Chapter 230 Heavy losses
Looking at the caltrops on the ground ahead that were shining with cold light in the sun, Yue Tuo felt that his eyes were a little dark. In just a few days, he encountered this despicable and shameless tactic twice in a row. Did the Ming army now have too much money to spend, and would they throw caltrops everywhere to play with each place? And what are the rows of gray and white things in front?
"Damn Ming Dog, I actually placed caltrops again..."
"Thank you, Minggou, for being so despicable, actually put the caltrops..."
The angry roars of the Later Jin Tartars sounded on the position, and the caltrops everywhere made them suffer enough. Although everyone would put horseshoes on their war horses to protect the horses, it was obvious that even the horseshoes could not prevent the damage of the caltrops to the war horses.
Although the Tartars wanted to cut all the Ming army on the opposite side into meat, the only thing they could do at this time was to advance... and they kept moving forward. Even though people were constantly shot down by caltrops and lead bullets during the charge, they could only grit their teeth and continue to advance, and no one dared to easily say the word "retreat". A cavalry fell down, and the cavalry behind continued to advance without hesitation, and it can be said that the fallen war horses and cavalry corpses were everywhere on the road ahead.
"Roar in...rush in quickly..."
"Kill all those Nikans!"
"Bang bang bang..."
All they answered were the sound of muskets.
The speed of more than 100 meters was originally less than ten seconds for the cavalry, but now this road has become a death road paved by corpses and wounded soldiers. There are dense corpses everywhere. When the cavalry advances, they must be careful of the caltrops all over the ground. The speed of the cavalry naturally slows down.
But something that made them even more troublesome happened. When the first group of cavalry rushed to fifty meters away from the square formation, they found rows of things that looked like horse-rejecting horses appeared in front of them. What was different from the general horse-rejecting horses was that the Ming army's refusal immediately pulled barbed wire mesh all covered with thorns.
This thing is too vicious. Although the horse is only half a person so high, generally war horses can cross over, but the placement of the horses is very particular. The rows of horses are less than two meters apart. Your war horses cannot jump up continuously. The wire mesh on the horses are very vicious. If your stomach is scratched by these wires when jumping up, it will be a big fun. You must know that their war horses are not covered with armor.
Just when the Tartars were in a hurry, a Niulu Zhangjing found that there was a passage of more than 100 meters wide in front of him, with neither horse-rejected nor iron caltrops. He quickly pointed to the right and shouted loudly: "From there, there is no horse-rejected there!"
After saying that, he took the lead in rushing towards the road. After seeing him taking the lead in rushing over, nearly 300 vest soldiers under his command followed without hesitation.
"Come on...Come on!"
"Run over!"
The ecstatic Tartar followed his superiors toward the only passage without caltrops and horse resistance.
In fact, it is not that no one has ever doubted why the Ming army was so kind and left such a safe passage for themselves, but there was no time for people to consider on the battlefield. Moreover, people have a kind of heart that they follow the crowd. When they see everyone in, they will naturally not stay outside and taste the taste of caltrops and horse-resistance.
In fact, one was really as expected by the Tartars. They rode their horses along the passage without caltrops and horse-rejecting horses and rushed into the Ming army's formation. And not only them, many Tartars found a passage to the Ming army's formation in several places.
"Master Beile, they rushed in, they rushed into the Ming army's formation."
Seeing that someone really rushed in, a Bayalajialazhangjing pointed ahead and shouted happily.
"Okay... OK, notify the entire army and rush in and defeat and wipe out the Ming army!"
Seeing this, Yue Tuo, who was already a little suspicious of the Ming army, finally felt relieved. In his opinion, as long as the iron cavalry of the Jin Dynasty could rush into the Ming army's formation, even if the other party had any tricks in front of absolute strength, it would be useless. However, Yue Tuo was still too happy. The Later Jin Tartars who rushed into the Ming army's formation soon found that they seemed to be trapped in an endless trap.
