Chapter 390: Strangled Hero

"Step forward and assassinate!!"

In order to maintain the strict formation, the movement of the soldiers in the quadratic formation is carried out uniformly under the rhythm of drum beats. On the battlefield, the spear platoon is a castle that can move slowly, and the firepower used to attack the enemy is a musket.

Now, due to several punctures, the muskets have been shot against the bow and arrow. Moreover, both sides are in an effective range. The muskets have no advantage at all. Without the protection of the muskets, the spear array is directly exposed to the opponent's bow and arrow shooting.

In this case, the concept of moving neatly and focusing on the collective may not be correct. The most important thing is to drive away the troublesome Mongolian Sagittarius in the previous period.

The distance between the body and the body between the enemy and us is more than thirty steps, but with the length of the spear, the spear tip is only a distance of more than ten or twenty steps from the Mongolian archer.

At present, people gathered up these Mongolian archers, and they were all layered and fixed in a row. They were almost fixed. Moreover, nine out of ten people were shooting arrows, and one person led a horse to make a horse stake. There was no flexibility. If they didn't make any progress, they would probably be shot alive.

The generals of each battalion issued a loud order, pointing their spears flat, and rushing forward in the rain of arrows. At more than twenty steps, people kept falling under the rain of arrows, but the fallen gap was immediately filled by the soldiers following behind. In such a situation, they were surrounded by the enemy, and the opponent was taking the upper hand and was killing.

Such a situation can be said to be a desperate situation. If it were other Ming troops, the entire team would probably collapse and could only wait for the massacre.

However, the education and training received by the officers and soldiers of Jiaozhou Camp will not make them think so. The first reaction is to fight, even if I die, I must be able to achieve my goal.

After the four rounds of rapid shooting, the archers' shoulders and arms were tight and needed a little rest. The Mongolian archers in the Tartars would never have thought that the other party would actually hold a spear to kill. This round of arrows, the fatigue of the arms and the panic of the mood made the arrows slow down.

But how much time can it take for a distance of more than ten steps? In a blink of an eye, it has arrived. Now no one remembers the spear soldiers of the Dengzhou army that the spear swings less and can save energy. At this time, they are gritting their teeth and stabbing forward hard according to the assassination training movements. Of course, the phrase "kill" that adds momentum is indispensable.

The outer edges of the Dengzhou Army were almost always ordered to assassinate the front and assassinate in sequence, and the position of the shooter's position was similar. Almost at this moment, the sound of "killing" sounded one after another, and at this moment, almost drowned out all the sounds on the battlefield.

The leather robe worn by Mongolian archers has no protective power for assassination of spears. Even the Eight Mongolian Banners, except for some noble people, the rest of the people are just leather armor. This kind of armor also has no obstacles to the assassination of spears.

The shouts of killing were louder, and then there was a blockbuster screaming. How could the archers holding bows and arrows compete with the assassination of the spearmen? Even though the archers in the second row took out the scimitar and spear from the horse, they did not have any counterattack effect than the offensive assassination of groups like Jiaozhou Camp.

When the second shouting sounded, in the rear of the square, the Mongolian Eight Banners and Mongolian cavalry had already retreated and rode their horses and fled farther away. However, in a hurry, they could not get the reins in the "horse stake" and had to run towards the periphery. However, they clashed with those horse riding, and the scene was in chaos.

The situation on the right wing is better. Except for the first row of people who dismounted and shot archers, the rear rows stopped and the horses shot around the horses, and they retreated quickly.

But on the left wing, after the Mongolian archers were assassinated by the spear soldiers of Jiaozhou Camp, some people ran away, but some people pulled their bows and shot archers to fight back. Or they rushed up with short swords and spears to fight.

The Dengzhou Army's advancement was still a little scattered at the beginning, because of the daily training and the rhythmic drum sounds. It gradually became a horizontal row again, and began to use a line to fight against the line.

The power of long-range weapons can only be exerted by matching distance. In this state of melee combat, it is a dish that is ravaged by a spear.

