Chapter XVII: Assault
Seeing that the battle in the official army camp was in full swing, and the artillery of the official army had completely stopped, and even the arrows were almost no longer fired, a large number of soldiers and generals had begun to break into the official army camp, and a group of Tartar generals all showed relaxed expressions, thinking that the end of this war was just around the corner, but at this time, Dolgon, who was engrossed in the battle situation on the battlefield, suddenly seemed to hear a shout of killing from the west from the noisy battlefield, and was slightly surprised, So he turned his head to look towards the west of the battlefield, and as a result, both he and Yue Tuo's eyes suddenly widened, as if they couldn't believe what their eyes were seeing.
I saw a cavalry suddenly holding a scarlet Xingtian banner high, jumping out of the earthen beam behind an earthen beam a few miles away to the west, like a sharp knife, stabbing straight into the battlefield, before he came back to his senses, he saw that more scarlet flags began to appear on the earthen beam, and a blue-black flow of people overflowed the earthen beam like a tide, appearing on the battlefield, and the blade pointed directly at the back of the Qing army that was attacking Lu Xiangsheng's camp.
"What's going on?" This was almost the first thought that flashed through the minds of the Qing generals such as Dolgon and Yue Tuo.
But they reacted quickly, because even the pigs could see that this troop that suddenly appeared on the battlefield was definitely not their friendly army, although they were miles away, they still felt the kind of evil aura from this troop that suddenly appeared, and their spearhead was also pointed at the Qing army that was besieging Lu Xiangsheng's camp.
Originally, Dolgon's mood was quite good, because from the beginning of the siege of Lu Xiangsheng's camp in the morning, the battle has been fought until now, two hours have passed, under the repeated attacks of the Qing soldiers of various banners, Lu Xiangsheng's camp has already been in danger, originally the Ming army camp at the beginning of the artillery bombardment of the Qing army attacking them, but at this time, the artillery of the Ming army has already been dumb, and even the arrows fired are getting fewer and fewer, it can be seen that the Ming army under the command of Lu Xiangsheng has already run out of bullets at this time.
The battlefield is still roaring from time to time only the Qing army in the few Hongyi cannons, these Hongyi cannons can be said to be unscrupulous towards the Lu Xiangsheng camp bombardment, every round of artillery smashed over, the Ming army camp edge of the cart will have one or two smashed into pieces, accompanied by some Ming army stumps and broken arms flying up, and the Ming army can only rely on the soldiers at this time with the knife and gun in their hands, at the edge of the camp and the Qing soldiers who attacked the camp to fight, many places have begun to show signs of collapse, in the eyes of Dolgon and Yue Tuo, With just a few more moments, they could break into the camp of the Ming army and completely eliminate this group of Ming troops.
But at this time, there was such a force of soldiers and horses brazenly broke into the battlefield, clearly to rescue Lu Xiangsheng's Ming army, and the people who came to see it were also an elite division, they had a clear banner, the formation was orderly, and exuded a strong murderous atmosphere, and its military appearance was even much greater than any Ming army they had ever seen, and the discerning people knew at a glance that it would never be a weak brigade.
Moreover, from the banner, Dolgon and the others could see the origin of this group at once, and the three words of Xingtianjun jumped into their minds at once.
"Xingtian Army? How did they get here? What did the Sentinels do they eat? Why didn't they get closer? Dolgon, even though he was furious, asked a barrage of questions.
But at this time, no one can answer his questions, because this Xingtian army appeared too suddenly, and as soon as their cavalry team appeared, they pointed the spearhead directly at the back of the Han soldiers of the Qing army Chen Bu in the southwest corner, which is where the Qing army's Chen Bu Hongyi cannons are, and the cavalry of this Xingtian army has a very clear goal, that is, to solve these Hongyi cannons of the Qing army first.
"Quick! Drop the cavalry to intercept them and protect those red-coated cannons! Yueto was as surprised as Dolgon, but he was the first to react, and immediately shouted at Dolgon.
Dolgon didn't care to figure out why the Xingtian Army suddenly appeared on the battlefield at this time, and as for the matter of accountability, he could only talk about it after this battle, so he hurriedly ordered to mobilize a cavalry of his own banner, immediately went around to intercept the cavalry of the Xingtian Army, and sent an order to order the Han soldiers in the southwest to set up a formation to prevent the cavalry of the Xingtian Army from raiding their red-coated cannon positions.
So the whole battlefield suddenly seemed a little chaotic, a team of Qing cavalry wearing white cotton armor and white flags immediately set off, desperately urging the war horses, towards the cavalry of the Xingtian Army.
However, the cavalry of the Xingtian Army came very quickly, and their position was relatively close to the Qing army's red-coated artillery position, and they started earlier, although Dolgon ordered to send cavalry to intercept them, but they could not catch up with their speed.
So Dolgon and Yue Tuo could only watch the cavalry of the Xingtian Army rush straight to Chen Bu's Han army in the southwest of the Ming army's camp like a flood, although the Han soldiers with black and white flags found out that the Xingtian Army raided their backs, and hurriedly wanted to turn the muzzle of the cannon to fight, but the Hongyi cannon used by the Tartars was extremely cumbersome, the weight of the cannon exceeded more than two thousand catties, and the gun carriage even exceeded three thousand catties, although it was full of power, and it was very useful for attacking the city. But it was not easy to transport and deploy, each cannon had to have hundreds of people waiting, and suddenly it was not easy to let them turn the muzzle, a large group of Han soldiers surrounded these cannons, and they were busy, and at the same time they had to mobilize troops to meet the array, but before they were ready, this cavalry of more than 1,000 people had already killed in front of them.
