Chapter 34: The Cavalry Counterattack

At this time when Zhao Tong died, the battle situation under the pass began to change dramatically, and countless Jiannu generals, like ants, gathered under the not wide Guancheng, launching a fierce attack on the first line of Shanhaiguan, but in the blink of an eye, a cavalry of the large Chinese army rushed out of the pass, and began to launch a counterattack on the Jiannu army like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

Dolgon's guess was not wrong, Wang Chengping arrived at Shanhaiguan without a moment's delay, first sent part of his cavalry to dismount and enter the city, and knocked a small number of Jiannu soldiers who had already climbed the city wall head-on, and re-stabilized the defense line, so that the morale of the Ming army in this area that had begun to collapse was revived again, and then after he thought about it for a while, he immediately ordered the rest of the remaining generals to divide their troops from Xiluo City and the other two gates on the Great Wall to suddenly kill out of the pass.

At this time, a large number of Jiannu troops were flocking outside the pass, and they were busy launching a fierce attack on the wall and the city, and the Jiannu side did not consider that the Ming army guarding the pass would choose to go out of the pass at this time, and they did not expect the Dazhong army to come so quickly, and it was so fierce, as soon as the soldiers and horses arrived, they did not take any rest, and they brazenly killed out of the city.

Caught off guard by the sudden killing of these large Chinese cavalry outside the pass, immediately killed people on their backs, the advantage of the cavalry at this time was played vividly by Wang Chengping, thousands of large Chinese cavalry each like a tiger, rushed out of the gate, roaring even people and horses crashed into the Jiannu army, as soon as the pass, these large Chinese troops have pulled out the flintlock handcuffs on their waists, and the head and face of the dense swarm under the pass are a sweep, even if the Jiannu army was overturned in rows, The formation was swept away, and then the cavalry of the large army put away the empty handcuffs, took out the spears, and killed the enemy group, the spears were obviously not able to be used in such a dense crowd, and they were stuck in the enemy's body in a few clicks, and the cavalry did not care about their spears, and threw the guns, and then drew out the swords, and along the way was the knife and the horse was trampled, and the soldiers who directly killed these siege soldiers were falling flowers.

Cavalry has a natural advantage over infantry, they are not only fast, but also have a great impact, even light cavalry is far more powerful than ordinary infantry, especially in the cavalry to deal with those infantry who have not formed a good formation to form an effective defense system, their assault is definitely a nightmare for the infantry to linger, so caught off guard, the Jiannu army that was attacking the city was suddenly killed by these large cavalry of the large army who suddenly killed the pass is a fart and urine, and the men and horses can only roll up the flags upside down, and flee to the back.

Although the Jiannu army is more powerful than the Ming army, it still can't escape the category of the old-style army after all, although they are strictly hierarchical and the military discipline is also very harsh, but in this case, if they are not defeated, it will be really hell.

This Dolgon is not given in vain, since childhood, their sons of wild boar skins have been fighting with the army, on the battlefield can be said that everyone has accumulated rich combat experience, and Dolgon is not very old, but it can be said that he is the best among them, Dolgon saw that the situation was not good, and immediately made the two banners of the Tartar soldiers under his command spread out on both wings, and retreated their own rout from the middle, one is to avoid these routs from impacting the position of the Chinese army, so that the whole army is in chaos, once the big Chinese army takes advantage of the situation to cover up, then the consequences will be unimaginable, Another reason is that he wants to use his cavalry to counterattack.

Think about their Jiannu since the wild boar skin after the army, so many years, to lay such a large territory, the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the bullying of the Ming only parry and no power to fight back, in their Jiannu view, all of them immediately fought down the world, the Ming Dynasty for so many years, also exhausted the country, to create a cavalry-based Guanning iron cavalry, but this Guanning iron cavalry against their Jiannu army, but there is little chance of victory.

How could they have suffered the loss of the enemy's cavalry? It has always been the enemy who was killed by their cavalry, but today, because of his misjudgment and unclear understanding of the enemy, he only wanted to rush into the pass, but he ignored the speed of the Xingtian army, and at the same time despised the cavalry of the Xingtian army.

I didn't expect them to play with eagles all day long, but today they were pecked in the eyes by eagles, which made Dolgon and many slaves embarrassed! Watching the cavalry of the Great Chinese Army chasing after their Jiannu army from a distance, the hearts of the Tartars were all full of indignation.

So Dolgon immediately separated the Tartar cavalry under his command, let go of the rout in front of him, and then tried to outflank the two wings, intercepting the cavalry of this large army, today it is hopeless to attack the fortification, and they are still very badly defeated, it can be said that the defeat has been determined and the loss is heavy, but Dolgon is not reconciled, now the cavalry of the large army is out of the pass, and also gives them a chance, if they can intercept the cavalry of the large army before dark, and successfully annihilate it outside the Shanhaiguan, There is no doubt that he will be able to win back a game and save some face, and it will also greatly blow the arrogance of the Dazhong Army and re-boost their morale, so if he succeeds, then he will still have a way to explain to their emperor Huang Taiji and continue to stabilize his position in the Great Qing Kingdom.

