Chapter 446: Formation Break
Is this a retreat? Liu Zhaoji stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the back of the fleeing Green Battalion cavalry in surprise. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info thought it would be a tough battle, but he didn't expect to scare the Green Battalion soldiers with just two rounds of chain bullets. A dog is a dog, even if you change the camp, you can't change the-eating nature of bullying the soft and fearing the hard!
Since the enemy retreated, Liu Zhaoji naturally couldn't let them escape so easily, and immediately ordered the soldiers of the two battalions who had gone ashore to follow the pursuit as a whole team, and the other soldiers hurried to get off the boat and go ashore.
Under Liu Zhaoji's order, the Chongming soldiers disembarked much faster. The soldiers of the two battalions assembled in advance, under the leadership of their respective battalions, bit the fleeing green battalion cavalry and quickly marched towards Jiangyin.
As early as when Liu Liangzuo led the army to Jiangyin City, Liu Zhaoji and Sha Qianli set a strategy of internal and external cooperation, with Sha Qianli leading the army out of the city to attack and drag the enemy, while Liu Zhaoji led the army from Jingjiang to attack from behind, and the two cooperated to defeat the green battalion.
Unexpectedly, Liu Liangzuo was very vigilant, and the Guangpai Sentinel discovered the intention of the Chongming Army, since it was impossible to sneak attack like this. Sha Qianli must be very dangerous now, and the moment he arrived in Jiangyin earlier, he could rescue them earlier.
Liu Zhaoji's heart was like fire, urging all the soldiers to quickly get off the boat and line up, and hurriedly led the team to Jiangyin to kill.
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At this time, under the city of Jiangyin, Sha Qianli has reached the most dangerous moment. In the hot weather, most of the hours of slashing and fighting, under the repeated attacks of three times the enemy, the array of the Chongming army was crumbling, and more than two hundred casualties were suffered by a thousand soldiers.
Just when another round of attacks was repulsed, before all the Ming soldiers could catch their breath, the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves came into their ears, and they were shocked to see that the cavalry of the brigade was rushing towards the array at high speed.
The weight of the elite cavalry and the war horses under the crotch adds up to thousands of catties, and the momentum when galloping at high speed is very large, not to mention that two hundred horsemen attack at the same time, the momentum is really terrifying.
Listening to the roaring hooves of horses, looking at the behemoth that hit at high speed, although the cavalry of the brigade had not yet pounced on the gale in front of them, the heat on the soldiers of the Chongming Army was swept away at this moment, but it was replaced by an endless chill rising from their hearts.
"Queue up and raise your gun!" Sha Qianli forcibly suppressed the chill in his heart and ordered in a loud voice. With Sha Qianli's order, the soldiers who were resting on the ground quickly stood up, shoulder to shoulder in a dense formation, the spears in their hands raised high, and the sharp spears pointed into the air.
Since the battle with the Eight Banners cavalry in Qingzhou last year, Ren Siqi, who suffered a big loss, has attached great importance to how to prevent cavalry when training troops. Li Yanzhi, Yang Bin and others proposed many methods, such as using a chariot formation to prevent the impact of cavalry, supplemented by a shield to resist horses. However, in the next few years, the battlefield will be in the water town south of the Yangtze River with dense rivers, and the chariot formation is naturally not conducive to marching in the fields with many rivers, so if you encounter cavalry in the field, you can only rely on the gun array to resist the enemy.
When the Chongming Army recruits were trained, the focus was on the spear phalanx. Sha Qianli's army is quite elite, and if it is in peacetime, there is no problem in quickly forming a formation. But the problem is that now everyone has been fighting in the hot weather for more than half an hour, and they are very tired both mentally and physically, and their reactions are not as fast as before. In addition, the cavalry of the Green Battalion came too fast, and the reaction time was too little. Before the formation was formed, the cavalry of the Green Battalion had already come in.
