Two mounted artillery companies of the Chinese army entered the forward firing position a quarter of an hour earlier than the Poxi army.

Although it is of no special significance to use a 5-pound cannon against a light trebuchet (the range of the Whirlwind Cannon of the Pop Xi Army is not as good as that of the rifles of the Chinese Army), but if it arrives a little earlier, it can at least prove that the quality of the Chinese artillery is also better than that of the Pop Hill soldiers.

Moreover, if the mounted artillery opened fire a quarter of an hour earlier, it would have ended the battle a quarter of an hour earlier.

At a distance of 300 meters, 12 5-pound guns fired two rounds per minute at the Pxi army, which was driving the camels.

Five minutes later, about half of the soldiers were killed by the cavalry guns, and the rest, including the general, gave up their weapons, camels, and duties, and fled.

The collapse of the central front directly exposed the iron harriers on both flanks to the guns of the Chinese army, and the Han militia in the Chinese army on the left flank used three rounds of flintlock guns within fifty paces to fire a volley of guns (the militia had not yet had time to popularize the firing rifles) to break the infantrymen in front of them, and drove them into a complete rout, after which the team did not rush to pursue, but formed an anti-cavalry phalanx on the spot, ready to resist the impact of the iron harriers.

There weren't many cars on the right flank, and the slight difference was that the Chinese commander on this side suffered a few casualties from his bow and arrow, kept his troops close to twenty paces, and then settled the battle with only one volley.

When Yuzang's iron harrier attacked, the central front of the Xia army had collapsed, but he could still count on the Poxi army to hold on for a while, and the two wings used to contain the two sides did not contact at that time, so the Xia army at least had the possibility of continuing to struggle on the scene.

However, when Yuzang Huama's cavalry entered the impact distance, the situation on the battlefield took another sharp turn for the Xia army - the infantry on both wings was about to collapse at the first touch, and the Poxi army was finished without even throwing a stone.

Moreover, the two wings of the Chinese army, which seemed to be obviously weaker in firepower, formed an anti-cavalry formation that was very unsettling to look at, and the cold and glittering spear tips in their front row (with the armor-piercing Yi soldiers in front) made the mounts of the Tibetan cavalry constantly neigh, looking very uneasy.

The Iron Harriers were good feudal cavalrymen, and they knew very well that their mounts were reluctant to storm the seemingly thin wall of spears - in fact, they were not willing to do it themselves.

The only difference is that the horses are afraid of the spears, while the riders are afraid of the black holes in the muzzles behind the spearmen.

"Arrays do not fight", when the Han army did not have muskets, this was one of the principles of the Iron Harriers, and now with muskets, it is even more impossible for them to force the Han infantry who have been placed in formation.

However, not all Han people were arrayed - the red-clothed field army on the central front that drove the main force of the infantry was still pressing on the rout, looking fierce and uncontrollable if they did not drive out the Xia army.

Opportunity!

The two Iron Harrier lieutenants who were responsible for the flanking attack only glanced at the battlefield from afar, and they all realized that it seemed easier to directly attack the Chinese army than to flank the two flanks.

So the Iron Harrier began to accelerate, but instead of carrying out Yu Zang Huama's order to contain the two wings, he planned to bypass the flank of the Chinese army and directly attack the middle formation.

One thousand cavalry on each wing, four thousand horses' hooves stepped on the ground, and the whole earth seemed to tremble slightly, and the blue-black iron armor reflected the sunlight and shone brightly.

When the traditional cavalry in iron armor charged, it was at least somewhat terrifying in terms of momentum. If it is not a determined infantry, this kind of strength is enough to cause the collapse of the battle line, even if the determined elite infantry, in the face of this elite cavalry, must stop and put on a special anti-cavalry formation, otherwise they will be swept away by the elite ironclad cavalry.

It used to be like this.

When the Iron Harrier passed through the phalanx on both wings of the Chinese army, the musketeers in the phalanx fired a volley at them, and immediately put down dozens of cavalry, and then the Iron Harrier returned fire with a cavalry bow from a distance, roughly hitting a few people, but most of the Chinese troops in the front row were armor-piercing Yi soldiers, and the damage caused by the weak riding bow was basically negligible.

"What are they doing?" Yu Zang Huama watched his iron harriers bypass the flanks of the Chinese army and rush straight into the middle of the battle, and shouted in surprise: "Didn't I let them contain it?" Who let them rush into battle!? ”

It was not his goal to kill and injure the Chinese army in large numbers, even if the Chinese army in the middle seemed to be an easier target.

It is a foregone conclusion that the family's Bubazi will suffer heavy losses, and if the iron harrier is also damaged too much, then even if it defeats the Chinese army and captures a lot of good things from the Chinese army, no one in the Yuzang family will use it.

However, from the perspective of a mere iron harrier, they certainly can't see this kind of political problem, and as front-line commanders, they must still want to seize every opportunity to win the war.

The iron harrier continued to accelerate, and then accelerated, the Chinese army finally stopped attacking, and those red-clothed soldiers began to turn in place in the direction of the cavalry rushing from both sides, which was too fancy in the eyes of the feudal army to turn left and right, under a password, the large array of thousands of people turned at the same time in the central axis position, left to left, right to right, and the speed made the iron harrier speechless.

However, this was still not fast enough, and although it was changed from facing forward to facing the wings, the remaining time did not seem to be enough for the Chinese army to form an anti-cavalry phalanx facing outward on all sides (in fact, the Chinese army did not even think of this formation). ）

The general who commanded the Iron Harrier charge still thought that he still had a chance, because at this time the Chinese army was not facing soldiers in the front and rear directions, and they could rely on the strong tactical mobility of the cavalry to make another half circle.

It's beautiful to imagine, but there's a difference between wanting and getting.

Just as the Iron Harrier tried to turn, a loud trumpet sounded, and the red-clothed Huaxia Field Army opened fire.

Twelve hundred firing guns, fired in a salvo of 100 company-sized units, the first company immediately crouched after firing, the second fired in tandem, then the third, the fourth, the fifth, and the sixth.

The conical projectile spun and hit the iron armor with rapid speed, drilling a 10 mm hole in the well-made armor, and then the projectile was squeezed into an irregular sphere, burrowing into the torso of a man or horse, and twisting all the muscles, nerves, blood vessels, and bones encountered along the way into pieces, causing them to gush out with black blood.

What's worse is that the vicious buckshot itself is left in the victim's body.

At a distance of about eighty paces, no moving armor could resist the attack of Minne's bullets, and the iron harriers fell like stalks swept by a sickle, row after row.

After the 1,200 muskets were fired, more than 600 of the 2,000 iron harriers that had been impacted on both sides had fallen!