Five hundred armored cavalry, this is quite a force.
The glory of the Mongols has passed. Kublai Khan's heavily armored Chesseh Corps, which was invincible across Europe and Asia, has long become a thing of the past.
And the era when Tumote's Anda Khan, armed with 50,000 heavily armored cavalry, swept across the world, has long since vanished and is gone forever.
When they reached the gates of Beijing, the heavy cavalry that made Emperor Jiajing tremble was their final curtain call.
Today there are five hundred heavily armored cavalry, all of whom are wearing quill armor, and their horses are all wearing chain mail.
There is also a steel nail on the forehead, which looks like a unicorn.
The heavily armored cavalry started to trot, then accelerated, and then gradually increased its speed.
Within a few minutes, he reached the speed of a walking pace.
The war horse, knight, and heavy armor weighed nearly 500 kilograms. The horse's hooves fell on the ground, making a rumbling sound. For a moment, the earth shook, and the shaking earth trembled.
On the Chinese army's chariot, Zhao Ting looked seriously at the cluster of heavy armored cavalry arranged in a wedge-shaped array.
Watching them jump up in groups and jump in from the tied camels.
In order to prevent the camels from being frightened by the sound of gunfire and explosions and running away after the war. Before camping, the camels that served as the walls of the camel city were tied up by their limbs and connected with ropes from the front and back. The camels were fixed in the required position. They also wore
Put on the blindfold.
In this way, no matter how hard they are beaten, these camels cannot move and can only be used as a city wall. Otherwise, they will run around after being frightened, and the camel city itself will be scattered.
Immediately afterwards, five thousand cavalry filed in behind the wedge-shaped formation of five hundred heavy cavalry and launched a group charge.
At this time, fires were everywhere in the pirate group's camp, illuminating the camp brightly.
Centurion Batu clamped his legs around the horse's belly. The four-year-old mare immediately understood the owner's intention, accelerated instantly, rushed to the wall of the lying camel, and then jumped up from above.
Jumped over.
Lu Laoqiu shrank his neck. He was sent to the outer defense line, which was also his unlucky one. Such highly dangerous actions were all decided by drawing lots. Therefore, he could not blame others.
It would not work if the outer circle did not release people. The desert Mongolians, who had experienced many battles, would be suspicious.
He could only sit on the ground with his back against the tied camel, facing inwards.
He held the three-bladed gun under his arm with one hand, and with the other hand he took out a fire stick from his back, blew it brightly, put the pestle on it hard, and ignited a fuse on the fire door.
This thing is easy to shoot out, but reloading takes time. He is ready to fire one shot at a time. He does not dare to waste it.
At this time, one after another, mail-clad war horses passed over his head.
He was nervously beating in his heart, and his palms were covered with sweat. He was very worried, and a sharp scimitar cut it from above.
However, he was overly worried and could not see clearly the person next to the camel in the dark night.
The lead wire crackled and burned. He was also very flustered.
Lu Laoqiu's family has a large population. He has six sons who are about to get married, and four daughters who still need to buy dowries. The two elderly people in the family are also in poor health and need money everywhere.
He really couldn't bear to spend more money to buy a good musket. A Lumi gun cost 35 taels of silver.
He only spent 800 yuan on a rusty three-eye blunderbuss.
I polished it with a grindstone and washed it with sand to remove the rust over the years. It looked dark and black, and it was barely usable.
At this time, a war horse leaped over his head, and he raised his three-eyed gun and aimed it at the knight's back.
Bang! A gunshot.
He lit a fuse and fired a lead bullet.
At this distance, the lead bullet does not need to be aimed. It hits directly.
The knight's back was bleeding, and he groaned and fell off his horse.
Hundreds of musketeers on the east side huddled behind the camels, turned their backs to the camels, and fired at the cavalry passing overhead.
Some hit the knights, and some hit the horses, which immediately caused chaos to the attacking cavalry group.
The cavalry on horseback could not see these people hiding behind the camels and sitting on the ground.
It was so dark at this time that you couldn't see with your hands, and there were blind spots in people's vision. When the horse was jumping, you couldn't even notice anyone behind the camel wall.
