Li Guo had just been beaten, and before he could recover, he didn't even have time to sit up straight on his horse again, set up a defensive shelf, and a saber slashed diagonally at his head from the upper right. Li Guo raised the saber in his hand and put it on the shelf, and with a bang, he barely held the knife, but because of the lack of preparation, the opponent's knife had already accumulated enough strength, and the speed of the impact of the war horse was cut out, Li Guo's right hand was sore, and he could hardly lift it again. And just as he blocked the knife, another saber swept from the left and slashed directly at his left chest. This is the terrible thing about the wall-mounted attack, relying on a dense formation, so that ordinary cavalry will be attacked with at least two weapons almost every time when facing them.

Using crucible steel as the sandwich, the steel edge of the saber made by the steel clamping method is very hard, although because of the choice of cutting method, the saber of the light cavalry is not sharp (or it is easy to be damaged), but it is relatively strong, which is suitable for cutting tougher armor. Li Guo was wearing a piece of iron armor of decent quality, although this knife cut through many armor pieces, but it didn't cut too deep. But even so, this knife still caused Li Guo a sharp pain in his chest, and he fell unconscious as soon as his eyes were dark......

After defeating the cavalry with three walls, Yu Xin noticed that the infantry on the opposite side seemed to have made a look of resisting the cavalry onslaught, they were divided into three phalanxes, and they propped their long spears on the ground, the tips of their spears were pointed outward, and from a distance, they looked like a porcupine with sharp spines on its body. But their spears were not long enough, and they were not protected by horses or trenches. The armor and armor of the heavy cavalry were very thick, and Yu Xin felt that his cavalry could completely break through such a defense if necessary. Of course, this will definitely come at a great cost.

Yu Xin let the cavalry formation stop only a few dozen steps away from those infantry, he felt that there was no need to take risks, the model army was never afraid of people putting up such a turtle formation, because they had the strongest artillery in the world, and in front of them, there was no turtle formation that could not be smashed.

Since he could use cannonballs to smash through the opponent's formation, Yu Xin naturally felt that he should not let the precious heavy cavalry take the risk. So he commanded the heavy cavalry to retreat to the right in an orderly manner, while the light cavalry following them began to drive out the cavalry of the three walls that had fled in pursuit.

Seeing the opponent's cavalry gradually retreating, Liu Zongmin did not feel relieved. Just now, the opponent almost used only a blink of an eye to break down the three walls, and the number of cavalry that may exceed them by two or three times may be more than them, such a terrible cavalry, even when he dreamed, Liu Zongmin had never dreamed of it.

Liu Zongmin knew that if just now, the other party took advantage of the fact that his position was not completely set up and directly launched a surprise attack, it was likely that his queue would be rushed away by the opponent, and then it would be a big defeat. But now that the opponent hasn't rushed over, that's definitely not a good thing. Because Liu Zongmin knew that the reason why the opponent did not rush up was because they had cannons.

Sure enough, when the cavalry had retreated a little farther away, the roar of artillery could be heard again in the distance. Liu Zongmin is now in a predicament, and if he persists, the end result will surely be that his army will collapse under artillery fire. So, standing still is a dead end. And if you retreat, first of all, it is not easy to withdraw from the range of the opponent's artillery, and in the middle you have to eat shelling constantly. Moreover, the opponent's cavalry is still eyeing not far away, as long as their formation is a little messy, these guys may take the opportunity to kill. And if you want to retreat under the shells, you can not be chaotic, Liu Zongmin feels that there is no such team in this world.

As for the advance, Liu Zongmin looked ahead, it was still more than a mile away from the enemy's artillery position, and it was very difficult to rush forward. If you advance slowly, your army will collapse in the shelling before you can go up on it. If you advance quickly, the formation will be completely disorganized, and the enemy's cavalry will be given an opportunity to take advantage of it. Even if you don't take into account the enemy's cavalry, such a long distance, running all the way through, is enough to tire most of the soldiers, and then, then what else can you fight? The huge effective range of the twelve-pounder cannon made Liu Zongmin's Shun army suddenly fall into a dilemma, which is also the advantage of the twelve-pounder gun as a field gun over the three-pounder gun of Gu Erye and the six-pounder gun used earlier by the model army. Gu Erye's three-pounder regimental cannon only provided a relatively easy to move firepower, while the model army's twelve-pounder cannon can be said to have completely changed the way of warfare. In the future, infantry who are not well trained and are not good at changing formations and skirmishing tactics will have little resistance in the face of such artillery.

In the middle of hesitation, dozens of shells had already crashed headlong into the three phalanxes led by Liu Zongmin, and dozens of bloody alleys suddenly appeared in the phalanx, and the three phalanxes were suddenly shaken.

"Can't hesitate!" A single cannonball flew past Liu Zongmin, splashing blood and shredded flesh all over his body. Liu Zongmin knew that if he continued to hesitate, the army would soon collapse completely.

"All the army, forward!" Liu Zongmin shouted. At the same time, behind him, there was another rumbling drum. Liu Zongmin turned his head to look back, only to see that the Shun troops left near the deserted village had all begun to approach forward. It seems that Li Zicheng also noticed the current dangerous situation, so he responded and commanded the whole army to gamble on the victory.

Li Zicheng sent troops with him this time with more than 60,000 troops, half of which were various auxiliaries, and the real soldiers were only more than 30,000 but less than 40,000. But if it is pressed all at once, because the casualties are scattered, it is estimated that it will be able to withstand the artillery fire and walk in front of the enemy. However, even if you go up and look at the equipment and performance in front of you, don't look at the number of Shun soldiers, it is estimated that you will still not be able to beat it.

In the sound of artillery, the whole army of Shun slowly moved forward, although the shells were still falling into the ranks, and the casualties caused were not less at all, but considering that the number of people was much larger, the ratio of casualties caused by shells to the remaining people decreased a lot. This also made the panic of those Shun troops slightly lower.

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"Let the cavalry retreat." Zheng Sen put his hands behind his back and looked at Shunjun Dao, whose formation was already very chaotic, "Let the infantry get ready, we will completely defeat them with one round of attacks!" ”