Chapter 385: Phalanx

The earth shakes and the mountains shake! Unstoppable!

Seeing such a horse team rushing into battle, He Chun Dengshi felt that the whole person was relaxed, and he said in a loud voice: "Monk King, Monk King, the red thief is defeated, the red thief is defeated!" ”

These 4,300 horse teams are almost the largest cavalry group that can be concentrated on the Chinese battlefield in this time and space, and they are currently only 1,7800 rainbow officers and soldiers, and these rainbow officers and soldiers are still shooting at the infantry team led by Shengbao, Hu Songlin and others.

The next battle should be no suspense, the Qing army's tidal horse team will crush any resistance that dares to parry in front of them, and easily drive the rainbow army into the lake, this battle is won by the Qing army!

The monk king's face also had a trace of uncontrollable joy, but he was much more stable than He Chun, and when he heard the gunfire of the Hong army suddenly stopped, he laughed loudly: "The thief is broken!" The thief is broken! ”

He couldn't think of any way he could resist the charge of the Qing army's horse team if he was in the position of the Hong army, but he felt that it was impossible—absolutely impossible.

In the past, the reason why the Qing army's horse team could not exert its power was completely related to the battlefield, and the Taiping army was very good at transforming the terrain and turning the villages they passed through into barricades, and now 4,300 horsemen galloped at will, which was really happy!

Even the Qing army's infantry felt that victory was in their hands, and they let out cheers one after another, and their morale was high, ready to use the breakthrough opened by the horse team to break through the defense line of the rainbow army in one fell swoop.

But the next moment, the monk king was slightly taken aback, and he saw the red thief in front of him change formation.

They quickly transformed into a formation, and the original column quickly changed into a horizontal formation, which dazzled him, and then a formation of two or three human walls appeared in front of the monk king.

What is this called? The monk king immediately found a term from his memory: "Hollow phalanx!" ”

That's right! It is a hollow phalanx, and the rainbow army is converted into a hollow phalanx based on an infantry company or two infantry companies. The phalanx was surrounded on all sides by rifles with bayonets, and the cold was overwhelming. Look at the position of the monk king. I saw that it was densely packed with bayonets!

And a small number of their artillery was in the middle of the phalanx, and the 17,800 red thieves in front of them suddenly turned into a hollow phalanx composed of bayonets, although they didn't know what kind of power this hollow phalanx had, but the monk king obviously felt that this battle was not as smooth as he imagined.

But he felt that the Red Thief was the bravest. It is impossible to rely on these 1,700 red thieves to resist the onslaught of tens of thousands of cavalry, especially the charge of 4,300 cavalry.

This time. The roaring cavalry has become the key target of the rainbow army's firepower.

"Put! Put! Put! ”

The monk king suddenly discovered two artillery positions that he had not paid attention to before, and with the exposure of the artillery positions, a hollow phalanx of rainbow troops also appeared near them. Look at these enemies with white armed belts. Monk Grinqin felt that he was a little sloppy.

But the sprint has already begun!

……

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The Mini rifle and the solid bullets and grapeshot bullets of the Rainbow Army were not vegetarians, and they immediately regarded the 4,300 cavalry group as the primary target of their attack, and solid bullets, shotguns, incendiary bombs, and other firearms of all kinds pressed towards the dark cloud of the monk and king's horse team.

From time to time, the unlucky Qing army was shot and fell, and then was crushed into a meatloaf by the large group of horses behind, but after all, this is the strongest capital of the Qing army's Manmengxun group, facing the comrades who fall from time to time. They also have the courage to accelerate the sprint.

Liu Senyan was one of these cavalrymen, and he was not a veteran of the Heilongjiang Horse Team or the Chahar Horse Team. It was the soldiers recruited by the Jiangbei battalion, because of his skilledness in the Qing army, he mixed a small general in the Qing army's horse team, and today is the time for him to exert his might. …,

When the thousands of horsemen rushed out, Liu Senyan's blood was boiling, there were only more than a thousand red thief infantry in front of him, how could he resist the impact of thousands of horses, he was even the first to rush into the red thief's formation to cut off a few thieves.

But he quickly paid the price for his Meng Lang, and only rushed ten or so steps, and the red thief had already changed the battle formation and turned into a phalanx that Liu Senyan could never understand - no, there were also some circular formations, looking at the two or even three rows of bayonets, Liu Senyan felt that this seemed to be a hedgehog with thorns everywhere, and it was difficult to start.

"Woohoo!"

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Platoon guns and shells shot at Liu Senyan's horse team, Liu Senyan saw with his own eyes a Xidan from Heilongjiang was shot and fell off the horse, and he could also hear the people behind him turning over their horses, but there was no time for Liu Senyan to imagine more details, there was a bayonet array of red thieves in front of him!

……

"Shoot! Shoot! Free Fire! ”

The battle has reached a white-hot level, and it is only now that the dragon spear regiment has shown its full strength, whether it is the regimental artillery company or the artillery company in the battalion, almost all of them have been pulled out, and each infantry company has formed a hollow phalanx, and some have used the terrain to form a circular formation, some are double human walls, and some are triple human walls.

