The first heavy collapsed without a fight, Liu Zhe shook his head, and immediately ordered the second heavy to be dispatched. The second heavy has 2,000 horsemen, which is also a miscellaneous army, but the quality is relatively better.

At the same time as the second move, Liu Zhe found that the small formation in front of the official army began to change again. Fang Cai's "stacked array" is now quickly transformed into a "goose-shaped array" of small units. He once heard his confidant Mu Gongchun mention that the configuration of the "stacked formation" in the official army is generally dominated by spears, swords and shields, and there are only one or two firearms players in each small formation, and this formation is mainly melee combat. And the "goose-shaped array", as the name suggests, is shaped like the word "human", which is to discharge the maximum firepower output on the horizontal plane of the same width, and there are almost no melee troops. From this point of view, I am afraid that the first performance of the invading army was despised by the officers and soldiers, and the generals of the officers and troops no longer thought that a large number of melee troops were needed to block the charge of the invading cavalry.

"It's a good opportunity." Liu Zhe thought secretly, while thinking about the small flag in his hand, the two flag-bearers around him saw this, and shook the flag hard, and the third horse army also followed out like an arrow from the string.

On the battlefield, opportunities are fleeting, and the side that seizes them can often defeat their opponents in one fell swoop. Liu Zhe believes that this change of formation of the official army is a mistake, and the first weight is a waste does not mean that the next few heavy cavalry are all the same. In his opinion, the second heavy horse army alone is sure to rush to the front of the official army, and the reason why the third heavy army is temporarily added is to expand the results of the battle and seal the throat of the official army with a sword.

Most of the second horse army are miscellaneous cards from the northwest ringing horses, and the equipment is not satisfactory, but the equestrian skills are extraordinary. The third horse army that followed was basically composed of various small forces that were attached to the camp. Gao Yingxiang accepts people, and he is not eating seas, and those who can enter his eyes are half capable. The two numbers combined, a total of about 4,000, after running a hundred steps, because of the small spacing, gradually merged into one, like a torrent, pouring towards the official position.

After the 4,000 horsemen trotted into the 300 meters, they suddenly increased their speed, and even though the men and horses were crowded and there were no ranks, no one was afraid of the battle. The chaotic horses rushed together, densely packed, the momentum shook the heavens and the earth, and the lookers were suffocated.

In such a scene, even the rest of the army who were watching from the rear couldn't help but beat faster, and the front of the official army was even more turbulent as Liu Zhe thought. Liu Zhe was full of hope that one blow would determine the success or failure, and his mind was all on his own cavalry rushing, but he didn't see that there were constantly monitoring the formation team in front of the official army at this time, searching for and killing those soldiers who were fluctuating. Moreover, dozens of tiger squatting cannons were also dragged to the front of the battle at the same time, and hundreds of soldiers used all their strength to fix them on the ground with hammers and chains.

At about one hundred and fifty paces, the horn of the officers and soldiers sounded, and Liu Zhe looked into the distance, and the officers and soldiers on three sides suddenly fired a salvo of quick guns and three-eyed guns like electrocution. The floating green smoke had not yet dissipated, the gunner retreated, and the spearman, who was also the archer, pressed his hips and stretched his arms, "brushing, brushing", and rows of arrows rained down, and the bow and arrow fired three rounds in a row.

The rain of arrows as dense as flying locusts stopped, and the cavalry that rushed to the front had already entered fifty paces, and behind them, there were still countless followers, however, looking back, nearly a hundred paces away, the corpses of men and horses were pillowing each other, and blood flowed like a canal. There are still people or horses who are still alive, wriggling in the sea of corpses and blood, screaming bitterly.

Even though the robes were heavily beaten, the swift advance of the army had already opened their bows and did not turn back, and the knights shouted loudly and let out a shocking roar. For a time, thousands of horses were chattering, and the horses' hooves were churning, and the soil and grass clippings brought up at high speed were flying. There is nothing in their minds, and there is only one thought - to break through the phalanx of the officers and soldiers!

Once again, however, expectations were shattered by reality. Dozens of tiger squat guns were adjusted and completed in time, and under the control of nearly 100 gunners, a series of loud noises of "all of them all" were endless, and the earth seemed to tremble. The rushing cavalry first had an instantaneous ringing in their ears, and then, countless shotguns and lead splashed sand in the wind, sweeping towards them. It was like an invisible wall that held back countless cavalry at the moment when the cannon sounded. Because no artillery was tested, several of them even accidentally injured nearby officers and soldiers.

The cannon fire was not over, and the cavalry was not allowed to breathe, and the last firing of the officers and soldiers followed. Under the continuous blows of bows, guns, and cannons, the first few horsemen still rushed to the front of the officers and soldiers. However, before the officers and soldiers could come forward, the mortally wounded knights staggered and planted themselves from their horses.

