Chapter 131: The Great Melee (4)
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Qin Mu had less than 200 cavalry, but like a raging wind, he continuously broke Zhang Dingguo's two infantry phalanxes, totaling nearly 10,000 horses and wolves under the galloping horses' hooves, scattering and fleeing;
The blood flowed on the earth, the iron hooves of the rain were still pounding, and the nearby mountains could feel a slight vibration.
Zhang Dingguo understood that if tens of thousands of defeated troops were allowed to flock to other military formations, it was very likely to trigger a chain reaction, resulting in the complete collapse of tens of thousands of troops.
Less than 200 cavalry crushed tens of thousands of troops, this is definitely not a myth, Zhang Dingguo knows too well what kind of goods these tens of thousands of troops under his command are.
Strictly speaking, his tens of thousands of people are just outcasts with knives and guns, with little training and no cohesion at all, and once the panic spreads, no matter how many people there are, they are just lambs to be slaughtered.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Zhang Dingguo gritted his teeth, and ordered loudly, so the army he was in no longer cared about any enemy or me, a rain of arrows rose into the air, like locusts flying away, one by one the routs screamed and fell, the survivors looked at the banner in disbelief, and couldn't understand that weishenme's own people wanted to shoot their own people.
I don't understand, I don't understand, a rain of arrows covered the sky and the sun, forcing them to turn around and flee outward, Qin Mu's cavalry also had more than a dozen people who fell from their horses, and they were also forced to fight outward, his number was too small, and Zhang Dingguo couldn't afford it, so he had to chase after those fleeing routs and slash them to let out a bad breath.
The rebels north of Yuan Shui were trapped by Qin Muning, and together with the stragglers who had previously pursued the left army, they were defeated by Qin Mu nearly 20,000 people, so that the left army at the south gate saw a glimmer of hope, Feng Xi, who retreated into the city first, led tens of thousands of horses and horses to kill from the south gate, all the way to the west gate to respond, Wu Xueli's men and horses finally gradually weighed the position, and fought and retreated, and gradually shrank into the city from the west gate.
Qin Mu saw this situation. I can't help but scold, Lao Tzu has hardened half of the sky, your tens of thousands of troops don't take the opportunity to counterattack, but they shrink into the city, and when you all shrink into the turtle shell, won't only Lao Tzu's people and Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of troops die.
"Withdraw! Let Huo Sheng retreat first with the infantry! Qin Mu couldn't care about chasing and killing the routed soldiers all over the ground, and roared loudly.
It's a pity this time, if he had one or two thousand cavalry, in the situation just now, he would definitely be able to defeat Zhang Dingguo's tens of thousands of foot soldiers in one fell swoop. Even under the chain reaction, it is not surprising that Zhang Xianzhong's army of more than 100,000 troops collapsed;
I remember that when Wanyan fought and started the army, with more than 10,000 troops, he once defeated the Khitan army of 700,000 in one fell swoop.
Because of this, Qin Mu was even more reluctant to give up those thousands of war horses, and before powerful guns and cannons were developed, cavalry was the king.
After Qin Mu's counterattack. 20,000 people had already rushed north for several miles, and as soon as the infantry led by Huo Sheng received Qin Mu's order, they immediately turned around and headed north, the magical Qin army. When fighting, the courage is abnormal, and when the wind is tight, it is even more stunned, only to see nearly a thousand people running wildly, as fast as a receding wave
Qin Mu led more than a hundred cavalry to break the rear. As soon as they rushed up a slope, they saw a stream of yellow dust rushing towards them from the northwest at a forty-five degree angle, and they were swept under the yellow dust. Hundreds of iron horsemen let out a huge rumbling sound, and at the front was a red shadow, and even the long cloak was red, like a burning and flying flame
This cavalry Qin Mu has long noticed, since they withdrew from the north gate, this cavalry appeared on a high slope in the northwest, like ghosts, they have been watching from the wall, it seems that they don't want to join this big melee, but now they don't know Weishenme, but they fiercely slashed and killed the tens of thousands of defeated soldiers who were scattered by Qin Mu and them, probably because the rebels provoked them just now and were forced to shoot.
It was difficult to distinguish friend and foe from each other, and Qin Mu didn't want to take the initiative to provoke them, so he swept the people behind him, and galloped past them more than a hundred steps.
