Chapter 484: Night Battle, Victory and Labor

The impact of the 500 cavalry on the cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion was like waves crashing on the reef, the waves scattered, but the reef stood still.

In fact, Liu Fangliang and dozens of cavalry who rushed to the front only slightly dented the formation of the iron cavalry advancing, and the length of the spear in Liu Fangliang's hand was shorter than that of the iron cavalry in Shandong, and when he found that the hedging opponent would stab him first, he threw the spear out on the horse.

The spear hit the iron cavalry opposite him, and the spear hit the opponent's chest, and the iron cavalry couldn't dodge in a hurry, so he could only turn sideways.

The power of the spear is extremely great, but the plate armor made by the hydraulic forging hammer is very hard, and on this side, Liu Fangliang's spear slashed from the armor.

The iron cavalryman leaned back violently, almost falling off his horse, and even if he had a cotton robe lining his chest, there would have been bruises and bruises, but he did not kill him.

When Liu Fangliang was stabbed by four spears, his face was very calm, and his personal guards were also brave, and in this hedge, five of the iron cavalry also fell off their horses.

But after the dozens of people in front were rushed and killed, the hundreds of horsemen behind had no will to fight, and in the face of this kind of defeat and death, not everyone can swear to death.

The short-term confusion of the iron cavalry, after a little formation, rushed forward to kill the past, and when the five hundred cavalry rushed over, the Jiaozhou battalion horse army that had already rushed into the Shunjun camp retracted a little, gathered behind the iron cavalry array, the front of this cavalry collapsed, and the rear team scattered.

The cavalry of the Jiaozhou battalion horse army also scattered out, continuing to slash and destroy, such a battle was extremely bloody and terrifying, the camp tent was on fire, and the ground was slippery and muddy. Both cavalry and infantry are prone to slipping and falling when they are running, and the space in the camp of the Shun army is relatively small, and running in it, often do not know from which direction the knife will be cut, and many soldiers of the Shun army are aroused in their sleep.

The spirit just now was not very sober, and suddenly the killing started, and the cavalry of the other side had already rushed in, although the soldiers of the Shun army were old pawns. But they all felt caught off guard.

There were even those who had a nervous breakdown, running around the camp, crying and shouting with knives and guns to cut and kill indiscriminately until they were killed by their own people or by the enemy.

Liu Fangliang died in the front, the news spread quickly, and the generals at all levels of the Shun army felt that they couldn't suppress the team, and they came to the enemy at night and had just organized resistance. Liu Fangliang, one of the commanders of the army, had already died at the hands of the enemy, and Liu Tichun, another Guoyi general, was mobilizing troops and horses on the other side, preparing to set up a defensive line in the camp.

The relationship between the officers of the Shun army and the soldiers below is very good, everyone is from a poor background, and they will not forget their roots for a while. But this night's urging and mobilization, General Guoyi Liu Tichun has completely pulled down his face, and the slightly sluggish soldiers are directly executing military law.

With such a stern urging, the soldiers gathered very quickly. Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, one-third of the military camp had already been broken into by the horse army of the Jiaozhou battalion.

Looking at the raging fire in the north of the barracks, and the news has already been transmitted, Liu Fangliang died in battle, Liu Tichun's eyes were black for a while, and he had no expectations for the battle situation in his heart.

But the current situation is not victory or defeat, but life and death, Liu Tichun and his subordinates found out in despair. The north side was blocked by Shandong soldiers and horses, and the south side was the military camp of Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, and the two sides were not suitable for the actions of the army, and they were here to trap the enemy, but at this time it was their turn to be trapped in them.

The attack of the Shandong horse army changed again, and after clearing a piece of terrain that was large enough to spread, the cavalry outside the camp of the Shun army also began to enter, but they did not come in on horseback. Rather, it is a formation of foot soldiers after dismounting. Slowly marching in.

The spearmen encountered the tent, whether it was on fire or intact. Pick them all apart with spears, and someone will light a fire on them for lighting.

The firecrackers are free from the spear phalanx, constantly shooting and killing the scattered Shun soldiers, such foot soldiers advance, the speed may not be as fast as the cavalry, but it is more thorough, the cavalry is gradually surpassed by the infantry queue, except for the iron cavalry, most of the cavalry are dismounted to form a formation of foot combat.

Guoyi's general Liu Tichun watched the changes in Shandong's soldiers and horses by the light of the burning fire, and without the invincible cavalry array, he might be able to fight a counterattack at this time.

The soldiers who had just shouted loudly and organized themselves to attack, but they heard the sound of roaring, and the formation that had just gathered was chaotic, since the large group of men and horses had rushed in, the cannons outside naturally would not be placed outside, and they had already been dragged in by horses.

The artillery was so easy to move, and the fire was so fast, Liu Tichun's assembled team walked less than thirty steps forward, and two rounds of artillery had already smashed over.

