Chapter 25: Seeing Death as a Sudden Home (3)
"Grenadier!" Ding Yi raised his long knife as he ran.
Then after a breath, he swung his long knife forward: "Throw!" ”
Many Warats on the galloping horses, the corners of their mouths showed a smile, they have really seen too many opponents who are about to collapse in battle, no doubt they think that Ding Yi and his small team are also such characters, especially when Ding Yi waved his knife in front of the air, there was no one there, and the cavalry of the Warat people had not yet come over, even if Ding Yi had a stick of Sun Wukong, it would be nothing to gain by smashing it down.
Even those Ming soldiers who were hiding under the shield felt that this bloody Lord Ding was crazy.
So the Warats continued to fire their arrows on their horses, and ran in circles in the direction pointed by Ding Yi's long knife.
Ding stopped with a swing of his sword, and the three columns of soldiers began to speed up, detonate their bombs, and wave their arms.
More than forty grenades flew out, just as the five or six hundred horsemen of the Warats passed by, and the advance was just right, and immediately twenty or thirty of the Varats were smashed off their horses.
And more arrows rained down on Ding Yi's small team, as they were ahead of the other Ming troops.
So rampant, so compelling.
A grenade without a collision fuse, a grenade without a delay fuse.
All they could do was set aside a long enough fire rope.
Then cover your head and face with a shield and silently bear the rain of arrows from the other side.
Someone began to go into shock under the rain of arrows, though no cluster of arrows penetrated his armor;
Among the more than 40 people, there is hardly a single person who does not have blood on the corner of his mouth.
"Boom boom" A violent explosion sounded, and the heavy grenade, Hercules could only throw a grenade at a distance of forty meters, at this time. gave Ding Yi their return. The large charge allowed the prefabricated fragmentation cartridge sleeve to shatter perfectly with the explosion, and each grenade exploded with about 300 fragments splashed out, each with about 0.4 grams of fragments, gaining a muzzle velocity close to one kilometer per second.
More than 40 grenades are more than 10,000 fragments galloping at high speed, which is not a string of numbers, and more than 10,000 metal fragments cut flesh and harvested lives in the smoke of the explosion of black powder, the mourning of war horses, and the screams of the Warats. Except for the strikers who had just been smashed down about 20 people, dozens of horsemen escaped with their lives and fled in panic, and the other 500 horsemen. They were all enveloped in the smoke of the explosion, and even if they were not hit by shrapnel, the horses would have been frightened and neighed and threw the knights off their horses.
There was a brief aphasia on the battlefield, and both the Ming army and the Warat people paid attention to this place.
It's not that people of this era haven't seen gunpowder. But it was the first time that such a high-quality black powder appeared on the battlefield, and it brought shock. It is far from being comparable to firearms such as fireworks salutes of this period.
"Grenadier!" Ding kept getting up. The rain of arrows had made him vomit blood several times, but the long knife in his hand was still very steady, held high like a flag, "Forward!" He shouted, running towards the smoke-shrouded Varat cavalry. On his side. The brocade guards supported each other, pulled up the scarves that had been wet from the rain of arrows to cover their mouths and noses, and walked in a neat stride—this was not a pursuit. So they still kept the queue and followed Ding Yi to the smoke.
They pounced on the Varat people who were still moaning on the ground, and with the long knives in their hands and the edge of the iron shield, they snatched a trace of mercy from the Immortal Heaven for those Varat people. No one spoke, some coughed, some vomited blood, but no one spoke, they were war machines, and the segmented operation made it impossible to make mistakes in the smoke......
Ding Yi walked through the thick smoke, and the familiar smell of gunpowder made him feel calm.
At this time, the sound of bullhorns sounded around the battlefield, and the generals of the Warat people had begun to notice Ding Yi here, they were gathering people, and what Ding Yi knew was that he could not resist the next wave of attacks no matter what, although he and his small army still had more grenades, but the Warat people who were killed again must be more than five hundred horsemen, and whether Ding Yi had a chance to advance to the distance of the bomb? He didn't dare take the risk.
