Chapter 22: The Mainstay
In Hong Chengchou's frightened gaze, the gunpowder bag in Yang Feng's hand flew out of his hand. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The next moment, like a tsunami of raging waves, it was about to overwhelm the head of his Qing army's iron horse, as if tearing through space, a terrifying flame suddenly expanded, and almost instantly turned into a fiery red angry wave, with a violent force, ferociously devouring dozens of Qing soldiers below. Then the impact of the explosion, with flames, gunpowder smoke and even fragments of people and horses, spread wildly to all sides, and those Qing cavalry who were charging were thrown up and knocked away like toys, torn apart by this terrifying force.
But the force of the impact continued, and more cavalry around were knocked down, trampled under the hooves of the war horses galloping behind, and within a radius of nearly 100 meters, it was a complete hell of flesh and blood.
And Yang Feng stood there proudly.
The nearest Qing cavalry was less than ten meters away, and then a shock wave that was almost visible to the naked eye came instantly, and the cavalry flew up as if they had been hit by a car.
Just when they flew up, Yang Feng fell to the ground, and then it was as if a strong wind was blowing over his head, in the surge of dust and grass clippings, the two war horses beside him screamed and were directly knocked to the ground, and at the same time, the huge explosion and the trembling of the earth also came, although Yang Feng had blocked his ears, but he was still shocked to a burst of tinnitus.
He is still like this, and those unsuspecting Qing troops can be imagined.
It was like the heavens were falling apart.
With the explosion point as the center, all the horses that had been galloping wildly neighed in horror the moment the explosion was heard, and then turned around and fled away from the sound without hesitation.
This is an instinct that any animal has.
The only reaction that these horses, who had never undergone such training, to the loud noise that was beyond their capacity was to gallop in the opposite direction.
But this is a disaster for a cavalry that is charging, those war horses that are running like headless flies will instantly disrupt the orderly formation, all the Qing cavalry are colliding and dodging in chaos, and even many of them are knocked down and trampled under the hooves of their companions, and this chaos also spreads outward with the explosion point as the center, like a domino that will involve more Qing cavalry in the chaos, and the momentum of the charge came to an abrupt end, and the most terrible thing on the battlefield happened.
Of course, it wasn't just the Qing army that was unlucky.
On the other side of the explosion site, the Ming and Qing war horses who were fighting were also shocked.
Regardless of the master's best control on their backs, they all turned around and ran wildly in the direction that was also far away from the sound, and the whole battlefield became two distinct pieces, with Yang Feng, who was shaking and getting up covered with dust in the middle, as the dividing line, the Qing cavalry from Lianshan went north in a chaotic manner, and the Ming army and the Qing cavalry who were originally fighting in the south were also carried south by the out-of-control war horses. However, Yang Feng in the middle was left unattended, he stood there and watched this scene speechlessly while plucking his ears, it was obvious that this battle was over again, just like under Ningyuan City, and let him blow it up with a hundred catties of gunpowder.
"Mah!"
He cursed speechlessly, then walked over to his horse and pulled it up with all his might, but fortunately it was only swept down by the wave of air and was not injured, and after being restrained by his strength, the horse that had robbed Ilde finally calmed down. Yang Feng turned over and got on the horse, and immediately ran forward with his legs clamped, he didn't know that at this time, on a high slope two miles behind him, a middle-aged man in white armor was looking at his back with a gloomy face, because he was extremely angry, and the muscles on his face were shaking unnaturally.
"Regent ......"
A Qing army general cautiously wanted to say something.
The man stopped him with a raised hand.
At this time, Yang Feng suddenly stopped, and then picked up a person from the ground, and the Qing army general hurriedly raised the binoculars, and then said: "It's Hong Chengchou!" ”
"Humph!"
The middle-aged man sneered, then broke the horsewhip in his hand, threw it to the ground, and turned around and headed towards Lianshan.
Well, Hong Chengchou unfortunately fell into the hands of Yang Feng.
In order to remind the Qing army, this guy ran forward desperately, and when the explosion was not far behind Yang Feng, Yang Feng had already prepared, lying on the ground to avoid the shock wave of the explosion, but he didn't have this awareness, he was directly thrown off the horse, and when he landed, the angle was not suitable and his right leg was broken. When Yang Feng got up and got on the horse and walked back, he was still holding his broken leg on the ground and howling, Yang Feng naturally didn't be polite to him, and directly picked up from the ground and galloped in front of him, catching up with Vice General Chen and others who were actually running away, and then continued to the south and soon met the infantry led by Tang Yu.
However, at this time, the Qing cavalry also chased after him.
Of course, it was not the ones that ran away in the south like the Ming army, but after pacifying the war horses and chasing them again, Yang Feng's bag of gunpowder killed more than 100 people, and the charging cavalry was not an infantry phalanx, the density was not large, but the chaos created was serious, but this chaos would not last, and the Qing cavalry, which was far away from the explosion point, quickly pacified the war horses, and regrouped and then chased over, and the number was still at least 3,000 people.
"Take this guy back to town!"
Yang Feng threw Hong Chengchou to Vice General Chen and said.
"Your Majesty, what about you?"
