Chapter 399: Breaking the Formation and Destroying the Dead

Only cavalry can fight against cavalry on the battlefield, and now there may be firearms, and the heavy artillery of the Tartars army has been destroyed.

There are rumors in the world that the Eight Banners' Cavalry and Shooting are unparalleled. This is the time for them to go out to hedge, but the Forward Camp and the Knight Camp both showed fear and were afraid to go forward.

The charge of Jiaozhou Camp this time was not the slow and slow tempting enemy horse team, but the heavy cavalry lined up in the middle of the square, and the light cavalry wings covered the killing. The eight banners have always been extremely proud of their armored cavalry, claiming to be the number one heavy cavalry in the world since the Song Dynasty.

Of course, the Qing Dynasty's armored charge was incomparable to the iron armored cavalry of the Jin Kingdom and the Mongolian cavalry, but in the east of this era, it was indeed the first cavalry. It was used in the battle formation, and it was extremely powerful. The Ming army's military formation was basically collapsed at one touch.

But after the Iron Cavalry of Jiaozhou Camp formed an army, the leader of the cavalry was not them, but the mobile steel fortress of Jiaozhou Camp!

The distance between the two sides made it impossible for the cavalry of Jiaozhou Camp to run too fast when it was launched. Whether it was the heavy cavalry in the center or the light cavalry on both wings, they were slowly paced forward. This was an extremely slow acceleration process, in order to warm up the horses gradually and prepare for the final assault.

The sound of hooves rumbled, and the weapons and armor flashed cold light under the reflection of the sunshine. The slowly approached like this, but it put great pressure on the army of the Tartars.

Seeing such powerful soldiers approaching step by step, the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who were already well-arranged on the front line had no courage to fight at all. Many people even forgot to say that they were attacked from both sides, and there was only the terrifying iron cavalry in their eyes and hearts.

Abatai of the central army turned to look at the faces of his subordinates. He also knew what was going on. According to the previous statement, if the Ming army dared to charge in such a line, there would have been an army of the Eight Banners who would have voluntarily asked for orders and led the troops to attack, using cavalry against cavalry, and using charge against charge, completely defeating the opponents of the Ming army.

But at this time, everyone was trembling. No one dared to say this on his own initiative, and he didn't even mention it even if he asked for a fight. Courage, the most important thing on the battlefield was that they had lost it.

This process was not long. It was just one day and one night. The pride and morale of the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Mongolian Army, the Qing army, and the confidence they cultivated so much victory were all shattered by the inexplicable army of Jiaozhou Camp.

"Driven Mongolian scattered soldiers, and dispatch the Han army's musketeers to line up in front of the formation and shoot with muskets and lunges. First, hit the opponent head-on!!"

Time has still been ready. As the commander of the first army, Abatai knew that he could not panic, but just issued orders in a stack of sounds.

In addition to the Korean musket soldiers in the Qing army, there were also many soldiers holding muskets in the Sanshun King system. After all, they were from the Ming army system and paid more attention to this firearm than the Han army outside the Han Eight Banners.

But the Korean musket soldiers had the heroic deeds of killing the five ministers Fei Yanggu in the formation. In the hearts of the Manchu nobles, of course, the North Korean musket soldiers were even more powerful. But yesterday, the first place they were abandoned was the Korean musket soldiers. Now there are no fish or shrimps, so the musket soldiers from the Sanshun King system rushed up directly.

Yesterday, the Han army suffered huge losses. There were not many Han musketeers who could be collected at present. General Abatai also knew that the morale of the army was the greatest at this time. The one who had no intention of fighting was probably the Mongolian scattered soldiers. These herders had originally followed the army to the Ming Dynasty to plunder and get benefits, but now there is no benefit. There is also such a death battle. Cannon fodder is not all stupid. They also know the pros and cons. If there is another death battle of intensity yesterday, these herders would probably not fight because they are now exterminated in the enemy territory.

It is possible that they will disperse directly or surrender to the other party. It is better to mobilize them to come to the front of the formation and dismount and shoot. First, they use dense long-range firepower to block the forward rush of the opponent's cavalry, and second, the eight banners of Manchu and Mongolia are all cavalry. Even if these Mongolian herders who dismounted the horse would not have to worry about escaping.

Abataidi ordered the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia immediately took action and drove the Mongolian archers and musketeers towards the central army. At this time, the Manchu and Mongolian family were not concerned about the Manchu and Mongolian family. If they resisted a little, they would just use a knife to cut over. By relying solely on hand-to-hand combat, these herdsmen were no match for these armed robbers.

Soon, the man was driven to the predetermined position, and the heavy cavalry on the opposite side had already started to rush forward under the order of Tang Er.

