Chapter 880: Fierce Battle
"Beat the drums, order the Hou Yi battalion, don't have to sort out the queue, launch an attack on the Qing infantry at full speed, and reinforce the comrades who are fighting fiercely with the Qing army!"
Looking at the Qing cavalry who broke out of Hou Yi's camp and were sorting out the queue in the distance, Wu Ping gritted his teeth and issued an order in a deep voice.
"Commander!" The deputy general next to him was just about to remind, but looking at Wu Ping's gritted teeth, he had to swallow the words in his mouth.
The drum sound of "Dong Dong Dong" sounded, and Hou Yi Huo Ran looked back and looked at his main formation in the distance, as well as the flag waving in the formation.
Do you want to go on the offensive? Hou Yi knew from the sound of drums and the command banner that the main general Wu Ping ordered him to continue to advance and launch a strong attack on the Qing infantry. But look at the subordinates who had just been broken through the array by the Qing cavalry, although there were still more than 2,000 people left, but everyone was panicked and chaotic, can this still attack?
The drums became more and more rapid, Hou Yi gritted his teeth, lifted the spear, and pointed the tip of the gun sharply: "Everyone listen, continue to attack, kill all the people!" ”
Shouting, Hou Yi held his spear and took the lead in attacking the Qing infantry half a mile away.
"Kill all the people!" Hou Yi's guards, clerks, heralds, etc. also looked at each other, picked up their weapons in unison, and shouted as they ran behind Hou Yi.
"Kill all the people!" Hou Yi of the battalion is charging, the battalion flag is rapidly advancing, and the officers of the various outposts, generals, and flags are all charging when they see that the battalion is charging, and no one dares to slack off. According to military law, if the battalion is killed in battle, these subordinate officers will not be well-received, the battalion structure will be abolished, and their future will be ruined.
The officers had to charge for the sake of their future, and ordinary soldiers saw the commander charging and involuntarily ran after him.
The more than 2,000 Ming troops, who had just been broken by the cavalry of the Qing army, were completely out of formation, a large area of chaos, and the establishment was completely disrupted. But everyone was running, charging, shouting.
"Kill all the people!"
"Kill all the people!"
The shouts converged and resounded in the sky.
As soon as the leader of the Eight Banners cavalry reorganized the queue with the cavalry, and was about to launch an attack on another Ming army array, he was awakened by this shouting of killing, Huo Ran looked back, and saw that the Ming infantry he had just defeated not long ago was shouting and killing towards the ditch where the battle was being fought regardless of it.
There was no queue, no defense, just a mess and running like a flock.
"Aren't they afraid we'll attack from behind again?" A cavalryman asked what the leader thought.
Yes, this Ming army has completely given up its defense, as long as he leads the cavalry to kill from behind, he can easily harvest the heads.
However, Zuo Ling looked back at another Ming infantry that was also approaching rapidly, and he knew that if he led the cavalry to chase and kill, he would not be able to stop the other one, but this one was in a complete array!
Zuo Ling can fully imagine that if he can't wait for himself to kill the previous Ming infantry, this one will rush to the battlefield to join the battle. Maybe the cavalry led by himself at that time would also be disrupted by the Ming infantry, the Ming army was much more numerous than their own, and they had troops from several other camps on three sides that had not arrived.
If it really fell into a chaotic battle, not to mention the main infantry led by Murcha, it would be difficult for the cavalry behind him to escape.
In a short period of time, the assistant leader quickly determined the situation and made his own decision. He wants to lead his cavalry to defeat the Ming infantry in front of him, and then kill back to the ditch to support Murca!
So, Murcha regrouped his ranks, ignoring the previous Ming army that had lost its formation, and instead pointed the finger at the advancing one. More than 600 horsemen sped up their speed and rushed towards the infantry array led by Wu Ping himself.
"Stop, change formation, fight!" The subordinates in charge of observation quickly reported the movements of the Qing cavalry to Wu Ping, and when he heard that the Qing cavalry was killing him, Wu Ping smiled coldly and immediately gave an order.
With Wu Ping's order, the rapid sound of drums and trumpets came out, and the marching army immediately stopped, quickly gathered, and deployed in the direction of the Qing cavalry.
Walking on the outer line were all shield bearers, one shield after another was inserted into the dirt, and the spearmen behind immediately put their spears on their shields, and the other soldiers also quickly gathered behind the shields and began to line up in the direction of the Qing army.
It should be mentioned here that as early as when Wu Ping went to Dengzhou from Jinan, Chen Yue ordered Jin Xin to lead a battalion of 3,000 elites from Liaocheng to Jinan, and these 3,000 elites were all elite soldiers who had been with Chen Yue for a long time, and they were the descendants of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, and the most elite and strongest in the entire Ming army.
Whether it is weapons, armor, or coordination, discipline is the strongest in all aspects.
Among the 3,000 elites, there are 1,000 musketeers, 800 crossbowmen, and the rest are pikemen and sword and shield men, and their attack power is incomparable.
The most important thing is that the array of this army is very well coordinated, Wu Ping's order has just been handed down, they quickly began to form a team, so the Qing cavalry leader was shocked to see that under the nose of his cavalry, the Ming army in front of him had already lined up, and what appeared in front of him was a spear with an erected shield like a forest.
Do you bump into it or not? Zuo Ling's mind thought quickly. It is taboo to use cavalry to ram the prepared infantry phalanx, no matter whether he can win or not, his cavalry will lose a lot, and the war horse under the crotch will lose most of it.
If the strength of his subordinates is about the same as that of the Ming army, the leader will definitely order his subordinates to dismount and fight hand-to-hand with the Ming army, and it is not difficult to break the Ming army array with the powerful attack power of the Eight Banners, as long as the Ming army array is broken head-on, the Ming army will be completely defeated, and then only need to ride a war horse to easily chase and kill and cut off the head, just like the countless battles between the Eight Banners Army and the Ming army in the past.
However, today is different from the past, the total number of soldiers under his command is less than 700, far inferior to the Ming army, if you dismount and fight on foot, you may not be able to win, and even if you can win, it will not be able to do it in a short time. Moreover, the main general Murcha is now in a tangled battle and is about to be surrounded by two Ming armies, if he can't defeat the Ming army in front of him as soon as possible, he will not be able to rescue in time.
After a short period of thought, Zuo Ling made up his mind, that is, he had to forcibly defeat the Ming army in front of him no matter what, so that he could free up his hands to rescue Murcha's infantry.
The loss is a big loss, at this time you can no longer worry about the loss, as long as you can defeat the Ming army in front of you, everything is worth it.
Moreover, this Ming army changed from marching to combat mode in a hurry, the queue was long, and the defensive line was extremely weak, as long as he could tear a little into it, relying on the powerful impact and high mobility of the cavalry, it would not be a problem to disrupt all their formations.
As long as they can disrupt their ranks, and when they rush out of the array, they will rush again, and this Ming army will collapse! Thinking of this, Zuo Ling's face showed a determined countenance, his legs tightly clamped the horse's belly, and he took the lead in colliding with the Ming army array.