Traveler Major League

Chapter 157 Cavalry Attack

"Instructor, you and I will each lead half of the people before and after the battle, and use explosives to frighten the horses."

"Okay!" Tang Mingzhu stood up and responded, "Follow me in the first row, and half of the people in the second row follow me, aiming at the rear."

Li Kefu stood on the carriage where all the soldiers could see his position, and shouted, "I'll be in front of you, and you'll be bayoneted, and you'll die!"

"Use the bayonet, there is death but there is no life!"

"Prepare the dynamite pack!"

"Obey!" A dozen or so cavalrymen got on their horses one after another, took out the rope of the explosive pack from their bags, and said to comfort the horses, "Oh~~呵~~~" "Oh~~呵~~~"

These more than a hundred people are all veterans who have crossed the red-haired barbaric land. They almost don't care much about death. This is also the side effect of Liu Ze's wanton use of time travel in this ignorant era. No one understands what science is. What they can understand is only what they think is correct in their own life experience. Although Liu Ze doesn't like myths about himself, the most common situation is that everyone talks about Liu Ze's secrets in private where Liu Ze can't hear.

The other two groups of cavalry charged forward, but they did not go at full speed when they reached the fork in the road, and even slowed down when the two groups of cavalry gathered. Take on the Popular Army, a new group of adversaries that are very different from all previous enemies.

"Fire." Following the order of the instructor Tang Mingzhu, the place where the cavalry gathered at a distance of less than 70 meters from the fork in the road to the wall of the car immediately became a Shura field, and the two teams of cavalry gathered in a loose formation. It was too dense together, and the first wave of guns knocked down more than 20 riders, most of whom hit the horses and died instantly.

The cavalry of the officers and soldiers who fell from the horses also fell into the tragedy of being trampled by horseshoes and horse corpses. The fracture of the bone, and the trampling of the horse's hoof is even more dangerous. There are very few survivors under the horse's hoof in this charging state.

Such large-scale simultaneous casualties have never been encountered by these elite cavalry. They were unprepared, and their armor could not resist bullets that were invisible to the naked eye. The sound of breaking.

Several People's Army cavalry rushed up from both sides, borrowing the speed of their horses to throw explosives into the officers and soldiers dozens of meters away. With a burst of "booming" explosions, they were already in chaos. The cavalry of the officers and soldiers of the army had completely herded the sheep. The horses had never experienced such a violent explosion, and they were all shocked.

A few seconds later, another volley of gunfire came. This time, the cavalry who were still in chaos at the fork in the road collapsed completely. Everyone was trying to escape from the Shura field at the intersection of the three forks. In this place full of corpses of dead and injured, The third round of firing guns was only a matter of a few breaths. Under the effect of inertia, the cavalry of the two teams with a total of nearly 300 people could barely disperse at this time. The horses were startled and uncontrollable. Dismounted and fled in all directions.

According to the tactics used by the cavalry of the Ming army, their three-eyed blunderbuss normally fired within eight steps, while their bows and arrows were much farther away. However, in this chaotic time, no cavalry could use these weapons to attack at all. It turned into a bloody rain of corpses, and the three-round guns smashed the cavalry team without speed advantage like a storm, leaving behind the scattered cavalry wreckage and frightened horses running around.

At this time, the cavalry under He Huchen on the other road was much slower, and they had only advanced two hundred steps away. He Huchen, who was watching the battle on the hillside behind him, was surprised to see the other two cavalry groups breaking up amidst the gunpowder smoke. It was never imagined that the mass shooting of rifles and the explosion of dynamite could cause such great damage to cavalry.

"Blow the horn and withdraw the troops." He Huchen was not wordy, if he didn't withdraw at this time, it would be even more difficult to withdraw later.

But it was too late at this time. When the trumpet sounded again, the cavalry had already entered a high-speed state. At the bottom of this narrow valley where the two mountains meet, it is possible to retreat as soon as they say it.

"Bang bang bang" there were only more than 50 guns in the first round of guns, which made the entire cavalry stop. When the cavalry heard the retreat horn and turned their horses to the hillsides on both sides, the second round of guns had already started The number increased to a hundred or so, and another burst of "bang bang bang" fired, and the cavalry had completely stopped advancing.

After losing some more troops, these cavalrymen had time to speed up and retreat to both sides. The officers and soldiers who lost their horses retreated on foot, and these people lost more than a dozen people under the shooting of rifles to escape from the combat zone.

He Huchen's banner finally began to recede towards the way it came from. At this time, the cavalry formation of the officers and soldiers was scattered, and they no longer had the momentum of swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger at the beginning, and the small groups of rangers who were scattered everywhere before also disappeared from the field of vision. Disappeared, not daring to make any more moves, losing more than 200 rides in a short confrontation made all the officers and soldiers feel terrified.

"Gather the horses of the officers and soldiers, let's evacuate here quickly and join the rear team." Seeing that the crisis was over, Li Kefu immediately ordered.

"Battalion Commander, shall we pursue?"

"Chasing? How to chase? We are riding mules and donkeys, how can we catch up?"

"Pack up and leave, and set fire to these grain trucks."

"What a good food, what a pity to burn it."

"Can you take it away? The most important thing for us now is to join the rear team and execute orders." Li Kefu said distressedly. In this famine year, the food in the camp is also insufficient, and no one can bear it.

Tang Mingzhu said: "Notify comrades, including the captured horses and the extra animals, except for a bag of grain, the rest should be burned."

Li Kefu nodded, no longer objecting, just pretend if you can, "It's only a quarter of an hour, hurry up!"

After hearing the order, everyone started to get busy.

A dozen miles away, "Drive!" Two cavalrymen with rifles on their backs heard the faint sound of explosions in the distance, and kept accelerating, wanting to explore the front.

"Yuyu."

Several giant trees were felled to block the path, and the two scouts looked at each other and loaded their guns at the same time.

A few swishing arrows came, and the force of the grass at close range directly shot the two scouts in cotton armor off their horses. One was killed on the spot by the front door, and the other was hung upside down on the side of the horse. Several Ming soldiers who were ambushing from the side rushed forward, and a few long spears stabbed him to kill him.

A few miles away, more than 400 people's troops on foot in the mountain road stretched out for nearly half a mile. Tang Mingnan walked at the forefront and gave up his mules to other soldiers.

As soon as he turned a corner, he suddenly saw those giant trees blocking the road, and he felt a bad feeling in his heart. It was impossible for the scouts in front of the roadblock not to report back.

There is only one answer, there is an ambush!
(End of this chapter)