Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 456 The Battle of Eight Mile Fort

"Put it away!"

"Be gentle when holding the bullet, but if you break the bullet, don't feel guilty or blame yourself. This is the battlefield, and no one can achieve absolute perfection on the battlefield!"

"Check your bolts and rifles. If you squat in the trench and can show your head, dig a little deeper!"

"Is the barbed wire fence ready?!"

At three o'clock in the afternoon on March 11, 15th year of Tianqi (45:[-]), when young voices kept ringing under Balibao, looking down from the sky, a long and narrow trench appeared outside Balibao at this moment.

They spread along the walls of Balibao, through the low-lying areas of the entire river valley, and even a small part of them spread into the woods.

A ditch nearly [-] steps long was dug out, and in front of the ditch was a barbed wire fence connected by horses. On the wire, there appeared some multi-faceted spikes formed by twisting small wires together.

Inside the barbed wire, some people hold the wire in a vise to form spikes, and this section of construction is about to be completed.

The triple combination of trenches, horse repelling, and barbed wire appeared more than two hundred years in advance. Although it cannot meet the standards of later generations, it is enough to intercept fast mobile troops.

"Withdraw?! How do I withdraw?"

How long did this fight take?
This question appeared subconsciously in everyone's mind.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

"Hissing—"

at last!

Manggurtai's arrangement was very solid. The central army and the rear army marched [-] steps into the mountain and then stationed their horses to throw arrows to form firepower suppression.

As time passed, Jin Jun's pace remained steady.

"Advance [-] steps and then station your horses. The rear army of the central army changes their bows and shoots upwards. The front army rushes to cut the iron net, and the whole army breaks through!"

Mang Gurtai focused his attention on the ten artillery pieces behind the trench of the Ming army.

"Why so fast..."

"Beep!"

When a Niu Lu Ezhen turned his head, his words got stuck in his throat.

"The whole army squats in the trenches!"

Time is running out, although a terrifying scene has appeared, Jia Laerzhen of the former army has no chance to look back.

Its range has an effective range of four hundred steps, and a skilled soldier can complete ten shots in one minute, and is equipped with a steel bayonet.

The horse and infantry soldiers of the Chinese army turned their horses and retreated one after another. Mangurtai and Abatai, as well as Jiala Ezhen and Niulu Ezhen in the army, reacted one after another, blowing whistles and generally shouting, trying to stabilize the Chinese army.

He went from tens of thousands of taels of blue flags before the war to less than a thousand now. Perhaps his entire army is about to be wiped out.
Without soldiers and horses, what's the point of his life?
Even if he couldn't break through, how would Huang Taiji break through?

They fell off their horses one by one, or they fell down with their horses.

"The firecrackers of the Ming army are coming! Retreat!"

He looked past the Shence guard cavalry who were skillfully loading ammunition on their horses, and looked at the battlefield behind them.

There were only 600 Jinjun fleeing for their lives, and this number is constantly decreasing.

"Ming dog! Ming dog!"

"Bang bang bang!"

In this process, there will naturally be many casualties, but it is a tactic that can break through the encirclement the fastest.

He was screwed and never got another chance.

As he said that, Jiala Ezhen stretched out his hand to grab the reins of the horse Mangurtai sat down on.

"Beep--"

Before they knew it, there were only less than a thousand people left around them, and many of them were lying on their horses, motionless, life and death uncertain.

Although a rifle without an optical sight has high shooting accuracy, the human eye cannot reach three hundred steps away.

"Fire the gun!"

In this way, when the dense rain of arrows fell, it almost covered the range from [-] steps in front of the Ming army to [-] steps behind the formation.

Liu Bian, the Commander of Shence Guards, was originally the commander of Xiao Cavalry Guards. Before the battle, Zhu Youjian sent Shen Cewei to bring with him these two thousand and six hundred Tianqi eleven-style rifles and 42 rounds of ammunition.

"alert!"

"Uh!"

This distance that horses usually take 1 minute to cover, at this moment, everyone only took forty seconds.

Experienced veterans leaped their horses and drew their knives, leaped over the "obstacles" with their men and horses, and rushed towards the barbed wire fence with their knives, but more people were still implicated and fell down.