Bang bang bang! The sound of muskets continued one after another.
Erlunqi suddenly felt that the two knights on the left fell down inexplicably. They fell off their horses with a thud. He did not react for a while.
At this moment, the arrow was on the string, and there was no room for him to discern what was going on.
"Heshuote warriors, rush in." He pulled out his scimitar and shouted loudly.
"Hula! Hula!" All the cavalrymen raised their arms and shouted, holding their scimitars high, and rushed towards the camel city in the center.
At this time, the burning fire had illuminated the entire outer camp as bright as day, and the 5,500 cavalry were completely exposed to the light of the fire.
Suddenly, Centurion Baihutu felt that his horse's hoof seemed to be tripped by something.
He was shocked, "Oh no, there is a stumbling block."
These cunning people set up snagging ropes in the camp.
Once the bridle stumbles the horse, the knight will fall off and be seriously injured.
Fortunately, the trip rope seemed to be very weak. The horse only shook once, broke the rope, and rushed over without knocking the horse down at all.
Centurion Baihutu felt relieved immediately. What he feared most was that his horse would knock him down and hit him on the ground. If he did, he would be trampled to death by the horse behind him.
Because at this time, the war horse has already reached its maximum speed.
He just ran over, less than two seconds.
He heard a loud bang and two balls of fire exploded on both sides behind him at the same time.
Two gorgeous fireballs bloomed in the dark night.
The orange-red fireball was really beautiful, but it was also accompanied by exploding iron shrapnel.
This kind of landmine is actually the explosive shell used in mortars.
Heavy mortars are equipped at the military level. As siege weapons, they can launch spherical explosive shells of three weights: 100 pounds, 50 pounds, and 25 pounds with high trajectories to 300-600 meters away.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This kind of artillery shell is made of a cast iron shell with a high phosphorus content, a prefabricated groove on the outside, and an explosive made of fertilizer and sugar on the inside.
The explosive bomb is very powerful because it uses the formula of the modern Syrian arsenal.
It is also very simple to convert artillery shells into mines. Just replace the delay fuze with a pull-out fuze, and the thing becomes a mine.
At this time, the pirate group received only twenty-five-pound explosive bombs. If they were too large, they could easily injure their own people.
When setting up today, because it has been cloudy recently, I couldn't see the ground clearly at night. Zhao Ting decided to just put it directly on the ground.
Just place the two iron pellet-shaped bombs ten meters apart, one on the left and the other on the right, and connect the fuses of the two exploded bombs with a drawstring.
Once the enemy's cavalry horseshoes scratch the pull rope, the two explosive shells will be detonated at the same time.
Some of the explosions were triggered by pulling ropes. The ropes were in the hands of soldiers behind the camel city in the inner circle.
Boom boom boom! As a large number of cavalry jumped into the outer circle of Camel City, mines were detonated one after another.
Flames rose into the sky, and fireballs exploded everywhere.
Pieces of cavalrymen were blown away, knocked down, and fell to the ground in groups.
It doesn't matter what kind of armor they wear.
Shrapnel from the explosives swept across everything. Their limbs and their horses were all blown away.
The Hoshuote people were stunned by the bombing, and they didn't know what was going on.
In this era, there were still weapons such as landmines.
Although archeology has discovered that fuse mines were used in the Datong area during the Ming Dynasty, they were not widely used.
Moreover, the desert Mongolians only knew about spherical solid bullets and did not know about explosive bombs.
With a loud bang, a group of cavalrymen were blown away, and the horse behind them fell to the ground. The knight was thrown directly from the horse's head.
Several cavalrymen at the center of the explosion were shattered by shrapnel that swept through them at high speed, and their limbs were cut into pieces. They fell in all directions.
The front hooves of Erlunqi's war horse gave way and fell to the ground. The horse's belly was punctured by a shrapnel the size of a fingernail, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
The war horse neighed in pain, and his forehead was pressed underneath.
Fortunately, the guard behind him quickly controlled his horse and jumped over without stepping on him.
E Lunqi took advantage of this precious gap and hurriedly climbed out, rolling several times until he reached the burning fire.
He would be safe if he rolled here. No war horse would run towards the burning fire.