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Chapter 1258 Cavalry and Artillery

"Drive!" As the Ming army cavalry waved their whips, the dense sound of horseshoes resounded like drums.

Under the guidance of a small triangular flag, the first sentry cavalry broke away from the Ming army brigade and galloped forward.

At the same time, there were two sentry cavalry, one on the left and the other on the right, spreading out to both sides like a phoenix spreading its wings.

The three-sentry cavalry spread out in the shape of a character, and for a while, the horses galloped, the flags were fierce, and the dust was flying.

However, these cavalrymen were not in a hurry to rush towards the artillery positions of the rebels.

On the contrary, they wandered and hovered outside the range of the rebel artillery, screaming and probing repeatedly.

A look of "I came in, I went out, and I came in again".

"What are they doing?" The rebel gunner in front of him watched from a distance for a long time, and found that the other party didn't have any tricks, so he couldn't help but wondered.

"Quiet, no noise is allowed on the battlefield!" The flag commander of the Paoying Banner couldn't help shouting after hearing the sound, "Anyone who disobeys the order will be shot to death!"

Due to the degree of organization, soldiers are not allowed to whisper casually on the battlefield in this era, so as not to affect morale.

"This is the cavalry of the Ming army who deceived me and tried to lure me to fire the cannons!" A gunner had already understood it, and quickly whispered to Qi Changshu.

"Yeah!" The head of the banner nodded at him, deeply agreeing.

He thought for a while, and couldn't help but ordered: "The first field artillery is replaced with solid ammunition, and fires according to the order. Other teams are not allowed to fire, and those who disobey the order will be killed!"

"The first order!" The gunner of the first team responded when he heard the words, and quickly ordered the soldiers to use a hook to break the seal, and then dumped the shotgun, wooden horse and gunpowder with the muzzle down.

Not long after, the first stuff was filled.The gunner hurried forward to report: "The solid ammunition of the first field gun has been loaded, please give instructions!"

"Fire the cannon!" the flag commander nodded to him and ordered.

"Fire!" Shi Chang heard the words and turned around, repeating.

Hearing the order, the gunner quickly hooked the red-hot fire hook into the charge hole, and then there was a loud noise, and a shell burst out of the gun bore accompanied by a puff of smoke.

However, in the eyes of everyone, they fell into the group of cavalry on the opposite side, and that sentinel cavalry, like a sparrow startled by a stone, went their separate ways in an instant.

Of course, although this thing looks bluffing, in fact, because the distance is too far, no one was actually hurt.

Seeing that the cavalry was "deceived" and fired the "shun thief" in front of them, they were obviously excited.

The first sentry cavalry, who had been scattered to avoid the artillery shells of the rebels, soon found that the rebels were not firing, so they quickly gathered together and galloped towards the artillery of the rebels in a scattered formation.

"Two Shi, San Shi field guns fire, and the other guns continue to stand by!" The flag commander watched from a distance, without changing his expression, and ordered in an orderly manner.

The artillery of the rebel army is organized, one cannon for ten men, and five cannons for one flag.

Therefore, this time, each position has five field cannons, five golden cannons and one general Qingtian cannon.

Since the cavalry of the Ming army was far away at this time, the commander of the field artillery banner fired first to trick the cavalry of the Ming army into approaching.

And the cavalry of the Ming army were not stupid, how could they approach rashly?
Therefore, the first sentry cavalry rushed forward for about twenty feet, then quickly separated to the left and right, and circled back from both sides.

But this time, these cavalry were not as lucky as before.

Only two cannon shots were heard, and then a few unlucky men either were wounded by the shotguns, fell down, or were pierced by the shotguns.

However, these cavalrymen were not surprised but overjoyed, and finally tricked out the opponent's artillery!

In fact, the cavalry of the Ming army also knew that the rebel army might not have no killing moves, but they had already tricked out two cannon fires in a row, which was already a relatively good result for them.