For a moment, sadness swept Mangurtai's heart, but what was even more sad was that the Ming army launched a pursuit...

In one and a half months, the rifle factory of the Ordnance Bureau produced only 42 Apocalypse XI rifles and [-] rounds of ammunition due to incomplete machinery and equipment.

Among the familiar people, Abate's face was no longer there...

The sound of gunfire came, and the sound of crying and mourning followed.

It's just that the road is still very long. The Ming army chased and killed the golden soldiers all the way, like a hunter hunting.

Looking at this scene, Liu Bian remained calm and did not beat the drum, while the three thousand infantrymen of the former army, like arrows flying from the string, instantly crossed the distance of thirty steps, and were about to rush into the range of fifty steps.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but Mang Gurtai didn't see anyone's face clearly, but in his mind, Abate was captured and beheaded by the Ming army, or he was already dead but his head was cut off by the Ming army screen.

"Bang bang bang!"

After changing their bows, the Chinese army and the rear army horse infantry bent their bows and set up arrows, and shot arrows up to the sky.

After pulling the trigger, the long rod-shaped firing pin on the bolt pierces the paper cartridge case in the chamber, hits the primer, and ignites the propellant.

Some people are just hit by the horse, and after falling off the horse, they try to get up and drag others, let others take them away, and then they often respond with a hammer and a knife.

The guards who guarded their cheeks were safe. Although a few unlucky ones were shot into "hedgehogs", after avoiding the rain of arrows, they swung their knives and chopped off the shafts of the arrows, grabbing their own rifles.

The gunshot of the death talisman sounded again, and there was only one breath of time since the last gunshot.

He distributed the rifles to the soldiers of the sixteen main castles, and left the remaining one thousand for the thousand cavalry of the Shence Guard, in order to quickly support the various ministries.

But even so, they were rushed to Ala Mountain City and handed over to Shence Guard.

They have been vigilant against the artillery of the Ming army, but the artillery has not attacked them.

"There are just over a thousand of them. Our army is horse infantry. If you cut off the wire, you can break through!" Abatai didn't think that 1000 people could block the more than 9000 horse infantry of their two blue flags.

Liu Bian, dressed in mountain armor, blew his whistle in a hurry, and while he was blowing, he led people to trot towards the drum beating chariot behind him.

The arrows were like flying locusts, and the Shence guards buried their heads and raised their shields, and the arrows fell into the trench. Everyone could feel the constant force on the shields in their hands, and the sound of "dodo" was endless.

He was riding on horseback, followed by Abatai and several Jiala Ezhen.

"At least I can still live, I won't be like Abatai Baylor!!!"

Behind them, the barbed wire fence was opened, and more than a hundred cavalry rushed towards them.

"Beep--"

Jia La Ezhen, who was protecting Mang Gurtai's retreat all the way, shouted excitedly, but was scolded back by Mang Gurtai.

"Where's Abate?!"

Several Tang riders running back and forth behind the trench passed the news, and the muddy water on the ground even made the horses slip uncontrollably.

Mang Gurtai put the wooden whistle in his mouth, and the fifty or so Baijiaba Yala around him were vigilant, and Niulu Ezhen held the flag.

They played well with the time difference, releasing arrows before the former army horse infantry had rushed to thirty paces.

Horses were riding on horses, and the front row of the front army was beaten by ten artillery pieces and thousands of shotguns.

This kind of waiting is very tormented, but compared to the torment of Shen Cewei, Mangurtai is hesitating at this moment.

It's just that at this critical moment, that nightmarish wooden whistle sounded...

After more than half a month of training, the Shence Guard soldiers who got the rifles have been able to use the rifles proficiently. Although they have less than 20 rounds of ammunition left, and each of the thousand cavalrymen only has [-] rounds of ammunition, but Liu Bian is confident that in this era, the rifles in their hands are artillery.

Mangurtai loudly questioned Jiala Ezhen, but the other party shouted loudly:

On the contrary, there was a faint cannon sound behind them all the time. It was obvious that a battle broke out between the Chinese army and the sudden appearance of Cao Wenzhao.

The "bang bang bang" of the rifles came every breath or two, each time they claimed dozens of lives.

"Don't stand up until you hear the whistle!"

