Ming Kingdom: The Wind Rises in Liaodong Chapter 94 The Bloody Battle at the Mouth of the Flowing Sand (1)

Thousands of horses' hooves struck the ground with a rumbling sound like summer thunder.

He Baodao had no time to care about whether the formation was complete. In fact, even the cavalry of Changsheng Island, who had been training for several years, still stretched the front into a slightly concave arc in this charge. However, compared to the post-gold cavalry they faced, they were enough to be called an irresistible force.

Fifty meters, thirty meters, twenty meters, the moment of collision is finally coming. Through the gap in the iron mask, He Baodao locked onto the eyes of Jiannu who was facing him. The other party faced a cavalry team as neat as a wall, and his face was visibly flustered. If he had reacted fast enough, he would have discovered in horror that he would not have to face more than two swords at the same time.

More and more Jiannu cavalry were subconsciously slowing down, and the Houjin cavalry, which was originally considered tight, became more and more loose, and the distance between people was close to a zhang, which was completely incomparable to the tight Changsheng Island cavalry. While Jiannu himself was afraid, the mounts under their crotches and the intelligent animals such as horses were also afraid.

The sharp saber shimmered sharply in the light of the flares, and out of the instinct of intelligent animals, the horses piloted by Jiannu spontaneously slowed down and fled to the flanks of the walled cavalry. The closer the two sides were, the fewer Jiannu cavalry in the center, and the whole scene formed an arrow shape.

"Boom"!

A loud bang rang out. The cavalry of both sides, which collided at a speed of nearly forty kilometers per hour, instantly turned on their backs. The muffled sound of horses colliding, the crisp sound of knives, spears, maces hitting armor, and the characteristic tearing sound of human flesh being cut open all at the same time.

At the last moment, He Baodao's BMW also deflected to the left side disobediently, but did not let He Baodao's blade deviate too much. At the moment of the confrontation, He Baodao stared at Jiannu on the opposite side, his body was slightly offset to the right, his ape arm was lightly relaxed, and the spear stabbed by the other party was sandwiched under the armpit of his left hand. When the opponent passed through the gap between himself and his comrades, He Baodao grabbed the saber with his right hand and stabbed it violently, almost inserting it into the opponent's neck, and then cut the target's neck with the help of horsepower. Warm blood sprayed on the left back of He Baodao's face, leaving a scattered blood mark on the silver-white helmet. He Baodao didn't have time to think about it, and his body quickly swung to the left, avoiding the mace wielded by a Jiannu, and slashed the opponent's waist with a sabre, but was blocked by the cotton armor.

The horses staggered for only a few tenths of a second, and He Baodao did not have time to replenish the sword, so he was carried by his mount to face a new enemy. There was a loud sound of horses striking in the right rear, and a cavalryman collided with Jiannu, who had just attacked He Baodao, and fell off his horse together.

In the few seconds he crossed the Jiannu Front, He Baodao instinctively avoided and swung his knife, and the tense engagement made him unable to remember how many people he had killed. When it suddenly opened up in front of him, he had already rushed out of the group of Houjin cavalry and faced the east where the first rays of sunshine had bloomed.

The dense formation of the cavalry of Changsheng Island had a great advantage in the engagement, and the swarming more than three hundred cavalry were shot down by more than one hundred people, and forty or fifty cavalry escaped from both sides of the formation before the engagement. Less than half of the Houjin cavalry was left with a great reduction in speed, and before they had time to come to their senses, they had to face the oncoming second row of Changsheng Island cavalry.

It was another merciless collision, and the dazed Jiannu had lost its kinetic energy advantage, like rows of targets being swept away by the cavalry of Changsheng Island that was rushing wildly. After the second row of cavalry rushed, the formation of the Houjin cavalry was disrupted, and in the blink of an eye, a large number of human and horse corpses fell in the place of collision, and the screams and moans of the undead filled the surroundings of the survivors. Only a few seconds elapsed between the two rounds, and the survivors were still unable to adjust their condition, and were struggling to control the frenzied horses, when a third wall charge came upon them.

This round of Changsheng Island cavalry slightly widened the distance. In front of them, the scattered Houjin knights were controlling their horses to move around in place, the fallen Jiannu and the Changsheng Island cavalry were fighting on the ground, and many Jiannu were sitting on the ground, as if they had not yet come to their senses.

The knights shouted through the battlefield. They remained in formation, their sharp sabers being carried lightly. When approaching the target, the knights raised their swords, and with the help of the horse's kinetic energy, they did not need to swing hard, as long as they grasped the hilt of the sword and swung it lightly, they could bring flying limbs and a rain of blood.

The Houjin cavalry who fell off their horses spontaneously gathered together, and they did not show weakness in the face of the oncoming knights of Immortal Island, and frantically raised their broadswords and spears to try to resist. In the face of these difficult bones, the knights of Immortal Island could not turn in the dense formation, and could only roar and crash into them. Jiannu in the front row was knocked away by a horse, and Jiannu in the back row immediately pounced and fiercely raised the murder weapon to assassinate the stalled knight.

