Chapter 118: Stepping into the Formation

Such a level of equipment is definitely beyond the equipment level of their rebel cavalry, and it must have a fairly strong impact power, and with their strength, they can't stop these cavalry of the Fujian official army at all, so they panicked even more.

But even so, the rebel general did not dare to leave his post without permission, and immediately fled with his troops, so he could only bite the bullet and beckon his men to hurry up and line up, and transfer the pikemen to the front of the formation, and the archers were also arranged behind the pikemen, ready to carry them for a while, to see if they could hold out until the reinforcements came.

At this time, on the side of the official cavalry, a large number of cannons were suddenly released, and rockets shot up into the sky, and then exploded in the air, blowing up clouds of black smoke.

The cavalry of the officers and soldiers slowed down their horses a little at a distance of hundreds of paces away from them, adjusted their formation, and let the horses breathe a little, and then they immediately formed a sharp formation, and began to slowly lift their horses forward, so that the horses were in a relaxed state, and jogged.

A trace of fear flashed in the eyes of the rebel general, because this behavior of the other party's cavalry showed that they were a well-trained cavalry, absolutely elite, and they controlled the rhythm of the war horses very well, making the men and horses cooperate quite well.

On the way they came, they must be relatively fast, and the consumption of the body of the war horse will be relatively large, if they rush directly over, the war horse will not be able to maintain a fast enough speed, which reduces their impact and destructive power.

Therefore, the officer of the other party, who knew this very well, immediately led his troops to rush over and kill him, but stopped the war horse hundreds of paces away, and let the cavalry and the war horse rest a little, and the cavalry dismounted and tightened the belly belt of the war horse, so that the war horse rested a little.

This can make the war horse recover a certain body, and then they get on the horse and start to march in formation, but they still let the war horse jog, which means that they know the habits of the war horse very well, and this kind of jogging makes the war horse gradually adjust to the state before the start of the charge, so that the excitement of the war horse is mobilized.

Then they will gradually increase their speed, and by the time they rush to the rebels, the horses have increased to their maximum speed, and the cavalry will have the strongest impact and combat effectiveness, and only the veteran cavalry will know these ways.

This time, the rebel general did not dare to underestimate these Fujian cavalry, and secretly screamed in his heart! I'm afraid they're going to be out of luck today.

Sure enough, after the cavalry of these Fujian official troops started again, they first slowly let the war horses in a state of jogging, and when they walked within 200 steps in front of the rebel formation, these cavalry began to speed up, and the war horses gradually accelerated from jogging to fast running, and under the control of the cavalry, they were constantly accelerating.

All the cavalry began to lower their bodies, their feet tightened their stirrups, their legs were forced, their hips were raised, they were removed from the saddle, and their upper bodies were pushed forward, as low as possible, and with the neck of the war horse, most of their bodies were blocked, and the goal of their bodies was reduced to the lowest level.

It was already quite difficult for the archers to shoot them, and instead of removing their spears, they took off a cavalry shield in their left hand, which was hidden in front of them, protecting most of their bodies.

At this time, the speed of the war horse was already quite fast, as the war horse continued to speed up, they were getting closer and closer to the rebel array, and the rebels listened to the rumbling hooves of the opposite side at this time, and watched the opposing cavalry rush towards them like a torrent, and many rebels were already panicking.

They are not stupid, they can see that this cavalry is not good at stubble, it must be very difficult to deal with, if they rush over, even if they hit their guns, the high-speed impact of the war horse can still knock them away, or even kill them alive.

This is a life-threatening way of attacking, these rebels are psychologically, at this time they are already at an absolute disadvantage, one by one cold sweat, scared of the two wars, and finally in the front of some pikemen, at this time can no longer bear the psychological pressure, suddenly exclaimed, threw away the spear in his hand, turned around and fled to the back, and then the back of the archers were disrupted.

And those foot archers themselves were frightened enough at this time, and when they were rushed by the deserters, some of them simply lost their bows, and also turned around and ran.

As a result, before the cavalry of the officers and soldiers could rush to them, the rebel front had already thrown itself into disarray.

At this time, the rebel shouted and cursed, and waved his knife again and again, cutting off several deserters, trying to contain his men and continue to form a defense.

The rebel generals know very well that at this time, the collapse of the battle formation is tantamount to suicide, in the face of cavalry pursuit, they have no chance to escape at all, so at the moment, their only chance is to form a formation to hold on to the end, cavalry is also a person, should not be stupid enough to slam into the spear formation with men and horses, in that case, even if they break through the enemy formation, the cavalry at the front will have to follow the play.

