Chapter 353: Hundreds of thousands of people were defeated

The two battlefields attacked at the same time, and the road commanded by Wang Ben was undoubtedly to drag Li Zicheng's cavalry.

He Xian and Zu Kuan, who were still on standby, were eager to try when they saw this scene. Chang Shiren rushed to the scene with people and conveyed the order: "Continue to be on standby, your task is to pursue." ”

"Mr. Chen has gone up, I'm ......." Zu Kuan still wanted to fight for it, but Chang Shiren looked at him and didn't speak.

"Forget it, I'll wait!" Zu Kuan didn't dare to attack even if he had a temper, these people in the Dengzhou camp were too weird. The way of fighting is also odd.

The retreating crowd rushed towards the main formation, and the footsteps behind them chased them desperately. The chaotic formation, the chaotic and chaotic running back at all, Gao Yingxiang found that he didn't send someone to stop him, and thousands of cavalry rushed up to slash and kill, so that these defeated soldiers who were attacking the main formation turned around and ran to both sides.

Boasting and boasting, the Dengzhou battalion was still pressing forward, and the powerful momentum brought out by the footsteps forced the defeated soldiers to keep running around, oppressing the nerves of everyone in the formation. Even the giants who have experienced a hundred battles are also flustered when they look at Rulin's spear at this time.

At this time, the Dengzhou battalion appeared a hundred steps away in front of the formation, and the cross spear raised towards the sky flashed white light in the sun.

"Stand!" As soon as the red flag stopped, the formation stopped neatly, and the password sounded everywhere. A hundred paces away, the cavalry could not run at this distance, and it took time for the infantry to rush forward. The remnants of the defeated army were still in front of the formation, and even if they wanted to attack, the route was blocked by the defeated army.

When Gao Yingxiang felt bad again, the musketeers of the A-word battalion with the team as a unit. Raised his rifle neatly. At this distance, the lethality of the Mini rifle is unstoppable.

After the rifle guns rang out, the cavalry standing in the front row of the main formation of the people's army to drive out the defeated soldiers fell down one after another. After two rounds of gunning, a layer of casualties fell in front of the formation. In the already loose formation, there was a commotion.

The remnants of the defeated soldiers were like brainless flies, coaxing and rushing towards Gao Yingxiang's main formation. Thousands of defeated soldiers rushed towards their own people under the threat of death, and Gao Yingxiang's main formation was crumbling.

"Fire!" Fifty paces, the smoothbore gun went off. Continuous gunfire. There is no need to aim at this distance, and the light ones can knock down the dense targets in front of you.

Two more rounds of guns, and two thousand smoothbore gunners, guided by the flag, stepped forward. Fire. On the bayonet. The action is done in one go. Without even looking at the enemy on the opposite side, they were already in a mess. No one went to see the results of the battle, not because they didn't want to see it, but because the officer's password was like a life talisman. Just snapped the bayonet. The striking red flag has been pointed forward.

At some point, the grenadiers followed the linear formation of the crossmen, holding their shields and sporadic bows and arrows, and threw the bombs they lit in their hands. The roaring explosion was not the last straw that broke the camel's back. What really destroyed the fighting spirit was the spear formation of crossmen and ash polemen, like sharp knives piercing into the already chaotic enemy formation.

"Flat lift, stab!" A junior officer armed with a saber mechanically gives orders. A row of spears stretched forward, retracted, and stretched forward again. Keep repeating this action, keep moving forward. After a brief contact, the fighting spirit of the people's army collapsed. These people are demons from hell, they are not people.

It was Zhang Xianzhong who was the first to run, because the Guan Ning army and the green-skinned cavalry, which he had been paying attention to, suddenly moved at the moment when the spear array stabbed and began to trot forward. Zhang Xianzhong saw that the formation was already in chaos, so he did not hesitate to take the people of the headquarters, turn around and run. It turned out that the flank outflanking was good, to hell with it!

No one wanted to continue to stand opposite this group of evil ghosts, and Zhang Xianzhong's retreat directly triggered the collapse of the entire thief formation. Gao Yingxiang, who was on top of the troop transfer, was not prepared at all for this juncture, and Zhang Xianzhong ran away. Directly to Liu Guoneng and Sha Tiandong also ran away together. One advance and one retreat, Gao Yingxiang's headquarters was put at the forefront. Although he still had more than 50,000 men under his command, only more than 30,000 were brought to the battlefield, and he had sent cavalry to cut down the defeated soldiers before to prevent the army from being crushed. But now these cavalrymen, under the double blow of platoon guns and grenades, turned around and ran away, directly shooting Gao Yingxiang out to stabilize the formation of the two old battalions of 1,000 people to rush.

A rabble of people could not bear too many casualties. As soon as several important leaders ran, Gao Yingxiang became the backrest. What's even worse, Gao Yingxiang's own formation was in chaos, and he couldn't control the soldiers who were running away at all.

The soldiers with spears kept moving forward, layer after layer, and behind them were riflemen with broken bayonets, and as long as someone dared to stand in front of them, the bayonets could also stab the heart.

The smoke and dust from the sound of horses' hooves appeared on the flanks, and at the forefront was Chang Shiren, who was ordered to command the cavalry to pursue. This is the style of the Dengzhou battalion operation, and the officers rush to the front. Gao Yingxiang, who was already in a mess, was still gathering at this time, and when the crossbow arrows of the Dengzhou cavalry battalion rained down, Zu Band led his Guanning cavalry and plunged into it from another angle.

