Chapter 593: Abandonment

Jiang Feng was there to keep saying that he wanted his soldiers to be trained in actual combat and to experience blood, and at this time, looking at the sudden change in the situation on the battlefield, his expression was also calm.

However, if you look at him carefully, you can see that Jiang Feng's hand is holding the reins tightly, looking at the battlefield with full attention, the square teams on both wings have begun to move towards the middle, and the horse teams have also begun to move forward.

It's as if the tide of the sea is hitting the shore, and the tide that is just lapping on the beach has already hit the inside.

The open space created by the Huazhou fire gun in front of him was ninety steps away, and the Ming army foot soldiers who rushed over desperately really did it one after the other this time, and the cavalry that had just hit the right flank of the Huazhou army and the foot soldiers of the front team, row after row of soldiers fell.

But there is a problem here, the density of the firearms on the two wings of the Huazhou army is much denser than that of the square on the battlefield, and the Ming army infantry that attacks the front is not so resolute.

Now the foot soldiers have their own horse team behind them to drive the battle, and the front is already completely numb to watch the rows of their companions die, only to know that they are holding weapons and shouting to rush to the front, and the firecrackers of the Huazhou army keep shooting in turn, and when they are about the fifth round, they are finally a little slow.

It was this opportunity that the Ming army rushed forward without hesitation, the spearmen of the square team were already completely flattened, shouting and stabbing forward, the Ming army in front was penetrated by the spear, and when it was not even time to withdraw the spear, the people behind had already pounced, or were crowded up by the people further behind.

Rushing to the front of the firecracker, it became hand-to-hand combat, the Ming army foot soldiers who charged in front seemed to see hope, and their footsteps were faster, and they suddenly heard the uniform shouts and orders of the Huazhou army on the opposite side, and saw the firecracker erect the firecracker, and took out the short spear tip from his waist.

The tip of the spear looks like a spear, but there is a short wooden stick underneath that is about a foot long, and the gunners have stuck the tip of this spear into the muzzle of the gun, and now the gunners have become warriors with short spears, with flat ends, and rush out with a shout.

The short spear is much more flexible than the spear in this kind of close combat, the spear is used as a support in the back, and the short spear is charged in front, which is extremely suitable for each other, and the second and third rows of firecrackers are doing this, and now the infantry of the Ming army is facing a forest of steel blades, and if you want to get closer, you must be pierced into a hole first. The impact of the Ming army's foot soldiers to the death was temporarily blocked.

This was the prototype of the bayonet, and in fact after the appearance of the Spanish phalanx in Europe, the combination of firearms and cold weapons was quite popular, but in close combat, the musketeers always suffered losses, and the musketeers had no other means of self-defense than to wield their firearms as heavy wooden sticks.

Later, armouriers and officers discovered that when it came to melee and hand-to-hand combat on the battlefield, musketeers often picked up the severed spear tips on the ground and stuffed them into their own barrels as short weapons.

Huazhou in several hand-to-hand combat, especially in the battle of Zhangzhou City, found the same problem, there are also soldiers consciously to fight like this, after the result was reported, by the 33 guards of the ordnance of the attention, in the Huazhou army out of the battle, the foot soldiers are equipped with this kind of gun can be stuffed into the gun chamber, and strong enough spear tip.

Although it was the soldiers in the front row who replaced the short blades and stabilized the situation, the battle became a stalemate between the two sides, and the advantage gained by relying on the advantage of firearms was lost. There was a cold weapon hand-to-hand combat formed by shouting and killing the earth-shattering, and the Huazhou army at this time was also trying its best to maintain the formation.

Every time the short blade of the spear is stabbed, it is as neatly drawn as possible, the Ming army on the opposite side is in a daze, and every time the Huazhou army stabs out, it always takes the life of the Ming army in front of it.

At the beginning, the soldiers in the front row were a little frightened when they saw the enemy a hundred paces away in front of them, and the musketeers only needed mechanical loading ammunition to fire, and the enemy's face could not even be seen clearly, and there was no pressure in their hearts at all, and the same was true for the spearmen.

When the other party was engaged in hand-to-hand combat with himself, looking at the distorted and desperate faces of the Ming army, he shouted loudly in his mouth, every time he stabbed and shook, there was blood and even minced meat splashed on his face, this is the real battlefield, there were many Huazhou soldiers in the first row, who were not suitable for such a battle at all, and were killed by the opponent's knives and spears.

