Chapter 248: Anqing's offensive and defensive battle is over

Xu Tai was like a bamboo, breaking a phalanx, driving away the defeated soldiers as if pushing a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, destroying one phalanx after another. It completely shook the position of King Ning's army.

What can be done is of course that Ning Wang's army has been unable to attack the city, and the people are sleepy and tired, and they have become tired soldiers. But there is also Xu Tai's superb command art, commanding the rout, as if he was commanding his own army, taking advantage of the situation.

However, even if the troops are withdrawn, they need to be well planned. Otherwise, tens of thousands of troops would lose order, and that would be a more terrible thing than defeat.

When Xu Tai broke the third phalanx, he found that there was no enemy in front of him, because the enemy was retreating in great strides.

Even if he was caught off guard, he could bring most of the army down completely, Xu Tai also had a trace of admiration for King Ning, and there were not too many people who could do this.

But admiration is admiration, and we will fight the battle as it should be.

Xu Tai said secretly: "I can't stay here for a long time. Otherwise, you will be surrounded. He understood very well that a large part of the reason why he fought so smoothly was to use the rout to impact the opponent's army formation, and at this moment the enemy army retreated on a large scale, vacating a large space under Anqing City, such an empty space, these rout soldiers are fools will continue to rush up the army formation, and they will only scatter around like flowing water.

When Xu Tai's department was empty above the open space, without the slightest cover, it was the time when King Ning encircled and suppressed them.

Of course, Xu Tai will not stand stupidly and wait for the enemy to besiege, since he is already standing, he should not leave quickly. Immediately turned around and walked towards the west gate of Anqing City.

The drawbridge slammed on the opposite side of the moat, and at this moment the moat immediately did not have a drop of water at all, it was just a trench.

When Xu Tai was about to enter the city, suddenly the ground shook slightly, and the small stone began to jump uncontrollably.

This feeling is too familiar to Xu Tai, isn't that a harbinger of a cavalry attack?

Xu Tai looked back, only to see a cloud of smoke and dust in the distance quickly spreading to this side, the dust was high and rising, it was the cavalry Xu Tai could even estimate the number, about three hundred to five hundred horsemen. Although the number is not large, the power of the cavalry impact should not be underestimated. What's more, these people around Xu Tai were all cavalrymen who didn't ride horses. I know too much about cavalry soldiers.

"Spread out." Xu Tai yelled: "Spread out, don't huddle, don't huddle." ”

Xu Tai has a lot of experience in leading the cavalry to attack the infantry brigade, but as an infantryman, the experience of letting the cavalry charge is very lacking. But he still made the first choice.

Generally speaking, to deal with cavalry impact, it is a large-scale infantry formation, the so-called array is invincible, for cavalry, the impact of the infantry phalanx is simply life for life, is a loss-making business.

However, this means that when the foot soldiers have the determination to exchange their lives for their lives, if they don't, most of them can rush away, but many of them are scared away. And not the defeated. But this point, the current Xu Tai can't do.

First of all, Xu Tai's men had trained many things, but they had not been trained to meet the onslaught of cavalry as foot soldiers. In general, it is they who hit others, not the other way around.

Forming a formation against cavalry may seem easy to say, but in reality, there are quite a few tricks. Not everyone can do it without training.

Since you can't form a formation, let's do the opposite. It's even more unsafe to let everyone disperse, but there is one thing that makes these people different from ordinary people.

They were all cavalry, and although they had no horses now, they were still cavalry.

They are familiar with horse nature and have their own methods of how to deal with horse shocks. So as soon as these horses rushed over, they naturally found a way to dodge.

If you can't hide, you can only accept your fate.

Hundreds of horses came and went, and they actually ran out of the momentum of thousands of horses. And all the people around Xu Tai scattered, giving people a feeling of scattering as soon as they rushed.

Looking at the two sides below from the castle tower, there is an extremely sharp contrast.

Zhu Houhuang said secretly: "It's not good. He immediately said, "Go with Lonely." ”

The west gate of Anqing was opened violently, and Zhu Houhuang led hundreds of musketeers and archers across the moat to start shooting at the cavalry. Due to the fear of accidental injury, the accuracy of the musket is extremely poor, almost scaring people, and the bow and arrow can also exert some power.

