Chapter 687: Ranger

Tunduo strangled his horse and shouted, "Calm down! Out of the corner of his eye, he swept the soldier who had just been shot, and saw a fist-sized blood stain on his cotton armor, which was obviously shot by a fire gun.

He looked up at the place where the smoke was rising, and was immediately shocked that the dead wood was a hundred and twenty paces away from him!

How can you shoot through cotton armor from such a distance?! Where is this firecracker, it's just a small cannon!

He had heard that the Yugoslav army was well-armed, but he thought it was just an exaggeration, but now it seems that instead of exaggerating, he has somewhat underestimated the enemy.

A soldier on the side asked urgently: "My lord, what should I do?!" ”

Tunduo has been fighting with the white flag for six or seven years, and at this time he calmed down and secretly thought, listening to the sound of Fang Cai, there should be no more than twenty guns, I still have thirty horsemen here, and there may not be no chance to rush over immediately!

But in his hurry, he ignored why less than twenty guns could shoot twelve of his men in one blow.

He immediately waved his bow and shouted: "Disperse, follow me straight to the enemy's formation!" ”

The thirty or so cavalrymen had no choice but to make a peace, circle their horses and pull away from the left and right, and then stretched out their bows and arrows, and pounced on the dead wood with a strange scream.

As soon as they had run fifty or sixty paces, the roar of the "bang" fire gun was heard again.

This time the distance was closer, and even though sixteen of the captives had a puddle of blood on their bodies, the corpses were either dropped from their horses or saddled on their horses, and their crotch mounts ran away with them.

Tunduo was also lucky, a bullet grazed his ear and flew by, accompanied by a hot pain, and his ears were full of the terrifying sound of "whoosh", but he finally saved his life.

"Damn! Why did you encounter an ambush?! ”

He scolded secretly, turned his head and saw that his corporal showed hesitation, and hurriedly shouted: "Don't stop!" Rush over while they are loaded! Then he raised his hand and fired an arrow at the bush, but he heard only a dinging sound, as if it had hit an iron plate.

He was right, and as he got closer, he could already see a Ming soldier in shiny steel armor holding an extremely long firebolt and pulling the hammer.

Tun Duo was overjoyed, he lost his bow and drew his saber, and there were still twenty or so steps left, and those barbarians didn't have time to aim at all, and they could rush to their sides!

However, at this moment, he suddenly felt that the mount slammed down, and before he could figure out what was going on, the whole person flew out of the horse, and then there was a sound of "plopping" and "oops" in all directions.

Fortunately, the soil was still soft, and he struggled to get up, and saw that most of the remaining dozen or so horsemen, including himself, had fallen to the ground, and on the way they had just run, there were two thick hemp ropes wrapped around long iron nails that were tied across the ground, and the war horses were tripped by this thing.

"Damn brute!"

Tun Duo also wanted to pull out the dagger on his waist desperately, but unexpectedly, a ball of fire suddenly burst out from a very close position, he only felt a sharp pain in his chest, and finally heard someone say happily: "Mr. Zhang Pai, I seem to have killed an official ......" Then his eyes went black and he lost consciousness completely.

The platoon boss said in a deep voice: "Good job." However, we still have to reload quickly, and if we hadn't laid the 'barbed wire' in advance according to the signal of the hussars, I'm afraid that someone would have been injured. ”

It turned out that the previous three signal flares were sent by the hussars patrolling around, and according to the different colors and the order of lift-off, Zhang Pai's side could know the enemy's distance and direction in advance, and then calmly choose the ambush location to annihilate the Jianyu reconnaissance team.

This is Zhu Linmiao's newly established guerrilla unit, which uses a combination of eight hussars and twenty chasseurs. The former were separated by several miles from each other, pulling nets to search for cavalry who had gone out to investigate, and once they found an enemy, they used signal flares to notify nearby hunters. The latter, on the other hand, relied on the terrifying range and accuracy of the Type 3 Hunter in his hand to snipe the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry from a long distance.

At present, a total of 22 teams of rangers have wandered more than 10 miles outside the Duoduo army, and more than 10 teams of captives have been hunted and killed, so that the various units of Duoduo have not been able to learn about the surrounding situation for two days, thus greatly ensuring the suddenness of the Ming army's encirclement of the enemy.

"Yes!" The soldier who shot Tunduo just now saluted Yinghe, patted the plate armor cuirass on his body again, and said with a smile, "These Tartars only know how to run horses and release arrows, which is even easier to cope with than the big exam of the New Army Academy......"

Although he is only a new recruit, when he goes to the military academy, he has to pick up two "enemy horsemen" with guns and retreat with his whole body to be qualified, and he still uses a type 2 hunter gun, which is really more tricky than the current situation.

As he was talking, he heard someone next to him shouting: "Mr. Zhang Pai, there is one running there!" ”

The latter hurriedly looked around, and saw that a captive horse hurriedly fled north, it was the one named Ulersu before, it turned out that this person was timid, so he didn't rush up with Tunduo at all, but picked up a life.

"Chase!"

Immediately, two hussars who were in charge of covering chased after him with short guns.

……

"General, there must be something unusual about the situation recently." Kitat said with a solemn expression, "In case the southerners are really ambushed along the way, the army will inevitably be damaged......"

Sukh Saha said unconcernedly: "It's just some barbarian bandits." ”

Kitat glared at him, "That's more than three hundred people, inlaid with white flag spirit armor!" How can the bandits be so powerful?! ”

It turned out that yesterday the Qing army with white flags was in a hurry to march, resulting in a shortage of grain and grass, so Kitat sent more than 300 people to Dantu Cui Grain, but this group of men and horses just walked out of thirty or forty miles before encountering a strong enemy and annihilating the whole army, only one person was seriously injured and fled back. And because it was evening when the incident happened, the man who ran back didn't even see who the enemy was.

Dodor muttered, "Have you sent someone to investigate?" ”

Kitat said with a bitter face: "Back to the general, all the people who went out to investigate have not returned in the past two days, and this time the last general has sent two teams of people to go out for a whole day, and there is still no news......"

Duoduo was suspicious: "The horses haven't come back?" Why hasn't anyone mentioned it to me? ”

Going out to investigate such a trivial matter usually Duoduo doesn't ask. This time, all the units of the Qing army were busy besieging Nanjing, and although they all lost some exploration horses, they only continued to send more men and horses to explore, but no one came to report to him.

"This, the last general thought at first that it was just a bandit......"

At this time, a guard outside the tent said loudly: "General, the king of Chengze County asks to see you." ”

This King of Chengze County is Duoduo's henchman General Shuosai, and he raised his hand to signal, "Let him in." ”

Shuo Sai brought a man into the tent, first saluted Dodor, and then waved his hand at the man behind him, "Tell me what happened to you today." ”

"Huh."

The man who stepped forward was Urursu, who knelt beside him and recounted the ambush with trepidation.

"What?" Duoduo frowned when he heard this, "Forty-three horsemen, defeated by two rounds of more than twenty firearms, you are the only one who can live?!" ”

Shuo Sai said again: "General, I went to each battalion just now to ask, and in the past two days, we have lost more than 300 people just by going out to investigate......

Duoduo suddenly remembered the "one more and three noes" that Dorgon told him before going south, and couldn't help but stare at him, shook his head, and said, "Something is wrong! Then he ordered Shuo Sai, "Order, the army stopped advancing, and quickly gathered towards the Chinese army!" ”

"Huh!"

Before Shuo Sai could leave, he heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves outside the tent, and someone shouted loudly, "Report! Emergency military intelligence! The rear army was attacked, with more than 10,000 casualties ......"