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Wang Ning said, "So, if we go to blow up the bridge, we will be ambushed by them?"

He Kegang thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "The main force of Jiannu is only 10,000 in total, and the cavalry is eight or nine thousand, it is impossible for Huang Taiji to send all the cavalry, right?

Qin Shuhuai nodded and said, "General He is right. No matter what the cost, we will destroy those three bridges, and we must not let them cross the bridges!"

He Kegang immediately said, "Order, the whole army gathers!"

The drums in the city were bursting, and in addition to the more than 1,000 soldiers guarding the city, the remaining nearly 4,000 defenders were quickly assembled. Among them were nearly 2,000 cavalry (more than 1,500 were brought by He Kegang from Yutian) and 2,000 infantry.

He Kegang didn't say a word, and personally led the troops out of the city.

Qin Shuhuai also selected a thousand of the strongest soldiers from the people he brought with him, and went out of the city with He Kegang.

Five thousand men and horses marched along the canal to the first bridge, which was the Shangqing Bridge only five miles away from Hexiwu. When the army arrived at the Shangqing Bridge, it was not hindered in any way and immediately blew up the bridge with gunpowder.

Then, the army continued to move forward, heading for Xiaqing Bridge, which was about fifteen miles away from Hexiwu. After more than a quarter of an hour of forced marching, the spies from the front came to report that they had found many messy horseshoe prints on the ground.

The army immediately changed formation. Two thousand infantry formed five horse-repellent formations, each of which numbered four hundred. The cavalry was divided into four strands, each with five hundred horsemen. The infantry continued in a repulsive formation, while the cavalry followed them a mile.

The 1,000 people on Qin Shuhuai's side quickly divided into two groups, and about 400 people from the Red Fire Banner and the Loess Banner formed a single group, and they formed their own formation. The remaining 600 people followed Qin Shuhuai and walked on the right flank of the army.

The army slowed down and cautiously continued on its way. The Jinyi Guard and the Horse Sentry rode out in all directions, searching everywhere for the location of the Jiannu army.

When there were still three miles away from the Qingqiao, a firework was raised one mile away from the northwest of the army, which represented the enemy's situation.

Ma Sentry has discovered the army of Jiannu!

"The whole army is ready!" He Kegang gave an order!

The horsemen in the rear stopped.

Then several herald horses galloped forward to deliver orders to the infantry.

"The whole army is ready!"

At the sound of an order, I only heard a burst of rhythmic voices remember.

"Boom!"

The five rejection formations were immediately deployed on the spot. In the square formation, the outer rim is surrounded by shield soldiers, which are served by strong men to slow down the impact of the horses. Behind them were all pikemen. Spears two or three meters long protruded from the gaps in the shield, densely packed like hedgehogs.

Qin Shuhuai was with these infantrymen, and after reading it, he couldn't help but admire, Yuan Chonghuan really had a hand in training soldiers!

The army is less than three miles away from the Xiaqing Bridge, and if Jiannu wants to defend the Qingqiao, he will definitely not let the Ming army go any further, so an encounter must be fought.

"Boom, boom!"

The earth shook violently, as if there had been a small earthquake.

After a while, a puff of yellow smoke rose in front of him.

Qin Shuhuai led people to hide behind the horse rejection array, and then pulled out the Qingquan Sword.

After glancing at the people of the Red Fire Banner and the Loess Banner, and seeing that they did not dodge, Qin Shuhuai couldn't help but wonder: they had no shield and no spear, how could they resist the cavalry?

"Da-da-da, da-da-da!"

The sound of horses' hooves became clearer and clearer. In the blink of an eye, a black cavalry appeared in everyone's sight! In terms of numbers, it is roughly estimated that there are at least three thousand!

The 3,000 horsemen were divided into three groups and rushed straight in three directions! The horses that rushed to the front were all very tall and heavily armoured, and the cavalry on the horses were also equipped with heavy armor and spears.

