Chapter 377: Cavalry Battle (1)
In the west of Kaifeng City, 10,000 horses are galloping, and the sound of killing is shocking!
The soldiers of the cavalry battalion of the new army rode their horses and galloped, and Xu Ming's roar never stopped, constantly ordering the iron cavalry army to speed up.
On the battlefield, tens of thousands of armored soldiers under Li Laiheng's department had been defeated, and countless routs fled backwards, mixing with the infantry and dead soldiers who had collapsed before, densely blocking the road for the cavalry battalion soldiers to attack. Even if the soldiers of the cavalry battalion of the new army continued to ride their horses to kill the enemy, the impact speed of the iron cavalry army inevitably began to decrease.
Xu Ming was anxious when he saw this, although the soldiers of the cavalry battalion were strong, but the number of troops was too small, with more than 10,000 people broke into the formation of more than 100,000 troops in the front camp of the thieves, even if most of the troops of the department had been defeated, it was still very dangerous. Li Laiheng was in front of him to reorganize the formation, Xu Ming had already seen the cavalry of the thief's front camp assembling, and the black banner of the thief Li Zicheng was also rushing forward, and the situation on the battlefield began to reverse.
"Kill!"
Xu Ming's eyes were red, and despite the obstruction of the surrounding guards, he rode his horse past the iron cavalry soldiers in front, and led a sentry guard and a sentry around him to rush to the front of the army.
"Bring it!"
Xu Ming roared, snatched the battle flag of the cavalry battalion from the standard-bearer, held the banner high in one hand, held a gun in the other, rode the horse with only two feet, and roared loudly: "Brothers, follow me to kill the thief, kill!" ”
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! ”
Seeing that the main general was so brave, the morale of the cavalry battalion was greatly boosted, and the impact speed of the iron cavalry army began to increase slowly, and many soldiers in front even directly raised their bird guns, and hundreds of soldiers who had not yet fired pulled the trigger, and after a roar, the thieves in front of the army suddenly fell, and all the soldiers followed Xu Ming to take advantage of the impact to clear the way for the iron cavalry army behind.
Suddenly, Xu Mingwang saw that the battle flag of the thief leader Li Laiheng began to move forward, and then more than 10,000 horsemen from the front camp of the thieves appeared in the wave of rout, and Li Laiheng personally led and rushed over.
At the same time, Xu Ming saw that Li Zicheng's Chuang Wang Daxu had arrived two miles away, and the 40,000 horsemen in the camp of the thieves were coming to kill mightily, so they regrouped their formation two miles away, and looked around, as if the heavens and the earth were all black and oppressive thieves and iron horses!
"Haha! Come well, watch Lao Tzu capture the flag! ”
Xu Ming took the lead, and the cavalry formation composed of soldiers and soldiers of the cavalry battalion was extremely tight, like a huge iron cone, and crashed towards Li Laiheng's department in front.
And Li Laiheng's cavalry also regrouped and charged in a goose-shaped formation, and the army was like a wild bison, howling and rushing forward, vowing to step on everything in front of it.
The two iron cavalry armies approached rapidly, and the thieves along the way suffered countless casualties, not only were they constantly trampled by the cavalry battalion of the new army, but even the rogue horsemen who came from the attack did not care, and rushed over with their companions all the way.
The dead soldiers and infantry on the battlefield were horrified to find that the two iron cavalry armies in front and behind were getting closer and closer, and the overwhelming iron cavalry stretched for several miles, and they had no way to escape, and they let out desperate wails, and then they were swept under the iron hooves of the war horses and turned into scarlet flesh.
"Kill!"
"Die!"
The two iron cavalry armies collided with a bang, and more than 30,000 people of the two armies collided desperately, and then began to fight.
The screams, the scolding, the neighing of the war horses, and the sound of broken bones and broken flesh and blood made by the human body and the war horse hitting each other were intertwined, and the defeated soldiers on the battlefield only felt a buzzing sound in their ears, and could no longer hear any other sounds, and became victims of the fierce battles between the two sides, and constantly died on the battlefield.
