Valley Emperor

Li Xuan deployed many troops from the Chinese Army, as well as the forward troops commanded by Hao Bainian, just to fight against the more than 1,000 cavalry of the Ming army. It is conceivable that these cavalry of the Ming army were given to him and other generals of the new Tang army. How much stress they caused.

Of course, even if a large number of troops were dispatched to fight against the Ming cavalry, there would still be guards around Li Xuan. The remaining two teams in the guards battalion, about 300 people, still surrounded Li Xuan. , as Li Xuan's last shield to prevent all kinds of accidents.

At this time, Zeng Ziwen looked at the cavalry of the Ming army who came slowly in the distance, and said to Li Xuan with a slightly trembling voice: "Your Majesty, I will win this battle!"

It's just that these words match his expression and tone, which makes him lack confidence!

On the other side of the battlefield, Mr. Long, like Taigong Jiang who was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai Island, observed the entire battlefield with a down-looking gaze, looking at his heroic demeanor!

"When our army's elite cavalry enters the bandit army, it is the time when the bandit army collapses. Here, I would like to congratulate Mr. Long in advance that you have pacified the pseudo-Tang bandit army in one fell swoop, and maybe you can capture the pseudo-emperor Li Xuan alive!" The old man Qianhu had a charming smile on his face as always.

Lord Long nodded slightly: "The battle has been fought so far, it's time to decide the winner!"

The winner? Naturally, this does not mean to decide the winner, but to win!

More than 1,000 cavalrymen are dispatched, and there is no reason not to win!

This is more than 1,500 cavalry, it is impossible not to win!

Well, impossible!

Although these pseudo-Tang thieves in front of them have sharper firearms, um, those heavy armored infantry teams don't look bad, but so what, these are more than a thousand cavalry.

In the vast China, except for the northern frontier army and the Beijing camp, there are not so many cavalry in other places.

Although the cavalry under his command were all temporarily recruited from various units, and most of them were half-hearted cavalry.

Therefore, these more than 1,000 cavalrymen will definitely be able to break the bandit army, to change the current deadlock on the battlefield, and to restore the current decline faced by the infantry.

Nima, there are more than 20,000 people on his side, although more than half of them are young and strong people, but there are also tens of thousands of regular troops, including recruits from various prefectures and the personal soldiers of senior generals. Five or six thousand pseudo-Tang thieves were pressed and attacked, and Qiu Yu's troops who rushed out of the city were defeated, and more than two thousand people ran back.

This Qiu Yu, bastard, this officer must read his book, how did he bring soldiers!

He was handed over to him in command of more than 2,000 people before and after, and the Bronze Drum Fortress was successfully captured in the front. It is said that he also killed a lot of the pseudo-Tang thief army. Later, under the main counterattack of the pseudo-Tang thief army, he also defended the Tonggu Fortress. He waited until he led the main force to arrive. Judging from his previous performance, Qiu Yu should have played well!

But what happened to Qiu Yu and his troops today, let him lead the army out of the city to cooperate with the main force, this is a very sure thing, if 3,000 people rushed out of Tonggu Weicheng, even if the pseudo-Tang bandit army has three heads and six arms, it will It's impossible to support it for a long time under the situation of being pinched back and forth.

At that time, without the need for cavalry to attack, he will be able to win this battle by relying on the main infantry and the defenders of the Bronze Drum Acropolis.

But now, Qiu Yu has disappointed him too much. More than 3,000 people, only two or three hundred people came out to fight with real knives and real guns. The remaining 2,000 people were actually attacked by more than 100 fake Tang thieves. The army rushed back.

Even if he saw this with his own eyes, he still couldn't believe it was true.

The defeat of Qiu Yu's team made his strategy of attacking from the front and back failed, but this was nothing, he still thought that he could win this battle!

Because he still has an ace army!

More than fifteen hundred cavalry!

This force, no matter which battlefield it is placed on, is a vital force that can even affect the direction of the battle.

Under the watchful eyes of senior generals on both sides, the cavalry of the Ming army walked slowly over several hundred meters, and then entered the northwest side of the battlefield.

Then the leading Ming cavalry general shouted something, and led about a hundred cavalry at the front to start trotting. As the cavalry in front began to trot, the cavalry at the back naturally trotted.

And this trot, the momentum is even bigger!

The thumping sound of countless horses' hooves hitting the ground was continuously intertwined in the air, and then a huge sound wave spread throughout the battlefield.

At this time, the sound of hooves even overshadowed the shouts and gunshots of the infantry in the distance!

But at this time, Hao Bainian's expression that had been wrinkled was slightly relaxed, because the Ming cavalry in his sight couldn't maintain a dense formation as before after they started trotting.

Many cavalry began to disjoint, and even a little confusion!

Hao Bainian, who saw this scene, said on the spot, "These cavalrymen are definitely made up on the spot."

