"Rush me, don't stop, rush up! Rush up! ”

Although the commanding general shouted desperately, looking at his colleagues who had almost filled the entire battlefield, many cavalrymen still subconsciously controlled the horses under their crotches and slowed down their advance.

If it is an ordinary battlefield, it is normal for the cavalry to rush up as the first to disrupt the enemy.

At this time, whether everyone lives or dies depends on their personal luck, and it can only be said that they are left to fate, and they have long been psychologically prepared.

Since ancient times, cavalry has had an overwhelming advantage over infantry, regardless of dynasty or generation, and is often used as the vanguard of the army.

On the battlefield, even the strongest infantry could not resist the onslaught of the cavalry.

Often, as soon as the cavalry rushed into the formation, the whole team would be in chaos in an instant.

It is precisely because the cavalry has such a great advantage that the Hu people, who have a large number of war horses and are good at riding and shooting, will be invincible.

But today's battle completely subverted all cavalry's common sense of fighting, giving them a feeling that they were not fighting, but dying.

The things called fire guns in the hands of the Northwest Army are simply monsters.

All they had to do was stand there and breathe fire round by round with that thing, and they would be able to cut off their almost invincible cavalry like wheat.

How ridiculous and horrific such a scene is.

They are not afraid of death, they are just afraid of dying in vain.

At this time, the battlefield was already full of wailing cavalry and war horses, among which the war horses were even more killed and wounded than the cavalry.

Because the Northwest Army specifically aimed at war horses with larger targets, this caused a large number of war horses to fall to the ground because of bullets.

And the war horse itself due to its huge body, once it falls, it is easy to trip the cavalry behind.

As a result, many cavalrymen were not hit by the firearms of the Northwest Army and fell to the ground, but tripped over fallen horses.

As soon as there were too many horses on the ground, the entire passage of the advance would be gradually blocked, so that the cavalry behind would have to slow down.

The most important thing is that as soon as this speed slows down, the advantage of cavalry charging quickly on the battlefield will be lost, and then it will become a live target for those Northwest Army.

In particular, those who were forcibly thrown off their horses by their mounts were forcibly transformed from cavalry into infantry, and then easily reaped their lives by musketeers.

In less than half an hour, more than 4,000 cavalrymen equipped with horse armor had fallen to the ground, and the scene was extremely tragic.

What made them even more desperate was that even if a few people managed to make it over, they would soon be stabbed alive from their horses by the pikemen next to the musketeers.

Once the cavalry lands and gets caught in the enemy's formation, it will lose its most important advantage in an instant, and there is only one way to die.

Putting aside the few "fish that slipped through the net", a large number of dead and wounded cavalry at this time were only about thirty paces away from the guns of the Northwest Army, but it was this short distance that became a life-and-death gap that was almost impossible for the Wei cavalry to cross.

Normally, at this distance, as long as Wei Jun is willing to launch a second round of charge, it is indeed possible to break through the musket formation in one fell swoop.

But the problem was that as the number of dead and wounded of the Wei army continued to rise, the battlefield was full of corpses of war horses and cavalry, which caused a great obstacle to the larger number of horseless ordinary cavalry in the rear.

At this time, let alone a new charge, it is not easy to bypass the corpse of the war horse on the ground without tripping.

This distance of thirty paces can indeed be said to be a gap between life and death.

This is also the reason why Meng Ping ordered the musket team to aim as much as possible at the enemy's war horses and shoot.

The so-called shoots the man first and shoots the horse first, and the thief captures the king first.

In the face of cavalry charges, not only is it easier to hit a horse with a larger target, but a fallen horse can also trip the enemy behind, killing two birds with one stone.

Regarding how to use the musket array to attack the enemy's infantry, cavalry, and even use it for siege, Chi Fei and his father-in-law Ning Zhiyuan have been studying different usages in the past few years, and have formed a more practical classification tactic, but the difference is only real combat experience.

Now this cavalry battle is just a verification.

Ning Zhiyuan, as the lord of the northwest, naturally would not be unprepared to act as bait.

In fact, in addition to these 5,000 musketeers of the Divine Machine Battalion, he also has another hole card in his hand: thousands of flowering bullets hidden in the army.

Once the Wei army really broke through the musket team, Ning Zhiyuan would immediately order the grenadiers to throw flower bombs into the Wei army.

The power of the flowering bullet was even blown up to the point that even the fierce Hu people could not move an inch, let alone these Wei soldiers who lacked actual combat.

It was precisely because he had these two secret weapons in his hand that Ning Zhiyuan was full of confidence in this battle and was not worried about losing at all.

But unless he was forced to do so, he would not use the flowering bomb in front of the Wei army.

Because the youngest son-in-law, Chi Fei, told him that it is much less difficult to make flowering shells than to make muskets.

As long as someone picks up an unexploded flowering bomb and takes it apart and studies it carefully, it only takes a certain amount of time to make something similar.

Because it is not difficult to make a firing bomb and has strong lethality, it is best not to let the Wei army see it, so as not to be imitated by it.

Although the Xie family may also receive some rumors about the flowering bomb from the Hu people, after all, they have not seen the real thing with their own eyes, and the Xie family has no way to start even if they want to imitate it.

In contrast, the difficulty of crafting muskets has increased by several levels.

Even Chi Fei, who has modern knowledge, spent a lot of energy and time to successfully copycat.

Therefore, Chi Fei would rather the Xie family make great efforts to imitate the musket than let them imitate the blossom bullet, and the difficulty of the two is completely different.

Chi Fei believed that with the ability of the Great Wei Ministry of Industry, even if he tried his best, he could only make some more primitive and inefficient firearms similar to arquebuses.

