Chapter 873: The Cavalry Flooded by the Phalanx!
After the Tatar cavalry followed one after another, relying on the numerical superiority to directly drown the more than 100 Tang infantry in front of them, the infantry on several other sides of the phalanx did not continue to stand stupidly as before, but surrounded them under the leadership of the officers.
Although such a hollow phalanx was gone, these hundreds of infantry collided with the Tatar cavalry!
In this incomparably short period of time, this infantry battalion suffered heavy casualties in an instant, but they made the Tatar cavalry move from high speed to a direct stop!
Countless enemy and enemy soldiers in front were mixed together, and the Tatar cavalry in the rear could not run even if their horses were fast and their riding skills were superb!
There was no doubt that this infantry battalion had been overwhelmed by the Tatar cavalry, but the other infantry battalion phalanxes on the left and right and in the rear continued to fire at the Tatar cavalry that was constantly coming from the rear!
The mournful roars of the war horses, the shouts and screams of the soldiers, were insignificant in the dense and crisp gunfire!
The Tatar cavalry is advancing!
Countless Tatar cavalry were advancing, they were not dozens of hundreds of cavalry, but more than eight thousand cavalry, even though they were divided into more than a dozen attack waves, but each wave reached hundreds of cavalry!
The numerous cavalry, forming a huge arrow, pounced on the hollow phalanx in front, and then the hundreds of cavalry in front were entangled with those infantry!
Although the infantry of the Tang Army was brave enough, using their bayonets and even their own bodies to resist the onslaught of the Tatar cavalry, they were still broken through by thousands of Tatar cavalry in the case of heavy casualties and too few in number!
After paying almost no less than the casualties of the Tang infantry on the opposite side, the Tatar cavalry finally broke through the first infantry phalanx, and the Tatar cavalry in the lead continued to rush to the second infantry phalanx!
On the way to their charge, there were already corpses of both enemy and enemy in the ground!
At the same time, in front of them, to the left and right, there were still countless muskets fired at them!
They broke through the infantry phalanx of the Don Army in front of them, but they only allowed themselves to enter a larger passage!
They are still besieged by the musketeers of the Don Army on the left and right!
These 8,000 Tatar cavalry, in a certain way, followed in the footsteps of the 2,000 Tatar cavalry in front!
Finally relying on the absolute numerical superiority and almost exceeding the casualties of the infantry of the opposite Tang Army, although the Tatar cavalry broke through the first hollow phalanx, but in front of them, a hollow phalanx was still waiting for them!
And the musketeers of the two infantry phalanxes on both sides did not stop at all, and they continued to fire!
With so many musketeers firing, and almost all the black cavalry on the opposite side was full of Tatars, the musketeers didn't need to aim at all, as long as they didn't shoot their bullets into the sky or the ground, then they could hit the Tatar cavalry on the opposite side, and the hit rate was quite impressive.
Every shot is a sign of the death or wound of a Tatar cavalryman!
The casualties and the density of fire of the Tatar cavalry far exceeded their previous estimates, hundreds of horses had fallen in the way of the charge, hundreds more by the time they broke through the first phalanx, and now, almost every second, a large number of Tatar cavalry were falling.
However, in front of them, there is still an infantry phalanx of the Tang Army!
The leading Tatar cavalry continued to rush forward, but their speed had slowed down when they broke through the first phalanx, and now it was almost impossible to increase their speed in a short distance, although they desperately urged their horses forward, but the speed was still not comparable to the attack on the first hollow phalanx.
Cavalry without speed can't use superb jumping tactics to jump over the human wall in front of them, and at the same time, the cavalry wants to blow their war horses and rush directly to death, relying on their own corpses to break through the human wall, which is also a small probability.
Even if the cavalry themselves are not afraid of death, but their war horses are also afraid of death!
If you run at high speed, you can force a wave, but now their speed is too low!
As a result, after rushing to the front of the hollow phalanx in front, the hundreds of cavalry in the lead could no longer rush forward as bravely in the face of the dense bayonet forest, especially when the opposite side continued to fire and threw grenades.
The hundreds of cavalry in the lead were forced to turn in front of the formation, and when they turned, many Tatar cavalry once again took out their bows and tried to shoot arrows on horseback to counterattack.
There are also a very small number of Tatar cavalry who are not afraid of death, and directly urge the war horse to rush up, and then die in front of the hollow phalanx, if he is lucky, he can also use the corpse of himself and the war horse to kill one or two soldiers of the Tang Army.
