Chapter 63 Hui Ming 46
"Wait a minute, sir!"
Fatis stopped Wang Dan, who was about to rush and kill the Eight Banners, and before Wang Dan could turn around and reprimand, the former general of the Suno Cavalry Regiment explained loudly to Wang Dan, "If we go out and chase the enemy like this, then all the escorts will fall into the enemy's tricks, and we will not be able to save these civilians!"
Watching those Eight Banners soldiers riding war horses and slashing the people like the wind, and at the same time they kept looking at their side, there was obviously a conspiracy waiting for them, in order to save more people, and in order to prevent the guards from being killed by themselves, Wang Dan forced himself to calm down.
"The only way to defeat these enemies is to have all the cavalry concentrate on attacking the enemy's large forces, and chase them without letting go, their horses do not have the stamina of our horses, and when the enemy's horses are tired, then it is time for us to attack on all fronts!"
Resarit agreed, "Fatis's plan is feasible, and the guards should defend themselves and protect the civilians as best they can." ”
Wang Dan listened to their discussion, and felt deeply afraid in his heart, if he insisted on rushing out, then no one could save him, and the escort army would also be killed and wounded by his ignorant order, and it would be better to listen to the opinions of experts on this battlefield.
With Wang Dan's consent, Resarit quickly arranged for the guards to take up positions to guard against the invasion of the Eight Banners, while Fatis led all the heavy cavalry to charge towards the Eight Banners Cavalry Brigade.
Those Eight Banners soldiers really did not directly confront the escort army, but scattered into many squads and ran in all directions, Wang Dan didn't know which team of Eight Banners to chase, fortunately Fatis could always find the team where the generals of the Eight Banners army were, and then all the heavy cavalry of the escort army chased after the enemy.
Wang Dan, who was following behind the guards, took out the elven war bow he was carrying, and drew sharp arrows from the infinite quiver, aiming at the Eight Banners team pointed out by Fatis without stopping the arrows, and shooting the lightning rod on which hat was fancy, the more he thought about the Eight Banners soldiers, the more likely he was to be an official. I am chasing this butcher who ordered to kill the people, and I am still in the mood to kill the people when I see these Eight Banners.
Wang Dan's elven war bow kept shooting out a deadly arrow, and the eight banners in front of him were shot one after another, even if they kept making all kinds of fancy horseback riding to hide, they couldn't escape the revenge arrows shot by Wang Dan with the elven bow.
Niu Lu, who led this Eight Banners Army, was very puzzled, how could the reaction of the escort army be different from the plan, this was a plan made by Fan Shenren, who enjoyed the first title of peerless wisdom and strategist in the Qing Dynasty.
Only he dared to shake his feather fan and pat his chest in front of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, saying that he had thought about the entire battle clearly, and it was all in his control.
This Niu Lu couldn't revere Fan Dashenren at that time, because he saw that Fan Wencheng was dressed in white and holding a feather fan, and the image was really the same as the pig brother in the book.
Therefore, Niu Lu, who is known as Baturu, did not rush to the guards with a brain, but kept attacking the people of the Ming Dynasty who moved according to the instructions of Fan Shenren. Provoke the Escort to come out, and then drag the Escort apart to buy time for the Qing Dynasty's real plan of action.
This Niu Lu was originally very reluctant to carry out the order not to fight the escort head-on, he was Baturu, the name of the hero, and a bloody battle with the enemy was what he should do.
It was only under the strong order of the regent who was recovering Jiankang that this self-consciously heroic Niu Lu could only agree to come and trick the guards, but now the guards are chasing him to fight, and the arrows keep flying. From time to time, his men let out a terrible howl and fell off their horses, watching their soldiers, who had always been very brave, being killed by arrows and falling off their horses, and then being trampled into the ground by the iron cavalry of the guards who were closely pursuing behind, and not even a complete body could be left. This Niu Lu broke out, these are all good assistants who entered the customs and robbed the Ming people, good partners in sharing the spoils, these cowards hiding in thick iron sheets bully people like this. I'm going to fight with them.
I saw Niu Lu shouting loudly to stop his subordinates from running around, and all of them gathered to fight the enemy.
Fatis ordered the cavalry corps to charge immediately, not giving the enemy time to form a group. The heavy cavalry of the Guardian Army, who had been pursuing the Eight Banners, placed the knight's spear in their hands neatly flat, aimed at the Eight Banners cavalry that was gathering in front of them, and charged away with all their might.
The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of this era was also really good, and they actually formed up in a moment, and then howled and brandished their sabers and charged back at the guards.
At this time, there were more than 800 cavalry in the escort army, and there were 2,000 cavalry in the Eight Banners cavalry that came to raid, which is why Niu Lu dared to change his plan to fight the escort army head-on.
