Chapter 883: This is absolutely impossible
Buzhgood was in the rear, almost watching the Tatar cavalry in front of him repeat the situation when he attacked the Fifth Infantry Division of the Don Army!
Even the process is the same!
Braving the artillery fire and rifle fire of the Tang army, although the casualties were not light, they did not give up, did not retreat, and still moved forward bravely, and then after paying huge casualties, they finally rushed to a distance of dozens of meters from the hollow phalanx of the Tang army.
In traditional warfare, they bypassed the front of the infantry phalanx, and then penetrated deep into the flank, they could easily dodge the enemy's frontal fire, and then tear apart the enemy's flank, thus causing the collapse of the enemy's entire front.
Therefore, these cavalry just did not have the slightest hesitation and poured into the passage between the many hollow phalanxes!
Or rather, they don't have a choice at all, because the hollow phalanx of the Guards or the four-cornered phalanx of the Ninth Infantry Division, although the specific formation is different, but the essence is still the same, that is, multiple phalanxes are separated, and then support each other, if the enemy avoids the front and bypasses, then it will inevitably fall into the fire of two but multiple phalanxes!
Thus withstanding heavy fire from all directions!
In this process, they will also counterattack with cavalry bows, and there are more brave cavalry who will directly wave their scimitars to attack the hollow phalanx of the Tang army, and then, those who continue to run are hit by muskets and fall into the seemingly endless passage, as for the cavalry who directly hit the phalanx, although they will also cause some casualties to the musketeers of the Tang army, they are often killed and wounded at the moment of the charge.
Then, the hollow phalanx remains!
When Buzhigood was in Liangshanji, he was so inexplicably defeated by the Fifth Infantry Division, losing a full 3,000 cavalry on the spot, and later was charged by the cavalry wall of the Third Cavalry Detachment of the Tang Army, which led to further defeats!
In the end, he could only flee with 6,000 remnants of horsemen, and after he came back, he was directly removed from command by Altan Khan, and now he can only be in a hurry in the rear!
On the battlefield, no one paid attention to the shouts of Burigood, a defeated general!
Therefore, the Tatar cavalry still attacked according to the tactics of Altan Khan, using their traditional tactics!
More and more Tatar cavalry rushed forward, a thousand, two thousand, five thousand......
Countless Tatar cavalry roared in, and then broke into the Guards, looking at this posture, it seems that the Guards have been completely overwhelmed by the Tatar cavalry!
However, this was only a faΓ§ade, and when the Tatar cavalry roared in, bearing the casualties of artillery fire and muskets, they found that they were not in the expected situation.
They bypassed the hollow phalanxes of several Guards in front and tried to attack the flanks of the Guards, but they found that these phalanxes of the Tang Army were very strange, and there was no so-called flank at all.
Any hollow phalanx, with its frontal fronts and lefts, is a dense forest of bayonets, and then it is still attacking them with muskets!
They are at a loss for this situation, they are at a loss!
They can only continue to run forward according to the inertia of the charge, trying to find the weak point!
However, this kind of running of theirs is also an opportunity for the Guards to wait for a long time!
Every flintlock musketeer reloads and shoots as quickly as possible, and occasionally two swarthy two-pound shotguns are fired into the infantry array to shell the Tatar cavalry!
At all times, the Tatar cavalry was suffering heavy casualties!
Although they also inflicted heavy casualties on the Guards with their bows and arrows, some of them even attempted to launch a direct hand-to-hand charge against these hollow phalanxes.
The infantry of the Guards of the Tang Army, in the frontal charge of the cavalry, always suffered heavy casualties, but they shouted that the Guards would not retreat and firmly stabilized the line.
The many phalanxes of the Guards, like a reef in the rapids, let the Tatar cavalry roar and violently collide, and it seemed to be drowned by waves of Tatar cavalry, but the reef of the Guards was always standing in the rapids!
Guards!
No crashes!
The Guard, it still stands still, maintaining a seemingly fragile line that can be breached at any moment!
However, at this time, Altan Khan in the rear finally saw that something was wrong!
Most of his cavalry had already rushed up, and more than 10,000 cavalry had completely rushed into the phalanx of the Tang Army's guards, but the Tang Army's phalanx was still there!
And he also saw a scene that made him even more frightened, his own cavalry was being quickly knocked down!
Not one or two, not the dozens and hundreds of casualties caused by the shelling before, but the knockdown in pieces!
"No!"
"Impossible!"
"It's absolutely impossible!" Altan Khan finally couldn't calm down at this time!
