The Guards engaged the enemy in an all-out exchange of fire, and a mixed infantry, cavalry, and artillery attack on the left flank forced the Tatars to use reserves.

Filhoff's 4 cavalry regiments were regrouped on the spot behind the infantry line, 2 chasseur regiments were on the left flank, and 2 hussar regiments were on the central front.

At 4 p.m., the wind gradually increased, taking away the smoke belt and improving visibility on the battlefield. There were dark clouds in the sky, and it seemed that the sky was about to change.

Filhoff's aide-de-camp, Count Meroe, cavalry captain Bernard conveyed the order to attack to the cavalry superintendent Walter.

The heavy cavalry brigade moved, they rounded the hill and marched in small steps in a neat formation.

The spherical sun hung over the sky, and the chief conductor of the Southern Cross Orchestra wore a full gown and waved his baton.

Seeing that the ten assistants of the commander-in-chief followed closely and conducted accordingly, the instruments sounded in unison, and the deep and oppressive tune of the "March of the Empire" sounded.

Standing on the hill with his hands behind his back, the autumn wind blowing the hem of his trench coat.

In the distance, on the withered yellow field, the infantry and artillery lines in battle spewed deadly tongues of fire like a volcanic eruption, and on the unchanging Pearl River, warships were burning, smiling solemnly.

Nearby, 8 squadrons of heavy cavalry entered the battlefield from the right hand side of the guard, with the sound of artillery and drums, and no one of the heavy cavalry spoke, their expressions were serious and cold, as if they could hear their heavy panting.

Long red tassels swayed in the wind on their helmets, their shining cuirass looked like waves of steel, their pistols carried carbines and swords, and the heavy cavalry was everywhere, and everyone looked at them with envy.

The 1st Cuirassier Brigade was in formation, the sun was gradually setting, and the heavy cavalry bodies cast a long shadow forward, and darkness engulfed their expressions.

The 4 cavalry squadrons of the 1st Cavalry Regiment formed horizontal formations, each squadron in two lines, occupying a 100-meter wide battle line, with a 10-meter gap between the squadrons.

The 4 cavalry squadrons of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment formed a column, each squadron formed 4 longitudinal horizontal formations, each following the 1st Cavalry Regiment 1 squadron in a horizontal formation.

3 cavalry artillery companies, 19 4-pounder cavalry guns, were arranged in 3 company columns at the end.

The cavalryman drew his sword and rested on his right shoulder.

Walter rode past the cuirassier ranks.

"Valliant soldiers, the critical moment has come! Before you are enemies and flames, and the glory of this battle will always belong to you, and you will be sung by poets for countless generations to come. ”

The cavalry shouted in response to the admiral.

Walter took off his helmet and raised his sword, "Chase away the Tatars with steel!" ”

The cavalry general turned his horse's head and took the lead, and the brigade was dispatched, and the sound of horses' hooves made the earth tremble, and nearly 2,000 cuirassiers raised their straight swords in the wind, and the reflection of the blades was bright.

Flags and trumpets fluttered in the wind, and the heavy cavalry rushed directly into the corpse-strewn battlefield like rams, disappeared into the smoke of gunpowder, and then crossed the smoke and appeared at the other end, always dense, close to each other, front and back, through the shells fired by the Tatars, and rushed to the enemy line.

The heavy cavalry was rigorous, brave, and composed, and the sound of neat stomping could be heard in the occasional intermittent sound of gunfire.

From a distance, the cavalry queue looked like an ironclad dragon, and its momentum was terrifying. Countless iron helmets, white blades, and war horses galloping to the sound of cannons and drums, fierce and orderly, revealing the dragon scale-like breastplate on the upper floor.

At this time, the overall morale of the coalition army was suddenly driven, and the chassars, hussars, and dragoons all gathered.

The cavalry chief shouted, "Behind me!" ”

The officers and soldiers around him spread their voices into the distance.

The cavalry shouted, "Concentrate on the upwards!" ”

2 regiments of hussars already on the battlefield mixed with the newly arrived cuirassiers, and the officers kept giving orders.

"Stay in formation!"

"Tighten up the soldiers!"

The infantry closed their ranks and made way for the running cavalry.

The gunners of the heavy artillery battalion stripped naked, shirtless in the autumn wind, shouted trumpets, and fired heavy solid projectiles at the enemy front.

The steed spread its hooves and galloped across the field, and the banner behind Walter fluttered in the wind, but even the banner could not keep up with his momentum.

The cavalry brigade followed closely behind, the tails of horses of various colors on their helmets fluttering in the wind. The cuirassiers were at the front, and the light cavalry spread out to the flanks, destroying all the small number of cavalry that had opened the way for the Tatar infantry.

The trumpet sounded, the cavalry brigade rose to maximum speed, Walter lowered his straight sword and shouted, "Long live the Führer!" ”

The 1st Cuirassier Regiment in the first row all laid out their straight swords, and the riders, who had been silent for a long time, let out a thunderous cheer of "Long live the Führer".

For many centuries, this was a cavalry charge that had never appeared on the battlefield of the Central Plains, and Xue Cheng felt that his whole body was about to explode when he was in this blood-pumping battlefield.

With his sympathy was the entire cavalry company he commanded, Xue Cheng's mind was blank, he didn't know how he did it and why he did it. Perennial training has carved deep marks in the muscles, and at the moment without thinking, without thinking.

Xue Cheng saw the frightened faces of the Tatars, and he knew that they would not be able to support it. The straight sword was sent into the chest of the Tatar, and the wrist was subjected to the impact, Xue Cheng took advantage of the situation to pull out the straight sword and ran towards the second target.