Two rounds of artillery bombardment are only a dozen shells, but the blow to the morale of the soldiers is quite fatal, especially in the barracks, the formation can not be expanded, in a chaotic situation, it is not easy to dodge, often a shell falls, squeezing and trampling each other will also have casualties.

Originally, it was difficult to control the ranks in the dark of night, and the hastily assembled troops had to be reorganized after the shelling, and the officers at all levels were in a panic, and at this time there was no talk of officers and soldiers as one.

Liu Tichun, who was in the Chinese army, calmed down, saw the chaos of the situation, looked left and right, and said loudly:

"Knock down all the military tents and shacks, and then there are those who rush and run around, and make loud noises, no matter how high or low the position is, they will be cut immediately, the way of life is in the north, and if they rush out, they will live, and if I retreat, the soldiers can be killed, and forward, kill the enemy!!"

After this categorical order, the soldiers of the Shun army were immediately purged, and everyone shouted and knocked down the tents and shacks.

The space is suddenly vast, and the formation of the Shun army troops can also be expanded, and the relatively sparse queue is much stronger in the bearing capacity of the artillery, and the formation is sparse, and every shell that falls, the damage caused will be less.

Finally, when it came to white-knuckle combat, every soldier of the Shun army. Morale is extremely low, and the thing that many people are thinking about right now is to fight for this life, and everything will be over, and there is no need to live here.

The horse army of the Jiaozhou battalion, except for the core iron cavalry, most of the rest were mounted infantry, and the horses were only used to improve their mobility.

The troops of the Shun army and the Jiaozhou battalion soon came to a distance of dozens of paces, and all the firecrackers were in front of the spear array. Lined up in a horizontal row, a salvo was fired.

After a round of firing, ignoring the large number of fallen Shun soldiers, the musketeers retreated to the back of the line along the gap between the spear formations.

There is a problem with the shooting of the firecracker, with the training of the firecrackers of the Jiaozhou battalion, it is indeed possible to achieve a very high rate of fire and rotation, but the firecracker can kill the enemy in about 100 steps, and the enemy fearlessly charges in the rain of bullets. I can't reach the distance of hand-to-hand combat, but I am constantly killed, and this situation is the most demoralizing.

It's easy to collapse halfway, and after the collapse, it's natural to run away from the fire formation. At a distance of 100 paces, the firearm array needs to shoot steadily, and in this situation, it can't cause much damage.

When the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion were preparing for annihilation and mass destruction of the enemy, the firearms would not last long. The same is true for this firecracker.

Many people think that Shandong's soldiers and horses are just well-armed and well-trained, and when it comes to white-knuckle warfare, everyone fights for their lives, and the outcome is unknown at that time.

Moreover, everyone has such an opinion in their hearts, that is, those who hide behind firearms and shoot must be cowardly, and they must not be able to fight when they get close to white-knuckle combat.

This view may be due to the impression that the enemy of the Ming army was indiscriminately discharging firearms outside the firing range, and that the enemy would collapse when he approached. However, in the previous training and battles, the Jiaozhou battalion had a clear understanding of the huge advantages of its own side in white-knuckle combat, and put the enemy close to fight, which was to give full play to its own advantages and strengths.

Originally, this dense volley of fire, the footmen of the Shun army, who had already begun to charge, stagnated, and if there were two more rounds of ground fire, the charge would definitely collapse, and the soldiers would turn around and run. But the Shun army may be able to gather troops not far away. It's an endless trouble.

I saw the firecrackers in Shandong retreating, under the firelight. The Shandong spear array on the opposite side seemed to be a wall, but on the other side, the soldiers of the Shun army had no fear.

Such a scene, they don't know how many times they encountered it when they faced the Ming army, and they were not the same and collapsed, the Ming army in Shandong is still the Ming army, and how strong can it be.

"Flat spear, flat spear!!"

The officers and non-commissioned officers in the spear queue shouted out the order, and the soldiers of the Shun army on the opposite side had already stepped over the corpses of their comrades, shouting and rushing towards them.

The spearmen of the Jiaozhou battalion, who were originally holding spears upright, flattened their spears one after another, bowed their bodies slightly forward, and prepared a posture of assassination.

In an instant, suddenly, the shouting and screaming and the sound of weapons colliding sounded one after another, the front teams of the two sides collided together, the soldiers of the Shun army were in a state of running, and the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion were advancing on foot, and the two sides touched each other, and the momentum of this forward rush hit the front of the Jiaozhou battalion backwards.

But not a single person was able to rush into the range of the spears, and everyone was blocked from the tips of the spears, and the Jiaozhou battalion, lined up in a neat line, guaranteed to have enough spears to assassinate at a fixed length of the front, while the Shun army of the straggler front had to face several spears alone.

