The First Infantry Brigade in the southbound army is the only fully equipped main brigade in the Tang Army, the subordinate First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment, each of its three main battalions, each battalion has half a team of archers in the fifth team, and each of its two reserve battalions also has an archer team!

The archers of these two infantry regiments combined were almost seven hundred!

The five garrison battalions in the Fifth Garrison Regiment also each have an archer team, and there are more than 400 archers in total.

Well, the vast majority of these archers of the Tang Army are still surrendered by the Ming Army!

At this time, because of the range, there are still some archers in the Tang Army who have not yet shot arrows, Rao is so, and the number of archers who shoot arrows at this time is also more than the Ming army on the opposite side!

The firepower composed of archers and musketeers is far more powerful than the bow and arrow firepower of the Ming army, not to mention that there are more than ten shotguns on the side of the Tang Army that are continuing to fire, and the heavy artillery in the rear has not stopped shelling.

The medium and long-range firepower of both sides is not at the same level at all!

As the distance entered within 100 meters, the casualties of the Ming army in the charge rose instantly, even if they used bows and arrows and bowl cannons to kill and wound some of the puppet Tang thieves on the opposite side, but the comparison of casualties suffered by the two sides was not on an order of magnitude.

This battle can't be fought at all!

At this time, many Ming army generals invariably looked at the direction where Wei Yan was in the rear, they were waiting, waiting for Wei Yan to give the order to retreat!

When Wei Yan saw this scene, he also sighed secretly in his heart, before he rushed forward, he was already suffering heavy casualties, and if he continued to fight, he was afraid that he would really be wiped out like the three thousand soldiers in Rong County.

That's it, anyway, I let the troops fight, but there is no way to fight it, and I can barely explain it after I go back.

Immediately, he said: "The soldiers have done their best, Mingjin should withdraw the troops!" ”

After saying that, he nodded slightly to the soldiers around him, and then his soldiers turned over and mounted their horses, protecting Wei Yan and quickly retreating towards the river!

After giving the order to retreat, Wei Yan retreated, and he was the first person in the whole Ming army to retreat!

Wei Yan gave the order to retreat, and he was already running first, and the generals of the Ming army in front of him would stay where they were, stupidly continuing to rush forward, and if they continued to rush forward, it was not the cannon fodder soldiers who died, but themselves.

Didn't you see that just now there was a commander who made the heavy artillery of his colleague pseudo-Tang thief army hit, that is a miserable, the whole person is no longer human, and he didn't make even a scream when he was dying, and he was killed by a cannonball in an instant!

The senior generals of the Ming army who supervised the formation quickly rode their horses and retreated with their relatives!

At this time, no one cared about the ordinary soldiers of the Ming army on the front line, especially the soldiers who rushed to the forefront!

Even if the retreat order has come down, it is not so easy to retreat, they are only a hundred meters away from the pseudo-Tang thief army, and behind them is a dense crowd of people, you can't run away if you want to.

So, something more terrible than collapse happened on the battlefield, the Ming army in the front row wanted to run back, but the people behind blocked their way to escape, what to do, push, a few people with red eyes even pointed knives and guns at their own people who blocked their retreat!

So much so that some Ming soldiers did not die under the swords and guns of the pseudo-Tang thief army, but died under the swords of their own people, and more people were pushed to the ground and trampled to death by countless people!

In just a minute, this Ming army was completely chaotic, and the thousands of Ming troops in the back row were okay, they could still turn around and flee as soon as possible, but the Ming soldiers who were originally at the forefront were completely chaotic!

Seeing this, Hao Bonian naturally would not waste this opportunity, and immediately ordered: "Order, the whole army charges!" ”

At this time, a sturdy drummer behind him swung the mallet in his hand and slammed it into the big drum in front of him!

Knock, knock, rumbling drums sounded, at this time there was no need to send orders to the flag soldiers, and the officers on the front line also knew what to do, and the officers at all levels on the horses each raised their command knives and shouted: "Rush!" ”

"Datang is invincible!"

"For Your Majesty!"

"Kill, kill them all!"

The infantry on the front line launched the final charge!

chased after the Ming army who had already begun to turn around and flee, and even trampled on it!

The infantry of the Tang Army, who launched the charge of the whole army, no longer care about maintaining a tight formation, in fact, this kind of pursuit and charge, there is no need to maintain a tight formation, as long as they rush up and stab at the Ming army that has turned around and fled, a spear and a bayonet.

At the same time, Lu Yuzhi of the Second Cavalry Battalion also turned on his horse, and at the same time ordered: "All of them, get on the horse!" ”

"Draw your sword!"

"Slow on!"

"Trot forward!"

After raising the speed, Lu Yuzhi, who was at the front, pointed his sword forward obliquely, and shouted: "Kill!" ”

In an instant, the cavalry of the entire 2nd Cavalry Battalion began to charge at full speed!

