Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 137 The Plate Armored Knight Leads the Charge
Because the divided army lost its command, it could only fight on its own, and was defeated one by one with more attacks and fewer attacks.

The plate armor knights wore polished silver-white plate armor, which reflected dazzling light in the setting sun.

After they formed a wedge formation, they immediately urged the horses under their crotches to gallop at the maximum speed. At the same time, they slowly leveled their lances, ready to send them into the enemy's chest at all times.

Fighting on the official road, such a flat terrain can best display the power of a heavy shock cavalry like a plate armor knight.

Because there are no obstacles to force them to slow down, all they need to do is to run wildly, insert the lance into the chest of the first enemy, change to the sword, and slash a few times from time to time.

The Eight Banners Infantry, who had just escaped a wave of deadly arrows, saw Zhu Cihong's cavalry rushing over, and quickly stood up to form an formation, hoping to survive this wave of charge.

It's just a pity that they didn't even stand in line, and the lances of the plate armor knights came over. At the first moment, more than a dozen people were either picked up into the sky, or stuck straight into the ground by their lances, and then Like Xiaoqiang nailed to the wall.

But it's just that the death patterns are similar. The vitality of the Eight Banners soldiers is not so strong. They were stuck on the ground with lances and couldn't even scream. They closed their eyes and died within a few breaths.

"Not good, I can't stop it anymore." Ergen saw the rampant appearance of the Ming army in front of him, and knew that his Jiala infantry would probably not be able to resist it.

"Come here and lead me to block these Han people. I'll go to General Tong to discuss countermeasures first." Ergen didn't want to die here, so he pointed to a Niu Luzhang Jing and asked him to take charge of the front line command.

"Lord Jia Lazhangjing, but I'm just a Niuluzhangjing." Niuluzhangjing said bitterly when he heard Ergen's order.

There are only 300 people in the Eight Banners, but there are only 100 knights in plate armor wearing iron lumps in front of them, not to mention Zhu Cihong's continuous cavalry and infantry behind him, he can stop them with his head .

"Aren't there four other Niulu Zhangjings? You go and command their subordinates, and that's it." Ergen's unquestionable tone made the aggrieved Niulu Zhangjing speechless.

The discipline of the Eight Banners is relatively strict and the hierarchy is strict. As a direct subordinate, Niu Luzhangjing has no way to refuse Ergen's order in any case.

After finishing speaking, Ergen rode over to find Tong Mengchun.

Looking at Ergen's retreating figure, Niulu Zhangjing knew what kind of cauldron he was facing. If he couldn't resist it, he would be defeated and die on the battlefield. That was what he deserved. Who made him unable to defeat the enemy?

If he was defeated and ran away for his own life, he would become a deserter accused by thousands of people and would be scolded by thousands of people.

In short, he will not end well anyway.

"Forget it, for the sake of the Eight Banners, and for my Qing Dynasty, let's fight for it." Niu Luzhangjing built up his confidence for himself.

"Big guy, look at me!" I saw this Niu Luzhangjing holding his saber high above his head.

The Eight Banners infantry who were in chaos didn't know what he was going to do, they all stood there and looked at him suspiciously.

"Ergen Erzhen went to Tong Mengchun Erzhen for support. Come with me now and pick up your spears to block these Han cavalry, otherwise no one will be able to escape."

Although there are even more horses than people in Chiqing, the infantry used by them are just ordinary riding horses after all. Being in such a large plain and not familiar with the terrain, it is impossible to escape the Han army as long as they are defeated and escaped. The palm of the cavalryman's hand.

Why is this Niu Lu'er so familiar? Because when he fought against the Han army outside the Great Wall, the Eight Banners used their unparalleled mobility to annihilate tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Han troops again and again.

Although the Eight Banners who have just entered the customs are much worse than those of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, as professional soldiers, their military quality is still online.

After hearing what Niulu Zhangjing said, they realized that they had no choice but to obey his orders and try their best to resist the Han army.

Soon, dozens of neatly dressed Eight Banners infantrymen came to the front. They lined up in a roughly neat line, pointing their spears and spears at an angle of 45 degrees, just like a neat row of street trees.

Ordinary war horses would not dare to attack this kind of infantry spear formation, no matter how urged by the riders on their backs.

Because this is a living creature's instinctive fear of death, only well-trained horses, and knights with strict discipline and high morale dare to attack such a formation.

These plate armor knights, because they had left their lances in the enemy's body when they launched the first wave of attack just now, at this time the knights did not have lances and could only use two-handed swords as weapons.

But even if the lance is still in hand, the result will be the same, because the lance used by the cavalry cannot be longer than the lance used by the infantry.

This is the same as the strength and range of riding bows cannot be compared with step bows.

A row of long spears of the Eight Banners Infantry stood there, airtight, like a wall, there was no way to avoid it.

The plate knights had no choice but to hit it with their chests.

The war horse was covered with an iron armor weighing one hundred and eighty kilograms. It hit the spearhead of the spear at high speed, and the armor was torn like a layer of tissue paper.

But fortunately, these war horses also suffered some flesh injuries, not to the point where they were injured.

The worst thing was the Eight Banners infantry, whose spears were broken the moment they touched the horses of the plate armor knights.

Then he was stepped on by a plate armor knight weighing more than [-] jins, causing severe injuries, bleeding profusely from internal organs, and severe limb rupture on the spot.

At the same time, with the help of their companions, another group of Eight Banners infantry put on a full set of armor, some with swords and shields, or some with spears, and followed behind Niu Luzhangjing, who was appointed by Ergen as the front-line commander.

"Oh my god, where did the Han people get these tall horses and knights covered in iron." Niu Lu Zhangjing swore that he had never seen such an army.

The equipment of Zhu Cihong's Western European plate armor knights is basically similar to that of Western European feudal knights at the same time, not the kind of plate armor knights who came to serve as soldiers with the king's salary.

They are noble knights and barons who own land and subjects. If they are in Western Europe, each of their knights can be followed by seven or eight or even a dozen retinues wearing leather armor, and then there are even larger numbers of levies, and Serfs like leeks.

That is to say, Zhu Cilang has a system, so he can not treat these plate armor knights from Europe as nobles, but put them together and use them together, just like ordinary soldiers.

(End of this chapter)