Chapter 227: Defeat

Zhao Lie used a telescope to observe the movements of several enemy chieftains on the opposite side, and even saw their hesitation in his heart, and he was extremely impatient in his heart, he was in a hurry to rush to Gu'an to find out the situation of the Jiannu army in front and the whereabouts of Francisco. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, no matter how bad the Mongols on the opposite side were, they were also cavalry with one man and two horses, and the mobility was not something that the infantry could compete, so he had to wait for the other party to make a move, and in order to hurt the Mongols, he ordered the Mongols to get closer.

Fifteen hundred Mongol cavalrymen in fur hats and robes began to trot their horses, and the gallop of the Mongol horses was not too long, that is, two miles, and the Mongols trotted two miles away in order to maintain the impact of their horses when they rushed into the enemy's ranks.

When the Mongols arrived at the beginning of a mile, they whistled and urged their horses to charge at full speed, the sound of horses' hooves was deafening, the frozen earth trembled, and a dust belt more than two hundred paces wide moved quickly towards the broken army.

At this time, Zhao Lie was sure that the Mongols, who had always been good at escaping, could only move forward now, after all, the more than 1,000 war horses galloping at full speed were not so easy to stop.

Liu Fugui is draped all over his body, with iron armor, iron skirt, leg guards, a spear in his hand, a waist knife across, and a neat face, very much like a middle-level military general like Mr. Bai.

In the midst of the cacophony, he looked around at his subordinates and found that some of the recruits were pale, nervously looking at the approaching enemy soldiers, and the spears standing on the ground in their hands shook slightly.

"Hold on, they can't beat the pikes. Steady. Liu Fugui shouted, as the president of Bai, it is his duty to appease his subordinates now. Xuanfu official Wei Qiang also shouted loudly, cheering for the soldiers, after all, even the old soldiers were the first to encounter the impact of thousands of cavalry, this power was overwhelming.

"Reload." The firecrackers in the front row began to move in the shaking of the earth and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and the usual strict drills allowed most of them to reload quickly. Only a few people were in a hurry because of the might of the enemy, and they were immediately reprimanded by the chief and the suppression, and they immediately started again.

When the cavalry approached one hundred and twenty paces, the bronze trumpets and suona sounded in unison in the large array of the Broken Army, and under the orders of the hundred generals, the first row of firecrackers opened fire.

Bang bang cross talk. A cloud of smoke rose from the front line of nearly 200 meters, and was instantly blown by a strong northwest wind to the rear of the broken army, and the projectile shot out 300 lead bullets, the effect was reflected in the Mongols a hundred steps away, more than 100 men and horses fell to the ground, and some war horses were stimulated by the sound of gunfire and jumped up so that the horses around them also suffered, either colliding with each other and falling to the ground, or running away in order to avoid diagonal directions, and the impact of the formation began to be chaotic.

At this time, the soldiers of the first row retreated into the formation. The second row of musketeers fired on the spot, and more than 100 cavalry fell to the ground, and the Mongolian cavalry did not stop, because they had been entangled with the Ming border army for a long time, knowing that they could only escape from the ascension after being hit by the musketeers, and once they rushed into the enemy formation, most of the Ming army would collapse.

More than 1,000 Mongols opened their bows and released arrows, and the rain of arrows roared like a forest and rushed towards the captive army. The firecrackers in front of them took the lion's share, but. Except for a few unlucky soldiers who fell to the ground screaming through the cracks in the armor, the other soldiers in the third row continued to fire with feathered arrows on their bodies, and continued to bleed the Mongols.

The Mongols, who had only a thousand left, released a second batch of feathered arrows, and at this moment, a roaring sound sounded. A large stream of smoke filled the air, and the twenty artillery pieces fired nearly a thousand small iron eggs, and instantly came to the front of the Mongolian cavalry, and more than 100 horsemen in the first row of the Mongols more than 40 paces away slammed into the ground with their horses, and a large area of blood spurted out. Some of the horses were torn apart by projectiles.

