If a person is unlucky, drinking cold water will cause his teeth to be stuck and farts will hit his feet in the heel.

Just as Manguertai ordered the retreat, it suddenly started to rain in the sky, and the spring rain poured down from the cracks of the clouds.

Looking up at the sky, the cold spring rain, Mangguertai was so excited that he wanted to cry. Now he seemed to be in a glorious way, the three Beile, one of the four Beilees who were the best in Jiannu, were actually dancing on the tip of the knife and had no way out.

Just like now, the loss of more than two thousand people in this battle. As long as he escapes in shame, Huang Taiji will never let him go. If he expects Huang Taiji to let him go, it would be better to expect the hungry wolf to eat vegetarian food and Bumu Butai can protect himself as much as jade.

Others don’t know why Daishan lost the Khan ranks first. However, Manguertai knew very well that this was because of the conspiracy of the eighth emperor Huang Taiji, who instructed Bumubutai to seduce Dabeird Daishan. And Daishan and Bumubutai were in conflict with each other, and the fight was fierce.

The key is that one of Nurhaci's concubines is Belemingan's daughter and Bumubutai's aunt. Once Bumubutai dated Daishan, but Bumubutai took a shower with his aunt. Daishan confusedly ran into his father's concubine. It was reported that Daishan had an affair with Nurhaci's concubine, which aroused Nurhaci's dissatisfaction.

But Lao Ba pretended to be a good person and promised a lot of good things.

Now the rain in the sky is getting heavier and heavier, mixed with the scattered blood flowing freely. Many wounded soldiers of Jiannu are shaking in the red blood and wailing in pain. They can't hold on for long.

Jiannu, who was not injured, also stood in the rain. The rain wrapped in blood and followed his sleeves, and his trousers were poured into straight lines to the ground. The faces that were once full of murderous aura were now full of confusion.

Although Mangurtai was Nurhaci's fifth son, in fact, he was the one who fought more fiercely among Nurhaci's philosophers. When he was young, he followed Nurhaci to conquer the Ula tribe, bravely and good at fighting, conquering six cities in a row.

In the fourth year of Tianming (1619), he participated in the Battle of Sarhu. He first followed Nurhaci to wipe out the 60,000 troops led by the Ming general Du Song in Sarhu, and then went south to annihilate more than 40,000 Liu's troops.

In the fifth year of Tianming (1620), he was ordered to pursue the Ming army until Hunhe.

In the eleventh year of Tianming (1626), he attacked the Khalcabalin tribe, led his troops across the river alone, and killed many prisoners.

Now, Yushui has abolished the Liu family's cannons. Although Jiannu's bows and arrows cannot be used, then let's fight to the death!

"Dad, come with me!"

Mangurtai instigated a war horse to rush towards the battlefield where the sound of killing sounds shook the sky. Huang Taiji's brother-in-law Wu Keshan also raised his whip and gritted his teeth.

Any army is a monster fed with victory. The predecessor of the Liu family army, that is, the Tianzi Bureau of the Tianxiong Army. At the beginning of the army, and now they are fighting against Jiannu, they have never had psychological disadvantages for Jiannu, but have absolute psychological advantages.

Another point is that Mangourtai, who saw it raining, did not know much about firearms. He used bulk gunpowder as fired muskets, red cannons, and even tiger squat cannons, which would be affected by rain, but the Bolang machine and son cannons would not be affected by rain.

To be precise, the Flanger cannons are actually Portuguese naval guns. Many Flanger cannons are even directly disassembled from the Portuguese warships. This kind of artillery can be fired even if the shells are soaked in sea water. Because the location of the fuse is sealed with a candle, it will not be affected in a short period of time.

Of course, the musketeers of the Liu family army were unable to fire ammunition, but crossbows were rarely affected. Most of the crossbows, the strings of the crossbows were made of cow tendons, and they would become soft when they soaked in rain. However, the Liu family army equipped some crossbows, which were made of composite materials from later generations. They were placed in water and were not burned by fire, and they would not have much impact.