The calm performance of General Abatai was ordered to give the surrounding Manchu and Mongolian generals a reassurance. He was not as panicked as before. Abatai looked back, because the infantry was in front of him, and the Forward Camp and the Cavalry Camp were a little calmer. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but on the surface he was still extremely calm and ordered loudly:

"The Eight Banners Horse Battalions retreat a hundred steps. If the stairs hinder the enemy cavalry from advancing, then attack them in a sudden and painful way!"

This is a rhythmic grasp on a battlefield. No matter how powerful the opponent's cavalry is, being shot in the head by such a large group of bows and arrows and muskets, the momentum will definitely slow down. At that time, once the opponent's momentum drops, he will launch a charge with a static and braking action, which may not be effective.

As for the Mongolian herdsmen and Han soldiers standing in front, cannon fodder is cannon fodder, and no one considers their life or death...

Tang Er, the cavalry commander of Jiaozhou Camp, kept counting in a low voice. When he reached a certain number, the spear in his hand tilted forward one minute.

As the spear tilt gradually increases, the speed of heavy cavalry and light cavalry also gradually accelerates. In fact, when should it be accelerated and when should it be assaulted have become a subconscious instinct of cavalry officers. The reason why Tang Er recited silently here is nothing more than a habit.

There is a gap of one and a half finger wide on the cheek, which is a passage for eyes to observe outward. The field of view is not wide, and you can only see the enemy formation in front of you. For the heavy cavalry, this is enough. According to Li Meng's explanation of the Iron Cavalry:

"Your mission is the enemy ahead, and your comrades are protected by your flanks. Rush over and destroy the enemies in front of you. This is your mission and duty. Look ahead and concentrate and don't worry about anything else."

Tang Er kept these words in mind. The current enemy of the Iron Cavalry is the central army of the Tatar army, and the Iron Cavalry is to destroy the enemy's formation.

As a cavalry, there is still a little more romance and imagination than an infantryman. Tang Er always thinks that he led a large number of cavalry to collide with a large number of cavalry in the same place. That is majestic and will not waste his life.

Of course, there were not so many ideal battlefields and wars. Originally, Tang Er thought that the Tartar cavalry was famous all over the world and might be able to hedge against his own iron cavalry, and both sides were wielding swords and slashing, just like the ancient generals called out.

However, the real battlefield is much more boring than his ideals. Of course, the Iron Cavalry's indomitable posture would not dare to face his edge.

Seeing the Mongolian archers and musketeers standing in front of the opponent, Tang Er naturally knew what the other party was going to do, and couldn't help but sneer in his heart. He leaned the spear in his hand forward a little more. His movements were seen by the iron cavalry behind him, and they all accelerated their horse stance.

Now the subway cavalry has begun to trot. The rumbling sounds on the battlefield have become denser. Those Mongolian herders have never seen such a posture. Someone standing outside directly threw the bows and arrows in his hands on the ground and was about to escape regardless of the ground. It is the same for the horses of the Manchu Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners to be frightened at this time, but the supervising team still takes the order of the rules. Anyone who throws the bows and arrows to run will immediately chase them and cut them down with a knife from the back.

If you continue to kill like this, no one dares to move. You are obediently arranging the array there. On the side of the infantry that are preparing to attack with bows and arrows and muskets, there are also generals responsible for command. These generals estimate the distance between the enemy cavalry and the original array very accurately, and they always report the numbers loudly.

This is also for the archers and musketeers to launch within their own range so that they can achieve the most effective and maximize their killing. The Tartar army and the generals around the infantry formation stared at the front and shouted at the top of their voices.

"Three Hundred Steps!!!"

"Two hundred and fifty steps!!" "Two hundred steps!!"

When he shouted for 200 steps, some officers turned to the local formation beside them in shock and cursed loudly:

"The enemy has not arrived yet, don't rush to fire and launch it. Why don't you prepare again soon!!"

I didn't know who was extremely nervous just now, so I fired the musket. At these two hundred steps, the musket could have a ghost effect. Only then did I stop shouting loudly, but I heard a whizzing sound. The dense rain of arrows actually shot out, shooting the distance between forty or fifty steps of the front line seemed to have suddenly grown a lot of dead grass.

All the Tartar military officers shouted loudly, urging them to draw their bows or load ammunition faster. The more intense the season, the more chaos there was.

"One hundred and fifty steps!!"

Just after this sentence was shouted, the muskets rang out again, and the bows and arrows shot out. Several of the masters and gang leaders from the red flag were furious. They took the swords and walked directly into the formation of the bows and arrows and muskets, chopped the heads of several unlucky ghosts, waved the swords and shouted loudly there:

"Press up, hold down, if anyone cums around again, he will chop his head!!"

