The most reckless man in the Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 346: Cavalry Showdown
On the plain, the elite cavalry of the Ming Dynasty and the Jurchen cavalry had collided violently.

Two thousand elite Ming cavalrymen from each group directly crashed into the wave of Jurchen cavalry from the side. With a determination to die, they ignored the casualties and forcibly blocked the momentum of the entire Jurchen cavalry!

Immediately afterwards, these two groups of elite cavalry began to cut into the battlefield!
"Feng Ya!"

Tang Hao shouted loudly, and the elite cavalry of the Ming army immediately changed their formation!

Just when the Jurchen cavalry had not yet reacted from their shock, the two thousand elite cavalry had already formed a sharp arrow formation!
The arrow points to Zhongshan Hou Tang Hao!
He rushed to the front with a sword in hand, and was protected by ten personal soldiers on each side, so Tang Hao didn't have to worry about the two wings at all, wondering if the enemy would suddenly attack him with a sword.

"kill!"

"Crush them!"

More than two thousand elite cavalrymen fought with the momentum of thousands of troops!
The charging formation of the Jurchen cavalry was actually dented, with sharp screams and teeth-grinding sounds of bones breaking!
Tang Hao swept his sword and two heads flew into the air. In the blood mist, one man broke through with his sword. The Jurchen cavalry was like a large piece of wood, and the two thousand elite cavalry of the Ming Dynasty were like nails, driving them hard into it!
On the other side, there were elite cavalry led by Chang Kuohai, also in a spearhead formation. With the fierce general Chang Kuohai as the spearhead, they fiercely pierced through the Jurchen formation!

The battlefield situation was instantly destroyed by these two groups of elite Ming cavalry!
The Jurchens' already chaotic organization completely collapsed because of the penetration of these two elite cavalry.

In this era of cold weapons, weapons and equipment are certainly important, but the most important thing is actually the soldiers!

The orderliness and orderliness of the Beijing Army's soldiers, their coordination of labor, and their ability to penetrate the formation made the Jurchen cavalry facing them terrified and despairing!
During the fight, the Jurchen cavalry found that their bravery was no match for the opponent's sword that was aimed directly at their vital points!

If one blow is not enough, the enemy's companions will soon come to attack with another blow in tacit cooperation!

There was no need to explain this tacit understanding, it was as if they had practiced it hundreds or thousands of times!
The two armies had just started fighting when they directly entered into the bloodiest hand-to-hand combat!

The sword in Tang Hao's hand flew up and down, and every time the sword swept across, several heads flew up and blood splattered!
The Jurchen cavalry was stunned at first, but after they reacted, they began to counterattack!
After all, in terms of numbers, they are comparable to the Ming troops that have charged into the battlefield!

With numbers, there is power; with power, there is courage!
However, the reaction of the Ming army's elite cavalry was as if they were facing not an enemy army, but a field of corn sticking out there. All they had to do was keep chopping down the corn, and in fact they did just that!

Tang Hao was also hacking and killing frantically, and he slashed at a Jurchen cavalryman head-on!

As luck would have it, the knife broke directly after splitting the man in half.

In desperation, Tang Hao had no choice but to drop his knife.

"Knife!"

The personal soldier on Tang Hao's side immediately handed over the sword in his hand, completely ignoring the Jurchen cavalry who were slashing at him at the same time!
Seeing this, Tang Hao grabbed the hilt of the knife, then swept the long knife across and killed the Jurchen cavalryman who was approaching from the flank, saving the personal soldier who handed the knife to him!

Then the personal soldier took over the sword from his comrade's hand and completed the transfer of the sword from "arrow shaft" to "arrow"!
The craftsmanship of the Ming Dynasty's swords was very advanced, and the blades were sharp and hard, much better than the sabers in the hands of the Jurchen cavalry.

Moreover, the swords used by the Beijing Army soldiers are all excellent swords made with top-quality steel after Tang Hao reformed the steel factories in various places!

But the problem is, no matter how sharp a sword is, it will still have gaps after cutting too many bones, and the gaps will be even more severe when it collides with the enemy's weapon. Unless it is a priceless sword that can barely hold its ground for a while, it will still be chopped into pieces under such a crazy frequency of swinging!

Gradually, the four thousand elite cavalry had completely penetrated into the Tie army's formation!
The Jurchen cavalry has completely become a state of fighting on their own, and the leaders and nobles can only command the few hundred people who have been protecting them!
But what the other Jurchen cavalry saw was that from all directions, the elite cavalry of the Ming army were frantically piercing and breaking through the formation!
Pierce, pierce, and pierce again!
These elusive elite cavalry of the Ming army, under the leadership of Tang Hao and Chang Kuohai, have been killing like crazy!

The distance a person can see on a plain battlefield is actually only this far.

After all, human vision is limited, not to mention in such a bloody battlefield where life and death are at stake. Soldiers on both sides are killing each other madly and dare not be distracted to observe the battlefield situation!
They had no idea what the current situation on the battlefield was. They only wondered why there were so many elite Ming cavalry in front of them!

Fortunately, I chopped one down!
Soon another one appeared!
The Ming army is everywhere, front, back, left and right!
As this chaotic scene continued, the various Jurchen tribes began to become increasingly disconnected until their formation finally collapsed completely!
The Jurchen cavalry could not withstand the sharp cutting of the Ming army's elite cavalry!
Even though there were a few places where some Jurchen chieftains and nobles led their men in fighting bravely and killed many elite Ming cavalry, from a global perspective, they were unable to prevent the collapse of their formation!
Dig the formation!

puncture!

