Among the cavalry clusters of the Qing army that rushed to break the infantry phalanx of the barracks, in the arrow position was the 1,000 cavalry of the Jiangnan Governor's Standard Battalion, which was led by Yang Jie, the deputy general of the Jiangnan Governor's Standard Battalion. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Yang Jie, a native of Yizhou, Liaodong, was originally a general of the Ming Army, and was awarded the title of Shanxi Fubiao Chinese Army Guerrilla in the 17th year of Chongzhen. Later, Ma Guozhu, the governor of Shanxi, was transferred to the governor of Jiangnan, and Yang Jie followed the rising tide and was promoted to the general of the Biaoying camp of the governor of Jiangnan, and later promoted to deputy general. This time he accompanied Tan Tainan to Jiangxi, Yang Jie also performed particularly eye-catching, and served as a pioneer several times to take the lead in the whole army.

In the surging crowd of cavalry, countless horseheads surged and undulated, and the screams and shouts of the riders resounded in the sky. There was a roar of artillery ahead, the screech of shells piercing the air joined the sound of rolling hooves, and the neighing of horses resounded in the middle of the queue, and in an instant they were left far behind by the speed of the galloping horses. In the midst of this galloping of thousands of troops, Yang Jie was full of pride in his chest, feeling that nothing could stop the advance of his cavalry, and his eyes were also full of hideousness when he looked at the Ming army foot soldiers in the distance.

The cavalry of the Qing army skillfully controlled the horses, and they picked up weapons such as riding bows and javelins, and their formations were not dense, so they were even more overwhelming. In front of them, the two rows of Huguang Town phalanx stood firmly, seemingly unmoved.

Yang Jie didn't care too much, he had seen too many examples of the Ming army's infantry being defeated by cavalry in his past horse career. Although the Huguang Town foot soldiers on the opposite side were more courageous, Yang Jie didn't think that they could withstand the overwhelming charge of thousands of cavalry.

In the blink of an eye, the surging cavalry torrent came to a distance of one hundred and fifty paces in front of the phalanx of Huguang Town. On the back of the swaying horse, Yang Jie saw a row of two-wheeled vehicles placed in front of the phalanx, and he recognized them as more than a dozen divine arrow carts. The arrows sticking out of the front end of the car body were dense, glowing with a cold light, and there was already some faint green smoke floating over the car body, and twenty or thirty Ming troops were quickly fleeing towards the phalanx.

A biting chill suddenly surged up on Yang Jie's back spine, and even most of his previous blood was extinguished.

At that moment, a row of dazzling fires erupted in front of him, and the rising white smoke instantly covered the phalanx of Huguang Town behind him. Countless arrows with tail flames flew into the air with a sharp whistling like a swarm of bees out of the nest, leaving white marks in the air and then flying overwhelmingly towards the advancing Qing cavalry crowd.

One after another whistling flew past Yang Jie's side, and the screams of the war horses and riders rang out. The fifteen rocket vehicles arranged in a fan-shaped manner in front of the phalanx in Huguang Town launched 4,05 rockets in a short period of time. Dense white smoke filled the air, blurring vision.

The surging previous wave of cavalry of the Qing army was suddenly chaotic. The horses that were directly hit by the rockets fell to the ground and rolled and neighed, and the cavalry in the rear avoided one after another, crashing into the wounded horses in time, and also fell after losing their center of gravity. The formation, which was not dense at this time, became even looser.

However, the cavalry of the Qing army still rushed closer and closer with the original momentum. At this time, the rocket cars launched in front of the phalanx were still in place, and several spearheads were placed in the front of the hull of each rocket car, which was equivalent to a row of horse rejection formations, and the dense blades in the front row of the phalanx behind each other, and the cold light was shining.

In the face of sharp blades, neither war horses nor people are willing to hit them directly. The Qing cavalry on horseback carefully adjusted the direction of the horse's head, and this caution weakened the power of the charge even more. The galloping cavalry group diverted in front of the phalanx and circled the flanks.

After running a certain distance, the line of sight gradually became clearer. Yang Jie found that he had run out of the smoke generated by the rocket launch, and had bypassed the front of the first line phalanx of Huguang Town and came to the right flank of the phalanx.

He saw that the phalanx deployed by the Ming army on the front line was a hollow square array. The front row of the phalanx was full of melee soldiers, half-squatting on the ground and holding up long weapons such as spears and boring palladium in their hands, while in the back row stood rows of firearms. There are also various artillery pieces on the four sides of the phalanx. The phalanx of the second line behind is four spear formations, two on the left and right, arranged on the left flanks behind the hollow phalanx, and the two lines are roughly in the shape of pinzi.

The Qing cavalry, who had been the first to break through the smoke, let out another strange cry and controlled their horses to run along the flanks of the hollow phalanx, raising their riding bows or javelins as they ran. Dense bowstrings rang out, and light arrows and javelins rained down towards the hollow phalanx of Huguang Town. Yang Jie saw that many Ming soldiers and melee soldiers were shot and fell to the ground, and then dragged into the phalanx by some soldiers dressed in white. But the whole phalanx remained calm and did not fire, and this strange composure made him feel a little apprehensive. In the middle of his mind, he suddenly realized something, and immediately subconsciously lay on the horse's back and hid his body on the left side of the horse's body.

The loud brass horn sounded, and the hollow phalanx began to fire salvos on three sides of the Qing cavalry, and at the same time, there were six tiger squat cannons, three big Buddha Lang machines and two three-pounder cannons, and countless scattered bullets swept across the three sides of the phalanx like a storm.