Looking at the crossbow arrows of the Liu family army were sparse, Manguertai shouted: "Stamp them for me..."

When the Zhenglan Banner cavalry rushed to the front of the Liu family army two hundred steps, thirty-two Folang machines and mother cannons took the lead in speaking, and the thirty-two son cannons fired seven rounds in just a few dozen breaths.

This kind of firing speed can kill the mortars. Thirty-two artillery fired more than 200 shells, so the Zhenglan Banner was blown upside down and into chaos.

Without the order from Manguertai, the cavalry of Zhenglan Banner threw down five or six hundred corpses. In front of them were dense spears and side chariots.

Immediately afterwards, under the influence of inertia, the spearmen of the Liu family army stabbed the Jiannu cavalry to death in front of the formation. Both sides began to fight for their lives.

The spearmen of the Liu family soldiers exchanged with Jiannu almost for life.

When the Liu family army suffered more than 500 casualties, Mangguertai raised his iron palm with a gloomy face and waved it hard.

Jiannu, who was fighting in full swing, suddenly heard the sound of the ox horn, and the surrounding Jiannu cavalry separated the two sides like waves and slowly retreated.

He can fight for his life, let alone one to one-to-one five, even one to five, he can't afford it.

The Mangurtai's Zhenglan Banner is among the Eight Banners, followed by the White Banner, with only twenty Niulu, which means there are only six thousand people in the whole banner. Of course, because Mangurtai is good at fighting, these twenty Niulu are just regular staffing, and he still has a large number of non-staff personnel.

Who would think that the Eight Banners only had twenty-five Niulu, with a total of 7,500 people, would be stupid? Each Jiannu Banner has two to three coated slaves, and more red armored soldiers and white armored soldiers.

Wu Keshan was a little unhappy: "Why don't you beat me?"

He led the Mongolian cavalry to bypass the defense line of the Liu family army and was about to tear open the defense line of Baicao Valley, but received the order from Manguertai to withdraw his troops and felt very unhappy.

Manguertai said angrily: "You want to fight, fight yourself, Lu Xiangsheng is here!"

Wu Keshan looked into the distance, and in the rain, he could vaguely hear the sound of dense horse hooves. When Mangurtai led his troops to attack Baicao Valley, Lu Xiangsheng then received the news. After all, the distance between the two sides was only forty or fifty miles.

If it were other generals, they might take advantage of Jiannu to deal with Liu Minghui's thorn, but Lu Xiangsheng didn't. Instead, he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to chew a piece of meat from Jiannu.

"retreat!"

"retreat!"

While pursuing, Liu Mingyu ordered his subordinates to clean up the battlefield. Now that the Liu family army has established its own guns and cannon bureau, Liu Mingyu is not interested in the current fuse-style musket. To put it bluntly, this kind of musket is really impossible to fight against the crossbow machine.

The range of the crossbow machine is longer than that of a musket, and it is cheaper and easier to use. It will not cause quality problems and cause unexpected casualties to the soldiers.

Of course, Liu Mingyu issued four orders to the Guns and Cannon Bureau. First, it was to improve the Thunder Cannon, and to make the twenty-eighth fired muskets easier to load, have a longer range, and have greater power. Secondly, it was to improve the firing method of the muskets. The Ming Dynasty actually already had a flintlock rifle, but the fire silence rate was too high.

The third task is to set up gunpowder, paper-shell bullets, and unified standards. There is no unified standard for muskets nowadays. The lead bullets used by musketmen also fire a piece of lead and make lead bullets according to the caliber of muskets.

The last task is to create rifle and create the flintlock rifled musket of Liu Jiajun.

However, Liu Mingyu did not have his own iron ore. If he bought iron from the market, it would cost at least 100 yuan per kilogram. The iron required to build a musket was about 40 kilograms, and it would be refined into steel first with pig iron. The cost price would cost four taels of silver, not counting labor costs.

