Chapter 295: Battle Eight Banners
"Kill!"
The Qingzhou Legion came towards Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun's cavalry phalanx, and the Eight Banners cavalry attacked Xue Rengui's department, using a compound bow with ribs and corners, and the heavy arrows had strong penetration and lethality!
The rain of arrows fell into the Xuzhou light cavalry, and was seriously injured or killed by the low-level cavalry who hit!
Xue Rengui personally led the Tang Dynasty archers to fight with the Eight Banners cavalry, and his cavalry also had a strong ability to break armor.
Zhao Yun's White Horse Yicong fought with Wu Sangui, facing the heavily armored Guanning Iron Cavalry, and fell into a bitter battle. Bai Ma Yi was inferior to the heavy cavalry of the Shangguanning Iron Cavalry level, and the damage was insufficient.
"Use the heavy cavalry!"
Xue Rengui's white-robed army also had an ordinary heavy cavalry, numbering four thousand, which was used by Xue Rengui to deal with the Guanning Iron Cavalry. In the absence of heavy infantry, heavy cavalry can only be used against heavy cavalry!
Zhao Yun personally led 4,000 heavy cavalry and took the initiative to attack the Guanning Iron Cavalry!
Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry held a three-eyed fire gun to meet Zhao Yun, and there were Qingzhou heavy cavalry behind the Guanning Iron Cavalry.
It's a clash between heavy cavalry!
The most effective way to face the Three-Eyed Gun is to attack directly and break through the range of the Firebolt as quickly as possible!
The iron hooves were rolling, Zhao Yun put on heavy armor, basically only half of his face was exposed, and his sharp eyes looked straight ahead.
The most terrifying thing about the Guanning Iron Cavalry is the shooting and deterrent power of the Three-Eyed Fire Gun.
Several rows of three-eyed firecrackers took turns shooting, white smoke filled, and when they entered a distance of twenty or thirty meters, the armor-piercing ability of the firecrackers was strong, even the armor of the heavy cavalry was shot through! The heavy cavalry whose armor was pierced by the projectile fell from their horses, and even the armor of the people fell to the ground!
Zhao Yun's war horse was frightened and continued to charge under the control of Zhao Yun's horsemanship!
In the face of the immature firearms in "Lord", charging at full speed is the best way to crack the firearms!
After sacrificing a row of heavy cavalry, Zhao Yun came to the front of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the spear pierced the armor of the Guanning Iron Cavalry with the help of inertia, and brought a cavalry off the horse, which was fierce!
Two torrents of heavy cavalry collided in the smoke that had not yet dissipated!
The Guanning Iron Cavalry brandished the three-eyed fire gun, and regarded the fire gun as a blunt weapon to hammer the oncoming Xuzhou heavy cavalry!
The Xuzhou heavy cavalry in the first three rows used the horse lance, and with the advantage of the length of the horse lance, they pierced the Guanning iron cavalry!
Wu Sangui didn't expect that there were heavy cavalry equipped with horse lances in the white-robed army, the three-eyed fire gun looked stubby in front of the horse lance, the horse lance made the Guanning iron cavalry suffer a big loss, and the Guanning iron cavalry in the front row was pierced by the sharp horse lance!
The Guanning Iron Cavalry in the back row slashed the three-eyed fire gun and smashed the helmet of the Xuzhou heavy cavalry, causing the head to be concussed with great force! Guan Ning Iron Cavalry smashed down with a fire gun again!
The Guanning Iron Cavalry in the rear was still waiting for an opportunity to shoot with a three-eyed firearm, and sporadic gunpowder explosions sounded.
Zhao Yun killed several Guanning Iron Cavalry in a row, and killed Wu Sangui behind the Guanning Iron Cavalry!
The White Horse Yoshiko roamed around, shooting with a bow and arrow, covering their commander. The rain of arrows rained down, constantly hitting the armor, some of the arrows piercing the armor, and some of the arrows were bounced off by the heart glasses!
"Heavy cavalry step forward!"
Wu Sangui did not fight Zhao Yun head-on, and there was also an ordinary heavy cavalry behind him, trying to use the heavy cavalry to contain Zhao Yun's troops.