But every Huazhou soldier has a deep-rooted thought, which is what they have been instilled and taught year after year after they entered the army, that is, on the battlefield, living in the formation, and dying in chaos, each soldier only feels that he only needs to face the enemy on the opposite side when he is in the array, and there are companions behind him on his left and right, and they also know that as long as they leave this formation, they are afraid that they will not survive for a few minutes on the battlefield.

What is needed in the Huazhou army is not a strong man who shows his personal bravery, but a soldier who strictly abides by battlefield discipline.

The Huazhou soldiers in the two squares behind also began to replenish forward, and the Huazhou army did not retreat in a bloody battle, and never took a step back, but pressed up step by step.

The desperate hand-to-hand combat is all based on a blood gas, if this breath is vented, people will soon be soft, these recruits in Huazhou are more and more fierce, completely out of character, the Ming army is this momentum is weak, the front is often a Ming army is provoked by spears and short soldiers, the sky is full of blood rain.

Bloody on the face, the soldiers of the Huazhou Army seemed to be a hideous and abnormal demon, which made the Ming army on the opposite side more and more frightened, and the momentum weakened little by little, I don't know when, there were also Ming soldiers who found that the gap behind them was large enough, and now the fire guns in the hands of the Huazhou army in front of them were all set with spear blades, and it was impossible to launch.

I don't know who is the Ming army who started first, dropped their weapons, and ran to both sides desperately, the soldiers of the Huazhou army are relieved, the battle just now is actually not long, but it is extremely tragic and bloody, everyone has the feeling of a few hours of war.

But the battle is not over yet, the Ming army horse team led by Qiu Feng launched a charge at this time, and the four or five rows of soldiers in front of the Huazhou army have already stuffed their fire guns into short spears, ready to fight hand-to-hand, and the current Ming army horse team is just facing an ordinary infantry formation.

The momentum of these horse teams was very full just now, and the horse team rushed up without leaving a back hand at all, even the people and horses crashed into the steel jungle, and the first to crash into it must be dead or alive, but even the people and horses rushed up, such a large momentum, although the spearmen and the firecrackers were many people working together, but they still couldn't support such a force, and suddenly it was a little chaotic, the formation was chaotic, and the cavalry behind crashed in one after another.

Qiu Feng also knew that his three thousand cavalry were rushing into the formation, and it was unlikely that the opponent's three squares would rush away, so it was better to grab a little and repeatedly impact, this is the so-called water drop stone piercing the truth, the formation on the far right was finally crushed, and the only remaining officers of the square team knew that it was not the time to maintain the formation at this time, if it was not dispersed, and the other party rushed in so hard, I was afraid that the casualties would be greater, but the formation was scattered, and it was stabbed in the back, it would be even more troublesome.

At this moment, the sharp horn suddenly blew, and it was this sound that could make people pay attention to what drums and horns could be heard on such a tragic battlefield.

Hearing the sound of this horn, the soldiers of the Huazhou Army infantry team were stunned, and the Ming army horse team rushed up in rows, attacking in a roundabout way, because the opponent's formation was compressed more and more tightly, and it felt that the space for impact was getting less and less.

The weapons and spears in the hands of the soldiers were thrown on the ground without pity, and they ran to both sides desperately, which was also quite skillful in running apart, and the cavalry was in front of the charge, if you turned around and ran back, the cavalry horses increased to your back, and the knife in your hand was killed.

But running to both sides, it is not easy to turn around when the cavalry is impacted, and it often doesn't matter, this square team suddenly dispersed, except for those soldiers who were very close to the Ming army's horse team and couldn't run away, the other soldiers were scattered in an instant.

The horse team led by Qiu Feng really didn't expect the Huazhou army to be so quick to gather and disperse, and the horse team was attacking fiercely, but at this time, it seemed that a fist with enough strength hit the air heavily, and wanted to exert strength again, but it couldn't lift up the strength for a while.

Impacted to this point, the Huazhou army suffered nearly 3,000 casualties, this kind of result is also a great achievement, Qiu Feng fought there bloodily, thinking that this has opened up the situation, why the army behind him did not come up to cover up, he fought bravely here, this time has not looked back, only at this time to look back, but almost spit out a mouthful of blood, at this time the Ming army brigade was slowly retreating, regardless of these brave colleagues who are not afraid of death.

Although they retreated, they were not chaotic, the formation was not leaky, and the Huazhou army was not easy to pursue wantonly, but when the Ming army came, it was 70,000, and when the troops retreated, it was 40,000, and the strength was lost by half.

Qiu Feng was a little at a loss, thinking that the only way left at this time was to fight to the death, and suddenly, he heard someone shouting from the direction of the Huazhou army:

"Surrender, surrender and die!!"