Wang Er, who was responsible for You Shiwei, Jiang Pai, and Wang Jiayin, who was in charge of the formation and supervising the army, listened to the urgent report sent by the outpost scout: "Wu Sangui's Guanning army has set up an ambush, and Jiang Pai and the other three generals are surrounded by ambush!" ”

After many days of pursuit, the enemy suddenly appeared here in a decisive battle posture, this new battle situation suddenly made Wang Si'er overjoyed, if you can be outside the city wall of Shanhaiguan, with a field posture to annihilate Wu Sangui's main force, then, the pressure to attack Shanhaiguan will be much lighter! Perhaps, with the strength of the Zhenshan Battalion, you can conquer this first level in the world!

Therefore, he ordered his cavalry to speed up and advance, and be sure to destroy these soldiers and horses of Wu Sangui outside the fortified city of Shanhaiguan!

The two thousand cavalry quickened their speed, rolled up the wind and thunder, and galloped eastward with smoke and dust!

After traveling more than ten miles, a letter cannon rang out, and from behind the hills on both sides of the road, thousands of cavalry poured out like magma gushing out when the volcano erupted, blocking Wang Si'er's path. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Array!" Wang Si'er found from the binoculars that there were enemy cavalry rushing out from both sides in front of him, and he couldn't help but show a smile on his little face, "You dare to play cavalry battle with us!" I don't know what to live or die! ”

These thousands of cavalry of the Guanning Army, in Wang Si'er's opinion, are to give themselves appetizing desserts. Since he came to the Zhenshan Battalion to serve as Luo Hu's deputy, no army has been able to bargain in front of the horse team of the Zhenshan Battalion!

However, when the two formations were formed, Wang Si'er was dumbfounded.

The cavalry of the Guanning army, about 4,000 horses, was divided into five divisions, and blocked the road to death. Three forwards and two back-ups. Lined up in two formations.

Each army had 800 horsemen, and was divided into four columns. There are 200 riders in each column, and each row is more than one step apart (about two meters), and each column is separated by fifteen steps. And between each part, there are thirty steps apart. In the entire cavalry camp, on the left side of the cavalry ranks, there are flags holding the flag, and the officers of the department stand under the military flag, and several other personal soldiers serve as escorts.

The Guanning army was located on the front line of the war with the Liao thieves, and its weapons also had their own characteristics, with strong regional characteristics. The first column of 600 horsemen of the three divisions in the forefront, most of whom were armed with long weapons such as horse lances and tiger guns, were used to break through the enemy's formation and open the way for the whole army.

The cavalry in the back row is each holding a saber in his hand, looking from a distance, as if a mountain of swords. Two or three thousand iron broadswords with Mongolian saber style, the back of the knife is thick, the blade is slightly curved, and the whole knife is quite heavy, which is easy to chop.

In this era when both cavalry were heavily armoured, the saber had to be heavy and heavy to be able to cut through the opponent's armor and helmet. That kind of light saber only appeared in later generations, when both sides were not wearing armor. With a light knife, even with the horse's running speed, the blade can be slashed through the enemy's body, regardless of whether it is against cotton armor or iron armor. It's all tickling.

The cavalry of the Guanning Army. Lined up in a very tight array, almost people by people, horses by horses, knee to knees. Such a dense formation is also the result of Wu Sangui's hard training of the cavalry of the Guanning Army since the end of the Liaodong War.

However, this formation, weapons, and queue are all very familiar to Wang Si'er!

The cavalry of the Zhenshan Battalion, whether it was against Zuo Liangyu or Sun Chuanting, used such tactics. He once thought that this was the secret of breaking into the camp, but he did not expect that here, he would meet cavalry with the same tactics!

"Master General, what should I do?"

Wang Si'er's generals also found that the cavalry on the opposite side had adopted the same formation and tactics as themselves, and they couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in their hearts, they knew that this kind of cavalry wall tactics was quite unreasonable and lethal. No matter how elite the cavalry is, there is no way to encounter this kind of cavalry wall, either hit it hard, or turn the horse's head and run quickly.

"Blow the trumpet! Command, catch up! Let's see who is good, let these thieves see our cold baby in northern Shaanxi! ”

Wang Si'er bit the flesh on his cheek, letting the sharp pain make his thoughts clearer.

