Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 255 Daling River Elegy 3
Zhang Hongmo led the cavalry in pursuit for two miles, and soon discovered that something was wrong. Damn Jiannu was running very fast, and he was shooting arrows behind him while running. The arrows were all shining on the faces of the Ming army cavalry, and the arrows bit Meat!It seems that these Jiannu have learned the skills of the Mongolian Tatars. If they continue to pursue them, they will risk their face to block the arrows shot by Jiannu. There will be no good fruits to eat. He ordered to stop the pursuit and take inventory. I was shocked when I saw the casualties. On this stretch of road, there were already 60 people dead!

Vice-General Zhang spat at the back of the Golden Cavalry and scolded angrily, "You son of a bitch!"

The early post-golden cavalry were more like mounted infantry. They rode horses and dismounted after reaching the battlefield. Not many.However, as more and more Mongolian tribes surrendered, a large number of Mongolian cavalry archers with excellent riding skills became the elite of the Eight Banners of the Later Jin Dynasty, and even passed on the stunt skills of riding and shooting to the Jurchen warriors. There are more and more figures of these light-clothed flying cavalry galloping. For the Ming army, this is definitely not a good thing.Although Zhang Hongmo was not angry, he also knew that if he continued to chase, he would be shot to pieces. In desperation, he led the troops back to the middle of the chariot formation, not daring to attack easily again.

Zhang Chun didn't care, and directed the army to move forward.Soon, they encountered Houjin's first line of defense.Later, Jin Zhenglan used Juma and Luzhai to seal off the official road, and the archers shot at the back of my body, and kept firing arrows at the Ming army. The thick and abnormally Juma gun was mounted on the Juma, shining a chilling light .As soon as the Ming army emerged from behind the horizon, they heard the piercing whistling sound of blunt knives scraping bamboo strips. Several sharp arrows more than one meter long pierced the air and were nailed to the shield cart. The thick shield shot Just wear it and break it!It is a bed crossbow, and only a bed crossbow can shoot such sharp arrows like short spears!Before he could recover, another bed crossbow opened fire, and another three arrows fired at once. The head of a horse pulling a cart was smashed to pieces, and the skull became fragments and splashed out. The mules and horses crashed down. The chariot also couldn't move.This is not the most deadly thing, the most deadly thing is that a bed crossbow even shot a javelin more than five feet long. This javelin passed through the gap between the chariots and shot into the middle of the Ming army infantry. Being torn apart, the rain of blood splashed more than two meters high. The bloody javelin shot into the chest of a Shichang without slowing down, and he flew back a few meters with his feet off the ground. A musketeer in the back wore a string!
Seeing this, Zhang Chun couldn't help cursing.Jiannu did not have the ability to manufacture such precise bed crossbows, and these bed crossbows were most likely seized from the Ming army.These bed crossbows did not play any role in fighting Jiannu, but now they are used on their own people, and the effect is surprisingly good!He yelled: "Fire! Fire! Smash those refusal horses!"

Several cannons were pushed up, aiming their muzzles at the layers of sharp piles and repelling horses, making a deafening roar.Lead bullets shot out, heading towards the damn line of defense. Most of them missed due to lack of aim, but there were two more that hit those obstacles. , immediately fell apart!I don't know if the gunner was reincarnated by Wei Xiaobao or not. There was also a lead bullet, and it hit a bed crossbow with extreme precision. With a loud click, the bed crossbow was smashed into pieces, and the sharp sawdust shot like a sharp arrow. Backward Jin soldiers suddenly cried and howled, and several Houjin soldiers covered their faces with wooden thorns, covering their blinded eyes and wailing.

Several fuyuan crossbows were fired at the same time, and five or six Ming army gunners were beaten back and flew straight out, but this did not prevent the Ming army artillery from firing a second time.This time, the artillery was pushed closer and the shots were naturally more accurate. Five of the six lead bullets hit the wooden stakes and horses, tearing up or overturning these annoying obstacles. Naturally, hiding in the The Houjin soldiers behind were also overturned a lot.The soldiers of the Ming army cheered loudly, holding their shields and holding their spears, and rushed towards the rear golden defense line.The artillery reloading was really too slow, and they were counting on the artillery to help them remove all obstacles. They didn't know they would have to wait until the year of the monkey, so the infantry planned to solve the problem by themselves. collapse.The Hou Jin archer straightened his body, drew his strong bow into a full moon shape, and sharp arrows pierced through the air. The Ming army raised their shields to cover their upper body, and the sharp arrows shot on the shields with a sound. The hands of the soldiers of the Ming army were nailed to the shields, and they screamed loudly. Some soldiers of the Ming army threw off the shields in great pain, exposing their vitals to the rain of arrows, and were shot down immediately.

