Chapter 284: The soldiers who fled upside down were the most terrifying
"Launch~"
"Bang~Bang~"
"Puff~Puff~"
In front of the fast-approaching cavalry, the sound of fire guns was fired in front, and the sound of artillery firing was fired in the back, transmitted to the ears of the soldiers, and almost instantly rang out.
The cavalry of the Ming army, which was directly in the cavalry group of the official army and still used a dense charge formation, suffered heavy casualties in this wave of blows, and Zhang Zongchang's subordinates, who were biased towards the left-wing group, were killed on the spot 15 or 6 people, and the rest of the fallen horses were injured three times as much.
However, according to the galloping speed of the war horse, the beggar army on the opposite side can only send this attack, after all, there is not enough time, and the crossbowmen behind do not occupy a favorable terrain, and now they are sparsely releasing arrows to the official army, which is just scratching. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The cavalry of the official army, with the help of the impact of the war horse, almost broke up the first queue of the beggar army in an instant, and the huge impact force even made the soldiers of the first team directly knocked out.
However, there was too little space to dodge, and even if they dodged the first impact, they couldn't dodge the second, so the soldiers in the first row collapsed almost immediately under the first wave of impact.
On the frontal battlefield that was three hundred paces long, splashing blood, holding up the butcher's knife and hammer under his command, hitting one after another, bringing up pieces of flesh and blood, the natural disadvantage of the infantry army was undoubtedly revealed at this moment, only in the first round of engagement, the first team of more than 100 troops, more than 30 were killed on the spot.
The rest, either injured, or bypassed the rear team, began to flee, after all, people are not hard-hearted, under the threat of huge casualties and the great terror between life and death, they decisively chose to survive.
However, the hard training on weekdays finally played a huge role at this moment, and almost no one dared to turn back and attack their own military formation, but buried their heads and ran to both sides, even if they had to pass through the interception of the officers and soldiers along the way, they were not willing to rush their first team of shield soldiers.
Because of the cold light revealed in it, I don't know any of the people and horses of the first team, as long as they dare to rush forward, they are their enemies, and they die in the hands of their own people, once the team that cleans up the corpses finds out that the scars are on the back or find out that they are killed by the impact of the army, then there will definitely be no compensation, and the family will be punished.
Therefore, in the training day after day, they reflexively avoided their military formations automatically, and even if they ran away, they did not dare to expose their backs to the officers and soldiers.
For fear that once the war is killed, it will also drag down the family, in this era of simple folk customs and has not completely evolved into a society of desire, people's hearts are not for themselves, but also for their families, this is responsibility and responsibility.
"Why is this army of thieves so difficult?"
The cavalry who attacked for the first time panicked one by one, and the more they fought, the more they had no confidence in their hearts, whether they were experienced in a hundred battles or fought with the thief army for the first time, they had never encountered such a thing.
It has never been heard of for a long time, you must know that in the era of cold weapons, face-to-face fighting, you may not be able to lose much if you fight for a whole day, but if the army collapses and is chased by the enemy, the loss will be great.
But the appearance of the thief army on the other side, let alone defeat them, even if they collapse, they run backwards and run away, and they dare to form a formation to resist from time to time, I have never seen it before.
If this army encounters such an enemy, it will also be boring, if it is all a hard-fought battle, and the opposite side is such an elite and unrelenting spirit, even if they are completely annihilated, their own casualties will not be small.
"Kill, kill!"
However, on the battlefield, there is no room for any distraction, and the offensive of the official army, after breaking the first formation of the beggar army, should logically use the remaining impact force to quickly break through the other battle formations, but the cavalry impact was originally a psychological warfare.
It stands to reason that even a defense line of soldiers dozens of steps deep and arranged in dozens of rows, due to the extreme psychological depression in the rear, once the front collapses, the rear will also collapse.
Therefore, the cavalry of the official army was obviously stunned, but fortunately, the war horses under the crotch were not affected too much, and after the first formation, they continued to rush to the rear, but this time, they did not have such good luck.
The second formation is an all-shield array, and the third row is the same, in the gap between the shields, the spear troops will be three or four meters long, the tail of the spear in the frozen ground with a knife or even with a hand, dig a small pit, and then resist, and then grasp the body of the spear, and move forward diagonally,
It is said that the cavalry will not impact such a tight military formation, but Du Wenhuan and Zhang Zongchang have no good way at the moment, because the position for them to attack is too poor, and the entire right wing and the central front, the places that can be impacted are all their own soldiers and horses.
Only by bypassing from the left flank can the purpose of attacking the rear of the thief army be achieved, and this position is bound to meet with the infantry blocking force of the thief army.