The sky was blue, the clouds were like flocculent, and on this wasteland to the west of the horse field, corpses were piled up like mountains.

When the thick smoke of gunpowder dispersed, the cavalry of the second and third intruding armies, who had been high-spirited, were scattered, and they really had no will to fight when they saw the miserable and mournful robes ahead. First, a few teams began to flee elsewhere, and soon all the remaining cavalry scattered in an uproar.

The officers and troops were victorious, and there was a tsunami-like cheer in front of the battle, which was majestic and stirring, but in Liu Zhe's ears, it was indescribably harsh.

The waiting Fourth Cavalry began to feel uneasy. They were originally at the back of the army, but with the collapse of the first three columns, they have now become the first line. The fourth layer is composed of more than 1,000 descendants of the camp, and hundreds of non-descendants like Zhao Yingxiang, who are more valued by Gao Yingxiang, about 1,500 people. And in the end, it is the old man who broke into the army. The remaining two totals are more than 4,000 in total, in other words, the original nearly 10,000 cavalry has now gone halfway, but Gao Yingxiang has no intention of retreating.

There's a reason for that.

Cavalry differs from infantry in some ways. First, before the formation of modern cavalry tactics, the regular heavy cavalry paid more attention to individual martial arts than the infantry that emphasized discipline and coordination. Second, the infantry's casualty tolerance is not as high as that of the cavalry, and often the whole army will be on the verge of collapse when nearly one-third of the army is killed or wounded; Third, the generals who command the cavalry will basically be skilled in martial arts. Because the infantry commander can hide behind the army formation and command, the cavalry general can only gallop with the army if he wants not to be out of touch with the army; Fourth, the tactics of cavalry are the simplest commands. Due to the particularity of the cavalry, they could not advance and retreat in an orderly manner like the infantry, forming or maintaining a complex formation.

In addition to these, the current situation is a bit special for the invasion army.

Cavalry was divided into two categories, regular cavalry and irregular cavalry, the regular cavalry was roughly the kind that could be used as a frontal assault front force, while the irregular cavalry was mainly used for sentry, blocking, harassment, or strategic raids or seizing advantageous terrain.

Shaanxi is an important horse-producing place in the Ming Dynasty, the northwest bandits, a large number of horses in the official and private horse gardens are obtained by the rogues, but there are few people who are familiar with the cavalry warfare, and the second is that there are horses but the amount of horse armor is small, so it can basically be said that the regular and irregular cavalry are mixed, and the light cavalry of the light horse and simple armor is often used as the main force of the frontal impact. On the one hand, this is not conducive to the combat efficiency of the match, and on the other hand, it also causes the situation that the war horse is consumed too quickly.

Returning to the army, the situation is that Gao Yingxiang consciously divided the soldiers and horses into five layers, and the top three columns are all light cavalry with incomplete armor, these manpower is more suitable for the tasks of irregular cavalry such as outflanking and harassment, and at this time he used them as cannon fodder for frontal impact. Therefore, the loss of these light cavalry at least has no effect on Gao Yingxiang, who is now bent on overpowering the official infantry by charging head-on—his main heavy cavalry has not lost the slightest.

Without waiting for the intrusion army to move, the officers and soldiers on the opposite side moved first. At the forefront of the three divisions are still each small array, but the shape has been transformed back to the original "stacked array". Then, what is different is that in front of the "stacked array" are also placed in three columns, a certain number of "phalanxes" of gunners, forming a composite formation.

In this arrangement, Liu Zhe can also vaguely remember the template introduced by Mu Gongchun, called the "Stacking Method", which is probably the first three columns of gunners trotting from the last column to the first column, and circulating three times in turn, to complete the advance of the "phalanx", and the "stacking array" in the rear follows, which is a kind of slowly advancing formation.

It seems that the officers and soldiers have tasted the sweetness and want to kick their noses in the face. Liu Zhe sneered, and Gao Yingxiang was dignified.

Yang Chengfu didn't dare to come out, he kept looking ahead, to be honest, since he became the commander of the Ma Army, he had never attacked the enemy head-on in Zhao Ying. This is not only due to his lack of courage, but also the reason why Zhao Dangshi cherishes mules and horses. But Gao Yingxiang is not Zhao Dangshi, he is used to ups and downs, and his soldiers and horses are like money to him, and he has to consume it, and if he doesn't consume it, he will grab it again, and he is not enough to worry about it, and there is no need to cherish and care.

The tragic situation of the triple comrades was in front of him, saying a thousand things and ten thousand, Yang Chengfu couldn't think of any possibility for himself to survive under such fierce firepower from the official army. If it weren't for the fierce and vicious prison cavalry who were constantly wandering and patrolling on both sides, he would almost want to pull Yang Zhaofeng and repeat what happened in Wuyu at the beginning.

