Chapter 359: Surrounded on three sides
The cavalry with the blue flag was about 3,000 cavalry, and looking at the situation on the battlefield, in order to reduce the danger on the flank, Mang Gurtai divided 1,000 cavalry to deal with Wu Xiang's division on the right flank, and used the remaining 2,000 cavalry to deal with Mangui's nearly 2,000 cavalry.
After several rounds of impact and counter-shock, the two sides have completely scuffled together, and it is difficult to distinguish between the killings.
However, the 2,000 cavalry of Wu Xiang's department did not confront the 1,000 cavalry sent by the Blue Banner head-on, but kept wandering around the periphery, pinning down the 1,000 cavalry, and once the Houjin cavalry approached, he turned around and retreated; If the Houjin cavalry wanted to support the main battlefield, he quickly spared it back and stuck to the back of the thousand cavalry.
Although the Mangui Division was high-spirited and dared to fight, the overall military quality of the cavalry still seemed to be slightly inferior to that of the Zhenglan Banner, and they could only be dragged back alive, but could not gain the initiative on the battlefield.
But this is enough, Sun Yueling was waiting for this moment, and suddenly ordered: "The whole army assaulted the left flank of the blue flag and disrupted their formation. ”
Now that there is Man Gui on the front of the blue flag, Wu Xiang on the right flank, and the left flank is empty, they can take this opportunity to storm the enemy formation and defeat the blue flag.
With his order, nearly 3,000 men and horses swooped down from the foot of the fence mountain, drawing a long trajectory and outflanking the right flank of the blue flag.
In the middle of the battlefield, Mang Gurtai received a report from the scouts almost at the same time, knowing that the vanguard led by Yue Tuo had almost been wiped out, and only less than a hundred horsemen had escaped, and the Ming army had been outflanked and was rushing towards his left flank.
Mang Gurtai was furious when he heard this, he just received the news that Yue Tuo was besieged before he rushed to help from Tashan, but he didn't expect it to be a beat slower, only blamed Yue Tuo for being too arrogant and refused to listen to his opinion, but now it's good, almost lost a full two Niu Lu's red flag soldiers, Houjin is already sparse, this can not but be said to be a big loss.
At present, the situation is extremely critical, they have been surrounded by the Ming army on three sides, if the left flank is broken through by the Ming army, then their elite with blue flags will also be buried here.
Mang Gurtai was worthy of being battle-hardened, and ordered the heralds: "Tell Abatai to take the right flank quickly, or I will not blame me for being unkind to him." The Abatai in his mouth is his seventh brother, the seventh son of Nurhachi, who is now leading a thousand cavalry and Wu Xiang's two thousand cavalry in a circle, entangled on the periphery of the battlefield.
The herald took the order, and Mang Gurtai shouted loudly to the cavalry beside him: "Come with me and meet the Ming army on the left flank." "He has been fighting with the Ming army for many years, and he knows the details of the Ming army very well, don't look at their posture, in fact, most of them are vulnerable.
Now that they have gained an advantage on the frontal battlefield, as long as Abatai quickly deals with the cavalry of the Ming army on the right flank, or the dust settles on the frontal battle, then this battle will still be won by their big money.
And according to his visual inspection, most of the Ming troops on the left flank were foot soldiers, and the cavalry was only less than 500, and he believed that as long as 500 golden elite iron cavalry was enough to stop them.
Mang Gurtai rushed out towards the left flank with his people, and for a while there were bursts of iron hooves and smoke and dust.
Mang Gurtai rode his horse and galloped out of thirty zhang, but saw a group of cavalry rushing in front of him, and it was the two brothers Yue Tuo and Sakhalian who ran in front, and he was furious, and shouted at them: "What are you running, you two useless things, hurry up and rush up to Lao Tzu!" ”
When Yue Tuo saw that it was him, his face turned red, and he said embarrassedly: "Fifth uncle, there are many Ming troops, let's still withdraw?" ”
"Put your mother's shit, if you don't dare to fight, you will roll the calf!" Mang Gurtai scolded, "I have embarrassed you all the elite faces of the Golden Eight Banners......
The two brothers glanced at each other, and both lowered their heads and stopped talking, they knew Mang Gurtai's fiery temper, and arguing would only provoke more scolding.
Seeing that they were no longer talking, Mang Gurtai shouted again: "Look at your cowardice, could it be that Yuan Manzi is here?" At present, the momentum of this Ming army is like a rainbow, and they dare to fight, so he thinks that the Ming army must have big officials in charge, otherwise how can these Liaodong generals have the courage to fight with Houjinye.
Yue Tuo replied: "It's not Yuan Manzi, it seems to be the Liaodong Jinglu sent by the Ming Kingdom, what is it called Sun Yueling's ......?"
"Sun Yueling?" Mang Gurtai tilted his neck and said, "I haven't heard of it, it seems that he is an unknown person." Pointing at Yue Tuo and the others, he said, "You follow me and see that I cut off the head of this Sun Yueling's dog." ”
With that, he waved his big sword and rushed towards the surging Ming army with a blue flag iron horse.
But when they rushed out of a distance, they were surprised to find that the Ming army from the left flank did not rashly attack, but set up a formation, with archers and firecrackers in front, slowly approaching them.
"Fuck it!" Mang Gurtai cursed, the Ming army is really cunning, and the purpose of setting up this formation is not to fight with them, but to consume their living strength.
But how could he be afraid, the lethality of the archers is limited, and the firecrackers are at most momentarily powerful, and the firecrackers in their hands are not as good as the burning sticks after a shot, and the Dajin Iron Rider has long understood this.
