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At the same time that the cavalry of the three walls began to advance, the infantry of the Shun army also began to advance. Li Zicheng did not think that the cavalry with three walls alone could crush the opponent, although the enemy did not seem to have set up a chariot formation specifically to resist the impact of the cavalry, but, considering the elite of the opponent, Li Zicheng felt that it was unlikely to crush the opponent by relying on the impact of the cavalry alone, not to mention that the opponent's cavalry was not weak. So in the end, it is necessary to rely on foot combat to solve the problem. Li Zicheng only hopes that the three walls can cause enough chaos for his opponent.

In the face of the approaching cavalry of the three walls, the model army's reaction did not seem to be very fast. It stands to reason that the cavalry deployed on both flanks of their ranks should have set out from both sides at once to flank the ranks of the cavalry of the three walls, but these cavalrymen, who had impressed the cavalry of the Shun army in the cavalry battle not long ago, did not rush over, but turned to the rear of their infantry, not knowing what they were trying to do.

However, the artillerymen reacted quickly, quickly raising the angle of the guns and starting to reload them with shrapnel shells.

If they had seen the power of shrapnel, the Three Walls Cavalry might have accelerated their charge at all costs, but they still knew almost nothing about this weapon, so they still followed their old habit of letting their horses trot slowly at this distance.

The artillery of the Model Army had already finished reloading the ammunition, and with a loud brass horn, fifty 12-pounder guns opened fire almost simultaneously, firing fifty grenade shotguns into the air. The shrapnel soared into the sky with a whining sound and then plunged headlong, slamming a hundred paces away from the cavalry, and then countless iron beads rained down like raindrops. down.

The three walls are Li Zicheng's trump card, and they naturally far exceed the ordinary Shun army in terms of equipment, they all have armor on their bodies, although most of them are just cotton armor with iron sheets, but these cotton armors are enough to block ordinary arrows after being watered. Even the heavy arrows used by the Warriors had to be at a considerable distance to pose a threat to the Cotton Armor.

But the iron beads of the shrapnel fired by the 12-pounder cannon were far from being comparable to ordinary arrows, and the thick cotton armor that had been watered was as fragile as a piece of paper in front of these shotguns. The orbs easily pierced the cavalrymen's cotton armor and knocked them to the ground. Not only the cavalry, but also their war horses. These horses don't have any armor at all, so they are naturally more vulnerable. A single round of artillery bombardment brought down one of the cavalry who had rushed to the front of the three walls. Some of the remaining cavalry were also in disarray, and some of the horsemen's horses under their crotches were frightened by such a thunderous blow, and spread their legs and ran wildly; There were also some cavalry horses that spun in circles, refusing to run forward even if they died; There were also some cavalry horses that were normal, but they were hit by abnormal horses and fell to the ground together. Now the formation of the cavalry in the first row of the three walls is completely out of order. Fortunately, the distance between the second row and them was not small and they did not collide directly, otherwise, I am afraid that the entire impact would have completely collapsed because of this round of shelling.

The cavalry of the three walls of the second row slowed down and bypassed the corpses of the horses that had fallen to the ground. Then the horsemen began to wave their leather whips frantically, causing the horses to accelerate forward. Although the charge was a little farther away from this distance, they both knew that it would not be fun to be subjected to such a round of shelling if the so-called normal speed was maintained.

Of course, speeding up at such a distance would not only seriously consume horsepower, but also make the formation chaotic - allowing the horses to maintain a tight formation in such a long-distance all-out sprint, even the heavy cavalry of the model army could not do this.

This time, however, they were not shelled again, and the artillerymen of the Model Army, throwing their still smoking cannons on their positions, turned around and ran towards their rear, and soon ran through the gap between the columns of the infantrymen. And the cavalry of the three walls continued to approach.

Li Zicheng looked at the opposite side from a distance, the sound of the cannon on the opposite side stopped, and he also saw that the cavalry of the three walls was rushing towards the opposite side quickly, but the situation on the opposite side was faintly not clear because of the large amount of gunpowder smoke generated by the cannon firing in front of him.

However, Li Zicheng didn't have much hope for how good the impact of the three walls would be, and they were forced to charge prematurely, which meant that when they were rushing in front of the opponent's military formation, the impact must have dropped greatly. As far as Li Zicheng observed at the beginning, the Ming army on the opposite side was very elite, although they didn't seem to have arranged anything like a chariot formation to resist the impact of the cavalry, but Li Zicheng was still not very optimistic about the charge of the three walls.

At this time, a gust of wind suddenly blew on the battlefield, and this wind blew a short section of the pervasive gunsmoke. Through this small gap, Li Zicheng suddenly found that the Ming army, which had originally spread out in a horizontal formation, had now become a column again, and behind the space they had vacated, a row of cavalry holding spears high was slowly advancing.

