Groups of cavalry took turns to throw their dirt bags forward, and then retreated to the rear of the cavalry brigade. More than 1,000 cavalry were involved, and the whole process was so busy that the high-level of the Taiping Army, who were watching from a distance, couldn't help but secretly admire.

In just a few minutes, the bottom of the wide anti-horse ditch was filled in by a layer.

At this rate, the dirt bags carried by more than a thousand cavalrymen would be enough to fill in a passage that the cavalry could barely rush through before they were used up.

Of course, the Taiping Army will not let it go!

The order spread, and all the foot archers, who had been prepared, gathered and rushed to a distance of forty paces behind the fence of the camp. Under the command of Gao Yueli and Nanbao, nearly two hundred archers stretched their bows in unison and began to fire a volley outside the tent.

The rain of arrows fell in a hurry, and most of them hit the open ground, but many of them still caused casualties to the officers and cavalry who filled the ditch back and forth. Although the leather armor on these light cavalry effectively protected them, this round of sudden arrow rain still shot more than ten cavalrymen, and many more were injured but not killed!

The otherwise smooth action inevitably led to chaos.

There was also a person who was lucky not to be hit by an arrow, but the horse in the crotch was injured, and he was crazy and did not control it, and the son rushed across the distance and fell into the anti-horse ditch. First he slammed his head on the gravel, and then he was crushed by the horse and half of his body, and he couldn't survive in ten years.

"Fight back!"

Ling Jie's face froze, and he looked at the Taiping Army archers inside through the gap in the fence wall, and the murderous aura flashed in his eyes, and he reached the order.

Local cavalry units are generally not equipped with bows and arrows, because cavalry archery has high requirements for soldiers, and only the main force can be generally qualified. But Songjiang is different, Ling Jie's cavalry was set up from the beginning to prevent the pursuit of pirates. Haikou was able to cross the border from Ninghai, naturally there were horses and people to answer him. Therefore, the cavalry of Ling Jie's hand can ride and shoot, and the number of archers is no less than that of the Taiping army's foot archers.

Soon, the cavalry with bows and arrows drove their horses up and began a fierce counterattack!

However, again, the Taiping Army has always attached great importance to the Infantry Bow Battalion. Every time the infantry battalion goes out, almost all of them are protected by special soldiers with shields. The moment they saw the counterattack of the official army from afar, the soldiers of the Taiping Army raised their iron-clad wooden shields together.

It's the same rain of arrows, but the results are different!

Under the double protection of the shields of the companions and the armor on the body, the losses of the infantry battalion were minimal. In the event of a casualty on the shield bearer, the soldier to the right of the vacant seat will move over in turn to fill the gap, and the reserve soldier will catch up to fill the gap on the far right.

Similar drills have been conducted many times on weekdays, and more than once in actual combat, which is enough to ensure that the whole process will not be disordered.

However, although the counterattack of the official army did not work, it also somewhat restrained the infantry archers of the Taiping army. The cavalry behind took the opportunity to rush up and speed up to fill the anti-horse ditch outside the camp. The corpses of some horses that had been seriously wounded or shot dead were also ruthlessly pushed into the ditch by the cavalry.

After almost losing the combat strength of a cavalry brigade, the wide anti-horse ditch was finally barely filled.

Seeing the appearance of a road leading to guò, the cavalrymen in the front row cheered. Then, a series of rope nooses prepared in advance were thrown out, and they were accurately put on the top of the log buried deep in the ground, and then quickly fastened. The front part of the rope sleeve is put on the body of the war horse.

To ensure first-time success, even three or four rope nooses were buckled on a log.

"Open reads();!"

With the command of the cavalry captain, dozens of war horses exerted force together under the whipping of their masters. As they pulled forward, the rope quickly straightened and creaked. The strength of dozens of horsepower is so amazing, the Taiping army has worked very hard when they set up camp, but under the pull of these high-headed war horses, those bowl-thick logs are hard to shake up little by little, and they are pulled down one by one and dragged away.

Another round of arrows is coming!

Some horses were shot in a rain of arrows, but some horses were injured and rushed forward in a rage, which accelerated the destruction of the camp fence. Soon, a gap appeared for two horsemen to pass side by side through guò, and then this gap began to expand rapidly......

More and more cavalry cheered.

In their opinion, although this gang of thieves is difficult, it is nothing more than relying on the camp for defense. Once the camp was destroyed, with the strength of the thief army, it was impossible to block the cluster charge of more than a thousand cavalry. This is not to say that they underestimate the Taiping Army, but in the same situation, even if they are replaced by light infantry of several thousand officers, they still can't stop it!

This evaluation cannot be said to be low in any way.

As the gap widened further, roughly on par with the filled anti-horse communication channel, Ling Jie's eyes flashed with excitement, and with a wave of his horsewhip, he launched the order for the whole army to charge!

"Kill!"

The cavalry shouted Wan Sheng, urging the war horses to rush over the corpses of their comrades and the ground that had not yet been completely leveled, and followed the gap in the fence wall to brazenly enter the camp of the Taiping army!

