On the battlefield, the Mongol army's warhorses neighed. A round of cannon fire caused the Tata cavalry charging at the front to fall.
Xia Jian stood in front of the 5,000 Ming soldiers and subconsciously wanted to rub his glasses with his hand. However, he realized that he did not wear glasses in this era, nor was he short-sighted.
In the history of modern warfare, artillery was the best choice to disrupt the enemy's charging formation. The first round of the Tartar charge was directly disrupted.
However, Mao Li Hai wasn't someone to be trifled with. He quickly reorganized the cavalrymen who had lost their formation and began the second round of assault.
This time, the charge was different from the previous one. Instead of using the cavalry as the vanguard, he used his strongest cavalry as support, placing them on both sides to feign attack, and the infantry in the middle as the main attacking force.
Whether it was a feint or an assist, as long as the infantrymen charged in front of them or the cavalry from both sides charged up, Xia Jian's five thousand troops would be finished.
"Listen to my orders, split the Crouching Tiger Cannons into two small flags. Each flag has ten Crouching Tiger Cannons, aim at the cavalry who are feigning to attack from the two wings, and make sure they don't charge up.”Xia Jian waved his hand and said to his subordinates.
"Understood!"
The 20 crouching tiger cannons were scattered and aimed at the cavalrymen who were feigning an attack on both sides. They opened fire at the same time.
The art of war said that the real thing was fake, and the fake thing was real. Perhaps this fake cavalry was the real main attack.
Xia Jian liked reading ancient military strategies the most. He felt that some of the things described in them were really reasonable.
In this era, the infantry's nightmare was the cavalry. Encountering them was as terrifying as a little rabbit meeting a big bad wolf.
Therefore, Xia Jian would never allow the cavalry to charge up.
The largest cavalry army led by Mao Li Hai was led by his younger brother that day. However, it had already been destroyed by Xia Jian, so the number of cavalrymen he brought today was not many.
Even though all the Mongolians knew how to ride horses, they still needed to have that many horses. Most of the Tartar soldiers could only serve as infantry.
Infantry was the foundation of an army. It was ordinary but not unimportant. Due to the large number of soldiers, their combat strength was still very terrifying.
At the same time, all of Xia Jian's firearms personnel checked their firearms and were ready to fire at any time.
However, if they were to face a Tartar army of 100,000 or 5,000, unless each of them had a Gatling gun, it would be difficult to fight with just a rifle!
Xia Jian naturally knew this, so he took the Shangfang Sword and handed it to his trusted aide. He said,"Give me a shout and let the soldiers hiding in Qingyang City attack. Those who disobey will be killed without mercy.”
Little Deng Zi held the Shangfang Sword and shouted at the city wall, but no one paid attention to him.
"Milord, they pretended not to hear!”
Can't hear? Xia Jian naturally had a way to let them hear it!
Sword Qi gathered in his right hand, and the Six Pulses Divine Sword was activated. It accurately cut through the city gate's bolt. The city gate was not opened by the Mongolian soldiers, but by Xia Jian.
Xia Jian ordered his trusted aides to return to the city with the Shang Fang Sword. Whoever dared to disobey his orders would be killed immediately!
The group of people on the city wall were dumbfounded. They didn't expect Xia Jian to actually dare to break open the city gate. Wasn't he courting death?
The city gate was originally very strong, and the people on the city wall did not know how Xia Jian had opened it.
With the city gates wide open, they had no choice but to send out their troops.
"Eunuchs are harming the country, eunuchs are harming the country!”
On the city wall, a group of generals sighed.
This group of generals had never reflected on themselves. If it wasn't for their corruption, the Ming Border Guards wouldn't be so weak.
Now, this group of parasites was blaming Xia Jian instead.
Under the threat of Xia Jian and Shang Fangjian, the army hiding in Qingyang City finally sent out their troops!
The cavalry and infantry of the Great Ming confronted the cavalry and infantry of the Tartars. The sounds of fighting were deafening as the two armies charged at each other.
Xia Jian coldly watched the Great Ming Army and the Tartar soldiers clash. It was obvious that the Great Ming Army was much weaker than the Tartar soldiers.
It was clearly the Ming border guards who had the advantage in terms of strength, but in the end, they were suppressed by the other party.
"Everyone, load your ammo!"
Xia Jian finally ordered his 5,000 musketeers to attack!
" Target, the enemy's firearms camp!"
The Tartar army naturally had firearms, but due to technical issues, firearms weren't common enough, and they didn't have as many as Xia Jian's.
Most importantly, the guns of the Tatars 'firearms battalion were very outdated. They were much slower than the muskets that could only fire a bullet in two to three minutes.
One had to know that Xia Jian's modified hunting rifle could shoot at a maximum speed of about ten shots per minute!
Infantry against infantry, cavalry against cavalry, and musketeers against musketeers!
The infantry and cavalry of the Great Ming Army had been disrupted by the Tartar army, and the casualties were rapidly increasing.
However, only the Gun Battalion of the Tartars was instantly killed by Xia Jian's 5,000 soldiers!
At this moment, the furry child's expression was very ugly.
He didn't expect that the Gun Battalion, which he had always regarded as his trump card, would be slaughtered by Da Ming's gang in one move.
Then he saw Da Ming's team, after slaughtering the Flintlock Battalion, they immediately joined the infantry and cavalry battlefield, and the situation instantly changed completely.
"Ahhh, I'm so angry. These damn pigs actually dared to kill so many of my soldiers!”The furry child was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.
The huge advantage was still in his hands just now. He did not expect that the advantage would disappear so quickly!
The reason was all because of the Ming army with guns!
"No matter what, kill those 5,000 soldiers for me. Kill them and leave nothing behind!”
The Maoli child was like a crazy demon, he only wanted to slaughter these five thousand Ming musketeers.，The trumpeteer beside him picked up the horn and blew the sound of attack.
Xia Jian's eyes turned serious when he heard the Tata army led by the Maoli child blow the horn to attack.
"Retract our forces and try to gather together. Don't let the other side break us one by one!”
"Musketeers, counterattack immediately. Get a marble and kill a Tartar soldier.”
In Xia Jian's eyes, the Great Ming Country had a thriving population. Even if the defenders of Qingyang City paid a great price, as long as they could seriously injure the main force of the Tartar army, then it could be considered a victory.
Even if the 150,000 Great Ming soldiers and 100,000 Tartars perished together, it would still be a profit!
One had to know that there were few people in Tartar, but not as many as there were in Great Ming.
This was crazy. The entire battlefield was like hell.
Everyone's eyes were red from killing, be it the Great Ming Army or the Tartar Army.
The entire battlefield was soon dyed red with blood. The only ones who didn't suffer any casualties were the musketeers led by Xia Jian.
The Tatars tried their best to charge forward, but they were blocked by Xia Jian's musketeers again and again.
Xiang Zhong is not a fool, he quickly saw that the turning point of the Great Ming Army was the 5,000 musketeers led by Xia Jin.
Although he didn't know where he got these 5000 firearms, as long as they belonged to Da Ming, it was a good thing.
Mao Li Hai realized that the infantrymen were too slow and could not charge forward, so he ordered the cavalry to charge forward. Even if they all died, they had to slaughter these 5,000 musketeers.
"Quickly protect the musketeers. Don't let the Tartar cavalry charge over.”Xiang Zhong roared.
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