The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 183

Behind Zhu Jiadi, more than 600 heavy cavalry followed closely, like a red-hot iron ball rolling into the snow, splitting the enemy formation in half without any hindrance, leaving a straight line of flesh and blood behind. aisle".

Zhu Jiadi led the team to kill the Jianlu team and rushed out from the south side.The entire Qing army position was in chaos, so they did not encounter frontal resistance at all.

Even though sporadic arrows and lead bullets hit them, under the protection of the three millimeter thick fine steel armor, they couldn't cause any effective damage at all.

In fact, until this time, most of the Qing army hadn't figured out what happened and who they were fighting.

The fear brought by the heavy cavalry has not yet dissipated, and nearly [-] hussars followed closely behind, rushing in from the gap in the enemy's formation.

Unlike the heavy cavalry who are mainly responsible for breaking through the enemy's defenses, the task of the hussars is to kill and injure as many active forces as possible.

Due to the extremely short distance, hundreds of Qing soldiers were killed by a single round of short-wheeled blunderbusses.Afterwards, these hussars wielded their cavalry swords and slashed left and right among the captive army. Without the restraint of heavy armor, the accuracy and frequency of their slashing were astonishingly high.

When Zhao Shichao led the hussars to fight out from the south side of Jianlu, when he looked back, he saw that the road behind him was already paved with flesh and blood, and at least six or seven hundred Qing soldiers fell in disorder on the ground.

The place where the two teams of cavalry passed through had obviously become a purgatory in the hearts of the Qing army. Everyone rushed to flee to both sides, and a "crack" a hundred paces wide appeared abruptly in the army formation.

In the darkness, Fan Shaozu couldn't see how many enemy cavalry had killed him. He only knew that these cavalry were well-formed and had amazing combat effectiveness. Just one surprise attack brought his troops to the verge of collapse.

A word flashed in his mind—Guan Ning Iron Cavalry, once the most powerful cavalry unit in Ming Dynasty.In his cognition, probably only Guan Ning cavalry can be so powerful.No, the heavy armor worn by these cavalry and the firecrackers in their hands are far better than those of Guan Ning's iron cavalry.

When did the Ming army have such a powerful cavalry unit? !
"General, what are we going to do?"

Fan Shaozu was awakened by the words of the guard beside him, "What should I do?" He knew very well that if the cavalry in this group turned their horses around and made another charge like just now, his men would be defeated in an instant.

When he looked around, he saw his men and horses crying and howling like ghosts, running around like headless chickens, how could they follow his orders?

When he turned to the back, he saw the twenty grain carts in the rear were still lined up neatly. Although the soldiers guarding the grain shrank behind the carriages in fright, they did not fall into chaos.

He waved to his personal guards, "Follow me." He patted his horse and rushed to the rear army, shouting orders, "Li Jianming, Gao Tong, gather the soldiers and block the enemy's cavalry for me!"

"Observe, obey..."

The two officers also saw the horror of those cavalrymen just now. Although they were extremely reluctant to fight with them, they did not dare to disobey the orders of their own generals.

With great effort, the two barely managed to drag the nearly two thousand soldiers out from behind the grain truck, when they looked up, they saw a long and narrow array of torches on the north side pressing towards them.Looking from a distance, the end of the long formation was hidden in the night, probably at least two miles long!
Fan Shaozu was also taken aback, and looked at the enemy cavalry on the south side, although they were lined up neatly, they didn't seem to have the intention to charge forward.His heart turned cold, the Ming army was preparing to attack back and forth!You have to find a way to get out.

He looked back and forth, and finally, those cavalrymen shocked him too much, he pointed to the north, and said to Li Jianming and Gao Tong: "Come out with me!"

Waiting for the rattan players and spearmen to gather in front of the queue tremblingly, the bow and gunmen scattered behind and barely formed a conical assault formation. Fan Shaozu immediately brandished his sword and ordered the whole army to charge.

As soon as his men and horses walked more than ten feet away, they saw two neat rows of flames stop at a distance of eighty or ninety steps.

Li Jianming and Gao Tong knew that the Ming army was forming an formation to stop them, so they had to bite the bullet and lead the army to charge forward.The next moment, they heard shouts from the other side, "Aim!"

"put!"

In the night not far away, two rows of dazzling flames erupted instantly. Accompanied by a loud noise, thousands of lead bullets penetrated into the ranks of the Qing army like dense raindrops.

At the moment when he heard the sound of the blunderbuss on the opposite side, Fan Shaozu planned to let his men shoot back with the blunderbuss, but when he looked at his army formation again, his eyelids twitched in shock—it was the row of blunderbuss just now. The number of rattan players in front of the formation has decreased by half, and at least 300 people died!
Originally, the morale of his soldiers was low. After this heavy blow, no one dared to move forward.If it weren't for Li Jianming and Gao Tong's desperate efforts to restrain them, the whole army might break up and flee immediately.

Fan Shaozu was at a loss when he suddenly saw the same two rows of Ming troops approaching him neatly and steadily behind the two rows of Ming troops just now.

Afterwards, a series of unison shouts came out from the Ming army.

"All reload!"

"Standing!"

"aim!"

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Wang Xian stared blankly at a group of cavalry that swept past Fan Shaozu's army like the wind.

An uncontrollable fear suddenly surged in his heart, not because these cavalry pierced through Fan Shaozu's main formation without stopping, but because he saw from a distance that they were able to maintain their speed while galloping at night. Live in fairly neat formation.

It can be seen that this cavalry drill is excellent!
He knew that facing such a strong army would be a disaster, so he hastily ordered the whole army to go west immediately and flee back to the Qing army camp.

It was very difficult to send messages and command at night. He was still ordering his soldiers to form a formation north to meet the enemy.

In addition, until now, there are still some brains under Fan Shaozu behind him who are still chasing after him, and the chaos intensifies.

In the end, only 900 people followed him and fled towards Daying. Unexpectedly, before they ran far, they saw a neat formation of long snakes lying across the road ahead.

"When did these people form an formation here?!" Wang Xian was shocked, and looked back at Fan Shaozu's tribe that was on the verge of collapse. Rush over!"

(End of this chapter)