According to some people's opinions, there is a devil living in everyone's heart, which is why there are so many vicious bandits in human beings. But in the eyes of others, there is also an angel living in people's hearts, which is why there are so many heroic stories in human history.

Although Li You, who was standing under the city of Yaozhou in 1639 AD, did not know these theories, he glanced at the comrades around him who got along day and night, and knew that he could not abandon these comrades here.

He glanced at the Manchu cavalry who were making pre-battle preparations hundreds of meters away, and then he restrained all his emotions and commanded the commander to his subordinates: "... Go and inform Cao Cien and order him to gather his troops, and our troops will do everything in their power to buy him time. In addition, if I am unfortunately killed, he will take charge of the troops and retreat...

Liu He, you go to assist in the defense of the artillery position, if the situation is urgent, you can destroy the artillery, and not let the artillery fall into the hands of the Qing army.

Now, put up the red flag beside me, everyone put on bayonets, and set up the third phalanx..."

When the soldiers of the Ming army saw the red flag erected by Li You's side, they immediately abandoned their panic about the Manchu cavalry that suddenly appeared in front of them, and began to move closer to their companions in silence, forming horizontal teams one by one according to the steps of training on weekdays, and then piecing together a three-layer square hollow phalanx.

In today's Ming army, the red flag is not easy to erect, because the red flag only represents two meanings, either hold the position until the last man, or launch a charge and do not accept any surrender.

Li You is now erecting this flag, which obviously means the former. After a long period of collective life and training, the soldiers of the Guards were no different from the sheep, and as long as the head sheep did not die or lost their authority, they would always obey the orders of their superiors first.

After all, in the long-term training on weekdays, the ideological education they received was that if they wanted to save their lives on the battlefield, the best way was to never break away from the group, even if there were two people left, they had to cover back to back, so that they could resist the enemy's attack.

As a fighting group, all orders of the officers must be obeyed unconditionally, because these officers are taught how to make the team survive and fight, and their judgment is more correct and effective than the judgment made by the individual soldiers. If you thought you were better and better than your superiors, you would have been recommended to study in a military academy instead of standing in the middle of ordinary soldiers and facing the enemy.

It is precisely under the repeated indoctrination of this kind of thinking that when these Ming soldiers saw the red flag erected by Li You, the first thing they thought of was not the order to hold on to the last person, but that our commander could still make a correct judgment, so there might be hope for survival if they held on.

After transferring a platoon to assist in defending the artillery position, Li You still had more than 300 people left in his hands, and these people just formed a 15-meter-by-15-meter hollow phalanx, with three horizontal formations lined up on each side of the phalanx, and each soldier's elbow was leaning on his elbow, and there was hardly any gap visible.

The soldiers of the first row crouched, the soldiers of the second row half squatted, and the soldiers of the third row stood. When the three platoons of soldiers raised their guns together, the front view suddenly became a jungle of bayonets.

When the Ming army formed a phalanx, the Qing cavalry had already begun to attack, and Li You's pre-war agitation only said one sentence: "Gentlemen, the motherland needs you to do your duty..."

After that, the sound of horses' hooves drowned out Li You's voice, and all that remained was the shouting of the officers of the platoon, the firing of muskets, and the screams of bayonets or sabers piercing the body.

Lausa already regretted it a little when he rushed to the front of the Ming army, he didn't expect the speed of the Daoming army to deploy the formation so quickly, even the Sichuan and Zhejiang army that made it difficult for him to sleep in the Battle of the Hunhe River probably couldn't form a phalanx in such a short time.

In this way, when they rushed to the Ming army, they were not faced with a group of soldiers without formation, but with a whole army in formation.

When the cavalry attacked the Ming army, the best way was not to rush with their heads covered, but to take measures to cause the Ming army's array to disperse, and then break through the array. But by this time, Rausa also knew that he couldn't stop, otherwise the soldiers on his side would have been in chaos first.

So he could only keep accelerating, trying to use the momentum of the horses to break through the array of the Ming army on the opposite side. Although there were only 100 cavalry following Laussa's charge, the cavalry was much more powerful than the infantry, and when these 100 cavalry rushed from the front, it seemed that thousands of troops and horses were hidden in the dust that covered the sky and the sun.

Of course, although the Qing cavalry seemed to be tight when they charged, it was far less close than the wall charge of the Ming cavalry leg to leg. The front of the charge of the first ten cavalry also exceeded 30 meters, which was twice the front of the Ming army's hollow phalanx. On the left side of the Ming army, the Niulu cavalry led by Zhu San just covered the front of the Ming army's phalanx.

However, Zhu San made a little detour, and the first to arrive at the phalanx of the Ming army was the hundred horsemen and horses of Rausa. Laussa, who was in the middle of the line, tried his best to adjust his direction after running so that he could crash into the Ming army's array, but the guards guarding him did not think so, and they intentionally or unintentionally blocked the steering of Laussa's mount, just allowing Laussa to pass past the left side of the Ming army's formation.