Xu Ming, under the protection of a sentry guard and a sentry who did not collect at night, rode his horse and rushed into the rogue cavalry array, and the spear in his hand kept stabbing left and right, stabbing four rogue thieves to death in a row.
At this time, Li Laiheng also rode his horse into the cavalry battalion of the new army, with a spear in his hand, aimed at a cavalry battalion soldier who rushed towards him, and stabbed forward, but the head of the spear hit the heavy armor of the new army soldier, and sparks flew in an instant, leaving a dent in the armor, but it did not pierce it.
"Bastard!"
Li Laiheng rode his horse and continued to rush forward, even though the new army soldier was hit hard and immediately spat blood, Li Laiheng had already shouted and cursed angrily.
At this time, Li Laiheng had already stabbed more than a dozen new army soldiers one after another, and only succeeded in killing four people, and the rest of them successfully blocked the spear in Li Laiheng's hand with excellent heavy armor.
On the battlefield, the two iron cavalry armies hedged against each other, countless cavalry and war horses staggered, the two huge cavalry formations after the initial violent impact, they successfully "fused" each other, all the iron cavalry on both sides were hedged, each of them continued to assassinate the enemy with the weapon in their hands, and at the same time they also became the target of the other party's killing.
However, the fine heavy armor of the soldiers of the cavalry battalion of the new army gave Li Laiheng and all the thieves a deep shock, and the heavy armor made of fine iron made many soldiers of the cavalry battalion of the new army escaped a catastrophe, and even many soldiers were red-eyed.
The soldiers of the new army were sent away with this kind of death, which made Li Laiheng and other cavalry horses feel deep fear, and everyone followed Li Zicheng for many years, rampaging in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, which can be regarded as a battle-hardened battle.
However, Li Laiheng and other thieves have never seen such a desperate official army, even in the face of He Renlong, who was known as "He Maniac", and Cao Wenzhao, who was called "Big and Little Cao" with Cao Bianjiao, although the two Ming armies were tenacious and brave, they were far less crazy than Liu Yanbu!
"When did Daming have such a strong army!"
Li Laiheng was horrified in his heart, Liu Yanbu not only had sharp firearms and well-equipped, but also the department was full of such fierce soldiers who dared to exchange their lives for their lives, how did such officers and soldiers practice? Liu Yan is really a demon!
Suddenly, just when Li Laiheng was slightly distracted, a cavalry battalion soldier had already rushed forward for more than ten steps, and then suddenly turned the spear in his hand into a javelin and threw it at Li Laiheng.
"Ahh
Li Laiheng screamed in surprise, raised his gun vigorously, and picked off the spear that was thrown, but the cavalry battalion soldier had already rushed to the front, changed a war knife in his hand, and was about to cut it down when he aimed it at Li Laiheng.
"Get out of here!"
Li Laiheng was furious, and stabbed with all his might, the armor of the cavalry battalion soldier had been damaged in many places, and at this time, he was stabbed by Li Laiheng again, and the defense was immediately broken, and the spear passed directly through the abdomen of the cavalry battalion soldier.
Li Laiheng immediately wanted to draw his spear and continue to charge on his horse, but when the two horses staggered, he was horrified to find that the cavalry battalion soldier was holding the spear tightly with both hands, and his eyes were red glaring at Li Laiheng, as if he had seen an enemy who killed his father.
"Thief Leader!"
The cavalry battalion soldier shouted, jumped down suddenly, and wanted to pull Li Laiheng to fall off his horse together, so frightened that Li Laiheng immediately let go, and rushed directly on his horse.
At this time, Li Laiheng's face was covered with cold sweat, and he rushed forward with his bare hands, and the surrounding guards were also frightened by the scene just now, and they all rushed to protect him.
Fortunately, at this time, the front suddenly opened up, and the forwards of the two armies finally rushed out of the battle formation, and Li Laiheng reacted at this time, shouting and ordering the whole army to turn around, turn the direction to the right, and prepare to reorganize the formation and continue to hedge with the cavalry battalion of the new army.