Two torrents of steel collide, and the speed of both sides gradually slows down, using blunt weapons, spears, and sabers in hand-to-hand combat!
Zhao Yun went straight to Wu Sangui, but was blocked by the opponent's heavy cavalry, the spears were sharp, and the several heavy cavalry that blocked Zhao Yun were all killed by Zhao Yun!
A Guan Ning iron rider held a three-eyed firearm in both hands and smashed it down!
Zhao Yun used his spear to block the three-eyed firebolt, and because of the weight of the firebolt, the wooden pole of the red tassel spear bent inward.
Zhao Yun shouted, pushed the three-eyed firearm away, and the spear pulled the cavalry off the horseback!
"Xuzhou is really a fierce general, but even if you block my Guanning iron cavalry, but the infantry and archers of our Qingzhou Legion, how can you resist?"
Wu Sangui was afraid of Zhao Yun, who was fighting bloodily, and he didn't dare to end the battle in person, so he could only continue to command the cavalry to encircle and suppress Zhao Yun.
Zhao Gongzi and Tai Shici took advantage of the Eight Banners cavalry and Guanning Iron Cavalry to drag Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun, and drove the infantry and archers to attack forward in a mixed phalanx.
The heavy infantry in the front row, armed with guns and shields, pressed forward step by step.
In the Chinese army of Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun, a group of dismounted cavalry barely cobbled together an infantry phalanx to block the advance of the opposing infantry and archers, and it was Liu Sandao, the former general of Langya State, who commanded the infantry phalanx.
"There are too many enemies!"
Liu Sandao handed over the heavy responsibility of blocking Zhao Gongzi and Tai Shici to Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun, and his heart collapsed. He is in the power of Chutian in Xuzhou, and now he is not even a second-rate general. This time he went out with the army, just Chu Tian gave him a chance to make meritorious contributions.
Before the battle, Liu Sandao dug a trench in front of the phalanx and set up a wooden fence in order to delay Zhao Gongzi and Tai Shici as much as possible.
Liu Sandao felt that his legs were trembling, and there were three times the number of troops on the other side, as well as Tai Shici.
It's too difficult for him to be an ordinary general.
Archers on both sides threw a rain of arrows, and hundreds of dismounted cavalrymen were shot.
For the lord, as long as the cavalry's horses were not killed, the losses were not too large.
The two sides fought fiercely, and the heavy infantry of the Qingzhou Army broke through Liu Sandao's phalanx, which was blocked by trenches and wooden fences. Liu Sandao's phalanx barely gained a foothold with its rudimentary fortifications.
The situation is not optimistic, because the crossbowmen led by Tai Shici caused a lot of damage to Liu Sandao, and the wooden fence was full of arrow feathers, like hedgehogs!
"Although there are many generals in Xuzhou Chu Zimou, Chu Zimou has no skills, and the guards in front are obviously just mediocre talents, and they still use dismounted cavalry."
Zhao Gongzi can judge the level of the generals on the opposite side through the situation. Liu Sandao's phalanx was somewhat weak.
"Please let the last general lead the cavalry to storm the enemy formation, but you can break the enemy in one battle!"
Xue Wanche, a fierce general of the Tang Dynasty, held a horse lance and rode a war horse covered with heavy armor, with a huge size, and planned to lead the cavalry to make a pig attack on Liu Sandao's phalanx.
"Wait a minute, the infantry is destroying the obstacles set by the other side...... You go with your army to support Dorgon. ”
Zhao Gongzi saw that the Eight Banners cavalry and a group of light cavalry were in a bitter battle, so he ordered Xue Wanche to go to support Dolgon.
"The last general obeys!"
Xue Wanche shook his horse lance and led three thousand cavalry to support Dolgon and meet Xue Rengui!
Xue Rengui led the Tang Archer cavalry to attack the Eight Banners Cavalry, two thousand Tang Archers against one thousand Eight Banners Cavalry, Xue Rengui had the advantage, relying on the numerical advantage of the high-level cavalry, and directly fought with the Eight Banners Cavalry!
Xue Rengui held the god and ghost Fang Tian painting halberd, and rushed straight towards Dolgon, Fang Tian painted the halberd and wielded it, killing dozens of Eight Banner cavalry by himself!