If the delay continues until the cannons fired twice are reloaded, the shells that were so easily tricked out just now will become meaningless.

"Kill!" As the first sentry cavalry lined up on both sides, the second sentry cavalry filed out and charged towards the artillery positions of the rebel army.

"Kill!" At the same time, the Ming army's third and fourth posts on the two wings also circled to the left and right sides of the rebel army.

Lure the opponent to fire the cannon first, and then charge from multiple directions, which is the unique skill of the elite cavalry to deal with the artillery.

What is false is real, and what is real is false.

Artillery is of course the god of war, and cavalry is also the king of land warfare in the cold weapon era.

"Golden cannon, the golden cannon is aimed at the front!" Seeing that the cavalry on the other side finally launched a charge, the officer in the artillery position shouted loudly.

The golden cannon, the large-caliber cannon hailed by Zhang Shun as the "best shotgun", was finally sacrificed by the rebel army as a trump card.

Fifty feet... thirty feet... twenty feet, the enemy's bows and arrows have already shot into the crowd of rebels, causing a little commotion.

It wasn't until this time that the artillery officer shouted loudly: "Let it go, let it go!"

"Boom! Boom!" There were two golden cannons, one on the left and the other on the right, with crossfire, and they were the first to spit out flames.

More than a dozen cavalrymen, including men and horses, were swept to the ground on the spot before touching a hair of the rebels.

However, before the rest of the Ming cavalry were lucky enough to escape, the second round of blows followed.

Another two golden cannons, one from the left and the other from the right, fired crosswise, weaving a dense firepower net, instantly enveloping the second sentinel cavalry.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" With the deafening sound of artillery, the screams of Ming army cavalry were almost completely covered, only a lot of people's expressions were distorted, and their mouths opened and closed almost to the maximum.

And while the golden cannon was dealing with the cavalry of the Ming army in front of them, the other two directions of the rebel army also started their own killing feast.

On one side is a firepower network composed of a field cannon and a golden cannon; on the other side is the road to death paved by the ten-thousand-jin red cannon "General Qingtian".

Terrible, and terrible!
It's not that the cavalry under Jiang Xiang's command have never attacked the enemy's artillery positions, but none of the enemies can have such powerful firepower.

Compared with these artillery, the so-called "destroyer guns", "Franji guns" and "general guns" in the past are nothing compared to the big witches.

After the loud noise, many sat on horseback with dull expressions and numbness.

Drift with the tide and let the horses under your crotch take you anywhere.

Having just experienced the baptism of bullets, most people didn't realize whether they were dead or injured.

He just rushed over mechanically, watching the enemy in front of him getting closer and closer.

"Huh" Suddenly their eyes lit up again, and I rushed past the death line?

Doesn't that mean that the dead gunners will be slaughtered soon!

However, before the smiles on their faces began to bloom, they froze on their faces.

It turned out that the gunpowder smoke from the artillery positions of the Rebel Army cleared away, and what greeted them was a dense row of bird gunners and a dense array of spears behind the bird gunners.

Perhaps the Ming army had enough cavalry to break through the artillery positions of the rebels.

However, like Jiang Xiang, who only led five hundred riders out of the city, and then divided them into several posts to charge, how could he be an opponent with the intensive firepower of the rebel army?
"No!" Jiang Xiang watched helplessly as the elite of the three guards under his command were baptized by the rebel artillery in three directions, and the formation became much sparser for a while.

However, just after the remaining cavalry broke through the blockade of the artillery, they were faced with the shooting of bird guns and the stabbing of spears.

As the saying goes, Jiang Xiang knew that the cavalry under his command had been hit hard this time.

If they can't get any results this time, I'm afraid they won't have the heart to attack the artillery positions in the future.

He couldn't help but gritted his teeth, and shouted loudly: "All the knights obey the order, take advantage of the old power of the enemy's artillery gone, and when the new power is not born, follow me to fight to the death!"

(End of this chapter)