The Han soldiers of the Qing army hurriedly began to release arrows and guns to try to block the attack of the cavalry of the Xingtian Army, but the cavalry of the Xingtian Army are not vegetarians, they can be said to be the elite of the elite accumulated by the Xingtian Army over the years, most of them are skilled in equestrianism, and there are even a group of people who were born in the Guanning Iron Cavalry under the command of Zu Kuan and Zu Dale, and after they were under the command of the Xingtian Army, they received rigorous retraining, which has made it an extremely elite cavalry team. The Han soldiers were in a hurry to meet the battle, but they could not stop their offensive at all, and as soon as the large number of cavalry approached the Han soldiers of the Qing army, they began to return their colors and cast their bows and arrows on horseback, or threw knives, axes, or javelins in their hands.
These Han soldiers who had not yet finished the formation did not expect that this sudden enemy cavalry would be so fierce, when even if they were overturned, and their counterattack was only to overturn more than a dozen horses of the Xingtian Army, just in an instant, Situ Liang led the cavalry battalion under his command into them, more than 1,000 cavalry companies led horses to break into this Han soldier formation, and the Qing army Han soldiers were knocked into a big mess.
After the cavalry first threw out the flying axes and javelins in their hands, they immediately replaced them with spears, and one by one put spears or halberds under their armpits, and with the help of the wild gallop of their horses, they easily stabbed the sharp spears into the bodies of the Qing soldiers in front of them.
And these cavalrymen did not draw their guns, after stabbing the enemy, they directly threw away the spears and unloaded the huge impact, and directly discarded the spears as disposable items, and then pulled out the long sabers on their waists, and vigorously slashed the enemy soldiers around them.
The huge impact of the cavalry on the battlefield was vividly performed by them at this time, after the cavalry broke into the enemy army with men and horses, when even if they dispersed the Han soldiers in the Qing army, the fierce cavalry immediately began to chop melons and vegetables to slaughter them, but a group of people did not rush to cut the enemy, but slapped their horses and rushed straight to the Hongyi cannons of the huge and heavy Qing soldiers, only to see them light the torches in their hands one by one, Throwing it hard to the powder keg next to the Qing soldier Hongyi cannon, someone even threw out a few canisters filled with fire oil, with the fire oil tank shattered, a large amount of fire oil immediately scattered and splashed, stained with a little spark, and immediately set up, after a while, a few Qing soldiers' Hongyi cannon was lit around the raging fire, frightening the Qing soldiers and gunners to scatter one by one.
And after these cavalry succeeded, they did not dare to stop, and immediately turned their horses and ran one by one, shouting as they ran: "Retreat!" It's going to explode! ”
So Situ Liang immediately turned the horse's head and yelled: "Withdraw!" He led the brothers of the cavalry battalion to kill the Han soldiers in these Qing soldiers, and quickly began to leave the battlefield.
Before they ran far, they heard a huge roar behind them one after another, a bucket of gunpowder barrels placed next to the Hongyi cannon began to be detonated by the fire, one after another exploded, each barrel of gunpowder used by the Qing soldiers was filled with dozens of catties of black powder, many gunpowder barrels were stacked together, almost at the same time were detonated, together thousands of catties of gunpowder were finally detonated, emitting a huge roar and firelight, and a huge mushroom cloud suddenly rose on the flat ground, Even the Han soldiers who didn't have time to escape were swept up by the huge wave of air, and even a few Hongyi cannons of the Qing army, thousands of catties of cannon bodies were also lifted up, and the gun carriage was scattered and smashed in all directions.
The huge explosion was like a hurricane blowing on the flat ground, and it quickly rushed towards all directions, and some of the slow-running Qing soldiers were blown up and fell heavily to the ground, and even a few cavalry of the Xingtian Army who were running slower were also lifted off their horses and rolled to the ground.
Situ Liang scolded: "Grandma's! How much gunpowder is put in this tartar here, grandma's almost even the old men are blown up to the sky! Ha ha! Rejoice! Go back and meet the big handsome! Fast! ”
At this time, the battalion of cavalry sent by Dolgon was led by a Jia Lazhangjing, who urged the war horse like a child, trying to catch up with the cavalry of the Xingtian Army who attacked them, but they were a step slower, and could only watch the cavalry of the Xingtian Army disperse the artillery of their Han soldiers, originally they wanted to catch up with the battle and fight with the cavalry of the Xingtian Army, but when they rushed to the artillery array, they did not catch up with the cavalry of the Xingtian Army, but caught up with the explosion of gunpowder in the artillery array.
When the explosion occurred, they were closer to the explosion point than the cavalry of the Heavenly Army, and dozens of cavalry were knocked to the ground by the huge explosion.
Even the Tartar cavalry, who were not overturned by the air wave on the spot, were also startled by this huge explosion, and they began to jump around, no longer obeying the call of the Tartar cavalry on their backs, which suddenly made this group of Tartar cavalry a mess, and also made them lose the opportunity to pursue the cavalry of the Xingtian Army.