No matter how skilled and strong his martial arts are, he can only defend, and he can't cross the distance of nearly ten steps from the spear, in fact, most people are not stabbed to death, they can only do the action of retreating, but the companions behind him still rush forward again, and the people in front are almost pushed by their companions to the spears of the Jiaozhou battalion and stabbed to death.

If the formation is static, it doesn't matter, but Shandong's spear array is constantly advancing, and after the initial charge momentum weakens, the soldiers of the Shun army can only retreat.

"Push the person in front of you and follow behind. “

The Shun army general Zuodu, who was supervising the battle in front, let out such a shout, and some soldiers supported their comrades who had just fallen in front, blocked them with corpses in front, and pushed them onto their spears.

The weight of the spears could not bear it, and the spears hung down or were crooked, and the soldiers took advantage of the opportunity to rush to the gap between the first row of spears, but the spear queue was not one or two rows. According to the rules of the discipline, this array has at least five rows of spears facing forward.

The soldiers were lucky enough to rush past the first row of spears, but they still had to face the second and third rows, and all they could do was retreat.

The battle of the infantry was only a little stalemate, and the ranks of the Shun army were beaten back step by step, and the soldiers still retreated again no matter how Liu Tichun, the general of Guoyi, supervised the battle and shouted in the back.

This is not a question of will to fight or courage, but a gap in strength. If you can't beat it, you can't beat it, and the outcasts and soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion who have been tested by the fire of war, the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion who have undergone strict training and are well-armed, the scattered array of displaced troops and the strict field phalanx, the victory or defeat can actually be predicted.

General Guo Yi's Liu Tichun had red eyes, and he had already cut off the heads of four or five soldiers, and his pro-soldiers team was also crying and slashing at his colleagues.

But even so, it can't stop the momentum of the rout, Liu Tichun is different from the relatively straightforward Liu Fangliang. He clearly understood that even if he rushed forward with his own soldiers, it would be impossible to block the opponent's array charge, and since he couldn't stop it, why should he die.

Tang Er, the commander of the horse army, was already behind the infantry array, carefully observing there through the burning fires everywhere. In the case of the Shun army, the ranks of spearmen of the Jiaozhou battalion could be seen moving slowly but firmly forward, and with each small step forward, corpses would fall in front.

At first, Tang Er saw that the infantry was slightly scattered. Worried and panicked, and about to make adjustments, the commander of the foot soldiers told him that the disorganization was due to the fact that the spearmen had advanced deep enough to take care of the corpses under their feet.

The spearman's slow advance will cause much more damage than a fire shot, because the enemy on the opposite side will be able to kill you face to face. There is hope for victory.

Tang Er, who was on the horse, could see that the enemy formation on the opposite side was slowly disintegrating, but there were still many soldiers and soldiers who insisted on fighting, and the longer they held on, the more bloodletting they had.

At this moment, several horses ran over, and the guards around Tang Er did not stop them, these knights were all dressed in cloth clothes, and the surrounding civilians were dressed up. Seeing Tang Er on the horse, he simply saluted. Hurriedly said:

"My lord, there's movement in Gao Jie's camp. Torches could be seen gathering towards the front camp. ”

The place where Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, was stationed and the camp of the Shun army were only about a mile away, and the shouting and killing sound here was so violent, of course it would not be heard over there.

It is said that this kind of chaos is a great opportunity for Gao Jie, who was trapped, to take the opportunity to cover up and break through, but Gao Jie did not dare to move, this era of night camping, extremely particular about military discipline, if there are soldiers disturbed, waiting for his punishment is extremely cruel, the soldiers in arrears of wages, the officer's beating and scolding, like the treatment of slaves under the mentality is extremely abnormal, if there is any noise at night, it is easy to cause the camp roar.

Such midnight disturbances often lead to catastrophic consequences, or a major rout of the entire army, even if it is a mobilization of troops during the night.

Compared with the trembling of the Ming army in the night operation, it is a miracle that the Shun army can still hold resistance under such a surprise attack at night. Of course, there is no need to say anything about the Shandong soldiers and horses who run at night and have always maintained a good team cohesion.

The Ming army's reluctance to move and slowness brought a certain amount of time to the Shandong soldiers and horses, and now the actions of the military camp on Gao Jie's side can be regarded as a signal.

Hearing the report of the sentry, Tang Erlang said to the herald beside him:

"Order all teams of cavalry to immediately mount their horses and attack, completely drive the enemy out of this camp, and completely defeat and disperse them!!"

The herald cavalry scattered in all directions, and the cavalry, which had been in reserve, began to move, and they slowly urged the horses forward, and these battles were all rehearsed in advance.

The Shun army brigade, which was already unable to withstand the pressure, suddenly saw the right flank of the Shandong soldiers and horses on the opposite side began to retreat slowly, and the Shun soldiers in this direction did not know what was going on, thinking that the battle situation had changed, but they had not had time to cheer.

