The Qing army charged with heavy infantry and was unstoppable.

At the arrow part of the Qing army's attack, the first few rows of the square formation of the spear battalion were immediately torn open, and the soldiers of the Chu army stepped forward one after another to fill their positions, but they could not slow down the advance of the Qing army. The advantage of the spear formation is that they cover each other and cooperate with each other, so that the enemy can not get close to each other with long blows, when the heavy infantry of the Qing army opens a gap, the pikemen who rushed forward can not launch an attack in a coordinated manner, at most they can only complete a tactical action of assassination, the heavy infantry of the Qing army is not qualified, just crashed into their arms, the steel knife in their hands slashed left and right, rolled up a snowy knife light, and the pikemen of the Chu army fell in a pool of blood one after another.

"!" Ding Zongwang couldn't help but scold.

The enemy's momentum is too strong, the pikemen in the back row should stabilize their positions, don't rush up to counterattack, you must know that the more you go to the back row, the stronger the support of the Chu army's musketeers and archers, and the sharp energy of the Eight Banners is exhausted, this wave of attacks will naturally fail. But most of these pikemen were new recruits, and they only remembered that they had to fill their positions after the sacrifice of their comrades in front, and although the defensive lines of the first few rows had been destroyed, they still rushed forward in a hurry, adding many senseless sacrifices in vain...... On the contact surface of the Qing army's charging formation, people shouted horses and neighed, swords and guns collided, all kinds of sounds sounded, the scene was very chaotic, the soldiers could not hear the officer's orders clearly, they could only watch their companions act together, one person rushed forward will lead a group of people to rush forward, the defense line of the back rows became thinner and thinner, and the shape became more and more dangerous.

War is the result of the combined forces of various factors, the battlefield trend is ever-changing, there is never an immutable dogma of victory, the right choice in this battle may be wrong in the next battle, and the recruits can only pass the test of life and death again and again. will form an instinct to always make the most correct and reasonable choice in battle, and these recruits are very brave. But most of them were empty and bloody, and one after another fell on the cruel battlefield.

These Qing heavy infantry charging into battle. But they were all battle-hardened veterans, they fiercely crashed into the spear array of the Chu army, and cut down the recruits who rushed up to fill the position one by one, the steel knife slashed into the hand of the living*, and the stimulation of blood splashing and long screams made them feel a bloodthirsty excitement, awakening the most primitive ferocity and cruelty in the body, and continued to attack forward with red eyes.

Hit crazy!

A few decades ago, the Manchus were still a backward fishing and hunting people. To put it bluntly, it is a group of barbarians who advocate killing and force, and the Eight Banners have a beastly nature in their bones, although they have rapidly corrupted and degenerated in the past few years, once they have launched a surge, they are still much more ferocious than the Han soldiers in the agrarian society, and every time they cut down a Chu soldier, there are a few more bloodshots in their eyes, and they become more crazy and fierce, rushing straight into the back row of the spear array.

Break through the formation!

The back row of the spear formation was already very thin, but the Eight Banners became more and more courageous. The spear arrays on the left and right flanks were split from the middle by the Qing heavy infantry almost simultaneously, and they were forced to pierce a pair, with a burst of howls and cheers. The Qing army rushed into the ranks of musketeers and archers behind, wielding their swords and slashing desperately, and behind them, more heavy infantry swarmed in from the gap, rapidly expanding the breakthrough to the left and right, in an attempt to completely crush the Chu army.

Although the recruits of the Chu army were brave, they lacked resilience when the war was unfavorable, and saw that the Qing army was too fierce and invincible everywhere they went. One after another, the companions were cut down and killed. The recruits finally couldn't stand it anymore and fled as the first turned and fled. The entire spear battalion completely collapsed, and the archers and musketeers in the back also turned and fled for their lives.

Seventy paces behind them, there was a row of steel knives, expressionless overseers, the routs rushed to the front, the steel knives did not hesitate to cut off the head, the routs were killed seven or eight in succession, spontaneously to both sides of a point, ran from both sides of the superintendents, did not cause an impact on the Chu army formation behind, and the overseers did not continue to intercept and kill.

With the collapse of the Chu army's spear formation, the Qing army's heavy infantry also spread out their attack surface, like a fist turned into a slap, and they stopped after a while...... As the battle flags flashed away, they were stunned to find that although the spear formations on the two wings of the Chu army had collapsed, they had not caused a chain reaction, and the sword and shield soldiers at the four corners were still maintaining a strict formation, slowly shrinking inward under the cover of the soldiers in the back row. Behind the row of overseers directly in front of them was a row of improvised fortifications made of carts, chicken carts and grain packets, and although the shell of the 182nd Brigade was smashed, there was an even harder core inside!

