Chapter 569: A Crushing Victory
Therefore, Xie Hui, who was shocked, shouted loudly despite the arrows that kept falling above his head.
"Musketeers, shoot now...... Bombardiers, throw grenades, blow up these dog-boy traitors, and never let them destroy our breastwork. Otherwise, we will all die under the iron horsemen of the Tartars......"
Human potential is unlimited, and in Xie Hui's command, everyone felt that death seemed to be slowly approaching them.
In order to survive, the remaining tiger and leopard army on the battlefield directly turned into an angry lion. As fast as you can, shoot the lead bullet from the chamber of the gun. What's more, they directly held the grenade, crossed the musketeers, rushed to the breastwork, and exploded directly with the grenade......
With a series of violent explosions sounding along the line of the breastwork, more than a hundred Tartar musketeers finally failed to save the fate of being wiped out.
The breastwork, which is related to the life and death of the Haw Par Army, is still intact except for a small amount of damage.
Just as Xie Hui's clenched fist was just sent away, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The roaring Tartar cavalry, rushing right in front of the position, grenades were within the killing range.
Under continuous mortar fire, the losses of the Tartar cavalry, albeit small. However, the charging distance of hundreds of paces still made him lose almost a hundred iron horsemen.
The Haw Par Army's dense rain of grenades, though it can deal a fatal blow to the Tartar musketeers. However, for a fast-charging cavalry, it turned out to be small. After all, the lethality of grenades is far inferior to that of later generations. Unless it explodes directly next to the warhorse. Otherwise, the fragments produced by the explosion of the grenade will not be able to bring fatal damage to the war horse under the crotch of the Tartar.
So. When the 500 cavalry on each side successfully broke through the grenade interception of the Haw Par Army, the Tartar cavalry on each side of the Haw Par Army had to face. Still around three hundred.
Plus the mixed horse nails around the position have been destroyed. Xie Hui, who frowned, could only pin his hopes on the chest wall in front of him. If this breastwork could not bring damage to the Tartar cavalry and let the remaining more than 1,000 Tartars on the battlefield rush into the position under their feet, then these more than 1,000 Tartar cavalry would definitely be very deadly to the soldiers under his command.
After successfully passing through the obstacle area formed by the horse spikes, the breastwork, which was no more than five feet tall and completely piled up with corpses, appeared directly in front of the Tartar cavalry. Because the two rows of sabers hidden behind the breastwork of the Haw Par Army were not seen. It seems to have won again. The Tartars, who could easily rush into the position of the Tiger and Leopard Army and kill all sides in the position of the Tiger and Leopard Army, did not take the chest wall in front of them in their eyes at all.
The Tartar cavalry who rushed in front didn't think about it, so they urged their horses under their crotches and prepared to rush over the chest wall in front of them at the speed of a charge. Then, he took advantage of the situation to enter the position of the Tiger and Leopard Army and show the strong impact and combat effectiveness of the Houjin Iron Cavalry to the Tiger and Leopard Army.
On the battlefield of Nuoda, the most tense at the moment. It is undoubtedly Xie Hui, the commander of the Haw Par Army Guard Division.
Because, this jump of the Tartar Iron Rider. It is directly related to the life and death of thousands of soldiers under his command.
Therefore, when the Tartar cavalry jumped up from the ground at a very fast speed, Xie Hui's eyes focused on this Tartar cavalry.
The chest cavity is no more than five feet high, which is definitely a breeze for cavalry.
Therefore, the war horse holding the Tartar crossed this breastwork very easily. However, just when the war horse was about to land, an accident happened.
The two sabre formations that were diagonally inserted on the ground by the tiger and leopard army, and arranged crosswise, appeared at the feet of the war horses like a line of life and death.
The moment the front foot of the war horse landed, the sharp blade of the saber, coupled with the very fast charging speed of the Tartar war horse. The horse that was stuck diagonally on the ground did not move a single moment, and easily cut off one of the front legs of the war horse.
Suddenly lost its front legs, and the war horse that was about to land lost its balance. Coupled with the stinging pain in the front leg that quickly spread throughout the body, the injured war horse let out a tragic neighing sound directly in the air. Then, as if in free fall, it fell heavily to the ground.
As for the Tartar cavalry on their horses, they were not much better.
Caught off guard, the moment the war horse landed, he was directly overturned by the war horse.
Just when he was knocked dizzy, but the vigilance of the battlefield still made him quickly get up from the ground and prepare to continue the attack. Unbeknownst to him, he had fallen at the feet of the Tiger and Par Army.
The vigilant Tartar had not yet had time to react, and several snow-bright bayonets had already pierced the body from different directions.
At the same time, dozens of other Tartars next to them also jumped up from the ground, trying to climb over the breastwork.
When the first Tartar cavalry was killed, the picture of the tragic death of the battlefield appeared in front of them. They subconsciously wanted to pull the reins of the war horse and let the war horse retreat. However, the war horses that are already in the air, no matter how much ability they give them, there is no way to go back.
Under such circumstances, these dozens of Tartar cavalry were still buried behind the breastwork without the slightest accident.
