Chapter 592: Bloody Battle to the Death

The front line of the Ming army scattered like ducks being driven away, and all those who had the courage to charge were killed by the fire of the firearms.

In this kind of array shooting, the three phalanxes lean on each other as horns, take care of each other, and there are two squares behind as backups, and when they fight, they have no worries about their flanks and rear, they only need to fight with the people in front of them, and the range of the firecrackers can reach about 150 paces at most, which is actually greatly lengthening the width and length of the phalanx of 1,600 people.

The Ming army pressed up with no less than 20,000 soldiers, so chaotic and cohesive, and even seemed to want to surround the Huazhou army there, but the three infantry regiments in Huazhou, within a hundred steps of the outside of 4,800 people, could not see a living Ming army, as long as the other party rushed into the range of the fire, this side immediately opened fire, occasionally bold, lucky, rushed to the front of the person, was stabbed to death by a few spears.

The drums of the Huazhou army to control the pace and rhythm sounded intermittently, and every fifty steps forward and a hundred paces alive, the soldiers' footsteps would stop, adjust the queue, and then open fire and fight.

The reason for the continuous advance and stopping, in addition to the fact that the queue in the march needs to be kept neat and tidy at all times, can not be chaotic, and during the time they stopped, the surrounding Ming troops either fled or were killed, and soon there was no enemy as a target, but only to move forward more, at least there were more Ming troops in front.

The main generals on both sides were disappointed, Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, could no longer maintain any calm expression, his face was gloomy to the extreme, 20,000 soldiers and horses were still the main force in Liaozhen, but they were so easily dispersed and defeated by the other party, and the number of the Ming army was far more than the other party, but he was pushed over by the other party so hard, he had no ability to resist on his side, compared to artillery, although he could find a few that could be used after the shelling just now, but seeing the power and tactics of the Huazhou army's artillery, Li Gufeng was completely dead, I can't fight it!

The routs ran to the sides and behind, some ran to the flanks, and those who were lucky escaped with their lives, and those who ran back to their own camp were more unlucky.

The reason why each team has a distance in front of the formation is that they are afraid that each other's chaos will affect each other, and the rout of the front team will run to the back, if it is not stopped, I am afraid that all the formations will be disrupted by these routs, and there will be no need to continue to fight at that time, I am afraid that all the mountains and fields will be routed.

There is no need to continue fighting in this battle, it will definitely be lost, not only Li Gufeng, but also the Ming army officers at all levels have given death orders, and if they are close to the route, they will be killed immediately.

At this time, it was equivalent to the combined massacre of the Ming army and the Huazhou army in the middle of the rout, and these scattered soldiers slowly touched the doorway, and no one dared to run to the back, they were scattered to both sides. Moreover, these routed soldiers also discovered a truth, that is, if they have weapons in their hands, then the pursuit of the Huazhou army will not stop, and if they flee empty-handed, then no one will pay attention to them.

In order to survive, sometimes they can't take care of anything, throw away the weapon, hug the head and run away, the idea of the Huazhou army is very simple, if these rout soldiers take the weapons to the flank, they are gathered by others, it is still a hidden danger, but if they drop the weapon, they can't set off any wind and waves with their bare hands, and he goes, the land of this Liao town still needs a large number of strong laborers to cultivate, and he is not willing to kill more.

Although the Chinese army where Li Gufeng of the Ming Army was located, he tried his best to maintain the formation and order, but he did not feel happy at all, they did not have the slightest response to this tactic in Huazhou, thinking that the soldiers in the front team could not stop it, and we could not resist it, bows and arrows and firearms were not as long as the range of the opponent's firearms, and the power was not as good, more than a hundred steps away, and they had not rushed to the front, and they were all killed by the opponent's firearms, how to fight this battle.

The Chinese army struggled to maintain, but the morale of the soldiers was already extremely low, and they could not fight, and it could be seen that the large array seemed to be stable, but in fact it was restless.

Everyone can see this kind of situation, under Li Gufeng's command, Li Gufeng's staff and guards are not good-looking, today's battle looks like a foregone conclusion, the question is to what extent the defeat should be controlled, and finally someone couldn't help it, and asked in a low voice Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, said:

"Dashuai, let's retreat for the time being, defend the fortified city, how about making plans again?"

Hearing such a suggestion from the staff, Li Gufeng turned his head and glanced at it, although there was no expression on his face, he startled the staff, and said in a loud voice:

"Marshal, the current situation is greatly unfavorable to our army, stay on the battlefield for a while, you will lose more soldiers and horses, Shenyang, Liaoyang has been operating for many years, if you retreat, it may not be able to support, when the time comes, send reinforcements in the pass, we will not be too late to fight at that time."

