The iron cavalry is infinitely powerful, whether it is Wang Zihao, the chief of the iron cavalry battalion, or his elder brother Wang Xinyu, they did not expect that the iron cavalry charge of the cluster would be so powerful! The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry, known as "invincible in the world", were so vulnerable under the impact of heavy iron cavalry.

The iron cavalry of the Qiongzhou Army, which rushed into the formation of the Eight Banners Cavalry, was like a steel knife cut into tofu, and continuously tore through the blood lines in the Eight Banners Cavalry formation.

Wang Xinyu's younger brother Wang Zihao personally led the troops to rush to the first, and the steel knife in his hand did not know how many heads were cut off. No matter how strong the martial arts of those Manmeng Eight Banners are, each person has to endure two to three or more sabre slashes. With the help of horsepower, the saber that came over was infinitely powerful, and it was not something that a single person could resist at all. No matter how brave you are, you can slash and kill a Ming cavalryman, but someone else will hack you to death.

Alhatu waved the knife and slashed at a Ming iron horseman, although the Ming army iron horse was wearing thick armor, but the speed of the war horses on both sides was extremely fast, the saber followed the horsepower, and slashed to the iron armor, only to hear a "clank" sound, Alhatu's saber was broken into two, and the Ming soldier also screamed and fell off the horse.

"I broke a knife, but I killed a barbarian cavalryman!" Before Alkhatu could be pleased, two horses galloped past on his left and right, and two knives passed over his head.

Having no weapon in his hand, Alhatu used his stirrup hiding trick and bent down to avoid the Ming army's attack.

However, the iron horsemen behind him passed by one after another, and one of the Ming soldiers found Alhatu hiding in the stirrup behind the war horse, and simply lowered the saber, and the sharp blade slashed through the neck of the Alhatu warhorse. Only a mournful neighing sound was heard, and blood spurted from the horse's neck, knocking Alhattu to the ground.

Then a tall Don hippopotamus galloped by, trampling Alhatu into a pulp.

A round of iron cavalry swept over, and the Eight Banners cavalry fell in all directions, leaving mutilated corpses everywhere, broken arms all over the ground, and the Eight Banners soldiers who had their arms cut off and were not dead fell to the ground, wailing in pain.

The cavalry of the two sides rushed past, and there were only more than 100 people left of the more than 400 cavalry of the Eight Banners, while the iron cavalry of the Ming army only lost more than 10 people. For more than 1,000 Ming army iron cavalry, this loss is only a drop in the middle.

The iron cavalry of the Ming army had slowed down, and the soldiers stopped their horses, turned their horses, and aimed in the direction of the Qing army. Rows of warhorses stood on the grass, snorting incessantly, waiting for their master to let them charge again.

However, the remaining Eight Banners cavalry has lost the courage to fight again, as long as there is another hedge, it is estimated that no one of the more than 100 Eight Banners soldiers will be able to go back alive. Originally, the 508 Banner cavalry came out to pick up the cheap, but who knew that the cheap was not picked up, but instead lost 4/5 of the soldiers, and only about 100 people remained.

"Run!" The remnants of the Eight Banners turned their horses' heads one after another, turned around and ran.

Wang Zihao looked at the corpses of the Eight Banners everywhere, looked at the Eight Banners cavalry who fled in the wilderness, and was shocked by his results: he didn't expect that his cavalry, which had been put together and only had half a year of queue training and training with charge, would have such a powerful power! The sources of the iron cavalry battalion are very mixed, there are the cavalry of the original Bai Wenxuan, the cavalry of Zheng Xi, the Mongols, the Manchurians, and the Oroqen people who know how to ride horses in the far north.

The Eight Banners cavalry were defeated, but Wang Xinyu didn't intend to let them go like this. If you want to run back to Jinhua from here, the Eight Banners cavalry have to run more than 100 miles, such a long distance, how could Wang Xinyu let them run away.

"Kill the Tartars!" With Li Rui's order, five hundred pro-soldier guards chased them out.

The pro-guards who rode the Don hippo did not have the iron armor of the iron cavalry battalion, but they were all dressed in light rattan armor, and they also wore rattan helmets on the heads of the horses, and like the iron cavalry battalion, the front of the horses also hung anti-arrow canvas curtains. The equipment of the pro-guard is mainly anti-arrow, as long as it can counteract the opponent's bow and arrow, and enter close combat, the pro-guard can cut down all enemy cavalry. What's more, the pro-soldier guards are equipped with powerful compound bows, which have a much longer range than the cavalry bows of the Mongol cavalry, and the compound bows do not require much force to pull away, and can shoot arrows far on horseback.

"Kill!" The five hundred pro-soldier guards galloped on horseback, following closely behind the remaining Eight Banners soldiers and chasing them all the way.

The Eight Banners used Mangu tactics and turned around to shoot arrows. However, their range was far inferior to that of the pro-guards armed with compound bows, and at this time Mangu's tactics were useless, and when they stopped and turned to shoot arrows, they could only be shot to death.

Everyone in the pro-guard guards was a sharpshooter, using a compound bow to shoot arrows on horseback, and there were fewer and fewer Eight Banners soldiers in front.

Mangu's tactics were completely ineffective, and the Eight Banners did not dare to turn around and shoot arrows at all, so they could only run away desperately. But the Don hippopotamus, whose endurance is not inferior to that of Mongolian horses, is faster than Mongolian horses. Originally, the Don hippopotamus was the offspring of a modified breed of Mongolian horses, and the Cossack cavalry rode them for thousands of miles, from Europe to East Asia, and you can imagine the endurance of this horse. And the mixed-breed Don hippopotamus is not slow either, and the impact is good.

