Section 22 Breakthrough (I)
When the two horses were in the stirrup, Deng Ming slashed his horse sword with all his might, but he didn't see where the weapon hit the enemy, and the resistance from his hand told him that he must have hit something. The next enemy was in front of him in an instant, Deng Ming's long sword was still behind him, and the Qing cavalry stared at him, as if he was stunned, and did not make any movement.
It's like when Deng Ming went to the battlefield once or twice, his body became stiff because of the high tension, and this dullness was still looming until the third time he went to the battlefield. At that time, Zhou Kaihuang and others once told Deng Ming that when he had more and more battlefield experience, he would begin to perform better and better. And Deng Ming also vaguely remembers that in the TV he watched in his previous life, he said that this seems to be the effect of some hormone, and at the moment of life and death, a large amount of hormones released will make people who are not suitable lose control of their bodies.
There was another person in front of him, and at this time, Deng Ming had already raised the long sword above his head again, although there was no companion around him, he could swing it horizontally, but the long-term queue training had made him accustomed to this kind of vertical sword swinging action. The enemy soldier shouted, and raised the long-handled three-eyed fire gun sideways upwards, trying to block Deng Ming's vertical slashing sword.
When he saw the opponent raise his weapon, Deng Ming's arm stretched out, and instead of slashing straight at the enemy's head, it deviated to the side, and the blade of the sword touched the enemy's fire handle, and the force was not great, and there was no violent collision. At this time, the two mounts were already staggered, and Deng Ming exposed the blade of his sword in front of him, and slashed on the other's arm as he staggered. This blow may have no effect, or it may cut through the opponent's arm, and the sword that temporarily changes direction does not use its strength to the fullest.
When fighting in Dongchuan Mansion, Deng Ming would never be able to change the direction of the slash according to the changes in the enemy's weapons, and at that time, after he swung out the knife, he would only instinctively add more strength to the weapon, and if he couldn't cut through the opponent's block, he would shake his tiger's mouth to pain. It wasn't until he marched into Huguang that Deng Ming was able to control his weapons well in battle, instead of simply slashing with brute force as he did at the beginning.
Some of the Three Walls and Ranger recruits are not yet able to skillfully use their sabers in war, and all Deng Ming can do is let them train more in peacetime. According to Deng Ming's experience, the standing cavalry of the Sichuan army had to undergo at least half a year of chopping and slashing practice, and then after more than three actual combat exercises, they could correctly use their skills on the training ground. However, this is already much stronger than Deng Ming, and the level of the fully trained western Sichuan cavalry after three actual battles is similar to Deng Ming's table when Zhong Xiang and He Zhen fought against the Chu army, and Deng Ming had already had more than a dozen actual combat experiences at that time - Deng Ming could not give every western Sichuan cavalry so many training opportunities, so he could only rely on more training time to help them get through the adaptation period.
Another enemy appeared in front of him, Deng Ming was about to swing his sword, when suddenly he saw that something seemed to be swinging towards him, he subconsciously leaned over and dodged, and a heavy three-eyed gun grazed past him. Before entering Huguang, Deng Ming adapted to the adrenal hormone explosion, and every time he fought for his life, he no longer felt a sense of loss of control in his body, but felt that he was full of vitality, his muscles were full of strength, and his reaction was also very sharp.
During the battle of Gaoyou Lake, Deng Ming noticed that more than one young Qing cavalryman suddenly stiffened when his sword reached his body, and he looked as if he had suddenly froze. Deng Ming knew very well what it would be like, and knew that it was because the other party had not yet adapted to the feeling of death passing by - but they never had a chance to adapt again, and death came because of that momentary slowness.
Some of the enemies in front of him reacted, while others did not, but the weapons waving back and forth interfered with Deng Ming's attacks, and he kept blocking the weapons that posed a threat to him. The only thing that doesn't need to be distracted is keeping the horse up to speed. As early as the first time he fought against Li Guoying's standard battalion, this was already a natural action, and high-speed movement was the best shield for the charging cavalry, so that the enemy's large number of attacks missed or the angle was wrong, and he could not exert his strength.
It's been a long time since he's felt this kind of loneliness, Deng Ming has been fighting in the queue since Sichuan conducted wall charge training, and today's battle seems to have pulled him back to a few years ago. Now Deng Ming could only sprint down, he didn't know where the guards behind him were, whether they were following behind him, but as long as there was an enemy in front of him, Deng Ming had no chance to stop and observe.
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When the first platoon of Shandong Governor's cavalry opened fire, the Ming army was still at least a hundred meters away, and they quickly fired all three of their shots. Even Zu Zepu, who was watching the battle from the rear, did not expect in advance that the enemy cavalry coming in a sea of mountains would be so impressive. Although he was behind the safety of the formation, if Zu Zepu had a firearm in his hand, he might not be able to control himself, and he would also open fire.
The first row of Qing troops may have the meaning of aiming when they fired the first shot, and the next two shots were hurriedly fired with their heads bowed and fired at the white fog. After gasping for breath several times in the white fog, he saw the enemy rushing out of the fog, indicating that the Qing soldiers must not wait for the enemy to rush to within ten zhang before firing as required - the distance of ten zhang was only a blink of an eye for the sprinting cavalry.
