After separating from Hu Guozhu, Xia Wanchun and others, Zhu Cijiong called Xu Wuniu to him.
"Xu Wuniu, let's change positions today." Zhu Cijiong said with a smile, "I will lead the scout team to explore the road, and you will follow up with the Qianqi team, how about it?"
"Prince Ding, how can this be done?" Xu Wuniu's face turned green when he heard this.
Let King Ding make you the scout captain? What are you thinking? This is absolutely not possible.
"What? Are you unhappy?" Zhu Cijiong's face fell.
"It seems that it is necessary for me, the king, to relocate you and transfer you to the infantry town."
"No, please don't, King Ding." As soon as Xu Wuniu heard this, he quickly begged for mercy.
Having been a cavalryman, especially having tasted the taste of a scout cavalry, Xu Wuniu no longer wanted to be an infantryman. How could being an infantryman be as majestic as a cavalryman? More importantly, the cavalryman could ride his war horse back to his hometown when he was on family leave. She
Xu Wuniu has long been looking forward to the day when he will take family leave and ride back to his hometown on a high horse.
By then, not only will the parents' faces be bright, but the matchmaker will also be able to step into their family's shoes.
He can choose the most beautiful woman from ten miles and eight towns to be his wife, and that life will be beautiful.
After convincing Xu Wuniu with "reason", Zhu Cijiong set off with the scout team.
At this time, there were Mongolian cavalry everywhere near the more than 900-mile coastline between Dengzhou and Dagukou, so Zhu Cijiong led more than ten cavalry not far forward when they encountered the Mongolian cavalry at night.
Not accepted.
The Mongolian cavalry had about thirty cavalry that stayed at night. Perhaps relying on their numerical advantage, they did not rush to escape, but only sent one who stayed at night to report the news to the large group of cavalry.
The remaining cavalrymen scattered in all directions. She
In the constant battles with the Ming army cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry also summed up experience.
The flintlocks of the Ming Army are indeed sharper than bows and arrows, but their firing rate is much slower than that of bows and arrows. Therefore, if the two sides are hedging, the Ming Army cavalry usually only has one chance to shoot. If the shot fails, it is their turn to show off their bows and arrows.
Of course, if the Ming army had enough cavalry and dismounted and formed a line formation, they could flee as far as they wanted.
But now the Ming army's scout cavalry only had a dozen cavalry, so the Mongolian cavalry felt that an opportunity had come, and they immediately dispersed in all directions, and then quickly approached from different directions.
Zhu Cijiong smiled and raised the Type 20 rifle equipped with a "scope".
Soon, Zhu Cijiong locked a Mongolian cavalry through the scope. The distance between the two sides was at least 500 steps. Because the distance was far enough, the Mongolian cavalry was defenseless and stood up from the horse with its upper body.
She raised the muzzle of the gun slightly, then gently pulled the trigger, and a gunshot rang out.
"Bah!" A gunshot rang out, and after about a second, the Mongolian cavalry fell from the horse's back.
The other Mongolian cavalry were startled for a moment, and they all retracted their bodies to the side of the saddle, while speeding up their horses and entering sprint speed in advance, obviously wanting to quickly engage in close combat with the Ming army.
Zhu Cijiong reloaded the machine as quickly as possible.
Paper shell fixed ammunition and gauze primer bags are really great inventions.
It only took less than six seconds for Zhu Cijiong to finish reloading.
During this period, the Mongolian cavalry only rushed forward more than fifty steps, and they were still more than 400 steps away.
Zhu Cijiong raised his gun again, this time it was no longer aimed at people, but at horses, because the Mongolian cavalry had hid on the side of the saddle and could no longer see the people. She
"Bah!" Another crisp gunshot sounded.
In the field of vision, the galloping war horse immediately fell to the ground, and the Mongolian cavalry on the horse was also thrown away.
Almost at the same time, more than ten scout cavalrymen around Zhu Cijiong also opened fire. The Type 20 rifles of these scout cavalrymen were not equipped with scopes, so the hit rate was very embarrassing.
However, two horses were still killed or wounded.
One of the war horses was injured but not dead, and it whined loudly.
The remaining Mongolian cavalry were stunned. What was going on?
It’s not like I haven’t fought against the Ming Army’s scout cavalry before. In most cases, the Ming Army’s scout cavalry would only fire after both sides entered a hundred steps, and rarely would fire beyond a hundred steps. She
But this time, the two sides actually opened fire despite being separated by 500 steps of Ming army scout cavalry?
What makes them even more frightened is that it can actually hit even five hundred steps away? Oh my god, how can the self-generated fire blunderbuss of the Ming army's scout cavalry hit so far?
However, these Mongolians still did not give up easily.
Ye Bushou are all elites among the Mongolian cavalry, and they have a stronger will to fight.
The remaining twenty riders continued to speed up, trying to shorten the distance as much as possible.
However, what awaited them was an extremely tragic fate, because these dozen Ming army scout cavalry were all equipped with rifled rifles, and the bullets they used were smokeless powder bullets, which had greater kinetic energy and a longer range.
Imagine the 12.8mm large-caliber rifle ammunition of later generations, with that power.She
What's even more terrible is that the loading speed of the Ming army's rifled rifles is also very fast.
For a flintlock gun, the reloading time is less than six seconds, which is extremely fast.
In six seconds, no matter how fast a war horse runs, it can only move forward fifty or sixty steps. It takes at least six or seven six seconds to complete four hundred steps, which is almost half a minute. It is enough for each Ming army scout cavalry to fire at least five shots.
