Chapter 1289: Car Array

Before Hong Boyan Temur could react, Ping An had already fought his way out and rushed in front of him!

"My king, hurry up!" The personal soldiers pulled Hong Boyan's reins fiercely, and he came to his senses and ran away.

The personal soldiers around him rode forward to resist for a while, but were stabbed off their horses by Ping An one by one... But at least Hong Boyan escaped from Ping An's clutches.

Hong Boyan escaped for a while, and when he looked back, he saw the Ming army general with a white horse and a silver spear rushing over again. He was so scared that he whipped his horse's belly with a whip and fled madly on the hillside, not daring to stay.

Ping An chased after him, but there were always the ignorant Yuan army blocking him. Although the Yuan army was not his enemy, it also affected his speed. As a result, he was always a little short of chasing.

Although he did not catch Hong Boyan, his reckless charge had already messed up the Yuan army's formation.

The Ming cavalry followed closely behind him, charging and killing repeatedly, and actually beat the Yuan army, which was several times larger than him, into retreat, with heavy losses! If Taikang and his cavalry had not been trapped in the Yuan army on the battlefield of Nanpo, and the situation was precarious, Ping An could have led two thousand cavalry to completely defeat the 10,000 cavalry.

When Ping An led the crowd to Nanpo for support, Hong Boyan had been driven out of Beipo and hid in the mountains and forests.

Seeing the killing god with a white horse and a silver spear going away, he was slightly relieved. He came out of the forest, and his voice still trembled: "Who is this? How can he be so fierce and unmatched like a god from heaven?"

"He should be the one with the surname Ping..." the personal soldier whispered.

"Fuck..." Hong Boyan thought of his guess that he was "ordinary", and he wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

He shook his head, threw away his fear and shame, and said in a deep voice: "While he is going to the north slope, regroup quickly and attack the Ming army convoy!"

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According to the plan of the two kings, Gao Bas Timur's task was to deal with the Ming cavalry, so his troops were much stronger.

Taikang did not have the courage of Ping An, and he and his two thousand cavalry were trapped in a siege. He led the crowd to charge several times but could not break through.

Seeing more and more brothers die under the sword of the Yuan army, he was so anxious that his eyes were bloodshot. The iron spear in his hand was about to swing out a residual shadow, and he wanted to kill a bloody way. But the more anxious he was, the easier it was to have loopholes. He was busy killing the enemy, but he was shot in the right shoulder by an arrow from the Yuan army.

With a puff, the sharp arrow shot through his shoulder armor and deeply pierced his shoulder. Taikang screamed and almost lost his grip on the weapon.

When the Yuan army saw the Ming general was wounded and shot, they immediately rushed over from all directions like hungry wolves seeing blood. Seeing this, the Ming army soldiers rode forward one after another, wanting to rescue the commander, but there were too many Yuan soldiers, blocking them firmly on the periphery and separating them from Taikang.

Taikang held the iron spear in one hand, gnashing his teeth and sweeping across, resisting the scimitars that were slashing from all directions. The Yuan army soldiers screamed and rode around him, stretched out one arm, held the scimitar horizontally, and slashed him again and again.

The excellent Shanwen armor blocked most of the attacks for him. But the warhorse had little protection, and finally fell to the ground with a wail under the attack of the Yuan army. Taikang also fell to the ground with the warhorse, and couldn't help but sighed that his life was over.

Who knew that at this moment, the Yuan soldiers surrounding him screamed and fell off their horses, and the rest of the Yuan army didn't care about him, and quickly turned their horses to flee to avoid the sudden fierce attack.

Taikang looked carefully and saw that the fierce general with a white horse and silver spear, thick eyebrows and big eyes, who had killed through the Yuan army's defense line, was his boss Ping An. Ping An looked at him and continued to turn his horse to fight with the Yuan army.

His personal soldiers hurried forward, helped him onto the horse, and then protected him on both sides, and followed Ping An to break through.

At this time, a dense gong sound came from behind, which was the signal that the Ming army's chariot formation had been arranged and the cavalry could withdraw.

Ping An led his subordinates to break out of the siege again...

Gao Ba Si, who was watching the battle from a distance, was so angry that his nose was crooked. If it weren't for this unstoppable Ming army general, he could have eaten the two thousand Ming cavalry.

But now is not the time to be upset, Gao Ba Si forced himself to stay awake. Reminding himself that he didn't plan to fight the Ming army to death today, he just wanted to burn their food and grass.

According to the original plan, he entangled the Ming army cavalry on this side, and Hong Boyan on the other side led the people to burn the food carts. As a result, Hong Boyan was driven out of the battlefield by the Ming army general, and the army also dispersed Huang. When they regrouped and returned to the hillside, the Ming army's chariot formation had been set up.

Gao Bas saw this and cursed "waste", then ordered his subordinates to rush towards the Ming army's chariot formation, lighting torches and preparing to launch rockets.

However, before the Yuan army entered the range of the rockets, the Ming army on the opposite side opened fire first.

Tongues of fire spurted out, and the earth-shaking roar resounded through the valley. The Yuan army in the front, like wheat cut by a sickle, all fell to the ground with screams.

When the thick smoke dissipated, Gao Bas found that the Ming army's carts were equipped with bowl-mouth guns.

This kind of artillery has a short barrel, a short range, and a low rate of fire. But it is light, each gun weighs only 30 kilograms, and with ammunition, it weighs less than 50 kilograms. The recoil is not as large as the tiger squat cannon, which is just right for being installed on a carriage.

"Don't be afraid! The Ming army needs time to reload their artillery!" Gao Basi was the first to come to his senses and shouted to his men, "Charge forward quickly and don't give them a chance to fire a second shot!"

"Huh!" The Yuan army cavalry mustered up their courage again and rushed towards the Ming army's chariot formation. However, this way, their plan to fire rockets from a distance was ruined again.

The Ming army's artillery really stopped moving, but the Ming army had more than artillery, they also had bows and arrows.

When the Yuan army was within fifty steps, the Ming army soldiers bent their bows and arrows and shot at the Yuan army, and the Yuan army also opened their bows and shot arrows to fight back. Both sides entered the stage of mutual shooting!

Shooting at such a close distance naturally requires aiming, and if you want to aim, it is not only much more difficult but also much slower on a bumpy horseback than aiming on the ground.

Moreover, the Ming army also had a chariot formation to cover, and only half of its body was exposed... So after this round of shooting, the Yuan army obviously suffered a great loss, and they were shot and fell off their horses one after another.

The Yuan army couldn't even shoot people, so how could they have time to shoot rockets? Besides, the efficiency of rockets was not high. It was very difficult to set their grain carts on fire under the guard of the Ming army.

In the end, the Yuan army could only rely on their large numbers to rush forward and try to set fire directly with torches.

The battle entered the hand-to-hand combat stage.

The two sides fought fiercely across the chariot formation.

At this time, the long spears of the Ming army naturally had a great advantage, and the scimitars of the Yuan army seemed too short. Fortunately, their task was only to cover the fire, and they could withdraw when the people behind used torches to set the grain carts on fire.