"My lord, the Tianzhu people are pulling the cannon, if we can't break out of the encirclement, I'm afraid it will be a dead end." A subordinate general proposed to Ma Shouzhen.

Another subordinate general said: "My lord, don't break through!" The Tianzhu people are all cavalry, even if we break out of the encirclement, we can't escape the pursuit of the Tianzhu cavalry, it is better to stick to it and wait for help. ”

If you don't break through, you're sitting back here; But breaking out is also a dead end. Ma Shouzhen is in a dilemma, he doesn't want to die, he is still very young, he was just promoted to become a general of the white hat soldiers not long ago, and there will be endless glory and wealth waiting for him in the future, if he dies here like this, it will be a big loss.

Just when Ma Shouzhen was at a loss, someone came up and offered advice: "My lord, I have heard of one thing, the Tianzhu people regard cattle as gods, especially white cows. When they see an ox, they fall on their knees! ”

"How can such a thing happen?" Ma Shouzhen was taken aback, feeling a little incredible.

"It's true!" The man replied with great certainty, "I didn't believe it at first, but when I first levied cattle and sheep, the local Turks said that the Tianzhu people never robbed their cattle, saying that the Tianzhu people regarded cattle as gods. At that time, he thought it was an excuse for the Turks. When the battle was just now, he asked the local Turks again, and they told them about it again. ”

"Fire Bull Breaking Formation?" One officer shook his head, "That's a surprise, and it's the era of cold weapons." Now that it is the age of firearms, your fire ox comes out, as long as the other party fires a cannon, the herd will not only not rush to the enemy position, but will go around in our own village. This is not a good plan! ”

The Fire Ox Formation is not a good idea, and once the Ox is frightened by the guns, it will turn around and crash into itself.

The soldier who proposed the Fire Bull Formation said categorically: "My lord, if the Fire Bull Array is used against other countries, it will definitely fail. But against the Tianzhu people, they would never dare to shoot at the cow! ”

Although Ma Shouzhen didn't believe in the words of his soldiers, but the matter had come to this point, and he could only use a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

"We had a total of 300 cows, all of which were pulled out, and among them there were more than 10 white cows, which were placed in front." Ma Shouzhen began to make arrangements. His "tax collection team" collected more than 300 cattle in several villages, including 13 white cattle.

The white-hatted soldiers tied the tails of the enlisted oxen with greased cotton cloth, tied sharp knives to the horns, and draped the oxen and black oxen with white cloth.

Seeing the busy white-hat soldiers, Ma Shouzhen always felt that there was something wrong, he was worried that these cattle would rush out and turn around and crash into himself once they were frightened by the opponent's guns. After pondering for a while, Ma Shouzhen suddenly ordered: "Use a horizontal log to fix a row of cattle together, so that they can't turn." ”

The white-hatted soldier removed a wooden beam from the house and used a single wooden beam to hold eight oxen side by side. In this way, if the ox is frightened by the opponent's gun, one of the cows will be restrained by the other cattle if it wants to turn. Even if all eight oxen were to turn, they would not be able to turn in the same direction, and they would not be able to turn if they were to hold each other back, but could only rush forward.

"My lord, shall we wait until it gets dark before releasing the fire ox?" Someone asked.

Ma Shouzhen scolded: "Fools, you have to let the Tianzhu people see that it is the sacred cow they respect the most, so they don't dare to shoot!" If it gets dark and they can't see clearly that it's a sacred cow, what effect do we have when we fire the cannon? What's more, in less than an hour, they will be able to set up artillery to bombard us, and they will be able to wait until it gets dark? ”

Just as the white-hatted soldiers were arranging the sacred ox formation, the Mughal army was sending artillery up. In order to avoid unnecessary losses, they temporarily stopped the offensive. By the time Ma Shouzhen's white-hat soldiers had set up the sacred bull formation, the Mughal artillery team had just set up the cannon and was loading ammunition.

"Ignition!" Ma Shouzhen roared.

The white-hatted soldier with a torch lit a cotton cloth tied to the tail of the ox, and the scorching flames made the cow suffer so much that the cow, which was held side by side, let out a heart-rending scream and rushed out of the village. The first row of cattle rushed out, and the second row of cattle rushed out after him.

"Cow! The cows are coming! Oh my God, it's a sacred cow! When the Tianzhu soldiers saw the oxen rushing out, they shouted in horror.

Someone shouted: "No, it's not a sacred cow!" It's a buffalo! They have a pair of big horns! ”

The buffalo is not a sacred cow in India, it is a cow that can be slaughtered, and among the untouchables in India, there are people who specialize in slaughtering buffaloes, skinning buffaloes and making leather. In fact, in India, the ox is the same as the human, there is also a hierarchy, the white cow is the sacred cow, that is the Brahmin in the cow, and the cow is equivalent to the Kshatriya, and the ox and the black ox are equivalent to the Vaishyas and the Shudra, although they will not be slaughtered by the Indians, but the oxen and the black ox have to pull carts to plow the land and belong to slaves. And the buffalo, the untouchables of the cattle, are Dalits, not only to work, but also to be slaughtered.

"Nope! Not a buffalo! They are white cows, sacred cows! They don't have horns on their heads, they have knives tied to men! The sharp-eyed Tianzhu soldiers could see it at a glance.

Since it was a sacred cow, the Indian soldiers did not dare to shoot at the sacred cow at all, and when they saw the sacred cow rushing towards them like crazy, the Indian soldiers dropped their weapons one after another, turned around and ran. Some simply mounted their horses and galloped away.

"Don't run! Come back! The Celestial officers in the Mughal army shouted and tried to stop the Hindu rout, but even though they shouted and cut down many people, they could not stop the Hindu rout. In the blink of an eye, a sacred cow rushed up to the Indians who had too much time to run away, knocking them to the ground and trampling them into pulp.

Several Heavenly Sect officers raised their muskets and fired, but in the panic, the bullets fired were not accurate. Several cows were hit by bullets, after all, the vitality of cattle is much stronger than that of people, and not only did they not fall down, but they accelerated their pace and rushed violently.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the officers of the Heavenly Fang Sect also dropped their muskets and turned around and ran.

"Kill!" Ma Shouzhen pulled out his knife and pointed forward.

More than 400 white-hat soldiers, wielding steel swords, spears, and bows and arrows, followed behind the herd of sacred cows and rushed towards the Tianzhu soldiers.

"Grab the horse and go!" Ma Shouzhen shouted.

Originally, Ma Shouzhen didn't expect to really use the sacred cow to break the formation, they just wanted to break through. Many Mughal cavalry ran away before they had time to mount their horses, leaving their horses aside. Seeing the herd of fire bulls rushing over, the horses that were left aside scattered to both sides, and some of the war horses that had not had time to run away were also knocked over by the fire bulls.

Ma Shouzhen rushed up with the white-hat soldiers, cut down a few Mughal soldiers who were left behind, and then began to snatch the horses. The white-hatted soldier who grabbed the horse waved his whip and rode away.

After a while, the white-hat soldiers who broke out of the siege all grabbed their horses and fled, and of the more than 460 people who broke through, only more than 10 were killed and more than 20 were wounded, and the rest all stood out from the encirclement of the Mughals.