Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 324

Ainengqi led the cavalry to advance very slowly, and it could even be called a stroll in the garden, completely failing to bring out the momentum of the cavalry.

Erikesha's expression was slightly condensed, as if he knew what the Ming army wanted to do.

Sure enough, the Ming army cavalry stopped after advancing to a certain distance, and then raised their muskets.

"Shoot me, shoot me..." Eriksha yelled.

The Ming army used flintlock guns, and the shooting speed was naturally faster, while the Cossacks used matchlock guns. They had bullets in the chamber, but to fire, they had to light the match, which was much more cumbersome.

"Bang bang bang..." The Ming army prepared first, and pulled the trigger first, the bullet was naturally fired first.

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..." The dense bullets shuttled through the dense formation of the Cossacks, and then shot the Cossack cavalry off their horses one by one, and the horses also neighed in horror.

"Bang bang bang..." The Cossacks also fired back, but sparsely and inconsistently.

The soldiers of the Ming army also fell one after another, but compared with the number of Cossacks who fell, it was only a drop in the bucket.

There is no other reason. The Ming army fired more people, and they fired in a line, which could make the firepower better.

Besides, Ainengqi was very particular about the distance at which the team stopped. The distance of less than fifty feet was almost the limit of the effective range of the flintlock.

The flintlock gun is improved from the matchlock gun, and its accuracy, rate of fire and effective range have all been improved.

At this distance, the flintlock gun can basically guarantee the accuracy, but the matchlock gun is a bit difficult.

The Cossacks relied more on their cavalry charge and believed that the spears in their hands were better than muskets, so they didn't pay enough attention to muskets.

But the Ming army was different. Under Tangning's deliberate request, the Ming army attached great importance to firearms.

Even the Manchurian soldiers who were good at cavalry and shooting, under Tangning's strict requirements, they all mastered the shooting of muskets proficiently.

So at this long distance, even with the same musket, the shooting accuracy of the Cossacks must be inferior.

Under these factors, it is normal that the shooting effect of the Cossack muskets is much worse than that of the Ming army.

After the first two platoons of the Ming army fired, they were ordered to separate one from the left and the other to the right, and then turned to the rear to reload the bullets.

"Fire..."

"Bang bang bang..." Another two rows of dense bullets were fired, and the Cossacks fell down again.

Eriksha watched helplessly as a soldier beside him screamed and fell off his horse with a horrified expression. He saw the sporadic and chaotic counterattack on his side, and then saw the orderly and orderly volley of the Ming army. The next is too clear.

If this goes on like this, after a few rounds, there will still be living people on my side?

"Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, withdraw..." Eriksha roared and gave the order. He was so proud that he didn't know how long it had been since he gave such an aggrieved order.

Hearing Eriksha's order, the remaining Cossacks couldn't help but let out a long sigh. Although they were fierce and brutal, and they were cruel enough to themselves, it didn't mean that they didn't cherish their lives.

Can live, who wants to be shot and killed by the Ming army so aggrieved?

Seeing the Cossacks turn their horses around urgently, Ainengqi knew that the enemy was about to flee, and quickly ordered to shoot a round of farewell shots.

"The Seventh Regiment, the Third Battalion, chase after me..." Ainengqi quickly ordered, and the Manchurian soldiers from the Seventh Regiment and the Mongolian soldiers from the Third Battalion rushed to pursue them.

And he himself led the remaining troops to support the infantry.

In fact, without his support, with the support of another hollow phalanx, the infantry has basically controlled the battle, surrounded the arrogant Cossacks, and began to divide them, and then wiped them out one by one.

After seeing Eriksha leading the remnants to retreat, the besieged Cossacks also wanted to break out and escape.

However, the infantry of the Ming army, who had already suffered a lot of casualties, naturally would not let him escape easily. Many soldiers were already furious, and even wanted to keep him at the risk of changing their lives.

Finally, the Cossacks were afraid, and one by one threw away their weapons and shouted to surrender.

Of course, the soldiers of the Ming army couldn't understand what they said, so they were killed by mistake, until the commander came out to stop them.

In the end, with no hope of escape, more than [-] Cossack cavalry chose to surrender. After all, it is better to live than to die. Even the murderous Cossacks have no consciousness that they would rather die than surrender.

Tangning had given the order to accept the surrender of the Cossacks early in the morning, so Ainengqi did not dare to easily drive out the Cossacks.

The main reason why Tangning wanted to accept the Cossack captives was to take them back for her own use.

After all, the fighting power of the Cossacks is beyond doubt and has been affirmed by the whole world.

In the official history, the Cossacks served successively for the Kingdom of Poland-Lithuania, the Crimean Khanate, and even a small part for the Qing Dynasty, and they were not a special force for the Raksha Kingdom.

There are not only Cossack cavalry in the Raksha Kingdom, but the Cossack cavalry has the best reputation.

Anyway, the Cossacks were not very particular about many aspects. As long as the conditions were right, they could work for anyone. It was a bit like mercenaries, and Tangning was willing to use barbarians to control barbarians.

In this tragic battle, both sides showed their true level, and finally ended with the victory of the Ming army at the cost of nearly 4000 casualties.

The casualties of the Ming army mainly came from the infantry. After the hollow phalanx was broken, the Cossacks caused a lot of casualties to the Ming army infantry.

However, the cavalry of the Ming army, due to the full use of their tactics, made full use of their strengths to target the weaknesses of the Cossack cavalry, so the casualties were very small.

As for the Cossacks, under the leadership of Eriksha, less than [-]% escaped, which can be described as a fiasco.

After this disastrous defeat, the Cossacks did not dare to step into Buriyat again. They all withdrew from the Buriyati, retreated to the nearest city of Irkutsk, and immediately asked for help.

Ainengqi sent the wounded and captives to the rear, and then led the rest of the troops to rest and reorganize in the Buriyat Department, and waited for the next order.

After learning that Ainengqi's troops had won, Tangning was overjoyed, and then sent another [-] troops to support Ainengqi, ordering him to go north to punish the Cossacks, recapture the population and property looted by the Cossacks, and at the same time demand that the Cossacks compensate the Baliyat tribe Loss.

In short, since the war has begun, it will not end so easily.

And another Ming army led by Gao Yizhi to support the Torghut's army also had contact with the Cossacks, and also won the next few battles.

This is not to say that the fierce Cossacks were poor in combat effectiveness, but that the Ming army, under the leadership of Tang Ning and the staff, carefully understood and analyzed the characteristics of the Cossacks, and found effective tactics to counter them.

In terms of the quality of individual combat, the Ming army may still be slightly inferior, but this does not allow the Cossacks to win, after all, the battle is not carried out by one person.

When the Ming army was able to implement effective tactics and tactics well, no matter how brave the Cossacks were, they could only taste the bitter fruit of failure again and again.

(End of this chapter)