Li Xuan transferred many troops of the Chinese army, as well as the forward troops commanded by Hao Bonian, just to fight against the more than 1,000 cavalry of the Ming army, it is conceivable how much psychological pressure these cavalry of the Ming army caused to him and other generals of the Tang New Army.

Of course, even if a large number of troops were dispatched to fight against the Ming cavalry, there would still be pro-guard troops around Li Xuan, and the remaining two teams in the pro-guard battalion, about 300 people, were still around Li Xuan, acting as Li Xuan's last shield to prevent all kinds of accidents.

At this time, Zeng Ziwen looked at the cavalry of the Ming army coming slowly in the distance, and said to Li Xuan in a slightly trembling voice: "Your Majesty, my Tang Dynasty will win this battle!" ”

It's just that these words match his expression and tone, and he seems to be lacking in confidence!

On the other side of the battlefield, Lord Long was like Jiang Taigong sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai, observing the entire battlefield with a downward gaze, and his demeanor was extremely heroic!

"When our army's elite cavalry enters the array of the thief army, it is the time when the thief army collapses, and the lower official would like to congratulate Lord Long in advance on your defeat of the puppet Tang thief army in one fell swoop, and maybe you can capture the puppet emperor Li Xuan alive!" The old man of the rat beard had a smile on his face as always.

Lord Long nodded slightly: "Now that the big battle has been fought, it's time to tell the winner!" ”

Winner or loser? Naturally, this does not mean to divide the winner from the loser, but to win the victory!

More than a thousand cavalry sorties, there is no reason why there will not be a victory!

That's more than fifteen hundred cavalry, and it's impossible not to win!

Well, it can't be!

Although these pseudo-Tang thieves in front of them have sharp firearms, well, those heavy armored infantry teams don't look bad, but so what, these are more than a thousand cavalry.

In the vast China, except for the border army in the north and the Beijing camp, there are not so many cavalry to be found in other places.

Although the cavalry under his command were all temporarily drawn from various units and gathered, and most of them were half-hung cavalrymen, and their riding skills were sloppy, and they could not fight immediately, but they were also riding horses.

Therefore, these more than 1,000 cavalry must be able to break through the thief army in order to change the current stalemate on the battlefield and restore the current decline faced by the infantry.

Nima, more than 20,000 people on his side, although more than half of them are young and strong people, but there are also tens of thousands of regular troops, including recruits gathered from various state capitals and the personal soldiers of senior generals, this fight was actually pressed and beaten by the five or six thousand pseudo-Tang thief army in front of him, and Qiu Yu's department that rushed out of the city was defeated, and more than 2,000 people ran back.

This Qiu Yu, a bastard, this official must join him, how can he bring the soldiers!

Before and after handed over to him more than 2,000 commanders, the front also successfully laid down the copper drum acropolis, it is rumored that he also killed a lot of pseudo-Tang thief army, and then under the counterattack of the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army, he also held the copper drum acropolis until he led the main force to arrive, judging from the previous performance, Qiu Yu should have played well!

But what happened to Qiu Yu and his troops today, let him lead the army out of the city to cooperate with the main force, this was originally quite a sure thing, if three thousand people rushed out of the Tonggu Acropolis, even if the pseudo-Tang thief army had three heads and six arms, it would not be possible to support it for long under the condition of being flanked from front to back.

At that time, he did not need cavalry to attack, he relied on the main infantry and the defenders of the bronze drum acropolis to be able to win this great battle.

But now, Qiu Yu disappointed him too much, more than 3,000 people, only two or three hundred people came out to fight with real knives and guns, and the remaining more than 2,000 people were driven back by more than 100 pseudo-Tang thief troops.

Even though he had seen it with his own eyes, he still couldn't believe it was true.

The defeat of Qiu Yu's department made his front and back attack strategy fail, but this is nothing, he still thinks that he can win this big battle!

Because he still has an ace army!

More than fifteen hundred cavalry!

This force, no matter which battlefield it is placed on, is a vital force that can even affect the direction of the battle.

Under the watchful eyes of the senior generals on both sides, the cavalry of the Ming army walked slowly and unhurriedly across hundreds of meters, and then entered the northwest side of the battlefield.

Then the cavalry general of the Ming army who led the army shouted something, and drove about 100 cavalry at the front to start trotting, and as the cavalry in front began to trot, the cavalry behind naturally trotted up.

And this trot is even bigger!

The sound of countless horses' hooves hitting the ground continued to interweave in the air, and then formed a huge wave that spread throughout the battlefield.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves even drowned out the shouts and guns of the infantry in the distance!

But at this time, Hao Bonian's expression, which had been frowning, relaxed slightly, because the Ming cavalry in his sight could no longer maintain a dense formation as before after they began to trot.

Many of the cavalry began to disconnect, and there was even a little confusion!

