Chapter 110 Playing with Mongolian Light Cavalry
The snow fog raised by the Ming army's war horses blocked the Mongols' vision. Hatan and Yierqi, who were pursuing, still did not see clearly that the Ming army was evacuating by car, not cavalry riding on horseback.
Only about seventy steps were left, Ming army gunmen sitting on the sled opened fire with turtledove-legged guns and Lumi guns.
The Mongolians only saw rows of fires suddenly spewed out from the snowflakes flying in the sky in front of them, as if a row of lightning flashed suddenly. Then the sound of guns roared, and more than a hundred projectiles rushed towards them. Several Mongolian cavalry in the front were hit by Lumi's guns, and blood mist was sprayed out of their bodies, rolling down from the horse's back and landing on the snow. The white snow splashed with red blood.
One of the running horses was hit by a turtle dove-legged gun. The lead bullet was more than one or two as big as a pigeon egg. If it hits a person, it can be smashed into pieces. Even a strong war horse could not withstand a turtle dove-legged gun. The lead bullet hit the neck of the war horse, tore the fur, drilled into the flesh, and broke the vertebrae of the war horse. The blood in the wound left by the turtle dove-legged gun continued to flow, and the red and warm horse blood sprayed out from the wound.
The beheaded war horse knelt down on its front hooves and turned forward. Under the action of inertia, it rolled forward a few times before falling on the snow. The Mongolian light cavalry on the horse's back had already been thrown away more than ten feet away.
Another projectile with a turtle dove-legged gun hit a Mongolian cavalry. More than one or two lead bullets hit the body of the Mongolian. The leather armor was as fragile as paper. The projectile pierced into the human body and immediately tore the entire body into pieces.
Hatan looked at the upper half of a Mongolian warrior beside him in a daze as the upper part of a Mongolian warrior exploded, turning into a cloud of blood mist, and the remaining two legs were still on the horse's back. It took a long time to fall off the horse's back.
"How can Minggou Cavalry have heavy firearms? Can they still be used in retreat?" Hatan couldn't understand this problem at all.
Then another feather arrow fell and shot over thirty Mongolian cavalry again.
"Hurry up, work harder! We can kill them all by catching up with Minggou!" Yier shouted together.
Before they could even find the side of the Ming army, they had already lost more than 150 cavalry, which made the Mongols so angry that they almost lost their minds. They rushed to chase after them, and even if they ran to death, they would catch up with these evil and despicable Ming soldiers. After the Mongols suffered three rounds of arrow rain and lost nearly a hundred more people, they finally narrowed the distance to about fifty steps.
The Mongolian cavalry took off their cavalry bows, drew their bows and shot out light arrows one after another.
The distance was still too far, and the Mongols shot arrows while chasing behind them. The range was closer due to the resistance of the oncoming wind. Most of the arrows fell on the snow behind the Ming army, and only a few arrows fell on the sled, all blocked by the Ming army with shields.
Li Laoer sent a flag-speaking signal, and the Ming army also accelerated a little, and the distance was pulled to about sixty steps.
The Ming army's muskets, which had been loaded, fired again. With a round of roaring guns, another group of Mongolian light cavalry fell from their horses like dumplings. Immediately afterwards, another round of feather arrows fell, and Mongolian cavalry with almost no defense ability rolled on the snow one after another.
Archers shoot archers continuously, which is a huge physical exhaustion. However, Li Laoer had thought of this problem for a long time, so he took the method of rotating archery.
After the Ming army archers who were shooting an archer shot another round of feather arrows, they rested and replaced the Ming army soldiers who had just shot with muskets to operate the bows and arrows. The replaced archers to reload ammunition for the muskets and continue to shoot the Mongols with muskets.
The retreating Ming army chariot battalion kept bleeding the Mongolian cavalry who were chasing them. At one time, the Mongolians could not catch up with them, but were shot and killed in vain.
After chasing for a while, Hatan and Yier finally found that their pursuit was futile. The Ming army seemed to be deliberately giving themselves hope to catch up. Every time the distance was closer, the Ming army could speed up and widen the distance. The front kept shooting arrows backwards, lifting the chasing Mongolians one by one. This was already obvious. The opponent was bleeding his people little by little in this way.
"Stop!" Hatan shouted, "We can't catch up with them at all!"
All the Mongolians stopped their horses and stopped moving forward. Hatan and Yier counted the number of people and found that more than 300 people had been lost.
A total of two thousand Mongolian cavalrymen were chasing them for a short time, and they lost more than 10%. If they continued to pursue them, they might not be able to catch up with the Ming army if the blood of the two thousand people was released.
Hatan turned over and dismounted, retreated the traces of Ming army left on the snow. After looking carefully several times, Hatan shouted to Yierji: "Taiji, come down and take a look too! Mingdo's horse hooves are very shallow, and there are two shallow marks left behind, like a trace left by a car on the snow."
"Car?" Yierduqi also jumped off the horse and looked at the traces on the snow, feeling incredible: "It's so icy and snowy, can this car camp run so fast? Logically speaking, the wheels of the car should be trapped in the snow with such thick snow. But looking at the traces on the snow, they look very shallow."
At this time, Hatan remembered that earlier tonight, a team of Mongolian cavalry came back to report that they had discovered a team of Ming army's chariot camp on the snow field.
"Is it really a car camp? It's impossible! On such a snowy day, the car can run faster than us on horseback?"
However, people in that era did not have the concept of sleds, so the Mongolians naturally couldn't understand these principles. They pursued for nearly an hour in vain. Not only did they not catch an opponent, but they themselves lost their troops and generals. Hatan and Yier could only give up the pursuit helplessly.
It was getting dark, and the Jin soldiers in the Jin army camp did not get up until the sun was over. It was already midnight, and the Jin soldiers woke up one after another, preparing to plunder more Ming people in the new day.
Li Laoer's car camp did not go far. Last night, they escaped from the pursuit of Mongolian cavalry and spent the night in a small woods. After dawn, Li Laoer sent four light sled cars to use them as sergeants without stopping the verge, and were specifically responsible for spying on military information.
Near noon, a group of soldiers sent by Li Laoer came back and reported to him that a team of about 100 Mongolian cavalrymen went to loot a nearby village and captured more than 500 Ming people. The other three teams also came back one after another without taking them at night. Each team of Mongolian cavalry found a team of Mongolian cavalry to rob the people.
Li Laoer naturally wanted to rescue the people. As long as his chariot attacked the Mongolian cavalry that plundered the people everywhere, making Huang Taiji's plundering the people more difficult, then the goal would be achieved. The chariot attacked at night, dealt with the Mongolians during the day, rescued some people, and regained the stolen gold, silver, treasures, food, cattle, sheep, pigs and other animals, and finally angered the Jin army.
Chapter completed!