The officers of the Zhenshan Battalion rode their horses and galloped through the queue to convey Wang Si'er's order.

"The king general has an order, the whole army lined up, rushed up, and broke the enemy!"

However, Wang Si'er did not notice that the terrain was slightly unfavorable to his troops. From west to east, this is a long gentle slope, and the terrain chosen by Wu Sangui is very tricky, Wang Si'er's troops are in a relatively wide area, and his men and horses are arranged on a narrow area.

The Guanning army swooped down from top to west from east to west, and swooped down on the Dashun army horses from a narrow area, but the soldiers and horses of the Zhenshan battalion could only barely meet them in the open area.

"Attack!"

Wang Si'er waved the spear in his hand very proudly, and the four hundred cavalrymen in the front put the spear in their hands flat, squinted their eyes to look at the peers not far away, and just gently bumped the stirrup with their heels, and the war horse under the crotch slowly took small steps forward.

Immediately after, the small broken steps turned into fast walking, and then they ran wildly like the wind and lightning. They had to use their speed to counteract the possible blocking fire of the opposing artillery.

In the cavalry battle, the casualties on both sides were extremely heavy. Napoleon, the emperor of artillery, once said that hussars who can survive past the age of thirty are bastards. It can be seen that the casualties and losses are serious.

In a short distance of two or three miles, the cavalry on both sides had just increased their speed before they rushed close to each other.

Suddenly, on the battlefield, "Bang Bang! The muffled sound of "bang bang bang" came and went, and the horses and riders of both sides collided together, and each of them was knocked out and flew out, turning into a pile of indistinguishable flesh and blood under the horse's hooves in a blink of an eye.

The densest stretch of the road on both sides was littered with dead and wounded, wailing horses, broken lances and spears.

In a short moment, the two sides lost hundreds of casualties within a range of more than a hundred paces. Almost all the cavalry in the first column of the Earthquake Mountain Battalion were killed or wounded!

Although the Guanning army has a large number of people and has the advantage of geographical advantages, it also suffered more than 200 casualties, and when those lancers rushed through the area full of corpses and wounded people, there were mountains of knives on the opposite side!

Wang Si'er waved the spear in his hand and stabbed a Wu cavalryman with blood on his upper body off his horse, but there was no trace of joy, and the battlefield in front of him made him look at it and almost bleed.

The four hundred lancers who were usually enough to defeat Zuo Liangyu's tens of thousands of horses and horses were left with little left, and those who barely survived were also scarred. And the more than 1,000 cavalry that followed up also lost more than half of them in the process of colliding with the cavalry of the Wu army and fighting with sabers.

This period is the heaviest loss since the Zhenshan Battalion became famous!

The 2,000 cavalry, within a quarter of an hour after launching the attack, lost more than 1,000 casualties, barely survived, and those who rushed through the Dao array of the Wu army were also exhausted and wounded. And of the remaining hundreds of people, only half of them can still have the strength to fight!

Fang Cai was still a strong horse and a 2,000 cavalry with high morale, but at this moment, it has become such a tragic situation, this huge contrast makes Wang Si'er a little unacceptable.

To the east, the losses of Wu Sangui's military horses were no smaller than Wang Si'er's! Although it occupies a favorable position, when the cavalry of the Wu army let go of their horsepower and rushed down the slow slope, they undoubtedly attacked the sharp spear of the opponent's spear at high speed, and this loss could be less?

However, fortunately, the cavalry of the Wu army was numerous, and the losses of these hundreds of men and horses could be tolerated, and it would not affect the course of the battle.

"My lord, should we take advantage of the situation to cover up the past?" Among the ranks of the Wu army, a thousand general stammered in front of Wu Ruisi's horse, pointing to the soldiers and horses of the Zhenshan battalion who were tumbling and rolling westward not far away, ready to slightly reorganize the formation.

"No need! The commander gave us the order to hold this road, so as not to let the thieves' reinforcements rush over and spoil his old man's big event of encircling and annihilating the more than 20,000 thieves. Moreover," Wu Ruisi pointed to the position of the Zhenshan camp in the distance, "The thief's infantry team has come up, the horse has been set up, and the firecrackers behind have also lined up in formation. ”

Under Wu Ruisi's arrangement, the Wu army sent scouts to monitor the movement of Dashun's soldiers and horses, 1,000 cavalry served as battlefield guards, hundreds of cavalry dismounted and began to clean the battlefield, and the people carried stretchers made of door panels, and began to transfer the wounded in small steps under the leadership of the officers.

