Chapter 619: Tearing

The heavy cavalry of the Huazhou army and the light cavalry of the Ming army collided head-on, although the impulse of the heavy cavalry was an overwhelming advantage, but compared with the light cavalry, it was not a huge difference.

The cavalry of the Ming army is of course scattered, but the front line of the first row of the Huazhou heavy cavalry is also chaotic, but the two rows behind have been jogging, and the first row and the last two rows have been stretched a long distance.

After the collision, the cavalry of the Ming army did not force back the opponent's horse team, but was forced back by the opponent for dozens of steps, and the Ming cavalry that rushed up in a hurry was completely scattered. The Huazhou heavy cavalry in the first row turned out to be regardless of whether the other party would attack or not.

Directly led the horse to run to both sides, originally at this time, Zhou Lin had already ordered his subordinates to prepare artillery and bows and arrows, and after the cavalry blocked the opponent, they could use these long-range weapons to attack the opponent's heavy cavalry.

As a result, the Shaanxi border army in the Ming army was at the forefront, either dying under the piercing of the opponent's cavalry, or being knocked away, and the half-hearted and frightened cavalry behind saw the other party rushing over so fiercely, and they didn't care about the military order and military law, so they turned around and ran.

Some of them were sober and ran to both sides, and some were already frightened, and rushed directly towards the formation, Zhou Lin's face in the center was a little depressed, the hand on the handle of the knife became tighter and tighter, and the heralds and standard-bearers on the side were all looking at him with blank eyes, Zhou Lin paused, and said coldly:

"Kill those who mess with me!"

As soon as these words were spoken, officers at all levels hurriedly arranged, although they were their colleagues in front of them, but let them break away from their own lines, and it would be a big deal on the battlefield.

The archers in the front row were already ready to shoot, and with an order, the arrows shot out rapidly, and the Ming cavalry that rushed back almost crashed into these arrows in front of them, and it was too late to dodge, and the screams of the men and horses sounded into a piece, but it did stop the footsteps of the scattered cavalry.

The archers transferred to the front row of the Ming army held horn bows in their hands, this kind of bow and arrow was within a distance of about fifty paces, extremely fast, and the penetrating power was also very strong, and the effect was really good to deal with these almost armless Ming light cavalry.

At this time, the Huazhou heavy cavalry in the back two rows began to accelerate, although it was long, in fact, there was not much time, the archers of the Ming army cleared out their own cavalry scattered in front of the formation, and it happened that the heavy cavalry of the second and third rows of Huazhou flattened the cavalry and rushed over fiercely.

I could see that the horses' hooves had been raised, and the distance of the horses' steps was getting bigger and bigger, and the heavy cavalry of Huazhou was wrapped in armor all over their bodies, and the vital points were covered by shields, and they didn't care about the corpses of the people and horses that fell there, so they rushed over.

The archers of the Ming army reacted very quickly, after the first round of shooting, the arrows were quickly loaded on the arrows, seeing that the opponent's heavy cavalry rushed over as if it was a moving steel wall, and now the ground is really trembling, this level of heavy cavalry has not appeared for a long time on the battlefield of the land of China.

The arms and bodies of the archers and spearmen in front of them couldn't help shaking, and it was not clear whether it was the shaking of the ground or the fear in their hearts.

The sharp sound of "whoosh" broke the air again, and shot towards the heavy cavalry in front of him, although it was a very penetrating arrow, but at such a close distance, it was still impossible to penetrate the heavy armor and horse armor of the opposing cavalry, and the only thing that played a role was artillery, provided that it could be fired in a hurry.

No matter how heavy the armor of the cavalry was, they could not resist the cannonballs that flew out rapidly, and the unlucky Huazhou heavy cavalry flew out directly with men and horses, but most of the heavy cavalry still rushed forward.

The rejecting rifles and spears of the front team of the Ming army did not have much effect, because the length of the cavalry spears of the heavy cavalry was even longer than the rejecting rifles, and the heavy cavalry rushed to the front, but there were not many people who died under the piercing of the cavalry spears, and more people ran away when the heavy cavalry arrived, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one.

In Chinese history, there are not many similar heavy cavalry appearances, such as the Northern Wei cavalry during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the elite cavalry during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the Tiefutu of the Jurchen Jin Kingdom.

This kind of troops are in the country when the strongest appeared, as the strongest troops, every appearance of the enemy's troops caused a huge shock and killing, before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Meng Yuan also had people and horses are heavy cavalry in armor cowardly Xue cavalry, but it is already extremely corrupt, no effect at all. When encountering the Han rebels, some cavalrymen even took off their armor and removed their vests in order to flee quickly.

