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Chapter 778 Dasu's Little Thoughts

About thirty steps in front of Li Changsheng and other Ming cavalry, a Kabush virtuous soldier in double-layer armor had blood spurting from his mouth and nose, and a big bright red hole appeared on his chest.

Blood was dripping out, his face was stunned at first, and then an expression of pain and resentment was revealed on his face, and he rolled off the horse extremely unwillingly.

This Tazi soldier should really be unwilling.

After many years of fighting in all directions, he went from the infantry to the vest, then entered the Baya camp, and finally was selected into the Kabush Xianchao Ha camp. He has experienced hundreds of battles and survived nine deaths.

Unexpectedly, in the end, such a cheap, unremarkable little bullet took his life full of hope!

Although the penetrating power of the lead projectiles at this time was still a little weak, the power was not small, especially the short-hand guns of the Xuanbei Army, in addition to being well-made, they also used precisely proportioned granule black powder.

When this virtuous Kabush soldier was hit, it was like being hit hard by a big hammer. The huge force was transmitted to his body in an instant, causing him serious internal injuries in an instant.

Blood gushed out from his mouth and nose, and he fell off his horse after being shot again. Unless his shaman god descended immediately, this tartar would definitely die!
And being able to hit the tartar head-on at such a long distance shows that Zhao Xingguang's riding and gun skills are extraordinary.

A series of bangs were heard, and the sentry cavalry of the Qing army were shot one after another and fell off their horses. There were as many as a dozen of them. The screams of the Tartars could not have been heard, and some of the horses under them were also hit by the guns. After hitting, he fell down and neighed.

As the pistol smoke rose, a wave of hatchets, iron bones, javelins and other objects thrown by the Qing soldiers on the opposite side also flew far away, hitting several Xuanbei Yebushu soldiers or horses.

Although the short-handed guns were fired on a violently bumpy horseback, and they were all hitting fast-moving targets, and the distance was a little farther away, but after this round of shooting, the exchange ratio between the two sides was still significantly different.

The Xuanbei Army did not receive them at night. A soldier on Li Changsheng's side was pierced through the left thigh by a javelin, and two horses were shot by the javelin, throwing two knights off their horses.

The two warriors fell off their horses suddenly, feeling as if their internal organs had been thrown out of place, but they didn't dare to be negligent, and immediately rolled behind their own horses, narrowly avoiding being ridden by the charging Tartars riding their horses Step into a meat paste.

The two sides shot fiercely with their guns, and at the same time as the throwing axes and spears flew randomly, the war horses also converged together.

They all avoided to collide directly with each other, and when they were about to collide with each other, they gave way to each other slightly to the left and right, and passed by each other, but at the same time, there was another burst of guns and throwing axes.

During this period, there were clashes of long knives, tigers and spears. Li Changsheng didn't fire his pistols first.

Under the bombardment of the blunderbuss bullets, one shot in the chest, bloody arrows sprayed out, and one shot in the head, brain blood splashed everywhere, they all fell off the horse without a sound.

And the two Yebushuo soldiers who fell off the horse because of being shot by the spears on the horses spurted a lot of blood when they got up, and then they were picked up by Yebushuo behind them, pulled them on the horses, and escaped from the danger.

There were more than fifty Tartars. They entangled with Li Changsheng and rode horses to fight. First of all, they had the upper hand in numbers. Yu people.

But they were still superior to the sentry cavalry of the Ming army in terms of quantity and quality, and some Tartars who had fallen from their horses also stood up and fought desperately.

Li Changsheng's side was obviously at a disadvantage. He directed the knights to maintain a tight cavalry formation and retreat while fighting.

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Wan Guangjin's right wing also fired a burst of short guns when outflanking, but they were not as good as Li Changsheng's frontal bombardment.

One round of short bludgeons from the right flank only hit three Tartars and wounded two horses, while there was only one soldier's horse on our side, whose head was cut off by the throwing ax thrown by the Tartars.

The horse jumped wildly in pain, and the Yebushou warrior on the horse couldn't control it, so he had to jump off the horse urgently.

Then there was another warrior who was unlucky, he pulled the trigger just now, and an iron bone hit him hard in the chest, his breastbone was shattered, spurting blood wildly, and rolled down under the horse.

But he was hit by an iron bone thrown by a Tartar Gebush sage soldier. It seems that even if he survived, he might have to retire.

When Zhang Cheng sent troops to aid Henan Province last time, he made an agreement with all the soldiers that on the battlefield, those who can go forward bravely and fight with all their might, if they die in battle, their orphans will be paid by Kaiping. Wei Si took care of him as a whole.