When a cavalry named Later Jin rushed into the Ming army formation and wanted to kill the whole place, they found that with the sound of muskets, cavalry kept falling from the war horses. And what frightened them the most was that these gunshots were not only heard from one place, but were everywhere. Niu Lu Zhangjing, who rushed into the formation first, led more than 200 vest soldiers under his command to kill the square formation in front, but more than 30 people were killed by the muskets from the front. When he was furious, he rushed towards the square formation and another sound of muskets came from both sides. The casualties were even worse. People in the entire team kept falling off, and nearly half of the troops were soon injured and killed.
The heavy casualties finally made the fanatical Niu Lu Zhang Jing wake up. He looked up and found that he had rushed to the center of the Ming army's formation. In front of him, there were Ming army square formations on the left and right. The Ming army in these three square formations, covered with armor and holding muskets, were constantly bombarding his men and horses with the muskets in his hands. Under the attack on three sides, his Niu Lu lost nearly a centaur in just a quarter of an hour.
"I've been trapped... I've been trapped... I've rushed away!"
Niu Lu was so scared that he pulled out a handful of iron bones from his saddle and threw them at a Ming army musketeer who was less than 30 meters away from him.
Iron Bone is a weapon used to throw eight pieces of ripe iron, and the wood handle is made of willow wood, three feet long, and it is very powerful.
The sergeant who had just finished shooting was about to turn around and retreat when he was hit on the head by the heavy shield falling from the sky. The strong helmet was immediately knocked into the darkened area by the sergeant. The sergeant fell to the ground without saying a word.
With this Niu Lu's leader, the vest soldiers behind him also bent their bows and arrows or took out the flying axes from the saddle, and threw the iron bones towards the square formation in front.
It has to be said that the throwing weapons of the Later Jurchens were very vicious. As long as they were hit by their throwing weapons, they would be injured even if they were not killed. Fortunately, the plate armor provided by Yang Feng to the Jiangning Army was very strong, otherwise this round of attack would be enough for the Jiangning Army to drink a pot.
However, the good luck of the Jurchens was over. After Niu Lu Zhang Jing smashed a sergeant, he had not had time to be happy, a lead bullet hit him. The lead bullet as thick as a little finger hit his right arm and touched the armor leaf on his arm. After it was instantly deformed. The lead bullet penetrated the armor leaf with huge kinetic energy, and knocked his arm into two pieces.
"ah……"
The huge pain made Niu Lu Zhangjing faint in pain, and he almost fell off his horse. Looking at his empty right arm, he almost howled and shouted, "My arm...where did my arm go!"
He forgot that he was on the battlefield now, and he stopped on the reins and planned to dismount and pick up his arm. Is there anything better target on the battlefield than a cavalry who stopped moving forward?
"Ba...ba...ba...ba...ba...ba...b"
Less than a few seconds after this Niulu Zhang Jing stopped, three lead bullets hit him. Two of them hit him in the back, and one hit his head, and his head was smashed into pieces like a rotten watermelon.
In fact, this example of Niu Lu Zhang Jing is not an isolated case. The Jiangning Army led by Yang Feng formed a total of twelve hollow formations. The largest square formation where Yang Feng is located is composed of three thousand baggage soldiers, five hundred clans, medical battalions and one thousand soldiers. At the same time, his square formation is also the core of the entire formation. Each hollow square formation is about 100 meters apart. At first glance, the Jiangning Army's large formation looks like there are loopholes everywhere, and it seems that they can be torn apart as soon as they rush in.
Even Yue Tuo thought so, so he couldn't wait to lead ten thousand red flags and blue flags to rush in. But after entering, Yue Tuo found that he seemed to be trapped in a maze, with dense Jiangning army full of sounds of muskets everywhere.
Logically speaking, such a square array with loopholes everywhere should be broken with just one stab, but when Yue Tuo went in, he found that he was wrong. This big array was not so much a leak of wind, but rather a trap and a crisis everywhere. Facing the lead bullets shot from all directions, the warriors of the Later Jin, who had rich experience in the battle formation, felt at a loss for the first time.
