Chapter 174: Tuman, here I come
"Rumble, rumble..."
In the biting cold wind of the North, accompanied by the thunderous sound of horse hooves, the originally peaceful and picturesque snowfield was trampled beyond recognition by three horse teams advancing in a straight line.
With the 15,000 war horses borrowed from Dong Changtu, the Yulin Guards who were originally just one person and one horse when they came out of seclusion were now upgraded to one person and two horses.
The extra five thousand war horses were used by Wang Bing as pack horses, used to carry the Yulin Guards' ammunition.
"Old Li, it looks like a war is about to begin, but I am escorting ammunition with you behind here. I am really unlucky for eight lifetimes!"
It turned out that after taking the road through Dong Changtu's territory, Wang Bing divided the entire Yulin into four. He, Qi Panzong and Li Zunzunzu each led more than 3,000 people, twenty miles apart, in a "pin" shape toward the occupied Yuantai.
The Bahrain tribe in Ningwei's territory pounced on them.
Li Chengming and Hu Dabiao led the remaining 1,000 people to escort the ammunition and act as a reserve team at the back.
"Who said that the reserve team can't win the war? Don't worry, I can guarantee that you will have fun when the time comes!"
Looking at Hu Dabiao who looked depressed, Li Chengming was riding leisurely on his horse with a relaxed smile on his face.
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"Report~"
"Your Majesty, a large group of Ming troops are attacking our troops. They are less than fifty miles away from our troops!"
"Haha, Li Chengliang really thinks I'm afraid of him?"
When he heard that the Ming army was attacking, he thought it was Li Chengliang's Liaodong army again!
"Sir, this Ming army came from the south. Judging from the costumes and flags, it doesn't seem to be the Liaodong army!"
Just when Su Bahai thought that the Liaodong Army was coming to retaliate for his previous invasion of Guangning and Yizhou, the scout quickly opened his mouth to explain.
"Not the Liaodong Army? Could it be the Jizhou Army?"
When he heard that it was not the Liaodong Army, Su Banghai, who was a little unconcerned at first, couldn't help but become nervous.
There is no way, a person's name creates a shadow. The reputation of the Jizhou Army, or to be precise, the Qi Family Army, not only makes Duoyan Wei fearful, but also is synonymous with invincibility in the entire grassland.
"Replying to your lord, this is not the Jizhou Army. The banner of this Ming Army is 'Yulin'!"
"Yu Lin? Never heard of the Ming army having such a number one army?"
As soon as he heard Yu Lin's flag, Haidun couldn't help but be confused.
There is no way, the communication methods of this era are not those of hundreds of years later. Therefore, except for the people of Duoyan Guard, there are very few Tatars who know about the Yulin Guard, the emperor's private army.
"I heard that the former Han emperors liked to call the imperial army Yulin. Could it be that this army was also the imperial army of the Ming Dynasty emperor?"
After a moment, Su Bahai's eyes suddenly lit up, and the worry and nervousness he had when he thought it was Qi Jiajun suddenly disappeared.
"Come on, let's go and see what the little Ming Dynasty emperor's imperial guards are like, hahahaha!"
After confirming that the incoming Ming army was not the Qi family's army, Su Hai immediately became heroic and led 30,000 of his elite cavalry out of the camp to meet the Yulin Guards.
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"Tsk, tsk, this appearance is indeed worthy of being the imperial guard of the Ming Dynasty emperor!"
Looking at the Ming army in bright yellow uniforms not far away, Su Bahai couldn't help but have a joking look on his face.
"The entire army dismounts and lines up!"
Just when Su Bahai on the opposite side was jokingly teasing Yulinwei's "showing off", Wang Bing had already issued an order for the entire army to dismount and line up.
"Sir, what do these Ming troops want to do? They don't want to stop our cavalry by fighting on foot, do they?"
Seeing that thousands of Ming troops actually abandoned their war horses and prepared infantry formations to fight them, all the Tatar generals in Bahrain couldn't help but be puzzled.
"Haha, they want to use firearms to stop us!"
After a while, looking at the Habayashi guards who had already lined up, Su Bahai couldn't help but smile scornfully.
"Which of you will be the first to learn the methods of the Ming Dynasty emperor's imperial guards? Hahahaha!"
"Let me go!" "Sir, leave it to me!"
As soon as Subahai opened his mouth, his generals began to fight over each other, not paying any attention to Wang Bing and the thousands of feathered forest guards!
"Bori Tiechna, these 'imperial troops' will be left to you, go ahead!"
In the end, Subahai named a Tatar general named Boritiechna and asked him to "learn" the methods of the Habayashi Guards.
"Bori Tiechina, are you too careful? You are just dealing with such a bunch of bastards, but you actually have to lead three thousand people?"
Looking at Boritichna who was arranging his team, some Tatar generals who had not been selected suddenly couldn't help but taunted loudly.
However, Boritiechina, who was commanding the whole team, turned a deaf ear to their taunts.
As the saying goes, even when a lion fights a rabbit, he must try his best! This point was very clear to Boritiechi. Therefore, he did not pay attention to the ridicule of the people at all.
"Hoola!"
Soon, the whole team was completed, but Boritiechina had already led the cavalry and started walking quickly towards the Ming army on the opposite side.
A real cavalry charge is not like in later movies and TV shows, where you rush forward with your head covered as soon as you start. Instead, you have to go through the steps of forming a team - walking fast - jogging - running accelerating - sprinting at full speed and forming a team again.
Otherwise, he would just charge forward, and he would probably be thrown off by his exhausted horse before he even reached the enemy's formation.
"Boom boom boom!"
However, what Subahai and the Tatars did not expect was that when Boritie Nachi's cavalry had just finished walking and started trotting, the muskets of the feather guards on the opposite side had already opened fire.
"Haha, your Excellency is right, these imperial guards of the Ming Dynasty emperor are really like... huh?"
Before these Tatar generals could finish their words, as the neighing of war horses came, everyone was surprised to find that the cavalry led by Boritichina had been peeled off a layer of skin.
'Come.
"Hiss! This is at least one hundred and fifty steps, right?"
Looking at the distance between the Habayashi Guards and the Boritie China Horse Team, Subahai couldn't help but take a breath!
You know, in his impression, the range of the Ming Army's firearms is generally only about thirty steps. Even the range of the Liaodong Army's muskets is only about eighty steps at most. But in front of him, the Ming Dynasty emperor's imperial army,
The range of the firearm in his hand is at least twice that of the Liaodong Army!
What's even more frightening is that judging from the effect of the round of firing just now, the shooting accuracy of the firearms in the hands of these guardsmen is also terrifyingly high.
But what they didn't know was that at this distance, it was Yulin Wei who deliberately released the water.
You know, the Yulin Guards are all equipped with flintlock bird muskets with rifling. Even if they are just straight-line rifling, their shooting distance and accuracy are not comparable to the smoothbore bird muskets equipped by the Liaodong Army, let alone those that are just rifling.
Chapter completed!