Daming Military Empire

Chapter 544
The blue sky is long and the breeze is gentle, it is the fifth month of the Ming Empire calendar, and the ice and snow on the Siberian Plain have finally begun to melt.

On the vast land, a troop of cavalry was galloping on horseback. The sound of hooves rumbled and mud splashed everywhere, breaking the tranquility of the plain, faintly heralding the coming of war.

There were about a hundred cavalry in this team, and they were all dressed in dark black formal attire, and they were all equipped with thick black cloaks. The cloaks fluttered in the wind, mighty and domineering, and extremely iron-blooded.

They are the soldiers of the Second Army of the Ming Dynasty Frontier Army. The leader, with two stripes and three stars on his epaulettes, is actually a guerrilla general!

After the hard work of millions of soldiers, the Ming army on the South Road finally repaired the railway to the edge of the Siberian Plain when the ice and snow melted. Since Jin Yiwei's secret agents did not go deep into the territory of Tsarist Russia, Sun Chuanting knew nothing about the situation in the Siberian Plain. Therefore, He ordered the First Frontier Army Corps and the Second Frontier Army Army Corps to send one hundred cavalry each to investigate the east and north respectively.

This group of cavalry is exactly a group of reconnaissance cavalry sent by the Second Army of the Frontier Defense Army. Their main task is to investigate the situation of the Tsarist Russian garrison between the South Army and the West Army.

The leading young general was named Pan Feng. He was also a martial arts scholar, but he was only at the top of the second class, not the first class, so he was assigned to the third-class army as a guerrilla general.

This position is already an unexpected surprise for Pan Feng. You must know that before the Chongzheng Dynasty, Wu Jinshi had no status at all. It is a guerrilla general of the fifth rank. Before changing, if he did not have the shadow of his ancestors, he would never want to be a guerrilla general in his life.

It was precisely because it was not easy to come by, so he cherished this position very much. This investigation did not require a general of rank five or above to lead the team in person, but he still volunteered to come because the competition in the Ming army was quite fierce. He is mediocre, has no military merits, and is likely to be demoted. He doesn't want to change from a general to an ordinary non-commissioned officer!

Pan Feng led more than a hundred Qingqi horses and rode forward for nearly two hours. A low hill suddenly appeared in front of the endless plain. He didn't know if there would be Tsarist Russian troops on the hill. He gestured to the soldiers behind him to slow down slowly, and when the horse stopped slowly, he took out the binoculars stuffed in his arms and looked at the hill.

The ice and snow on the hills have not completely melted, and there are still white snow hanging on the tall clouds and pines, and the eyes are full of white.

He scanned slowly along the hill from left to right, everything was normal, as if there was nothing wrong, just when he was about to put down the binoculars, a row of city walls suddenly appeared in front of him, his heart skipped a beat, and he hurried to the Sweeping around the city wall, it is a bastion!

The Tsarist Russian garrison actually built a three-story bastion on the far right side of the hill. Judging from the scale, it can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

He quickly stuffed the telescope into his pocket, and then took out a partial map of the Siberian Plain, moving his fingers slowly along the path he came from, quickly calculating the distance between here and the Ming army camp in his mind .

After calculating for a while based on the sparse reference objects on the map, he finally roughly determined the location of the bastion. Then, he took the picture with one hand, took out a charcoal pencil from his pocket with the other, and drew on the approximate location calculated on the map. made a circle.

Just when he folded the map and was about to put it in his pocket, he suddenly heard the faint sound of horseshoes, as if a large group of cavalry was approaching them at high speed. He quickly looked around, except for a few low mounds in the distance, The rest of the place is flat, and there are no enemy cavalry.

Could it be that the enemy just hid behind the mound and rushed towards them, he immediately said to a lieutenant beside him: "Shut up, go down and listen."

Hearing the words, the lieutenant named Guan Bu jumped off his horse quickly, scraped off the mud on the ground with one foot, then put his face on the mud and listened carefully.

After listening for a while, he stood up abruptly, pointed to the right rear and said, "About two miles to the right rear, there are at least a thousand riders speeding towards us."

Pan Feng turned his head and looked back to the right. About a mile away, there happened to be a mound several feet high blocking his view. No wonder he couldn't see it!

As soon as he looked at the mound, countless cavalry swarmed out from both sides of the mound and surrounded him.

Not good, he was about to be surrounded, he quickly ordered: "Everyone, turn the horse's head, left rear, retreat."

More than a hundred Ming soldiers followed him and turned their horses, beat their horses and retreated to the right rear.

It's unlucky, I don't know if the Tsarist Russian garrison set up a secret sentry on the mound, or what the Tsarist cavalry was doing behind the mound, they were almost surrounded without a sound!
Pan Feng rode his horse and galloped wildly while looking back. At this time, all the cavalry of Tsarist Russia had come out from behind the mound, and nearly two thousand cavalry were encircling them in the form of wild geese, and the nearest enemy cavalry had already moved away from them. Less than a mile away.

Since the enemy cavalry speeded up first, and they had been running for nearly two hours, the physical strength of the horses was obviously weaker than that of the enemy cavalry. Two hundred steps, this distance is already close to the effective range of a flintlock gun.

Fortunately, the enemy's cavalry was not equipped with flintlock guns, but all longbows.

Seeing the enemy getting closer, Pan Feng gritted his teeth, untied the revolver on his back, fired at the back, and shouted: "Everyone, scatter one round in the back."

Hearing this, all the soldiers of the Ming army untied the revolver rifles on their backs and fired indiscriminately.

With this shot, dozens of enemy cavalry were knocked off their horses, but for the Tsarist Russian cavalry with more than [-] cavalry, this loss was nothing, and they still persevered in catching up.

Seeing that the enemy had already started to unload their longbows and prepare to shoot arrows, Pan Feng quickly ordered: "Everyone, throw a wave of grenades back."

After all, he untied a grenade first, turned around and threw it back.

At this time, most of the enemy cavalry in the back had already bent their bows and set their arrows, "swish swish" a round of arrow rain covered them, followed by "boom boom boom" a burst of grenade explosions.

Pan Feng grasped the handle of the gun, and swept back vigorously, sweeping away most of the arrows, but one arrow still hit his back and came out directly from his right rib, and he only felt a sharp pain , almost threw his hands off and fell off the horse, he grabbed the rein hard, gritted his teeth to support it, fortunately, the arrow didn't hurt any vitals, it just hurt, he didn't feel too much discomfort.

However, other Ming army soldiers were not as lucky as him. At least three or forty people were shot down by this round of arrow rain. It was thrown off by a wounded horse.

He turned his head and saw that Guan Bu was hit by several arrows and fell off his horse. He couldn't help but screamed: "Guan Bu!"

(End of this chapter)