Chapter Seventy-Three: The Hollow Phalanx
Unag's left and right were surging with countless horses' heads, the rider's pigtails swayed left and right in the air behind his head, the screams of the surrounding Meng's dingkou were deafening, several artillery roars, the screeching of iron bullets scraping the air joined the roar of hooves, the neighing of horses being shot sounded on the left and right, and he was left behind by the speed of the horse for a moment, and in the gallop of thousands of horses, Unag felt that nothing could stop his cavalry, even if there were many ragged Mongolian Dingkou.
The Mongolian people skillfully controlled the horses, and took out their riding bows, javelins and other weapons, and their formations were not dense, and they seemed to be overwhelming. The thousand-man phalanx in front stood firmly, but Unag had no doubt that they would collapse before the cavalry arrived, and he had seen countless Ming infantry formations collapse in advance in the earth-shattering charge of the cavalry, and then be trampled to death by the Houjin cavalry.
The cavalry entered a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, and the things placed in front of the phalanx could already be seen clearly, Unag recognized it on the back of the shaking horse that it was the rocket car of the Ming army, the fire chariot in Dengzhou was higher than that of the ordinary Ming army, and there were four spearheads sticking out of the body of the vehicle, at this time the blood in his head made him fearless, and the twenty or thirty Ming troops behind the rocket car were fleeing towards the phalanx quickly.
A feeling of pride just rose, countless dazzling fires suddenly erupted on the fire chariot, and the white smoke instantly covered the Ming army formation behind them, countless bee swarms with tail flames like out of the nest, flying into the air with whining chirps, crossing the low flat trajectory to meet the Houjin cavalry group, one after another whistling around Unag, the screams of horses and riders resounded, and the fifteen-door fire chariot deployed in the fan-shaped shape of the heavy weapon flag team launched four thousand five hundred rockets in a short time, and the dense white smoke filled the space between the two armies, The vision was blurred.
The fierce Houjin cavalry was in a mess, the horses hit by the rockets rolled on the ground and fell, the riders in the rear slowed down to avoid, and those who couldn't avoid it also crashed between the injured horses, the attack in the middle was sluggish, and the riders in front who were not hit continued to advance, and the formation became very scattered.
Unag struggled to make out the road ahead in the white smoke, and while adjusting the horse's head, he began to see the chariot of fire, and there was a spearhead sticking out in front of the chariot, he couldn't hit it, and in a cautious way, the power of the impact disappeared, and Unag's hot head calmed down a lot.
There were still a lot of Mongolian left-wing soldiers running around, Unag slowed down, hiding behind them, after running for a while, the eyes suddenly became clear, they had run out of the smoke made by the rockets, and bypassed the front of the Dengzhou hollow phalanx, appearing on the right flank of the hollow phalanx, the front row of the Dengzhou army was all melee soldiers in black armor, half-squatting on the ground and holding the blade in his hand obliquely, and there were rows of red musketeers standing in the back row, and the rear of this phalanx was the spear formation of the Ming army, and the right flank was a total of two.
The Mongolian soldiers who were the first to rush out of the smoke screamed again, and ran along the right flank of the hollow phalanx with their horses, thinking about the light arrows that the Ming army shot a **, Unag saw that the musketeers of the Ming army were shot, but the Ming army did not shoot, and the memories of fighting in Gu'an many years ago surfaced, and the Ming army was waiting for more cavalry to enter their shooting range, and Unag suddenly lay on the back of the horse and hid his body on the left side of the horse.
A swan sounded, and the hollow phalanx erupted in a volley of fire at the same time on three sides of the rear golden cavalry, during which there were three tiger squat cannons, three large furlong machines and two four-pounder guns scattered fire, and more than 600 scattered bullets swept across the three sides of the phalanx.
Unag felt as if a hurricane was blowing by, and the Mongol cavalry around the phalanx fell to the ground like dead leaves that had been blown off, and some of the frightened horses fled wildly, even jumping in circles in circles.
After the gunfire stopped, Unag found that the mount was still running steadily, the horse that had accompanied him for many years had already adapted to the sound of guns on the battlefield, but the Mongolian herdsmen did not have such a chance to adapt, and Unag estimated that these rounds of blows had caused hundreds of casualties to the Mongolian army.
At this time, more Mongolian horses appeared behind, and the horses had already dispersed the white smoke from the rocket launches, and the blow suffered by the forward did not stop the more than 6,000 cavalry, and the tide of cavalry poured across the battlefield. The horses automatically bypassed the hedgehog-like phalanx in Dengzhou Town, these intelligent animals would not go to hit the sharp blades headlong, and those riders were not willing to send them to death, the black Houjin cavalry tide split into two strands in front of the Dengzhou hollow phalanx, pouring into the left and right wings.
The Mongolian riders rode and ran thirty paces away from the Dengzhou Front, their riding bows in their hands quickly firing light arrows, and the dense sharp arrows fell like a torrential rain, and the Dengzhou Formation screamed everywhere, and then they also carried out a round of musket fire.
After these two volleys, the musketeers of Dengzhou Town entered free fire, and the dense horse team around the phalanx made the shooting rate extremely high, and the corpses of men and horses piled up more and more.
Unag has run to the edge of the hollow phalanx at this time, in front of him is the spear phalanx of Dengzhou, the spear array in the center of the spear array is in the form of rejecting horses, the sharp sharp blades of rows of four-foot spears are shining coldly, the front row of musketeers on the left and right of the spear array are raising their guns, and there are two large copper cannons in the middle of the two phalanxes, which are more huge than the eight-pounder cannons that Unag has seen, and Unag's blood has long been gone, dragging the horse's head to the right, and the horse obediently turns quickly, sticking to the northeast corner of the Dengzhou hollow phalanx and turning to the south.
