Chapter 280: Insurmountable (Asking for a Monthly Pass)
"Woo" At this time, the elephant soldiers blew their horns, and then they urged the elephant soldiers, began to speed up, and ran forward frantically.
Behind each elephant, there is a trumpet of the native soldiers, who take out something and whip the elephant's fart, tail.
The elephant picked up speed like crazy, and the whole earth seemed to boil.
The officers and soldiers on the other side were dumbfounded, and they had never seen elephant soldiers who were not afraid of firearms.
In the panic of the officers and soldiers, the elephant soldiers took the lead in rushing into the ranks of the officers and soldiers.
Boom, the scene is almost like a bulldozer, pushing all the way horizontally.
The elephants shook their noses, lifted their huge hooves, and their tough bodies went on a rampage, and the ghosts and wolves of the officers and soldiers who were hit cried wolf howls and fell apart everywhere.
Wang Bin was overjoyed when he saw the situation, and immediately ordered the Tusi soldiers to rush forward and take advantage of the chaos to attack.
The right flank of the officers and troops was suddenly in a hurry, and they were defeated and retreated, and soon the mountains and fields were full of retreating figures of the officers and troops.
The right side suddenly suffered a fiasco, and Xue Lu couldn't believe it.
The officers and soldiers beat the undisciplined Tusi soldiers with twice as many soldiers and horses, and they were actually defeated by the elephant soldiers?
But he couldn't believe it and couldn't help it, Xue Lu must have been with King Yan and Tan Yuan, his mind was spinning wildly, how to get back a game.
The collapse of the right flank will not affect the overall situation for the time being, because the elephant soldiers are relatively slow, so although the officers and troops are defeated, they can still retreat safely.
If there is cavalry on the opposite side and take advantage of the situation to cover the kill, then the collapse of the right flank may cause a total rout.
While Xue Lu ordered to regroup on the right flank and stabilize the retreating soldiers and horses, he was frantically thinking about how to turn defeat into victory.
In any case, it must not affect the fierce battle between the Chinese armies on both sides, and the two sides invested a large number of infantry battalions in the middle of this battle, which is the decisive battle.
He thought about it, what would he do when King Yan was there?
Rush? Rush rush?
He thought that King Yan and the Southern Army had fought a few times, and seeing that the situation was unfavorable, they all concentrated the elite and rushed straight to the large formation of the Central Army of the Southern Army.
Put all oneโs eggs in one basket?
Xue Lu took a deep breath, and a gambler's hideous look appeared on his face.
At this time, all the cavalry and 20,000 reserves in his hands did not move, adding up to more than 30,000 people.
"The herald ordered all the cavalry and the rest of the rear troops and horses to attack again from the southwest and rush the opponent's central army in a large formation."
He decided to go through the opponent's waist and not from the front.
Because the two sides are fighting, it is difficult to distinguish the winner.
The position of the southwest re-attack is the position where the elephant soldiers and Xiang Jie have just fought each other, the official army is newly defeated, but the rebel army has few soldiers, and they dare not chase too far, and immediately retreat after chasing for a while.
Although the officers and troops suffered a crushing defeat in this round, the main force still existed, and the rebel army suffered a lot of losses, and the elephant soldiers were almost half less.
Assemble the cavalry and a large number of infantry battalions to the southwest, and when they see it on the opposite side, they immediately dispatch troops, as if they want to transfer troops and horses to the left of the rebel army.
Xue Lu was overjoyed when he saw it, and ordered an immediate attack.
With the horn of the charge, the cavalry in his hand surged out, and more than 10,000 horsemen rushed to the waist of the rebel army like a tide.
The soldiers and horses of the rebel army began to retreat and retreat sharply, the lineup pressed inward, and the cavalry also retreated.
Xue Lu didn't care, he had already given an order, and all the troops rushed forward regardless of the casualties.
There were more than 50,000 rebels on the scene, and it is estimated that there are still 40,000 more.
Xue Lu added more than 30,000 new troops, and if nothing else, there was still hope for success.
The officers and troops charged frantically, but the rebels retreated step by step, and even the cavalry retreated into the distance, as if afraid of their advances.
The rushing cavalry was in high spirits, suddenly.
The Tusi soldiers in front of them retreated one after another, and then one by one, and one after another, strange carriages were pushed to the front.
This is Sheng Yong's attention according to Zhu Gaoxu's attention, to create a shield car similar to the Houjin siege.
The car was piled with dirt and sandbags, not to mention bows and arrows, and even artillery was useless.
Now this shield car is still relatively tall, about two meters or so.
The Toast Soldiers pushed out shield carts from the rear and lined them up.
Almost in a moment, a low wall was formed, and then someone lined up the wooden guns, all of which were temporarily cut from small pieces of wood, simple but effective, and suddenly the front was densely packed with sharpened wooden sticks.
"Mother's." The officers and cavalry who were charging scolded one after another.
Someone tried to reduce the way, but an order came from behind, and the small carriage could not stop them, rush forward, break this wooden wall, and the rebels would be finished.
The people in front can only rush forward.
Because the carriages of this era were very weak, no one would put sandbags full of mud in them.
The carriage looked tall, and in the eyes of the cavalry, it could still be scattered with a single charge.
The scene was similar to before, the Ming army rushed to within sixty paces and the opponent began to shoot, but fortunately, the cavalry was fast enough, and the opponent could not throw a few rounds.
After losing the elite cavalry of the troops, boom, a large number of cavalry rushed up, and some cavalry rushed to the end and braked nervously.
The scenes are different, but the same screams are endless.
