Chapter 229 228 Breaking the Camp

"Dadadada"

Wei Guangde vaguely heard the dense sound of horse hooves coming from afar. Although he could not see the Tartar cavalry, it was obvious that they were really here and were still accelerating.

All Wei Guangde could see were those Tartars who had been standing in tents or near the horses and quickly dodged and hid aside.

When the first Tartar cavalry appeared in front of him, Wei Guangde was shocked for no reason, because he suddenly saw countless arrows flying out from all directions of the Tartars at the same time, drawing parabolas in the air towards the front of the Ming army formation

Slide.

The density of archers of the Tartars before was not that high. This time it was a real volley, flying like a small dark cloud.

Wei Guangde had no time to say anything, so he could only wait quietly for the result. Whether the knife and shield hand in front could protect the bird gunman behind him was very critical.

Wei Guangde was not worried about the people in the car camp. Even if there were fish that had escaped the net, the cannons would never be unable to be fired.

The rain of arrows pierced into the Ming army's military formation. Although most of the arrows were blocked by shields, Wei Guangde could still see the people in the front of the military formation being shot by the Tartars' rain of arrows.

Fortunately, most of the bird gunners in the first few rows were protected by swords and shields, and the formation was not messy yet.

When the team of Tartar cavalry appeared in the sight of the Ming army, the front army inevitably had a slight commotion.

Most of the Taurus cavalry rushed in the front using heavy weapons such as hammers and iron axes, and their targets were naturally to smash the Ming army's shield formation.

Wei Guangde knew in his heart that the generals and soldiers in front of the Ming army naturally understood it too.

Unable to hear the order issued by the officer in front of the army, Wei Guangde could only see the Ming army behind the military formation as if it was causing waves. The first row of swords, shields and hands squatted down suddenly, and then the first row of bird guns fired the bird gun in his hand

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"Smacking"

On the noisy battlefield, the unique sound of bird guns still came, accompanied by the sound of "bang bang bang" Fran machine cannon, making the battlefield look even more noisy.

After the first row of bird gunners shot the bird gun in their hands, they did not turn around and retreat to the rear, but instead squatted down on the spot, as if they were stabbing the gun.

The Ming army in front was very dense, and there was obviously no room for them to move to the rear and reload the ammunition. After the first row of gunmen squatted down, the second row of gunmen's bird guns also started quickly. As soon as they saw the green smoke in front of them.

, followed by the third row.

"Bang bang bang" The Fran cannons equipped by the Ming army fired again at this time, and there were also bowl-mouth guns that had never been used. After the Tartar cavalry approached, they also fired large and small shotguns into the Tartar cavalry group one after another.

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The Ming army's gunners had only three rows, and after all they were killed, they could no longer launch the second time. The spearmen behind were blocked and could not get up.

Wei Guangde didn't expect that the officers in front of the Ming army would line up so densely, and he was a little speechless for a moment.

If you look a little sideways, you can actually go there, but when you see the Tartars who have rushed to the front, Wei Guangde understood that they would do this.

By passing by mistake will inevitably affect the preparations of the soldiers behind. If you are hit by the horse team at close range, you will not be able to respond better, so you can only force it to stand there.

Although many people were killed and injured by Ming munitions, there was no continuous firepower attack. The Taurus cavalry rushed to the Ming army's formation while withstood the attack and paid a heavy price.

Wei Guangde observed that nearly a hundred people fell off their horses and fell on the charge road. Although the dense formation of Tartars in front was much scattered, there were still cavalry rushing out from the tent behind, and at least three hundred people had already come out.

Wei Guangde judged that this should be an attack launched by a gathering of cavalrymen from thousands of households.

Considering the Tartar cavalry that rushed out of the front and rear battalions, the rest of the battalion should be almost empty.

However, the Tatar cavalry that followed the follow-up also encountered a lot of problems, because at this time, there were many corpses of people and horses lying down on the road, and there were also shocked horses running around or spinning in place, and the injured people were there.

The scream affected the speed of the cavalry rushing out from behind, and did not quickly make up for the gap in the front cavalry.

However, the Tartars who survived by chance or were slightly injured were still desperately urging their horses to rush forward, and their distance to the Ming army was getting closer and closer.

Wei Guangde was a little reluctant to look at him. He could think of the tragic situation of the Tartar cavalry coming closer and slashing the Ming army formation.

"Bang bang bang"

Another round of bombardment from the Fran cannon, but these cannons are obviously equipped with solid bullets. If they are shotguns, the effect may be better.

Wei Guangde watched the smoke constantly spraying out of the side van in front from behind, and knew that the soldiers in the car camp were still trying hard to replace the sub-collectibles for shooting, but they were not prepared enough at the beginning, and perhaps they did not prepare shots, but were loaded with solid bullets.

From the situation where the Tartars fell off their horses, you can see that the shells flew over a bloody road. The Tartars on the road either fell off their horses directly or used their hands to protect their broken arms and howled there.

If there were more Franco cannons and more spigot-equipped cartridges, perhaps the soldiers in front would be saved.

Wei Guangde could only think of this in his heart, but he just thought that he could do nothing at this time.

"Bang bang."

Wei Guangde vaguely heard a sound of bowstrings popping. At this time, the Taurus cavalry was already very close to the Ming army formation, and the Taurus did not shoot a volley of arrows like before.

