Chapter 529: Horse Thief
After Bagan fired the flare, he heard a dense sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and on the horizon in the distance, he could already faintly see a dense cavalry killing them.
He hurriedly turned his horse's head with several Mongolian cavalrymen, desperately beat his horse and galloped wildly, and rushed towards the troops on the bank of the Liao River. Bagan knew he was right, and looked at the herd of horses opposite, at least a team of thousands of horses were rushing towards him.
Seeing the red signal flare rising in the air, the battalion commander of Bagan's battalion immediately asked the communicator around him to use the radio to contact the river deck barge on the Liao River.
This battalion commander's name is Zhao Guan, a veteran of the teaching team, and Su zhì is quite good. He put down the microphone and summoned the Mongolian cavalry of the cavalry battalion and lined up to organize a defensive line. Behind them were herds of cattle, sheep and horses, and the duty of the cavalry battalion was to protect the property of the Far East from being violated.
Bagen and the others finally ran back to the location of the cavalry battalion, and Zhao Guan, the commander of the cavalry battalion, shouted at Bagen: "Old Ba, what's the matter? ”
"Battalion commander, a team of thousands of horses rushed in front, presumably horse thieves, probably coming for our flock, they are coming soon."
As soon as Bagen's words fell, Zhao Guan could feel the ground shake, and in the distance, he could already see a herd of horses rushing towards him.
Zhao Guan casually pulled out the flare gun and fired another red flare into the air, he inserted the flare gun back into his waist, and then looked back at the shore, and found that several deck barges had just sailed nearby and had not yet docked.
The opposing horse team was about to rush up, and if they were allowed to rush over, the cattle, sheep and horses would have to be messed up, and the losses would be great.
He shouted loudly: "Lao Ba has returned to the team, and the others have changed horses and prepared to fight...... We had to block the opposing horse team first and buy time for the deck barge on the river. ”
At this time, several river deck barges on the river accelerated over, but this time the Far Eastern caravan traded extremely large, and herds of cattle, sheep and horses stretched for more than 20 miles, and only a few deck barges were the first to arrive at the accident site.
They saw another red flare and knew that the situation must be extremely critical, so several deck barges unconsciously sped up their speed and quickly approached the shore.
Thousands of cavalry in the distance had already rushed up, this was a tangled team of several Mongolian bandits and horse thieves on the grassland. When they heard that the herds of cattle, sheep and horses traded by the Far Eastern caravans would pass by here, they banded together to grab a handful.
This gang of Mongolian horse thieves is very arrogant, and has also plundered several large tribes in the Horqin Department several times, although the Horqin Department has organized several large-scale encirclement and suppression, how can this group of horse thieves be very cunning, escaped the large-scale round-up of the Horqin Department, and is still at large.
When the gang of Mongolian horse thieves saw the endless herds of cattle, sheep and horses on the opposite bank of the river, and there were only a few hundred guarding cavalry, they all shouted excitedly.
Zhao Guan looked at the thousands of Mongolian bandit cavalry that had been killed, and shouted loudly: "Check the ammunition, according to the configuration of the charging ammunition, one live ammunition and one shotgun...... Rush ah......"
With a shout from him, five hundred Mongol cavalrymen lined up in a neat formation and rushed towards the horse thieves on the opposite side. The dozens of Mongol cavalrymen in the first row, with double-barreled front-loading muskets on their other arm, galloped at their horses while aiming at their targets.
As the target entered the firing range, Zhao Guan shouted: "Fire......"
"Bang...... Bang ......"
Dozens of double-barreled muskets fired dozens of live ammunition in an instant, whistling and spilling into the queue of Mongolian bandits and horse thieves on the opposite side. Dozens of horse thieves were immediately beaten upside down and flew out, and fell off their horses fiercely.
After the first row of Mongolian cavalry finished firing muskets, they all gave up a horse position, and the cavalry behind galloped up with their horses, and shot muskets with muskets in their hands.
As rows of muskets rang out continuously, the Mongolian cavalry battalion fired a rain of bullets one after another, knocking the horse thieves on the opposite side to the point of turning people on their backs. After a volley of more than a dozen muskets, another round of shotguns was followed by a round of shotguns, spilling countless steel balls.
In a short distance, the Mongolian cavalry battalion fired more than 20 rounds of salvos, and countless horse thieves were beaten to pieces, and even the horses fell to the ground.
Although the Mongols were excellent at riding, the Mongolian cavalry battalion still trained for a year to train such a horse team in salvo fire. This is also due to the excellent riding skills of the Mongols, which led to today's proficiency.
Facing the rain of bullets on the opposite side, the horse thief's horse team was suddenly chaotic, and they desperately fled to both sides, trying to avoid the rain of bullets on the opposite side, but there were also countless horse thieves on both sides, making the formation of the horse thieves extremely chaotic.
The Mongol cavalry battalion rushed to the front of the Mongolian horse thieves, and the horse thieves began to bend their bows and arrows, shooting a rain of arrows at the cavalry battalion. But the cavalry battalion was extremely well equipped, with front and rear breastplate armor, a "green hat watermelon helmet" on the head, and a grimace mask on the face, and a dense rain of arrows from the horse thieves, only a few dozen Mongolian cavalry were shot off their horses.
But Zhao Guan and the cavalry battalion had already swept through the horse thief's horse team, and Zhao Guan shouted: "Prepare grenades...... Cast ......"
The Mongol cavalry threw the grenade in both sides before rushing past the horse team of the Mongol bandits.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
With the roar of explosions, countless Mongolian bandits and horse thieves were blown up and turned over on their backs, and the war horses were also roared in bursts, so frightened that they ran around and neighed loudly.
"Reload...... Two shotgun configurations, let's kill back ......"
With Zhao Guan's loud roar, the Mongolian cavalry took out the whole ammunition one after another, bit the bottom of the ammunition, and then stuffed it from the muzzle, and then used the whole strip to tighten it and install the fire cap.
Zhao Guan reorganized the cavalry battalion from a new formation, and the cavalry formation was also changed to a conical charging formation, and with his order, the cavalry battalion turned around and rushed towards the horse thief's horse team again.
The horse thief horse team, which was already extremely chaotic, saw the cavalry battalion rushing up again, and immediately wanted to hide on both sides, but at this time, the formation of the horse thieves was already chaotic, and the horse thieves collided together.
"Fire ......"
The Mongolian cavalry heard Zhao Guan's order, and the outermost cavalry of the conical formation put their muskets on their arms and fired at the horse thieves in front of them.
Pieces of horse thieves were swept off their horses, and with a volley of muskets, the formation of the horse thieves was once again pierced. Zhao Guan led the Mongolian cavalry battalion to the place before their departure to regroup.
At this time, several inland steam-deck barges had been docked on the shore, and dozens of officers and men of the field division on board unloaded the twin water-cooled heavy machine guns on the ship, loaded them onto a two-wheeled cart, and then dragged the cart and quickly ran in the direction of firing the red signal flares.
Several 70-mm infantry guns on the river deck barge also turned their muzzles one after another, and several officers and men of the field division climbed to the top of the deck barge's wheelhouse, holding binoculars to observe the front and indicate the targets for the artillery. R1152