Chapter 201: Beating the Reservoir Dogs
Behind the Zhu family, more than 600 heavy cavalry followed, and like a red-hot iron ball rolling into the snow, it split the enemy formation in half almost without hindrance, leaving a straight "passage" composed of flesh and blood behind him.
The Zhu family led the team to kill the Jianyu queue and rushed out from the south side. The entire Qing position was in chaos, because they did not encounter frontal resistance at all.
Even though there were sporadic arrows and lead bullets that hit them, they did not do any effective damage under the protection of the three-millimeter-thick stainless steel plate armor.
In fact, until this time, most of the Qing army had not yet figured out what was going on and who they were fighting against.
The fear of the heavy cavalry had not yet dissipated, and nearly four hundred hussars followed, charging through the gap in the enemy line.
Unlike the heavy cavalry, which was primarily responsible for breaking through enemy defenses, the hussars were tasked with killing and damaging as many living forces as possible.
Due to the extremely close distance, just one round of short guns of the spring wheel shot through, hundreds of Qing soldiers were killed by drinking bullets. Then, these hussars wielded their cavalry swords and slashed left and right among the captives, without heavy armor, and their slashing accuracy and frequency were astonishingly high.
When Zhao Shichao led the hussars to kill from the south side of Jianyu, and when he looked back, he saw that there was already a bloody road behind him, and at least six or seven hundred Qing soldiers fell on the ground.
The place where the two teams of cavalry passed through had obviously become purgatory in the hearts of the Qing army, and everyone scrambled to flee to both sides, and a hundred-pace-wide "crack" appeared in the military formation.
Fan Shaozu couldn't see in the darkness how many enemy cavalry had killed, he only knew that these cavalry were in a tight formation and had amazing combat effectiveness, and only one surprise attack had brought his men and horses to the brink of collapse.
A word flashed in his mind in an instant-Guanning Iron Cavalry, the cavalry unit with the strongest combat power in the Ming Dynasty. In his cognition, probably only the Guan Ning cavalry could be so strong. No, the heavy armor worn by these cavalry and the fire guns in their hands were far more sophisticated than the Guanning iron cavalry.
When did the Ming army have such a powerful cavalry force?!
"General, what are we going to do?"
The words of the guard next to him woke Fan Shaozu up, "What should I do?" He knew very well that if the cavalry turned their horses around and did the charge like that before, his men would be crushed in an instant.
He looked around, and saw his men and horses howling wolves, running around like headless flies, where could they obey his orders?
When he turned behind him, he saw that the twenty grain carts in the rear were still lined up, and although the soldiers guarding the grain were also cowering behind the wagons in fright, they did not fall into chaos.
He waved his hand at the guards, "Come with me." "Shoot the horse and rush to the rear army, shouting orders, "Li Jianming, Gao Tong, gather the soldiers, and block the enemy cavalry for me!" ”
"Obey, obey ......"
The two officers also saw the horror of those cavalry just now, and although they were extremely reluctant to fight with them, they did not dare to disobey the orders of their own generals.
The two of them had just barely dragged the nearly 2,000 soldiers out from behind the grain cart with great effort, and when they looked up, they saw a narrow array of torches on the north side pressing towards them. From a distance, the end of the long array was hidden in the night, I am afraid that it is at least more than two miles long!
Fan Shaozu was also stunned, and then looked at the enemy cavalry on the south side, although they were lined up neatly, they didn't seem to have the intention of coming up to rush up and kill. He felt a chill in his heart, the Ming army was preparing to attack back and forth! You have to find a way to get out.
He looked back and forth, and finally, the cavalry just now shocked him too strongly, he pointed to the north, and said to Li Jianming and Gao Tong: "Follow me to break out!" ”
When the rattan players and spearmen gathered in front of the queue tremblingly, the bows and gunners scattered behind and barely formed a conical charging formation, Fan Shaozu immediately waved his sword and ordered the whole army to assault.
As soon as his men and horses had walked more than ten feet, they saw two neat rows of fires stop at a distance of eighty or ninety paces.
Li Jianming and Gao Tong knew that it was the Ming army that was forming a formation to block them, so they had to lead the army to rush forward. The next moment, they heard a neat shout from the other side, "Aim! ”
"Put!"
Not far away, two rows of dazzling fires instantly erupted in the night, and with a loud earth-shattering sound, thousands of lead bullets penetrated into the ranks of the Qing army like dense raindrops.
At the moment when he first heard the sound of the guns on the opposite side, Fan Shaozu also planned to let his men bow and shoot back, but when he looked at his military formation again, he couldn't help but jump in surprise - it was the row of guns just now, and most of the rattan players in front of him were missing, and at least two or three hundred people died!
Originally, his soldiers were demoralized, and after this heavy blow, even no one dared to move forward. If it weren't for Li Jianming and Gao Tong's desperate restraint, I am afraid that the whole army would immediately disperse and flee.
Fan Shaozu was at a loss, and suddenly saw that there were two identical horizontal rows of the rear of the two rows of Ming troops approaching him neatly and steadily.
Then, a series of chorus shouts rang out from the Ming army.
"Reload all!"
"Stand!"
"Aim!"
……
Wang Xian stared blankly at a group of cavalry swept past Fan Shaozu's army.
An uncontrollable fear suddenly surged in his heart, not because these cavalry had cut through Fan Shaozu's home formation without the slightest pause, but because he had seen from a distance that they could still maintain a fairly neat formation under the rapid galloping of the night.
It shows the essence of this cavalry drill!
He knew that he would be more than lucky against such a strong army, so he hurriedly ordered the whole army to immediately go west and flee back to the Qing army camp.
It was already very difficult to transmit information and command at night, and he was still ordering his soldiers to form a formation to the north to meet the enemy, but at this time, he suddenly changed to return to the camp, and suddenly the army was also in chaos.
In addition, until this time, there were still some dead brains of Fan Shaozu's department behind him who were still chasing him and slashing, and the chaos was even worse.
In the end, only eight or nine hundred men followed him and fled in the direction of the camp, but before they had run far, they saw a neat long snake formation across the road ahead.
"When did these people form here?!" Wang Xian was shocked, and then looked back at Fan Shaozu, who was on the verge of collapse behind him, and couldn't help gritting his teeth fiercely, and pointed the knife forward, "Rush over for me!" ”