There were several times when Yue Tuo saw with his own eyes that there were several Niulu who wanted to concentrate his strength to take down a square formation, but they were attacked at the same time from the front, back, left and right. In just half a quarter of an hour, this Niulu lost most of the space, and the space of these quadratic arrays was destined to not accommodate too many people. Faced with fierce firepower, they could only turn around in various quadras like headless flies, while the Jiangning Army could calmly shoot them. Although they also relied on bows and arrows and throwing weapons to shoot some Jiangning Army, the losses they suffered were too great.
"No, this is a trap, I can't continue like this!" Yue Tuo deserves to be known as a wise general in Hou Jin. After suffering a series of casualties, he immediately realized that this was probably a trap targeted by the Jiangning Army. If this continues, the Jiangning Army may not be eliminated, and his troops will be exhausted first. In view of this, he immediately issued an order to retreat.
"Retreat...ret towards Kucaoling..."
"Woooooooooooooo... the rushing horn sounded immediately."
After hearing the sound of the trumpet, the Later Jin Tartars, who had already been frightened, quickly rode their horses and ran towards the way. Two quarters of an hour later, the Tartars finally escaped from the Jiangning Army's formation to the bottom of Kucaoling and Daishan, Amin and others. After Yue Tuo and the others retreated, the two thousand vest soldiers of the blue flag who were in the Hehe Zhao Shu who were teaching them to fight fiercely also retreated.
He staggered to Daishan, and Yue Tuo knelt down and sobbed, "Ama... I don't have any, we were defeated in this battle!"
"You...you..."
Dai Shan raised his hand and wanted to slap Yue Tuo in the face, but finally took it back. He and Amin could see clearly in the battle just now. This battle was really impossible to blame Yue Tuo. The formation set up by the Jiangning Army was really too immoral. More than a dozen hollow square formations formed a large formation, and these square formations were like hedgehogs. The warriors of the Later Jin were like tigers catching hedgehogs, and could only watch them keep shooting the Later Jin warriors with muskets. If Yue Tuo hadn't been smart enough to withdraw people as soon as possible when he saw that the situation was not good, they would not know how many people they would have lost.
Amin chewed his teeth aside, and he strode over and grabbed Yuetuo's collar and shouted sternly: "Yuetuo, how did you promise me at the beginning? You said that as long as our cavalry came out, those bright dogs would collapse immediately in less than half an hour, but what about you now? This is how you fight?"
"Er Beile, I defeated this time." Yue Tou smiled bitterly, "I have nothing to say if you want to beat or punish me."
"you……"
Amin was so angry that they would not fight one thing. Today, they lost a lot of money in front of the blue flag.
"Okay, it's useless to quarrel now. Let's take a look at the losses first!" Gushan Beleentheng, who was standing beside him, was trying to smooth things over.
"Hmph!" Seeing Enteheng come out to smooth things over, Amin let go of Yue Tuo in disappointment.
When the people below counted the losses, everyone was stunned. In less than half an hour, the one or two thousand troops led by Yuetuo lost nearly 4,000 people. Among them, the Zhenghong Banner and the Inlaid Blue Banner lost nearly 2,000 people, while the remaining more than 2,000 people were the men of two Taiji Gurbush and Jeongor, the Korko tribe of Mongolia. In addition, the more than 2,000 dead soldiers composed of the coat and auxiliary soldiers who had just lost, plus the two thousand troops who had lost the day before yesterday, this time, his Zhenghong Banner alone lost more than 5,000 people, which was a damage to the vitality of the Zhenghong Banner.
Listening to the losses reported by the people below, Amin, Dai Shan and others were stunned on the spot. Gulbush and Jeong Gor cried bitterly. This time they did not get any benefits. The Mongolian warriors who went to the battle lost nearly half of them, which was a serious injury to their vitality.
You should know that the Mongols do not promote benevolence, righteousness and morality. This time their tribe has lost so many people, and they will definitely be spyed by surrounding tribes after returning. Although they are supported by the Later Jin Dynasty, they are not worried that their tribe will be swallowed up, but what is this? They are beaten to death by not getting the benefits. This time they come out, they lose all their underwear.
Yue Tou grabbed Dai Shan's hand and begged: "Ama, you can't fight anymore. This Jiangning Army's firearm is really sharp. If we continue to fight, our people will be fighting all."
Chapter completed!