The physical strength of the war horse is not unlimited, especially in the case of extremely high load, if you bypass a thousand-person military formation, it is bound to go around a larger circle, but in the case of more than 1,000 cavalry of the begging army has begun to form a formation one after another, the officers and soldiers are making the last effort for themselves,
That is, before the cavalry of the beggar army arrived, the main force of the thief army was defeated, so if they wanted to turn defeat into victory, and to preserve the main force of the infantry army, it was necessary to break the enemy in front of them, and according to the assumption, a 1,000-strong infantry army was in a hasty formation, and it was absolutely impossible to withstand the impact of a thousand elite cavalry in a round.
Therefore, the cavalry of the official army chose to break the infantry army first, and then meet the horse team of the thief army.
But now, the trouble came, and the first hundred and fifty cavalry hit the shield of the second team of the beggar army uncontrollably like a tide, and soon, with the residual strength of the impact of the war horses, the second formation was a chaotic situation of people turning over on their backs,
The impact of a war horse is so great, even if there are two layers of shields to block, the infantry army can't stop such a force, and it is directly knocked to the ground, and the shield soldiers in the second and third formations are also knocked to the ground.
That's not all, those cavalry who followed up and continued to charge, with the help of the impact force rushed up again, directly rushing to the gap to the back, those soldiers holding the spear, if lucky, directly hit the spear by the war horse, only for a moment, I felt as if I had a hot charcoal in my hand,
One was unsteady, and let go in an instant, because the spear broke off from the middle with a sharp blow, and then hit their hands, at least without three or five days of recuperation, it was impossible for them to use their hands to continue fighting.
More than half of the men in the first five formations were now out of battle, and the infantry was almost in a state of collapse, leaving at least more than a hundred corpses in the area where the two armies were fighting, and then the flesh and blood were trampled by the officers and cavalry who kept following.
However, their blocking is not useless, the ground is densely packed with broken spears and dying war horses, it is enough to prove everything, that is, to use five hundred cheap infantry to block the impact of the cavalry, even if they are all killed, as long as they can delay the momentum of the cavalry, it is worth it.
Moreover, the cavalry was killed and wounded by firearms and artillery in the first formation, and the casualties of the five infantry troops were not lighter than those of the beggar infantry army.
With the noble cavalry, the impact on the stern infantry army, it has been proved that as long as the infantry dares to die and dare to fight, whether it is sincere or not, driven by the system and consequences, it will definitely be the cavalry who is unlucky anyway.
Even if the infantry suffered 100 casualties and the cavalry only suffered 10 casualties, it would not be a loss, and the cost of feeding and training a cavalry was far more expensive than training a cheap infantry army, not to mention the cost of war horses and battlefield logistics support.
The impact of the cavalry of the officers and soldiers ended here, because there was no route for them to attack, and the hundreds of cavalry in front of them were basically in a state of horsepower standstill, and they could only use the hammer to beat the infantry defense line in front of them, and the death battle was at this time.
And the cavalry who followed up could only restrain the horse's head and struggle to block the castration, so that they could barely not shock their own troops, but there were still people who inevitably couldn't stop the four hooves of the war horse.
Because I have hardly encountered such a thing in the past, the cavalry rushed to the infantry army, didn't they disperse as soon as they hit each other? Then everyone can beat the war horse and chase it around?
The people behind the officers and soldiers were not psychologically prepared for this at all, so it was inevitable that the rear team of the officials and soldiers would make trouble for a while.
"Kill~"
As early as the first moment of the cavalry impact of the official army, the more than 1,000 cavalry of the begging army had begun to line up one after another, and then they also began to trott into the rightmost part of the battlefield.
So he has been suppressing the cavalry and not allowing them to dispatch, after all, these captured war horses and converted knights are the greatest capital for his achievements, and he doesn't want to lose these elite soldiers and horses in the dying struggle of the official army.
You must know that in the entire beggar army, only his brigade has a cavalry battalion, and even if there are captured war horses, the others do not have this system.
But now, the cavalry of the official army has lost its mobility and is caught in a bitter battle with the infantry army, and the cavalry can be sent into battle.
The tactics are very simple, and the goal is very clear, that is, a copy of the battle of the official army just now, bypassing the right flank of the beggar army, and then directly encircling the officers and troops in a straight line, it is best to annihilate them all, and not let go of one.
"My lord, will you withdraw? Take advantage of the opportunity now. ”
As early as when he saw that the begging army did not collapse, Du Wenhuan knew that he had been defeated, and this time, the defeat was very miserable, but he really couldn't accept it, so he froze in place and looked at the whole situation dumbfounded. (To be continued.) )