Chapter 585: Breaking the Formation

The infantry formation of the four corners of the chaos can still be maintained, but the center chaos is a big taboo.

Li Liang originally relied on his large number of people to face the impact of the horse team of the Northern Army of Huazhou, and set up such an infantry phalanx there, and the strongest soldiers were placed in the center and the forefront, to deal with the horse team of Huazhou and prepare to launch a countercharge.

Naturally, the two wings also arranged for a certain number of troops to be assigned to keep an eye there, but the officers who were defeated by Liaozhen called it a mixed tactic of starting a horse team attack and a mixed cavalry battle, which has not been used, but is a completely unfamiliar tactic.

The cavalry did not rush into battle, but went in a circle to the left side, the Liaozhen soldiers had no fear of the opponent's foot soldiers, and there was no impact advantage, so they fought face-to-face, and this Liaozhen soldier has always been confident.

However, the three hundred rounds of fire guns of the Huazhou Northern Army, as well as the next bow and arrow, instantly gave the Ming army great pressure, if the Huazhou Northern Army is such a normal battle, the fire gun and bow and arrow are in the square team, although they will also kill the opponent, but it will not have such an effect.

The formation of the Ming army is like a wooden box, and if you slap it with the palm of your hand, it will give him a tremor at most, but if you clench your fist and smash it down, it is very likely that it will smash through him with one punch.

Three hundred muskets were gathered in one place, and several rounds were fired into the dense crowd within the range of the fire, and the two armies had very different understandings of the range of the muskets, one side thought that it was no more than fifty paces, while the other side knew that the effective range of their muskets was one hundred and fifty paces. The Liao Zhen soldiers' scouts were around the vicinity of Tielingwei every day some time ago, but they didn't see the number of troops, and they didn't see the most important performance of the opponent's weapons.

However, for the officers at this time, they may never have thought that the range of firearms would be an important thing, and it was by taking advantage of this asymmetry of intelligence that Huazhou's firearms achieved excellent results.

The array of Liaozhen soldiers is dense, although the accuracy of the firecrackers is poor, but as long as they are suppressed, they can always find the target in the opponent's camp.

The first round of shooting is like nailing a nail, and the subsequent shooting is to keep hitting the nail to make him go deeper and deeper.

In fact, there were only more than 400 Liaozhen soldiers who died in the firecrackers, and many of them were injured to the end.

But the formation of the Ming army was tight, the white smoke on the opposite side was filled, the fire was roaring, the people around him kept screaming and fell to the ground, and they couldn't hit each other with the bows and arrows in their hands.

Just thinking about escaping or rushing to the front, the big formations of the two sides are facing each other, whose formation is chaotic first and the other side has the first opportunity, the Liaozhen soldiers rushed over in a hurry, just to use the archers of Liu Thirteen's large array of foot soldiers as targets, the forward of the Huazhou army does not have so many firearms, and the long-range weapons of the foot soldiers are mainly bows and arrows, if they attack with the other party, the casualties will not be less, and only by using this method can the greatest effect.

The morale of the Ming army in front of the collapsed, the formation was chaotic, and it was no longer the steady and solid that it had at the beginning.

So Li Liang dismantled the east wall and made up the west wall inside the formation, and gathered the horse team to prepare for a counter-charge, in fact, this kind of reluctant maintenance has already made the formation unstable, and the pikemen and archers in front are basically the best soldiers among the two guards and horses brought by Li Liang, after they died, the substitutes in the back stood in the first row, facing the Huazhou army, there was no will to fight at all.

The charge of the Huazhou Army Brigade was the last straw for the camel that was about to fall to the ground, the town of the Ming army could not withstand the impact of this time, the people in front of them were frightened, there was still the courage to fight, and the Liaozhen soldiers on both wings were also involved in the energy of this formation.

If this formation fails, they will not be spared, looking at the chaos of this formation, the teams on both wings are also floating in people's hearts, but there are still evil wolves watching around them, Liu 13 has been leading the horse team to keep a distance of about 300 steps from the left wing of the Liaozhen soldiers, as long as the left wing of the Liaozhen soldiers pounces on them, they will retreat.

The horses were of course far faster than the men, so the left flank could not be teased by them and mess up the formation, and in the end it was a confrontation between the two sides with big eyes and little eyes.

However, after the drum beat of Huazhou North Army sounded rapidly, Liu Shisan saw that the Liaozhen soldiers in front of him were no longer vigilant just now, and became impetuous, even the soldiers in the first row turned their heads from time to time to watch, Liu Shisan grinned and licked his lips bloodthirstily.

