Chapter 461, Cavalry (2)
After listening to Mulima's words, Ao Bai shook his head and said, "If you want to shoot at them, you have to dismount and shoot." Get off your horse, and they will bypass you. They don't really care how many people they kill, I think their purpose is to hold us back. If they occupy Beacon Hill, it will only need to hold us back for a while. It's going to be high tide over there. And then we can't threaten them at least today. We are all cavalrymen, and we don't have much ability to attack fortifications, and after a whole day's work, they may be able to build a wall. Therefore, your men must not dismount, but must entangle them. ”
The idea of Ao Bai certainly makes sense. Whether it was the Manchurians or the Mongols, the use of light arrows and the use of projectiles could indeed shoot at targets up to a hundred paces away, but there were conditions for this. That is, you must dismount and use the step lunge to shoot. The cavalry used a bow on a horse could not shoot an arrow so far. When the cavalry shoots arrows on horses, because of the unstable footing, it is difficult to borrow strength from the waist and abdomen, and it is impossible to open a bow with a large pull, and it is bumpy on the horse, so the rider can not actually shoot at long-distance targets on the horse, and generally speaking, the target that can be effectively attacked by riding and archery will not exceed 20 steps. Therefore, cavalry bows are generally very short and soft soft bows. And to shoot at a target at such a distance, even with a light arrow, it is necessary to use a more tensile rift bow.
At this time, the cavalry of the Model Army approached again. Mulima didn't say anything more, but rushed out again with the more than 300 cavalry, and rushed towards the model cavalry.
This time, instead of turning their horses and keeping a distance from them, the cavalry of the Model Army gathered their ranks together and still ran head-on at Mulima and them.
"They want to shoot us with muskets from a distance, and then take advantage of the chaos to attack us?" Mulima thought. Again, he thought, "If they're going to do that, that's great!" ”
Mulima knew that when the cavalry was hedging, the two sides approached quickly, and in such a situation, he was not worried about the opponent's shots. Just like archery on horseback, because of the bumps of the horse, the opponent's shooting rate will not be too high, and the rapid approach of the two sides also makes the opponent absolutely have no chance to shoot again. On the contrary, after the opponent shoots with a musket, he immediately enters hand-to-hand combat, and he must immediately put down his gun and replace it with another weapon. And this action may not be completed before the two sides collide, or it may also be just changed weapons, and before they are ready, the enemy rushes up. In this way, the side that shoots will suffer a big loss when swinging the cold weapon to slash.
However, the opponent obviously knew this, so Mulima saw that the cavalry on the opposite side had changed his hand and put his musket on his back, and drew his saber with his hand.
"Humph! Riding a horse to hedge, are we still afraid that you sea cowards will not succeed? Mulima couldn't help but sneer.
In Mulima's opinion, if those guys on the other side were better off relying on their own war horses and entangled with him, he really didn't have a good way, but if they hedged on horseback, these pirates could be stronger than the Mongol cavalry who stayed on horseback all their lives?
But he immediately noticed that the cavalry on the opposite side had closed their formation, and their ranks had become so dense that they had become a moving wall almost from horse to horse.
"Are they using cavalry as infantry? How can there be such a use of cavalry, cavalry should be ......" Mulima couldn't help but think.
But he couldn't think about it, because the two sides were about to collide. Mulima noticed that the cavalry on the opposite side was too dense, which almost meant that his horse could easily collide directly with the opponent's horse. And once such a situation happens, even if he Mulima has practiced martial arts and riding since he was a child, no matter how high his kung fu is, no matter how good his equestrian skills are, once the war horse collides with other people's war horses, it will only be a guy who falls to the ground. And then maybe you'll be egged by a recruit. The war horse of the son was easily trampled to death.
"Avoid them a little?" Mulima couldn't help but hesitate. But he came to his senses immediately, now is not the time to hesitate, now is the time to bump into it!
As the two sides drew closer and closer, they were about to collide, and Mulima stared at the nearest enemy cavalryman. The cavalryman pulled the reins in his left hand and a saber in his right, and he stretched it back to his back, ready to slash with all his might.
"He's a warrior too." Looking at the soldier's posture, Mulima couldn't help but think to himself. Although this posture is conducive to his fatal slash, it also makes the empty door in front of the cavalry wide open, and if he is attacked by the enemy, his posture is very unfavorable for parrying and defense. It can be said that he gave up his defense in exchange for the opportunity to strike a fierce blow at the enemy.
