Chapter 948: Reinforcement

Two cannons and projectiles shot, instantly turning outside the castle wall into a hell of flesh and blood flying across the river.

Crowding into a group of melee soldiers, the gun soldiers who were swarming forward were immediately swept by dense pellets, and fell down howling. A large number of injured but not dead covered their faces, hugged their broken arms in a pool of blood.

Rolling and howling, the two cannons actually knocked over more than a hundred people. The foreign soldiers, who were lucky enough to be caught in the musket and trembled with big swords. Everyone was silent, and they never expected that the Ming army would be so cunning.

The seemingly majestic and thick breastplate has no defensive effect at all.

The modified tiger squat cannon is made of fine iron and has increased its caliber. However, the half-pound pressing iron bullet penetrated several rows of arrays. Most of the injured foreign soldiers were injured in the face, arms, and double

Legs and breastplate can’t protect you.

At the foot of the mountain, Colonel Holden, who was guiding the country, was stunned.

A group of British officers stopped one after another. From a distance, the dense red-clothed soldiers under the fort wall seemed to be instantly cleared, and a large area was blasted out of a vacuum.

"Kill them!"

Colonel Horton's mouth twitched, his gentlemanly demeanor disappeared, and was stimulated by the heavy casualties to become frightened and crazy. In the fort, Zhang Hu led a few gunners to escape quickly, fled into the military camp, and looked at the wounded soldiers in the camp.

An, the remaining troops were less than twenty, and everyone was injured. Dingbian Fort, which had 86 soldiers stationed before the war, had mostly suffered casualties and was at the end of the road.

After cheering up, Zhang Hu sent people to resist from house to house, and stood firm and waited for help.

At this time, ten miles northeast of Dingbian Fort.

Li Dingguo placed a big sword on the back of the horse, and the two thousand central troops walked slowly. When he reached ten miles away from Dingbian Fort, he didn't hear the sound of guns. His heart sank. He thought that Dingbian Fort was probably lost.

In front, a battalion of big swords and soldiers marched silently, and the ghost-headed swords were lying on the horse's back, which was daunting. Li Dingguo was in full swing at this time.

More than two thousand cavalrymen used the hard-working and hardworking Yunnan horses to transport, but the main war horses were all tall Tibetan horses.

Li Dingguo was not idle in the southwest. He went out of the mountain plateau in front of him and occupied the ancient tea horse road. He rebuilt the ancient tea horse road to connect Sichuan and Tibet, and indeed got a lot of high-quality war horses. Lijiang Prefecture now has more than 50,000 horses.

High-quality war horses, once they break through the plateau mountainous areas, Li Dingguo can organize a large cavalry army to sweep the Indian subcontinent.

Of course, Li Dingguo did not have the concept of the Indian subcontinent. He only knew that he had broken through the plateau and river on the southwestern border, and there was a flat river in front of him.

Several miles away, on the ridge.

A team of figures holding camels were resting. Li Dingguo raised his thousand-mile mirror and saw a team of soldiers wearing red turbans and robes sitting or lying down while cutting flesh and eating. A deer was lying on the snow not far away.

The blood was frozen after being opened. However, the foreign soldiers seemed to be talking and laughing, cutting off the venison piece by piece with a knife, and stuffing it into their mouths without thinking it was dirty.

Li Dingguo held up a thousand-mile mirror and cursed: "Barish!"

In front, hundreds of swordsmen left the ridge and entered the valley, followed a narrow path in the valley and headed straight to Dingbian Fort. The southwestern border is mountainous, and the mountains are not conducive to cavalry mobility, and it is not that cavalry cannot fight.

The valleys between the rivers are still flat on both sides, and cavalry can still fight, but the war horses are delicate and cannot move for a long distance.

Two thousand riders hid into the valley, walking along the winding stream, artificially opened paths.

When cavalry battles, they pay attention to the word "fast". Li Dingguo could not wait to gather his troops, so he personally led two thousand iron cavalry out in full swing.

Five miles away, a few guns suddenly came from the front.

Li Dingguo was delighted. These gun sounds were too important, which meant that Dingbian Fort had not yet fallen. It was time for his two thousand iron cavalry to come. Three miles, two miles, the messy gun sound became clearer and clearer, and the forward iron cavalry

He has turned over and dismounted, put on his armor, changed his horse, and is ready to fight.

The standard chain mail of the Ming army has been greatly improved with the development of military industry technology.

The chain mails equipped by the Ming army in the Southwest are mostly used as inner armor. Use hydraulic wire drawing technology to pull out the wire, then wrap them around the stick one by one, and then cut them from the middle to get many iron rings.

If you knock the ring flat, flatten the excuse, use a punch to knock two holes, put a small piece of iron wire and rivet it flat, it will become an iron ring that is not easy to be stretched open. Then repeat this process to make clothes.

Moreover, the inner armor of the locks of the Ming army's newly equipped locks was not put on from the head, but was modified into a double-breasted one.

Just like wearing clothes on weekdays, two soldiers can wear them by helping each other, which greatly shortens the time required to wear armor. Wearing a piece of cotton armor on the inside and outside the locks gradually became the mainstream equipment of the Ming army, which is light and warm.

It has cold protection and protection capabilities. It is enough to deal with the Mongols in the northwest. It is difficult for light arrows to penetrate the defense of two layers of armor.

The most important thing is that the Ming army solved the cumbersome armor-wearing process during the march.

Li Dingguo turned over and dismounted, and as soon as he reached out, his personal soldiers spread out a fine inner armor. Li Dingguo shook his shoulder and put on the inner armor, clasped it on the hidden button, and then put on a cotton armor. It weighed less than 30 kilograms.

Li Dingguo grinned, and he always felt unhappy when his armor was too light. For a fierce man like him who had infinite power, less than thirty pounds were almost a straw.

However, for most soldiers of the Loyal Camp, the two layers of armor inside and outside are the most trustworthy life-saving tools. After wearing armor, changing horses, two riders were in parallel, and two thousand riders lined up in two columns no longer covered up.

, rushed straight to the fort.

Dingbian Fort, fierce battle.

Zhang Hu and seven or eight subordinates retreated into the yard of the military camp and shot at each other with muskets through the gate.

Bang bang bang bang!

The figures flashed outside, and the soldiers shouted unintelligible words. However, the remnants of the Ming army still fought back to form two rows of gun formations. With the advantage of the speed of fire of the rotary wheels, they actually fired continuous blockade firepower and drove the soldiers.

Keeping firmly outside the yard.

At the fort gate, Colonel Holden climbed up panting and roared, "Kill them!"

The reserved gentleman turned into a ferocious beast. At this time, the sound of horse hooves sounded at the foot of the mountain. An iron cavalry emerged from the corner of the valley and rushed straight to the hillside. The British and Indian coalition forces who were treating the wounded soldiers took the lead in counting the cavalry.

Holding the flag gun high, the Sun and Moon flags roared in the cold wind, and behind them were brave cavalrymen, each with a terrifying sword.

Colonel Horton's hideous expression was frozen on his face, and his eyes were watching the cavalry rolling into the wounded group. The fierce cavalry showed heavy, terrifying big swords, and a few harsh screams, the screams
Chapter completed!