Chapter 32: The Decisive Battle 3
However, because the enemy's rows were densely arranged, under the long-range shooting, they really destroyed a lot of them, killing and wounding many enemy soldiers, but as the enemy pushed the carts closer and closer, this provided excellent aiming targets for the gunners of Yu's army, and they began to switch from rough aiming to precise aiming just now.
The artillery is very clear about the threat of the turret to the Yu family's army, once Jiannu is allowed to push a large number of turrets to the front of the Yu family's army, it will cause heavy losses to the Yu family's army, Jiannu can rely on the cover of these turrets, throw rockets at the Yujia army front behind the turrets, or simply use the turrets as a cover to launch a cavalry charge, which will cause losses and even danger to the army.
Therefore, when Jiannu's carts were getting closer and closer to the front of the army, the artillerymen also began to consciously focus their attacks on these remaining carts.
The artillery commanders threw off their cotton clothes, pulled aside the gunners who were in charge of aiming, and went into battle to take aim themselves, and the artillery of each battalion began to concentrate their fire on these rows.
When the artillery of the Yu family army really began to accurately aim and attack these carts, Jiannu knew what precise aiming was.
One after another, the shells roared out, and although the hit rate was only less than 20 percent, or even only about 10 percent, they still smashed many of the cannons on the spot.
Even if Jiannu's soldiers were not afraid of death and continued to push the carts forward, but under such intensive artillery fire, their carts were still smashed by the Yu family army one after another, and the entire frontal battlefield was covered with broken fragments of the carts at this time, and messy timber was thrown everywhere.
When Jiannu finally advanced a small number of carts to within 200 steps in front of the front line of the Yu family's army, only a quarter of the carriages they launched when they set off were gone, and the rest were either destroyed by the artillery fire of the Yu family's army, or they broke their axles and lay on their stomachs, and a small number of the carriages were abandoned on the battlefield by the people and the clothes, and only the remaining carriages could no longer form a complete line of defense.
But even so, under the more accurate shelling of the home army, these carts were constantly destroyed, and the people who pushed the carts were killed and injured to the extreme.
Those Jiannu who couldn't bear to fight anymore had to go into battle in person at this time, and also joined the ranks of the carts, struggling to push the carts forward.
But at this time, the infantry of the Yu family army also began to be allowed to fire, and they raised their rifles one after another, aiming the muzzle of the black hole in the direction of the enemy.
As a row of shocking gunshots rang out, some of the Jiannu who had not had time to hide behind the cart were thrown to the ground on the spot.
But even so, these Jiannu still showed a very tenacious style, and many Jiannu soldiers who were not afraid of death were still pushing the cart forward, but at this distance, their approach was almost equivalent to taking the initiative to die in front of the artillery of the Yu family army, which was quite accurate.
If you want to say that these twelve-pounder howitzers can't accurately hit these loafers at one kilometer, it's understandable, and if you can't hit them at 500 meters, you can also say that the smoothbore guns have low accuracy, but if you can't hit a target like a lug at 200 meters, then Yu Xiaotian should really go down and beat those artillerymen one by one with their pants naked.
So at this time, the artillery is simply playing with targets, even if it can't do one shot, but it can almost fly one with two or three guns.
In many cases, you don't even need to hit directly at all, you only need to hit the cannonball in front of the oar, and by the ricochet effect, the cannonball can destroy the oar, so when it comes to this, Jiannu's cannonglide really can't move.
Dolgon saw that these oars that he had managed to make up were smashed one by one in front of the battle as if they had been targeted, and the number of oars was getting smaller and smaller, and he was about to be knocked out by others, so he didn't dare to hesitate anymore.
He immediately ordered the more than 10,000 Jiannu's most elite cavalry, including nearly half of the Mongolian cavalry, to take advantage of the chaos to immediately launch a surprise attack at this time, taking advantage of the fact that their carts had not yet been knocked out by the cannons of the Yu army, and with the cover of some carts, they could take the opportunity to disperse the front line of the home army.
As a veteran of the battlefield, of course, Dolgon also saw the combat effectiveness of the Yu family's army, relying on their array for a large extent, as long as their front was broken, then the Yu family's army would lose its organization, and once the Yu's army lost its organization, then their Jiannu army would have the opportunity to slaughter it completely.
If he misses this only opportunity, and wait until all their carts have been knocked out, he will launch a general cavalry attack, and then under the intensive artillery fire of his own army, his cavalry will probably be slaughtered in front of these two armies like chickens and dogs.