After falling down many Mongolian archers, some space was freed on the left wing. Now there was no Mongolian infantry dared to fight hard. They all rushed over and quickly left the range of killings of these Ming army madmen. But to the surprise of the spearmen who were protruding, the archers who were on the horse made a small circle and turned back again.

At such a close distance, the horses could not rush up at all. Compared with the Dengzhou soldiers who were barely in formation, the attacks these Mongolian horse teams could make were very limited, not much easier than when shooting in the step. If you can't get closer, you will be stabbed off the horse.

The sun was getting westward. On the plain, the sunlight was even more unblocked. Some of the spears and infantrymen of the Dengzhou Army began to feel a little troublesome. The sunlight that shone through the gaps in the enemy's queue was facing the eyes. It was too dazzling. The opponent who was a little further away looked black and blurry.

In order to maintain the stability of the entire formation, the left-wing infantry phalanx could not use one battalion or two battalions to chase it. That is, several rows on the outer edge pushed out. The entire phalanx seemed to suddenly expand, as if a hedgehog's thorns suddenly shot out.

The bag that was about to come up to wrap was suddenly pricked and could not be surrounded at all. The spear officers and officers at the forefront all breathed a sigh of relief. The Mongolian archer in front of him was obviously defeated. At least in this wave of offensive, although the Dengzhou army suffered heavy losses, it still repelled this wave.

At the end of his strength, people with a little bit of culture in the Dengzhou military camp thought of this word. This word is also suitable for Mongolian soldiers, but it seems that the Dengzhou army is more suitable.

In front, the eight Han Banners, the Han soldiers of Sanshun Kings, and the Korean musketeers who were swept away by firearms finally retreated from the entangled situation. Zhao Neng also controlled the troops in his hands, but the frontal offensive never stopped. The Mongolian light cavalry, who had been resting for a long time, began to gather again and prepared to rush forward.

Judging from Abatai's posture, he didn't want Jiaozhou Camp to have any breathing. After all, he had to use a certain amount of strength to restrain the other party. The opponent's strongest strength should not move in front of him.

Dengzhou military general Zhao Neng's eyes were red. He had a lot of power in his hands now, but he was constrained by the opponent's method of using force to squeeze. The surrounding extension was under great pressure, but the soldiers in the center could not be rotated out because the formation was squeezed too closely, so it was extremely difficult to switch between the camps.

In this situation, a large number of cavalrymen on the periphery are cruising for gaps. If there is a little difficulty in rotation, the opponent will have the possibility of being caught by the gap and breaking in with the trend, which will lead to a complete collapse.

This is a hard battle, and it is also a bloody battle. At this time, Zhao Neng wanted to concentrate on finding a way to completely repel the Tartar offensive in front of him, so that he could have the time to mobilize his strength to rotate and make up for it.

Zhao Neng's spirit is still very stable. He is still doing the job of a general in an area, but the soldiers and some officers of Dengzhou have always been in the training state. The first time they went to the battlefield, they fought hard for a long time, but they couldn't stand it anymore.

At this time, they can still fight. But their mental state can also be described as fragile. A string is tightly stretched, and if it is added with force, it will be broken, although in all directions, the extended infantry bravely killed them.

The Dengzhou infantry on the left wing was very uncomfortable when the afternoon sun was thrust directly into his eyes. Fortunately, during this courage to assault, the Mongolian light cavalry on the outside were all dispersed, and only the bodies left in front of the spear.

No one noticed that on the entire battlefield, the Mongolian cavalry brigade surrounding the outside had stopped, and at this time it was divided into four directions, either hanging or attacking.

In the left wing direction, the Dengzhou infantry exerted continuous assassination force. The soldiers are currently in the same state as the Mongolian archers who were rushing to the ground just now. They need a short rest to have enough strength and better combat to continue fighting.

The frequent drums, horns and whistles on the battlefield had already stopped at this time, and only the rhythm drums and suona of Jiaozhou Camp were still ringing and mobilizing the troops.