Armor, swords and guns were carefully put away, and horses that had not been injured were carefully collected, and those wounded horses, depending on the situation, were either taken away and prepared to be used for plowing the fields, or slaughtered for meat.

As for the deceased and wounded in Dashun, Wu Jun was very benevolent and righteous to remove the armor of the deceased and concentrate them in one place, and did not cut off the head to repay the merits. The wounded simply treated the wounds, stripped off their armor in the same way, gathered in one place, and waited for the movements of the soldiers and horses of Dashun.

"My lord, why don't you cut off the heads of those thieves and go back to repay your merits?" The Qian general manager watched his subordinates busily placing the corpses in one place, and was quite puzzled.

"This is the commander's order. First, it can show that we are the teachers of kings, benevolence and righteousness. Second, when the dead and wounded get to the thieves, they have to delay at least a little, and it will take time to deal with these people. Thirdly, the corpses of the dead and the screams of the wounded will affect the morale of the thieves and deplete their troops. There is another one, God knows if everyone will be in the same hall in the future, leave some love, and see each other in the future. ”

"Dashuai is really far-sighted!" Mr. Qian gave a thumbs up from the bottom of his heart, and was amazed by Wu Sangui's thoughtfulness.

These dead and wounded are all the elite of Dashun's lineage, Luo Hu and Wang Si'er naturally will not dispose of them casually, and they have to bury the corpses and treat the wounded. However, a wounded number consumes at least a few men or soldiers. Moreover, the wounds of the wounded, screaming, moaning, are definitely a sharp weapon to demoralize.

More than ten miles away, it has become a sea of blood.

The cavalry of the Guanning army slowly pressed up, four miles, three miles, two miles, and slowly, their banners, armor, and horse colors were clearly visible. Putting an invisible huge pressure on the soldiers and horses of the three towns who were already flustered, the soldiers began to crowd each other together, and the knives and guns in their hands were shaking incessantly, and people desperately squeezed into the depths of the crowd, trying to find a safe haven for themselves with other people's bodies.

"Whew!" "Whew!"

"Boom! Knock knock! ”

The dull and huge sound of drums and horns sounded, and with the sound of drums and horns, the cavalry of the Wu army began to accelerate slowly, and when they entered a mile, suddenly the horses neighed, the hooves sounded like thunder, and countless cavalry rode their horses to the soldiers and horses of the three towns and galloped wildly.

In the face of the stormy momentum of tens of thousands of cavalry, the soldiers and horses of Datong Town were a little panicked, and the chief soldier Jiang Jian was also a little breathless, stood up suddenly, and shouted at the people in front of him: "Listen to the orders of the Chinese army, stabilize the formation, and then fire the guns when the order sounds. ”

However, these cavalry of the Wu army did not aim to kill and injure Jiang Pin, You Shiwei and other soldiers and horses, nor did they urge the horses to storm the military formation, but they continued to impact back and forth, disturbing the various military formations of You Shiwei, Jiang Pin, Wang Jiayin and other troops in the periphery of the Chinese army's large array, and the scattered soldiers and braves poured towards the Chinese army's large array. Countless people rushed over like flocks of sheep like a bombed nest, and immediately scattered the nearby friendly army formations.

Everyone is crowded together, their sight is blocked, and the formation is chaotic, how can they arrange for battle?

Then. The cavalry of the Wu army continued to drive behind, and the people behind were afraid and desperately squeezed forward. With a bang, like a flood, these cold weapon positions also collapsed, forming a greater torrent of rout, rushing towards the rear. Under the fear, the routs panicked, and most of them followed the flow of people, driven by the cavalry, and rushed to the rear of the large formation. Many people are crowded together, pushed down, trampled to death, or drawn knives against each other in order to gain room to live.

