Chapter Ninety-Nine
Collapse, starting from the right flank of the Western Army.
Before the hastily assembled 200 knights and light cavalry had time to increase the speed of the charge to the most appropriate level, two horse teams composed of nearly 700 Beiyang Banner Army had already rushed from the east in successive formations.
Left and right, front and back, they bypassed the infantry formation of dozens of fallen cavalry, and rushed to kill with the courage and courage of the first charge, but this time, the first enemy lost their previous fighting spirit.
In the eyes of the Black Cloud Dragon, the cavalry formation composed of heavy armored knights and light cavalry gradually separated in the process of approaching, like a watermelon that bloomed on the ground, spreading out from the middle like a splash.
But to no avail, the knights of the Western Army first lost their morale, lost their formation, and fled in all directions, and the Ming army followed closely with the whistle of the Black Cloud Dragon, and the sixteen horse team commanders who were still alive led their subordinates to form a small formation to pursue them.
Everyone dispersed in different directions, but the direction of escape was the same - the knights who had previously dispersed to attack Shao Tingda's left flank and Chen Mu's main formation failed to end well, and the bird guns of the Lotus Dou Department Marshal Ding were loudly released, and Shao Tingda's side was also prepared, and rows of big spears were erected, even these well-armed knights could not break into the formation.
Now those who have dropped their weapons and surrendered in the trapped formations on both sides have honestly knelt down, and most of them will not live long if they are shot and lying on the ground, and the tragic situation is different.
The knights in the back were just more combative, but they were not stupid, and they all knew that if they wanted to escape from the rout, they could only go east and walk back to their own infantry to resist these fierce Ming cavalry, so they almost all went around in a big circle in the hope of escaping in a roundabout way.
Straight into the Black Cloud Dragon Array, few riders can kill through.
For the cavalry of the Ming army under the command of Black Cloud Dragon, there was nothing more inspiring than this, and it was even more encouraging than the Spanish phalanx soldiers who pursued and strangled Herrera's men on the banks of the White Horse River.
The cavalry instructors who trained them in Tianjin Beiyang were all graduates of the martial arts hall, and they often talked about the four situations of cavalry clash summarized by Chen Mu, so that every cavalry knew what would happen to the cavalry clash with each other.
The current situation is the situation that is most likely to occur when the Ming cavalry encountered the Mongolian armored cavalry on the nine sides in the past, and they were defeated in terms of fighting will and momentum, and they did not even have the courage to touch the military formation and dispersed.
And their enemy is not the Mongol cavalry, it is a knight corps with more advantages in armor and combat skills, these knights are not only more powerful than the Mongolian armored cavalry, but also much stronger than the Beiyang cavalry, and they will overturn more than 200 cavalry in one look, but they are still - deserted and fled!
Sixteen horse teams from the cavalry general flag shoulder against the spear of the battle flag, slowly slowed down in the pursuit of the north, seeing more than 100 horsemen fleeing in embarrassment towards the enemy's right flank, each pacing their horses again to the middle of the battlefield where the black cloud dragon is located, regrouping the troops.
"All units take a break and recuperate, and quickly report back to the commander, the enemy cavalry on the left flank has been dispersed for our department, and our army can still fight again!"
As he spoke, Heiyunlong threw the Zhangchangmei sharp knife on the horse with his backhand, raised his arm and pointed at the Western Army's main formation and said with a smile: "Today, I will beat Bernal and call him uncle!" β
The cavalry marked hundreds of households, and the general flag knew that the lord general was indiscriminately admitting relatives in the army, and laughed when he heard the words, which means that they have also risen in seniority!
Heiyunlong sent the sentry cavalry to run less than halfway, the Chinese army as a reserve Liandou has led the marshal Jia Ding to move to the left flank, the sentry cavalry and the sentry to face each other, and another north of the flag has galloped over, shouting: "The marshal has an order, the enemy's right flank is invincible, and six hundred Jia Ding are ordered to come to help the battle, and the black general leads the cavalry to wait for the opportunity to chisel through the enemy formation, so as to help the Chinese army Shao Shuai break through the enemy army!" β
The so-called climbing high and looking far away, Chen Mu under the umbrella of Scarlet Luo asked the port militia to spend manpower to set up this general platform in a short period of time, and this is the purpose of this general, of course, this is also a way to do it.