Although Hao Bainian is an infantry general, there are also cavalry in the Datang New Army. He has also observed the cavalry team in the Guards Battalion and the cavalry drills and even actual combat in the cavalry battalion many times. In his impression, even in his own Datang New Army The unprofessional cavalry unit was able to keep its formation neat and tidy. Even if it was not skilled enough in combat, the most basic formation could still be maintained.

At most, the formation will be scattered in the final high-speed charge stage, but in the marching and trotting stages, the formation can still be kept neat.

However, if these Ming cavalrymen are viewed separately, they will find that they still maintain a complete formation in detail, but most of them are organized in dozens or hundreds of people. However, these dozens and hundreds of people are Among the cavalry phalanxes, the actions were quite inconsistent.

In this way, a very embarrassing situation emerged, that is, when these Ming cavalry trotted, the overall formation was scattered, and even small-scale disjointed.

There can only be one such situation, that is, this Ming army cavalry has not undergone perfect training for large-scale operations, so there is no tacit understanding of such a lack of cooperation.

This can also explain a point, these Ming cavalry should be temporarily concentrated!

It should be more than ten or even dozens of small-scale cavalry gathered together!

Moreover, these cavalrymen did not have a direct subordinate relationship before, so it was difficult for the chief general to control the whole army when he was in command. This is because the chief cavalry general of the Ming army could only react directly with a hundred cavalry in the front, and the Ming army cavalry at the back just followed. You know when you react.

The chief general of this Ming army cavalry did not really command the cavalry directly, but indirectly!

As a result, facing this Ming army cavalry is not as difficult as expected!

After the Ming army cavalry trotted, the speed increased a lot, and appeared in a straight line from the northwest to the southeast of the Datang Xinjun left wing.

At this time, the ten heavy artillery pieces of the artillery battalion that had completed preparations in the rear also opened fire on the cavalry of the Ming army!

The solid ball shell spanned a distance of more than 400 meters and crashed directly into the Ming army cavalry array!

In the dense array of Ming army cavalry, **** canals were knocked out!

In an instant, these Ming cavalrymen were killed and injured a lot, but it was naturally impossible to defeat the 1,500 Ming cavalrymen with this level of artillery bombardment!

At this time, the cavalry of the Ming army after being shelled, the cavalry at the forefront no longer cares about the physical strength of the horse, and uses the spurs to stimulate the horse to start running wildly. They have to speed up and launch a high-speed charge!

Seeing that the Ming army cavalry mobilized the horses to launch the final charge, although the distance was still several hundred meters, the officers at the 1st Infantry Battalion at this time had already ordered: "Prepare!"

For the cavalry charging at high speed, a few hundred meters is just a very short time!

At this time, the 1st Infantry Battalion listed a four-corner phalanx specially designed to guard against cavalry charges. This phalanx was created by Li Xuan based on his limited memory, and to some extent imitated the Spanish phalanx and the hollow square. array.

The four sides of the phalanx are spearmen, and by convention, the heavy armored spearmen are in the front, and the light armored spearmen are in the back!

In the four corners, there are musketeers!

However, unlike the Spanish phalanx, in a regular infantry battalion of the Datang New Army, there are two teams of musketeers, and the ratio is relatively high. Therefore, in addition to the musketeers at the four corners, the musketeers are behind the spearmen. There are also musketeers.

In the middle of the phalanx, there are the archers, sword and shield soldiers and other cold weapon troops in the fifth team~www.wuxiaspot.com~ such a four-cornered phalanx of 500 people, in fact, in addition to dealing with cavalry, It can also be used for combat between infantry, but in terms of efficiency, it is far less effective than line combat.

After all, today's Datang New Army has barely entered the era of line combat, from equipment to training of troops, and the traditional phalanx is actually not suitable for them to fight.

The reason why the square is still used now is purely to deal with the cavalry!

When the musketeers completely replace the cold weapon troops such as spearmen in the future, this square phalanx will become a hollow phalanx!

The phalanx of the 1st Infantry Battalion is at the forefront, like a raised reef, and in front of it, a monstrous wave composed of more than a thousand cavalry swoops!

Closer, closer!

The shells flew through the sky and landed in the Ming army array, but this failed to stop the charge of the Ming army cavalry!

From 300 meters to 100 meters to 50 meters, at this moment, the soldiers in the front row of the 1st Infantry Battalion can clearly see the saber and other weapons waving in the hands of the Ming cavalry ahead. Many people are starting to tremble!

And under this huge pressure, someone finally couldn't stand it. He threw the musket in his hand and let out a shrill scream, while shouting "I want to go home!" while turning and running back!

But before he could take two steps, a lieutenant officer in the back just rode forward without any hesitation with the long knife in his hand. With one knife, he chopped off the head of the escaping musketeer. He didn't have time to wipe the spray on his face. The blood on the surface directly raised the command knife in his hand and shouted loudly: "The one who retreats without authorization is slashed!

Then, he shouted again:

"Our army will win this battle!"

"The Tang Dynasty is invincible!"