After the Houjin cavalry had advanced some distance under the fire of the field artillery and had entered the optimal range of the mountain artillery, the four artillery batteries in the center of the phalanx opened fire. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Boom, boom", the mountain cannon that raised the firing angle spewed orange-red flames, and the dense grenades flew over the heads of the soldiers in front of them and flew towards the galloping cavalry.

It was the first time for Galtu to see this kind of curve-fired artillery, and he couldn't help but look up at the cannonballs that fell like hailstones, what the hell was this? Some of these shells of about 6 catties hit people or horses, falling to the ground with dripping blood, and some smashed directly into the ground, smashed a dented crater and bounced again.

"Boom", "boom", "boom...... With the detonation of the time-delay fuse, the grenades exploded one after another, and huge flames and smoke enveloped the entire cavalry ranks, some were thrown off their horses by the shock wave, and some were hit by the fragments from the explosion. The war horses were startled by the huge explosion and the air waves, and began to disobey the control of their masters, and ran around like headless flies, and many people were thrown off by the manic war horses, and were trampled into meat by the hooves of the swarmed horses.

In the violent explosion, there were still many war horses that were not greatly affected because they were far away from the explosion point, and continued to impact forward, and soon broke away from the area of artillery fire and entered the blind spot of shelling.

However, they were greeted by a neat platoon of guns.

Huang Hansheng gave the order for the infantry to attack, and the trumpeter blew the brass trumpet, and the loud trumpet sounded to every corner. The 500 soldiers standing in front of them, under the command of their respective company and platoon commanders, pulled the trigger at the same time.

The raindown of lead bullets made the cavalrymen, who had been lucky enough to survive the shelling, begin to wonder about their lives - they soon discovered that a huge cannonball can kill a person, and even a small lead can kill a person. Five hundred soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder, forming a dense network of firepower, the cavalry seemed to hit the wall head-on, and their heads were bleeding.

Gartu, who acted as an arrow, dodged solid bullets and grenades in succession, but finally could not avoid the dense lead bullets, and a stray bullet hit him in the right shoulder, almost shattering his shoulder blade. Gartu only felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, his eyes were dark, and he almost fell off his horse.

The Mongol cavalry, scattered on both flanks, finally got part of it into range of the mounted bows after paying a heavy price. They skillfully manipulated their horses with their feet, quickly turned at a distance of sixty or seventy paces, parallel to their opponents, and used the inertia of their horses to throw arrows in their hands.

Arrows were still flying in mid-air, deadly lead bullets were already whizzing, and the Mongols who had completed their mission were shot and fell from their horses, and they went to see Hades before they could see their results.

This wave of arrows rained down accurately into the crowd, and many people withdrew from the battle with arrows, and the array was a little thinner, not as tight as it was at the beginning of the battle, but the gap that the Houjin cavalry expected did not appear.

In contrast, the cavalry suffered more heavy damage, and after the triple blow of field artillery, mountain artillery, and rifles, few could get close to the infantry array, and in the face of the shining bayonet array, the horses and their masters on horseback invariably chose to retreat. The soldiers loaded the second bullet and pulled the trigger on the enemy's back, "Woo Woo Woo", and the retreating cavalry fell off their horses one after another.

This wave of charge, 2,000 cavalry lost six or seven hundred people, the casualty rate exceeded 30%, the rest of the people escaped by luck, Galtu was seriously wounded, just retreated to a safe distance, he planted his horse, and the people next to him hurriedly dismounted to help.

At this time, the army led by Abatai arrived at the battlefield. He frowned and observed the three zigzag phalanxes, such depth gave him a headache: it was almost impossible to gather cavalry and rush through in one go, even if he could break through one phalanx, the two phalanxes behind would absorb and offset the impact of the cavalry like a sponge, and eventually the army would be lost in the encirclement of the phalanx. Moreover, the defeat of Galtu just now proved that it is difficult to break through a phalanx without investing enough troops.

Galtu was carried by several Bayalas past Abatai's mount, and Galtu barely opened his eyes and squeezed out a few words: "Lord Bele...... Incompetence of subordinates...... However, the strength of these Ming dogs' guns is still above the Ming army in Dengzhou, and it is not easy to provoke...... Lord Belle should be careful......"

Abatai saw the battle from afar, and this time he did not "answer" Galtu with a horsewhip, but just nodded slightly: "You have done your best, it's not that you are not brave in battle, but that the guns of these Ming dogs are too strong." Go down and stop the bleeding and recuperate, and I'll take care of the rest!" ”

Gartu was moved, and hissed: "Wait for me to rest for a while, and then get on the horse and follow Belle Ye to kill the Ming dog!" ”

After Galtu had been carried to the rear, Abatai continued to look ahead, thinking of a way to deal with it. Inadvertently, he saw a big "Qiong" character on the flag fluttering in the center of the first regiment's position, and his heart moved, could it be that this is the Qionghai Town that the Ming army in Dengzhou said? No wonder they dared to intercept Dajin's army in the field, judging from the performance of Dengzhou Stone Fort and the battle just now, they did have this confidence.

Abatai looked back at the long line of baggage convoys and the crowded ranks of people, and his heart became entangled. If it weren't for these trophies and the drag of Dingkou, he believed that under the full impact of more than 10,000 troops, no matter how powerful the guns of the Ming army were, it would be difficult to resist. But if you give up these, what's the point of entering the customs, isn't it just to come to the territory of the Ming Kingdom to grab silver and Dingkou?

He looked at the Ming army in front of him again, and everywhere he could see, all the infantry was there, and there was no cavalry (the cavalry battalion of the independent regiment was left in the Dengzhou military camp by Xia Nan to recuperate and recover because of the heavy losses and the lack of room to play in this large-scale battle), indicating that the opponent could only fight positional warfare and could not launch a pursuit battle, so a thought slowly formed in his heart and gradually became clear.

"Pass my orders!" Abatai ordered in a loud voice, "Except for a small number of troops guarding the baggage and Dingkou, all those who have horses will all mount their horses and concentrate their forces to attack the first phalanx!" The horseless coat makes a cart with the top in front. ”

As soon as the military order was given, the whole army began to get busy.

The Yu Ding, who were not very engaged in combat tasks, also approved all kinds of leather armor or chain mail, wiped the knives, checked the arrows in the quiver, and the horses stepped on their war horses and came behind the vests, ready to follow these regular troops to launch an attack; The infantry armor wearing thick two-layer armor sat cross-legged and rested on the spot, recuperating and waiting for the vests to break through the defense line and then rush into the enemy formation for hand-to-hand combat; The coated minions and auxiliaries carried the baggage, freed up a lot of carts, nailed one or two layers of wooden planks in front, covered them with quilts, and piled sacks filled with mud and sand, and made the carts temporarily.