"It's kind of interesting!" In the rear of the Qing army, the main general Niman bowed slightly.

No wonder the Chu army has won many battles, and even Prince Zheng's tens of thousands of troops have been folded under their hands, and sure enough, the formation of the 182nd Brigade has broken two big holes, and there will be chaos in the Eight Banners, but they can still maintain the flexibility of defense despite defeat, is this really a new army?

Niman didn't understand very much, and while urging the drumming and trumpet, he continued to attack, and while carefully observing the formation of the Chu army, he finally found something special...... In the formation of the Chu army, each combat unit has a strong independence, under a very conspicuous battle flag, the soldiers of the Chu army maintain strict discipline, a company is defeated, the other company will not be affected too much, the spear battalion is defeated, but the sword and shield soldiers can persist in fighting, this kind of refined command of combat units, even the eight banner soldiers who are known as invincible in the world can not do it.

It's a matter of preparation and organizational structure!

Niman suddenly remembered that the Qi family army back then was also a highly refined combat unit, and the mandarin duck array of twelve people contained several arms, which were stacked layer by layer to form a mixed brigade of several thousand people. Although the 182nd Brigade in front of him has not yet reached the Cheng dù of the Qi family's army, its inner essence is the same, and if it takes time, it will inevitably be a strong army.

"We must defeat them!" Niman knew that the 182nd Brigade was a tiger that had not yet reached adulthood, and if he did not take advantage of today's opportunity to destroy them, he would become a formidable enemy of the Qing army in the future.

The Qing heavy infantry gathered their formation and re-formed a fist, and in this space, the cavalry of the Eight Banners remounted their horses, changed from archers to light cavalry, and pounced on the sword and shield soldiers. Wave after wave attacked. The core position of the 182nd Brigade is an irregular circular formation, and if the sword and shield soldiers at the four corners retreat into the circular formation, the difficulty of the attack will be greatly increased. Taking advantage of the unstable formation in their retreat and movement, the Eight Banners cavalry attacked with all their might. Trying to crush them in one fell swoop.

The sword and shield soldiers are not pikemen, no matter how strong the shield is, it can't block the impact of the war horse, the short-handled sword and axe can't reach the cavalry on the horse, the cavalry doesn't dare to impact the pikemen in the array, but they are not afraid of a group of sword and shield soldiers, the Eight Banners cavalry launched two tentative harassment attacks, the Chu saber and shield soldiers are very nervous, and the Eight Banners cavalry just turned away and ran wildly. Seeing it, the formation was messed up.

"The time has come!"

The Qing general who led the troops showed a cruel smile, and suddenly urged the horse to rush forward, shaking the tiger tooth knife and howling loudly as he rushed, and the rolling iron horse followed him, like a torrent that broke the embankment and rushed towards the Chu saber and shield soldiers.

One hundred steps, a charge.

Fifty steps, mentioning the highest horse speed, the skillful riding skills of the Eight Banners have been fully utilized, just like an old driver, the time to cross an intersection can increase the speed to five gears. While urging the war horse, they crossed the tiger tooth knife and long knife in their hands, under the high-speed charge of the war horse. You don't need to have any chopping action, as long as you grasp the handle of the knife steadily, you can cut off a qiē obstacle that you encounter.

Seeing that there were only twenty steps left from the soldiers of the Chu army, the Qing general who led the troops suddenly shouted, and he was the first to rush towards the battle flag of the Chu army. The battle flag of the Chu army was cut down with a knife, and rows of eight banner iron horsemen trampled over the Chu army's military formation. The soldiers of the Chu army were knocked out one by one, and all of them broke their bones and tendons. Those who were lucky enough to avoid the horses' hooves were cut off by long knives, and the blood accumulated into a river......

Suddenly, the afterglow of the corner of his eye swept to the ground and there was something abnormal, the Qing general's heart was cold, and he subconsciously pulled the reins of the horse, but the war horse was charging at high speed, and he couldn't stop for a while, and the front hooves fell and suddenly emptied, with the clear sound of fractures, the war horse under the crotch neighed, fell to the ground, and put the head and feet of the Qing general on the ground.

Trapped!

The trap is only a circle larger than the horse's hooves, but there are ten inches deep, it is an irregular small deep pit, the horse's hooves will break their legs when they step into it, the amount of construction of this kind of defense facilities is far less than the chest wall trench, it is very practical in the plain area, the 182nd Brigade did not have time to build more fortifications, but dug a dense circle of traps around the core position, and used branches and grass blades to carry out simple camouflage on it, so that the Eight Banners cavalry suffered a big loss.