The rest of the cavalry did not slow down, and in the blink of an eye they widened the distance and galloped across the swept battlefield. They ran straight out for more than 100 meters before stopping, forming a formation behind the original first platoon of cavalry, forming a platoon again.

The three rounds of impact were like a storm, beating the Houjin cavalry to pieces. About 200 of the Houjin soldiers were killed, and only sixty or seventy fallen or stagnant Jiannu hedgehogs were left on the battlefield full of dead corpses. Everyone lost their command, and the original leader of the team had already died in the chaos. But the blow wasn't over yet, and they were greeted by the roar of the Rangers' firecrackers.

The Rangers, who were free to roam behind the walled cavalry, found the fighters, surrounded them like wolves on the steppe, and drew their carbines to shoot at a distance of more than 30 meters. The remnants of this group of Jiannu had almost no bows and arrows, and even if the bows were still on their bodies, the quivers had long since been lost. Unable to defend themselves against the rangers' firearms and arrows, the Rangers were unable to defend themselves against the rangers' firearms and arrows, and if they tried to charge out to attack the rangers who were close at hand, they would be pulled away by the rangers to fly kites, or the rangers would be charged by the rangers.

At this moment, half an hour has passed since Jiannu discovered our army, and the eastern sky has completely whitened, and the rising sun pierces the silence of the night, sprinkling rays of sunlight all over the land of southern Liaoning. The Jiannu army, which had been plagued by night blindness before, gradually showed its firepower, and the Jiannu rangers wearing various armors appeared around the battlefield and became entangled with our rangers.

Nearly 300 Houjin cavalry, which had just been defeated and annihilated, came from the white banner under the command of Dolgon. Afterwards, the staff analyzed that this group of elite cavalry who could fight at night was deployed to the west of the camp at Liushakou to prevent possible rescues, and I am afraid that Huang Taiji had the idea of weakening Dolgon - if he really thought so, then he did achieve his goal.

At about 6 o'clock, He Baodao's department had arrived within two kilometers of the camp at Liushakou, and Huang Sitong's banner clearly appeared in the telescope. The hot air balloon in the sky sent a flag, and Jiannu was making a detour along the north side of the Liushakou camp, as if he wanted to surround our troops on the north bank of the Shahe River.

In the cavalry battle, our unit has lost more than 50 casualties, and more than 30 people have been wounded and lost their combat capability. If you want to rely on more than 400 dragoons and 400 cavalry with a lot of physical exertion to fight against 3,000 or 4,000 Jiannu, it is still too much.

Standing between us and the camp at the mouth of the quicksand were more than 500 infantry with white flags. This group of Jiannu who were lining up had been suffering from night blindness and could only stay where they were and wait for the cavalry to finish. When the sun shone on the blood-stained earth, they saw a tragic picture of the battlefield full of dead bodies, wreckage, broken weapons and ownerless horses. Naturally, the Houjin soldiers, who had fought with the Ming Kingdom for decades, would not be intimidated by the corpses, but the fact that the corpses of Jiannu accounted for the majority really shocked them.

Alerted by the hot air balloon, I ordered to speed up the march and at least join the headquarters of Huang Stone before the siege of Jiannu. The cavalrymen who had fought a great battle exchanged horses with the dragoons and continued the battle on new horses with better physical strength. He Baodao personally led two hundred horsemen to sit and rest, preparing to enter the pursuit after the Jiannu infantry was defeated. The remaining two hundred horsemen were scattered under the leadership of Ye Bushu and Werewolves, and were used to cover the battlefield and cover the flanks of our army.

In the battle between the Later Jin and the Ming Kingdom, the biggest disadvantage of the Ming army was probably the lack of cavalry worthy of battle. The infantry lined up and had no suitable firearms, so they could only be targeted under the Jiannu cavalry. Today, this passive situation is finally being felt by Hou Jin Bing.

Under the protection of the cavalry of Changsheng Island, the dismounted dragoons lined up in three rows and walked on the land north of the Sand River. The drummers who came with the army wore waist drums around their waists, beat rhythmic drums, and directed the infantry to step into a neat rhythm.

I stood on the right side of the line holding the flag, and out of the corner of my eye I kept watching the infantry on the left. This group of Dengzhou Town soldiers who came to sea from Dengzhou were very well trained, and they were not inferior to the Changsheng Island army that grew up on the front line. Zhu Guobin himself walked in the center of the first row, the bright red flag fluttering in the wind. At this time, he was staring at the Jiannu team more than a hundred meters away, and his heart was full of hatred.

This time, I went deep into the quicksand mouth, and the political commissar of the team did not come with me. Therefore, it is natural that there will be no more political mobilizations that have existed before every war in the past. However, the first batch of Dengzhou Army soldiers who went to southern Liaoning were all composed of Liaodong people who fled to Shandong by Oceanwide. There is no need for political commissar mobilization, they are born with a bitter hatred for Houjin. As the drums gradually accelerated, more than 400 soldiers quickened their pace without saying a word, the steel guns in their hands slowly clenched, and the blood in their hearts became more and more boiling.