Chapter Thirty The Benevolent
Shen Shikui definitely didn't know that there was an eunuch thinking about being his son-in-law, and Liu Xingxian didn't know that someone was trying to attack his brother.
Both of them are now staring at the front.
In front of them were six rows of soldiers holding guns. The front four rows were brought by Eunuch Wei from Jiangnan, and the back two rows were temporarily recruited to surrender the Japanese.
Shen Shikui and others called these people the gunman, and the iron cannon team if they surrendered to the Japanese.
After discovering a Jurchen cavalry on the left wing, a flag bearer with three flags of different colors on his back immediately walked to the front of the team, pulled out the red pennant on his back and waved it hard.
Meanwhile, a red cigarette cartridge was launched.
"To the left!"
Taro Higashimura loudly ordered his subordinates in a slight Chinese language.
The imperial officers and soldiers in the front four rows immediately turned to the left according to the command, and their movements were neatly arranged, and the Jurchen soldiers who were raided from the left wing instantly turned into the front.
The two rows of temporary recruitment of Japanese surrenders in the back were a little unfamiliar with the orders, but they still turned around like the people in front of them.
"Turn around quickly!"
Du Zheng shouted, and more than a hundred soldiers holding spears quickly turned left, and their movements were obviously scattered compared to those in front of them.
"preparation!"
Taro Higashimura pointed the command knife in his hand forward, and more than 200 musketeers behind quickly picked up the vertical musket and faced the Jurchen cavalry who were shooting horses in front.
De'ambu didn't expect the Ming army to turn so quickly. He also knew the power of the Ming army's muskets, but at this time he could no longer stop and order his troops to dismount and defeat the Ming army's array with bows and arrows. He could only grit his teeth and lower his body, hoping to rush through the Ming army's array with the speed of the war horses and then break through them.
What Shen Shikui, Liu Xingxian and others are most worried about now is whether the gunners in front can block the Jurchen charge. Although there are not many Jurchen cavalry rushing over, there are only two or three hundred cavalry. On the flat terrain, even dozens of cavalry charges will make people feel a sense of fear in their bones.
If the gunmen in front could not kill the Jurchen cavalry in large quantities and let them rush in, the impact of the cavalry would definitely fall on them, the spearmen.
"Let it go! Stay calm!"
Du Zheng was a soldier of the Dingliao Guard and participated in several battles against the Mongols, so he was quite calm.
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The sound of hooves was close at hand, and the command knife of Dongcun still did not slash until the firelight shone, and the Jurchens were clearly visible.
"put!"
Dozens of muskets fired at the same time, but the sound had not yet dissipated. The soldiers who had finished the musket had already squatted down and tore the fixed charge ammunition wrapped in kraft paper with their mouths, poured the gunpowder back into the medicine room of the musket, and poured the lead in another bag into the gun barrel, and then used an iron bar to tinker with it to compact it.
The same was true for the soldiers in the back rows. After the fight, they squatted down to load medicine. The team of gunmen with more than 200 people and six rows rose and fell from time to time like waves.
Every ups and downs must be accompanied by the sound of an ear-exploding gun.
Round after round of shooting, only knocked down the Jurchen soldiers who came on the horse. The dozens of Jurchen soldiers who fell first fell down, and the war horses that were caught in the gun made a sad sound and ran back and forth in front of the formation. Many of the Jurchen soldiers behind closed their eyes and tightened their horses and continued to charge forward, but the moment they opened their eyes, they were already hit by the gun.
The Ming army's guns could not stop at all. God knows how fast they loaded medicine.
The Jurchen soldiers were afraid and puzzled, and Shen Shikui and the others were also unsolved.
It seems that they don't need to participate in this battle.
Many Jurchen soldiers were punched with countless tiny holes, as if they were inlaid, and each hole was bleeding out. They rolled and wailed on the ground like blood gourds, but they were not allowed to die unless their blood was dry.
More than 300 Jurchen cavalry were beaten to pieces in a blink of an eye. The remaining Jurchen soldiers were blocked by their own bodies and were disturbed by running war horses. They were unable to advance or retreat.