Gunsmoke, Ding Yi thought it was very good.
At least it obscured his vision, so that he could not see those Ming troops, so that he did not have to worry about the sacrifices that were about to come.
The five squads finished their work, lining up behind Ding Yi through the thick smoke.
"Let's go!" Ding Yi said to Hu Shan in a low voice, and then led this small army to the south with the crowd of the rout, and the team of more than forty people, mixed in with it, quickly disappeared without a trace.
The cavalry of the Warats came extremely quickly, and this was the battlefield they divided and controlled.
Thousands of horsemen swept in, and in the sharp smoke and dust, were the flesh and limbs of the Ming army that had lost their lives. The wind has blown away the smoke, and the hundreds of Ming soldiers who escaped in the rain of arrows, staggering with weapons to support the seriously disengaged bodies, are between the horse corpses, rummaging for the fish that Ding Yi has slipped through the net, after all, Ding Yi and their movements are extremely fast, and some of the Warats who passed out or hid themselves under the horse corpses could not distinguish clearly in the smoke for a while.
So these Ming soldiers are doing this kind of thing, looking for the lucky one among these Warats, and then taking away his luck.
When they saw the thousands of horsemen of the Warat people rushing to the place, most of them clenched their swords in their hands, and then looked around, they were searching, looking for the Lord Ding who had been in front of them just now, leading them forward, Ding Yi of Wanping County, they remembered this name.
But soon they found that they couldn't find Ding Yi, and someone shouted: "Lord Ding must have gone to the front!" Come on! "I don't know if anyone would have thought that Ding Yi would turn around and leave, there is no answer, because the thousands of cavalry in Warat used the bows and arrows in their hands to erase all voices and thoughts.
Under the cover of a rain of arrows that were denser than just now, these Ming troops couldn't even hold their shields steadily, and the thousand-man team of the Warat people only fired two rounds of arrows to end everything, and then galloped away, they didn't even pay attention to the corpses of their dead comrades and other things, not only these people were recruited from their respective tribes, but more importantly, after all, there were still hundreds of thousands of Ming troops on the run, and the battle was not over.
He is also a very cautious person first, otherwise he will not be in the situation of taking the advantage. also played the trick of pretending to negotiate peace, and after withdrawing the army, he returned to the horse and shot him. As long as the Ming army of more than 100,000 people can give them a breather and repair, if they fight hard, as long as the commander is not a military negative like Wang Zhen, the Warat people may not be able to get any benefits.
Leaving behind the corpses of hundreds of Ming soldiers lying in pools of blood, the Warats left, continuing to drive and divide the rout, in case they gathered in a group to resist. At least the hundred-man team that lost just now didn't pay much attention to the commander who commanded those Warats. In his mind, maybe these hundreds of Ming soldiers used some firearms or traps? Anyway, these people have become dead bodies, and no matter what tricks they have, they will not be able to do it again.
What he didn't expect was Ding Yi and his small troops. He had already thrown off those Ming troops and turned around in the rout.
Ding Yi's situation is not very good. It was originally a serious injury to heal. First, he went out of the pass and fought with the horse bandits on the grassland, and then led the tribe to annex other small tribes, and after entering the pass, he caught up with the Tumu Fort with the stars and the moon, and it was just a battle, and he was so hard under the rain of arrows, he walked in the rout. Although the waist pole is still straight, the steps are a little sluggish.
On the side, a fleeing Ming army passed by him and kindly mentioned him: "Brother! Running for your life, you still don't throw away this Rausch armor? Then he shook his head and walked quickly past Ding Yi into the crowd. Nowhere to be found. He didn't know that Ding Yi was not running for his life, but looking for another suitable opportunity.
