Chapter 840: Ivan the Terrible, Musket vs. Serial Horse!
The chain iron horse phalanx stepped through Mu Guiying's foot formation, and everywhere he went, the corpses on the ground were trampled by iron hooves!
Mu Guiying's infantry formation could not resist the chain of iron horses that followed like the city wall.
A chain of iron horses with almost no gaps.
The middle phalanx of the Xia army was forced to retreat back a hundred meters.
Fan Lihua plans to lead the Xiliang Iron Horse to attack the chain of iron horses!
"Let's join forces!"
Mu Guiying retreated to Fan Lihua's place and joined forces with Fan Lihua.
The two high-powered women generals also wielded a spear, which was pointed forward, and swept away the chain of iron horses that rushed from the opposite side.
"Their defense is higher than we imagined!"
Mu Guiying found that even if Murong Ke's mounted cavalry was stabbed to death, the war horses connected by iron cables would not stop advancing.
"Focus your attacks!"
Fan Lihua speared into the chain of horses, everywhere were equipped with iron horses, and the high-level heavy cavalry that formed the city wall continued to attack, like a black wave crashing on the reef!
The two women in the phalanx of the chain horses are in danger.
Any general, in front of this group of cavalry that is difficult to cut, also looks vulnerable.
"Watch the flanks!"
When Mu Guiying was about to join forces with Fan Lihua, Zhu Neng, the first fierce general under Ming Chengzu, commanded the cavalry, assaulted the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and covered the chain of iron horses from the flanks.
Zhu Neng held a spear and killed dozens of Xiliang Iron Cavalry by himself!
The Xia army wanted to break the chain iron horse phalanx, and the two horsemen, Zhu Neng and Li Wenzhong, covered the chain iron horse wall advancement!
Zhu Neng and Li Wenzhong's cavalry is not weak, but equally strong!
"The impact of the Liaodong cavalry is really too strong......"
Fan Lihua saw that Mingguan pressed almost all the cavalry to fight a decisive battle with Chutian, and concentrated the elite cavalry to break through head-on, such a big move put the generals of the Xia army under tremendous pressure.
Compared with Chu Tian's spare strength as a back road, Mingguan has almost all the family funds!
When Mu Guiying and Fan Lihua were tired of dealing with the cavalry assault of the Ming army, a reinforcement of 2,000 people arrived, and the tall and bearded soldiers joined the Shenji battalion.
The appearance of this infantry is not the same as the army of the East, but the troops from the Western continent!
If it was only a class of troops from the Western Continent, then it would not surprise the soldiers of the Xia Army.
The real surprise was that this infantry was armed with arquebuses and axes!
The armor-piercing effect of both weapons is quite impressive.
When this elite army from the Tsarist Russian Empire converged with the Shenji Battalion, the number of foot soldiers equipped with firearms grew!
"Array!"
A military general of the Grand Duchy of Moscow drew his sword, his beard shaking.
About two thousand foot soldiers quickly formed a phalanx mixed with muskets and tomahawks!
The Shenji Battalion, which originally suffered losses, was replenished by the Russian musketeers, and the number rose again to 5,000 people!
And not just arquebuses.
This group of tall Tsarist soldiers also has the ability to use long axes in hand-to-hand combat!
The chain of iron horses broke the formation and was about to trample on the Shenji Battalion, and the ground was trembling.
Facing the chain of iron horse phalanxes, it was the musket phalanx composed of the Shenji Battalion and the Russian reinforcements!
The most awe-inspiring wall-type heavy cavalry charge in the era of cold weapons, and the relatively primitive musket line phalanx, in the battle of Liaoxi, in an unexpected form, fight to the death!
Murong Ke also didn't expect that there would be another firearms legion other than the Shenji Battalion, which completely made up for the losses of the Shenji Battalion, and also had hand-to-hand combat ability.
The Shenji Battalion reorganized the defensive line, and the empty arquebuses were aimed at the onrushing chain of iron horses, and Murong Ke's mood sank.