It's a pity that Liu Zhe didn't give him too much chance to think about it, and the fourth cavalry took a step under his military order. The fourth is led by Liu Zhe himself. He learned the lessons of the previous times, and found that after the official army moved, the dozens of tiger squat cannons fixed on the ground were also dismantled, so he took this opportunity to direct the cavalry to the left, not attacking the front, but flanking the left side. In this way, even if the officers and soldiers stopped to re-erect the Tiger Squat Cannon, he could escape the artillery bombardment with a huge divergence by relying on the cover of the officers and troops on the left.

The fourth cavalry ran faster and faster, and the wind blew fiercely.

Approaching the official army, Yang Chengfu shouted. The wind was blowing, and the voices of the two armies were shaking the sky, Yang Zhaofeng and the others couldn't hear what he was shouting at all, but they saw him turn his horse and rush to the enemy formation again, and he also rode his horse to follow without hesitation. Halfway through the rush, Yang Zhaofeng found that the route of travel had changed, and if he continued like this, he would inevitably rush into the front of the official army. He was horrified, but he didn't waver at his second brother who was lying on horseback and rushing forward.

Yang Chengfu is in chaos.

Originally, Liu Zhe's plan was to slam the left side of the official army with all his might, prompting the official army to rush to the left to help, and then with years of tacit understanding, Gao Yingxiang would definitely seize the opportunity just right and go straight to the command center of the official army. In this way, the situation will be turned in an instant. The two have cooperated for so many years and have never made mistakes, but Yang Chengfu suddenly somehow took people out, and turned straight to the middle of the official army.

Liu Zhe was shocked, but in the blink of an eye, half of the men and horses in the large army followed behind Zhao Ying, and with less than a thousand people left, it was difficult to shake the left side of the official army. He also saw that Yang Chengfu didn't seem to have the slightest idea of changing the route, thinking that it was inevitable that the division of troops would be defeated, and he sighed secretly at the moment, and with a cross in his heart, he also led people to follow Zhao Ying.

One wrong move, losing the whole game, Yang Chengfu took the fourth cavalry and penetrated into the middle, in fact, he threw himself into the "double chela" of the official army.

Another row of roars came out, and the officers and soldiers shot a round of crossbow arrows again, this time the fourth cavalry was prepared, some of them moved sideways to dodge, Rao was so, or more than ten people were shot dead on the spot, some of the wounded fell to the ground and screamed for help, and they were all dragged to the rear by the hook and hand of the waiting officer and soldier and immediately dragged to the rear to slash and kill.

After suffering several baptisms of arrows, the fourth cavalry finally got its wish and rushed into the official formation. However, they were greeted by an endless sea of people.

Yang Chengfu was like a dream, and he had already lost his mind under extreme tension. There was a flash of cold light in his eyes, he didn't have time to think about it, he subconsciously raised a gun to resist, only to hear a loud sound of "Peng", the two soldiers intersected, he only felt a strong sense of paralysis from the tiger's mouth quickly spread to the whole body, and at the same time, countless Venus flew out in front of him, and even he was unaware of the fact that he had fallen from the horse.

Yang Zhaofeng and other cavalry of the Zhao battalion had been staring at him all the time, but when they really fell into the formation, they could only slash and kill with all their strength, looking for a way out, so as not to lose their mobility and slaughter the officers and soldiers. Driven by a strong desire to survive, this cavalry has indeed reached the point of forgetting to die. With their superb horsemanship and sophisticated equipment, they constantly tore apart the front of the officers and soldiers and reaped the lives of the officers and soldiers.

"The situation is still promising!"

It wasn't until he really had a close encounter with the official army that Liu Zhefang understood that what Gao Yingxiang said was true. The strength of this officer and army is largely due to the sharpness of its firearms. And things such as fast guns, three-eyed guns, etc., can be made quickly in a few months. The officers and soldiers are waiting to move, and the generals are not bad, and they have the style of a strong army to deal with the first three intruders who are not very good at fighting. But when it comes to the current hand-to-hand fighting, Liu Zhe obviously feels that the other party's level is not at the same level as the camp.

As long as Gao Yingxiang arrives at the right time, there is no need to outflank the back road, just need to rush straight to the middle line, and the officers and troops that have begun to show their decline at the moment will be defeated.

Liu Zhe was about to open his mouth to say a few bold words to motivate the fighting cavalrymen, his eyes swept to the left rear, and then he was stabbed off his horse by a short spear that came from behind. He was horrified, only to find that a black-armored cavalry was like a ghost, and at some point, it actually inserted the henchmen of his own soldiers and horses from an oblique direction.

Who are they?

A thought flashed, and three or four short spears pierced his body mercilessly. He fell on his back, kicking up a cloud of dust. The hustle and bustle in all directions was silent at this moment, only the collision of flesh and land kept vibrating within him.

"Grandma's, innocent blue." It was the only thought that was on his mind before he died.