I want to be emperor

Chapter 178 Zuo Liangyu uses soldiers

When the eighteen cannons of the Artillery Brigade came forward one after another, Zuo Liangyu on the opposite side also felt threatened. long-barreled artillery on the battlefield.

But it didn't prevent him from knowing the threat of these artillery.

So he sent his cavalry into battle.

As soon as the cavalry of the Ming army moved out, Luo Zhixue gave an order, and Wang Xiazi's cavalry brigade also attacked.

Wang Xiazi led a cavalry brigade of [-] elite cavalry forward, followed by a hundred cavalry infantry, ready to intercept the Ming cavalry rushing over at any time.

But before the cavalry of the Ming army rushed over, Zhang Malin's artillery brigade had already fired first.

Facing the threat of the cavalry, Zhang Malin's artillery did not continue to advance to the predetermined location, but chose to deploy on the spot, and then opened fire on the Ming army cavalry 600 meters away.

After the sound of the rumbling cannon, solid shells weighing more than two catties fell into the formation of the Ming army cavalry one after another. For a while, the Ming army cavalry who had not had time to charge suddenly turned upside down and suffered heavy casualties.

The cavalry general of the Ming army on the opposite side saw the posture of the shelling on the opposite side, and knew to continue to wait. His own cavalry probably collapsed before they had time to charge, so he gritted his teeth and rushed up with his own cavalry.

Target, protect the bandit artillery position!
It's just that even if they started to ride their horses forward, they were still being shelled continuously, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

At the same time, Xiazi Wang saw that the cavalry on the opposite side dared to charge forward with the artillery fire, so he didn't hesitate anymore, and led the [-] fine cavalry under his command to rush out with his saber held high.

In this battle between the two sides outside Yuzhou City, the infantry of both sides were still hundreds of meters away from entering the state of engagement, but the cavalry and artillery of both sides started fighting first.

In the distance, Gao Zheng also heard the sound of rumbling cannons from the left, as well as the rumble of galloping horses.

Although he could not see the situation on the left edge of the battlefield, he knew that his own cavalry and artillery had engaged the enemy.

Gao Zheng couldn't see the battlefield on the left wing, but Luo Zhixue, who commanded and watched the battle from the rear, could see it clearly.

In his line of sight, the cavalry of the Ming army first rushed for several hundred meters under the heavy shelling of their own side. During this process, the gunners of the artillery brigade directly fired rapidly and violently without estimating the life of the barrel.

One after another, solid shells fell into the formation of the Ming army cavalry, but if one shell fell into it, it could more or less bring casualties to the Ming army cavalry.

Whether it hits the rider directly or hits the horse, it can easily kill or disable a cavalry.

After these Ming army cavalry had charged several hundred meters, there were at least a hundred cavalry lying down behind them.

At this time, after Wang Xiazi's cavalry rushed over from the side at high speed, dozens of cavalry who were running fast had already begun to bend their bows and set arrows.

When the Ming army charged, they were violently bombarded, causing heavy casualties in a short period of time, which directly caused the cavalry to panic, and even the more they charged, the slower the speed...

And when Wang Xiazi's troops from the side came to kill them, many cavalrymen of the Ming army finally couldn't bear the pressure, and turned around and fled to the side.

At this time, these Ming army cavalry had already thrown the order to attack the artillery positions of the bandits to the back of their heads, and turned their horses and fled sideways for their lives.

But Wang Xiazi's subordinates did not give up, and directly chased after him.

Soon, the two cavalry chased and fled, and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

Luo Zhixue saw that the cavalry from both sides left the battlefield one after another, and immediately said: "Let the fourth cavalry sentry guard the left flank, and the artillery brigade will immediately launch a suppressive bombardment on the enemy's right flank vehicle formation."

Without the interference of the enemy's elite cavalry, Zhang Malin's artillery brigade was free to bombard the enemy.

And the artillery's priority attack target does not need to be considered at all. It must be the three large vehicle formations on the right wing of the Ming army.

There are several hundred artillery pieces in these three vehicle formations, even if they are attacking army artillery pieces weighing tens of kilograms, ultra-light short-barreled artillery pieces such as tiger crouching artillery pieces, they pose a great threat to the infantry.

The artillery units of the Township Protection Army must destroy them first, so that they can better cover the infantry operations.

When Zhang Malin's artillery moved its guns and started shelling the Ming army's chariot formation hundreds of meters away, Zuo Liangyu was stunned.

Where did these damn thieves get so many Hongyi cannons, and how did they pull so many Hongyi cannons to the battlefield.

He can be sure that there is no such red barbarian cannon in Yuzhou City, otherwise the bandit army in Yuzhou City would have pulled the red barbarian cannon up the city wall for defensive operations.

That is to say, the bandit army pulled the artillery all the way from Nanyang, and even from Xiangyang.

Nima, this is hundreds of miles away. How did the security guards pull these extremely heavy red barbarian cannons?
Even though the Hongyi cannon in the Bandit Army looks quite small, it is still a Hongyi cannon, at least a few hundred catties bigger.

Also, how could these thieves have so many elite cavalry!
He just took a look from a distance, and he could tell that these bandit cavalry were all elite cavalry.

The two sets of bows and arrows they carry are the most obvious feature. It is impossible for elite cavalry who mainly play cavalry and archery to carry two sets of bows and arrows at the same time, and one of them is a smaller cavalry bow.