The red-clothed general took the lead in rushing into the position of the Qing army, like a sharp blade parting the waves, and killed towards the hill where Zu Zepu's general flag was located, and the Qing cavalry was in a panic wherever he passed, and they all avoided on both sides. If it had been placed in the past, Zu Zepu's attention would have been completely attracted by this fearless enemy general, but now it was not only this person who shocked the Qing army commander, and immediately after the enemy general, the irresistible cavalry wall crushed into the position of the Qing army.
Although it was also a cavalry charging at high speed, until now, the Ming army still maintained a basically flat battle line, and the cavalry wall advancing in unison even gave people the illusion of slow movement. There was no familiar cavalry melee, and the cavalry of the Shandong Governor fell down one after another like a meadow blown by a strong wind. Then another layer of black-armored cavalry rushed out of the fog, then a third, a fourth.
The cavalry front of the Ming army, which was 120 people wide, was about 40 or 50 people wide for the Qing army. When the fourth-layer Ming cavalry jumped out of the white mist and rushed into the battle line of the Qing army, Zu Zepu saw that the red-clothed enemy general had already reached the side of the hills. However, Deng Ming no longer maintained a straight forward course. Because of dodging attacks and shuttling between the gaps of the Qing cavalry, Deng Ming's route unconsciously shifted.
Deng Ming looked up at the hills, and he could already see the Qing general riding in front of the general's banner, tightly wrapped in armor. According to the pre-war plan, Deng Ming did not intend to rush directly at the opponent's general flag, after all, the other party was cavalry, and he also had a condescending advantage. Moreover, Deng Ming knew that after breaking through the thick formation of the Qing army, the Ming army would suffer a great loss in both formation and speed.
Therefore, Deng Ming's position was chosen to be close to the left hand side of General Zu Zepu's banner, and the Ming army would quickly turn around and reorganize after breaking through the enemy formation. At this time, the Qing army will definitely fall into chaos because the formation is broken, and the Ming army can continue to attack the main force of the Qing army according to the needs of the formation, or charge from close range and attack the enemy general flag that has been exposed.
But when he saw the enemy generals who were close at hand, Deng Ming couldn't help but shout: "Zu Zepu! ”
This shout attracted the attention of the general immediately. Seeing the most important target, the governor of Shandong of the Qing court seemed to be within reach, and Deng Ming jerked the reins, trying to find a way up the hills. As he rode his horse towards the enemy, he let out another shout: "Take your life!" ”
However, there were many armored horsemen in front of them, and these personal guards of the governor of Shandong blocked the way, blocking the hill impenetrable, and pointed their guns at Deng Ming, who wanted to jump up the hill.
Deng Ming didn't crash headlong, and his mount automatically chose a gap and carried Deng Ming through the side of the hill as fast as he could.
The general on the hill kept staring at Deng Ming's figure, and when Deng Ming bypassed the side of the hill, he turned his body and always faced Deng Ming.
"Medium!" Deng Ming shouted as he threw the long sword in his hand towards that target.
The white light came to his face, and the standard camp guards flew up in shock, blocking in front of the governor of Shandong, and the other standard camp guards also raised the nail guns in their hands to dial the sword light.
The sword was struck by a spear, spun in the air, and plunged heavily into the ground, the blood-stained blade shaking and buzzing.
"What a thief." Zu Zepu stared at the red-robed general who was leaving quickly, only to see that the other party had run dozens of feet away in an instant, turned around in a circle and stopped, and many black-armored cavalry were converging towards him - the Qing army's military formation had been broken through.
Finally having time to catch his breath, Deng Ming looked back to the east and saw the smoke and dust billowing out, and the guards were quickly running towards him.
"Where is the enemy still strong?" Deng Ming asked quickly, and at the same time stood up from the saddle and observed the Qing army flags around him.
The guards who had gathered also observed. Now Deng Ming was in the southwest direction of General Zu Zepu's banner, and he saw that to the east of himself, the banner of the Qing army was still neat and was turning.
If this Qing cavalry adjusted in time and launched a counter-charge when Deng Ming attacked Zu Zepu, then they would have hit the flank of the Ming army; If the Ming army loses speed when attacking the hills, then the Qing cavalry will bring great damage to the Ming army even if they charge in a loose formation.
"The whole army turned around." Deng Ming made a decision, he pointed to the east: "The whole army looks east. ”
With Deng Ming's order, the three walls and the rangers' military flags were pointed to the east, and after re-arranging as quickly as possible, Deng Ming also lined up in the military formation this time, and he drew his spare saber: "Attack!" ”
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"Let the Ganshan Green Battalion attack!" Zu Zepu screamed anxiously. The Qing army was torn into two sections, and the center was the thickest place for the Qing army's lineup, but it was still penetrated by the Ming army in one fell swoop. The Qing troops, which were originally facing due east, needed to rotate 180 degrees to face the west. The troops north of Zu Zepu had begun to disorganize; The south side is slightly better, and it is trying to adjust.
However, the Ming army's movements were much faster, and they set up that dense formation again, seeing that a new round of charge was imminent. At this time, the Qing army troops that were about to withstand the attack had not yet completed the transformation of the whole army, and it was too late to set up a formation, let alone launch a hedge.
Zu Zepu desperately sent a signal, telling the most elite Sichuan and Shaanxi governors not to adjust, and immediately launched a surprise attack to attract the attention of the Ming army, delay the attack speed of the Ming army, and buy time for the rest of the Qing army to adjust.
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