Chapter 52: Hedging
Han Xu was in the first array!
This time is different from the last ambush war, at that time he relied more on his archery skills and the martial arts of a few partners, and now he has commanded fifty people, this army is the part he has trained with all his own thrashing in the past few months, all his spirit and effort are used on this army, although there are only fifty people, although it is only a small poor team, but it is all his hard work, even his future future and ambition in his heart, It also depends on the performance of this small cavalry team today!
Han Xu needs to be in the formation, and he must be in the formation!
The wind swept in his ears, the scenery in front of him kept passing in front of him, the horse speed was already very fast, but it was not to the extreme, at this time Han Xu was already distracted, he put the queue command to He Qingyun and Yang Guoyong, He Qinglei and Ren Shangwu and others assisted, if the flag captain died, the team would take over the flag gun and continue to command, everything had been repeatedly practiced in months of hard training, Han Xu did not bear the responsibility of commanding, he just held his own riding spear in his hand, only the enemy opposite in his eyes, and only thought about fighting forward in his heart!
Onward, Kill, Forward, Kill!
He is not afraid, he always thought that he was a timid and afraid of death, since he was a child, life is simple, in addition to archery and practice fighting, in fact, he is not much different from his peers, never thought that he would be in this era, in the Ming Dynasty, at this critical moment, holding a spear, legs straddling a horse, towards the most vicious enemy, launched the most rapid charge!
"Accelerate!"
He Qinglei, the post officer, shouted on the side, the flag gun was on the east side, and the post officer was on the west side, in fact, the two of them shouted together, and now the cavalry team has entered within three hundred steps, because it is a hedge between the two sides, so the collision time has been very fast, the two flag team officers and the deputy are shouting loudly, and everyone's riding speed is almost at the same time.
The earth trembled under Han Xu's body, and it was difficult for people who had not been there to imagine the situation in Han Xu's eyes, at this time, he also glanced back, the Ming troops on the left and right flanks had not increased their horse speed, and the distance between them and the middle formation had widened.
He also saw He Shixian, this fierce general carrying an iron whip mixed with his own family, a mountain armor is very conspicuous in the team, and he will definitely encounter the concentrated firepower of the Houjin soldiers, but He Shixian is a master of art and is not afraid at all.
At the end of the array, Xiong Tingbi and several staff members and the last few guards stayed in place, and once the front was unfavorable, those guards would flee around Xiong Tingbi.
"Tiger!"
He Qingyun roared angrily and lowered his flag gun, almost at the same time as him, more than 20 cavalrymen in the first row were also flat-ended flag guns, the tip of the long cavalry spear was raised obliquely forward, and the cavalry made a rattling sound when it was erected, after a long period of training, each lancer could master the cavalry spear in his hand, the center of gravity was balanced, and the tip of the spear was obliquely forward.
At this time, the Houjin rangers who broke forward on the two wings began to cast bows and arrows, and the distance between the two sides was less than two hundred paces, and the Houjin rangers did not dare to block the Ming army's forward at all.
The Ming army began to speed up when it was three hundred paces in the middle of the formation, but the cavalry array was almost not scattered, the neat queue was like a wall, towering like a mountain, the shining cavalry spear tip was like steel from the forest as neatly aligned, crushed over, these rangers were all Yu Ding or followers, and they did not have the qualifications to wear armor, they did not dare to get too close to the situation in front of them, the original arrow rain harassment was also very poor, only a few arrows fell into the Ming army formation, the cavalry of the front team was almost wearing cotton armor and iron armor two layers of heavy armor, these arrows thrown from a distance were almost no damageOnly two or three of the horses were shot by arrows, the hooves of the horses flipped forward, and the knights fell to the ground on their horses, and in the blink of an eye they were drowned by the hooves of the horses behind.
After nearly two hundred paces, all the Houjin rangers dodged one after another, but they did not play the slightest role in harassment, on the contrary, they were frightened to dodge left and right, and reversed their left and right wings.
