Section 15 The Korean Incident - The Iron Cavalry Dispute

Li Hao, the prince of Fenglin, was a respectful and filial son, and since he had received his father's will, he had to let go of the regret that he could not welcome his brother, and led a thousand forbidden troops to leave Seoul and run to Busan, 800 miles away. Obviously, taking the land route was a deeply unsafe option, but fortunately, the Koreans were much better on ships than the Manchus, who did not value sea power.

So after leaving Seoul, the whole army rushed to the dock, where there were Korean naval warships, enough to carry the whole army away. However, when he was about to reach the dock, he was surprised to find that there was already a team of stubborn Qing soldiers guarding there!

Why did these Qing troops come faster than the 1,000 Korean forbidden troops led by Li Hao, the Great Prince of Fenglin! The reason is that at this time, the Qing army was not only equipped with spear-type crossbows, but also the armor was replaced with a composite armor, although it was not as modern as the Shenzhou army, but the weight was much lighter. So they came faster than the Korean forbidden army in iron armor.

When the forbidden army led by Li Hao and Li Huan arrived, they had already launched an attack on the warships anchored at the dock and won a complete victory. Crowds of cavalry made "roars" in the midst of "happy" running. At the top of the chain waved overhead, there is a "chain ball Molotov cocktail" that burns into a fireball.

The North Korean navy did not expect a surprise attack at all. The slowly approaching Qing cavalry launched an attack almost instantly. The "tortoiseshell ships" leaning on the dock could not cope with the almost countless fireballs, and soon dozens of warships were reduced to ashes in the fire, and the entire dock was also in chaos in the fire.

Soon, the resisting sailors were wiped out by the Qing army who cleared the field with "spear crossbows".

Fenglin Monarch Li Hao and his younger brother Longcheng Monarch Li Roll stood silently in front of the team, and behind them were a thousand elite soldiers of the forbidden army, who were moving rapidly to unfold the formation.

Needless to ask, at this time, outside the camp of the Qing envoy outside Seoul, a bloody battle must have begun, and the sick old father was already lying on the battlefield in the ice and snow.

Although Li Hao is a prince, although Li Hao has always presided over official affairs, he is not a very ambitious person, so he can hardly understand why his brother is so cruel. With a cold expression, he watched the Qing army's thousand-strong team on the opposite side set up their usual crab claw formation, and now he fully understood his father's painstaking efforts.

Holding back the sorrow in his heart, he stretched out his hand to "choke", pulled out a long knife from under his ribs, and raised it in front of the 'Sharp Arrow Array' that the forbidden army had already arranged, with a long roar in his mouth.

Outside the city of Seoul at the end of this year, the icy cold wind swept across the field and made a mournful sound of "woo", it seems that the god of the year does not want to see the tragedy of this human slaughter, and he also finds it difficult to understand why such a tragedy of fathers and sons and brothers can occur on this beautiful river and mountain.

"Now is the time when Hu Lu invades my country, how can my generation of Goryeo men bow their knees to Hu Lu, the whole army has it, and follow me to attack the enemy."

The long sword in Li Hao's hand was firmly pointed at the sky, and he rode slowly towards the Qing army's "Crab Chela Array". His brother, Li Luan, the Grand Prince of Longcheng, also raised the steel spear in his hand and followed closely behind him.

Behind the two brothers, a thousand ironclad forbidden troops urged their horses almost at the same time, and after a wave-like surge of thousands of people, they maintained the same speed as the two brothers and galloped towards the enemy.

The Qing army on the opposite side also began to slowly drive the mounts under their hips, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded, echoing in the field with a muffled "rumbling" sound.

Two thousand-strong cavalry was finally about to start a fierce battle here, and the knights on both sides began to speed up. As the cavalry approached, the spear-type crossbows in the hands of the elite cavalry of the Qing army shot out crossbow arrows at an almost uninterrupted speed. According to the words of the head of the sect from Bolo: "Before engaging the enemy, try to fire crossbow arrows." ”

The bowstring "collapsed" and the crossbow arrows made a "whoosh" whistle, and rushed towards the onrushing ironclad cavalry.

The forbidden army under the leadership of Li Luan, the prince of Longcheng, is well-equipped and is the elite of the elite of the Korean army, all of them are iron armor, and the horse skin is also covered with leather armor, which is a bit like the appearance of Tingzhou Erqi led by Jiang Yong back then. The only drawback is that they are dressed in iron armor and are typical shock troops, so they are equipped with spears and swords, but there are no bows and arrows.

The crossbow arrows roared down on the North Korean army, and at this moment something terrifying happened, and the sharp four-edged arrows swirled and fell. With a "ding", the iron armor was pierced almost instantly, and the long four-edged arrow tip further pierced the leather armor lined inside, and the scene of shooting half an inch into the muscles stopped.

The forbidden soldiers who were shot were worthy of being the elite of the North Korean army, and they were all extremely brave, and they continued to hold their spears to attack despite the pain. But the soldiers who were shot in the horses were not so lucky. The long arrows went deep into the horse's body, and the pain caused the galloping horse to leap forward, and he fell headlong to the ground with his master, and before they could realize it, his body had fallen under the hooves of the great cavalry that rushed behind them.

In addition to the more than a dozen people killed in the attack on the dock, the Qing army almost did not hurt a single person in the process of engaging the Korean forbidden army.

Putting down the "spear-type crossbow" in his hand, the elite cavalry of the Qing army brandished a steel knife. On the way to charge, the Korean cavalry, who had been shot and wounded in many places, also held back their resentment, shouted wildly, and stabbed out the spear in their hand.

The soldiers roared, the horses neighed, and the sound of gold and iron resounded in the field trampled by iron hooves, followed by the screams of the soldiers who were dying with blood splattered at five paces.

Life and life collide, blood and blood mingle. More corpses fell on the muddy snow that had been trampled by the iron hooves, and more knights who had been stabbed and fallen or cut off their horses with knives had been reduced to the same flesh and blood under the iron hooves, and the frozen ground had been melted by the blood and turned into mud.

Korean cavalrymen often stabbed one shot, but before they could stab the second shot, the Qing cavalry would have their heads cut off, and the Qing soldiers who cut off the heads of others would also be pierced into fishing nets by the ensuing random guns.

It is said that the raw armor and iron spears of the Korean forbidden army are more suitable for cavalry charges, but when the cavalry and cavalry are entangled in battle, in the formation of the two armies, in the narrow battle space, the spear is not as flexible and sharp as the sharp blade.

Manchu and Korean were shouted out of the mouths of different warriors, and the only thing that was the same was the bloodstains on their bodies and a pair of red eyes.

In the end, the Qing army was a troop that started with a bow on horseback. Moreover, the increase in "spear crossbows" allowed them to consume the enemy's living power before engaging the enemy. The advantage was tilted in the direction of the Qing army in the desperate struggle between the soldiers of both sides.