Chapter 695: The Decisive Battle of Jiangnan (8)

The plate armor of the remaining 530-odd heavy cavalry was covered with thick blood, and there was no trace of shine, and they were like the god of death killed in the underworld, silently but firmly rushing from Xu Erxian's captives over and over again.

At the same time, more than 500 Dragon Guard infantry quietly rushed to the front of the Jianyu formation, took off the steel shovel behind their backs, and quickly shoveled the wooden axle of the cart with their hands and feet.

The Qing troops around were killed by heavy cavalry and chasseurs, and there were still people who cared about the chariots.

In a moment, the 200 or so carts in the front row were all spread diagonally on the ground. Then the infantry fired at the chaotic formation of the captives, but they were addicted to being chassesses.

Duoduo could no longer hold on, and in less than two quarters of an hour, his front army was already in disarray. He said to Shuo Sai with a pale face: "Ling Zu Runze took three thousand elite horsemen to drive away this group of southerners!" ”

"Huh!"

By the time Zu Runze led the Guanning cavalry through the military formations of He Luohui and Cao Gongcheng to the forefront, Xu Erxian's men and horses had completely collapsed.

Zu Runze held the three-eyed gun in his hand, lowered his head and pounced on the Zhu family brother and the others, and he couldn't avoid the routs running around along the way, and he didn't know how many people were trampled to death.

Seeing this, the Zhu family immediately ordered a retreat, but his war horses were almost exhausted, and they were caught up by Zu Runze from behind as soon as they ran half a mile.

Thousands of three-eyed guns roared one after another, and the power of these guns was extremely weak, and they could not hurt the heavy cavalry at all. But these Guan Ning soldiers then took turns to use heavy iron guns and smashed them like giant hammers at the people of the Zhu family, when even more than 100 cavalrymen were thrown off their horses by the huge impact of the "iron hammer".

Jiao Lian hurriedly led three hundred lancers out of the formation, and swept quickly past the side of the Guanning cavalry, first firing a volley of reed wheels, and then stabbing obliquely with spears, and dozens of cavalry on the west side were killed.

Zu Runze was stunned by the unexpected blow from the side, and it was difficult to see how many enemy troops there were under the smoke of gunpowder - although the power of the three-eyed gun was poor, the ability to make smoke was very strong.

Just as he hesitated slightly, the pressure on the heavy cavalry of the Zhu family brother suddenly decreased, and after running for a while, all the three hundred and seventy heavy cavalry who were alive finally entered the range of the infantry.

Zu Runze had no choice but to turn around and return, and ate several rounds of cannons on the way.

On the other side, the 500 infantry and chasseur battalions responsible for destroying the chariots returned to their positions early in the morning, and the army in front of the construction was already in disarray. The corpses were everywhere, and the ruined carts were lying across the road, which greatly hindered the continued advancement of Cao Gongcheng's troops behind himβ€”after all, people could simply step over obstacles, but heavy carts could not.

More than an hour has passed since Cao Gongcheng restrained Xu Erxian's rout with the Ming army's cannons, cleaned up the corpses, broken axles, etc., and reorganized the formation by himself.

More than 300 heavy cavalry of the Dragon Guard Army were like this, using their lives to win the precious nearly an hour and a half!

It's getting dark.

Although Jianlu lost 24,500 men, he did not care at all for the 55,000 army, and under the urging of Duoduo, Cao Gongcheng became the front team and continued to attack Xi Ming Mountain.

Brother Zhu looked at the enemy situation from a distance, and patted Jiao Lian's shoulder with a resolute face, "Brother Jiao, now we have to go out together." ”

In the case of insufficient artillery firepower, the most effective means of dealing with the chariots is cavalry attack. The cart has no ability to maneuver at all, as long as the cavalry finds a gap and breaks into the cart, most of them can stir up chaos in the cart.

When the Guanning Iron Cavalry was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty, they could often cooperate with the infantry to destroy the Jianyu Car Formation. However, with the surrender of Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui successively, the Ming Dynasty no longer dared to rampage the enemy's cavalry team, so the Qing army's chariot immediately showed its might, and the Ming infantry was almost powerless to fight back.

Jiao Lian nodded and smiled: "A certain and Brother Zhu went to die together." But it depends on whether you have more heavy cavalry to kill the enemy, or my lancers are more powerful! ”

"Haha, good! Joyfully! ”

The heavy cavalry, who had only rested for an hour, then changed their horses and put on their battles again, and the black and red blood around them made them look extremely hideous.