"Whew~Whew~"
Li Laiheng stopped his mount, took the spear handed over by a personal guard, and looked at the battlefield he had just passed with palpitations, only to see that on the battlefield where there were already corpses all over the field and blood flowing all over the ground, there were many corpses, there were people, there were war horses, and many corpses were stacked on top of each other, as if a carpet of flesh and blood had been laid on the ground.
"What kind of enemy army is this? This turned out to be an official army? ”
Li Laiheng couldn't believe his eyes, and looked back at the cavalry army behind him who was reorganizing the formation, although he didn't have time to count the number of people, but looking at the number of battle flags behind him, each captain, brigade commander, and department commander had their own battle flags.
Looking at it, Li Laiheng's heart was cold, looking at the number of battle flags, he had just hedged against Liu Yan's cavalry, and his thousands of horsemen had suffered at least two or three thousand casualties!
Li Laiheng's face was pale, and he didn't know if he was frightened by the cavalry battalion of the new army, or because he was angry because his own casualties were too large, but he kept secretly saying in his heart: "King Chuang come quickly, otherwise the elite of my front battalion will be exhausted!" ”
At the same time, two miles away from Li Laiheng's cavalry, Xu Ming also led the soldiers of the cavalry battalion to stop and began to reorganize the military formation.
Xu Ming's face was also ugly, and like Li Laiheng, Xu Ming also looked back at the military formation, relying on the number of battle flags of each department to estimate the casualties of his own troops.
This time, the casualties of the cavalry battalion of the new army were between hundreds and more than a thousand, Xu Ming didn't know how the casualties of the rogue cavalry were, but for the battalions of the new army, it was the first time that so many soldiers were killed or injured in just one battle, which was already a defeat for Xu Ming, even if the casualties of the rogue cavalry were greater, it was the same!
"Assemble! Get ready to charge! ”
Xu Ming roared, riding a horse to patrol the front of the formation, the spear in his hand continued to hit the spear raised by the soldiers in the front row, when Xu Ming rode the horse to the front of the military formation, he roared loudly: "Today's bloody battle to the end, swear to die!" ”
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
Xu Ming's spear pointed forward, and the horse began to charge, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the cavalry battalion began to charge again, and the rolling iron cavalry rushed to Li Laiheng's headquarters two miles away, and the morale of the soldiers of the army was like a rainbow.
Li Laiheng gritted his teeth and also gave the order to charge, but this time, the remaining more than 10,000 thieves and horsemen no longer had the momentum just now, and the fighting spirit of the whole army was exhausted, and they just followed Li Laiheng's battle flag to charge forward, and even the speed of the charge increased slowly.
Before this charge, Xu Ming ordered the soldiers who had not yet opened fire on the battlefield to line up, and more than 2,000 iron cavalry soldiers armed with bird guns formed a new arrow, aimed at Li Laiheng's troops in the distance and collided with them.
After all, these cavalry horses are "selected" by the sea of corpses and blood, even if they are practiced on weekdays, but in terms of strength and skills, they are not as good as the regular officers and soldiers.
These horsemen are just brave and ruthless, and they know all kinds of yin and ruthless moves on the battlefield, and they don't know the so-called martial arts. As for the use of bows and crossbows, not to mention, those who knew how to do it before naturally would, and those who were "selected" had no time at all, and they were not willing to spend time practicing the use of bows and crossbows.
And this kind of person is still the vast majority of the thieves.
Therefore, when charging this time, Li Laiheng only concentrated more than 300 cavalry horses that could open their bows and arrows on their horses, and these more than 300 people were also placed at the forefront of the cavalry array.
The two armies of iron cavalry charged at each other again, and by this time there were no more people left on the battlefield between the two armies, and the thieves had either fled to other parts of the battlefield or had died in the cavalry melee of the golden iron horses.
In the blink of an eye, the two sides were less than a hundred steps apart, and Xu Ming and Li Laiheng shouted almost at the same time: "Release!" ”
In an instant, a dark cloud surged up in the army of thieves and cavalry, and hundreds of arrows were thrown at the soldiers of the cavalry battalion.
On the side of the cavalry battalion, more than 2,000 soldiers at the front opened fire at the same time, and the fire of the fine bird guns swept over.
The two armies suddenly fell in front of the formation......
Some people died, but not completely......