Chapter 18 No Turning Back
Although the huge explosion sound will inevitably reach the ears of the war horses of the Xingtian Army cavalry, which are also war horses, and will inevitably disturb these war horses, but when the Xingtian Army cavalry was training, Xiao Tianjian had already considered that their firearms of the Xingtian Army on the battlefield were far more than the enemy's, so he ordered a new subject to be added to the cavalry training, that is, to let people constantly put some large firecrackers at a very close distance from the war horses, and use the continuous violent explosion sound to temper the war horse's ability to adapt to the explosion sound on the battlefield. Therefore, the war horses of the cavalry of the Xingtian Army have adapted to this kind of explosion, although the explosion just now was violent, but most of the war horses were not frightened by this, and basically could obey the call of the cavalry on their backs, so the cavalry of the Xingtian Army was able to get out.
Dolgon and Yue Tuo looked at the huge flash of light flashing from the distant artillery array and the huge mushroom cloud that rose up after that, and couldn't help but close their eyes in distress, these Hongyi cannons were cast by them in the Qing Dynasty, and they didn't bring out much of them on this expedition, but this time they were reimbursed by more than half of the thief army of the Xingtian Army, and along with these Hongyi cannons, there were also many Han gunners they trained, which can be regarded as a big loss.
When Dorgon opened his eyes again, the expression on his face became fierce, and he roared, "I will make these dogs pay!" Give me an order to go down and quickly intercept this Heavenly Punishment Thief Army, and not let them get close to the Ming army camp! Outflank them and kill them all! ”
So as the dull trumpet of the bull horn sounded, groups of Qing soldiers and horses began to be mobilized to meet the Xingtian army that was entering the battlefield.
At the same time that Situ Liang raided the Tartar artillery array, Xiao Tianjian personally led three battalions to cross the Tuliang, taking each battalion as a phalanx, and drove into the battlefield without hesitation.
The phalanx of the three war battalions cooperated with each other, and hurried to the Ming army camp in the east, from the telescope, Xiao Tianjian had already seen that these Xuan soldiers under Lu Xiangsheng had reached the end of the crossbow, the artillery of the Ming army had all been dumb, and the bows and arrows were basically exhausted, and the camp had begun to collapse under the siege of countless Tartar soldiers, and more and more Tartar soldiers had entered the camp in some places. The entire Ming army camp has completely fallen into chaos, it can be said that Lu Xiangsheng's troops have reached the point of danger, so Xiao Tianjian can no longer hesitate, personally led three battalions of soldiers into the battlefield, and quickly rushed towards the Ming army camp.
And the performance of the cavalry battalion made the Xingtian army clearly see in their eyes, when Situ Liang led the troops into the Tartar artillery array, although there was a silent order in the army, but still couldn't help but let out cheers, and then they saw Situ Liang leading the cavalry to start breaking out in reverse, and after a while, they felt that the ground suddenly shook violently, and a dazzling light flashed in the Tartar artillery array in the distance, and then a large mushroom-shaped black cloud rose up, and then after a while, they heard a huge roar. The corpses of countless Tartar soldiers were lifted into the sky, and even a few Hongyi cannons with Tartars were overturned, so even Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but shout in a deep voice!
The three battalions were staggered and advanced under the command of the generals of each battalion, and the zigzag formation was headed by Liu Yaoben's iron bone battalion, forming a large formation in the shape of an arrow and cutting towards the battlefield.
The group of cavalrymen with white flags, who were confused by the violent explosion, finally managed to control their frightened horses, and the leader of the team, Jia Lazhangjing, was even more angry, shouting loudly and leading this group of Tartar cavalry to chase down Situ Liang's cavalry battalion.
They all saw that the cavalry of the Xingtian Army, which had destroyed their artillery array, tried to reflexively join their main force, and the main force of this Xingtian Army was not much, only less than 4,000 people, in the eyes of these brave Tartar soldiers, although the soldiers and horses of this Xingtian Army were very strong, they really didn't take them very seriously.
Thinking about their Houjin since Nurhachi's army, every time they fought with the Ming army, the Ming army almost did not have a decent victory in the field battle, and almost always lost under their Houjin soldiers and horses, so the Tartar soldiers had already formed a fixed mindset, that is, in the field battle, the southerners could not be their opponents.
Thinking about the strongest Guan Ning army in the Ming Dynasty, they are not afraid, how can they be afraid of such a thief army who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty? In the eyes of these brave white flag warriors, they were only allowed a few impacts, and this one suddenly broke into the battlefield, and the thieves who tried to support the Ming army would immediately collapse, although they suffered their losses just now, but it was because they were caught off guard, how could this time let these thieves who dared to provoke their Qing army see how powerful they were these Jurchen iron horses.
So this Jia Lazhangjing immediately led more than a thousand cavalry to fight hard and chased towards Situ Liang's cavalry battalion, and Situ Liang knew very well that the number of cavalry of the Xingtian Army was limited at the moment, although he was not afraid of leading the cavalry battalion and the Tartar cavalry to face to face in a death battle, but he also knew that the Tatar cavalry far exceeded their Xingtian Army too much, and they could not afford it at the moment, and the role of the cavalry in the Xingtian Army was not the main force, but as a strange army, and now was not the time for them to fight hard, when Xiao Tianjian gave the order just now, He made it clear that let them raid the Tartar artillery array, and after solving the Tartar artillery array, they immediately returned to the main formation and waited for the opportunity to attack again, so Situ Liang did not dare to disobey Xiao Tianjian's order, and once the assault was successful, he took the initiative to start withdrawing from the main formation, allowing the Tartar cavalry to chase after them with shouting and cursing behind him.
