On an unknown mound, the engineer battalion of the Fourth Army has set up three lines of defense and four deep communication trenches here, organizing its tight firepower system to resist the 50,000 iron cavalry coming in front of them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although these 50,000 iron horsemen belonged to different tribes, they also relied on the strength of the outnumbered people, and their morale was high, desperately attacking the positions of the Fourth Army, and the soldiers of the Fourth Army did not know how many times they repelled the enemy's attacks.

In short, now on the entire grassy slope, the corpses left behind have long covered the entire field, and the soldiers of the Fourth Army have begun to suffer casualties, and many of them have even had to raise their bayonets to confront these cavalry, but fortunately these cavalry are on their backs, so they have not formed a big blow.

Huang Taiji, Wu Xiang and the Mongolian cavalry are also very distressed about the combat method of the Praetorian Guard infantry, they never thought that the infantry could also dig pits in the field for defensive warfare, their own cavalry is good at carrying out rapid movement warfare on the grassland, but they have to carry out a relatively large casualty battle, but as long as they want to eat him, they must gnaw off, and they must pay casualties, but now everyone has their own little abacus, although they are all rushing together, but they deliberately slow down the rhythm, waiting for the other party to take enough shots first, Increase the speed yourself.

Seeing that this was not a solution, these enemy chieftains who resisted the Ming Dynasty changed their battle plan and began to encircle the Fourth Army and attack the Third Army.

The Fourth Army, like the Third Army, is a mixed infantry regiment, armed to the teeth, with all the latest scientific research crystallization of the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of deadly weapons are varied, everything, such as tear gas, the main components are methane and hydrogen sulfide, of which hydrogen sulfide is extremely toxic, when the concentration is too high, it can stimulate people pear blossoms with rain, dizziness and softness, and the Fourth Army will be wantonly launched as soon as the wind direction is suitable, forcing the enemy cavalry to rush up quickly to withdraw;

There is no convention prohibiting the use of chemical weapons, so this poisonous gas is better to use than a flintlock musket, the bullet may not make a brave Tartar fall, but the magic hydrogen sulfide can make a strong Tartar faint to the ground in a few seconds, but this toxic gas is very easy to solve, as long as you cover a damp cloth on your face, hydrogen sulfide is very soluble in water, you can quickly offset the toxicity of hydrogen sulfide.

But the Tartars don't know these ways, and they have no choice but to exclaim that these Ming troops in front of them know how to do witchcraft.

Therefore, although the Fourth Army could not be as mobile as the cavalry, once it turned to defensive warfare, it could exert tremendous combat effectiveness.

However, the infantry of the Fourth Army also has its own shortcomings, that is, the initiative is not strong, and once it is besieged, it will fall into a stalemate of being consumed, especially this kind of external combat without logistical support, and it is very likely to face the situation of having to climb out of the trenches and fight hard with the enemy cavalry.

As the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army, Ao Bai knew the defect of the Fourth Army, so when tens of thousands of enemy cavalry attacked the Fourth Army, he was not worried that the Fourth Army would make any mistakes, but now when he found that the enemy cavalry had improved the attack into a siege, he had to stop moving and fighting outside, constantly harvesting the living force of the enemy cavalry, and must lead the main force to rescue the Fourth Army.

Otherwise, the Fourth Army could only be besieged and killed, or it had to rush out and be completely annihilated by enemy cavalry several times the enemy.

But it also fell into the hands of these enemy chieftains, whose purpose was to encircle the point and send reinforcements, so they immediately surrounded the remaining 60,000 iron cavalry towards the Third Army.

Kill!

The 10,000 elite cavalry of the Third Army had to cooperate with the 60,000 iron cavalry in front of the Fourth Army to attack, fortunately, their firearms were sharp, which made up for the lack of proficiency in bows and arrows on their side due to the majority of new soldiers, and also because they avoided the strain of arm strength, they could quickly block the enemy's attack and kill and injure the enemy cavalry when they were in contact with the battle.

This was the first time that the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard had really fought against the world's most powerful cavalry, who were several times the enemy and more experienced than themselves, and they plowed into this stream of hard brown iron like plowshares, stubborn and unyielding, their eyes full of thirst for blood.

A year ago, they were just farmers working hard in the fields or scholars studying hard in private schools, anyway, most of them were honest and obedient, but at this moment, their performance was even more courageous than these Tartar cavalry, under the generous welfare system and strong ideological education without worries, these Janissary soldiers who were easily reformed by their minds forgot what death was, and stimulated the inherent blood of the Han people.

