I want to be emperor

Chapter 94 Desperate Breakthrough
Gray cavalry, isn't this the same cavalry that my nephew reported earlier?

Are officers and soldiers?Or is it the main force of the rebel army who came from other places?

Today's Chuangpotian is the same as yesterday's Dingpotian. They are all confused about the identity of the enemy, because the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp is really different from ordinary rebels, officers and soldiers. It looks so weird that it is difficult to figure it out. Are they officers and soldiers or bandits...

Just looking at the neat formation, uniform uniforms, standard weapons, and the fine cavalry, it is easy for people to regard them as officers and soldiers of a certain army.

But their gray uniforms are completely different from the officers and soldiers, so they will make people think they are bandit soldiers.

Chuang Potian also couldn't figure out the identity of the opposite party, but soon he faced the same situation as his nephew yesterday.

His 100 elite were held back by Wang Xiazi's more than [-] cavalry.

Wang Xiazi's more than 100 cavalry would not take the initiative to attack, but stayed on the sidelines, forcing Chuang Potian's troops to maintain a formation that defended against the cavalry's impact.

But if Chuang Potian moved the troops and tried to turn them into marching ranks, Xiazi Wang would start to let the cavalry line up, one by one, they would start to get on their horses and make a charge posture.

In this way, Chuang Potian was forced to form a tight formation to prevent the impact of cavalry.

With a tight formation, he is naturally not afraid of the opponent's cavalry attack, and even if the opponent rushes over stupidly, he will be absolutely sure to take down all the more than 100 enemy cavalry.

However, if they switch to marching ranks and no longer maintain a tight formation, then the opponent's cavalry will kill them in minutes.

And to maintain the battle formation, it is difficult to perform rapid maneuvers, and it takes several kilometers to walk in a few hours.

Chuang Potian also tried to send his own group of cavalry who could ride horses to attack, trying to drive them away.

But after only one attempt, the subordinate cavalry was withdrawn.

Because when those damned enemy cavalry faced their own cavalry, they didn't play close combat with their own cavalry at all, but adopted the method of riding, shooting and flying kites. If the cavalry who broke through the sky wanted to catch up, they would run on horseback , while running and shooting arrows at the back...

Most of the cavalrymen who broke through the world did not have the ability to bend their bows and shoot arrows on high-speed horses. Facing the kite cavalry under Wang Xiazi's troops, they could only be passively beaten, and nearly [-] cavalry were killed or injured in a short while. .

In the end, they could only be forced to retreat. What was even more disgusting was that when they were retreating, blind Wang led cavalry to catch up again, and played another wave of salvos and killed at least a dozen cavalry.

Chuang Potian's more than 100 cavalry attacked, killing and wounding four of Wang Xiazi's cavalry before and after, but his own loss reached more than [-] cavalry.

The battle damage ratio reached an astonishing ten to one.

This is the result of a half-baked cavalry composed of a group of infantry who can ride horses, playing a serious cavalry battle with elite cavalry and archery cavalry.

If you want to play charge and fight, no one will give you a chance!
He couldn't shoot the opponent while riding and shooting, so he was naturally slaughtered unilaterally in the end.

Looking at his own cavalry who retreated in embarrassment, and looking at the enemy cavalry with high fighting spirit on the opposite side, Chuang Potian was very conscientious and did not send his cavalry to attack again, and let them go out to die. mutiny.

In desperation, we can only maintain the anti-cavalry shock formation for a long time, and slow down to the north!

Yes, Chuang Potian has realized that it will be very dangerous to continue going south. Now that the enemy's cavalry has appeared, will the main infantry be far behind?

So he resolutely chose the north side. Even if he kept his battle formation, the speed of retreat would be very slow, but he just walked slowly, and the situation would be greatly improved after he joined the four thousand ordinary thieves behind him.

However, before he had walked a few miles, the scouts reported that a large group of enemies had appeared in the south.

The sentry under his command reported to him that at least nearly a thousand enemies came from the south, most of them wore gray uniforms, not only a large number of armored infantry, but also artillery.

When Chuang Potian heard the news, he frowned.

Sure enough, worry still came!

The opponent's cavalry obviously wanted to hold back their retreat so that the main force of the infantry could come up.

Although the sentry reported that the enemy was only a thousand people in size, Chuang Potian still believed that the situation was very dangerous.

Since there are such elite cavalry on the opposite side, it is naturally impossible for infantry to be sent there, let alone artillery.

"Is this the fucking officer and soldier who came out of there?"

"I've traveled all over the country and across the surrounding provinces for many years, but I've never seen officers and soldiers in gray uniforms. Could it be the frontier army in the north?"

Until now, Chuang Potian still didn't think that the enemy army in gray uniforms that suddenly appeared in front of him were those rogues in Funiu Mountain.

Instead, he firmly believes that he is an officer and soldier.

"Damn it, if I knew it earlier, I would have come to Lushan County and went to Kaifeng Mansion in the east."

Now Chuangpotian regrets it. At first, he thought that Lushan County in the south had no main force of officers and soldiers, so he led thousands of people south to try to attack Lushan County to grab a wave.

