Just when the Shandong soldiers and the rebels were entangled together, the mountain artillery of the Qiongzhou battalion opened fire again. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Boom boom", a dense rain of bullets symbolizing death, flew to the two sides that slashed each other, the projectile did not recognize people, and everyone on the trajectory of the trajectory, whether it was Shandong soldiers or rebels, was served in a pot, and even people and horses were pierced through their stomachs and shot into a hornet's nest.

Li Jiucheng, who was supervising the battle in the back position, was stunned, this group of bird-gun soldiers is really vicious, and they were afraid of being disrupted before. But now that they are firing at the backs of friendly soldiers, when did the soldiers and horses of the court become so lawless?

This round of shotguns became the last straw that crushed the Shandong soldiers, they lost the last trace of courage to resist, wailed and turned around and fled, even if they exposed their backs to the rebels, and were cut down by the saber and died.

The few remaining Shandong soldiers did not dare to drill into the tight array of the Qiongzhou battalion, but fled to both sides. After the rebel cavalry cut off one hundred and eighty heads, they didn't care about the lost dogs, urged the war horses, and rushed towards the phalanx. They were greeted by a volley of guns.

I have to say that Xia Nan's judgment is accurate, although firing at the back of the Shandong soldiers in the situation just now is suspected of falling into the ground, but the rebels defeat the Shandong soldiers and impact the phalanx is the inevitable result, and he is just the first to strike, it is better than waiting for the rebels to eat dry and wipe clean up and attack themselves in a moment's time.

"Hoo hoop", a row of guns with hundreds of guns in front of him shot down dozens of cavalrymen, and the huge body of the war horse rolled on the ground, bringing up bursts of smoke and dust, and also blocking the way of the cavalry behind. The attacking cavalry could not dodge, tripped over the fallen horse, and flew out with a heavy blow.

After completing a volley, the soldiers standing in the back row, as before, crouched down and formed two horizontal rows of bayonet formations with the soldiers in the front row.

After avoiding "obstacles" such as war horses and rebel corpses on the ground, the rebel brigade rushed up, but the speed had slowed down a lot. Seeing the bright bayonets, the rebels' war horses, like the mounts of the Shandong soldiers before them, neighed and refused to move forward, and spun in place - it is the instinct of animals to avoid danger.

There are rebels who don't believe in evil, so can't such a thin horizontal line be rushed? With a hard grip on his legs, the spurs pierced the horse's abdomen and became bloody, and the war horse was in pain, and rushed forward with a wail, crashing headlong into the bayonet array.

The huge war horses were pierced into hedgehogs by dense bayonets, and the rebels on horseback were also thrown out by inertia, fell in the middle of the phalanx, and were stabbed to death by the swarming reserves. It's just that the dying horses pressed on the soldiers, and even the rifles and bayonets could not support them, and several rifles broke from them. The weight of an adult Mongolian war horse is generally seven or eight hundred catties, and some breeds of horses can even reach more than one thousand catties. The soldiers who were pressed below spat blood from their mouths, felt that all their internal organs were displaced, several ribs were broken, and the unlucky ones were even crushed to death on the spot.

After all, the rebels are not heavy cavalry that specialize in attacking battle formations, and when they saw the situation in front of them, they understood that even if they rushed forward, they would lose both sides, and they had to take their lives to fill it. Li Jiucheng ordered in the rear: "Go around to both sides, release arrows from a distance, and look for flaws." ”

The rebels received the order and dispersed violently, breaking into two ways and running towards the sides of the phalanx.

Xia Nan saw a rather familiar figure from a distance, raised his monocular and looked, sure enough, it was Li Jiucheng, the leader of the rebels! He flicked his fist excitedly, it took no effort to break through the iron shoes and find nowhere to find it, and today he had to find a way to kill the thief.

At this time, Yang Youji reminded him: "General, there is movement on the side of the Guanning army, and it seems that it is going to flank the rebels from the rear. ”

Xia Nan raised his binoculars to check, and in the dust, thousands of cavalry slowly advanced, indeed coming in this direction, and the figure of Wu Sangui also appeared in his field of vision, and he followed closely behind a middle-aged military general with a beard.

He had an idea, as long as he found a way to drag Li Jiucheng back, Guan Ningjun would attack from behind, and it would be difficult for Li Jiucheng to fly with his wings. This is equivalent to using himself as a chopping board and Guan Ningjun as a knife to cut the rebels.

It's just that there are some risks in this way, if the Guanning army is not bad intentions and drives the rebels to attack the phalanx, the cavalry on both sides adds up to four or five thousand people, and the combat power is much stronger than the waste Shandong soldiers, then the Qiongzhou battalion will be very dangerous.

At this moment, Xia Nan imagined various possibilities in his head, and finally decided to take a gamble. The Guanning army went south for the sake of military exploits, and there was no grievance with the Qiongzhou battalion, and there was no motive to yin himself. If Li Jiucheng is killed, the rebels will lose their backbone, and it will be difficult for Kong Youde and others alone to support it, and this military rebellion will collapse faster, and the plan to run Shandong and immigrate by themselves will be implemented smoothly.

He made up his mind, came to the front, stood at the back of the horizontal team and shouted: "Li Jiucheng, do you remember the old man?" ”

Li Jiucheng had good eyesight, and when he heard the sound, he recognized Xia Nan at a glance. He was stunned at first, but he didn't expect that the main general of this army was actually this guy, and then the blue tendons on his forehead burst out, and he shouted angrily: "Little thief, I found you so hard back then, but I didn't expect to send it to the door by myself today?" ”

Back then, he had always looked at Xia Nan unpleasantly, and Xia Nan infiltrated Dengzhou City under the pretense of the White Lotus Sect, and took advantage of his and Kong Youde's absence to make a big fuss in Dengzhou, robbed Sun Yuanhua, and killed Geng Zhongming when he escaped, so that he lost a right-hand man, and made him hate this guy to the bone. Now that the enemy was very red when he saw each other, he raised his saber and pointed at Xia Nan: "Little thief, suffer death!" Then he urged his horse to rush forward.

The main general himself charged, and the morale of the rebels was greatly boosted, and they surrounded the phalanx on three sides, stopped fifty paces away, and took out their riding bows.

The reason why cavalry has a huge advantage over infantry is that mobility and agility are the most important points. In order to cope with the cavalry, the infantry had to form formations, and if they were scattered, they would be slaughtered like pigs and sheep. However, after the formation is formed, the cavalry can use the cavalry bow to strike from a distance, wait until the infantry can no longer bear the casualties and collapse on their own, and then rush up to cover the kill, which can completely defeat the infantry. Therefore, if an infantry without a long-range strike force meets a cavalry, it is a disaster.

The rebels did not know how to shoot on horseback, a skill that was generally only possessed by the Mongols who grew up on horseback, but there was no problem with archery standing still. Everyone pulls the bowstring, and the tip of the arrow is pointed at 45° to the sky - the riding bow is a light bow, and the power of flat shooting is not very strong, so it is more threatening to throw it.

Li Jiucheng looked at Xia Nan with a cruel smile, this round of bows and arrows will go down, the Qiongzhou battalion will definitely be in chaos, and when the cavalry launches a charge, they will be able to defeat the other party and take the head of the thief. However, he forgot that the infantry in front of him had no bows, but more powerful muskets.