[235] Blood is spilled in Kowloon Bay
[235] Blood is spilled in Kowloon Bay
The wolf soldiers fought with great ferocity, in addition to the support of 700 armor-piercing Onishi cavalry and a large number of crossbowmen. Compared to the well-armed Guanning army, the wolf soldiers were extremely lacking in metal armor, with only short leather coats, hand-woven rattan knee pads, and a conical iron helmet. Most people don't have shoes, they just go barefoot. A few spearmen also sewed bamboo pieces on the short armor of their jackets to prevent them from slashing with their swords. In addition to spears, wolf soldiers also carry heavy and sharp waist knives that are common in southern Xinjiang
Wu Sangui finally managed to get out of the valley, and suddenly bumped into the spear formation of the Great Western Army, and he was very surprised. Due to the confusion of the organization, due to the lack of cooperation of the long-range shooting troops, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which had no time to brake, crashed headlong into the wolf spear phalanx of the Great Western Army, and suffered heavy casualties. However, the impact of the iron cavalry of Guan Ning, who killed the red-eyed Guan Ning Iron Horse, was more fierce than wave after wave.
"Let it go...... Arrow! Li Dingguo roared, "Release the arrow~~ attack, continue to attack~ Don't stop if your finger is broken!" ”
The three rectangular phalanxes behind the wolf soldiers, with 3,000 archers, on the two-mile-long ground, aimed at the enemy cavalry almost at the same time, and launched a fierce long arrow attack. For a while, the sky was full of arrows, and the howling of long arrows tearing through the air converged into a huge roar, which was terrifying.
The cavalry of the Guanning Iron Cavalry basically have armor, and they are all wearing iron leaf scale armor, and their defense is very good, but under the attack of this rain of arrows, there are still many people who fall from the horse. The death of their comrades-in-arms greatly stimulated these Liaodong men, the anger in their hearts was ignited, they went crazy, they lost their minds and did not dodge, and rushed up in the face of the dense rain of arrows.
Bang~~~ Violent impact, crazy and ferocious impact.
On the battlefield, the moment was filled with the neighing of war horses, the roar of soldiers, the roar of long arrows tearing through the air, the dull sound of spears poking into war horses, the sound of gold and iron, and the blood of countless hot-blooded men spilled on the battlefield
The Guanning cavalry was not afraid in the face of the enemy formation, and they hit their horses and directly crashed into the wolf soldier phalanx, although their heads were broken and bleeding, they did not hesitate. The horses leaped high, either being pierced by spears and dying, or falling backwards. The rider was either hacked to death by inertia after flying into the phalanx, or rolled to the ground with his horse.
There were also many wolf soldiers who were knocked down by war horses, and soldiers who used their bodies against their companions in front of them were immediately knocked off by war horses or crushed to death, but no Guan Ning cavalry could rush in. When the spears are destroyed, the sword and axe men in the back row, and the crossbowmen in the back row will immediately rush forward, whether it is the enemy's war horses or soldiers, they will all be hacked to death. Without a spear, the gap was combined with an ordinary Teng shield and a short spear, plus the flesh and blood of the soldiers of the Great Western Army to continue to hold on.
The first round of impact of the Guanning Iron Cavalry did not pose a fatal threat to the wolf soldier phalanx.
The second round of impact was even more ferocious.
The Guanning cavalry did not hesitate to rush to the horse, and in many places they were attacked by two horses, and their impact was so great that it was simply not enough for manpower to resist, although they sometimes had to face more than six spears at the same time, but the number of spears destroyed increased significantly. The cavalry of the Guanning army still did not get a bargain, either the horses died, or the soldiers were killed, and none of them were able to rush into the phalanx. The soldiers of the Great Western Army in the phalanx swore to block to the death, and when the spear broke, they used short spears; The spearmen are dead, and the axemen are on top; The first layer of defenders were all killed, and the second layer of defenders were all on top. Under the tenacious and fearless defense of the soldiers of the Great Western Army, the phalanx was still not opened by the enemy.
Wu Sangui was in a hurry, if he hit it like this, the enemy's phalanx was not broken, and his own soldiers would die by thousands.
Zu Dashou roared: "Order the soldiers, concentrate your forces, ram the front of the enemy's phalanx, hit the same place continuously, do not pause, continue to ramming!" ”
The horn "woo ......" sounded one after another.
When Li Dingguo heard the sound of the enemy's horn, he raised his sword eyebrows and shouted loudly: "Beat the drum...... Command the divisions to concentrate the main forces to defend the front of the phalanx. ”
"Order the crossbowmen to shoot at the same place every ten of them!"
The sound of war drums is loud or small, dense or sparse, resounding through the mountain sky.
The third round of crazy ramming began.
"Kill!" Thousands of horses began to run, began to fly, and began to ram under the roar and drive of the cavalry; Hundreds of spears and short spears were violently impacted, turning into sawdust flying in the air. The spear pierced the first batch of horses that leaped and blocked the impact of the second group of horses, but in the face of the successive galloping horses, the spearmen had no choice but to shout and watch the enemy kill them. At the forefront of the phalanx, the wolf soldiers died many and miserably, they were either crushed to death by their horses, or they were stabbed to death by the enemy's cavalry; Without the loss of their spears, the soldiers of the Great Western Army could only use their flesh and blood to block the Guanning Iron Cavalry
Li Dingguo, with a steel knife in one hand and a spear in the other, ran around the middle of the Great Western Army Front like a madman with a dozen attendants. As long as it touches the enemy's warhorse, it will be stabbed with a spear, and when it encounters the enemy who rushes in, it will take care of it and cut it down. He led his soldiers to kill from east to west, and from west to east, without stopping.