The half-baked cavalry of the third cavalry post of the Baoxiang Army never carried riding bows, but only carried infantry bows.

Zuo Liangyu couldn't understand, where did the bandit protection army get hundreds of elite cavalry.

He knew very well that this kind of fine cavalry was very difficult to train, and it was simply not comparable to half-baked cavalry infantry.

A half-baked infantryman on horseback would be fine as long as he knew how to ride a horse and shoot arrows. Anyway, he just rode a horse, dismounted, and shot arrows directly with an infantry bow.

But riding and archery is different. This kind of fine riding is to shoot arrows directly on the back of a high-speed bumpy horse. If the riding skills are a little bit worse, you can throw yourself to death on the spot...

His archery skills are a little worse, and the arrows he basically shoots are not accurate at all.

In an ordinary bandit army, even Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other bandits could not have so many fine cavalry.

A few hundred or so would be enough, if there were more, if Gao Yingxiang had hundreds of elite cavalry under his command, coupled with thousands of cavalry infantry that Gao Yingxiang and the others had always been playing with, they could kill the capital in minutes...

But the reality was right in front of him, these bandits really pulled out hundreds of elite cavalry.

As a result, after the cavalry of our own side was stunned by the artillery bombardment, they were driven away by the elite cavalry of the bandits on the opposite side...

It's hard to say whether it will be wiped out, but it is definitely impossible to return to the battlefield in a short time, and then contain the main force of the bandit army.

Now, the bandit army's heavy artillery has shifted direction, directly aiming at their own car formation, watching their own car formation being bombarded by the bandit army's artillery two hundred meters away, causing heavy casualties, but unable to fight back at all, left Liangyu knew that today's battle was not only difficult to fight, but that if it was not done well, the entire army would be wiped out.

How to do?
Zuo Liangyu looked at the direction in which the cavalry of the enemy and us were away, and then looked at the artillery unit of the bandit army that was continuously shelling and the neat infantry formation among the bandit army.

Finally, he turned his attention to his left wing: that was He Renlong's troops.

Immediately afterwards, he whispered a few words to the confidant generals around him.

After a while, in Zuo Liangyu's command camp, the several flags erected high up to announce orders as flags began to shake, so as to pass orders to the various Ming troops on the battlefield.

On the other side of the battlefield, He Renlong was very upset when he saw the banners played by Zuo Liangyu, because these banners were Zuo Liangyu ordering him to lead his troops to attack immediately.

In this battle, He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu fought together. He Renlong led nearly 5000 people from the headquarters to take charge of the left wing, while Zuo Liangyu was in charge of the central army and the right wing.

Now that He Renlong saw Zuo Liangyu sending a letter, saying that his left wing would launch an attack, he hesitated for a while.

On the right-wing battlefield, Zuo Liangyu's cavalry fled before the battle, and he saw that the chariot formation continued to be bombarded by bandits and suffered heavy losses.

In this case, Zuo Liangyu asked him to attack, to be honest, he was a little dissatisfied.

This made it clear that the right wing couldn't fight anymore, and wanted He Renlong's left wing to launch an attack in order to reduce the pressure on the right wing.

But even though he guessed that it was Zuo Liangyu's intention to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and let him go all out to save the right wing, but now that the enemy was at hand, and he didn't have heavy artillery from the bandit army in front of him, he could still fight.

In the end, with dissatisfaction, He Renlong still ordered the troops of his headquarters to attack, putting pressure on the bandit army on the opposite side, so as to relieve the pressure on Zuo Liangyu's right wing.

He Renlong led more than 4000 people under his command to gradually press forward, while the [-]st Infantry Brigade in front of them remained motionless.

Since the enemy takes the initiative to cross hundreds of meters and wants to kill them, let them come over...

On such a hot day, it is very tiring to maneuver for hundreds of meters wearing armor weighing tens of kilograms.

Their First Infantry Brigade can completely relax and wait for work.

At the same time, you can wait for the artillery brigade to fight a wave of advancing enemy infantry.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Zhang Malin's artillery brigade to stop shelling the Ming army's right-wing vehicle formation, but shifted its target to the Ming army's left wing, which was He Renlong's unit.

After all, you can't just watch He Renlong's troops cross the 600 meters without any loss, and go all the way to the front of the [-]st Infantry Brigade, right?

As He Renlong's troops were also shelled, although the distance was relatively long, the artillery of the bandit army seemed not very accurate, and the lethality was relatively limited, but the losses caused by the continuous shelling still made He Renlong quite heartbroken. .

There is nothing he can do about the heartache, and now he can only hope that after Zuo Liangyu's chariots are not bombarded, he can quickly rush to the range of the bombardment, and then bombard the thieves.

After all, the three chariots under Zuo Liangyu's hands add up to two or three hundred small cannons, which is enough to keep the bandits drinking a pot.

But, He Renlong waited and waited. Hundreds of soldiers under his command were killed or injured due to the continuous shelling, and Zuo Liangyu's chariot formation did not wait for the attack.

Look again, good guy, the Central Army and the Right Army, that is, Zuo Liangyu's subordinates have already started to retreat...

Seeing this scene, He Renlong almost spit out a mouthful of old blood: "Zuo Liangyu, I hate your grandma!"

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