Chapter XXXVII: The Decisive Battle 8

But as long as the cavalry was not stopped, the infantry could not fight against it, so in just a few moments, the three infantry battalions paid a heavy price, and many officers and men were reduced to the swords of the enemy.

However, the Jiannu cavalry finally tore through the defense line of the three infantry battalions, but they were not too happy, because they suddenly found that the musketeers of the Yu family army were not as weak as they thought.

Therefore, the follow-up Jiannu cavalry originally thought that they could finally rush into the enemy formation, kill and kill a special one, and vent their anger in their hearts, but when they rushed into the Yujia military array, they found that things were not as simple as they thought.

Although the soldiers of the Yu family army were indeed disrupted at this time, and they were in a mess for a while, and they could no longer organize an effective defense line, but these musketeers of the Yu family army were not as unbearable as they thought.

Seeing that the formation was in front of them, these Yu family musketeers instantly pulled out a short sword from their waists, and snapped them into the muzzle of the musket in their hand, making their muskets instantly turn into short spears.

When the enemy cavalry rushed in front of them, they would raise their short spears and stab the enemies in front of them in a frenzy, even if they were cut to the ground by the enemy, they could use their muskets with short swords to leave a deep hole in the enemy or their horses.

There are also some soldiers of the Yujia army, using a three-edged short sword, this short sword is very strong, there is a deep blood groove between the three edges, after piercing the enemy's body, it is easy to pull it out, not to mention, it can also leave a triangular blood hole on the enemy's body in an instant.

A large amount of blood gushed out along the blood tank, and even after pulling out the short sword, the wound could not be closed, and the blood still gushed out in large quantities, and it could kill the injured person in a short time.

Therefore, although the Jiannu cavalry tore through the defense line of the three infantry battalions with the method of blindfolding the horse's eye, causing great damage to the infantry of the Yu family's army, at the same time, they were no better, and they would be stabbed to death and stabbed by the living Yujia soldiers along the way, with muskets equipped with short swords.

Therefore, this kind of tactics is a desperate way of fighting for both sides, relatively speaking, the infantry of the Yujia army suffers some losses, but the Jiannu cavalry cannot form a one-sided advantage, and the two sides finally fall into entanglement.

Moreover, the Yujia army front is a front built up by battalions, although the defensive points of three of the battalions were torn apart by the Jiannu cavalry, but the chaos was limited to the positions of these three battalions, and could not be expanded to both sides, and the defense lines of the other battalions were still immovable and not affected at all.

That's not all, after Yu Xiaotian arrived here, he did not put all the infantry battalions into the first line, but left five infantry battalions in the second line as a reserve.

This prevented their front from being torn apart by the enemy, and the enemy rushed behind them to make them suffer from the enemy's back, so although Jiannu successfully broke up the three battalions of Yujia's army after paying a huge price, the results were limited to this, and they could not continue to expand their results at all, and the chaos of one point could not drive the chaos of the entire front, so the price paid by the Jiannu cavalry and the benefits recovered could not be proportional.

On the contrary, as soon as the three battalions were rushed by Jiannu, Yu Xiaotian immediately ordered the two infantry battalions preparing for battle behind him to go up, and sealed the gap caused by the three battalions in time, and even one battalion happened to be behind the baggage barracks.

So Jiannu was really going to be beaten and cried, he wasted so much effort and lost so many soldiers and horses, but he still didn't completely break up the entire front of the Yu family's army, and the array of the Yu family's army was still like a volcano erupting, constantly spraying artillery fire at them.

At this time, the artillery on the front line was also crazy, and the artillery was hot, and they couldn't take care of it, and they still kept resetting and reloading and firing.

By the time the enemy cavalry had rushed to 300 paces, they had already abandoned the use of solid shells to bombard the enemy, and were all equipped with grapeshot shells, and when the enemy was closer, they were replaced with smaller shotguns.

These grape bombs and shotguns, a large expanse, like an iron broom, often empty a large area of the enemy army at once, and the Jiannu army was full of corpses and miserable, and even later the Jiannu soldiers simply did not dare to rush towards these places, and tried to bypass some as much as possible.

