753 Decisive Battle
At the foot of the earth mountain, four or five hundred Jianyu had been assembled and lined up in a tight phalanx. Jianyu, who had already climbed the dirt mountain, opened his bow and arrows, and also began to aim, preparing to meet the enemy.
But on both sides of the flank, all were tall horses, men and horses with armor, five horses side by side, a long spear on the horse, like five stingers sticking out. The speed is getting faster and faster, the ground is shaking, and the momentum of the forward rush is like Mount Tai pressing the top, people block and kill, and Buddha blocks and kills Buddha!
Those who gathered together were indeed elites, and their first reaction when they encountered an enemy situation immediately began to form a formation. But they are also people, seeing the ironclad heavy cavalry rushing towards them, under the premise that there is no obstacle to block the ironclad heavy cavalry from charging, even if they form a formation? All of a sudden, these prisoners panicked.
Zilharang in the distance looked ahead in surprise, and at this time, he had already seen that the Ming cavalry at the front was an ironclad heavy cavalry. There were about fifty on each side, and there were about a hundred riders. Just by this discovery, he knew that the army under the earth mountain was going to end. In this kind of terrain, once you let the iron armor heavy cavalry rush up, there is nothing to stop it.
Not only this, on the head of Gaizhou City, the section of the city wall opposite the earth mountain, I don't know when, a large number of archers have been gathered, with the sound of the bowstring of the "Bang Bang Bang", the dense arrow rain rises into the air, forming a parabola, falling to the earth mountain, and even a part of it crosses the earth mountain and falls to the back of the earth mountain.
If the construction of the earth mountain is completed, there will be anti-arrow measures to protect the archers on the earth mountain, but at this time, the construction has not been completed, so naturally there are not many defense measures; What's more, at this time, everyone's attention was attracted by the cavalry galloping from both sides, and the unsuspecting Jianlu was immediately covered by the rain of arrows, and with the sound of "poof" arrows falling to the ground, Jianyu suddenly fell to a piece, including the phalanx that had been assembled behind the earth mountain.
Inevitably, there was a commotion up and down the mountain, and before they could react, two more rounds of arrows flew out. Instinctively, Jian Yu immediately thought about dealing with the deadly rain of arrows.
It was at this time that the ironclad heavy cavalry arrived.
The arrows fired in a hurry hit the ironclad heavy cavalry, which was useless, or hung there, or simply bounced away, and did not affect the charge of the ironclad heavy cavalry in the slightest.
The spears and spears that were densely arranged, with the impact of the ironclad heavy horse, were like paper paste, and they were drowned by the ironclad heavy horseman.
The ironclad heavy cavalry on both sides, one in front of the other, pierced the small phalanx. After the ironclad heavy cavalry, the tight phalanx was no longer visible, only the corpses in one place. The Jianyu who survived by luck were scattered in a few corners of the original phalanx. Before the panic was settled, the Ming army's light cavalry came head-on, and it was another wave of harvest.
It was just a charge duel, and almost all of the four or five hundred captives under the mountain were killed.
When Zilharang saw the ironclad heavy cavalry of the Ming army, he knew that the phalanx under the earth mountain was afraid that it would be useless. However, he thought that with the elite of the Qing army and the white-armored soldiers of Tushan, he could always insist on the arrival of reinforcements.
But he didn't expect that the Ming army seemed to have planned to capture Tushan a long time ago, not only flanking on both sides, but also supporting the city, and actually killed and injured a large number of Qing soldiers at once. In just one round, not only did none of the soldiers under the earth mountain survive, but even the white-armored soldiers on the earth mountain also suffered a lot of casualties in the panic.
This scene was also seen by Huang Taiji, who ran out of the camp after hearing the news, and he couldn't help but be shocked and exclaimed: "How can there be an ironclad heavy horse?" ”
Everyone knows that in the field, as long as it is used properly, the ironclad heavy cavalry is a big killing weapon that charges into battle. However, the construction of ironclad heavy cavalry is not so easy, the consumption of financial and material resources is very large, and the selection of personnel and horses is also crucial. Generally speaking, only the most elite armies have enough financial resources to build ironclad heavy cavalry.
And the Ming army has always been defense-oriented, what do you want this kind of financially expensive ironclad heavy cavalry? Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry did have it, but it seemed to be only a little bit, and it was not unusual for the Dongjiang Army, an army that often harassed Liaodong. But there are also Ming troops in Gaizhou City, which is really unexpected.
Shocked, Huang Taiji didn't have time to think about it, he saw that the Ming army out of the city was beginning to seize Tushan, the infantry army assembled in front of Tushan to defend, the cavalry moved on both sides, protecting the two wings of the infantry army, and some foot soldiers were attacking Tushan on the back.
On the side of the Qing army, a cavalry army was already about to reach Tushan. But the Ming army on the opposite side had almost completed the assembly, and the speed of the assembly surprised Huang Taiji. There is only one thought in my heart: elite, this is definitely the elite of the Ming army, the old opponent Guan Ning Army, it is impossible to complete the assembly so quickly!
It's not a heavily armored iron cavalry to attack the assembled infantry position, that's no different from looking for death. The Qing army also realized this, and when it got closer, they dismounted one after another, and began to assemble and prepare for foot combat.
And behind this Qing army, another army is also rushing. As long as this army arrives, the number of people will be able to overwhelm the Ming army.
Huang Taiji just glanced at the battlefield, and immediately began to give an order, mobilizing the army to attack the two city gates respectively, it is best to take them, and if they can't take them, they will cut off the retreat of the Ming army outside the city.
With that, he turned his head to look at the Mongols. It was found that the Mongol tribes were also gathering troops, but slowly, and even collecting those who had fled.
These Mongols were far inferior to the Qing army in terms of military discipline, and it was unrealistic for them to assemble them all at once. But Huang Taiji found out from the clues of their assembly that they had deliberately delayed.
"Spread the order, a good opportunity has appeared, and the Mongolian tribes have completed the assembly and attack within the three drums, otherwise don't blame me for the ruthlessness of the military law!" Huang Taiji was ruthless and asked the guards to go and give the order immediately.
The Ming army went out of the city, it was a great opportunity to annihilate them, and if the opportunity was missed, they had to fill the city wall with their lives. This is an opportunity that must be seized.
The drums were beating, and the shouts of killing resounded in the dirt mountain. On the side of Tushan facing the Jianyu camp, the infantry of more than 1,000 people of the Ming army was assembled and waited.
On the opposite side of them, the army of the Jianyu headquarters had almost finished assembling. They did not have time to wait for all the assembly to be completed, so they began to advance under the command of the front-line generals. Otherwise, once Tushan is captured by the Ming army, it will be difficult to recapture it!
A cavalry army had arrived, guarding both sides of the infantry formation, waiting for an opportunity to move forward and capture the fighters.
Outside the entire city of Gaizhou, the original calm was broken in more than a quarter of an hour, the army gathered, the Jianyu army pressed forward, the Mongol army advanced slowly, and the next round of war was about to break out.