"Your Highness is right! Order the soldiers not to waste the grenades in their hands, and do not throw them away without my order!" Cao Xing ordered again.
After saying these words, he turned his head and looked at the gathering place of the Salha tribe not far away, and said with a smile: "Let's see how Salha drives these auxiliary soldiers!"
"Mostly by forcing him. He will never charge into the battle with his main force right now!" Song Xuan said with a smile.
"Then let's see how he forces it!"
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"Charge again immediately!" Salha looked at the soldiers in front of him and ordered loudly.
"General, the Ming army's grenades are too scary, especially since they are hiding behind the smoke. Before we rush into the smoke, we can't even see whether they are planning to use grenades. After we rush in, even if we see that they are planning to use grenades, it is already gone.
It's too late." Someone said.
"Don't worry, the Ming army won't have many grenades." Salha had to patiently persuade: "The Ming army is originally a firearms unit. Soldiers need to carry projectiles and gunpowder. It is impossible to carry many grenades on the battlefield at the same time."
"Now our army has surrounded less than 20,000 Ming troops. As long as they are eliminated, we can severely hit the Ming army, and even take the opportunity to defeat the Ming army and win the war. Therefore, we must continue to attack the enemy in front of us. Moreover, as long as
After defeating the Ming army, the Great Khan will never begrudge the rewards, and you will also be able to get many slaves."
Seeing that these auxiliary soldiers were still hesitant, he added: "Also, have you forgotten the believers of Allah who died in the hands of the Ming army? If Timur Khan was defeated and retreated, the Ming army would not have pursued them to Samarkand.
They will at least chase them to Alashankou. Once everyone is captured by the Ming army, they will probably be killed! Even if they are not killed, they will be slaves for the rest of their lives, doing the hardest and most tiring work until they die, even if they don’t have women.
You have children! Are you willing to live like this?"
What was different from what Song Xuan and Cao Xing expected was that Salha would not use coercion to get the auxiliary troops to go into battle. Although Timur defined these people as cannon fodder, he rarely showed that they were cannon fodder.
It means, especially this time to conquer the Ming Kingdom, and the Ming Kingdom is undoubtedly a pagan country. The auxiliary soldiers he recruited are all people who believe in the Tianfang Sect, and he has been using the Tianfang Sect to unite them and make them willing to fight.
Instead of being forced to fight, Salha certainly followed Timur's example and used various methods to persuade them.
Hearing Salha's words, these people were moved. The Ming Dynasty's persecution of Tianfang believers was open. They had heard about it long ago and saw it after the Eastern Expedition. They knew that Salha's words were right.
.So for myself, I can only fight desperately.
"Allahu Akbar!" They revived their morale and launched another charge against Cao Xing's tribe.
Cao Xing was very puzzled by this, but now was not the time to think about it. When he saw the Xilu howling and charging, he ordered the soldiers to load their ammunition, prepare grenades, and put their spears and sabers in appropriate positions, ready to fight with them at any time.
Xilu fights.
Encouraged by Salha, the Xilu launched an attack with extremely high morale. Of course, they were still afraid of being killed by a grenade in the smoke last time, so they did not dare to rush in rashly. Each time they just approached the smoke and fired arrows.
Withdrew and then charged again.
At the same time, Timur also ordered the artillery to launch artillery attacks on Cao Xing's troops. Facing the unstoppable artillery, Cao Xing had no choice but to order to dodge; Salha took the opportunity to command the cavalry to charge when the Ming army was dodging, even if there were people
He didn't even care about being killed by his own artillery shells.
Cao Xing had to order his soldiers not to dodge and to stick to their positions. The war became fierce again.
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"Brother, brother, what's wrong with you!" A soldier cried, holding a man wearing a sixth-grade official uniform in his arms.
"Brother is dying. Put him down quickly and prepare to defend yourself against the enemy!" The man in his arms opened his mouth and said with difficulty.
"But," of course he knew what his eldest brother said was right, but this was his eldest brother. If he let go now, he would never see him again.
"Lao San, put down your elder brother quickly and prepare to deal with Xilu." At this time, a voice suddenly came from beside him.
"Second brother, I..." Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by his second brother: "What are you waiting for!" Not only that, his second brother also snatched his eldest brother from his arms and put him carefully
On a relatively flat ground, he put Lao San's blunderbuss into his hand and pulled him to face the Xilu who was about to rush over.
During this process, Lao San was basically numb. It wasn't until the "fire" command came that he reacted and fired all three projectiles from the gun in his hand, while shouting: "You damn idiots"
Hey, I'm going to kill you all!"
Baihu, who commanded them after Baihu died in battle, frowned when he saw this. According to the tactical regulations, he could not fire all three projectiles at once, but thinking about his eldest brother Liu Fa who had just been shot to death by Xilu's bow and arrow, he did not
say what.
