Chapter 446: Breaking the King and Protecting the Protection
Wang Baobao's cavalry was divided into left and right wings, and rushed to the musket army like a fate, wanting to cut off the connection between the Song army's chariot army and the rear. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The front and rear of the Song army are three rows of musketeers, waiting for the enemy's cavalry to rush to within a hundred paces, using the attack mode of three shots, in the middle of the two rounds of musket firing, there is almost no gap, and the third round of muskets is fired, the first round of muskets is reloaded, and the three rounds of muskets are repeated, and it seems to be endless.
The row of guns was too dense, it seemed that Meng Yuan's war horses were also afraid of the sound of muskets and gunsmoke, and Meng Yuan's cavalry was blocked by muskets fifty paces away, and the distance of fifty steps became an insurmountable gap for Mengyuan's cavalry.
Since the battle between the musketeers and the enemy cavalry, Hao Ren has been sweating in his palms.
After all, the musketeers had no other heavy weapons against the cavalry, and once the enemy rushed closer, the muskets were almost indistinguishable from the burning sticks, and these 3,000 infantry would become lambs to be slaughtered by the cavalry.
Hao Ren did not send reinforcements to support the musketeers, Hao Ren just wanted to test the ability of the musketeers to deal with the cavalry fighting alone.
This is the first time that the musket army has fought independently on the battlefield since it was organized and trained, and the victory or defeat of the battle will definitely determine the recognition of the musket by the Song army in the future, and also determine the reform of the future tactics.
The gains and losses of 3,000 men seemed insignificant to a battle, and Hao Ren would rather risk the death of all 3,000 men than try the power of the musketeers.
Hao Ren watched Meng Yuan's cavalry die under the musket one after another under the telescope, and for half an hour, he did not rush to the front of the musketeers, and the musketeers also changed from the nervousness when they first took over the battle to calmly respond to the battle, so that the enemy would be even more unlikely to break through the musketeers.
It has been seven or eight years since the musket was built from the very beginning to the fact that it can fight independently on the battlefield without relying on other arms, and it is exactly like this, but Hao Ren is very pleased.
"Infantry attack!"
The sword in Hao Ren's hand slashed in the air, and the Chinese army issued an order to attack the armies with all the banners, the Song army's military formation was wide open, and countless infantry rushed out of the military formation like a tide, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the Song army's military formation was empty, only a few cavalry and infantry guarding the army formation remained in the military formation, and the other infantry all launched a charge.
Zhang Dingbian's Dingbian Army, Yu Tongyuan's Heavy Infantry, Feishanman's Xidong Army, Liao Yongzhong's Zhenhan Army, and Zhang Tianyou's Haozhou Army...... Under the leadership of the commanders of the various armies, the infantry was like a flood all over the mountains, the front was level, and they rushed into the army formation rapidly.
Bow and crossbow at a distance, spear at near, pick up the rider and cut the horse's hooves down.
From the left and right flanks, the infantry received Chen Xian's musketeers and engaged in close combat with the enemy's cavalry.
At this time, the battlefield has become a rotten continent!
Tu Danjun's chariots were in the military array, most of the chariots had been stagnant on the battlefield because there were too many corpses stuffed into the wheels, and the guards on the chariots and Meng Yuan's infantry surrounded the chariots and fought desperately.
But there are still dozens of chariots, still full of strength, rushing left and right on the battlefield, as if entering a no-man's land. Because of the huge impact of the chariot, it was impossible to return to the army to attack the cavalry on the back, and it was easy to scatter with his own military formation.
The chariot soldier is like a kidnapping horse, which can only move forward, not backward.
The infantry was divided into left and right wings to catch the cavalry in the place, but isolated the musketeers of the Chinese army Chen Xian, Chen Xian was calm and calm, but did not stand by coldly, the soldiers shouted the slogan of "one, two, one" in unison, and the entire army formation was moving in a neat and orderly manner.
The musketeer formation pressed to the left, responding to the infantry on the left flank and the infantry on the left flank, forming a three-sided encirclement of the enemy's cavalry.
Rao is like this, Meng Yuan's cavalry formation, but in the face of the huge casualties brought by muskets, they did not retreat, and even formed a stalemate with the infantry.
Wang Baobao was just holding on at this time, and he couldn't deal with the charioteers, so he chose to ignore them, and the cavalry used them to block the infantry attack of the Song army, hoping that his cavalry could defeat the infantry of the Song army, so it would eventually enter the stage of cavalry and cavalry duel.
As the minutes passed, countless enemy and enemy soldiers fell at the intersection of the line of fire, and the soldiers behind were fearless and immediately made up for them.
Hao Ren looked at the situation on the battlefield with cold eyes, and knew that Wang Baobao was already at the end of his crossbow at this time, and as long as he had a straw, he could suppress the enemy's military formation.
"Cavalry attack, hit the left and right flanks!"
Hao Ren gave an order, the Song army army shouted, and the two teams of cavalry, under the leadership of Chang Yuchun and Yu Tonghe, divided into left and right wings, rushed over.
The whole battle lasted for two hours, and finally after the two cavalry of the Song army joined the battlefield, the battlefield situation immediately favored the Song army, and the Song army pushed forward the general formation for more than a mile.
A mile of land was covered with blood and the corpses of our enemies.
Hao Ren knew that victory was firmly in his hands at this time!
"All the troops are attacking!"
Hao Ren's saber slashed, kicked the belly of the horse in his crotch, and the Chinese army's guards, together with Yang Zhijun, who was pressing the rear formation, followed Hao Ren's military flag and rushed forward to kill together.
Hao Ren can always grasp the key nodes of the war, and the Song army already has a fixed thinking, once the handsome flag moves forward, then it is the arrival of the victory in the battle.
When Hao Ren's military flag moved forward, and he had not really stepped into the battlefield, the Song army, who was fighting the battlefield, got a great hint in his heart: 'Victory has come', and the soldiers burst out with extraordinary combat effectiveness in an instant, completely crushing Wang Baobao's military formation.
Defeat is like a mountain! The Song army chased and killed twenty miles in one go, and the soldiers and horses of Meng Yuan who were directly killed were all over the field.
Hao Ren's cavalry was too small, afraid that his army would run for a long time, and was ambushed by Wang Baobao's other soldiers and horses, the army immediately gathered and continued to go north, and three days later, almost bloodless captured the city of Jinan.
In Jinan City, Hao Ren got a not good news, Wang Baobao retreated to Yucheng with more than 10,000 defeated troops, and Meng Yuan's soldiers and horses to support Wang Baobao had arrived, and Wang Baobao at this time had 80,000 soldiers and horses in his hands.
"What should I do?" Hao Ren held an operational meeting in Jining City to discuss the operational policy of going north.
The generals, led by Chang Yuchun, advocated an immediate onslaught on Yucheng, not giving Wang Baobao a chance to breathe, how much to come, how much to fight, all the way to the capital of Yuan.
Hao Ren suddenly felt that Jinan was too far away from the Yuan capital, and if it followed the route formulated in advance, it would inevitably be blocked by the Mengyuan army, and when hundreds of thousands of troops rushed to the city of the Yuan capital, they were afraid that they were already exhausted and unable to conquer the Yuan capital.
At this time, the Shandong Peninsula has not yet been pacified, if the army goes too far north, it is easy to follow in the footsteps of Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang's Northern Expedition of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Hao Ren made a decisive decision: divide the troops!
(To be continued.) )