Wang Bianyi couldn't understand why this battle was lost, and it was so badly defeated!

Even if he had seen Fang Cai under the charge of his cavalry, the puppet Tang thief army had suffered a lot of losses, not to mention hundreds of people who died tragically under the iron hooves.

But the puppet Tang thief army took an infantry to return one of its own cavalry, which was a lot of money!

The cost of training a cavalry is several times that of infantry, but any cavalry general who is a little more rational will not fight with the enemy's infantry.

But in the battle just now, the Ming army actually didn't plan to fight hard, they just wanted to take advantage of the puppet Tang thief army's 'escape' to take the opportunity to kill a wave, but they didn't expect that although these puppet Tang thief army was running, they didn't flee, but before facing the cavalry charge, they began to line up to meet the battle.

Even if the formation of the infantry was not tight enough at the beginning, and even seemed panicked, in the face of the infantry phalanx that had already begun to line up, Wang Bianyi's cavalry still suffered heavy losses.

When the hundreds of cavalry in front of the infantry surrounded by infantry gradually disappeared, and the infantry of the puppet Tang thief army also began to re-array, someone asked Wang Bianyi: "My lord, what should we do now?" ”

Wang Bianyi wanted to say: "You ask me, I ask who to go!" ”

But this can only be thought about, saying that it must not be said, looking at the re-lined pseudo-Tang thief army infantry in front of him, he sighed, and then said: "We continue to follow them!" ”

However, as soon as he finished saying this, he heard a sudden loud voice next to him: "No, the cavalry of the thief army is coming!" ”

Thief cavalry? Does this thief army in front of you have cavalry?

There must be something, Wang Bianyi also knows that the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of him has a team of about 100 cavalry, and before, this cavalry was completely ignored by him, and the cavalry of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side also knew that he had few troops, and he did not dare to act rashly from beginning to end, and even in the battle just now, this cavalry was only deployed in the rear, and there was no direct battle with the Ming cavalry.

But now, the cavalry of this pseudo-Tang thief army is rushing towards them!

"How dare they? How can they? Wang Bianyi roared in his heart!

In the face of the large-scale infantry phalanx of the thief army, he Wang Bianyi was still afraid, but in the face of this hundred-person thief army cavalry, his self-confidence reappeared!

If the infantry of the thief army dares to bully me, forget it, why do you thief cavalry of a hundred people dare to bully me, I am really Wang Bianyi is a soft persimmon!

Immediately, he said loudly: "Since the cavalry of the thief army has come to send them to death, then we will fulfill them, kill the enemy with our own officials, and avenge the dead brothers!" ”

Seeing that the cavalry of the Ming army turned around and began to rush towards him, Captain Xi Cheng, the captain of the fourth mixed cavalry team, held back the excitement in his heart, and still rode his horse steadily to lead his cavalry phalanx to trot forward!

If the Ming cavalry in front of him still had a thousand cavalry, he would say that he would not lead the cavalry to kill from the flank, but now, the Ming cavalry in front of him has lost more than half, and only five hundred cavalry remain.

Even if the enemy's strength ratio is more than twice his own, he still has a certain certainty!

At the same time, he can also understand the decision of the regiment commander who gave him the order to charge, Brigadier General Gu Shizhong!

If they don't completely open up this Ming cavalry and force them away, even if they have lost more than half of them, it is still a huge threat to the Fourth Mixed Regiment, as long as they hang behind, the Fourth Mixed Regiment will not be able to move!

Therefore, from the perspective of Brigadier General Gu Shizhong, the commander of the Fourth Mixed Regiment, even if the Fourth Mixed Regiment suffers certain losses, even if the regimental cavalry team is killed, this Ming cavalry must be defeated!

And as a glorious cavalry officer of the Tang Army, Captain Xi Cheng took the lead and led his cavalry team to launch a charge without hesitation!

At the same time, a large infantry force hundreds of meters away was also rushing towards this side, trying to get close and give support to the cavalry troops!

The war horse was trotting, and when he saw that the distance was about the same, Captain Xi Cheng gave the final order to charge, pointed the saber in his hand and pointed forward, shouting: "Kill!" ”

So at the same time, several heralds in the cavalry team also blew the horn, and under the rapid sound of the horn, the cavalry began to urge the horses under their crotches and began to gallop at the fastest speed.

The cavalry team of 100 people formed a small phalanx of cavalry in three waves before and after, and the war horses in each phalanx almost kept the same pace in the charge, which also means that the cavalry team of 100 people actually fought in unity with three complete groups.

This is a completely different contrast from the cavalry of the 500 Ming Army on the opposite side with scattered charges!

The cavalry on both sides had already raised their speed, and then they slammed into each other!

Then, a surprising scene appeared!

