Chapter 36 One of Shanhaiguan: Three Walls VS Three Eyed Guns
Wu Sangui's team cut in!
In an instant, the first wall in front of Li Guobu was shaking!
On the battlefield where cavalry fights, they are definitely not crowded together to charge, and the war horses would not allow it. Seeing that the first wall had no hope of winning, the second wall, one thousand five hundred cavalry rushed out of the gap in the first wall.
At this time, Wu Sangui's servant rushed to the front of the hundreds of cavalry, and slowed down, allowing the cavalry who had not yet been fired from behind to rush over.
The cavalry that slowed down reignited the fuse on the battlefield!
After half an hour, Li Guo's three walls were all defeated. Not only did they not gain the result of "three walls, endless, one or two, not falling, and the third would definitely be a fatal blow" when they fought with the Ming cavalry in the Central Plains, but they were defeated in a short time.
What's more, in the duel of cold weapons, Wu Sangui's three thousand clans had three-eyed guns and long swords with one hand, which was not comparable to his former camp.
Behind Wu Sangui, although Gao Dejie and Wang Pingfan's cavalry were not as brave as the servant team, they were also in accordance with the rules. Naturally, they were not three-eyed guns, but real three-eyed guns. After using them once, they either used them as weapons or threw them on the battlefield. They still used their own weapons to attack Zhang Neng and Ma Chongxi's troops backwards step by step.
Although the river valley north of Shiguan is wide, it is still far from the plains. When you fail to retreat, there are only two ways. One is to run north along the river valley, the other is to cross the river channel to the other side, and then rush to the slope of Wanshou Mountain.
The Jiujiang River here has just come down from the mountains. The depth and width of the river are not large, and war horses can cross it. However, the base camp of the Qianzhang is a few miles north. Although the Qianzhang was defeated, it was not in a great situation. As long as you return to the Qianzhang, you still have a chance to turn defeat into victory after summarizing the lesson.
What's more, at this time, Li Guo had already seen Liu Zongmin's three thousand cavalry crossing the river. At this time, as long as he fought to entangle Wu Sangui and did not allow them to harass Liu Zongmin who was crossing the river, and when Liu Zongmin's heavily armored cavalry came to the battlefield, he would have a chance to avenge his previous shame!
Therefore, in his loud scolding, Ma Chongxi and Zhang Neng turned their horse's heads and then turned around and killed them back!
At this time, Wu Sangui also saw another cavalry on the other side of the river, but he was a little helpless at the moment.
The valley is so wide, it would be nice to be able to put his and Li Guo's cavalry, not to mention that his servants have been rushing forward. On the right is Wang Pingfan's cavalry, and on the right is Gao Dejie's cavalry, and on the right is Gao Dejie's cavalry, which is impossible to revive the formation.
"It depends on you, the enemy slave."
At present, only the only way to defeat the opponent Li Guobu as soon as possible is to be serious, Wu Sangui said in his heart.
Dinu is the nickname of Wang Pingfan. He is a Liaodong general family. His father was able to give him such a nickname and large number, and the thoughts contained in it are self-evident.
Wang Pingfan is not a good man. Although his cavalry is not as good as Wu Sangui's servants, he is also considered elite in the Guanning Army. Moreover, as one of Wu Sangui's two favorite generals, he is not only brave, but also has a very good sense of smell on the battlefield.
Without Wu Sangui's order, he divided half of the cavalry to resist Ma Chongxi on the opposite side, and rushed down the river with the other half himself!
However, at this time, Liu Zongmin's three thousand cavalry vanguards with all black-clothed black armored black horses had already rushed to the river bank!
Liu Zongmin took the lead in front.
Speaking of Liu Zongmin's three thousand heavy armored cavalry, in addition to armor and horses, the knights are also warriors who have been repeatedly selected. In the old saying of breaking into the camp, it is, "Whoever survives three walls in three cavalry duels, and who have no wounds behind him can join Liu Zongmin's personal military camp."
These people can survive in three head-on battles. In addition to being brave and agile, they are all the best choices for martial arts.
What's more, the three thousand people were divided into three groups. In addition to two layers of armor, the horses were also half-body cowhide armor. What's more, the weapons of these thousand people were mostly heavy weapons such as big swords, heavy guns, iron maces, and big axes, which were quite similar to the Bayala equipment at the beginning of the Jianzhou Jurchens.
According to Liu Zongmin himself, these thousand people were all "no one cheating, and before the order to retreat was issued, there were only warriors who fought to the death!
Sure enough, although Wang Pingfan's cavalry attacked from top to bottom, and Liu Zongmin's thousand men attacked from bottom to top, the cavalry of both sides actually tied the game as soon as they met. When Liu Zongmin's rough voice sounded from time to time in the valley, Liu Zongmin's cavalry below actually defeated Wang Pingfan's cavalry backwards!
At this time, Liu Zongmin's other heavily armored cavalry went up to the river bank one after another. Instead of following Liu Zongmin to attack Wang Pingfan, they rushed northward and rushed towards Wu Sangui's troops in front of the sudden outbreak!
With the arrival of Liu Zongmin's brigade, Li Guo's morale was also greatly boosted and slowly reversed the decline. Even though Wu Sangui's three-eyed gun completed two rounds of shooting at this time, under Li Guo's desperate support, he barely curbed the decline that he almost wanted to repeat the same mistake.
