The sound of horses' hooves roared like thunder, the ground trembled violently, and more than 600 cavalry of the Eight Banners followed closely behind the leading horses, and they crashed into the Ming army array in a daze.

Without picking up their bows and arrows to shoot another round, all the Eight Banners soldiers pursed their lips tightly, clamped their legs on the belly of their horses, held their weapons in one hand and held the reins in the other, waiting for the cavalry in front to break through the Ming army's defense line, and then rush in through the gap.

In the face of the impact of the Qing cavalry, if it were replaced by an ordinary Ming army, it would have been panicked, and there was even a possibility of collapse and escape. After all, in the face of a cavalry attack at high speed, not everyone can maintain their composure.

However, this army under Wu Ping was different, they were the army of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, they had experienced thousands of miles from Beijing to the south, they had experienced two defeats in Wuhu, Yangzhou, and the main force of the Eight Banners in the south, and they had defeated the powerful Dutch barbarian army on Dongfan Island. They are invincible heroes, and they have their own pride!

Therefore, in the face of hundreds of Eight Banner cavalry coming at high speed, no one panicked, no one tried to escape, and some were just extremely calm.

The sword and shield men in the front row pressed their shoulders against their shields, ready to use their shields and flesh to resist the cavalry's charge, while the pikemen standing behind the shield soldiers clenched their spears tightly, and the tip of their spears pointed directly at the Tartars who were about to ram them.

Behind the thin lines, the crossbowmen had already picked up their well-wound crossbows, and the musketeers were hooking the frame of the muskets.

This is the sound of the bowstring popping out of the crossbow arrow, "Bang bang..."This is the sound of the fire gun being fired, and finally the sound of the fire gun overwhelmed the trembling of the bowstring, and the sound of the fire gun in the whole position became one, and clouds of gunsmoke came out of the muzzle of the fire gun, and gradually connected together, like clouds and mist.

A shot was fired, and there was no energy to see the effect of the shot, and the gunners hurriedly continued to reload the gunpowder projectiles. An arrow was fired, and the crossbowman did not have time to look at it, so he pulled up the arrow stuck in the ground in front of him and placed it on the crossbow.

The soldiers who were fighting had no time to look at the results, but the main general Wu Ping couldn't help but look at it. Through the mist formed by the thin smoke of gunpowder, I saw that the Qing cavalry who were charging fell from their horses one by one, no, they fell down together with their horses.

For the Ming army's firecrackers, the galloping Qing cavalry target is so big, even if the hit rate of the firebolt is low, a thousand firecrackers salvo to form a barrage is extremely terrifying, even if the Eight Banners are wearing armor, they can't be blocked at all, not to mention the crossbow arrows shot by eight hundred crossbow archers, but the hit rate is much higher than that of the firebolts. And they were afraid that the arrows would not be able to shoot through the armor worn by the Eight Banners, so the crossbow archers chose to shoot the galloping war horses, and the target of the war horses was much larger than that of the horse cavalry.

As a result, the leader of the Eight Banners was horrified to see that when he was still more than 20 steps away from the Ming army array, with a loud sound, a rain of projectiles and arrows flew out from the Ming army array, shooting into the cavalry queue behind him.

You don't need to look at it, you can see from the corner of your eye, a large number of subordinates were shot off their horses by the barrage, and a large number of galloping war horses neighed and fell with arrows.

Elite, the Ming army on the opposite side is definitely an elite division! Just from the continuous firing of firearms, the cavalry leader could judge that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army on the opposite side was absolutely good. Being able to form a defensive array in such a short period of time, and its musketeers loading ammunition and shooting in such a short time is not something that ordinary armies can do!

The cavalry leader was sad and indignant to find that in the face of the dense bullet rain of the Ming army, the cavalry under his command was a huge target, and he was rushing up to let the family fight......

But at this time, it was useless to regret it, he could take his cavalry to turn around and not attack the Ming army's array, but that would show the weak abdomen to the enemy, and more people would be shot.

As for whether he could defeat the Ming army in front of him and break through the array of the Ming army, he didn't dare to think about it anymore, just by looking at the afterglow of his eyes, he could find that there were many cavalry under the Ming army who were shot and killed......

There was no turning back when he led the team to rush into the range of the Ming army's muskets, there was no way to retreat, the only thing he could do was to continue to move forward, or fall under the Ming army's musket, or rush over and crash into it, hit the thin defense line of the Ming army, and kill into the Ming army's array!

Fortunately, the cavalry in front and on the left and right sides of the body were overturned on their backs, but no projectiles were shot into the cavalry leader. So he gritted his teeth and desperately crashed into the Ming army front that was close in front of him.

Raising his hand and waving his knife to cut off the spear in front of him, the war horse slammed into the shield, and with the screams of the shield soldiers, the war horse raised its hind legs and jumped into the Ming army array. The cavalryman swung his saber and slashed the spears that stabbed left and right, and was about to continue to charge in, when the horse under his crotch screamed and fell forward. But he didn't know where a spear came from, and it was piercing the belly of the war horse.

As early as when the horse was paralyzed, the cavalry leader had already pulled his feet out of the stirrups, and jumped up with his hand on the saddle, trying to dismount and fight again.

However, when the body was still in the air, he felt a sharp pain in his abdomen, and a crossbow arrow penetrated into the depths of his body from the crack in the armor, and when he looked up, a Ming crossbow archer not far from his side threw down his crossbow expressionlessly and pulled out the steel knife on his waist. His feet hit the ground but he was no longer able to stand firmly, and the saber in his hand was as heavy as a mountain. Looking at the steel knife slashed by the crossbowmen of the Ming army, a wry smile appeared on Zuo Ling's face.

With the death of the commander of the Eight Banners, more Eight Banners cavalry broke through the Ming defenses. However, after a round of firearm shooting, more than half of the more than 600 Eight Banner cavalry had been lost, and less than 300 had successfully escaped the barrage.

However, since the cavalry leaders bravely crashed into the Ming army's array, the rest of the cavalry were also stimulated with ferocity, and one by one they rushed to the Ming army's shield guns, trying to use their own death to open a bloody path for their follow-up accomplices.

The hastily formed defense line of the Ming army was indeed a little thinner, and the shield soldiers and pikemen in the front row were powerless to stop the rapid impact of the war horses. Many pikemen obviously pierced the bodies of war horses or Eight Bannermen, but the spears in their hands broke under the high-speed impact, and the pikemen were also knocked out of blood under this impact.

After paying great sacrifices, about 100 cavalry of the Eight Banners successfully rushed into the Ming army, but their good luck also ended there, because the Ming army they faced was not an ordinary Ming army, but the most elite troops of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Even if it was rushed into the array by the cavalry of the Qing army, the Ming army was not in the slightest chaos. The firecracker didn't have time to reload the projectile gunpowder, so he threw down the firearm in his hand, drew his waist knife, and slashed at the rushing warhorse.

The soldiers behind did not flee in the face of the rushing war horses, but gathered each other, raised their swords and guns in their hands, and used their bodies to block the impact of the cavalry.

And even if the Qing cavalry once again knocked over the interception of a group of Ming infantry, the speed of the war horse inevitably slowed down. And the cavalry lost its speed, and became lambs to be slaughtered, unable to support even a moment and a half in the face of attacks from the Ming army in all directions.

As the last Eight Banners cavalry was picked off his horse, Wu Ping finally showed a smile on his face, this battle was already in sight! Without these hundreds of cavalry, the remaining Qing infantry could only be annihilated, and they couldn't run even if they wanted to.