De'ambu was watching his war horses in the left and right directions lose their master at the same time. He was confused. He looked at the Ming army that was still undulating in front of him, and at the spearmen who were not moving behind the Ming army gunners, he knew that they could not rush over.
"Retreat, retreat quickly!"
De'anbu was so panicked that he was about to turn his horse's head, but the Ming cavalry that had never been dispatched moved. Their horses were not fast, but for the remaining Jurchen cavalry, it was a more terrifying existence than the Ming army's muskets in front.
Because what cavalry fear the most is cavalry.
They had become prey of the Ming cavalry and they had no way to escape.
The Ming army infantry opposite also launched. With the sharp whistle, the Ming army's gunmen began to advance and suddenly separated while advancing, revealing the Ming army's spearman behind.
The fear erupted in an instant, and the Jurchen soldiers ran away without thinking. The entire team was immediately distracted. The fear of the Ming army that had been suppressed made all the Jurchen soldiers frightened. Many of them finally remembered that the Ming army had always been the most terrifying nightmare for their Jurchens.
Deanbu was also running, he ran in the front, but his mount collided with a vest on the side. Deanbu, who was panicked, accidentally fell off the horse. When he got up, his mount had already run several feet away.
"kill!"
As the general flag, Ding Xiaogong was not very good at riding skills, but he led his troops to the forefront, leading his subordinates to rush forward with a long sword. With a wave of the long sword, he cut off the neck of the opposite Jurchen soldier, and then let out a huge tiger roar and threw the hanging head out with force.
With the cooperation of the cavalry, the infantry brigade commanded by Dongcun easily surrounded the messy Jurchen cavalry.
In order to avoid manslaughter, Dongcun handed over the task of completely eliminating the remaining Jurchen soldiers to the spearmen who were temporarily recruited.
A spear stabbed the Jurchens who were unable to move forward and retreat on the horse. The Jurchens waved their knife in despair and cut off one, but more spears stabbed them.
Like a flock of sheep surrounded by evil wolf, the roars and wails of Jurchens rose and fell.
This was Shen Shikui's first time in the army and his first time to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. However, what was surprising was that this former small vendor seemed to have natural ability to kill people.
It seemed that his movements had no momentum, just mechanically stabbed the spear to Jiannu on the horse, pulled it out and poked it.
This action is not bold or heroic at all, but it is very effective.
Faced with the encirclement of the Ming army, De'anbu pulled out his sword and let out a final roar. Two spears aimed at his left and right chest at the same time, and one spear stabbed through his mouth.
Because he used too much force or stabbed the skull, Shen Shikui's spear was destroyed. Holding the spear rod that lost its spearhead, he stared blankly at the Jurchen man in front of him who had his spearhead "holding" in his mouth and blood "gulu" gulu" gulu" out of his mouth.
Judging from his clothes, he looked like an officer.
Eunuch Wei never ordered the slaughter of the Jurchen soldiers, because he had said that he would slaughter men and women. But because he still felt a little reluctant, he turned his back to Yongdian and silently gnawed the duck that his personal guard had just roasted for him.
This duck was discovered by the river just now. The Jurchens were not nomadic peoples, but farming, fishing, and hunting people like the Han people. Therefore, as long as there is water in the place where they live, they will also fish and raise chickens and ducks.
In this black soil that is killing, in this dark but bloody night, silently gnawing ducks is really something that makes people intoxicated.
De'anbu's tragic attack failed, and his head, which was still "involved" with a spearhead, was thrown into the fort by the Ming army.
The Jurchen soldiers and Han people in the fort finally collapsed. They put down their weapons and knelt down to surrender, but what awaited them was even more cruel slaughter.
The massacre lasted until dawn.
Thousands of corpses fell in pools of blood, and the entire Yongdian Castle was like a hell on earth, and no one could see a living person.
After that, someone asked Eunuch Wei why he was massacred in Yongdian City. Eunuch Wei explained that the reason he did this was to reduce more killings.
Chapter completed!