Text Volume 2 Dawn Morning_Chapter 261 The Ming Army Wins a Small Victory

The trail under Jeddah's mount is in the middle of the overall wooden fence, and the trail points to the middle of the wooden fence south of a funnel passage.

The top of these funnels is connected like the top of a triangle, and it is difficult to accommodate about a horse.

But as they advanced to the bottom of the funnel to the west, the passage on this side of the Mongols became narrower and narrower, but the side guarded by the Ming army became more and more wide.

When Jeddah drove his mount over the wooden fence, the open space in front of him was large enough for seven or eight horses to whirl and stagger around.

Before the mount landed, Gilda lightly hooked the horse's neck with his left hand, and the horse, who almost knew the owner's intentions, after landing on all fours, forcibly turned to the right with the powerful momentum of jumping and landing.

This small angle of deflection not only avoided the charge of its own cavalry rushing in diagonally, but also made Jeddah half a second faster than the others, and launched an attack on the Ming army.

When the mount landed and turned, Jeddah had time to raise his head to observe the Ming army's arrangement behind the wooden fence, and began to adjust his sitting position to prepare for the battle.

But no sooner had he looked up than he saw a whole line of spearmen crouching on the ground, and a group of musketeers standing behind the spearmen.

Gilda's body reacted much faster than his thoughts, and his body, which had not yet straightened up, bent down again, and he desperately pulled the reins to keep his horse to the right, trying to avoid the musketeers' fire.

In front of him, a platoon of 3 or 40 musketeers, Jeddah did not think that the horses, having lost their speed after crossing the wooden fence, would be able to rush into the ranks of the musketeers before the other party could fire, not counting the spearmen between them.

Thankfully, the arquebuses didn't shoot instantaneously, giving Jeddah enough time to react, enough for him to huddle up.

As soon as Gilda lowered his head, he heard the roar of a bright man on the other side, and then the muzzles of the black holes that were less than 20 paces away from him burst out of sparks and smoke in turn.

In his eyes, the Ming army on the opposite side seemed to have set off some fireworks that were not very effective, and then the mount under him and the companions behind him let out a series of wails.

Gilda's luck was good, he was closest to Akito and didn't get hit by a single bullet. However, his luck was also bad, as his mount fell sideways after being hit, not only knocking him to the ground, but also crushing his right calf.

The numbness in his leg followed by a tingling sensation that let him know that his calf was about to be fractured. Gilda desperately tried to pull his calf out from under the mount, but the calf that couldn't be forced, and the mount weighing hundreds of pounds, obviously couldn't be moved by him alone.

Gilda's heart had never been so terrifying, he knew that more than 10 steps away from him was a row of spearmen of the Ming army, and as long as they walked a few steps, they could poke him to the ground.

However, just when he was panicking, he did hear the footsteps of the Ming army, but not in the direction of their side, but in the distance.

This made Gilda finally breathe a sigh of relief, and now all he could count on was that his companions behind him could take this opportunity to break through the wooden fence defense line and drive these Ming troops down the hill, then his life would be saved.

Jeddah struggled to look behind him, feeling his body curl up again. Although the first wave of cavalry behind him was knocked down by the Ming army, the subsequent cavalry did not stop attacking.

These cavalrymen had no control over where their mounts would stay, so the men and horses lying on the ground before they died were soon trampled into dead bodies. On the contrary, because he left the landing place and did not block the advance of these cavalry, he escaped by luck.

As the number of Mongol cavalry crossing the wooden fence increased, several wooden fences at the bottom of the funnel were finally broken or pulled out under the combination of the inside and the outside.

The dust kicked up by the horses made it difficult for Gilda, who had fallen to the ground, to see his surroundings, but he could already hear the sound of a large number of people and horses passing through which funnel passages.

Gilda's heart suddenly calmed down, those muskets were indeed very powerful, but in front of the cavalry who raised the speed, at most it was only the ability to shoot one shot.

He began to silently pray to the Buddha that he would not let his cavalry step over him until the battle was over. As he prayed, he seemed to hear the sound of thunder.

Agudammu himself led a troop of cavalry and poured into the passage that had been opened. He hoped to be able to put the honor of capturing this hill and defeating the Ming army on his head, so that he could boast of his bravery in front of the Great Khan.

After all, after defeating the Ming army and the rebels of the right-wing Mongols, the rich Hetao region was included in the name of the Great Khan. What kind of grassland can be shared, in addition to the strength of one's own tribe, a certain amount of merit is also necessary.

As soon as Agudam rushed into the passage, the Mongol cavalry in front had already begun to break through the bottom of the funnel and disperse to the sides.

In a minute, hundreds of cavalry would break through the passage and leave the wooden fence in the hands of the Mongols.

