Chapter 596: Wolves

The soldiers of the Ming army in the periphery defense never thought that the firearms of the Huazhou army were very different from the use on the battlefield, such a fast method, the voice was much sharper, obviously the speed of the bullet was accelerated to have such a sound, the change, the change of tactics and weapons made the Ming army not respond at all, and was caught off guard.

In the first row of foot soldiers and horse teams that were ready to rush out, they were all beaten by the sudden shooting, and the people were turned on their backs, and they were in a mess, and the knights of the Huazhou army were extremely bold, and many of them were actually within eighty steps of the Ming army, and the rate of fire of the fire was extremely fast, and the effect was very good.

Fortunately, such a fast gun is a few hundred shots, after a round, the Ming army fell two or three hundred people, the people behind retreated a few steps, and saw that the other party was not loaded with ammunition, obviously in a short time, will not shoot the second round of bullets, and they are all forced to red-eyed, without the officer's order, there shouted loudly and pounced, dozens of steps away from running, whether it is a foot soldier or a cavalry, it always takes some time.

Those Huazhou cavalry took advantage of this time to turn their horses' heads and walk towards the back, and the Ming army's horse team followed with shouts, and the Huazhou cavalry with firearms on their backs accelerated their horses and ran.

When the cavalry of the Ming army chased halfway, they saw cavalry roaring on both sides, except for hundreds of cavalry shooting in Huazhou, the rest of the cavalry fell behind, I don't know when, it was already for the musket cavalry to leave a gap in the middle to pass.

The cavalry of the Ming army and the Huazhou army almost passed by, but the pursuers of the Ming army were already led by the fire cavalry in front, and they couldn't take care of their side, and they saw that the cavalry of more than 3,000 horses had not stepped forward and began to charge ahead, because the pursuers of the Ming army were already chasing out in the defensive formation, which showed a gap, and those Huazhou cavalry who were waiting behind caught this gap and rushed up.

The Huazhou cavalry who rushed to the front were wrapped in tightly inlaid iron leaf leather armor, holding a spear in one hand and a shield in the other, as much as possible to ensure the defense while remaining light, but also to ensure that the cavalry launched an impact as much as possible, to put it bluntly, let the armor part of this light cavalry play the role of heavy cavalry as much as possible.

The first row of cavalry in Huazhou rushing towards the Ming army dozens of cavalry are all this kind of spear cavalry, the spear end of the line is as neat as possible, and they crashed into it without hesitation, and the back is a cone, and a large number of cavalry brandished sabers to follow behind, although this line of the Ming army has been a little empty.

But there are still a large number of soldiers who have gathered towards this side, and they also know that if they are broken at this time, they may only be defeated and wait for death, these soldiers are holding long soldiers in their hands, and the soldiers who are standing in rows towards Huazhou are stabbing indiscriminately, and those who are experienced directly squatted down and erected the spears or spears in their hands.

The front row of the Huazhou cavalry crashed into these erected spears without delay, although it is said to be "heavy cavalry", but it is only that the soldiers are wearing iron armor, and there is still no protection on the horses, and the light cavalry is running, it is impossible to carry too heavy equipment, and the erected spear weapons collide, the horses screamed, and were immediately stabbed to death there, after the cavalry's spears stabbed an enemy, they were still planted from the horse and were hacked to death by random knives.

However, the lancers of the Huazhou horse team did not stop at all, the first row was killed by someone, the second row and the third row collided without hesitation, and finally the defense of the Ming army was forced to open a hole, and the queue of the cavalry that could be blocked dispersed, and the remaining soldiers could not form an array to resist.

Beginning to dodge the condescending and fierce cavalry, the cavalry with swords and axes in the back followed the opening and began to slash and kill the foot soldiers.

The side that was impacted was finally unbearable, the soldiers of the Ming army could not care about staying in the protection of the Ming army's formation, and began to run away in all directions, the principle of the Huazhou cavalry was that as long as the other party's soldiers fled out, they ignored it, and if they still went inside, then they would kill the past and never let go.

The Ming army didn't expect the other party's firearm to be so powerful, and in a hurry, the queue was torn open by the other party, and then it was stabbed into it fiercely, and the weapon that pierced it had to be stirred a few times, making the wound even bigger. Huazhou Light Cavalry really caught the other party off guard this time.

In the Liaozhen army of the Chinese army began to have a transfer of soldiers, the horse team and the elite began to rush in the direction of the light cavalry, the front of the Huazhou cavalry, it is becoming more and more difficult to break through, the people on both sides continue to be shot by bows and arrows, casualties began to fight gradually, this time the Huazhou army is also a single, looking at the hopelessness of breaking through, the rear team becomes the front team to run outside, clean and neat, this is also the Ming army expected, they also thought that the other party was going to catch up with the death, there to prepare to hold on, but did not expect that the other party was said to go, No mud and water.

