Chapter Seventy-Five: Annihilation
The little prince was quite calm, waiting slowly for the Ming army in the direction of Shanhaiguan to set up a formation, and he even had time to trim the burrs on his nails with a knife. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
After seeing the Ming army set up a formation, the little prince slowly drew his knife and shouted: "The grassland Erlang obeys the order and slaughters this group of fat sheep with my drum!" ”
As the little prince took the lead, the Tatar 10,000 wolves rode like wolves howling towards the Ming army's position, and after running half of the mile and gradually raising the speed of the horse, all the steppe cavalry closed their mouths in unison. At this time, there seemed to be only a dull sound of horses' hooves between heaven and earth, like a tidal wave on the Qiantang River on August 15, rolling towards the reef where the Ming army was located.
The waves hit the reef!
The general of the Ming army was obviously not a chick on the battlefield, and when he saw the Tatar iron cavalry rushing like a sea tide, when there were still one hundred and twenty steps left from the Ming army's position, he waved the command flag in his hand and shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”
There was a whistling sound, and thousands of sharp arrows were suddenly thrown out from the Ming army's position, like a swarm of locusts in the year of the catastrophe, and fell towards the Tatar cavalry that rushed over.
The longbow used by the foot soldier was not the same as the horse bow used by the horseman, and the maximum range was enough to reach a distance of 110 meters, and the fall was right in the center of gravity where the Tatar cavalry was most concentrated.
Archers have always been the sharpest nemesis of the cavalry, and a rain of arrows will fall, and suddenly two or three hundred elite Tatar horsemen will be shot on horseback, rolling to the ground and trampled into a puddle of flesh by the later war horses in the blink of an eye.
But this is nothing for the Tatar cavalry, which has 10,000 men, and where can they stop their advance.
But after firing two rounds of arrows, the Tatar iron cavalry was already in front of him.
With the last wave of the Ming army's scattering, the little prince pushed aside the few feathered arrows that were shot at him, and looked coldly at the wall of Gundam shields and the forest-like guns that had been erected in front of him. He shouted loudly and raised the horse that had never slowed down, Liu Xuande jumped across the Tanxi River in ancient times, but it was a fluke, but today the little prince jumped over the shield wall but relied on the real strong equestrian skills.
I saw that the horse under his crotch jumped a few feet, and after cutting off a few spears that were extremely eye-catching, he landed firmly in front of the foot soldiers behind the shield wall, and immediately knocked five or six people away in a row, and the scimitar in his hand was even more bloody and cut off five or six heads one after another.
Behind the little prince, thousands of Tatar horsemen slammed into the shield wall in a brutal posture that did not count casualties, and the first few men and horses were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood, and no less than 100 horsemen were stabbed by spears.
But the killing and wounding of the Ming army ended there, and after several days of marching, these foot soldiers resisted the first wave of impact with difficulty, and then completely became a plate of scattered sand, and the barrier formed by the entire shield wall was shattered in an instant.
Without the city, the foot soldiers are completely a herd of sheep waiting to be slaughtered on the grassland, even if the soldiers of Shanhaiguan are not afraid of death, there is no possibility of turning over after the shield wall is broken. The battle damage gradually changed from three to one at the beginning to five to one, and finally even rose to a terrifying ten to one.
The lives of ten elite Ming infantry soldiers can be exchanged for the lives of a Tatar cavalry, and of course, a horse.
After the little prince broke through the first wave of shield walls, he slowed down his horse speed and retreated to the side, and the two hundred elite guards around him followed closely, forming a thick defensive circle around the little prince, quietly watching his own strong cavalry rush all the way over, trampling several military formations of the Ming army under the horse's hooves.
Winner or loser!
If the foot soldiers can't protect the world of the cavalry, it is only a matter of time before they are eaten at the level of the cavalry of the Ming border army.
What's more, it is 10,000 tired divisions to face the slightly declining grassland elite!
After watching the flood raging like a beast through the army formation of more than 10,000 people, the generals of the Ming army also let out an angry roar: "Charge!" ”
10,000 Ming cavalry roared from the left and right and crashed into the Tatar cavalry in the middle.
10,000 battles and 8,000 ......
After this battle, there was not one out of ten reinforcements in Shanhaiguan!
When the little prince returned to the capital with less than half of the Tatar elite cavalry remaining, Battle was very surprised. He could not imagine why the most elite cavalry of the steppe would suffer so much damage in battle on the plains.
The little prince looked tired at this time, looking at the less than 5,000 cavalry behind him, although he was victorious and defeated, he sighed: "I have encountered hard stubble, I have never seen such a fierce Ming army after so many years of fighting, they are really fighting to the last soldier!" ”
"Are we going to take a break?" Battle said cautiously, he rarely saw the little prince so lost.
But I never thought that the little prince just touched his face, laughed and said: "No, we brought 100,000 troops this time, except for 40,000 left to besiege Beijing City, the other tens of thousands of troops were all scattered for me, the most difficult bones have become bone residue, and the rest are just some fat meat flowing with oil and water, let the sons and daughters go out to eat meat!" ”
"What about you, Great Khan?"
"I'm not going anywhere, just sit here, and think about how to conquer this majestic city with 40,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of soldiers." The little prince said coldly: "Tell the predators that the surrendered Ming army and the Han people should not be killed in a hurry, and they will all be taken here, and I will use the corpses of the Han people to build a horse race road that can reach the city wall!" ”
"Yes!" Battle received his orders and strode away.
Soon, half of the Tatar cavalry besieging the capital disappeared, and they left the place with a terrible howl like a fierce wolf pack that had come out of their nest to feed.
Zhu Houzhao almost wanted to give up those officials and bandits who were born and raised in Huizhou, this group of goods who stuck to the pit and didn't was simply a heavy stumbling block, just half a month of rapid marching, and they actually ran away more than 200 people, and this is still the speed of walking for three days and stopping for one day, according to this situation, half of the people will be damaged on the march without going to the capital.
However, fortunately, the Zhejiang New Army trained by himself was quite reliable, and this level of forced marching only reduced their marching speed by fifty percent. You must know that during this period of time, the new army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang also shouldered the task of carrying materials and equipment while marching.
After getting the siege of the capital, Zhu Houzhao emptied all of Tang Xiaofei's inventory of Buddha Anger Tang Lian in one go, along with the hundred new thunderbolts that he had just made with his expenses.
But since the group of waste materials behind them was so unbearable, Zhu Houzhao had to order a three-day rest on the spot, otherwise not only would the group of waste materials behind all escape, but even the Zhejiang New Army, which already had a little rudiment, would become a tired army, and fall into the embarrassing situation of being treated by others at the next moment.
The capital is already in sight.
Wang Shouren will not die, and the capital will not be broken.
This is the last military order that the young man who is a scholar but has a heart in the field gave Zhu Houzhao a military order!