Mulima felt that if there was only himself and this enemy cavalry on this battlefield, then he would be more than eighty percent sure that he would hit the opponent and kill the opponent before the opponent's sword could be chopped down. But the enemy forces on the opposite side were so dense that another cavalry to the right of this cavalryman, who was next to him, could also attack him, and that cavalry did not raise his saber behind his back, but stretched forward and made a gesture ready to stab. This stance can be both offensive and parry. He could even help the cavalry next to him block. Mulima knew that the distance between the other cavalry around him and himself was so much greater than the cavalry on the opposite side that there was no one around him to help him block. Although there are more people on his side, because he can't maintain such a dense queue, in the small piece that is about to collide, the number of opponents is much more than himself. So much so that every Mongol cavalry that confronted the enemy head-on had to face at least two, if not three, sabers.
Mulima had already sensed the danger of the opponent's cavalry formation at this time, but at this time he had no other way, and he didn't even have time to think of any other way, and he was about to collide.
"...... immediately," Mulima prepared to swing his saber. At this moment, the cavalry on the opposite side suddenly accelerated again, and then the three sabers took advantage of this sudden acceleration to stab or slash at Mulima from different angles.
Years of training have given Mulima's hands to react even faster than his brain, and with a single pick of the saber in his hand, he has tossed aside the saber that was stabbing him straight in the chest, and if it is a one-on-one heads-up, he can take advantage of the situation to turn the saber sideways and let the opponent crash into his saber himself. However, at this time, two more sabers were slashing towards him. If he continued this action, he was afraid that before he could cut down others, his hand holding the knife would be cut off first. So he could only give up the counterattack, and dodged the knife that slashed at his head, but he couldn't avoid the other knife completely, and this knife slashed straight at his left rib. Mulima was wearing a double layer of armor, and this knife could not directly cut through the armor, but the knife that was chopped by horsepower was definitely easy to eat. The tremendous force of this knife was like a stick hitting him in the chest. Mulima himself clearly heard the click of a broken rib, and at the same time, a mouthful of blood gushed up from his mouth.
When hedging, the war horse will always try to give up a little space, and the opposite war horse is no exception. Therefore, the horses on both sides did not collide, almost shoulder-to-shoulder, and the two sides staggered. Mulima threw away the knife in his hand, grabbed the reins with one hand, and covered his left rib with the other, and staggered on his horse. However, at this moment, the second group of model cavalry rushed up again.
As at other times, the cavalry of the Model Army, whether heavy or light, always divided the ranks into two columns, the front and rear, with a distance of about ten paces between the two columns, when launching a wall charge, so that the enemy who had managed to avoid the blows of the first column would face a second round of blows before they had time to make any adjustments, and then ...... Naturally, there is no then.
As expected, Mulima, who was lucky not to be hacked to death, could not recover his breath, and two swords slashed at him again, this time, Mulima could not dodge again, and both knives slashed firmly at him. One of them slashed at his helmet and landed on his shoulder as soon as it slipped and severed his right arm, and the other knife came sideways and dragged it over his abdomen and landed on his left leg. Mulima fell from his horse and died.
This time the hedging took place under the nose of the main force of the Qing army. The cavalry of my Great Qing Dynasty saw with their own eyes, but the cavalry of more than 100 people and the more than 300 cavalry of my Great Qing Dynasty hedged, but the result was that the losses of the cavalry were almost insignificant, and my Great Qing Dynasty, in this round of hedging, fell at least forty or fifty people, including even Mulima who led the team. Whether it was the Mongols or the Manchurians, they all felt that they were definitely experts in fighting on horseback, and they never thought that one day, they would lose so badly in the cavalry hedge. For a moment, the entire army was silent.
The cavalry of the Model Army turned around again after completing the hedge, and in the hedge just now, several of their soldiers also fell off their horses, but their comrades around them almost immediately stretched out their hands to take their horses. Now they turned back, pulled the wounded who had fallen off their horses onto their horses, and then stopped entangled with Ao Bai and the others, and walked away directly.
Since then, Ao Bai has not been subjected to any major harassment. Around the end of the day, Aobai's army reached the vicinity of Beacon Hill. Ao Bai looked towards Beacon Hill and saw that there was indeed a Mingjun banner on Beacon Hill. He took out a telescope seized from Liaozhen and looked over there, and saw that at the end of the land bridge, there was already a zigzag earthen wall about one zhang high blocking that end. Behind the earthen wall, there was also a banner with a big "Zheng" character fluttering in the wind.