However, their death also gave the cavalry behind them a warning not to continue to send them to death.
However, when the cavalry is charging rapidly, it does not mean that it can be stopped by stopping.
Because of the warning of the soldiers who died in the battle, the Tartars who followed closely behind, although they pulled the war horse in time. However, still under the action of inertia, it hit the chest wall hard. In addition, the follow-up cavalry, because of the same problem, directly collided with them.
As a result, on the line of the breastwork less than ten steps away from everyone, hundreds of Tartar cavalry were directly crowded into a ball, which was very chaotic.
Such a great opportunity, of course Xie Hui will not let it go.
Personally picked up a grenade, lit the fire rope, and threw it at these cavalrymen, while shouting: "Brothers, what are you still doing, throw grenades, and blow these Tartars back with grenades......"
The grenade was not very lethal against a fast-charging cavalryman, though. However, for the cavalry that stopped, there were still a lot of casualties.
Plus at this very moment, hundreds of grenades exploded at the same time. Even if you don't kill the Tartars and the horses! The dense explosion of the grenade can also make the war horse under the crotch of the Tartar frightened and temporarily lose its combat effectiveness.
In the face of the steady stream of casualties around him, in the face of the obstruction of the chest wall and the saber formation. Although the Tatar cavalry generals wanted to give up their horses, they took the remaining warriors under their command and rushed straight into the position of the tiger and leopard army and fought with them. However, the panic and worry on the faces of his subordinates slowly appeared behind his vision. The cavalry generals knew that letting them give up their horses and fight with the Tiger and Leopard Army was no different from sending them to death.
Under such circumstances, the general of the Tartar cavalry had to withdraw from the battlefield with the remnants of less than two hundred people around him.
Of course, they were brave and did not retreat like lost dogs.
Instead, while retreating, he used his horse bow to throw two rounds of arrows at the Tiger and Par Army at the last moment, taking the lives of dozens of soldiers of the Tiger and Par Army.
The crisis in one defensive direction was solved, and the crisis in the other three directions was still ongoing because there was no personal command from Xie Hui.
The Tartar cavalry in three directions seemed determined to fight to the end.
Two of the Tartars, at the cost of hundreds of cavalry, carved a gap in the line of defense composed of the breastwork and the saber array. Then, with the remaining more than 100 cavalry, he went to the position of the Tiger and Leopard Army and fought with hundreds of musketeers.
As for the last Tartar cavalry, they simply gave up their horses. With more than 200 Tartars, he rushed into the army formation of the Tiger and Par Army on foot and fought with the Tiger and Par Army.
Facing the bloody battlefield in front of him, facing two miles away, it seemed that he was ready to send attacking troops to directly kill the main force of the Tartars on the battlefield. Xie Hui had to personally pick up a musket, take the last musket battalion, join the battlefield, and eliminate the Tartars who broke into the position before the Tartars' follow-up troops arrived on the battlefield......
More than 2,000 tigers and leopards, under the command of Xie Hui, successfully ate the Tartars that had fallen into the position before the follow-up attacking troops of the Tartars arrived. However, for the sake of the Tartar iron cavalry, which was less than 500 people, the Haw Par Army paid a direct loss of almost 1,000 people.
If you count the Tartar archers, the losses inflicted on the Haw Par Army by the musketeers.
In this offensive, the Haw Par Army directly lost three musket battalions.
Facing the corpses everywhere in front of me, I smelled the thick smell of blood in the air. Although Xie Hui's heart was very painful, time waited for no one.
Before he even had time to catch his breath, he took the remnants of his soldiers to repair the breastwork and saber formation destroyed by the Tartars, preparing for a new round of attacks that the Tartars might launch.
What made Xie Hui breathe a sigh of relief was that in the face of another annihilation of the attacking troops, he faced the few troops left under his command. The Tartar commander, although he really wanted to continue the attack, eliminate the guard division, avenge the Tartars who died in battle, and also give an explanation to Huang Taiji, who was far away in Liaodong.
However, after the continuous loss of thousands of cavalry, the generals under the command of the main general were frightened.
Even if they knew that at most one attack, they could destroy the Tiger and Par Army in front of them, they did not have the courage to continue fighting.
Because, the soldiers under their command are all young and strong of the tribe. Once the fight is over, he will not only lose the position of the tribal leader, but also have no way to give the tribe an explanation.
As a result, the battlefield, which had been fighting for several hours, became quiet directly.
All the Tartars, including the main general, were attracted by the bloody and tragic battlefield in front of them.
Twenty miles behind the guard division, a garrison division and two garrison regiments that had escaped the detection of the Tartar cavalry, totaling 10,000 soldiers. Under the personal command of Zhao Yun, it was hidden in a dense forest less than five miles away from the battlefield.
As for Zhao Yun, he took a few of his subordinates to climb to the high ground where he was hiding and witnessed the tragic battle that had just ended.
When he saw that the Tartars on the position of the Tiger and Leopard Army were wiped out, his nervous heart couldn't help but relax. Then, with a palpitating face, he said, "It's too dangerous......"
Chapter 569: A Fiasmatic Victory (To be Continued......