In Shandong in mid-February, the sun generously spreads light and heat to the earth, and the wind blows on the face, and it is no longer as cold as winter. Under the drought for nearly a year, the empty fields are full of endless yellow and yellow, and the sand layers that cannot be fixed by grass roots are flying all over the sky.

More than 6,000 knights and more than 10,000 war horses were hidden by the sand, sweeping towards the west like yellow clouds. The rumbling sound of iron hooves caused a silence within dozens of miles, like spring thunder shaking, and there was no room for peace.

Under the order of Shengkun Mountain, the entire cavalry army was divided into three parts: left, middle and right, without any reserves. The Yuetuo army, which jumped out of the encirclement, ignored the Mongolian cavalry on both sides, looked as if nothing had happened, and walked straight through Nanqiu Village and headed towards the Duoduo Central Army.

The commander of the Chahar tribe, Dorji, and the commander of the Bahrain tribe, Bac, were first surprised when they learned about the movements of the Cavalry. They were stunned for a moment and issued a completely different military order: Dorji ordered his subordinates to stop advancing and wait for Duoduo's military order; while Bac, he ordered his subordinates to quickly surround the north and run wildly with the butt of the Cavalry.

The rumbling sound of iron hooves, the shrill sound of cow horns, and the sound of war drums, were pounding the heart of the Tartars, making the Tartars in a state of marching panic.

"Stop the march, gather the whole army and prepare for the battle!"

Duoduo was not much calmer than his soldiers. He never expected that the cavalry army would rush towards him without fear of surrounding him. In a hurry, he could only gather the old-fashioned team first.

However, for only ten miles, the cavalry army arrived in an instant, almost chasing the butt of the whistle, and stopped two hundred feet away from the Duoduo army. In the shiny and shiny helmet, a pair of cruel eyes stared at the heavy cavalry in front of him, staring the Tartars in panic to the point of being furious.

Just as the Tartars were busy gathering the team and were a little confused, Sheng Kunshan raised a strange stick and shouted: "Swap the horse!"

Less than 20% of the Cavalry soldiers who can change horses in a fast-paced car, far less than 90% of the Tartars. However, they are in a static state and if they cannot complete the horse changes quickly, they will only face one outcome, which is to be eliminated.

Sheng Kunshan also changed his horse, looked around slightly, raised the strange stick-like object again, shouting: "The whole army attacked!"

After drinking, Sheng Kunshan kicked the horse's belly with his feet. The war horse was shot first like an arrow from a string. The guards around him had not fallen behind and immediately surrounded Sheng Kunshan in the center, like a huge iron ball, with speed getting faster and faster, rolling towards the Tartars.

Following Sheng Kunshan's pace, the knights in the three arrays on the left, center and right burst into shouts: "Run!"

The first wave of knights was like a dragon entering the sea, lying on the ground, holding a stick-like object like Sheng Kun Mountain in his hand, and his momentum rushed towards the bullfighting.

This is the first time that the Cavalry Army has squandered its troops like this, and the first time it has launched a large-scale face-to-face battle with the enemy's elite cavalry regardless of casualties. They want to avenge their shame, and they want to prove to the world that the Cavalry Army is the most powerful knight in the world.

After the first wave of knights rushed out forty or fifty feet, the second wave of knights began to start, followed by the third wave.

Three arrays and three groups of knights formed nine groups, like a scattered sea of ​​scattered land, as if they were to completely submerge the Tartars that had not yet been arranged in an array.

Big deal! Absolutely big deal, Sheng Kunshan didn't even consider using any cleverness, and wanted to have a head-on decisive battle with the Tartars!

From afar, Duoduo saw the stick-like object in the hands of the Cavalry Army. Although it was a little strange, he did not think deeply. He seemed to have expected that the Cavalry Army would charge before he entered the array. Seeing that the Cavalry Army launched, he immediately ordered the charge.

This order is obviously correct. When two groups of cavalry fight face to face, one side charges with all its might and the other side stays still, and there will be no accidents: the charger wins completely. Duoduo is a master of cavalry, so how can he not know this? Therefore, even though the front army still appears thin and even if the array is not neat, Duoduo still orders to rush forward.

Duoduo believed that with the powerful protective power and impact power of the heavy cavalry, the soldiers of the Cavalry would fall to the ground like dumplings, dye his head red with blood, and become a pile of bones in his great military achievements.

Duoduo has such confidence because, whether against the Ming army, Mongolians, or Koreans, his heavy cavalry was never defeated and claimed to be invincible in the world.

In almost the blink of an eye, the cavalry between the two sides was only 150 and 60 steps apart. One hundred and twenty steps was the range of the steel crossbow of the Cavalry. The charge formation of the Duoduo cavalry was a little scattered, but the knights buried their heads tightly behind the horse's neck. Obviously, they had learned the gains and losses of the experience of confronting the Cavalry.

Some Tartars had their eyes wide open, staring at the direction of the war horses' advance, and even prepared to turn over and jump into the horse's belly at any time. They held a bow in one hand and were ready to pull strings and shoot arrows in the other hand, and were ready to shoot an arrow before the battle, killing the enemy as much as possible.