Another deafening salvo of guns, two of which were particularly deafening, should have been the two new bronze cannons, Unag didn't need to look back to know that those Mongolian herdsmen had suffered heavy casualties, but he had no way out, and Dorgon's white-banner cavalry behind him took on the role of overseer, and had already stated that he would kill all those who retreated. Unag could only continue to move forward, there was an open field in front of him, which was the interval at the bottom of the Dengzhou infantry zigzag formation, where there were only a few sentry cavalry of the infantry battalion, Unag had already passed through the infantry array of the Ming army between dodging, and there were quite a few cavalry behind him, but their formation was completely finished.
Unag didn't have time to think about it, he shot an arrow at the hollow phalanx with his riding bow and rode his horse into the open field, more than a dozen Ming sentinels chased over, and found that there were more and more Mongolian cavalry behind, and those Ming rangers turned around and ran away.
Unage could see the rear of the Ming army two miles away, Chen Xin's banner was fluttering there, and under the banner was the Dengzhou army with a strong array, Unag chuckled in his heart, and the task given to him by Huang Taiji was to assault the second formation of Dengzhou, but at this time, Unag was a little panicked by two rounds of guns, and it was difficult to muster up the confidence to attack.
As he thought, the mount had already burst out of the gap at the bottom of the zigzag, and Unag was followed by hundreds of cavalry on the left flank, their formation was disorganized, and many of them were wounded, and no one screamed at this time. Unag led the team to the south, he didn't plan to disturb the rear of Dengzhou now, unless Dolgon first routed the infantry on the left flank of Dengzhou, Unag was likely to be closed behind, he now planned to harass from the rear of the Dengzhou infantry formation, but the rear of those Dengzhou phalanxes also put up a rejection pose, and there were also musketeers raising their guns in the back, and the only way he could disturb was to ride a bow.
As soon as he ran out of the gap, there was a sound of horses' hooves on the left, and Unag turned his head to find a cavalry formation roaring in front of the left, and that kind of dense and flat battle line was the signboard of the Dengzhou cavalry, which was the headquarters of the second cavalry thousand of the first cavalry battalion, and they were divided into three waves, each wave of three cavalry bureaus.
Unag shouted and hit the horse to the south to flee at high speed, many Mongolian people who followed behind were blocked by the front row, after the riders in front of them fled, they did not see the situation clearly, they were hit by the dense Dengzhou cavalry formation, the surviving Mongolian riders were frightened, relying on their skilled riding skills and fled in all directions, many people panicked, ran east into the front and rear formations of Dengzhou, the rangers of the Ming army were flanked one after another, and the thousand headquarters of the guards cavalry in the rear were killed by the bureau as a unit.
At this time, the zigzag Dengzhou infantry formation was filled with smoke, and the Mongolian cavalry that followed could not see the scene ahead, constantly rushing out of the gap, and was broken up by the Ming cavalry, and the dead and wounded men and horses were all over the left flank of Dengzhou.
The 6,000 Mongolian cavalry that came with momentum became scattered, the command system was completely ineffective, most of the riders were scurrying around like headless flies, and the braver riders were still shooting with their bows, relying on their numerical superiority, still causing a lot of casualties to Dengzhou Town.
In the middle of the hollow phalanx at the front of Dengzhou, the white-clothed ambulances shuttled back and forth, dragging the wounded soldiers back to a safe position in the center, and the small thousand-person phalanx was like a rock standing in the black tide, still spitting flames in all directions......
A drum beat came from the west, and Dolgon looked at the chaos in the smoke in front of him with a worried expression, and Gushan Ezhen next to him came over and asked in a low voice: "Master, there are too many people over there, and the Mongols will only add to the chaos." ”
Dolgon did not speak with a gloomy face, he failed to capture the rotor mountain village in the morning, and was angrily reprimanded by Huang Taiji on the spot, even if he won the battle this time, he would definitely be demoted to Taiji or Beizi, and then Yue Tuo was appointed as the commander of the right wing, Yue Tuo's order to Dolgon was to break the left wing of Dengzhou, and in the short time he arrived at the south of Rotor Mountain, Huang Taiji had already come to Tangma twice to urge.
The more than 6,000 Mongols in front of them look amazing, in fact, these people do not have much courage, it is reasonable to fight like this, once the infantry is not frightened by the momentum of the cavalry, keep the infantry formation intact, the cavalry has no advantage in direct confrontation, most of the Mongolian Dingkou are herdsmen, although the riding skills are extremely skilled, but after all, they are light cavalry, the riders and horses have not been trained to charge the formation, the horses will go around the infantry formation, but because the target is huge, it has become the target of Dengzhou firearms.
Gushan Ezhen saw that Dolgon didn't speak, and asked tentatively, "Master, shall we wait a moment to watch?" ”
Dolgon squeezed two words out between his teeth and said, "Dismount." ”
Na Gushan was really surprised and said: "The master wants to fight on foot? ”
"What is the use of cavalry warfare, the Quartet of Dengzhou is enough to deal with the cavalry, but the troops are scattered, and they do not echo each other enough, so let all the armor soldiers dismount, and Bayala rides to respond."
"Then the master of Azig is ......"
"Let him dismount as well." Dorgon said coldly, "I'm still the banner master, he's not. (To be continued.) )