After arriving on the grassland, the cavalry of the Mongol Tatars was even more degenerate, and then it was just a group of herdsmen with weapons, so the Ming army that fought with them has always been an easy battle, both sides are slowly degrading, the nomadic cavalry on the grassland has become like herdsmen, and the Ming army on the nine sides has become like farmers, but the Ming Dynasty has changed more slowly.

At this time, I saw the heavy cavalry of Huazhou, the neat queue, the flat-ended cavalry spears, the tall horses, and the shining armor, facing the kind of attack of the light cavalry.

Let the Ming soldiers standing in the front row frightened, especially the bows and arrows shot by the archers had no effect on the other side at all, and those soldiers with spears did not have the confidence to resist, to deal with the charge of the heavy cavalry, the infantry only tightened the formation, stretched out the long weapons, and carried the opponent hard.

This is extremely demanding for the foot soldiers, requiring strong cohesion and firm confidence, and for the Ming army, these are precisely what they lack the most.

If a group of soldiers gather together, then the momentum of the heavy cavalry may not be able to cause any damage, but at this time someone wants to run, someone wants to fight, after the archers have finished shooting, they can see those arrows bounce off the opponent's armor, these archers can't care about anything, turn their heads and run.

On the battlefield, this state was like a rapidly contagious plague, which soon spread, and the soldiers who were not determined to do so also ran with it.

In this way, the queue in front of them became very sparse, and those Ming infantry soldiers who held their spears and did not move in place, the spears in their hands pierced the armor of the Ming heavy cavalry, often slid away, and the poles of some spears were even broken, but the cavalry spears of the heavy cavalry had already stabbed the foot soldiers earlier.

There was no suspense, everything that had not yet run was pierced, and some even two or three people were pierced by the Huazhou heavy cavalry with unfailing momentum, and after the speed of the horses was finally reduced by the foot soldiers blocking in front of them, the heavy cavalry did not hesitate to throw away their riding guns and draw out the big knives hanging on the side of the saddle.

While trying his best to urge the horses, while waving the big knife in his hand and slashing downward, the two rows of heavy cavalry forcibly broke a hole in the seemingly solid front of the Ming army, and was tearing this wound as much as possible, although these horses were all high-quality horses.

However, carrying such a heavy armor weapon knight, the consumption of horsepower is also amazing, and the current heavy cavalry can only run in small steps, and the scattered Ming army has also recovered from the temporary panic, because of the impact of the heavy cavalry, the concave array of the Ming army is already very secret.

It is difficult for the heavy cavalry to continue to expand this opening, and the Ming soldiers have begun to gradually counterattack, and many of the Ming troops who fled were killed back at this time, which was considered to be for the rout and cowardice just now to find the field, but if the heavy cavalry team was just a lone attack.

The officers of Huazhou can only be said to be stupid, the heavy cavalry disrupted and routed the opponent's line, and the light cavalry of Huazhou had already jumped out of the formation and rushed straight to the gap in the front that had been opened.

Huazhou's light cavalry with short spears and long knives in their hands, shouted and rushed in, their horses were sufficient, running as expected, the Ming army had not fully recovered, they were killed by these cavalry, Huazhou's light cavalry and heavy cavalry are different, heavy cavalry because of the extremely strict requirements for battlefield discipline and tactical movements, so they are selected to be proficient in equestrian customs and Huazhou's regimental training.

The light cavalry on the battlefield is to pay attention to wave warfare, personal riding skills and skills are more demanding, so these are skilled guards with bows and horses, bloodthirsty and murderous, first-class meritorious service, and martial heirlooms are all aimed at these guards, they are extremely fanatical on the battlefield in order to keep their wealth.

For many years outside the pass, the rotation of the east fort and the west fort of the Taer River, the experience and practice of the steppe and the local Mongols and other tribes in the grass valley have made them extremely skilled in cooperating with each other, with short spears and long knives, and these people will never attack other places.

It was just that the opening that rushed into the heavy cavalry was not crowded, and the people in front rushed violently, but the ones behind took out their bows and arrows, and drew cold arrows.

At this time, the heavy cavalry was already out of the battlefield, but the Ming army, which could not be integrated, was constantly torn flesh and blood by the Huazhou light cavalry that looked like a pack of wolves, and the gap in the front line was getting bigger and bigger......