These two sentences were the only ones in the minds of the Ming army's elite cavalry!

Before the war started, Tang Hao had already arranged the tactics!
The seven thousand soldiers were divided into three groups. Xu Tianci led three thousand soldiers to attract the enemy head-on and suppress them with firearms, while Tang Hao and Chang Kuohai each led an army and two thousand cavalry to break through the enemy formation.

Because once the warhorse starts charging, it is basically impossible to change direction. The best choice is to keep moving forward, always forward!
Either you break through the enemy's formation or you are killed by the enemy. There is no other possibility!
Of course, the unlucky ones who are knocked off their horses will suffer an even more miserable fate, because they will be trampled into meat paste by the horses of the chaotic army, which is countless times more painful than being hacked to death!
Therefore, as long as the main force of the Jurchens launched a charge, they would lose their retreat and all be buried on this battlefield! The two cavalry led by Tang Hao and Chang Kuohai were equivalent to releasing two extremely sharp steel knives!

The purpose is to cut and decompose the enemy cavalry in front in multiple directions!

Cut through the enemy formation and then keep piercing, strangling and annihilating as many enemies as possible until they collapse!
The Art of War,
It requires generals and soldiers to work together to complete it!
In fact, why did the Mongolian cavalry decline?

The most important reason is that Lan Yu destroyed the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the battle of Buyuer Lake. Then the last legitimate Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Toghon Temur, who had escaped by chance, and dozens of riders including the crown prince Tianbaonu were seized and killed by his subordinate Yesüder. The Golden Family and its direct descendants in the East were almost destroyed, causing the Mongolian tribes to fall into a state of disunity and division.

Even though many powerful officials including Yesüder and Yesen declared themselves khans, they could not get the recognition and respect of the Mongolian tribes, big or small. They only recognized the Khan who had the legitimate bloodline of Genghis Khan and the legitimate members of the Golden Family!

The Mongolian cavalry was not incompetent in fighting, nor was their instinctive skills in archery and horse riding degenerated. Otherwise, when Prince of Yan Zhu Di led the cavalry to quell the rebellion, he would not have spent a large sum of money to hire the Three Guards of Doyan to be his thugs. Otherwise, there would not have been so many Mongolian warriors in the Ming army, including Tongan Hou Huozhen and others!
Essentially, they have lost a sense of cohesion, or in other words, they have lost national cohesion. Sometimes, even if they form an alliance, they are still just pursuing their own interests!
Just like the Jurchen cavalry in front of them, some leaders were leading their men in a desperate fight, while some nobles had already begun to flee!
The main generals of the Ming army were Chang Kuohai and Tang Ritian, who were born to be generals!

These elite cavalry led by Tang Hao are all well-trained and well-equipped soldiers of the Beijing Army!
Under the thousand households, every hundred households and even every flag officer knew what they should do and where they should go on the battlefield after the war began!
This is the absolute tacit understanding cultivated through years of training, based on their absolute trust in their comrades around them!

Most importantly, they are not afraid of death!
Of course, not everyone can face death with equanimity, that is impossible!

But they are clear about one thing: sometimes on the battlefield, they really need to sacrifice themselves voluntarily, for the sake of the overall situation!

What's the big picture?

For the Ming Dynasty!

Even if they really die on the battlefield, the Marquis will definitely not forget their military achievements and their pensions!
Marquis Zhongshan is clear about rewards and punishments, and will never treat any meritorious soldier unfairly!
This is also the real reason why soldiers from all walks of life are willing to follow him and fight for their lives!
Dig the formation!

puncture!

Continue to strangle more enemies!
After the second drilling, it was the third drilling!

After the third drilling, it was the fourth drilling!

After the fourth drilling, there was the fifth drilling...

At this moment, the two armies of the Beijing Army were fighting like crazy!

Their armor was already damaged, and their swords were bent, but their murderous aura and killing intent had not diminished in the slightest!
After this repeated and continuous penetration, the Jurchen cavalry had been torn into pieces!
Finally, after a long period of confusion and chaos, the Jurchen cavalry, led by some cowards, began to flee.

They roared and cursed desperately, trying to escape from this terrible battlefield!

It’s not that I don’t want to fight, nor is it that I dare not fight!

After all, they are Jurchen cavalry, the bravest warriors in the tribe!
But the current situation does not make people see any hope. These Ming troops are like demons, madly reaping everyone's lives!

how to spell?
These Ming soldiers are all crazy!
Especially the two main generals of the Ming army, they were like devils born from purgatory!

Once there is no hope, people will become confused and have no opinion of their own!

After the people around them start to flee, the rest of the people can only choose to follow and flee together!
Even if they didn't really want to run away and be shameful cowards!

However, the body's survival instinct is urging them to escape as quickly as possible!

One side is running for life while the other is fighting for life. The goddess of victory will naturally favor the brave!
Tang Hao was breathing heavily, his whole body covered in blood, until there was no more Jurchen cavalry left in sight!
He stopped his horse and observed the situation on the battlefield, then immediately gave the order.

"Blow the horn for the general attack!"

"Kill them all, and exterminate the wild boar skins of Jianzhou today!"

(End of this chapter)