I want to be emperor

Chapter 121 Despair
However, after they finally approached within a hundred meters, what they faced were some sharp bamboo pieces and sharp wood stuck upside down on the ground.

Just when they were about to climb over these obstacles and continue to move forward, they suddenly saw a low wall about the height of a person where the bandit army was hiding in front, and a large number of bandit army heads popped out, and a piece of gun barrel protruded ...

In the next moment, there was a dense burst of fried beans crackling on the opposite low wall, and white smoke also rose up, almost covering the entire low wall.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Ming army who were struggling to climb over and around the obstacles suddenly fell down a large piece!

Along with the dense gunshots, there were also dense screams and groans in the Ming army!

A guard soldier in armor had just jumped over a few sharp wooden sticks and was about to rush up with the armor on his body, when suddenly his whole body shook slightly as if he had been hit by a hammer.

Look again, there is already a small hole in the iron armor on his chest, and blood is continuously flowing out of it.

After staggering two steps, he fell directly to the ground.

And he was not an exception. At the same time, a large number of soldiers of the Ming army were shot by gunmen of the Township Protection Army.

At this time, a guard soldier with only a rusty iron knife in his hand wiped his face. It was the blood sprayed on his face by a comrade-in-arms next to him after he was hit in the neck by a bullet.

Touching the warm and greasy blood, the guard soldier suddenly yelled 'Ah', dropped the rusty iron knife in his hand, turned around and ran away.

At this moment, he forgot that before he set off, the officials and lords above kept repeating the words that he would run away without order and beheaded immediately, and he also forgot the dozens of guards he had seen turning around and running away on the way to charge The soldier, just running out not far, was shot by a wave of bows and arrows from the supervising soldiers behind him, and he was shot directly into a miserable scene of hedgehogs.

At this moment, he forgot everything...

There was only one thought left: run!
Similarly, he was not the only one who reacted in the same way as him. In fact, hundreds of people on the entire front had turned around and fled.

Even in this attack, it was not the first time that the soldiers of the guard had fled.

When they rushed to about 400 meters before, they had already suffered a certain degree of rout during the shelling. At that time, Chen De, the son of Chen De and Chen Yongfu, personally led the soldiers of the headquarters to supervise the battle, beheading dozens of the fastest runners. .

And forcibly drove the guards to continue the attack.

If it wasn't for the thousands of soldiers behind them supervising the battle and beheading any guard soldiers who dared to escape, they would have completely fled long ago.

But this time, Chen De looked at the soldiers of the guard who were fleeing ahead, and his face showed anger.

In the initial retreat of the guards, there were only two or three hundred people fleeing at the beginning, and after being beheaded and killed dozens of people by his strong troops, the momentum of the retreat was stopped.

But now, the soldiers in front of the guards have almost fled across the board. What he has to do now is not even to kill the deserters, but to keep the soldiers in the headquarters in formation, so as not to be scattered by these rout soldiers formation.

"Keep the formation. Once a broken soldier comes forward and shoots arrows directly, they must not be allowed to break up the formation and force them to retreat towards the two sides."

At the same time, at the command post on the top of Zhaozhuang Mountain hundreds of meters away, Luo Zhixue took a cup of tea from his own soldiers, drank it, moistened his throat, and said in a flat tone: "Let the cavalry attack now, tell the king Brother, take it easy, don't take the initiative to attack their phalanx, just chase down the enemy's rout!"

"Send a signal to the [-]th Infantry Battalion, let them immediately enter the battlefield and launch an attack!"

When the enemy launched an attack, even if their guards were in disarray, it was still risky to let the cavalry attack.

As for now, most of the enemy's offensive troops have collapsed and fled, even if the soldiers in the enemy army still maintain a complete phalanx.

But as long as you don't take the initiative to attack the opponent's phalanx foolishly, then the problem is not big.

Just when Luo Zhixue ordered the cavalry to attack, Wang Dazhuang, who finally arrived at the battlefield, was ordered to attack immediately.

Chen Yongfu on the opposite side was terrified!
"Damn it, when did another bandit army come out, and it's still on our west side, what are the scouts doing, why did they only find them now."

Someone under his command lowered his head and replied, "The cavalry of the bandit army is sharp, and our scout cavalry can't get out..."

"If you can't kill it, won't you make a detour? The place is so big, don't you still have to foolishly run towards the Jingqi?"

"A bunch of trash, a bunch of trash!"

The reason why Chen Yongfu cursed was not only because of the defeat of the frontline attacking army. In fact, the defeat this time was within his expectation. Although the casualties seemed to be higher, the casualties were all guard soldiers.

The soldiers of the headquarters led by his son Chen De were supervising the battle at the back. Except for the sporadic shelling and dozens of casualties, the actual losses were not large.

Although the defeat on the front line is a bit ugly, it is not unacceptable. According to his plan, it is time to retreat after this defeat.

At that time, give Hong Chengchou a handwritten letter to report the battle situation, and he can wait for the reinforcements to arrive safely. If the reinforcements do not come, he dares to lead the troops back to Nanyang City directly.

Whoever likes to fight the township thieves, whoever fights, anyway, don't expect him to bring the soldiers of the headquarters and the thieves of the township protection army to fight to the death.

But the current situation is far beyond his expectations.

On the west side, there suddenly appeared a group of bandit soldiers wearing gray uniforms with a strength of about a thousand.

Just by looking at the color of the uniform, you can tell that it is a bandit soldier of the Township Protection Army.

Regardless of where the bandits came from, but now that they have appeared on the west side, and the cavalry of the bandits have also attacked, the combination of the two has brought drastic changes to the situation on the entire battlefield .