So Dolgon issued a death order, ordering Azig and Duoduo to divide into two routes, outflanking the cavalry of the Great Chinese Army from both flanks, and making a gesture to annihilate the cavalry of the Great Chinese Army in one fell swoop in this cramped land outside the pass.

After the cavalry of the large and medium armies of all walks of life slaughtered outside the pass, they were like tigers descending from the mountain, destroying the Jiannu army that was besieging the city in one fell swoop, and then began to expel them for cover-up.

When Wang Chengping sent troops out of the pass to fight against the war, because he had to transfer in the center and liaise with the generals under Wu Xiang who guarded the pass, he was not able to personally lead the troops and horses out of the pass, but he climbed on top of the tower of Xiluo City, and stood on the top of the gate with the clairvoyance he was assigned to observe the battlefield situation outside the pass.

The Ming army guards who were already at a loss saw that the reinforcements of the Dazhong Army had arrived, and they all breathed a long sigh of relief, and hurriedly mobilized their generals to re-arm, and also accompanied Wang Chengping to the top of the gate to watch the battle situation under the pass.

When seeing the cavalry of these large Chinese army kill out of the pass, many Ming army generals are still worried about them, this time the large Chinese army that rushed to Shanhaiguan in advance is mostly cavalry, but the number is not too much, but only about six or seven thousand people, and some of them have dismounted to the city to help the defenders defend the city wall, only less than 4,000 people were ordered to kill out of the pass.

And there are as many as 70,000 or 80,000 Jiannu troops outside the pass, and the 4,000 men and horses of the Dazhong Army can defeat so many Jiannu troops? Judging from their habitual thinking, such an out-of-town assault obviously has little chance of winning, and some people are even thinking that this kind of out-of-town counterattack can almost be said to be a suicidal attack, and there must be no return, and now they and the Dazhong Army are already friendly forces, so they are all worried about these Dazhong Army cavalry who have killed out of the pass, and they are all holding their breath and concentrating, and they are all nervously looking at the pass.

But what surprised them was that as soon as the cavalry of these large Chinese armies were killed out of the city, they were like fierce tigers, and even the Jiannu troops gathered under the pass were scattered, and they were beaten with fire guns and poked with spears, and then they pulled out their sabers and slashed, so that these Jiannu troops were falling and falling into the water, and retreated towards the outside of the pass like a low tide.

Seeing this situation, the many Ming soldiers and generals who were watching the battle above the city suddenly boosted their morale, and they opened their throats excitedly one by one, and shouted, and some people jumped high and cheered, just wishing that they were also outside the gate at this time, and followed these brave cavalrymen of the Great Chinese Army to hunt down and kill those Jiannu Tartars!

The entire Shanhaiguan front line was filled with earth-shattering cheers, which made the worries in the hearts of these Ming soldiers and generals suddenly swept away.

At this time, Wu Xiang, who was watching the battle from the north gate of Shanhaiguan, was also looking at the cavalry of these large Chinese armies outside the pass, to be honest, he was not optimistic about the cavalry of these large Chinese troops at the beginning, looking from a distance, he knew that these large Chinese cavalry were not too much, and outside the pass were terrible Jiannu Tartars, and then looking at the equipment of those large Chinese troops, it was not much better, most of them were spears, and they were not as good as the kind of three-eyed guns that they were equipped with in large quantities by Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the three-eyed guns were in his opinion, they were sharp weapons to kill the enemy. Far away can be used to shoot the enemy with a gun, close can be wielded as a hammer to kill the enemy, if you get wet, you will die, and you will be injured, and these cavalry of the large and medium army, the armor is not complete, just the upper body is wearing a strange-looking half-body plate armor, wearing an iron helmet on the head, and the rest of the place is basically unprotected, at most it is wearing a chain mail, far less than the whole body iron armor of their Guanning army looks majestic.

But Wu Xiang still admired the courage of these cavalrymen of the Dazhong Army, facing the Jiannu army of more than ten times their outside the Guan, but they still dared to attack one by one, at least in this regard, the cavalry of the Dazhong Army was much braver than the Guanning Army under his command.

But what surprised him was that the performance of the Dazhong Army after leaving the customs, after these Dazhong Army cavalry came out of the customs, they actually pulled out a short gun from their waists one by one, and fired at those Jiannu with a thunderbolt, and it seems that this guy is not small, and he overturned a lot of Jiannu generals at once, and these Dazhong troops are obviously very well trained, and all the actions have been completed without any mud and water, and the morale is extremely strong, even if he sees that many robes are shot off the war horses by Jiannu's firearms or bows and crossbows, But they didn't seem to see half of it, and continued to shout and kill the earth-shattering horses and charge.

It was only this fierce style of seeing death as home, and he chased after the Jiannu Tartars outside the pass, and it could even be said that it was more than that, and then Wu Xiang saw that these cavalry of the big Chinese army who went out of the pass and fought against the war put away their short guns and replaced them with long guns, and after a while, they relied on their fierce style and skillful combat skills to kill the Jiannu army under the pass, and began to retreat like a tide, and then these large Chinese cavalry did not give up, drew their swords and continued to pursue and kill the rout of Jiannu, Killing the soldiers will be crying fathers and mothers, and corpses will be everywhere.