When they wanted to pursue, the other party was already about to rush out, that is, they left a few with bows and arrows, and these cavalry rushed out, and immediately accelerated their horses, but this time they did not flee aimlessly, but rushed towards the Ming troops who were chasing the musketeers just now.

Those Ming troops who had gone out to pursue before felt miserable at this time, the muskets in the opponent's hands were loaded too quickly, much faster than the ones encountered on the battlefield, and halfway through the pursuit, the musketeers who were behind drew their sabers hanging on their horses and turned back to kill.

This kind of hand-to-hand combat is, of course, the most in line with the wishes of the Ming army, and they fought for a short time, but they found that these Huazhou cavalry who recoiled did not appear as cannon fodder at all, because the front team did not go, but dismounted to set up a formation, and the rear cavalry of Huazhou did not love to fight, so they turned around and left.

When the pursuing Ming army just wanted to catch up, it was a crackling firearm that hit quickly, and suddenly fell down, when on the battlefield, although the power of the Huazhou army's firearm was great, but there was still a slight pause in the gap between the queue rotation, but the firearm held by these cavalry in front of him was much thinner, but the power was not weak at all, and the armor on some armor was like a layer of paper, which was beaten through.

The rate of fire is urgent, the power is great, the head and face are beaten, it is the pursuit in the defeated formation, what morale is there, such a setback, hurriedly retreated, but at this time I wanted to retreat, but it was too late, the Huazhou cavalry that rushed into the camp in front of it had already returned, forming a front and rear flanking trend.

The two sides rushed like this, the pursuers were suddenly full of casualties, and they could no longer support it, and the whole staff was scattered, and the Ming army in the big formation made up its mind to stick to it, and it was impossible to pursue it at all, so it could only watch its pursuers being crushed and scattered.

All the scattered Ming troops will not run back into the big array, or they will be in the mountains and forests as bandits, or they will find a nearby place where people live, and slowly ponder the way home.

"Our army was scattered by 6,000, and when the enemy army left, try to take away the corpses as much as possible, and the last general estimated that more than 300 lives were probably left here."

The officer who reported the battle situation to Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, had a low voice, no one would be happy if this situation changed, Li Gufeng's face was also gloomy and terrible, he was originally about fifty years old, like a prime of life, but at this time he seemed to be much older, and before he finished listening, he issued an order:

"The whole army will pull out the camp, hurry before dark, go as far as possible, return to Puhesuo, rely on the fortress and set up camp, we will be safer."

"Marshal, the whole army is tired, are you ......?"

The officer who had not finished the exhortation had finished speaking, his face had already been whipped by the whip, and he was in hot pain, but he saw that Li Gufeng, the general soldier of Liaozhen who was still depressed just now, was already furious, stood up and pointed at him and shouted:

"At this time, I still fucking think about whether I am tired or not, life and death are at stake, this is the vanguard light cavalry of the Huazhou army, if the army arrives, we will collapse, pass my general order, the whole army will pull out the camp and march, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!"

After saying this, the officers and soldiers around Li Gufeng suddenly agreed, and the officer touched the whip marks on his face, couldn't help but gasp, scolded secretly, and followed in a stupid manner. As soon as he rested, he was harassed by the enemy's cavalry, and finally expelled the cavalry, but he was ordered to pull out the camp, and immediately complained, but the knife of the general of the general was held there, and who dared to say anything else.

I can only get up and march with a grin, this speed is much slower, I can't fight a little spirit at all, I dragged my legs and rubbed in the direction of the Pu River, the high-spirited momentum of the whole army when it went out to fight has disappeared, and tens of thousands of people marched but it was quiet and abnormal, but this kind of silence is not military discipline, but panic and lifelessness.

An hour passed, the Ming army walked less than six miles, the angry Liaozhen general Li Gufeng urged the pro-soldiers to drive away, but even the pro-soldiers wanted to find some place to rest, it was really not able to lift the spirit, there were some hills and ups and downs near the Pu River, and there was already a Huazhou cavalry hidden in it.

Several cavalry marched separately, taking advantage of the Liaozhen soldiers being harassed by the first force, these cavalry had already rushed to the front, the Ming army's march was so slow, they were happy to take this opportunity to rest their horses and prepare their weapons.

Hearing that the soldiers who went to the sentry hurriedly ran back to report that the Ming army was ahead, the head of this cavalry got on his horse and prepared for battle, but he remembered Jiang Feng's order in his mind:

"You are wolves, Ming Jun is a cow, you don't have to bite to death, but you have to bite off the meat for me every bite!"