Zhu Houhuang looked at it for a while, and then realized that things were not as they thought.

Xu Tai let all the people around him disperse, as if these cavalry suddenly lost their purpose. The people around Xu Tai naturally knew where to hide from the impact of the horses, and most of them jumped into the moat.

There was no water in the moat for a long time, only a trench remained.

These five hundred horsemen were accumulated by King Ning little by little, and the south was not a horse-producing land. In Xu Tai's opinion, these horses are just who can barely be called war horses.

And there were good riders in the south, and they did not dare to ride their horses and cross the moat directly. So naturally, the speed was reduced in front of the moat.

The cavalry lost speed and had no advantage in front of the infantry.

Xu Tai whistled, and he suddenly thought that a cavalryman pounced, and cut off the entire horse's head with a sword, and the rider on the horse fell to the ground with a bang.

For a while, people and horses were mixed and scuffled together.

But in general, the cavalry still has the upper hand, the power of the horses is great, as long as they hit anyone, no one will be able to stand it, and the knight is condescending on the horse and can use the horsepower. However, to achieve such a melee, at least it is no longer a one-sided slaughter of foot soldiers.

Zhu Houhuang immediately ordered the musketeers to cross the moat and come to their aid. No matter how bad the accuracy of these muskets is, they can still be hit by aiming at the horses a few paces away.

As muskets rang out, the horses fell to the ground. King Ning's cavalry is King Ning's treasure, and he didn't know how to work so much, so many people were killed, and the leading generals couldn't bear the pressure and finally retreated.

The battlefield left behind is full of devastation. Xu Tai's eyes were full of anger, and he scolded viciously: "Lao Tzu must have a hundred horses in his hands, and he has to be called an ancestor." ”

How could Xu Tai ever be bullied like this? Especially in the last cavalry impact, although Xu Tai also made a series of measures to redeem it, but the foot soldiers had a natural weakness in the face of the cavalry. The cavalry he led was used as infantry, breaking three formations in a row, with less than 100 casualties, but when he was rushed by the cavalry, the casualties rushed to the 300 mark at once, if it wasn't for Zhu Houhuang even if he brought people to help, his casualties would have been even greater.

"How is Anbianbo doing?" Zhu Houhuang asked.

Xu Tai immediately put away his scolding face, saluted and said, "The minister greets His Royal Highness King Yong." ”

Zhu Houhuang pulled Xu Tai up and said, "What are you polite to Gu, where is the imperial brother now?"

Xu Tai respectfully bowed his hand in the direction of Nanjing and said, "Your Majesty is already sitting in Nanjing." ”

"Oh," Zhu Houhuang was overjoyed and said, "In other words, reinforcements will arrive soon?" ”

Xu Tai looked left and right and said, "Your Highness, this is not the place to speak. ”

Zhu Houhuang immediately knew that it was not so easy for reinforcements to come, and there must be something strange in it, otherwise Xu Tai would not let him avoid the left and right.

"What? Brother Huang didn't follow the team at all, but led more than 100 guards alone into Nanjing City? Zhu Houhuang was surprised.

"Exactly." Xu Tai said: "Although Your Majesty has arrived in Nanjing, the reinforcements will have to wait for a while. ”

This reason is very strong, very virtuous, and completely full of Zhengde's style of doing things, isn't he afraid that King Ning's men will assassinate him? Zhu Houhuang was surprised by Zhengde's behavior. It really doesn't look like an emperor did it.

Xu Tai thought that Zhu Houhuang was worried about the defense of Anqing City, and immediately said: "Your Highness, don't worry, the lower official came here this time, and he brought a mount, although the men and horses are a little damaged now, but there are seven hundred cavalry, and the minister dares to guarantee that he will not let King Ning have a little intention of attacking the city." ”

Zhu Houhuang naturally believed that with a formed cavalry force, the initiative in the war would fall into their hands. Anqing City will be as stable as Mount Tai.