Three hundred lancers followed, again charging into the enemy position.

Duoduo did not dare to hold on again this time, and immediately sent Xiao cavalry to cover, and the entire Qing army formation was separated to both sides, and the advance speed was greatly slowed down.

As soon as Zhu Jiadi and Jiao Lian entered Cao Gongcheng's array, there was a rumbling sound of horses' hooves from the south, this time it was Zu Runze and Zhang Hongmo who attacked together, and more than 5,000 captives and horsemen surged.

The cavalry of the Dragon Guard seemed to be familiar with it, and still tried their best to kill the Jianyu foot soldiers. The infantry of the Dragon Guards, who cooperated with the destruction of the chariot, also came quickly.

Five thousand Guanning cavalry raided the less than seven hundred Ming cavalry from two directions. No matter how strong the heavy cavalry steel armor was, and even if the lancers and spears were superior, they were quickly scattered by the enemy in the case of absolute numerical inferiority.

Even so, the cavalry of the Dragon Guard Army still gathered as small as possible and rushed towards the place where the Jianyu infantry was densely concentrated, attracting a large number of captives who trampled on the carts behind the Guanning Iron Cavalry.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the Ming cavalry that attacked the enemy formation was almost completely annihilated. But under their desperate killing, Cao Gongcheng's troops have fallen into chaos, with countless casualties, although most of them were trampled to death by their own people.

And most of the chariots in front of the battle were also destroyed, if it weren't for Zhang Hongmo to send a thousand cavalry to protect the chariots, even the last less than a hundred would be difficult to remain.

The Zhu family was seriously wounded, was sandwiched by five guards, and desperately rushed out of the enemy formation. And Jiao Lian was shot in the thigh and back by multiple arrows, fell off his horse and fainted to death, was put across the saddle by a lancer, and retreated into the army.

Duoduo's face was gloomy and could drip water, he didn't expect these southerners to be so desperate, a thousand cavalry brazenly went to death, and they firmly dragged the pace of his army for nearly three hours!

"I see what else you use to fight!" The fierce light in his eyes was revealed, "When my army is pressed to the front of the battle, I will slaughter all the barbarian footmen!" ”

He shouted to Shuo Sai: "Order, hand over the yellow flag car to the front army, and quickly break through the enemy formation!" ”

"Huh!"

Yu Xin ordered the medical soldiers to settle the seriously injured Zhu Jiadi and Jiao Lian, and looked calmly at the dense army of Jianyu who were moving earth to fill the first trench.

He knew very well that in the face of the tightly arranged chariot array, the fire gun would not be able to exert its power at all. Just now he has issued an order to the whole army, all the infantry and chasseurs are equipped with bayonets, and when the thieves rush closer, they will fight to the death with white blades!

Although the dozen or so cannons in the Ming army's array continued to try to spew out anger, it was really a drop in the bucket, and after another half an hour, Cao Gongcheng's front army had arrived near the iron rope net.

Jian Yu had never seen this thing at all, and it took a long time to cut the tangled rope, but he found that the chariot still couldn't get past the damage of the rope.

Cao Gongcheng had to ask people to pick up the iron rope that pierced his hands little by little and throw it to both sides. When the road was finally cleared, and the time was already past noon, he was anxious in his heart, and waved his knife and shouted at the captives: "Give it to me!" After breaking the enemy, each person will be rewarded with five taels of silver! ”

The Qing army immediately burst into ecstasy, pushing the last nearly 400 chariots towards the Dragon Guard army more than 100 steps away.

"Prepare to take the enemy!" Yu Xin also shouted.

"Kill!"

Just as the infantry of the Dragon Guard Army were waiting for a short hand-to-hand fight with Jianyu, they suddenly heard a thunderous roar of artillery on the east side of the battle array.

The sound was so dense that it would take at least eighty or ninety cannons to do it!

As a large area of gunpowder smoke rose into the air, an iron ball like hail in the sky slammed into Cao Gongcheng's array. The clatter of the cart shattered endlessly, and the fragments of wood that were broken by the shells instantly took the lives of the three or four hundred captives hiding behind, and then a heart-rending wail spread!