He was not worried about Shence Guard's muskets, because the trench arrangement was too long. Although 1000 people could stand in the four hundred-step trench, it was impossible to organize to cover three rows of guns with a length of four hundred steps.

He didn't even have time to take a look at the battlefield, and rushed to the barbed wire array at the first.

The nightmare in the hearts of everyone in the two blue flags appeared when the whistle sounded, and everyone looked behind in unison.

With puzzlement and a bloody hole in his forehead, Jiala Ezhen and a large number of horse infantry who chopped barbed wire fell slowly.

There are very few of the golden army horse infantry who were still fighting high before a cup of tea.

The ministries began to make adjustments, and Mangurtai's arrangement was soon formed, and he himself retreated to the central army. The whole process took only half a cup of tea.

When he reacted, he quickly looked around.

"Beep--"

Accompanied by the sound of "chicking" burning of the matchlock, when it burned and sank into the cannon, but after hearing a "boom", the deafening sound of the cannon was shot out with dense shotguns!
"Hissing!!!"

Within a hundred paces before the barbed wire fence of the Ming army, there were less than 800 people still standing, and more than half of them were the horse infantry of the Jin army who turned their horses and ran for their lives in horror.

The voice of order sounded again, but it was not from the Ming army, but from Mangurtai.

When the whistle and drums sounded, all the Shence Guards deployed in the [-]-foot trench pulled the triggers of their rifles one after another.

Three hundred steps...

A voice of exclamation sounded, and when the Niu Luer really looked over, the whole person subconsciously gasped.

"Bang bang bang-"

When the Shence Guard cavalry trampled on the muddy ground and rushed through the barbed wire fence, the sound of rumbling horseshoes sounded in the distant sky.

Since the factory was built in the winter month of the 11th year of Tianqi and the construction was completed in the twelfth lunar month, the first Tianqi [-]-style rifle was born on the Zhengdan Festival on the first day of the first month of the [-]th year of Tianqi.

"Beep--"

Just when they raised their heads, the three thousand horse and infantry soldiers of the former army fell down hundreds of thousands of people, rolling down with their horses.

"Uh!"

A large number of people fell off their horses, and shouts resounded throughout the battlefield.

During the half-cup of tea, more than half of them took the initiative to attack, and the counterattack time of the Ming army was less than half of theirs...

"Commander?"

Beside the drum beating cart, Qianhu couldn't help asking, but Liu Bian held his breath.

In the eyes of the survivors of the first batch of horse infantry who fell first, at this moment, no matter in front of them or behind them, all they saw were a large number of horse infantry lying down and howling.

There are still a hundred steps left, and everyone will have to station their horses to change their bows, and the front army will make a surprise attack.

Seeing this, he held the binoculars with one hand, and picked up a drum hammer of the drum-beating cart with the other.

"master!"

Knowing that the former army was wiped out, everyone started to flee, and Mangurtai and Abatai were even more coerced to escape.

In the same way, one of the magic guards sitting in the ditch is holding a brand new gun that has never appeared outside the Armament Academy for inspection at the moment.

At the same time, the sound of rumbling horseshoes became louder and louder, and the 120 Shence Guards on the defense line were waiting in full force. Some nervous people even forgot to breathe.

Seeing this, everyone nearby followed them and withdrew to the rear.

The piercing whistle sounded from the sky ahead when the fortification was about to be completed, and a team of Shence Guards galloped towards the position whistling.

More than a hundred cavalrymen with rifles in the Ming army rode their horses and raised their whips, skillfully reloaded, aimed on horseback, and then pulled the trigger.

Liu Bian, commander of Shencewei, stood on the drum beating cart with a wooden whistle in his mouth, and looked at Jianlu with binoculars.

When the arrangement was formed, accompanied by a wooden whistle from Mangurtai, the horse and infantry soldiers of the two blue flags began to shake the reins.

As the distance between the two armies continued to approach, especially when they crossed the distance of two hundred steps, Mangurtai could feel the heavy breathing of the horse and infantry around him.

"call……"

At this moment, everyone's minds were dumbfounded.

Under the gloomy sky, behind the escaped Jin army, there were only corpses all over the ground, and poor horses running around without an owner.