When Juton saw the horse team that was like a tide pressing over, his heart also jumped several times, what a horse team this is!

But he shouted: "Tell the artillerymen to run out of shells as soon as possible, run out of shells!" Also, I would like to ask for support from the inspection point! ”

The number of troops participating in the battle suddenly increased from 1,7800 to more than 2,000, but almost all of the capital of the first regiment was here.

Monk Lingqin gritted his teeth and scolded: "Hurry up, hurry up!" Hurry up! ”

Although the horse team is now accelerating, preparing for the final sprint, but they have become the key target of the Hong Army, and they have suffered a lot of damage, and Seng Lingqin has seen with his own eyes that more than ten cavalrymen are either shot or their horses lose their front hooves, presumably where he did not see, the casualties are even greater.

These 4,300 horse teams are the most precious elite horses of the Qing Dynasty, and the death of a monk and king is heartbroken, not to mention that there are so many dead and wounded, today's battle, even if it breaks the Red Thief Dragon Spear Regiment, I am afraid that it will kill 3,000 enemies and injure 800 yourself.

But for the 4,300 horse team, the rain of bullets formed by the breech guns of the rainbow army was not enough to make them stop, and the rumbling of horse hooves was getting closer and closer, and Liu Linyan could already clearly see the white armament unique to the red thief, but he did not wait for the expected collapse.

On the contrary, because he rushed too far ahead, he had now found that the dozen or so hollow phalanxes of the red thieves had turned into more than a dozen terrifying monsters, and there were dense rows of guns bombarding them everywhere, and just now a projectile slipped past Liu Senyan's ear.

"The red thief is fierce, and it really deserves its name!" He Chun saw that the hollow phalanxes of the Hong Army had always stood still, quite the style of the Yue family's army, and had to sigh like this: "If it was an ordinary army, it would have collapsed a long time ago!" The dragon spear is indeed the first fierce party among the red thieves, but our army has won, and it is also in an instant! ”

As he spoke, the mighty horse team had almost collided with a hollow phalanx at the front of the Rainbow Army!

The reason why I say that it is almost the same, the image is telling the real situation on the battlefield, the fact is that before they collided with the bayonet forest of the rainbow army, the military horses consciously or unconsciously ran along the two wings of the phalanx.

Both men and horses were weak at this moment, and they all turned slightly in an attempt to surround this hollow phalanx, and they had just run forward twenty or thirty paces before they were shot dead by the flank fire of several hollow phalanxes.

People and horses fell to the ground like dumplings in a pot, but now Liu Senyan is in the midst of a hail of bullets and doesn't know what to do - he has never received such training. …,

The red thief's dozen or so hollow phalanxes were arranged one after another on the edge of the lake, forming fire support for each other, and the dozens of horsemen he led were now caught in the infantry platoon in three hollow squares and shot and killed, and from time to time they were knocked down and shouted, but he could only control the war horses to circle in the phalanx of the rainbow army.

He glanced back, but was disappointed to find that the infantry phalanx at the front had always stood still under the impact of thousands of horsemen, telling them that they were still fighting with the sound of gunfire, while the Qing cavalry did not hesitate to cross the infantry phalanx, then bypassed another infantry phalanx, and then found themselves trapped in the phalanx of the rainbow army.

"Damn it!" Someone beside him shouted, "Damn, this horse won't charge!" ”

Not only is the horse unwilling to rush into battle, but when people see such a dense bayonet in front, they also very consciously turn their horses' heads and let go, only the best trained cavalry and the densest formation, with the momentum of advancing in unison, so that the military horses do not have the slightest room to turn around, can rush up.

But for the Qing cavalry, such training requirements are too high, in the Bali Bridge monk king personally went into battle, as a result, the horse team rushed to the British and French coalition hollow phalanx dozens of meters away and could no longer rush, the cavalry on the horse could only take out bows and arrows and shoot at the British and French forces.

And now the entire cavalry brigade is in a circle between the hollow phalanxes of the rainbow army, Liu Senyan only feels that there are bayonet formations of red thieves in all directions, one on the left and one on the right, one in front and one in the back, and there are bayonet formations set up everywhere.

The group of cavalry he led was completely out of sight, except for a few horsemen who were drawing their bows on their horses and attempting to engage the red thieves, and the result was obvious—the Minnie rifle had outpaced the bow for two thousand years.

Obviously, there were 4,300 cavalry rushing into the formation, but until now, although the red thieves have been damaged, the horse team can only circle around their hollow phalanx, and then they are fired by multi-faceted firepower, and some Qing troops are so anxious that they can only jump off their horses, pick up their long weapons and attack into the hollow phalanx of the Hong army.

More cavalry stood in front of the hollow phalanx formed by the first regiment and the second company, and they stared at the battle situation in front of them.

The once invincible monk king horse team was caught off guard in front of these hollow phalanxes!

This is the power of gunpowder and steel!

ps: I'm sorry, tonight's severe cold caused migraine, I have to ask you for a leave, only such a change, everyone forgive me