Chapter 82: Cavalry PK Cavalry
Isn't that bullying? If the two of them have just met, everyone is on the starting line, these Jiannu really don't have to be afraid of this group of cavalry of the Dazhong Army, with their strength, they can completely let go of their hands and fight with the cavalry of the Dazhong Army, and compete to distinguish between one strong and which is weak, but now that they are newly defeated, the morale can be said to have completely fallen into the crotch of the pants, plus their desperate horses were chased by their Dazhong Army for dozens of miles, at this time when the people are sleepy and the horses are lacking, Suddenly, such a strong cavalry of the Great Chinese Army popped up, didn't it make it clear that they wanted to beat their group of Jiannu water dogs?
So don't look at the strength of the Jiannu under the command of Haoge at this time, which is about the same as Wang Chengping's strength, but these Jiannu have already become frightened birds, and they have no fighting spirit at all.
Hauge turned over and rode his horse, shouting and commanding his Jiannu soldiers to line up to meet the enemy, he looked up at the sky, the sun was already deflected at this time, and it was not long before it got dark, he took a deep breath and roared: "Cheer up!" You all remember to this king, we are all warriors of Jianzhou, and we have always been the only ones who bullied their Han barbarians, when will it be their turn to bully us like this? Riding on horseback, there is no one in this world who is the opponent of our Jianzhou warriors! I have cheered up the spirit of this king, since they are going to fight, let's let them fight! Hugh is going to ruin our Haidongqing's reputation! ”
Hearing Haoge's roar, many Jiannu soldiers cheered up a little, not that Haoge wanted to fight to the death with Wang Chengping's troops here, but that Haoge, as a general who had followed his father and grandfather since childhood, knew very well their situation at this time, and now they were already sleepy and tired, once he saw the Dazhong Army and ran away, with their current horsepower, they would not be able to escape no matter what, if he really ran, then he could only hand over his back to the Dazhong Army and kill him casually!
So at this time, he doesn't want to fight and has to fight, otherwise, he won't be able to survive the dark, I'm afraid that even these generals, including him, will all be slaughtered by others, as a general with rich experience, although Haoge is the younger generation of Jiannu, but also one of the best in their generation, at this time, he still made the right choice, that is, he can't run here anymore, only a death battle can have the possibility of survival.
So he shouted and ordered his generals to get on their horses and assemble, and galloped back and forth in front of them, constantly roaring loudly, shouting that these Tartar soldiers were all Haidongqing of Liaodong and warriors of Jianzhou, so that some morale was boosted.
These Jiannu saw that the matter had come to this, whether they were desperate or not was a death, rather than being shamefully chased and killed behind their backs, it was better to fight, and the death was more glorious, at this point, these Jiannu Tartars did much better than the vast majority of Ming soldiers, and when they were really cornered, they all became mad dogs, and began to show their fangs, and they were too wimply at the end of the day, and they were chased like lost dogs, and now they are going to fight hard for their last honor, So these thousands of Jiannu soldiers and generals also followed Haoge and shouted at this time.
When Wang Chengping rode his horse and rushed to the distance of two or three hundred steps away from Jiannu, he pulled the reins of the horse and raised his right hand high, and the thousands of cavalry under his command behind him immediately reined in their horses and quickly discharged the array. Later, he was secretly sent to northern Jin by Xiao Tianjian and continued to act as a horse thief, so he was already a very qualified cavalry general, so the cavalry under his command was definitely first-class in the Dazhong Army, and even looking at the whole world, his cavalry was not necessarily worse than the Mongolian cavalry and the cavalry of the Jiannu Tartars, so for commanding these cavalry, he was familiar with the road like an arm.
"Humph! Grandma's! Tartar, this is going to be a battle of trapped beasts! Hum! I'm afraid of them! The end of the crossbow! Today, let's also let them see the power of our cavalry! Compete with them to see if their Tartar is good at riding or ours!
Brethren! Are you afraid of tartars? Wang Chengping said with a sneer to the officers who followed him, and then suddenly raised his arms and raised his sword and shouted.
"Don't be afraid! ......" immediately resounded behind him with a tsunami-like roar, and the cavalry of thousands of large middle armies answered Wang Chengping's question with their roars.
A clerk with the army was at the back of the team at this time, looking at the robes in front of him who raised their arms and shouted, they couldn't help but be enthusiastic, and then they raised their arms and shouted, charging into battle for them, the staff officers and the clerks of the army, it was not their turn, but they were also proud to be in it, to be one of them, several staff officers and clerks to accompany the army looked at each other, one by one from each other's faces to see their excitement, one suddenly shouted: "The husband should be like this!" ”
Two horsemen who were like bullfights started a historic collision on the wide land south of Shunyi City, which is probably the first time that their cavalry has faced off with the enemy's cavalry on such a large scale on the battlefield since the formation of the Chinese army.
After the two armies made a slight adjustment, Haoge and Wang Chengping shouted almost at the same time: "Kill! ……”
But Haoge shouted to kill thieves, but Wang Chengping shouted to kill slaves!
When the cavalry of the two armies of more than 10,000 heard this, they roared wildly together, and began to urge their war horses, like two torrents, rushing towards each other.
