A century-old family that runs through the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 28
A large number of cavalry rushed out from both sides, and the Soochow soldiers, who were already panicked and frustrated, immediately began to flee in all directions, regardless of the generals' scoldings!

However, facing the cavalry with your back is the most wrong approach.Two legs, do you still want to run on four legs?
Unfortunately, people often lose their minds when in extreme fear.

Cavalry, there are cavalry everywhere, the shining blades reflect the cold moonlight, and a massacre has officially begun!
Lu Zhen could only watch all this in despair. The [-]-strong army had collapsed, and he had completely lost the ability to command.

He knew that he had lost completely.

Because he did not have enough cavalry to resist, and the infantry was routed and could no longer obey his orders.If the infantry does not form a formation, then there will be no power to fight back in front of the cavalry.

As for where Xiwu came from so many cavalry, he was not very surprised. He just hated his lack of cavalry, which was why he had almost no counterattack in the face of the enemy's charge.

The end of the Yuan Dynasty was a very special period. The specific reason is that compared with the peasant rebel armies at the end of other dynasties who could only use their two legs to resist the four legs of the official army, the rebels and the Yuan army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty had less strength in cavalry. The difference is not big.

This starts from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty.

After the Mongols took over the Central Plains, they became big landowners one by one. Naturally, they were not willing to graze sheep as hard as before. As time went by, they "gradually learned to farm and cultivate like the Han people", so that they suddenly When Kublai Khan established himself as Khan in Kaiping, the Mongolian nobles under him could not even equip the army with horses. Kublai Khan was forced to urgently buy tens of thousands of horses from all over the Central Plains before he finally gathered the cavalry and went north to fight with Ali. Brother fights for supremacy.

Isn't this a joke that the Mongols, who conquer the world on horseback, don't even have enough horses?So after this incident, Kublai Khan successively established racecourses in Liaoyang, Datong, Taiyuan, Zhending, Yidu, Huaimeng, Qingchi, Nanpi, Guangping and other places.With the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, horse farms gradually appeared in the south.

This led to the fact that the rebels at the end of the Yuan Dynasty were the richest group in the entire history of China. They could even engage in large-scale cavalry hedging with the Yuan army.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown of Huaixi, there is the largest horse farm in the south - Huaixi Horse Farm.

Therefore, although Zhu Yuanzhang's navy was extremely weak, his cavalry was extremely strong. Chang Yuchun and Xu Da were both masters at this.

What is more unfortunate is that Zhang Shicheng's territory is in the south of the Yangtze River. There are many waterways there, which is not suitable for raising horses. Therefore, Zhang Shicheng does not have many cavalry. Even the horses there are produced by Huaixi Racecourse!
At this time, Soochow's disadvantage in cavalry was completely revealed.

Without cavalry, Lu Zhen couldn't even put up a decent resistance!

Twenty thousand cavalrymen trampled Lu Zhen's troops unscrupulously. The soldiers of Soochow Wu ran away crying, and the soldiers of Western Wu galloped their horses unscrupulously. They bent down casually, waved their sabers, and several heads fell to the ground. Some soldiers tried to resist, but were easily killed.

Some Soochow soldiers were trampled by the tall horses, with half of their bodies rotten into a puddle of flesh and blood; some soldiers bumped into the horse's chest, and the huge impact instantly broke their bones and tendons.

The cavalry of Xiwu were so relaxed and happy, and their commander was none other than Zhu Wenzhong!
In the original history, after Zhu Wenzheng, the highest officer of the Dudufu was Zhu Wenzhong. This shows that Zhu Yuanzhang attached great importance to his nephew, and it also shows that Zhu Wenzhong's amazing military talent was fully utilized at this time.

Lu Zhen reluctantly gathered [-] people, formed a formation, and marched slowly backwards. However, he was surprised to find that although the cavalry had discovered this troop, they only followed behind, and at the same time prevented the rest of the broken troops from running towards Lu Zhen. Jane, did not force the battle.

They seemed to be driving them away, like a pack of wolves driving their prey into their own trap?
Lu Zhen discovered this, but what could he do?About seven or eight thousand cavalry gathered behind them and kept driving them away. If the Soochow army stopped, they would also rein in their horses and then treat them with a rain of arrows, forcing Lu Zhen to lead the troops and continue to retreat.

Besides, even if we don’t withdraw, what can we do?They will also die when the Xiwu army in the city frees up their hands.

On both sides, there are also cavalry from Western Wu. Once any Dongwu army tries to flee in all directions, they will catch up and strike without hesitation.

Lu Zhen led the troops to retreat continuously. Suddenly, there was a huge noise from the front, and the defeated soldiers rushed to the back, as if they had encountered something terrible.He poked his head out from the crowd and saw a scene that made him despair.

Just in front of them on the official road, countless Xiwu soldiers formed a formation, with a large number of artillery and firecrackers standing in front. The soldiers behind them had their bows and arrows bent, and they had obviously been waiting for them for a long time.

The sound of huge drums resounded across the battlefield, and the cavalrymen began to retreat in unison, surrounding them from a distance, as if they were watching a show.

Lu Zhen understood.

The reason why the cavalry did not directly charge into the battle was not that they couldn't do it, but they just didn't want to pay casualties!After all, we have 4 troops. Although the cavalry has overwhelmed the Soochow Army, there are still some generals in the rebel army who gathered their troops to resist like Lu Zhen did. Moreover, if the Soochow Army fled in all directions, even if they dispersed to pursue them, they would still be defeated. There will be many things that slip through the net.

The Xiwu Army means to eat up the 10 people in Soochow in one bite, leaving not a single one left!
What a big ambition, what a big appetite!The scariest thing is, they really did it!
Yan Ling was the commander of the [-]-strong Xiwu Army. His eyes flashed with cold light. After the cavalry quickly withdrew from the battlefield, he gave the order to attack.

With continuous artillery fire, the Soochow Army once again fell into the fierce attack of the Western Wu Army.

After a while, the battlefield was in a mess.

Lu Zhen was lucky not to die in front of this terrifying firepower.

He opened the body of the soldier covering himself and sat up.

However, at this time, the Xiwu cavalry had begun charging again, and the surviving soldiers completely lost their will to resist. They either knelt on the ground and kowtowed, begging for surrender, or were killed by the cavalry while running.

Soon, the Xiwu Army noticed this guy with obviously different armor, and they surrounded him.

Facing the Xiwu cavalry who surrounded him with sabers, Lu Zhen's palms froze, and finally she weakly let go.

With a "clang" sound, the long sword rolled away into dust.

King Wu, Fei Zhen is incompetent in battle, but he is actually a false king who has many capable men, full of clever tricks, and is invincible!

In this battle, Soochow's [-]-strong army was wiped out. General Lu Zhen was captured. There were [-] soldiers outside the city. More than [-] people were captured and surrendered. The rest were all killed in battle. Only less than a hundred people managed to escape.

The city of Quzhou turned into white ground.

Of the [-] Dongwu troops in the city, only more than [-] survived, and the rest were all killed in the flames.

The Western Wu army lost about a thousand people.

Big win!

(End of this chapter)