a horse, but it is impossible to bend the bow and shoot the eagle on the back of a galloping horse, and it is impossible to ensure the accuracy of a hundred steps on the back of a galloping horse.

Without stirrups, it is difficult to draw a bow on a horse, and it is impossible to borrow force; Without reflexing, the bow is not very powerful, because if it is too long, it will not be able to shoot on the horse, and the legs will hinder; Without heavy armor, there is no way to use heavy infantry to get close and open the gap with heavy arrows Heavy infantry to break through the tactics - it seems simple, those who can play this tactic must be the regional hegemon, and the Hu people at this time are still far behind.

The Hu man galloping on horseback in his eyes was getting bigger and closer, he narrowed one eye and shouted to his partner standing behind the van and the earthen ramparts: "Ready!" ”

The Hu people who rushed up had already rushed to a distance of about forty paces, and in front of them were wooden and earthen pits, and the horses could no longer rush up.

The Hu people at the front, who were the best at equestrian, realized that something was wrong and relied on their riding skills to turn around, but the swarms of clansmen behind blocked their turn.

"Put!"

Almost simultaneously, five hundred muskets arranged in front of the formation opened fire at the same time.

White smoke billowed as one person raised his spear while the man next to him took a step back and quickly reloaded the gunpowder.

This time the salvo was so dense that the smoke obscured the view of the front row.

The prisoner put down his musket, touched a spear beside him, and quickly formed a small formation with the four people beside him.

All five of them craned their necks, trying to see what was going on outside, but they couldn't see clearly.

I could only hear the screams of the Hu people below, the wailing of the horses, and the howls of the trampling before death......

When the smoke and dust finally cleared, Shu Prisoner finally saw the scene dozens of paces away, this was not the first time he had seen a volley of muskets, but it was the first time he had seen the scene after the salvo of hundreds of people.

More than 100 horses were shot and fell, piling up on the hillside.

Some people were trampled on the stomach by startled horses, some were screaming and crawling over the carcass of horses, and some were pushing hard against horses that had crushed their legs.

The first attack of the Hu people failed in this way.

If it were a battle on the plains, and the infantry on the opposite side were also on the other side, the spearmen had already attacked, but now they were only holding on, and the men on the hill only took a step back mechanically, and filled with gunpowder without changing like a mill blown by the wind.

A few unidentified Hu men climbed in front of the chariot, and the brave warriors armed with iron swords or short spears jumped out and stabbed them to death or cut off their heads, using their familiar fighting methods.

Among these people, not all of them were ink scholars or travelers influenced by ink people, but there were also dead warriors sent by various countries to follow, as well as some "disciples" who followed Solushen from Greece, Persia and other places.

The bloodiest battlefield is not necessarily the most intense.

Just like this salvo, it was not intense, even a little boring, but it was the bloodiest.

Only a few feathered arrows of the Hu people fell in the formation, and no one was injured at all. Infantry shooting vs. cavalry shooting, even if they are all with bows, still have the advantage of infantry shooting, which is impossible to change, not to mention that the people on the mountain use muskets that can shoot flat.

The kind of musket held in the hands of the prisoners is no longer the kind of heavy, fifteen or sixteen pounds heavy, with one or two projectiles in Peixian County.

Rather, it is a smaller-caliber, slightly more accurate arquebus, the kind of arquebus used during the Battle of the Water.

The heavy muskets are in the north, which is a bit wasteful, and the Hu people have no heavy armor and no chariots, so the heavy muskets are really wasteful.

However, if the caliber is smaller, it may not be impossible to kill people.

Those Hu people lying on the ground no longer regretted the greed they had born before, and they could only think about it and only hope to be able to escape from this terrible land.

The people on the mountain did not pursue, but used the two three-pound iron pill cannons to bombard the cluster behind the Hu people.

More than a dozen severed heads were thrown down by the warriors of the mountains and presented as gifts to the fleeing Hu people.

After only one attack, the Hu people were already crushed, and they ran back hundreds of paces, which was able to stabilize their position, which was also the limit distance of the two small cannons.

