Chapter 35: The Decisive Battle 6

If they didn't see it clearly, they would definitely be killed by the spears in front of the enemy formation.

So these Jiannu who were charging involuntarily and instinctively encircled the war horses, and the retreat was definitely not possible, and if they retreated at this time, they would definitely be stabbed, so they invariably circled their horses and galloped to both sides in front of the Yujia army, while the musketeers of the Yu family army were on their sides, firing in rows at these Jiannu cavalry who crossed in front of the formation.

At this time, many Jiannu cavalry were knocked over to the ground by rows of muskets, and became victims of this battle one after another.

Soon these Jiannu found a gap in the array of the family army, and the Yu family army went out to fight this time, and the battalion was arrayed as a unit, each battalion formed a standard hollow infantry phalanx, and between each battalion and other battalions, there will be some gaps, and the distance is about dozens of meters.

When the Jiannu cavalry rushed to the front of the family army formation, and saw that the queue in front of each battalion of the Yu family army was obliquely erected like a forest of guns, whether it was a person or a war horse, they would not stupidly collide directly with it, out of instinct, they would choose to avoid it and look for a gap drill.

And the gap left between each battalion became their best choice, and many Jiannu cavalry involuntarily drove their horses into these gaps.

As a result, the torrent of people and horses, which was originally like a flash flood, was divided into streams from the torrent in an instant after encountering the front of the Yu family's army, and merged into the front of the Yu family's army.

If you look at it from a distance, it will even give people the illusion that the Jiannu cavalry will be overwhelmed by the array of the family army in an instant, Dolgon stared at the battlefield from a distance, and saw through the shadow of gunpowder that the cavalry under his command seemed to have rushed into the enemy formation, and immediately became happy, almost crying on the spot!

It's not easy! It's not easy! He invested such a large number of troops, paid such a heavy price, the non-stop roar of cannons on the battlefield, the sound of the guns firing, all the time harvesting the lives of the warriors under his command, the battle to this moment, Dolgon even has a feeling that he can't hold on.

He's almost put all the elite on the battlefield now, but the enemy is still standing still, and if this continues, then is it possible that he really wants to fill everyone in?

Just when Dolgon himself had begun to waver a little, they saw that the cavalry finally began to rush to the front of the enemy formation, and vaguely, it seemed to break through the enemy's large formation and attack into the enemy's large formation.

However, the actual situation was far less than the slave chieftains of Dolgon, who were watching the battle in the rear, thought, and these Jiannu or Mongol cavalry instinctively drilled through the gap between the battalions, only to find that they had penetrated into a place like a maze array.

These Yu family army formations, are a hollow phalanx, each small phalanx is about a thousand people, the four sides are concentrated pikemen, although the number of pikemen is not much, but it can also protect those musketeers behind them, all the pikemen are pestled on the ground, more than a zhang long spear, diagonally pointed to the outside of their phalanx, forming a dense gun forest around the phalanx.

Although most of the pikemen were concentrated in the front of the phalanx, there were still enough pikemen to cover the other three sides, so when these Jiannu cavalry and Mongolian cavalry got into the gap between the battalions, they found that these small phalanxes were like hedgehogs, so that they had no way to speak, and there were some musketeers concentrated in the four corners of these phalanxes, and these musketeers seemed to have been waiting for their arrival for a long time.

As soon as the Jiannu cavalry got into these gaps, the musketeers immediately raised their muskets and began to shoot at them, and many of the Jiannu cavalry who had just penetrated into the gaps were knocked to the ground on the spot.

After the Jiannu cavalry drilled into the gap, they couldn't attack on both sides at all, tearing apart the line of the Yu family's army, and there were long spears on both sides, making it impossible for them to attack the two wings at all, and at any time, there were people shooting at them from all directions, and they could only see their people constantly being knocked to the ground.

So these cavalry could only rush back like headless flies along these gaps, and when they rushed out, they found that almost all the people around them were almost killed, and the people who could get out of the gaps could be said to be only a handful, but when they drilled out of the gaps in these battalions, they found that there was a wall of cars in front of them that were connected by various carts before and after.