Wang Jiayin, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, was dumbfounded, he never thought that there could be such a thing on the battlefield. He just muttered, "Hold on, hold on to me!" ”

Suddenly, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, and he shouted: "Resist Lao Tzu!" ”

He shouted, "Give the order." The rout must not storm the large formation of the Chinese army. Shoot all offenders! ”

The generals beside him did not dare to slack off, if they let the rout attack the Chinese army. It is the result of the rout of the whole army, so that the whole army is finished. Even if the friendly troops on the back road rescued in time, but under the pursuit of many enemy cavalry, I am afraid that Wang Jiayin himself escaped with a few people.

Under his order, the main barracks quickly formed a circle that was conducive to defense, regardless of foot and horse, surrounded by dense shields and spears, and many archers were arranged in the direction of the rout.

Originally, he planned to use bows and arrows, cannons, relying on chariots, and rejecting horses to give Wu Sangui a ruthless blow, but this tactic of the Wu army made You Shiwei, who had fought all his life, a little confused about his pulse.

"Is this kid going to learn the tactics of the Tartars? But that's not the case with the Tartars! ”

Soon, Wu Sangui gave the answer.

The cavalry kept compressing the space of the soldiers and horses of the three towns on both wings, and when they saw that the hedgehogs were already in a group, they stopped and stared at the more than 20,000 people in the encirclement with the eyes of a wolf looking at the lambs in the sheepfold.

Another drum and trumpet sounded, and Wu Sangui's Chinese army began to move!

Nearly 5,000 firecrackers are almost all the firecrackers that Wu Sangui has accumulated in recent years (those cavalry who can use horseback guns and short firearms on horses are not counted, and those soldiers and horses are still counted as cavalry by him).

One of 1,200 musketeers was in one column, and three columns totaled 3,600 men into battle. The remaining more than 1,000 people spread out along the left and right flanks of the Chinese army as escorts, guarding the entire Chinese army and baggage.

Three columns of firecrackers, ten paces apart, walked slowly, regardless of the road or potholes.

As the pace extended, the queue began to become winding and curved, but it was a mountain of murderous aura that rushed over.

"It's broken! Broken! "You Shiwei suddenly realized!" Wu Sangui has gathered so many firearms, and let the cavalry compress our army's formation so densely, aren't we just a bunch of targets?! ”

"Quick! Turn our firecrackers to the front! ”

"Quick! Fast! Fire guns up! ”

The officers were busy conveying the orders of the commander-in-chief, punching and kicking the musketeers to come forward and fight. However, who is willing to go up to the soldiers and horses who are already demoralized? The order of the firecrackers to step forward only caused more confusion to the soldiers and horses of the three towns.

"Ready!"

"Ready!"

"Aim at the target!"

In the midst of the officers' shouting, there was a loud bang, and the firecrackers under the command of Wu Sangui turned the dense firecrackers off their shoulders, and under the flags flying in the spring breeze, the black-pressed guns were aimed at the front.

"Shoot!"

The dense sound of firecrackers of popping beans continued, and the firecrackers of the Guan Ning army fired a beautiful salvo, white gunpowder smoke spurted out of the guns, and a tragic cry came out dozens of steps on the opposite side. The bubbling blood from his body stained the ground below, staining the weeds that had just sprouted their buds red.

After the first layer of shooting, the soldiers and horses of Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, and Yulin Town were obviously blindfolded, and there was a brief calm in the entire military array, but in a blink of an eye, panic and crying became a noise. People are headless and flies are bumping into each other.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the gunners of the Guan Ning Army pulled the trigger again and fired a volley, and more howls sounded on the opposite side, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army who were shot rolled all over the ground, making a dying painful move.

The sound of guns came one after another, and in the light of the fire, in the soldiers and horses of the three towns, there were corpses and wounded people lying horizontally, and the blood that kept flowing from under them made the originally frozen ground under their feet begin to become wet.

The soldiers who were shot were hit by the flying lead bullets. The red-hot projectile instantly pierced through the cotton armor on their bodies, even the iron armor. At such a short distance, no matter what kind of armor you are wearing, it will not help.

Buckshot rolled inside them, rampage, rampaging everything that stood in their way, and the soldiers fell to the ground with an inhuman howl as blood spurted.

The three columns of firecrackers fired a total of two salvos, and the guns began to heat up slightly, and the soldiers and horses of the three towns had completely collapsed. (To be continued.) )