Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 321 The Annihilation of Four Thousand Armored Cavalry

Liu Mu swung his knife and cut the rider and horse in front of him into two sections, wiped the blood from his face, and looked at the blue rider who rushed up the mountain again.

"Retreat from both sides!"

After Liu Mu defeated the first Qianqi Qing army, he did not continue to defend his position.According to the plan, the Ming army set up a three-fold formation and set up three lines of defense. Liu Mu was only the first line of defense. As long as he fought well, he could retreat behind the third line of defense and then regroup to form the fourth line. line of defense.

The most terrifying thing about cavalry is their impact and penetration.

But now the Fushan formation is deployed, which can greatly slow down the impact of their cavalry, and even use this terrain to continuously extend the three-fold formation into four and five.

Xu Erxian led three thousand riders to the place where the front line was defeated. There were corpses and blood all over the ground, and the rocky hillside was slippery with blood.

"Chase!"

Xu Erxian didn't intend to let the Ming army go, but soon there were countless Ming troops in front of him.

There are still three lines of refusal horses in front of the wall, and then three lines of infantry.

"General, the thieves are cunning. They lined up on the mountain. We have been prepared for a long time. We will not be able to attack with our backs. Why don't we retreat first and surround at the foot of the mountain. After the king leads the infantry battalion to arrive, we can bombard them and attack the infantry?" A general saw. There was something wrong with the momentum, so he quickly persuaded Xu Erxian.

But Xu Erxian has already taken the lead at this time, or because he underestimated the enemy and suffered too much loss, he urgently needs to win at this moment, so as to wash away the responsibility of the defeated army. It cannot be washed.

"One go at a time, then decline and exhaust. If we retreat now, we will be defeated. The Ming army's elite is all in the first battle. If the first team is defeated, he will definitely not be able to hold on to the second team. If we charge again, victory will be over." It's here."

The second stack of the Ming army is Yongwei Town.

The commander of Yongwei Town is Zhu Shengli. He was nicknamed Little Tiger in the Chuangjun back then. He is the adopted son of a tiger and the grandnephew of Li Zicheng.

This man has been kept by Jian Guo since he came to worship Zhu Yihai with a tiger. He is also regarded as a hostage, but Jian Guo admires the little tiger very much. official.

Standing in front of the formation, he didn't talk too much nonsense.

"You have all seen the performance of Warrior Town just now. They fought very well. Most of the officers and even brothers in Warrior Town came from our Yongwei Town. Our Yongwei Town is the first town in the imperial camp. Don't lose your courage. The guards will do it!"

"war!"

The [-] soldiers in Yongwei Town are facing three times as many enemies as the Warrior Town just now.

Five thousand infantry against three thousand cavalry.

Fortunately, Zhang Mingbin and others quickly made tactical adjustments after seeing the Qing army's desperately concentrated cavalry attacking this road.

Send gunners and gunners to reinforce Yongwei.

He also ordered the cavalry to be on standby at any time for flank support.

On the mountain, there are endless gunfire.

Zhu Shengli ordered the large shields to be concentrated in the front, and the spearmen to be behind.

A shield wall like the Great Wall was erected in front of the formation.

Three thousand cavalry rushed over the mountain, and the shield wall of the brave guards was as immovable as a mountain, covering the guns and bombarding the Qing army continuously. When the Qing army broke through and refused the horses all the way, they rushed to the front of the formation, but they failed to do as they did last time. Jump into the Ming army formation.

Because the Ming army occupied a high place and set up a large shield, the Qing cavalry could not jump into the Ming army formation at all. When they rushed to the shield wall, they could only stab them with guns, chop with knives, or directly with their horses. Collide.

"shield!"

Zhu Shengli used to be a member of Li Zicheng's Three Walls cavalry, and the tens of thousands of cavalry on the Three Walls were much stronger than this.

As the invincible cavalry of the Three Walls, he clearly knows the advantages of the cavalry. The biggest advantage of the cavalry is speed.

But all of this requires speed, and it also requires terrain.

It is best to play on the plains, where the scene is big and sports are good.

But on this mountain, it is impossible to run, let alone sprint, and it is difficult to turn around and outflank.

The position Zhu Shengli chose to form the formation is still a relatively steep section. Once the shield wall is erected, it will block the cavalry like a city wall.

The gun mounts were bombarding from a high place behind them, and the musketeers and archers also shot arrows on the high ground behind the shield wall.

The cavalry was blocked and unable to pass.

Xu Erxian led his troops three times but three times, and the shield formation was like a mountain, standing still.

The three thousand cavalry slowly crowded to the front of the formation. At this time, there were many orders on the mountain, and Zhang Mingbin commanded the Jinwu cavalry to swoop down from the foot of the mountain, encircling the Qing cavalry from both wings.

After the Jinwu cavalry joined the battle, Zhu Shengli also took the initiative to open the shield wall.

Since Qingqi had already stopped and formed a block, there was no need to be afraid. The infantry of Yongwei Town jumped out and swooped down on Qingqi.

Three people and one team.

One person holds a shield to cover two comrades in arms, and then the other two, one cuts the horse and the other cuts the man.

The Qing army was forced to dismount and fight on foot. It was in the same situation as the 1000 people before. They couldn't rush through, and they couldn't go around. They were squeezed into a group.

You can only dismount and fight.

Draw the bow and release the arrow, and swing the spear to stab.

But the cavalry really dismounted and fought on foot, especially in this terrain, it was not as good as the infantry.

