Chapter 413: Momentum
"Kill !!"
The earth-shattering roar rang out, the tooth-sore cracking sound of bones cracking from the battle, the shards of guns and helmets flying everywhere, and the constant collision of men and horses, at this time, the impact was a more deadly attack than the blade.
In the last moments before the impact, both mounts tried to dodge uncontrollably, but the Qi army array was too dense, and the horses had no room to dodge at all.
Jurchens who left too much space between people suffered a lot, and many of them had their weapons crooked by their mounts, while the denser formation of the Qi army allowed them to attack an enemy with multiple weapons at the same time.
Coupled with the protective advantage of the human and horse armor, these conditions added up to give the Qi army a certain advantage in the first wave of impact.
There were almost 100 cavalry in the front rows of both sides, and the Qi army lost more than 40 people, who were basically knocked off their horses by the enemy, while the Jurchens lost more than 60.
The gap between the columns of the Qi army was also much shorter than that of the Jurchens, and after the first impact, the second row of armored iron cavalry of the Qi army instantly came towards them with spears, and the remaining Jurchen cavalry in the first row had no possibility of dodging, and almost all of them were knocked off their horses.
And the first platoon of the Qi army did not pause, and continued to attack the Jurchens in the second row, and there was another dense crash on the battlefield, and the cavalry fell off their horses.
At this time, no matter how good the riding skills were, there was no use in such a fancy-free fight.
The only thing cavalry on both sides could rely on was courage and discipline.
Well, maybe the cavalry of the Qi army can still count on the heavy armor on their bodies.
The first row of Qi military armor and iron cavalry did not have any dodge to move forward, they continuously penetrated the five Jurchen fronts, the loss was more than eighty percent, and the exchange of almost twice the number of human lives was basically lost.
But the cavalry of the second and third rows still rushed up without hesitation, as if everyone didn't take their lives seriously, and everyone was bent on rushing to the end, one life for another.
Eventually, in this contest of courage, the Jurchens began to waver.
When the second row of the Qi army's iron cavalry approached the seventh row of Jurchen cavalry, the last three rows of light cavalry in the Jurchen cavalry array collapsed in morale and fled directly.
The cavalry of the Qi army only felt that as soon as their eyes opened, the Jurchen cavalry array had been completely penetrated.
The follow-up dragoons still followed up with shouts, exchanging their sabers with the enemy for human lives in the moment they staggered with the Jurchens in the front row.
After the 8th platoon of Qi cavalry passed by the Jurchens, the results of the cavalry battle came out, and the Qi army lost more than 150 cuirassiers and more than 50 dragoons in the back.
The Jurchens lost about 300 cavalry, a little more than the Qi army, but more than 300 people fled, and their impact was of course gone.
The cavalry of the Qi army did not turn back to deal with the demoralized Jurchens, they adhered to the indomitable spirit of the cuirassiers, and directly attacked the main formation of Wanyan Yinshuke.
During the charge, all the surviving officers howled loudly on their horses, trying to reassemble the cavalry wall during the charge.
The cavalry in the rear continued to speed up, filling the gap left by the dead comrades in front, and the trumpeters puffed out their cheeks and blew harsh syllables vigorously, and the morale of the cavalry of the Qi army was high, and they crashed directly into Wanyan Yinshuke like a train!
Wanyan Yinshu looked at the Qi cavalry who swooped towards him in a daze, and couldn't say a word.
The confrontation of the two armies with a thousand cavalry each decided the victory in an instant!
Silversmith only felt cold hands and feet.
At this time, on the other side of the battlefield, the Jurchen cavalry unsurprisingly failed to break through the flank of the Qi infantry, and the first formation of the central front was being beaten by the Qi army's muskets as it approached a distance of 50 paces.
If he continues to attack the central phalanx of the Qi army at this time, then there is no doubt that his flank will be stormed by the Qi cavalry.
Silversmith is not so confident in his infantry that he can maintain an offensive in the other direction under the threat of cavalry.
But if he stopped to defend against the cavalry onslaught, then there was no doubt that the Qi army would quickly crush the first array of the Jurchen army on the central front, and in this case, Wanyan Yinshu would probably not even have a chance to enter the white-knuckle battle.
The Jurchen commanders were in a dilemma.
However, this inner struggle only lasted for a short time, not that Yan Yinshu could make any decisions, but that his subordinates made a choice for him - the more than 3,000 Aha slave soldiers who followed behind the Jurchen armor soldiers were intimidated by the Qi cavalry!
I don't know who shouted first, and the Aha slaves, who had no will to fight, broke out into a tsunami-like scream, and scattered in the opposite direction of the Qi cavalry charge!
Thousands of people collapsed at the same time, which brought serious consequences, and many young Jurchens in the Yinshu Ke army also lost their confidence in fighting and fled with the Ahabs for some reason.
Later, some veterans also realized that the battle was decided, and abandoned their duties and began to look for a way out.
The northern part of Goryeo was so mountainous that it was impossible for the brigade to pass through, but a few people still had a chance to escape from the clutches of the Qi army.
It was like overturning a row of dominoes, and before the battle was engaged, the Chinese army collapsed under the terrible pressure of the cavalry.
Even Wan Yan Yinshu Ke himself gave up his duties as commander, and he led about two hundred guards cavalry to flee eastward, trying to enter the mountains from somewhere.
The cuirassiers with men and horses were not strong enough to pursue him, but the chassars did not let him go in the slightest, and about 300 horsemen clung to the banner of Yinshuke and did not let go.
The infantry on the central front and the cavalry on the other side who were threatening the flank of the Qi army turned their heads in unison, regardless of the random escape, the infantry of the Qi army immediately launched a general attack, and each unit was mainly a squad of about ten people, and pursued and killed the Jurchen rout.
Xu Shiyang sprinkled the cavalry of the Chinese Guards, all the reconnaissance cavalry, cuirassiers, and cuirassiers, and drove the Jurchen rout to flee south.
It was like a hunt, thousands of Jurchen soldiers were driven all the way from Kaesong to the Imjin River by a few hundred Qi army cavalry, and many Jurchens who were panicked jumped directly into the Imjin River regardless of whether they could swim or not.
The Jurchens floated in the river, many people were swept into the sea with the current, and many more people sank directly to the bottom and could no longer float.
The rest of the exhausted soldiers all knelt down and begged for mercy.
From Kaesong to the Imjin River, dozens of miles of road, everywhere were covered with dead corpses, most of these Jurchens were directly exhausted in extreme fright, and only a few of them were chased and slashed by the Qi cavalry.
Almost no one resisted.
At the same time as the Jurchen army collapsed, the hundreds of Aha slaves who could be left in the rear by Wanyan Yinshu no longer hesitated, and directly surrendered to Xu Shiyang with the 30,000 Goryeo slaves that Yinshu could grab.