The elderly in his family will be supported until the end of his life, and the guards will be responsible for the burial.

The young children in the family will be supported by the guards until they reach the age of 16. After that, regardless of whether they are male or female, they can enter the military camp, or work in various workshops, or receive a fixed amount of money to make a living freely.

Because the business of Zhang Cheng's workshop on Xuanfu North Road is booming, all the armored weapons and guns are directly purchased by the Xuanbei Army, and the supply of other items such as cigarettes, fine salt, fine sugar, glass, etc. is also in short supply. The amount is huge.

In order to ensure the Xuanbei Army's demand for military items such as weapons and armor, and to expand the production capacity of civilian supplies, in order to obtain more money to support such a large Xuanbei Army.

Zhang Cheng has long used a large number of female workers in the workshops, such as making Xuanbei Army gowns and military uniforms and army flags and other quilt workshops, flag battle workshops, and tobacco rolling workshops. There are also a large number of families of Xuanbei Army officers and soldiers.

And when Zhang Cheng first arrived in Xuanbei, he set up a healthy women's camp. Although it was criticized repeatedly at that time, as time went by, Zhang Cheng also mopped up the bandits in Xuanbei, rectified the farmland, reclaimed wasteland and repaired canals.

As a result, the lives of the military households have been greatly improved. Zhang Cheng has made great efforts to rectify the army and the officials of the guards.

Zhang Cheng's prestige in Xuanbei is growing day by day, and people's sense of trust in him is also increasing day by day. Many things that he didn't like before have become signs of Zhang Cheng's success in Xuanbei.

So much so that when the Women's Army was formed later, not only were there no doubts and criticisms, but the family members of the generals of each battalion enthusiastically signed up to join the army, and everyone was proud to be a member of the Women's Army.

Of course there is the signboard of the Xuanbei Army. After all, the salary is paid every month, but it is something that everyone can see. The most glorious thing in the land of Xuanbei is that someone in the family serves as a soldier under the command of Admiral Zhang.

Not only is the salary paid on a monthly basis, but there are also many invisible benefits. For example, with military tickets such as food stamps and cloth tickets, you can always buy cheap grain, grain, and cloth.

In addition, there are a lot of supplies that are in short supply, which are only sold in various official stores of the Kaiping Wei Division in Xuanbei, but for those families who joined the army after Zhang Cheng arrived, which family's life is not prosperous.

Before the aid and suppression of Henan, what Zhang Cheng decided was to propose a new concept of retirement, in addition to exorcising the soldiers who died in front of the battle.

The so-called retirement mainly refers to those soldiers who were injured before the battle and are not suitable to fight in the army.

The bravery and loyalty of these people are naturally unquestionable, so Zhang Cheng decided that anyone who was injured before the battle and could no longer fight with the army will be placed by the guards in a unified manner and turned into local errands.

For example, they could be turned into guards in fortresses, mines, workshops, etc., or they could be used as police officers in government offices, or they could be sent to various schools as instructors, etc. There are also tax soldiers in official bazaars and so on.

It is precisely because there are no worries about the future that the generals and soldiers of the Xuanbei Army can be so brave and dare to fight the enemy with their lives in front of the battle. If they are lucky enough to survive, they will make a great contribution. On the other hand, it's all about saving face.

Just like the Yebushu soldier who was thrown off by the iron bones thrown by the Qing army Gebush's virtuous soldiers just now, if it is not fatal, although it may not be able to make meritorious deeds for this incident, but after returning to the Xuanfu, it is not a bad idea to retire and go to work in the local area. pile of good things.

However, generally speaking, at such a long distance, most of the hatchets, iron bones, javelins and other objects thrown by Qingqi could not be thrown in front of the horses of the soldiers of the Xuanbei Army, or they could not be thrown to the heads of the soldiers of the Xuanbei Army. no more.

On Wan Guangjin's side, there were only two soldiers who fell off their horses and were injured at night, while on Liu Shouzhu's side, only one person was killed and three others were wounded and fell off their horses.

In this way, the Xuanbei Army's first charge was outflanked, and the casualties did not exceed ten people, and all of them were caused by the Bayala soldiers or Gebush soldiers who rushed from the rear.

In this wave of charge, Li Changsheng and others caused a lot of casualties to the Manchurian Yellow Banner Tartars. Some of them were hit by bullets, or fell off their horses because they were shot in the crotch. There were as many as 18 casualties.

At least [-]% of them were the elite Bayara soldiers and Gebush soldiers in the Qing army.

They only had 57 cavalry in total, and eighteen captive cavalry were damaged in just one round of hedging. Such a battle loss is not insignificant.