"Beep--"

Liu Bian roughly looked around, and they should be about [-] steps away from Jianlu, and the enemy has not yet entered the range.

Just as Jia La Ezhen drew his sword, a rifle appeared in the corner of his eyes.

Mang Gurtai grabbed the reins of the horse and started to flee, but about [-] steps behind them, he caught a cavalry force tightly.

More than a hundred cavalrymen fired, and only two dozen people from the two blue flag teams fell down.

Even though the horse infantry who followed them had been prepared, they were still taken aback by this scene and panicked for a while.

Mang Gurtai seemed to have lost his mind. He was yelling curses on horseback, and he was very excited.

Before the fleeing horse and infantry could react, they all felt a pain in their chests, and their whole bodies went limp and they fell off their horses.

Horses galloped back and forth across the pond, and nine hundred Shence Guard soldiers squatted down one by one.

900 people were like this, and the remaining one hundred people and more than one hundred people in Balibao pushed ten Yanshan five-jin cannons down the Balibao horse road, and pushed the artillery to the back of the trench of the defense line.

The other Ming troops defending the line of defense have already stepped out of the trench and started to clean up the battlefield.

"Boom boom boom——"

"Ming dog!!!"

The sound of "噗噗" sounded on the battlefield, making one's scalp tingle, and at the same time, blood mist bloomed under the gloomy sky.

"Don't run! Stop! Don't run!"

"Save me! Take me away!"

"drive!"

What brought them back to reality was the screams of the horse infantry ahead and the neighing of war horses.

The fallen ones tried their best to catch up, but they were knocked down one by one by the continuous gunshots.

When the comrade next to him was hit by the rifle of the Ming army a hundred paces away, and the three thousand horse infantry of the front army were annihilated, the power of the rifle shocked all the Jin troops in the front row.

Blood was spattered on the rump's buttocks, its skin was torn apart, and it could only run wildly with its hooves.

The distance of three hundred steps is like a natural moat at this moment, insurmountable.

"Hissing!!!"

"Can you really break through?"

Seeing this, the Shence guards took the initiative to open a horse-rejecting barbed wire without reminding them.

"Bang bang bang-"

The blankness in my mind disappeared, leaving only the desire to survive.

As far as he could see, apart from the corpses all over the place, he could only see the Eight Mile Stone Fort standing next to the line of defense...

"Defend against their artillery. If they don't fire at this time, it is estimated that they will use flowering bullets or shotguns."

With the continuous sound of gunfire, more than 900 Apocalypse XI rifles fired bullets.

"Withdraw! Withdraw!"

With a swing of the knife, most of the barbed wire was cut in half, but the knife got stuck.

"put!"

By the time the whole army got the news, they had already advanced a hundred steps and entered the shooting range of the Ming army, but they didn't know it.

Tang Qi passed Mang Gurtai's message to more than [-] Niulu Ezhens in the army, and the Niulu Ezhens who learned about the arrangement also wore the news one after another.

For a moment, Mang Gurtai was stunned.

The firearms of the Ming army are sharp, but no matter how sharp they are, there must be a limit.

"That's right! Where's Abate? Where's his younger brother?"

When the whistle sounded, the Shence guards in the trench opened the ammunition boxes one after another, put the bullets one by one on the bullet belt around their waists, and were ready to draw them out for spares at any time.

The snow water after a small amount of snow melted made the trench very muddy, and the whole person was half dirty as soon as they sat down.

They didn't know the shooting range of the Ming army's rifles. They didn't stop their horses until the gunshots behind them disappeared. Everyone breathed heavily as if they had experienced suffocation.

"Run! Ming army's guns..."

"Beep--"

In this case, no one will care about the Chinese army, because breaking through is the primary purpose.

Jia Lae really scolded Mang Gurtai, and Mang Gurtai's mind went blank for a second.

On the road in the valley, there are marks left by Shence Wei Tangqi, and there are bright red stones every ten steps.

"The whole army heard the drum and shot!"

Mang Gurtai, who was running for his life, couldn't help but look back at the line of defense that had taken away too many of his slaves.

"Commander!" Qianhu couldn't help but yelled out as he looked at the Jin Army horse infantry who were close at hand.

