Chapter 36: The Decisive Battle 7

At this time, the cannons in the Yu family army formation were still ringing, and the cannonballs were still whistling into the battlefield, smashing heavily in the group of Jiannu's soldiers, and when they saw these thousands of fresh troops entering the battlefield again and rushing towards the Yu family army's array, the Yu family's army artillery began to extend again, and caught this wave of Jiannu's cavalry.

One by one, the shells smashed heavily among them, and every moment they would harvest one, two, two, or three, and maybe even the lives of more than a dozen Jiannu cavalrymen, tearing them to pieces with men and horses, or falling to the ground with missing arms and legs, whining and wailing, or letting out a cry of sorrow.

And that's not all, the Jiannu cavalry can still be heard, the large array of the Yu family army is still ringing the sound of the row of guns, although the guns of each battalion do not fire at the same time, and the officers of each battalion command the shooting, but the sound of this row of guns firing volleys is still very different from the sound of sporadic shooting.

Since the sound of Yu Jiajun's platoon guns has not stopped, it means that their large array has not been dispersed, otherwise it would be impossible for Yu Jiajun to organize such a platoon of guns to shoot again.

In fact, at this time, the speculation of individual Jiannu was not wrong, although the fierce offensive launched by the Jiannu cavalry caused a lot of pressure on the front of the Yu family's army, but on the whole, the front of the Yu family army remained intact.

But this does not mean that the Yu family army has not paid any price, and there is still a certain amount of confusion on their front at this time.

There are two groups of Jiannu who have never been able to break through the front of the Yu family army, and the slave chiefs led by them are really out of line, and it is clear that they can't break through the front of the Yu family army, so they will all be finished here today, and the gaps left between the front of the Yu family army are also seen through by some Jiannu, and it is definitely not a good thing to know where to attack from now, and the Yu family army will definitely not leave so many gaps on their front line, waiting for them to drill and tear their front to pieces.

And they also saw that many cavalry had instinctively burrowed into these gaps, but they could not see a single cavalry of their way out of it, only to enter or not to speak, and to hear the constant sound of muskets coming from inside, and to hear the screams of countless of their men, and the cursing of their men in their language and in Mongolian, and the cries for help of the dying.

So some of the follow-up Jiannu realized that those gaps were not a good place, so many people rushed in, it stands to reason that they should tear apart the front of the Yu family's army, but the front line of the Yu family's army still seems to be immovable, still constantly casting a row of guns, and continuing to harvest their lives.

A few Meler Ezhen or Jialazhangjing, who led the army to battle, realized at this time that such a chaotic invasion was definitely not a way, and they still couldn't defeat these Yu family troops in front of them, and they couldn't tear their front apart.

So in desperation, these people went crazy, anyway, at this time retreat is death, advance is also death, how can they not live, go back will be beheaded by Dorgon on the charge of escaping, and the whole family will be implicated, so the only way to fight to the death, even if it is death, can also keep the glory behind him, and the family will not be affected.

So they brazenly ordered, blindfolded the horse, and then launched a desperate charge, in fact, the war horse is not very bold, in the era of cold weapon warfare, the war horse has not heard much of the sound of cannons and muskets, but it is not a big problem, but after entering the era of artillery, the noise on the battlefield is far beyond the noise of the pure cold weapon combat period.

The sudden explosion and the sound of guns made many war horses that had not heard the sound of guns and cannons easily frightened, and once the war horses were frightened, they were no longer controlled by the cavalry on their backs, so the cavalry was equivalent to being abolished.

Although Jiannu and Daming have fought for so many years over the years, the Ming army is also equipped with a large number of artillery, but there has never been a Ming army equipped with a higher proportion of firearms than the Yu army, and the Jiannu cavalry has also seen a lot of battles with the Ming army over the years, so how many of their war horses have also adapted to these chaotic explosions on the battlefield.

But today's situation is different, the artillery of the Yu family army is too dense, the explosion on the battlefield is too dense, and the noise is so loud that many war horses become panicked even if they are not alarmed, and it is much more difficult to control than usual.

Individual war horses were even more frightened on the spot because of the direct explosion of the flowering bullets near them, or they began to run around on the battlefield and did not listen to the command, and Yan Zòng simply jumped up directly, and took off the horse's back from the horse, fell to the ground, and was trampled to death by the war horse behind.

Now that they are getting closer and closer to the front of the Yujia army, there are more and more frightened war horses, and the war horses are not blind, and they are not stupid when they see the sharp spear tips in front of them! If they collide like this, they will definitely be stabbed to death, so they will instinctively disobey the command and run around to the sides, even if there are not so many spears in front of them, just some obstacles, the war horses will instinctively not use their bodies to collide, so this is the reason why the Jiannu cavalry and Mongolian cavalry in front of the head are looking for a place to drill.

