Generally speaking, in any army, the front row and the middle row are the most brave and skilled soldiers. Therefore, when the cavalry array of the Runing Army smashed the head of the peasant army's cavalry array like a big cone, the entire array of the peasant army suddenly collapsed outward as if it had been hit by a shock wave.

The peasant cavalry in the back row did not dare to come up and fight desperately, and a few cavalry alone hedged against the cavalry of the Runing Army that was closely arranged, that is, to die. Moreover, the cavalry of the peasant army was reluctant to give up their horses. In these times of war and crisis, with a horse, the survival rate will be much higher.

"Hurry up!" Ma Shou shouted hoarsely. After shouting, he subconsciously wiped his face with his hand.

"Hurry up and give orders everywhere!"

"Move fast!"

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The generals around Ma Shouying and Luo Rucai were also shouting. Their faces were ugly. The most elite 7,000 veterans drawn from his own battalion later added a few teams of cavalry to support, but he did not expect to be defeated by the 2,000 officers and troops on the opposite side. And they were defeated in hand-to-hand combat, which they were best at, how could this not make them tremble.

Moreover, the current situation is very bad, if the cavalry array of the opposing officer and army rushes into their own formation again, it will really make a mess. Now we don't think about defeating the opposing officers and troops anymore, so let's stabilize our position first.

Fortunately, the soldiers in their own formation were not bad, and they immediately formed a gun formation, and arranged archers in front of the gun formation, ready to withstand the charge of the cavalry ranks. And there was also a passage between the gun arrays, so that the cavalry that had broken down could escape back to their own formation.

However, the cavalry of the Runing Army slashed and killed for a while, and did not disperse at all to pursue and kill the scattered cavalry of the peasant army. At the sound of a few hurried long whistles, the cavalry of the Runing army also began to receive, and they returned to their infantry phalanx, carrying their wounded and corpses on their horses. Then he gradually retreated to Liu Guoneng's camp and returned to the place where he set off.

"What should I do?" At this time, Ma Shouying didn't dare to be arbitrary. He asked Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng and other leaders for an idea.

"Run away! However, we were defeated by the 2,000 men of the Wu Butcher and fled, how will the people under that day laugh at our rebels? Luo Rucai has never spoken very politely, so that Ma Shouying and these leaders can only smile bitterly.

"Or send someone to fight again! Arrange more horse teams to guard the cavalry of the official army, and there is no need to fight, just entangle. Then the infantry team followed the original method to defeat Wu Butcher's infantry first. Chengzu did a good job just now, let's use more throwing guns and hand axes! It's better to bring in some more artillery teams and blast the official dog's array out first. Luo Rucai continued.

"It will take a lot of time to redeploy troops, and those artillery pieces are not easy to serve!" Liu Guoneng reminded on the side. If Li Sanhe's troops could not be crushed in one go, it would have a great impact on the morale of the peasant army.

And at that time, the artillery of the Ming Dynasty was basically used to defend the city. So it's particularly bulky. Moving and erecting artillery requires digging pits, burying piles, etc., which is very labor-intensive, so it takes at least an hour.

Luo Rucai glanced at Liu Guoneng and thought, "Didn't you lose the big camp last night, and you need to spend so much money to gnaw on that official army?" ”

Ma Shouying saw that Luo Rucai's expression was not good. was also afraid that he would say something hurtful, so he immediately said: "Look at the official dog opposite." They've also formed their team. It's not bad for a moment. Let's do what Cao Cao said! ”

But at this moment, the roar of artillery was suddenly faintly heard in the distance, which made the faces of the leaders of the peasant army change. Ma Shouying immediately instructed the soldiers behind him: "Hurry up and go to the Eight Great Kings and see how his situation is." ”

A few fast horses galloped away at once. Luo Rucai shook his head and said to himself: "Butcher Wu came so fast!"

Xue Yongli's main force also set off before the rooster crowed, so it was also a night march at the beginning. But it was only three or four miles away. It's already getting dark. And Xue Yongli's actions did not need to be hidden, so he sent out a large number of scouts to strangle all the peasant army spies nearby.

But in this case, the spies of the peasant army were either killed; Or run away. didn't dare to go in the same direction as the Runing Army, so when Xue Yongli rushed to the preset position of the peasant army, Zhang Xianzhong, who was defending there, was still at a loss.

However, it was originally a position defended by the peasant army of the third battalion, but now there is only Zhang Xianzhong's battalion, and the strength is not enough. Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong placed his battalion of soldiers and horses in the middle, and the weaker peasant armies such as Scorpion Block were arranged on the left and right flanks.

However, Xue Yongli's main force came quite quickly, Zhang Xianzhong had no time to mobilize troops and horses, and Xue Yongli's main force also avoided the most heavily defended middle road and launched a fierce attack on the left flank of the peasant army.

In fact, this is also a natural direction of attack. Because that was the location of Li Sanhe's night attack, Xue Yongli didn't know Li Sanhe's current situation, so of course he had to go to meet Li Sanhe first.

And the defense of the peasant army was also crushed with one blow. The leaders of the peasant army were all wrongly judged, they all thought that the Runing army was just fierce with firearms and neat queues, but they didn't know that the hand-to-hand combat of the Runing army was equally fierce, of course, in the previous battles, the Runing army rarely played the characteristics of hand-to-hand combat, and many times, the enemy was completely defeated under the powerful firearms of the Runing army.

Therefore, when the axe gunners of the Runing Army climbed over the trenches and earthen walls in groups of three, the miscellaneous peasant army on the left flank could not stop the attack of the Runing Army at all. And when the Runing army in the back row filled in the obstacles and lined up the phalanx behind the earthen wall, there was no suspense in the battle.

Zhang Xianzhong's reaction was also fast, he immediately asked Li Dingguo to lead his 3,000 cavalry, plus the 2,000 cavalry supported by Luo Rucai, and immediately counterattacked the phalanx of the Runing army, trying to plug this gap.

But this counterattack was also crushed with one blow. Just the long-range fire rounds made those cavalry frightened, and seeing that the phalanx of the Runing army was lined up with a tight line of guns, those cavalry no longer had the will to fight.

Cavalry attacking a well-defended infantry phalanx is the most stupid tactic. It is always necessary to break up the infantry phalanx with long-range weapons first. However, the Runing army had firearms, and the long-range weapons of the peasant army could not be used at all, so those cavalry circled around the periphery of the Runing army's phalanx and no longer dared to approach the phalanx. (To be continued......)