In the camp, there was silence.

Although there were many military tents nearby, they seemed to be empty, and it was unknown whether they had been transferred to the siege and had not yet returned. The archers, who had previously lined up at a distance of forty paces, also saw that nothing could be done before the fence wall was breached. In its place, only a platoon of rejecting rifles remained.

This thing is indeed a certain threat to the cavalry, but it can't stop more than a thousand cavalrymen in any case.

The cavalry in the front row rushed straight over, trying to destroy them and make the way for the follow-up comrades. Who would have thought that not long after they rushed into the camp, the cavalry fell with a bang - not only outside the camp, but also the Taiping army dug a certain number of earth holes on the east side of their camp, and covered them more insidiously.

After a day in the sun, there are no traces on the surface at all!

The previous foot archers were evacuated through the pedestrian passage reserved for guò.

Obviously, it was impossible for the cavalry to stop at all, and Ling Jie had no intention of asking for it to stop. Among the cavalry who rushed up in one breath, at least a dozen horsemen stepped into the dirt pit one after another, and the people turned over on their backs!

That doesn't mean the ground they're passing through is safe, as it's likely that there are still traps left that haven't been triggered!

"These thieves!"

"Lao Tzu has been a soldier for seven or eight years, and it is the first time I have seen someone digging a pit in his own camp, so he is not afraid of killing his own people!"

A low curse sounded, because it was not clear how many traps the Taiping army had dug, and the cavalry in the front row slowed down slightly and continued to rush towards the depths of the Taiping military camp.

However, hundreds of military tents broke through along the way, and as far as the eye could see, they had never seen a single resisting Taiping army!

Ling Jie's heart, including many sharp-minded cavalrymen, was uneasy in his consciousness. It stands to reason that when the thieves found out that their camp had been breached, shouldn't they have stepped forward to stop them desperately? Why did all the cavalry rush here, but still not a single thief soldier appeared?

Could it be that this is a trap?

Ling Jie's heart was irrepressibly born with this thought.

However, he had explored the camp of the Taiping army in advance. The Banyang River to the south and the terrain to the west limited the cavalry of the official army, which in turn restricted the movement of the Taiping army. It can be seen from the previous siege of the city by the thieves that this group of thieves did not retreat to other places overnight, and must be in the depths of this camp.

With more than a thousand powerful cavalry, even if he had lost a lot of shooting losses in the infantry battalion before, Ling Jie still had absolute confidence in his heart.

He couldn't think of any other arrangement of the Taiping army in the camp to defeat him.

What's more, having reached this point, they can't just miss the opportunity to quit. In order to protect Yuyang Mansion from falling, even if he knew that there were arrangements in front of the thieves, he had to rush over at any cost and completely defeat this group of thieves who dared to run out of Daqing Pass to make trouble!

Breaking through the empty military tent again, the line of sight ahead suddenly widened.

After a brief silence, some of the restless cavalrymen let out a loud noise and spontaneously began to accelerate.

Not far in front of them, the Taiping army, which had not appeared all along, finally appeared in front of them. Dressed in armor similar to that of the officers and soldiers, some of them armed with spears, they hid behind a van, and looked coldly at the officers and cavalry coming from the Wujiang River through the gaps.

These vans look like enlarged versions of ordinary wooden cars, and they seem to be connected to each other with something.

As far as the eye can see, I don't know that dozens or hundreds of large cars spread to both sides, forming a "car wall". Hundreds of thieves are hiding behind this.

Feelings, the reason why the Taiping Army didn't appear was because they got such a thing and wanted to rely on it to fight them.

All the cavalry were reassured.

What is not seen is the most worrying thing. The Taiping army never appeared before, so they could not predict what tricks the Taiping army was up to. Now that the thieves appeared, there were no more unrealistic things in their fantasies, and the cavalry was relieved. The experience of cavalry invincibility since ancient times has cultivated a firm belief in their hearts - except for the city and the heavy infantry corps, nothing cavalry cannot break away!

Trying to block more than a thousand cavalry with a row of vans?

Not to mention the cavalry in the front row, even Ling Jie, who saw the preparations of the Taiping Army, showed a smile that he was sure of victory. He raised his waist knife high, and while driving the war horse in his crotch to sprint, he shouted: "Rush, rush them!" ”

Let this gang of thieves understand the power of the Songjiang cavalry!

With this in mind, almost all the cavalry began to accelerate. Even if the cavalry at the front may sacrifice some, the more than 1,000 cavalry present will definitely be able to crush these vans that the thief army cites as a last resort. At that point, these thieves will inevitably and apparently collapse.

"Shoot!"

At this moment, a loud voice passed through the shouts of a large number of cavalry, and spread all over the battlefield.

Ten bed crossbows erected on the roof of the extra vans behind the side van formation, the strings were well wounded in the morning, and the prelude to the slaughter of the official cavalry was opened by using the direction and angle adjusted in advance!