Chapter 116: Chariot vs. Manchu Tartar Cavalry
When it was confirmed that only these hundreds of Ming people were attacking in front of him, Niu Lu Ezhen Abule decided to personally take the remaining Eight Banners soldiers to flank the Ming people, as long as they eliminated this group of Ming people who came from nowhere, and then calmly packed up the fleeing prisoners.
Taking advantage of the attack of this group of Ming people, many captives fled in the wilderness, fleeing all over the mountains, and they no longer estimated the arrow rain of the Eight Banners, and Abula could not send troops to chase after them.
Just as Abule was about to lead his troops to attack, he suddenly sent a sentry to the rear to report that a Ming army was chasing from the rear, less than five miles away from his own, and the banner of this Ming army turned out to be the army of the Xishan Town Inspection Division.
It turns out that there are reinforcements! No wonder these hundreds of people dare to attack themselves, Abule was relieved at the same time, and couldn't help but burst out of anger, the Xishan Inspection Division is really too deceitful, just killed himself nearly fifty banners, and now they dare to pursue, do they arrogantly think that they can defeat the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry in the field?
A wave of anger rushed straight to Abule's head, the revenge of his brother-in-law being killed, and the humiliation of the loss of soldiers, made him lose his mind in an instant, and he couldn't help but urge his mount to rush towards the way he came.
I must defeat the archers of this inspection division, capture the bird patrol alive, and when I catch him, I will pull his tendons and pick his skin, and dig out his belly and six organs to pay tribute to my brother-in-law's dead!
As for the Ming army of these hundreds of people, there are fifty cavalry of Amutu enough to deal with them, and the Ming captives who escaped, just flee if they escape, and then catch them later!
Nearly 100 cavalry swept by, iron hooves on the road made a thunderous sound, the distance of five miles was almost instantaneous, and the group of Ming troops was already seen from a distance hurriedly adjusting the team. It seems to be dragging the carriage to turn around, is it still too late? Aboul couldn't help but sneer.
A team of 200 people brought so many carts, did this group of Ming troops march to fight or carry goods to do business?
The thought flashed through Abula's mind, and his legs were between the horse's belly, and the horse galloped faster and faster. At the same time, he drew a curved bow from the bow sac on his side, pulled out a feather arrow from the bow insert, and bent the bow and shot towards the Ming army array.
The rain of arrows composed of nearly a hundred feathered arrows was like a dark cloud towards the Ming army, and Abule did not check the results of the battle, threw away the curved bow and pulled out the long knife, and the war horse urged the Ming army to gallop towards the close Ming army.
It seems to be the moment when the war horse gallops, the sky turns from twilight to bright, and when he runs only a dozen steps away from the Ming army, Abule was shocked to find that he had no way to go, three big cars were connected end to end, and they blocked the road horizontally, and most of the originally panicked Ming troops escaped the rain of arrows and hid behind the carriage.
If you want to attack the Ming army, you must jump over these carriages, otherwise you can only pull the war horses and rush over from both sides of the body.
A bunch of cowards who only know behind objects! At this moment, Abule didn't want to go around, he wanted to enter the Ming army array in a dignified manner, pull out these rat-like things one by one, and slaughter them cleanly.
As soon as he pulled the reins, the war horse leaped up, and was about to jump past the barrier of the carriage and jump into the middle of the Ming army's array.
Just when Abula jumped into the air with the war horse, suddenly the afterglow of his eyes saw a flash of white light on the carriage in front of him, and then there was a loud bang, and then as if there was a wall in front of him, he and the war horse collided straight up, and then were bounced back by a huge elastic force, and for a moment of froze in the air, Abule felt extremely painful all over his body, as if countless leeches had entered his body when swimming in the river in summer.
Before losing his last consciousness, Aboul felt that he and his horse were descending straight and straight down, falling towards the endless abyss underground.
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When he found out that the Manchu cavalry was coming, Chen Yue ordered to immediately form a chariot formation, and at the same time ordered the gunner Chen Goudan Li Daniu to immediately prepare the tiger squat cannon and prepare to fire at the incoming Mantar. The two Tiger Squat Guns were mounted on the two chariots in front, and this kind of artillery, which weighed only 36 kilograms, was very convenient to move.
The cavalry of the full Tartars came too fast, Chen Goudan and Li Daniu had just loaded their ammunition, and before they could aim, the rain of arrows from the full Tartars came over, but fortunately, there was a wooden wall on the chariot and two auxiliaries raised shields for the two to cover, so they were not shot by the rain of arrows.
"Fire!" Chen Yue ordered sharply, Chen Goudan and the two hurriedly lit the fire rope, and at the same time aimed the cannon mouth forward, with the sound of the cannon, more than 100 shots flew out of the barrel of the cannon, and rushed upward, just at this time, Abul Pegasus wanted to cross the chariot, just by the more than 100 shots that had just been discharged, the man and the horse were beaten in the air and stopped for a moment, and then fell straight to the ground five or six steps away from the chariot. People and horses were pierced by dozens of small holes by projectiles, and they all died without a sound.
The first cannon rang out, followed by the second cannon, and more than 100 scattered bombs were sprayed out, and after being discharged, they were sprayed out in a fan, covering the subsequent five or six horsemen in it. "Ahh Yes!! The terrible screams sounded one after another, and the men and horses fell to the ground, forcing the cavalry behind to urgently pull the reins, but they were hit by the cavalry behind and fell into a rolling gourd.
This official road is about twenty paces wide, on both sides of the road are drainage ditches, outside the ditch is a barren field, the full Tartar cavalry are all along the official road to kill, the distance between each other is not too wide, this time one after another hit the people who hit the horse on their backs, the whole queue suddenly chaos.
"Chirp" and "Bang" Under Chen Yue's order, the crossbow archers and the firecrackers opened fire at the same time, and dozens of crossbow arrows and projectiles flew towards the Manchu cavalry not far away, less than twenty paces away, the dense formation, would not fall short at all, and the Manchu cavalry was cut down like wheat.
"Lady Ejin is dead!"
"Brother!"
"Daddy, Daddy!" The living Mantar let out a mournful cry and shouted in unison.
"Kill! Kill Minggou and avenge Lord Ejin! A white-armored soldier opened his eyes angrily, and instigated his war horse to bypass the fallen horse corpse and kill it towards the array.
"Kill the Bright Dog and avenge Lord Ezhen!" The other Manchu cavalry also bypassed the corpses on the road and followed him, and the remaining sixty or so horsemen howled and killed, causing all the Ming troops to change color in shock.
"Reload your ammo!" Chen Yue anxiously urged, Chen Goudan and Li Daniu had just wiped the chamber of the cannon with an iron rod wrapped in a wet cloth, and were hurriedly loading the propellant, but looking at the Manchu cavalry who was about to rush to the front, Chen Yue knew that there was no chance to fire a second cannon, and the crossbowmen and firecrackers were no better than taking it, and now the only thing that could contain the enemy was this chariot, but could this chariot alone stop the fierce Manchu cavalry?