Chapter 1006: The Decisive Battle of Huai'an (8)
Now the Manchurian elite cavalry has been mobilized by Tan Tai to the front to attack the Beijing camp and the Tianwei army infantry, and the back are mainly Guanning iron cavalry and green battalion, although there are also some Manchurian elite cavalry, but the strength is not much, in the face of the Tianwei army's crazy flintlock musket shooting and the powerful assault of the cavalry, they are in chaos, and they are scattered, embarrassed!
Soon, Tan Tai discovered the chaos of the Manchurian army behind him, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and he finally suppressed the infantry of the Tianwei Army and the Beijing camp in front of him.
However, there is no use in rushing to fire now, the assault of the Ming cavalry is too fierce, and the rear army has faintly shown signs of collapse.
Retreat, if you don't retreat, you will be broken up by the Ming army, and now you don't care about anything else, even if it's artillery, food, grass and baggage, you can't take care of it, and keeping the only remaining Manchurian elite cavalry is the most important thing!
Tan Tai made up his mind, and with an order, the army began to turn around again, and began to launch a breakthrough towards the north, rushing, must rush over!
The Manchurian cavalry turned around and charged at the cavalry of the Ming army again, however, this time, the Manchurian cavalry was already panicking, but it was no longer the strong strength of the infantry and the Beijing camp that had just attacked the Tianwei army, even if it turned around, in the face of the powerful firepower of the Tianwei army's 1,000 flintlock muskets, it could not impact the Ming army's defense line like just now, not to mention that the strong combat power of the Ming army's 6,000 cavalry was definitely not covered, especially the Tianwei army's elite cavalry, standing like a mainstay, and the Manchurian army was completely in trouble!
"Lord Tan, what now? What to do? ”
Wu Sangui looked a little anxious, looked at Song Jiaxing who was rushing left and right in the distance, and asked Tan Tai urgently.
Tan Taidu was speechless, on weekdays, Wu Sangui had an idea, why did he have diarrhea at this critical time? Where did your ideas go?
"What to do? What a special cold salad, give up all the baggage, forcibly assault, kill out, we will escape, we can't kill, then the two of us can only walk together on Huangquan Road, rush! ”
Tan Tai now has to give up artillery and baggage, with these things dragging back, he can't run if he wants to, not to mention that the cavalry of the Ming army has already gone out of battle, and the speed is not slower than his own Manchurian elite cavalry, not to mention that these artillery baggage is heavy, even the infantry and cavalry may not be able to retreat!
Tan Tai and Wu Sangui concentrated all the elite forces and began to launch a fierce attack on the Ming cavalry, trying to break through the interception of the Ming cavalry in one fell swoop.
Song Jiaxing knew very well that behind the Manchurian army, there were still 4,000 musketeers in the Beijing camp, these 4,000 musketeers were shooting from behind, and just a round of muskets could cripple the Manchurian elite cavalry, and it wouldn't take too long to definitely cripple the Manchurian elite cavalry!
Song Jiaxing understands this truth, and Tan Tai and Wu Sangui also know this truth, if the musket battalion behind him attacks unscrupulously, no matter how many troops can't help these musketeers to kill, even if it is a hundred bullets to kill a Manchurian cavalry, it only takes half a day and a hundred rounds of shooting, and the musket battalion can bring more than 4,000 casualties to the Manchurian elite cavalry, which is only the lethality brought by the musket, in addition to the musket, the Ming army also has artillery and rockets, and a day of battle can completely collapse the Manchurian army!
Assault, assault!
Be sure to rush over!
Tan Tai and Wu Sangui left all their thoughts behind, and only by rushing over, thinking about the northern assault and leaving all the Ming troops behind, can the army escape and keep the few cavalry combat forces that are already few!
After all, the cavalry of the Ming army only had five or six thousand people, which was not enough to suppress more than 30,000 people in the entire Manchurian army on the battlefield.
However, even so, the Manchurian army still suffered the heaviest blow, most of the Manchurian elite cavalry broke through, but the rabble of the green battalion soldiers were all annihilated, and even the Guanning iron cavalry only had two or three thousand of Wu Sangui broke through, and the artillery and ammunition of the Manchurian army were thrown everywhere, piled up!
However, no matter how much these things are thrown, in Zhu Jie's eyes, they are not worth mentioning, compared with the combat power of Manchuria, these things have no value, and they must not be lost because of a small loss, once the main force of Manchuria breaks through and returns to Shandong, then there will be more follow-up troubles.
Zhu Jie gave an order, and the army chased down from behind.
Tan Tai and Wu Sangui led the cavalry to flee to the north with all their might, and they just ran out of the twenty or thirty miles away, and they could not move forward any further.
At this time, Cha Zhu has already deployed a defense in the north direction, an army of more than 20,000 people, the camp stretches out far away, Tan Tai sent out 8,000 elite cavalry, towards the Jing camp of Cha Zhu launched an attack again and again, trying to defeat the Beijing camp and open a retreat channel for Tan Tai's army behind, however, how easy is this to say?
There are still a large number of firearms, artillery, muskets in the Beijing camp of Cha Xuan, in addition, there are more than 3,000 cavalry, the cavalry under the leadership of Cha Xuan, cruising back and forth on both wings to cover, protecting the flank position, Zhao Zhenghang is sitting in the front position of the Chinese army, relying on the earthen fence that has just been erected, blocking the advance of the Manchurian cavalry!
The Manchurian elite cavalry launched wave after wave of attacks, without exception by the Beijing army to fight back, to cross this line of defense, it is too difficult, the front of the earth enclosure has been hundreds of horses and soldiers' corpses!
"Kui Hai, what the hell is going on, why are you so useless, until now, you haven't even torn through the defense line of the Ming army?"
Tan Tai came to Kui Hai and roared at Kui Hai.
Kui Hai's face was full of bitterness, and he replied: "Lord Tan, you see, it is the front section of the earth fence, not very high, but it is to block our cavalry, we have launched six attacks, each time was repelled by the Ming army on the opposite side, the last time it was less than thirty steps away from the earth fence, but their cavalry suddenly came out from both wings, and with a bang, they said that we had beaten back again, and it was really difficult to cross this thunder pond by half a step......
(End of chapter)