Chapter Twenty-Four: The Great War of Tianjin Wei (2)
Gao Yigong's 100,000 horses and Shanjia's 30,000 strikers Jiang Jiajun finally faced each other.
The formation of the Jiang Jiajun was decent, with the infantry in the middle and the cavalry protecting the flanks, presenting a large black semi-arc formation.
The mountain armor commanded the battle on the towering cloud chariot in the formation, and the main general next to him, Da Xu, rolled and rolled in the formation, making a crackling sound from time to time.
The entire military formation was silent, exuding a strong aura of slaughter.
On the other hand, the Dashun army formation on the opposite side is also an infantry formation, guarded by cavalry on both wings. But it's not the same thing at all.
The Central Plains Dynasty has always lacked horses, and Li Zicheng's Dashun Kingdom is no exception.
Although his so-called cavalry claims to have 100,000 iron cavalry, there are only about 10,000 real cavalry, and the rest are either horses, mules, and donkeys.
These cavalry are at most infantry on the backs of cattle, and where are the cavalry.
10,000 cavalry, how many can be distributed to Gao Yigong? It's just more than a thousand rides.
This is cavalry, not to mention the infantry, except for the first few rows of soldiers wearing armor and the military appearance is quite neat, the back of those who are shouting indiscriminately, holding shovels, iron forks and other agricultural tools, and wearing colorful guys are simply here to make up the numbers.
The 100,000 army is called 100,000, but the real soldiers who can fight are only about 10,000.
Looking at the chaotic appearance of the Dashun army on the opposite side, Shanjia had a strange expression, turned his head to the deputy general next to him, Bige, and said: "Where is this army, is this simply a group of rabble, some of them are bandits who look neater than them." It's really hard to imagine that such a team can fight for most of the Ming Dynasty, and those Ming troops grew up eating? ”
The adjutant general Bige also looked at the chaotic and rush-like scene on the opposite side with an incredible face, and said depressedly: "General, how can you feel like a bully when fighting against such an army." ”
Shanjia nodded sympathetically and said, "I now feel that the lord overestimates Li Zicheng's strength. If Li Zicheng's army is like this, then we don't have to play any tactics of sneak attack at all, just push all the way over. ”
"Yes, last time, it took only a quarter of an hour for the last general's 9,000 men to completely defeat Hao Shaoqi's 40,000 infantry, and at that time, the last general felt that these people could not be called an army at all, they were just a group of farmers. Fighting against such an army is not exciting at all. Bigg nodded in agreement,
Both of them felt a little disappointed, and they really didn't have much enthusiasm in the face of such a group of rabble.
"Tell me to go down and let the baggage battalion start burying the pot and cooking. When their meals are ready, it's time for us to clean up the battlefield. The scarf commanded lazily.
Gao Yigong is Li Zicheng's brother-in-law, that is, the younger brother of Li Zicheng's wife Gao, who has been following Li Zicheng since he started his army in Mizhi, Shaanzhou, and can be regarded as Li Zicheng's absolute confidant.
Although he is now the uncle of the Great Shun Kingdom, he is still modest, and he is brave and cautious in battle.
Gao Yigong rode on a black high-headed horse, and used the clairvoyant mirror captured from the Ming army to look at the Jiang family's army on the opposite side, which was as motionless as a mountain, swords and guns like a forest, waving flags, and silent, although the number of people seemed to be tens of thousands less than his own side, but it gave him a huge and incomparable sense of oppression.
This feeling he had never seen in front of that army after following Li Zicheng for more than ten years, even the Ming army led by Yuan Chonghuan back then.
Looking at the strict and cold military appearance on the opposite side, and then looking at the chaotic formation on his side, Gao Yigong suddenly lost confidence in his heart.
He suddenly felt that although he had a lot of 100,000 people, he was just 100,000 sheep in a mess.
On the other side, the Jiang family army was 30,000 forbidden wolves.
If 100,000 sheep attack 30,000 wolves, what will happen to them, you don't need to think about it.
Why did such a powerful army suddenly rise outside the gates? It's just scared before you fight.
And that's just their strikers? Could it be that Jiang Chuan's hundreds of thousands of horses are all such elites?
It's absolutely impossible! After more than ten years of tossing in the southern and northern wars, the elites under his command are only about 50,000, how can he, a nobody, have hundreds of thousands of elites in a short period of time?
It must have been that Jiang Chuan who concentrated all his elites in the vanguard and used them to dismount our army.
In that case, then Lao Tzu must not let you succeed.
Hao Shaoqi is Hao Shaoqi, and my high skill is high merit. Who is the wolf and who is the sheep will be known in a moment.
sounded the countless victories before, and the confidence of Gao Yigong slowly returned.
He took a deep breath and gave the order to attack.
The horns whined, followed by the sound of war drums.
The sound of the horn made the Dashun army begin to enter a state of euphoria, they raised all kinds of weapons in their hands and shouted loudly, and some of them even beat their chests with their hands, roaring like wild beasts.
In the eyes of most of the soldiers of the Dashun Army, although the enemy on the opposite side looks very powerful, it is still useless, as long as our 100,000 men and horses rush over, no matter how powerful the men and horses are, they will collapse.
In their eyes, the army in front of them was not much different from the previous Ming armies that were about to collapse at the touch of a button.
Let them covet the equipment of the Jiang family army on the other side, those sophisticated weapons, and the best armor are already their trophies in the eyes of the soldiers of the Dashun army.
Many people have begun to fantasize about what they will look like when they change into their armor after the battle, so they are excited to hear the horn of the attack.
The drums of war grew faster and faster, and the officers of the Dashun army loudly whipped their soldiers with their whips and weapons in their hands, making them begin to line up and prepare to charge.
Finally, after a burst of drums that were extremely high, the Dashun army launched a charge.
The crowd rushed towards Jiang Jiajun with a shout like a yellow flood that burst the embankment.
And more than a thousand cavalry jumped out from both wings at the same time, ready to outflank the Jiang family's army that would collapse at that time from both wings.
Perhaps except for Gao Yigong, who was a little apprehensive about this battle, the other soldiers of the Dashun Army would feel that this battle would go smoothly as before.
The scene of 100,000 people charging together does look very spectacular, and they are shouting loudly while charging, which is indeed very imposing.
If you think about the crowds marching on the streets, there are only a few thousand, and tens of thousands of people can create a great momentum, let alone this 100,000 army.
Therefore, many Ming troops who had no will to fight were indeed frightened by this posture.
To put it bluntly, the main tactic of the Dashun army's attack is the crowd tactic, even if you don't rely on more people to kill you, you will be scared to death by relying on more people.
Seeing the countless heads of Wu Yang rushing towards the formation, Shanjia showed a very helpless look on his face, and ordered: "Let them get closer before firing." ”