Chapter 119: Slipping Away
When the cavalry charged at high speed and stabbed the enemy with their rifles, they immediately let go of their hands and threw away their spears after a loud shock to their wrists, at which time the huge impact force made them have to do this, and few people could pull the tip of their spears out of the enemy's body in this situation, if they did not let go, they would lose their balance and be taken off their horses, and at worst they might even break their arms.
So in this case, the only sensible option for the cavalry was to immediately drop their guns, and then Lima pulled out the saber he was carrying from his waist, swung the saber and began to chop the enemy.
At this time, they didn't even need to swing their knives, they only needed to move the blade forward, horizontally on the side of the horse, and only rely on the speed of the war horse to gallop and take their knives to rub past the rebels, and the sharp saber was enough to cut the rebels to the ground like mowing grass, and the head flew high.
This is also the simplest and most convenient way for cavalry to kill, but it is very effective, and it is the most effective method, sometimes some cavalry, will choose heavy weapons, such as maces, hammers, chain hammers and other weapons, the effect is also quite good, so even if the cavalry of the Yujia army is relatively neatly equipped, it also allows the cavalry to choose their own short weapons according to their preferences.
The cavalry of the two companies stepped into battle, and then looked at the seven or eight hundred rebels, at this time, the corpses that had been killed were all over the field, and they fell to the ground, leaving less than half of the people, still desperately screaming and screaming and running in all directions.
But soon another group of rebels fell under the sharp knives of the pursuing cavalry, but once the army that collapsed began to run, then what awaited them was the fate of slaughter, and it was impossible for the two legs to beat the four legs of the war horse, and no matter how they ran, they could not escape.
In the past, when the Ming army formed a formation against the Jiannu cavalry, the Jiannu was the best at using this similar tactic to deal with the Ming army, first a small group of cavalry to impact the Ming army's large array, first rushed the Ming army's large array, when the Ming army began to collapse, the Jiannu cavalry began to wave troops to cover the kill, even if the Ming army was large, it could not withstand the pursuit of the Jiannu cavalry, and there were often only a few Ming troops who could escape, and most of the Ming troops were either killed on the spot, or they could only kneel and surrender to Jiannu.
Today, the cavalry of the Yu family army also used this kind of tactic, but they had one more means, that is, they had double-barreled flintlock short guns in their hands, which could kill a group of pikemen who posed the greatest threat to them in front of the enemy army before charging into battle, and open up the passage for them to step into the formation.
These seven or eight hundred rebels are unlucky, by this group of cavalry of the Yu family's army, killing people on their backs, throwing away their armor, and failing to form an army, just ten minutes, they were almost slaughtered by the cavalry company of the Yu family's army, only a very small number of people with horses such as rebel generals were able to continue to flee, but in this case, they had very few opportunities to escape.
This battle can be said to be the cavalry of the Yu family's army, and after arriving in Denglai, the most exciting battle, they only paid the price of a few casualties, and killed hundreds of rebels, and the results were so brilliant that even they felt incredible.
It can be said that this standard cavalry assault battle created the first small glory of the cavalry of the Yu family's army, and also set a standard model, thoroughly testing the results of their previous many trainings.
After defeating this rebel army, the cavalry of the Yu family army did not continue to advance quickly towards Laizhou City, because Yu Xiaotian had an order to not allow them to act without authorization, and only asked them to beat the rebels first, so that the rebels knew that his Yu family army was coming, and further on, the rebels had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses gathered under the city of Laizhou, once they went too deep, then I am afraid that they would be surrounded by the rebels, in that case, the only mobile force of the Yu family army would be lost here.
No matter how powerful an army is, if it does not have a rapid mobile force as a supporting force, then it can only be a large but clumsy monster, except for its rough skin and thick flesh, it can only be passively defended, to put it mildly, it can only sit and wait to be beaten.
Therefore, this cavalry is very important to Xiaotian, once it is lost, then he will lose a lot, and for a long time, I am afraid that he will not be able to establish such a strong cavalry team.
Therefore, when he sent this cavalry to Laizhou as the vanguard, he had already issued a death order, ordering them not to advance alone, only to attack and harass on the periphery, and not to engage in frontal combat with the main force of the enemy's cavalry, and to ensure their own safety on the premise of destroying the enemy.
This time, Yu Xiaotian chose to rush to Laizhou City on this day, not that he expected in advance that the rebels would use a deception to deceive Laizhou City to open the door on this day, his historical knowledge was not rich to that extent, although he also vaguely remembered that Kong Youde used a deception to surrender and deceived Zhu Wannian out of Laizhou City, and finally Zhu Wannian was killed.
But he couldn't remember when Kong Youde used this trick, so he didn't plan to save Zhu Wannian at this time.