After all, according to the military regulations of the Manchurians, if the commander dies in battle, none of their guards will survive. Not fighting in the face of the Han army's array, this is something that even the Mongols know, how can they, the Manchurians who are old in battle, not know.

Looking at the three rows of bayonets of the Ming army, it will definitely be difficult for the first people and horses to attack. Ordinary Manchurian cavalry died, but if Raussa died here, even if they won the battle, it would be worth the loss.

Hundreds of meters away, for the charging cavalry is only more than half a minute, by the time Rausa noticed, he could no longer adjust his charging route, which made the Manchurian veteran extremely dissatisfied, after rushing from the side of the Ming army, he used his horsewhip to drive away the guards who were blocking the way, and then slowly stopped his mount and looked to the rear.

At the moment when Rausa rushed through the Ming army formation, his subordinates on the right had already rushed straight towards the front of the Ming army formation. Although the platoon guns of the Ming army knocked down the dozen or so horsemen at the front, the cavalry of the Qing army in the rear still took advantage of the space where the Ming army's guns and bullets were exhausted, and crashed into the array.

Although the Mongolian horses were not tall, and the Manchu cavalry was not a heavy cavalry, the weight of a horse plus the cavalry was more than half a ton.

If it weren't for the fact that the highest-speed cavalry in front of them was defeated by the Ming army, the cavalry running at full speed could basically break out of a gap at a time.

As for now, the mad horses were deeply trapped in the array of the Ming army, and were deeply pierced into the belly of the horses by seven or eight bayonets, and the unlucky Ming soldiers were trampled by the horses' hooves when the horses struggled for the last time, and the Qing knights on the horses also fell off their horses and were stabbed to death by the Ming soldiers with bayonets from their unprotected necks.

Although there were only three or four cavalrymen who were not afraid of life and death, they had already thrown the Ming army into chaos, and although the Qing cavalry in the rear slowed down, they were constantly trying to expand the gap in the Ming army's array, trying to disperse the Ming army's array.

It was also at this time that the Zhu Sansho Division, who had rushed from the right side, also rushed in, and the cavalry attack on the Ming army's array just now happened again on the right side. In Laussa's eyes, this Ming army is already in danger, and as long as he increases his strength, the other party will completely collapse.

He glanced at the Ming army that was still gathering under Yaozhou City, and finally made up his mind and said: "Go back, first completely destroy this Ming army, and then attack the Ming army under the city." ”

Li You, who was standing under the red flag, held a short musket in one hand and a command knife in the other, and kept giving orders in the array. However, his orders began to be difficult to transmit, and the phalanx of the enemy on both sides made the Ming soldiers begin to lose their organization and fall into the predicament of fighting on their own.

At this time, the cavalry that rushed through the phalanx turned around and returned again, and when they saw this scene, even Li You himself was almost desperate. And just when the gap in the front of the Qing army was getting bigger and bigger, and the Ming soldiers were cut down by the Qing cavalry, a Ming soldier was obviously red-eyed, and after retreating to the powder keg behind him, he installed the fuse regardless of it, and rushed into the cavalry group in the gap with the powder keg after igniting it.

Although the bones of this Ming soldier were gone, the cavalry near him was also blown down. In such a fierce battle, the appearance of heroes can always inspire the morale of their own side.

With the self-sacrifice of this ordinary soldier, the Ming soldiers who were originally a little flustered finally regained their courage and began to regroup and unite with their companions to deal with the enemy in front of them.

Seeing that his subordinates had not given up the battle, Li You finally cheered up. At this time, he suddenly remembered that he had also brought a batch of grenades, which were changed from mines to reduce the charge, but they still weighed 3 catties, because they were difficult to throw, and were originally used to defend Yaozhou City.

But by this time, there was no need to throw so far, after all, these cavalry were entangled with the Ming army. So he summoned the mobile soldiers who could be found around him, and asked them to take out these grenades and throw them at these Qing cavalry and even roll over.

The biggest problem of the Qing army is that the number of cavalry that attacked the Ming army's array is too small, and it is impossible to break through the Ming army's array at the first time, after all, like those Manchurian cavalry who dare to charge to the death, they are also absolute elite under Laussa, and this battle has caused great losses to the troops in Laussa's hands.

And Rausa himself bypassed the Ming army's formation, which also made many Qing cavalry lose some of their desperate thoughts, and slightly slowed down their attacks in the battle to better protect their lives.

When the Ming soldiers rushed into the cavalry group with gunpowder kegs, the morale of the Qing army was suddenly shattered. Under the elimination of the other's strengths, the gap that the Qing warriors rushed out of before was slowly blocked back by the Ming army.

When the Ming soldiers threw huge grenades into the crowd of Qing cavalry, the Qing army finally began to retreat to the rear in frustration. Although the hollow phalanx of the Ming army was about to turn into a triangle, the Ming army finally held the last chance and did not appear to have a situation where the whole army was scattered.

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