Chapter 642: Ambush on All Sides?
In the face of such a situation, in fact, Kong Youxing had already learned the situation from the mouth of the scout cavalry and messengers running back and forth in front, and he was also very anxious, but the cavalry brigade cavalry that kept coming back from all directions made them very annoyed, and the cavalry of the Guards Brigade also joined in the attack on them, a group of cavalry for a while, and a group of them for a while, which made him very annoyed, he only had 16,000 troops in his hands, and this kind of attack caused all the 2,000 green battalion soldiers he brought to be scattered, and the new army town musketeers were injured and killed, which seriously hit morale, which made the footsteps of the original fast chase become moving.
It was moved, they were only seven miles behind the Guards Brigade of the Chinese Army, if you looked at it with your eyes, you could also cross some treetops, flat terrain, Xiaohe saw the battle ahead, gunsmoke, heard the gunshots, and could have caught up quickly, but for ten minutes, at most half an hour, things have become extremely difficult, half an hour they have traveled three miles, and there are still four miles to go, but more and more returning cavalry brigade soldiers harassed them, making them hesitate, Even stop for a dozen minutes to deal with these enemies.
Before he could deal with it, there was another sound of horses' hooves behind him, and Kong Youxing hurriedly asked the eight thousand soldiers of the new army town that he brought to set up a formation, ready to meet the enemy.
In the line of sight, a stream of cavalry from small to large, from large to one, from one piece to a mile wide cavalry line, and finally to the cavalry like a torrent, rushed towards the formation of the Lu army's recruit town that was still in a hurry in three columns.
The earth is shaking, more than 3,000 cavalry made a sound enough to make the panic of the Lu army soldiers collapse, after they fired indiscriminately, they ran back, hurriedly reloading bullets, and the enemy was still more than three miles away from them, after a period of indiscriminate shooting, the smoke here was confused, and the chaos was even greater, and the soldiers of the army led by Ma Bao in front also opened fire one after another, so it was not good, and hit the soldiers of the new military town who were arranging a formation to meet the cavalry attack of the Huaxia Army.
The soldiers of the Huaxia Army who were running rapidly slowed down and slowly pressed up, giving the soldiers of the Lu Army a chance to suppress the chaos, this is not that the cavalry of the Huaxia Army Cavalry Brigade does not know to take the opportunity to make a move, but after they have run for dozens of miles, the horses need to rest, and they need to let the horses recover some physical strength before the battle, so as to impact the enemy's formation, otherwise, the cavalry is good and the enemy collides, and the horses cannot break through the enemy's formation, and the cavalry is not as powerful as the infantry.
Caught in positional warfare, the cavalry in the melee will be quickly eliminated by the infantry, the infantry is stable, but the cavalry needs to be fast, and the cavalry without speed is really not as powerful as the infantry.
Kong Youxing saw that the cavalry brigade was like this, and he was also a person who had fought in battle, of course he knew that the cavalry of the cavalry brigade was not stupid, so he sent several generals around him in a fit of anger to personally suppress and gather the troops, and commanded the troops to recover from the chaos and prepare for battle.
Just when he was in a hurry, he suddenly rushed from the flank, thousands of cavalry directly crushed from the side of his team regardless of it, and rushed towards the cavalry of the cavalry brigade, at this time the cavalry of the cavalry brigade just urged the war horse to trot and prepare to charge, but as soon as the cavalry from this side rushed over, they immediately picked up their guns, and there was a salvo, and the cavalry of the Lu army fell off their horses one after another, and the second half of their cavalry was still in the formation of the new army town, some were shot and killed by the soldiers of the new army town, and some were tripped by the horses of the cavalry in front, in short, they did not hit each other, but they disrupted the military formation on their own side.
Kong Youxing's brain was hot, his eyes were black, and he fell off his horse, and his last thought was, "Ordinary bastard, a guy who has more than enough success and more than defeat." He had already seen that it was the cavalry of the Lu Army who had been sent out by Ma Bao to pursue the cavalry brigade before.