Yang Jie felt as if a hurricane was blowing by, and the Qing cavalry around the phalanx fell to the ground one after another as if they were fallen leaves swept by the autumn wind, and some frightened horses fled indiscriminately, and some even neighed and jumped in place. Seeing this, he couldn't help but be afraid for a while, if he had reacted a little slower just now, he might have become a corpse on the ground by this time.

The cavalry of the Qing army in the rest of the rear also surged, and the blows suffered by the forward did not stop the advance of more than 5,000 cavalry. The tidal wave of cavalry poured across the battlefield, and because of the common instinct of men and horses to seek advantage and avoid harm, they turned to divert in front of the hollow phalanx, pouring down on the left and right flanks.

The Qing cavalry quickly threw light arrows thirty paces away from the phalanx, and the dense rain of arrows fell into the phalanx, causing screams, but the Huguang Town firecrackers in the phalanx also returned fire. After two volleys, there was free fire, and the dense crowd of horses around the phalanx allowed the musketeers to hit the target almost with their eyes closed, and the corpses of men and horses piled up outside the phalanx increased.

At this time, Yang Jie had already led the cavalry of his headquarters to the edge of the hollow phalanx, and in front of him was the spear formation behind the side of the hollow phalanx. The spears in the center of the spear array were in a horse-repellent engagement style, and the rows of spears four feet long were as dense as a forest. The musketeers in the front rows on the left and right of the spear array are raising their guns, and there is also a large cannon in front of the spear array on the left and right sides.

With his previous personal experience, Yang Jie didn't dare to be arrogant anymore, and dragged his horse's head to the right, and the cavalry of the Jiangnan Governor's Battalion also followed him to the southeast corner of the hollow phalanx and turned south.

Another earth-shattering salvo of guns came from behind, and two of them were particularly deafening, and they should have been the two large cannons in front of the spear array. Yang Jie didn't need to look to know that the cavalry under his command must have suffered heavy casualties, but he had no way to retreat, the cavalry with white flags was behind, and He Luohui had already said before the battle that he would kill everything and retreat.

So he can only continue to bite the bullet forward. In front of him was an open field, the interval at the bottom of Huguang Town's zigzag formation, where there were only a few Huguang Town's sentinels. He didn't have time to think about it, and led the team into the open area. Those Huguang town sentry cavalry saw more and more Qing cavalry coming, and quickly turned their horses and ran away.

Soon, Yang Jie rushed out of the gap at the bottom of the zigzag, and there were only more than six hundred cavalry left in the Jiangnan Dubiao Battalion behind him, and the formation was chaotic, many people were still wounded, and no one let out an arrogant howl anymore. At this time, Yang Jie found that there were still many foot soldiers in the south, and the first line of Huguang Town had still not been penetrated. Farther to the south, the banner of the Chinese army in Huguang Town was flying high, and under its banner was the strict second-line soldiers and horses of Huguang Town.

Seeing this, Yang Jie suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart. Before the battle, He Luohui gave him the task of penetrating the first line of Huguang Town and attacking its second line of army formation as much as possible, but now he realized that this task did not seem to be much easier than that of Yugong moving mountains.

At this moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves from the east, and Yang Jie turned his head to look, only to see a Ming cavalry of seven or eight hundred people rushing towards this side with murderous violation.

It was the 3,000th Corps of the First Cavalry Battalion of Huguang Town, which was adapted from the surviving cavalry of the original Nanchang Battalion. These people have been eliminated after many bloody battles, and their combat effectiveness is only stronger than that of the ordinary Green Battalion cavalry, and they are personally commanded by Wang Deren. Originally, it was left at the headquarters of the First Brigade as a reserve, but now it was sent out by Liu Renjun to charge the Qing cavalry from the flank who was disrupted by the infantry phalanx in front. Liu Renjun's task for Wang Deren was to see the opportunity to rush and kill for a while and leave, without giving the Qing cavalry time to regroup.

Wang Deren saw Yang Jie's adjutant general recognize the flag from afar, and he suffered a lot at Yang Jie's hands when he resisted Tan Tai's army in northern Jiangxi. At this time, the enemies were very red when they saw each other, and Wang Deren led the team to kill him with a hideous face.

Although Yang Jie didn't know who it was, he could also feel the murderous aura coming to his face. But now there is no way back, so I can only face it head-on.

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The command center of the Qing army on the western road, under the fluttering white flag of Manchuria, the solid mountain of Manchuria, and the golden dragon weaving, He Luohui looked at the chaotic situation in front of him with a gloomy face.

The more than 3,000 cavalry of the Green Battalion attacking the infantry front on the left flank of Huguang Town had fallen into confusion, and the formation was divided by the infantry phalanx of Huguang Town, the command system was completely ineffective, and many cavalrymen were scurrying like headless flies. The two sides fought together, as if they were stuck in the quagmire at the same time. The more than 2,000 cavalry with white flags that followed up saw the chaos ahead, and the offensive route was blocked by the chaotic green battalion cavalry, so they could only give up and continue to advance, throwing a rain of arrows at the phalanx of Huguang Town in the distance.

On the west side of the battlefield, the more than 3,000 cavalry with the red flag and the blue flag did not take much advantage in the face of the more than 2,000 Huguangzhen cavalry.

"Let the Green Battalion horsemen quickly close the formation and get out of the way! Let the infantry armor behind follow up quickly, and don't give the puppet Ming army's infantry a chance to breathe! Those who dare to delay the fighters, slash! He Luohui ordered with a cold face to Jia Lazhangjing beside him.