But just two days ago, several scouts who were sent to Laizhou caught two tongues, and one of them actually had a tongue, which was a general of the rebels, who knew something about it, and after interrogation, he learned that Kong Youde was going to use a trick to deceive Laizhou City into opening the door during the Qixi Festival.
Yu Xiaotian still admires Zhu Wannian very much, because in history Zhu Wannian is a very loyal person, although he also guessed that the rebels may have surrendered by fraud, but in order to occupy the righteousness, he still went out of the city without hesitation to surrender, and was controlled by the rebels.
Kong Youde sent someone to escort Zhu Wannian to open the city gate, and ordered the defenders of Laizhou City to give up resistance, but Zhu Wannian refused to obey, scolded Kong Youde and other rebels under the city, and ordered the defenders not to open the door and surrender, and bravely killed the thief, and even he may be the first person in this world to call out and shoot at me, and finally provoked the rebels to kill him.
After Zhu Wannian was killed, the defenders fired a volley of artillery and once again successfully repelled the siege of the rebels, no matter what Yu Xiaotian thought of the Ming officials, but he still admired a person with integrity like Zhu Wannian.
After learning the news, Yu Xiaotian did not continue to procrastinate, but instead ordered the whole army to start marching at full speed, and sent two cavalry companies as the lead to rush to Laizhou City, so as to rush to the vicinity of Laizhou City on the morning of Qixi Festival, and have a contact exchange of fire with the rebels, which is already the most he can do, as for whether he can save Zhu Wannian at a critical moment, it depends on Zhu Wannian's luck.
So the cavalry company was ordered to immediately speed up to Laizhou City, and successfully rushed to the south of Laizhou City about ten miles south of Laizhou City on the morning of the Qixi Festival.
This move, just in time for Zhu Wannian to leave the city, detonated the rebels' plan, exposed his plan to surrender in advance, and led Zhu Wannian not to be caught by the rebels and saved Zhu Wannian's life.
And the actions of the Yu family army also completely angered Kong Youde, who immediately sent the general Chen Shi to lead the elite cavalry of the rebel army to the scene of the accident to intercept the cavalry of the Yu family army.
After defeating this small group of rebels, the cavalry company of the Yu family army did not continue to march quickly towards Laizhou City, but after cleaning up the battlefield, they cut off some heads, and then rested on the spot, so that the horses and soldiers could recover their bodies, because they knew very well that the rebels would definitely get the news immediately after the battle just now, and as expected, they would immediately send elites to rush over.
Therefore, if they continue to ride their horses deeper, whether it is a war horse or a general, they will be in a state of exhaustion, in that case, once they encounter the enemy's elite cavalry brigade, they are afraid that they will be entangled by the enemy, unable to get out, and can only fight to the death, which is not the result that Yu Xiaotian wants.
After they dismounted and fed the horses with water and some essence, the cavalry loosened the belly belts of the horses and led them to walk around slowly, so that the horses could relax and get a better rest, and they themselves took out dry food, and after eating some, they all drank some water with the coconut shell kettle or bamboo kettle they carried.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a cloud of dust to rise in the direction of Laizhou City, and the scouts who were monitoring the enemy's situation from a high place immediately shouted: "Three miles to the north, a large group of rebel cavalry has appeared, and they are rushing towards our position at high speed!" ”
"All of them, prepare the horses, get on the horses! It's time for us to go! Ha ha! The two company commanders of the cavalry company shouted loudly and laughed.
Today they have won a battle, there is no need to continue to stay here, fight the enemy to the end, now that a large number of elite cavalry of the enemy army has rushed over, then their task has been completed, the next thing is to retreat, and then successfully get rid of these rebel cavalry, if they can lead them to the side of the main force of soldiers and horses, it will be better.
So when the rebels were about a mile away from them, all the cavalry of the Yu family army packed up the saddles of their horses, turned over on their horses, and under the leadership of the officers, turned their horses' heads, and galloped towards the road with a large number of heads.
The rebel general Chen sometimes saw the cavalry of the Yu family army from a distance, and he was angry that there was blue smoke on his head, and urged his subordinates to speed up and kill all the damned Fujian cavalry, so as to vent their hatred.
But just as they were about to catch up with this group of Fujian cavalry, this group of Fujian cavalry began to mount their horses, turned their horses' heads and galloped towards their road.
Chen is sometimes even more angry, what is the matter? You fucking don't come early or late, but at this time you came over and ruined the good things of Lao Tzu, killing so many of us, and now Lao Tzu is here, but you are lying to slip away, it is simply unreasonable.
So he immediately ordered to pursue them at full speed, not to let this group of Fujian cavalry escape, and to kill them all.
So more than 1,000 rebel cavalry, shouting and screaming one by one, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, desperately urged the war horses and chased towards the cavalry company of the Yu family's army.
The cavalry company of the Yu family army also immediately accelerated to escape, but the comparison of the war horses of the two sides showed a difference.
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