Chapter 57: Decisive Victory 2
But now, such a platoon of guns in the face of such a rolling impact of men and horses, but did not completely stop the official cavalry from approaching, just after each row of their bird guns was released, knocked down a group of Guanning army men and horses, but more officers and cavalry did not stop advancing because of this, they jumped over the overturned robes on the ground and their wounded horses, continued to maintain a fairly high speed to rush close to the large array of the Xingtian Army, with the next row of bird guns sounded, a group of officers and soldiers fell in front of the formation on their backs, However, it did not completely prevent the official army from rushing to the large array of the Xingtian Army, there were still more people and horses rushing forward, and the Guan Ning Army at this time also showed the courage they had never had, the reason is very simple, in their minds, maybe they can't beat the Jiannu Tartars, but they can't be defeated in front of a thief army that has always been looked down upon by them, this ridiculous self-esteem supported their morale, and drove them to show the courage to move forward like never before, and rushed madly towards the Xingtian Army's large array.
"Spear down!" Seeing that the officers and troops on both flanks had begun to rush to both sides of the large formation, the officers in charge of commanding the pikemen began to stand in the formation and roar loudly.
After hearing the order, the pikemen on both wings of the two phalanxes of the Xingtian Army shouted in a deep voice almost at the same time, "Kill!" Without saying a word, the front knife players all squatted on the ground, lowered their posture, and covered their bodies with shields, only above the shields, revealing helmets and a pair of eyes, the first row of pikemen bowed their knees and half-squatted, leaned their bodies back slightly, shifted their center of gravity back, pressed the gun to the ground with their right hand, and held the spear in their left hand on the shoulder of the knife player in the front row, and kept the sharp tip of the spear pointing diagonally upward, just keeping the tip of the spear in the position where the tip of the spear could pierce the chest of the war horse.
The second row of pikemen also lowered their bodies, pressed their guns against the ground, and pointed their spears diagonally into the air, just so that the tips of their spears were aimed at the height above the neck of the enemy horses.
Naturally, pikemen can't deal with cavalry in the same way as enemy infantry, and they can't stop the huge impact of the opposing cavalry by holding a gun with arm strength alone, and they can only resist the impact of the cavalry by relying on the ground to support the spear, otherwise the cavalry can disrupt them at once, and in that case, the phalanx will not be able to maintain its order anyway.
The cavalry on both flanks began to overflow the large array of the Xingtian army like a flood, and the Guanning army, after withstanding the volley of several rows of birds of the Xingtian army, paid a considerable price in casualties, and also launched their counterattack.
The cavalrymen on horseback began to ignite the three-eyed guns in their hands, and began to fight back against the large array of the Heavenly Punishment Army with the same bean-like launch.
Although the three-eyed gun is not powerful enough for long-range shots, the accuracy is also very poor, but it is still very suitable for cavalry group launches, not to mention that the infantry formation of the Xingtian Army is very dense, and it happens to be an excellent target, as long as it is not too high or too low, it will basically hit the target.
Even if it is separated by two wooden fences, more than 20 steps away, it also exerts the power of the three-eyed gun, in a three-eyed gun, Guan Ningjun immediately returned the color of the Xingtian Army, even if the flying lead hit the Xingtian Army's formation, the rattan card held by the knife card in the front row was suddenly beaten to pieces, and the soldiers of the Xingtian Army who were shot one by one in the formation also let out a miserable scream, when even if they fell softly, or fell forward or backward in front of the formation, some soldiers were shot in the head, and they fell down without saying a word.
According to the requirements of the Xingtian Army's drills, as long as a soldier in the front row falls, the soldiers behind will immediately take the initiative to take two steps forward and take over their position.
At this time, the long-term training of the Xingtian Army has shown its effect, although the soldiers can't help but be afraid, but at this time, there is no rout because of fear, after the soldiers fell, one by one the soldiers stepped forward to take their place, even the wounded who fell to the ground, they also tried their best to control themselves, gritted their teeth and covered their wounds to not make a miserable howl that could transmit fear, and also rolled dissatisfiedly, affecting the surrounding comrades, Wait as quietly as possible for the military medical guards to treat them after the battle.
And the musketeers are also the same as other arms, while bearing the counterattack of the officers and soldiers, they continue to be silent and keep quickly reloading ammunition, and then step forward in a row, raise their guns and fire, and then retreat and reload, everything still maintains the original speed and neatness.
The two sides opened fire on each other almost face to face, and then fell down one after another, and the entire place where the two armies fought was shrouded in clouds of gunsmoke, and it was almost impossible to see the other party's figures, but even so, the firecrackers of the Xingtian Army stepped forward for the first time, and kept firing volleys.