Dolgon used a compound bow and tried to shoot Xue Rengui, but the iron arrow was knocked away by Xue Rengui with Fang Tian's halberd!
Blood stained the white armor of the red and white flag cavalry, even if it was a high-level cavalry, it still looked weak in front of Xue Rengui.
"Such a brave ......"
Dolgon retreated with his own soldiers, not daring to confront Xue Rengui head-on.
The war horse galloped, and Xue Rengui actually planned to kill one hundred and eight banners with the strength of one person!
The white flag cavalry who fell from the horse got up and played the role of heavy infantry to behead Xue Rengui's war horse!
The war horses that had been accompanying Xue Rengui on the expedition lost their front hooves, Xue Rengui landed, and several Eight Banner cavalrymen held spears, condescendingly, and stabbed at Xue Rengui!
Xue Rengui fought on foot, wielding Fang Tian's halberd to cut off the spears of the Eight Banners cavalry!
"Die!"
Xue Rengui picked off a cavalryman of the Eight Banners and dismounted, and one strateged, grabbed the horse and fought! Like a man who was fine, he continued to kill the Eight Banners Cavalry.
Everything was carried out in the chaotic army, and Xue Rengui's bravery frightened the Eight Banners cavalry and took refuge one after another.
With the strength of one person, a group of high-ranking cavalrymen are feared, and I am afraid that only a few generals can do it!
"Xue Rengui is here to fight!"
When the Eight Banners cavalry was killed by Xue Rengui, Xue Wanche came with a horse lance and stabbed Xue Rengui!
Xue Rengui used Fang Tian's painting halberd to block! Two weapons collide and sparks fly!
"That's a lot of strength!"
Xue Wanche is burly and a powerful general, but in the face of the young Xue Rengui, he was suppressed in terms of strength, and he couldn't help but be shocked.
"You're a good hand!"
Xue Rengui rarely encountered an enemy with acceptable force, so he fought with Xue Wanche, Fang Tian painted a halberd and stabbed it, and the horse lance blocked Fang Tian's halberd, and the two sides fought for more than a dozen rounds.
Xue Wanche's face gradually turned pale, because he found that if he continued to fight, he might become Xue Rengui's defeated men.
Xue Rengui fought bravely in order to share the pressure for Liu Sandao.
He successfully attracted Xue Wanche over.
The battle between Zhao Yun and Wu Sangui was stalemate, and Wu Sangui had the advantage of troops, ambushed a team of archers, and shot many of Zhao Yun's cavalry.
Wu Sangui is a difficult opponent, he has always been an enemy of Chu Tian, and he is committed to defeating Chu Tian, so he fights bravely.
When the cavalry on both wings were fighting, on the frontal battlefield, the main infantry force supervised by Zhao Gongzi and Tai Shici had broken through Liu Sandao's phalanx, and Liu Sandao's phalanx was recessed backwards!
"Soon I will break through the phalanx in front, once Chu Zimou's white-robed army suffers heavy losses, no one will be able to resist my annexation of Langya Kingdom."
Zhao Gongzi has the chance to win.
Liu Sandao was just an ordinary gold-level general, and his soldiers were cavalrymen who dismounted and formed a formation, and faced Tai Shici's archers, suffering heavy casualties.
"It's a little weird, though...... Why did the white-robed army strengthen its flanks, while the Chinese army was so vulnerable? ”
Zhao Gongzi can stand out from the Qingzhou Lords, after all, he is a shrewd lord, and the smoother the progress, the more uneasy he becomes.
"Could it be that the White-robed Legion intends to break my flanks and then flank me? But my two wings are also strong, and it is definitely my Chinese army that breaks through their Chinese army first! ”
Zhao Gongzi thought about it for a while, thinking that Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun were using the tactics of outflanking on both wings.
The outcome of the war depends on whether Xue Rengui and Zhao Yun are the first to defeat the opponent's two wings, or Zhao Gongzi and Tai Shici are the first to defeat the opponent's Chinese army!
Obviously, Liu Sandao could not block the superior forces of Zhao Gongzi and Tai Shici.
"Victory, it's mine!"
Zhao Gongzi thinks victory is within reach!
