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Chapter 251 Caravan Attacked

Wang Quan yelled: "Carry formation!"

The Dadewang Merchant had more than 2,000 carriages, more than 600 elite guards, more than 2,000 mules, more than 6,000 horses, more than 2,000 cattle, and more than 1,000 sheep.

With Wang Quan's order, all the carts were surrounded by the outer periphery, forming a circle, and the guard plates were pulled up. Horses and mules were placed in the inner circle of the cart array, forming a circle. The horses and mules were cows and the innermost sheep. Two thousand gangs acted as spearmen, holding spears and standing behind the wooden boards of the cart. More than ten servants of Yang Sichang stood behind the caravan men, took off bird guns from their backs, and nervously loaded the projectiles. Wang Quan and his six old men, as well as more than fifty elite archers promoted from the new guards, took down bows and arrows, and the remaining more than five hundred gangsters were either holding crossbows, bows and arrows, or heavy weapons such as big axes, hammers, and maces, as well as thirty bird gunners.

After setting up the chariot formation, Wang Quan asked someone to sprinkle a few layers of caltrops on the grassland outside the chariot formation. As long as the cavalry of the Jin army rushed up and stepped on the caltrops, they would fall over.

Hahana arrived in front of the caravan with six hundred Bayala soldiers and two thousand Korchin Mongolian cavalry.

"Han merchants inside, listen!" A loud-sounding white-armored Bayala soldier rode his horse out of an arrow and shouted loudly, "Master, I heard that there are Ming spies in the caravan! If the Ming spies are handed over, the Han caravan can leave! If you insist on your own, my great Jin warrior will kill you without leaving you!"

Wang Quan thought to himself: Yue Tuo was cunning and cunning, and he really guessed that there was a Ming envoy hidden in my caravan! Although Jiannu only had 600, they were all elite Bayala soldiers. In this battle, the caravan staff would probably suffer heavy losses. But after hearing Jiannu's words, it was impossible to hand over Yang Xiong obediently.

The guys in the caravan who were standing behind the car board with spears were a little nervous when they saw that the Later Jin army was in tidy lineup.

Wang Quan sneered: "I am a wise man. Let me hand over the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, don't think about it!" Before he finished speaking, he loosened his fingers, and a heavy arrow roared out, heading straight for the white-armored soldier.

The white-armored soldiers were also very powerful. When they saw the arrow flying towards them, they immediately lowered their heads and dodged. A sharp arrow passed through the lightning rod above his head. The arrow flew out with the red tassels on the top of the lightning rod and pierced heavily on the ground.

"Good archery!" The white-armored soldier was shocked, and quickly lowered his head and rode his horse back.

Hahana was furious and pulled out his knife and pointed at the car: "My Manchu men! Come on! Kill all these dogs!"

"Kill!" One hundred white armored soldiers and five hundred red armored soldiers jumped off the horse. In front was one hundred white armored Bayala holding square iron shields, followed by five hundred red armored Bayala. Six hundred Jin soldiers shouted and rushed towards the chariot formation.

Two thousand Korchin Mongolian cavalry took out their cavalry bows, rushed out from both sides of the Bayala soldiers, and rushed towards the formation of chariots in front with the left and right attacks.

Wang Quan opened his bow and took an arrow, and an arrow roared out. He rushed to the first Korqin cavalry one hundred and fifty steps away and stabbed a feather arrow in the chest. He screamed and immediately turned over and fell off the horse. He was trampled into meat paste by countless horse hooves behind him.

More than a hundred crossbowmen picked up the crossbow machine, aimed diagonally into the air, pressed down the hanging knife, and a row of arrows flew into the sky, slashing into the Mongolian cavalry formation with parabola. Only a row of war horses were heard neighing, and the Korchin cavalrymen rushed in front were overturned.

The crossbowman quickly retreated and nervously loaded the crossbow arrows. At this time, the Mongolian cavalry had rushed into a hundred steps. More than 100 archers from the caravan guards opened their bows and took arrows, and a row of light arrows flew out, drawing an arc in the air, piercing into the crowd of horses of the Korqin Mongolian cavalry. Dozens of Mongolian cavalry were shot and overturned.

Then another round of light arrows flew out and shot over a piece of Mongolian cavalry again.

The caravan guards shot a round of crossbow arrows and two rounds of bows and arrows, leaving more than 130 Korchin Mongolian cavalry who had almost no armor on this grassland.

Hahana didn't feel sorry for the losses of the Korqin cavalry. Originally, the Korqin people were cannon fodder. Their main purpose was to harass the Han formation. After approaching, they rode a bow and shot, giving the Bayala soldiers a chance to rush to the chariot formation. As long as the Bayala soldiers wearing multiple thick armor rushed to the chariot formation, they could cut off Ming people like chopping melons and vegetables.

Seeing the figure of the Mongolian cavalry gradually enlarge in his eyes, the caravan guy holding a spear felt nervous, but later car boards could provide them with shelter, not to mention that there were caltrops in front of the formation. The Mongolian cavalry seemed fierce, but in fact they could not rush in front of the formation.

"Rise the shield!" Wang Quan shouted when he saw the approaching Mongolian cavalry spread out to both sides, and the knights on the horse's back had taken out their cavalry bows.

The caravans raised their shields to cover their heads.

Just as the Korqin cavalry was about to hit the caltrop, they quickly spread out to both sides, and the fingers that hooked the bowstrings to release them, and the bow shot out a black arrow, flew into the sky, and pierced down above the chariot formation.

The arrow hit the wooden board and made a dull puff sound. The car board and the guy held the shield above his head suddenly seemed to suddenly grow a layer of white reed floss, densely filled with arrows. There were occasionally a few screams in the car array, which were the arrows leaking from the gap between the shields and stabbing on several unlucky guys. Wang Quan also heard a few screams of cattle and sheep. Some unlucky cattle and sheep were shot into the light arrows of the car array, and they made a scream and fell down.

The archers and crossbowmen in the chariot array shot a row of arrows again, and many of them were performing superb riding skills, hiding in the stirrups on the war horses like circus juggling, and suddenly turning over and shooting feathered arrows fell from the horse's back one by one like a bird that was shot down.

The Mongols of Korqin shouted and circled around the chariot array, and occasionally rode their bows with their fingers to shoot arrows. However, the chariot array was protected by the chariot array and shields, and the power of the chariot was greater than that of the chariot. The Korqin people were hit by arrows and fell off the horse. The chariot array was lying in a row within twenty steps outside the chariot array. The corpses of Korqin people were all over the ground.

Wang Quan estimated that at least more than 300 Korchin cavalry had suffered casualties, and only one of his men was killed and more than ten were injured. However, Wang Quan was not happy at all, because it was obvious that the Korchin cavalry was cannon fodder, and the real strong enemies were those Jurchen heavy armored Bayala soldiers who were hiking and approaching!

The Jurchen Bayala soldiers wearing thick armor and carrying iron shields were very slow to attack. Under the sunlight, the shield wrapped in iron sheet flashed with dazzling white light, which made people shudder.

Wang Quan felt a headache. The archers had no lethal power to the Later Jin army from a distance. If they were approached, the heavy arrows shot by the Jurchens at close range were extremely accurate and powerful. As long as a few rounds of arrow rain were covered, the white-armored soldiers wearing heavy armor would rush into the formation.

Another row of arrows shot out from the chariot formation, and dozens of Korchin cavalrymen who were circling like a lantern outside fell down.

The most terrifying Jurchen heavy armored soldiers are getting closer step by step, less than fifty steps away.
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