Chapter 904: Exchange
"My son ......" Li Shaochuan only heard Liu Jingrong's last three words, he knew that Liu Jingrong's family was poor, he didn't accept it for nearly ten Chinese New Year's Eve, he didn't save any money, and he didn't even marry his daughter-in-law, he only married after he voted for Yusheng, or specially asked for leave to return to the northern Shaanxi daughter-in-law in the northern Shaanxi minister, married for four years, the son was three years old, and Liu Jingrong looked exactly the same. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Brother Liu, don't worry." Li Shaochuan cried: "Your son will definitely grow up well." ”
No one heard him, everyone was galloping their horses, and from time to time they could still hear the sound of heavy arrows skimming through the air, and whenever they heard such a sound, the soldiers couldn't help but shrink their bodies into the belly of the horses.
This is the cavalry that really faced the strongest archer shot of the era!
I have to say that in the battle of the cavalry duel strong bow, the cavalry side was obviously frustrated and lost, many cavalry looked back, although the guns burst out in front of the rear array, from time to time there were Houjin armor soldiers shot and fell to the ground, but because the distance was suppressed, the effect was very limited, the array of the Houjin side did not move, there was no sign of chaos, not to mention the signs of collapse under the blow of the gun, which the cavalry were familiar with.
This was a serious blow to the morale of the soldiers, even the officers' faith was shaken, under the premise of low morale, the queue became more and more chaotic, and the officers had no time to restrain themselves, but fortunately, the long-term training made the cavalry maintain the most basic instinctive reaction, and the entire team on the left and right flanks still looked very presentable, and did not show too much confusion.
Duo'er also felt that his brain was wooden, the current situation was completely beyond his imagination, the previous experience was completely overturned, the bow and arrow of the Jurchen people taught him a profound lesson, when galloping in the ranks, even he, the main general, was not necessarily safe, under the heavy arrow, the closer the distance, the more powerful, there were several gunners whose breastplates were shot through, although the flesh was not deep, but because the kinetic energy was too large, as long as the arrows were shot off the horse without exception to this extent, it was almost impossible to survive.
At this time, Duo'er realized that the human body was almost everywhere with arrows, legs, feet, arms, necks, and people were shot in the face, almost the entire face was shoveled, and he fell off his horse and died without even making a scream.
The helmet is also very dangerous, almost like a hammer hitting the brain, the person will lose consciousness in a short time, if you can subconsciously hold the war horse and not fall off there is a chance, if you fall off the horse, then you have to die.
Duo'er looked behind him, where the cavalry fell to the ground, and many horses were seriously injured lying on the ground, some uninjured horses stayed in place due to the loss of their owners, screaming on the battlefield, at this time, seeing the shining cuirass of the dead or seriously injured cavalry under the sun, Duo'er suddenly felt sad, because he couldn't cry out because of his identity, but at this time, a few tears accidentally slipped from the corners of his eyes.
At least more than 100 or even 200 people stayed in place, and as a price, Duo'er estimated that the Jurchens were killed and wounded less than 100 people, and this exchange ratio was unprecedented.
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More than 3,000 cavalry poured through the wings like a tide, firing firearms one after another, the fire light at the mouth of the gun kept flickering, the guns crackled like popping beans, and the faces of Yue Tuo and the others were very solemn...... When Duo'er and other high-level cavalry leaders were shocked, the high-level Jurchens were of course extremely shocked!
Both sides have seen the weakest armies of this era, the Mongols and the Ming Dynasty, both large and incompetent, and they have nothing to show for themselves.
Whether it is the infantry or cavalry, chassars, lancers, the Mongols are not any part of the opponent, their combat effectiveness is amazingly low, the war is slightly unfavorable and scattered, there is no resilience at all, and there is no belief and determination to win, the upper echelons of the nobility still hold on to the glory of the past, but the reality is one big mouth after another, so far, the faces of the Mongols have been swollen by the merchant army.
After experiencing such a backward opponent, the soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the Cavalry gave the Jurchens in front of them a very high evaluation.
Whether it is in the Thirteen Mountains, or Ma Wu and others have experienced the pursuit of the Jurchens, they have submitted very detailed reports to the military department, and the Jurchens' will to fight and their ability to fight, and the command skills of the generals have been highly evaluated, but at that time, these reports have not been sufficiently ignored, the battle of the Thirteen Mountains was obtained by the mountain infantry of the Shang Tuan Army, and the results were not expensive, Ma Wu and others also repelled the pursuing Dongyu cavalry many times, in the eyes of the senior leaders of the Shang Tuan Army, the soldiers in front were still a little exaggerated.
And at this moment, the more than 100 corpses and seriously injured people behind him clearly pointed out that the Eastern Captives were by no means Northern Captives, and their bows and arrows really deserved their reputation!
On the Jurchen side, after many major battles with the Ming army, the Ming army in front of him is indeed a rare elite.
The cavalry attacked, divided into two wings like a tide, the array was slightly chaotic, but it was still orderly, it was very difficult to set fire immediately, but these cavalry did it easily, and in the fierce shooting, they kept releasing and finally killed and wounded more than 100 armor soldiers, which was also a very terrifying death and injury for Yue Tuo and others...... It's been a long time since the Jurchen Eight Banners have suffered such high casualties, and almost all of the dead and wounded are elite armored soldiers!
