In the process of escaping on his horse, Liu Zeqing looked up at the front, with Guan Ningjun in the middle, Wu Anbang, the general soldier of Dengzhou on the right, and the bird soldiers of the Guangdong barbarians on the left. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info had an idea in mind.

The rebel cavalry was in hot pursuit, and their own rout was bound to disrupt the array of friendly forces, giving the rebels a good opportunity to attack. He didn't dare to offend this Guan Ningjun anymore, he couldn't go in the middle, Wu Anbang, the general soldier of Dengzhou on the right, was an official in the same province as himself, and his personal relationship was not bad, so he couldn't harm him. The only thing to go is the side of the Guangdong barbarians, this surnamed Xia is very domineering, in this case, there is only a dead Taoist friend who does not die and a poor Taoist.

He waved his saber and shouted: "Come with me and retreat to the Guangdong soldiers." The Shandong cavalry behind him was ordered, and they all followed him and rushed towards the direction of the Qiongzhou battalion's array. 1,000 Shandong soldiers and 2,000 rebels in the rear, all rushed towards the Qiongzhou battalion, and suddenly the hooves rumbled, the dust filled the sky, and the earth trembled, and it looked like more than 3,000 cavalry launched an attack together.

"it!" Xia Nan couldn't help but burst into foul language, "Is this Liu Zeqing crazy?" If you can't defeat the rebels, you can forget it, but you actually hit my array directly, and you also attracted the rebels! He deliberately took revenge for personal gain, right? ”

Wei Lianheng on the side explained: "Whether it's for self-protection, or revenge for personal gain, I'm afraid it's both." At such a speed, if you want to control the war horse to make a sharp turn and sweep in front of us, and run in a circle to the rear, there are not many people in the world who can do it, except for the Mongols. Now is not the time to talk about this, general, line up to meet the enemy! ”

Xia Nantie ordered with a blue face: "Form a phalanx to meet the enemy!" ”

After the order was issued, the originally long two rows of horizontal formations changed rapidly, and the soldiers were rearranged according to the organization of companies and platoons, and in a very short time they formed a huge hollow phalanx. Five companies were deployed in each direction, two of which were mountain artillery batteries in the two corners of the front. The guards and special operations teams remained in the center of the phalanx as reserves.

Huang Hansheng asked: "The rebels are definitely going to fight, but what about the Shandong soldiers in front?" ”

Xia Nan stared closely at the cavalry that was getting closer and closer, and said coldly: "If he is unkind, don't blame me for being unjust." If Liu Zeqing insists on attacking our department, he will be treated equally with the rebels, and he will be killed! ”

Liu Zeqing saw that the Qiongzhou battalion in front of him had put on a strange formation, and the horizontal formation had turned into a phalanx, which was still hollow in the middle. He couldn't understand what kind of way this was at all, and said to himself: "Are these Cantonese barbarians stupid? ”

All generals who have fought with the cavalry know that the only way to deal with the cavalry with high-speed impact is to discharge a dense infantry solid formation and resist it with spears. In Liu Zeqing's eyes, using this kind of phalanx, which is empty in the middle and only a thin column on all sides, to deal with the cavalry is no different from committing suicide.

Liu Zeqing shook his head, the Qiongzhou battalion wants to be sent to death, what does it have to do with him? As long as you rush through the thin horizontal team in front of you and pass through this hollow array, you will be able to escape, and the rebels behind you will be handed over to the Qiongzhou battalion for a headache.

What he never expected was that it was not the Qiongzhou battalion that was sent to death, but his own thousand cavalry.

When the forward of the Shandong soldiers was only 700 meters away from the Qiongzhou battalion, the artillery company that was ready to fire lit the fuse, and the two companies with a total of 20 mountain guns began to roar angrily, and the 10-pound solid bullet flew towards the Shandong soldiers with a strong kinetic energy, penetrating the chest of the cavalry and the body of the war horse, and the blood splashed in the air, and the cavalry fell off their horses one after another, and one after another the war horses fell to the ground.

Unlike in the face of infantry shocks, this hollow phalanx placed the artillery at two corners directly in front of the phalanx, and the angle of fire was not a straight line, but two diagonals. Straight-line shooting is more suitable for dealing with dense infantry, but the effect of dealing with relatively sparse cavalry units is reduced, while diagonal shooting makes up for the shortcomings of straight-line shooting to a certain extent, and can form a fire interception network diagonally, killing and injuring cavalry at high speed.

After the head of a pro-soldier next to him was smashed into a rotten watermelon by a cannonball, Liu Zeqing wiped off the blood and brains that had been splashed on his head and fell into a panic. He imagined the various reactions of the Qiongzhou battalion after being pitted by himself, including hesitation, anger, hurried resistance, and complaining to the governor and the supervisor afterwards, but he just didn't expect that a newcomer to the south and had no roots actually chose to attack without hesitation, fighting friendly troops as rebels, without the slightest mercy.

It stands to reason that he should be angry: Lao Tzu just borrowed a way to run away, even if it caused you losses, it doesn't hurt to take the lawsuit to Shangguan afterwards, it's a big deal to accompany him, but when you come up, you will greet with a cannon and beat you to death, and that's it. But seeing that the subordinates beside him were killed by shells one after another, and each step forward had to pay more than a dozen lives, he was only left with fear and fear, where are these southern barbarian cannons made sacredly, they can actually fire continuously, like this, even if they rush to the front of the Qiongzhou battalion, these more than 1,000 cavalry are afraid that nearly thirty percent of them will be killed or wounded.

Although there was fear, the speed of the war horse was difficult to slow down in an instant, and the Shandong soldiers continued to charge forward with inertia.

Xia Nan shouted: "We can't let them mess up our position, otherwise the rebels will be wiped out, change the shotgun, and give me to fight these Shandong soldiers to the death!" ”

Although the interception of artillery fire slowed down the cavalry's impact speed to a certain extent, the distance of 700 meters was not much distance for a high-speed galloping war horse, and in the blink of an eye, the forward troops of the Shandong cavalry had entered within 200 meters, and even if they changed shotguns, it was only enough to fire one round. In other units, the gunners would have turned and fled in the face of the approaching sabers, but the well-trained and disciplined artillery company seemed to turn a blind eye to the charging cavalry, and orderly took the shotguns from the shell boxes and loaded them into the chambers, and then calmly lit the fuse.

At the same time, the Shandong cavalry had already raised the saber in their hands and began the final charge with a howl. Under the pursuit of the rebels and the bombardment of friendly shells, these Shandong soldiers have lost their minds, they do not have the courage to turn their horses and fight to the death with the rebels, but they pin their only hope of survival on breaking through the friendly array. To this end, they did not hesitate to raise their sabers at the friendly forces that should have fought side by side, preparing to cut off the heads of anyone who stood in their way.