Although the three-eyed gun of the official army has the advantage of the number of guns, but after all, this thing is a hammer deal, and it is impossible to reload it at the station, so there is no need to mention the reciprocating launch, as soon as the ammunition of the three tubes is finished, the three-eyed gun will become a long-handled hammer, and it will suddenly lose the ability to continue shooting. As a result, the pressure on the Xingtian Army was suddenly reduced, and the number of casualties was suddenly reduced.
However, the officers and soldiers still rushed to the outermost wooden fence at this time, and some soldiers who were not afraid of death took off the ropes from the saddle, waved them out vigorously, and put the ropes on these wooden fences, and while braving the shooting of the Xingtian Army, they turned around on the horse's back, and shouted loudly to urge the war horse.
After all, this wooden fence was buried in a hurry, and the depth of the burial into the ground was limited, and under the drag of some cavalry of the official army, that is, after holding on for a while, it was pulled to the ground in pieces, and then more cavalry immediately jumped over these fallen wooden fences, and pounced on the next wooden fence.
I could only hear one of the officers in the Heavenly Army shouting: "Drop the bomb!" After that, when the front row of sword players threw a bunch of iron bullets in front of them again, they soon heard a roar among the officers and cavalry in front of the formation, and suddenly a large number of officers and soldiers with their horses let out a terrible neighing and mourning sound, and fell to the ground one after another.
The wounded horses did not fall for a while, but they were all covered with blood, and they no longer listened to the greetings of the knights on horseback, and they neighed madly, jumped up wildly in the formation, lifted off the cavalry on their backs, and then scurried wildly.
Such a counterattack with thunderbolts, suddenly rushed to the front of the Xingtian army of these officers and cavalry to blow up a person on their backs, although the Guanning army was full of arrogance, but also quite daring to fight, but at this time, it still began to be irrepressible chaos, some people looked at the fallen robe around them in horror, no longer dared to rush forward, a large number of officers and soldiers began to turn their horses, crazy and retreated to the back.
Although Zu Kuan led his troops to charge in the middle of the Chinese army, he did not forget his duty, and always observed the situation of the officers and soldiers on both wings.
You must know that these generals are brought here from the north by himself, in the past year or so, he led them to conquer all kinds of thieves everywhere in Henan, but there have never been such heavy casualties as today, but at this time, he can no longer order a retreat, he knows that morale is a drum, and then decline, three and exhausted, although the Guanning army is strong, but after all, it is still a person, the previous two battles, their officers and soldiers have suffered a big loss, and their morale has already been hit, Under his command, now he finally encouraged again, he must use this morale to defeat this thief army in a battle, and disrupt their large array, in order to achieve this victory, once he orders a retreat because of the heavy casualties, then their morale will immediately decline, and it will not be easy to launch such an offensive again.
Therefore, while controlling the horse, he neighed and commanded his generals to continue to charge the formation, so as to completely destroy the wooden fence in front of the thief army and disrupt their large formation, as for the casualties, he could not care about it at this time.
The cavalry on both wings were in a slightly better situation, they suffered relatively little firepower, and there was no wooden fence to stop them, so they quickly jumped over the line of the Xingtian Army, and from both sides to the two wings of the Xingtian Army's large array, under the command of the generals, tried to attack the Xingtian Army's large array from both sides, as long as the two wings of the Xingtian Army's large array were in chaos, then the front would also collapse, and what made them happy was that this time the cavalry of the Xingtian Army did not go out to fight to contain their actions, So they all screamed excitedly, and began to ride their horses to rush towards the large array of the Xingtian Army, but when they rushed to the large array of the Xingtian Army, they were horrified to see rows of guns appear in front of them.
Although the cavalry has a great advantage over the infantry, it does not mean that they will win, especially when the cavalry is dealing with the strict infantry array, even more so, as long as the infantry formation is not chaotic, the pikemen are not chaotic, then the cavalry has no chance of winning, and today's Xingtian Army array is like this, the spear of the hedgehog is like a forest, it is the nemesis of the cavalry, as long as it is not desperate, few cavalry will stupidly rush towards such a dense array, even the war horses they sit on are the same, When encountering obstacles in front of them, they will still take the initiative to circumvent them, and will never use their flesh to collide with such a dense forest of guns.
What makes them even more unacceptable is that after arriving here, the flank of the Xingtian Army has been spread out to them, but in this direction, there are still groups of fire guns holding sharp bird guns waiting for them, only to see that at the rear corner of the flank of the Xingtian Army, suddenly a fire flashed, and then a piece of gunpowder smoke was raised, and suddenly a rain of bullets was sprinkled into the crowd of officers and soldiers, some officers and soldiers only had time to exclaim, and they were overturned by the wounded horses, and more war horses were injured, and they neighed miserably, The cavalry on their backs scurried about, and no matter how the cavalry on their backs pulled the reins, they no longer listened to the call.