Lord of Ming Dynasty

In less than half an hour, the entire army retreated for more than five miles, while the enemy cavalry stopped in horror and stopped moving forward. At this moment, there were more than 50 cavalry left beside Zhang Qiang, and the enemy had [-] cavalry. The four hundred cavalrymen were killed, and only five or six hundred cavalrymen remained, hanging from a distance, not daring to charge up again.

Taking this opportunity, Zhang Qiang and the others slowed down, rested the horses that had been charging for half an hour, and monitored the enemy's cavalry and army at the same time.

Seeing such an opportunity, the remaining 15 soldiers of the three regiments behind turned around and started running. Although they had been running for two days and one night and experienced a fierce battle, they still showed their strength at the critical moment of life and death. Potential, in less than [-] minutes, ran more than ten miles, farther away from the enemy.

But Zhang Qiang and the others kept suppressing the enemy's cavalry. Seeing that the enemy's cavalry showed signs of rushing up, they immediately drove their horses to confront the enemy, killed a few people, and then fled at high speed for more than three miles, continuing to monitor the enemy.

And Ma Bao's soldiers from the Lu Army's new army had already fought at the place where the battle took place just now, and even used guns and artillery. For a head, hundreds of people fought, lost 300 people, and injured 500 people. Ma Bao and Kong Youxing finally suppressed their troops angrily, reorganized them and started to pursue.

At this time, they were already more than 20 miles behind the Huaxia Army, but Ma Bao and Kong Youxing didn't want to give up, so they asked the soldiers to move forward at a faster speed. Two days ago, they were still fugitives in a panic. Today, their identities were reversed, and they started chasing someone else.

After running for more than 40 miles, it was getting dark, and the Huaxia Army was still ten miles away. This cannot be blamed on the Huaxia Army Guards Brigade. They had no strength to run, so they could only move forward step by step. They were exhausted. The last bit of strength on my body.

Seeing this situation, Ma Bao discussed with Kong Youxing and mobilized some elite soldiers, about [-] soldiers and horses. They threw off the rest of the troops and pursued them quickly. In less than half an hour, they were with those who were hanging tightly to each other. The cavalry will make peace.

At this time, Zhang Qiang and the others had already fled for nearly 55 miles, and they still couldn't stop. If they stopped, their heads would have to be cut off by the enemy, but even so, morale did not drop much. The officers are still there, the Huaxia Army has trained hard in the past, and the discipline can still be maintained. They are still the most elite soldiers of the Huaxia Army's Guards Brigade.

Chapter 641 Turning Defeat into Victory

Seeing that they were about to catch up with the enemy, the soldiers from Xinjun Town of the Lu Army who didn't get the chance to kill the enemy just now and didn't get the enemy's head looked enviously at the heads hanging on the waists of their colleagues, and at the same time kept looking back at the more and more The soldiers of the Huaxia Army's Guards Brigade who got closer were so exhausted that they couldn't even walk steadily. They supported each other and helped each other. Even if they moved, they tried their best to escape.

If it was any other time, these people might not be able to fight the Huaxia Army, but now the Huaxia Army has lost.

Chase, chase.

The death of seven to eight thousand people was not the death of seven or eight people. The thick blood mixed with the pungent gunpowder smoke permeated the battlefield. The two new army town troops led by Ma Bao and Kong Youxing under the tuyere were already pale and pale. The extreme discomfort is only because there are comrades and brothers around him, and the number of people is so strong that they will not collapse and escape, but the impact on morale is undoubtedly the heaviest.

However, the next time the remaining 2 troops launched an attack, the situation of the war changed. The continuous battle for an hour used firepower to block the enemy's charge, but it also consumed a lot of ammunition. Many soldiers' ammunition was close to The bottom line was reached, so the firepower became sparse. Maybe it was a long time of fighting, maybe it was exhausted physically and mentally after two days and one night of chasing. The time of firing to load the bullet.

Often after the first row shoots, the second row has not finished loading the ammunition, or less than half of the people have not finished loading the bullet, so the gap in firepower comes out, and the third row has to be replenished. The bullets in the platoon have not been loaded yet, and the enemy is charging. Time is calculated. Even the fastest gunner cannot complete the actions of loading, moving, raising the gun, aiming, and shooting within a few seconds. A time limit, the formation of the three rows is not thick enough. At the beginning, since the muskets are fully loaded with three bullets, they can still handle one or two rounds. The latter three bullets become a burden. After loading, the second row can It's over.

