Chapter 317: Huaibei has five
As an episode before the attack on the car array, General Ning Shuo of the Northern Dynasty, the envoy of the horse army on the right wing of the Bian army, and Xiao Huaidan, the commander of the "Huangliang Cavalry", were looking at them with a cold face, and those subordinates who were being whipped in frustration,
These cavalry officers kneeling on the ground with their backhands stripped of their upper body armor. A little whip from horsehair and cowhide whipped up on their backs with the sound of hunting.
And they just gritted their teeth and stoic, and they didn't even dare to hum loudly, until they lost their strength or lost consciousness and fell to the ground, but Xiao Huaidan was still a little dissatisfied.
His ancestors are the descendants of the naturalized Xi people, since the re-emergence of the Khitan Eight-Division Alliance in the Qianyuan period, was destroyed by the famous general Li Guangbi on the bank of the Hui River, and only a few remnants fled north into the Bohai Sea.
The Xi people, who were relatively obedient to Wang Hua and accepted the reality, gradually replaced the position of the Khitans and became the main nomadic tribal component under the Songmo Governor's Mansion, and with the rise of the Chinese Law Department and the gradual sinicization process, all the Xi people, regardless of whether they were noble or poor, also had a basic Han surname - Xiao.
As the price of the feudal subordinates and the obligation of the naturalized tribes, they had to provide a certain percentage of livestock, war horses and athletes every year to fill the army in the frontier areas, so the Xi people of the Songmo Governor's Mansion also became one of the sources of cavalry in the northern frontier.
And Xiao Huaidan's great-grandfather was from the Liulin Department, one of the cities of Songzhou, and then in the process of defending Yunzhong Road, he began to make a career in the army, and finally won the appreciation and protection of the media, and took the daughter of the local guard family, and became the most common general's family in the Northern Dynasty.
The Yiwei Rebellion and the later Yongjia March, the great events of the western army's eastward march also changed the fate of these border army generals, some of them moved out of time to seal the town for several generations, and some took root in the hinterland of the Central Plains and became one of the emerging military nobles.
Xiao Huaidan, who has been a cavalry general for three generations, obviously belongs to the latter, but the object of their oath of allegiance, Li Tang Tianzi, who has already ascended from the Ming Hall, has become the great regent who stands on the court and commands the world.
Though. Men who have been punished for poor implementation have been punished, but they still have to continue to face the status quo.
For a cavalry general like Xiao Huaidan, this kind of troops, which are all accompanied by firearms and convoys, and can be formed at any time, can be said to be the most troublesome and tricky type of enemy he faces.
Although the Xi people, who are close to the Khitan, also have a high car as a tent, and graze and walk, and when they encounter the enemy, they will base the legacy, but it is obvious that the car array used by the Chinese people is not the same as the simple things of the nomads.
If it is a traditional crossbowman hiding behind the formation, it can also be divided into queues and batches, slowly tempting and harassing, gradually consuming the arrows and strength to accompany it, or using galloping and arson to disturb the restlessness, dragging the opponent exhausted or sluggish, and then making a strong break or luring the enemy to divide and gather annihilation.
But these firearms are different, and they are basically endless, like the spring rain in March, which is annoying and entangled.
It's like taking a long rod to poke a beehive, and it's the kind of poisonous bee that stings people with three points of swelling and pain.
The consequence of his six elite cavalry was that although the six men and horses suffered different injuries, they all had a little fear and annoyance.
This is a rare situation among the Bian army, who thinks that he is a high-spirited Metropolitan Ping Domain.
As one of the origins left by the Western Army, the officers of the "Huangliang Cavalry" were mainly the Western Army horse team that escorted Emperor Chengguang and entered the Luodu, and followed the horse fighting skills with their family origins, while the soldiers were generally selected from the Yanbian land, and the capable athletes who were good at arching horses and horses, and then equipped with the strong horses and armor soldiers of the dynasty.
This is just a vanguard, and I don't know how difficult it will be for the main formation of the brigade that may follow.
As a result, the last team responsible for blocking and harassing the enemy was actually tired and neglected, and let people chase the tail back, and actually dared to take the opportunity to set fire and disturb the infantry team, if it was not for the sentinel to be alert, the infantry team was also well-trained, and it was estimated that the loss would be not small.
And the horsepower of these dozens of horsemen is very good, even if the cavalry team is desperate to chase them, it is just enough to bite them, and then the other party uses firearms and cold to knock off the horse for more than a dozen horses, and then under the cover of the infantry team, they can escape into the car formation......
Therefore, since the traces of hiding and staying have been detected, there is no need to hide and pinch, and go all out to eat this lone army with absolute superiority. He also needs to use the fall of these enemies to rebuild faith and morale.