The priests knelt on the ground, muttering prayers to the heavens and their ancestors, wondering why the flames, thunder, and white clouds were in the hands of human power.

Those Hu people who had experienced the volley had completely lost their courage, and some of them cried and cried, looked up and saw the clouds in the sky, and would also scream and hide behind others.

The part of the hillside where the horses were dead but the people were still alive came to their senses and fled backwards with their heads in their hands, only to be knocked down by the second volley of the hill, as simple as shooting a sheep in a sheepfold, and without the power to resist.

More than 400 people were killed and wounded, nearly 200 horses fell to the ground, more than 100 of the 400 were killed or injured by lead bullets, and the rest were trampled to death, trampled to death, or fell from their horses.

War requires the accumulation of experience. The Mohist army that these Hu people faced was an army that had accumulated many years of experience and theoretical experience.

And the grassland Hu people faced by the Mojia army were not Xiongnu who could smelt iron, centralize official power, and unify all departments.

It is not a Liao people who can rely on the defense of the city and organize elite counterattacks to attack the city to win.

It is not a Mongolia that can be assaulted by heavy cavalry and assaulted by heavy infantry.

It was not a Manchu Qing who could line up with Swedish engineers in the steppe with Dzungar engineers to shoot and shoot each other, and artillery bombarded each other.

The tribal leaders, who were full of confidence and thought they could be defeated a quarter of an hour ago, lost their souls, looking at the chaotic clansmen, looking at the untouched banners on the mountain, frightened, but not knowing what to do.

They had never fought such a battle, and they had never seen such a scene.

The tribesmen were frightened, the priests panicked, and the small hill turned out to be like the ice and snow wind on the grassland, which was not a force that could be shaken by manpower.

When you are full of confidence, you can move forward bravely in battle, lest you fall behind, and whoever runs the fastest and rushes the fastest will be able to grab the most loot.

But once confidence is destroyed by this volley, the tribes need to be on their own alert: whoever rushes forward will have the most people killed in his tribe, and the more likely they are to be annexed.

This battle...... You can't just beat it like that.

The tribal leaders knew it.

It's like a hard stone, take another stone to smash, even if it can't be broken for a while, you can always see cracks in the stone, or fall chips.

But if you hold a bird's egg in your hand, take it and smash a stone, and then smash it down, what's the point?

But just a quarter of an hour ago, the leaders of the tribes, the people who participated in the attack, thought that they were stones, and that those on the mountain were birds' eggs.

There is no other way but to retreat.

…………

On the mountain, the prisoner looked at the Hu people who were gradually moving away, and scolded: "This is escape? ”

Solushen smiled beside him: "What do you want?" Let them besiege here, wait until General Qu comes with a large army, send cavalry to intercept the back road of the two mountains, and fight them in a decisive battle to annihilate them? ”

"They're just here to grab something, and if they can't grab it, they knock their teeth, so what if they don't run?"

"You don't know the summary of the battle of the water back then. The most difficult thing for the two armies to face off against each other is to retreat by deception, because only in that way can the other side attack fiercely and not retreat. Back then, in Lushui, Meng Sheng's side attacked too fiercely, and it was almost a little bit, so the Yue people gave up the left flank and retreated directly. ”

"That's related to the belonging of Sishang, whether the Yue people can gain a foothold in Huaibei, and whether the Yue country can still dominate in Sishang, especially so, not to mention that these Hu people just want to grab something."

Shu Prisoner shook his head and smiled: "I really think so. If it can be done, there will be more than 10,000 young and strong, first compulsory land reclamation, education so that they can be naturalized, and then cultivate fertile land, and then form divisions and brigades......"

Solushen sighed and said, "The tactics that are well thought out, but cannot be implemented, are failed tactical strategies. ”

"My goal has been achieved, I am not as grand as you think, all I think is that from now on, the division of the Mo family's half brigade is on the grassland, and the Hu people are less than 10,000 people who dare not besiege."