"Pun!", the thousand heavily armored cavalry directly hit the flank of Wu Sangui's family team!
What a Wu Sangui. If ordinary people encounter Liu Zongmin's lifeless style of playing, they will probably collapse immediately. However, his servants are not vegetarians. They have three-eyed guns and long swords in the other. After experiencing the initial panic, they quickly stabilized their positions again.
So, in this narrow place about five miles long and one mile wide, Wu Sangui's ten thousand elite cavalry, Li Guo and Liu Zongmin, two more than ten thousand elite cavalry, were killed in a group, and in the end they had almost no formation. The Dashun Army and the Guanning Army were fighting each other in the east and west.
After an hour, the Dashun Army, which had the advantage in numbers, gained the upper hand again. Moreover, with the invasion of Liu Zongmin's three thousand heavy armored cavalry, the power of Wu Sangui's three thousand servants was greatly offset.
Wu Sangui is also an extremely brave person. He thought that he dared to attack the Qing army cavalry with only a hundred cavalry and successfully rescued his father. At that time, the combat power of the Qing army cavalry was still in its peak period!
Sure enough, Wu Sangui was soon found by Liu Zongmin. In terms of personal bravery, after a few rounds, Liu Zongmin, who was not afraid of death, was not Wu Sangui's opponent, but almost everyone around Liu Zongmin was like Liu Zongmin, and they all fought desperately to Wu Sangui.
Now, even Wu Sangui, who had been fighting among the cavalry of the Qing army, was a little scared. Seeing that his cavalry was at a disadvantage, he thought of the three-day period that Nikanshu gave him, he suddenly shouted. With his shouting, a horn sound began to appear on the battlefield, and then a large formation. All Wu Sangui's cavalry, whether it was servants or ordinary cavalry, began to break through!
When Wu Sangui's army began to break through, it was shown that this army was well-trained. Gao Dejie, who was behind, automatically took on the task of the rear palace. The Wang Ping's troops guarding the river did not retreat in a rush, but waited until Wu Sangui's servant team broke through the siege before they began to retreat alternately with Gao Dejie.
Wu Sangui finally successfully returned to the inner palace.
But there was no joy on his face.
There were less than 6,000 cavalrymen following him back to the pass!
In other words, in the cavalry battle that had just been around for nearly half a day, his most elite Guanning Iron Cavalry lost nearly four thousand cavalry!
Four thousand cavalrymen, Wu Sangui's heart is bleeding.
Although he still has 10,000 cavalry near Guancheng, these 10,000 cavalry are light cavalry, which is used to chase the enemy army. It is not enough to fight the enemy cavalry in the wild like before.
After a brief rest at a stone pass, Wu Sangui left behind Wang Pingfan, who was both wise and brave, with two thousand cavalry and three thousand infantry, and continued to guard here. He brought the remaining four thousand cavalry back to Shanhaiguan Pass City.
When he returned to Guancheng, in the open space between the North Wing City and Weiyuan City, Hao Yaoqi was fighting with the Guanning infantry guarding Weiyuan City. Wu Sangui was holding his anger. He asked someone to open the east gate of Weiyuan City. Regardless of his fatigue, he rushed in with a thousand cavalry.
As soon as he saw a cavalry coming, Hao Yaoqi quickly retreated, but more than a thousand infantry troops failed to escape to the North Wing City in time and died tragically under the iron hoof of Wu Sangui's family team.
At this time, the sky gradually darkened, and Wu Sangui finally returned to Guancheng.
"One Day"
When they arrived at Guancheng, Wu Sangui suddenly said something, which made the personal soldiers around him feel a little puzzled.
And outside a stone pass, Liu Zongmin also moved the camp to the vicinity of the pass.
If he hadn't attacked decisively on this day, Li Guo's front battalion might have lost a lot. In this battle, Li Guo lost about 5,000 cavalry and his heavy armored cavalry were also injured by hundreds of injuries.
"Wu Sangui is really difficult to deal with. It is better than any official army you encounter in Henan and Shaanxi. Fortunately, we are now strong and powerful. If Wu Sangui drove to Henan early in the morning to join the army of Hou Xun, even if the Dashun army could finally defeat the official army, it would be very damaged."
He quickly stabilized his mind and issued new combat orders.
"You, go to Shimen Village and report today's battle to the emperor."
"A tiger, your front camp has suffered too much loss. Change defense with Yuan Zongdi's left camp and let his camp move here. You go to his camp."
Li Guo was naturally a little unhappy, but who is Liu Zongmin? Even if Li Guo was Li Zicheng's nephew, he didn't see it. He snorted, and Li Guo quickly responded: "Yes, General Quan!"
In the evening, Li Zicheng sent He Jinlong to bring his will.
"Tomorrow, be sure to take down a piece of stone! After that, I will leave five thousand cavalry to guard the Shimen Village, Li Guo's troops will guard a piece of stone, and the remaining troops will all go to the west of Shanhaiguan to set up defenses!"
Following He Jinlong, the five thousand infantrymen who stayed in Shimen Village were also here. The general led by Bai Guangen.
Liu Zongmin felt nervous after receiving this order.
"The emperor wants to fight quickly, but it is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Can it be won in one day?"
"General Quan", He Jinlong said, "I think Yang Tingyu and others used gunpowder when they broke the Ningwu Pass. The emperor specially sent two coffins over, which were full of gunpowder."
Chapter completed!