This cavalry bypassed its own infantry from the right side of the battlefield, and also bypassed the Ming soldiers in the last row, but directly rushed to the Ming soldiers in front!

The dense and high-speed cavalry phalanx was like a sharp blade in an instant, inserted into the rout of the rear of the Ming army, and everywhere they went, the Ming soldiers were either killed or killed by sabers!

In order to survive, some Ming soldiers even took the initiative to kneel down and try to surrender and beg for mercy, but the cavalry phalanx in the charge would not pay attention to these soldiers who surrendered voluntarily, nor would they bypass them, but maintained their own charge!

Then crush all the enemies in front of them who stand in their way, whether they surrender or not!

This is not to say that the cavalry are unwilling to let go of these Ming soldiers who have surrendered, but when the cavalry launches a wall charge, the cavalry troops charge forward as a whole, and it is impossible to make a detour halfway, and they will not even turn around, they will keep rushing over until they completely break through the enemy's array, and then kill out from the other side of the enemy's array!

Now, this is what Lu Yuzhi's cavalry did, they fought through the flank of the rear row of the Ming army, and then through a huge passage, along which lay the dead and wounded of the Ming soldiers.

After they rushed over, the cavalry led by Lu Yuzhi still did not stop, but drew a big semicircle in the open space in front of them, and then turned around and fought towards the Ming army's rout array, and this time, their direction of charge was no longer the opposite side, but the back row of the Ming army!

Yes, the direction of their charge was the same as that of the retreating Ming army, and in the end they were heading towards the river!

Those fleeing Ming troops faced the Tang cavalry that caught up behind, and they didn't have the heart to resist at all!

The Ming army that has all retreated, if someone stops and turns around to fight the pursuing puppet Tang thief cavalry, few comrades will follow you to stop and fight against the thief cavalry, and others will pray for you to block the thief cavalry for a longer time, so as to buy yourself more time to escape.

There is a river hundreds of meters ahead, as long as you get on the boat at the river, then you will be safe!

This is what many soldiers of the Ming Army think!

The whole army has begun to retreat, and you are stupid to stay and resist the thief army if you don't run, isn't it stupid!

As a result, although the main force behind has not been able to catch up and inflict many casualties on the Ming army, the second cavalry battalion is like entering a no-man's land, and every cavalry can simply and easily slash and kill the Ming soldiers who fled in front. All they had to do was to lie on their horses, then gently wave the saber in their hands, and then slash at the backs of the fleeing Ming soldiers.

You don't need to use too much force, just take it gently, then the speed brought by the horse can give the saber great lethality.

Two hundred cavalry were like a sharp sword, galloping among the rout of the Ming army, killing and injuring all the Ming soldiers in front!

It is impossible for the Ming soldiers who fled in front of them to escape the pursuit of the cavalry, after all, two legs can't run on four legs!

Then the Ming army that fled later, seeing that there was a cavalry of the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of them, and they dared to continue to run forward, and soon some people scattered and fled to both sides very consciously.

Although it is said that it will be safe to escape to the river and get on the boat, but you must first escape the cavalry of the puppet Tang thief army!

At this time, the 2nd Cavalry Battalion fully exerted the power of a light cavalry, and it was the most suitable time to launch a charge, from the best entry point into the battlefield, and the resulting damage was amazing!

When they were in Rong County, the 2nd Cavalry Battalion paid a huge price to break through the array of the enemy infantry phalanx, but now, there was no enemy infantry phalanx in front of them to stop them, and some were just countless enemy routs who exposed their backs to themselves!

Now, what they want is very simple, that is, urge the horses to run forward, and then swing their knives to slash and kill every Ming army rout in their path!

And the casualties suffered by themselves are almost negligible, because there is no Ming army to stop and wave around to counterattack!

The Second Cavalry Battalion was killing in the rout of the Ming army, and Li Chunjing, who was chasing after the infantry behind him, couldn't help but curse: "This Lu Yuzhi has come to steal merit again!" ”

"Damn cavalry, every time!" Coincidentally, Chen Keqiao, the commander of the First Step, was a little helpless!

In the head-to-head duel in front of this, their infantry was tired and tired, and they also paid a certain amount of casualties, but when the enemy collapsed, their infantry could not pursue the enemy in time because of their lack of mobility.

Every time at this time, it is the cavalry who steals the limelight!

However, it is also officially because of this that it is the reason why the Tang Army and even every army established cavalry, especially light cavalry.

In addition to harassment, reconnaissance and frontal charge, its greater usefulness is to pursue the enemy's rout!

Their efficiency in pursuing the routers is unmatched by the infantry!

The 2nd Cavalry Battalion continued to chase forward, and soon overcame the fastest Ming army and came to the river!

At this time, Lu Yuzhi also saw twenty or thirty Ming cavalrymen escorting a civilian official wearing a crimson official robe to the river, and they were boarding the boat!

At this time, a second lieutenant beside him also said: "Look, that must be a pseudo-Ming official!" ”