Chapter 446: Shocked, the old man jumped off the building because of ......
Although the cavalry of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion had doubts, they still firmly carried out what they thought was the correct order, and launched a charge towards the infantry phalanx of the 300 Ming Army directly in front!
When the neat and dense cavalry wall collided with the Ming infantry phalanx in front, almost immediately, a large number of people on both sides were killed and wounded!
Many of the cavalry in the front row were stabbed with spears, and then dragged the knights on horseback into the pile of Ming soldiers in front.
In this kind of high-speed impact, the knight on horseback has no time to make some effective dodging and other reactions, so he can only passively lie on the horse's back, be carried by the horse and crash in, and then finally react, but find that he has fallen off the horse, and there are people all around!
And this is not the most critical, the most critical thing is that behind him, countless comrades-in-arms galloped in!
The comrades-in-arms cavalry in the rear will not dodge at all, and there is not even much space for them to dodge, they are the same as most of the cavalry in the front row who have been killed and wounded, they can only passively rush into the infantry phalanx of the Ming army!
Then raise the saber in his hand, use the power of the horse's impact, and with a slight stroke, he can often bring up a rain of blood!
However, their high-speed sprint could not last long, because any infantry phalanx would not only have one or two rows of soldiers in front, but often six or seven rows, or even more than ten rows of soldiers in the back!
These soldiers are in the way of these cavalry!
Relying on human push to forcibly block the impact of the war horse, and then the knight is not immune to this high-speed collision!
This inevitability does not mean that they were hit by the enemy while they were on horseback, because at this time, the enemy's target is often not the knight hiding on horseback, but the horse itself!
After the war horse is injured, it is natural that it will not be able to continue to move forward with the knight, and even throw the knight off the horse because of the severe pain!
And the knights who fell to the ground had to not only use the only sabre in their hands to fight against the many enemy infantry around them, but also had to dodge the trampling of friendly cavalry in the rear!
The onslaught of friendly cavalry in the rear is wave after wave, and it will not be easy to stop!
Whether or not this will be trampled by the hooves of friendly horses depends entirely on luck!
The cavalry of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion that charged, especially the cavalry in the front two or three rows, suffered heavy casualties, and their opponents, the infantry of the 300 Ming Army, were even more unbearable!
Just the cavalry of the second cavalry battalion in the first few rows ran through most of the Ming infantry phalanx in front, resulting in many casualties, and the cavalry in the back row continued to pour in!
In addition, these Ming infantry are not heavy infantry, they are just ordinary infantry, and the strength that can hold spears against cavalry is actually only, according to the tactics of the soldiers, they are seven people in a team, and only four of them are responsible for special operations, and only two of these four are spearmen.
If calculated in this way, the infantry of these three hundred Ming Army can actually pose an effective threat to the cavalry with less than dozens of spearmen!
After these spearmen in the front row were killed and wounded by the cavalry of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, the infantry in the rear was actually unable to resist the impact of the subsequent cavalry.
However, even the 2nd Cavalry Battalion managed to break through the enemy's infantry phalanx!
But Li Chunjing in the rear was still wrinkled!
In this charge, your own cavalry suffered too many unnecessary casualties!
In this battle, at least more than 30 cavalrymen were killed and wounded in the course of the battle, which sounds like a lot, but there are only a total of 150 cavalry in the 2nd Cavalry Battalion!
This thirty dead and wounded cavalry is a huge blow to the 2nd Cavalry Battalion!
However, it is useless to frown now, since the mistake has already occurred, and the losses are irreparable, what can be expected is not to live up to the heavy price paid by the cavalry!
Take this opportunity to completely defeat the Ming army in person!
When the second cavalry battalion paid a certain price, it also successfully broke through the interception of the 300 Ming troops in front, especially when the second wave of this cavalry rushed up, the 300 Ming troops in front of it were basically overwhelmed, and there was no way to line up and block them in an organized manner like before.
When the 2nd Cavalry Battalion stormed their array, the rest became a matter of course, and these cavalrymen began to chase down the fleeing Ming soldiers in front!
And at this time, it was the strength of the Second Cavalry Battalion that really came into play!
Fighting against the enemy's infantry phalanx, to be honest, this is not the strength of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, although it is okay to do so, but it is not suitable for them after all.
What they are best at is chasing down enemy troops who are no longer in formation, or attacking the rear of enemy troops!
Just like they are doing now!
Now, although the formation of these cavalrymen has been loose after some fighting, and they can no longer maintain the same complete formation as before, they still maintain a relatively loose formation.
These cavalrymen roared through the rout of the Ming army, and then brought a bloody rain!
The neighing of war horses, the groans and screams of wounded soldiers, and the sound of horses' hooves are intertwined into a symphony of ups and downs on this small battlefield, which is magnificent and sad at the same time.
The cavalry of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion passed through the phalanx of the 300 Ming troops that had been defeated, whistling like the wind, and everywhere they went, the Ming troops were either killed or wounded.