"Sir!" Hu Shan grabbed it and held Ding Yi who was stumbling, Hu Shan and those brocade guards, don't look at the rain of arrows just now, they were also smashed by densely falling arrows and vomited blood, but they were originally strong men in the guard, including Hu Shan, they are all family heirlooms, and their physical fitness is absolutely not to say, and their foundation is a hundred times stronger than Ding Yi's talent.
The body is really not a thing that can be reversed by understanding or IQ all at once, the body of a talented talent who has been pampered for eighteen years and does not touch the spring water with ten fingers, even after Ding Yi's recovery training for more than half a year, to compare with such a talented Hercules in his life, it is really a fool's dream.
"How's it going?" Ding Yi was not polite, let Hu Shan hold him, and asked in his mouth.
Hu Shan turned around and drank Zhu Dong and asked him to come out to lead the team, but he said while walking with Ding: "It's not in the way, the brothers and sisters are all rough skin, and besides, we have food, water and medicine, and we can recover our breath if we slow down...... Sir, your face is not too good, or ......"
Ding Yi took out two pieces of old ginseng from the cowhide bag on his waist and threw them into his mouth and chewed them, this thing was a gift from the garrison eunuch Guo Jing when he came out to check the terrain before, there is no such thing as morphine these years, so he expects this pure natural ginseng piece to refresh himself.
I don't know if it's the psychological effect or the real old ginseng is effective, after chewing the two ginseng slices, Ding Yi felt as if he was a little more energetic, gently shook off Hu Shan's hand and said with a smile: "It's not like this, don't worry, look for an opportunity, and do it again!" "Ding Yida's idea is to guerrilla, in this chaotic battlefield, whether it is a crossbow or a grenade or these brocade guards, only on the real battlefield can they and their quality be verified.
And only by constantly killing some Warats can these brocade guards have enough psychological advantages when facing Warats in the future.
But at this time, Ding Yi found that he seemed to overestimate his physical fitness, rain of arrows, galloping, this kind of cold weapon era, Ding Yi really did not experience, even on the grassland, it was also a cavalry battle against a cavalry battle, followed by a man on the grassland, there is no problem that equestrianism is inferior to the opponent, and there is no need to abandon the horse to ride on foot.
The book is shallow after all!
I don't know first-hand how terrible it is when the enemy shoots arrows, and I can't understand the situation where the opponent can keep attacking you and you can only fight to the death.
Do it again, Ding Yi is very skeptical that he can still support it.
Not only did he have this kind of question, but even Hu Shan also had this kind of question, and when he supported Ding for a while just now, he could clearly feel Ding Yi's weakness.
Relatively speaking, compared to the team of more than forty people, Hu Shan was more worried about Ding Yi's situation.
Even if eight or nine people were martyred in the horse battle against the Warats, there were still no emotional fluctuations among the more than forty brocade guards; Hu Shan believed that if Ding Yi did not fall, even if Zuihou was alone, there might be people in this small army who committed suicide in despair, but not a single deserter would be produced.
This is not only a liliang of faith, nor is it just a constraint of discipline.
Neither faith nor discipline can achieve such an effect.
Also, there are interests.
This kind of absolute obedience is a discipline that is carried out on the basis of interests and with firm and noble beliefs.
It is a trinity in itself, and one is indispensable.
Everyone knew that Ding Yi would take care of everything behind them; And for the betrayer, Ding Yi's methods are also terrible enough. They knew how the Feng family was uprooted, including the fact that Feng Xian was worse off than dead now, and they all saw it in their eyes one by one.
However, if Ding Yi falls, not only will these brocade guards have to consider the problem that their families will have no one to take care of after they die in battle, but also the unbearable punishment they will receive if they dare to betray will also disappear with Ding Yi's fall. Collapse, then, is an inevitable end.
Hu Shan looked at Ding Yi in front of him, how long could he last? (To be continued......)
PS: Yesterday was the monthly pass change, and today the code is now available, half an hour late, forgive me! Keep asking for a monthly pass!