The overall combat power of the champion army is far inferior to that of the Qing army, the 10,000 well-trained and outstanding cavalry of the Qing army is what Wang Lanping does not dare to underestimate, even if the other party does not occupy the advantages of the territory, but the mobility ability is too strong, if he rushes out to attack, no matter which battalion of troops is mobilized first, the 10,000 cavalry can quickly separate the battalion from the army in a very short period of time, and then compress the encirclement, and the battalion itself can trample themselves to death.

Therefore, Wang Lanping decided that if he wanted to break the opponent in the shortest possible time, he still had to lead them to take the initiative to attack, and disrupt the range of the opponent's cavalry gravitational artillery to disrupt the cavalry's formation before there was a chance of victory.

Knock knock! Knock knock!

The war drums in the champion army suddenly vibrated and tried to dispel the fear in the hearts of the soldiers in the most decisive time.

The drum is the soul of the army, it can make people forget life and death in an instant, and at the same time cover up the tragic wails on the battlefield, so that the soldiers will not be frightened by these sounds.

I saw the flag behind Wang Lanping wave, and the heavy cavalry of the former army Song Xian suddenly raised their sabers and shouted feverishly.

"Ahh

……

This banner is to instruct the heavy cavalry to attack immediately, and the target, the defense line of the Qing army, is directly to the place where the opponent's pivot is taken.

The three thousand heavy armored cavalry screamed wildly, intending to eliminate the timidity in their hearts, and also to inspire their comrades around them to live and die together.

The sound of wild screams was heard for miles, and thousands of waving swords refracted ten thousand points of golden light, dazzling people's eyes, which was a necessary means to deter the enemy, and punish them before fighting.

"Impact!" Song Xian shouted.

The heavy cavalry battalion of the champion army was originally the Nanjing garrison. Of course, it is still nominally now, after Wang Lanping's reorganization. It's better than ever.

The 4,000 men and horses were all dressed in heavy armor, and the 2,000 soldiers standing in the front row were armed with spears more than one foot long. The two thousand cavalrymen standing in the back row are holding a three-foot-long chopping knife in one hand and a log shield painted silver in the other, and the equipment on the body alone is no less than fifty catties, which is still the weight of Wang Lanping after streamlining, which is not suitable for long-distance pursuit and raid on the other party at all, but the impact of the defense is amazing.

This type of unit is generally only used when the two armies are in a bitter battle, and the purpose is to use the heavy cavalry like an iron wall to attack the opponent's tight lineup, tear a gap with spears, and then cooperate with the saber soldiers. Disrupt the opponent's position, and then the army quickly advances, destroying the enemy's defense line in one fell swoop, and after the army catches up, the heavy cavalry must quickly retreat, otherwise it must be eaten by the opponent, because this type of army is too cumbersome, as long as the impact of the horse can exert the maximum attack power, once stopped. That will immediately become a live target for the enemy.

And this time, Wang Lanping did the opposite, and it was also a last resort, if he wanted to lure Zhang Wenlian's army out, he had to pay blood. Thinking about it, the heavy cavalry battalion can handle it, and more importantly, the heavy cavalry battalion will start after the reorganization. The first battle was not fought, and it was full of personnel. Most of the battalions of the rest of the champion army have been damaged and have not had a chance to be replenished. At the same time, I also want to take this opportunity to test the actual combat ability of the heavy cavalry, if it is not outstanding, Wang Lanping is likely to cancel this most expensive and useless class, because he admires blitzkrieg the most, and it is obvious that the heavy cavalry is not suitable for this heavy combat method.

Click!

With the dust raised by the horses' hooves, the four thousand heavily armored cavalry shook their hooves and galloped, and under the sunshine, like a golden monstrous wave, they tumbled and poured towards the Qing army's central defense line two miles away.

When Zhang Wenchuan saw this formation, he couldn't help frowning, but soon, he smiled again, what are you doing? Desperate as soon as the war starts? I have never seen such a war, and I am not afraid of losing my book, it will take at least a few years to form a heavy cavalry and training, and the money spent is more than one million, which is ten times that of other arms.

In fact, Wang Lanping is very poor, the court has not only not allocated a tael of silver in the past six months, but even the military rations have to be raised by himself, if it were not for a small fortune from Liu Zeqing, the champion army would have dispersed, but Liu Zeqing also contributed more than three million taels of silver, but he had to support the expenses of nearly 60,000 troops, and also updated more than half of the weapons and armor, added enough grain and grass, and bought military horses, and the money was already left.