The Tartar cavalry was still a little slower in the end, although they tried their best, but they still failed to catch up with Situ Liang's cavalry battalion, and watched Situ Liang's cavalry battalion converge with their infantry array, avoiding behind the infantry formation, so this angry Jia Lazhangjing immediately pointed the spearhead at the infantry formation of the Xingtian Army, he glanced at the strange zigzag phalanx of the Xingtian Army, and immediately pointed the iron lance in his hand to the phalanx on the left side of the Xingtian Army, and urged the horse to lead the troops to rush over.
The battalion on the left side of the phalanx was led by Li Yantian, since he followed the clay pot to Xiao Tianjian's men, he first received a period of training, and then Xiao Tianjian gave him a reserve battalion commander, and later in the battle with Liu Bao to kill Cao Wenyao, his reserve battalion was converted into a war battalion and was placed under Liu Bao's command.
Li Yantian also lived up to expectations, and trained the battalion soldiers under his command quite well, and soon made several military exploits, becoming the main combat battalion in Liu Bao's hands, and this time Xiao Tianjian went north and personally named him and brought his battalion out.
Li Yantian in the formation when he saw the more than 1,000 cavalry with white flags rushing towards them from the Tartars, he was excited and just wanted to shout a few times, he had long wanted to show the strength of the battalion generals under his command in front of Xiao Tianjian, so he immediately ordered to prepare for the battle, and the sword players holding the big shield were lined up on the left flank of the phalanx, and the big shield was horizontal, and the lower edge of the big shield was heavily clubbed on the ground.
The musketeers were also ready for engagement, and one by one they immediately moved the nose of the self-generated musket, and finally made a check, while the pikemen were also ready to engage in battle, ready to step forward at any time to take the position of the musketeers, put the spears down, and resist the assault of the tartars.
As the Tartar cavalry got closer and closer, both sides almost saw each other's faces clearly, and at this time, the Tartar soldiers saw that there were actually many thieves in this thief army who were holding bird guns in their hands, and even relaxed, because for so many years, they had repeatedly fought with the Ming army in the northern border towns, and they had already understood the performance of the bird guns used in the Ming army very thoroughly, and they were also very clear about the tactics of the Ming army.
The Ming army border army is also equipped with a lot of bird guns, but in the hands of the Ming army, these bird guns are not sharp weapons at all, often see the Tartars rushing over, not waiting for the order of the officer, they began to fire one after another, and the quality of the Ming army's bird guns is really poor, often after a fire, can not kill a few Tartar soldiers, but a lot of explosions, and the power is also very poor, forty steps away can not penetrate the armor on the Tartar soldiers, seventy steps away even non-armor-piercing people can not necessarily be killed and wounded, Therefore, when the Tartar soldiers meet the Ming army's musketeers, they often bow their heads and cover their faces with their arms, even if they are hit by the guns, they can't kill them, but after the Ming army's musketeers fire, the reloading speed is very slow, often not waiting for them to complete the reloading, the Tartar cavalry will kill them in front of them, chopping melons and chopping vegetables to kill them to the ground, so the Tartars have been not afraid of the Ming army's bird guns at all for so many years, but regard the Ming people's firecrackers as a joke.
This time, when they saw clearly that nearly half of the thieves in this Xingtian army were holding this ridiculous bird gun, many of them began to sneer, not only did not dodge or dodge, but began to urge the horses to accelerate, only slightly widening the distance between some war horses and war horses, reducing the possibility of being bulleted, many cavalry also took off their horn bows from the saddle, pulled arrows from the quiver and put them on the bowstring, and after rushing close to the Xingtian army, they shot these damned thieves with bows and arrows.
"Steady! Don't be nervous! Wait until they're seventy paces before firing! Aim for their warhorses to fight! The commander of one of the musketeers ordered loudly.
No one spoke, they all pursed their lips and stared at the Tartar cavalry that was getting closer and closer, this was the first time they had fought head-on with the Tartars, and today they had also seen the Tartar soldiers captured by the scouts, although these Tartars were fierce and ugly enough, but they still had flesh and blood, and their heads would fall to the ground if they were stabbed, so they gradually stopped feeling nervous, at most because the adrenaline secretion was more vigorous when they were about to fight, and they were no longer afraid, So they all silently calculated the distance between the Tartar cavalry and them in their hearts, put their fingers on the retainer of the trigger, and felt the sense of security brought to them by the firecracker, at this time the temperature was extremely low, although the equipment of the Xingtian Army had improved a lot, and the generals had been issued sheepskin or rabbit skin gloves, but when the firecracker was about to fight, in order to operate the firecracker conveniently, he could not wear gloves to operate, and the hands of the firecracker were frozen blue and purple, covered with chilblains, However, this did not affect them in the slightest to operate the firearms in their hands, and they waited for these Tartar soldiers to rush over and send them to death.
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