The Houjin soldiers shouted excitedly: "Shoot! Shoot these Ming dogs to death!" He poured out the arrows in his quiver at the fastest speed, and soldiers of the Ming army kept falling down with arrows.But the roar of raising their guns interrupted their unilateral performance, and the surprisingly large lead shot out, and the screams of the archers who were shooting vigorously came and went, and the blood and flesh flew all over the place, and the rain of arrows suddenly thinned out.Bows and arrows shoot against rockets, as long as the quality of muskets is reliable, archers can't take advantage of it.Seeing that the golden archer was beaten dumb, the infantrymen of the Ming army let out a roar, threw away their shields and rushed over quickly!When they approached, the figures of Houjin soldiers appeared immediately behind those rejecting horses. The rejecting horses retracted and were ready to go. The archers fired a round and knocked down many more.The Ming army was also fired upon. After approaching more than a dozen steps, they all let out a loud shout, and threw two or three hundred spears out of their hands, nailing the archers and bed crossbow shooters to the ground. Standing on the refusal horse, he stabbed the Houjin soldiers who were not hit by the spears without thinking!But the horse-rejecting spear, which was much longer than the Ming army's long spear, stabbed forward. The heavy horse-repelling spear was not fast, but its lethality was astonishing. , pierced their chests fiercely, and then pulled out, bringing out a fountain of blood arrows.The Ming army behind pushed the stabbed soldier to the nail-covered horse, put the spear on the dead man's shoulder, and stabbed the Houjin soldier's face fiercely. The stabbed Houjin soldier screamed Equally earth-shattering.Hundreds of soldiers stabbed each other with long spears across the horses. Some people were stabbed and fell down covered in blood. The corpses were piled up several layers soon.It can be seen that the Houjin soldiers took advantage of it. The refusal carbine guns they used were more than one meter longer, one inch longer, and one inch stronger than the Ming army's long spears. The carbine became an all-conquering killing weapon, and the Ming soldiers who were stabbed had no chance of surviving.Dozens of carbine-rejecting guns stretched and retracted like poisonous snakes' letters. Almost every time they stabbed out, some Ming soldiers fell down screaming.

However, this situation did not last long. The Ming army consciously pushed the dead onto the Ju Ma, and soon the Ju Ma was full of corpses.With a wild shout, a group of soldiers of the Ming army with plain knives rushed out from among the pikemen. Taking advantage of the opportunity to withdraw the horse-rejecting guns, they jumped with their hands on the corpse, passed by the horse-rejecting soldiers, and landed on the soldiers of Houjin before.The Hou Jin soldiers covering the rejecting horse shooters stabbed with their guns, stabbing more than a dozen Ming soldiers to death on the rejecting horse, and the Ming soldiers who landed safely were not polite. The gunman's neck was slashed, and the gunman who refused the horse faced the Ming saber and shield hand who was close at hand. The situation was exactly the same as that of the Macedonian soldier who was holding a seven-meter spear and was rolled in front of the Roman swordsman. With one slash, not a single one of these nasty horse refusals was left.More Ming soldiers supported the corpses and leaped over the rejecting horses to join the ranks of close-to-hand combat. This square inch of land suddenly became a bloody Shura slaughterhouse.The Ming army's fighting skills and actual combat experience are far behind those of the Houjin soldiers. The losses of the two sides are quite different, but they can't stand the Ming army. Unable to resist, they threw down the corpses and fled. As for the soldiers of the Han army who were in charge of manipulating the bed crossbow, none of them escaped, and they were minced by the Ming army.

The Ming army removed the corpses, dismantled the Juma, cleared all obstacles, and the army continued to move forward.In the next few fierce battles, the scale was not very large. Hou Jin used deer villages, trenches, and repelling horses as cover to build a defense line, and fought extremely resolutely.However, because the troops were too scattered, each line of defense was not many troops, usually one or two bulls, which could not withstand the fierce attack of tens of thousands of Ming troops, and were quickly defeated.The Ming army's chariot formation was like a steamroller, rolling forward slowly and unstoppably, mercilessly smashing Houjin's defense line, and rushing forward singing all the way.After winning several victories in a row, the morale of the Ming army was so high that there was no need for officers to coerce and lure them. They were overwhelmed by them in one round. In just one morning, they captured the six defense lines of Houjin. The crystal clear Xiaoling River unfolded in front of them like a belt, and they were very close to their destination.

The situation is great and everyone is optimistic.However, Zhang Chun frowned because he noticed that Hou Jin's retreat was orderly and orderly without the slightest panic. Although the Ming army charged bravely, the number of troops used to annihilate Hou Jin in each battle was actually very limited. Rarely more than a hundred.Obviously, Houjin was not really defeated. They were luring the enemy deeper. These weak defense lines were just bait they threw out to whet the appetite of the Ming army.

If this is really Jiannu luring the enemy to go deep, then where will the main force of Jiannu wait for the Ming army?

Looking at the surging Xiaoling River, Zhang Chun fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)