There was a fire burning in his chest.

Ever since his younger brother Mulima was killed by the Nanren in Xianxia Pass, he has been thinking about revenge all the time. However, due to the limitations of the war, he never got his wish.

This time, Imbel handed over the cavalry battalion of the two banners and a thousand Mongolian cavalry to him, holding 4,500 elite iron cavalry, which is a good opportunity for revenge!

He secretly decided in his heart that after breaking the enemy, he would not leave prisoners, and he would cut off the heads of 10,000 Nanban to sacrifice his brother's spirit in the sky, even if he violated military discipline.

"General, the cavalry is complete." A soldier galloped over and said.

"Good!" Zhuo Butai pointed to the location of the Ming artillery that the scouts had just discovered, "Order, Xiao cavalry is on the left, such as Batel on the right." Break through the enemy line quickly. ”

Then the trumpets rang out, and two "torrents" of cavalry rushed towards the right flank of the Dragon Guard in the shape of pincers.

After bypassing the two trenches, the Ming army flag can be faintly seen. Zhuo Butai took off his lacquered bow and raised it above his head, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and meet the enemy!" ”

The command flag in his team immediately waved continuously, and the Qing cavalry began to urge the horses. The sound of thousands of military horses stomping on the ground rumbling like a huge wave crashing on the shore, and in a moment, it was more than 200 steps away in front of the Ming army.

It was only at this time that sporadic artillery sounds were heard in the Ming army's formation. At this time, the artillery battalion of the Dragon Guard Army was still bombarding the main force of Turai head-on, and the artillery of the broken battalion had poor mobility and could not rush to support.

Therefore, at the moment only the three three-pounder field guns carried by the 6th Infantry Battalion could be used.

Although the gunners of the sixth battalion operated no slower than the artillery battalion, completing a fire almost every half minute, after all, the number was too small.

The cannon roared, and the three fist-sized iron balls flew into the midst of more than 4,000 cavalrymen, sinking like stones into the sea, and they couldn't even lift a wave.

Zhuo Butai saw that the Ming army did not have many cannons on his side, and carefully looked at the Ming army's defense line, and his heart was even more overjoyed.

These Ming troops did not use the tactics of trenches and earth ramparts, which they were best at, but lined up their soldiers into a narrow defensive line, consisting of several phalanxes of only about seven or eight platoons. There were about three or four hundred men in each formation, half of whom were armed with spears, and the other half were armed with spearmen, guarding the pikemen.

When he looked up slightly, he saw that there was a second line of defense on the gentle slope behind the Ming army's defense line, but it was even thinner, and it seemed that there were only three rows of soldiers, forming a slender line.

"It must be our army that attacked the flank of the southerners, and they haven't had time to build a defensive line yet." Zhuo Butai was proud in his heart, the southern barbarians have always been afraid of multiple attacks, it seems that this time it is still the same, such a thin defense line can be broken through in two or three rounds of attacks at most. Turai is suffering from the cannons of the southerners, and when he breaks through this defense and destroys the enemy's artillery, he will be grateful to me.

Thinking of this section, he immediately whipped hard, raising the speed of the horse to the fastest, and the thousands of cavalry behind him also accelerated at the same time, rushing straight to the Ming army's formation.

When he was about seventy or eighty steps away from the Ming army, he heard the Ming army's guns ring out one after another, but Zhuo Butai didn't think so. He led elite horsemen, everyone wore armor, and there were even people who wore scale armor in addition to cotton armor, and the birds of the southerners could not hurt them at all.

But the next moment, he was shocked to hear the screams, and saw hundreds of cavalrymen around him being shot and falling from their horses, and their bodies were instantly trampled into flesh by the iron hooves that followed closely behind.

Zhuo Butai's brows furrowed, the southerners actually changed such a powerful bird gun. Although he was surprised, he did not panic, skillfully drew the feather arrow from the quiver, and forcefully pulled out the three-stone hard bow and aimed at the Ming army.

