In the face of the Ming cavalry galloping at high speed, the captain of the grenadier team decisively ordered: "Volley in the front row, bomb in the back row"

In an instant, the grenadiers in the front row pulled the trigger, and the grenadiers in the back row also threw grenades that had been ignited, but in fact, at this time, the cavalry of the Ming army had not approached a distance of more than 20 meters.

However, in the few seconds when the grenade flew in the air for a period of time and the fuse continued to burn after landing, the cavalry of the brigade had already rushed to the location of the grenade's landing point, and then, dozens of grenades exploded instantly, turning some of the Ming cavalry who were in it on their backs!

With the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions, the Ming cavalry on the way to the charge fell directly more than 20 people, this is because the Ming cavalry's charging formation is not tight enough, so the casualties caused by grenades are limited, so more cavalry at this time wielded spears, long knives to kill!

"Grenadier, fight to the death!" After the officer gave the last order, he also brandished the saber in his hand to meet a Ming cavalryman!

The half-crouched grenadiers in the front row had already put the butts of the arquebuses with bayonets on the ground, and then pointed diagonally forward!

The grenadiers in the second row squared their spears, while the grenadiers in the third row also laid their muskets flat through the gaps, and the grenadiers in the third row raised their spears diagonally forward, ready to fill the gaps in the first three rows.

In an instant, a forest of bayonets appeared in front of these Ming cavalry!

However, they did not stop the Ming cavalry!

In fact, even if the cavalry of the Ming army wanted to stop, they couldn't stop now, and the high-speed gallop of the war horses was impossible for them to stop in a short time, and it was even difficult to turn.

Because this is a charge of more than a hundred cavalry, not one cavalry, unless it is a collective turn, otherwise, if you want to turn, you will hit the cavalry next to you.

The charge of the cavalry is actually more like an act of blind obedience!

The people on the left and right in front and behind rushed up, and if you don't rush, you have to rush, because if you stop, you will be directly hit by the cavalry behind, and then trampled to death!

So there was no accident, these more than 100 cavalry directly collided with this line of defense composed of grenadiers!

In an instant, the Ming cavalry in the front row was overturned on their backs, and the grenadiers blocking in front of these cavalry were instantly killed and wounded!

At this moment when the two sides collide with each other, it is also the time when the infantry array is under the greatest pressure!

However, the six-column grenadier array in depth was not so easy to break through!

Although the grenadiers in the front row were either dead or wounded, the grenadiers in the back row were already filling the gap, and the muskets in their hands kept stabbing forward, killing and wounding the horsemen and their horses who had lost their kinetic energy!

And when the two sides in the front were entangled, the Ming cavalry in the rear inevitably slowed down, and the cavalry that couldn't slow down also crashed headlong, and what they hit was not even the grenadier soldiers on the opposite side, but their own cavalry!

At this moment, the arrays of the two infantry battalions on the two flanks of the grenadiers were also running rapidly, they were originally marching columns on the right, and when the two infantry battalions on the left turned to meet the enemy, they also stopped marching and lined up to meet the enemy at the same time.

And these two infantry battalions, because they have more free time, they were able to form a standard quadrangular phalanx!

And the time for them to form a quadrangular phalanx was bought for them by the grenadiers!

When the quadrangular phalanx of the two infantry battalions began to move forward at a unified pace, and their musketeers began to shoot at the more than 100 Ming cavalry, these Ming cavalry finally reacted, and the situation was a little bad!

Immediately, Zhao Qianhu shouted: "Turn, turn!" ”

Then, he was the first to break away, and then urged the horses under his crotch to accelerate for the second time, preparing to disengage from the enemy phalanx in front of him, which was only a hundred people!

When he began to turn with the cavalry with less than 100 people left, he found that the passage he was advancing was just in the middle of the two cavalry of the puppet Tang thief army, and the muskets of the puppet Tang thief army did not stop for a moment.

When Zhao Qianhu was in a dilemma, the main cavalry led by Wang Bianyi himself also rushed over!

Although the main cavalry force of the Ming army has a large number of troops, it is naturally impossible to rush in directly from the gap that Zhao Qianhu came in just now, but it is divided into three waves, which are penetrated from the two gaps, and the last wave of cavalry is to go around to the north, trying to launch a flank attack from the north!

After more than 1,000 Ming cavalry, they divided into three waves and rushed in through the three passages, but when they came in, they found that there were still two complete enemy phalanxes waiting for them in front of them, although this kind of quadrangular phalanx looked a little strange.

But the previous puppet Tang thief army used these quadrangular phalanxes to fight, so the Ming army saw it at a glance, and thought that since the puppet Tang thief army dared to use this kind of quadrangular phalanx, it must be a place where the puppet was outstanding, and this rash rush up must be looking for death!

So they started turning!

And this turn means that they need to pass in front of the quadrangular phalanx!

The sound of muskets didn't stop for a moment!