Seeing this scene, Hao Bonian said on the spot: "These cavalry are definitely put together temporarily. ”

Although Hao Bonian is an infantry general, there are also cavalry in the Datang New Army, and he has also observed the cavalry team in the guard battalion and the cavalry in the cavalry camp for many times and even actual combat.

At most, the formation will be scattered in the final high-speed charge stage, but it can still keep the formation neat in the marching and trotting phases.

However, these Ming cavalry, if you look at them separately, you will find that they still maintain the integrity of the formation in details, but most of them are neat and tidy on the scale of dozens or hundreds of people, but between these cavalry phalanxes of dozens and hundreds of people, the actions are quite inconsistent.

In this way, there was a very embarrassing situation, that is, when these Ming cavalry trotted up, the overall formation was scattered, and even small-scale disjointed.

And there can only be one reason for such a situation, that is, this Ming cavalry has not been trained for perfect large-scale operations, so there is no tacit understanding that lacks such cooperation.

In this way, it can be explained that these Ming cavalry should be temporarily concentrated!

It should be more than a dozen or even dozens of small-scale cavalry concentrated!

Moreover, these cavalry did not have a direct subordinate relationship before, so it was difficult for the general to control the whole army when he was in command, which was known from the fact that the cavalry commander of the Ming army could only take the hundred cavalry in front of him to make a direct response, and the Ming cavalry in the back only followed to respond.

The commander of this Ming cavalry did not really command this cavalry directly, but indirectly!

In this way, it will not be as difficult as expected to face this Ming cavalry!

After the Ming cavalry trotted up, the speed increased a lot, and a straight line came from the northwest to the left flank of the Datang New Army in the southeast.

At this time, the ten heavy guns of the artillery battalion, which had already completed the preparation in the rear, also opened fire on the cavalry of the Ming army!

The solid-ball shell crossed a distance of more than 400 meters and directly crashed into the cavalry array of the Ming army!

In the dense cavalry array of the Ming army, a bloody ** channel was knocked out!

In an instant, these Ming cavalry suffered a lot of casualties, but this level of artillery bombardment naturally made it impossible for the Ming cavalry, which had 1,500 people, to retreat!

At this time, after being shelled, the cavalry of the Ming army, the cavalry at the front of it no longer cared about the physical strength of the war horse, and stimulated the war horse to start galloping with spurs, and they were about to speed up and launch a high-speed charge!

Seeing that the cavalry of the Ming army urged the horses to launch the final charge, although the distance was still hundreds of meters, but at this time, the officers on the side of the first infantry battalion had already unanimously ordered: "Prepare!" ”

For a cavalry charging at high speed, a few hundred meters is just a very short time!

At this time, the first infantry battalion listed a four-cornered phalanx that was specially prepared for cavalry charges, and this kind of phalanx was a formation made by Li Xuan based on his limited memory, which imitated the Spanish phalanx and the hollow phalanx to a certain extent.

On all four sides of the phalanx were spearmen, and according to the custom, the heavy-armored spearmen were in front and the light-armored spearmen were in the back!

In the four corners, there are musketeers!

However, unlike the Spanish phalanx, in a regular infantry battalion of the Tang New Army, the number of musketeers is two teams, and the proportion is relatively high, so in addition to the musketeers in the four corners, there are also musketeers in the rear of the spearmen.

In the middle of the phalanx are the archers, sword and shield soldiers and other cold weapon troops in the fifth team.

Such a quadrangular phalanx of 500 men could actually be used for infantry engagements in addition to cavalry, but in terms of efficiency, it was far less large than that of line combat.

After all, today's Datang New Army has barely entered the era of line operations from equipment to troop training, and the traditional phalanx is actually no longer suitable for them to fight.

The reason why the four-cornered phalanx is still used is purely to deal with the cavalry!

When the musketeers completely replace the cold weapons such as spearmen, this four-cornered phalanx will become a hollow phalanx!

The phalanx of the 1st Infantry Battalion was at the forefront, like a raised reef, and in front of it was a monstrous wave of more than a thousand cavalry!

Closer, closer!

The cannonballs flew through the sky and landed in the Ming array, but this did not stop the charge of the Ming cavalry!

From three hundred meters to one hundred meters, and then to fifty meters, at this moment, the soldiers in the front row of the First Infantry Battalion could clearly see the swords and other weapons wielded in the hands of the Ming cavalry in front of them, and many people began to tremble!

And under this huge pressure, finally someone couldn't stand it, threw down the musket in his hand, let out a terrible scream, and shouted "I want to go home!" "Turn around and run backwards!

But before he could take two steps, a lieutenant officer behind him rode forward directly, without the slightest hesitation in the long knife in his hand, and cut off the head of this musketeer who escaped from the battle, he didn't have time to wipe the blood that was splashed on his face, and directly raised the command knife in his hand and shouted: "Those who retreat without permission will be killed!"

Immediately afterward, he shouted again:

"In this battle, our army will win!"

"Datang is invincible!"