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Chapter 861 The Great Ming Expeditionary Army Infantry (Part [-])

On the other side of the river, the three camps of the Ming army were the first to meet the enemy. At this time, if each Ming army soldier is regarded as a tree, they have a distance between trees and rows, ensuring that each soldier has three meters of space to display.

The first thing that hit was the rain of arrows all over the sky. At this time, the soldiers of the Ming army did not have shields in their hands, but only the cold weapons they were handy - knives, guns, swords and halberds.But these things are better than shields in the hands of these Ming soldiers at this time.

They were originally selected from various armies who were good at stepping down and fighting. In addition, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Yuan Zongdi and other four major instructors personally coached them. The blood and sweat of months on the training ground was not in vain.

I saw them move these swords, guns, swords and halberds like flying, and the arrows shot at them fell to the ground one after another.

The generals of the Tartars were astonished. The Ming soldiers were all equipped with unique skills and fired all arrows, but there was no threat to them?
The Tartars had no choice but to put away their bows and arrows, put on their sabers, and rushed into the camp of the Ming army in the blink of an eye.

The cavalry fought against the infantry. If the infantry did not have bows, arrows, firearms and strong fortifications, a galloping charge of thousands of horses could mess up the Ming army's position.

But today is different. These Ming troops are arranged in this formation, like a forest, motionless, waiting for them to charge in.

Countless war horses rushed in, and the Tartars on the horses raised their swords and spears and slashed at the Ming army on the ground.

These Ming soldiers wielded swords, guns, swords and halberds to fend off the stabbing blades, and then used the sharp blades in their hands to attack the horses and the Tartars on horseback.

Don't look at the Tatars sitting on tall horses. At this time, the Ming army is underground and half shorter, but the Ming army is more flexible.

Don't look at the turbulent Tartars, rushing over with bared teeth and claws.These Ming soldiers dodged to the side, let the horse's head pass, and with a backhand knife, the Tartars would fall off the horse.

Or jump upwards, jump into the air, and stab out the spear in your hand, and stab it into the chest and abdomen of the tartar.Or if you can't kill anyone, you will get off the horse and cut off the horse's legs, and the Tartars will fall from the horse in the same way.

In this way, the two sides started a scuffle. As a result of the scuffle, the Ming army did not flee, and even the formation was not scattered.

During the clash of gold and iron, the Tartars' horses turned over, and the Tartars fell from their horses.In other words, one-on-one, a Tartar cavalry could not deal with a Ming infantry at all.This is not an exception, but a common phenomenon.

As a result, the 4 Tartars did not disperse the 6 infantry.

If the 4 iron cavalry of the Tartars were like a rampant chariot, and the camp of the Ming army was like countless wooden stakes, the chariot was firmly trapped in the array of wooden stakes.

Zhang Xianzhong, who was sitting on a horse watching the battle not far behind, saw that the time was ripe, and swung the ghost-headed sword into the air, "Kill!"

4 infantry rushed up to join the battle group like a flood breaking a dike.A total of 10 infantry participated in the battle successively, drowning 4 Tartar cavalry.

In this battle, the three views of the Tartars were subverted.Before that, they only knew that the cavalry and archers of the Ming Expeditionary Army were powerful, but they never thought that the infantry were so powerful.

Of course, among them, the most awesome is the chief general of the four horsemen, Zhang Xianzhong was nicknamed Huang Hu, even though he is in his early 40s this year, with a ghostly sword, he is really like a tiger entering a flock.Li Guo, who was nicknamed a tiger by others, even Cui Malun killed Tartars like chopping melons and vegetables.Gao Yigong looks a bit face-to-face, but when he fights on the battlefield, he is also very tempered, dancing the knife in his hand like rain hitting pear blossoms.The dark-looking Yuan Zongdi, with a pair of iron whips, was really reborn like Yuchi Gong.

These four generals launched a powerful attack, each of them was an enemy of ten thousand people.

The Tartars completely collapsed. The Mongolians swung Tie Li with the big ax in his hand and slashed at Yuan Zongdi. His head was smashed.

Another strong general of the Mongol Tatars, Tie Ermu, had an indissoluble battle with Li Guo, Gao Yigong rushed forward to help, Tie Ermu couldn't stand it, so he had to flee in defeat.

The two chief generals of the Tartars died and fled, and they were already in chaos. The unsupportable Tartars lost their morale and fled one after another.

Zhang Xianzhong led three generals and 10 horses to chase across the Yantai River, killing for a while until the two legs of a man could not keep up with the four legs of a war horse.

As expected, these Tartars came and went without a trace, they came fast, and they ran fast, leaving corpses all over the place without a trace.

After chasing for several miles, the Tartars disappeared without a single ghost.

Looking inside and outside the river, on both sides of the river, the mountains and plains are full of corpses, broken chess pieces and broken blades.The blood stained the green grass and land under his feet, and even the clear river water.

Zhang Xianzhong sent an order to withdraw the troops. This battle didn't last long, only lasted more than an hour, but it created a miracle that the Ming infantry defeated the Tartar cavalry.

Zhang Xianzhong ordered people to clean up the battlefield, rescue the wounded, organize the spoils, count the numbers on the battlefield, and then ask the quartermaster to record the work.

Zhang Xianzhong's method of recording credit is also very special. Instead of counting the number of heads, they check how many noses each person cut off.

Because to kill a Tartar, cut off his head and carry it on the body. A head weighs several kilograms. If you cut off too much, it will be a burden to carry on the body, which will affect the battle.

Every time the soldiers killed a Tartar, they cut off their nose and put it in the autocratic pocket. Even if one person killed hundreds or eighty Tartars, the noses of more than 100 people would not weigh much, and would not affect their combat power.After the war, everyone took their pockets to the quartermaster to register their noses, and then registered the size of their merits. This is indeed an idea.

Looking at the busy generals under his command, Zhang Xianzhong was in high spirits, and secretly said: "This time, my old Zhang can also show off his power in front of Li Hongji. If your cavalry can win battles, so can Lao Zhang's infantry. , not at all worse than you, Li Zicheng, let's see how proud you are in front of Lao Zhang?"

Soon Gao Yigong reported the number of casualties. In this battle, more than 26300 Tatar cavalry were annihilated. The highest general who killed the Tartars was Tie Li, the general officer of the Mongolian Tartars.The resulting swords and horses are worthless.

Zhang Xianzhong immediately wrote a memorial to His Majesty to report his victory.

The soldiers of the Ming army hadn't eaten for a long time, and only after this great victory did they feel hungry and thirsty.The fire-headed soldiers hurriedly buried the pot to make food, and in the evening, a fast horse rushed to Shanhaiguan with Zhang Xianzhong's memorial.

Zhu Yousong received Zhang Xianzhong's report that night, which was already a late news.Because Jin Yiwei would send him news at any time, so that he could keep abreast of the situation on the battlefield hundreds of miles away.However, what they reported was only a simple battlefield situation. Compared with Zhang Xianzhong's memorial, the memorial is of course more formal, and the various figures are more detailed.

After reading the memorial, Zhu Yousong said with emotion: "Zhang Jingxuan's army is really like a tiger. It is a miracle that the infantry can defeat the Tartar cavalry in the field without the help of firearms and steep fortifications. The cavalry Brave and good at fighting infantry, they can all be called invincible, it seems that my expeditionary army can really go on an expedition!"

(End of this chapter)