In his desire to come to the cavalry to fight, the Manchu Eight Banners are the strongest in this world, and these cowards in front of him are not enough for him to cut, and he even decided to swallow the whole body equipment of the heavy cavalry of the Guards after the battle.
The two groups of cavalry quickly approached, and then the moment they collided, the roar of a life-and-death struggle erupted.
The result of the frontal collision was that the escort army had a slight upper hand, and then the two groups of cavalry wanted to fight each other, the Eight Banners besieged, and the escort formed a defensive formation.
The machetes of the Eight Banners are extremely fierce, and the steel spears of the guards are in a tight formation, and the two sides are constantly fighting back and forth.
Different from Niu Lu's imagination, the Eight Banners with absolute numerical superiority did not achieve decisive results, and their own Eight Banners soldiers bravely pounced on the guards, but the ironclad cavalry on the opposite side were not very afraid of attacking, and the iron armor on their bodies was extremely difficult to be cut through, so the guards were injured more and died less.
And the guards have been constantly changing formations, using strong war horses and strong armor to divide the Eight Banners strongly, and then the Eight Banners who are surrounded by the Guards' change formation will be killed by the spears that are coldly stabbed from all directions, and every change of formation will make the Eight Banners die a lot.
At this moment, the super defense of the heavy plate armor showed its effect, no matter how ferocious the Eight Banners slashed and slashed the guards, these pirated Vigia Paladin Legions all changed formations majestically and according to the plan, and then killed the encircled enemies one by one.
Soon all the Eight Banners soldiers found that as long as the guards changed formations, their side would be cleared out of an area, and the Eight Banners surrounded by it were definitely dead or alive, and the Eight Banners soldiers who figured this out paid attention to the changes in the guards at any time, as long as the strange armored knight riding a tall war horse in the center of the guards shouted, the Eight Banners soldiers immediately fled to the side before the guards began to change formations.
Seeing that the heroic Eight Banners would be so afraid, the leader Niu Lu rushed to the guards dissatisfied, he really wanted everyone to see that he was a superhero, and in his mind there seemed to be a picture of the Savior of Changshan Zhao Zilong Nagasaki in the Book of the Three Kingdoms, and he seemed to have become such a legend VS a million.
It's just that dreams are passionate. The reality is very cruel, he used a broadsword to cut several steel spears stabbed in front of him, and before he could shout his name to make the enemy frightened, he was stabbed by more steel spears, and he was even picked up by more than a dozen spears in unison and put in the air, only then did he see clearly the pair of calm eyes behind the armor of these strange ironclad cavalrymen.
Different from the frightened and helpless eyes of the Ming soldiers and civilians who were wantonly killed by themselves when they entered the customs, these people only had a strong desire to fight and a firm will in their eyes.
Throwing this cow video aside like garbage, the heavy cavalry corps of the Guards began to change a battle formation again, and savagely surrounded and killed a part of the Eight Banners.
"Ah, they're not Han, they're devils!"
The Eight Banners are not really people who are not afraid of death. As long as there are enemies who are more ferocious and savage than them, they will also be afraid,
Seeing that the Eight Banners Army began to be chaotic, Fatis immediately ordered the Heavy Cavalry Legion of the Guards to charge, completely crushing the already timid Eight Banners and trampling them under their feet.
Although the number of the escort army was insufficient to surround all the Eight Banners, not many were able to escape from the combined attack of the heavy cavalry and the phalanx of guards.
The battle soon ended with a handful of Eight Banners fleeing. Resarit went to Wang Dan and reported, "My lord, we have temporarily repelled the enemy's forward forces, but if the enemy still has a large army, they may come to retaliate at any time. We should quickly bring our subjects back to Zhaojiabao. ”
Wang Dan agreed, "You will arrange it, and you will return to Zhaojiabao as much as possible." ”
The people who were scurrying around the land saw that the Tartars had indeed been defeated by the general, Wang Dan, and everyone cheered with joy.
The people who had been killed by the Tartars also rushed to the corpses of the Tartars and beat them vigorously, crying a few times, and then asked the people around them to carry the corpses of their relatives forward. They want to bury the bodies of their loved ones.
In this troubled time, they have seen too many deaths, so the people are very strong.
The people spontaneously reorganized their ranks and moved forward faster and more orderly than ever before.
Phatis was about to order the cavalry to return to the ranks. A homeless man came from behind on horseback quickly, his eyes searched eagerly everywhere, and when he saw Wang Dan, the anxious look on his face relaxed, and he ran straight to Wang Dan, jumped off his horse and fell to his knees, howling and shouting, "Great master, oh no, lord, please go and save General Li!"
Wang said in a hurry, "Tell me what's wrong with Li Dingguo!"