The soldiers on both sides forgot about life and death, forgot about pain, and only knew how to kill, kill, kill the enemy, and kill another enemy. They are tireless, bloodless, and keep killing until they themselves are killed by someone else. The ten small phalanxes in the front row of the Great Western Army's position were finally unable to support under the continuous and endless attacks of the Ming army, and the defense was all in crisis. Because the rear phalanx was a little farther away, it was not attacked by the enemy, and the formation was complete.
More and more Ming troops poured out of the valley, and they fired muskets at the wolf soldiers. The wolf soldiers were concentrating on dealing with the Guan Ning army in front of them, and they were caught off guard and fell a large area at once.
The Guanning cavalry swarmed up, and the soldiers on both sides immediately began a bloody hand-to-hand combat, fierce and brutal, and undying.
The war drums of Li Dingguo's plea for help sounded
Sun Kewang immediately ordered Feng Shuangli to lead 5,000 men and horses to support quickly.
In order to support the troops to be able to quickly reach the destination, Feng Shuangli specially equipped 2,000 of the 5,000 people with war horses. As soon as the order was given, the cavalry troops rushed to the battlefield like sharp arrows.
Seeing that the support troops were killed, Li Dingguo immediately gave way to the passage. The soldiers of the support units shouted and roared in.
"The first and second columns~~ to attack, the third column, keep shooting!" Seeing that the cavalry of the Great Western Army was coming from the slash, the musketeer officer of the Ming army immediately commanded the musketeers to form a defensive formation. The musketeers in the front row of the Ming army immediately crouched down, and the muskets with bayonets pointed diagonally upward.
"Shoot!" The musketeer Bai Zong himself also held a musket and fired at the cavalry of the Great Western Army
呯呯呯~~呯呯
The cavalry assault of the Great Western Army did not have the desired effect, and many of the cavalry were knocked down by muskets at a distance of two hundred paces, becoming a stumbling block for their companions behind. Even if the musketeers who could get close to the Ming army, they were powerless in the face of the bayonets of Rulin and the cavalry of the Great Western Army wielding broadswords
"My lord~ the machine has arrived!" A musketeer shouted
"What?" Mr. Bai put down the musket, turned his head to look, and saw the soldiers of the four machine gun groups crawling to the front of the battle with the parts of the machine gun on their backs, "Hurry up~~ You go and help!" Mr. Bai shouted
"Order!" Seven or eight musketeers hurried to pick up the guns, and together they assembled them as fast as they could
"Shoot!" The leader of the Trap Gun team checked the Trap Gun, "Shoot!" ”
Dada
The five-pipe machine began to roar, and the raindrops of bullets whistled out, sweeping the cavalry of the Great Western Army who dared to come to support to the ground in pieces. No matter how fierce the Great Western Army is, it is also flesh and blood, where can the enemy withstand the steel rainstorm? Coupled with the frontal impact of Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou's iron cavalry, by noon, Li Dingguo's troops first began to gradually retreat
Wu Sangui led the Guanning Iron Cavalry to crisscross the battlefield, killing more and more bravely, the speed became faster and faster, rushing left and right, and gradually becoming a trend of ten thousand people.
At this time, Song Youliang also came out of the valley, and he could see Li Dingguo's Daxu in the distance, and he ordered the sniper: "Can you only shoot the auspicious cloud branch on the side of his helmet without hurting his life?" ”
The sniper looked at it and replied, "This distance is too far for the villain to pack a ticket!" ”
"How close is that?" Song Youliang asked
"Fifty steps further!" The sniper replied
"Okay~~Guan Yunbao, Zhang Feixiong~" Song Youliang said: "You take ten personal soldiers and escort this brother forward fifty steps." ”
"Order!"
Bah~~, Li Dingguo felt stunned on the top of his head, and saw a hole appear on the little finger of Xiangyun on the left side of the helmet, "King Anxi is injured!" One of the soldiers exclaimed
"Bastard~" Li Dingguo slapped the shouting soldier hard, "Don't make a noise!" ”
After a while, there was another ding, and the auspicious cloud branch on the right side of Li Dingguo's helmet was completely shattered, and the fragments also scratched Li Dingguo's face
This time, the pro-soldier changed his words and said: "The king of Anxi is really blessed by the gods, and the enemy's guns can't hit no matter how they hit!" ”
At this time, Sun Kewang stood on the edge of the battlefield and saw that the soldiers of the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the infantry of the Ming Army were under the command of the horn, flexibly and freely manipulating the wanton slaughter, invincible, and his own soldiers were exhausted, and they were chased and killed one by one without the power to fight back, and suffered heavy casualties. There is no time to form a formation, so you can only temporarily assemble and counterattack in a straggler formation, just like using your five fingers to fight against the opponent's fierce punch in a hurry, and the defeat is predetermined.
Suddenly~~~ there was a loud bang
A strong smell of gunpowder rushed into Sun Kewang's nose, and a loud bang shook Sun Kewang to lose his deafness instantly. At the same time, Sun Kewang felt that his body was slapped hard, and he involuntarily flew to the side. I don't know if it's because of the severe pain, or because there are not many of his subordinates left, and he no longer has the strength to fight, Sun Kewang, who was lying on his back and unable to move, smelled the increasingly strong breath of death. He gave an order that he could not even hear, and he ordered his men to withdraw from the battlefield and flee south with all their might.
Song Youliang suddenly found that the enemies around him were fleeing, and he was ecstatic in his heart, and shouted: "...... to the west, attack ...... to the west."
The sound of horns and cowhide drums burst into the sky.