The Tartars dare not shoot, but the Ming army can do it.

The archers standing in the middle had already rested enough, and they shot arrows in their hands in a row amid the command of the team officer.

Although the Xuanfu Army's archers are not as famous as the Datong archers and are not large enough, at this moment, the hundreds of archers became the saviors of the Ming army's military formation.

After a rain of arrows, the Tartars who rushed in the front had turned into hedgehogs and fell down their horses. After they fell down, they exposed their companions behind them to become the second target of the Ming army's archers.

The Fran machine cannon continued to roar, and all the Ming archers were gritting their teeth and persevering, using all their remaining strength to pull the bow and shoot arrows, stopping those Tartars who wanted to rush into the army.

At this time, some war horses that had lost their master were still running forward and had already arrived in front of the Ming army formation. The archers took back their shields and waved their long swords in their hands and slashed at those war horses that seemed extremely precious to them in the past.

Of course, they would not have rushed the horses that rushed in half as they did in the storybook, but they also frightened the horses and turned around and ran away.

The shocked horse did not rush to the Ming army formation, but the Tartars following behind were unable to quickly approach the Ming army because of the relatively narrow passage and obstacles on the road.

This is an opportunity.

The front officer asked the archer to prepare and asked the bird gunners in the two rows of behind to start loading bullets. The first row of bird gunners had already hit the bird thorns at this time, but it was very troublesome to take them down unless they were changed.

Formation to the back.

At this time, only the dozen Franco cannons were still roaring, bombarding at several passages that appeared in the Tartars.

However, the opponent's thousand households seemed to have seen the passage too narrow, which was not conducive to the cavalry rushing out and launching attack formations.

Well, I can only say that they thought the attack too beautifully at the beginning, believing that as long as the Tartar cavalry appeared, the Ming army might collapse.

Unfortunately, they forgot that this was the largest Ming Dynasty military force they encountered in field battles over the years. Almost all the elites of the Xuanfu were concentrated, and their stress resistance was naturally far greater than that of the Ming army they encountered in the past.

After losing about 300 people, the Tartars decisively stopped charging.

Seeing all this, Wei Guangde knew that the current opportunity should not be missed no matter what the Tartars planned.

There are more than 2,000 Tartars in the military camp. If they are asked to reorganize the team, and transfer one to the outside of the camp to copy his back camp, or expand the passage, they can easily organize thousands of cavalry teams to launch a charge. Imagine

Now it is unrealistic to defend those channels like this.

"The attack will also be suppressed by the central army, and there will be no room for the Tartars to accelerate."

Wei Guangde turned to Tian Shiwei at this time and shouted loudly. He knew that he was very lucky to be able to withstand the attack of the Tartars this time, and the Tartars underestimated their strength.

By this time, Tian Shiwei naturally had no other choice and directly issued an order to attack the personal soldiers next to him.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong"

The dense sound of war drums sounded again in the Ming army formation.

Soon, the officers in front of them all knew the orders of the coach in the rear, and they wanted to attack with all their might.

Although it is different from what we had agreed before, military orders are always military orders, and even if we don’t understand them, we must resolutely implement them.

When the rhythm of the drum beats was slightly stabilized, the Ming army had already split into three sections, and the Ming army on the left and right wings began to develop to both sides with the drum beats.

After quickly pushing away obstacles such as horses blocking the road, he turned around and headed towards the Tartars.

The Ming army on the Central Army also began to advance slowly, but when it was different from before, the bird gunners in the front row had retreated to the end at this time, and they were already pulling out the gun piercing inserted into the barrel.

The Ming army immediately launched a counterattack after just being attacked by cavalry, which was a bit beyond the expectations of the Tartar general.

Looking at the Ming army surrounded by two wings and the Ming soldiers advancing with drum beats, the Mongolian households knew the purpose of their doing so.

If there are a few cavalrymen, the horse speed can be easily increased, but now the two armies are facing each other, so it takes a certain distance to increase the horse speed.

The Ming army was squeezing their space, making it impossible for the horse team they dispatched to complete the acceleration.

Cavalry without speed is actually far less powerful than infantry.

The Mongolian households were a little regretful at this time. This time, it was a big deal. The loss of more than 300 people was a trivial matter. The Ming army attacked one night, and the total number of Tartars killed was only five or six hundred. However, the horse team failed to attack.

The blow to morale was a bit too big and he couldn't afford it.

what to do?

Now he needs to come up with a solution immediately, but for a moment, he was a little surprised to think of a good solution.

"Master Wanhu, we can only retreat, otherwise it would be even worse if we were surrounded by the Ming army."

Qianhu next to him saw the crisis that appeared, and continued like this, he hurriedly said to him.

"Retreat one after another, let Sahatu reorganize the horse team as soon as possible."

The Mongolian households immediately ordered that no matter what, they should retreat at this time, and they must leave room for the war horses.

The Ming army continued to advance in the Tartar barracks, and the Tartars could only form a small archer formation to alternately cover and retreat, preventing the Ming army from pursuing quickly.

However, at this time, the Ming army had no plans to attack in full swing. They were still slow and set up a tight army formation to move forward.

For most of the Ming army soldiers in this matter, this battle was really strange, but it was very satisfying. The Tartars were always suppressed and beaten by them.
To be continued...