The third child named Liu Shu reloaded the ammunition with anger, and fired all three projectiles again after Xilu rushed over again.
But this time he did the right thing. As Xilu's cannons bombarded them, nearly a hundred steps away from their formation were the cannons' bombardment range. Some of the shells fired by the cannons were mixed with unknown substances and still contained smoke.
As a result, they could not clearly see the movements of the Xilu cavalry even if they did not fire, and could only rely on the vibrations from the ground to judge.
But this time Salha adopted a very despicable approach. He had just finished bombarding his cannons and before the smoke cleared, he ordered the cavalry to dismount and lead their horses forward until they were less than fifty steps away from the Ming army's formation.
Only then did he mount his horse and charge.
The general Ming army soldiers fired one round of projectiles and were still waiting for the opportunity to fire the second round. When they found that Xilu had rushed in front of them, they were a little panicked. Fortunately, they had been trained for a long time and most of them had been on the battlefield, so the panic only lasted.
He came back to his senses in a moment, hurriedly fired the projectiles in the three-eyed fire gun in his hand, and then swung the fire gun in his hand and smashed it at the Xilu who was rushing over.
The spears in Xilu's hands also stabbed at them. In most places, the cavalry could not rush in because of the blockade. They could only use bows, arrows and spears to fight with the Ming army. They had to eliminate the Ming soldiers guarding the block before crossing over.
Of course, the Ming army couldn't let them get what they wanted and fought back desperately.
This was relatively easy. However, gaps had been opened in some places by Xilu's cannons. Even if the gap was not big, it was not easy to block. The Ming army could only try their best to block the Xilu's cavalry while looking for something to block the gap.
Dozens of Xilu cavalry shouted slogans and rushed towards a gap, while they kept firing arrows into the gap.
"Quick, ten of you raise your spears as a spear formation to stop the Xilu; ten of you quickly find something that can block the gap, and the remaining people are ready to fight with the Xilu at any time." Commander-in-Chief Liu Jiaotong
The voice commanded.
The people who were assigned to stop the Xilu stepped forward with a tragic spirit. Under the command of Xiaoqi, the ten people were divided into two rows to form a dense formation to completely block the gap. They raised their spears and formed a formation to stop the Xilu.
Seeing this, Xilu, who was leading the charge, ordered the horses to be blindfolded and continued to charge, even if all his horses were sacrificed.
Soon, these horses rushed to the spear formation because they could not see the front clearly. The moment the spear pierced their bodies, they knew that they had been deceived by the riders on the back. However, they could no longer turn at this time and could only rely on inertia.
Under the influence of the force, he screamed while continuing to charge forward, causing the spear to completely penetrate into his body, and then he fell to the ground.
The Ming army soldiers who lost their spears immediately retreated and hid behind the second row of spears. They took down the firecrackers originally hanging on their backs and pointed them forward to fire.
But Xilu still rushed forward regardless, making it extremely difficult to close the gap.
Cao Xing's teeth were almost broken when he looked at the soldiers who were struggling to fight the Xilu. He kept looking in the direction of the Chinese army camp and looked at Lan who was fighting fiercely with Jesbu and Tieletai who were blocking reinforcements.
The soldiers under Zhen and others kept saying: "Why can't we break through Xilu! Why can't we break through Xilu!"
"Cao Xing!" Ji Ye had to say: "It has only been less than half an hour, but they have already made progress, and they will rush over in another half hour! Don't be so anxious! Besides, it's useless for you to be anxious."
"Hey!" Cao Xing just sighed and said nothing. Ji Ye was only in their army these days, and he didn't have the feelings he had for the left and right guards of the government army. He felt very sad every time someone died, Ji Ye
How could Ye understand?
After Cao Xing sighed, he continued to look at the soldiers in front of him who were resisting the Xilu. When he saw where there was danger, he ordered soldiers from other places to rush over to support them. At the same time, he occasionally glanced at the direction in which the reinforcements were coming.
Suddenly he heard Song Xuan say: "Cao Xing, General Xu has sent another cavalry to charge into the formation."
"The cavalry is not easy to use!" Cao Xing looked back casually and said at the same time.
But at this moment, the Xilu in front of the newly charging cavalry actually retreated, leaving a huge gap in the entire Xilu blocking line. Cao Xing could almost see that even the cavalry leader
The generals were confused, but they came to their senses in an instant and led their men to charge in through the gap, breaking the Xilu's line.
Seeing that their front line was broken, the Xilu on both sides wanted to block the gap at first, but the Ming army rushed over to protect this precious gap. Seeing this, the Xilu completely collapsed and fled backwards
go.
"That's great!" Seeing this, Cao Xing shouted happily.
But then he was a little confused: "What's going on? Why did the Xilu retreat in the face of this cavalry that came later?"
However, no one could answer this question, so he reacted and asked again: "Which guard station does this cavalry belong to?"
"Look at the flag, it's the Yongming left guard and the Korean army."
