Daming Yinghua

Chapter 429 Fierce Battle

He Zhuo ordered everyone to speed up their horses, and when they rushed downstream in a hurry, a fierce battle by the Xibo River had already begun.

Zhang Fengyi's blow to the Cossack leader hit him like a hornet's nest.

The alien knights, who originally only shot local children for fun, burst out with animality.

They thought they were facing members of a Mongolian tribe.

The memory of the bloody rule by the descendants of Genghis Khan in the past aggravated the stress at this moment.

The Cossacks, who originally allowed their horses to pace at a loose pace, immediately separated into a team and crossed the river on the ice, transforming into a formation that surrounded them with two wings and charged from the center.

The cavalry sent by Mangui had experience in dealing with firearms and understood that no matter how powerful the musket was, there would always be gaps for loading ammunition, and the accuracy would be greatly compromised against high-speed maneuvering enemies.

These battle-hardened veterans of Xuanda Town shouted loudly: "Wedge formation, wedge formation, spread out and charge, shoot arrows, shoot arrows!"

The Ma Jiajun who guarded Zhang Fengyi were also the elite of Shili's white-armed soldiers. Not only did they know how to rush into the formation to avoid the enemy's firepower, they also judged immediately that this would be a fierce battle, because the enemy not only had firearms, but also It has an iron spear that is longer than a white spear.

Fortunately, while stationed in Daning Town for more than a year, Ma Xianglin did not mistreat or expel the small nomadic Mongolian settlements nearby. He even recruited dozens of young Mongolians into his own servants and taught the Sichuan army knights how to use Mongolian weapons. Small bow and light arrow.

Therefore, the Ming troops who faced the Cossacks unequivocally like Zhang Fengyi, set up their bows and fired arrows, suppressing part of the Cossacks' firepower.

In this situation where the two armies were facing each other, the only one who looked a little embarrassed was the Jin Yiwei.

They are good at using melee weapons such as the Xiuchun Dao or the Meteor Hammer. They do not have long guns, and the crossbows are not as effective as bows and arrows on high-speed running horses.

The leader, Qianhu, judged that the enemy had more troops than his own, so he gritted his teeth and decided to act as bait.

He jumped onto the river, blocking Zhu Youjian and Ma Tongchuan who were like cubs in a trap, and loudly ordered his two subordinates to pick up the children and mount their horses to escape, while the other Jinyi guards gathered around to form a human wall.

The ice was slippery, slowing the horses down and making them less maneuverable, making them easier targets for musketry.

This situation tempted the cruel and murderous Cossacks.

After several howls, a group of Cossacks on the right changed their formation, fired their guns, and rushed towards the Jin Yiwei camp.

At this time, standing still is waiting to die.

Of course, the thousands of members of the Jinyi Guards would not sit still and wait for death. Even if they did not have firearms or long weapons in their hands, they charged forward with their horses.

On the bank of the river, Zhang Fengyi saw that her daughter, like King Xin Zhu Youjian, was caught on horseback by the Jin Yiwei and rushed upstream of the river.

Her mother's instinct made her want to turn her horse around and chase her daughter to protect her.

But the thought only passed by for a moment.

At this moment, in addition to being a mother, she is also a warrior.

Without Xianglin, she was the temporary head coach of the Shili soldiers. How could she just walk away?

Moreover, from the first arrow fired after contacting the enemy, Zhang Fengyi was convinced that the speed at which he fired arrows was faster than the speed at which the enemy's thin-tube spears could be loaded with ammunition.

When one's own side has no firearms, an archer with superb archery skills is extremely valuable on the battlefield.

"Give me the quiver, you guys, go protect King Xin and Atong!" Zhang Fengyi shouted at the two stone soldiers who finally arrived for reinforcements.

The soldiers did not dare to disobey, so they threw their quivers one after another and left as ordered.

Zhang Fengyi's eyes were about to burst, she opened her bow and drew arrows as fast as lightning, and fired arrows at the Cossacks who were rushing towards the imperial guards.

Suddenly, there was a "bang" on her right side.