The Tartars on the Jiannu side had the advantage in riding and archery, and the horse armor soldiers in the front row, one by one, did not lay down their long weapons when they started, but took off the riding bows from their saddles, and drew arrows from the sacks on both sides of the saddle, and while speeding up the charge, they put the arrows on the bowstring and the wrench on their thumbs on the bowstring......
But the cavalry on the side of the Dazhong Army is not ambiguous, many of them also flash, and many of them are even Mongolians, but they did not serve Jiannu, but because they had a grudge against Jiannu, they fled into the pass, and as a result, a large number of them were incorporated into his horse thief team by Wang Chengping, and gradually became relieved, and followed Wang Chengping to do it, so these Mongolian cavalry, immediately kung fu is only stronger than Jiannu Tartars, and riding and archery is not a problem for them at all, including many Han cavalry, They live in the border area all the year round, and they also live a nomadic life similar to that of the Mongols, so they are also very good at archery, and their riding skills are not ambiguous at all, so the two armies are not equal in terms of riding and archery.
But there is an advantage that Jiannu does not have on the side of the Dazhong Army, that is, Xiao Tianjian has begun to equip the cavalry with flintlock short guns in large quantities in the past two years, eliminating the kind of three-eyed gun commonly used by the cavalry of the Ming Army. However, this kind of short gun has a weakness, that is, they often only have the opportunity to fire one shot on the battlefield, and then have no chance to reload and fire, so it is a bit of a hammer deal, but really on the battlefield, the cavalry hedges at high speed, even if it is with a bow, it may not necessarily have the opportunity to put two more arrows, so a hammer can decide the life and death of both sides, this shortcoming is acceptable, like some cavalry, simply pinned two in the waist, one of which they asked from some brothers who are good at using bows and arrows, As a result, they had two chances to open fire.
Therefore, the quality of the equipment of the cavalry of the Dazhong Army is to exceed that of the Jiannu Army, not to mention that the morale of the Dazhong Army is at its absolute peak, they are here to fight the water dogs, and although the soldiers on the Jiannu side are fighting the trapped beasts, but after all, they belong to the side of the water dogs, and the brave wins when the two strong meet, and the brave man naturally cannot be the Jiannu side.
At first, the two torrents of war horses were only full of small steps, and then under the control of the knights, they gradually began to adjust the pace to jogging, and after a while, the speed of the war horses gradually began to accelerate, and the ground on the entire battlefield began to tremble slightly, and the floating soil on the ground kept vibrating, and the horse's hooves suddenly stepped on the ground, raising a cloud of floating dust, and the whole earth seemed to be revived under the beating of countless horses' hooves.
The distance between the two armies was getting closer and closer, and both sides were staring at each other's desperate search for their favorite targets, and the bows began to be pulled into a half-moon shape by the knights on both sides, and the noses of the short guns were greatly pulled apart, and the knights held them in their hands and raised.
Just when the horses of the two sides accelerated to a rapid speed, the distance between the two sides was also shortened to about thirty paces, only to hear the sound of a bowstring on the battlefield at this time, and then a dense sound like a burst of beans sounded, and the cavalry who rushed to the front of the two sides began to release arrows at each other, and opened fire.
Dense rain of arrows and projectiles staggered in a short space, straight towards their target, and quickly completed their mission, only to see the front of the two armies, suddenly sounded a miserable sound, the front of the two armies at the same time and many cavalry were shot or shot, some people began to fall under the horse, and in an instant were trampled under the horse's hooves by the war horse of the robe roaring behind.
To be honest, riding a bow is relatively soft, the range is limited, and the power is limited, more often it plays a role in harassment, and it is obviously a bit too high to use them to shoot and kill people, not to mention that the two armies are basically armor-clad generals, and the power of this bow and arrow is not enough to kill, unless they happen to hit the enemy's unobstructed face, or shoot through the crack in the armor, otherwise it is difficult to shoot the enemy off the horse, so there are not many people in the two armies who really fall from the arrow.
But the short guns of the Dazhong Army are different, they are made of coarse-grained iron sand wrapped in paper, although it is also not easy to break the armor, but it is a large piece, and it is fired at a person at a distance of twenty or thirty steps, which can ensure that this guy will inevitably have a few grains of iron sand on his face.
So the Jiannu army suffered a big loss in front of the short gun, when even dozens of Jiannu covered their faces and lost their faces, screaming and shaking on the horseback, they crashed off the war horse after a while, and were trampled to death on the ground by the horse of the robe that rushed from behind.
The result is a hedge between the two armies, before the battle, Jiannu suffered a lot of losses, so that their formation was also affected by some of the neat impact formation, the neat impact formation, was suddenly disrupted some, but the big Chinese army, although there are many generals also hit the arrow but they did not fall off the horse, hanging arrows on their bodies, screaming and scolding to collect the bow or short gun, have taken off the spear on the saddle, clamped it hard under the armpit, the tip of the gun is flattened together, pointing at the Tartar soldiers rushing on the opposite side, their losses are compared to the Tartars, On the contrary, it is much smaller, and the formation is much less affected.
Twenty or thirty paces away, for two groups of relatively fast galloping cavalry, it was only a blink of an eye to collide together, the bow and arrow in front of them was simply an appetizer, and after an instant, the two cavalry brigades collided fiercely.