As a senior rider, there is still a sense of decisiveness and judgment on the comparison of his own strength. After all, there is a limit to the defensive position in the field, and if it is not enough to double or double, I will use several times the momentum.
With his final order, a wave of cavalry frenzy flooded the chariot formation from all sides.
Half an hour later, the corpses of men and horses were piled up in front of the chariot formation, and the cavalry that followed these steps directly crossed the obstruction of the chariot wall and advanced the fierce battle into the chariot formation.
But surprisingly, behind the chariot formation, there was still another sparse chariot formation, and the cavalry that had lost its impact power only had a height advantage in close combat, so these defenders who had fallen on the periphery were still covering
But as more and more of the cavalry dismounted and entered the chariot formation, they fought in formation and advanced slowly, and the defenders, who were inferior in sheer numbers, became precarious, and the musketeers who stood behind the sparse array of swords and spears were almost shooting projectiles against the faces and chests of the enemy soldiers who poured in.
Even though they were scarred, even tired, the people who were sitting and standing were still raising their hands to reload the radiation, just like the blood of their companions splashing on their faces, and the swords that could be handed to their faces within a few steps, as if they were blowing in the breeze.
This cruel resoluteness and calmness can only make people more and more angry and agitated.
Why don't you flee, why don't you disperse, why can't you obediently leave your sabers and spears on your backs, as the panicked enemy soldiers did before, and then take them with your hands tied?
With a certain sense of ignorance and contempt, these cavalrymen also roared and slaughtered inward with more and more force.
It's just that
Their opponents, who were in a fierce battle, suddenly all of them were shorter, but they crouched down with weapons in hand, revealing a dozen large objects that were hidden behind them.
"Cannon ......"
A cavalry officer, with a heart-rending roar. Then his aftermath was drowned out in the roar of smoke that erupted one after another.
The cavalry that had already attacked the chariot formation were like pieces of paper blown out of the chariot formation, and they were driven out of the chariot formation in an instant, along with the stumps of their companions, and poured on the people outside the chariot formation like a rainstorm.
Others, after falling down from the wall in a panic, waved their arms in vain, but they were unable to get up again.
The frightened ones were even more frightened, and the horses that were sprinting were almost shocked and kicked forward, shhh
Then more explosives were thrown, and they exploded around them, so that even the most seasoned cavalrymen had to lose control of their mounts. Either he was thrown off the ground, or he rolled to the ground with his mount, screaming and screaming.
In front of them were the corpses of the people and horses that had been blown up, all kinds of flesh and blood were flying, but the back was desperately rushing forward, knocking down those who had stayed and trampling them under their feet.
"Don't mess ......"
"Don't be afraid, don't panic ......"
"These cannons are fired extremely slowly......"
Because of the obstruction of his line of sight, he couldn't see what was happening in front of him, Xiao Huaidan could only rely on his imagination and desperately spur and encourage him.
But the chaos has been caused, and the direction of the main attack has been crowded in front and back, and this confusion has even affected and infected the attacking teams in other directions, and they have no intention of retreating.
"Rush over ......"
"Rush over and they'll collapse......"
"Bypass these ......"
He personally led the team to disperse and reorganize the stunned men, reawakened them from their madness and panic with whips and knife handles, and then re-attacked under the leadership of the personal guards.
This time, he successfully attacked directly through the gap in the chariot formation that had been pulled open, and the defenders were kicked on his body by the horses before they could even turn around, and they were trampled to death.
The horses galloped, forwarded, marched, kept climbing over obstacles, trampling people and things in their way and chopping them into pieces.
It wasn't until he suddenly loosened his eyes that he found that the obstructive bunkers and melee armored spearmen and swordsmen were gone, leaving only those gunners with sharp blades on the mouths of the guns, forming a circle and with resolute faces.
Xiao Huaidan couldn't help but show a certain cruel expression, and suddenly decided to take it as a kind of respect for these stubborn enemies, and after capturing them, he dragged them to death behind his horse to provoke and anger those southern troops.
Although he thought so, he was quite cautious and retreated into the sequence of pro-riding cover,
As a long-term cavalry general, Xiao Huaidan certainly has the courage of a general, but he also has a shrewd and cunning enough as a general.
The lethal effect of these firearms makes people a little unguardable, and we must beware of them urging them to fight to the death.
Suddenly, the sound of a whining horn sounded in the sky, and the enemies of the trapped beasts showed a certain look of relief and excitement, and suddenly raised their bayonets and forced forward.
Xiao Huaidan couldn't help but sink in his mood, and secretly said "should be killed",
He stayed on the periphery, and the whole four cavalry couldn't hold back the enemy's support a little.