Datong.

Scarface, Zhao Xin, Tang Sheng, Zhang Monk and Xiao Qi have gathered at Wang Pu's general.

Just now, the sentry guards on the building came to report that Jiannu's south and north camp sent two thousand cavalry to the west at the same time. Calculated the time, Zhao Liujin's grain and grass team should almost go to Datong. Then the purpose of Jiannu's army was obvious, which was to intercept the grain and grass escort Zhao Liujin.

"General, send reinforcements quickly."

"Yes, general, it will be too late if you don't send reinforcements."

"General, although Zhao Liujin has more than 10,000 troops under his command, they are all mobs. They also have more than 10,000 troops. In Yanyehai, three thousand Mongolian cavalry collapsed. This time, there were four thousand Jiannu flag soldiers, so they could not withstand it! General, even if these mobs are not worthy of rescue, that batch of food and grass cannot fall into the hands of Jiannu."

Scarface and others were excited and asked to send troops to respond.

The matter of poisoning the forage and destroying Jiannu's war horses is top secret. Only three people know the overall plan. Except for Wang Pu and Zhen Youcai, only Wang Hua, who went to Datong Zuowei to buy this batch of forage, knew the details. The rest, including Scarface, were unaware of this, so they were so anxious to pick up Zhao Liujin.

"Okay." Wang Pu shouted, "Scarface obeys the order."

Seeing that Scarface and others were eager to fight, Wang Pu agreed. He also intended to take this opportunity to let these arrogant generals suffer so that they could defeat the enemy and the arrogant aura that spread in the army. Wang Pu wanted to let his brothers know that Jiannu was not powerless to fight back. The Firearms Camp had actually won a very lucky victory after fighting a few battles before.

Scar's face showed excitement and rushed forward and responded: "I am in a humble position."

Wang Pu said: "Take a thousand-man team out of the west gate to pick up Zhao Liujin."

"yes!"

Scarface responded with a loud promise and took the order excitedly.

When Scarface left, Wang Pu said again: "Zhao Xin, Tang Sheng."

Zhao Xin and Tang Sheng stepped forward and responded: "I am in a humble position."

Wang Pu said: "You two thousand-man teams will gather immediately and stand by within the West Gate."

"yes."

Zhao Xin and Tang Sheng also took the order.

Datong West Gate.

The closed city gate slowly opened, and Scarface lined up with a tidy marching line with a thousand muskets, like a torrent passing through the urn and driving out of the city.

As early as after Dorgon led a brigade of Jiannu left, Wang Pu had someone digging open the four gates of Datong again.

Not long after Scarface led a thousand musket team out of the west gate, there was movement in the Jiannu camp outside the west gate. Jiannu, who was stationed in the camp, immediately dispatched two thousand Tu Xietu cavalry and five hundred Zhenghuang Banner cavalry. After the 2,500 cavalry left the gate, they quickly spread to the two wings, and then swept towards the Scarface musket team like a surging flood.

Up the West Gate Arrow Tower.

Wang Pu was watching the movements outside the city through the arrow hole.

Seeing more than two thousand cavalrymen sweeping over, Wang Pu's face immediately became gloomy like a crab with two clamps spreading out toward the scarred-faced 1,000 musket team.

This is not a war that Wang Pu wants to fight. There are neither fortifications to rely on nor terrain to exploit. Jiannu on the opposite side has an absolute advantage in his troops, and they will not underestimate the enemy. After several consecutive defeats, Jiannu has psychologically regarded Wang Pu's firearm camp as their most dangerous enemy.

This is not a war that Wang Pu wants to fight, but he must fight!

Even if he knows that he will be defeated, he must fight, because if he doesn't fight today and does not suffer this defeat, he will suffer a bigger defeat another day. He may even lose all his capital!

In front of the Musket Team, Scarface raised his knife coldly and indifferently, shouting sternly: "Three-sided shooting array... array!"

Ten hands always raised their waist knives, and a thousand musketeers were worthy of being well-trained veterans. In less than a moment, they formed a rigorous three-sided shooting array, with 300 people on the front and 300 people on the left and right wings, all of which were lined up in front and back three rows, with one hundred people on each row, which could form three sections of strikes to ensure the continuity of firepower.