The cavalry was equipped with a spear, which was the experience of the Later Jin in a long battle with the Ming army. Because against the horse rejection array, it is difficult to cut the soldiers hiding behind the shield if you use a saber, and you can stab them condescendingly with a spear. However, there are not many cavalrymen equipped with spears of this kind, they are specially equipped for breaking the rejection horse formation, and the hundreds of cavalry who generally rush to the front will use spears, and the other Houjin cavalry still use traditional sabers.

Due north, west, and northwest, the Jiannu cavalry in three directions roared like three Li Xian's arrows.

A thousand horsemen due north were the first to rush and engaged in a fierce exchange with the two horse-repelling formations in front of the army. Dozens of heavily armed horses jumped up one after another to try to cross the shield on the outer edge of the horse rejection formation. The Ming army brought out countless spears and stabbed down many war horses. After the war horse fell, the fallen horsemen were naturally quickly stabbed into a hornet's nest.

However, the Jiannu cavalry swarmed up at a very fast speed, and the spearmen did not have time to deal with them one by one. Soon, many war horses jumped into the formation, and the iron hooves trampled everywhere, causing a great chaos in the horse rejection array, and the Houjin cavalry on the horse waved spears and flew in cold light, and many Ming soldiers died under the guns. But these Houjin cavalry did not be arrogant for long, and soon the Ming army reacted and rushed up one after another to turn them into a hornet's nest.

The Jiannu cavalry was still jumping in, and each horse that jumped in could have a certain impact on the formation. And as more and more Jiannu cavalry arrived, they began another tactic, which was to storm the shield soldiers around the horse rejection array. Some well-trained hoplites rushed to the rear, first raised their front hooves over the shield, and slammed down on the shield behind the shield, and then the cavalry on the horse quickly stabbed at the shield.

Under the continuous onslaught, the shield soldiers could not stop it! The horse rejection array was opened up several gaps, and the Jiannu cavalry poured in like a monstrous flood from the breach and the embankment.

A similar fate befell several other rejects. To put it simply, the horse-rejecting array did not block the horsemen of Jiannu! At this time, all the horse-rejecting formations had been broken, and the Ming infantry could only resist the Jiannu iron cavalry!

Shouts, fights, roars, wails and groans mingled together, and countless Ming soldiers fell forever on the banks of the canal to defend their homes!

However, none of the soldiers of the Guanning Army fled, even if the situation was worse than expected, they still chose to fight to the death and not retreat!

After all the Jiannu cavalry had charged, Qin Shuhuai ordered more than 600 of his men to join the battle, otherwise his 600 men would have been swept away by the cavalry.

Qin Shuhuai held the Qingquan Sword in his hand, and the blood splattered by the long sword for ten steps, frantically harvesting human heads. Leather Dog and Lai San'er followed him closely to the left and right. Now these two people, with the assistance of the complete version of the Yijin Sutra and the system pill, have already reached the first rank of the Xuantong Realm, and among them, the skin dog has already touched the door of the Xiaocheng Realm, and it is estimated that they will be promoted soon, and their combat power is not strong. The trio formed a terrifying harvesting machine, bleeding everywhere they went, stumps and heads flying everywhere they went. However, killing cavalry is extremely physical and true qi, not only to avoid the impact of horses, but also to raise their strength and jump up when the sword is drawn, which is more time-consuming and laborious than killing infantry, and it is a great test of their long-lasting combat ability.

The Red Fire Banner and the Loess Banner lost more than half of the battles in Hengling, and now there are about 400 people in total, who first dodged the impact of the cavalry in a strange formation, and now they have become two triangular formations, wreaking havoc in the most dense places of the Houjin cavalry. Although their combat power was far stronger than that of the Ming infantry, they were far less comfortable with cavalry than with infantry.

Although the Ming army had Qin Shuhuai to help out, it was still unable to change the general trend, and the 2,000 infantry could not compete with the 3,000 Jiannu iron cavalry, and they were quickly defeated.

Yue Tuo stood a mile away and watched all this coldly, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but set up a conceited smile. At this moment, the Great Khan is leading a large army from the Xianghe River, and if he marches quickly, he will be able to arrive in less than an hour! As long as the Ming army here can be destroyed, then the Ming army will no longer be able to threaten the Qingqiao. Once the army has crossed the river, the raid will be declared a success!