The Shanyu of the Eastern Barbarians was also a decisive person, and since he decided to withdraw his troops, he acted very neatly.
The entire Dongman camp was in a hurry, but it didn't seem hectic. The cannon fodder and elite cavalry were changing the guard in an orderly manner.
It only took one morning for the changing of the guard to be over, and the leading troops of the Eastern Barbarians set off in the heavy snow and headed north.
This was the best time to attack. Jin Feng would not let it go. He immediately transferred a team from Wei Sheng's army and formed a cavalry with the remaining musketeers, riding the horses brought by Zhang Liang and Liu Tie.
, and killed him through the north city gate.
Although the Shanyu of the Eastern Barbarians arranged for elite cavalry to rear up, he never expected that Jin Feng would really dare to send people out of the city to attack.
In Shan Yu's opinion, Yuguan City's ability to hold on until now mainly relies on the tall city walls and catapults. Once out of the city, no matter how elite the thousands of bodyguards are, they will have nothing to lose in front of his own army of hundreds of thousands.
no.
Hundreds of thousands of people, even if one person could make a snowball and throw it at them, thousands of escorts could be crushed to death.
However, Shanyu did not dare to be careless. He found the generals at the rear and personally told them to be careful, and then he started to set off with the large army.
The Dongman generals at the rear knew that the escorts had muskets, but they did not take the initiative to attack. Instead, they arranged the heavy cavalry in heavy armor and the captured heavy crossbows to the rear to cover the retreat of the large army.
The reloading of the muskets was too slow, and the range was not as good as the heavy crossbows that the opponent had captured. Liu Tie, who was in charge of the command, did not dare to get too close and could only use the heavy crossbows to fight back.
The range of the portable heavy crossbows was not much better than the heavy crossbows captured by the Eastern Barbarians, so Liu Tie could only dismantle a few heavy crossbows from the city wall.
However, heavy crossbows are relatively bulky and very inconvenient to move, and have never been able to cause too many casualties to the enemy.
The Eastern Barbarian cavalry also organized several counterattacks, hoping to defeat the Northern Expeditionary Army leaving the city in one fell swoop. However, the female workers' muskets were too powerful in close combat, and the Eastern Barbarian cavalry could not break through the musketeers' defense line at all.
The two sides remained in a stalemate in the north of Yuguan City for three days.
In the past three days, the main force of the Eastern Barbarians has almost retreated, and the long march line meandered for dozens of miles.
On the fourth day, the cavalry at the rear received a notice from Shan Yu that the team had almost advanced and they could retreat.
The cavalry commander and Liu Tie and the others had been fighting for several days, and no one could do anything about it. They had already become impatient and were ready to retreat immediately after receiving the order.
But just when they started to retreat, a column of smoke suddenly rose into the sky from the wall of Yuguan City.
Then the north city gate opened, and carriages pulling heavy crossbows and catapults filed out.
The heavy crossbows used by the Eastern Barbarians were all captured in battles with the Dakang army in the past few years. The number was not large. In the past few days when the rear cavalry and the musketeers were entangled, Jin Feng and the others had already figured out these heavy crossbows on the city wall.
Crossbow location.
After the carriage pulled out the heavy crossbow, it immediately used the explosive arrows used to attack ships at sea, blowing up the only few heavy crossbows on the opponent's side.
The musketeers, who had previously been on a par with the Eastern Barbarian cavalry, suddenly changed their appearance and took the initiative to form an attack.
The battle became fierce instantly.
It was only then that the Eastern Barbarian cavalry discovered that the muskets had been refilled slowly before, and it had always been a pretense of the musketeers.
After being equipped with a filling hand and a powder mashing hand, the musketeer's shooting speed is instantly increased five to six times!
The Eastern Barbarian cavalry finally understood the terror of muskets and was caught off guard. They had no choice but to retreat while fighting and send someone to report the situation to Shan Yu.
This cavalry was a direct descendant of Shan Yu's command. After receiving the news, Shan Yu did not dare to be careless and immediately arranged for another cavalry to go for reinforcements.
Looking at the retreating figures of the cavalry reinforcements, Shan Yu's face was full of worry.
Judging from the intelligence sent back, the Musketeers had been hiding their clumsiness before, and then suddenly launched an attack. They must have some agenda.
At this time, Chanyu was already more than twenty miles away from Yuguan City. No matter how worried he was, the water from far away could not quench his thirst nearby.
I sighed and was about to go back to the carriage when I suddenly heard a loud whistle coming from the sea to the east.
Turning his head to look east, he saw the faint shadow of a large ship on the sea a few miles away.
Above the big ship, there are two huge hot air balloons floating.
"They actually dare to release the hot air balloon!" Shan Yu snorted coldly: "Let Hai Dongqing out!"
After a while, three sea turtles flew out of the carriage behind Shan Yu and headed straight for the hot air balloon on the sea.
It was very boring to drive in the wind and snow, but finally there was some excitement. The attention of almost all the Dongman soldiers was attracted by Zhenyuan No. 2 and the hot air balloon.
No one, including the Chanyu of the Eastern Barbarians, noticed that on the grassland in the west, a group of people covered in white sheets were quickly approaching the retreating army of the Eastern Barbarians.
On the sea, Hai Dongqing had already flown over Zhenyuan No. 2, screamed, and dived towards the hot air balloon.
However, at this moment, several fireworks soared into the sky from the deck of Zhenyuan No. 2 and flew towards Hai Dongqing.
Hai Dongqing is extremely flexible. After spotting the fireworks, he immediately turned around and flew to the side.
But at this moment, the fireworks exploded.
The dazzling white light flashed away, and half of the sky was illuminated.
Even though he was several miles away, Shanyu couldn't help but squint his eyes.
As for Hai Dongqing, who was within a few hundred meters of the explosion, he was blinded by the flash, and he was flying around like a headless fly in the air.
On the deck, the escorts pulled the triggers one after another, shot the loud arrows they had prepared into the air, and then started beating gongs and drums.
For a moment, the air was filled with harsh bamboo whistles and dense gongs and drums below.
Hai Dongqing was blinded by the flash, and was stimulated by various chaotic sounds. He was frightened and went crazy. One flew up crazily, while the other two plunged into the sea.
It is very difficult to tame the sea greens. I don't know if these three sea greens will come back in the end. Even if they finally fly back, it is hard to say whether they will dare to attack the hot air balloon again.
Just when Shanyu was thinking about Hai Dongqing, he suddenly saw the hot air balloon on the big ship slowly rising into the sky, swinging in the air, and looking like it was about to fly this way.
"They don't think I only have three sea greens, do they?"
Being bombed by a hot air balloon was no fun. Shanyu gritted his teeth and ordered another sea turtle to be released.
Worried that the sea turtle would also be blinded, the falconer did not order an attack, but let the sea turtle hover above the position to warn the hot air balloon.
Seeing the Dongman people and Hai Dongqing, the hot air balloon did not dare to come over.
Dongman Shanyu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
But before he could relax, a dense explosion suddenly came from the west.
Turning around to look, I saw streaks of fire rising to the west.
"It's a grenade from Dakang people!"
After fighting with the Northern Expeditionary Army for so many days, many Eastern Barbarian soldiers immediately recognized the fire caused by the explosion of grenades.
At the same time, I am also very curious as to why the Dakang people appeared here!