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Chapter 89 Without water and food, am I a horse?

The infantry of the Ming army was getting closer and closer. When they reached [-] steps, the Fran cannon on the top of the mountain began to fire. Only a few people were hit.

The Ming army armed with swords, guns and shields gathered in a loose formation and slowly moved forward, while three teams of musketeers and a small number of archers were divided into two teams. They ran forward dozens of steps towards the top of the mountain, and when they reached sixty steps near the parapet, These officers and soldiers in loose formation stood up one after another.

"Hoo!" All the small flag officers blew their swan horns one after another.

"Fire!" The blunderbusses in the first row fired a volley like firecrackers, and then loaded the ammunition on the spot, and the blunderbussmen in the second row crossed the first row again, and ordered "Fire!" , the second row also fired a salvo.

When the archers mixed in the team reached eighty paces away, they started shooting arrows freely, almost all of which were light arrows, but even light arrows were fatal to the basically unarmored civilian army.

A burst of lead bullets and feathered arrows rushed to the top of the mountain non-stop. Because of the protection of the parapet, the damage caused by the bird guns was not much, but the throwing of a small number of archers caused great panic in the popular army. Feathered arrows crossed the parapet and shield with traces visible to the naked eye, and various wooden and bamboo arrow shafts twisted and moved forward in the air like snakes.

The arrow of only fifty grams was at the end of the parabola, and easily tore apart the soldiers in civilian clothes. After the sound of "poof", there was a shrill scream.

"Fire!"

The people's army's tiger squatting cannons, which could not bear the pressure, finally fired. Originally, the shotguns of these tiger squatting cannons should meet the Ming army's infantry in the distance, but these forward shooters were too disgusting, and the people's army lacked enough shooter against it.

At this time, it was the Ming army's turn to let out screams. Lead bullets like flying tigers and cannons rushed into the queue of archers and bird gunners, bringing up a cloud of blood. These lead bullets hit the soldiers of the Ming army. There was an incurable wound on the stomach, but behind the small wound in the front was a bowl-sized blood hole, and the blood-red and colorful viscera splattered out was disgusting.

The only downfall is that it does very little damage.

A cloud of gunpowder smoke instantly covered the entire position, and there was not even a trace of wind in the air at this time, so the gunpowder smoke could not dissipate for a long time.

"Beat the drum and charge!" Liu Yingyu grasped the whip with his left hand, this was an opportunity.

The fierce drums in the Ming army camp began to sound, constantly urging the Ming army's foot formation that was dawdling on the hillside.

With the sound of drums, the Ming army's formation suddenly accelerated, and the shields in the front row were advancing like a wall. At this time, there was no weapon to stop their attack. The tiger squat gun was still reloading nervously, but it was too slow.

The distance of more than 100 steps is within seconds.

The first round of welcome was the javelins of the People's Army, which landed like crows in the formation of the Ming army, most of which were blocked by the long cards in front, and shot into the tide-like formation behind, only splashing a few splashes before disappearing up.

"Kill it!"

The spears of the People's Army stabbed forward frantically in the gaps between the shields behind the parapet, and the sword and shield hands of the Ming army rushed in frantically while the spears were stabbing each other, and only realized when they fell into the ditch in front of the parapet. I was too short to reach at all.

From behind the parapet, a few small black spots with sparks suddenly flew up and flew into the formation of Ming army infantry. A few, to increase firepower, reserved for use in critical moments.

In the roaring sound, violent flames and shrapnel were flying in the crowd. The formation that the Ming army could still hold on to was already in a mess amidst the explosion. Iron shrapnel could easily tear apart armor, and ceramic shrapnel could also tear apart Can cause fatal damage.

A blood mist exploded from the Ming army near the explosion point, and then the splashed blood mist fell like raindrops, painting the nearby Ming army dark red.

The battle drums of the Ming army's central army became more and more intensive, but this did not inspire the courage of the infantry.

"Fire gunners and archers step forward to support Diffuse!"

Following the order, the shooters who had assembled in the center of the formation, under the leadership of their respective squad leaders, shot from the reserved commanding heights one after another. The smoke of gunpowder filled the formation again. Now the Ming army completely collapsed and began to retreat one after another.

The reloaded artillery also fired another round at the retreating Ming army.

The suona of the attack sounded, and the militia company, which had just been in reserve, chased the rout from the gap in the parapet along the wooden boards erected.

"Kill! The militia companies are chasing and killing the rout!"

This time the retreating Ming army retreated even more resolutely, rushing out of the thin layers of gunpowder smoke, like a few black giant snakes, rolling up a bloody mess, but it was still a bit slow, or most of them The Ming army retreated too quickly.

"Big cabinet, stop chasing them, let them come back quickly, the Ming army's cavalry is coming!" Chao Zhongchen sat on the horse, suddenly remembered something, and shouted at Liu Ze.

But it was a bit late, when the militiamen chased out a hundred steps, the suona sound of retreat sounded. Although they were still several hundred steps away from the infantry camp of the Ming army, the speed of the cavalry was too fast.

The Ming army running in front suddenly separated several passages from the middle, and groups of cavalry quickly passed through the middle.

Because it was on the hillside, the cavalry of the Ming army did not directly attack the militia company, but passed by the side of the militia company left and right. The first round was all long-range weapons such as bows and arrows and three-eyed guns.

The soldiers of these militia companies were the worst equipped. They were originally of different lengths and levels. They had all kinds of weapons and no armor. Now they encountered arrows and lead bullets, and their losses were unexpectedly large.

These Ming army cavalry were divided into multiple groups, half of which inserted obliquely into the retreat route of the militia company, and the other half were restrained from the rear. After only two rounds of strikes, the militia company completely collapsed and began to flee in all directions. The entire formation was gone.

The cavalry of the Ming army were like shepherd dogs, driving the retreating militia farther and farther away from the top of the hill.

"Oops, it's too far away, the artillery can't hit it accurately!"

After the driving distance reached the predetermined position, all the cavalry on the upper peak turned their horses and rushed towards the retreating militia crowd down the mountain, while the cavalry who were restrained in the rear detoured to the position where the cavalry on the upper peak was just now. Immediately after being in place, they also went down, charged, slashed and shot on the gentle slope.

This went on and on, amidst the smoke of gunpowder and the humming sound of bowstrings playing cotton, almost all the soldiers of the militia companies who rushed down were slaughtered.

Everyone in the army formation on the top of the mountain gasped. A team of nearly four militiamen with a total of 400 people was killed by the Ming army cavalry within the time of two cups of tea.

In just half an hour, the Ming army lost more than 100 people, while the people's army, which originally had more than a thousand people, was left with less than 600 people.

"This battle can't be fought!" Liu Ze shook his head and sighed.

The only good news is that the Ming army only attacked once in the afternoon and stopped attacking by force.

The rest is bad news. After this fierce battle, there is not much gunpowder left, and only half of the explosives are left. The most important thing is that there is no water source on the top of the mountain, which means that even if the Ming army no longer attacks, just besieged, The People's Army can't last a few days.

Seeing that the infantry of the Ming army at the foot of the mountain began to dig trenches and build parapets, everyone on the top of the mountain fell into despair. They would never be able to defeat the Ming army with many cavalry in field battles, and all they had to do was wait to die.

(End of this chapter)