Defeat is like a mountain!

Li Zicheng, who tried his best to get closer to the Wuli Bridge, did not suffer much loss at this time, but the 2,000 people led by Gao Yigong were hit by the platoon of guns, leaving four or five hundred people to run back. When the direction of the main formation wavered, Li Zicheng decisively ordered a retreat, and he led 3,000 cavalry to meet him, trying to drag the Dengzhou battalion that was moving forward and ensure that the main force of the brigade withdrew from the battlefield smoothly.

On the battlefield, it is easier to attack than to retreat. Li Zicheng knew this very well, so he made the decision to lead his troops forward to block the attack.

What is the concept of 10,000 people? Standing together, all they saw were human heads. What is the concept of 100,000 people? There is no human head in sight. What is the concept of nearly 100 miles of company camp? Just thinking about it makes your scalp tingle. The most classic example of the Chinese War in the world of winning more with less is none more than the Battle of Weishui. The millions of elites of the former Qin were still collapsing in chaos, not to mention a group of rabble.

When the defeated army in front of them ran back, the large number of people became the biggest burden. The orderly command of this multi-person sect is undoubtedly something that cannot be done at all. Two groups of cavalry inserted into Gao Yingxiang's main formation from both wings, and the target was one, Gao Yingxiang's banner.

Li Zicheng's battle after the break was unusually decisive. The three thousand cavalry rushed headlong towards the front of the gun forest without hesitation, if it weren't for Tian Jianxiu, who was beside him, who was dragged by Li Zicheng's reins, he would have rushed in.

The crossmen in the front row had to do something very simple, with their heads facing down at a 45-degree angle and their bodies holding down on the barrels of their guns. It is guaranteed not to be overwhelmed in the event of a violent impact.

The sound of rifle firing sounded, and the cavalry that was bravely advancing fell backwards one after another. The dense formation was combed through, and the cavalry who rushed to the front of the formation shot bows and arrows, and then rushed headlong into the dense field of guns.

The sound of the gun breaking sounded one after another, and the three thousand cavalry were fiercely blocked when they rushed to the front of the formation. The five-meter-long cross spear is undoubtedly the natural enemy of the cavalry charging into battle. It is undoubtedly a very stupid thing to charge the spears with cavalry. But at this time, Li Zicheng had no choice, the direction of the main formation had been defeated, and he had to protect his team from defeat to the greatest extent. Do an orderly retreat. It's a pity that Li Zicheng looked down on himself and underestimated the Dengzhou camp.

Behind the cross-guns were ash polemen, musketeers, and grenadiers. The grenadiers who quickly set up the rockets used Congrelev to tell Li that it was a cruel reality, and the cavalry was even more terrible. The raindrop-like rockets fell into the cavalry formation, causing countless horses to be frightened, the formation was chaotic, and the horses were running around, and the cavalry had no formation at all.

The platoon of guns was still ringing round after round, and the cavalry within fifty paces kept falling from their horses. In just fifteen minutes, the loss of the cavalry in the charging formation, the cavalry who was directly responsible for blocking the attack was defeated, and they also became a member of the U-turn and escape.

The rifleman, whose rifle was red, stopped shooting, stuck his bayonet, and pressed forward with his rifle. Continue to press on the retreating Nationalist Army. Li Zicheng was directly coerced by the defeated soldiers and ran back, his voice was hoarse, but it had no effect. Li Zicheng, who had a dull expression, ran back with the torrent of defeated soldiers under the protection of Liu Zhongmin and Tian Jianxiu. More than 10,000 cavalry easily overwhelmed the infantry in their own formation, scattering one camp after another that belonged to their own people.

The people's army, which claims to be one million, but actually has more than 500,000 people, is doing the same thing at this time, that is, running.

Lu Xiangsheng's record of beheading 1,02 in history is really a number that is hard to imagine. Judging from the results, Lu Xiangsheng may not have pursued so fiercely at that time, and if he defeated his opponent, he was afraid that he would not have the strength to chase and kill, so he could only watch others run away.

When half a million people were routed together, and one camp after another was running, fleeing from this place of death. The mountains on all sides of Chuzhou are full of people who are fleeing. The heads of people all over the mountains are running wildly, the old and the young, the men and the women, are all crying and calling for their mothers to run away. There were people running everywhere, and the two cavalry scattered the enemy group one at a time, biting one enemy force to the death.

In the end, this group of people can only stop fighting to the death, not because they don't want to run, but because there is no way to escape. Or rather, he was dragged down by the defeated soldiers of his own formation, and he couldn't run fast at all, and was finally cut off by the cavalry outflanked by the blade-like wings.

Gao Yingxiang didn't run away, and there were more than 3,000 old battalion soldiers around him, all of whom were veterans of a hundred battles who followed him out of Shaanxi and wandered thousands of miles. The goal of the Dengzhou battalion was clear, and the situation on the battlefield was also very clear, and after completing the encirclement, it gave up continuing the pursuit.

The last 3,000 men were huddled on a small hill, surrounded by cavalry watching fiercely, and in front of them was a phalanx that was approaching.

Chen Xie was in the front, sitting straight on horseback, following his soldiers forward, forward!

In the enemy formation in front, when he came out to ride, Chen Xie raised his hand, the red flag stopped, and the whole army stood upright.

Brush! Like a dreamy neatness, the style of the invincible division is dazzling. (To be continued......)