Rushing out for a mile, there were fewer routs, Qin Shepherd's men and horses slowed down slightly, and when they looked back, they saw five or six hundred cavalry rushing through the south of Yuanzhou, and they were colliding with the women in red, but they saw that the women in red were rushing in fiercely from the middle, as if they wanted to cut the cavalry from the middle;
But Qin Mu soon found that their speed was getting slower and slower, as if they were stuck in a quagmire, and Zhang Dingguo's infantry phalanx pressed up from the west and south, once they formed a circle, the 100 men and horses of the woman in red might not be able to escape again.
"Turn back, turn back, kill!" Qin Mu no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered to turn around and kill.
"My lord, friends and foes are unknown, why should we save them?"
"Zhu Yijin, you are really a pig's head, the enemy of the enemy is a friend, understand?" Qin Mu said loudly while whipping the war horse, constantly speeding up.
The women in red and the rebels killed together, and now helping them is helping themselves, Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of cavalry are not simple, from the fact that they easily let the women in red trap the fierce men and horses, it can be seen that they are extraordinary, they should be the old subordinates who followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight in the Central Plains;
They came from the north bank to reinforce it, that is to say, they originally came for Qin Mu, but they just happened to collide with the men and horses of the woman in red.
The red lady was indeed forced to do it, they didn't expect Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses to chase Wu Xueli and suddenly kill, for a while, the mountains and fields were full of people fighting, they couldn't avoid it, those rebels were red-eyed, they didn't care who they were, they handed the knife when they saw it, and the two sides clashed like this.
The red lady who rushed into the enemy formation had a long whip flying like a spiritual snake, and the tip of the whip made a sharp whistling sound, "Smack!" A crisp sound made an oncoming rebel burst his eyes and screamed and fell off his horse. The neighing of the war horses continued, and there were killing sounds on all sides, howling! The whip flew out again, wrapping its arms around the neck of a rebel with great agility, and then pumping it back, and the rebel was strangled so that his eyes bulged out and his tongue sticked out like a hanged man, "Go down!" With a coquettish sound, the rebel was pulled off his horse, and was immediately trampled on by the war horse next to him, and his liver burst out
Xing Lao Qi and the ghost three jumped one left and one right to protect the red lady, roaring constantly, Yan Ling slashed endlessly, although their team of men and horses was strong, but after all, the number was too small, rushed into half, the speed began to slow down, and the two cavalry almost became fighting in place.
Seeing that she couldn't rush through the enemy formation, the red lady couldn't help but be anxious, if it goes on like this, even if others stretch their necks to cut you, they can exhaust you to death. At this moment, Dan saw a big flag with a black background flying by, carrying a stream of yellow dust like a dragon.
Qin Mu didn't crash straight into it with more than a hundred horses, and he didn't have many people and horses, if he was trapped like the women in red, he would be dead.
See the crescent moon again, and see the crescent-shaped arc again!
One hundred and sixty men and horses rushed like flying, drawing a perfect arc of light from the left side of the enemy formation, "Kill!" Liu roared violently, and the giant wolf stick swung and smashed the heads of the two rebels in succession, and the soldiers on the right took advantage of the power of the thunder and constantly swung their knives, killing the left side of the rebels into several feet;
However, Qin Mu and the others did not continue to fight hard, but left as soon as they swooped, and when a few cavalry swept by, a few big guys who were sparkling followed and rolled into the enemy formation.
They came and went like the wind, and did not inflict much damage on the hundreds of cavalry of the rebels; But when they plundered out more than ten battles, there were suddenly several loud noises in the enemy formation, boom! Rumble! Rumble! Clusters of fire burst into the sky, and a puff of iron and rubble flew like rain, and the rebels near the explosion were blown up on their backs, and the severed limbs and stumps were swept into the air by the shock wave, and the left side was almost blown into a blank space.
The red lady who was trapped in the middle took this opportunity to lead the team to kill from the left side, just rushed out of the pervasive gunsmoke, and saw that the Qinzi banner swept out an arc, and then killed it again, and it was a crescent moon light, which crossed the right side of the rebels, boom! Rumble! Rumble! Immediately afterward, several fires erupted from the right side of the rebels, as if demonic fire had emerged from hell
The Red Lady found out for the first time that the cavalry could still be used in this way, but in real terms, the credit was half of hers, because they had a frontal impact, and they were entangled with the enemy, making the enemy's cavalry lose their speed, and Qin Mu's trick of the light of the crescent moon worked.
"Turn back, kill!" The red lady didn't think much about it, and took advantage of the fact that hundreds of enemy cavalry were blown to pieces, and rushed into the disastrous enemy formation again with men and horses, as if she was unwilling to destroy hundreds of enemy cavalry (to be continued......