But all the Jiannu people and horses who were hit by shotguns and grape bullets were all beaten with thousands of holes, like piles of rotten meat, and the scene was so tragic that it was almost impossible to describe Cheng Dù in words.

In this way, the large array of the Yu family's army was like a defense wave, towering in the middle of the battlefield, allowing the army of Jiannu to wash their front like a tide, but it never moved, and the guns and cannons were like sickles, shuttling through the enemy formations without listening, and harvesting a large number of Jiannu's lives every time.

The battlefield has evolved to the point where it is almost like a one-sided massacre, a large number of Jiannu rushed into the battlefield without fear of death, and then were repeatedly harvested by the Yu family's army, leaving one corpse after another on the battlefield.

Within a few hundred meters in front of the Jiajun formation, the corpses of the Jiannu soldiers were almost covered with the ground, and in less than two hours, Jiannu had already filled the battlefield with twenty or thirty thousand men and horses, but most of these people and horses had become corpses on the battlefield, even if they were injured and not dead, it was estimated that it would be difficult to live.

After Dolgon pressed the last of the most elite cavalry into the battlefield, the number of cavalry in the first wave of Jiannu on the battlefield at this time was very small, and some of the remaining cavalry had completely lost their fighting spirit, most of them were Mongolian cavalry, they were really scared, listening to the continuous sound of dense artillery guns in front, these Mongolian cavalry finally collapsed, and no longer turned their horses' heads, ran to both sides or simply to the back, and even many of them were Mongol leaders, At this time, they had already been killed and injured by the Yu family's army, and at this time they had completely lost their fighting spirit.

When the last thousands of Jiannu elite cavalry braved the baptism of artillery fire of the Yu family army and rushed to the front of the two armies, more than a hundred steps in front of the Yu family army's front line, they saw clearly that the scene in front of them could no longer be called a battlefield.

At this time, if you want to describe the scene here, you can only use the words Shura Hell to describe it, in front of the family army, at this time, almost everywhere is covered with Jiannu and Mongolian cavalry, as well as some infantry armor and the corpses of Han soldiers.

These corpses were all steaming, and the wounds on many of the corpses were still fresh, and the blood was still trickling out, converging into a puddle of blood in the low-lying places on the ground, and the air was filled with the mixed smell of choking blood and gunsmoke, which made people feel sick.

But looking at the front of the Yu family's army, these Jiannu almost collapsed on the spot, because they saw an almost complete array, still standing in front of their eyes, even if it could not be said to be very neat, but it still maintained a considerable integrity, the enemy's front was still spewing out flames at this time, a slippery fire, and the cannonballs and shells were still passing through them like flying locusts.

There are still a large number of Jiannu soldiers, who have been harvested by these dense cannonballs and shells at this time, and have become one of the corpses on the ground.

Yu Xiaotian's face was extremely cold and hard at this time, and from beginning to end, after the battle began, there was no sadness or joy on his face, as if he was frozen, even at the moment when he saw the defense line of the three battalions being torn apart by the enemy, his face did not change in any way, just stared at the battlefield coldly.

But in fact, his heart has never calmed down, this is also the first time he has led the army to a battle of such a scale, the battlefield is so large, so many soldiers and horses gathered in such a small place, blood and flesh are constantly colliding here, every moment the shells and bullets fired by his subordinates are harvesting a large number of human lives, as long as there is still a little humanity, then it is impossible to be indifferent to look at such a scene.

So his mood never calmed down, but he didn't show any emotion, just maintained a look of no surprise or joy, and watched the entire battlefield.

The smoke on the battlefield was sometimes too thick for him to see the whole picture, and he only ordered the lookouts or officers on both sides to continuously deliver what they saw to his central position.

At the beginning of the war, Jiannu also launched a few cannons, and it looked like Hongyi cannons, probably the artillery captured from the city when they broke through some states and counties along the way, but after consumption, they only had these few cannons left.

It's a pity that in the face of the fierce artillery fire of the family army, it is basically impossible for them to play a huge role in these cannons.

(Some friends may think that these chapters are a bit delayed, but after all, this is the most critical battle since the beginning of this book, so it took a lot of space to write, this is related to the fate and future of the pig's feet in the future, and it is also related to the future trend of the problem, so the description is more detailed, I hope you forgive me!) Ask for a few more monthly passes! )