These Jiannu cavalry, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately let out a roar in unison after hearing the order, like a group of wild beasts, one by one shouted wildly, and began to urge their war horses to rush into the battlefield.
The Jiannu cavalry and the Mongol cavalry were very experienced, and when they first urged the horses to advance, they were not in a hurry to increase the speed of the horses to the highest, but first advanced slowly, accelerated to fast marches, and then turned to small broken steps and jogging, gradually increasing the speed of the horses.
This can ensure that the horse's body is sufficiently boosted to its top speed in the final sprint, and the other can also warm up the horse first, increasing their excitement and making it easier to control.
The cavalry charge on this battlefield is not a speed race, whoever starts fast takes advantage, the Mongolian horses themselves are not tall, the main advantage is not speed, but their endurance, if you want to let these war horses run at full speed, it will not take a while, these war horses will be consumed, slow down, and when they reach the front of the enemy army, they will lose the strongest impact.
What is the biggest advantage of the cavalry, is their impact power, a horse plus an armored cavalry, the weight is about 700 catties, even the thinner war horse has a weight of 500 catties, plus the weight of the cavalry itself and the weight of the armor, at least more than 600 catties, and even some sturdy good horses, the weight can reach 700 catties.
Even if an infantry is wearing heavy armor, at best it weighs less than two hundred catties, not to mention that the cavalry also has the advantage of speed, once the charge is launched, under the high-speed gallop, the kinetic energy carried is so great that even the strongest infantry can not withstand it, even if the cavalry does not use swords and guns to cut down the enemy, just by ramming with a war horse, it can also kill the heavy infantry wearing heavy armor.
Therefore, the cavalry relies on their impact speed, so that they can give full play to their strongest advantages, so the Jiannu cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry, who are well versed in this, of course, know how to make their war horses play the strongest efficiency.
So more than 10,000 cavalry roared and urged the war horses, and began to rush into the battlefield, followed by the infantry in front, and began to charge towards the front line of the Yu family's army.
The scene of thousands of horses galloping, the shock produced by it, is beyond the imagination of many people who have not seen this kind of scene, but today Dolgon can be said to have invested blood, and almost all the most elite horse armor soldiers have been pressed on the battlefield.
The more than 10,000 cavalry were involved in the battlefield like a dark cloud, and the more than 10,000 Jiannu cavalry and Mongolian cavalry all mustered up all their courage at this time, with red eyes, holding high all kinds of weapons in their hands, shouting like a group of beasts, urging the war horses to gradually accelerate.
The soldiers of the Yu family army watched from a distance as a large number of Jiannu cavalry rushed into the battlefield, and the ground under their feet began to feel a slight tremor at this time, tens of thousands of iron hooves smashed on the ground, and the vibration was so great that the fine dust on the ground trembled slightly, and the Jiannu cavalry had not yet rushed to the front, and the dust on the ground on the battlefield had risen slightly, as if the ground was shrouded in a layer of mist.
The faces of all the Yu family troops became solemn, infantry vs. cavalry, there are few examples of victories in history, especially when the strength of the two armies is about the same, there are almost no examples of infantry victories.
But today, the number of infantry in the Yu family's army is not far from the number of cavalry that the other side Jiannu put into the battlefield at one time.
Many generals involuntarily clenched the weapons in their hands, their bodies seemed to be uncontrollable, and their centers of gravity moved forward slightly, as if they were ready to withstand the huge strength of the enemy's cavalry.
Meng Fei left Yu Xiaotian at this time, took a sentry guard, rode back and forth in front of the formation, and shouted at all the Yu family soldiers and generals who were in front of the formation: "Brothers, the victory and defeat are all in this battle!" Wait for a rest to panic! My family army has always been invincible in the world, what is the Jiannu cavalry? Steady! Stabilize Lao Tzu! Pikemen step forward! Standard hollow phalanx! Get ready! ……”
After the battalion commander received the order, he immediately gave the order without hesitation and began to adjust the troops under his command, and immediately transferred the limited sword players and pikemen in the battalion to the front of the front, and at the same time ordered the musketeers to start preparing for the bayonets, and stared at them one by one, just waiting for the Jiannu cavalry to come.
The pikemen took deep breaths one after another, squatted in front of the formation, stepped on the barrel of the gun with their feet, held the barrel of the gun in one hand, and pointed the sharp spear obliquely forward, and pointed the sharp spear point to the direction of the Jiannu cavalry, and it happened to be the position of the chest and neck of the enemy's war horse, in the outermost layer of the infantry array, forming a dense two-to-three-layer gun forest.
(Today's special thanks to the GZG1972 and Eagle Warriors for their tips!) )