Chapter 62
Yangguli was shocked when he saw the three hundred armored cavalry rushing over, and was unstoppable. At this time, it was too late for the Jurchen archers who were dismounting and shooting archers to get on the horse and escape. They ran to the hillside, but just happened to hit the horse thief's three-eyed gun and bird gun, and were beaten into a hornet's nest one after another.
Li Laoer caught up with a Jurchen soldier who had no time to climb up the mountain. The horse spear in his hand hit hard with the impact of the war horse. The fine steel armor-breaking cone of the two feet long spear was pierced on the Jurchen soldier. The Jin soldier was wearing three layers of thick armor and had his ribs broken, and even his spine was broken under the powerful impact force.
The terrifying lethality of the horse spear, let alone the Jurchen soldiers wearing three layers of armor, even if the iron cans in Europe are hit by a two-foot-long armor-breaking cone, even if the bones are not broken, their internal organs will be damaged.
A cavalry galloped over to the horse, and the mace in his hand greeted Yangguli. Although Yangguli was shocked, he was not the one who sat and waited for death. He picked up a tiger spear from the ground and rushed towards the rushing Han cavalry.
The mace that was smashed over was swept away by Yangguli with a tiger spear, and then the tiger spear was stabbed in the chest of the Han cavalry. Although the cavalry was wearing thick armor, the impact of the war horse and the attack of Yangguli's thousand-pound power made the tiger spear pick up the Han cavalry and lifted it off the horse's back.
Yangguli rolled on the spot, avoiding the unmanned war horse collision. Then he grabbed the reins of the war horse from behind, jumped onto the war horse, and jumped onto the war horse.
"You can't let this Tartar leader run away!" Li Laoer led his men to chase him closely behind.
Yangguli ran desperately, and the remaining Jurchens were left behind by him. The Jurchen soldiers collided with the horse thieves who rushed down from the mountain. The three-eyed guns and bird guns in the hands of the horse thieves had already been shot, and they could only fight with the Jurchen soldiers with cold weapons.
Although the Jurchen soldiers were wearing thick armor, they only had long weapons such as bows and arrows, tiger spears, maces, and long-handled axes that were not conducive to melee combat, which were all thrown at the foot of the mountain. Only a few people had tiger-toothed swords and straight swords in their hands, and the number was small, and they were surrounded by hundreds of horse thieves. The horse thieves were holding heavy weapons such as hammers, maces, big axes, wide-blade heavy swords, and nail-toothed hammers. The blunt weapon broke through the Jurchen soldiers' double thick armor, just like a stone crushing tofu.
The Jurchen soldiers who were trapped in beasts were also very fierce. The remaining more than 30 Jurchen soldiers did not have the weapons to help, and in the melee battle, they actually caused more than 100 horse thieves to suffer casualties!
Li Laoer followed Yangguli and refused to leave. Seeing that Yangguli was about to escape, he raised his hand and threw the horse spear out. Unfortunately, the distance was too far and he could not hit Yangguli.
Seeing Yangguli running five miles away, Li Laoer had to give up his pursuit. He picked up the horse spear and took his brothers back to the valley where the Jurchen soldiers had just ambushed.
Back in the valley, all the Jin soldiers left by Yangguli were wiped out, and more than 100 Jurchen soldiers were captured and all died in battle. However, many of the 600 Mongols kneeled down and surrendered.
More than 200 remaining Mongolians knelt on the ground, and all kinds of weapons were thrown all over the ground, begging Li Hong and Zhang Wei and others.
Because the boss was not here, Li Hong and Zhang Wei and others dared not make a decision. Seeing Li Lao Er come back, they stepped forward and asked: "Big boss, how should these prisoners be dealt with?"
"Kill! Behead all, no one will be left!" Li Laoer issued a prisoner-killing order without hesitation.
"The master, killing prisoners is not good. We can leave these Korqin people to Lin Danhan to deal with them." Zhang Wei advised. Didn't Li Laoer leave behind a group of Korqin Mongol prisoners before, but why did he kill prisoners today? He couldn't understand.
"We don't have more food to support these people. The Korqin people were the best allies of the Jurchen Jiannu, so they killed them all! Let them know that there will be a price to pay for the invasion of Jiannu!"
"No!" Li Hong and Zhang Wei turned their heads and ordered all the captured Mongols to be pressed to the ground and chopped their heads.
Still, the Korqin people were still unable to escape death because of how much these Korqin people begged. Two horse thieves held down a prisoner and pressed them to the ground. They raised their swords and fell, and more than two hundred heads all rolled to the ground in a blink of an eye.
In addition to Yangguli's escape, 100 Jurchen soldiers and 500 Mongolian soldiers were all wiped out, 100 sets of Jurchen armor were seized, 85 strong bows were seized, 200 sets of Mongolian leather armor were seized, and 500 Mongolian cavalry bows were seized. In addition, various weapons such as tiger guns, tiger teeth knives, maces, maces, maces, big axes, shields were seized, more than 400 war horses were seized, countless gold, silver and treasures were found from the corpse, and several dry food were found.
Although this battle wiped out 100 Jurchen soldiers and 500 Mongolian soldiers, Li Laoer was not happy at all. He used the trick of seducing the enemy and ambushing the enemy again. His own losses were not small. This battle cost more than 200 brothers! There were only 1,300 people in his hands, and more than 200 people were lost in one battle. Li Laoer could not afford such losses.
What's even more failure is that the one who originally wanted to kill Yangguli was run away by this Jiannu leader!
At the foot of the hillside, there were corpses everywhere, and it was impossible to tell whether it was his brother or the Jin soldiers. The 1,100 people he brought out had lost more than 200 people, and the losses were nearly one-fifth!
This battle was said to be won, but in Li Laoer's mind, he thought it was a crushing defeat. Almost all the more than 200 brothers he lost were caused by those 100 Jurchen soldiers. Li Laoer began to reflect on whether his idea of developing firearms was right or wrong? Even the captured bird guns were far less than the strong bows of the Later Jin Dynasty, and the loading speed was extremely slow. Not to mention the three-eyed guns, the range was too close. The advantage of the firearms was nothing more than the good armor-breaking ability.
However, the musketeer went to attack the Jurchens' strong bow, but it was obviously not an opponent. Unless the musketeer was equipped with excellent armor, they had the chance to approach the Jurchen soldiers.
As for the development of Minnie bullets, it can completely suppress the Jin army archers. However, with the technology of this era, it is impossible to mass produce Minnie bullets. The accuracy of the bullet and barrel matching, and the problem of bullet lead hanging, these problems cannot be solved at all. If it can be solved, it will not be far from the equipment of the breech gun. In real history, Minnie rifles only appeared for more than a decade and were replaced by the rear-loaded gun.
How to break the Jurchen powerful archers? Unless you create a strong crossbow with a shooting range far exceeding the Jurchen powerful archers, such as the Divine Arm Bow of the Song Dynasty. However, the manufacturing of this kind of crossbow is very complicated. It takes longer than the bow to build an excellent Divine Arm Bow. The crossbow players who use Divine Arm Bow are also strongmen from a hundred miles away. This kind of crossbow is skeletoned with foot pedals and the firing rate is not fast. Thinking of this, Li Laoer naturally gave up the idea of creating a Divine Arm Bow.
In the end, Li Laoer returned to the method of cavalry mobility and infantry defending the city. To deal with the Jurchens, he still had to develop cavalry, especially heavy cavalry with good armor protection.
Chapter completed!