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Chapter 1400 Frightened
The horses are galloping.

More than 300 knights and aristocratic youths gathered from various places were divided into two teams under the protection of their respective followers, and rushed to the artillery units arranged by the Ming army on both wings.

They wore full-body plate armor from Greenwich, rode strong and huge Shire horses, and held spears nearly four meters straight. They usually carried one or two spring wheel pistols on horseback.

The cavalry formed by those shining armors looked like a sunset glow at a glance.

It was an extremely risky and bold breakthrough for Earl Robert Dudley to use heavy knights to use surprise tactics.

In the fifth year of Great Tomorrow, England was in the War of the Roses. During the Battle of Towton, the cavalry of the Lancastrian Army took the risk of attacking the York Army from the front. The losses were huge. After that, it was not until the eighth Henry saw the German Lancers , the English do not like cavalry assaults.

In particular, the old enemy France has repeatedly relied on cavalry to win. The Hundred Years War even left people with the impression that Xuande of the Ming Dynasty was pushed into the sea by France in a daze four years later.

The real Englishman, who can wait to see the cavalry assault?

The most important thing is the cost issue. England's finances are always tight. It is difficult for nobles above knights to support a large number of cavalry, which greatly limits their chances of using cavalry assault. Thousands of untouchables are going to risk their lives, and no one is willing to pay the price of hundreds of nobles to gamble.

But now, England has reached the most dangerous moment.

In the eyes of Earl Robert Dudley, now is indeed the best time to use cavalry to assault—the Ming army supported the army, walked out of the position where trenches were dug in advance, and tried to use a large number of infantry to determine the outcome, while the main force of its infantry used It is a short spear that can be stabbed and thrown, and it is difficult to directly threaten the knight on horseback.

No disgusting horse refusals, fortifications, and messy terrain, just the flattest farmland west of Winchester and the wretched infantry on the farmland.

Godsend opportunity!

The whole body of the knights in England is protected by plate armor. These plate armors are not the standard armors produced on a large scale in the North Sea, South Seas or Milan. Each set has different patterns, different decorations, and is made by different techniques. Complete, enviably well equipped.

While seeing Yingming's heart in full bloom, he also felt a little regretful that the concept of European aristocrats had not yet had a chance to penetrate his heart. In his eyes, this was like hundreds of general banners and hundreds of households leaving their troops and gathering in one place to launch a decisive battle. assault.

From his point of view, he is brave and stupid, and even charging has the taste of death.

Although the owner of the armor might not feel that way, to him it was because—they should be shot.

Franc machine, tiger crouching gun.

For the galloping knights who were two miles away from the counter-horse, even a Sharma could only arrive in a short while. The cavalry from one left and one right rushed halfway through the battlefield in the blink of an eye. Ready to ignite the fire on the rack, kicked the horse's belly with each kick, and started the final charge.

The pain-eating giant spread its heavy hooves, and it carried a weight of nearly two hundred catties including a man and armor, but it was as light as nothing, and the ground shook as it stomped.

The No. [-] Shepherd Camp, which had never panicked in the face of the bombardment, was in disarray when faced with hundreds of charging knights riding Shar horses.

It's not because they don't know war horses, on the contrary, they know too much about these outflanking knight mounts.

Ying Ming used the captured Shire horses to pull the cannons. All of them were attached to the naval gun carts weighing more than 4000 kilograms. One horse could pull them, and two horses could walk without any effort.

They can barely overcome their fear of cannonballs, but they can't suppress the human nature to be afraid of things bigger than themselves.

Especially these big guys rushing over at a running speed.

Almost instinctively, the crossbowmen shot out the bolts at the fastest speed even though they were separated by a distance beyond the maximum range—they would have run away if they could run, and those who could see this scene were too weak to run. If you can't see behind the front line, there's no need to run.

The Puli camp is much simpler, Sharma, they are very close, the old colleagues in the past were all plowing land for the lord.

Therefore, they are also more aware of the power of these lords, and without any psychological burden, the Puli camp on the two wings of the rear array turned around and ran away without hesitation, leaving the Muye camp in place to wait for the iron hoofs to trample on it.

But as soon as he turned around, his escaping footsteps stopped.

Because behind him, two completely different cavalry teams were outflanking around a large arc, one left and one right. They were the Beiyang cavalry leading the Alan cavalry charge!

At this moment, among the layers of war drums in the rear, the suona rang, and then there was a huge cannon sound from the front line, and then there was a high-pitched response.

The primer in the gun eye was ignited, sparks were ejected from the tail of the gun in the blink of an eye, and immediately there was a loud noise, and the huge tiger squatting gun ejected the scatter tube at an extremely fast speed under the flames, creating a circle of gunpowder smoke.

The tiger's claws suddenly tilted upwards, bringing the cannon body and slamming into the nails nailed into the ground. Immediately, countless iron pellets smashed the paper shell from the barrel, and the moment they penetrated the gunpowder smoke, they broke the smoke and even made people feel uncomfortable. Suddenly, there is an illusion of Sanzi penetrating the air.

The tiger crouching cannons densely arranged in front of the Fran machine guns are only small cannons weighing [-] catties. The effective killing distance is only about [-] paces, and the maximum range is [-] paces. The opponent is hurt or injured, so as to delay the fierce offensive or contain the effect of retreating.

But within fifty steps, this little thing has a very good dense deterrent and power.

The twenty tiger squatting cannons on the left wing ignited within seconds after the Chinese army gave the order, and sprayed out twenty scattered tubes containing [-] iron pellets one after another, sweeping across the battlefield fifty paces wide in an instant. The iron pellets that were like a violent storm attacked the knights who were running.

According to Wang Yue, the shopkeeper of Jining Firearms Export Shop in Ming Dynasty, this short-range bombardment is equivalent to the effect of a salvo of [-] three-eyed guns hitting the head and covering the face.

The three-eyed blunderbuss is very difficult to kill a knight, especially wearing plate armor and armed clothing inside. Unless it is hit close to the face, this is not a problem that can be solved by the number of projectiles.

But the three-eyed gun can kill a horse.

A horse, essentially a big rabbit, is at the lower end of the food chain.

And the low end of the food chain is very cowardly by nature.

Tens of thousands of iron pellets are so dense that they hit the face like a torrential rain. As long as the knight on horseback is not a real unlucky guy who is directly killed, most people will feel scared first, then feel pain, and then feel happy because of the pain .

But what happened next was not so happy. The cavalry that the two-winged knights charged straight forward was almost stopped by the shells.

A few horses died on each side, and more horses did not die, but they stood up in pain, completely ignoring the little tin man on their backs, and strode away to a place where no one was around.

Leaving an iron can covered in pain all over the place, as if these war horses brought the courier and left.

Amidst the sound of hooves, Ying Ming led the cavalry to gallop from behind, this time...it was their spears.

(End of this chapter)