Suddenly, there was a shout of killing in the rear of the Qingzhou Legion, and Hua Mulan led more than 10,000 light cavalry to cross the hills and go straight to the enemy camp!
The Qingzhou Army was defenseless, the camp fell, and Mulan turned to attack the rear of Zhao Gongzi!
The Iron Eagle Scout bent his bow and shot the reserve behind Zhao Gongzi! The reserve soldiers were knocked down by Mulan's cavalry, and the horse's hooves trampled over them!
Hua Mulan wielded a horse lance, killed more than ten enemy soldiers in a row, blood splashed, and the enemy general was beheaded!
The cavalry units that suddenly attacked cut into the enemy formation, and the momentum was like a bamboo!
"My lord, there are enemy cavalry attacking the rear of our army!"
When Zhao Gongzi received the news that Mulan's cavalry was attacking the rear, he had been lured to the enemy position by Liu Sandao, and the battle line was elongated, making it difficult to support the rear.
Liu Sandao was not recognized by Zhao Gongzi because Liu Sandao did not know that Hua Mulan would lead light cavalry to raid the enemy's rear, and Liu Sandao was purely unable to stop Zhao Gongzi by himself......
"Why can they bypass my scouts?!" Zhao Gongzi hurriedly commanded, "Order Xue Wanche to come back to help, or Dolgon to come back!" ”
Xue Wanche was dragged by Xue Rengui, only Dolgon returned to the division, and there were only five hundred cavalry left in the Eight Banners beside him. In addition to the five hundred Eight Banner cavalry, there were more than a thousand low-rank cavalry.
The rear was full of fleeing soldiers, blocking Dolgon's return to the division, making Dolgon restless.
Mulan's cavalry held Tang swords in their hands and wantonly pursued and killed the rout in the rear.
She saw a group of white-armored cavalry, so she took off her horned bow and threw a rain of arrows at Dorgon with two thousand Iron Eagle scouts!
Iron Eagle Scouts don't need to aim, there are enemies everywhere, and as long as the arrows rain, there will always be dead and wounded!
Holding a goose feather knife in his hand, Dolgon struggled to block the rain of arrows, and an arrow hit his skirt armor, sending a sharp pain in his thigh! This arrow has broken through the skirt armor's defenses!
Feeling pained, Dorgon ordered the Eight Banners cavalry to shoot arrows at the Iron Eagle Scouts to return fire.
Both sides are good at using bows and arrows, and several arrows swept past Mulan, who was not afraid and took a bow and shot at a cavalryman of the Eight Banners!
The Eight Banners cavalry was hit by an arrow in the forehead and died on the spot!
The Iron Eagle Scouts, who were four times the number of the Eight Banners, washed the Eight Banners cavalry with a rain of arrows, and Mulan's cavalry also suffered a lot of casualties, and the heavy arrows of the Eight Banners cavalry were very deadly.
Although Mulan was distressed by the loss, she was indifferent on the surface.
Generals die in a hundred battles, and so do soldiers!
Ci is not in charge of the soldiers!
The number of the Eight Banners cavalry was rapidly decreasing, and in addition to the Iron Eagle Scouts, a large number of low-rank light cavalry were also killed, trying to overwhelm Dolgon.
Dolgon's personal strength was not top-notch, and he could easily be killed once he was surrounded by a large number of light cavalry.
"Retreat!"
Unable to turn the tide, Dolgon led his cavalry to retreat in order to save his life.
Hua Mulan took this opportunity to drive the cavalry straight in, and the Qingzhou Legion fell into complete chaos!
Because of Mulan's unexpected offensive, it collapsed all the way, and all three collapsed!
"Lord, the general trend has gone, we can gather forces and break through."
Tai Shi Ci held a halberd in his hand and gathered all the troops nearby. It didn't make much sense to continue to break through Liu Sandao's phalanx, Liu Sandao was just a bait for the white-robed army.
"We can lose, but we can't lose!"
Zhao Gongzi did his best to maintain the formation with Tai Shici and retreated in an orderly manner.
He allowed defeat, but he could not destroy them all. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the population of Beihai Country is not large, and the main army is completely annihilated, and for him, it may be a collapse.