Many horses were frightened by the roar of artillery at close range, and threw their riders into the air, staging a thrilling rodeo that Zhao Lie saw as the North American Bull Riding Contest in later generations.

At this time, the Mongol cavalry was in a mess, and the men and horses in front of them became a living barrier, especially some wounded horses knocked down the men and horses behind them, and only a small number of cavalry rushed into the past, and they were greeted by a rain of bullets fired by the fourth row of musketeers.

In the end, only a hundred or so horsemen rushed to the front of the captive army, and at this time, the artillerymen and musketeers had just retreated into the formation, and the pikemen had flattened their spears on the spot, and a forest of spears stretched out, and the heads of the guns glowed with a little cold light.

This kind of firecracker retreats into the large formation in turn after firing, and the pikemen do not move the flat gun to change the formation in order to deal with the cavalry, and the rapid advance of the cavalry will not give the firecrackers and pikemen in the infantry formation the opportunity to change the formation alternately.

"Flat gun, steady, steady." Liu Fugui shouted. The thousands of commanders in the team shouted like this, stabilized the formation, and waited for the imminent war horse to attack.

More than a dozen war horses struggled to rush to the gun forest, they were trying to stop, the little cold light in front of them made the war horses not listen to the master's orders and just wanted to escape, but unfortunately the speed was too fast, and they couldn't stop crashing into it, and immediately strung on several spears and let out a terrible long neigh.

The other horses either had their riders holding on to the reins or running away around the gun formation, never approaching the gun formation that they felt was in danger.

The spear in Wu Han's hand was immense, and the dying war horse struggled to push him and the other two soldiers back a few steps and fall to the ground.

The Mongol on the horse flew off his horse, and before he could get up, he was impaled by a spear.

Most of the Mongols finally reined in their horses in front of the spear array, but they had no desire to fight, and they ran away, and the Mongols, who were less than a thousand men left, collapsed, and they fled one after another.

The bells of the retreating soldiers in the Mongolian army behind sounded, and the three Taiji were saddened by the heavy losses, and they withdrew their troops without consulting Uliji.

At this time, three quick brass trumpets sounded, and the cavalry of the Broken Army on both wings began to urge their horses to move forward to chase the enemy, and after twenty paces, the horses were quickly raised, and the Mongolian cavalry chased head to end.

It is said that the cavalry of the Breakers rushed out from both sides of the large formation, much farther than the Mongols who had evacuated in a straight line, but the distance from the front of the Breakers to the distance of more than 100 paces was littered with dead and wounded men and horses.

So the retreat of the Mongols became an obstacle race, constantly dodging obstacles, even the Mongols who grew up on horses could not run the speed of the horses, and the cavalry of the Broken Army entered from the outside, did not enter this obstacle at all, and soon caught up with the defeated Mongols.

In particular, the stone island horses on the right flank, they carried their riders into the rear of the Mongols at a gallop, and the cavalry of the Breaker Army began to wield their guns and reap the lives of the enemy.

Wang Haizhou condescendingly stabbed the riding spear in his hand into the back of a Mongolian who was running in front of him, and the Mongolian screamed and dragged the riding gun with both hands and fell off the horse, Wang Haizhou pulled out the Yanling knife. Continue to rush forward.

The weight of the brown Shidao horse under the crotch and the weight of the leather armor on its body is still accelerating, and the fast-paced sprint makes Wang Haizhou feel the power of the mount.

After a dozen paces, he caught up with a Mongol. At this time, the Mongolian skillfully twisted his body on the horse, and slashed with a saber to Wang Haizhou, who was close to the side, Wang Haizhou blocked with a Yanling knife, and when there was a sound, the two knives swung away, and at this time, a Yanling knife slashed at the neck of this Mongolian, almost cutting off the head and neck of this Mongolian, and the Mongolian did not make a sound and fell off the horse.