So a rare thing happened. On the positions of the Huaxia Army's Guards Brigade, there was often a time interval of gunshots that was less than ten seconds, ten seconds. If an athlete were to run, it would be only 50 meters. After running, even if you are not an athlete, then a person facing the test of life and death can run almost as well, so the enemy quickly surpassed the 100-meter line. Ran to the 60-meter line.

60 meters, archers with stronger arms can shoot their arrows into the enemy's position, so the Huaxia Army inevitably suffered real casualties. The Manchu Qing soldiers in the Lu army were shot with bows and arrows. The bows and arrows in the hands of the Manchu Qing soldiers were heavy bows. The arrows were all spiked conical arrows. They could fly far and hit the target steadily, severely injuring the enemy. The casualties of the army have increased, and the formation has become a little chaotic.

The gunfire became intermittent, and occasionally a continuous salvo was organized to destroy the enemies who rushed close.

As the enemy approached, the number of the enemy was large, and the battle line was very long, so they surrounded the Guards Brigade, which had only [-] soldiers and horses, and the battle line had to be close together, and the enemy attacked from all directions.

At 30 meters, the artillery of the Huaxia Army opened fire, countless shotguns flew out, and the enemy fell in large numbers, but the enemy was already red-eyed at this moment, so he could not dodge, and kept stepping on the corpses of his own people to charge .

The drums of the Huaxia Army became denser, and the horns sounded quickly together. The three regiments quickly divided into three circular hollow formations, separated by 200 meters, each resisting the enemy. In the middle of the formation were wounded and horses. On the periphery of the formation are the three-pound guns and the musketeers of the Guards Brigade. The musketeers have already hung bayonets on their guns, ready to fight the enemy desperately and fight hand-to-hand.

Following the formation of the formation, Zhang Qiang led the personal guards into the middle of the formation of the third regiment. The trumpeters, drummers, trumpeters, and messengers all entered their respective phalanxes and fought on their own.

The three formations cooperate with each other, and the enemy floods into the middle of the three formations like a tide, and then they are killed by the musketeers in the second row. At this time, even the military doctor took up the extra muskets to attack the enemy, and the guards and cavalry rushed from the rear to the front formation from time to time, using short-fired guns to hit the enemy several times in a row , to make up for the shortcomings of insufficient firepower of each formation after the number of people is reduced.

A war horse neighed, and the cavalry who were blocked from the rear and couldn't let go of the charge also rushed in, hitting dozens of soldiers in a row, losing a lot of cavalry, and opening a gap, Zhang Qiang quickly led the bodyguards to rush forward, and the short-fired guns continued. Open fire, melee combat wiped out the cavalry rushing in, and then filled the gap. At this time, the guards were already on the periphery, and the situation of the third regiment was compared with the first and second regiments with 8000 or [-] troops left. The regiment was much more dangerous. Although they stayed behind the two regiments, the enemy rushed over from other directions, gaps, and space. At least seven to eight thousand people surrounded the third regiment, and attacked the third regiment one after another.

Because the battle flag of the governor is erected here, the soldier doesn't want to kill the general and seize the flag, and seize the enemy's handsome flag, especially those cavalry, they are unscrupulous, they even care about their own people, knocking down the soldiers of the Lu army along the way continuously. He even brandished a knife and cut down his own people, and rushed to the third regiment with a bloody path, and then crashed into the formation of the third regiment. Several times in a row, even Zhang Qiang was injured before he managed to close the formation and throw the enemy in. The enemy was completely killed, and the soldiers on the periphery no longer needed to shoot. They all fought the enemy with bayonets and stabbed many people in succession.

The handsome flag is like a magnet, attracting countless enemies to the third regiment's position. The third regiment has already fallen into hand-to-hand combat. Countless enemies poured in through the gap between the first regiment and the second regiment. Only a few People went to attack the first and second regiments, and most of the enemies came aiming at Shuai Qi.

This created many opportunities for the second regiment and the first regiment. They quickly gathered their formation and approached the third regiment 50 meters away. Only then did they use bayonets to attack some of the enemies who turned towards them.

Here at Ma Bao, he watched his more than 3 cold weapon troops hesitate to be killed by the enemy, blood flowed like a river, until the enemy's firepower became weaker and weaker, and his soldiers easily paid the price of 4000 people Forcing the enemy to change their formation, they were ecstatic after retreating and formed an formation, and ordered the remaining [-] troops to advance slowly, preparing to pursue them when the Huaxia Army finally collapsed.

