Chapter 777: Gun Array
"Ah......" A herdsman was stabbed in the neck, the tip of the spear from his throat to the back of the neck, his eyes glared and he reached out to pull it out, but when the soldier who stabbed him pulled out his spear, the herdsman fell to the ground like a bag of potatoes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Bang!" A soldier brutally smashed the head of a war horse to pieces, and the knight on the horse was instantly stabbed into a sieve by three or four spears after falling off his horse, and the blood immediately stained the ground red.
Holding a single hand and a shield in his hand, he constantly squats and slashes the horse's legs.
At this moment, the gun array also moved!
Because the firecrackers hit the cavalry too hard, the cavalry on both flanks began to retract, many men and horses collided together, and the cavalry on the front finally could not resist the pressure and began to retreat.
It was a spectacular sight, and thanks to the long hours of training, the spears moved forward without any confusion, the soldiers continued to move forward, and the musketeers moved almost with the spearmen.
A large number of cavalry were sent out from behind the northern captives.
The young Tai Ji and the other young Tai Ji were already stunned when they saw the unfavorable battle situation.
They knew that the combat strength of the Mongol soldiers was far inferior to that of the Ming army, but they never imagined that attacking a purely infantry formation would actually be in such a situation.
"What's the use of this tiger and wolf division?" Huo Luochi was furious in the formation and said: "If you can't have 3,000 Ming troops with 100,000 divisions today, how can you protect the Hetao the next day?" ”
In an instant, the Mongolian army was full of drums and trumpets, and the cavalry marched forward like a wave, and another 20,000 or 30,000 horsemen rushed forward. This battlefield is more than ten miles in circumference, enough to accommodate large-scale cavalry battles.
In an instant, the mountains and fields were full of galloping cavalry, and one after another flags were displayed, fluttering with the wind, like a sea of clouds raising sails. Between the scorching sun and the heat wave, a large force of cavalry seemed to rush out of hell, wild clouds and the sound of wind and thunder rushed up from the ground, whistling, tens of thousands of war horses galloped wildly, banners were spread, spears were like forests, swords in the hands of knights, cotton armor on their bodies, iron helmets or hats on their heads rose and fell with the horses, no one dared to doubt the determination and fighting spirit of this cavalry, this is the most elite family members who followed Huo Luochi to fight many expeditions, this time Huo Luochi released them all, even if the losses were too great, and they could no longer conquer YulinThis battle is still a must-fight. Otherwise, Huo Luochi was worried that from now on, the sons of his tribe would only be defeated and flee as soon as they saw the Ming army!
In the eyes of the people at the head of the city, there is a very terrible situation in front of them, the iron hooves are on the ground, the cold light of the weapons is staggered, the sound of the horses' hooves is deafening, the sound of cannons and guns are covered, the scenery is the scene, the mountains and rivers tremble, and the heavens and the earth are moved! At this moment, who can be the face of tens of thousands of cavalry, tie the dragon, and go against this frenzy?
The veteran who had participated in the pacification of the Renchen Rebellion had white eyebrows, and couldn't help but say: "The northern captives are overwhelming, although the merchant army is fine, it is difficult to be defeated!" ”
As he said, even Ma Chengen also has such worries, although the combat effectiveness of the merchant army is very good, but the number is too small, if the thousands of soldiers in the car battalion behind the formation are not soldiers but also soldiers with the same configuration and armor, of course this battle will be won, and at this time there are more than 10,000 cavalry galloping back and forth in the battle array, the soldiers and musketeers are constantly fighting, the artillery has been firing many rounds in a row, has fallen silent, as if waiting for the barrel of the artillery to cool, in this case, tens of thousands of cavalry are pouring in like a frenzy, At this time, how can more than 3,000 foot soldiers stop it?
"Dangerous!" Wu Zhiwang sighed and turned his head.
"Even so," Zhao Jiude's delicate face showed a look of sincere admiration, and he said, "If Governor Liu is here, I'm afraid I can't help but beat the drums to help in the war." ”
Governor Liu is Liu Minkuan, the governor of the three sides, and he can be placed on the important task of the governor of the three sides as a well-known person, but Zhao Jiude does not want Liu Minkuan to be here, but hopes that the governor can hear about the war and send the elite of the three sides to help, of course, this is just an extravagant hope.
"Lord Junmen," Ma Chengen said, "If you expect others, you might as well try to save yourself." ”
Ma Chengen ordered the whole army to prepare, the east gate could no longer be opened, and could only go out from the west gate, and a large number of elite cavalry gathered in one place, ready to go out of the city to fight with the northern cavalry when the battle situation was anxious.
The only hope now is that the more than 3,000 merchant army can stop this frenzy in front of them.
The two armies approached for a short time, the phalanx continued to advance, crushing all the enemies who dared to resist, and the cavalry that rushed into the formation in advance, some of them broke away from the battlefield, and they were terrified before the Che Battalion, they were unable to storm the Che Battalion, so they could only flee to the sand to the north, raising the yellow sand in the sky.
