Shen Lie pricked up his ears and listened for a while, and could only hear a few faint howls of wolves in the biting night wind in the frontier fortress.
"Is it?"
Looking at the old pawn with a serious face, Shen Lie was filled with suspicion.
And at this moment.
Several sharp screams sounded not far away.
There was a flash of fire.
The sound of war horses neighing sounded.
"What the hell!"
Suddenly.
Shen Lie was so frightened that he instinctively clenched the flintlock gun in his hand and aimed towards the direction where the firelight and the sound of fighting came.
But soon found that his camp was quiet.
There was no attack.
The one being attacked was actually the camp of the Pingyao Escort Bureau not far away. With the sound of horse hooves and shouts of death, Shen Lie breathed a sigh of relief, but soon cold sweat broke out from his forehead.
"His grandma's."
Shen Lie, who was still in shock, screamed, calmed down and said softly: "Let's go and take a look."
The old pawn nodded and consciously led the way, his rickety figure walking through the dark night like a civet.
Shen Lie and several of his men followed closely behind him.
In a blink of an eye, I arrived behind an abandoned stone house. I squatted in the corner and watched in the firelight. The enemy cavalry appeared out of nowhere in the dark night and were shooting arrows around the escort carriage of the Pingyao Escort Bureau.
The people from the Pingyao Escort Bureau were hiding behind the escort vehicle and firing back with their bows and arrows.
For a moment, arrows were like locusts.
Screams and the neighing of war horses sounded from time to time.
Although he was not the first brother of Zhanzhen, Shen Lie had witnessed Tianjin Zuowei's major grain robbery case at Tongzhou Pier, but this time it was different from that night.
Hiding behind the ruins and looking at the empty horses' backs running around, Shen Lie broke out in cold sweat again.
This scene is really weird.
In the dark night.
Shen Lie could only see empty horses and arrows flying in the air, but he couldn't even find anyone. Only after careful observation could he vaguely see the enemy horse hanging on the side of the horse's belly and moving about.
This move seems to be called hiding inside.
Feeling the arrows shot from under the horse's belly from time to time, this scene made Shen Lie feel ashamed. Now he could see how powerful the Tatars were.
What comes out on paper will eventually feel shallow.
The cavalry who grew up on horses, the Mongolian light cavalry who once conquered the world, have eaten, lived, and even slept with their war horses since childhood.
With such superb riding skills, the man and the horse become one, and for a moment, people feel an irresistible feeling of powerlessness.
Shen Lie felt that he had been deceived by those later film and television works. The Mongolian cavalry would not ride their horses stupidly and charge at the enemy with their backs straight.
Instead, they have a lot of tricks. The cavalry is very good at using the strong bodies of war horses to protect themselves, and war horses are naturally much stronger than people.
"this……"
Shen Lie was sweating coldly.
How can we fight if we can't even find anyone?
If you can't shoot people, you can only shoot horses. However, the escorts use soft bows, which are weak in power. They are not equipped with armor-piercing arrows, so shooting on war horses will not be fatal at all.
In chaos.
Shen Lie was numb.
Licking his chapped lips and looking behind him, several Tianjin Zuowei disciples also shrank their necks and tightened their grip on the muskets in their hands.
But I don't know what to do.
At this moment, the young people of Tianjin Zuowei, who have high self-esteem, feel as if their enthusiasm has been poured with cold water. Only after seeing it can you realize the fighting power that Tianjin Zuowei is proud of.
There is a huge gap compared to these prairie light cavalry.
until.
There was a bang and a flash of fire.
A figure flashed out from behind an escort car. It was the heroic-looking Mr. Li. He held a musket and fired at an enemy rider.
As the war horse screamed, its huge body weighing several hundred kilograms seemed to have been struck by lightning. The horse stumbled and fell down, making a loud bang.
"Bang bang bang."
The sound of muskets exploded everywhere, and the escorts of the Pingyao Escort Bureau emerged from behind the escort carriage one after another. They showed off their matchlock guns at the bottom of the carriage and began to inflict casualties on the enemy cavalry.
Shen Lie seemed to be relieved and wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand. At this moment, his thoughts gradually became condensed.
He finally understood what the emergence of muskets meant to the Mongolian cavalry.
The vitality of a war horse is very tenacious. Even if it is hit by a few or even a dozen arrows, it may not be enough. Sometimes it will be stimulated even crazier.
But the musket...
But it only takes one shot.
Being hit by a musket is a wound as big as a bowl. No matter how strong a war horse is in the world, it will fall to death on the spot. At this moment.
Shen Lie finally understood why the Ming army was able to drive the Mongols away from the Central Plains with their crude guns and artillery.
I also suddenly understood why the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which started out as a mounted shooter, wanted to ban muskets.
As the musketeers from the Pingyao Escort Bureau suddenly opened fire, they successfully knocked down several cavalrymen.
But as several musketeers retreated to reload their ammunition, in an instant, the positions where those musketeers were were hit by several powerful arrows.
An escort armed with a matchlock screamed and fell down.
And it seems.
The brave young master of the Li family was also suppressed and could not raise his head. He hurriedly put his head out and fired a shot, and then there was no more sound.
Shen Lie's heart skipped a beat.
"grown ups."
at this time.
A nervous Zuo Wei disciple came over and asked Shen Lie: "Sir... shall we fight?"
The words fell.
Several pairs of eyes from all around looked over at the same time, and there was some unconcealable expectation in those anxious and nervous gazes.
Under the watchful eyes of his subordinates.
Think about it.
Shen Lie gritted his teeth and said, "Hit!"
What nonsense?
This is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also a traffic artery. The escort team of the Ming Dynasty was attacked here. If we dare not take care of it, if this matter spreads out.
Where should I put my Dongchang face?
This is the order.
The morale of the soldiers at the front and back was greatly boosted. They hurriedly lowered their heads to check the ammunition, took out the fire breakers from their arms, and carefully lit the match ropes.
Ready for battle.
Shen Lie left two men to guard the camp. He himself took two old soldiers and a dozen or so soldiers to sneak past the fierce battle.
In the dark night.
Shen Lie turned around and roughly counted, and found that fifteen or six people were all present. He waved his hand and led his men to find a broken wall as a bunker.
Then, according to the usual drills, fifteen or six muskets were divided into three rows behind the bunker, and the black muskets were aimed at the enemy cavalry who were having fun on the official road.
Under the leadership of the two veterans, side fire seemed to be formed intentionally or unintentionally.
Then Shen Lie straightened up the black flintlock musket, pointed it at a vague shadow of a cavalryman, and choked out a word between his teeth.
"put!"
Several gunshots rang out.
Five or six muskets in the front row fired one after another.
As a burst of fire flickered, smoke rose.
But the majestic and fierce enemy rider looked like a fallen leaf in the autumn wind, with blood splashing everywhere after being beaten, and then fell to one side.
The front row retreated and the rear row stepped forward, and five or six more muskets were set up and fired at the enemy arcades concentrated on the official road in the night.
Lower your head.
Taking out the gunpowder wrapped in oil paper from his arms, Shen Lie began to load it hurriedly. In the pungent gunpowder smoke, the power of these three-stage gunfire was immediately revealed.
Under sustained fire.
The enemy cavalry on the official road instantly became a mess.