At the same time, the Fourth Army also launched an attack, and since the Third Army dared to attack several times more for the sake of their Fourth Army, then the people of their Fourth Army naturally could not be cowards.

Lu Jiayu, the chief officer of the Fourth Army, was the first to rush out of the trenches, and the officers of the other towns, brigades, battalions, teams, and generals were the first to rush out.

In addition to the artillery that needs to be buried, an infantry battalion is left to guard all kinds of artillery with key technologies and serve as a reserve.

The rest of the soldiers of the Fourth Army began to take the initiative to dive down towards the enemy cavalry in front of them, and the 1st Battalion of the ace was equipped with quicker and longer firing rifles, so they rushed to the front, and overturned the enemy troops in front with dense and high-frequency bullets, with the aim of disrupting the enemy's formation, and the iron cavalry in front did cause a riot.

The other two infantry battalions fanned out from the left and right flanks and guarded against enemy cavalry rushing up from both sides, with the engineer battalion at the end.

The artillery had stopped attacking, and this kind of close-quarters white-knuckle combat was of little use to them, but the Flying Battalion was still playing its own role, and the incendiary packs were still falling in the dense group of iron cavalry, but these enemy cavalry seemed to have learned a lesson and did not dare to line up too closely to avoid greater damage, but this would be more conducive to the soldiers of the Fourth Army embedded like wedges. Tens of thousands of iron cavalry were confined to this small space, which seriously affected the combat effectiveness, while the soldiers of the Fourth Army were better able to stab horses in the belly with bayonets and cut off horses' legs.

The enemy cavalry had to retreat to create enough room for maneuver to encircle and annihilate the Fourth Army that had rushed out of the trenches, as long as they were not entangled by this group of mad dog-like Ming infantry, the cavalry on their side could completely annihilate this Ming army.

Here, because the Fourth Army forced the enemy cavalry to make a strategic retreat, while the Third Army gathered more and more enemy cavalry, and many soldiers of the Third Army had already become the enemy's sword and revenant.

Even Zhu Youzhen himself had his hair scattered, several scars on his face, and several bloody knives were missing, and his own soldiers had all been killed, and the entire First Brigade had lost one-third.

Lu Jiayu of the Fourth Army knew that the enemy cavalry would launch a more fierce attack in the future, but his Fourth Army could not keep stuck in the trenches and be trapped to death, and he could not watch the cavalry soldiers of the Third Army being annihilated by the enemy cavalry.

"How much gas do we have?" Lu Jiayu asked.

Yang Tinglin simply threw the glass glasses that had lost half of the lenses directly on the ground, took out another pair and put them on, and said: "There are still thirty bags (each bag has about 2,000 liters), and before this departure, I expected that I would definitely be attacked by a large number of cavalry, so I prepared more, after all, this guy is better than firearms, but it is better to carry." ”

"Take three hundred dead soldiers from the cavalry battalion, rush into the enemy camp with these thirty bags of gas, and rush as you deflat, until all the men fall!"

Lu Jiayu said: "I am one of the three hundred dead soldiers, and now you Yang Daxiu will lead the whole army, go and select troops!" ”

"No! You are the younger brother of Lu Ge Lao, one of the five general soldiers of my Praetorian Guard, you can't make any mistakes, let me go", Yang Tinglin said and was scolded by Lu Jiayu: "Execute the order!" ”

Although Yang Tinglin is said to be the governor of the capital, he is indeed Lu Jiayu's subordinate in military command, so he shut up when he scolded him like this, and had to respond loudly, "Yes!" ”

"If you are not an only child in the family, you have not married a wife and have children, and you dare to die on the battlefield for my Ming Dynasty and His Majesty the Emperor, stand up if you meet these three conditions!"

Yang Tinglin quickly selected 300 brave and brave men in the two cavalry battalions of the Fourth Army based on this standard, and formed a death squad of ten people, each carrying a gas bag and wearing a special mask, and rode his horse towards the iron cavalry that had also charged on the opposite side.

"The Feitian battalion went directly to the aid of the Third Army, and the rest of the battalions immediately got on the four-wheeled chariots, organized the array, and once the gas gas spreads and the enemy cavalry appears to faint in a large area, they will rush up and kill me fiercely!"

When Yang Tinglin spoke, he saw the soldiers of the Third Army who were disappearing from the horses one by one in the distance, and couldn't help but feel a little sad, one of them was his classmate in the Royal Military Academy back then, and he was also the grandson of the former Dali Temple Zhengqing, but he also had the same ambition as himself, but now he was separated from his own yin and yang, which made Yang Tinglin can't help but tear his eyes.

