Chapter 322: Silver-like pewter spear head
Yeluliuge sent 30,000 cavalry at one time, and these 30,000 cavalry spread all over the mountains and fields, rushing towards the right flank of Zhang Bai's army like a tidal wave.
Zhang Bai commanded two assault cavalry brigades, with a total number of 13,000 men, less than half of the cavalry of Yeluliuge's charging cavalry.
The two assault cavalry brigades, lined up as a cavalry battalion as a cavalry "wall", met the wave of Jeruliugo's cavalry......
Yeluliuge's cavalry looked well equipped and the horses were also good, and they seemed to be more elite than the Mongolian and Han cavalry that Yang Miaozhen faced at the beginning, but when the cavalry of the two sides collided, the advantages and disadvantages were immediately reflected.
Although the armor rate of the Han cavalry is far inferior to Yeluliuge's Eastern Liao cavalry, the war horses equipped by the Mongols are barely usable, far inferior to the Eastern Liao cavalry under the wealthy Yeluliuge, but the Han cavalry is trained by Mu Huali with extremely cruel military methods, and the fear of military law of those Han cavalry has even exceeded the fear of death.
Yeluliuge's Eastern Liao cavalry is far behind in this regard, these cavalry are all from various Khitan tribes, attracted by Yeluliuge's wealth and fame, gathered under Yeluliuge's command, Yeluliuge's control over these cavalry is not high, naturally it is impossible to train them with the harsh military method of killing people at every turn, so these cavalry look bright, but the actual will to fight is very weak, they are actually no different from ordinary grassland cavalry.
The cavalry wall of the Chen army rushed into the wave of the Eastern Liao cavalry, like a hot knife inserted into the butter, and it flew forward with almost no resistance.
In the face of Chen's cavalry wall, the performance of the Eastern Liao cavalry was very unbearable, they saw the cavalry wall pushing towards them from a distance, and they fell into confusion, and they fled in all directions to dodge.
In the rear of the large array, Zhang Bai, who was standing on the watchtower and watching the formation, saw that the Eastern Liao cavalry was so unbearable, and immediately ordered the chess and card hall to pass the order flag to let a chaser regiment attack, and shoot the Eastern Liao cavalry that was scattered by the turquoise cavalry on the periphery.
Although the Eastern Liao cavalry on this side was vulnerable, they attracted the attention of the Chen cavalry after all.
So, Wanyan Pingtao's cavalry, which was located on the right flank, took advantage of the maneuver!
The 30,000 cavalry under the command of Wanyan Pingtao were divided into 10,000 and went around to the right side of the Chen army's array.
After coming to the right side of the enemy's army, Wanyan Pingtao's all-round cavalry left 2,000 elites to press the formation behind, and 8,000 cavalry lined up and rushed towards the flank of the Chen army.
On the right flank of Zhang Bai's infantry formation, there were eight battalions in two rows, front and rear, facing the right side, protecting the right side of the entire large formation.
Wanyan Pingtao's 8,000 all-round cavalry, in accordance with their usual combat methods, fired at the muskets in Chen's army's large array, rushed to a distance of twenty or thirty meters from Chen's flank platoon, and fired at Chen's army.
Although the rate of fire of the flintlock pistol has been greatly improved, compared with the bow and arrow, the rate of fire is still inferior, and in addition, the bow and arrow can greatly increase the firing density through projectile, and the two sides shoot at each other, and the Morris phalanx of the Chen army can't shoot at the all-round cavalry on the opposite side!
The regimental commander, who was in charge of the flank command, decisively ordered the phalanx to charge.
Different from the traditional Morris phalanx, because the musketeers in Chen Xian's phalanx were equipped with flintlock pistols and bayonets, when the spearmen charged in the phalanx, the flintlock soldiers would also load a bullet, and then charge behind the lancers with bayonets.
The spearmen in Chen's army maintained a neat phalanx and rushed towards the enemy more than twenty meters away.
Not to be outdone, the all-powerful cavalry plugged back into the long shoots, drew the long weapons in front of them, and launched a counter-charge towards the pikemen phalanx opposite.
First, the phalanx of pikemen collided with the all-powerful cavalry, and then the flintlock pikemen, who also maintained the phalanx, rushed up, and they stopped at a distance of more than ten meters from their opponents and began to fire in a rapid round.
A dense burst of bullets at close range knocked the all-powerful cavalry on the opposite side on their backs.
Some all-round cavalry tried to charge at the phalanx of musketeers more than ten meters away, but they soon found in despair that under the dense rotation of six rows of flintlock muskets, they could not rush forward to the musketeer phalanx, even if they barely rushed to one or two, they could not quickly kill the musketeers wearing thin cuirasses, wearing large-brimmed iron hats, and holding spears with bayonets.
At this time, the versatility of the flintlock pistol with a bayonet was immediately manifested, at such a close distance, the all-powerful cavalry said that he did not dare to put down his long weapon and took out his bow and arrow to shoot, but the musket in the hands of the flintlock musketeer could be switched at any time.
Although Wanyan Pingtao was a Jurchen nobleman, he had lived in Han since he was a child and was familiar with military books, so he knew the importance of military discipline to an army.
When Wanyan Pingtao trained the army, the military discipline he carried out was no worse than that of the Mongols, and his all-round cavalry also had an extremely strong will to fight.
However, when the overall casualties of an army reach 30%, and there is no hope of victory, the strongest will to fight will collapse. The arrogant general, who had never lost a battle since its establishment, collapsed directly from full of confidence and no one was beaten in his eyes.
Fortunately, there were still 2,000 elite troops in the rear of the all-round cavalry, and the task of the two regiments on the flanks of the Chen army was to protect the flanks of the large array, and they did not dare to chase more, and the defeated Jurchen cavalry was under the protection of the elite of the formation, and they climbed on their horses indiscriminately, retreated to a distance of several hundred meters, and reassembled the whole team.
The regrouped Jurchen cavalry looked at the enemy in the distance from two hundred meters away, and suddenly felt a little dilemma, Wanyan Pingtao gave them the task of destroying the flank of the Chen army, it stands to reason that since the team was reorganized at this time, it should continue to carry out the orders of their king, but this group of cavalry has just been broken by the fierce shooting of the Chen army's musketeers at close range, and they are not willing to go up at this time no matter what.
Fortunately, at this time, Wanyan Pingtao's herald cavalry galloped over and conveyed Wanyan Pingtao's order to retreat.
At the same time as Wanyan Pingtao's herald cavalry read out the order, the Temu Bo Jilie (Wanhu), who led the 10,000-person cavalry, found that the 30,000 Jurchen iron cavalry personally led by Wanyan Chengtao in the distance had begun to retreat.
And at the other end of the coalition array, Jeruliugo also made the same move.
In fact, Yeluliuge's escape was faster than Wanyan Pingtao's, after all, there were only 10,000 cronies left by his side, and the few people naturally moved quickly.
As for the infantry, it was taken care of there, artillery...... It has been routed by the artillery of the Chen army on the opposite side!
The artillery arrays of both sides aimed at each other and bombarded each other, and finally Chen Jun's artillery technology was better and his willpower was stronger, and after paying nearly half of the casualties, the artillery front of the coalition army was completely defeated, not to say that Chen Xian's artillery destroyed all the artillery of the other side, and in the century, half of the opponent's artillery remained, but the artillery in the artillery array collapsed because they could not stand the casualties and the terrible way of death.
Having defeated the opponent's artillery, Chen's artillery immediately turned its guns and aimed at the only 30,000 infantry on the battlefield who had neither routed nor fled.
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