Chapter 978: Fierce Battle!

"Woo-woo-woo, woo-woo..."

The low sound of a horn echoed when the two sides were over three hundred meters apart.

At this moment, the Beidi Cavalry held the reins in one hand and picked up the curved bow hanging from their horse's belly with the other.

This horn was to remind them to prepare for a volley.

A distance of three hundred meters takes only a very short time for cavalry to cross.

It would be too late to prepare once they entered range.

Just as the Beidi horn sounded, the shrill whistle of a whistle rang out among the Dasong Gun Cavalry.

The Gun Cavalry immediately took down the cavalry rifles hanging on their backs.

Since they had loaded the bullets in advance, they pointed their muzzles at the Beidi Cavalry in front of them one after another.

"Bang, bang, bang..." The order conveyed by the whistle was to fire.

The Gun Cavalry pulled the triggers one after another.

This time, their cavalry rifles were not loaded with ordinary paper-cased bullets, but with metal bullets shipped from Yancheng.

A flash of fire appeared at the muzzle, and the cavalrymen's bodies could not help but tremble backward.

The recoil when firing metal bullets was much greater than that of paper-cased bullets.

Because of the metal bullets, the cavalry rifles also had greater power and longer range than before.

The dense bullets rushed straight toward the Beidi Cavalry like a swarm of locusts.

In an instant, a large swath of the front row of the galloping Beidi Cavalry fell.

Some Beidi Cavalry were hit in vital spots and fell directly off their horses.

Some Warhorses were injured, their front hooves raised high, overturning the cavalry, and other Warhorses fell directly to the ground, tripping a swath of cavalry behind them.

Under one round of fire, the Beidi Cavalry fell into chaos, and the momentum of their charge immediately weakened.

This scene greatly boosted the spirits of the Gun Cavalry.

The Gun Cavalry immediately pulled the breech bolts, changed bullets, and fired a second shot immediately; the Beidi Cavalry fell in another large swath and fell into even greater chaos.

At this time,

The distance between the Gun Cavalry and the Beidi Cavalry was only two hundred meters left.

However, the Gun Cavalry did not continue to fire.

Before the battle, they often practiced scenarios of engaging with Beidi Cavalry on the battlefield.

A distance of two hundred meters was certainly enough for them to fire two more shots.

But this distance was not enough for the entire cavalry formation to turn flexibly.

After all, rather than killing a few more Beidi Cavalry, it was better to take the opportunity to adopt reasonable tactics, outflanking the Beidi Cavalry while letting the firepower of the Gun Cavalry be brought into full play.

Like the Beidi Cavalry, they also had several rows of cavalry behind them.

Because they were blocked by the front row, they could not fire forward.

Now, they had to create shooting opportunities for them as well.

"Di-di-di..." The sound of the whistle rang out again.

Taking advantage of the gap in the Beidi Cavalry's chaos, the galloping Gun Cavalry suddenly spread out as if pulled thin like pulled noodles.

A large number of cavalry surged from the middle position to the two wings.

The cavalry on the two wings then circled to the flanks of the Beidi Cavalry, wrapping them up like a pocket.

While moving, the Gun Cavalry were not idle.

They shot and killed the Beidi Cavalry while galloping on their horses.

The Beidi Cavalry kept falling under the muzzles of the Gun Cavalry.

"Impossible, this is impossible!" Just as the cavalry of both sides were engaged in battle, on a hill not far from the battlefield, Lamu sat on his Warhorse, observing the situation on the battlefield.

At first, a confident smile hung on the corner of his mouth, preparing to start a massacre.

But as the battle progressed, his smile froze, and then turned into terror.

It was obvious that, just like the Dasong Infantry shooting and killing their infantry outside the range of their muskets.

Now the Dasong Cavalry were also shooting and killing their cavalry outside the range of their bows and arrows.

The cavalry under his command were shot and killed by the enemy cavalry before they could even draw their bows and shoot arrows.

Now, the Dasong Cavalry even had the momentum to surround the cavalry under his command.

"Immediately concentrate forces, break through their flanks, and counter-outflank them." Lamu ordered.

The number of Dasong Cavalry was not as large as theirs.

Pulling out a long pocket naturally made the battle line thin.

He believed this was an excellent opportunity to defeat the enemy by striking after they had struck.

Upon receiving his order, the bugler beside him blew the horn again, conveying Lamu's order.

Immediately, the sound of horns echoed continuously in the Beidi army.

Before long, two groups of Beidi Cavalry killed their way out from the middle of the chaotic cavalry.

Each of their teams had ten thousand cavalry, heading straight for the two wings.

The movements of the Beidi Cavalry fell into the eyes of the Gun Cavalry.

However, the Gun Cavalry were not nervous at all.

Because during the pre-battle drills, they had encountered many difficulties set by the generals, which naturally included the issue of flank security.

Therefore, since they still chose to outflank, they naturally did not worry about the two wings being cut off and being surrounded by the enemy instead.

Seeing a large number of Beidi Cavalry rushing toward them.

The five thousand Gun Cavalry who had already reached the flanks immediately took action under the leadership of the generals.

Among them, two thousand Cavalry continued to execute the flanking mission, while three thousand Cavalry charged toward the ten thousand-plus Northern Di Cavalry.

They drew a small encirclement within the large encirclement, flanking the ten thousand Northern Di Cavalry that had pushed forward.

When they were three hundred meters away from the Northern Di Cavalry, they pulled the Trigger one after another; the charging Northern Di Cavalry fell one by one, tumbling over in a heap of men and horses.

Yet the Northern Di Cavalry were equally tenacious; after a brief chaos, they charged toward the Great Song Cavalry once again.

But when they approached the Great Song Cavalry, they suddenly discovered the Great Song Cavalry were retreating one after another.

While retreating, the Great Song Cavalry kept turning to shoot backward, maintaining a distance of two to three hundred meters from them at all times.

Lang Lu, who was responsible for leading the Northern Di Cavalry, saw this, and despite the freezing weather, a layer of sweat broke out on him.

This scene was all too familiar to him; in the past, they had also used horse archery like this to drag down the Great Song Cavalry.

Ultimately making the Great Song Cavalry see them like a mouse seeing a cat.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

The ensuing chase confirmed his guess.

The Great Song Cavalry kept their distance from them at all times, shooting at them while galloping.

They pursued them closely, but it seemed they could never catch up, while the Cavalry grew fewer and fewer.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the ten thousand-plus Cavalry he led were shockingly reduced to only five or six thousand, with nearly half lost.

"Damn it!" the Northern Di Lang Lu shouted, his eyes bloodshot.

He looked toward other directions of the battlefield and discovered that the other Northern Di Cavalry were suffering the same fate as them, always being shot and killed by the enemy while chasing the Great Song Cavalry.

The battlefield was covered with the corpses of Northern Di soldiers and Warhorse, the white snowfield stained with spots of red blood.

"Kill! Kill!"

Seeing such a miserable state, the Northern Di Lang Lu was even more consumed by rage, charging toward the Great Song Cavalry regardless of everything.

Just at this moment, he saw a flash of fire to his front left, and his chest suddenly felt a pain.

Lowering his head, bright red blood kept gushing from his chest, and then he felt his strength rapidly draining from his body; the world spun, and he fell from his horse.

"Bang, bang, bang..." Amidst the clear sound of gunfire, the Northern Di Lang Lu closed his eyes, and a tear slid from the corner of his eye.

He realized that the era belonging to the Northern Di Cavalry had passed...

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