Chapter 339: Impressed
Wanyan Pingtao led the army and set up a simple camp behind the fortress that Yang Miaozhen had tested.
Then, he spread out the infantry and artillery array, and couldn't wait to press up towards Yang Miaozhen's army.
Wanyan Pingtao advanced the infantry and artillery lines to the front of the fortress not far away, and within the range of the fortress's artillery fire, he stopped.
Wanyan Pingtao personally led the huge cavalry team under his command, bypassed the fortress, and pounced on the right flank of Yang Miaozhen's infantry.
Yang Miaozhen's artillery position was located on the left flank of the infantry array, and when the place pounced from the right flank of the infantry, the artillery was separated by its own infantry.
On the right flank of the infantry division's phalanx, there are three infantry battalion-level phalanxes with nine rows in depth to protect the flanks, if it is a small group of cavalry charges, it is naturally not afraid, but Wanyan Pingtao not only led his cavalry army of thirty or forty thousand people back here, but more excessively, in the middle of his cavalry army, there were even hundreds of camels, and on both sides of the backs of these burly Bactrian camels, a short copper cannon was hung on each side.
Wanyan Pingtao's cavalry swarmed to the right flank of Yang Miaozhen's infantry, and stopped at a distance of three or four hundred meters.
Some soldiers carrying small cannons were pulled out, and the cavalry artillerymen unloaded more than 200 small cannons with all hands and feet, and buried the small cannons at a distance of more than 200 meters from the flank of Yang Miaozhen's infantry formation.
If these two hundred or so one-pound small cannons were allowed to fire at such a close distance, the flanks of Yang Miaozhen's infantry would be chaotic, and at that time, after Yan Pingtao would charge the heavy cavalry, the infantry of this division brought by Yang Miaozhen would be dangerous!
Of course, Yang Miaozhen will not sit idly by and watch such a situation happen.
She immediately dispatched the Assault Division, which was responsible for protecting the infantry and artillery, to move towards the right flank of the infantry formation.
With Yang Miaozhen's mobilization of the assault cavalry, Wanyan Pingtao, who had been standing on horseback and watching the battle, also immediately mobilized his heavy cavalry.
Yang Miaozhen, who stood on the watchtower with a simple combination of infantry and artillery, observed the cavalry troops of Wanyan Pingtao hundreds of meters away.
The more she looked, the darker her face became.
Wanyan Pingtao's cavalry, like Chen's cavalry, is also divided into two types.
One of them, wearing cuirass and a high-crowned helmet with large brims, was armed with a four-meter cavalry lance, almost identical to Chen's assault cavalry, except that they had a flintlock pistol stuck behind their saddles.
The other type of cavalry wore lean leather armor with warm fur, carried a flintlock pistol with a bayonet, and a cavalry spear nearly four meters long hung from the saddle!
Over the years, Chen Xian had tried to remove the armor from the light cavalry and flintlock pikemen, but he had given up because of opposition from the army.
Yang Miaozhen was also opposed at first, but as time went by, as the understanding of the flintlock pistol became more and more profound, Yang Miaozhen gradually discovered that when the flintlock pistol was widely equipped, the light armor on the light cavalry and flintlock musketeers was indeed useless, and could only increase the burden on the soldiers.
So in the past two years, he also began to help Chen Xian lobby the generals in the army, but the so-called ship is difficult to turn around, and it is not easy to make hundreds of thousands of troops in the East China Sea Kingdom take off their armor, so to this day, the East China Sea National Army is still wearing light iron armor.
When Yang Miaozhen saw that Yan Pingtao's light cavalry had no armor, she not only did not despise it, but had a sense of crisis that others had walked forward.
This sense of crisis is the first time that Yang Miaozhen has had since she followed Chen Xian.
Let's take a look at Yan Pingtao's infantry.
Wanyan Pingtao's infantry, like the infantry of the East China Sea Kingdom, also lined up in a shallow large horizontal row, but they were one more row than the large horizontal row of the East China Sea State infantry, lined up in four rows, the next three rows were flintlock infantry, and the first row was spearmen with four-meter-five long spears.
Their riflemen, like the hussars, wore only lean armor with warm fur, flintlock pistols on their shoulders and bayonets at their waists.
The spearmen, who were responsible for protecting the riflemen in the first row, wore the same cuirassas and large iron helmets as the troopers.
In Yang Miaozhen's opinion, such an infantry array seems to be more reliable and safe than the infantry linear array of the East China Sea Kingdom.
Although taken aback by Wanyan Pingtao's development speed, Yang Miaozhen quickly discarded these negative emotions and focused his attention on the upcoming cavalry collision.
Wanyan Pingtao's heavy cavalry only accounted for one-third of his total cavalry, about 10,000 people, which is all the family wealth that Wanyan Pingtao has saved over the years.
When he found out that Yang Miaozhen had mobilized the cavalry and was about to expel them, Wanyan Pingtao also sent his heavy cavalry to meet Yang Miaozhen's cavalry division.
After Yang Miaozhen's cavalry division found out that the enemy's cavalry was coming up, they didn't need the commander's order, they split into cavalry walls with cavalry battalions as units in accordance with the combat drill code!
At the same time that Yang Miaozhen's assault cavalry split into a wall, Wanyan Pingtao's heavy cavalry actually made the same move!
Yang Miaozhen, who watched this scene, was shocked, and it was only at this time that she suddenly realized that this battle, if one is not good, she may lose.
The pressure of defeat not only did not make Yang Miaozhen panic and collapse, but made her more calm, at this moment, her thinking became extremely agile, and one by one speculations appeared in his mind, and soon, the enemy's intentions appeared in her mind.
Just when Yang Miaozhen was thinking, Chen Jun's cavalry wall had already collided with Yan Jun's cavalry wall.
Over the years, Wanyan Pingtao also studied Chen Xian's methods, and carried out some propaganda in his Beijin country, he packaged himself as the only savior of the Jurchens, when the Central Plains Jin Kingdom was declining and dying, his argument, coupled with his almost victorious record in recent years, this argument is still quite marketable among the young people of the Northern Jin Kingdom.
Wanyan Pingtao's heavy cavalry was his most ardent supporter.
Only these fanatical supporters, who had been successfully brainwashed by Wanyan Pingtao, had the courage to launch a suicidal assault on Chen's cavalry wall.
And the cavalry of the Chen army was also a hot-blooded young man who had been educated from an early age, and their courage was not inferior to that of the fanatical heavy cavalry of the Northern Jin Kingdom.
What happens when two cavalry walls hedge?
The answer is in front of Yang Miaozhen!
Lose both!
Two heavy cavalry charged in a wall and collided head-on! The scene was extremely tragic!
Even with Yang Miao's true iron heart, he couldn't bear to look at it directly.
But at this time, Yang Miao really didn't care about the precious heavy cavalry, and the more serious crisis was still on the right flank of the infantry formation!
In the rapid operation of the brain, Yang Miaozhen finally seized a glimmer of opportunity......
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