Therefore, Jiannu's armor, whether it is cowhide armor, cotton armor, or iron armor, is collected. Even the broken weapons, as long as they are things on the battlefield, must be collected.

Because it was raining, Jiannu's body was not frozen on the ground, but was easy to clean. Looking at the corpses piled up at the entrance of the valley, Lu Xiangsheng smiled and said, "Gongchen, congratulations on another big victory!"

"To be honest, the Liu family army is now facing a major crisis!"

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the medical soldiers of the Liu family army who were treating the wounded soldiers in the rain. He carried the wounded soldiers into the valley one by one, frowned slightly and said, "The casualties are very serious?"

"Not this, more than 300 people were killed, more than 400 people were injured, and two or three thousand Jiannu and Mongolians were left behind, which was considered a good advantage!"

Liu Mingyu smiled bitterly and said, "This battle has wiped out all the gunpowder in the army!"

"Let me do this, I'll transfer you another five thousand kilograms of gunpowder!"

"Five thousand jin?"

Liu Mingyu sighed and said, "What's the point of gunpowder for enough? I can use less than 25,000 kilograms of gunpowder in this battle. I bought it in the capital and seized it in Baicaoshan. Almost all of them were used up!"

Lu Xiangsheng pondered and said, "I will discuss with Lei Shisheng and let him even out some gunpowder for you, but you also know that it is a cheap person who refuses to suffer losses!"

"Sir, at this time, I seized some war horses, but the number was not large. If he gave me 10,000 kilograms of gunpowder, I would give him 100 war horses, and he would not suffer any losses in this business!"

In the Ming Dynasty, the ordinary gunpowder was about three cents of silver, and ten thousand pounds were only three thousand taels of silver. Although it means that the market price of the dynasty was twenty-five taels of silver to thirty taels of silver, the horse politics of the Ming Dynasty had long been abolished, and even if you had money, you could not buy a war horse.

If Lei Shisheng had 100 war horses, he would have agreed. Lei Shisheng's troops are now similar to Liu Mingyu's troops, and have expanded to five or six thousand people, but he is poorer than Liu Mingyu. Not to mention a hundred war horses, he doesn't even have a hundred mules.

"Okay, I'll talk to him, it depends on his opinion."

Liu Mingyu said to Shi Liangcai: "Shi Liangcai, from the war horses we seized, we will select a hundred good horses and send them to Lord Lu now!"

During this battle, Jiannu lost many war horses. Due to the suicide attack of the mule, many war horses were intimidated and ran everywhere. The cavalry company of the Liu family army did not participate in the battle at all and was catching horses throughout the journey.

Lu Xiangsheng did not enter Baicao Valley. If he entered Baicao Valley, he would definitely find that there were thousands of war horses densely packed in Baicao Valley at this time.

This was the biggest gain from Liu Mingyu in this battle. Although he lost more than 200 mules, he seized more than 1,100 war horses, and two or three thousand injured or dead horses.

The soldiers and people of the Liu family army in Baicao Valley have good luck again. They can eat horse meat now. Of course, whether they can continue to eat depends on their ability.

The battlefield is like a Shura field, with organs of the human body everywhere, various internal organs, broken limbs and broken arms, blood and rain mixed together, flowing everywhere.

"Zhao Yuanqing!"

"exist!"

"These horses are left to you. You set up the cavalry regiment of the Liu Family Army for me. You serve as the acting commander. The cavalry regiment is different from the infantry regiment. The cavalry regiment has four companies under its jurisdiction, plus the regiment headquarters, communication platoon, medical platoon, military law platoon, and cavalry reconnaissance company commander. You are personally responsible for the company commander!"

The cavalry regiment is different from the infantry regiment. All supplies are carried with you. The number of people in each cavalry company is slightly lower than that of the infantry company, about 264 people, four companies plus direct platoons, totaling about 1,100 people and more than 1,300 war horses. The excess war horses are used as backup war horses!

The Liu family army fought very beautifully in the first battle, and the soldiers of the entire army were extremely excited.
Chapter completed!