Signed to Zhu Cihong, Prince of the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 345 Chapter 345, the musketeers showed great power, and Chahar suffered heavy losses
In Zhu Cilang's mind, since the Chahar people had hinted that they were holding their pipas half-hidden yesterday, they probably wouldn't try their best to deal with the Ming army today.

Unexpectedly, the Chahar people actually took the lead?

Fang Gongqian at the side obviously also thought of this, and said, "Your Highness, are these Tatars really plotting something?"

Zhu Cixiang pondered for a few seconds and said: "It doesn't matter, strength speaks for itself on the battlefield anyway. Immediately send someone to pass the order to Li Dingguo, telling him not to think so much, just to defeat all the Tatars in front of him!"

Li Dingguo soon got Zhu Cihong's order.

The young Ming general smiled and tightened his hold on the musket.

This kind of musket is the latest musket of the Ming Dynasty. It is said to be the "2.0 improved version".

The craftsman who handed the gun to Li Dingguo also said a bunch of incomprehensible words, such as bullet caliber, barrel length and material quality... In short, Li Dingguo couldn't understand a word.

But after Li Dingguo got started, he quickly understood the advantages of this kind of musket.

Hit farther, shoot faster, have a higher hit rate and lower failure rate.

that's enough.

Looking at the Chahar cavalry sweeping in from the distance, Li Dingguo let out a sigh of relief and raised his musket high.

"Da Ming Musketeers, attack!"

After shouting with great momentum, Li Dingguo stood out from the position and headed towards the enemy.

Behind Li Dingguo, many Ming army musketeers rode their horses and followed closely behind.

In this kind of "two-way running" between the two sides, the distance is rapidly narrowing.

Li Dingguo narrowed his naked eyes, estimated the distance based on experience, loaded the bullet with both hands very skillfully, and then raised it to aim.

He tilted his head, and through the front sight, he locked on a general Chahar who was also rushing to the front of the Chahar cavalry formation not far away, looming in the smoke and dust.

The rapid movement of the horse under the crotch caused Li Dingguo's body to rise and fall continuously. His feet tightly clamped the horse's belly, and he controlled his body with the help of stirrups.

"Riding and shooting" in this kind of high-speed sports is very demanding for a musketeer, and if you are not careful, you will lose a thousand miles.

Li Dingguo narrowed his eyes until there was only a slit left, and finally pulled the trigger three seconds after entering the shooting range.

"boom!"

Flames spewed out from the muzzle of the gun, smoke rose with it, and the bullets flew out at a speed beyond sight.

As soon as Li Dingguo raised his head, he saw his target suddenly shook his body, fell off his horse, and disappeared into the billowing smoke.

Li Dingguo was excited and waved his hand vigorously.

"Okay, take it with one blood!"

Li Dingguo learned this sentence from Zhu Cixiang, and he thought it was very vivid.

Behind Li Dingguo, dense gunshots kept ringing out.

The other musketeers did not use muskets as sniper rifles like Li Dingguo did. They only needed to shoot at the enemy cavalry army that was rushing in front of them.

With so many enemy troops, are you afraid of not being able to hit anyone?
Many Chahar cavalrymen did not expect this scene at all, and were hit by a large number of bullets, and they all fell off their horses for a while.

The screams of people and the hissing of war horses rang together, which immediately slowed down the speed of the fast-advancing Chahar cavalry.

Abu Nai had a panoramic view of this scene, and his expression changed drastically.

"Musketeers, really Musketeers!"

Beside Abu Nai, the general Chahar whose eyes were bloodshot after traveling all night also widened his eyes.

"They said that the musketeers are very strong, but they didn't expect... to be so strong!"

After all, they are a nation on horseback, and the Chahar cavalry responded very quickly.

They immediately chose to reduce their speed and spread out to weaken the firepower of the Ming army.

Afterwards, the Chahar cavalry shot at the musketeers with their bows and arrows.

This is actually the normal state of cavalry confrontation on the grassland. Normally, the confrontation of light cavalry is not the kind of confrontation with sabers waving face to face, but the mutual shooting between the two sides.

When one of them couldn't resist and began to retreat, the other would draw out his saber and boldly go up and chop them all down one by one.

Li Dingguo looked at this scene, not only did not have any worries, but laughed out loud.

The Chahar people's traditional prairie cavalry confrontation style was completely within the expectations of Li Dingguo and Zhu Cihong.

And Li Dingguo just wanted the Chahar people to do this!

What is the greatest weakness of the Musketeers?In fact, the speed of changing bullets is very slow!

Taking Li Dingguo himself as an example, he can only shoot five bullets at most in one minute now, that is, one bullet every 1 seconds.

If the Chahar cavalry rushed over with a saber, 12 seconds would be enough to cut at least seven or eight knives!
But the Chahar people did not choose the close combat conflict that the musketeers were most worried about. Instead, they chose long-range shooting.

Are you kidding, if you compete for long-range firepower, would musketeers be afraid of archers?

Li Dingguo once again raised the musket in his hand.

"Shoot me hard, shoot these damn Mongols!"

After the words fell, Li Dingguo pulled the trigger again.

"boom!"

A Chahar cavalryman fell off his horse.

Li Dingguo snorted, because he suddenly realized that the one who fell off the horse didn't seem to be his original target.

Missed the mark!
Li Dingguo continued to load the musket as if nothing had happened. He did not forget to tell the bookkeeper next to him who was responsible for recording the merits: "Another Mongolian head!"

"Bang bang bang!" The bullets shot indiscriminately.

"Whoosh, whoosh!" Arrows flew wildly.

Both sides were on horseback, shooting at each other from a distance.

This scene might even look a little funny, but it's actually quite thrilling.

Even Li Dingguo was in danger, and was almost hit by arrows several times, and had to retreat from his original position of leading the horse back to the position of the Ming Musketeers.

Casualties on both sides are constantly rising, but there is no doubt that the number of casualties of the Chahar people is much higher than that of the Ming army.

Although Daming's firearms today are far from being able to compare with the "modern" hot weapons in Zhu Cihong's mind, but these firearms are used in this era, which is completely crushed by firepower!

"Damn it, the firepower of the Ming army is too strong!" Abu Nai couldn't help clenching his fists as he watched this scene, his joints turned white.

Beside Abu Nai, many Chahar generals were also pale and speechless.

No one could have imagined that today's war turned out to be such a one-sided battle!

It was General Chahar who was in charge of the report and couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, we can't go on like this anymore, let our troops withdraw!"

The other generals Chahar also came to their senses, and spoke anxiously one by one.

"Retreat, Your Majesty!"

"If this continues, all of our men will die!"

Abu Nai's face was as pale as paper, and he was at a loss for a moment when he heard the entreaties of his subordinates!

(End of this chapter)