Chapter 62: Hard Fight "The Tatars who came this time are indeed very powerful.
According to Ivan, they are the bodyguards of the Tatar Emperor.
If we defeat them, there will be no enemy in the world who can be our opponent anymore."
Just as Hesi vowed to take down the people in front of him.
When the Red Scarf Army was in its sapling state, Zhu Bayi also called together the commanders and centurions under his command for the final mobilization.
Every tactical adjustment that everyone can think of has been made through collective efforts.
The bodies of the dead and the injured were also dragged to the back mountain and handed over to the auxiliary soldiers for placement.
Along with the previously useless horse traps, auxiliary troops were sent to dig them again according to the cavalry's attack and evacuation routes.
This time, the trap was dug thinner and deeper.
At the same time, some broken shrapnel and weapon remains were picked up in front of the position and dumped in the location with the densest concentration of horse hoof marks.
In order to give the enemy an unexpected surprise.
"Yes" Wu Erer, Liu Ziyun, Xu Hongsan, Xu Da, Wang Dapang and others stood upright and clasped their fists, responding in unison.
However, everyone's morale was not very high.
In particular, Wu Er Er, the commander of thousands of soldiers, had an obvious hint of guilt in his voice.
In the round of battle just now, the casualties of the sword and shield soldiers under his command exceeded 25%, and the number of spearmen following the sword and shield soldiers also decreased by more than 20%.
The total number of corpses left by the opponent in front of the position was only more than 170 people.
It was only slightly more than the Red Turban Army.
To a certain extent, it was equivalent to one life for one.
There are more than 3,000 enemy troops at the foot of the mountain, and there are only 1,500 soldiers behind the wall.
And there are more than 400 of them who are auxiliary soldiers who are trained only once every five days, and their combat effectiveness is basically zero.
Even if the auxiliary troops are included, based on the current casualty exchange ratio between the enemy and ourselves, the future of the Red Turban Army is not very bright.
All the soldiers have been exhausted, and there are at least a thousand enemy troops left.
They can still push away all the gold, silver, copper ingots and iron blocks that everyone has worked so hard to collect.
"The Asovs, the Asovs came from afar, with no auxiliary troops following them, and no combat supplies."
Seeing that the generals looked wrong, Ivanov jumped up and emphasized in very blunt words, "Those hammers in their hands, It will be thrown away soon.
Then all they can do is to jump off their horses and attack the car wall on foot.
Once we drag them to that point, we will definitely win.
If the formation is too dense, our grenades will be destroyed.
It’s a big piece when fried.”
"Hehehe" Seeing the old soldier's teeth and claws, the clouds on the faces of the generals finally dissipated a little, and they opened their mouths and laughed loudly.
However, soon, their laughter was suppressed back in their throats, "Dong dong, dong dong dong, dong dong dong, dong dong dong."
A dull drum sound hit the ground, making everyone's feet tremble slightly.
The Tatars began to attack again.
This time, they invested more soldiers and more horses.
"Get ready to fight."
Zhu Bayi didn't have time to boost his morale.
He picked up a smashed shield, jumped up, and rushed to the car wall first.
"After this battle, I'll book the best tavern in Xuzhou city for you.
We won't go back until we get drunk."
"You won't come back until you're drunk," Wu Twenty-two responded at the top of his voice, picked up his shield, and quickly stood in front of Zhu Bayi.
Together with the soldiers Qi Tuozi, Zhang Goudan and others, they prevented their general from continuing to move closer to the car wall.
"You won't return until you're drunk."
Liu Ziyun, Xu Hongsan, Xu Da, and Wang Dapang also jumped up and ran to their respective places.
Being in a hurry is like rushing to eat a luxurious banquet that I have never seen in my life.
Zhu Bayi went around twice and failed to get around the human wall, so he had to shake his head, turned around and walked towards the spearmen.
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At this moment, Ivanov secretly followed him and whispered in his ear: "Captain, send someone, send a few people to the creek behind to build the pontoon bridge."
"What?"
The drum sound from outside got louder and louder, and became more and more heart-wrenching.
As a result, Zhu Bayi failed to hear the other party's words clearly.
He was stunned and turned around in surprise.
"Build a pontoon bridge, just in case."
The veteran ruffian blushed for the first time, lowered his head, and groaned like a gnat.
"Didn't you just say that as long as the Tatars dismount and attack, we will definitely win?"
Zhu Bayi was stunned again, and slowly stretched his hand to the handle of the knife at his waist.
Ivan, the veteran ruffian, immediately took two steps back and explained hurriedly, "I, I mean just in case.
Just in case, just in case the brothers can't make it by then," "Go away!"
Zhu Bayi pointed the tip of the knife at his nose and shouted loudly, "Do whatever you have to do, if you dare to mess with our military morale again."
"Don't dare, don't dare, don't dare.
