Chapter 341, Battle (11)

Yu Xinchong was in the most row of all the cavalry, at the front of the first row, and his position was slightly more protruding than the other cavalry, so that the other cavalry could see his orders more easily. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 For the same reason, his outfit is slightly different from the others, who are decorated with white helmets, and only Yu Xin's helmet is decorated with blood-red tassels.

Like the helmet, the riding spear in Yu Xin's hand was also equipped with a distinctive blood-red spear tassel. Before the final assault, in order to save effort, the spear in their hand, which was eight feet long, did not point forward, but pointed to the sky, and only at the last moment of rushing forward would they lay down the cavalry lance. If the battlefield was so noisy that the others couldn't hear Yu Xin's command, then they could at least easily see when Yu Xin had flattened his rifle.

The speed of the war horse is constantly increasing, and the distance between the two sides is not far, which makes the heavy cavalry do not need to carry out the traditional speed change process from fast to trot to fast running and finally to sprinting when launching a charge, but directly charge and get close to the target.

"Flat guns!" Yu Xin yelled, and at the same time put the riding gun flat with his right hand. Although he knew that this roar could not be heard far in the noisy battlefield, and the other heavy cavalry were not listening to his roar to make tactical movements, but looking at the cavalry spear in his hand, such a roar made him feel extremely refreshed.

Almost instantly, he felt a sharp spear stab a target, and the spear snapped in two with a crisp sound.

The cavalry spears of the heavy cavalry were specially made and were meant to be disposable. The momentum of the war horse when charging is very large, if the heavy cavalry uses a normal spear, the reaction force when the spear stabs the target may break the wrist of the cavalry with the spear. After stabbing a target, the spear can also be easily dragged sideways, and then it can trip over a row of its own people. Therefore, the heavy cavalry needed to make this spear break on its own after stabbing the target. This break consumes the impact, protecting the heavy cavalry's wrists and preventing the spear from being dragged sideways and tripping over teammates.

The shaft of Yu's new spear is made of paulownia wood, and the middle is hollow. Paulownia wood is very light, easy to process, not easy to deform, and relatively soft, not strong enough. Originally, it was not suitable for making weapons, but it met the requirements of heavy cavalry cavalry rifles that were easy to break. It's just that the barrel of the gun has to be hollowed out, but it is also very labor-intensive, and the price of a one-time riding gun like this is much more expensive than an ordinary long gun.

Yu Xin threw away the only half of the gun in his hand, and pulled out the riding sword hanging from the saddle, while his war horse had already knocked over the two rogue soldiers. Yu Xin stretched out his sword, but he didn't slash hard, but with a slight stroke of the horse's momentum, a human head flew straight out.

Yu Xin actually went to the battlefield for the first time, but the bloody battle on the battlefield did not make him feel too uncomfortable. He raised his head and looked into the distance, and saw Sun Kewang's flag from a distance.

"Follow me!" Yu Xin yelled, and at the same time controlled the war horse and swooped in the direction of Sun Kewang's general flag. The other heavy cavalry also continued to maintain a strict formation, followed Yu Xin, and swooped towards Sun Kewang's general flag.

When the heavy cavalry rushed over, Sun Kewang was trying to maintain the team. As soon as the heavy cavalry appeared, it immediately attracted his eyes. He saw these iron men and iron horses slamming straight into his army, like a herd of giant bears rushing into a wheat field. And his soldiers were trampled like wheat. Even if some brave or crazy soldiers barely hit the horses or knights with their swords or something, their weapons flicked off the shiny armor of the horses and knights, and even the slightest attack from the opponent could kill them instantly.

After shelling and platoon gun fire, Sun Kewang's army was actually on the verge of collapse, and the assault of the heavy cavalry became the last straw that broke the camel's back. The swift assault of the heavy cavalry, like an awl, stabbed a wide hole in the line they were barely holding.

Just as once there is the first breach on the embankment of some reservoirs, the entire dam will collapse in a chain reaction, Sun Kewang's army also collapsed at this moment, and all the soldiers cried and turned around and fled. At the same time, the Model Army's artillery continued to fire shrapnel at any cluster of rogues that didn't seem chaotic enough. The model infantry and light cavalry also followed suit, and the large groups of rogues were stabbed by the bayonets of the infantry, cut down by the sabers of the light cavalry, and many more left everything they could and ran back wildly.

