Chapter 425: Breaking the Formation
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This miraculous arrow completely shocked Jiannu.
Even a first-class Bayala white armor would not be able to accurately hit a high-speed moving object from such a distance.
Ao Bai was also frightened, and the officers around him all subconsciously shrank their heads, for fear of becoming the next target of this archer
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"Ningxiang Army, Ningxiang Army, I remember you!" Ao Bai gritted his teeth.
He took a sledgehammer from one of the guards, strode to the front of the formation, and shouted: "Don't be afraid, everyone, no matter how strong the enemy is, there are only about a hundred people, even if it is one-on-one, we will consume them." Our cavalry was defeated just now, and now it's their turn! β
When he said this, he was depressed in his heart, when did the cowardly Ming army become a stronger army than the Eight Banners warriors in his mind?
The generals looked at each other, probably inspired by the courage of worship, looked at each other a few times, and shouted at the same time: "I am willing to die!" β
Seeing that it had succeeded in stimulating the morale of the soldiers, who had collapsed, Ao Bai quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it is said that the scouts who asked for help have been shot by the enemy, the ability of the Jianzhou warriors to defend the formation is not covered. If they shrank into a ball, if the enemy's 100 or so people wanted to break through, they would have to break two big teeth.
Yes, their numbers are too small to withstand consumption. As long as the power of their team is consumed, everyone infantry can't beat the infantry, so it's a big deal to go. The enemy's infantry is moving too slowly, how can they catch up with me?
Thinking of this, Ao Bai was a little relieved, and glanced at his troops again.
But I saw that the three thousand soldiers who had been so frightened that their faces were pale and huddled together, and they were already unable to get through. In terms of the tightness of the formation, it also surpassed the Ningxiang military formation on the opposite side.
The Qing army set up a phalanx, and at the front of the large array was a row of archers. On the two flanks are spearmen and sword and shield bearers, tightly guarding the banner of the Chinese army.
This is the best plan he can come up with now, if the enemy's cavalry charges head-on and fires ten thousand arrows, with the archery skills of my Jianzhou man, he will definitely wipe out the entire Ningxiang army. If you come from both wings, hehe, what can you do with my shield and spear?
"Ulla, Ulla!" There was a strange cry of unknown meaning from the sound of horses' hooves in front of him, and when he looked up, he saw that it was full of shiny sabers. [.Lots of good]
The cavalry of the Ningxiang Army had already rushed close enough.
"Archer, wind up
οΌ He raised his right hand in the air.
The sound of the enemy's horses' hooves was noisy and loud, as if it had struck a man's bones, and his heart fluttered for a while.
As a battlefield warrior, it is said that the neighing and fierce shouts of war horses are the most beautiful music in the world. But today, he felt palpitations, and this feeling was very bad.
He fixed his eyes on the past, waiting for the cavalry team called the Ningxiang Army on the opposite side to rush straight and fall into the cover of the arrow rain of the Eight Banners Army.
This group of guys who don't know whether they are alive or dead dare to rush into battle with only a hundred people, and they don't have long weapons in their hands.
Suddenly, he saw that the shining saber in the hands of the enemy cavalry had been put away and replaced with a long shotgun.
"Oops!" He shouted, the enemy did not have long weapons, but he had seen the sharpness of Ningxiang's weapons before. Unexpectedly, their riders were armed with firearms, and it seemed that they would use the same cavalry tactics.
It's just that the riding bow was replaced by a musket.
Compared to riding a bow, muskets can be fired directly and effortlessly. The most important thing is that feathered arrows cannot pierce armor, but lead bullets can.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" He cried out loudly: "Don't let them come near! β
"Buzz!" Thousands of bowstrings sounded at the same time, the sky was dark, and when you looked up, in the beautiful parabola, thousands of white tail feathers were even connected with the white clouds.
However, by the time the feather arrow fell, there was nothing underneath.
In an instant, the Ming cavalry suddenly turned around, accurately departed from the range of the Qing soldiers, pulled out a long line, and ran along the edge of the rain of arrows towards the left flank of the Qing army.
Countless feathered arrows fell to the ground, plundering and plunging into the loess, and the ground became white.
The soldiers on the left flank of the Qing army were too dense, all holding their shields high and forming a wall in front of the formation, but there was no way to see the scene in front of them.
At this time, a louder "thump" sound sounded than the sound of bowstrings and arrows breaking through the air.
The Qing soldiers who were hiding behind the shield saw that the shield in their hands instantly felt as if they had been hit by a sledgehammer, and their bones were shocked
γ Then, several small transparent holes appeared in the shield, and hot lead pellets whistled through and embedded deep into the human body.
In an instant, the left flank of the large array withstood the firing of hundreds of muskets, shields and armor as if they were covered with papier-mΓ’chΓ©, and in the face of the firing of hot weapons, it was just an ornament, and even the least psychological comfort could not be done.
Not only that, but the flying pieces of iron and sawdust flew vigorously in the formation, killing them when they were shot, and being injured when they rubbed them.
A cloud of blood rose from the human head, and hundreds of sword and shield men fell to the ground screaming. With just one illumination, the left flank of the Hangbai army collapsed.