Suddenly, two extremely sharp whistles sounded. It sounded like the sound of the bone flute that was tamed. Even such a noisy battlefield made people feel very harsh.

The Mongolian cavalry, who were struggling to support the scene, heard the screaming whistle. They were all evacuated in a hurry toward the side as if they were amnesty...

Could it be that the Tartars couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to withdraw, the Dengzhou infantrymen who came out all thought so, and they felt relaxed in their hearts. However, after the sound of these scattered horse hooves of light cavalry, they could gradually hear low noises like muffled thunder. Such sounds were heard by the soldiers of the Dengzhou army in the heavy fog, and later they realized that this was the movement of a large number of horses moving in a row. But since the battle started, the Mongolian horse team was in circles, why did it come at this time?

The sudden withdrawal of the Mongolian light cavalry made the left-wing Dengzhou soldiers' vision suddenly become wider. The sunlight in the west shot over without any obscurity. Everyone subconsciously closed their eyes, and when they opened them, they narrowed slightly. In the direction of the low noise on the opposite side, there seemed to be a wall moving slowly, and the speed of this movement was accelerating.

Looking at things in front of you, the things coming towards you were farther apart, and you could only look at the outline, which was dark. Seeing this "wall", the Dengzhou infantrymen at the forefront felt that the entire battlefield had become quiet, and someone forced his eyes to look at what was opposite.

"It's the Tartars!! It's the Tartars' cavalry team!"

In the Jiaozhou camp, there is a very clear division of the combat power of the Qing army outside the pass. The soldiers of the Han Eight Banners and the Sanshun King were the first-class, while the Mongolian Eight Banners were the first-class, and the strongest one was the Manchu Eight Banners. In actual situations, the combat power of the Han Eight Banners and the Sanshun King was actually not bad.

The troops of the Eight Banners of the Jurchens, known as the "Tartars", are considered to be the strongest troops. Such distinctions are of course to make the soldiers pay attention to them and not slacken.

But on today's battlefield, the so-called strongest Man Eight Banners Horse Team did not appear until this time. The soldiers had just fought hard and were a little tired. At this time, this inappropriate metaphor is the state where the old force was exhausted and the new force had not yet emerged. The so-called strongest enemy happened to appear, and the psychological shock was too great.

Moreover, the infantrymen were facing the sun. It was a bit difficult to see things. The battle just now made the front and rear teams a little disconnected, not to mention physical fatigue and psychological shrinkage.

When the Eight Banners of the Jurchens attacked, the soldiers of the Dengzhou Army were the weakest, both physically and mentally.

Moreover, looking at the state of the Manchu horse team, before the Mongolian light cavalry dispersed, perhaps the Eight Banners of the Jurchen horse team had already started running. The horse's speed gradually increased.

Directly opposite the left wing, there are two Jurchen cavalry teams. The two teams have a width of about the same width as the left wing. The cavalry are closely adjacent to each other, controlling their horse stance, and slowly accelerating forward. Their impact is in the same direction as the sunlight.

The Jurchen cavalry in the front row seemed to be in the eyes of the Dengzhou infantrymen. They were rushing towards them with their teeth and claws. Whether it was people or horses, they were very neatly moving, and the horses were stepping on the ground in one by one, which was naturally different from the scatteredness she had just now.

The sound was closer with the distance. As the ground was approaching, the weapons used by the Tartar Jurchen cavalry when they rushed forward were also cavalry spears, which were much shorter than the spears of Jiaozhou Camp, but they were also sufficient to kill.

When all the Mongolian cavalry in front of him dispersed, on the right side of the Mongolian soldiers' ranks, someone shouted at the top of the Jurchens, and some people in the array catered to each other loudly. The originally erected cavalry spears were all laid flat, and the horses moved a little faster.

"Flat spear, resist horse!!!" "Go back to this queue, return to this queue!!"

The soldiers rushing out of the front were a little panicked when facing the Jurchen cavalry that was pressing over quickly. At present, they were not in a neat square, but were disconnected from front to back. The opponent's cavalry were also square, and the legs of the cavalry even bumped into each other. Such a dense local team, and the local team had accumulated a long time of strength to attack. The momentum and strength were extremely terrible. With the thin array of soldiers rushing out of the Dengzhou army, they must be unable to resist.