This car wall immediately made them dumbfounded, their cavalry is most afraid of encountering such a thing, the Ming army once used such a method, the formation of a car battalion, when the battle, their big car circled, end to end in a short time to form a relatively strong camp in the field, the Ming army gunners and archers stood on the cart, shooting or arrows at the attacking Jiannu.

Although the Jiannu cavalry is powerful, they have no way to take this kind of car formation, they can't ride their horses and jump into the enemy's car formation to slaughter those Ming troops.

Therefore, the car battalion of the Ming army, in the past, still played a certain role, so that Jiannu quite a headache, if it were not for the Ming army will be timid, and the training is insufficient, the formation of dozens of such car battalions, it is enough to slowly consume Jiannu to death.

But today, a small number of Jiannu cavalry, who had finally come out of the gap in the Yujia army's front, looked up and saw this slippery wall, and they collapsed at that time.

At this time, these carts were already full of soldiers of the Yu family's army, one by one, either holding muskets or operating some small cannons on the carts, looking at them with expectant faces, waiting for their appearance.

On the carts of the Yujia Army Barracks, every three carts would be loaded with a three-pounder Franc cannon, each of which was equipped with nine guns, and three full-time gunners, which were kept in the carriages when not in use, but when they were useful, they could be immediately erected on the pillars on the side of the wheels.

When a group of Jiannu cavalry finally rushed to the rear of the Yu family army from the cracks in the camps, they ran into the generals of these baggage battalions who were already waiting here.

This time, Yu Xiaotian led the army to fight to the death with the Jiannu army, and the baggage barracks of each brigade also went out to fight together, bringing a large amount of ammunition and seven-day rations for the army, but the two armies faced each other, and these baggage barracks were placed behind the large array, so the soldiers of the baggage barracks were generally unlikely to get the opportunity to make a move.

But I didn't expect that this time Dolgon invested so much money, using cavalry to launch crowd tactics, trying to block the firepower of Yu's army with human lives.

Although they didn't think that they would have the opportunity to kill some of the slaves themselves, according to the rules of war, after they arrived here, they still faithfully performed their duties, built their vehicles into a wall, and were ready for battle.

Now these stupid Jiannu and the Mongol cavalry have crashed headlong in front of them, which is equivalent to a pie in the sky, where can they miss this opportunity!

So the officers immediately pulled their necks in the car and shouted: "All of them! Aim at Lao Tzu! Fire ......"

A long wall of cars immediately burst into flames, and the light Franc cannons and muskets began to fire almost simultaneously, and these Jiannu, who had only rushed here after nine deaths, only felt that it was suddenly dark in front of them, and then they didn't know anything.

However, Dolgon did not know what was happening in the army's formation, he did not have a telescope, and he was afraid of the long-range artillery fire of the army, so he could only observe the battlefield from a long distance.

At this time, the battlefield was full of people and horses, and the front of the Yu family army was filled with clouds of gunpowder smoke all the time, always as if it was in a fog, so that he could not see clearly what was happening in front of the Yu family army.

In short, he saw just now that the soldiers and horses sent by his command finally attacked the front of the Yu family army, and seemed to be tearing apart the front of the Yu family army, so in the ecstasy in his heart, he put the last elite cavalry of thousands of people on hand into the battlefield.

These cavalrymen didn't know what was happening in front of them, they only knew that they had to kill in front of the enemy formation, and go and kill all these damn Yu family troops who had stopped them from retreating outside the pass, as for other things, it was not a matter for them to consider, nor was it something they could control, Dolgon had an order to let them charge, so they had to obey the orders and charge until they died.

In the end, these thousands of Jiannu cavalry, some of which are the bannermen of the white banner under the jurisdiction of Dolgon, are the last trump card on Dolgon's hands, although the number of troops is not very large, only one or two thousand people, but it is definitely the elite of this time, including some Bayala white armor soldiers, it can be said that Dolgon has pressed the last hope.

These thousands of Jiannu cavalry shouted and shouted again, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and rushed out of the Jiannu formation and rushed towards the battlefield.

But soon they found a problem, it stands to reason that the cavalry in front of them has broken through the line of the Yu family army at this time, and the Yu family army should have fallen into chaos at this time, and their artillery should also be dumb fire, but those who are interested listen carefully find that things do not seem to be as they think.