Raising one of his arms, the guards beside him saw that the big flag in his hand was still raised vertically, but slowly drawing a small circle, seeing this posture, the horse team behind Liu 13 began to rush to the front, and began to line up with the line determined by Liu 13 and the big flag around him.

Seeing that the people around him had already adjusted the horse steps and positions, Liu Shisan's raised arm waved forward, and the flag of his personal guard was also waved forward.

The infantry against the horse team, can not pursue, can not be chaotic, can only form a formation to fight, as long as it is a chaos, by the cavalry rushed in, that is the end of the collapse, the left wing of the Liao Zhen soldiers also know this, although the heart is impetuous, but still try their best to lean on each other.

When the horse team rushed to more than fifty steps away from the array, the left wing of the Liao Zhen soldiers had a sparse bow and arrow shot out, and there was a problem with impetuousness, that is, people's caution and will to fight were much lower, seeing the horse team charge, many Ming troops were already uncontrollable, and shot out the arrows in about 100 steps, what use could this be, it couldn't hurt the horses at all.

The bow and arrow at more than fifty paces still gave the horse team a certain amount of damage, but the Huazhou cavalry on the horse, some of whom could ride and shoot, had already taken off the bow and arrow on the horse, and at this distance, the bow and arrow were shot out as much as possible, and the horse team led by Liu Shisan shot arrows at about fifty steps.

The density and lethality of the bow and arrow compared to the Liaozhen soldiers, but to win a lot, after shooting, the archery cavalry began to control the speed of the horse, those who did not shoot arrows in the hands of the cavalry are holding wooden guns, at this time the speed of the horses is already running fast, the horse archers slowed down, rushed to the front are lancers, and the wooden guns are straight flat.

The so-called horse team rushed to the formation, at this time, the main formation over there had already been broken up by two percent, and Li Liang's roar over there could almost be heard on the left flank, "Everyone fought with them, fight!" ”

It's already going to fight over there, obviously it can't support it, so the left wing is even more panicked here, looking at the cavalry who rushed viciously in front of him, the wooden spear looks longer than his own spear, the other party is still condescending, hedge, he must be finished first, run!

There may be only one timid soldier, but this soldier who ran first collapsed the formation of the entire left flank, and the loud sound of the bumper could be heard like a drum, the lancers of the Huazhou army crashed into the Ming army that was still holding a shield, and the wooden spear with the weight and speed of people and horses was amazingly powerful, and many sword and shield hands were directly knocked into the air after a touch.

The cavalry archers put away their bows and arrows, drew their sabers one after another, and rushed into the already scattered formation with shouts, the cavalry harassed, the lancers rushed into chaos, and then the cavalry archers took their sabers to harvest their lives, the entire left flank was in chaos, and Liu 13 and his cavalry formed a small group.

The big knife and axe in his hand picked up like a windmill and slashed to both sides, these people are the elite of Huazhou's hundred battles, in the face of invincibility, the soldiers of the Ming army are all dodging away, not daring to confront their front, bravely rushing, there is a gap around them, and the cavalry behind is slowly converging.

After the first impact of the lancers, they all threw away the wooden guns and pulled out the knives and axes hanging on the side of the saddle, Liu Shisan and his personal guards rushed in front, as if they were the tips of an awl, and the large group of cavalry following behind them were like the sharp blades of an awl, breaking straight into the left flank.

Although Li Liang over there was preparing to fight to the death, but he was pushed over by someone on the front, the left flank was also in chaos, the whole team could not be maintained, and a large number of soldiers on the outside fled regardless of it, and the courage to die that Li Liang had just gathered in his heart suddenly leaked down, and the decisive assault was for the sake of whether there was the possibility of turning defeat into victory.

He hesitated there for a while, urged the horses very hard, and rushed towards the Huazhou army that rushed in front, and the horse team behind him followed one after another.

Huazhou's foot soldiers watched the horse team rush over, quickly slowed down, gathered close and prepared to line up to meet the impact of the cavalry, but they didn't expect that when Li Liang had not yet rushed to the ground, he was already controlling the horse and turning, and ran to the right, Liu Shisan on the left flank led the cavalry to rush and kill, and they couldn't catch up, and the infantry here couldn't catch up.

Seeing that Li Liang led more than 1,000 cavalry of the Ming army on the right side, Liu 13 was furious on the horse:

"Catch up, chase and cut them!"

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