Chapter 146: The Road to Death
But Huo Yi was also a little anxious, and he quickly thought of a way to save his life.
Thinking of a way, Huo Yi regained his composure, he turned back to his family and instructed: "Don't worry about anything else, follow me to the north, pass through the gap between the north side of the infantry formation and the hillside, don't stop after passing, and rush out of the Baotaikou to form a team again." ”
After speaking, he didn't explain, and took his own family to the north for some distance, as if to make room for other families in the back.
After taking his own generals away, Huo Yi turned back and beckoned the other twelve generals to hurry up and form a team.
When the 1,500 or 600 cavalrymen who were not killed by the black guns in the forest ran out of the forest in a hurry, the attackers who put the black guns in the forest also chased them to the edge of the forest, and they hid in the woods, and the black guns kept ringing out, because the people here were too dense, and every time the guns rang out, some people screamed and fell.
The gunfire was deafening, the screams were terrible, and the cavalry who had escaped from the forest only wanted to get away from the damn forest as quickly as possible.
Knowing that staying behind will be robbed, the generals are all scrambling to squeeze forward, you want to go forward, I also want to go forward, just like this, you fight for me, the whole cavalry actually ran like this.
Huo Yi retracted his own team of generals, pressed the team to let others go first, and only then did he take his own generals to hang behind and rush forward against the hillside north of Baotaikou.
The cavalry rushed to the weak infantry phalanx in front of them, and they howled and did not know much fear.
In this era of cavalry, the cavalry has an innate sense of superiority over the infantry, and no one will think that the infantry formation can stand up to the impact of more than 2,000 cavalry formations, at least most of the cavalry generals in this group think so.
In the eyes of this group of generals, so many cavalry of their own, the iron hooves rumbled over, and this group of mud-legged people should not flee silently?
Therefore, when this group of generals rushed towards the sinking infantry formation, they had an indomitable momentum.
It's a pity that Chen Xian's infantry was not afraid of cavalry, and the victories again and again brought firm confidence to this group of teenagers, and they believed that they could defeat all enemies.
The group of cavalry in front of them didn't look as good as the ones they had defeated last time, and the non-commissioned officers in the infantry formation said to the recruits.
As the enemy cavalry approached, the officers in the musket formation began to give orders loudly.
Blowing up the ......
Prescribing Pool......
Raise your gun......
Preparation......
The enemy cavalry had already rushed to a distance of 100 meters, but the commander of the arquebus team did not give the order to fire.
The soldiers held their guns steadily, quietly waiting for the commander's order.
Shooting without an order, in weekday training, will be whipped, confinement, if a soldier fires more than three times without permission, he will be expelled from the army.
And the soldiers also knew that in actual combat, if someone dared to launch without an order, he would be hanged, and all his honors and rewards would be withdrawn.
Eighty meters ......
Sixty meters......
Fifty meters......
Put......
Touch......
Eight hundred muskets were fired at the same time, forming a chorus like thunder!
This thunderbolt knocked the charging horse team to a moment's notice, and the hundreds of horsemen who rushed ahead of the team fell down with a wail.
When the distance was shortened to fifty meters, the hit rate of the arquebus increased exponentially, and 800 shots were grabbed, almost hitting more than 300 horsemen!
The sudden heavy casualties stunned the group of generals, some of them reined in their horses, some even wanted to turn around and retreat, and some turned their horses and rushed laterally......
The sudden chaos caused the general's cavalry to knock over more than ten horses.
The musketeers, who had finished firing, did not pay attention to the enemy's confusion, and in accordance with the battle order and the usual training, they carried empty guns and methodically retreated to the sides of their company's phalanx.
The retreating musketeers did not retreat, but retreated to both sides of their own phalanx, with their backs to their own phalanx, and lined up three columns on each side of the phalanx.
The generals and cavalrymen who were in a mess saw that those musketeers retreated after firing only one shot, and suddenly remembered that Huo Yuanwai had said that although the muskets were powerful, they were very slow to reload, slower than crossbows, and in the face of cavalry, there was only one chance to fire at the enemy.
Thinking of this, the generals have recovered a little more, and there is no way to do it if they don't recover, and the gunfire in the woods behind them has not stopped until now.
The generals shouted hoarsely.
“…… Don't panic, they retreat, hurry, rush up, don't give them a chance to wind, rush up and trample them to death......
After a pause, the chaotic cavalry finally moved again, and they rushed again towards the infantry formation forty or fifty meters away.
They let out a shivering howl again, and some of them took off their bows and arrows and rode in front of them, hoping to scare the waste foot soldiers away, so that they could easily hack and stab and trample them from behind.
But they were soon disappointed, and the foot soldiers who were half kneeling on the ground, holding their spears, pointed at them at a forty-five degree angle, were as steady as a rock, even if they rushed ten meters in front of the formation, even if a good hand nailed the arrow to the face of their comrades, these foot soldiers did not have the slightest intention of retreating.
No one would really use their bodies to hit that spear.
Hitting the infantry with their bodies is something that the most elite Tiefutu in the Jin Kingdom can do, and they are just a group of generals.
So these skilled horsemen turned their horses one after another, swept in front of the phalanx, and ran towards the huge gap between the phalanx.
Unfortunately, after the delay of the cavalry from the confusion, when the group of cavalry rushed into the gap between the infantry formations, the arquebusiers with their backs to the square array had already loaded their bullets.
I saw that these arquebusiers, under the orders of the officers, knelt on the ground in the first row, raised their guns, aimed at the cavalry of the generals on the back of the horses, and knocked a large number of cavalry off their horses with a single shot.
The arquebusiers shot half-kneeling and up, shooting men and not horses, not for the sake of the horses under the crotch of the enemy, but to avoid the bullets that could be fired to injure the comrades of the opposite phalanx.
In the gap behind the phalanx of the first row of infantry, the musketeers of the second phalanx had already lined up to welcome them, welcoming them with bullets.
The horsemen rushed through the gaps in the phalanx with the rumbling of gunfire, as if they had run through the ghost gate, and those who were unlucky were all knocked off their horses by bullets.
However, there were still quite a few cavalry that successfully passed through the infantry phalanx.
Among them, the most well-preserved is the Huo family's generals.
Because Huo Yi let his family hang behind him at the beginning, the first round of 800 arquebus salvos did not cause too many casualties to the Huo family.
When it was time to rush into the formation, Huo Yi led his own generals to rush through the outermost side of the infantry formation, and the arquebuses they had to face were half less than others, so when they rushed through the infantry formation, Huo Yi still had one hundred and seventy or eighty people around him.
After rushing through the infantry formation, Huo Yi did not breathe a sigh of relief like the others, he loudly ordered his generals: "Lie on your horses, beat the horses and rush fast, and rush as fast as you can...... Walking"
After saying this, Huo Yi rushed forward in the first place, although the generals under his command were puzzled, but they didn't have time to think about it, they all learned from their own masters, and as soon as they lay down on the horse, they rushed forward.
These people had just rushed out and had not taken two steps, and the muffled and shaking cannon rang out completely different from the musket.