Chapter 455: Response, Determination, Fierce Battle
Zachdan rode on his two-meter-tall dragon horse, like a giant monster, and galloped across the battlefield.
He quickly rushed to the side of the cavalry battalion commander who had just returned from the front.
Zachdan stood up on Ryoma's stirrups, looked around, looked at the current situation on the battlefield, and quickly made a decision in his heart.
He pointed to the place where the large herd of horses left behind them by the fleeing Houjin infantry on the opposite side was tied to them, and gave further orders.
"Your cavalry battalion, as well as the other cavalry units that have been assigned to you before, do not stop, and continue to pursue the infantry of the fleeing Houjinduoduo tribe one company at a time.
You don't need to pay attention to the enemy's cavalry troops, just rush into the rear of the Houjin infantry and rush to the south, where you can't see the Houjin deserters, and then turn around and continue to attack.
I have only one request, and that is to rush over and fight the enemy in a chaotic manner, the more chaotic the better, and the more chaotic the enemy is to stir up the better, in short, I can't let them regroup. ”
Zachdan's order was very clear, but the cavalry battalion commander did not directly receive the order, but said with a slight hesitation: "Brigade commander, with that kind of fighting, I'm afraid our losses will be great!" Otherwise, let ······"
But before the cavalry battalion commander could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Zachdan, "I am the commander-in-chief of this battle, you just need to carry out the order!" Even if the cavalry battalion was really exhausted, it would definitely not allow the routs of the Duoduo Department of the Houjin Army to regroup. ”
Time was really very short, and Zachdan didn't have time to pay any more attention to the opinions of the cavalry battalion commander, so after dropping such a sentence, he immediately turned his horse's head and ran to the special service company directly under the brigade headquarters battalion.
He just transferred the special service company directly under the brigade headquarters battalion from behind, and asked the battalion deputy who led the team to return to the combat sequence with the special service company from the reserve to strengthen the firepower of his own infantry ranks.
The Huaxia Army stopped the infantry formation and turned around in place to prepare to return to the defense at the sound of the officers' orders.
The officers were constantly shouting out various orders, and the soldiers of the infantry array also acted according to the orders.
After turning his head, the original first row became the last row, and the soldiers who were now in the back rows also stepped forward one by one on their own initiative to fill the gap in the original last row, which is now the first row.
The front row of the array immediately became a neat and dense array, but the back row was already in disarray.
The drummers in the ranks began to beat the drums of the march, and the infantry array marched towards the ferry.
The northern area was already dusty, and it could only be seen from a high place before, but now, with the Houjin soldiers a few kilometers away, even those standing on the plain could see a thing or two.
The cavalry battalion commander obeyed Zachdan's order and released all the cavalry forces in his hands, and the cavalry used small cavalry formations to continuously attack the cavalry team responsible for covering the Houjin infantry in a company unit and a small cavalry array.
After breaking through the gap in the enemy's cavalry array, he no longer cared about the Houjin cavalry who were hinging, but continued to pursue the fleeing Houjin infantry.
In the entire 1st Mixed Brigade, almost all seven cavalry companies constantly attacked the enemy in turn, which was also a huge damage to the Houjin cavalry.
Because the Chinese cavalry soldiers regarded the fleeing Houjin infantry as a tactical target, and that was exactly the place where the Houjin cavalry had to rescue.
The Huaxia Army was so crooked that the cavalry of the Houjin Army, which was good at guerrilla fighting, had to give up the fighting method they were best at and go to hedge head-on with the Huaxia cavalry.
It just so happened that the ones who remained in front to fight with the cavalry were the special service platoons belonging to several battalions, and their rifles had a long range and the quality of their personnel was much higher than that of ordinary infantry.
Seeing that the Houjin army was scattered into multiple squads, in order to cover their scattered infantry, they had to face their own cavalry.
Naturally, the soldiers of these special platoons who stayed at the front of the battlefield would not let go of this good opportunity, and under the coordination of several company commanders, they formed a dense formation.
Then, with the pump-action rifle in his hand, which far exceeded the range and accuracy of ordinary rifles, the cavalry of the Houjin Army, which was constantly stiffening his head in all directions, passed through their array, and went to hedge against his own cavalry team, and launched a volley after volley.
The continuous long-distance salvo fire on this side greatly affected the mobile route of the cavalry units of the Houjin Army.
Seeing that his cavalry had been beaten and could not be repaid, in the rear of the Houjin Army, who was responsible for supervising the battle and had not been able to fight, a few outlaws came out.
These scattered outlaws actually rushed towards the direction of the special platoon single-handedly, and tried to shoot at the soldiers of the special platoon with the infantry bows in their hands.
The special service platoon is not an ordinary infantry, these soldiers train and fire as much as twenty or thirty times more ammunition than ordinary infantry every month, and their marksmanship has reached an excellent level, how can they be rushed in front of a scattered enemy.
Soon, before the bajara outlaws could rush into the range of their bows and arrows, the scattered bajara were killed by the pump-action rifles and turned into cold corpses on the ground.
Under the impact of the Chinese cavalry, which was different from the dense cavalry formation of this era, again and again, the enemy and us were all over the field with corpses and blurred flesh and blood on the enemy's escape route.
The cavalry units of the Houjin Army, under the charge of the Huaxia cavalry, also became more and more scattered, and often, before their scattered queue was assembled again, another charge of the next company of the Huaxia Army was close at hand.
Under this continuous charge, even the most elite Bayalas in the Houjin army did not dare to resist the charge of the Huaxia cavalry array from the front, and at most only dared to use bow and arrow shooting on the flanks of the Huaxia cavalry.
The cavalry array formed by the Huaxia cavalry had already been ordered to ignore the attacks of the enemy from both flanks, and all the personnel only charged forward fiercely.
Although the losses in this mode of warfare were severe, far exceeding the losses of any previous operation.
But in the same way, such a tactic also brought greater damage to the rout of the Houjin army.
With their own sacrifices, the Chinese cavalry firmly stopped any attempt by the Houjin infantry to regroup, and completely disrupted the enemy's chance to reorganize and break through the encirclement.