Volume 4 Chapter 14 Stalemate
The 50,000 Tianxiong army under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng, Cao Wenzhao and Guangning Tiecai fought with the 90,000 peasant rebel army, the peasant rebel army first ate a thousand grenades and caused a big chaos in the formation, and then ran into Lu Xiangsheng, the killing star, and killed wildly in the crowd. But after all, they have an absolute advantage in numbers, and they are not going to be defeated immediately, but the more they fight, the more chilling they become.
Seeing this, Wang Jiayin looked at the generals next to him hesitantly, and wanted to send them up to resist Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Wenzhao, but he still knew how many catties and taels these people had, and letting them go up was basically equivalent to giving away people's heads in vain, and they couldn't resist such powerful fierce people as Lu Xiangsheng and Cao Wenzhao at all.
When the generals saw Wang Jiayin looking at them, they all showed fear on their faces, what kind of joke, Lu Xiangsheng alone They can't help it, not to mention that there is a Cao Wenzhao behind them, let them go up, it is definitely a meat bun beating a dog, and there is no return.
Fortunately, Wang Jiayin didn't open his mouth in the end, this battle is not a fighter, more than 100,000 people on both sides are fighting, no matter how powerful one or two people are, it can't affect the overall situation, let's wait for Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng to break through the left and right flanks and kill them from behind the enemy. When the time comes, it will be useless for Lu Xiangsheng to double his strength.
So what's going on with the two wings?
Before Wang Jiayin ordered the charge, the fireworks signal had been released, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng saw the fireworks in the air, and immediately rushed towards Lu Xiangsheng's camp without hesitation.
Rushing to a place more than two miles away from the camp, they saw a hedgehog-like gun array outside the camp, but they didn't care, the pikemen were a little restrained cavalry, but it also depended on the combat strength of both sides, their own cavalry were all battle-hardened veterans, and the spearmen on the opposite side were new recruits who had just entered the battlefield, as long as they rushed up to disrupt their formation, they were not a dish.
Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng had the same idea, so they saw that the spearmen not only did not give the order to slow down, but kept urging their subordinates, hurry, they all knew that as long as the speed was fast enough, in the face of inexperienced recruits, they couldn't even stab the figure, coupled with the momentum of the horse, just bumping into it could knock over a large area.
If it is an ordinary recruit team, they are naturally invincible in doing so, but there are a thousand veterans of the Beijing battalion in front of these recruits, they don't care how fast you can rush, anyway, the fast is a shot, and the slow is also a shot, while five hundred people go down in a round of guns, the cavalry who rushed over must fall at least three or four hundred, and then throw the grenade after the row of guns, they absolutely trample on each other and make a mess.
Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng didn't know that there was a large row of big killers waiting for them in front of the pikemen, and when they rushed to the spearmen on the opposite side who were only a hundred paces away, there was a sudden loud "pop" sound from the opposite side, and then the cavalry in front fell into a row like cutting wheat.
The most taboo thing about cavalry charging is that the teammates in front of them suddenly don't move, because the distance between the people and horses in front and behind is already close, coupled with such a fast momentum, as soon as the people in front stop, the people behind will crash into it in the blink of an eye, and they don't even have time to react.
Therefore, this round of guns went down, although only three or four hundred people were hit, but at least three or four rows were collided with in the back, plus the slowing down and detouring behind, at least affected the charge of three or four thousand men and horses. That's not all, when he rushed to fifty paces away, a bunch of black balls suddenly flew in front of him, no matter where they hit, there was a "boom", and then the screams of people and horses were thought to be one, and the entire charging formation was completely chaotic.
The guerrilla generals who commanded the recruits on both sides were veterans of the battlefield transferred from Liaodong, and they were the most experienced in dealing with the cavalry, and they saw that the opponent's formation was in chaos, so they did not hesitate to choose a counter-charge, and as soon as the musketeers withdrew, they led a group of new pistols to rush towards the cavalry team on the opposite side.
At this time, the two sides were already less than fifty paces apart, and in a flick of their fingers, the spearmen rushed in front of the cavalry. Now the advantage of the cavalry charge is gone, and the advantage of the spearmen is reflected, if you run too fast, I can't stab you, but if you don't move in place, it's better to stab a lot, if you really can't stab someone, you can also stab the horse! For a while, the sound of "poof" in the cavalry formation was endless, and the shadow of the gun was everywhere, and blood was splashed everywhere.
Fortunately, these recruits have no rules, only know a burst of stabbing, although the stabbed Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's cavalry turned on their backs, but there were few who actually stabbed to death, the two sides were anxious together, soldier to soldier, general to general, the fight was in full swing, 20,000 against 20,000, the number of both sides was about the same, and there was no difference between victory and defeat for a while.
Back to the frontal battlefield, Wang Jiayin watched his soldiers fall one by one, Guan Ning's iron cavalry was harvesting human lives like cutting wheat, those recruits were becoming more and more courageous, and Lu Xiangsheng, the madman, was even more conflicting, not tired at all, he knew that if he continued like this, even if he was undefeated, he was afraid that he would suffer heavy losses.
None of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, whom he had high hopes for, appeared, and the shouting and killing in the distance still did not stop, Wang Jiayin couldn't help but be a little afraid, if Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were defeated, and the officers and troops over there turned around and joined the frontal battlefield, he would be in danger.
Thinking of this, he looked at the battlefield with a gloomy face, and wanted to order a retreat several times, but when the words came to his lips, he took it back, after all, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng were 40,000 cavalry, how could the same number of infantry resist, and their hope of victory was still great.
Zhang Xianzhong next to him saw Wang Jiayin's appearance, knowing that this king was still lucky, he was not so stupid, the cavalry relied on the advantage of charging to fight quickly, if it was glued by the infantry, then there was no advantage at all, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng had not come for so long, they must have been stuck by the other party.
The battle of 80,000 people, once they stick together, I am afraid that the victory and defeat will be fought until tomorrow morning, but in the current situation, the frontal battlefield will definitely not last until tomorrow morning.
So, Zhang Xianzhong proposed euphemistically: "King, you see that it is almost dark this day, and I am afraid that we will not be able to distinguish the winner from the official army in a short time, so it is better for us to withdraw first and rest for a while, and then fight again on another day." ”
Wang Jiayin actually knows that Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng are afraid that there is no drama on their side, and there is another reason why he has been hesitant, he can't afford to lose this person!
When he came, he was coaxed as if he had come to chop melons and vegetables, but now he looks like this, how can he hang on his face?
Hearing Zhang Xianzhong's suggestion, he finally found a step, yes, it's almost dark this day, and he's a fart!
He pretended to hesitate for a moment, then nodded and said: "Well, what Xianzhong said makes sense, come on, the herald, the archers stepped forward a hundred steps, lined up in five rows of long snake formations, and the distance was three steps." ”
The herald immediately ran to herald, and the generals couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they heard this, they were finally about to retreat, and they finally didn't have to face Lu Xiangsheng, that madman.
The archers are definitely not engaged in battle, the people on both sides are anxious together, and you want to shoot the enemy or your own people when you pass by a rain of arrows? This archer lined up at the rear of the battlefield must have responded to the retreat of his own army to prevent the enemy from pursuing, the archers were generally one step apart, but Wang Jiayin asked them to be three steps apart, standing so scattered just to let the retreating soldiers pass through them.