Amidst the chaotic sound of horseshoes, the former army armored forehead really blew the wooden whistle, and the former army horse infantry began to charge. At the first moment of the charge, they drew their bows and set up arrows, and after running for more than [-] steps, they loosened their strings and shot arrows!

Mud and water splashed, and those who fell were trampled by war horses. Only a small number of people managed to escape.

A terrifying scene appeared in the eyes of the horse infantrymen struggling to get up one by one.

"what is this?!"

However, the impact of annihilating [-]% of the army in a blink of an eye brought a heavy blow to everyone. Everyone rushed to escape with their horses, and they couldn't organize it at all.

"Bang bang bang-"

With an effective shooting distance of four hundred steps, they have absolute confidence in dealing with any enemy.

Mang Gurtai was still immersed in the news of Abate's death, and was caught off guard by Jia Laerzhen leading the horse and began to retreat back.

Before the appearance of the fourth version of the steam engine, such guns could only be handcrafted by craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, and the speed was extremely slow. It was not until the appearance of the fourth version of the steam engine that it became possible to mass-produce it.

Looking at Shence Guard's defense, Mang Gurtai did not rush in, but put down the binoculars:

Just as Liu Bian was about to beat the drums, he saw the horse infantry of the Golden Army stationed in the rear and changing their bows, preparing to further suppress the guards of the magic strategy guards in the trench.

Ten carts were backed up with shotgun shells and gunpowder pulled by horses. The 200 men began to clean the barrel and fill the gunpowder.

Seeing this, a hundred householders next to him picked up two drum hammers and waited for Liu Bian to whistle and beat the drum.

There was a sound like black and white impermanence chains dragging on the ground, like a reminder.

"hold on!"

The armor-piercing distance of the Ming army's rifles is fifty steps, and they only have the distance and time of fifty steps.

"Three thousand in the front, four thousand in the middle, and the rest of the rear, listen to my whistle and march forward!"

Apocalypse XI rifle, this is the world's first widely used military breech-loading rifle. It is four feet four inches (140cm) long and weighs eight catties. Single feed.

The former army survived only within a dozen breaths, and the minds of Mang Gurtai and others went blank after seeing this scene.

The wooden whistle sounded, and the gunner who heard the sound quickly lit the match.

The eighty-nine-strength step bow spanned more than eighty steps in the blink of an eye, and fell suddenly.

However, on the battlefield, such scrambling is the norm, and no one has any complaints.

The beating of drums continued, and the sound suppressed everyone's hearts, while the bullets pierced through their bodies.

When fleeing for their lives, they thought it was a long time, but when they were safe, they recalled that it seemed that there was not even time for half a cup of tea in this battle.

The rout of the people in the front made the people behind it unclear, so they didn't know what happened at all, they only knew that the front army was wiped out.

Accompanied by the emergence of someone on the horizon of the distant river valley, Jianlu wearing blue cloth face armor appeared in Shence Guard's field of vision.

"Lord Baylor! Let's retreat!"

Because the death was so sudden, too many corpses didn't even have time to bleed, only the dark red "water stain" on the armor.

"We were shot down together with Gulza and the others! Lord Belle! Let's retreat!"

"Such a precious wire, they actually used it to hook up and refuse horses."

What Liu Bian was waiting for was the second wave of arrow rain. Now that the arrow rain has passed, Shen Cewei can stretch his divine power!
"Bang bang bang-"

The former army took advantage of this time to cut through the barbed wire, and then the whole army broke through.

The gunshots, shouts, cries of pain, and hissing from behind made everyone sweat profusely and whip their whips desperately.

Due to the lack of time and the hard permafrost on the northern mountain, the depth of the trench was no more than three feet. Everyone had to sit down or squat down to hide their figures.

Too many blue-banner infantrymen who were not killed were captured and beheaded, and those who had already died were beheaded skillfully by the Ming army.

"Beep--"

Liu Bian was standing on the drum-beating cart, next to him were a thousand households and two hundred households holding command flags with wooden whistles in their mouths.

At this moment, Mangurtai felt a sense of despair that suffocated him.

Perhaps he already has the answer to this question in his heart.

　I'm seriously ill and transferred to the hospital. I hope it's okay.

　　Today and tomorrow should still be updated, sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)