The armor of mounted cavalry is amazing, which does not mean that it will not be broken, and the firearms and arms that are scarce in various civilizations have one of the best armor-piercing effects.
"Attack forward, not backward!"
The Shenji Battalion has participated in the Great War many times, and Murong Ke knows how powerful the Shenji Battalion is.
Even without the general's bonus, the power of the firearms class is amazing.
But as long as they are trampled by the hooves of the war horses by the serial iron horses in the face, the Shenji Battalion has nothing to fear.
The chain of iron horse cavalry clamped the belly of the horse, urging the horse to gallop, and the ground shook again!
Fan Lihua and Mu Guiying fought in front to buy time for the two firearms legions to line up!
Li Xiuning, the princess of Pingyang, led the women's army to quickly support the Shenji Battalion.
From a high place, Chu Tian saw that the reinforcements sent by Catherine were neatly faced, and they were obviously a special army.
Only special firearms can be equipped with arquebuses.
"This is the shooting army established by Ivan the Terrible, which implements a lifelong and hereditary system, with a hundred and ten teams, mainly used to deal with the various khanates left over from the Mongol Empire at that time, as well as against the Swedes and Poles."
"Ivan the Terrible ......"
Chutian knew that this man, the hero of Moscow in the 16th century, the first real tsar in history, completely freed the Rus' from the threat of the Mongols.
The relationship between the Rus' and the Mongols was complex.
The Rus' principalities, once subject to the Golden Horde established by the Mongols Batu, at that time, the Mongol Empire plus the four major khanates, ruled 24 million square kilometers of territory, destroyed the Jin State, the Western Xia, the Song Dynasty, Khorezm, the Arab Empire, captured Moscow, defeated Hungary, the limelight, the limelight.
Later, the Grand Duke of Moscow, Dmitry of the Don, once defeated the 200,000 army of the Golden Horde, provoking the Mongol rule for the first time.
Later, Ivan the Terrible defeated the Crimean Khanate and turned the Grand Duchy of Moscow into the Tsarist Empire, which led to the later powerful Tsarist civilization.
Attacking the Kazan Khanate and the Astrakhan Khanate in the east, forcing the Siberian Khanate to submit, the Cossack leader Yermak explored Siberia and expanded the territory of the Tsarist Empire to the east, which was also the instruction of Ivan the Terrible.
And the shooting army, the elite troops who fought for Ivan the Terrible, used arquebuses, long axes, and sabers!
What is more interesting is that Ivan the Terrible's mother is a descendant of the Golden Horde, that is, Ivan the Terrible has more or less Mongol blood in his body......
"Wait, could it be that the general who commands this shooting army is Ivan the Terrible himself?"
Chu Tian saw that the shooting army was not commanded by Catherine, and the army formation was also neat, and he knew that most of the generals of the shooting army were also famous generals.
It is said that Ivan the Terrible ruled brutally, killing more than 4,000 nobles in 7 years.
If Catherine had recruited Ivan the Terrible, then the Russian Empire would have been in chaos. After all, Ivan the Terrible was not a fuel-efficient lamp either.
Catherine rolled her eyes: "I was originally a tsar, how could I recruit other tsars...... The commander of the shooting corps was Grand Duke Vorotensky under Ivan the Terrible, and the Battle of Moloti defeated 60,000 Tatar cavalry of the Crimean Khanate with 25,000 Russian soldiers. ”
"That's true......"
Chu Tian couldn't help but nodded.
The heroes that can be recruited in "Lord" are characters from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, that is to say, Ivan the Terrible may appear.
But it's only possible.
Ivan the Terrible, Mamat II, Li Shimin, and Liu Xiu are not NPC monarchs of the native period, and generally only exist in dungeons.
After all, in the Tsarist Russian Empire, the more legendary Peter the Great belonged to the heroes of the early Qing Dynasty, and if these characters could be recruited, it would be too rebellious.
