Chapter 530: Who Dominates the Ups and Downs (3)
The men and horses in front of the right-wing army were the thousands of horsemen led by Wang Bin. They walked slowly at first, not far from the large infantry formation behind, and in a sparse formation, spread forward in the middle of the entire right flank of the battlefield.
The cavalry at the forefront was less than a mile away from the main formation of the officers and soldiers!
"Boom, boom, boom......" The enemy's heavy artillery rang out one after another, and in the boundless crowd in the distance, flames shone at intervals; The flames of the gunpowder explosion erupted out of the muzzle of the gun, and it was very bright. The smoke is like lightning and thunder in the clouds!
The huge stone projectiles in the air made a terrifying whistling sound, like stones falling from the clouds, and smashed into the ground with a loud "thump".
"Shhh Not far away, a horse let out a terrible cry and fell to the side. The man on horseback also shouted loudly, and after a moment the man was heard shouting, "My legs and ribs are all up, ah...... Help me! Then someone responded, "Wait for the infantry behind to save you." But the man who was crushed under the horse was still screaming and screaming.
Wang Bin looked back to the left and right and saw many knights walking slowly on horseback while looking up at the sky. The cannonballs fell from the air one after another, and there was a loud bang everywhere, and no one could predict where it would hit, and maybe suddenly there was a big stone on the head! It's really worrying and scary.
When the horse team came to the front of a ruin, Wang Bin turned his horse and walked around from the right side of the ruin. At this time, the entire surrounding horse army had not yet left the rear army infantry camp.
The broken earthen walls and charred wood in front of me should have been a village before, but now all the houses have been destroyed by the fire, and there is no one inside.
Wang Bin watched the scene on the battlefield, and on the other hand, he remembered the words of the King of Han before he set off, and all the words that encouraged Wang Bin and others. King Han said that this battle was the struggle of the brothers of the Han Palace, and it was precisely because they treated Wang Bin and others as their own that they were allowed to do the most difficult thing! And when he is old, he will not forget the efforts made by Wang Bin's men today.
At that time, Wang Bin only replied with one sentence, I said that I was willing to die for the king!
The large horse team that unfolded, following Wang Bin's military flag, was still moving forward unhurriedly; The cannon fire in the north shook the sky, and the sound became louder and louder. Wang Bin's men and horses walked through a vegetable field outside the village, which was already in a mess, and after a while they climbed a hillside that was not steep.
The slopes of the mountains are pitch black, and there are naturally green leafy plants and trees in Huguang Province in winter, but most of the plants and trees will still wither and wither. Now the dead grass and branches have been burned by fire, and the hillside is full of black and gray grass and wood ash.
Wang Bin patted his horse on the top of the gentle slope, and his vision suddenly broadened. The magnificent enemy army in front of me was boundless, and the distance was only about two or three hundred paces away! The sound of the roar of artillery and the noise of people are all within reach, and even the banner of the enemy army with "Xue" written on it is also very visible.
"Stop!" Wang Bin raised his hand and shouted. The surrounding cavalry stopped advancing near Wang Bin's military flag one after another, and the big banner on the hillside also waved in place for a while.
To the left of this hill there was a larger, not taller hillside, and many cavalry had climbed to that slope. There were also a few small hills around, almost all of which had been burned, and all that remained in the distance was a miserable scorched stump.
The artillery bombardment of the officers and troops continued without stopping.
The artillery in the enemy's formation, whether it was the Hongwu cannon or the bowl gun, was not accurate; Most of the directions will not be wrong, but the angle of the muzzle, the amount of gunpowder, the weight of the shell, and even the different sources of ingredients in the gunpowder will affect the distance of the shell. However, there were many large and small artillery pieces of the official army, which flew over one after another, and from time to time they could also hit Wang Bin's cavalry.
The horses neighed on all sides, and it never stopped. Among the many horses, occasionally one person was unlucky enough to be hit, and the atmosphere was very terrifying, but the horse army would not be defeated by such artillery fire. Everyone has experienced a lot of battles, and no one is scared!