There were wails on the battlefield one after another, and Yue Tuo had no time to pay attention to them, and the cavalry on both flanks had already crossed at a rapid pace, and were running in the direction of the flanks and rear.
"You can't tell them to reload." Yue Tuo bit his cheek, and his eyes showed a look of determination.
Shuo Tuo usually doesn't deal with this brother very well, but at this time, he can only put other thoughts aside, he agreed: "This Ming army is sharp, and the horse battle does not seem to be weak, if it is loaded behind my flanks to bombard those Nikans and unarmored or lightly armored bannermen, and mess with my array, then this battle will be difficult to fight." ”
The Jurchens suffered a loss because they met the enemy in formation. In terms of scheduling, it is not as convenient and fast as the cavalry formation, but Yue Tuo and the others also understood at this time that if Shicai did not meet the enemy with a foot bow, the cavalry formation would have a frontal impact on the cavalry formation, and the other party would keep bombarding it with firearms before making contact, and the cavalry formation on this side would have to suffer a big loss when it made contact.
"So what?" Shuo Tuo said: "It is impossible to switch from a foot formation to a riding formation now. ”
Yue Tuo was speechless for a while, and Sakhalian, who didn't speak much, suddenly said with a grim face: "Send all the white armor, they all have war horses on their sides, and ride out of the battle with the white armor to disturb the enemy cavalry and prevent it from loading calmly." ”
"Are you crazy?" Shuo Tuo lost his voice and said: "We only have more than 300 people in Baijia, and more than 3,000 enemy horsemen. ”
Sakhalian stared at Shuotuo and said, "What if it's three thousand Guanning cavalry? In the final analysis, you can't fight without confidence, and you can't fear the death of soldiers. I know that the white armor is the elite of a hundred battles, and it is a great loss to die one, but raising elite soldiers is used to fight wars, and I dare not use it at a critical time, what is the use of raising white armor? ”
Saharan said so." Yue Tuo's eyes showed a ruthlessness, and he waved his hand: "Order the white armor to attack, but don't let them charge into formation, threaten the enemy cavalry with a riding formation, and don't let them calmly redeploy and reload." ”
Yue Tuo looked around, and said, "Let Boljin and Yaxi Zen go!" ”
After receiving the order, Boljin and Baijia Ezhen Yahichan immediately galloped and joined the Baijia who had already mounted their horses, and nearly 400 horsemen rushed from the middle army to the rear and rushed out of the gap in the formation.
A large number of cavalry wearing silver armor gathered together, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded in the Houjin array, the armor soldiers and the flag Ding Han army all looked at this side, they rarely saw the white armor used like this, many people looked at the scene in front of them with solemn expressions, and felt their hearts tightened.
"You have to be careful and vigilant, if there is anyone who disturbs the array, slash!" Shi Tingzhu and Zhu Shichang and other Han generals were extremely nervous, and they kept shouting, ordering their subordinates to be on guard and not to be chaotic.
It is the first time since they surrendered to encounter such a scene, even if it is as difficult as the battle of the Hunhe River, at least everyone believes that they must be on the side of the winner, the thing is clear, Houjin is mainly cavalry, and the mobility is particularly powerful, the south bank of the Hunhe River is the Zhejiang army, the north bank is the Sichuan army, all of them are pure infantry troops with very few cavalry, such an army will be consumed even if the Houjin soldiers do not attack for a while, but now the situation is reversed, the Houjin step to meet the enemy in a foot formation, but the Ming army is pure cavalry, This gave ordinary armor soldiers and bannermen a great sense of oppression, not to mention the more timid Han army.
Everyone felt thirsty, but everyone's water bladders were drained, and Qi Ding, like Han Jun, kept licking his lips with his tongue, and their lips were dry and cracked.
Kept basking in the sun, running back and forth in formation, holding weapons and preparing to engage in battle, his mental and physical energy was consumed very quickly, especially mentally devastated...... Not everyone can face thousands of heavy cavalry rushing over and indifferent, the Han army is most fortunate that those heavy cavalry are not resolute in their will to rush into battle, the kind of thunderous momentum when they just rushed over is terrifying, fortunately, the heavy cavalry of the Ming army did not choose to rush into battle, but ran over in the thickest outer circle of the armor soldiers.
Behind the Han army and on the left and right sides, about four or five miles to the south, the cavalry slowed down their horses, and the officers shouted orders to turn their horses around again, and everyone's horses slowed down until they stopped completely.
The horse kept snorting, sweat flowed down from both sides of the horse's belly, the whole cavalry was full of fishy and smell, and the people were also sweating profusely, and many people felt out the water bladder and began to drink water.
The officers were the busiest, but fortunately the usual training kept the cavalry quite neat, and most of the places were still in small formations in the form of squads and squadrons, squadrons and squadrons gathering, and the queues were slowly gathering in the shouts of men and the neighing of war horses.
There were also a small number of cavalry who had completely lost their array, and they were gathered at several temporary assembly points, which were included in the training, and once they had galloped to the enemy position and found that they had lost their formation, they rushed to the nearest temporary point to join up according to the banner, and accepted the command of the officers who had been temporarily sent over.