Sun Yuan rushed to the front, only a foot away from the spear stabbed by the enemy, and the mane of the war horse almost grazed the tip of the enemy's spear and galloped past, but this distance was undoubtedly a natural moat for the Qing soldiers.
He jerked his musket behind his back and drew his handcuff.
Although the muskets of this era did not have the slightest accuracy to speak of, the distance between the cavalry and the Tartars was only two or three meters. Jiannu's formation is so dense that there is no need to aim, as long as you stretch out the barrel and pull the trigger, you can always shoot at a target.
And because the speed of the war horse is so fast, even if the enemy wants to fight back, it will be too late.
Before Sun Yuan could fire the second shot, the cavalry had already turned to Jiannu's back.
This is the softest ass in the panbai.
"It's so fast!" His palms were covered with cold sweat, and his eyes never left the enemy from the moment the two armies came into contact. But now, there are not enough eyes.
He swung the sledgehammer in his hand and smashed one of the routs into the air, hissing and yelling, "Steady, steady!" β
In the middle of the formation, the other officers were also shouting hoarsely, trying to maintain order.
But at this time, the enemy opened fire again.
It turned out to be one person with two guns, one long and one short.
He felt his ass tighten, as if he had been stabbed. γ
Looking back, the back formation also collapsed.
There are fallen soldiers in the middle of the battle, and the lethality of the musket is not too great, as long as it misses the vital point, it will not die for a while
γ But the wounded couldn't stop fluttering on the ground and screaming loudly, but the chaos in the formation was further exacerbated.
The second gunshot fell, and the Ningxiang army had already made a big circle and circled to the right flank of the Qing army.
At this time, suddenly a long horn sounded, and instead of entanglement with the right flank of the Qing soldiers, they retreated at an extremely fast speed.
Stunned, the enemy obviously has an absolute advantage, why did he withdraw again?
In an instant, he understood. It took time for the enemy's muskets to reload, and the horses were exhausted after this sprint.
At this time, if one of his own cavalry broke out of the formation and followed after him, he would immediately be able to leave this more than 100 hateful enemies forever.
However, there was no cavalry, no mobile force available.
He glanced ahead again, where his cavalry was still lying on the ground, mechanically slaughtered by the enemy with muskets and spears.
And the cannon was still roaring, and with every shell fired, a red smoke with the smell of blood rose in front of it.
Gradually, the sound of gunfire, shouts, and screams subsided, and the thousand cavalry had been slaughtered.
He couldn't breathe anymore, and his chest was about to explode.
Fiasco, unprecedented fiasco.
This is probably the first time that the Eight Banners of Jianzhou have used troops against the Ming Dynasty for more than 20 years, right?
This time, he lost more than a thousand elites and more than a thousand war horses, and even if he escaped by chance, Dolgon would not spare himself.
Besides, whether you can escape this time, the ghost knows.
After the more than 100 Ningxiang troops ran back to their main formation, someone over there had already taken the reins and helped the cavalry dismount. Then he handed over another impatiently waiting horse, with two loaded muskets, one long and one short, hanging from the saddle.
The turmoil in the Qing army formation was better, but before they could fully recover, they saw that the more than 100 Ming troops in the distance were roaring again.
A new treatise on musket cavalry has begun again
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The sun was scorching, and it was already noon.
This winter was very dry, but it was also very warm.
The iron armor, which had been in the sun for a morning, had turned into an oven, and sweat was oozing from the skin. But the cold was terrible, and the enemy was in a line and speeding in front of his formation. But because he didn't have cavalry, he lost any effective means of counterattack.
Escape...... The thought sprung up in his mind, but was immediately denied by him.
If so many infantry are routed, and the enemy follows behind, how many people will be able to escape in the end?
Human legs, and how to outrun horses.
Moreover, these hateful Ming dogs are still changing horses, and they have strength and horsepower.
The gunfire in front has completely stopped, and the 1,000 Jianzhou cavalry has been completely wiped out.
On the battlefield, there were Ming soldiers harvesting heads everywhere. The stripped armor was placed on the saddle of the captured war horse. The headless corpses of the naked Jianzhou warriors were neatly stacked in the clearing, and wisps of human blood flowed out of the severed necks, gathered on the ground, and flowed wantonly.
In the blink of an eye, the loess in front of him was a large black patch.
In this way, the tragic situation made the surviving Qing soldiers face white, and their morale fell to freezing point. Some soldiers had already begun to take off their armor and throw away their weapons so that they could easily escape. They also don't want to be able to outrun the Ming army's war horses, as long as they run faster than their companions.
After capturing a large number of Qing army's war horses, the hateful Ningxiang army squandered their horsepower even more unscrupulously. As long as you change horses, you dare to raise the speed of the war horse to the highest.
The hateful Ningxiang army did not directly rush into battle, but ran in such a cycle, bleeding the Qing army with muskets without stopping.
An hour had passed, and Lian Bai knew that the military formation had been broken by the Ningxiang army on the opposite side.
Maybe the next round will be when the Qing army completely collapses.
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