A green battalion cavalry rushed in from the gap in the Ming army's array, waving a knife to separate the spears handed by the Ming soldiers on both sides, and the war horse under the crotch had already slammed into a body that could not dodge the Ming soldiers, knocking the Ming soldiers into the air. Along the path that the previous cavalry had driven out, more and more cavalry entered the array of the Chongming army.
Looking at the fragments of the front line being impacted, and one after another subordinates being squirted blood by the high-speed war horses, Sha Qianli's eyes were split, and he subconsciously wanted to personally lead people to block the way of the Green Battalion cavalry, but the last reason kept him calm.
"Let's group up nearby, form a three-talent formation, and move closer to the river!" The herald waved the flag and quickly passed out Sha Qianli's order.
Seeing the flag, the soldiers of the Chongming Army gave up and continued to form a formation, combining in twos and threes, back to back, and stretched out the spears in their hands high. The form on the battlefield changed abruptly, the array of the Ming army was shattered under the impact of the green battalion cavalry, but although the formation was broken, it was not chaotic, and the remaining six or seven hundred Ming troops were in groups of three or two, four or five, forming hundreds of small formations.
The cavalry of the Green Battalion galloped quickly in the Ming army array, crashing into the Ming soldiers who were blocking the front one after another, and the sharp blades in their hands slashed into the bodies of one after another, as if entering no man's land. But what shocked the cavalry behind was that the imaginary Ming army panicked did not appear, and the Ming army in front of them did not break and flee, but formed one small formation after another nearby. The war horses could still gallop freely in the Ming army array, but what appeared in front of them were one sharp spear after another, so that the cavalry of the green battalion behind them didn't care about waving the long knives in their hands at all, and only dodged the spears in front of them. Sha Qianli's order was very timely, and the long-term training of the soldiers of the Chongming Army finally showed results, and the soldiers quickly gathered close to each other and pointed their guns outward, so that the cavalry of the Green Battalion could no longer harvest their lives so casually.
The cavalry relied on speed to charge the formation, and the cavalry of the green battalion did not do much entanglement, and quickly rushed through the Chongming army array, leaving behind a mess. Tighten the reins of the commander-in-chief Jiang Ye, turn the horse's head, and the cavalry of the brigade circled behind him and relined the formation. Maybe as long as there is another impact, the array of the Ming army will be shattered!
easily broke through the Ming army's array, and the losses of the cavalry under his subordinates were negligible. Jiang Ye sneered and looked at the chaotic Ming army array two hundred steps ahead, and was about to lead the team to continue to gallop and collide. At this moment, a bangzi sound sounded from the head of Jiangyin City, Jiang Ye looked up, and saw a puffy black arrow flying down from the city.
Not good! Jiang Ye quickly stretched out his long knife, striking at the arrows that flew into his face, and slapped his horse forward.
The cavalry of the Green Battalion led by Jiang Ye was the Chongming army array that rushed diagonally, and when they came out, the direction was just close to the moat, and they were in the range of bows and arrows at the head of the city. Seeing that the cavalry of the Qing army in the brigade was assembling, Chen Mingyu at the head of the city was naturally unwilling to let go of this opportunity, and ordered the archers assembled at the head of the city to start releasing arrows.
A continuous rain of arrows covered the heads of the Green Battalion cavalry, and one after another the cavalry were shot off their horses. Although Liu Liangzuo's cavalry was elite, it was not the Eight Banners after all, and they did not wear two or even three layers of armor like most of the Eight Banners. Most of Liu Liangzuo's soldiers wore the mandarin duck jackets of the original Ming army, and the most elite soldiers wore armor, while ordinary cavalry only had one piece of leather armor.
The arrows fell from the city, and the momentum they carried was not at all resisted by a mere piece of leather armor, and the soldiers still had a piece of leather armor, but the war horse under the crotch did not have any armor. Under the fire of the archers at the head of the city, the cavalrymen of the green battalion shouted and neighed, and there was a great chaos. The soldiers screamed miserably, urging their horses to flee the moat far away, not caring about launching another attack on the Chongming army by the moat.