As soon as the formation of the Taiping army's horse team moved, the Ming army's guards cavalry immediately reacted. Seeing that the black and oppressive Taiping Army horse team in front of him was scattered into three major units, the Third Guards Cavalry Brigade of the Ming Army with spears in hand immediately separated from the Ming Army's cavalry array, and put out a rectangular formation alone, with nearly 2,000 shining spears pointing diagonally upward, and then slowly moving forward, and then from slow to fast, and launched a charge towards Zhang Lexing's department in the middle of the Taiping Army!

Immediately afterwards, the First Brigade of the Ming Guards Cavalry and the Second Brigade of the Guards Cavalry also began similar actions, also forming two identical phalanxes, following behind the Third Brigade of the Guards Cavalry, forming the second and third waves of charges, and the target was of course Zhang Lexing's Taiping Army Horse Team. However, the cavalrymen of these two brigades were not armed with carbines, but drew their sabers, all of which were held flat and straight forward. Moreover, the knights of both brigades wore cuirasses made of stainless steel, which shone harshly in the winter sun, which made people shudder.

Three waves of charges, all pointing to the Taiping Army's horse team!

"How can this be resisted!"

Zhang Lexing, who was leading the horse team to charge, suddenly found that he had made a fatal mistake - he should not have scattered the 36,000 horse team in his hand into three strands. If they form a group, the 6,000 elite cavalry of the Ming army may not be able to rush, and now it is scattered into three shares, each share is only 12,000 cavalry, and people don't think it's fun to rush two!

"The heroes of the twisting party, fight with Lao Lechong, fight with them!" Zhang Lexing raised his voice and roared, so far there is only a fight, and there is no regret medicine. I hope that Hou Shiwei and Han Laowan will not look at their opponents' ideas and force people to run first.

"It's okay, it's okay......"

Hou Shiwei and Han Laowan saw that these 6,000 wolf-like elite horsemen did not come at them. I secretly screamed in my heart that I was lucky. Look at the formation and momentum of the people who look like three moving walls. They knew that Zhang Laole's horse team was definitely going to collapse. Now it depends on whether Zhang Laole's people can entangle the Ming army, as long as they fight hand-to-hand, there is still hope that their side can win, after all, the number is several times more.

At this moment, the situation in the center of the battlefield changed again, and somehow, the horse team under Zhang Lexing's command had already messed up on its own before it had contact with the elite cavalry of the Ming army! Probably because the momentum of the Guards Lancers, who were pushed over like a city wall, was too strong, and some of the recruits who enlisted after the Battle of Huaxian were even frightened before fighting. They all turned their horses' heads and tried to escape! But it was easy to get out of the racing team that was charging at full speed, and as soon as they turned their horses' heads to block the path of the rear team, it was clear that there was either a collision or a disturbance of formation, and the whole team was in disarray.

And the 2000 Ming Army Guards Lancers launched the most rearly sprint at this time, and the ending was naturally without suspense. The Taiping army horse team, which numbered as many as 12,000 people, collapsed at the touch of a button, and the Ming army lancers were like several moving city walls, crushing past the Taiping army horse team, but they always kept running. He didn't fight hand-to-hand with his opponent at all, and only partially lost his spear (the lancers of the Ming army didn't have a spear with an ash pole. Therefore, after stabbing the enemy, you must let go immediately, otherwise the cavalry will be able to break the bones) The cavalry pulled out six companies and launched Colt pistols, crackling and firing a burst of gunfire.

After the spear attack, the shock wave of the next two rounds of cuirassiers crushed over, completely breaking up the Taiping army horse team that had been disrupted, and then they also did not stop with the lancers in front of them, galloped out of the battle group, and after turning an arc, they reorganized the formation, and immediately launched a stormy charge again in the face of the Taiping army horse team that had just gathered together......

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A gust of northwest wind blew, and the gunpowder smoke on the battlefield of Jiwei Town dispersed a lot, and Shi Dakai found that a yellow and red human wall was already about 100 steps. The uniforms of the Taiping Army were very colorful, and the elite veterans and officers among them wore yellow and red battle skirts, and their heads were wrapped in red cloth or bamboo helmets. This time, the East King Yang Xiuqing brought the elite to Jiwei Town, so they were all dressed like this.

