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Chapter 42 The Supervisor

The man was young than Altan, and Xiaoji, who was in his prime, could break the horse whip.

When he first turned on his horse to fight all directions, the power of the 30,000 households on the right wing of Tumot was still in the hands of his father. When his father was old and ignored military affairs, the power fell into the hands of his uncle Altan, and began a new era of Tumot's tribe. He continued to fight all directions under his uncle's tribe, and it has been more than twenty years since then.

The Ming Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty has always been their main enemy. In the years of war, he learned how to avoid artillery and seize the important land of Chengguan when the Ming army loaded artillery. Such tactics were tried and tested when facing artillery fire.

During his leadership of his subordinates, he had seen all kinds of enemies, and only the new Datong general Ma Fang was admired by him.

This kind of respect almost accompanied Xiao Jineng's life. When he was a child, he respected Ma Fang, who was accompanying his uncle Altan Khan, as a guard. Ma Fang's skillful archery and horse-becoming Altan's servant from a captured slave was a process of constantly being respected. Later, he fled back to the Han area.

In the Ming Dynasty, from Emperor Jiajing, there was a saying that was passed down from the border generals that Ma Fang was not as brave as Ma Fang.

Just in June this year, when Chen Mu was just escorting artillery into Beijing, Ma Fang led the cavalry to attack from Datong, attacking Haizi, Xianning, where Altan's main force, and broke through its camp in one fell swoop, chasing the west for dozens of miles, killing Wushou, and capturing more than a dozen tribe leaders.

Even in the Mongolian tribes, no one disrespects Ma Fang, so they called Ma Fang the Ma Tai Shi.

Ji Neng was very smart. He knew that he could not defeat Ma Fang in Datong, so he was in Datong and Ma Fang like his uncle Altan. He directly led his troops to attack Taiyuan, and then divided his troops into Baoding from Taiyuan. He had high hopes for this battle, and he wanted to meet the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

What's the result?

Ji Neng asked himself that he was knowledgeable, but he just turned to Mahe, a broken land that didn't even have a city wall. Just when he was about to attack, a blinding light suddenly appeared on the broken mound behind Shuanma Bridge. Then countless large iron bullets hit the cavalry formation he had just gathered, and the soldiers sent on the bridge were crushed into a pool of meat sauce.

The cavalry formation gathered under the bridge also suffered a terrifying blow. The large iron bullets had unparalleled power and could bounce on the ground and then crushed them for two more formations. The rows of good men who could ride horses and shoot were gone.

Even in Datong, they can fight with Ma Fang’s family soldiers!

Ji Neng didn't feel heartbroken at all, because the headache was behind him.

Qianchang, who was sent to the scene, was hit by a shell and killed. His servants took back the war horse and Qianchang's lower body. The casualties were calculated and killed by artillery, and nearly 30% of them were injured. The soldiers behind him said they would not go up the bridge without any of them - this was his real trouble.

Although there were only more than 200 people who died directly from artillery fire, more than 5,000 soldiers and horses were afraid to move around in the battle. The five thousand-ranks under their command did not obey the order and retreated backwards to their subordinates for three and a half miles, saying that they would not mobilize their subordinates to move forward.

"Around it? Where to go? There is only one way to go to Beijing!"

Ji Neng also wanted to circumnavigate. He could circumnavigate any road south of the Juma River, but when he arrived at the Juma River, there was no way to circumnavigate. They could only walk this road, and if they had to circumnavigate, they would have to circumnavigate to Tianjin Wei... If you take that road, their retreat would definitely be broken, which was more difficult than facing the Mingjiang on the other side of the river.

"He can only kill 300 people with one round of cannons, what are he afraid of!"

Qianchang, who used to be brave, took two deep breaths and couldn't say: "You can only allow hundreds of cavalry to pass through the bridge."

Ji Neng wanted to throw him with a whip, but found that his whip had broken long ago when the front army was bombarded. He had seen artillery bombardment. There were artillery everywhere on the ground of the Ming army, at Zijing Pass, and on the ground of the Ming army, but he had never seen so many artillery in the hands of such a few troops.

After several investigations before the battle of the scout cavalry, the Ming army on the other side of the river had to survive for two thousand, and these two thousand were still new recruits who seemed to be unscheduled. It seemed that as long as they crossed the bridge, they only needed a few rounds to charge, and the rain of arrows hit them and collapsed.

It is precisely because of this that he decided to tentatively attack the river valley in the northwest, and the main forces gathered here to make a breakthrough first, but he did not expect that the Ming army stationed here was completely different from other places.

It is only a common situation to sprinkle caltrops on the bridge deck. It hurts some war horses, which is not a problem. But they actually put musket soldiers in the trench of horses. Are the trenches used to stand people?

Forget it if the trench is stationed, then how many people can stand in a trench that is hundreds of steps wide? After crossing the bridge, you can shoot with them with bows and arrows. The Ming army must die first, so they can only think that they dug their own graves in advance.

But what happened to at least six artillery guns next to the trench?

Ji Neng can understand that since there are people standing in the trench, it is not surprising that the Ming army will move the city defense cannons to the river bank. After all, they are all in the heart of the Southern Dynasty. There are six cannons with dozens of miles of defense, thousands of defenders, and even though he has no chariot camp, there is nothing strange about it.

It is abnormal to fire twenty-four cannons on the broken mound!

In the east and west battles, let alone Xiao Jineng, even his father Lao Jineng, or his uncle Altan, it would be impossible for him to bring so many artillery when the Ming army had no chariot camp in the field!

"I will let him know how powerful I am! Send someone to ask him to come with the money, and I will take a detour and ask me clearly who the leader is!"

Ji Neng didn't know that the troops who retreated without obeying the order saved his life.

General Chen was standing on the 'breaking mound' in his mouth, and someone held him steadily, tried to force the cannon, searching for his position. Finally, he couldn't help but sigh: "Damn, I retreated too quickly! I can't fight!"

Although the Northern Lu cavalry did not even stand next to his other soldiers, judging from their spontaneous retreat, these Tumoth cavalry were long-standing battle formations, and retreated three and a half miles. The maximum range of the Ming army's best thousand-jin Franc aircraft was almost the same.

They retreated three and a half miles to ensure that the Ming army artillery could not hit them.

If Chen Mu had a ten-pound cannon in his hand, he could try bombarding the enemy commander with the help of a telescope, but the largest cannon in his hand was only five pounds, with a distance of more than 800 steps. Even if the nine five-pound cannons are adjusted to the same target, they may not be able to hit accurately, but may directly drive the enemy away.

"It's not possible, where is this military achievements?"

Chen Mu held his right wrist and tightened his arm guard. He heard the cavalry left on the mountain on the top report: "General, Wu Bingbei is here!"

Oh, the military supervisor is here!

"It's just right, the battle has just begun." Chen Mu rubbed his hands and laughed, calling Long Junxiong and said, "Junxiong, you can take the right artillery team to support Jiang's command. Eight artillery pieces are divided into four formations, and the enemy will be hit to the death with nearly 600 steps!"
Chapter completed!
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