Chapter 476: Battle (2)
After all the 5,000 cavalry left the city, Li Chengke immediately ordered the city gate to be closed again. Then he kept an intently eye on the situation of the cavalry battalion and the foreign army.
Five thousand cavalry is definitely not a small number, in this era of warlords, only the top forces can have five thousand cavalry.
The strength of Yejiabao's poor mountain city can only afford to support these 5,000 cavalry battalions, which is also the current limit of Yejiabao, and it is also barely raised under the condition of saving other military branches.
The 5,000 cavalry battalions galloped at the same time, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the dust raised covered the sky and the sun, and the power was not small, and the great movement immediately alarmed the Seven Nations Alliance troops stationed five miles away.
But at this time, it was the time when the foreign army was about to open food, and the whole army was obviously in a state of laxity. When they saw the cavalry suddenly rushing straight in the capital, their reaction was obviously a beat slower.
Tie Ta took the lead, and after shouting and blindfolding, he quickly took out a black silk scarf that had been prepared from his arms. With a flick in the air, the silk scarf unfolds in the wind and sticks directly to the horse's eye.
The tower skillfully tied a knot, easily tied the silk scarf to the horse's eye, and blindfolded the horse's eye. Behind him, all the soldiers of the cavalry battalion followed suit under his order, and their speed was actually not much of the tower.
Almost as soon as the tower tied the horse's eye, they also tied it at the same time.
When the foreign army had just discovered the Yejiabao cavalry, there were still four miles away from the two sides. By the time they could react, however, the cavalry battalion had advanced another mile.
The moment the horse was blindfolded, the speed of the cavalry battalion had fully expanded, and almost in the blink of an eye, it had advanced another mile.
After advancing for three miles, the tower saw that the Seven-Nation Alliance began to drink under the officer's yo, threw down the dry food in his hand in a mess, and began to assemble.
The coalition forces obviously did not expect that the Yejiabao army in the capital would dare to fight at this time, and under their defenselessness, the distance between the two sides was only about a mile.
A mile away, for a cavalry already running at full speed, was not a distance at all, and it would take almost a few breaths to reach it, if nothing else.
The speed of the Yejiapu cavalry battalion was so fast that the Seven Nations Alliance, which had just reacted, only had time to release a few sporadic shots, and then they were directly charged into the position by the Yejiabao cavalry battalion.
The horses were all blindfolded, and they could not see the horses in front of them, so they could only follow the control of their masters. Regardless of whether there is danger ahead, all the war horses are on a rampage without knowing it.
The moment the two sides came into contact, just the trampling and collision of the war horses caused many casualties to the foreign army.
On the tower of the city gate, Li Chengke's palms had already begun to break out in a cold sweat, until he saw the cavalry battalion led by the iron tower with his own eyes. With almost no counterattack, he was a little relieved to successfully rush into the enemy's position and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
The iron tower and the cavalry were almost unhindered, and easily rushed straight into the position of the foreign army, and in a short time 5,000 cavalry had already entered the middle of the position of the foreign army.
Seeing that after a while, the first charge can be successfully completed, directly through the enemy's position, and then turn around and come back a few more times, the enemy will definitely be defeated.
But the accident happened at this time, and I saw that the enemy army, who had fled in a hurry just now, did not start to run, but turned around and fought with the night cavalry.
The sudden counterattack made the speed of the Yejiabao cavalry continue to slow down, until it finally stopped completely.
The tower hurriedly glanced up, and suddenly found that the cavalry battalion had started at some point, and was gradually surrounded by enemy troops.
The frowning iron tower suddenly had a bad premonition, once the cavalry lost its horse speed and was surrounded by people to fight, it would completely lose the original advantage of the cavalry.
The enemy was four times the size of the cavalry battalion, and if there was no superiority in horses for five thousand men, it would be no different from ordinary foot soldiers.
"It's dangerous!" The tower said something bad, and began to slash and slash at the enemy troops in front of him, who were crowded without any gaps. But he soon found out sadly that the enemy was killing more and more, and he couldn't finish killing at all.
On the same day, when he looked back at his subordinates behind him, he found that all of them were surrounded by groups, and the enemy soldiers began to shoot them secretly with foreign guns. Dead and wounded in cavalry battalions began to appear in large areas!
At this point, the smooth situation at the beginning was instantly reversed by the enemy, and now it has become the Yejiabao cavalry battalion struggling to support.
The enemy surrounded the Yejiabao cavalry battalion, and began to boil frogs in warm water, not rushing to rush up, but taking advantage of their advantages, hiding in the dark with foreign guns to shoot the cavalry.
Seeing his bloody men's subordinates being shot by the enemy one after another, the tower was anxious and distressed, and the iron rod in his hand smashed desperately at the enemy, and the blood splashed all over his body turned red.
But even so, it still can't reverse the current unfavorable situation in the slightest. The cavalry battalion of Yejiabao was still being shot incessantly.
"Yejiabao is mighty, kill, kill, kill!" The angry tower struggled to kill the enemy, while trying to use his high-pitched roar to cheer up his subordinates.
But the battalion of 5,000 cavalry had been divided into unknown pieces by the enemy, and there were very few who could hear the roar of the tower and respond to him.
"Bang!"
When the tower went berserk, it quickly attracted the attention of the enemy musketeers hiding in the shadows. Suddenly a gunshot rang out in front of him, and after that, the iron tower's body shook slightly, and the iron rod that was originally swinging sharply in his hand was slammed at the same time.
A blood flower appeared at the base of his thigh, and the tower snorted even more, and his body almost fell off his horse with a slight oblique angle.
Fortunately, his reaction was fast enough, he grabbed the reins with one hand, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and fixed his body firmly on the horse's back.
At this time, three more spears stabbed at him, and the iron tower did not dare to slack off, and the iron rod swung hard, smashing the three spears with the sound of the howling wind.
With this exertion, a sharp pain suddenly came from the root of the thigh that was bleeding just now. You don't have to look at it, the tower knows that he was shot in the leg.
Those damned gunmen hid behind the enemy and every now and then dropped a shot or two, and they couldn't defend themselves at all. Even though the tower wanted to find them, it was always blocked by the enemy soldiers armed with spears.
"Bang!"
Gunshots rang out again.
Tie Ta felt the left leg that had been shot just now, and there was a hot and sharp pain again, and it was obvious that he had been shot again.
But this gunman hidden in the shadows was obviously abusing the tower, according to the current situation, the gunman was completely capable of hitting the tower with one shot, but he didn't do it.
This was obviously a precursor to being teased, and the tower was completely angry.
Soldiers can be killed, but not humiliated! When did he fall to such a point?