Zhang Wenlian's army has a very rich cavalry combat experience of the Mongolian Eight Cavalry officers, Genghis Khan's descendants broke 100,000 European heavy cavalry, but it didn't take much effort, today only 4,000 Ming army heavy cavalry in their very much, that is not a threat.

The best way to break the heavy cavalry is the light cavalry, with the sensitive mobility of the light cavalry, can attack and retreat, open the bow left and right, even in the retreat of the march can shoot the heavy cavalry with a longbow, and the heavy cavalry, can not catch up, can not reach, can only be slowly dragged to death and exhausted, of course, the Mongols in Europe is like this, tried and tested.

It's just that this is not the past, this battlefield was selected by Wang Lanping, he can't give the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry much room to maneuver, and it won't work much if he wants to use this method, not to mention that Wang Lanping's military order is that he doesn't care about anything, only takes the opponent's Chinese army, even if there are more arrows on his head than raindrops, he has to press it.

Zhang Wenhuan is not a fool, he naturally understands that once the heavy cavalry has formed an impact force, in such a small space, there is no way to use light cavalry to engage in battle, so he can only use the second stupid method, the tip of the needle against the wheat mang, hard to hard.

"Shield!" Zhang Wenhuan did not attack, but took a defensive position, his task was to absorb the champion army, and there was no need to take the initiative to attack.

Just when the heavy cavalry battalion had already rushed out of the halfway distance, Wang Lanping ordered the flag soldiers to shake the flag again.

Drink! Drink!

Fang Guoan's Huaiyuan battalion moved, marching neatly, shouting an exciting trumpet, walking down the hill step by step, slowly moving towards the Qing army, the whole battalion moved in unison, with crossbowmen and musketeers as the vanguard, and infantry soldiers as the reception, which was a typical offensive lineup.

Song Dali was unclear for a while, and said with some worry, "Commander, the decisive battle of the whole army is a little early, if you don't defeat their cavalry, it will be difficult for the brothers of the Huaiyuan battalion to attack it."

Wang Lanping said, "I can't bear the child without a wolf, God knows how long Yangzhou City can support it"

The sweat on Song Dali's face came down. "But this is likely to make the brothers of the Huaiyuan battalion unable to retreat, the power of the eight cavalry. I've been there, and there's no room for reaction at all. They will rush up like wolves, rush the team into two sections, and annihilate them one by one, which is a little too big."

In fact, Wang Lanping didn't really want the Huaiyuan battalion to join the battlefield, but when he saw that the Qing army did not make a posture of counterattack, it showed that Zhang Wenhuan did not have the idea of attacking, that is, the capital was not enough, and the desperate illusion was not enough, so he didn't believe it. You Zhang Wenchuan can always be as steady as Mount Tai and always take a defensive position.

Wang Lanping was also afraid of this, and the most annoying thing on the battlefield was that the troops were divided and surrounded by the enemy.

"Righteousness does not manage money, compassion does not command the army, you can't make decisions on the spot, you can never become a general in charge of one side, remember, there is no mercy on the battlefield, there can be no trace of a woman's kindness. Once the success is done, the bones will wither, go, and cheer for the Huaiyuan camp and the heavy cavalry camp"

Knock knock ......!

At the front of the Qing army's defensive line, 1,000 shield soldiers were divided into three layers. In front of the Chinese army, lined up, behind the shield soldiers, hundreds of soldiers armed with firearms and flammable materials, they can throw explosive materials in their hands nearly ten feet away. Landing can cause a raging fire, and you must resist the heavy cavalry. Fire attack is an effective method of warfare, and the heat of the flames alone can roast to death all the heavy cavalry men and horses who are all iron armor. There is no need for hand-to-hand combat.

But the rest of Zhang Wenlian's troops still did not move, and his army steadily pulled out a battle line more than a mile long, quietly watching from the wall.

Zhang Wenhuan saw Wang Lanping's carving insect skills at a glance, and wanted to lead me to the range of artillery, don't even think about it, the master will consume it with you, wait for work, kill one by one, come to destroy one team, on the war of attrition, you will never be able to consume.

But when he saw a whole battalion of people on the other side dispatching, he couldn't help but be stunned, why, this is trying to press the whole army? But it's not like it, your left wing and the Chinese army haven't moved, this must still be a trick to lure the troops, ignore it, I want to see what tricks you play.

Zhang Wenchuan believed in his judgment on the battlefield very much, and the whole army still stood upright, standing still, standing straighter than the flagpole.

Song Xian's heavy cavalry battalion is rushing faster and faster, such a heavy cavalry, it is difficult to stop suddenly when you want to attack quickly, and inertia will take you out no matter how far it goes.