In the past, when the enemy was far away from the range, it would fire randomly, causing the barrel to heat up or the arms to be numb. As a result, after the enemy entered the range, they had no ammunition or had no strength to continue attacking forward. This situation was the Qing army's understanding of the Ming army.

It has always been one of the allusions of the Tartar soldiers making fun of the Ming army, and they felt that they would not make such a mistake at all. If the Manchu and Mongolian army were fighting with the enemy, the archers and musket soldiers would definitely respond calmly and suppress the fight. Their several battles with the Ming army did indeed do this.

However, today's performance proves that they have never seen a truly powerful army. They are oppressed by the Iron Cavalry of Jiaozhou Camp. Whether they are Mongolian infantry archers or Han army's musketeers, they have also made this problem.

It was no longer useful to threaten with beheading. The Mongolian archers and the Han army's musketeers shot two rounds of musketeers and three rounds of bows and arrows from a distance of 150 to 100 steps.

This is really rare and efficient, but such high efficiency has no effect on the enemy. The infantry standing there looked at the unstoppable heavy cavalry like a demon on the opposite side. The string in their hearts was about to break, and they could only launch the weapons in their hands. Only then could they feel a little relieved.

I guess the Ming army felt this way when facing the impact of the Tartar cavalry. It was just that the feng shui changed and finally turned back.

However, compared with the Eight Manchu and Mongolian Banners who did not even have the courage to line up in the front line, these soldiers who were threatened in front of the formation seemed to be slightly stronger.

When he was one hundred and fifty steps away from the enemy formation, Tang Er tied the horse, and the spear in his hand was completely flat, and the iron cavalry team behind him began to accelerate. He whizzed past Tang Er,

When they rushed into a hundred steps, the Iron Cavalry's mount could be said to have run away, but they did not run too fast. At this distance, the musket could already be hit.

But the Han army musketeers who were loading ammunition at high speed and firing out regardless of the fire, can no longer shoot out at all. Within a hundred steps, these musketeers could even feel the ground trembling, and they could see the image of the iron cavalry clearly. The iron cavalry with only eyes on their faces was extremely horrifying.

Not only the Han army's musket soldiers, but also the Mongolian archers. They were all trembling all over. The loading of muskets was a little troublesome, but they were understandable. They could just draw bows and shoot arrows. But they were also afraid that they could not make complete moves. On both sides of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners generals shouted and scolded.

But in the huge sound of the iron cavalry rushing over, nothing could be heard clearly, just the clanging sound of the armor of the iron cavalry colliding, and the roar of horse hooves trampling on the ground.

An arrow shot out and was extremely nailed to the eyes of an iron cavalry mount. The mount was painful. But his body was pressing heavily and he couldn't jump up at all. He just turned his body slanted and turned directly to the ground, and brought the cavalry to the ground. Fortunately, it was on the periphery, and the light cavalry could dodge.

I don't know who shot this arrow, but this is the only damage caused to the heavy cavalry by the Mongolian infantry archers and musket soldiers within thirty steps.

It wasn't just this arrow that shot out. Many arrows were shot out sparsely and messily. But the one that could cause damage was this arrow, and the bigger one might not be extremely accurate. It was because the blind cat hit a dead mouse, and none of the muskets could even be fired at this time.

The bow and arrow shot on the iron armor of the iron cavalry, and the horse's felt blocked, causing no damage at all.

The first place to escape was not the Mongolian infantry archers or the Han army's musketeers, but the cavalry teams of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners in the surrounding areas. They ran directly to the surroundings. When they ran like this, the infantry who were already terrified did not have the ability to support them.

Everyone had to turn around and escape, but in order to ensure the intensity of shooting and the intensity of firepower, these people were arranged very tightly, so how could they disperse?

A miserable shout of "Ah~~~" was just the beginning. The spear was diagonally downward, and the iron cavalrymen rushed into the queues at full speed.

Break a bloody road, or cut tofu with a quick knife, or cut butter with a hot knife from the West, all described are smooth and without any obstacles. This momentum is even smoother and more refreshing than the so-called momentum.

This is the scene when the iron cavalry rushed into the infringer array. The cavalry, horses, cavalry armor, the cover of the horses, as well as horse harnesses and weapons, etc. The momentum formed by the horses rushing forward is extremely huge. Faced with such a charge, even the Jiaozhou camp can only block the so-called veteran array, let alone these infantrymen holding bows and arrows and muskets.

A spear can often penetrate four or five soldiers of enemy soldiers. In this state, the spear cannot be pulled out, and the group of people directly threw the spear in their hands.

