The bloody melee battle soon unfolded on the right flank of the Great Shun Army, and first the spears that advanced like a wall were inserted into the array of sword and shield men, and the sharp spear tips carried a huge momentum, instantly penetrating the cloth armor worn by the sword and shield soldiers. Then there's the counterattack of the waist knife! The shield and sword rushed in front of the pikeman, and the sword fell and fell, both slashing and stabbing at the gap in the pikeman's armor. The casualties on both sides began to surge, and the archers behind the Ming army's array and the knights of the Dashun army who were on horseback to supervise the battle began to shoot arrows at the opposing crowd.

The archers on both sides (including the knights of Dashun) are very good, all veterans who have been in the army for many years, shoot arrows well, and it is not enough to meet the Tartars, but now they are also opponents, and under a burst of shooting, the hand-to-hand soldiers on both sides have been hit by arrows.

However, after all, the arrow is not a bullet, and it does not have much "stopping ability" for the armored target, so it is true that there are not many arrows that are knocked over.

Shortly after the fierce battle on the right flank of the Dashun army began, the cavalry of both sides also engaged in battle on the open plain east of Tangjia Mountain. However, it was not Daniel Zhang's 1,000 light cavalry and the Dashun cavalry fighting, but the 1,600 heavy cavalry from the Gong'an City, with one battalion as a wave, a total of four waves, from four different directions, launched a dense charge against the Dashun cavalry patrolling the eastern plain of Tangjia Mountain.

This attack was temporarily decided to be launched only after Zhu Cihong learned that the Ming army at the front of Tangjiashan was being bombarded.

He knew that relying on twenty or thirty general artillery pieces would not cause too many casualties to the Ming army, which had as many as 50,000 men, but being bombarded was a very "demoralizing" thing, especially when he was only beaten and did not return fire.

So he had to find a way to fight back...... The twenty-four three-pounder cannons in Wu Guoyong's hands can't fly, and all he can use is Sun Fugui's cavalry regiment.

These are ironclad cavalry who have trained group charges!

And their hand-to-hand combat ability is not weak, everyone has a slatted iron armor, and at least a third is also equipped with a sharp weapon for hand-to-hand combat - a revolver musket! The rest are also equipped with armor-piercing weapons such as throwing axes and iron whips.

By the way, they will be equipped with so many hand-to-hand weapons because they will engage the enemy hand-to-hand after the group charge is over, rather than quickly disengaging and then proceeding to the next charge. It's business as usual, mainly because they don't have enough horsepower.

Zhu Cihong can match one of them with two horses, but he doesn't have the ability to match them with a truly high-quality war horse.

In other words, the horses they rode were not up to the standard of war horses on the side of the Qing army and the Dashun army!

Horses, the South can be raised!

However, the cost of raising horses in the south is many times higher than that of the grasslands and even the Central Plains, so they cannot afford to maintain a large herd of horses.

The heavy number of prairie horses is to select one out of a hundred tall and strong foals to be castrated and used as war horses.

However, the horses raised in the south are few and expensive, and if you want to choose one in a hundred, there will be no horses available!

Therefore, after these ironclad cavalry rushed for a while, they were exhausted and couldn't run, and if they didn't go back to have a good rest, they didn't have the strength to rush the second wave at all.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong's shock cavalry had to fight hand-to-hand after charging, and he couldn't play the so-called modern shock cavalry tactics at all.

Fortunately, their ability to fight hand-to-hand was not weak, their equipment was good, and there were four waves of group charges to lay the foundation, and Li Zicheng's two or three thousand cavalry placed on the east bank of the Hudu River were immediately beaten on their backs, suffered heavy casualties, and retreated one after another.

Tian Jianxiu, who was in charge of commanding the Dashun army on the east bank of the Hudu River, was stunned by the stormy offensive of the cavalry of the new army, and had to send several infantry units (about three or four thousand people) out of the dense queue to cover the retreat of his horse team.

Sun Fugui, who won for a while, did not dare to fight, because although his subordinates had good armor and weapons, they did not have good horses to ride. The round of rushing and killing just now had almost exhausted the strength of those horses. Now we have to take it easy. So Sun Fugui also ordered his subordinates to retreat first with the horses of the Dashun knights who had no master and were swaying on the battlefield.

