486 The fire is high
This time, Jianlu had more casualties than the first time. At least one hundred lying on the ground and groaned in pain. Moreover, the car was smashed and separated by iron bullets, which also exposed the Jianlu who were hiding behind him to the sight of the Ming army.
The Ming soldiers who had been waiting for a long time immediately waited for the military order, and the flintlock spearmen opened fire together.
“Mush…”
The single shield is just a defense against bows and arrows, and the protection of the muskets is still very poor. Even if the Jianlu sword and shield soldiers raised their shields in time, the fate of these Jianlu sword and shield soldiers is often the broken shields in their hands and the people are lying on the ground and rolling on the ground.
As a result, more than two hundred Jianlu immediately moaned in pain on the ground.
Seeing this scene, Meng Qiaofang was a little stunned.
The Ming army's two response methods were beyond his expectations, so that his subordinates suffered heavy losses. Before the Ming army could touch the edge, he lost nearly five hundred subordinates.
Although the proportion of casualties is not high among ten thousand men, the unexpected response method of Ming army just now hit their morale heavily. This can be seen by just a glance at his expression.
When did the Ming army be so good at fighting? Who was the leader of the Ming army opposite?
Naturally he could not have thought that these response methods were not someone's ideas, but the result of discussions between many generals above guerrilla generals under the leadership of Zhang Mingwei.
The so-called three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang. Now Jianlu has tasted this power.
Just like that, Jianlu retreated again. Compared to the first time, the lost car could not be supplemented.
At this moment, Meng Qiaofang felt helpless when facing the Ming army position on the ground. When she remembered that she had just made a boast of her, she suddenly became a little scared. She was afraid that Turge would threaten him or use him to establish his authority. Although she would not kill him, it was common to hit him a few whips in public.
However, he was overthinking.
Turge soon sent someone over and told Meng Qiaofang: "Sir, he has already sent someone back to the city to transport the general's artillery. Please wait and wait until the general's artillery arrives before attacking. If the combat is still not effective, then the military will deal with it!"
When Meng Qiaofang heard this, she couldn't help but be overjoyed and quickly wanted to pat her chest to promise, but immediately remembered that he had been slapped in the face once, so she didn't dare to pat her chest again.
Despite this, it is obvious that he is looking forward to the performance of the General's cannon.
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Seeing that the Jianlu infantry no longer attacked, Ma Xianglin was not happy and worried. Because according to prior deduction, for this situation, it is likely that Jianlu would use heavy artillery to bombard it.
There is really no good idea for this situation.
The heavy artillery has a long range and can only fight back with heavy artillery. However, it is not realistic to transport heavy artillery from the ship, and it is too heavy. Moreover, the Jianlu cavalry is eyeing the cavalry and is also staring at the beach. The heavy artillery moves quite slowly, and it is basically difficult to transport a heavy artillery from the sight of the Jianlu cavalry.
And even if one or two heavy artillery pieces are transported to fight against Jianlu heavy artillery, the problem of Jianlu heavy artillery being bombarded with the side van will not be solved.
This means that the next battle is time to test the Ming Army.
Thinking of this, Ma Xianglin looked up at the sky and found that it was at least one hour before dark. According to the previous agreement with Duke Xingguo, the cavalry would arrive before dark.
However, it is not so easy to get so far from land.
Thinking back to the time when the Ming army divided into four groups to expedition the newly rising Jianzhou Jurchens, the army of the Ming Dynasty did not arrive at the designated location at the agreed time. Once they set out, they could not communicate with each other, resulting in the inability to cooperate with each other in imagination. As a result, they were defeated by Jianzhou Jurchens, Sarhu was defeated, and the other groups were also defeated.
Duke Xingguo, can he really arrive in time?
Ma Xianglin was always worried about this problem.
The Ming army soldiers were naturally aware of the situation of this battle.
Otherwise, even if they have the courage, they will definitely be afraid of the lonely army entering the rear of Jianlu to block Jianlu. This is especially true when they have never won the battle against Jianlu before.
Therefore, Zhang Mingwei asked Ma Xianglin to tell the infantry soldiers about the specific combat plan. Let them all know that as long as they block Jianlu for about half a day as planned, the cavalry would arrive, and then they would be able to defeat Jianlu and make military contributions.
It can be said that all aspects of this war have actually been considered after the previous discussion.
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Time passed slowly, and Jianlu did not attack, whether it was a cavalry or an infantry army, but was just eyeing the Ming army.
The Ming army was also resting, with a little uneasiness. Everyone knew that when the heavy artillery from Ningyuan City was transported by Jianlu, the arduous battle began.