Mang Gurtai ordered: "Rush, kill the Nanban!" Before the words fell, the first one urged the horse to rush out.
With his order, the six hundred iron horsemen quickly launched, put on a triangular cone formation, and rushed towards the Ming army.
"Whoosh!" The sound of feather arrows breaking through the air sounded, and the Ming army began to release arrows, and the eagle wolf cut through the sky and shot towards the Houjin cavalry like a shower.
However, due to the high speed of the cavalry and the heavy smoke and dust on the battlefield, after a few rounds of shooting, less than fifty cavalry were shot down, and the remaining cavalry was rapidly approaching the Ming formation.
300 steps......
200 steps......
One hundred steps......
With a shout of "release", the firecrackers of the Jizhen soldiers fired, "bang bang bang", a series of muffled sounds sounded, five hundred firecrackers fired almost at the same time, and the white-gray smoke rose and dispersed in front of the Ming army's formation, making people's vision blurred.
The horses neighed and screamed.
The blue-banner cavalry paid the price of nearly fifty more men before rushing to the fifty paces in front of the Ming army.
Seeing that the Ming army was approaching, Mang Gurtai waved the long knife in his hand and shouted: "Kill!" "According to past experience, as long as the Dajin Iron Cavalry breaks into the camp of the Ming army, the Ming army will inevitably collapse, and the next thing is to chase the Ming army and fight fiercely.
But the situation in front of him seemed to be a little unexpected, only to see the archers and firecrackers of the Ming army quickly retreat from both sides, hundreds of people in the Ming army formation rushed up, waiting for the formation, the weapon in their hands was not the waist knife they were used to, but a long spear, the body of the gun was tilted forward towards them, and the tip of the spear exuded a cold glow under the eyes.
Yes, these pikemen are the six hundred elites that Zhang Zhiqi transferred from the forbidden army, and the weapons of these six hundred people are not the standard sabers commonly used by the forbidden army, but spears made of stainless steel.
These 600 people were the last barrier to defend the imperial city, which was originally used to prevent the change of the palace city, and was transferred to Liaodong at the request of Sun Yueling and became his elite guard.
Six hundred pikemen were divided into three rows, and the dense spears stabbed upwards to form three gun formations.
The Houjin cavalry was already approaching.
"Boom!" With the impact of the horses, the first gun array was instantly knocked to the ground, the sound of broken bones sounded, and countless spearmen were seriously injured under the high-speed impact with broken limbs and legs.
"Resist, hold on!" Zhang Zhiqi waved his sword and shouted wildly, and ordered the second gun array to meet it.
"Bang bang bang!" The sound of impact continued to sound, and at the same time, it was accompanied by the sound of people turning over on their backs, and many of the cavalry with blue flags fell off their horses, either people were stabbed or the war horses under the crotch were stabbed, which greatly delayed the impact of the follow-up cavalry.
After a burst of flesh and blood, the three spear formations were able to withstand the impact of the cavalry with the blue flag, failing to allow them to penetrate their own formation and maintain the stability of the entire formation.
It's time.
Sun Yueling raised his gun and shouted, "Kill the Tartar!" The first one jumped out and slew at the enemy.
"Kill!" Thousands of foot soldiers shouted in unison, charging at the enemy's cavalry from both sides.
Mang Gurtai couldn't imagine that the Ming army was so brave, and he did not hesitate to block their impact with his flesh and blood, and now the impact advantage of the cavalry has been lost, so he can only dismount and fight with the Ming army on foot.
He shouted, "All men dismount and meet the enemy!" Jumping down from the tall horse, slashing over a Ming soldier with a knife, taking the elite white-armored soldiers under his command, forming a formation, rushing towards the Ming army flag, shouting, "Those who capture the big officials of the Southern Barbarians, reward the bull and record the truth." ”
When the soldiers with blue flags heard this, their morale was greatly boosted, and they rushed in the direction where Sun Yueling was, and in the blink of an eye, they killed a bloody road.
Sun Yueling was shocked when he saw this, the combat power of the Houjin and white armor soldiers was really terrifying, and they could still maintain such a strong combat effectiveness after repeated blows, it seemed that it was not in vain that the Jurchens could rise between the white mountains and black waters.
But the battle now had taken his advantage, and as long as the battle continued, he believed that the balance of victory would gradually tilt in their favor. Although the soldiers who came from the impact of Mang Gurtai were fierce, they were at most five hundred, and they had thousands of them here, even if they were consumed, they could be consumed to death.
The two sides instantly fell into the point of hand-to-hand combat, and the men and horses brought by Sun Yueling resolutely rushed to the front, which greatly boosted the morale of the army, and Sun Zushou's Jizhen soldiers followed closely behind, rushing to the blue flag soldiers from both sides.
For a time, the sound of killing shook the sky, the neighing of war horses, and the sound of weapon exchanges was deafening, and the field battle between the Ming reinforcements and the Houjin army officially began.
Sun Yueling personally went into battle, charged ahead, and stabbed several Houjin and white armor soldiers in a row. Yan Nantian followed closely with the elite masters of the Fenghua Society, for fear that he would make a mistake.
Seeing that the Ming army had gradually encircled the blue flag and gradually gained an advantage over the enemy, he heard Yan Nantian shouting beside him: "My lord, it's not good, Wu Xiangbu fled without a fight!" ”
"What did you say?" When Sun Yueling heard this, he was almost slashed by a Houjin soldier, kicked him over, and turned his head to look at Yan Nantian with a look of disbelief. 8)