The enemy's attack has begun.
Commander, please be careful."
The veteran scoundrel scurried back a few steps like a rabbit and ran towards the grenadiers.
He refused to do so again.
Look back.
"Damn it!"
Zhu Bayi cursed bitterly as a shadow surged in his heart.
He raised his legs and ran a few steps higher, turned around and looked down at the entire battlefield.
The enemy's cavalry has begun to accelerate, still starting from a position about two hundred steps to the right of the vehicle wall, and approaching in an arc towards the front of the vehicle wall.
However, this time their team was more spread out, and the distance between each wave was longer.
Each wave of cavalry participating in the battle has changed from a team of 100 people to a group of about thirty people.
The cavalry are separated by a small distance of half a foot from each other, pushing the horses faster and faster, and the more they push, the faster they are.
"Boom" The enemy cavalry was still a hundred steps away from the car wall.
The artillery controlled by Huang Ergou shot out iron projectiles first, sweeping through the bellies of several war horses like a whirlwind, bringing up streaks of dazzling red light.
Another ricochet.
The second son of the Huang family moved much slower than his father and brother, but his luck was surprisingly good.
The ricochet formed this time directly knocked over three war horses, causing chaos to the entire wave of cavalry that followed.
"Grenade fire" Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Ziyun quickly lowered his dagger.
Five temporarily assembled small trebuchets and five iron-shell grenades were thrown in the direction of the cavalry.
The attack range of the trebuchet is at least five times farther than the grenadier's arm.
As soon as the wave of cavalry regained speed, they were hit by grenades.
"Boom" and "Boom" two grenades exploded in the air.
The other two grenades misfired due to too violent shock when they landed.
Another one suddenly exploded under the cavalry's feet when they were overwhelmed by the bombardment.
Four fragments flew at high speed in four directions, puncturing the stomachs of the other two horses with large bloody holes.
They screamed and died on the spot.
The cavalryman on horseback was knocked unconscious.
Before he could get up, the next wave of Asos came flying in.
The horse's hooves trampled on their chests and sent them directly to the gate of hell.
"Boom" The artillery controlled by the boss of the Huang family also fired a solid bullet.
He hit a cavalryman hard on the chest, piercing the man directly.
The unfinished projectile, carrying fragments of internal organs, hit the front leg of a horse again.
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The horse was smashed so hard that it let out a mournful cry, and was thrown more than half a foot away with its owner.
Immediately, it was trampled by countless horse hooves and turned into a pile of soft red mud.
"Blow him up like this and kill them hard."
The auxiliary soldiers behind the temporary position who were not ordered to participate in the battle, organized by Wang Dapang, cheered for their brothers at the top of their lungs.
However, what made them slightly disappointed was that both the artillery operated by the Huang brothers and the grenadier commanded by Liu Ziyun were very troublesome to operate.
Before the second round of projectiles was loaded, the two waves of cavalry had already converged.
Leaving behind their dead and injured companions, they accelerated towards the car wall again.
"Sixty steps forward to the right, shoot with armor-breaking cones," the voice of archer centurion Xu Da sounded, which was obviously much crisper than the previous round of battle.
Upon hearing his order, the archers, whose organization was still basically intact, raised their bows and shot the armor-piercing cones into the air at a sixty-degree angle.
"Whoosh" "whoosh" "whoosh" The white feather arrows flew over a distance of ninety meters and suddenly fell towards the enemy's head.
The seven Asos who were rushing at the front were pushed off their mounts at the same time.
A war horse charging in the second row and its owner on its back were hit by at least six armor-breaking cones.
Both men and horses staggered and staggered as if they were drunk.
Suddenly, the horses rushing up from behind spun around in a circle and collapsed.
Immediately, he was trampled by horse hooves and his flesh and blood flew everywhere.
"Forty steps forward to the right, shoot with an armor-breaking cone."
Centurion Xu Da, who was doing the bow step, didn't even look at it.
He could only rely on the sound of horse hooves in his ears to determine where the enemy's cavalry was densest.
Commanding his archers, he launched a second round of feather arrow interception.
"Whoosh", "whoosh" and "whoosh" are more than ninety armor-breaking cones, tearing through the air, tearing through the armor, tearing the skin of humans and horses, and sending the shadow of death directly into the heart of the target.
More than ten more cavalrymen were knocked over by the two waves of cavalrymen who came together.
The remaining ones were stunned and immediately turned their horses' heads in front of the corpses of their companions.
Huang Laowai would be a fool to leave such a good target unattacked.
Immediately after pressing Moi Rong on the fuse of the artillery, with a "boom", hot projectiles were sprayed out towards the chaotic enemy troops.
The screams of "Ah" instantly became the main theme on the battlefield, overwhelming the deep war drums.