The exile said sadly, "Before dark, suddenly there were many, many Tartars, they wanted to rob the people who had come out of the pass, General Li and his brothers tried their best to stop it, but there are too many Tartars, we can't last long, lord, go and save people!"
Wang Dan looked at Fatis and Resarit, they both shook their heads and said that they did not agree to fight again, and now that the escort army had also suffered great losses, it was not suitable to fight again.
Seeing that Wang Dan might not save Li Dingguo, the homeless man immediately jumped up and scolded: "You liar, you have harmed our General Li, and even more harmed hundreds of thousands of people who listened to your nonsense and went out of the customs, they are now being hunted and killed by the Tartars, but you don't care!"
"That's enough!" Wang Dan roared, he also felt that if it weren't for himself, those innocent people would not have come out of the customs, and then looking back at the people who were killed and injured by the arrow just now, Wang Dan decided to save people.
"All the cavalry come with me, and the escort army protects the people to go to Zhaojiabao!" After speaking, Wang Dan rushed to Li Dingguo's rear team first, and behind Wang Dan were more than 800 heavy cavalry of the escort army with more or less wounded bodies.
The heavy cavalry legion of the escort army marching at full speed attracted the attention of all the people, and such a strange steel legion greatly shocked these ordinary people, and the momentum brought by the heavy cavalry was like a steel beast roaring forward.
"My God, these are the cavalry of General Wang, how majestic. ”
"If it weren't for such cavalry, General Wang would not have been able to lay down a piece of the sky on the territory of the Tartars!"
"There was news from the front just now, a Tartar came, but he was killed by General Wang!"
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Wang Dan was not in the mood to pay attention to these remarks about his subordinates at this time, he only thought in his heart how long Li Dingguo and the people who followed him out of the customs could hold out, but how much of a role his more than 800 cavalry could play. This freshman from Y City University didn't care.
After a short time, they saw the people of this procession rushing forward in terror, and they kept shouting, "Here comes the Tartars, run!"
The chaotic people blocked the way of the escort army's advance, but these indomitable warriors could not really collide with the people at this time, Wang Dan was so anxious that he couldn't help yelling at the people surging around him, but now the frightened cries of the people kept ringing out, and no one could listen to Wang Dan's words at all.
When the king was at a loss, Fatis came up with an idea, "Lord, let's line up in a vertical line, so that we can move quickly." ”
Wang Dan looked at the crowd surging like a flood peak in front of him. Questioning Fatis with some skepticism, "Can we line up in this situation?"
Fatis shouted confidently, "Cavalrymen, long stick formation!"
In just a few movements, a long line of heavy horsemen was neatly lined up behind Wang Dan, like a steel rod.
Wang Dan walked forward cautiously, and the people automatically separated to give way to both sides, and Wang Dan slowly trotted up under great joy, and sure enough, this speed was much faster than just now.
When he walked for a short time, there were no more people coming in front of him, and the horizon in front of him was full of black and oppressive Eight Banners Army, and these Eight Banners soldiers were extremely numerous. And they were rounding up the people, and groups of people were driven into the distance by the Eight Banners.
The battlefield was full of the cries of the people, but the Eight Banners were laughing happily, presumably this harvest would make them more active in the sweet cause of attacking the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Dan looked at the countless Eight Banner soldiers, and couldn't help but feel numb in his scalp again. What can he do with more than 800 cavalry, at this time, he thought that it would be better to take the people who had escaped back to Zhaojiabao, and wait for the soldiers to become strong and strong, and then come out to take revenge.
Anyway, they just catch slave coatings, not game.
Just when Wang dared to lead his troops to retreat. Suddenly, the Tartar army in front of him was in chaos, and then he heard the sound of shouting and killing, and Wang Dan suddenly remembered that Li Dingguo and the exiled army were fighting with the Tartars over there. Isn't it too unrighteous to leave like this?
The sound of killing became louder and louder, and after a while, a group of Ming people forcibly rushed out of the encirclement of the Eight Banners army, and then they desperately defended the breakthrough, and countless people with families and mouths fled from this breakthrough.
"See, my lord, it's the captive who surrendered to us and is leading his men to make a way for the people, and they seem to be dying!"
Wang Dan looked fixedly, and sure enough, he saw Li Dingguo holding a Tartar machete covered in blood, and was struggling to kill the Tartar in front of him.
The Ming people who resisted the Tartars around him were all his original subordinates, and those soldiers of the Wandering Army were all fighting desperately with the Tartars for the people to escape at this moment, but the number of the Wandering Army was only more than a thousand.
These soldiers of the Wandering People's Army, who have eaten human flesh and robbed the officials and merchants of the people, are fighting to the death against the Eight Banners who killed the people of the Ming Dynasty, at this moment they are fighting for the people, and the previous sins may be forgiven by God!