But at this moment, several thunderous sounds suddenly erupted on the Ming army's position. Then some of the sharp-eyed cavalrymen saw a black ball flowing towards the crowded cavalrymen in the passage.

In the eyes of these cavalrymen, this grapefruit-sized ball flying in the sky seemed to be very slow, but for the cavalry in the passage, it was only a moment.

The Mongols opened the bottom of the two passages, while the Ming army used two artillery pieces against one side, forming a cross-fire.

Speaking of which, the power of these Franc cannons selected from the border town of Datong is not great, but the cavalry crowded together in the passage enhances the power of these four cannons.

When this cannon goes down, there are as few as three or four people, and as many as five or six people, they immediately lose their combat effectiveness. Whenever a shell is grazed, a part of the limb is taken away, and if it hits just right, it will become rotten and broken on the spot.

Compared with the many cavalry in the passage, the casualties caused by the cannonballs were less than 10%, but after witnessing the fate of the comrades who were wounded and killed by bullets around them, the hundreds of cavalry in the passage suddenly lost order.

Some wanted to run to the side, some wanted to retreat, and some wanted to rush out of the passage as soon as possible, and the Mongol cavalry, which had no strict organization and order, would not listen to other people's opinions at this moment.

In this panicked mood, the Ming army's unhurried artillery bombardment made the cavalry in the passage suddenly trample on each other, and many people were squeezed off their mounts.

Agudam, who had already rushed into a third of the passage, was suddenly stunned by the scene in front of him, as the direct boss of these Mongolian cavalry, he originally had the opportunity to use his past prestige to calm down the cavalry around him first, and then withdraw from this passage in an orderly manner.

But looking at the iron balls flying in the sky, not knowing when they would fall on his head, Agudamu suddenly lost his courage, and while turning his horse back, he asked his guards to drive away the cavalry behind him, so that they could make way out of this dangerous place first.

Agudam's actions seemed to point out the direction to the chaotic cavalry, and the cavalry in all the passages immediately reacted, turned their horses' heads and retreated towards the rear exit.

It was obviously not an easy task for the cavalry, who had been huddled together, to turn around and retreat, and with no one to direct and arrange the order of retreat, and there were irregular artillery roaring behind them, the stampede in the entire passage became more numerous.

Many cavalrymen trapped at the bottom of the passage, in order to get out of the dangerous situation as soon as possible, finally couldn't help but use their knives on the horses of the cavalry in front, hoping to drive the other side to speed up.

But soon the knives were stabbed into the bodies of their comrades, and hundreds of Mongol cavalry began to kill each other in the passage.

If anyone can see the bloodshot eyes of these cavalrymen, they will know that these cavalrymen are actually stunned, just like the camp roar that occurs from time to time in the Ming army barracks.

Most of the Mongolian knights in this passage were killed and wounded in the hands of their comrades, nearly 300 cavalry, and only a hundred people escaped from the passage. After leaving the passage, these people did not settle down, but fled directly down the mountain.

Agudammu and his guards were completely encircled and rushed down the hill. This scene made Huluke Zhaisang and others, who were still watching the battle on the southeast corner, stunned and didn't understand what was going on.

The rout of Agudamu finally triggered a chain reaction, and the hundreds of Mongol cavalry who had rushed into the wooden fence through the horse road also had no time to fight the Ming army anymore, and began to look for a way out and escape.

The Mongol cavalry in the other passage lasted a quarter of an hour longer than their companions, and the scene of Agudam's escape was repeated.

After defeating the Mongol cavalry on the eastern front, Mao Yuanyi immediately launched a counterattack at the right time, and the two Mongol hundred-man teams that were still attacking the Ming army on the southern flank quickly lost their offensive formation under the attack of 3 small cannons and musketeers.

Then the Ming spearmen marched in formation, forcing half a hundred people down the cliffs in the south, and the remaining Mongol cavalry also turned back and fled east.

Although there were still nearly 800 cavalry in Huluk Zhaisang's hands, nearly half of them were soldiers who had been defeated once, and these soldiers watched their companions run in all directions, and even directly bypassed the area where Huluk Zhaisang was located, and immediately quietly retreated.

When the Ming army, with spearmen as the front and artillery and musketeers as the rear row, pressed directly from the north and west directions to the remaining Mongols, Huluk Zhaisang finally turned his horse's head and retreated down the mountain.

In this battle for the top of the hill, the Ming army lost about 1,200 men, most of whom were casualties suffered when the first line of defense was breached.

However, they crippled two Mongol thousand-man teams, almost completely annihilated one Mongol thousand-man team, and also eliminated more than 100 Golden Horde warriors. The results are nothing short of brilliant.