The strength of the Tang cavalry is small, but it seems to be like a sharp arrow, directly penetrating the cavalry phalanx of the Ming army, which has a five-fold advantage in strength.

If you look at it from a distance, you can't understand why this is happening.

But if you look closely and really observe the cavalry engagement on both sides, then you will find that although there are many cavalry of the Ming army, most of them are on the periphery, and the cavalry of the Ming army who really fights with the Tang cavalry team is often only a few people.

In the unit area, there is often a scene of three or four Tang cavalry fighting against one Ming cavalry!

In front of a wave of cavalry of about thirty people, there were often only less than ten Ming cavalry!

And this is also the special tactical advantage formed by the Tang cavalry when they use the wall charge, that is, they can concentrate more cavalry in a limited unit area.

And those classical cavalry with scattered formations simply don't have so many troops in a unit area to fight!

Therefore, although the number of cavalry of the Ming army was larger, many of the cavalry of the Ming army did not get the opportunity to fight at all, and those cavalry of the Ming army who were fighting with the Tang cavalry were facing the situation of fighting more with less.

In the surprise of a group of people, the cavalry team of the fourth mixed regiment turned out to be a mere one-fifth of the strength, which completely penetrated the charging array of the Ming cavalry!

After the cavalry of the two sides disengaged, many dead and wounded and horses were left on the battlefield, and most of them were still cavalry of the Ming army!

Captain Xi Cheng wiped the blood from his face, and then looked back and found that the cavalry under his command had been reduced by one-third, that is to say, in the charge just now, more than 30 Tang soldiers fell under a pool of blood.

But looking at the Ming cavalry phalanx on the opposite side, they only have less than 400 people left, that is to say, in the confrontation just now, at least hundreds of Ming cavalry were killed and wounded!

Looking at this scene, Captain Xicheng shouted again: "Keep the speed and turn, let's do it again!" ”

With Captain Xicheng's order, the cavalry team with less than seventy people left began to turn at high speed and in a wide area, and the Ming cavalry behind them had already slowed down.

But when he saw that those damn pseudo-Tang thief army cavalry began to turn and rushed towards him again, Rao is Wang Bianyi shouted and turned to meet the battle, but after two inexplicable defeats in a row, the remaining Ming cavalry finally came to their senses.

Today's battle can't be fought any longer, and if it is fought again, it is very likely that the next person to die will be himself.

So let Wang Bianyi shout, but not many of the cavalry under his command turned to meet the enemy, but accelerated to flee the battlefield!

Seeing that the enemy's cavalry finally retreated, Gu Shizhong, who was watching the battle from afar, was also greatly relieved.

In this battle, the situation was even more dangerous than I expected, but after taking such a big risk, the harvest was also huge!

The significance of this battle is not even how many Ming cavalry were killed or wounded, the most important significance is that they successfully forced the Ming cavalry away, and the remaining Ming cavalry is estimated to have no courage to come back.

For all this, the Fourth Mixed Regiment paid a heavy price!

The 4th Infantry Battalion was almost completely disabled, with more than half of the casualties, the Grenadier Team also suffered more than half of the casualties, and the baggage battalion drawn from the 5th Infantry Division also suffered heavy losses due to the impact of the Ming cavalry!

In this battle, the 4th Mixed Regiment suffered more than 1,000 casualties among the infantry, baggage and other foot soldiers alone, and it was a battle of both defeats!

After the battle, almost the entire battlefield was filled with the corpses of soldiers from both sides of the enemy, and many of the wounded mixed in the corpses were still screaming, and the blood almost stained the entire land red!

"The infantry battalions remained vigilant, and the artillery and baggage units began to collect artillery and baggage, and then sent people to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded!" Gu Shizhong looked at the bloody battlefield and couldn't help but sigh!

This battle was definitely the heaviest loss since his Fourth Mixed Regiment was formed, even if it was counted in the early period of the provisional Fourth Regiment.

Even this loss is not small for the entire Tang Army.

Gu Shizhong didn't even know that after this battle, the boss would evaluate himself like this!

The only good news was that when they cleaned up the battlefield, they captured about 200 intact Ming horses, all of which were excellent Mongolian horses!

After capturing these war horses, because of the shortage of cavalry, Gu Shizhong immediately sent personnel to Pegasus to send a letter, requesting the Fourth Supplementary Brigade to immediately send cavalry recruits to accept horses.

Of course, it was also inevitable that the Fourth Supplementary Brigade would provide his troops with new recruits from other branches.

However, even though there were thousands of dead and wounded, Gu Shizhong still did not give up the idea of continuing to march into Nanchang, and after sending someone to send the relevant battle report to Li Chunjing, he continued to rush to Nanchang with the fourth mixed regiment!

Gu Shizhong still hasn't forgotten his mission: to capture Nanchang!