[Chapter 259] The Tatars are looking for death!

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"What's that?"

Gugler asked the people around him to himself.

His eyes were very sharp, and he naturally saw the falling explosive pack. He could still recognize it at a glance that it was the weapons thrown by the catapult. However, he didn't know what those were. Could it be that the Ming army's catapult and the weapons thrown by the Tatar cavalry could not be directly smashed? That would be useless, right? Even a stone as big as a fist could knock people out of the air.

"have no idea."

Everyone around Gugler shook their heads together.

Like Gugler, they had no idea about explosive packs.

At that time, Sobud and Paroge, under the walls of Weizhen Fort, had seen the power of explosive packs. A series of explosions caused them to suffer significant losses. If they were here, or their remaining subordinates were here, they would have been able to identify them and remind Gugler's subordinates to pay attention. Unfortunately, they were not here.

The relationship between Hellerkin and Gugler is relatively subtle. The two actually competed for the position of leader, and Gugler was defeated in the end. Although Gugler recognized Hellerkin's identity as the leader of his tribe and was willing to obey his order, the two sides were clearly separated in terms of the composition of their troops. Hellerkin's people and Gugler's people had little intersection at all.

Sobd and Paroge are both Helgin's confidants, so naturally they would not go to tell Gugler about explosives. Who would like to repeat the embarrassing things? It would be too late to cover them up! And Gugler would not study carefully why Sobd and Paroge were defeated. As a result, the tragedy once again took place.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

With loud bangs, the explosive pack was successfully detonated.

In Gugler's stunned eyes, balls of fire burst out constantly, stinging his eyes. He had to temporarily close his eyes. Black smoke columns also kept rising up, wrapping most of the Tatar cavalry around them.

The Tartar cavalry around the center of the explosion were immediately blown up and fell in groups. Some were pushed down directly, some were knocked down at any time by the explosion, and some were simply knocked down by their own companions. The shock wave caused by the explosion turned the area within a radius of several meters. After the explosion, there was only a mess at the scene.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Almost at the same time, all the muskets of the White Army opened fire.

With the attacks of guns and cannons, the Taurus cavalry continued to fall to the ground while galloping at high speed. Dead war horses, injured war horses, dead Tartars, injured Tartars, and various weapons collided with each other, stirring up a large number of blood. The blood arrows burst out could even fly more than ten feet away. After absorbing a large amount of blood, thin and short streams appeared, and all the flowing inside were blood.

After falling to the ground, some of the Tartars were directly stepped on by the horse's hooves behind and they didn't even know how they died. Some of the Tartars, after falling to the ground, were lucky enough to die, and quickly rolled up and tried their best to avoid their companions behind. Of course, they knew how powerful the horse's hooves were. As long as they were stepped on, they would definitely die without life. However, there were too many companions galloping up behind, so they could hide the first one, but they could not hide the second one. In the end, they were stepped on by the fierce horse's hooves again and became part of the Gobi Desert.

"Stay!"

"keep going!"

The Tatar cavalry, which suffered a major blow, had a brief chaos, and the centurions tried to maintain order, bypassed the fallen companions, and continued to assault forward. However, the guns and cannons of the White Army were indeed too fierce. There was an explosive pack behind and a Minni bomb was intercepted in front. The Tatar cavalry in the middle was in a dilemma, and they could only move forward desperately. As a result, the more they moved forward, the more serious the Minni bombs they encountered.

At a distance of two or three hundred meters, the hit rate of the Minnie bomb is not particularly obvious. Whether it can hit the target depends on some luck. However, once it enters a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, the hit rate of the Minnie bomb will greatly increase. At this distance, the target of the Tatar cavalry is really too obvious. Even if it doesn't hit the target, it can hit the war horses. In terms of the overall hit rate, it has increased to at least 30%.

A 30% hit rate is definitely a disaster for the Tatar cavalry. The White-clothed Army can fire 1,500 Minnie bombs per minute, and a 30% hit rate is four or five hundred. In such a short time, so many Minnie bombs hit the target, and the casualties caused can be imagined. Even if the number of Tatar cavalry doubled, it will only be a dead end.