These carriages were loaded with heavy mud and sand, and many mud bags were thrown up temporarily, and it was difficult to push them now, not to mention that the cavalry crashed into them, which was simply hitting the copper wall.
A large number of war horses in front fell to the ground, and continued to move forward in the back, and then found that the road in front was impassable.
Numerous cavalry were blocked in front of the carriages.
War horses, Ming troops, staggered and horizontal, everywhere there were screams and roars.
The person in front told the back not to rush again, and the person in the back told the front to hurry away from the carriage.
A large number of cavalry were squeezed on the scene like squeezing cakes, and the toast soldiers continued to shoot, and some toast soldiers stretched out their guns and stabbed them through the gaps.
The Ming army felt that something was wrong, as if he was blocked under the wall, someone tried to climb into the carriage, and as soon as he stood up, he was hit by an arrow, and three spears stabbed him.
Of course, the Ming army also had bows and arrows, and some people in the back row jumped off their horses and threw them inside, and the Tusi soldiers also suffered heavy losses.
At this time, if you are interested, you will find that when the Tusi soldiers retreated, someone at the front held a red flag, and everyone followed behind the flag, and they retreated back one by one, each column was very neat.
As soon as the Tusi soldiers retreated, the morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly shaken, and they struggled to push the carriage away.
Just after being blocked by the carriage like this, the elite cavalry of the official army lost at least a thousand people.
They rushed forward in a fit of rage, trying to break through the large formation of the Chinese army while the native soldiers were retreating.
At this time, the waist of the large formation of the Chinese army of the native soldiers was less than three hundred steps away from them.
"Rush, kill." The officers and soldiers rushed forward one after another.
Suddenly.
Boom, a shocking explosion sounded on the ground.
And then, boom, boom, explosions went on and on.
At the scene, the officers and cavalry were bombed and turned on their backs.
This is a mine used by the Southern Army in the Jingjing Disaster (Tuimadan), and the Yan Army suffered a big loss at that time, but I didn't expect it to be used by the Tusi soldiers now.
Moreover, the gunpowder of this mine has been improved to make it even more powerful.
As soon as this horse was blown up, there were countless small iron bullets and stones, which fell into the cavalry group, and all of them fell off their horses and screamed.
The officers and soldiers were good at using firearms, but they didn't expect that there was also a moment when they were ambushed by firearms, which would make the Ming army know that when they were in front of them in the big battle just now, there were already people burying these things here.
Usually when charging, the cavalry will be careful, but just now the native soldiers blocked with a carriage, they tried their best to kill in, and immediately chased and killed urgently, not looking at the ground at all, and there was no time to slow down when they saw it.
This wave of wanton bombardment only overturned a few hundred cavalry, but the morale of the officers and cavalry was very weak, as if they had been hit in the head.
But the Shangguan in the back also let him rush forward, and at this time he was only more than two hundred steps away from the main formation of the rebel army.
After losing hundreds of cavalry, they rushed through this temporary minefield, and suddenly a large number of carriages appeared in front of them, and on top of each carriage, two cylindrical rectangular barrels were placed side by side.
Everyone looked at it and gasped, it was actually a swarm of bees commonly used by the Ming army.
A nest of fronts is known as: "people and horses wear harness", "one arrow can pierce several people".
There are about thirty-two rockets per barrel.
Jingnan has been used by the Central and Southern Forces, but there are not many of them, after all, everyone still pays attention to cold weapons.
But now in front of the Tusi soldiers, there are at least a few hundred bodies densely packed, more than all the swarms of bees combined during the Jing Disaster.
The scalp of the officers and cavalry generals at the scene was numb, even if the 500,000 troops of the Central and Southern Army gathered in Jingjing back then, they had never seen so many swarms of bees at the same time.
The firearms of the Southern Army are not the main weapons, they only play an auxiliary role, but the natives in front of them seem to regard firearms as the main weapons.
There were more than 100 horse-drawn carriages at the scene, two side by side on each carriage, a full three or four hundred, lined up in a long line several miles long.
The officers and soldiers mounted their horses and rode wildly towards the opposite side.
However, the cavalry of the official army did not run for several miles, so the opposite side was also being adjusted, first the carriages in the middle were pushed to the front, and then the left and right sides were compressed to the middle, forming a second and third rounds.
Obviously, the rebel army is making targeted arrangements to maximize the power of a swarm of bees.
The commander of the cavalry of the "Chong" officer army had no choice, and behind him was the horn of the charge of the officer army, and he could not get any order to retreat, so he could only grit his teeth and give an order.
Boom, a large force of officers and cavalry continued to rush forward.
At this time, behind the swarm of bees, a large number of archers of the rebel army gathered again and shot at them.
From thirty to sixty steps, it was simply a rain of arrows, endless.
The cavalry of the officers and soldiers finally rushed within thirty paces under the overwhelming rain of arrows and casualties.
Whoosh, the rebel army rushed over.
Hundreds of swarms flew up, and tens of thousands of rockets rained down.
The scene was suddenly like a hell on earth, the officers, soldiers and horses were all worn, and pieces of war horses fell to the ground with a bang, screams, pain, and angry scolding.
But that's not all, immediately after the second wave, the third wave.
Three waves in a row, continuing to attack the official cavalry, the archers of the native soldiers in the middle did not stop, and kept throwing.
After these swarms were shot, the carriage remained in place and became an obstacle again.
Obviously, the cavalry of the official army was less than a hundred steps away from the large formation of the rebel army, but these hundred steps seemed to be a chasm and could not be crossed.
(End of chapter)