Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 174
At this time, Liu Zhaoji had no way to command the battle of the First Guards Cavalry Battalion A under the city of Huaining.

The commander of the No. [-] Cavalry Battalion is Cao Shuhui, the nephew of Cao Wenzhao who followed Zhou Yuji and participated in the rescue of King Qin in Beijing. He has superb riding skills and has participated in numerous cavalry battles. He and his father fought fiercely against the Tartars several times. Naturally, these servants under Zuo Liangyu's command were not comparable.

Although Zuo Liangyu hopes to block the first cavalry battalion with his own firearms battalion, Zuo Liangyu's firearms battalion is just infantry with blunderbuss as the main weapon. That's all.

Cao Shuhui resolutely led Yan Yingyuan and others to gallop over immediately before the firearms battalion started to put on the matchlocks.

"kill!"

Yan Yingyuan followed behind the commander Cao Shuhui and shouted, the three-eyed gun in his hand hastily lit the matchlock, and blasted at the guns of the Zuo army.

On the other hand, Cao Shuhui pulled a strong bow, and even killed three Zuo soldiers with three heavy arrows.

The cavalry of the guards rushed towards the left army like a meat tank, directly disrupted the formation of the left army, and began to slash and kill.

The Left Army Firearms Battalion collapsed immediately, and began to retreat crazily. After all, the firing speed of the blunderbuss in their hands was slow. The guard cavalry was not far away from him, so as soon as they broke through the formation of the left army's firearm battalion, the left army's firearms immediately collapsed.

The spear infantry of the left army was better, so they had to resist with their spears.

Just as Zuo Liangyu expected, the cavalry of the Guards had never experienced a battle. When they saw the spears, both the horses and the people were afraid, and they couldn't help slowing down.

Cao Shuhui also knew that no matter how well trained the newly mounted cavalry was, once they encountered sharp firearms or spears in this situation, they would feel frightened and dare not be the first to try to break through the formation.

He knew that at this time, he needed to take the lead as a commander.

Just like he followed the famous generals Cao Wenzhao and Zhou Yuji in the past, he knew that whether the cavalry could be invincible, the reason is that the generals are not afraid of death, and the soldiers dare not fight timidly.

At this time, Cao Shuhui shouted decisively: "The chief officers of the teams of all standard associations must take the lead and charge forward. Even if you are really afraid, even if you close your eyes, you have to charge forward! The horse charged once, and the next time I see you Swords, guns and firearms will no longer be fearful, go!"

Cao Shuhui directly clamped his horse's legs first and jumped towards a group of left soldiers who had the courage to stand up their spears to resist, but his horse was still pierced through the abdomen due to inertia.

Cao Shuhui resolutely changed to another horse before the horse fell down. He, an old cavalryman, always had a number of horses, but this time he rushed in when the enemy was knocked into chaos by his first horse, and directly pulled out his horse. The knife cut off the heads of several left soldiers, and then continued to gallop forward on the horses.

Yan Yingyuan also gritted his teeth and rushed towards Zuo Jun, but he was lucky. Zuo Jun, who just gritted his teeth and prepared to resist with a spear, saw the horse rushing towards him. run back.

Yan Yingyuan didn't have time to pull the reins, and of course he wouldn't pull the reins either. He sat down on his horse and trampled the fleeing Zuo Jun into a pulp.

As long as a cavalry rushes into the infantry camp, the following cavalry will increase their confidence and rush into the camp immediately, and the entire infantry camp will be in chaos. There is no other way but to run back crazily.

Cao Shuhui glanced at Yan Yingyuan who was behind him: "Yan Dianshi, you are so courageous, you didn't close your eyes to charge just now! But next time, remember that if the infantry escapes, remember to bend down. The horse is easy to slip on the body. Standing upright is easy to be used to falling to the ground, and it will not be just one person who will be trampled into flesh!"

"Thank you, General, for reminding me!"

Yan Yingyuan was already sweating all over his body at this time. Although he gritted his teeth and rushed over, he was also a little scared now, and after hearing what Cao Shuhui said, he was even more glad that his horse didn't step on it just now, but just stepped on it. On the back of the left army.

As soon as the guard cavalry rushed over, they collided with the retreating left army cavalry.

The guard cavalry had been trained in cavalry hedging before, and knew how to reduce the inertial damage of one's own side while killing the enemy in large numbers under the high-speed collision of two armies.

But at present, the left army retreated in a panic, and had no intention of fighting the guard cavalry at all. When they saw the cavalry approaching, they simply turned around from the left and right wings in an attempt to avoid the guard cavalry.

"General, we can't let this cavalry go!"

Yan Yingyuan shouted loudly, he really wanted to turn his horse's head and intercept the remnants of the left army who were trying to withdraw from both sides, but it was his first time participating in a cavalry battle, so he didn't know how to command, so he could only remind Cao Shuhui.

Cao Shuhui stared at the front with deep eyes, did not speak, but personally raised the command flag and gestured an order that the first to sixth signs should be close to the right wing, and the seventh to No.12 signs should be close to the left wing.

Only then did Yan Yingyuan remember that this kind of high-speed cavalry cannot turn their horses around in battle, as it is easy for the cavalry behind them to bump into them, causing chaos and heavy losses.

In this case, you can only slowly adjust the direction, you can't hit it directly, but embed it close, and use the machete to cause cuts to the enemy at high speed.

Under normal circumstances, in such a fast galloping situation, the machete can easily break through the heavy armor of a person.

However, there are also new cavalrymen of the Guards who forgot the rules for a while. Although they knew that Cao Shuhui's command flag was to let them follow their chief officer to approach the cavalry of the left army, but when they approached, some of them forgot to stab obliquely with a machete, but habitually Going to chop, the result is that the arm was directly hit and fractured or directly broken.

Cao Shuhui could only shout loudly to the cavalry around him: "Slant stab! Avoid frontal collision! Kill!"

Yan Yingyuan kept his balance as much as possible and followed behind Cao Shuhui to break the enemy's neck, and at the same time he shouted to the cavalry in his own position: "Captains take good care of their heads and stab obliquely with scimitars to avoid impact!"

After a charge, more than a thousand remnant cavalry of the left army were killed, and even those who were not killed were stumbled to the ground because the left army fell off their horses, causing chaos in the formation.

Seeing that the formation of the cavalry of the left army was in chaos, there was no way to retreat quickly.

Here, Cao Shuhui decisively waved the flag and ordered to slow down.

On the other side, the commander of the same old cavalry commander, the veteran of the frontier army, also ordered to slow down.

"Let go of the horse's belly, lightly pull on the rein, and turn around when the horse stops panting!"

After Cao Shuhui finished speaking, he turned his horse's head first, and charged towards the chaotic cavalry camp of the Zuo army. This time he fought close to each other, cutting and killing the Zuo army who were still running on horseback.

Wait until half an hour later.

All the more than [-] iron cavalry of the left army were wiped out.

The remaining infantry of the left army was even more disorganized. They only knew to run outside or to the base of the city wall, but the defenders of the left army on the city wall did not dare to open the city.

Therefore, a large number of left soldiers could only run outside the city wall.

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(End of this chapter)