The Shandong cavalry, which had become their nightmare, reappeared, and without the input of this cavalry, they would have collapsed soon after.

The reappearance of the cavalry was just to advance this collapse, but this time the cavalry shouted a promise of surrender in addition to slashing:

"Drop your weapon, kneel and don't kill!!"

If only at the beginning of the battle. The soldiers of the Shun army will feel angry at this slogan and will use greater courage to fight and fight, but now, they are constantly being forced to retreat, constantly being killed, and the slogan of surrender gives them a way out, so that many people are relaxed.

Almost as soon as the cavalry shouted, some of the soldiers of the obedient army obediently dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground. They didn't care whether they would be trampled by the horses, so they knelt on the ground regardless of it, some of them were dumbfounded and did not speak, and some of the landers knelt there and wept.

The Shun army led by Guoyi's generals Liu Fangliang and Liu Tichun completely collapsed at this moment, with a large number of soldiers killed and wounded, and the morale of the army was completely destroyed.

Liu Tichun's eyes were red. His face was pale and terrifying, he kept retreating under the support of his own soldiers, looking at the completely one-sided battle in front of him, the situation was indeed irreparable, Liu Tichun turned his head to look at Gao Jie's direction. The barracks of the Ming army, albeit unresponsive.

But now there are also lights lit up here and there, Liu Tichun looked at the knife in his hand, and wondered if he would end his martyrdom, but he couldn't do anything. Hearing the loud shouts and surrenders of the cavalry in front of him, he hesitated a little, if he did something, he really didn't dare to say whether the soldiers around him would do it.

King Chuang is not thin on himself, Liu Tichun hesitated again and again, but still gritted his teeth, and whispered to the guards of his own soldiers:

"There is a thief army in Shandong here, let's write and pass the news to King Chuang quickly. At that time, no matter what his old man did with our defeat, it should be ...... He also had to send a wave of people to tell General Tian that he should be careful not to be taken advantage of by the thieves in Shandong. ”

After saying this, seeing that the surrounding pro-army generals had no objections, Liu Tichun didn't dare to stay here longer, and hurriedly led his subordinates to disappear into the darkness.

The terrain on both sides was not suitable for large armies, but the escape of small groups of stragglers was very convenient. Liu Fangliang died in battle. Liu Tichun escaped, and the leaderless Shun army could no longer support it. A few of them escaped from the camp and fled towards the wilderness and fields, and those who rushed forward could only surrender on their knees.

Even if it is about a mile away, and the sky is so gloomy, but now it is now possible to see Gao Jie's military camp getting brighter and brighter, and the Jiaozhou battalion horse army, which has basically been sure of victory, does not dare to relax in the slightest, and all the baggage troops in the camp outside have driven into the camp.

The cavalry scattered everywhere to clear out the remnants of the enemy, and those who knelt down and surrendered to the soldiers of the Shun army were immediately driven up by the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion to extinguish the fire, Tang Er's demeanor at this time was even more nervous than when the battle was going on, he rode on his horse and urged loudly:

"The artillery and gunners checked the ammunition and moved quickly south, and settled on the edge to defend, faster!! Don't rub around there!!! It's not time for us to drink the celebratory wine!! ”

"Hurry up and put out the fire, the camp gate opened by the artillery will arrange for people to dig fortifications, rebuild the defense, let those thieves and horses move quickly, if it is delayed, it will be counted as a temporary resistance, and it will be killed immediately!!"

"After clearing the remnants of the enemy, each regiment and each team immediately counted the troops, sorted out the team, there must be no delay, the next battle may be more difficult, we are fighting for ourselves, don't forget the military law order of our Jiaozhou battalion!!"

Tang Er kept leading his own soldiers to run in the camp of the Shun army, urging the busyness everywhere, the regimental garrison, the regimental deputy garrison, the commanders of each battalion and the general of each team were all busy and supervising.

Those soldiers of the Shun army who had just surrendered saw that the Shandong soldiers and horses were not relaxed in the slightest after the victory, even ordinary soldiers were busy working without complaints, and their hearts were more deflated and depressed, tonight's defeat, it is true that the other party is a surprise attack, and indeed the other party is well-armed with firearms.

But in the face of such a soldier and such an army, even if the two sides open up the formation during the day, and the battle is dignified, how much chance can their side have of winning, I am afraid it will still be a big defeat.

This failure is a convincing failure, and the idea of breaking into the world of Wang Dashun is afraid that there will be a catastrophe!

The artillery was pushed in the direction of Gao Jie's camp, and the firecrackers were also in command of the position, no one was lighting the fire here, it was still quite dark, and every five people had a torch behind them, relying on this lighting.

From a distance, a dragon of light rushed towards this side, and Gao Jie's army finally left the camp......