But I didn't expect to be intercepted by the main force of officers and soldiers before reaching Lushan County.

Had he known this, he would have led the army eastward to Kaifeng Mansion. Although there are many officers and soldiers there, there are also many colleagues there who also restrain the main force of the officers and soldiers.

But now, there is no use regretting.

This was all entangled by the main force of officers and soldiers.

How to do?
It is impossible to retreat with a large army. The opponent's more than 100 cavalry entangled him like brown sugar, and his retreat speed could not be increased at all. It would not take long for the opponent's infantry to catch up.

It's okay to abandon the army directly and run with only the cavalry, but the two thousand old thieves are his foundation, and he is not willing to give up unless it is absolutely necessary.

beat?
The chance of winning is not great. Since the officers and soldiers dare to catch up, they are naturally confident. If they really want to face these officers and soldiers head-on, Chuang Potian feels that there is a high probability that they will not be able to beat them.

After much deliberation, Chuang Potian felt that he could only stand by and wait for help.

Let's guard it first, and wait for his [-] troops to catch up, then maybe the situation will change. At the same time, he also sent people north to Ruzhou City to let his colleagues under Ruzhou City go south to rescue him.

He figured that it shouldn't be a problem to rely on the army's stored food to defend on the spot for ten and a half months.

And the friendly army over Ruzhou City should not sit back and watch him be destroyed in Lushan County. After all, after this army of officers and soldiers kills him, the next step may be to go north to Ruzhou City.

At that time, all the friendly forces under the city of Ruzhou will be in a situation where they will be attacked from both sides.

Therefore, there is still a certain probability that the friendly troops in Ruzhou City will go south to rescue.

After making the decision in his heart to stick to it and wait for help, Chuang Potian didn't run away at all, and directly ordered the construction of a defensive camp, using various carriages and distance horses brought with the army to build the camp.

Seeing that the 2000 people in Chuang Potian stopped running and started to build a camp instead, Wang Xiazi showed a smile on his face.

The other party is courting death!

If the opponent is determined to fight directly with the main force of the Chinese army, then it may be possible to win a chance by relying on the superiority of troops.

Or just disperse and escape. Although his cavalry post can chase some of them, his own cavalry is small after all, and there are more than 100 half-baked cavalry on the opposite side who can restrain him.

If the other party directly ordered a sudden and rapid retreat, it was too much to dare to say, but it is not a problem to escape hundreds of people.

But sticking to it and waiting for help, this is purely looking for death!
As long as your general arrives with the main force of infantry and artillery, relying on the range advantage of your own artillery, the opponent can only be gradually defeated in the shelling.

Around noon, Luo Zhixue also successfully led the infantry and artillery units to arrive here.

After arriving at the place, Luo Zhixue first listened to Wang Xiazi's report, and then learned from the scouts that there was a larger bandit group more than 20 miles to the north.

Luo Zhixue didn't intend to wait anymore, and let the troops prepare and then attack.

Anyway, the so-called camp on the opposite side is nothing more than obstacles created by some carriages, distance horses, and nearby felled trees.

You can't stop your own artillery at all!
The next attack is still the old rule, Zhang Malin's artillery post will go first!

Two 300-jin artillery pieces went straight forward to a distance of about [-] meters and began to bombard.

Ten two-hundred-jin and one-hundred-jin light guns moved forward to a distance of more than 100 meters and began to bombard.

After the sound of rumbling guns, Chuang Potian realized that he had made a wrong choice...

When the weird gray officers and soldiers on the opposite side were shelling, he lacked the corresponding means of counterattack.

Because they don't have artillery...

Not to mention artillery that can fire several hundred meters, even light artillery that weighs one or two hundred kilograms.

There are some bows and arrows, but the range is too short to go up at all.

After the opponent started shelling, they could only drag on the wooden boards, or even lie on the temporary mounds to hide, and suffered a lot of shelling and caused casualties.

What happened next was easy and no surprises!
When the Baoxiangying suppressed the opponent with artillery, the archers and musketeers stepped forward one after another to continue the fire suppression.

The opponent who was hitting couldn't lift his head at all, Chuang Potian tried to fight back at one point, and sent his half-baked cavalry to try to rush out to attack the artillery position of the Baoxiang Battalion.

As a result, not long after it came out, it was first harvested by the archers and musketeers of the Baoxiangying Camp.

The rest of the half-baked cavalry managed to get close to the artillery position. As a result, the artillery of the Baoxiang Battalion sprayed out a lot of shrapnel...

In the end, the cavalry led by Wang Xiazi rushed over from the flanks, shot a wave on the horse's back, and then directly brandished their sabers to kill them.

After chopping melons and vegetables all the way, only twenty or thirty of the half-baked cavalry under Chuang Potian's command fled in embarrassment.

And before they attack, there are about 150 riders...

There is no way to fight this battle.

Looking at the remnant cavalry of one's own side retreating in embarrassment in front of them, and looking at the terrified subordinates around them, as well as a large number of wounded and howling wounded soldiers, Chuangpotian showed a deep sense of despair!
This is different from what he expected when he led his army south!
　There will be another chapter later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)