Horses are the most spiritual, the strictly trained war horses are especially agile, after the front rows of war horses have fallen, the back of the war horses know that there is danger, without waiting for the master to pull the reins themselves to stop, a person stands up, neighing, the front hooves hit the ground again after a snort, snorting and panting...... It's a pity that the sword and shield soldiers of the Chu army didn't give them a chance to breathe, and they turned around and killed them like a swarm, the sword and axe couldn't cut the cavalry on the horse, but it was very easy to cut these standing war horses, and even the thighs, calves and feet of the Eight Banners became the target of the sword and shield soldiers.

In the cold weapon war, if there are two generals on horseback heads-up, it must be hedging again and again, and the hedging between the two sides is counted as a round at a time, which is the source of the three hundred rounds of the war, in a word, the cavalry must run, once standing in place to fight, there is no advantage except condescending, but everywhere is vulnerable to weakness...... The huge body of the horse, it is not easy to turn, it is too high to protect the horse's belly, and it is impossible to protect the horse's belly, and it uses long knives and spears to slash the enemy, but the sword and shield soldiers of the Chu army put the shield on their heads, and they protect themselves lightly, and stab the horse's belly with a backhand, and this cavalry is considered useless.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the Eight Banners cavalry behind turned their horses' heads one after another, and the Chu saber and shield soldiers opened the distance, the Eight Banners cavalry in front was entangled, so they had to block the left and right on the horse, barely supporting, the Qing heavy infantry had just been assembled, and they ran towards this side, wanting to rescue their cavalry companions, but the armor on their bodies was too heavy, and they could only watch as the horses were cut off legs, and the Qing cavalry fell off their horses one by one, and were dismembered by the Chu soldiers...... In just a few minutes, the cavalry of the Eight Banners on both wings suffered more than 100 casualties, and when the heavy infantry rushed to the front, the Chu saber and shield soldiers scattered in a hurry and retreated into the round array fortifications, and a rain of guns and arrows came from a shower, driving the panting Qing heavy infantry far away.

"What a proud soldier will be defeated!" A trace of anger flashed on Ni Man's face, he had 2,500 Eight Banner cavalry under his command, and one hundred casualties had nothing to do with the overall situation, the key was that this defeat frustrated the Qing army's spirit and disrupted their offensive rhythm, looking at the sunset that had turned orange, Ni Man was not sure that he would be able to defeat the Chu army before dark.

On the position of the Chu army, there was a thunderous cheer and a great boost in morale. Today, since the battle with this Eight Banners cavalry, they have been pressed and beaten by them, all kinds of abuse, the number of casualties far exceeds that of the other party, this time they eliminated more than a hundred Eight Banner soldiers, and they let out a vicious breath.

"Come on, come on, come on!" Ding Zongwang stared at the Qing heavy infantry on the opposite side, and subconsciously held the handle of the knife tightly, the Qing army cherished the war horse, and after suffering this loss, it would no longer use cavalry to charge the fortifications, and the real opponent was still the thousand heavy infantry.

At this time, the Chu army had all shrunk into a circular formation, with sword and shield soldiers in front, pikemen second, musketeers mixed in, and archers in the rear, forming a circular defensive line, half of the artillery was lost, and half was left, and it was evenly distributed to all sections of the defense line...... Hundreds of auxiliaries and non-combatants were also armed, lined up in four small phalanxes with knives and guns, and stood behind the circular defensive line, and once the front was broken through by the Qing army, it was up to them to come forward and block it. In the middle of the Chu army's position, there are more than 300 routs that have just been gathered, and the deputy brigade commander Wei Dingyuan is giving them a lecture and cheering them up, the 182nd Brigade is not strong enough, and all the soldiers are thrown into the defense line, and these more than 300 routs are mainly pikemen, which are the last reserves of the whole brigade.

The Eight Banners cavalry repeated their old tricks, dismounted again and became archers, and continued to release arrows towards the Chu army's circular formation, and the Chu army's musketeers and archers immediately returned fire, and after a few rounds of guns, the position was filled with gunsmoke.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

The Eight Banners fired rockets and nailed them to the carts and chicken carts, igniting flames.

The musketeers and archers continued to fight, the pikemen and shield men laid down their weapons and put out the fire with sandbags of earth, these rockets were soaked in oil, and the flames were difficult to extinguish, even if they were temporarily pressed down by the sand, and once they encountered the air, they would turn into open flames...... In order to put out the fire, the soldiers of the Chu army had to lean out of their bunkers, and people were constantly injured by arrows. (To be continued) R655