And when they passed through this Ming army formation that intercepted them, they did not stop at all, but continued to charge forward!
And directly in front of them was the Chinese infantry of the Ming Army who were engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Second Infantry Regiment!
These Ming infantry had already suffered heavy casualties, and after falling into hand-to-hand combat, there was no formation at all!
When the cavalry of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion rushed over, they were even more unable to resist!
The blood never seemed to stop, and the screams and screams never stopped!
In the face of the double strangulation of the cavalry and infantry of the puppet Tang thief army, even if these Ming soldiers in front of them have a strong will to fight, even if they can fight to the death and not retreat, it is inevitable that the military spirit will be shaken at this time!
At this time, the instinct to escape overcame their courage and the tradition of fighting, and they began to turn around and run away one by one, not caring at all about exposing their backs to the cavalry of the pseudo-Tang Thief Army pursuing in the rear!
And for this kind of enemy, the cavalry is the favorite!
Pursue the router, this is the battlefield that every light cavalry dreams of!
Because whenever this happens, these light cavalry can kill and wound a large number of enemy troops and get the most abundant results!
The damage inflicted by cavalry on the enemy is never the result of a frontal charge, but the result of a pursuit when the enemy turns and flees!
When more and more Ming soldiers escaped, the infantry of the Second Infantry Regiment finally stepped through the land that was already covered with corpses, completely tearing through the array of Ming infantry!
And when the opponent's formation has been completely broken, in the face of the still intact formation advance of the Second Infantry Regiment of the Tang Army, those Ming soldiers can't resist at all!
There are more and more dead and wounded, and more and more people are fleeing!
At this time, Cen Xiong's face was full of sluggishness!
His army of 3,000 was completely routed at the last moment!
However, until the moment when the army was defeated, he still couldn't understand why the puppet Tang thief army was able to defeat his own army?
You must know that your army of soldiers is recruited from many powerful Tusi, all of them are brave people, and they dare not say that they are not afraid of death when they fight, but there are few timid and cowardly people, and they have always been brave and aggressive, and they are often willing to die and not be defeated when they fight.
When these soldiers suppressed the rebellion in Guangxi Province and even transferred to other provinces to suppress the rebellion, they often won every battle and rarely lost the rebellion.
However, today, how could he be defeated, defeated by a group of pseudo-Tang thieves who had the same strength as himself, and the defeat was so sudden and crisp, it didn't give him the slightest chance to react and save!
Who are these pseudo-Tang thieves?
Why do they have such sharp firearms, and why are they able to defeat themselves?
Why didn't they face the attack of their own army and rout like the thief army they had suppressed before!
Why?
He doesn't understand, he doesn't understand!
Until his own soldiers led him backwards and ran, his mind was still immersed in a hundred thousand whys.
After watching the defeat of the Ming army, although Li Chunjing still had some pity that the casualties of his own cavalry were a little serious, he couldn't care about anything at this time, and immediately said: "Order the whole army to take the opportunity to seize the city gate!" ”
There are more than 3,000 Ming troops in the city, and now the 3,000 main forces have been defeated by themselves, and because these Ming troops fought quite tenaciously before, there were many casualties, plus the pursuit in the later stage, these 3,000 Ming troops, at least 1,000 people are already lying on the ground!
Although the rest of the Ming army wanted to flee into the city, Li Chunjing would not let them do it!
Lu Yuzhi, the commander of the Second Cavalry Battalion, rearranged his military uniform at this time, and at the same time wiped the blood stains on the saber in his hand with a handkerchief, listening to the words of the herald who had finally followed!
When he heard that the herald had given the wrong order, causing his own stupid attack on the enemy's flank phalanx, his whole face was not very good-looking.
Half a day later, he took a deep breath and said: "This officer knows, return to Colonel Li, my cavalry battalion will continue to attack and seize the city gate!" ”
At this time, Li Chunjing was already replaced with a new flag herald by his side, and issued a second combat order to the cavalry battalion, asking them to continue the pursuit and seize the city gate if they had the opportunity!
But in his heart, Lu Yuzhi was already planning to play His Majesty, and he had to give an explanation to his second cavalry battalion about this matter, otherwise he Lu Yuzhi would not be able to explain to the more than 30 subordinates who were killed and injured!
But this is all in the future, the most important thing now is to take the opportunity to seize the city gate, lest these routed Ming troops re-enter the city and resist, and then waste time and casualties to fight a tough battle!
At this moment, at the head of the city, the county commander of Rongxian County, who was watching the battle from beginning to end, saw that the army of soldiers had been defeated, and thousands of pseudo-Tang thief troops were swarming towards the city gate, and in despair, he closed his eyes and jumped directly from the city wall more than four meters high!
The army has been defeated, the city is about to be destroyed, as the county commander of Rongxian County, he has no other way but to die!