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As far as the Xuanbei army was concerned, the reasons for achieving such a result were firstly that Li Changsheng and the others caught the Tazi soldiers by surprise, and secondly, because the distance was far enough that the opponent's throwing weapons could not exert their due power. .

Throwing weapons such as javelins, hatchets, and iron bones can be seen with the naked eye. If the reaction is quick enough, most of them can be avoided or blocked with the weapon in hand.

Throwing weapons on a galloping horse also requires high skill. It is very particular about the use of hand strength and waist strength, and it is necessary to know how to use the leaping movements of the galloping horse.

Moreover, after all, they use manpower to throw, even if there are some skills in it, but throwing on a bumpy horseback, the starting speed is a little slower after all, and the distance between the two sides is a little far, so the precision of the Tartars throwing and The strength is very poor.

As for the short-handed guns of the Xuanbei Army Yebushu, needless to say, they fired fast, and at the same time, the bullets they fired could not even be seen, let alone dodge or block.

In addition, the Xuanbei Army relied on their large numbers. In addition to the 29 cavalry hedging from the front, they also had 27 cavalry flying outflanking from the left and right flanks. This is naturally considered a side shot. Shooting the Qing army with handguns has somewhat improved the hit rate.

In the end, there is also a reason for quick hands and quick eyes. Even if the short-hand guns of the Xuanbei Army do not need matchsticks and are fired with flint, they are fired when the horses are galloping.

In this way, it is necessary to have superb riding skills and good control of the horse, but also to grasp the moment when the horse is stable, and to fire the short pistol to ensure the accuracy of the head.

And even if elite soldiers such as the Xuanbei Army Ye Bu Shou such sentry cavalry, not everyone can control the horse galloping with their legs, so the very few Ye Bu Shou warriors with excellent riding skills are even more fleeting in the blink of an eye. Fire the gun left and right, and shoot twice in a row.

Li Changsheng, Wan Guangjin, Liu Shouzhu, Zhao Xingguang and others all shot two guns in a row, but only Zhao Xingguang hit the captives with both guns, and most of them missed with one gun and hit with the other.

However, even though many people shot two guns in a row, they missed both guns!
What's more, Yebushu, whose riding skills and reactions are slightly inferior, only had time to shoot a gun on a horse moving at high speed, and then the two sides completely staggered.

In contrast, most of the injured and fallen personnel of the Xuanbei Army still had a chance to save a life.

Those Tartar soldiers who fell off their horses after being hit by the high-speed spinning bullets fired by the short-handed guns, even if they did not die at this time, they would undoubtedly die in the future, and they would die extremely painfully.

However, the bad luck of those Tartars did not stop there.

After they charged past the sentry cavalry of the Xuanbei army, they wanted to fight with Li Changsheng and others, but Li Changsheng organized the sentry cavalry to quickly distance themselves from them, and immediately there was another burst of short guns and hand crossbows.

Immediately, some of the Tartars rolled over and fell off their horses, and Li Changsheng also took advantage of this opportunity to retreat and distance himself from the Tartars.

King Dasu, the leader of the Kabush of the Tartars, originally wanted to take advantage of his large number of people and be more elite and brave, so he just took advantage of the fact that there were few southern soldiers on the opposite side, so he could deal with them first.

Unexpectedly, there were so many hand cannons in Li Changsheng's cavalry team. He thought that after the bombardment just now, it was his home field, and it was time for the Qing warriors to fight and gain military merit.

But there is a saying: the ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny!

How could he have imagined that with such a sharp short blunderbuss, the sentry cavalry of the Xuanbei army could be equipped with two rods, not more?

Just when Li Changsheng commanded the sentry cavalry to occupy the enemy with short guns and hand crossbows, and fought and retreated, and opened a distance from the Tartars, Wan Guangjin and Liu Shouzhu, who were outflanked on the left and right wings, also led their troops back.

Dasu is also a veteran on the battlefield, so he is naturally very sensitive to the situation on the battlefield. He knows that the Xuanbei Army in front of him is indeed different from the other troops in the Southern Kingdom.

Not only do they have excellent armor and weapons, and sharp guns, but what is even more rare is their fighting spirit and morale. Now that there are more people on the other side than themselves, it may not be the way to be tough.

What's more, in the battle just now, our own side lost significantly more than the southern army, and now there has been a slight change in morale.

He made a decisive decision, yelled and directed everyone to rush to the smoking gun and blacksmith who stayed behind, intending to capture the Xuanfu army sentry cavalry who stayed there, and then seized the horse.

In this way, first get some military merits in hand, boost the morale of your own warriors, and then compete with the remaining Southern Sentry Cavalry!
(End of this chapter)