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Chapter 143 Arrogant and domineering

In the noon sunshine, the three thousand infantry soldiers led by Chen Bao were rushing to arrange their troops and formed a tight square formation. In front of them were more than 300 "chariots".

Although the newly formed sixth battalion infantry was not equipped with carriages, they were equipped with 300 "chariots" - in fact, they were just the kind of human sanitation carriages. The overall structure was similar to human sanitation carriages, but they were longer and wider. In fact, when ordering on the other side, Zhu Guoqiang ordered it in the name of "sanitation car".

Compared with horse-drawn carriages, the Ming army was better at carriage camps. After entering the battlefield, he immediately used more than 300 "iron armored chariots" to form a moving city wall.

Bartel stared at the prey from afar, and even narrowed his eyes.

One thousand to three thousand!

Just looking at the number of people, the two sides seem to be a bit disparity, but one thousand cavalry against three thousand infantry, the strength of both sides is similar.

However, in terms of momentum, the Qing army seemed to be more prosperous.

"Well, the military appearance is still neat, and it's still acceptable to change the situation in the last battle!"

Batel, sitting on his mount, put his hand on the awning and approached the Ming military product head five hundred steps away.

From the encounter between the whistle cavalry on both sides to the fact that they led the cavalry to chase here, it was only two or three hours before and after. In such a short time, the Ming army chose a terrain that was relatively beneficial to the infantry and used hundreds of chariots to set up a wall of chest along the hillside. It was really commendable.

"Even so, I'm just giving us a head!"

Immediately someone came forward and agreed with a smile.

“It’s true”

Looking at the situation of the Ming army, Bartel laughed.

"It's just to give us a head."

Everyone laughed. They were made up as the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Banners and fought with the Ming army for several years. Naturally, they also knew how powerful the Ming army was.

"Our whole army rushed forward to ensure that these Ming soldiers were killed."

Arrogant has a capital of arrogance. Even the cavalry led by Batel is only used as a cavalry whistle and does not need to attack these Ming troops. However, he is so arrogant that he can tolerate a group of Ming troops who dare to approach him--less than 30 miles!

This is simply a bold and insulting him!

So, for the great reputation of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, Bartel decided to remove the Ming cavalry and give them a great taste.

However, these cavalrymen of the Eight Banners of Mongolia did not immediately rush forward, but took out soybeans, wheat, sorghum and other horse grains from their bags and held them to the mouth of the mounts, allowing the latter to enjoy them slowly. They grew up in the grasslands and were all born warriors. Their ancestors once followed Genghis Khan to occupy the Central Plains all the way. Now they have become cavalry under Huang Taiji to serve him, and once again fought to the Jiangnan where the ancestors were like a fairyland.

After witnessing the prosperity of the Central Plains, they had only one idea - to occupy this land, kill all the people here, or turn them into slaves, but before that, they had to move the stumbling block away, and the Ming army was the stumbling block.

While the Qing army was feeding the war horses and accumulating energy for the war horses, in the Ming army's vehicle array in front of the hills, the gunners pushed more than a dozen light nine-pound howitzers. Compared with the heavy red cannon, this nine-pound howitzer, which was only half a man tall, was not only light and small, but also adopted the Congliff monorail gun mount, which was very flexible to move.

Although Zhu Guoqiang was unable to provide them with enough muskets and armor when forming the Sixth Battalion's "New Army", he provided them with a sufficient number of artillery - nine kilograms of howitzers, each battalion was equipped with as many as twenty-four.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of its smallness that no one noticed its existence at all. It was like a series of hidden arrows, hiding between the car array.

Behind the horizontal "chariot", musketeers holding muskets stared at the front and murmurs from time to time.

"Use your mouth to break the paper shell, pour the gunpowder into the barrel, and stuff the lead bullet inside into the barrel along with the paper shell... and compact the bullet through the bullet... Pull the hammer again and cover it with the fire cap..."

Two days ago, these musketeers were still using bird guns triggered by fuses, but now they have replaced the fire guns. Although they have fired several live ammunitions in the past two days, they are still a little nervous in a hurry.

"Battle, bayonet is on the waist..."

Holding a musket and standing behind the chariot, Sun Mingtao's nervous palm was sweating... Grandma, after being a soldier for so many years, she was still so nervous.

"Stay calm, what you are most afraid of when you go into battle is to panic. Don't panic, you will lose first!"

The captain followed him at some point and patted his shoulder. Then he saw the captain quickly walking towards other soldiers.

Niu Jinxing, who had just been promoted to captain, reached out and patted everyone's shoulders one by one.

"Don't be nervous, learn from me, take a deep breath, and then slowly exhale. Yes, that's it! There are only one thousand Tartars in this group, and we have a thousand muskets, one shot per person, that's enough. If you fire three or five shots, you might be able to bombard him into the sky!"

Although he was equally nervous, Niu Jinxing knew very well that whether his captain could be the leader depends on this battle. The reason why he was able to be the captain was because the prince had recruited new recruits from the Sixth Battalion. He became the captain by chance. If the battle was stable, he could be the commander of the sentry in the future and become the chief officer... In short, as long as he made contributions today, his future prospects would naturally be limitless.

"Haha, that's right, these Tartars are not enough for us to shoot three or five shots..."

The brothers who were so nervous that they were a little hard of their limbs let out a burst of laughter.

But everyone knows that this is just to put it in a good way. After all, they are all veterans. They know that they can hit 10% or 20% of these three or five guns, which is God's blessing. But after saying this, they calmed down. What a big deal? Everyone is human, no matter how powerful the Tartars are, they are still humans, and guns can kill them!

Since you can be beaten to death, there is nothing scary!

"beep……"

Suddenly, a deafening sound of horns came from afar. The sound of horns shocked everyone's minds. Once upon a time, the Mongols launched an attack on the Central Plains amid such sounds. Now they focused on Huang Taiji's banner and launched an attack on the Central Plains again...

Although they were all riding horses, they were not fast at the beginning, and Bartel did not forget to cheer up morale loudly before accelerating.

"Brothers, Minggou are all weak soldiers without eggs. These eggless things dare to chase us. They simply don't take us seriously. Everyone follows me to kill the enemy! Kill!"
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