He knew very well that the rate of fire of the bird gun was extremely low, and the time for the southerners to send a gun was enough for the skilled Eight Banner cavalry to release seven or eight arrows. And the cavalry moves quickly, and it is even more difficult to be hit by firearms.

In the past, the Ming army had to fight against the Eight Banners Bow and Horse, but now they are fighting in formation on the plain, and they are the opponent of thousands of horsemen.

He shot an arrow, and the thousands of cavalry beside him also fired their bows and arrows, and suddenly the arrows flew like rain, and they fell towards the Ming army.

However, the accuracy of the bow and arrow was extremely poor during the gallop of the horse, and more than ninety percent of the thousands of arrows were missed. Zhuo Butai did not expect to defeat the Ming army in one shot, so he pulled the reins slightly, and led the army to sweep diagonally in front of the enemy formation, and at the same time turned his hand and took out an arrow from behind him and put it on the string.

Qing cavalry rarely directly attacked the infantry line in actual combat. Usually there will be a large number of repulsive horses in front of the infantry, and rushing directly will only slow down the cavalry, and the greatest advantage of the cavalry is speed.

Jianyu's style of play was to pull the horses back and forth, and at the same time attack with bows and arrows, and finally go around the flanks or backs of the Ming infantry, only then to break through and crush the Ming army in one fell swoop.

Because it was difficult for the Ming army's bird guns to penetrate the Jianlu's cotton armor, the Jianguo's recurve bow could give full play to the advantage of fast rate of fire at close range, and shot the Ming army with heavy casualties, which was tried and tested repeatedly with this set of tactics.

As soon as Zhuo Butai shot the second arrow, he heard another loud sound of fire in the Ming army's formation, and nearly 100 horsemen who were galloping were shot and fell off their horses.

He was shocked at this time, and couldn't help but raise his eyes to the second line of defense of the Ming army, where the shooting just now was issued. Based on the density and intensity of the firepower, he determined that the Ming army was firing a salvo from the whole army, but this was only a little more time since the last fire?

This rate of fire is terrifying! If the Nan people are always firing at this rate, his casualties are incalculable! How else do you release arrows to pull the enemy line?

Zhuo Butai continued to gallop and release arrows, and after shooting five arrows, he had already rushed to the right flank of the Ming army's defensive line.

He breathed a sigh of relief, the infantry was slow to change formation, and once the formation was formed, it would take at least a quarter of an hour to turn around, and now was the perfect opportunity to cut in from its flank. As long as they break up the formation of the foot soldiers, they will face the horsemen like lambs to the slaughter.

He immediately ordered the cavalry to form a simple formation, and when he looked up, he saw in the distance that Rubatel had also circled to the left flank of the Ming army, and was also gathering cavalry to prepare for a surprise attack.

The corners of Zhuo Butai's mouth hooked a sneer, the Ming army was only three or four thousand foot soldiers, how could it be able to block his four thousand iron cavalry from both sides?

He put away his bow and arrows, drew his saber and pointed forward, and then rushed towards the flank of the Ming army with a loud roar, and the thousands of elite horsemen behind him were already familiar with this tactic, and they didn't need to command at all, and immediately followed the roar.

But the Ming army did not appear in the panic that Zhuo Butai expected, and did not even have the intention of changing the formation, but only turned around to face the enemy horsemen, and then let out a chorus, "Spear ready!" ”

Suddenly, the spearmen in the Ming army formation flattened the wolf spear, and the tip of the spear pointed straight outward, and at the same time, the soldiers holding a one-zhang spear and a six-foot short spear on the outside of the phalanx also lowered the weapons in their hands, filling the gap between the wolf and the wolf. The entire phalanx immediately turned into a giant hedgehog.

Zhuo Butai's heart tightened when he saw this, and the "big hedgehog" in front of him seemed to evoke some bad memories for him, but he couldn't care about it when he was about to fight, and under the cover of dozens of personal soldiers, he went straight to the flank of the Ming army with extremely rapid momentum.