However, he also found that he had fewer and fewer people. At the beginning, he was shot and killed by three guard regiments of the Huaxia Army's Guards Brigade. Later, the remaining [-] troops rushed into the middle of the three enemy regiments, and then were killed by the other two regiments. The first regiment fell to the ground like a target. At first, the Lu army could maintain pressure on the three regiments. Later, the two regiments of the Guards focused on attacking the attracted Lu soldiers like shooting targets, shooting those soldiers from both sides.

In the end, he could no longer see anyone attacking the enemy from his own direction in his line of sight. All the people either fled to the two sides, away from the first and second regiments, or swarmed to the middle of the two regiments. Faced with countless bayonets, they rushed forward like moths to a flame, and finally the gunfire stopped, leaving only the sound of cold weapons fighting.

The Huaxia Army has no bullets and can only fight hand to hand.

Ma Bao was very anxious, and kept urging the troops to advance, and soon approached the distance of 500 meters. After rectifying the soldiers and horses, he drew out his sword and said, "Fire."

"Cavalry Charge—,"

The rest of the Lu army cavalry rushed towards the enemy. At this time, there were only two thousand troops fighting with the Huaxia army. The cavalry charged and the artillery fired. The remaining two thousand Lu army saw the shells falling Even they exploded, and immediately dispersed.

So far, almost all the more than 3 soldiers of the Lu army have died. Perhaps after the war, we can find those nervous routs who can hardly speak clearly within a radius of a hundred miles. Exhausted, wounded all over his body, more than half of the soldiers of the Guards Brigade had been killed into a blood man.

Chapter 642 Ambush on all sides?

Faced with such a situation, Kong Youxing had already learned about the situation from the scout cavalry and messengers running back and forth in front of him. He was also very anxious, but the cavalry brigade cavalry who kept coming back from all directions made them very annoyed. The cavalry also joined in the harassing of them, one group of cavalry at a time, one at a time, which made him very troubled. He only had [-] troops in his hand, and this kind of harassment caused all the two thousand green battalion soldiers he brought to collapse. , Xinjun Town musketeers were injured and hundreds of them died, which severely damaged morale and made the original fast pursuit turn into a move.

If they moved, they were only seven miles behind the Huaxia Army Guards Brigade. If you look with your eyes, you can still cross some treetops, flat terrain, small rivers, see the battle ahead, gunpowder smoke, and hear gunshots. They caught up, but it only took about ten minutes, half an hour at most, but now it has become extremely difficult. They have traveled three miles in half an hour, and there are still four miles to go, but more and more cavalry are returning The harassment of them by the soldiers of the brigade made them hesitate, and even stopped for more than ten minutes to deal with these enemies.

Before he could deal with it, there was another sound of horseshoes behind him, and Kong Youxing quickly arranged the [-] Xinjun Town soldiers he had brought with him to prepare for the enemy.

In sight, a stream of cavalry flowed from small to large, from large to large, from one to a mile-wide cavalry line, and finally to a cavalry line like a torrent, forming three rows of cavalry towards the Lu army recruits who were still in a hurry. The formation rushed over.

The earth was shaking, and the sound of more than 3000 cavalry was enough to make the panicked Lu soldiers collapse. After they fired randomly, they ran back, reloading bullets in a hurry, and the enemy was still three miles away from them. In many places, after a burst of indiscriminate shooting, the place was confused with gunpowder and smoke, and the chaos was even greater. The soldiers of the unit led by Ma Bao also shot one after another. The cavalry attacked the soldiers of the new army town sexually.

The soldiers of the Huaxia Army who were running quickly slowed down and pushed forward slowly, giving the soldiers of the Lu Army a chance to suppress the chaos. The horses need to rest, and the horses need to recover some strength before going into battle, so that they can attack the enemy's formation. Otherwise, if the cavalry collides with the enemy and the horse cannot break through the enemy's formation, such cavalry is not as powerful as the infantry.

In positional warfare, the cavalry in melee will be quickly wiped out by the infantry. The infantry is stable, but the cavalry needs to be fast. The cavalry without speed is really not as powerful as the infantry.

Kong Youxing saw that the cavalry brigade was like this, he was also a person who fought in battles, of course he knew that the cavalry soldiers in the cavalry brigade were not fools, so he sent out several generals around him in a frenzy to suppress and gather the troops in person, commanding the troops out of chaos Recovered and ready for battle.

Just when he was in a hurry, thousands of cavalry rushed over from the flanks, regardless of his team, directly ran over from the side of his team, and rushed towards the cavalry of the cavalry brigade, who had just urged the horses to trot and prepare Charge, but as soon as the cavalry from the side rushed over, they immediately raised their guns and fired a volley. The Lu army cavalry fell off their horses one after another. The second half of their cavalry was still in the formation of Xinjun Town. Seeing such a situation, everyone was confused, some were angrily pulled off their horses by soldiers from Xinjun Town, some were shot and killed by soldiers from Xinjun Town, and some were tripped over by the horses of the cavalry in front. To the other side, but disrupted the army formation of one's own side.

