Chapter 589: Inducing cannons, not fearing life and death

Li Gufeng, the general of Liao Town, was very satisfied with the sudden shelling result. He started the strangulation of the two light cavalry before the formation, which made him feel a little scared. He was a veteran officer who had been a long time and fought with various Mongolian tribes for no time once or twice.

I have seen the power of the elite barbarian cavalry on the grassland, the Tatars and the Wats disappeared, the Jurchen tribe disappeared, and the enemies encountered by Liao Town have become those horse bandits who are not at all on the table, but I did not expect that I could still see such powerful soldiers today.

However, he was also a little happy, because the thirty red-clothed general cannons he brought had played a huge role just now, and the light cavalry that the opponent was chasing was overturned by the beaten horse. The opponent's military formation, which was originally shook the sky, had already been silent. For a veteran like him, he naturally knew the impact of morale on the battle. He thought that this time he had the advantage.

Li Gufeng had already begun to instruct the horses of the people below to prepare for the attack forward. At this moment, a long horn sounded from the opposite side, and hundreds of light cavalry rushed towards this side.

Looking at the cavalry's clothes, they were the cavalry that had just been bombarded. At this time, they were rushing forward. The general of Liao Town frowned. He obviously didn't know what the other party wanted to do. A genius general next to him muttered in a low voice:

"Maybe these people are also dead soldiers?"

When Li Gufeng said this, he suddenly remembered that Li Liang, who had returned from a defeat with the cavalry, had already been punished by him, and led the cavalry of that day to serve as the front line. If he survived after the war, it would be a crime of defeat. If he died on the battlefield, it would be a merit or demerit. Could it be that the other cavalrymen were also in this way? Li Gufeng, the general of Liao Town, thought he had gotten the answer, but he was not worried. Anyway, he would just get the gun and bombard it back.

However, these light cavalry did not get close to each other. When they arrived at the middle of the two armies, they happened to be where artillery could not be attacked. They would not listen to the scolding and show their power. Naturally, they did not know what the scolding formation was, so they were just some dirty words to activate emotions. If the Ming army's professional scolding formation officers and soldiers came forward, it would be really exciting.

There is no regulating effect, but it is also angering noise there. If you ignore it, your morale will decline so quickly. Li Gufeng continued to give orders. Soon after, the light cavalry who had returned to the formation was scattered again, galloping on his horse to prepare to face the enemy.

At this time, these Ming cavalry were quite confident in their hearts. If they could not defeat, they could retreat to the range of their artillery, and they had no worries at all.

This time, the cavalry of the Huazhou Army was very scattered, almost two rows of loose cavalry pulled apart, shouting loudly and provoking, and the horses were all still there. The cavalry of the Ming army rushed to the front with full momentum. Just as they were about to raise the swords and guns in their hands, they saw the Huazhou cavalry sitting upright raised their bows and arrows and muskets. The Ming cavalry running over was a target.

There was no way to hide. The Ming army screamed and fell down. There were many horses without knights on the battlefield. Some horses were still wailing around their fallen masters, and some were frightened and dragged their masters' bodies around and ran around. The remaining knights were panicked. What ambitions there were there, and they ran desperately towards the back.

These cavalrymen in Huazhou, the cavalry led by Tian Guangsan, seemed to have no memory and chased after them. The Ming army there also knew how to deal with it. The red-clothed generals inside were calibrated and prepared, and the large and small artillery were also on standby.

However, if you observe carefully, you will find that although the cavalry in Huazhou are chasing, their speed is not galloping on horseback, but hanging their speed there.

Sure enough, after a certain range from the Ming army formation, a loud rumbling sound appeared again, and a roar sounded in the air. However, this time, because the speed of the Northern Army in Huazhou was originally very slow and did not enter the range of the artillery too deeply. At this time, they turned their horses and accelerated toward the opposite direction.

The shells were flying in mid-air for a short time, but the time difference between the cavalry in Huazhou was enough. Except for the cavalry that landed on the back, the rest of the people escaped, one died, and two of them were broken by the jumper and fell from it.

Fortunately, this time it was at the edge of the range, and the formation was quite scattered, so there were few casualties.

But what happened next surprised Liao Zhen soldiers. After being bombarded, the cavalry in Huazhou did not leave the dangerous area. Instead, they made various immediate playful moves and were still provoking. I don’t know whether it was a brave or reckless behavior, but they really made the Ming army’s cavalry lose their faces.

