Chapter 740: Beishan's Waterloo
The melodious music lingers in front of the ancient city of Hai. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
For Beshan, this is not a pleasure, but a despair.
The four-day siege of the city made him lose most of the army he brought this time, and the Goryeo army was directly defeated, and now he is isolated and helpless, and can only face the army of the Great Yu State by himself.
"Taiji, withdraw." Gu Duo glanced at the army of the Great Yu State who kept coming to the camp.
If it had been before, they would have led the cavalry to charge, but after tasting the hollow phalanx set up by the army of the Great Yu Kingdom, they no longer had absolute confidence, not to mention that his current soldiers were very tired after four days of fierce fighting, and he no longer had an advantage in numbers.
The music of the march of the army of the Great Yu Kingdom was getting closer and closer, and Bei Shan's brows were furrowing deeper and deeper, he really couldn't understand why an army marched and fought with gongs and drums.
But he understands that this is a red flag.
Glancing at the 20,000 cavalry behind him, Bei Shan's eyes flashed with a hint of fierceness, and he said to Gu Duo: "If I retreat, I will never be able to raise my head in front of my father Khan again, and other Taiji will also laugh at me, only the heads of the generals of the Great Yu Kingdom can wash away my shame." ”
With that, he shouted; "Kill these mongrels of the Great Yu Kingdom!"
Under his order, the horn sounded suddenly, and the barbarian cavalry frantically urged the horses to rush towards the army of the Great Yu Kingdom in front of the ancient city of Hai.
Seeing this, Ye Qingyun's expression was solemn, and he ordered the army to transform into a hollow phalanx.
In the past, the army of the Great Chongqing State had never clashed head-on with the barbarian cavalry in the open field, and some only relied on the advantage of chariots to offset the advantage of cavalry.
This time, he made a very bold choice to just rely on the hollow phalanx to fight against the barbarian cavalry, which was not Ye Qingyun's recklessness, but his trust in the current army of the Great Yu Kingdom.
Excellent training, perfect food, and experience in a hundred battles have gradually transformed the army of the Great Chongqing State from a weak division into a tiger and wolf force.
Under Ye Qingyun's order, the array that was originally moving suddenly changed rapidly, and in a short period of time, the soldiers formed five hollow phalanxes.
In front of each hollow phalanx were twenty heavy smoothbore guns, which they aimed at the charging cavalry.
In the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, the smoke and dust of the earth were rolled up, and the barbarian cavalrymen in silver armor raised their sabers in their hands, and under the golden light, there was a cold glow.
The soldiers of the Great Chongqing Kingdom held their breath at this moment, and the soldiers in the front row held the flintlock pistol in their hands tightly as if they were holding their own lives.
This was the first time they had confronted the barbarian cavalry head-on, and their hearts were nervous and heroic.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Before the barbarian cavalry approached the hollow phalanx, the artillery on both sides of the hollow phalanx began to pour artillery fire.
While the soldiers were proceeding, the artillerymen also followed the soldiers with a six-pounder field gun, which was lightweight and propelled forward by three men.
And when the field artillery bombarded the barbarian cavalry, the soldiers carrying the mortar also used lime shells to shell the barbarian cavalry.
Under the attack of artillery, the barbarian cavalry suffered casualties from a distance of 400 meters.
This time, in order to attack the idle phalanx set up by the Great Yu Kingdom, Bei Shan chose to charge intensively, because only in this way could he break through this array in one fell swoop.
And once the formation is broken, what follows is their slaughter of the soldiers of the Great Yu State.
But the dense formation immediately became the object of artillery attack at this moment, and the solid bullets took the lives of a dozen barbarian cavalrymen in a row like a string of gourds.
These cavalrymen fell to the ground, and their eyes hindered the movement of the cavalry behind, and some of the cavalry could not dodge before they were tripped by the fallen cavalry, and suddenly they fell on their backs.
And the cavalry who had dodged the past suddenly disorganized their formation.
More terrifying than the mortar shells, these shells were not lethal, but they were enough to blind the cavalry.
The barbarian cavalry and horses that had lost their sight collided like headless flies, and the formation organized by Bei Shan quickly became chaotic and was completely disrupted.
Ye Qingyun watched this scene with satisfaction, the purpose of the artillery was to disrupt the enemy's formation.
It was terrible to engage the cavalry in such an open field, but it was easy to deal with the cavalry if it caused chaos.
However, despite the confusion, the barbarian cavalry still rushed towards the hollow phalanx, and at a distance of two hundred meters, the heavy smoothbore guns in front of the hollow phalanx opened fire on the barbarian cavalry.
Clusters of steel balls rushed towards the barbarian cavalry along the muzzle of the gun, and suddenly the barbarian cavalry fell again, and the formation was further disrupted.
The distance of two hundred meters was only an instant for the cavalry, and the heavy smoothbore guns had another chance to shoot.
The soldiers immediately reloaded their bullets for a second shot.
After completing the shot, the heavy smoothbore gunner withdrew to the inside of the hollow phalanx.
While the heavy smoothbore guns were fired, the rifled gunners were also designed at the same time, and with the advantage of range, they fired at a distance of more than 200 meters.
Under the rounds of fire, the barbarian cavalry that rushed to the front of the hollow phalanx was already in disarray, and when they entered the range of a hundred meters, the flintlock pistol fired one last shot.
Immediately after that, the soldiers of the first row in front of the hollow phalanx immediately crouched down and tilted their flintlock pistols in the direction from which the cavalry came, and the soldiers of the second row continued to shoot, followed by the third row.
Under the ferocious fire, the barbarian cavalry threw a corpse on the ground, and the remaining scattered cavalry rushed towards the hollow phalanx like moths to a fire.
The war horse was pierced by bayonets, and the barbarian cavalry crashed into the soldiers of the Great Yu Kingdom, and under the huge impact, the soldiers of the Great Chongqing Kingdom suddenly fell backwards, and there was a trace of chaos in the place where they were hit.
But the soldiers in the back immediately withstood the impact of the cavalry to avoid being broken through the phalanx by the cavalry.
Under the constant blows of firearms, the barbarian cavalry that rushed over was just a splash of water hitting the stone, and the spatial phalanx was still as steady as a rock.
The first wave of 5,000 people failed, Bei Shan's face turned pale, and the soldiers of the Great Yu State in front of them seemed to have become an insurmountable obstacle.
He was surprised in his heart, once upon a time, the army of the Great Yu Kingdom had become so refined.
"Taiji withdraw, our people are not afraid of death, but they can't give up their lives in vain, it's not worth it for the sake of Goryeo." Gu Duo said urgently.
Bei Shan's eyes darkened, and the army of the Great Yu Kingdom moved forward again, and every time they passed by a wounded cavalryman, the soldiers of the Great Chongqing Kingdom would end the lives of the Golden Horde soldiers with bayonets.
This round of impact made Bei Shan understand that he could not defeat the army of the Great Yu State as easily as before.
Turning the horse's head, Bei Shan headed in the direction of Liujing City, and at this moment suddenly understood that the Golden Horde needed time to train an army of firearms, otherwise it would never be able to defeat the Great Yu State.
Perhaps he should have followed the advice of the Japanese and met the Englishman.