Chapter 445: Death's Scythe
The horses galloped in the wilderness, and Liu Liangzuo took the lead with 800 cavalry to kill the Xiheng River. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThe Chongming army from Jingjiang was disembarking in the river a few miles away, and the fast horse only needed more than a quarter of an hour to arrive, and the Ming army who had just disembarked was caught off guard.
The fast horses galloped, and the cool breeze drove by the green battalion cavalry was very refreshed, and the heat of the whole body was swept away, and the mood of each one was extremely happy, and the morale was greatly increased.
Catch up and go forward, defeat the Ming army of Bandu, as long as the Chongming army from Jingjiang is defeated, Jiangyin City will go down without a fight. Single-handedly quelling the Jiangyin Rebellion, in the heart of Prince Yu Duoduo, his position will be more important, and when Prince Yu returns to the court, he will definitely speak for himself in the Manchu court, maybe he can be crowned king like Kong Youde and others! At this moment, Liu Liangzuo's heart was extremely hot, and he only hated that he couldn't kill the past with his wings.
The distance of several miles is coming in a flash, Liu Liangzuo led the team to the Xiheng River, along the embankment to the north to kill, far away, you can already see dozens of boats distributed in the river, in the river discharged a long slip, dense Ming soldiers are disembarking from the boat!
"Kill the Ming army!" Liu Liangzuo raised his spear and pointed it ahead, and with his words, the cavalry of the brigade crossed his side like flowing water, and killed the Ming army in front. Seeing it from a distance, the array of the Ming army suddenly panicked.
With the prepared to kill the unprepared, with the fast cavalry to attack the Ming infantry who had just disembarked and had an unstable foothold, this battle was won! Liu Liangzuo rode forward with a smile on his face, victory was in front of him, and the heads representing merit were waiting for him to harvest!
At this moment, not only Liu Liangzuo, but almost all the cavalry of the Green Battalion thought that victory was coming.
Two miles, one mile, and half a mile, I can already see the panicked faces of the Ming army in front. To the surprise of the cavalry of the Green Battalion, in the face of the galloping cavalry that was galloping quickly, although the Ming infantry on the opposite side panicked, they did not turn around and flee, but tried to get closer to each other, relying on the river bank behind them to sort out the queue. But it was too late, and the tremendous onslaught of the galloping cavalry could not withstand this thin and unorganized ranks? With just one impact, the Green Battalion cavalry will be able to tear through the defense line of the Ming army on the opposite side, and what will happen next will be a massacre!
Closer, closer, all the green battalion cavalry drew their sabers, waiting for the moment when the war horse under their crotch crashed into the thin body of the Ming army opposite.
At this moment, a continuous loud sound of "bang bang bang" came into the ears, and all the green battalion cavalry turned their heads in surprise, and saw dozens of white smoke coming out of the river on their side, and dozens of black dots flew towards the cavalry array, and they arrived in front of them in a blink of an eye.
The Ming army actually carried artillery on board, but so what? For the cavalry galloping at high speed, although the artillery is powerful, the damage it can bring is minimal. A contemptuous sneer appeared at the corner of Liu Liangzuo's mouth.
However, before his smile disappeared, Liu Liangzuo was shocked to see the cavalry horses running at the forefront falling to the ground one after another, and the screams of the green battalion soldiers and the neighing of the war horses came one after another.
Liu Liangzuo fixed his eyes and looked ahead, and saw that almost all the dozens of cavalry running in front fell to the ground. The war horses in front suddenly fell, and many of the war horses behind couldn't dodge and crashed into them, and they tripped and fell to the ground, and the green battalion soldiers on the horses rolled off their horses one after another, even if they didn't fall to death on the spot, they were seriously injured.
The cavalry in front fell one after another, so that the cavalry behind had to carefully steer their horses to avoid the horse soldiers on the ground, and their speed suddenly slowed down.
That's not right! How can dozens of artillery pieces be so powerful? Liu Liangzuo couldn't help but be secretly frightened, and when he looked closely, he saw that the shells fired by the Ming artillery turned out to be two shells, and the two bullets were connected by a long iron chain. The projectiles whistled and fired, the front shells dragged the back shells and flew in, and under the action of centrifugal force, the two shells rotated in the air, and the chain in the middle was stretched straight.
Cannonballs flew into the ranks of the cavalry, and all the soldiers or horses who were hung by the chains were all flesh and blood, and the thin flesh could not withstand the cutting of the chains at all, and was divided into two pieces, and the blood splattered into the air like a spring. After cutting a corpse, the chain bullet went to the cavalry behind it, and the flesh flew sideways again, until the kinetic energy completely disappeared, and then quietly stopped on the ground on the river bank, but both the projectiles at both ends and the iron chain in the middle were stained red with blood.
Just one bombardment of dozens of artillery pieces in the river brought nearly 100 casualties to the cavalry of the Green Battalion, and the cavalry in front was almost empty, and the cavalry behind had to slow down and carefully avoid the obstacles caused by the corpses of their colleagues on the ground. The entire Green Battalion cavalry array was in a panic.
What to do? At this moment, Liu Liangzuo is full of sadness, if he continues to attack and advance, the cavalry that loses speed has no advantage over the infantry who are far more numerous than his own at all, but if he turns around and flees, it will inevitably cause greater chaos on his side, the left is the river, and the right is an endless rice field, and hundreds of cavalry are distributed on the embankment dozens of zhang wide between the rice field and the river, it takes a lot of time to stop the war horse and turn around, and this time is enough for the Ming artillery on the boat in the river to reload and fire.
Kill the past and enter the ranks of the Ming army, the artillery in the river will be completely useless, and if it can penetrate the queue of the Ming army, it is possible to win.
After only a short period of thought, Liu Liangzuo made up his mind and continued to attack forward. However, before he could give the order, he heard a "boom", and when he looked back, he saw that the cavalry behind him had reined in their horses and were turning around and fleeing.
"Don't stop, rush over and kill into the Ming army!" Liu Liangzuo shouted loudly and ordered his cavalry to continue forward, but except for the dozens of cavalry soldiers around him, the other soldiers turned a deaf ear to his order, and they all fell off their horses in panic and fled behind.
The damage caused by the chain bullet to the cavalry was too great, and the bloody corpses on the battlefield brought a huge psychological impact to all the green battalion cavalry. Who wants to be split in two with the war horse? Almost all the cavalry of the Green Battalion were frightened, they did not have the courage to continue forward.
Run for your life, the artillery shells of the Ming army are too powerful, just like the devil!
Seeing the performance of his subordinate cavalry, the experienced Liu Liangzuo knew that the army's spirit was no longer out of control, so he turned his horse without saying a word, and rode his horse along the way he came.
"Boom, boom, boom", the artillery of the Ming army on the boat in the river was fired again and again. Pairs of chain bullets flew through the air, like the scythe of death, and used as a hood for the array of Green Battalion cavalry.