Chapter 72: Cavalry Duel (1)
After Tong Yangxing came out of the wild boar slope mountain road with less than 3,000 remnants, he was shocked, and from a distance, there was a crowd of human heads and horses in front of him, as if covering the entire land. The thousands of men and horses were silent, people did not bark, horses did not neigh, and waited for them in silence.
The morning sun was rising from the east, and thousands of golden rays of light were sprinkled from behind these silent cavalrymen, gilding all the three thousand cavalrymen with a layer of golden light.
At the front of the riding formation, a rider held a large banner high, and a golden "Jiang" character on it hunted and flew in the morning breeze.
"Jiang? Who is this? Tong Yangxing frowned, but he couldn't remember when he provoked an enemy surnamed Jiang, and it seemed that the Ming border army had never heard of any generals surnamed Jiang.
Just when Tong Yang was confused, a voice came from the opposite array very clearly:
"Tong Yangxing, let's meet again."
Tong Yangxing looked at it with all his eyes, only to see that the large array on the opposite side suddenly separated from the middle and rolled to both sides, and a team of people and horses in the middle poured out, led by a rider with heavy armor all over his body, bright red helmets fluttering in the wind, and some fiery red cloaks behind him swept with the wind behind him.
"Who are you, who dare to be the enemy of my Daqing, is it really my Daqing's sword is not good?" Of course, Tong Yangxing couldn't recognize a person who was wrapped in heavy armor, so he shouted at the other side.
"Lord Tong is so forgetful, I am your pioneer officer, have you forgotten the errand you received in the morning? Hahahaha" The man on the other side lifted his visor in a burst of laughter, revealing a young face.
"It's you! Do you little horse thieves not know whether to live or die and are enemies of my Qing Dynasty? Tong Yangxing was taken aback at first glance, and the person opposite turned out to be the second-in-command bald wolf of the Hulu Valley horse thief who had been recruited by himself to be cannon fodder.
"Little pony thief? In that case, let you see how I, a little horse thief, made your Great Qing Iron Rider fall on the spot today! The "vulture" sneered, waved his right hand forward, turned around and retreated into the large array, which was restored to its original state.
"Kill!" Tong Yangxing was killed in the wild boar slope mountain road just now, which is called a depressed and aggrieved, and now he has come out to the plain, and that is the stage of my Eight Banner Warriors.
Since this group of horse thieves is so ignorant of life and death, and they are going to kill themselves, then it is just right for Lord Ben to earn a battle merit.
He didn't think about why a horse thief had the audacity to dare to be the enemy of the Qing Dynasty, and this was not the time to think about this, and it didn't make sense to think about it.
"Leave a thousand people to guard the baggage, and the rest will rush with me!" Tong Yang gave the order, and with a wave of the long knife, the nearly two thousand remnants of the Tartars behind him screamed and waved their weapons and rushed towards the opposite large array.
Just now in the valley, these warriors who have always been invincible on horses were forced to be infantry who were not good at all, and as a result, they suffered heavy losses, but the enemy did not even leave a corpse, which made them not nest fire, not aggrieved, Tong Yang gave an order, these people were like crazy to urge the war horses to rush towards the opposite side of the big formation, and they didn't care about the horsepower at all.
The only thing they want to do now is to rush into the other party's big formation, cut down all these guys who don't know whether they are alive or dead, and use the blood of the enemy to wash away the shame and defeat in the mountain road just now.
In the large array on the opposite side, as the red banner of "Jiang" entered the formation, the entire cavalry formation quickly began to change formation in the sound of passionate and majestic drums, and the horses' hooves were rushing, and five hundred archers each flew out from the two wings of the entire formation to both sides, outflanking the two wings of the Tartars.
From the middle of the large array, a hundred-man heavy-armored cavalry hundred-man team with silver helmets and silver armor poured out, and the two thousand light cavalry equipped with leather armor and small round shields behind them quickly lined up behind the heavy-armored cavalry, forming a large three-man charging formation with the heavy cavalry hundred-man team as the arrow.
The exciting and majestic war drums sounded again, and the cavalry triangle began to trot, and then accelerated in the more and more fierce and rapid war drums, the speed became faster and faster, and when the war drums reached the fastest and highest, the speed of the entire cavalry formation also reached the fastest, forming a rolling steel torrent towards the Tartar cavalry and swept away.
A thousand light and swift cavalry archers flew towards the two wings of the Tartar cavalry array, pouring arrows into the Tartar array with their hard bows on the high-speed galloping horses.
The archers and cavalry arrows of the fortress system are all long clusters of arrows that can be specially shot through leather armor, and the target is mainly the war horse under the crotch of the Tartar soldiers.
Moreover, this thousand cavalry was well trained, and not all of them fired volleys, but divided into five waves, each with two hundred archers. One wave was shot out and then quickly retreated to the rear, and the second wave quickly stepped forward and continued to rain arrows into the Tartar array.
Such undulating waves were unmistakable, and long arrows rained down on the Tartars, and many Tartar soldiers fell to the ground with men and horses, not to be killed on the spot, but also to break their muscles and bones and pass out directly, and many of them still had arrows on their bodies.
As a result, the originally scattered cavalry formation of the Tartars was even more chaotic, and the cavalry in the high-speed charge had no time to change direction, and many people were tripped by the horses and soldiers' corpses planted in front, and then continued to trip the people behind, forming a domino effect, so that there were a lot of blanks in the Tartars' riding formation.
Whenever the Tartar cavalry tried to return fire, the arrows fired were either blocked by the small round shield or avoided by the skilful riding skills of the archers, causing very few casualties.
When did the Tartars see this kind of formation, even the Mongolian cavalry who were good at riding and archery did not have this way of fighting, everyone used to fight directly when they were fighting, first with a bow and arrow to shoot at a while, and then at a similar distance, the bow and arrow were thrown, and the scimitar was pulled out and began to cut in close combat.
For the Tartars, this was the correct way of cavalry fighting, and it was the way they were used to it. However, the mysterious and intricate enemy they encountered today subverted their perception and caused them to suffer heavy losses all at once, so that many people's fighting spirit was seriously defeated, and their self-confidence in battle began to gradually erode.
Tong Yangxing's heart was also full of doubts and incredulity, he absolutely did not believe that a group of horse thieves whom he called a rabble could have so many archers with excellent riding skills, and good at riding and archery, and such sharp fighting methods, he had never heard of them.
But the facts were in front of him, and he had to believe it. And he didn't have time to think about it, because at this moment, thirty paces away, he could already see the knight in silver armor who was rushing at the front, and a pair of eyes as cold as a tiger appeared from the helmet, and the sunlight reflected by those silver armor made his eyes a little unable to open.
This is where the real battle begins.