Wang Haizhou grinned, damn. It's really eventful that you can't have a good time.

It was one of his guards who cut down the Mongols, and Qian always had a guard, after all, Qian Zong was already a high-ranking general in the Broken Army, but the cavalry was galloping on the battlefield, and the guards could not be 100% well-guarded, so there was a scene where Wang Haizhou Ma quickly killed the Mongols. However, it would be a remiss if the guards did not arrive again.

Wang Haizhou glared at the guard fiercely. immediately scolded, damn, I forgot to wear a face armor, who to stare at, I can't cry or laugh.

The cavalry of the Broken Army on the right flank had already slashed the Mongol cavalry on the right, and the cavalry on the left flank caught up with the enemy. The remaining Mongol cavalry was quickly broken by the pursuers on the left and right.

Batu's eyes are blood-red, these are all his people, this is the foundation of his foothold in Horqin, why do the Mongols call him Taiji when they meet. is that there are many clansmen under his command and their combat power is good, which is ruining his foundation.

He urged the horse to wait forward to meet the enemy, and the cronies of the clan around him hurriedly intercepted him, joking, the enemy took advantage of the victory to pursue, and there were thousands of infantry troops behind to follow, at this time to meet the enemy is nine deaths.

"Lord Taiji, Sude, Suhe, and Wuliji Taiji have all run away, we can't fight alone, there are still our tribes waiting for us to go back on the grassland." His cronies shouted.

Batu looked around, okay, Su He, Su De, Uliji and others were urging their horses to flee to the northwest, completely ignoring the clansmen who stayed on the battlefield, Batu couldn't help but scold, they are all fucking cowards, and they usually claim to be the descendants of Genghis Khan.

He looked at the Ming cavalry approaching a mile away with hatred, gritted his teeth and turned the horse's head, whipped it on the mount fiercely, and led more than 500 remaining clansmen to evacuate quickly.

The remaining three or four hundred Mongol cavalry saw the departure of the brigade, and immediately lost their fighting spirit, and the horses were already foaming at the mouth and barely holding on after galloping for more than a mile and fleeing for more than a mile back.

On the way to retreat, the cavalry of the Breakers had begun to close the retreat, and without the response of the brigade, there was no need to fight, and even if they continued to run, their mounts would be exhausted, and their spare horses were all at the place of departure.

People continued to dismount and surrender, and in the end, hundreds of people dismounted and knelt on the ground, saving a lot of energy for the cavalry of the Broken Army.

The Breakers did not continue to pursue the fleeing enemy, after all, the enemy's horses had just been activated, and they had pursued the distance of two miles at full speed, and their horsepower was exhausted.

Zhao Lie was not surprised by the defeat of the Mongols, the Mongols who did not have the strict military discipline control like Jiannu were more like horse bandits, and they had no ability to attack fortifications, so they could only fight next to Jiannu, and the jackals beside the tigers were just jackals.

However, Zhao Lie was still very satisfied with this battle, which allowed the Broken Army to experience the test of a large number of cavalry charging for the first time, and survived, which was of great benefit to the future battle with the Jiannu cavalry.

The infantry began to move forward and join the cavalry, after all, it was more convenient for the cavalry to receive prisoners of war.

A Mongolian cavalryman's robe was covered with blood, he was hit by a projectile in the chest, and blood was foaming out, he reclined on a dead war horse and sat on it, covering his wounds with both hands, watching the Ming soldiers approaching, he was desperate to see a spear piercing, he was unable to move, and died instantly.

Liu Fugui took out his spear and smeared the blood on this Mongolian leather robe.

"It's all right, there is always an order for Qian, and no one will be left behind." Liu Fugui shouted loudly.

If you don't have the energy to save the enemy on this battlefield, and if you don't die, you can only send him to Bliss early.

The brothers below responded unevenly, and many of the recruits still did not bear it, after all, they were still living people, but because of military discipline, they were still killed. (To be continued.) )