The remaining 100-man team stayed in the middle, ready to fill the gap in the three-sided shooting queue at any time.

Scarface really didn't take the two or three thousand Jiannu cavalry rushing over from the other side seriously.

When he was in Liaodong, Wang Pu only used 600 musketeers to destroy 2,000 cavalry in Jiannu, and used the most primitive coercion gun, which was far less powerful than the flintlock gun used now. Now he had a thousand musketeers under him, and he used the more powerful flintlock gun, so there was no reason to lose to Jiannu.

"Brothers, please cheer me up and beat these bastards Jiannu."

"yes!"

The musketeers agreed.

Scarface had even seen the tragic scene of Jiannu cavalry falling over the horse. He had even heard the screams and howls of Jiannu cavalry.

In front of the Jiannu Cavalry, Tan Tai lifted the sabre in his hand into the sky.

The five hundred Jiannu cavalry and two thousand Tu Xietu cavalry were rushing behind them, and all the Jiannu cavalry collapsed. They pressed against the side of the war horse, and the scene seemed as if the thousands of Jiannu cavalry riding on the horse suddenly disappeared.

“Huh?”

In front of the musket team, the scarred eyes suddenly bulged out.

Damn, what's the matter? How could a bastard Jiannu actually do this?

Jiannu hid his horse's belly like this. He was originally a big target, but only a little bit left. How can the brothers fight?

Up the West Gate Arrow Tower.

Wang Pu's right hand, which was supported by the arrow hole, suddenly clenched. He was worthy of being Jiannu and the Mongols, and his riding skills were so superb! Jiannu hid it so lightly on the horse's back, and the body target exposed to the muzzle was greatly reduced, and the hit rate of the musket would drop sharply.

When the Ming army camp fought with the Jiannu cavalry, they usually only hit people, but basically did not hit horses.

This is not because of caring for war horses, but because the vitality of war horses is much more tenacious than that of humans.

If it is a human being, if it is hit by a lead bullet, it can kill the name directly. If it is a vital part, it can also cause it to lose its combat effectiveness. But war horses are different. If a war horse is not hit directly by a vital force, they will run and sprint until the last drop of blood on their bodies is drained!

In other words, even if you hit a war horse, it is basically useless and cannot stop the charge of the Jiannu cavalry.

In the battle in Liaodong, if Tazhan had let Jiannu use this move from the beginning, the result of the war would be completely different. Unfortunately, Jiannu was too arrogant at that time, and they did not take the Ming army seriously at all, and they did not want to use this "despicable" trick with blood loss and courage.

It’s different now. After suffering enough Ming’s arms, Jiannu has long been no longer arrogant. For Jiannu now, defeating Ming’s arms camp is the most important thing.

Outside the west gate of Datong.

The Jiannu cavalry, who were sprinting rapidly, finally rushed into the range of the Ming army's musket team.

"Open fire!"

"Open fire!"

"Open fire!"

Scarface gave the order. The three generals cut off the waist knife in their hands at the same time. Three hundred muskets fired at the same time in three different directions. In the musket team, balls of black smoke suddenly rose in front of the deafening gunfire. Amid the deafening gunshots, the scorching lead bullets were already shooting at the Jiannu cavalry who were hiding from three directions with a sharp roar.

The tragic scene of the person who was looking forward to the Scarface did not appear this time. Because Jiannu's target was too small, the musketeers fired guns at Jiannu's mounts. Although more than half of the lead bullets hit the target, the fallen Jiannu cavalry had less than fifty horses. The first round of shooting could be said to be minimal to the damage to Jiannu.

Scar's forehead had already raised a vein, and he raised his waist and shouted again: "Let's fire!"

"Open fire!"

"Open fire!"

"Open fire!"

Accompanied by the rising black smoke, there was another deafening gunfire. This time, because the distance was close, the fallen Jiannu had more than the first round of shooting, but there were only a few more than a hundred cavalry. This was not a damaging blow to Jiannu, who had more than 2,000 cavalrymen.