"It's over! Can't run away! There were Eight Banners crying and shouting.

"How can a barbarian's horse run so fast? Endurance is not lost to us either! "Someone heard the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer behind them, and they just felt terrified.

The Eight Banners who were caught up were slashed and killed by the pro-soldier guards one by one. The remaining Eight Banners scattered and fled, but the pursuing pro-soldier guards also pursued separately, chasing one with five people, chasing and killing these Eight Banners in all directions. In the end, only three Eight Banners soldiers escaped, most of the others were killed, and more than a dozen surrendered as prisoners.

Seeing that the Iron Cavalry Battalion defeated the Eight Banners cavalry in a blink of an eye, Wang Yuyou stroked his beard and smiled, but said regretfully: "It's a pity that our cavalry is too few!" Otherwise, we can now go north to the Central Plains! ”

"It's too little, and I can't afford to raise more! These 1,500 tons of hippos, as well as more than 3,000 Mongolian horses, have to consume how much silver to raise in this domain! Horses are still a trivial matter, and people who are proficient in equestrianism are even rarer. Wang Xinyu sighed.

The infantry began to clean up the battlefield, and those Eight Banners who landed, if they were seriously injured, or had broken arms, they were all killed by the Ming army without hesitation. Some lightly wounded Eight Banner soldiers became prisoners of the Ming army.

In this battle, the Ming army won a complete victory, annihilating more than 500 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, including killing more than 450 Eight Banner cavalry, capturing 46 people, and capturing more than 300 war horses, while they only paid the price of 8 dead dragoons, 11 iron cavalry, and 37 wounded.

The captured Mongolian horses can be used to augment the dragoon or flying cavalry artillery.

Dead horses could not be wasted, and the dead horses were mutilated, and the flesh of the horses could be cut off for food.

The three Eight Banners soldiers who escaped fled into Jinhua City, and the green battalion soldiers guarding the gate of the city were stunned when they saw the majestic more than 500 Eight Banner Iron Cavalry when they set out on the expedition, and only three of them came back.

"Servant report to your lord! General Alhatu is killed! And five hundred of us brethren came back, and three of us came! The Eight Banners who had fled back knelt on the ground and reported to Gualja Chobtai.

Gualga Chobtai got up and yelled, "If you can't beat you, you can run!" Who told you to go to the Dog Formation? After so many years in the customs, you can't even fight? ”

"Back to my lord, the minions didn't go to the Ming Dog's array! It was the Ming Dog Cavalry who defeated us. When our brothers retreated, the Ming Dog Cavalry pursued and killed all the other brothers, and the three of us ran back. The three Eight Banners knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"When did the Ming Dog Cavalry become so powerful?" Gualja Chobtai didn't trust his ears at all.

"The minions don't know that there are two kinds of cavalry, one is the tall horse of the Tessians, who is clothed in iron armor, and even the horses have iron armor, and they are very fast; The other kind of cavalry rode the same horses as us, and they were also lightly armoured, but their bows and arrows shot very far, much farther than ours! Eight Banners reported.

After listening to the report of the Qing soldiers, Gualga Zhuobutai felt a deep fear: the cavalry was their advantage, and they could fight if they could beat it, but they could run if they couldn't beat it. But if the opponent has a strong cavalry, then he will be defeated in the future, and he will not even be able to run! How will the battle be fought in the future?

Li Sang stepped forward and said, "My lord, the number of barbarian cavalry is definitely not large, and they will definitely come to fight Jinhua." The terrain around Jinhua was flat, and there were no rivers to hinder our cavalry. We can go out of the city to fight in the field, take advantage of our cavalry, concentrate our cavalry, and give priority to destroying the barbarian cavalry! ”

Zhuo Butai nodded, then turned his head and asked the three Eight Banners: "How many cavalry are there for the barbarians?" ”

The Eight Banners replied: "About three thousand, of which there are more than 1,000 heavy cavalry in armor, and the rest are light armor, light cavalry using long-range weapons." ”

Defeated the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry, the army advanced all the way to Yiwu, and along the way, it was never harassed by the Qing army again. The Qing infantry did not dare to come to trouble the Qiongzhou army, and the cavalry, which could have come and go freely, suffered a heavy defeat, and the Qing garrison of Jinhua, Guerjia Zhuobutai, no longer dared to send the Eight Banners cavalry to attack. The Qing army was also accumulating strength, just waiting for the Ming army to arrive in Jinhua and conduct a large-scale field battle outside the city, striving to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army in a battle.

On the third day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the Ming army arrived at the city of Yiwu.

As long as Yiwu is conquered, the Ming army can march west along the Yiwu River and arrive at Jinhua. As long as you walk along the river, you can reduce the pressure on logistics. It can be said that Yiwu is the gateway of Jinhua.

However, the number of Qing defenders in Yiwu was very small, only more than 500 green battalions, 3,000 village warriors, and another 5,000 people.

The army arrived at the city of Yiwu, after all, it was too close to Jinhua, and there were heavy Qing troops not far away, Wang Xinyu did not dare to take too much risk, but followed his old method to fight steadily. The Ming army first built fortifications, dug trenches, set up camps, arranged defenses, and then plotted to attack after establishing themselves in an invincible position. (To be continued.) )