In this regard, the soldiers of the Baigang Army were the most calm because they were actually Ma Xianglin's private soldiers. If they dared to escape timidly, not only would they die, but even the people in their families would be implicated. This relationship also made the Baigang Army's military discipline the best.
In this case, their toasts themselves are on the front line, so they are even less likely to be afraid of escaping.
It was Zhang Mingwei who was interested in this and asked Ma Xianglin to lead the infantry to complete this blocking mission.
Waiting and waiting seemed like it was very long, and it seemed like it was very fast. Anyway, it was still bright, and I suddenly heard cheers from Jianlu.
As soon as he heard this, all the soldiers of the Ming army knew that Jianlu's heavy artillery had arrived, and the next time was a bloody battle.
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On Jianlu's side, Turge was proud of his wise decision at the beginning. Fortunately, he thought of this possibility from the beginning, so he sent someone to send orders to Ningyuan City early and transported two heavy artillery pieces from Ningyuan City.
Now that the attack on the Ming army's positions is fruitless, the heavy artillery bombardment is the lamb to be slaughtered.
"This time, I'll fight for it. Before sunset, I don't want to see these bright dogs standing there again!" Turge stared at Meng Qiaofang who was rushing over excitedly and said sternly.
Among the Jianlu, the ones who manipulated artillery were all Han people who surrendered to Jianlu. A considerable part of them were the part that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming took to Liaodong, and were gunners trained by Sun Yuanhua with Portuguese instructors.
Therefore, Meng Qiaofang was very sure and immediately responded to Turg: "Don't worry, if you have a heavy artillery in your hand, you will definitely smash the Ming army!"
Here, based on the previous lesson, he made a small trick. However, Turge did not notice it, but was just ordering that the entire army prepare for combat.
On his territory, he was actually robbed by the Ming army, which was simply an insult to the Qing army and himself. If he did not defeat this Ming army as soon as possible, he would inevitably be laughed at by others when he went back to Shengjing in the future.
With Turge's order, both the cavalry and infantry in the Jianlu army began to prepare.
The Ming army also began to be on high alert and prepared to face the most severe challenges. Death will be inevitable!
But at this moment, Jianlu suddenly came over like crazy. When he saw Turg's flag, he galloped over and stopped until he was close to him. The horse was so painful that the war horse kept crying: "Sir, the Ming cavalry has come here, at least 10,000 troops."
"What?" Turge was shocked when he heard this, "Where did the Ming army come from so many cavalry?"
Although there was an emergency report before, it was discovered that the Ming cavalry had four or five thousand cavalry, according to his understanding of the Ming army, this was already the limit of the Ming army in Shanhaiguan. Because before this, there was never a number of Ming cavalry.
Even before, when the Ming Dynasty assembled all cavalry troops to attack the hinterland of Liaodong, there were only 5,000 cavalry. Later, I heard that the cavalry among them were divided into part to Dongjiang Town. Therefore, he always thought that the Ming cavalry on Shanhaiguan had reached the top with 5,000 cavalry.
Tanma naturally couldn't answer his question.
But there was no need to answer the horse, and the sound of horse hooves came from the direction of Ningyuan.
Meng Qiaofang was preparing for the battle when he heard the movement and quickly turned around to look. He didn't know the specific situation and was still wondering where Turge had transferred the cavalry again?
As a result, just looking back, you can see Ming soldiers wearing red military uniforms galloping here in his sight.
Not only he saw it, but all the Jianlu can be said to have seen it.
All of a sudden, these Jianlu were all dumbfounded!
What's going on? At first glance, there were only thousands of cavalry. The Ming cavalry dared to rush to Ningyuan so arrogantly? They didn't wait for the infantry, was they delivering vegetables to the Qing Dynasty?
However, Turg received an urgent report from the horse detective and knew that there would be tens of thousands of Ming cavalrymen behind him. Therefore, he was not in the mood to "eat food" and immediately shouted loudly to prepare for war.
After this military order was passed down, all the Jianlu were a little confused. Just this point is that the cavalry of the country is so sensible to face a great enemy?
Before they could execute the military order, the Ming infantry army had already seen the traces of the cavalry robes. Suddenly, everyone was overjoyed and immediately cheered loudly.
Because they knew that the reinforcements were all cavalrymen, and since they had seen the vanguard, the main force of the cavalry was not far away.
After hearing the thunderous cheers of the Ming infantry, Jianlu, who was unknown, was not stupid. He immediately knew that there were probably not few Ming troops coming.
Chapter completed!