Sure enough, the closer the Tatar cavalry is, the more people fall. The more fierce their impact is, the faster they fall. The braver and more fearless they are, the first to be attacked by Minnie bullets. The guns and cannons of the White Army seem to have set up a red line of death that cannot be seen in front of the Tatar cavalry. Anyone who tries to cross this red line will be favored by the god of death without exception.

Under the action of inertia, the fallen Tatar cavalry continued to slide forward. Their running speed was indeed too fast, and even after falling down, the gliding speed was quite fast. A large amount of gravel was knocked away, leaving deep ravines on the Gobi Desert. However, when they completely stopped, there was still a distance of seventy or eighty meters from the side vans of the White-clothed Army! Such a distance was something they could never cross.

"spread!"

"spread!"

"spread!"

Gugler shouted in anger.

If the Tatars do not disperse on their own initiative, they will all die.

At this time, Gugler finally realized that the current Ming army was definitely not an ordinary Ming army. He had never seen such a fierce Ming army before. This damn Xu Xingxia, he dug a fatal trap for himself! Subconsciously, he felt that the dense Tatars were the most delicious food for the Ming army. It must be dispersed to widen the distance between people to avoid greater losses.

However, it is not so easy for the Tatar cavalry to disperse. In the battle, it is so easy to convey orders accurately and quickly? In the fierce battle, there are gunfire, cannons, screams, neighing, and the sound of people and war horses falling to the ground. Various sounds are mixed together, and it is in chaos. How many people can hear Gugler's voice? Not to mention those Tatar cavalry who have lost their minds and lost their hearing after entering the state of combat.

The Tatars' riding skills were indeed good. They claimed to be a nation growing on horseback, which was not a problem at all. Their horse-control skills were indeed unmatched. However, their reaction to the Minnie gun was indeed a bit slow. Due to the accumulation of experience in fighting with the Ming army in the past, they subconsciously felt that muskets could not cause harm to them at such a long distance. Therefore, most of the Tartars continued to rush forward.

For the Tatar cavalry, as long as they can reach the range of the bow and arrow, they can quickly shoot arrows and force the Ming army's musketeers to retreat. In the past, such tactics were tried and tested. Even if the Ming army had the help of a side van, it was not very useful. As long as the Tatar cavalry kept firing arrows back and forth, coupled with the impact of the sword cavalry, they could definitely tear the breakthrough. As long as the breakthrough was torn open, the next thing would be easier.

"The Tatars are looking for death!" Wang Qinian murmured to himself.

As a hundred households of the Jinyiwei, as a veteran who participated in the anti-Japanese war and aided Korea, Wang Qinian still had a certain say in this battle. To be honest, at the beginning, Wang Qinian was not optimistic about the White Army or Xu Xingxia. Fighting in the flat wilderness and the Tartar field that was good at riding and shooting was simply a suicide act. What's more, the number of Tatar cavalry was indeed too many, two teams of thousands of people! It was five or six times the strength of the White Army!

When the Tatar cavalry swarmed up, Wang Qinian seemed to be pessimistic. A charge from the Tatars could rush to the front of the side van and break a gap. The role of the side van was actually not very large. It could only block the shooting of ordinary bows and arrows, and was completely powerless to the collision of war horses. As long as the high-speed war horses hit hard, they could smash the side van. Once there was no cover of the side van, the Tatar cavalry came in again, and the Ming army infantry could only be massacred. He had witnessed such a tragedy many times.

In fact, ordinary muskets cannot resist the impact of Tatar cavalry. This is something that Wang Qinian has seen countless times in person and is also recognized by the Ming army. The nine-sided important towns often clash with the cavalry of nomadic peoples, and the battles between the two sides are tens of thousands. Almost every field battle, the Ming army's musket team will fail. Unless the number of Ming army exceeds the number of enemies, or with the assistance of cannons, it is possible to tie. If there is a slight victory, it is worth celebrating. The biggest function of muskets is to defend the city. But Xu Xingxia wants to dispatch musket teams to fight against the Tatar cavalry, which is completely nonsense!

However, when the battle really happened, Wang Qinian could not believe his eyes. In front of the white-clothed army's muskets, the fierce Tatar cavalry kept falling down like paper. At such a long distance, a considerable number of Tatar cavalry were killed. They were so fragile and so vulnerable. They fell to the ground from the speeding war horses one by one, motionless, or rolling constantly. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, Wang Qinian would definitely not believe his eyes.
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