Using a horse to charge into battle is not a new move.

During the Battle of Sarhu, the Jin Army used this tactic to break through the Ming Army's vehicle formation. They used death squads to drive a large number of horses as cannon fodder, allowing them to surge up and break up the Ming Army's vehicle formation.

When the Ming army was in disarray and could not fire weapons continuously, Hou Jin's elite cavalry rushed over and massacred the Ming army.

From Saerhu to Songjin next year, this move by the Qing army was tried and tested.

Almost as soon as those war horses rushed towards the wall of the Ming army's chariots, Battelle grinned. At this moment, he seemed to see the dawn of victory. He had already drawn his sword and was ready to rush into the Ming dog's chariot formation and chop.

Kill those bright dogs, just like hunting, chop off all the heads of these thousands of bright dogs...

But at this moment, Battle was suddenly shocked to see the galloping war horses in front of him, as if they had hit an invisible wall, and suddenly fell to the ground. One war horse after another fell to the ground, and the galloping war horses fell to the ground suddenly.

The moment he hit the ground, his bones were broken. Even though some horses rushed several feet away, they still fell down.

Is this... a tripping rope?

Almost at the moment when this idea came to Battelle's mind, Zhu Guoqiang, who saw this scene through a high-power telescope, smiled and said.

"This guy Shen Bao is quite capable in fighting."

"Your Majesty, General Shen, is this...a tripping rope?"

Chen Wudi said with some doubts.

"Wudi, remember what he said when I asked him what he needed before the war started?"

"Rope, wire..."

Chen Wudi said as he suddenly realized.

"Master Shizi, are you saying that Shen Bao had already expected that the Qing army would charge into the battle with horses before the battle started?"

"It's a mistake!"

Zhu Guoqiang smiled.

"Did he expect that Jiannu would use a group of horses to make an impulse? I don't know, but he wanted ropes and wires, not only to trip horses, but also to trip people. You can see that the horses of the Qing Army were hundreds of steps in front of his formation.

He fell down somewhere outside. When Jiannu rushed into the battle, he didn't even notice that there was a trip rope on the ground. It is conceivable that his trip rope must be very short, maybe only a foot high from the ground, or even hidden in the snow.

, whether it is cavalry or infantry, if you rush to a place a hundred steps away, you will inevitably be tripped by the horse rope. It is natural for the galloping horse to be knocked down, and the speed of the infantry will also slow down..."

Putting down the telescope, Zhu Guoqiang said in appreciation.

"If I guess correctly, there are probably no less than a hundred snagging ropes placed in front of his formation. As long as he slows down, he can shoot and kill at will. He is indeed a veteran soldier who has experienced hundreds of battles..."

Just as Zhu Guoqiang guessed, Shen Bao indeed arranged hundreds of horse slings in front of the formation, less than a foot above the ground. Now these snagging ropes set up with ropes and wires have become the most deadly ties for the horses.

At the beginning, Battle thought that even if there were tripping ropes, there were still a few, and as long as the horses charged forward for a while, they would always come. However, he thought that the horses would keep getting tripped up even after charging more than ten feet.

, in the end, those soulless animals were driven by people and stopped moving forward. After all, horses can also feel the threat. With horses constantly tripping and falling, the originally galloping horses suddenly stopped.

After coming down, they stood on the battlefield blankly, no matter how hard the Qing army drove them away, they would not move forward even half a step.

For a moment, an extremely strange scene appeared on the battlefield. A hundred paces in front of the Ming army's car formation, it was crowded with thousands of ownerless horses that were constantly moving. They just stood there, and behind them In the rear, a large group of Qing cavalry looked anxiously at the Ming army more than 200 steps away.

At this distance, guns were inaccurate and arrows could not penetrate. Even though the Qing army's arrows could hurt the unarmored Ming army, they did not move.

"Sir, Ming Gou's snagging ropes are set too tightly, and the cavalry simply can't get through!"

"Damn Ming Gou! I still don't believe that they can die in this bastard's shell!"

After fighting for so many years, this was the first time that Battle encountered such an opponent. When he looked towards the Ming army's main formation angrily, Shen Bao was also looking at him. There was only one thought in his mind - We don’t seek total victory in this battle, but we seek to save our lives!

Therefore, he was stunned by this turtle shell!

But he would not stand firm. Almost as soon as the battlefield reached a stalemate, he gave the order to the messenger.

"Order the gunners to fire from the left and right wings at the rear of the horse group, using heavy shotgun shells. After firing from both wings, they will then bombard the horse group from the front to scatter the horses. Give him his own way and kill him with his own horse. It’s disrespectful to charge into the formation and not return the favor…”

After receiving the order, the gunners adjusted the muzzles between the walls of the carriage, pointed the muzzles at the Qing army behind the horse group, and then lit the powder, which dragged sparks into the defuse hole. Amidst the roar, the gun carriage fired violently. The soldiers stepped back, and with a "boom" sound, hundreds of rounds of heavy shotguns were blasted forward. While the heavy shotguns roared like raindrops and flew towards the Qing army, the gunners in the front also fired their powder. Their target was Those ownerless war horses.

When the overwhelming rain of bullets hit the Qing army, they instinctively wanted to dodge, but there were still some people who could not dodge, and even their men and horses were punched with several bloody holes. The Qing cavalry instinctively retreated. When they went to try to avoid the bombardment, the hail of bullets that came towards them enveloped the ownerless horses.

Horses may be just livestock, but they are also afraid. The threat under the horse's hooves makes them hesitate and try to escape the unknown risks. However, the sudden bombardment knocked down a group of horses, and at the same time, the injured horses neighed. , whining, and the stinging pain from the bodies of the slightly injured horses made them manic and inexplicable, and fear made them run in the direction they came from. For a moment, the horses in front of the car wall ran wildly, and those The frantic war horses even knocked down nearby Qing troops while running. In a hurry, the cavalry on horseback fell to the ground one after another. Before the cavalry who fell to the ground could react, the horses behind them were already galloping towards them. , the horse's hooves trampled over their bodies without hesitation, causing a burst of howling ghosts and wolves on the battlefield.

The sudden chaos caused a huge reversal in the situation on the battlefield.

The seemingly mighty Qing cavalry actually retreated. Hundreds of Qing cavalry were trampled to pulp by their own horses without even firing their arrows.
Chapter completed!