Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 375 Desperate

The heavy cavalry began to prosper during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and developed greatly during the Song and Jin Dynasties. The name of the Iron Buddha was passed down to later generations.

During the battle between Song and Jin, he fought heavy armor many times, leaving a lot of valuable experience for later generations. Although the heavy armor cavalry is invincible, he also has shortcomings. It is inconvenient for knights to move around in heavy armor.

Although the current heavy cavalry of the Qing army are not connected by iron chains like the iron stupa, they can only run in a straight line, but it is still very difficult to move, and they cannot be as flexible as the light cavalry.

At this time, the Qing army was heavily cavalry, and after passing through the formation, they were attacking the back of Li Guo's troops. They entered the central army obliquely from the right wing, and then made a small turn, trying to kill from the left wing, and then reorganized the formation , continue to charge.

But just as they turned around, a Ming army cavalry chased them up and killed several people in an instant.

The heavy armored cavalry were stunned. Their bodies were fixed on the horses, and they couldn't turn around to kill the enemy. And the horses carried hundreds of catties of armor, and they couldn't outrun the Ming cavalry. He never thought that he would fight them head-on, but he followed them all the time even though he could surpass them, hitting their backs non-stop with the three-eyed gun.

Heavy armored cavalry are covered in armor from head to toe. The iron helmet and neck guard on their heads alone weigh more than ten kilograms, so it is very difficult for them to turn their heads and look behind them, let alone use weapons to fight against them. The Ming army is behind.

The Ming army cavalry quickly surrounded the back and sides of the heavy cavalry. The heavy cavalry could not stop or turn around. They had no choice but to do nothing about the Ming army light cavalry chasing them.

The Ming army was not equipped with blunt weapons such as maces and big axes, but the three-eyed blunderbuss could be used as a blunt weapon. Wang Shixiu raised the three-eyed blunderbuss high and smashed it on the head of a heavy cavalry in front of him with all his strength. There was a crisp metal collision sound, and the heavy cavalry's iron helmet was completely dented, and the heavy cavalry shook twice, leaned over on the horse's back, apparently fainted from the shock.

A young cavalryman of the Ming army, about seventeen or eighteen years old, chased a Qing army heavy cavalry with a three-eyed blunderbuss and smashed it. He hit the heavy cavalry seven or eight times , but the opponent is still standing.

When he was in a hurry, a Ming Army General Banner slapped the horse and passed between him and the heavy cavalry. He swung the three-eyed gun and smashed it on the back of the heavy cavalry. One side was tilted, but the horse and the horse couldn't fall to the ground together. His weight, dragging the galloping horse suddenly lost its balance, and one of the horses stumbled and fell heavily.

In the past, there were generally two ways to break heavy armor.

The first one is to pierce with a sharp weapon, and the other is to do the opposite and hit with a blunt weapon. What it pursues is not to break your armor, but to cause internal injuries to the enemies in the armor! The jaw-dropping scene was staged in front of Boluo. More than 2000 heavy armored cavalry were chased and beaten by the Qing cavalry of the Ming army, powerless to fight back.

Those who could become heavy armored cavalry were the elite of the Eight Banners. They were beaten terribly by blunt weapons. It was not until they rushed into Li Guo's infantry on the left wing that Wang Shixiu had to lead the light cavalry to give up chasing.

Undoubtedly, the heavy cavalrymen easily pierced through the left wing of the Ming army from Li Guo's back, and the heavy armored cavalry who came out of the formation once again returned to the formation in shock.

At this time, the Qing army's light cavalry were still harassing the formation, and the left wing, which was pierced by the heavy cavalry, was in chaos again, with heavy casualties among the soldiers.

Emperor Longwu came to the building car and witnessed the scene just now. His heart was extremely shocked. He also raised troops to serve the king and experienced battles, but that was just fighting against bandits. In comparison, the opponents are not as fierce as the Qing soldiers.

Long Wu stood on the high platform and scanned the entire battlefield. The place where the heavy armored cavalry raided was simply horrible. The soldiers who were crushed to death and trampled to death were in terrible condition.