At this moment, the momentum of the Tatar charge, after being blocked by a hollow phalanx before, has been completely lost, and now they, just like the previous two thousand Tatar cavalry, encountered the hollow phalanx in front of them and began to detour, and then ran in the passage, watching the Tang Army on both sides calmly shoot themselves and kill themselves!
Seeing this scene, Chen Keqiao in the rear was also relieved!
At first, he was worried that these Tatar cavalry were extremely brave and could break through his infantry phalanx one after another, but now it seems that these 8,000 Tatar cavalry are not much stronger than the previous 2,000 Tatar cavalry.
If you continue like this, then you may be able to achieve a super victory today!
Facing the cavalry with the same number of infantry, and then beating the cavalry to the head of the rat, with heavy casualties, if this is not a super victory, then what is a super victory?
This battle has been stabilized!
Ever since the Tatars had slowed down, since the moment they were forced to make a detour and no longer dare to force their way into the hollow phalanx, the battle had been decided.
And the next thing is nothing more than how many Tatar cavalry can be killed!
Chen Keqiao could see it, and the Tatars on the side of Buzhgood could also see it, when he saw that his cavalry, after paying hundreds of casualties, broke through a phalanx of four or five hundred people of the Tang army, he realized that something was wrong, this battle was different from what he expected!
Then when he saw that his cavalry had stopped charging and could only pass between the various hollow phalanxes of the Tang army, he realized that if he continued like this, he was afraid that his 10,000 cavalry would really have to be explained here.
Immediately, he said loudly: "Mingjin withdraw his troops, quickly, let them withdraw!" ”
The Tatars in the rear sounded the slogan of withdrawing their troops, and at this time, the Tatar cavalrymen who were still outside and did not rush in were also relieved, the battle in front was so fierce, if they continued to rush forward, I am afraid it would really be over.
However, the Tatar cavalry, who were deeply trapped in the many phalanxes of the Tang Dynasty, although they said that they received the slogan of retreat, in fact it did not matter whether they received it or not, because before that, they had already tried to leave this ghost place through these passages.
These passages are almost death passages, seemingly empty, but the Tang musketeers on both sides are firing all the time, and they will also throw grenades, and every time they take a step forward, their Tatar cavalry will pay a lot of casualties!
But even so, they still didn't dare to stop, they could only desperately urge the horses to run forward, the hollow phalanx of the Tang Army was not endless, all the small phalanxes added up, there were only more than ten, and they were not lined up, but three large phalanxes, as long as the Tatar cavalry was not stupid, they could still rush out at the cost of a belt.
The Tatar cavalry is advancing!
The last time they advanced, they brandished their sabers, and they were full of confidence and wanted to crush the phalanx of the Tang Army on the opposite side.
But this time the advance turned into a desperate escape, and many Tatar cavalry did not even shoot their bows and arrows to counterattack, but just lay the whole person on the back of the horse, and then urged the horse to run forward.
Although in fact, it is only a matter of minutes at most for them to run out, but for many Tatar cavalry, these few minutes are as long as countless years, in this kind of battlefield where bullets can hit at any time, let alone a few minutes, even a second or two seconds is too much, they are eager to put on their wings and fly away.
Burigood in the rear had a gloomy face at this time, and in the front, the sound of gunfire still did not stop, and these gunshots represented the continuous death and wounding of his own cavalry.
This Tang Army's guns are really sharp, even more terrifying than the rumors!
I don't know, how many more people can withdraw, there are tens of thousands of cavalry, if the loss is too great, even if these 10,000 cavalry are cannon fodder of the side tribes, but if there are too many casualties, he is still not good to explain to Altan Khan!
He didn't count on the previous two thousand cavalry forwards, and at the beginning he didn't let the two thousand retreat, but let them continue to fight, although they themselves would flee on their own, and it was impossible to say that he Buzhgood would not have retreated if they did not let them retreat.
But they were not given a real retreat order before, which would affect their retreat to some extent.
Now it seems that it has been seven or eight out of ten, and only a few hundred horsemen have escaped in disarray.
As for the 8,000 cavalry that was put in later, because he was ordered to retreat early, only most of the cavalry really entered the battle, and the two or three thousand cavalry behind were forcibly withdrawn by him before they were put into battle.
However, among the five or six thousand cavalry who threw themselves into the attack, there were already hundreds of dead and wounded on the way to the charge, and hundreds more were killed and wounded when they broke through the first phalanx.
In the end, he was not very sure how many people would be able to successfully withdraw.
Perhaps, half of the cavalry will be able to return alive?