If he had a choice, he would prefer to build a small building in the middle of the low mountains and dense forests, rather than build a wooden building in such an open area, and preferably build a tall anti-artillery fortification with iron-reinforced concrete.
After repeated calculations, it was repeatedly determined that the stone cannons and wrought iron spliced Franco machine guns possessed by the Western Army were not enough to cross the military formation and threaten here, so he set up a general platform in this place that was obviously not the Chinese army, and it was relatively reluctant to say that the rear army was relatively reluctant.
Not only did he have a panoramic view of the battlefield, but if it weren't for the nasty tall spear forests in the phalanx, even the platoon at the back of the Western Army, Chen Mu would have been able to see it clearly with the help of a telescope.
Chen Mu had been paying attention to the cavalry of the two armies on the left flank fighting each other, and watched the majestic Spanish knights being crushed by the Black Cloud Dragoon under the two rounds of charges, and they scattered and fled.
Almost at the same time that the Spanish knights regrouped the 200 cavalry and were demoralized and dispersed in the charge, the soldiers who were watching the battlefield on their sides also observed the changes in the battle situation and reported urgently: "Great commander, the enemy's rear is in chaos!" β
Chen Mu didn't care much, grabbed the binoculars and looked behind the Western Army, there was no gunfire behind the Spaniards' formation, but he could see that there was an army with different colors of clothing, constantly changing the horizontal formation to block half of the valley mouth, and causing chaos to the Spanish soldiers in front of him without letting go.
Bernal's response was also strange, as he transferred a company from each of the reserves on the left, center, and right to turn back to engage Lin Manjue.
Seeing this scene, Chen Mu immediately ordered the cavalry to go to Liandou, who was a reserve, to press the troops on the left flank, in order to tear apart the illusion of equal strength and form an encirclement from the side.
Bernal did not transfer troops to the left wing, which was the closest and least under pressure, but not only transferred troops from the middle army, but also transferred troops from the right wing, where the knights were already close to routβChen Mu absolutely did not believe that Bernal had not seen the knights on his right wing lose in the duel.
Then there is only one possibility for him to still mobilize the forces of the right wing, and that is that he has to do so.
Sure enough, following Chen Mu, he saw that the Chinese army had divided into a company and moved to the left flank, obviously, the next step for Spain to vigorously attack was his lack of troops to defend the right flank, after Liandou was in the reserve of the Chinese army to rush to the left flank, there were only Juniper's four hundred Ding cavalry there.
At the same time, the sentinel of the Chinese army rode a flying horse to the bottom of the high platform, shouting: "Report to the commander, the Chinese army's rockets and artillery have all been exhausted, and the troops are difficult to resist the enemy's strong attack, ask for reinforcements!" β
"Reinforcements, where do I still have reinforcements!"
Chen Mu leaned out with a telescope and looked under the high platform, raised his hand and took off the scarlet shoulder robe and threw it on the chair, revealing that there was not even the slightest gold and silver decoration inside, and he pointed to the right, and said to the herald cavalry with the flag on his back: "You go and hold down Juniper for me, let him retreat four hundred steps, the enemy will not defeat him, he will dare to rush forward, and I will behead him first when he gets off the battlefield!" β
After that, Chen Mu looked back and pointed to the chair covered with a python robe and said, "Push the heaviest general Zhenshuo up for me to supervise the army for me!" β
After a shout, Chen Mu pulled out the reason from his waist and walked off the stage and turned over on the horse, swept over the less than 100 personal soldiers standing under the stage, and shouted: "Those who give orders, those who raise flags, and those who can take guns get on their horses and follow me, see who can't hold it first!" β