And the line formed by the original three infantry battalions in the front row also turned directly in situ at this time, the front row changed to the back row, and even the formation did not need to be changed, and they could directly aim their guns at those Ming cavalry who had already run behind them!

"First row shooting!"

"Second row shooting!"

"Third row shooting!"

The two quadrangular phalanxes, the two infantry battalions turned in place and lined up in the rear, and all the musketeers added up to a total of more than a thousand muskets, all of which were aimed at the Ming cavalry that was rushing in and running in front of their formations!

Every large-scale round shot can take the lives of many Ming cavalrymen!

One after another Ming cavalry fell, although the number of casualties in an instant was not large, but the continuous casualties allowed these to rush in, but they found that the enemy army did not collapse directly as they imagined, and there was not even a chance to attack from the flank.

Even more so, when they are like this, they are directly exposing themselves to the fire of the enemy's muskets!

So, at this time, the cavalry generals of the Ming army with different personalities began to make different choices, and Wang Bianyi, who personally led more than 300 cavalry to attack behind, saw this scene, and directly led the cavalry to continue to rush down from the other side, he wanted to rush out with the cavalry, and was unwilling to continue to stay in this place!

And Zhao Qianhu and a Qianhu who rushed in with him and led more than 300 cavalry, at this time, shouted and rushed directly to the quadrangular phalanx of the seemingly weak pseudo-Tang thief army in the rear, because they didn't want to rush directly like this, and then be hit like a target, so even if they rushed out, I am afraid that they would suffer heavy casualties, so it was better to take advantage of the current strength to directly clash with the enemy's quadrangular phalanx.

The enemy's four-cornered phalanx, which looked very thin, with only three columns of spearmen on the four sides in the middle, and musketeers in the four corners, looked easier to break through than the previous line of grenadiers, which had six columns of grenadiers.

In fact, they also broke through the first side of this quadrangular phalanx for the first time, but immediately after, they were surrounded by almost the entire infantry, because at this time, the soldiers who originally formed the quadrangular phalanx were already constantly inward and entangled these cavalry who had lost their impact!

Another wave of more than 300 cavalry chose to use bows and arrows to fight back, and some even dismounted and bent bows and arrows!

But the more than 300 of them were now being flanked from the front and rear, with a quadrangular phalanx in front and an infantry battalion in the rear.

Compared with firepower alone, they are simply not comparable to the firepower of more than a thousand infantry!

After seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining cavalry retreated in a hurry, and in the process of rushing out, they were inevitably flanked by some musket fire and even bows and arrows.

Wang Bianyi, who rushed out with more than 300 cavalry in embarrassment, looked back and saw that of the more than 350 cavalry he led, only 300 people could not be ridden!

Although there were losses, they were actually not big, and what really saddened him was that the other two waves of cavalry and forward cavalry were still surrounded by the puppet Tang thief army!

At this time, he saw that some of the cavalry under his command were trying to break through those passages, but these passages were so easy to break through, and his more than 300 cavalry had only been fired by the two-sided pseudo-Tang thief army, and he had already lost more than 50 cavalry.

And now those Ming cavalry are being besieged by the musket fire of the pseudo-Tang thief army on three or even four sides, and almost every second there are cavalry falling, and half of these more than 300 people can finally rush out, I'm afraid it's all lucky!

He also saw Zhao Qianhu and them with more than 300 cavalry launched a charge, killing a four-corner phalanx of the enemy, but the enemy's four-corner phalanx was extremely strange, obviously they had already rushed in, but the infantry of the pseudo-Tang thief army did not collapse, but surrounded them from all directions, and blocked the advance channel of their cavalry with their lives.

When Zhao Qianhu and their cavalry lost their impact, they could only ride horses and fight with the infantry of the pseudo-Tang thief army brandishing sabers and spears in place, Wang Bianyi had already closed his eyes.

Even if he is a civil official, he is the same as Zhang Yue, he is a civilian official who belongs to the soldiers, otherwise, he would not be able to command this superintendent cavalry with the rank of a civil official of the fourth grade.

At this time, he already knew that Zhao Qianhu and the more than 300 cavalry were finished, completely finished!

Without the shock power, the hussars will not be much stronger than the infantry!

Surrounded by enemy troops, they have absolutely no reason to survive!

When the second wave of more than 150 cavalry also broke out of the encirclement and returned to him, Wang Bianyi looked at the forwards and the first wave of cavalry who were still under siege, but there were fewer and fewer of them, especially when he saw that the brave Zhao Qianhu was also hit by the musket of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty and fell from his horse, he felt a burst of dizziness!

What's going on?

Who can tell him why in less than a quarter of an hour there is only half of his cavalry left?

Why is the formation of the puppet Tang thief army so weird? Not only does it have a strong defensive ability, but it can also force its own cavalry to advance and retreat, and finally flee in disarray with heavy casualties?

This battle was fought a little inexplicably, and the defeat was even more inexplicable!