Seeing that the battle had completely turned into a melee, the soldiers on the last line of defense, as well as Liu Mu's Warrior Town, the first line of defense that retreated just now, also shouted loudly to surround and join the battle group.

Ever since, on Xifu Mountain, more than 2 people fought in a scuffle.

The two sides shouted at each other, wrapped up in a bunch of fighting.

Artillery is still helping out.

After nearly an hour of melee, the cavalry of the Qing army had been divided into strands one after another. At this time, Xu Erxian had long regretted it, but it was difficult to get out after being caught in the melee.

Although he ordered to break through the siege over and over again, the cavalry couldn't even get on their horses.

There are Ming troops all over the mountains and plains, and they are surrounded by five times as many Ming troops.

In particular, the first thousand cavalry was defeated too quickly and the casualties were too heavy. They were actually three thousand cavalry fighting, but after being divided and surrounded, they were forced to mix into melee combat, and the power of the cavalry was completely unable to exert their power.

The guns and arrows are like rain.

The Qing army could only fight and retreat, trying their best to rush down the mountain, but with every step, countless people fell down.

Although Fushan is not high, fighting while fleeing adds a lot of difficulty. After more than an hour of melee, the Qing army has completely collapsed, and each of them is scrambling to escape. In the end, it became a harvest battle in which the Ming army chased and killed the Qing army.

In the Qing Dynasty, the cavaliers could not find their officers, and the knights could not find their mounts. They ran for their lives, trampled each other to death, and countless people died due to flooding and filling ditches.

They finally escaped down the mountain, but the pursuit of Jinwu cavalry teams still left them nowhere to escape.

When they were exhausted from running, the auxiliary soldiers in Luqiao Town rushed out to block the way. The auxiliary soldiers could easily defeat these exhausted horseless Qing troops, and tied them up and captured them.

The Ming army searched everywhere.

Of the four thousand Qingqi, the last one failed to escape. Even some hungry people in Luqiao Town participated in the hunt and chased them, and dozens of them were caught.

Qing cavalry leader Xu Erxianyi disguised himself as a soldier and hid in the mountains, but he was finally found.

Zhang Mingbin and others never thought that they could win so thoroughly. They thought they could use the Qing army to underestimate the enemy, and they would be satisfied by annihilating some of them, but they won all.

Four thousand Qing cavalry, even if it is the cavalry of the Han army flag, is not an ordinary green camp after all.

What's more, it's a full four thousand.

Xu Erxian is still a general officer.

The capture was also very good. The Qing army was wiped out, and their mounts, armor, weapons, etc. basically fell into the hands of the Ming army.

These cavalrymen of the Qing army rode with one person and two horses. Except for the dead, disabled and useless, the rest were found, and there were more than 6000 horses.

There are four thousand sets of cotton armor alone.

Although these armors were blue and red-edged Tartar armors, the townsmen and horses participating in the battle had already distributed the spoils. The towns took half of them, and the remaining half was handed over to the supervisor.

The four towns are divided into [-] sets of mianjia, and [-] sets for each family.

Liu Mu and Zhu Shengli were a little dissatisfied, thinking that they contributed the most, while the Jinwu cavalry and navy did not contribute much, but Zhang Mingbin insisted that the four should be divided equally. After all, everyone fought together, but he also agreed to share more weapons and so on. They are two towns.

Then Zhang Mingbin used his share of weapons and so on, and returned some war horses.

Overall, the four towns are quite satisfied with each other.

A family of 800 sets of cotton armor, more than [-] war horses, and various weapons are enough to arm another elite battalion.

"How to deal with these Tartars?" Zhu Chenggong asked.

"I think it's better to cut them all down. These are Tartars from Liaodong. They are not ordinary green camps. They cannot be recruited and retained." Zhang Mingbin said.

Shen Wenzhong hesitated.

"I did a preliminary interrogation and found that most of them were Liaodong Han army flags, and some even came from Dongjiang earlier, but I don't think it's appropriate to just cut them off like this. These people are all cavalry, and they are quite elite."

"You're an elite, why can't four thousand elite cavalry beat us?"

"That's also because they underestimated the enemy and were careless. The main reason is that the general made a mistake. Didn't those cavalry also cause us a lot of casualties?"

In this battle, the Ming army had 500 soldiers and fought [-] Qing cavalry. In the end, more than [-] died and more casualties.

Of the [-] Qing soldiers killed in battle, the rest were captured. However, among the [-] killed in battle, many were killed while fleeing, or were killed after surrendering or being captured.

About a thousand people died in direct battle.

"Let's take it back to Huai'an and hand it over to the supervisor. It would be good if we can reform the surrender and use it for my own use."

An excellent cavalryman cannot be trained in three to five years.

"The vacancies for those killed and disabled in each town can be supplemented by selecting from the town's auxiliary soldiers first."

"Then we're leaving like this?"

no answer.

Having just won such a big victory, it is normal to accept it now, but they still have something to say.

"You said, since we wiped out these cavalrymen, the Tartars behind didn't know that the cavalrymen were gone. We captured their armor and banners, etc., then we put on their armor and pretended to be these cavalrymen, and returned Yutai, or simply set up an ambush here, and attack Shang Kexi's remaining [-]-step camp, there should be a great chance, right?"

Eight hundred were killed and more than a thousand were disabled, but the strength of the Ming army was still there.

Zhu Shengli's proposal made everyone present feel a little bit excited!
(End of this chapter)