These cavalrymen with spears held high were naturally the heavy cavalry of the model army. The 1st Cavalry Regiment consisted of 800 heavy cavalry, these heavy cavalry were dressed in heat-treated plate armor, helmets with covered armor on their heads, and their horses were also hung with horse armor, and ordinary swords or arrows, even the heavy arrows fired by the white-armored soldiers, could not pierce their vital parts of the armor. In their hands, however, was a spear more than eight feet long. Of course, the spear used by the cavalry to charge into battle, because of the balance problem, although the counterweight is added to the tail, the cavalry can only hold it in the middle of the charge a little bit behind, so this kind of spear can actually stretch forward in the charge of the distance is only about a zhang. However, this length is far more than the length of the spear used by the average cavalryman can be stretched forward.

The barrel of this cavalry gun is hollow, which on the one hand reduces the weight of the spear, and on the other hand, it can also allow the cavalry gun to break immediately after stabbing the opponent, and through this breaking, excessive impact force is consumed, so as to ensure that the cavalry hand holding the gun will not be injured due to the momentum.

The heavy cavalry urged the horses, and the horses began to move slowly.

"Speed One!" Yu Xin, the newly appointed commander of the cavalry regiment, shouted loudly, and at the same time raised his spear with a long red pennant upward, so the whole team began to gradually accelerate.

The heavy cavalry of the Model Army adopted the tactics of riding on the wall, and the distance between each cavalry was very close, almost stirrups next to stirrups, and eight hundred cavalrymen, lined up in a neat queue, slowly accelerated. And about thirty paces behind them, the hussars who had just disappeared also lined up in a neat line and followed steadily behind.

"Speed two!" Yu Xin raised his spear upwards again, and the heavy cavalry continued to accelerate. At this time, they had already passed through the area filled with gunpowder smoke formed by the artillery fire just now, and they could clearly see the cavalry of the Shun army rushing towards them on the opposite side.

"Three walls?" Yu Xin looked at the Shun cavalry in front of him, and he noticed that the formation of those Shun cavalry was very untidy, and the speed was fast and slow.

"This is also worthy of being called a wall, let you know today, what is a cavalry wall assault!" Yu Xin thought like this, estimated the distance between the two sides again, and then raised the cavalry gun again, and issued a command to continue accelerating: "Speed three!" ”

The distance between the two sides approached rapidly, and at this time, the charging cavalry of the Shun army naturally saw the cavalry that appeared in front of them, and they also immediately noticed the formation of this cavalry, which was as tight as a real wall, as well as the shining armor on their bodies and the spears they held in their hands.

"I'm sure I'll hit it if I rush straight over, right?" Many of the cavalry of the Shun army couldn't help but think. And look at the opponent like this, rushing forward head-on, I am afraid that it will be a dead end, so some cavalry began to slow down unconsciously, and some wanted to turn their horses' heads and turn to the opponent's flank. Considering that the opponent's team is so densely lined, the width of the line is not too large, and it seems that it is too late to get around. So the three walls began to slow down, intending to go around the flanks of the heavy cavalry of the Model Army.

Yu Xin raised the riding spear in his hand high again, then lowered it flat, so that the tip of the spear pointed straight ahead, and shouted at the same time: "Flat spear, charge!" ”

After shouting these words, he stretched out his left hand and put down his armor, and at the same time touched the war horse with the spur on his foot, and the war horse began to run with all its might, and the explosive power of the Andalusian horse beyond the ordinary horse was suddenly displayed, and almost in the blink of an eye, the speed of the heavy cavalry was much faster.

According to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", when Guan Erye was fighting with Wen Chou, Wen Chou couldn't stand it, so he turned his horse's head and fled, but he misjudged the speed of Guan Erye's war horse, and was suddenly caught up by Guan Erye and cut it with a knife. Although this story is not necessarily true, in the battle, the miscalculation of the speed of the opponent's war horse is absolutely very fatal. Originally, those Shunjun cavalry were bent on thinking that they could make the frontal impact of the heavy cavalry of the model army, but they didn't want them to speed up again, but not only could they not avoid the surprise attack of others, but they also messed up their own formation, and immediately fell into a predicament.

Yu Xin pointed his spear at a Shunjun cavalryman, who was turning his horse's head and wanted to run sideways at first, but now he saw that he couldn't give way horizontally, and wanted to turn the horse back. But at this time, it was too late, Yu Xin's spear stabbed forward, stabbing at the waist of this cavalryman, the sharp tip of the spear relied on the huge kinetic energy brought by the impact, easily tore the cotton armor on his body, and pierced straight in, and at the same time the long spear body bowed, and then snapped into two.

Yu Xin threw down the broken spear and pulled out the cavalry sword hanging from the saddle. Keep rushing forward.