At this time, it is a fight for whose psychological element is stronger, then who is the final victor, but obviously, the psychological element of the rebels is far from being as good as the psychological element of the Fujian cavalry, and some rebels have broken psychologically and began to lose their hands and run away, and the formation they finally formed began to disperse at this time.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Block them! The rebel roared hysterically.

Those rebel archers who were already scared of the fart, at this time, they didn't need him to greet them, so they had already started to release arrows, more than 100 foot archers, you rushed to shoot arrows forward, and they didn't care if they couldn't shoot the enemy, they just played with their lives.

The bows and arrows of these rebels fell in front of the cavalry ranks, and most of them failed to enter the cavalry formation, because the rebels were so nervous that they had already begun to release arrows before the cavalry could enter their range, and the first wave of arrows rained down.

And the rebel archers hurriedly began to shoot their bows again, ready to fire again, at this time, in an instant, the cavalry of the Yu family army had already rushed out of a long distance, and they were about to reach the eyes of the rebels.

At this time, even if some arrows fell in the cavalry formation, most of them were blocked by the shields held by the cavalry, and in fact, the cavalry was not strict about killing and wounding.

A few arrows hit the war horse, and only then did the war horse be frightened, which caused some impact on their formation, and a small number of cavalry, because the war horse was frightened, was thrown off the war horse and became the first batch of victims.

There are also a few cavalrymen who are hit by arrows, but their main torso wears plate armor, which is very strong, and the arrows can't shoot through their plate armor at all, on the arc-shaped plate armor, a spark is drawn, and then it slides over the cavalry's body and falls to the ground, basically unable to hurt the cavalry, even if it hits the limbs, the cavalrymen's shoulders and arms are also covered with armor, and they still can't effectively shoot through, at most they are slightly injured.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Yu family army suffered very few casualties during the attack, which were almost negligible.

But what was strange was that they had rushed to a distance of thirty or forty paces in front of the enemy's line, and each of them had not taken off his rifles, or drew his sabre, but each of them raised his right hand, holding a short, sharp double-barreled musket in his right hand.

It wasn't until thirty paces away that the cavalrymen who were rushing to the front suddenly pulled the trigger, and twice in a row, only to hear the front of the cavalry, and immediately there was a sound like a burst of beans, and a bullet, like a shower, immediately swept across the front of the rebels.

At the forefront of the rebels were pikemen, who were not elite in their own right, and their equipment was of very poor quality, with only a handful of officers wearing armor, and it was not very good armor, at best some cotton armor.

In front of the Mine's bullets fired from the rifled flintlock short guns in the hands of the cavalry, these rebels could not resist such a blow, and the pikemen in the front row were immediately cut down as if they had been cut grass, and the foot archers standing behind them were exposed to the cavalry.

"Chisel through tactics! Rush! The cavalry officer in the cavalry squad shouted loudly at this time, drew his saber from his waist, and raised it above his head.

Those cavalrymen who had fired their guns threw away the guns with a flick of their hands, but these guns had a spear attached to their waists, and even if they threw away the guns, the guns would hang on their waists and not be lost.

But this action saves them time to put away their guns, allowing them to buy the most precious seconds to take off their riding guns from the saddle.

All the cavalrymen quickly took off their rifles, tucked them under their armpits, held their shields in their left hands and their guns in their right hands, the tips of which were flat and slightly lowered, pointing right at the enemy's chest.

At this time, the war horses carrying the cavalry on their backs had been raised to the fastest speed, and they rushed directly into the enemy formation, and the rebel spearmen were either killed at this time, or they were so frightened that they turned around and ran, and threw their backs to the cavalry of the Yu family's army, as well as those panicked rebel foot archers, at this time, they all screamed, lost the bows and arrows in their hands, turned around and ran.

At this time, the rebel array had already become a pot of porridge, and the rebel general also knew at this time that if he didn't run, he would be finished, so he quickly turned the horse's head, didn't care about anything, turned around and began to accelerate, kicked the horse's belly, and drove the war horse with his life, turned around and galloped in the direction of Laizhou City.

Two cavalry companies, so to speak, almost effortlessly swept away the rebels who had intercepted them.

The cavalrymen rushed past the rebels with their spears in a flash, and with a shock of their wrists, they slammed forward, and with the speed of their horses, the sharp tips of the cavalry spears pierced the enemy's body with lightning speed.