In the battle situation ahead, it seemed that his own cavalry rushed in, but in fact he was strangled by the Tang Army's guards in pieces, and he could see such an outcome with his eyes closed!
If this continues, I am afraid that all the 20,000 cavalry will be killed and wounded in front of the Tang army's phalanx!
"Quick, Mingjin collects the troops, let them come back, quick, let them return immediately!"
Altan Khan said loudly directly!
The current situation is quite dangerous, if you continue to trap your cavalry in the phalanx of the Tang army and forcibly attack, I am afraid that these 20,000 people will not be able to come back!
So he did not hesitate to give the order to withdraw his troops!
However, before Altan Khan gave the order to retreat, the Tatar generals who led the charge on the front line had already sensed that something was wrong, and compared with Altan Khan, who was watching the battle in the rear, the generals who personally led the troops to fight on the front line knew more clearly that the situation was very dangerous.
They rushed into the phalanx of the Tang army, but the expected weak point behind the flank was not found, and they were greeted only by waves of shooting!
They can only blindly continue to move forward along the passages, and even these passages are no longer in a straight line, they must turn in order to avoid hitting the dense infantry defense line of the Don Army, and then continue to advance blindly in this way, turning halfway, their speed is constantly decreasing!
The more than 1,000 Tatar cavalry who were the first to charge have now penetrated deep into the Tang army's formation, which means that they have been hit by almost ten or twenty rounds of fire before and after!
And this made them already suffer heavy losses, more than a thousand horses, and now there are less than 500 left, and the proportion of casualties directly exceeds 70%!
If it was an ordinary attack, such a casualty ratio, even if they were the most brave forward cavalry in the Tatar cavalry, they would have collapsed a long time ago, but now, they could only continue to rush forward with their heads bored!
They continued to rush forward, not to tear apart the defense line of the Tang army, not even to counterattack, they just wanted to break out of the passage and escape with their lives!
And this, in fact, is also a common phenomenon of many Tatar cavalry who broke into the phalanx of the Guards, they succeeded, and it can even be said that they rushed in without resistance, but soon they could find out that something was wrong and tried to rush out instead!
But even if they wanted to rush out, they had to continue to rush forward, and they could only rush out after the fire strikes of many phalanxes!
Because, cavalry is not infantry!
When the infantry sees that the situation is not good, they can just turn their heads and run!
But the cavalry in the charge could not turn around on the spot at all, they could only continue to move forward, and then turn, and then in the process of continuing to move forward and turn, they were knocked down by muskets one by one!
Seeing this scene, Burigood in the rear closed his eyes weakly!
It's a disaster!
A complete disaster, a disaster even worse than the Battle of Liangshanji!
When he led his troops to attack, he was very cautious, and he sent two thousand cavalry forwards to test, and then he continued to charge, which avoided the situation of two thousand cavalry.
But when it comes to fighting, it's almost a hard fight, cavalry against infantry phalanxes, sabers against bayonets!
However, even so, the 10,000 horsemen under the command of Burigood lost 3,000 horsemen!
And today, the Tatar cavalry is not cautious, they are not for the sake of temptation, but to break through the Tang army's defensive line, so they took an all-out attack at the beginning, 20,000 cavalry launched an attack wave after wave, and they did not take the way of directly hitting the front of the Tang army's formation, but chose their best cavalry, which led to almost all the cavalry choosing to detour, and then entered the passage between the many hollow phalanxes.
This is a complete disaster, even an irreparable disaster!
After 20,000 cavalry rushed in, how many people could come back alive?
He doesn't know!
But he was sure that this time the attempt to tear apart the defense line of the Don Army Guards was already a complete failure!
Rao is Altan Khan has already begun to withdraw his troops, even the Tatar cavalry in front is already about to retreat, but they have no way to retreat easily.
Except for the thousands of Tatar cavalry in the rear who had not yet had time to rush in, they turned around in time and successfully withdrew, and the remaining more than 10,000 Tatar cavalry were still rushing in the Tang army's formation!
It's just that when they are running, the number is constantly decreasing!
In the end, there were desperate Tatar cavalry generals, shouting and leading the cavalry to start a large-scale assault on the front of the phalanx, trying to directly hit the bayonet forest with their war horses and kill a bloody way!
But it was in vain!
With four large phalanxes and more than ten small phalanxes composed of more than 13,000 Guards, it is not so easy to break through!
More Tatar cavalry were still running sensibly and quickly in the passage, trying to rush out of the passage as soon as possible!
But will they be able to make it out?
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