But some officers in front made this judgment, while others made another judgment, believing that with the array in front, they could withstand it.

The orders of the officers of Dengzhou Army have already had conflicts, and the soldiers are even more incompetent.

It was originally a covert charge, and the uneven defensive line was even more disastrous. The speed of the Eight Banners Horse Team was constantly accelerating, but they were still adjusting their positions to ensure that the entire array was not scattered. The Taurus cavalry in the front rows were all wearing foam nailed cotton armor and pointed leather helmets. The spears in their hands were flat and gradually accelerated.

Seeing the Jurchen cavalry rushing forward, looking at their comrades beside them, they found that some people were running in the direction of their own formation, but they were flattened in front of them and resisting their horses.

It is not about resisting the enemy together, but I am holding the enemy in front, but my comrades run backwards. When I see such a scene on the battlefield, I will inevitably think that I am abandoned by my comrades, or that I feel that I am not confident of resisting the enemy. On the battlefield, such a mental state is the most taboo.

What infantry rely on to resist the charge of enemy cavalry is to rely on the will of the soldiers, morale and solid formation to fight against it. Now morale and will are in chaos and cannot be carried out in a unified manner. Things are indeed developing in a disastrous direction. Only one team left to act in a state of resistance.

The Tartars team that rushed up had no intention of accelerating or adjusting at all, and directly crashed into the queue. In this kind of cavalry team with very close cavalry team, it was extremely difficult for the cavalry inside to turn, and the entire brigade could only move in one direction.

The cavalry that collided with the spear was basically impossible to turn or avoid. The spear platoons of about six rows were not thick enough and were extremely thin. They collided with the cavalry platoons that were pressing towards the front. The spears in the first and second rows did have cavalry that stabbed the horse, but that was all.

There are still room for the spears in the first and second rows. The soldiers on the horse can even make moves to dodge. If it is a solid square formation, the spears in the back row will be assassinated.

But the cavalry that was pressing over was sandwiched by the arrays on both sides and could not turn at all. The horses hit the soldiers in the first and second rows without any obstacles. The Jurchen horse team's cavalry formation was so dense that it hit one of them, as if the power of the entire horse team had hit.

The soldiers under pressure could not withstand such huge power at all, and their bodies crashed towards the back. If they had the same formation as before, they could withstand it, but the depth of the sixth row was too thin. The retreat of the front row soldiers directly made the entire formation scatter.

The team that refused the horses, in the first wave of contact, was rushed by the horses of the Eight Banners, and instantly dispersed, and several Tartar cavalry fell off the horses. However, no one paid attention to it, and even the Dengzhou army that was dispersed and destroyed was ignored.

But they could not survive. They were trampled into meat paste by war horses. After rushing through this team, someone from the Eight Banners Horse Team took out a copper whistle and put it in his mouth. He blew it hard. The sharp sound sounded loudly again, and the Eight Banners Horse Team rushing forward paused slightly.

With just a slight pause, the entire team suddenly began to accelerate the impact. The team's block just now did not play an interception role at all, or it was just a stop.

The horses must be faster than the people, not to mention that these soldiers in Dengzhou who were rushing to their own formation were holding spears. Their retreat was always unreachable from the Jurchen cavalry brigade behind them. When they ran to the formation, they had to turn around and line up the array, and they would definitely not be able to align in a hurry. A brief chaos occurred.

Perhaps this opportunity was waiting for by the cavalry team in the Tartars. At this moment of chaos and no alignment, the cavalry team directly crashed into it.

Looking straight at the dazzling sunlight, the soldiers' reactions were a little slower. The musket soldiers had already lost a lot and could not constitute an effective blockade. All the situations combined together were extremely unfavorable factors for the right wing team of the Dengzhou Army. In addition, this Tartar cavalry team with full morale status.

