Chapter 57: The Jurchen Cavalry in the World?
After a round of artillery.
The Houjin cavalry fell by nearly a thousand, but they still turned their horses' heads and continued to attack, and after a short blockade, the cavalry behind gradually followed.
One head, ten thousand people think.
Human life is not valuable, but Tang Xidong's head is valuable, and exchanging worthless human life for valuable human head is Houjin's courage and fearlessness.
Their own lives are valuable, but the lives of their family members and dead comrades are even more valuable, and exchanging lives for lives is earned, which is the courage and fearlessness of the new army.
Human life cannot be estimated by money, but on the battlefield, human life is like a mustard, and death has weight.
Live to defend the country and die to defend the country.
After a round of artillery, the Houjin rear team caught up, and the number of people increased instead of decreasing.
Galloping horses, howling shouts of killing, waving swords, flying flags and raising dust.
The earthquake trembled, and the cavalry struck like a great wave.
But immediately after that, a hundred guns were fired again, divided into two wheels, and were successively covered along the route of the cavalry gallop.
This time it's a landing bomb.
The shells smashed into the cavalry formation, and then explosions erupted.
Overturned the war horse, blew up the Jurchen soldiers, and the screams were drowned out in the explosion.
The smoke once again obscured the sky, the earth and rocks splashed, and the earth bloomed with yellow flowers, like a storm crashing on the shore.
The Jurchen cavalry suffered heavy losses, but the advancing ranks continued.
After the artillery fire, no one stopped.
In the blink of an eye, it has come to the front of the battle.
The car array blocked the way, and the Jurchen came fearlessly.
Some people accelerated and prepared to rush into the battle formation with the power of war horses, some people pulled the reins with the intention of flying over the car formation, hundreds of war horses rushed towards the car formation, and on the battlefield, in an instant, the momentum of the Jurchen cavalry was like Mount Tai pressing the top.
"Stand up!"
Brush, the spear pierced out of the car formation, the tip of the spear was as dense as a cow's hair, and the sharp tip of the spear was shining under the sun, shining with a sharp light.
"Shoot!"
Bang Bang Bang ......
The gunfire shook loudly, and the number was indestructible.
Smoke rises from the Great Array and then disperses from the thickness.
The galloping war horse fell to the ground in an instant, and the knight on the war horse fell hard in front of him, and then his whole body hit the tip of the spear, piercing like a hedgehog.
Put away the gun and come out again.
The cavalrymen with their eyes open, their eyes staring at the sky but they were silent.
The guns continued to fire, and the cavalry fell one after another.
But it's still impacting.
Finally, in the short reload interval, several war horses charged towards the chariot formation.
"Hold on!"
The baggage soldiers used their bodies to carry the chariot formation.
The next moment, the spear stabbed out, and the war horse rushed forward.
"Bang! ……”
The impact of the war horse caused the chariot formation to sink backwards in an instant, and the baggage soldiers behind the chariot array pushed to the rear with the chariot array, and some people spurted blood and collapsed to the ground.
But the spears that pierced out pierced into the horses one by one, and they took their lives.
"Push!"
The baggage soldiers hurriedly pushed the cart formation out again.
After a short time, the gunfire resumed.
But at this time, Houjin had already rushed to the car formation.
On the entire front, there was a dull sound of war horses crashing into the car formation.
Cavalrymen who fell under their horses, some were crushed to death by their horses and could not move, and some were stabbed with spears as soon as they got up, or they were shot again and fell to the ground.
The war horses kept colliding, and the entire front was rushed back more than ten paces, becoming uneven.
But the formation of cars still held on.
Houjin continued to fall, fall or rush out in the artillery fire and guns, and came towards the car formation.
However, under the strong and dense firepower, although there was an urgent desire to break through the car formation, it had little effect.
In just a quarter of an hour, Houjin had lost thousands from a distance to the front of the battle.