Don't say anything about attacking the bandits now, I'm afraid that even the soldiers of the thousand-man headquarters led by his son will not be able to return.

If one fails, the thousand soldiers of the headquarters led by his son Chen De will be intercepted and defeated.

And by that time, he himself might not be able to retreat smoothly with the remaining one thousand soldiers used as a strategic reserve.

After scolding people, Chen Yongfu took a few deep breaths, forced himself to calm down, and then went: "Order the cavalry battalion, stop the enemy cavalry, and don't let them attack Chen De's troops!"

"The soldiers of the headquarters line up to meet the enemy, stop the enemy from the west, and cover the retreat of the frontline army."

"Order Chen De to fight and retreat with our troops, and tell him to maintain the formation and absolutely not to mess up by himself first."

At this time, Chen Yongfu still cares about being passive and slack in the war, keeping the soldiers of the headquarters, even Hong Chengchou and Lu Shi are all ignored by him.

Now he has only one idea, to block the bandit cavalry and the enemy from the west, and to cover the retreat of his son Chen De's troops.

As for the other guard soldiers, they were also ignored by him. Not to mention that these guard soldiers have collapsed, even if they haven't collapsed, they are unlikely to play a big role in this emergency situation.

After a series of orders were issued, the Ming army on the battlefield, um, mainly three soldiers from Chen Yongfu's headquarters, including two infantry and one cavalry, began to move.

As for those guard soldiers, there are now fleeing guard soldiers all over the mountains and plains, and Chen Yongfu can't care about them anymore.

Even with the Township Protection Army, after seeing the changes in the Ming Army, they didn't pay too much attention to the defeated soldiers in the guards.

At this time, the first cavalry post and the second cavalry post led by Wang Xiazi had just dispatched, and before they had time to chase down the collapsed enemy army, more than 300 Ming army cavalrymen came up ahead.

The direct encounter between the cavalry on both sides was also a misunderstanding!
Because the cavalry led by Wang Xiazi didn't even think about going to fight Chen De's soldiers, but simply wanted to chase and kill the defeated soldiers of the guards.

However, Chen Yongfu didn't know. Seeing the menacing cavalry of the thief army led by Wang Xiazi, he thought they were heading towards his son Chen De's troops.

Then three hundred cavalry were sent to intercept.

No matter what caused the cavalry of the two sides to meet, since they met, Blind Wang was not timid, so he just fought.

As for the Ming army cavalry in front, he had already led his army to fight against them many times, and he had basically figured out the opponent's combat strength.

Just a group of mounted infantry.

If these people dismount and fight on foot, they can still be regarded as a group of elite infantry.

But when these people got on their horses and fought with their own cavalry in an upright cavalry battle, he could completely suppress them all the way.

On the top of Zhaozhuang Mountain, Luo Zhixue saw that the cavalry led by Wang Xiazi quickly changed direction, and instead of rushing directly towards the opposing cavalry, it seemed that they wanted to turn and retreat.

After such an adjustment, the two sides are no longer a hedge, but an included angle is formed, and this included angle continues to decrease as the cavalry on both sides continue to turn and maneuver.

The most important thing is that Luo Zhixue can see that the Ming cavalry on the opposite side turned around many times, all trying to close the distance between the two sides, and even directly launched a melee charge.

However, blind Wang led the cavalry and turned around many times.

After the two sides approached, Wang Xiazi's cavalry had actually completed the turn in front of the formation, leaving only one tail that continued to turn.

At this time, some of the cavalry of the two sides were only tens of meters apart.

At this distance, many cavalrymen of the Rural Protection Army had already bent their bows and shot arrows directly on their bumpy horsebacks!

Qianhu, a Ming army cavalryman who was leading the charge, thought that he was not good when he saw the arrows flying towards him one after another.

Sure enough, in the next moment, five or six of the dozens of cavalrymen he led were shot at people or horses and fell down.

But this is only a small area on the battlefield, and in the sight of Luo Zhixue and Chen Yongfu, you can see Wang Xiazi who led the cavalry to complete the turn, and once again led the cavalry to turn to the right and approached the cavalry of the Ming army. within distance.

And began to shoot arrows at the Ming cavalry tens of meters away.

Seeing this, the cavalry of the Ming army also turned to rush over to fight at close range, but as before, blind Wang and the others controlled the horses and began to turn again, continuing to keep a certain distance.

So much so that in the current battle scene between the cavalry of the two sides, at first glance, it seems that the cavalry of the Ming army chased the cavalry of the rural protection army and fought again.

But in fact, Wang Xiazi and the others always let some of their own cavalry keep shooting arrows within a certain distance!
But on the side of the cavalry of the Ming army, except for a very small number of cavalry who can counterattack with the same cavalry and shooting, others can only be beaten passively.

Even if the leading cavalry general of the Ming army realized that he could not continue to chase like this, and when he wanted to turn around the pier and lead his army to retreat, blind Wang and the others caught up in time and continued to approach the archery.

Can't catch up, can't hit, can't escape!
This is the embarrassing crisis faced by the half-baked cavalry of the Ming army who lacked long-range firepower!

As a result, there was a very strange touch on the battlefield. The cavalry of the two sides maneuvered back and forth on the battlefield, and it seemed that the fight was very lively.

But in fact it was a unilateral massacre from beginning to end!

The slaughter of the cavalry and infantry of the Ming army by the fine cavalry of the rural protection army!

Facing such a scene, Luo Zhixue smiled faintly.

But Chen Yongfu was full of despair!

(End of this chapter)