Lao Chen asked.
"I'll play with them again!"
Yang Feng said with a sneer.
Immediately after that, he urged his horse to run towards the infantry phalanx, and the infantry who were forming a wall of partial vans, shields, spears, birds, bows and arrows immediately separated and let him in, and Vice General Chen on the periphery threw Hong Chengchou to one of his men and sent him back to the city, and quickly gathered his cavalry behind the infantry phalanx to prepare for battle. The Ming army had also lost nearly 200 people in the battle before, and there were more than 800 cavalry at this time, and the 1,000 cavalry who fought with them suffered much greater losses, leaving less than 600 cavalry, and at this time they were rushing to their main force to meet with it, that is to say, the next strength comparison was that the Qing army of nearly 4,000 cavalry against the Ming army's 5,000 infantry and 800 cavalry.
The Ming army was significantly weaker.
But they still have the emperor!
"Bring me my bow and arrows!"
In the middle of the infantry phalanx, Yang Feng stood on a carriage and said heroically.
An accompanying brocade guard hurriedly presented his giant bow, in fact, this brocade guard also carried a spare one, this thing has been used many times and the bowstring is also worn, while the other two brocade guards unloaded four large bundles of special arrows from their horses, this kind of emperor's special arrows are one and a half meters long, and the arrow cluster in front is as big as a child's fist, not to mention cotton armor and chain mail, even the large oars and shields for infantry can shoot through.
"Beat the drums, cheer me on!"
Yang Feng said to the drummer.
With excitement on his face, the drummer swung his drumstick desperately and beat the huge cowhide war drum in front of him.
In the majestic sound of drums, Yang Feng took the arrow handed by the Jinyi guard, and then pulled out the giant bow, steadily aiming at the Qing army nearly three hundred meters away.
At the same time, the carriage under his feet moved slowly, and the entire infantry phalanx of the Ming army began to move back slowly, behind the infantry phalanx, Lao Chen's cavalry also completed the formation and prepared to escort the two wings of the infantry to retreat towards Ningyuan, behind him in the distance under the city of Ningyuan, the 1,000 cavalry led by Cao Youyi, the general soldier of Tianjin, was also in array ready to rush to reinforcements, and his subordinates included five hundred of his own elite personal soldiers, and this was also his chance to perform.
Yang Feng didn't care about this, he was just concentrating on aiming.
The Qing army on the opposite side was separating.
Cavalry against the infantry in formation, as long as the latter formation is not chaotic, they have no real overwhelming advantage, and Rulin's spear is also a mortal threat to the cavalry, so their method is to keep shooting arrows on the periphery, until the infantry in formation begins to be unable to bear some chaos, at that time the heavy cavalry rushes, as long as they rush away, it is a victory.
But this time, it's not going to be easy!
At the moment when the Qing cavalry separated, the bowstring in Yang Feng's hand suddenly loosened, and the one-and-a-half-meter-long giant arrow was driven by at least five or six hundred catties of tension, like lightning out of the string, and in less than four seconds, it accurately smashed the cotton armor and chain mail on the body of a Qing army officer nearly 100 meters away, cut off his ribs like an axe, and then penetrated his body, taking him backwards and falling directly off the horse with unexhausted strength.
Cheers rang out among the Ming army.
Just as the cheers amid, a second giant arrow flew out, and the second Qing officer fell from his horse, followed by the third, fourth, and fifth......
The giant bow in Yang Feng's hand was like a modern sniper rifle, shooting terrifying giant arrows at intervals of less than five seconds, and among the Qing cavalry who were preparing to attack the Ming infantry from the periphery, those who looked like generals almost kept falling off their horses, with the shaft of the trumpet spear, telling the Qing soldiers how fierce their opponents were. The Ming soldiers were constantly cheering feverishly, and the drums that resounded through the battlefield formed the background of their emperor's glory, and even the bows and arrows fired by the Qing cavalry were ignored, and even the infantry who were hit by the arrows, as long as they were not fatal, were still cheering.
Although Yang Feng actually didn't shoot or kill many Qing troops, the boost he brought to the morale of the Ming army was huge.
In the fanatical worship of His Majesty the Emperor, the infantry archers and bird gunners were also constantly pouring bullets and arrows into the Qing cavalry on the periphery, and while their companions were constantly falling from arrows, the Qing cavalry also continued to fall under their arrows and bullets. Soon the cavalry of Vice General Chen also joined the battle, and more cavalry behind the Qing army also arrived one after another, and then Cao Youyi's thousand cavalry also joined the battle, with Yang Feng and his infantry as the core, the scale of the battle became larger and larger, and the red-eyed soldiers fought frantically and bloodily, gradually moving towards the city of Ningyuan.
But soon Yang Feng ran into trouble.
"Mah, there are fewer arrow belts!"
He said hatefully, carrying the empty giant bow.
He took 200 arrows with him, and at the same speed as his jet, he shot them all in less than ten minutes, and even changed his bow once, killing at least one hundred and fifty Qing soldiers, most of whom were officers, but unfortunately there was no play now.
"Prepare the horses, go out and have a good time!"
Yang Feng roared.