Chapter 747: Battlefield Trap
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The miners' battalion in front of them was like a stone in a pit, smelly and hard, and no time they hit it again, they couldn't break through the opponent's rock-solid lineup.
At this moment, the 5,000 heavy cavalry he was proud of were almost on the same starting line as the 5,000 heavy infantry on the opposite side, except that they looked taller, but at the same time, their goals were also larger.
The heavy cavalry lost its terrifying impact and could play a similar role as the heavy infantry. But the problem is that the cavalry wore heavy armor, and these horses were also armored, but the legs of the horses could not be covered, which made the horses the first target of the main complaint.
One by one, the horses fell, and the cavalry on their backs were also led down, and after the heavy armor made them fall, it was difficult to get up, even on the open field, let alone on such a chaotic battlefield.
He wanted to pull the team back a little further and launch another assault, but found that he couldn't do it at all.
The battlefield on the left and right flanks was already squeezing towards the middle battlefield, compressing his space to a very small size, and his heavy cavalry and the opponent's heavy side had been mixed together at this time, and the two sides had turned into a scuffle, a chaotic battle. His first attempt ended in a crushing failure, and a group of cavalry turned their horses back, but what they did not expect was that a group of hoplites clinged to them, and with a flick of their broadswords, they cut down the retreating cavalry and bled them into a river of blood.
Deng Su never imagined that his heavy cavalry would fight like this.
Purely with short hits long.
He clearly saw that his battle losses were rapidly expanding, while his opponent's battle losses were decreasing dramatically. The cooperation between the small-scale soldier squads of the Ming army was originally unparalleled in the world, which came from the combat methods of the original death battalion.
Deng Su gritted his teeth and looked at the two battlefields on the left and right, the two directions were still fighting fiercely, but the battlefield continued to press towards the middle. The space given to him is getting smaller and smaller, and it is not their heavy cavalry that has the upper hand, but the army of the Ming Kingdom.
He suddenly gave Ling Ling a cold war. Compressing the battlefield space in the middle was the established strategy of the Ming army, and now, they are implementing their plan step by step.
Deng Su was cold, and the successful implementation of the opponent's tactics was already getting closer and closer to defeat on the contrary.
He looked at his heavy cavalry and the heavy steps of the miner battalion stuck together in front of him, and he had only one way, that is, to kill through the miner battalion lineup in front of him and completely defeat the other party in order to save the whole situation.
Turning around, looking in the direction they came from, in the rear, there are 10,000 Qin State foot soldiers rushing here, hoping that they can arrive at the most critical time, if there are these 10,000 foot soldiers to join, the form will be reversed.
Turning his gaze and looking at his right flank, the skeleton flag of the Agni Death Battalion fluttered in the wind, and under the flag, the big knife in Qin Feng's hand was like a dancing torch, and everywhere he passed, it was a mess, and the five thousand cavalry met the three thousand cavalry of the Agni Death Battalion, but they were killed and lost their armor. Now, the only hope is that the second brother can succeed in one blow.
He took a deep breath, lifted his lance, and thrust forward, picking up a soldier of the miner's battalion who was rushing at him, and with a shake of his hand, the heavy infantry was thrown far away.
"Dismount all." He shouted. "All on foot."
At this time, it is better to have a horse than not to have a horse.
He struck forward.
Lu Feng in the rear has not participated in the battle, when he saw Deng Su ordered to abandon the horse, from heavy cavalry to heavy foot, he laughed happily, heavy infantry, then he is a professional, from the beginning to the present, he has been immersed in the study of hoplites, it has been four years.
"Drum order, form a formation, mow the grass!" He danced with his hands.
The sound of war drums rumbled rhythmically, and the Qin people couldn't understand it, but the soldiers of the miners' battalion naturally heard it clearly. The battlefield, which originally seemed extremely chaotic, began to change little by little in every corner that was not easy to detect. Groups of miners' battalion soldiers, no longer attacking forward, but attacking left and right, they tried to find their companions on the left and right, and then gathered together, one team was two, and two teams were four. Slowly, a sword formation of hundreds of people slowly took shape. When the first thousand-person sword formation reappeared in front of the Qin people, the soldiers of the Qin army who were fighting bravely had no time to react.
Yo-ho's shouts reappear on the battlefield. More than 1,000 broadswords were raised high, the first row was cut down, when the knife fell, the second row was already grabbed, and then a knife fell, the second row of knives just fell on the enemy, and the third row was already in the front.
The knife formation, which Lu Feng called a round killing, instantly opened up an open space on the battlefield, and more miner battalion soldiers integrated in, and the knife formation became stronger and stronger.
Yu Chao was very excited. He enjoyed the thrill of crushing the enemy brought by luxurious equipment, and the silver that Qin Feng smashed on the cavalry played a huge role on the battlefield.