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Jiannu Abatai and Badali of the Korqin tribe led their respective elite cavalry to the front, their eyes were already showing excitement, and they were confident that they would be able to break the formation of the Ming army in front of them after a single charge.

But they were very surprised by the three hundred Ming cavalry in front of them, who suddenly rushed towards their side at the risk of death, although they also knew that the Ming army now had an extremely powerful demon technique, which could make everyone smell the pungent smell when the southeast wind blew and the whole body would be weak and dizzy in a moment; But they didn't know that these big bags in front of them contained the kind of gas poison gas that can kill people instantly.

Therefore, Abatai and Badali still rushed over with tens of thousands of elite horsemen without any scruples, and they wanted to teach these hundreds of cavalry a lesson, so that they should not think that a few hundred horsemen could resist the attack of their tens of thousands of iron horsemen.

But when they began to make contact with each other, they could hear the sound of the clatter, and immediately afterwards, some of the cavalry could feel as if they had been drained of their strength in an instant.

Some Tartars had just put their knives on the necks of a Ming army, but in an instant, they were cut in the throat by the Ming soldiers who almost died because of a dizziness in their heads.

In fact, without waiting for these Tartars to fall to the ground first, the violently running war horses fell to the ground first because of a large amount of gas poison gas, and even the Tartars on the horse's back were also thrown to the ground.

"The Ming army is showing its demon wind again!" Some of the Tartars were so panicked that they wanted to retreat, but now they were all charging, and a quick retreat would only lead to worse consequences, like a sudden reversal on the highway that would lead to a more tragic car accident.

The poisonous gas began to spread, and the countless Tartar cavalry who had just advanced as bravely as tanks suddenly fell into a large area, like a storm swept through the sorghum fields.

Kill!

Yang Tinglin and the rest of the soldiers of the Fourth Army also rushed over, originally in front of the cavalry, only the abused infantry at this time to harvest the lives of these cavalry, as simple as a shot on a dead man.

Lu Jiayu continued to sprint inside, continuing to release poisonous gas, although many of them had been shot to the ground, although they themselves would also be a little unwell due to accidentally inhaling trace amounts of gas, but as long as they did not fall, they had to continue to release poison.

If it weren't for the fact that the gas gas was not dense, and it was thrown from the sky and affected their own Flying Battalion soldiers, the soldiers of the Flying Battalion would have already dropped countless gas gases in the middle of the enemy cavalry besieging the Third Army, which would only cause a larger killing area than the incendiary pack.

However, the incendiary packs that were dropped still caused losses to many of the enemy cavalry, and also dashed the enemy's desire to quickly encircle and annihilate the Fourth and Third Armies.

The durability of the cavalry's combat effectiveness is also limited, and it is impossible for the horses to run nervously and violently all the time, and even people can't adapt to it, so after sunset, when it is already dark, the enemy cavalry decisively withdraws from the battle.

And the Fourth and Third Armies were able to survive the most difficult day safely.

Fighting with more than 100,000 Tatar cavalry, I have to say that this is a battle that tempers the warriors, and the surviving soldiers are a little more ruthless and murderous than at the beginning, even if they are already severely disabled.

They snuggled up to each other, supported each other, gathered together, gathered around their respective chiefs, and watched the roaring bonfire in a daze.

The wolves in the distance did not dare to approach them, but they themselves began to cry first, and the sound of the cry was mournful and desolate, as if in one day, the vicissitudes of life would be more than ten years.

Lu Jiayu was not in great danger to his life, except that his arm was a little relaxed, he was hit by an arrow in his ribs, and he was a little dizzy due to inhaling a little poisonous gas, and his Fourth Army did not lose its strength seriously, and the casualties were only more than 3,000 people, but the Third Army of Aobai's cavalry suffered more than 6,000 casualties, a full third, but fortunately, the establishment is still complete, and those who can survive are elite cavalry whose riding skills and willpower should not be underestimated, and they are the essence of the formation of larger-scale cavalry in the future.

However, the bigger problem he faces is not morale and combat attrition, but logistical resources, ammunition consumption and medicine, food and water resources, which is probably the biggest difficulty of the Western Route Army at present.

Ao Bai was not sure how long it would last, and Lu Jiayu also mentioned: "I don't know how the Eastern Route Army is progressing, if Your Majesty does not give the order to retreat, we are afraid that the Western Route Army will all have to lose here." ”