Boom! Dense arquebuses rang out, white light flickered, and gunsmoke filled the air!
Boom! After the first row of arquebusiers fired, the second row of arquebusiers immediately took over from the first row of arquebusiers and took turns firing a volley!
The arquebus has a deterrent effect and at the same time is highly lethal!
The front row of mounted cavalry was pierced by arquebuses, and hundreds of high-ranking heavy cavalry were killed!
The original devastated chain iron horse phalanx was advanced into a wall type!
The proud defensive power of the chain iron horse is useless in front of the Shenji Battalion and the Tsarist Russian Shooting Army!
The war horses also seemed to be frightened by the dense sound of muskets, and the phalanx of the chain iron horses was chaotic.
The horses that were shot by the arquebus became a burden to their companions because of the iron cables, affecting the advancement of the entire iron horse phalanx.
The combination of the Shenji Battalion and the Shooting Army, the sound of muskets also frightened all the generals of the Ming Army.
In addition to Mingguan's plan, another legion equipped with firearms appeared, and it was a firearm class from other civilization regions!
The white smoke of gunpowder obscured the backbone of the Xia army, and from time to time crossbow arrows shot out of the smoke, and the smoke along the way was stirred by crossbow arrows.
Murong Ke's chain of iron horses continued to shoot several rounds from the opposite side, killing hundreds of people!
The Iron Horse Phalanx was still advancing, and there was no way for them not to continue advancing.
The iron cables are horizontal, which means that they lack mobility, and they cannot retreat except for moving forward!
If the chain horses can't break the formation, then there is a great chance that they will be wiped out!
It is precisely for this reason that the chain iron horse phalanx will fight to the death!
The chain of iron horse phalanxes approached the Shenji Battalion and the Shooting Army with iron hooves at a tragic price!
Li Xiuning's women's army replaced the iron armor of the heavy infantry, holding a long lance, forming a defensive line to block the front of the two long-range firearms units of the Shenji Battalion and the Shooting Army!
The Serial Iron Horse Phalanx collided with the Women's Army, and the Women's Army faltered, holding the infantry lance with both hands, desperately preventing the Serial Iron Horse Phalanx from continuing to advance.
In the rear, thousands of arquebuses of the Shenji Battalion and the Shooting Army were still firing continuously, causing huge casualties to the chain iron horses.
The intention of the Xia army is also obvious, it wants to completely annihilate this heavy cavalry that threatens the Xia army!
The chain of iron horse cavalry noticed that their war horses were frightened, so they urged their war horses to step up their formation!
Li Xiuning pulled out the Tang knife, and the slash did not hurt enough to the mounted cavalry, so Li Xiuning could only rely on the stabbing of the Tang knife to pierce the armor and bring out the blood when he pulled it out!
The Women's Army also paid a very heavy price in order to block the chain of iron horse phalanxes!
Platoons of muskets were fired, iron horses were mounted, and the number of dead exceeded a thousand!
Equipped with heavy iron armor and expensive chain horses, they are like mustard, and they are not much different from low-level cavalry.
"My hunch is really right, is it possible, this time, my chain of iron horses will be wiped out?"
Murong Ke could already foresee the consequences of the Serial Iron Horse Phalanx continuing to attack the Women's Army.
The Lady Army suffered heavy casualties, and the chain of iron horses was fired by two firearms regiments, and the end was only worse.
However, there is no way to retreat from the chain of iron horses, and there is no possibility of turning the direction at all.
The phalanx of chain horses that shook the battlefield in western Liaoning for a while finally fell under the muskets of the Shenji Battalion and the Shooting Army!
"Lord, the serial iron horse attack on the Xia army has been frustrated, do you want to launch a second batch of offensives?"
Yao Guangxiao had already noticed that Murong Ke's serial horses had lost to the Shenji Battalion and the Shooting Army, so he asked Mingguan for instructions on whether to continue attacking the Xia Army.