The power of the horse lance in the cavalry battle is far beyond their imagination, the enemy is holding an iron spear, the length looks similar to them, but the Qin people need to hold the middle of the gun in order to raise the gun to sprint, but the horse lance is held in the tail of about two feet, when the two sides stab each other, it is really an inch long, an inch strong, the iron gun is still some distance away from the Ming soldiers, but the horse lance has mercilessly pierced into the other party's body, the sharp horse lance coupled with the impact of the war horse, easily break through the enemy's leather armor, The lingering complex on the blade prevents the mallet from being pulled out because it penetrates the opponent's body.
Even if they lost their lances in battle, they still had ring-headed knives. The sharp ringhead knife can easily cut through the barrel of the opponent's spear, turning the opponent's spear into a long club.
Yu Chao admitted that the quality of the Qin army's individual soldiers was stronger than that of his soldiers, and the will to fight was not weaker than theirs, but the gap in equipment determined the opponent's higher casualty rate.
When the main forces of the two sides collided together, whether it was a horse lance or a spear, the soldiers in the middle of the battlefield were already unable to use it, at this time, the Ming army did not pity the horse lance worth dozens of taels of silver, and pulled out their ring head knife.
People are more important than weapons. From the first day of establishing the cavalry, Qin Feng instilled this concept in Yu Chao, if he lost the weapon, he could build it again, it was just silver, but he lost a cavalry that he had trained with great difficulty, but for the Ming army, he felt even more regretful.
The horses in the hands of the soldiers were simple versions, but each one was worth fifty taels of silver, and the Ming army threw them away like garbage, because they also had a melee weapon, the ring head sword.
The soldiers of the Qin army did not. They only have one spear. So, they can't throw away their only weapon. When they raised their spears in vain, the Ming soldiers who were close to them waved their ring-headed knives and easily cut them off their horses.
The cavalry on the periphery was still hedging, but the Qin soldiers in the middle had gradually collapsed. The battlefield was squeezed into the middle battlefield according to Qin Feng's deployment in advance, compressing the activity space of the heavy cavalry.
Because of the cavalry battles on both flanks, the Ming army had the upper hand, and Qin Feng's tactics were vividly implemented, and Deng Su in the middle battlefield was forced to order all the heavy cavalry to directly dismount and fight on foot because there was no space.
With a short blow and a long blow, they fell into Qin Feng's trap.
There was still a distance of ten miles from Hengdian, Chen Zhihua stood on a high ground, watching that his soldiers were exhausted, and last night, they received Qin Feng's urgent order, threw away all their heavy weapons, only brought their weapons, and each of them carried a little two grains and a pot of water, and began to march rapidly.
The goal is Hengdian.
At the same time, the flood camp led by his younger brother Chen Jinhua is also desperately advancing towards Hengdian in the same direction as him.
"General Chen, the brothers need to rest, they can't run, from midnight yesterday to today, everyone hasn't rested." A veteran ran to Chen Zhihua and said loudly.
"No, keep going." Chen Zhihua was unmoved, his eyes looked in the direction of Hengdian, where there was a decisive battle related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty. And if they can't get to the battlefield on time, then the Ming army will be in trouble. Because at this time, a group of 10,000 Qin soldiers were also on the way to Hengdian.
"The brethren did not eat a mouthful of food, nor did they drink a sip of water." The veteran's beard was so angry that he was a veteran under Chen Ci, and he was naturally very qualified in the army.
Chen Zhihua was unmoved, "Eat while walking, drink while walking, even if it's and pee, let me solve it while walking." As long as there is still breath left, we have to move forward. ”
"Major General, even if you rush to the battlefield, what combat effectiveness do you have?" The veteran was almost roaring.
"When you see the enemy, you naturally have combat effectiveness, uncle, how do you think the Qin people can be better than us?" Chen Zhihua finally lowered his head and looked at the veteran in front of him: "Everyone is the same, now, whoever can rush to the battlefield first can become the last straw that crushes the camel." Tell all the brothers that this is a battle for us after joining the Ming army, our combat effectiveness, our will to fight, no worse than anyone else, those who lag behind, those who complain, the officers are immediately dismissed, and the soldiers are demoted on the spot. ”
Dropping these words, Chen Zhihua reached out and touched the huge cloud-piercing bow on his back. That bow was given to him by Qin Feng, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, seven-colored arrows, and it took two years of hard work to finally make the first one for him. Now, in his quiver.
"Let's go." He looked up to the sky and shouted angrily.
At this time, in the other direction, his younger brother, Chen Jinhua, was roaring and saying exactly the same words to his brothers.
Both armies can no longer move.
Along with them, there was also a Qin army that became the end of the crossbow. They are also rushing to the battlefield, and they are also reaching the limit of their human bodies, and from time to time soldiers fall on the march and never get up.
At this time, the good logistics of the Ming army and the usual nutrition of the soldiers showed their power at this time, and the Qin army did not carry some dried meat with them like the Ming army, and they could also have a small skin bag filled with water, and they could more or less replenish some physical strength during the march.