The three battalions on the left wing were all dispersed by cavalry at this moment, and the phalanx of the Dengzhou army always seemed to be a cube with a hard shell.

The Mongolian horse team slasher was used to advance and retreat, knocked off the shells on several sides, and then aimed a little, and opened a gap as much as possible on the side where the Dengzhou army had the most unfavorable factors, and then used the Jurchen Eight Banners Horse Team who had accumulated a long time to hit the small gap. It was like holding a sledgehammer and smashing it hard on this small gap.

There will be cracks where there is a gap. When a heavy external force hits it, the cracks will expand. The entire solid cuboid will be broken.

When the square formation is completely solid, there is no problem. The cooperation between the musket soldiers and the spear soldiers, including the infantry of the Jiaozhou camp, can resist the impact of the cavalry. However, the armorless musket soldiers are now suffering heavy losses, and the spear soldiers are also close to archery and have been killed and injured, and several battalions are already disabled.

In the battle just now, because of the lack of long-range firepower, I attacked to fight the archers and was forced to disconnect from the front and back. The angle and direction of the sunlight were a small problem. Moreover, these actions were intentional mobilization just to open a gap here.

There were two large teams in front, with eighty people standing horizontally, each with five rows, with four teams in total. The Eight Mongolian Banners and Mongolian scattered soldiers kept circling around to block their sight and attract attention. The main force entangled in front of them was arranged on the left wing and suddenly activated.

The collision of a large cavalry team directly crashed into the infantry formation of the Dengzhou Army, and several battalions that were already incomplete on the periphery were directly dispersed.

There are enemies of different strengths in all directions, and no force can be drawn to support in either direction. What is really damn is that the Jurchen cavalry formation basically blocked the possibility of disintegration outside. The infantry of the Dengzhou army who were constantly forced to retreat were either trampled to death by horses or forced to run inside.

The infantry that kept retreating and scattering made the infantry formation inside unable to organize effective defense. The musketeers were all at the outskirts, and the battalions inside were full of spears, but the infantry was oppressed by the cavalry formations that seemed to be pressing over like a wall and fled to the inside. The dense formation was even more crowded. In such a situation, the infantry's spears could not even be put down.

Forming a formation and facing the cavalry charge, it was collective to collective, but now it was a person facing the mountainous cavalry formation on the opposite side. The new soldiers of Dengzhou Army were extremely frightened in their hearts when facing the overwhelming Tartar cavalry team. The enemy approached and they wanted to fight, but found that there was no formation for them to rely on and no comrades to cover them. They discarded their spears, ran back, and collided with the people behind. The battalion line collapsed like sand washed by water, and panic screams everywhere on the front line, and the entire square line began to collapse from the left wing...

The messengers placed on the left wing rushed to the central army frantically. However, they found that they couldn't get fast while running because the space outside the square formation was already compressed and very cramped.

You can see the battalions on the left wing constantly losing their formation and the soldiers became more and more dissipated, but for the Jurchen cavalry and Mongolian cavalry, this is the gap that was opened. You can vaguely see the Jurchen cavalry team moving towards the left wing and constantly investing strength, and you will have to make the gap bigger and bigger until the entire formation collapses.

In the center are the Jurchen cavalry lined up as a cavalry team, and on the edge are a large number of Mongolian cavalry as support, like a sledgehammer. They have already found the target, swung it hard, and then smashed it down violently. The infantry battalion of the Dengzhou Army was constantly being washed away in the crowded and narrow space.

In fact, later on, the Jurchen cavalry that really attacked the phalanx was not the Tartars, but the defeated soldiers of the Dengzhou army. Some of these soldiers left their weapons and were more holding spears. Even because of this weapon, they were hit by the cavalry behind them.

However, with the spear, most people didn't know how to assassinate the other side, because in front of them were their own comrades-in-arms. The spears more than ten feet long could not even extend flat in this crowded space. They had to stand up and stumbling and were crowded and moved toward the back.

The soldiers could no longer let go of their spears for those camps that were not chaotic, because the people were crowded together and they were in chaos.
To be continued...