Most of the people who stayed in the formation were stabbed to death, blood flowed sideways, the cavalry fled in all directions in the zigzag formation, but there was no chance of survival in the phalanx, spear stabs, lance stabs, hammers, the cavalry was constantly knocked off the horse, the corpses were stacked on the ground with a thick layer, the blood flowed sideways, the ground showed a large blood-red stain of blood, the wounded crawled on the ground, and were soon stabbed to death, there were a small number of soldiers in the formation, they risked the danger and piled the corpses on the side of the road in an unobstructed place.
All resistance was crushed, the lives of the cavalry were constantly harvested, and the phalanx was like a rock, not moving at all.
The ownerless horses were running around in the formation, being led away by the caravan army's baggage, or running aimlessly to the side of the sand.
The cavalry, who had been running sideways on the periphery, finally waited for reinforcements, and they continued to flee in a north-south direction, making way for the cavalry behind, and as they fled, the cavalry in shame continued to shoot arrows, which rained down on arrows and almost obscured the sky.
At the sound of arrows, the forward infantry column collided with the Mongols' fresh cavalry.
Due to the short time of approach, the later Mongol cavalry did not shoot arrows, they stabbed forward with the tips of their spears, and fought with the soldiers, and more cavalry gathered in formation, because they were so dense that the tips of the spears seemed to be piled together, and the cavalry increased their horse speed to the fastest, and the adrenaline was rushed, and they rushed towards the gap in the infantry formation.
The cavalry who rushed to the front immediately collided with the phalanx of spears that came up!
The sound of the gun's barrel striking and breaking was immediately heard on the battlefield, and there was also the crisp sound of the tip of the gun stabbing the metal on the armor, and this sound came and went, one after another, like the sound of a torrential rain falling on the ground out of thin air, and the sound of continuous and continuous sound was like a pearl falling on a jade plate, and the difference was that there was no pleasing feeling to the eye, only blood and killing.
The Mongolian cavalry only realized at this time that it seemed that the number was small, a pike phalanx of only about 1,000 people was so firm and indestructible, the pikemen had flat spears, and there were also oblique pikemen, the way and angle of each row of pikemen raising their guns were completely different, in front of the eyes of the Mongolian cavalry, there was only a dense forest of guns, the entire phalanx was flawless, and the spears of the infantry were far longer than the spears in the hands of the cavalry, when the war horses galloped to the front, they suddenly stopped, and then were carried by inertia to rush to the gun array, Directly nailed into the spear, the horse and the knight were pierced in an instant, and immediately died outside the gun array.
When the knight was looking at the face, he tried to dodge the tip of the spear as much as possible, but the war horse was very pitiful, they watched the horse in front of them being pierced, and tried to avoid the tip of the spear, but the knight controlled the horse to turn and tried to dodge, but the horse was cut or poked on both sides by the sharp tip of the spear, most of which was scratched on the soft abdomen, and a huge blood mouth opened in the abdomen when running, and the blood flowed out with the horse's intestines, and the war horse would scream a few times, and then fell to the ground and died slowly.
As soon as a cavalry is seen to fall from their horses, soldiers will come and kill them.
If the number of soldiers is insufficient, the gunners will retreat to the range of the spearmen, hiding in the four corners and shooting at the cavalry on the periphery.
The command vehicle was protected in the middle of the three phalanxes, and the cavalry was already in disarray, and each cavalry felt that they were under fire from all sides, and the Mongols were so dazed that they could not make any more breakthroughs.
The cavalry charged quickly, and soon the grand cavalry in front was once again divided into three strands, and they formed a curved arc, rushing back and forth in the three zigzag phalanxes.
A few columns of pikemen finally fell, but the array was too thick, and the gunners kept firing, and the speed of the horses slowed down, and they refused to ram the spears again.
The Mongols saw that the musketeers kept raising their guns and aimed them at themselves.
These guns have refreshed their understanding that at a distance of fifty or sixty paces, the projectile can cause great damage to the human body, and almost every shot can take a human life.
In comparison, the bow and arrows in his hands were almost desperate, the rain of arrows was dense and fierce, but the damage to the merchant army was extremely small, almost negligible.
Not many people continue to use bows and arrows, which is a hopeless situation.
Several herdsmen on horseback suddenly dropped their bows and arrows, and cried in despair on their horses.
A row of gunners on the opposite side had just finished loading, and around the corner of the gun array, dozens of firearms were raised in unison, and everyone saw it, and they felt that their blood was coagulated.
As fierce cavalry, these Mongols had experienced fighting and hard fighting, but being shot without a chance was a great fear that no normal person could accept.
The guns rang out, the weeping herdsman was hit in the body, the blood mist rose into the air, a head exploded, a chest was dented, and someone was knocked off his horse, and the crying stopped and was replaced by moaning and wailing.
Eventually, the cavalry began to turn around, trying to flee from this terrifying battlefield.
Bai Yin hid in the baggage team, and the entire battlefield was clearly seen by him.
He saw the cavalry running around like flies without a head, and the later cavalry began to be neat, and then hit the head in front of the three phalanxes and broke the blood, although relying on the numerical advantage to break through the gun formation, and also suppressed the soldiers and guns of the merchant army, but the reaction of the merchant army was obviously after a thousand hammers and trials, and all the responses were extremely familiar, and did not give the Mongols the slightest chance.