In front of a real flintlock pistol, such a firearm can only be hanged.

Ning Zhiyuan felt that what the little son-in-law said was very reasonable, so he kept suppressing it and not releasing the flowering bomb.

Indeed, unless the Xie family can really be beaten to death with a stick, it is better not to show up easily, a relatively simple weapon of mass killing, so as not to really let the Xie family research it out and use it against their Northwest Army.

At this time, the battle was nearing its end, and although there were still more than 16,000 cavalry still alive, after seeing the long range of the muskets and the powerful lethality of the armor that could easily penetrate the armor, those cavalry did not dare to rush again.

Even though the few thousand households in charge of the command continued to order the charge, the cavalry, who were already timid, invariably slowed down, and then pretended to bypass the corpses of various people and horses on the ground to grind time.

What will happen if you rush over again, everyone has already seen clearly.

No one is not afraid of death, soldiers are afraid of death, and they are even more reluctant to die in vain.

In fact, the generals who ordered the charge also knew that the battle had been defeated, and the reason why they kept shouting to rush forward was just for show.

In normal times, if a soldier dared to disobey the order, he would have been killed on the spot a long time ago, and he would only shout here in vain.

Everyone knew that whether it was infantry or cavalry, there was no chance of victory in front of the guns of the Northwest Army.

At this time, both officers and soldiers were actually waiting, waiting for the signal of Mingjin to withdraw their troops.

The fearful and timid reaction of the front-line soldiers was naturally seen by several high-ranking military officials in the rear, but they did not dare to speak out, but just looked at each other with strange expressions.

Because An Guogong, who was standing among them, his face was already extremely ugly at this time.

He has always been very deep in the city, and his hands holding the reins of the horse even trembled subconsciously, and the strong anger made his face full of a fierce expression that wanted to choose someone to devour.

It was the first time Xie Yuheng, who was standing next to him, to see his father so angry, so frightened that he didn't even dare to persuade him, so he could only quietly observe his reaction like other generals.

And Xie Changfeng, who proposed to use cavalry to deal with the fire gun array, didn't even dare to raise his head at this time, so he could only shrink behind his father Xie Yuheng with a pale face, and didn't dare to look at his grandfather An Guogong at all.

In this almost suffocating atmosphere, An Guogong, who had been silent, finally forcibly restrained his anger, and then ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops with a blue face.

As soon as the signal sounded to Mingjin to withdraw his troops, both the cavalry on the front line and the generals in the rear almost unanimously breathed a sigh of relief.

There was only one thought in everyone's hearts: it was finally over.

After the end of the war, only the wounded and corpses of the Wei cavalry and war horses were left all over the ground, which was shocking under the afterglow of the sunset.

Fortunately, the Northwest Army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, which gave the Wei soldiers the opportunity to recover the bodies of most of their colleagues.

Just when the Wei army was nervously gathering their troops and cleaning up the battlefield, An Guogong in the commander's camp was furious, not only kicked over the concubine Xie Changfeng who made the suggestion, but also killed two thousand households who could not work because they were afraid of war, and hung their heads on the long pole of the camp to make an example.

Facing his angry father, Xie Yuheng stood aside tremblingly and didn't dare to speak casually, so as not to get angry.

And An Guogong himself walked around the tent with an anxious face, which was very different from the mood of the past.

In fact, An Guogong does have a sense of powerlessness that he doesn't know how to break the situation.

He has been fighting for many years, and it is the first time he has encountered such a dilemma.

Although the casualties of more than 4,000 cavalry were a big loss, they were not unaffordable for him with a million-strong army.

But the problem was that he couldn't think of a way to deal with this fire array that appeared out of thin air.

A large array of firearms that could be easily penetrated by even cavalry armor and horse armor within a distance of a hundred paces was simply not something that manpower could resist.

No wonder Ning Zhiyuan dared to use his example as bait to lead them to use a large army to attack, and it turned out that he had such a killing weapon in his hand.

If this fire array is not broken for a day, the Ning family will be difficult to get rid of for a day.

Now that the Ning family only has a few thousand firecrackers, it is already so difficult to deal with, if they are allowed to develop tens of thousands of people in the future, the Xie family still has a way to live?

No, we must eradicate them while the Ning family is still in its infancy, otherwise the Xie family will not be able to sit firmly even if they sit on that dragon chair.

Thinking of this, An Guogong simply turned his heart sideways, gritted his teeth and said, "You can't just let the Ning family grow stronger, otherwise our Xie family will never have peace."

Now the only way is to launch a large-scale night raid.

Although the Fire Gun Array is powerful, as long as the sky is dark, those people will not be able to see clearly, and there is still a chance to win.

There are so many of us on the other side, and we will be able to win this battle if we have no casualties.

Now you call in all the generals of more than 1,000 households, and I will discuss with them about the night attack. ”

"Yes, father." Xie Yuheng hurriedly took the order.

Just as An Guogong was anxiously waiting in the camp tent, Xie Yuheng, who had just gone out not long ago, suddenly ran back in a hurry and reported: "Father, there is an abnormal movement in the Northwest Army, they are moving in the direction of Yinglin, it seems that they want to enter the city. ”

Hearing the news, An Guogong suddenly felt a weakness all over his body, and he almost couldn't even stand on his feet.

It's late, it's all late.

Ning Zhiyuan deserved to be a veteran of the battlefield, and what he could think of, the other party had already expected it, so he ordered the whole army to retreat into Yinglin City to prevent the Wei army from sneaking attack.

In this big battle of the expedition to the northwest, their Xie family has completely lost.

In the future, the Northwest Ning family will no longer be a behemoth that they can deal with.