Kong Youxing's forehead became hot, his eyes turned dark, and he fell off the horse. His last thought was, "A general bastard, a guy who has more success than failure." Lu army cavalry of the cavalry brigade.

The Lu army cavalry has actually done well enough. They rushed from the rear battlefield and found that it was impossible to catch up with the cavalry brigade cavalry, so people who were familiar with the terrain took them to detour from the other side, but in the end because The brigade ran with all its strength, so they didn't intercept the enemy in time. Seeing that the cavalry brigade cavalry was ready to trot and speed up, the Lu army cavalry general was in a hurry. About 500 soldiers from Xinjun Town, 500 people were trampled and injured, and [-] people were injured by slashing with knives because of their anxiety. The remaining [-] soldiers dodged left and right to avoid being killed or injured by them. However, this also disturbed the formation that had just recovered, and made Kong Youxing's plan to face the cavalry brigade of the Huaxia Army fail, which made the situation on the battlefield even worse.

After shooting three times in a row, the cavalry brigade threw away the arquebus and rushed forward brandishing a saber. Only one wave of 8000 cavalry scattered the opponent's cavalry, and the second wave of cavalry entered the [-]-man army and slashed wantonly. , the third wave rushed over directly, and dispersed Kong Youxing's general guard, and then harassed Ma Bao's Xinjun Town in front, and then returned to deal with Kong Youxing's [-] soldiers and [-] Lu soldiers. Army cavalry.

The eight thousand generals of Ma Bao's Xinjun Town in front didn't know what to do. They didn't belong to each other for more than ten minutes, so they just stood there and looked at both sides. Soldiers from the Xinjun Town of the army, and on one side are the eight thousand Duanhou soldiers led by Kong Youxing.

After being attacked, they began to counterattack under the leadership of the generals, half of them went to meet the fleeing Ma Bao's troops, and half of them came to Kong Youxing's side for reinforcements.

But it's not [-] soldiers, maybe only [-] soldiers, because there are [-] veterans, or soldiers who are afraid because of fear. .

Seeing them fleeing, half of the soldiers who were reinforcing Ma Bao began to fall like bread crumbs. At first, one or two soldiers learned to escape, then a few soldiers, and finally dozens, hundreds of soldiers. Fleeing in all directions, many people threw away their guns, swords and knives around their waists, and some even took off the military uniforms of Lu soldiers on their bodies, and fled wearing short mandarin jackets and wide sack trousers. He simply tore up his pants, and ran away barefoot in shorts without any worries.

This side is not optimistic either. Randomly dozens of cavalry and brigade cavalry can speed up their collapse, and they also start to flee here. In the end, only [-] soldiers can join the attacking ranks, and there are only [-] soldiers over there. Eight hundred soldiers.

Just when they thought they could solve the problem, the cavalry brigade soldiers who had previously attacked and scattered around also came back. Dozens, a hundred, three or four hundred, more and more, it seemed that there were Huaxia soldiers everywhere. Army cavalry is the same as brigade cavalry.

At the beginning, Gao Yigong brought more than 7000 cavalry. Even if more than 1000 cavalry were killed by the enemy, there were still more than 6000 cavalry. Even if hundreds of cavalry were lost in the battle with the enemy, there were still more than 5000 cavalry. The cavalry arrived, and the remaining cavalry scattered within a radius of one hundred miles were mainly not wiped out by the enemy. At this time, most of them returned to this route to search for their main force. Sex was the last straw.

Kong Youxing was led by his own soldiers and fled for more than ten miles, and finally woke up. He saw that there were only two or three hundred of his own soldiers and generals around him, and the rest of the troops had gone to nowhere.

Just as he was standing on a hill and sighing, suddenly there was a burst of gunfire behind him. He looked back, oh my god, why are there thousands of infantry musketeers of the Huaxia Army Guards Brigade here? Where did these musketeers come from? Out of it?

Chapter 643 The Victory Is Sad

Seeing the arrival of his reinforcements, Zhang Qiang was no longer worried that the main force of the [-]st Guards Brigade would be wiped out this time. He, some wounded, and soldiers who couldn't walk lay quietly on the hillside watching the Ninth Field Brigade The soldiers of the army chased the enemy all over the mountains and plains, and saw the cavalry who had been seduced by the enemy cavalry and scattered everywhere chasing the enemy.