Lian Ma was only the first offensive set up by Mingguan, and there were two more offensives to follow.
Mingguan's expression was a little gloomy.
He needed to make a decision whether to continue the offensive or abandon the attack on the Xia army and withdraw to Liaodong.
"We have no way back. The reinforcements of the Xia army exceeded our expectations, but it does not mean that the Xia army cannot be defeated. Continue to attack the Xia army and forcibly break the formation! ”
Although Mingguan intervened in the battle because of the shooting army, he did not intend to give up the attack.
It is different from Lao Qin's conservative practice of giving up Heluo and retreating to Guanzhong.
Mingguan will not give up Liaoxi and retreat to Liaodong.
This is not his style, and at the same time, there is only Liaodong, which is difficult to rise at all.
Since you have made a desperate bet, you must fight until the last soldier remains, otherwise, the forces will only get weaker and weaker!
Although Murong Ke of the chain iron horse phalanx has been defeated, the cavalry of Zhu Neng and Li Wenzhong, who are the left and right wings, has not been defeated.
"All the soldiers obey the order!"
Chang Yuchun served as the cavalry commander of the second batch of offensives.
Murong Ke's chain of iron horse phalanxes was a little tragic, there was no return, in the smoke of gunpowder, one after another fell, and the corpses of war horses and cavalry piled up all over the battlefield!
A large number of the chain iron horses on the front were killed, and Zhu Neng still stood up and fought with Fan Lihua and Mu Guiying!
Zhu Neng's strength was not small, and the cavalry burst out, and Fan Lihua and Mu Guiying also fell into a bitter battle.
Zhu Neng is the first fierce general under the command of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, and only a few dozen cavalrymen dare to attack the 10,000 cavalry on the opposite side!
The chain of iron horses was almost wiped out, and the cavalry of Chang Yuchun came one after another!
"I'll leave the rest to you."
Murong Ke fought five thousand iron horses, severely damaged the Tiger Ben Army and the Niangzi Army, and was almost completely wiped out by firearms and troops.
Chang Yuchun held the tiger head Zhan golden spear in his right hand, and behind him, Mingguan handed over 80,000 cavalry to Chang Yuchun as the second batch of main attack troops!
"Our black powder is running out of steam."
The general of the shooting corps, Grand Duke Vorotensky, reported this unfavorable news.
Chu Tian could only continue to invest in the army: "Dian Wei, you command the Tiger Guard Army, Tai Shi Ci commands the Cowardly Xue Army, and 30,000 low-level cavalry, come forward to fight!" ”
"Harald, you lead the Varangian Guard to join forces with Dianwei and win this battle."
Catherine considered that the cavalry offensive at Mingguan would be more ferocious in the future, and decided that it was time to throw the Varangian Guard into a big battle.
"When the time comes, don't drag me back."
Dian Wei's tiger body was shocked, and in front of Harald, he was not to be outdone.
The Tiger Guards and Varangian Guards both numbered five hundred and belonged to the heavy infantry.
The two fierce generals joined forces, a total of 1,000 people.
Tai Shi Ci's cowardly Xue army had 2,500 horsemen.
Plus 30,000 low-rank cavalry.
"The Women's Legion, the Tiger Army, and the Women's Army lost more than half, and the Shenji Battalion consumed an astonishing amount of black powder and lead bullets in the previous Youzhou War and the current Liaoxi War. Other soldiers and horses may have to be put in. ”
Chu Tian's soldiers and horses also have King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, Joan of Arc's Protector Army, and the five colonels of the Northern Army.
Catherine also had the Poye cavalry, the Polish hussars.
Cao Cao was pinned down by Murong Ba, Monk Wanyan Chen was attacking the artillery positions of the Ming army, and Zhou Yafu fought fiercely with the three kings of Duan's Xianbei and Xianbei.
The Weiqing Legion and the Xu Rong Legion fought with the Xuda Legion, Yuwen Xianbei, and the Goguryeo military general Ulji Wendeok.