When Sun Kewang saw this situation, he knew that the defeat was irretrievable, and he also saw that the opponent's heavy cavalry was rushing straight towards him. Obviously, the other side wants to kill themselves directly, or at least drive themselves out of the battlefield, so that they can no longer command the battle. But now, Sun Kewang has actually lost control of the situation, and he can no longer give orders effectively. Since Sun Kewang followed Zhang Xianzhong to raise troops, it is no exaggeration to say that he has experienced a hundred battles. He has won many battles, and of course he has lost many battles, especially when he first started his army, a few hundred officers and soldiers could defeat tens of thousands of them. It's just that recently, there have been fewer such times, and more and more times to win battles. However, Sun Kewang has not forgotten what to do when he loses the battle.

Sun Kewang sighed and slowly pulled the knife out of the scabbard. Then with a slash, he slashed down his own flag to the ground, and shouted: "Defeated, run!" ”

Yu Xin saw from a distance that the enemy's banner had fallen, and he knew that his hope of making meritorious service was dashed. Now there are routs everywhere, and it is difficult for his speed to exert all his speed, but the enemy general must be riding a horse at this time, so he will not be able to catch up with the opponent anyway.

However, the fall of the flag also means that the other party has admitted defeat, and there will be no more variables in the whole battle, and victory is already a sure thing. Moreover, the fall of the flag also greatly reduced the morale of the rogues, and many rogues had begun to take the initiative to throw away their weapons and fall to the ground when they saw the cavalry rushing over. For these people, as long as they don't block their way, Yu Xin doesn't bother to care, if they do, then of course they will step on it directly. Yu Xin thought that Gan Hui should be very satisfied with the current situation.

Unlike what Yu Xin thought, Gan Hui was worried at this time. Of course, Gan Hui's troubles are the so-called happiness troubles. Because he found that this time he might have caught a little too many prisoners. After the infantry launched a bayonet charge, Gan Hui did not draw his waist knife and followed. Now that the breakthrough has been formed, he needs to focus on controlling the whole situation. So after the soldiers rushed forward, he returned to the chariot formation, boarded the baggage cart, and looked out over the battlefield. He immediately noticed that the flag in the distance, which probably symbolized Zhang Xianzhong, was gone, and the flag that had been directly directing the battle was also missing. Although there are many enemy forces, they have completely lost control and are in disarray.

"Let the heavy cavalry launch another assault in the northeast direction. Have the light cavalry intercept the fleeing enemy and capture as many prisoners as possible. Gan Hui ordered that in the model army, the severed heads cannot be used to record military merits, but the heads that grow on the neck can. If it is a Chinese captive, it can be sent to various colonies as immigrants if they are dispersed; In the case of Kengi or other captives, some can be ransomed, some can be sent to the mines to be mined, or thrown on some small islands to dig struvite. In short, these captives are worth a lot more than a dead man's head who can't do anything. Therefore, the Model Army has always encouraged more prisoners. Although Gan Hui had already judged that the number of prisoners they had captured this time was probably several times more than that of their entire army, which would obviously be a big burden, Gan Hui still felt that it didn't matter so much for now, the more prisoners the better.

Seeing that the enemy army had been completely defeated, both the cavalry and infantry of the model army shouted: "Kneel and don't kill!" Kneel and don't kill! Countless rogue soldiers also threw down their weapons and surrendered on their knees.

From the beginning of the battle to the defeat of the opponent, the model army took less than an hour, but it took almost a whole day to contain the prisoners in the back, and it was busy until dark. In the end, the model army, which had a total of about 1,000 soldiers, actually captured as many as 2,000 prisoners in this battle. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that the light cavalry was too small to intercept all directions, they might have been able to capture more prisoners.

"Most of the thieves still ran out." Gan Hui sighed after getting the statistics.

"It's nice to be able to hold on to so many." Chen Peng said with a smile, "Speaking of which, our army has never captured so many prisoners in the first battle." It's just that it's a problem that so many captives have to be sent back. If there are fewer people sent to us, I am afraid that they will run away on the way, and second, I am afraid that someone will come and rob our heads. "Although the heads of these captives are still around their necks, there is no guarantee that no one will want to cut them off.

"Wouldn't it be okay for Zhang Deguang and them to escort them back?" Yu Xindao, "The light cavalry is the best to do this." Let those captives run and try, I don't believe they can outrun the four legs of the hussars! "Zhang Deguang is the company commander of the light cavalry company.

"Why us? It is the right way for you to send it. After this battle, the enemy army probably won't dare to fight us, and it won't be useful for you to stay here, so I want to say that you should go. Company Commander Chen, do you say? Zhang Deguang didn't do it anymore.

"It's irrelevant to me, whoever sends it anyway won't be my turn. If you want me to say, this matter still has to be decided by Camp Commander Gan. Chen Peng refused to express his attitude.

Gan Hui thought for a while and said, "Lao Yu, this matter can really only be done by your heavy cavalry. There shouldn't be any big battles after this battle, and I'll need light cavalry here for reconnaissance missions. ”