Even if the Qing army, which was still aggressive, was stagnant, they all looked towards the east side, and saw that at some point, there were nearly 100 cannons of all sizes lined up there, and a strange iron plate was erected on the cannon body.

Before Cao Gongcheng could react, the artillery on the side of the Ming army was shining again, and the chariot at the front was scattered and shattered, followed by the ghost crying wolf of the Qing army.

Cao Gongcheng was dumbfounded, why the hell is this cannon firing so fast?! A thought flashed through him, and the third round of shelling had arrived......

However, the distance of one hundred and ten paces was almost like a bombardment on the head of the cannon for the cannon.

The 100 Franc cannons were pre-loaded with six-shot guns, and Cao Gongcheng's array was already full of mourning, and the soldiers were jumping around like headless flies, but hundreds of people were killed by Ah Shan and He Luohui, who were supervising the battle behind him.

A herald of the Dragon Guard Army rushed to Yu Xin's body and saluted: "Commander, the light artillery battalion reinforcements are late." ”

"It's not late, it's not late!" Yu Xin laughed heartily, and said to the adjutant beside him, "Order, the infantry line will immediately shoot at the enemy!" ”

"Yes!"

Yu Xin patted the officer of the light artillery battalion and said loudly: "Chen Xiongfei, this kid, if you come a little later, I will personally draw my sword and fight the thief!"

"Go quickly, let him bang Lao Tzu hard! You're welcome! ”

"Yes!"

The chariot in front of the Qing army's formation had been destroyed by six rounds of fire from the Franco's machine gun, but when they heard the thousands of people in the Dragon Guard formation, they shouted in shock, "Aim!" ”

"Put!"

More than 4,000 Mini bullets, with the anger of all the soldiers, spun over the wreckage of the wagon, tearing apart the heads and bodies of the captives along the way, bringing out large patches of blood like a torrential rain.

The Jianyu Front Army, which had already fallen into chaos, suffered this blow and immediately collapsed completely, and nearly 3,000 people rushed behind them crying and screaming under the terrifying oppression of guns and artillery.

Ah Shan and He Luo will drink desperately, "Don't escape!" "Retreat from the latter!"

The blades of the two white flag soldiers flew and killed an unknown number of deserters, but they could not slow down the flow of people in the front team. In less than one meal, Cao Gongcheng's troops "broke through" the two white flag fronts and went straight to the main Chinese army of Duoduo.

Where can Yu Xin miss the fighter plane, he immediately ordered the infantry line to move forward, and after a few more volleys, the Minnie bullet fish had already landed on the heads of Ah Shan and He Luo's club.

The two white flags were disrupted by the rout, and at this time, they could not organize an effective counterattack in a hurry, and after falling six or seven hundred people, they also let out a shout and retreated backwards.

Gong Adai's nearly Wanzheng Yellow Banner was a killer against Cao Gongcheng's green battalion, but he was a little hesitant about the two white flags.

Duoduo could see clearly behind him, and saw the duck in his mouth, but he was knocked away by a hundred cannons that suddenly appeared.

Could it be that the southerners had already laid an ambush, and they had shown weakness to lure our army to approach, and then they suddenly bombarded it head-on with artillery?

He didn't know that Chen Xiongfei received an urgent report from Xi Mingshan, and he made a detour of more than 20 miles from the north side of the mountain, and the rapid march had just arrived.

"General," Shuo Sai said hurriedly, "Zhenghuang Banner has seen chaos!" The cavalry must be quickly adjusted to calm the situation, otherwise it will ......"

"Yes!" Duoduo was a spirit, and he was busy making people move his ancestors to Runze, Zhang Hongmo and his direct Xiaoqi battalion to step forward.

Yu Xin heard the sound of the cannon in the Jianyu array, looked through the binoculars, and saw the Wan Jianyu cavalry converging from both wings, obviously preparing to charge hard.

He was also not fond of war, so he ordered the infantry to retreat, and ordered new ropes and horses to be placed to prepare for the enemy.

On the other side, Chen Xiongfei commanded the light artillery battalion and Yu Xin's artillery company to converge and reload the sub-guns, and they were also in good standby.

Soon, the rumbling iron cavalry slowly galloped from both sides of Jianyu, crossed the Gong Adai army formation, and killed a large number of routs first, and then put on a charging position in front of the formation.

On the north side, the artillery of the Ming army has begun another round of fierce attacks.