Ten thousand hooves stepped on, the earth was trembling, this sound frightened the Qing army shield players who greeted them in front of them were trembling, and those who met the enemy and fled were brave, even if these soldiers were not cowards, none of them dared to retreat.

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps, four thousand cavalry smashed on the shield of the Qing soldiers like a huge iron ball, and the more than 100 Qing soldiers in the front row flew upside down more than ten zhang away, and blood flew in the air.

The sound of tragic pain then spread to every corner of the battlefield, and with the enduring war drums of both sides, the ensemble played a sad song that killed people without seeing blood.

Rumble! Rumble!

The Qing army's mine-throwing soldiers threw sparkling grenades at the dense cavalry ranks of the heavy cavalry battalion, and a group of flames rose in the heavy cavalry camp, and in a blink of an eye, the heavy cavalry battalion seemed to fall into a sea of flames.

But the heavy cavalry battalion did not stop, nor could it stop, but could only hit the shield wall one after another, and the shield wall formed into an iron wall was forced backwards, and people were constantly knocked into the air, or were stuck in the tip of the spear by the spear of the heavy cavalry battalion, and died on the ground, leaving only limbs scratching helplessly.

The slashers of the heavy cavalry battalion who then charged did not need to observe the enemy's position, sitting on horseback with a long slasher, and they could cut off a head or limb when they rushed into the camp of the Qing army, and there was no need to use force to swing the knife at all.

Wang Lanping, who watched the battle from afar, could not see the bloodshed of the battlefield, but he could feel that the bloody scene was close in front of him, but he could not have a trace of cowardice and sympathy, the battlefield was just synonymous with hell in the world.

The Huaiyuan battalion also gradually moved farther and farther away, less than a mile away from the site where the two armies were mixed, and the team was still in a state of confusion, advancing with the sound of war drums.

That Song Dali was waving his thick arms, urging the drum skin, sweating like rain, but his heart was extremely anxious and heartache, he used to be the commander of the heavy cavalry battalion, there were many brothers he was familiar with, after this battle, many people he couldn't see, no longer see, he wanted to rush up, fight a fish to die and break the net, it was better than being tormented in the rear.

Song Xian followed at the end of the heavy cavalry battalion, seeing his men fall one by one, his heart was dripping blood, this was trained by him, almost every face passed in front of his eyes, it was all living faces, but now they were burned beyond recognition.

He couldn't wait to urge the war horse to rush over, but reason told him that he couldn't, and he would rather lose 100,000 soldiers than lose a general, which was because the general had to endure the pain to understand and do more, as soon as the general died, the whole army would be leaderless, and it would immediately be scattered.

Song Xian is not capable of saving the lives of every brother, all he can do is to order his brothers to kill more enemies and fight a bloody way for the army.

"Rush, don't stop, don't look back, face the knife, hold the gun, rush up, go straight to the Chinese army" Song Xian roared hoarsely, he knew that the heavy cavalry would be spared today.

The four thousand iron horsemen were as fast as lightning, and the blood of horses and people soaked the ground, and the corpses were trampled in the bloody mud by the heavy horses' hooves, and the bodies were soon invisible.

Under the strong impact, the shield wall of the Qing army appeared vulnerable, nearly a thousand Qing soldiers were strewn on the spot, leaving a long "corpse road" behind the heavy cavalry battalion, and the remaining hundreds of Qing soldiers saw that the situation was not good, threw away their armor and turned around and scattered, Song Xian was too lazy to chase them, just ordered the whole army to look straight at the banner of the Chinese army of the Qing army and rushed away.

At this time, on the hillside a mile away, a flag was waved from the position of the Dingyuan battalion, looking at the amplitude and law of the shaking, Wang Lanping knew that this was Cao Dingjiao asking for battle, and the brothers in front were desperate, but they were doing nothing.

Wang Lanping turned a blind eye, just stared at the other party's position tightly, and didn't say a word, let you wind in the southeast and northwest, I will not move.

"Crazy, Wang Lanping, you madman" Zhang Wenhuan looked at this fateful scene, he froze, knowing that he couldn't do it, only a madman would do it.

"Order, hit the enemy on the left flank, block them" Zhang Wenlian finally moved, this time he had to move, he didn't expect that the enemy's heavy cavalry was not fighting at all, but like not to die, not afraid of death, afraid of desperate, desperate afraid of not dying, ruthless enough!

As soon as Zhang Wenhuan ordered the flag to move, the 5,000-8 banners on the left flank rode out like arrows, rushing quickly to the front of the Chinese army's position, and they had to fill this gap. (To be continued.) )