Chapter 2272 Shotgun
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The ready-to-run tiger squat cannon gunners appeared on the flank of the warriors, facing the slave thieves and cavalry coming up from the hillside.
The soldiers of the 1,000-man team of officers and soldiers appeared around the gunner as the guards of the gunner.
The gunners placed a tiger squat cannon in a straight position, pointing the muzzle towards the slave thief cavalry approaching.
The tiger squat cannons were arranged in a row. The gunners on the side did not rush to fire the cannons, but were waiting for the slave thieves to get closer.
The range of the tiger squat cannon is limited, and if it hits a shotgun like iron sand and iron beads, the range will be closer.
However, the range is close to the cannon, and its power is greater than that of a musket.
On the contrary, the 1,000-man team of officers and soldiers who came to protect were all eager to try, and they wanted to rush out immediately and kill a few slave thieves to avenge their dead relatives and fellow villagers.
Fortunately, there were many tiger-shaped soldiers in the team who restrained them and did not let them be blinded by hatred and fight against the slave cavalry.
The slave cavalry rushed from the hillside to the uphill, and the speed was naturally not as good as when they were on the flat ground. Moreover, the hillside was covered with various varieties of grass, and some grass leaves were like pulling seedlings, which could intercept and buffer the cavalry's speed.
So the speed of the slave riding up the hillside is not too fast.
"Preparation!" A gunner with a monocular telescope hanging around his waist stuffed a copper whistle hanging around his neck into his mouth.
The slave cavalry is getting closer and closer to the top of the hillside, and also enters the range of the tiger squat cannon.
The gunner in charge still did not order the firing.
He was waiting, waiting for the slave cavalry to get closer, and he severely injured the slave cavalry as soon as he fired.
If there were hundreds or thousands of slave riders, he would naturally not choose to let the slave riders approach, but the slave riders in front of him only had a hundred, which gave him the confidence to do so.
Beep!
The harsh copper whistle sounded violently.
A series of tiger squatting cannons fired against the slaves coming from the hillside, and countless iron beads flew out, weaving a large net in the air.
The slave rider who was about to rush up the hill was suddenly stunned.
Geng Qianhu, the leader, had no chance to speak, so he was beaten into a sieve. Even the war horse under his crotch went to the ground, and several blood holes in his neck were emitting blood.
More than a dozen slave cavalry and war horses fell to the ground, dyeing the grass leaves under their feet red.
The gunner of the tiger flag seized the time to load the medicine again, while the officers and soldiers guarding the surroundings held the spear in their hands nervously.
The gaps filled by the tiger squat cannon are most likely to be taken advantage of by the enemy.
The bodies of more than a dozen slave cavalry, including people and horses, were crossed between the tiger flag gunner and the remaining slave cavalry, and at the same time blocked the slave cavalry's way forward and became a bond on the road.
While the slave cavalry behind was frightened by the tragic situation in front of him, he had to slow down the horse speed so that the war horse under his crotch would trip over the corpse in front.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The reloading speed of the tiger flag gunner was faster than that of the slave riders imagined. Just when the slave thief had not crossed the corpse on the ground, many tiger squatting cannons were fired again.
Countless iron sand and iron beads sprayed out again, intertwining into a large net, covering the head of the mountainside all the slaves shrouded under this large net.
More than a dozen slave riders were killed and injured under the shotgun shot from the tiger squat cannon.
The two shellings suddenly reduced the slave cavalry by nearly one-third, and even the team members could not escape the cannons shot down from the hillside.
The slave cavalry had no leader for a while, and such serious casualties occurred again, and the remaining slave cavalry were scared.
In the final analysis, they were still Han people. A large part of the reason for surrendering to slave thieves was because they were afraid of death. Now they threatened their lives. The first thought in their hearts was not to fight to the death, but to choose to escape.
In addition, the Jurchens were unable to fight to the hillside when they attacked themselves, so many people in the slave cavalry had already begun to think of escaping.
If one person escapes, it will lead others to escape with you.
So when a slave rider chose to escape from the hillside, the other slave riders also made the same choice as him.
The remaining fewer than a hundred cavalrymen did not wait for the third shot from the tiger flag to fire, and rushed to the bottom of the hillside.
"Escape, the slave thief's cavalry fled." The new officers and soldiers from the Ming army shouted loudly after seeing this scene.
"Do you want to send someone to pursue?" someone came to the captain of the official army's Thousand-Person Team and asked.
Upon hearing this, the captain of the Thousand-Person Team of the Office shook his head and said, "Don't worry about them, first, divide a portion of the tiger squat cannons to support the camp."
It is naturally safe to escape the flanks, so there is no use for so many tiger squat cannons to stay here.
However, in order to prevent the slave thieves from coming back, they did not remove all the tiger squat cannons, but left half of the cannons and continued to monitor the flanks.
The real Tartars were less afraid of death and more brave than the second Tartars who surrendered from the Ming army.
Even though the slave cavalry on the flanks had already been defeated and fled, Hailancha and the Jurchens still insisted on exchanging their lives with the tiger-shaped flag soldiers on the hillside.
The tiger-shaped flag soldiers occupy the geographical advantage on the hillside, and there are many people and powerful people. The Jurchen archers brought by Hailancha are good at archery techniques, and their accurate heads are much stronger than muskets.
In this way, neither side has taken much advantage.
The only difference is that if the arrow is lost and does not hit the vital point, it will be difficult to kill a person's life at once. However, the guns shot by the musket are different. Even if they do not hit the vital point, as long as they hit the enemy, the damage they bring will be enough to make the enemy lose their combat effectiveness.
If Hailancha had not blocked a group of Han soldiers, the Jurchens would have been unable to withstand such serious casualties.
This situation continues until the tiger squat cannon is sent over.
When the tiger squat cannon appeared, the attack on the warriors on the hillside directly increased the attack of one step, and pieces of iron sand and iron beads shot down. Even if there were Han soldiers standing in front, there were still some real Tartars who were hit.
The casualties of the Jurchens brought by Hailancha suddenly increased a lot.
The Han soldiers who were forced to stay in front of the formation were more casualties, and these Han soldiers could not bear such a large number of casualties. Even if there was a threat from the real Tartars behind them, they would throw their weapons and turn around and flee.
Hailancha used his sword to kill several Han soldiers who wanted to escape, but still could not stop the defeat of the Han soldiers.
Seeing this situation, he knew that it was impossible to continue to stay and take down the enemies on the hillside. He had no choice but to take the remaining Jurchens to escape to the bottom of the hillside with the remaining Jurchens.
"The sect is in charge, the slave thief is about to escape!"
The slave thief gave up the attack and chose to escape, so he naturally could not hide the tiger flag on the hillside.
"It's not that easy to escape back." Zhao Wu spat on the ground and immediately ordered, "Wang Ju, bring your Thousand-man team and tiger squat cannons to chase me. You must not let the slave thief escape back so well."
He could not catch up with the slave thieves' cavalry, but he was not going to let go of these defeated slave thieves' infantrymen.
Chapter completed!