There were a lot of Taiping troops rushing up this time, and it was impossible to estimate the exact number from Shi Dakai's position, but he only knew that the other party was coming up in a phalanx, and it seemed that he was about to charge. However, Shi Dakai's Second Guards Infantry Regiment only had nearly 2,000 people, and it was still engaged in a skirmish formation, and was in a passive position in the face of the attack of the Taiping infantry several times or even 10 times that of his own.

"Retreat, back drum!"

Shi Dakai hurriedly ordered the drummer beside him. After a low drum beat, the soldiers of the 2nd Guards Infantry Regiment turned around and ran towards their positions, running about 200 paces, and two more drums were heard, conveying the order to stop advancing and prepare for battle.

The junior officers of the 2nd Guards Regiment shouted orders and told their subordinates to turn around and meet the enemy while firing freely. Since the 2nd Guards Regiment was retreating on a run, the Taiping army only advanced quickly in order to maintain the queue, so the distance between the two sides was pulled to more than 200 paces at this time. This distance is the best firing distance for the officers and men of the 2nd Guards Regiment who use the Besemai rifles, and for the ordinary infantry of the Taiping Army, the smoothbore guns in their hands are simply not able to reach the opponent, and even the light infantry of the Taiping Army can hardly use their rifled guns to fight against the Besemai rifles, so they are in a disadvantageous state of being passively beaten.

However, the infantry phalanx of the Taiping army still advanced at a brisk pace, ignoring the constant bullets, even if the soldiers in the front row were knocked down one after another, they were not afraid, but just covered their heads and moved forward.

"Let the 2nd Guards Regiment stop retreating, send the 1st Guards Regiment up for reinforcements, and be sure to block the Taiping Army!"

Behind the Ming army's front, Zhu Jishi had noticed the latest changes on the battlefield and found that the Taiping army had placed the main breakthrough direction in its own center.

He thought for a moment and ordered: "Move the cannon to the flanks again, and fire grenades and shrapnel to support the infantry." ”

A loud military horn sounded, and Shi Dakai, who commanded the Second Guards Regiment, immediately ordered a change of formation, quickly adjusting from a straggler formation to a dense formation of two horizontal columns, and preparing to shoot with a platoon of guns.

The infantry phalanx of the Taiping army quickly approached 150 paces, and the soldiers in the front row had already flattened their bayonet guns, obviously preparing to attack.

"Get on the bayonet!" The rank and file officers of the 2nd Guards Regiment also gave orders to prepare for hand-to-hand combat, and they had to hold back the enemy so that the artillery positions would not be impacted.

"The first row squats, the second row stands...... The gun is flattened, aimed...... Put! ”

With a "release", nearly 2,000 foreign guns in the center of the battlefield were fired at the same time, and the front rows of several infantry phalanxes of the Taiping Army seemed to have been struck by a blood whip.

However, the Taiping army still shows no signs of collapse!

"Emperor God bless us, kill the pig demon, and protect the kingdom of heaven......"

The hoarse slogan symbolizes the start of the last sprint.

Nearly 20,000 people were invested in this wave of shock under the command of Li Kaifang, forming 10 divisional phalanxes, of which 5 divisional squares constituted the first front and the other 5 divisional squares constituted the second front. That is to say, there are tens of thousands of people on each front, although Shi Dakai's infantry killed and injured more than 2,000 people with Beisemai rifles, but Li Kaifang's first front still has nearly 8,000 Heavenly Kingdom warriors, and he has an absolute advantage in numbers!

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The sound of foreign gun salvos rang out again, and this time at least 1,000 Taiping officers and soldiers fell in the rain of bullets fired by the Ming army, but the distance between the two sides had been shortened to less than 50 steps!

"Throw grenades! Throw all the grenades out of the way! ”

Shi Dakai did not order the troops to reload, but chose the more powerful A-oil grenade in melee combat. However, for the 19th century army, the A-oil grenade was a rather expensive weapon, and even Zhu Jishi's Guards infantry usually only received 2 A-oil grenades before going into battle.

"Guards! Charge! ”

Four thousand grenades rained down, and then Shi Dakai gave the order to attack with bayonets, and he wanted to use the chaos brought to the opponent by the grenade explosion to launch a counterattack! (To be continued......)