The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 324
The "ambush" of the Ming army apparently also spotted Puyongzhou's men and horses. The leader, a middle-aged general in silver cotton armor, raised his hand to signal the team to stop, and asked people to come forward to find out if it was an enemy or a friend.

After receiving the order to stop advancing, his soldiers not only stopped, but also consciously formed a defensive formation, and their military literacy was quite extraordinary.

After a while, Tanma reported back, saying that the troops of Tang Jiabin from Yunnan were in front, and there was a large group of soldiers and horses fighting fiercely in the distance, which should be Lord Zhai's troops.

The silver-armored general didn't say much, and only asked the flag officer to wave the flag and give orders.

Afterwards, the soldiers behind him moved quickly, and every 25 people formed four rows of regular triangular formations, a total of thirty teams lined up.

Pu Yongzhou was still thinking about how to fight, when he saw that the enemy army on the opposite side had already set up a formation, and he was surprised by the speed of the movement.

But then he discovered that the enemies were basically infantry, and the number was not much larger than himself, so he made up his mind.Generally speaking, using cavalry to deal with similar numbers of infantry will have a big advantage.

He was about to order a surprise attack, when he suddenly heard the sound of dense drums from the opposite side, and the horizontal formation of the enemy army took the initiative to attack him.

It's just madness!Pu Yongzhou said angrily in his heart, some infantry want to resist my six hundred cavalry?I want to teach you how powerful it is!Pointing forward with his saber, he loudly ordered his cavalry to charge.

The men and horses on both sides were getting closer and closer, and Pu Yongzhou could see clearly that the pawns on the opposite side were all holding white spears that were one foot six or seven feet long. Like a large hook and sickle gun.The tail of the spear is a huge iron ring, which seems to be used for counterweight.

When he was about thirty steps away from these spear-wielding pawns, the sound of drums on the opposite side stopped suddenly, and then all the soldiers leveled their spears and pointed them straight forward.In an instant, a wall of spear points appeared in front of the entire formation.

Naturally, Pu Yongzhou would not foolishly bump into the spear that was as tall as three people.The advantage of the cavalry lies in its flexibility. He immediately yelled, ordering his men to divide into two groups, and circled to the two sides of the enemy's formation, intending to break through from the flanks.

And the silver-armored general didn't seem to see it, and he didn't change his formation accordingly, only asking the flag officer to raise a red flag with a bow and arrow painted on it.

Immediately, the only fifty crossbowmen behind the spearman fired their bows and arrows at the same time.Since Pu Yongzhou was almost maneuvering next to the spearmen's battle formation, and the distance was extremely close, seven or eight people were shot and fell off immediately.

Pu Yongzhou didn't know how to ride a horse and shoot arrows like Jianlu, so he could only grit his teeth and run to the enemy's flank with his bow and crossbow, circled around again, and regrouped to prepare for the attack.It's just that after this journey, more than 40 rides have been damaged.

When he saw that the enemy line ignored him and was still heading towards the main battlefield, he couldn't help sneering in his heart, these people must have seen the Chinese army in chaos and rushed to rescue them, but they dared to despise me so much, so they left their lives here.

He used the horn as an order, and the cavalry on both sides attacked the two wings of the spearmen's battle formation at the same time.Seeing that they were only fifty or sixty steps away from the enemy, the people in Pu Yongzhou waved their sabers one after another, thinking about how many heads they could get.

But at the next moment, three rapid drumbeats sounded from the spear formation, and the soldiers on both sides of the battle formation immediately put away their spears, turned to face the enemy cavalry, and then laid their spears flat again.

Since they are all in a regular triangle formation, they only need to turn around on the spot and complete the change in an instant.

What surprised Pu Yongzhou even more was that these enemy troops did not choose to defend in place like ordinary infantry faced with cavalry, but rushed straight towards him!

For a war horse, fifty or sixty paces can be reached in the blink of an eye, but it was already too late for him to avoid the battle, so he had to bite the bullet and stand up to meet him.

Those spearmen were also very experienced. Seeing the enemy cavalry rushing in front of them, they thrust the tails of their spears obliquely on the ground and stepped on them with their feet.Immediately, the enemy's war horse was too late to stop and hit the spear point with its head, and blood spurted out for a distance of one foot.

For a while, people shouted and neighed, and more than 200 cavalry from Puyongzhou were forced to stop abruptly by four infantry triangular squadrons.

Afterwards, another six 25-man spearman squads ran up, but instead of engaging in combat, they circled behind the cavalry and prepared to encircle them.

Pu Yongzhou was shocked, and wanted to fight for his life, but his saber was far from reaching the opponent, and those pawns holding spears were extremely fierce, they couldn't help screaming and stabbing with their spears like wild animals.

The people in Puyongzhou were immediately frightened by the situation. From time to time, some people were stabbed by spears and fell off their horses screaming.

Pu Yongzhou looked around, and saw that the infantry who came from behind had almost surrounded him, his heart tightened, and he hurriedly called his men to get out from the gap of the enemy army.

However, those spearmen took advantage of his turning around and rushed up to stab wildly, or hooked the horse down with the barb of the spear point, and the screams were endless.

After Pu Yongzhou ran for a mile or two, seeing that the enemy hadn't come after him, he asked his subordinates to count the number of people, but found that there were only less than forty adults left, and everyone was injured.

He took a breath, but saw that the spearman continued to rush to the main battlefield without looking back.

He frowned suddenly. If General Tang knew that a group of enemy reinforcements had been missed from his side, he might not be able to understand it after being whipped.

After hesitating for a while, he led his team to kill from behind those spearmen.But still the same as before, the enemy soldiers just turned around on the spot, and the weird triangular formation turned to face him.

This charge caused Pu Yongzhou to lose another forty or fifty riders, and he himself was shot in the arm by an arrow, so he didn't dare to do it again, and only watched the seven or eight hundred people pouring into the rebellious army from a distance.

The silver-armored general took the lead, smashing the thorns with the big spear in his hand, setting off a bloody storm.

His spearmen still maintained a triangular formation, and every time the thirty squads made a neat move, dozens of enemy soldiers were knocked to the ground.

At the same time, these soldiers kept shouting, "The White Army of the Qin family has come to meet Lord Zhai!"

After Zhai Shixu's subordinates heard the news, they all hurriedly gathered behind the white pole army, and the chaotic scene eased slightly.

Seeing that his right wing had changed, Pan Shigui had no choice but to leave behind Zhai Shixu who was already surrounded, and led his own people to rush for reinforcements.

Bringing it closer, I saw hundreds of spearmen lined up in a horizontal line, striking fiercely and neatly, stabbing their elite Husa knife hands into a mess.

Knowing that he was the key to the victory, he shouted with red eyes: "Dodge the spear point and kill the enemy close to you! Anyone who retreats, behead!"

Sha Dingzhou is a ruthless person, he has always regarded the natives on his territory as his own slaves, and killing them all depends on his whim.As for the soldiers in his army, it was even more so. Cutting off their noses and hands was a common occurrence when they disobeyed a little on weekdays.If you want to move forward on the battlefield, if you dare to hesitate, not only your own life will be in danger, but your family will also be harmed.

Because of Pan Shigui's order, his choppers had no choice but to move forward desperately.

It was quite difficult to control the six-foot long spear. The enemy rushed forward desperately, and quite a few got through the gap between the spear points.

(End of this chapter)