The Qing cavalry of the Qing army are still full of vigor, riding around and shooting tirelessly, as if they will never stop until the arrows are fired!
Seeing this, Wang Yan was not optimistic. He knew that he had underestimated the enemy a little. The successive victories in Huguang and Jiangxi, killing Luck Dehun, made him a little overconfident.

Boluo has far more troops than Wang Yan, but Wang Yan was not satisfied with being undefeated at the beginning, but wanted to win, so he put [-] supervisors behind him to recharge his batteries, hoping to wait After the Qing army's attack was frustrated, he was able to defend and counterattack to cover up and kill the Qing army, but at this time he only wanted the army to remain undefeated.

"Your Majesty~" Wang Yan saw that Long Wu's face was not looking good, so he quickly said: "Your Majesty, this place is too dangerous, please temporarily move your Majesty to the rear army and wait for news from your ministers."

Long Wu felt the worry in Wang Yan's heart, and also saw the strength of the Qing army's heavy cavalry, but shook his head, suddenly took Wang Yan's hand, and said firmly: "Even if it is the royal conquest, I will not go anywhere, just stand After Aiqing dies, witness Aiqing defeating the enemy with my own eyes~"

When Wang Yan realized that he had underestimated the enemy, Boluo in the distance also fell into entanglement. Like Wang Yan, he came to fight this battle with the determination to win, but the result was that no one could win. Can't help anyone.

The function of heavy armored cavalry is very single. It only does one thing, which is to break the formation! It has only one tactic, which is shock!
But the tactic used by the Ming army cavalry now is to wait for him to go out in battle, round the blunt weapon from behind and smash it!
Although this attack penetrated the Ming army's large formation, the heavy cavalry also lost more than 500 people. If the tactics were not changed and the fight continued like this, the heavy cavalry would definitely be finished, and the harassing light cavalry would also lose a lot.

At that time, I don't know whether his heavy cavalry will be exhausted first, or Wang Yan's formation will collapse first.

With the physical strength of the heavy armored cavalry, he could still attack at least twice. He felt that Wang Yan's soldiers and horses would definitely not be able to withstand two attacks, and would be smashed into a mess, but his heavy armored cavalry would also be killed or injured.

Although as long as Wang Yan's formation is in chaos, Boluo can seal the victory, but whether it is worth taking all the heavy cavalry, Boluo is very entangled in his heart.

"Wang Yan is a famous general of the Nanming Dynasty. As long as he is defeated, Nanming will have no one to contend with the Qing Dynasty. Killing [-] enemies and injuring [-] self-defeating ones will clear up future troubles for the Qing Dynasty. It seems that Longwu is also on the watch chariot. As long as this The two of them were captured, and it was worth the death of only two thousand heavy armored cavalry!"

After making up his mind, Boluo showed the qualities that a famous general should have, without any hesitation, without procrastinating, he immediately issued a military order.

After reorganizing their formation, the heavy armored cavalry started walking again and rushed towards the Ming army's formation, but it was different from the last time. Two thousand light armored cavalry followed behind them and rushed towards the left wing of the Ming army.

These light cavalry were the cover troops released by Boluo in order to prevent the Ming cavalry from chasing the heavy cavalry again.

When the cavalry had just launched and Bo Luo had decided to put all his eggs in one basket, he glanced at the Ming Array, but suddenly found that Wang Yan still had a cavalry, which had not moved.

That is the other five thousand supervisors led by Yuan Zongdi, who is on the same side as Jin Shengheng and at the tail of the army. From the start of the war to the present, they seem to have taken root, without any action!
Bo Luo suddenly realized that even if the Ming army's infantry was chaotic, this horse army would still cover the retreat of the defeated army. In the end, the Qing army would still not be able to gain much advantage.

Thinking of this, Boluo couldn't help being furious!
(Thanks to Qin Songwang, who was so happy for the reward from a group of fools, and thanks to the descendants of Ziye Saburo for the gift.)
(End of this chapter)