The cavalry of the Lu army has actually done well enough, they rushed over from the rear battlefield, and found that they wanted to catch up with the cavalry brigade cavalry, it was definitely not possible, so people who were familiar with the terrain took them to detour from the other side, but in the end, because the cavalry brigade ran with all its strength, so that they did not intercept the enemy in time, seeing that the cavalry brigade cavalry was ready to trot and accelerate, the cavalry general of the Lu army was in a hurry, and ran from the side of the new army regardless of Kong Youxing, and this time about two thousand soldiers of the new army town were cut off, and four or five hundred people were injured in the stampede, Because they were in a hurry, there were four or five hundred people who swung their knives and slashed them, and the remaining 1,000 soldiers dodged left and right to avoid being killed and injured by them, but this also disrupted the formation that had just recovered, and made Kong Youxing's plan to prepare to meet the cavalry brigade of the Huaxia Army fall through, which made the situation on the battlefield even more unbearable.
After three consecutive shots, the cavalry brigade threw away the arquebus, brandished the saber and rushed up, only one wave of one thousand cavalry scattered the opponent's cavalry, the second wave of cavalry smashed into the army formation of eight thousand people and slashed and slaughtered, the third wave rushed directly over, and scattered Kong Youxing's general guards, and then harassed the tail of Ma Bao's new army town in front, and returned to deal with Kong Youxing's eight thousand soldiers and three thousand Lu army cavalry.
The 8,000 Ma Bao Xinjun Town generals in front didn't know what to do, and they didn't have any subordinates to each other within ten minutes, so they looked at both sides in place, on one side were the 4,000 soldiers of the Xinjun Town of the Lu Army led by Ma Bao, who was killed and fled in panic, and on the other side were the 8,000 soldiers led by Kong Youxing.
After being attacked, they began to counterattack under the leadership of the generals, half to meet the fleeing Ma Bao's troops, and half to reinforce Kong Youxing's side.
But not eight thousand soldiers, maybe only six thousand, because there were two thousand veterans, or soldiers who were afraid of fear, as soon as the troops parted and charged on both sides, they hula and scattered, and they fled on both sides.
Seeing them flee, half of the soldiers who were reinforcing Ma Bao began to fall like crumbs of bread, at first one or two soldiers learned to escape, then a few soldiers, and finally dozens or hundreds of them fled in all directions, many people threw away the guns in their hands, swords and knives at their waists, and some even took off the military uniforms of the Lu soldiers on their bodies, wore short coats, and wide sack pants to escape, and finally disliked the pants being too obstructive, so they simply tore up the pants and ran away barefoot in shorts without worry.
This side is not optimistic, any dozens of cavalry brigade cavalry cavalry who rushed out can make their collapse speed accelerate, and this side also began to flee, and in the end there were only 2,000 soldiers who could join the attack, and there were only 1,700 or 800 soldiers over there.
Just when they thought that they could solve the problem, the soldiers of the cavalry brigade scattered around the previous attack also circled back, dozens, hundreds, three or four hundred, more and more, and it looked as if there were cavalry brigades of the Huaxia Army everywhere.
At the beginning, Gao Yigong took more than 7,000 cavalry, even if he was killed by the enemy more than 1,000 cavalry, there were more than 6,000 cavalry, even if he lost hundreds of cavalry in the battle with the enemy, there were still more than 5,000 cavalry, this time he also led more than 3,000 cavalry to come, and the remaining cavalry scattered within a radius of 100 miles was not mainly wiped out by the enemy, and at this time, most of them returned to this route to search for their main forces, so they became the last straw that crushed Ma Bao and Kong Youxing.
Kong Youxing was taken by his own soldiers and fled for more than ten miles, and finally woke up, and when he saw that there were only two or three hundred of his own personal soldiers and generals around him, the rest of the troops did not know where they had gone.
Just when he was standing on a hill and sighing, suddenly a burst of gunfire rang out from behind him, and he looked back, Mom, why did there be thousands of infantry musketeers of the Guards Brigade of the Chinese Army here, where did these musketeers come from?