Seeing this situation, Wang Dan could no longer stand idly by, and he asked Fatis to command the cavalry to do their best to help Li Dingguo rescue the people.
With a series of orders from Fatis, the heavy cavalry of the 800 guards lined up in a sharp and sharp formation and rushed towards the Qing Eight Banner Army.
The neat Carradian cavalry offensive formation made the escort army, which was only more than 800 horsemen, make an astonishing momentum, and the Eight Banners Army and Li Dingguo's remnants of the exiled army who fought fiercely in front were all attracted by the escort army.
Li Dingguo and his subordinates let out a shout of joy, although there were not many reinforcements from the escort army, it could be seen that they were all elite cavalry, which was a great support for them who were fighting hard.
"Light blesses righteous hearts. ”
Like all the heavy cavalry, he charged forward with a special slogan taught by Fatis, which was said to be blessed by the legendary gods.
It took him several days to learn from Fatis that this slogan is an allusion to the history and legend of Calradia, which says that 10,000 years ago the darkness enveloped Calradia, and a warrior who could not bear the darkness was inspired by the gods to become a holy knight who led the people to defeat the darkness, and he had to shout this slogan every time he fought, and later he told others that this was his way of communicating with the gods and gaining divine powers, and this phrase also spread, and every knight who thought he was fighting an evil enemy had to shout this slogan before attacking, which became a must-do for 10,000 years when the knights of Calradia wanted to fight heavy dà.
It's just that the use of this slogan is limited, so unless it's a matter of life and death, under normal circumstances, the knights of Calradia will not use it casually.
Because this slogan was uttered by the paladin, whom all the Calradians worshipped, and whose status in the minds of the people was as sacred as the son of the gods descending into the mortal world.
The speed of the heavy cavalry of the escort army shouting slogans has really increased a lot, and there is no hesitation in everyone's hearts, in addition to the strength in their hearts, the injuries on their bodies also seem to be less painful, and their strength has all returned to the level before the battle.
Each of the guards became more convinced that they were blessed by the gods, and they became fearless and fiercely rushed towards the army of the Eight Banners.
Wang Dan couldn't explain the strange phenomenon as for the quick reply of the body, but he never believed in ghosts and gods, and he attributed the changes in his body to the effect of psychological suggestion.
The escort army rushed towards the Eight Banners Army like an unstoppable steel beast, and those Eight Banner cavalry were captured by this momentum, and they were a little flustered when they lined up to block the escort army.
Li Dingguo and the Liumin Army took the opportunity to break through the encirclement of the Eight Banners Army, and more people rushed out of it, just when the guards and Wang Dan thought that they could easily defeat the Eight Banners, like a sudden thunder in the sky, many soldiers fell in the cavalry ranks of the charging escort army, and they fell off their horses and let the guards behind hurriedly stop their horses, for fear of stepping on the bodies of their companions.
"Don't stop, keep charging, these knights who died in battle will return to the arms of the Lord God!"
Fatis loudly urged the cavalry to increase their speed again, but the thunderous sound came again, this time Wang Dan could hear it clearly, this sound was different thunder at the same time, in a continuous instant.
"Puff puff puff ......!"
Many of the heavy cavalry of the Guards let out a howl of pain and dropped their horses, and Fatis urgently halted the cavalry, an attack he had never seen before, and he had to see the enemy before deciding what to do.
All the knights of the Guardian looked in the direction where the sound appeared,
Not far to the left is a mound seven or eight meters high, on which at some point an army of strangely dressed soldiers appeared, and they were slowly advancing in a row with bird guns in their hands, and as they went, they quickly filled the bird guns with gunpowder, and it seemed that they would soon attack again.
Fatis didn't know how to deal with the situation, as the Birdbolts were a class that had not been seen in Calradia, and he even ordered the Guardians to raise their shields for defense.
The anxious Wang Dan recalled that in the war movie he had watched in college, those cavalry soldiers who were not too experienced in the face of the fire guns were directly killed, and when he saw the birds on the opposite side smiling and about to load the gunpowder and fire it at the guards, Wang Dan did not hesitate anymore, he yelled and ordered, "Everyone rush to the bird guns and kill them all!"
Although Fatis thought that he needed to be cautious, he nevertheless organized the heavy cavalry, which had suffered heavy casualties, and charged the birds, out of the influence of his belief in the knightly rules of unconditional obedience to his lord.
When the soldiers saw that the horses ridden by the guards could rush up the steep heights and rush towards this side, they were all so frightened that they pushed each other and ran backwards.
Seeing that this was effective against the birds, Phatis hurriedly increased the speed of the heavy cavalry at full speed.
Seeing that the guards were about to cut down the birds, the horns suddenly sounded from all directions at the same time, and unlike just now, this time the horns sounded one after another. (To be continued......)