The hand-to-hand combat could not defeat the opponent. The opponent's fire guns and bows were hit by the opponent's fire guns and arrows. What courage did there be? The Ming army officers all jumped and cursed, but they had no choice but to do anything. Regardless of whether the opponent was in the range of the artillery, they all urged the artillery to fire.

The Huazhou cavalry was far away from the Ming army's formation. Only their red-clothed general cannons could be hit by this place. The level of the red-clothed general cannons is actually the eight-pound and nine-pound field cannons in Europe, which is about 800 steps to 1,000 steps.

However, the distance of the jump can be extended for a while, but this is always a disadvantage. At present, the cavalry of the Ming army did not dare to fight, so they could only hope that the artillery could be fired. Four or five artillery fired continuously at the orders of officers at all levels. The artillery and officers found that the artillery had been overheated, so they stopped the artillery.

At this time, the Ming army was no longer morale. The four or five hundred light cavalry over there were provoking back and forth in front of their formation. Even though more than a dozen cavalrymen were killed by artillery, they had no intention of retreating. Such courage and courage were indeed inexplicable.

The general of Liao Town, Li Gufeng, had a gloomy face. His morale was already in the sense of host and guest. He also admired the coach on the opposite side. He was willing to throw such a brave man under his command out to die. He didn't know how to consider the importance of it.

Tian Guangsan on the other side laughed and said, after a while, he saw that the other party's artillery was no longer firing. He sneered at the Ming army's formation a few times, and asked for a short spear to pass, and inserted it in front of him, then took the horse to walk a few steps toward the side, and inserted another spear.

The extremely brave cavalry suddenly whistled and ran back towards the formation. The soldiers of the Huazhou Army saw that their colleagues were so brave. Although they could not clamor without any rules like the Ming army, they were also emotional. They used weapons to hit the shields, shouting loudly, "Huazhou Wansheng", and the battlefield was thundering.

Li Gufeng waved his hand and ordered his personal guards to continue to ask the decisive cavalry led by Li Liang to prepare for the battle and charge. It seems that they have to rely on each other's real swords and guns to compete.

At this moment, I suddenly saw more than 30 carriages running out on one side of the Huazhou military formation, all of which were dragged by eight horses. Each carriage was surrounded by more than a dozen soldiers, and the soldiers were sitting on the cannon carriages, and the carriages were moving openly in front of the formation.

When it was almost time for the center of the formation, the carriage stopped and the soldiers were busy as if they were crazy, dismantling the gun mounts and carrying shells.

Soon, the thirty cannons were arranged completely in front of the formation. After some people made some training moves, some people shouted, and the thirty cannons had already started.

From beginning to end, the officers of the Ming army's formation watched helplessly, and even didn't know what the other party was going to do. The cannons bought in the West were extremely heavy. Whether they were dragging or transporting, they would consume a lot of manpower and horsepower. Who would have thought that the other party would transport the cannons so easily and start firing at such a fast speed.

Although there were thirty cannons, the howling sound far exceeded the momentum of the Ming army's artillery just now. The reason was that the artillery soldiers were uniformly moving. Although they fired fire in turn, the sound of the cannons was connected.

On the Ming army's artillery position, the officer who was commanding the artillery saw Huazhou launching the artillery so quickly. He knew the truth and never thought that this could be done so quickly. When he saw someone issued an order on the other side, the Ming army's artillery officer suddenly ran out in the opposite direction, shouting:

"Disasp, disaspair..."

Then his voice was drowned in the loud noise of the shells falling behind him. Huazhou's artillery was extremely carefully cast, and the ammunition was set in a fixed quantity, rather than being launched based on experience. All the artillery soldiers repeated the mechanical movements day after day.

Therefore, once applied on the battlefield, the speed is much faster than that of the Ming army. The cavalry's circle and tease just now are to figure out the approximate range of the Ming army's artillery position. The Ming army's method of blocking artillery is the same as that of the Huazhou army, with a row of people holding flags standing in front of them.

After judging the position, the artillery of this era has no accurate head, but the approximate direction coverage is always effective. Moreover, the artillery in Huazhou can fire its own artillery to the point where it cannot support it. It fires the cannon without any scruples. The soldiers around the artillery formation of the Ming army no longer care about the formation, but just run to other places, the farther away from the artillery formation, the better, and I wish my parents could give me more legs.
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