With the bombardment of artillery fire, the road ahead became bumpy, and the fallen war horses and cavalry corpses became obstacles to block the impact of Houjin.
In the distance, the golden drum sounded.
While the rear camp was watching, more than 10,000 cavalry were dispatched again.
The cavalry in front continued to storm the chariot formation, but unfortunately with little success.
The drums in the rear were constantly beating, and the order to attack and change formations was conveyed through the war drums.
After the Jin changed formations, the cavalry no longer charged head-on, but divided the troops on both sides, and returned fire with bows and arrows in a roundabout way.
Houjin's change of formation effectively reduced his own casualties and casualties to the new army.
Both sides began to shoot incessantly.
There were casualties.
More than 10,000 cavalry joined with the reinforcements that came again.
The Jurchen cavalry began to avoid the front of the chariot formation and rushed towards the cavalry of the new army guarding the two wings.
The battle between the cavalry began.
The Jurchen cavalry rushed to kill, and the cavalry of the new army also attacked on horseback.
Just over a dozen seconds later, the two sides began to engage each other.
Entangled.
Cavalry-to-cavalry battles.
Tang Qi often only cared about putting a shot, and then began to fight with a knife.
The two sides are staggered.
People kept falling to the ground, and horses were broken.
In the entanglement, staggered.
Both sides suffered a lot of casualties.
The Jurchen cavalry rushed out of the battle formation, turned their horses' heads and came again.
Towards the Tang cavalry charged.
But the next moment, Tang Qi, who had just bravely faced the enemy, began to deliberately avoid it.
Let the cavalry onslaught, and retreat away from the large array.
The Jurchen cavalry had just rushed closer, and the Tang cavalry had already moved away from the big formation.
As Tang Qi withdrew into the distance, the chariot formation blocking the flanks in the large array was finally revealed.
The flanks are still in formation.
The moment the car formation was revealed, the Jurchens began to adjust their direction, but there were many people and the war horses were fast.
The next moment, he rushed to the front of the formation.
The gunfire rang out again.
The new army once again took the other side by surprise.
The two flanks were almost indistinguishable, and the Jurchen cavalry was again heavily damaged by gunfire.
The chariot formation was the best tactic against the cavalry, and when equipped with firearms, it was even more important.
Tang Xidong naturally would not show the weakness of the big array in front of the Jurchen.
If the Jurchen cavalry kept wandering around and shooting with bows and arrows from a distance, for Tang Xidong, he would have become a turtle trapped in an urn, but the Jurchens did not.
The Jurchen cavalry, who were anxious to end the war a moment earlier and enter the battle to take his head earlier, did not have the patience to waste here.
Huang Taiji is not a fool, it is impossible to just believe that he only has 50,000 people to go north to fight.
Huang Taiji can't be delayed.
At this moment, he is deep into the border of the Ming Dynasty, and if he delays a little, he may be surrounded by the gathered Ming army.
Therefore, Huang Taiji must fight quickly.
He wanted to retreat, but if Azig's revenge was not avenged, it would be difficult to convince the public.
attacked, and didn't leave him much time, so he had to rely on the bravery of the Jurchen cavalry.
The situation of the battle at the very beginning decided that Huang Taiji was at a disadvantage, the time and place were favorable, he seemed to only have the geographical advantage, and with the progress of the war, the geographical advantage seemed to be infinitely weakened.
In the distance, Huang Taiji retreated again.
After thousands of casualties, and still no effective impact on the new army, Huang Taiji was about to give up.
But on the one hand, the anger on Dolgon's face prevented him from immediately ordering the withdrawal of his troops.
So the battle was once again consumed in the onslaught and counterattack.
The car array is like a hedgehog, every bite will make Houjin bruise.
Gritting his teeth, Huang Taiji ordered the artillery of the Han Eight Banners to push up.
He was going to use the remaining artillery to open the way for his cavalry.
Artillery advances.
Prepared for a long time, the shelling began.