Both sides have increased the speed of their horses at this time, the speed of the war horse galloping has reached the fastest, Han Xu feels like a gallop on the horse, his riding spear is also flat, and the image of the enemy in front of him is becoming clearer and clearer, the same two rows of cavalry, Houjin's armor is mostly cotton armor, and he is also holding a spear and a big knife and other long weapons in his hand, and the back row is a variety of short soldiers, and the cavalry charging is not common for these Houjin soldiers, less than a hundred steps apart, Han Xu can clearly see that these people's faces are full of nervousness.
A hundred paces away, almost fleeting.
With such a charging battle method, there was almost no one on the Houjin side to release arrows, and the light cavalry guerrillas who ran to the two wings tried to turn back, but the Ming army who was dragging behind also rushed over, and the two wings were about to make contact, and these rangers had almost no room to exert themselves, and soon continued to retreat.
"Kill!"
At the last moment, He Qingyun and the others roared loudly, and the Houjin side also blew the conch horn, and all the cavalry roared together.
Spears and spears are like a forest, both sides are wearing heavy armor and holding spears, the armor is dazzling, spears are like a forest, hundreds of horsemen are hedged against each other, snow and mud are turned all over the ground, two rows of cavalry teams are like thick walls, and in a blink of an eye, they have reached the edge of collision!
Xiong Tingbi and Liu Zirui and others were watching from the back, the cavalry hedged against each other was so prestigious, everyone was shocked to watch, even though Xiong Tingbi has always known as a soldier, the war scene in front of him was also the first time to see, he held the horse reins in his hands with both hands, the palms of his hands were already soaked with sweat, Liu Zirui opened his mouth wide, and he couldn't say half a word.
Rumble!
The two streams of iron collided together, and then the crackling sound of the Ming army's cavalry gun breaking, the screams of people, the neighing of horses suddenly overpowered the sound of horses' hooves, the knights fell off their horses, horses and horses collided together, people and horses rolled on the ground, people rolled on the ground with horses, horses were stabbed to death, people were stabbed to death, everything happened almost instantly, after the knights fell off their horses, the horses became brisk, agile and penetrated in the riding formation, leaving dead or seriously injured masters, of course, when the riding array collided, More knights leaned over to dodge while stabbing their weapons, so when the first wave of collisions, the horses were stabbed one after another, and they encountered more spear tips and blades, and their bodies were pierced with huge blood holes or long cuts, and countless war horses let out a mournful roar and began to run wildly on the battlefield without the control of their masters.
The spears of the Ming army occupy an absolute advantage, in the last moment of hedging against each other, the dense formation and the extra-long cavalry spear made the opposite side of the Eight Banners suffer heavy losses, more than half of the knights who fell off the horse are post-gold armor soldiers, the Ming army is more injured on the horse, the long cavalry spear can be aimed at the target farther away, and the enemy can not successfully dodge, after the first team of the Ming army rushed through, in addition to five or six people fell off the horse and many people were stabbed to death, they successfully picked off at least twenty post-gold armor soldiers or stabbed the opponent's war horse, after seeing someone fall off the horse, The Ming army in the back row waved down the long knife in the back, either slashing at the top of the enemy's head, breaking the iron helmet, and cutting off the head, or slashing through the enemy's neck and beheading with a knife, and the Houjin soldier array was disrupted, and it was impossible to effectively resist the killing of the second row of the Ming army!
The daily training of the second platoon of Han Xu's department is to follow the first platoon, taking advantage of the scattered enemy formation to kill and injure scattered or fallen enemies, the way to hold the knife is to raise the knife at the flat end, this is also Han Xu's reform, no one is exempt, after the first row cut through the enemy array like a sharp blade, the Ming army in the second row gave these barbarians serious casualties, and the bloody atmosphere began to permeate, and people kept being cut off in the head, back, head, and arm, and the seriously injured people roared and shouted desperately, as if they wanted to use up all their strength to redeem the heavy damage on their bodies, but generally those who do this, die faster and faster!