At the same time, on the west bank of the Hudu River, the battle of the infantry group on the right flank of the Dashun Army had already been decided. Although the selection warriors commanded by Jin Shenghuan fought hard, they still fell behind. It was not that they were defeated by the Dashun army infantry team commanded by Li Guoying, but that the Dashun army horse team that had supervised the battle in the back also entered the battle after releasing the arrows. They bypassed the infantry on both sides who were fighting fiercely and turned behind Jin Shenghuan's Chosen Warriors. Before they could attack, the Ming army's warriors retreated on their own. As a result, they became the target of the Dashun army's foot cavalry!

Two or three thousand routs rushed wildly, and were driven by the infantry and cavalry of the Shun army to run towards the Hudu River.

Just when the one-sided massacre was about to be staged, thousands of Ming cavalry came around from the west bank of the Hudu River west of Tangjiashan (the Hudu River turned a bend near Tangjiashan, and there was a section in an east-west direction, and this section was now the main battlefield) and launched a charge.

This cavalry was personally led by Daniel Zhang, although there were only a thousand horses, but they seized the opportunity and took the Dashun army commanded by Liu Zongmin by surprise - it turned out that they did not cross the river together with thousands of horses, but divided into twenty teams, pretending to be scout horse teams to cross the river in batches, confusing the Dashun army cavalry monitoring this section of the Hudu River.

After crossing the river, they moved towards the bend of the Hudu River and completed the assembly, only to coincide with the rout of the selection commanded by Jin Shenghuan.

Daniel Zhang immediately made a decision and led the cavalry to charge. The infantry cavalry of the Dashun Army, which was chasing the Ming army, was chaotic and entangled with the enemy. In the face of the sudden impact of more than a thousand light horses, he didn't even have the ability to resist for half a point!

However, the Dashun cavalry on horseback are all thieves who have accumulated years, and they are very experienced in dealing with this situation, and a "pull" sounded, and they saw that these knights on horseback had turned around and fled in the direction of Guangdeguan, and threw the Dashun infantry on the battlefield to the enemy - these infantry were Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng's old department, and no one would feel distressed if they were killed.

Daniel Zhang was not busy slaughtering Li Guoying's infantry who had completely fallen into panic, but led his horse team to chase the old battalion cavalry of the Dashun army, and also rushed in the direction of Guangdeguan.

More than 30 one-pound cannons in front of Guangdeguan are the key to today's battle!

If they can be captured, then the battle of Tangjiashan will be won......

Daniel Zhang took a horse and carried a gun, and under the escort of a group of henchmen, rushed to the front of the team, his eyes did not blink, staring at the artillery position of the Dashun Army in the distance, which was constantly rising from the smoke of gunpowder. Groups of pikemen, archers, and sword soldiers had already driven out of the Guangde Temple and began to line up in the northwest direction of the Guangde Palace, which was directly opposite Daniel Zhang's headquarters, apparently trying to block Daniel Zhang's cavalry.

However, Daniel Zhang is not a fuel-saving lamp, just when his horse team was about to approach the Dashun army infantry formation, Daniel Zhang suddenly turned his horse's head, turned to the left, led his more than a thousand light horses, ran wildly along the formation of the Dashun army, and finally turned right again at the end of the Dashun army's infantry formation, and rushed to the front of the Dashun army's artillery array!

He wants to attack more than 30 general cannons placed in front of Guangde Temple from the front!

If these cannons were the three-pounder guns of the New Army, what he did would undoubtedly be killed. Don't look at the difference between "one pound" and "three pounds", it is not too big. However, there is a big gap between the two sides in terms of artillery technology, the lightness and flexibility of the gun mount, and the technology of shotguns.

Moreover, the gunners who operated these "one-pound" cannons were all soldiers of the Zuo Army, and when they saw thousands of cavalry rushing over like a flood breaking the embankment, they were all terrified, where could they still fill the lead gunpowder? They all lost their cannons and fled for their lives.

Daniel Zhang immediately seized the opportunity to lead the cavalry to rush forward, and captured the artillery emplacement with one charge.

However, Daniel Zhang and his cavalry did not carry hammers and nails, and they did not know to nail the fire gate, but fired fire and ignited gunpowder.

Just when Daniel Zhang led his men to sabotage everywhere, a deafening cheer suddenly sounded on the battlefield, and it turned out that Li Zicheng had gone down the Golden Hair Mountain and personally supervised the general attack with more than 10,000 Dashun infantry and cavalry!