The Azov people who were shot by the projectiles were all wounded in the intestines and stomachs, but they were unable to die immediately.
They leaned on the backs of their horses, wailing hoarsely for help, leaving red blood stains behind them.
"Raise the shield" Before Huang Lao Wai could burst into triumphant laughter, veteran ruffian Ivan suddenly rushed over from behind and covered Huang Lao Wai's head with his shield.
"Pap-pah-pah, pah-pah-pah, pah-pah-pah."
The sound of the collision between bows and arrows and shields was endless.
The Archers of the Asu people didn't know when they came into contact again, and shot hundreds of sharp eagle feathers outside the inevitable route of their own cavalry.
Thanks to the timely reminder from the veteran Ivan, most of the sword and shield soldiers in the front row quickly adjusted the height and angle of their shields to block the incoming bows and arrows on the shield.
However, more than twenty bows and arrows passed over the shield wall and landed on the grenadiers, splashing several strings of blood.
"Auxiliary soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, come here and take the lottery number away."
Liu Ziyun shouted, calling for the auxiliary soldiers to come over and deal with the wounded.
We cannot let lottery numbers and corpses lie next to soldiers to affect morale.
This is the experience everyone summed up while taking advantage of the interval between the Asos people's attacks.
So after the war begins, no one is a bystander anymore, everyone must do their best for the overall survival.
A small group of auxiliary soldiers ran over carrying wooden poles and ropes, tied two grenadiers with facial injuries to the poles, carried them and ran away.
The remaining three grenadiers, who had been shot into the gaps in their armor by stray arrows, trembled when they saw this.
He immediately gritted his teeth and pulled out the bow and arrow himself.
Then he endured the severe pain of the wound and walked towards the back of the mountain, no longer daring to bother the auxiliary soldiers.
"Sixty steps from the right front, shoot" centurion Xu Da's voice rang out again, commanding the archers to intercept and fire at the new wave of Asu cavalry rushing over.
Wherever the arrow landed, blood splattered.
The Asu cavalryman who was not shot raised his head, picked up an iron ball on a chain in his hand, and swung it in a circle.
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The artillery still had not been loaded, and the grenade fired another row of projectiles, but because the lead was too slow, most of them exploded behind the enemy's horses, which was in vain.
Several rows of grenadiers grabbed grenades with their bare hands, lit them and threw them out of the car wall.
As soon as they turned around, they were attacked from behind by enemy bows and arrows.
In an instant, their armor was filled with eagle feathers.
With the cooperation of Asu's archers, the third wave of cavalry rushed up, and after paying the price of five more people, they rushed to the car wall as they wished.
He suddenly let go and smashed more than thirty hammer balls into the Red Turban Army's position.
Most of the hammer throws were blocked by shields and were in vain.
The two or three heaviest ones passed through the shield and hit the helmet of the spearman behind, immediately killing the target.
The formation of the Red Scarf Army was immediately thrown into chaos.
The spearmen used their weapons as javelins and threw them at the fleeing cavalry one after another.
However, they fell to the ground in vain, like clumps of ugly wormwood.
Grass.
The Asu archers outside the carriage wall took this opportunity to shoot at two rows of eagle feathers.
The three spearmen squatted on the ground with heavy arrows on their faces, screaming in pain from their mouths.
The other spearmen were also shot with three or four arrows on their bodies.
Thanks to the strong Rakshasa leaf armor, they escaped death.
But everyone who was hit by an arrow turned pale with fright, and their legs kept shaking.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the advantage the Red Turban Army had gained by relying on artillery and grenadiers was gone.
More enemy cavalry rushed up and threw heavy chain hammers into the Red Turban Army's position in rows.
Smashing the shield bearers around, exposing countless fatal gaps.
The bows and arrows of the Asos shot in through the gaps, or hit the spearmen's armor, splashing out strings of sparks.
Or it could penetrate into the human body through the gaps in the armor, causing a series of sharp wails.
"Jiamao team, twenty steps ahead, throw."
Liu Ziyun's eyes were red with anxiety.
He commanded the grenadiers to pursue the enemy troops who rushed to the car wall.
The performance of grenades that are completely fired by fuses is very unreliable.
Almost half of every projectile failed to explode.
And the delay time of the explosion also varies.
Some of them have already exploded into two pieces before they can fly over the target.
Some were rolling on the ground in black smoke.
It wasn't until the enemy's horses ran more than ten meters away that there was a loud bang and a large cloud of soil was lifted up in vain.
The Asu cavalry, who had already discovered this weakness, began to continuously widen the distance between them while galloping. , seeing the grenade fall on the path of his own charge, he immediately turned his horse's head.
As long as he jumped about half a foot away, he would be out of the scope of the explosion.
Then he put the horse's head back, used the inertia of the chain hammer to smash into the shield wall, shook the reins hard, and flew away along the other side of the wall
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