Wang Bin waited for a while, and saw that the large mule and horse convoy behind him was already close to the hillside. Infantry phalanxes also approached.
He slowly pulled out his long-handled knife from his back and shouted, "Beat the drum!" Command the whole army to advance, rush forward to the left balance, attack! ”
"Order!"
After a while, the drums carried by the cavalry were beaten, and the horse caravan spread between the hills continued to march forward. A team of two hundred horsemen marched forward from the large army of horses and gradually rushed to the front.
The two hundred horsemen began to jog, the hoofs of the horses roared, and the battle was very great.
"Rush forward and right, attack!" Wang Bin watched for a while and ordered again.
"Order!"
…… The horse team at the front, charging in a column, is getting faster and faster! Under the glittering artillery of the enemy formation, people in front of them neighed from time to time, but the shouts of killing and the roar of horses' hooves were continuous, and the sound was even louder.
The cavalry charged quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the arrow-like cavalry was approaching the front of the enemy line. In the depths of the gunsmoke, the enemy's various formations were moving, and the enemy infantry in front of them were gradually gathering and gradually forming a denser defensive phalanx.
The sound of strings was as dense as a torrential rain, and the air was densely covered with black spots, and countless arrows rained down on the horse forwards. The helmets and armor of the vanguard soldiers of the Han Dynasty army "jingled", and the speed of a horse's injury ...... decreased sharply, and a knight flew from the horse's head to the front with a shout.
"King Han is our king!" Many horsemen shouted together, and the sound of hurried horses' hooves roared.
The battlefield was filled with dust and smoke, and the loud noise was deafening, and more and more horses were lifted on their backs and continued to run forward with the cavalry.
"Boom!" Then there was a huge cannon shot, followed by two more huge cannon shots! The three heavy guns placed at the front of the large array by the officers and soldiers were fired, and they were loaded loose guns. But they seemed to have fired their guns too early, and the range of the scattered guns was limited, and there was a "crackling" sound like a report on the ground, and smoke and dust splashed one after another.
"Kill! Kill ......," the cavalry of the Han army shouted and rushed out of a cloud of gunsmoke, and some of them had put their arrows on the bowstring.
"Boom!" There was another loud bang, and a Hongwu cannon not far away suddenly erupted into angry flames, and countless iron pellets, stones, and lead bullets flew out of the flames. "Ahh......hh
"Kill! Kill ......" The cavalry rushing behind rushed out of the smoke again.
The officers and soldiers who had already finished firing the cannon turned around and ran. In the phalanx of officers and soldiers, there was the shouts of enemy generals who were almost about to tear their throats. The two rows of spear and shield heavy infantry in front of them crouched down, and the soldiers with bronze hands and guns in the back fired lead bullets "......bang bang", and the fire in front of them shone brightly.
The cavalry of the Han King Army, who had just rushed closer, trembled on their bodies, their faces distorted, and they fell off their horses screaming.
"Kill! Kill ......" In an instant, more horsemen pounced in the smoke of gunpowder.
The officers and heavy infantry stood up, and the dense long guns were pointed at the front, and let out a shout. After a while, many of the artillery pieces in the front were fired one after another "boom and ......boom", and the artillery men who had finished firing the guns ran backwards in front of the empty front.
Sure enough, the cavalry of the Han Dynasty had just rushed to the dense infantry phalanx, and immediately began to turn to the left and right sides. They rushed past several cannons that had been loaded with loose guns, but by this time the muzzles were smoking and had already been let go; The cavalry of the Han Dynasty's army, which had captured the artillery array, could no longer turn the muzzle of the cannon and fired its artillery at the official and military phalanx.
Because the cavalry of the Han Dynasty rushed forward desperately, more and more phalanxes of officers and troops were adjusted into dense defensive formations. Wang Bin's cavalry had nothing to do, and it was obvious that they could no longer break through the enemy formation from the front.