Chapter 2309: Hitting the Long with the Short
It’s not that he doesn’t want to escape, but that so many people are left behind, and he can’t even leave alone.
The gunners of the Ming army and the gunners of the tiger flag were very neat in manipulating the tiger squatting cannons.
The cannons and medicines of the tiger squat cannon are fixed, and there will be no more or less, so it will be easier to load. The gunners of the Ming army only need to follow the steps and do not have to worry about the danger of filling too much medicines.
Not long after the tiger squat cannon was loaded with medicine, a large group of cavalry appeared behind the road, and rushed towards the place where Qiao Lin's team of soldiers were deployed.
"Prepare for the battle!" Qiao Lin shouted, holding the musket in his hand tightly.
Just as the tiger squat cannon was loading, the soldiers also loaded all the muskets in their hands and could directly release them when the slave cavalry approached.
Qiao Lin held the copper whistle in his mouth.
Several Ming army gunners mixed among the soldiers showed obvious panic on their faces. If the soldiers around them were not moving calmly, they might have been unable to help but escape.
The slave riding is getting closer.
"Bumanda, there is a Ming army in front of you!" The slave cavalry also placed the tiger-shaped flag soldiers blocking the road.
The leader was the Nuqi named Bu Manda. He only heard him curling his lips and said, "The Ming army in Lushun was defeated by the flag of the character "Tiger. These soldiers and horses in front of him should be the flag of the character "Tiger."
The slave cavalry team who found the tiger flag stopped.
"Bumanda, should we kill him?" asked the slave cavalry.
Bu Manda said: "Mandahai, remember that the Han people are not the opponents of our Jurchen warriors, they are just a group of cattle and sheep to be slaughtered, waiting for our knife to be harvested."
Slaves do not use their heads to make military achievements, but like to hang their heads on horseback to show their bravery.
"There are cannons! This group of people have cannons!" Mandahai, who was rushing in front, noticed the tiger squat cannons placed on the road, and shouted loudly.
At this time, Bu Manda, who was standing beside him, said: "You and I will take a team of people around from both wings, avoid the Han people's cannons, and dig behind them."
After saying that, he activated his horse from his crotch to rush forward.
Mandahai also rushed over with a team of men.
The two sides are getting closer and closer, and the Tiger Flag soldiers are ready to open fire.
However, just about a hundred steps away, the slave cavalry team, which was originally walking in the middle of the road, suddenly divided into two teams, one left and one right, and the other went to the sides.
Seeing this scene, Qiao Lin immediately understood what Nuqi wanted to do.
But the distance was too close to give orders, and there was a heavy sound of horse hooves resounding in my ears. Even if I gave orders, it was difficult for all gunners to hear them.
But he still blew the copper whistle in his mouth as soon as possible.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The soldiers guarding both wings fired the muskets in their hands, while only one tiger squat cannon was fired, and the other tiger squat cannons did not fire.
The distance between the two sides is already very close.
Seven or eight slaves rushing in front were hit and fell off their horses.
The remaining slave cavalry rushed forward and immediately waved their weapons to slash the soldiers with the tiger flag.
"Stop it and buy time for the gunner." Qiaolin shouted loudly regardless of whether the people around him could hear it clearly.
At this moment, he was glad that the soldiers had installed the muskets with bayonets, blocked the formation, and forced the slave cavalry in front of him, otherwise these slave cavalry would have rushed into the military formation he had temporarily set up.
"Put the gun, throw the gun!" Bu Manda, who was on the side of the slave cavalry, shouted loudly.
Riding and shooting has never been the specialty of slave cavalry. The Mongols are the best at riding and shooting, and slave thieves use step shooting more often.
In addition to the weapons in their hands, the slave cavalry will also prepare some throwing weapons such as short guns and hand axes.
Bu Manda was the first to take the lead in throwing the short gun in his hand.
The short spear flew out and pierced into the chest of a soldier. The soldier was driven by the force piercing the short spear and staggered back two steps before falling to the ground.
Soon, the slaves on both sides threw their weapons into the front.
The warriors without any heavy armor on their bodies faced these short soldiers who were thrown at close range, and they had no defense ability at all, and they were not injured or killed.
More and more soldiers were injured or died in slave riders.
The warriors that had originally blocked the slave cavalry became sparse, and the warriors and muskets with bayonets in their hands fell to the ground.
All this happened very quickly, and there was no chance to reload the second round of medicine for the Tiger Flag soldiers.
However, such delays still gave the gunners time to transfer the tiger squat cannon.
The eleven untapped tiger squat cannons aimed at the slave cavalry on both sides.
At this time, there was no need for orders, and the gunner of the tiger squat cannon fired the tiger squat cannon.
The eleven tiger squat cannons were filled with broken iron sand. When the cannon was fired, the whole thing was covered with iron sand.
The slave cavalry relied on the close distance to take away the lives of the tiger-shaped flag soldiers with throwing weapons. However, at the same close distance, the shotgun of the tiger squat cannon was also astonishing.
In an instant, dozens of slave cavalry were hit by iron sand and fell to the ground, and many war horses also fell to the ground without knowing their lives.
Because of the close distance, Bu Manda was hit by a tiger squatting cannon on the spot and fell from the horse's back and had no idea of life and death.
After a round of tiger squatting cannons and shelling, the surrounding slaves were stunned.
These thieves crossed Nan Guam and entered the hinterland of Lushun. Although there were also casualties, there were never so many people killed or injured at once.
"Kill all these Nikans!" Mandahai, who came to his senses, raised his weapons and urged his horse to rush towards the closest tiger-shaped flag warrior.
The blade passed through the air, and the soldiers holding the bayonet were cut off their throats and fell down on their backs.
Because the tiger squat cannon mainly attacks the Bumanda side, this also causes fewer casualties and injuries on the slave cavalry on the Manda Sea side, and it can even be said that the casualties and injuries are not large.
"kill!"
Qiao Lin, who was on the tiger flag, shouted, and cooperated with the soldiers around him to raise their bayonets and stab at the slave cavalry that rushed towards him.
Because the slave cavalry stopped and there were many corpses on the ground, the horses could not charge at a speed, so they could only fight against the soldiers with the tiger flag on the back of the horse.
The cavalry of the slave cavalry will not wear heavy armor, and due to the limitations of the heavy armor cavalry, all the slave cavalry who come to Lushun are light cavalry.
War horses are also short horse breeds such as Mongolian horses.
The warrior holding a bayonet can easily stab the slave cavalry on the horse's back with a bayonet. Similarly, the slave cavalry can also use the weapons in his hands to easily kill the warrior with the tiger flag.
The soldiers and slave cavalry of the tiger flag fought on the road.
Even the artillery soldiers who squatted the cannons pulled out their waist knives and began to fight with the slave cavalry.
As for loading the tiger squat cannon or loading the musket, there is no time at all. Once you do this, you may not be able to load it and you will be chopped and killed by the slaves approaching you.
Because of the limitations of the bayonet in the hands of the tiger-shaped flag, the bayonets have no advantage in the weapons in the slave rider. The slave rider relies on his body to ride a war horse, and the advantage is even greater.
In terms of number of people, the warriors on the tiger-shaped flag are not as good as those on the slave cavalry.
The most important thing in this kind of close-kill is personal courage. The tiger-shaped flag is equivalent to giving up its own advantages and hitting the long one with a short attack.
Chapter completed!