The central city of Liaozhen is Shenyang, Liaoyang and Guangning in a key position, Liaoyang is the seat of Liaozhen, where the shogunate of the general army is located, Shenyang is the largest city, Guangning guards the last gateway of the entire Liaozhen into the Guannai, and the meaning of Liaozhen and Jizhen is to protect the Jingshi.

To prevent Mongolia and other barbarian tribes, and even North Korea from these two directions, so the construction of the city fortress has always been willing to spend the capital, which is also the norm, sometimes the money is spent on training and the purchase of equipment, I don't know how much to be embezzled by the person in charge, and it is difficult to quantify and approve, the silver is spent on the construction of the city fortress, at least there is a project there, easy to assess.

Shenyang, Liaoyang and Guangning are all generations of general soldiers and towns will spend money to build, their industries and mansions are also in the city, naturally to defend a little more solidly, many cannons of the Ming army are placed at the head of the city, the city's defense can be said to be very complete.

Liaozhen Commander Li Gufeng didn't mean to get angry, the staff looked at the Commander-in-Chief Soldier and never spoke, and stopped to explain, but Li Gufeng actually didn't stare at him, but looked around at the reactions of the people around him, everyone's expressions were cringe, but it seemed that they obviously agreed with the advice of the staff member to retreat, Liaozhen Commander Li Gufeng shook the whip in his hand a few times in mid-air, and suddenly ordered:

"Pass my general order, guerrilla Qiu Feng, lead the horse team of 3,000 to rush into battle, and the foot soldiers of Dingliao's right guard will cooperate and go out immediately!"

After this order was given, the herald guards around him took the token military order, and hurriedly went to Qiu Feng's team to give the order, three thousand horses, and one guard's foot soldiers, which is already nearly 10,000 people, and a guerrilla level is far from enough, this is actually a general who is ready to promote Qiu Feng as the commander.

Everyone was puzzled, thinking that what they just said was still a matter of retreat, why did they suddenly promote an officer, that Qiu Feng seems to be indeed a brave and daring character, and he has just controlled the situation there without chaos, and he does have some talents, and it is not too much to promote, but why is it this time to make adjustments.

The array of the Huazhou army also has to wait there for the scattered Ming army to completely escape, before it can continue to advance, and the continuous shooting and fighting of the party just now, so that the fire gun must also have some time to cool down, in fact, if you want to impact the position of the Huazhou army, the gap between the cooling of the fire gun is the best time, but Huazhou only 8,000 people out of the battle, 4,800 people fight there, the timing of this impact is really dangerous.

Qiu Feng is really a trustworthy general, after the order was passed down, not long after, the army that was already fluctuating in military spirit was actually gathered by him according to the necessity of the order, and assembled at the front of the queue, the slow movement of the Huazhou army did not give the Ming army a lot of pressure.

There is enough space left between the two sides, and I don't know if Qiu Feng knows that he is fierce this time, but he is very calm and unlucky, but it is also very strange to see that he is arranging it very calmly, the speed of the cavalry is fast, and it should be charging ahead, but the guerrilla Qiu Feng in Liaozhen is quite strange, and I don't know what he said to the horse team, he actually drove the foot soldiers to the front, and the horse team formed a half-moon formation behind the foot soldier formation.

Whoever is in front of him will be sent to death, everyone is not a fool in this truth, they all understand, how can the foot soldiers be willing, but the horse team's military superiority is not only condescending, but also the horse team's soldiers have always been braver than the foot soldiers, and have an overall advantage.

didn't delay too much time, the army led by Qiu Feng began to rush towards the eight thousand Huazhou army in front, there was a horse team behind to supervise the battle, and there were deadly firearms of the Huazhou army in front.

The current situation is very weird, the formation of the three thousand horses is a very curved arc, almost wrapping five thousand foot soldiers in it, and these people do not talk about the friendship of their colleagues at all, as soon as the foot soldiers retreat, they are cut down, and the foot soldiers have no choice but to rush to the front desperately.

Although the arquebus improves the speed and frequency of shooting through diligent training and the rotation of queues, or the rationing of ammunition, there must be a time interval in between.

Now this kind of advance is also death, and retreat is also death, I have to rush, 5,000 foot soldiers, after losing more than 2,000 people, finally rushed to the Huazhou army formation.

I'm going to see blood......