The final result can be imagined. The Mongolian cavalry was completely wiped out and there was no chance of escape.
When only half of the Mongolian cavalry were left, they finally got scared and turned their horses' heads to run away.
But at this time, the distance between the two sides was less than a hundred steps, how could they escape?
Soon, all the Mongolian war horses that had been waiting for the night were shot and killed, but the people were still alive, so they all jumped up, threw off their bow legs and ran away like crazy. She
Zhu Cijiong waved his hand, and more than ten scout cavalrymen dispersed.
The Ming army's scout cavalry followed leisurely behind the Mongolian Ye Bu Suu without his horse, shooting one after another, like hunting rabbits, and shot all the more than thirty Ye Bu Suu in the wilderness.
This is by no means a fair fight, but a dimensionality reduction attack.
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Two days later, Hong Chengchou, who was far away in Jinghai, received the news.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, Hong Chengchou did not take Bart's defeat to heart.
Because Bart's defeat was more due to falling into the Ming army's trick, mistook the Ming army infantry for the people's grain transport team, and suffered a big loss unprepared. She
Therefore, as long as we are vigilant, this kind of thing will not happen again.
However, the cruel reality soon dealt Hong Chengchou a heavy blow.
Since then, reports of the defeat of Eight Banners Mongolia have been received almost every day.
Either the Thousand Cavalry team was attacked, or the Ye Bu Shuang team was severely damaged.
What worries Hong Chengchou even more is that the Eight Banners Mongolia's losses are increasing day by day.
Ten days later, on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Eight Banner Mongolian casualties had accumulated to 4,000!
Because the situation was too passive, the Eight Banners Mongolia was forced to stay away from the coast of Laizhou Bay and retreated to the vicinity of Jinghai. She
After the Eight Banners Mongolia withdrew, the Ming army's food road from Dengzhou to Dagukou immediately became busy again.
"Hong Butang, we can't go on like this!" Kong Youde said solemnly, "In just half a month, the Eight Banners Mongolia has actually lost more than 4,000 cavalry. What's even more troublesome is that the Eight Banners Mongolia has obviously been frightened by the Ming army's cavalry.
, or it could be said that there is already a shadow over the civilian transport team posing as Ming army infantry, and they dare not take action again."
"Hou Shenjun?" Hong Chengchou turned to Hou Fangyu, "What do you think?"
Hou Fangyu's brows were already furrowed. He had not expected this situation.
Hou Fangyu couldn't understand why the good situation suddenly turned into this.
Is it because of the Ming army’s cavalry? However, the Ming army’s cavalry only had seven or eight thousand, while the Eight Banners Mongolia had a full 40,000. The number of cavalry on both sides was not of the same magnitude at all!
Are the Ming cavalry really that powerful? She
Hou Fangyu couldn't figure it out even if he thought about it.
"Hong Butang, I really don't understand."
"The Eight Banners Mongolia has 40,000 elite cavalry, so why can't they defeat the Ming army's 8,000 cavalry?"
After a pause, Hou Fangyu said again: "Why don't we find some Mongolians and ask them what's going on? How did they fight this battle? Why couldn't they win?"
"It makes sense, I should ask clearly."
Hong Chengchou immediately asked Hong Da to find the Eight Banners Mongolia.
Not long after, a dozen Mongolian soldiers were brought to the camp. She
Hong Chengchou interrogated each of these dozen Mongolian soldiers.
The first person to be questioned was Agula, the deputy capital of the Eight Banners Mongolia.
Hou Fangyu said: "Agula means 'mountain' in Mongolian. I believe that the Agula commander on the battlefield must be as calm as a mountain. However, I heard that your five Niulu cavalry were unexpectedly attacked."
The Ming army was defeated by a thousand cavalry? Please tell me, Deputy Commander Agula, why?"
"Nothing else, because we really can't defeat the Ming army."
Agu La had a look of shame on his face, he was also sad that he couldn't defeat the Ming army.
But no matter how sad I felt, I couldn't help it. The Ming army's firearms were too sharp.
Hong Chengchou said: "Can you tell me why I can't defeat the Ming cavalry?" She
"Because the firearms of the Ming army are too sharp." Agula said, "Not only can they hit accurately, but they can also hit farther. They are much farther than the self-generated fire guns of our Qing Dynasty."
"How far is it?" Kong Youde asked.
Agula said: "Our Qing Dynasty's self-generated fire cannons can only hit one or two hundred steps, but the Ming army's cavalry's self-generated fire cannons can hit four or five hundred steps, and even one shot can be fired from four hundred steps away."
Kill the war horse!"
"How could the weapons of the Ming Dynasty be so sharp?" Hong Chengchou and Hou Fangyu suddenly changed their expressions.
"Is there such a thing?" Kong Youde didn't believe it, "Why don't I believe it?"
Agula had no respect for Kong Youde: "If King Pingnan doesn't believe it, you can try it."
Hong Chengchou and others then interrogated a dozen other Mongolian soldiers and found that their rhetoric was similar. She
Now there was no reason why Kong Youde didn't believe it, because these dozen Mongolian soldiers came from more than a dozen thousand cavalry groups. Even if they lied, they couldn't make up a story in such a short time and have a unified narrative.
"Hong Budang, it seems this is true." Kong Youde said solemnly.
"The cavalry of the Ming Army are really equipped with a very powerful self-generated fire gun."