Now those bullshit Ezhen people in Jiannu gave the order, blindfolded the horse, and launched a charge, which is equivalent to giving an order to charge desperately, and they don't care about what else is in front of them, and directly use their horses and their bodies to attack the enemy's line.

I have to say that these Jiannu cavalry still have a bit of courage, and they can indeed be called brave warriors, who have been fighting non-stop for many years, and they have won more and lost less, so that they have also developed their own honor.

At this time, Shangfeng ordered to blindfold the horse's eyes, and they knew what to do, and few people disobeyed, and these Jiannu cavalry, especially the Jiannu soldiers who had been injured, tore off their bodies without saying a word, or took out a rag from their arms, stretched out their hands and tied it to the horse's head, blindfolding the horse's eyes.

As soon as the horses were blindfolded, they naturally couldn't see what was in front of them, so they could only rely on the cavalry on their backs to give them instructions, and they would run in the direction with their eyes dark.

So after blindfolding the horses, many Jiannu cavalry launched a desperate charge, and no longer cared about it, they directly controlled the war horses upright, and directly rushed towards the Yujia army formation.

Although the spearmen of the Yu family army lined up in front of the formation and put out a forest of guns, the strength of the spears and people was limited after all, six or seven hundred catties or even seven or eight hundred catties of war horses plus the weight of the cavalry on their backs, plus their speed, it was by no means a few hundred catties of strength, but a weight of several thousand catties.

A mere wooden barrel, no matter what kind of wood it was made of, could not withstand such a huge impact, although the sharp tip of their spear did successfully stab into the body of the enemy's horse or cavalry, and even pierced the body of the man and horse, but the enemy's cavalry did not stop immediately, and the huge inertia would still cause their corpses to rush forward for a distance before falling.

So under such a desperate charge of Jiannu, the frontal defense line of three battalions was suddenly smashed away.

The infantry of the Yu family army itself pikemen has decreased a lot by this time, and the sword players and pikemen are only about thirty percent together, they mainly rely on the output of muskets to strike at the enemy, and the pikemen and knife players have been completely reduced to defensive forces, and only when they are pursuing the enemy, they can exert more combat capabilities.

The decrease in the number of pikemen also means that the formation of pikemen in front of the formation will definitely be very thin, if the enemy does not dare to fight with their lives, they will definitely not directly impact their line, but if the enemy is determined to die and launches a desperate charge, then it means that such a line is easy to be broken by the enemy.

This is also a matter of no choice, under normal circumstances, the enemy is also a human being, and instinct will drive them not to use their bodies to directly hit the gun, but there is such a situation on the battlefield, the enemy is red-eyed, don't die, and frantically launch the death charge tactics, then this means that the pikemen can only resist a wave of enemy charges, and they will be declared broken by the enemy.

Many pikemen saw the enemy blindfolded horses, rushing desperately, and indeed faithfully fulfilled their obligations, holding their spears to death, stabbing an enemy or his war horse to death, but then the enemy and the huge impact brought by the men and horses would instantly knock them out directly, and many pikemen would vomit blood and fall to the ground even if they were hit with broken tendons and broken bones.

There are even pikemen who were directly pressed to the ground by the enemy's dead war horses, and were stoned to death on the spot, as for the knife players who covered them, they basically did not play any role at this time, and they were immediately trampled to the ground by the enemy war horses.

Only a few lucky sword players avoided the rushing enemy cavalry in time, and slashed at the enemy with their swords, but as long as the enemy cavalry did not die, they were completely crazy at this time, brandishing the cavalry spear or broadsword in their hands, and desperately beckoned to all the soldiers in the range.

The three infantry battalions that were broken through by the enemy immediately fell into chaos, and the infantry phalanx tactics of the Yu family army, the strongest defense was broken by the enemy, and the Jiannu cavalry or the Mongolian cavalry that rushed in front of almost none of them survived, even men and horses, and all died in front of the gun.

But after paying a heavy price, they finally achieved the first result, and the follow-up cavalry stepped on the bodies of the dead men and horses in front of them and the soldiers of the Yu family army who were killed and wounded, and rushed into the infantry phalanx of the Yu family army.

Once the cavalry breaks through the infantry line, then for the infantry, it can basically be regarded as a nightmare, the cavalry relies on their huge impact power, and the infantry is difficult to fight against it, unless a large number of infantry is entangled in the cavalry, and the speed of their attack is delayed, and the cavalry will become the target of slaughter again.

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