After two rounds of volleys, Jiannu was less than a hundred steps away from the Musketeers.

Several beads of sweat as big as beans have emerged from the forehead of Scarface. According to his experience, before Jiannu rushed to the front, he could perform three-round volleys at most. However, with such killing efficiency, the remaining three-round volleys were not enough to destroy Jiannu's offensive. It seems that today it is inevitable that they will have to fight against each other.

"The whole army is moving closer, and they are moving closer to the middle."

"Knot circular defense array."

"The brothers outside take bayonets, and the brothers inside prepare for the Dragon King cannon!"

Scarface made a quick decision and responded quickly.

Anyway, the remaining three-wheeled volleys cannot kill several Jiannu. It would be better to hurry up and form a circular defensive formation, so that the brothers on the outside cannon will be bayonetized to fight against Jiannu. The brothers inside will use the Dragon King cannon to kill Jiannu!

West Gate Arrow Tower.

Wang Pu turned around and shouted loudly: "Lu Liu!"

Lu Liu responded with the sound and replied sternly: "Here."

Wang Pu said: "I ordered Zhao Xin and Tang Sheng to leave the city immediately to pick up Scarface."

"yes!"

Lu Liu agreed to take the order and left.

Outside Datong City, the surging Jiannu cavalry was less than fifty steps away from the circular defensive formation of the musket team. The Jiannu cavalry, which had originally scattered in fan shape, kept shrinking in the middle and began to crowd together. Tan Tai had to order slow down, otherwise the Jiannu cavalry would be in chaos due to the collision of each other.

Scarface's unintentional adaptability saved the fate of the musket team by accident. The musket team tightened into a group, and more than a thousand people were crowded in a narrow circle with a diameter of only about twenty steps (about 30 meters), which directly led to the inability to exert Jiannu's military advantage.

If the Jiannu cavalry rushed forward to the Meat Bo, there would be less than 30 cavalry of Jiannu cavalry that could fight directly with the musketeers, and the other Jiannu cavalry could only circle around and stare at each other. In this way, the Jiannu cavalry would instead form a disadvantage in military strength on local battlefields.

Tan Tai has experienced many battles, so of course he would not make such a low-level mistake.

Tan Tai asked the Jiannu cavalry to circle thirty steps away from the Ming army's circular formation, shooting arrows and killing the Ming army musketeers while circled. The Ming army's Dragon King cannon could not blow up Jiannu, and they fired volleys with volleys and were unable to load the bullets because they were crowded into a ball. It seemed that they could only be shot by Jiannu with bows and arrows one by one.

But there is a prerequisite for this, that is, there must be enough time.

Because Jiannu was circled around the Ming army, only the Jiannu in the innermost two circles could shoot the Ming army. Because the Ming army's circular formation was very small, the Jiannu cavalry in the innermost two circles combined was only more than a hundred cavalry, which means that there were only more than a hundred arrows shooting at the head of the Ming army at one time.

Most of the arrows will be blocked by the outermost Ming army musketeers. Although the outermost musketeers will surely die, the musketeers inside will not suffer too much casualties.

Of course, if there was enough time, the Scarface Musketeers could only be beaten but had no power to resist, and they would have to be wiped out in the end.

But Wang Pu obviously would not give Jiannu enough time. The closed Datong West Gate opened again. Tang Sheng and Zhao Xin took more musketeers and drove out of the city gate in an orderly queue. Leng Sengji hurriedly assigned some cavalry to block the city gate, but were shot overturned by more than a hundred cavalry by the musketeers who had long been guarding the city gate.

Soon, Tang Sheng and Zhao Xin's two thousand musket team set up a shooting queue outside the city under the cover of the musket team at the top of the city.

Tan Tai left five hundred cavalry to siege the Scarface Musket Team. The other brigades of cavalry gathered again first, and then rushed towards Tang Sheng and Zhao Xin's two thousand-man teams. Tan Tai wanted to use the same trick again, and forced Tang Sheng and Zhao Xin's two thousand-man teams into a group, and then ate them one by one.
Chapter completed!