Due to the close distance, the thunderous sound made the horse, which had just adapted to the continuous sound of muskets, suddenly frightened and raised its front hooves while neighing. Zhang Fengyi was holding a bow in her left hand and an arrow in her right hand. She only relied on the control of her abdominal core to sit firmly on the horse. Suddenly, she encountered the mount's aggressive behavior and was caught off guard, falling off the horse.

A few dozen steps away, a Cossack rushed out of the forest. He had slung his matchlock gun on his shoulder and replaced it with a cold weapon spear. He rushed towards Zhang Fengyi who was lying on the ground with a ferocious face.

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Almost at the same time, hundreds of steps away, the young prince Zhu Youjian was rescued and mounted on his horse. After recovering from his shock, he turned around and saw a life-and-death fight behind him.

Somehow, Zhu Youjian felt that although his body was trembling, hot blood surged to his forehead, as if he had twisted into the word "kill" in an instant.

On another horse close at hand, Ma Tongchuan shouted "Mother, mother" in a childish yet sharp voice.

The cries in his ears and the screams in the distance merged into a powerful force, breaking a barrier deep in Zhu Youjian's mind.

The scene from many years ago reappeared before my eyes.

Mother Liu's coffin was placed in that shabby house in the Forbidden City.

Zhu Youjian, who was still a toddler like Ma Tongchuan today, threw away the wet nurse's hand and threw himself on the locked door. He beat the door panel with his two small fists, as if this would wake up his mother inside.

At this moment, the heroic Zhang Fengyi on the war horse looked nothing like her mother Liu.

But it was that fearless figure that seemed to make young Zhu Youjian admired more than Master Zheng at this critical moment.

Master Zheng only opened his heart gradually and gradually, but the female warrior on the glacier ignited the young man's fighting spirit at the moment when he was fighting for his life.

Zhu Youjian, after a brief trance, undoubtedly ordered the Jinyi guards who were protecting him to get back on their horses, pick up their crossbows, and join the battle.

The master and servant first saw Zhang Fengyi being ambushed.

The Jin Yiwei, who was holding back his fighting spirit, fired his crossbow arrows without any delay, just like in a street fight.

Zhang Fengyi saw the tip of the Cossack's spear approaching, and heard a "whoosh" sound, accompanied by the enemy's screams, and a crossbow arrow was nailed to his chest.

The impact of the powerful crossbow was greater than that of the bow and arrow. As the Cossack leaned back, his body tilted and he fell off the horse together with the spear in his hand.

"I hit it! I hit it! Okay! I want to reward you heavily!"

A hundred steps away, Zhu Youjian loudly praised the Jin Yiwei behind him.

Zhang Fengyi, who had narrowly escaped death, saw that King Xin had actually run back, and her whole body was trembling. However, she had no time to indulge in the emotions of surprise and joy. Instead, she quickly got up, stumbled towards the Cossack on the ground, drew out the short blade from her waist, and Without hesitation, he stabbed him in the vital part of the heart.

Later, just as Zhang Fengyi was about to continue mounting his horse, continuous gunshots were heard from the upper reaches of the river.

"Your Highness, leave us alone and run away to the south!" Zhang Fengyi thought it was enemy reinforcements and shouted to Zhu Youjian.

But I heard Zhu Youjian shout happily: "It's our flag, it's our people!"

On the glacier not far away, the Cossacks who were fighting fiercely heard the gunshots from behind their opponents, and saw clearly that in the galloping cavalry, in addition to the alien war flags with red edges, there was also a yellow square flag.

Even though the double eagles embroidered in the middle were just a blur of black from a distance, the Cossacks still knew that it was the flag of the Tsar, and that this area was held by the captain of the guard of Prince Alexei.

"Stop shooting! Stop fighting! They are Ming people, they are the royal family of Ming!"

One after another in Russian, the Cossacks understood that the master of Moscow, to whom they must surrender, fired a gun into the air as a rebuke to their servants.

The royal family of the Ming Dynasty? Are they not Mongolians?

When the Cossacks finally put away their weapons, they stared at many enemies who had lost their honor but were not at an obvious disadvantage. While panting, they muttered in their hearts: These Ming people, regardless of gender, are as fierce as the Mongols.

(End of this chapter)