However, the Tatars' careful preparations were obviously gone. When they found that the soldiers of the Cavalry Army were nearly sixty or seventy steps, they suddenly realized that the steel crossbow did not arrive as scheduled.

The Tartars had no time to think about why, so they hurriedly poked their heads out, pulled their bows and shot arrows. In an instant, the arrows pierced into the cavalry cluster like locusts.

The war horses in leather armor blocked most of the bows and arrows, but some of them had tricky angles, and they still shot the war horses. The shrill neighing sounded immediately, and some war horses fell off their fronts and rolled to the ground. Some war horses were frightened and suddenly left the array and ran around with knights.

The soldiers of the Cavalry Army inevitably suffered casualties.

A small chaos appeared in the array, but this did not affect the impact of the knights at all. In a blink of an eye, the two sides were only about twenty steps apart. The soldiers of the Cavalry suddenly raised their heads behind the horse's neck, hugged their waists, held the stick-like object in both hands, aimed slightly, and pulled the trigger with their index fingers.

"Bang...bang..."

A ball of fire appeared at the top of the stick-shaped object, and accompanied by the flames was a ball of black smoke. In an instant, in addition to the yellow sand, black smoke rose on the battlefield.

The Tartars saw more than just the fire and smoke. They only felt that beads flying all over the sky were rushing towards them, completely hiding and hiding.

The overwhelming beads hit on the heavy armor were not even as good as tickling for the Tartars. However, the Tartars did not cover their faces in their helmets, so almost more than 30% of the Tartars' faces were concentrated by beads, and some even had their eyes concentrated by beads. Although they did not die, the severe pain caused them to cover their faces and roar, and blood flowed down the heavy armor.

The exposed area of ​​the war horse was even larger. After being shot, it either suddenly fell or ran around, and the Tartar cavalry suddenly became a mess.

Shotgun!

Since the soldiers of the Jinwu Army confronted the Tartars in Liaodong, Zheng Fulin kept complaining to the Governor's Office, saying that the Tartars were wearing heavy armor, and the sabers in the hands of the Jingzhou Army knights were difficult to kill with one blow, and they were often at a disadvantage in close combat. Fighting against heavy armor knights, the sharp blades and spear tips often had poor results. The most effective one was obviously a blunt attack, which injured the knight's internal organs or head. Therefore, weapons such as maces and meteor hammers entered the vision of the Academy of Engineering.

However, it is inconvenient to carry maces and meteor hammers, and their uses are too single. The Academy of Engineering has ingeniously reduced the tiger squat cannon, amplified the standard musket, and created a flintlock tiger squat gun.

The gun is four feet long and weighs eighteen kilograms. The weight is concentrated on the butt stock, and the caliber is more than an inch. When used, like a standard musket, first load gunpowder, then press the bagged lead beads into the muzzle, then pull the trigger, flintlock ignites, and do not fear wind and rain.

After this gun is fired, you can completely pinch the gun head and smash the heavy armor with the butt stock, the effect is no less than that of a mace.

When Sheng Kunshan first saw this gun, he keenly realized that it was simply tailor-made for cavalry and could be regarded as a weapon for cavalry melee combat.

Just one month ago, the first batch of 10,000 flintlock tiger squat guns arrived in Linqing. Sheng Kunshan equipped the knights with this kind of musket without hesitation and put them into training.

This time, Nai Fuluo Tiger squatted gun was put into the battlefield for the first time, and the effect was pretty good. He made the Tartars in front of him dizzy and could not distinguish between the north and the south.

After the soldiers of the Cavalry launched the shotgun, they immediately turned the gun head back, held it tightly in their hands, waved the tiger squat gun high, and rushed towards the Tartars with roar.

The awakened Tartar screamed, holding up his saber, and slashed wildly at the cavalry knights whose eyes were only exposed.

In the past, in addition to sabers and bows, the heavy-armed cavalry of Tartars sometimes also rushed forward with long spears. As for which weapon to use, it all depends on who the opponent is. If the opponent is a cavalry, the spear is naturally more threatening. If the opponent is an infantryman wearing leather armor, the sabers will be more efficient in killing people.

When the Tartars set out from Liaodong, they obviously did not expect that they would fight against the cavalry in plate armor. Now, they could only hold up their saber and chop at the shiny black plate armor.

The protective power of the plate armor is no less than that of the Tartars' heavy armor, and it is lighter. The Tartar's saber cut on the plate armor, and except for the four sparks, it is difficult to substantially harm the Knights of the Cavalry Army.

However, when the cavalry knights smashed the Tartars' heavy armor with a musket weighing up to 18 kilograms, the Tartars' head was either smashed into pieces or their internal organs were seriously damaged, and they coughed up mouthfuls of blood.

Some Tartars were even smashed to fall down their war horses, trampled on by iron hooves, and died instantly.

"Kill... Kill..."

After waves of shouting, the soldiers of the Cavalry Army saw that the Tartars were no match for the entire time, and became more and more brave. When they saw people smashing people and horses smashing horses, they did not care whether the musket at hand was damaged.

The array is uneven, the panic is in the face of the battle, the chaos caused by the tiger squatting gun shooting is not as easy as the opponent. Many disadvantages gather together, and the one-sided battle situation is inevitable.
Chapter completed!