Below were the scared Mongolian Tartars and Han soldiers. Each of them also cared that the cavalry had already left their spears. Perhaps they could take advantage of this opportunity to take advantage of the situation or launch a counterattack. Everyone wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to escape, and the further they ran, the better.

The iron cavalrymen who had thrown their spears pulled out the big sword hanging there from the side of the saddle, held it with one hand, and slashed hard to both sides. Below were defeated soldiers in chaos. Each sword could take away one or two lives, and no one dared to face the enemy head-on.

Everyone sold the back to the enemy. The iron cavalry of Jiaozhou Camp waved their big swords and slashed and killed them. This kind of killing speed was very fast.

In the front, the archers and musketeers were killed so much. To be more precise, this was a massacre. The team was still quite dense just now. In this short period of time, they were already being killed. Of course, these large numbers of soldiers fled in desperate situations on the periphery.

The iron cavalry was in front of the two teams, and there were about three rows of iron cavalry rushing forward to the stance. I didn't expect that the opponent was so vulnerable.

If the infantry is strong formation and formation, the collision of the first line of the Iron Cavalry cannot be destroyed. At this time, the second and third waves of cavalry will rush forward.

During the acceleration just now, the distance between each row of subway cavalry was widened, and except for the first row that charges with all their strength, the rest of the arrangements were controlling their horse speed. They were preparing to start accelerating the charges in the second and third waves.

However, this infantry formation is really vulnerable, and no one can be as brave and strict as Jiaozhou Camp.

Seeing that the soldiers in the first row had already rushed out of the opponent's army, the iron cavalry in the second row and the third row all slowed down their horse speed and dropped their cavalry spears. They pulled out their earth sword and iron bones and followed them in and slashed and killed them.

But no matter what, the speed of the Ming army's heavy cavalry rushing forward was indeed blocked by these infantrymen. This is the low tide of the opponent's cavalry's rushing forward, and it is the time when its strength is weakest. If you hit hard, you might be able to turn defeat into victory.

The generals Abatai, Yue Le and others were waiting for this opportunity. The generals of each team successively issued orders that the Man Eight Banners Horse Team, which had already retreated a hundred steps away, began to launch.

At this time, the Mongolian archers and musketeers who were trapped in the middle had not completely escaped. What made them complain was that the killing gods in front were still slashing and killing, but the people behind them actually came up again.

The horse team of the Eight Banners did not take long to start from launching to charge, after all, it was within a hundred steps, and so short that the infantrymen lined up the front of the positions could not be completely dispersed.

However, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Land Horse Team did not care about their comrades at all, and they also hit them without hesitation. The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and the Iron Cavalry of Jiaozhou Camp seemed to be two sledgehammers, desperately hitting the infantry phalanx trapped in the middle. Whoever breaks through these infantry first will be able to accelerate the piercing of the opponent's team in advance.

The iron cavalry who were moving and slashing with the big sword also saw the movements of the other party. The heavy armor and weapons made them not move too fast. The heavy cavalry that lost their mobility was a meal on the plate of the cavalry in the movement. The way that can be thought of now is to accelerate the collision as much as possible.

However, the iron cavalry that had already rushed in Jiaozhou Camp made an action that the Tartars did not understand. The iron cavalry that rushed in turned their horses and dispersed to both sides, regardless of whether there were any infantry beside them who had killed them. They left directly.

The infantry trapped in the middle had already scattered in front or behind. If the horses of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners were accelerated, they could also chase the Jiaozhou camp iron cavalry who were slowly heading towards both sides.

The speed of the cavalry that fought back against the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia was also slightly hindered by the infantry, but the pursuit was still possible, but the iron cavalry that rushed in and killed was just half of the two teams in front.

When the counterattack cavalry of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia came out, they saw that the almost stopped cavalry began to move forward slowly. This time it was not so long. The horses that had already run and warmed up could easily accelerate. Watching the heavy cavalry with the spears rushing towards him.

The Tartars' counterattack was so terrible that they didn't know how to deal with it. They were head-on collisions and were not the opponent of these iron cans, but this was about to be dispersed. Although it hindered the speed of the opponent's iron cavalry, it was inevitable that they were dispersed, but there was any team behind them that would fight back.

The only ones hesitated were the generals. The Tartar soldiers below were all skilled in riding horses. At this time, they didn't care about the main formation of the central army and dispersed to both sides. The central army of the Tartars, Abatai's carefully arranged barriers and counterattack formations, instantly became empty.

However, the light cavalry following both sides of the Iron Cavalry did not rush over and turned directly towards the wings of the army.
Chapter completed!