3,600 cavalry rushed straight forward, and the Tatar front was stunned and frightened in front of this fierce sea of cavalry, and there was no time to form a phalanx. They were shaken and fled in front of their horses, helpless to accept the verdict, some by their swords, some by their horses' hooves.

The cavalry group broke through the 1st line of enemy infantry and made a rapid assault on the 2nd line. Like the scythe of the Grim Reaper, which harvested life, the 2nd line was also quickly cut down, and Walter rushed to the 3rd line with his cavalry. Within a few minutes, the enemy's front was crushed in one fell swoop.

There was a trench in front of it, which was dug by the Tatars before the battle, and the cavalry regrouped in front of the trench.

The enemy fired a dense number of shells from the artillery positions, inflicting considerable casualties on the cavalry.

The cavalry artillery company that followed the charge was placed in position, and 19 cavalry guns advanced to the front of the trench, and within 30 seconds, the artillery dismounted and took position and untied the front carriage.

12 guns fired at enemy artillery positions 400 meters away, 1 company fired solid shells, 1 company fired heavy shotgun.

The 4-pounder gun had 40 bullets and had a 25 percent hit rate on a company-level target at a distance of 400 meters. The rain of bullets swept over the enemy artillery positions, and the flying iron bullets could not damage the artillery, but they could kill and wound the exposed Tatar gunners in large numbers, and after the continuous bombardment, the enemy artillery was silent.

The remaining seven 4-pounder guns opened fire on the enemy infantry on the opposite side of the trench, and the company commander, despite the opposition, reloaded with shotgun and solid shells, harvested the remnants of the enemy infantry in large numbers.

Trenches could hold back cavalry, but had no effect on infantry with sapper support.

The infantry regiments were scattered into sub-battalion columns and even skirmish lines during the pursuit, and the light cavalry sent by Walter gathered more than 1,000 infantry, and the sappers planted gunpowder packs as fast as they could, blowing up the walls of the trenches.

Walter temporarily appointed an infantry major to command, and regardless of the regiment from which the soldiers came, this temporary reinforced battalion crawled through the trenches and stood shoulder to shoulder to steady the breach.

The cuirassiers, dismounted under blazing artillery fire, marched across the trenches, and then quickly charged, crushing the enemy in front of them in less than a few minutes.

"Magnificent! Glorious! ”

The orderly on the hill lowered the binoculars.

This is a combined cavalry artillery attack,

Military bands played war songs, drums rolled, and cavalry trumpets sounded in unison.

Majestic, vast, joyful, sea-like helmets, sabers and spears, mighty.

This joint attack completely broke the backbone of the enemy army, and the enemy's battle line was already defeated.

In front of the side, Yue Le's royal banner was moving rapidly, the flank of the Xijiang River was broken, and Yue Le fled to the pontoon bridge leading to Zhaoqing.

The Guards pursued the forward battalion, cut off the pontoon bridge in the direction of Zhaoqing, and surrounded the enemy from the west.

"Put the Marines into battle and attack the city of Water."

Guard Order threw himself into the last battle reserves.

The cavalry and infantry rushed to the camp of the enemy's land division, where there were goods worth millions of taels of silver and prisoners of war who could be sold for money.

The Tatar troops left in the barracks were dispersed and attempted to retreat to Sanshui, but the hussar regiments stopped them, and the pigtailed soldiers, scattered on the ground, ran from place to place, and finally, by instinctive impulse, went along the line of least resistance, and threw themselves into the Pearl River.

The Marines climbed the embankment and fired at the water, and the Tatars crowded the people, and the rear row squeezed the front row down the Pearl River, where thousands drowned.

From this point on, there was no more resistance on the ground. Seeing that the battle line was shattered, a small number of fast-moving Green Battalion infantry withdrew from the battle ahead of schedule, and rushed across the Xijiang River on small rafts or swimming, and ran to the big camp outside Sanshui City. All artillery, spare horses, and baggage fell into the hands of the coalition forces.

One battalion of marines pursued the rout of the enemy army and rushed to the north of the river in front of the last pontoon bridge destroyed by the Tatars, taking control of a bridgehead.

The water city burst into flames, and the enemy sailors who rushed down with the wind and water had no way to retreat and could no longer turn around, although they still had considerable strength, but they could only choose between dying in battle, abandoning their ships and fleeing back to the Sanshui camp, and lowering the flag and surrendering.

The two guerrillas of the Dongting Lake Water Division took a turn of their minds and killed the deputy commander of the Han army who supervised the army, and led a force that still had considerable combat effectiveness to defect.

Some officers and soldiers asked, "What about wives and children?" ”

Guerrilla sneered: "Licking blood from the knife edge for decades, what are some women?" Kill it, kill it, and rob it again. ”

Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, military generals who have no discipline have often killed women to sacrifice flags for the convenience of their actions, and cases abound.

Similar things are repeated on the Xijiang River, but the establishment is not as big as that of the Dongting Lake Water Division.

It is always a privilege for the troops with formed and combat effectiveness to defect than those who surrender piecemeal, and Chen Shangchuan took the lead and agreed to the other party's conditions.

The Dongting Naval Division was not dismantled, and 3,000 people were replenished from the prisoners, and it became an independent town, and the two guerrillas served as deputy commanders.

After Shou Xian learned about it, he posthumously recognized Chen Shangchuan's decision. The key to marching to Hunan is the Xiangjiang River, and the Hunan Naval Division is the best party to lead the way.