Chapter 41 Starfall (1)
The Goryeo cavalry had rushed to the front of the Ming army.
When the cavalry charges, there is the power of thunder, and the heaven and earth tremble. It seems that they can be invincible, and wherever the horse's hooves pass, they are all powdered.
However, the Ming infantry was born to fight against the cavalry from the day when he carried the Sun and Moon battle flag. Since the founding Ming army of the Ming Dynasty headed north, he fought dozens of death with the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry. In the thirteenth battle of the Ming army entering the northern desert, the Ming army had already developed a whole body of steel and iron bones under the impact of the cavalry's cavalry.
Compared with the Mongol-Yuan Iron Cavalry, the Goryeo people have the most fatal weakness. Although Goryeo produces a lot of war horses, their cavalrymen are of varying quality. Raising war horses is a national act, not the individual act of the people.
The Korean cavalry are good at shooting, but most of their cavalry can't ride and shoot. However, the Korean cavalry, which has always claimed to be heavy cavalry fighting, lacks real heavy equipment.
In short, before the war started, they would pose a threat to the Ming army in terms of data. But after the war started, they were just four-way.
Crack, and amid the continuous bursting of spears, the leading Korean cavalry collided with the Ming army's gun formation. The war horses wailed and the knights screamed.
There seemed to be several huge gaps in the infantry positions of the Ming army, but in fact this was the Ming army's usual plan. When fighting with the cavalry, they would deliberately expose gaps and let the cavalry rush in, delay their speed, let them fall into the quagmire of infantry and lose their high-speed mobility.
The Ming army was square, square outside and round inside.
Six thousand Korean cavalrymen and the vanguard directly plunged into the flanks of the Ming army, and rushed out of a bloody road with their war horses and human lives.
However, the Goryeo cavalry who rushed into the Ming army's position were frightened and found that the enemy did not turn around and flee, leaving their backs for them. After they rushed in, the saber in their hands was hit by the hook gun and a long-handled axe from all directions before they could swing a few times.
Hook horse legs!
The soldiers of the Ming army shouted, and the Goryeo war horses in charge were directly cut off their legs by hook guns. The knights on the horse flew into the crowd of Ming army and smashed their heads by iron hammers and others.
However, the number of more than 6,000 cavalry was too large. If they rushed in continuously, the Ming army's position would definitely collapse.
So at the moment when the two sides were fighting head-on, the square formation next to the right wing of the Ming army began to quickly move towards the Koryo cavalry unit. The bows and arrows and artillery continued to cover the rear of the Koryo cavalry.
It seemed that the Ming army planned to use the number of personnel to entangle the Korean cavalry that was about to lose mobility. But at the moment they were moving, a gap appeared in the Ming army's position, which was originally tightly matched.
Park Changfu! Take someone to rush over!
The opportunity was right in front of me, and it was fleeting. Li Fangyuan gave a loud order and rushed into the gap of the Ming army!
In the blink of an eye, the second wave of attacking the Goryeo cavalry rushed directly from the other direction into the gap in the Ming army's position.
Li Fangyuan's judgment was correct. In the second wave of 6,000 people rushing in regardless of casualties, the Ming army's positions would be divided and formed several pieces. At that time, they would not be able to look after each other in the head and tail and would inevitably fall into panic.
Ha! In the Ming army, looking at the Goryeo cavalry rushing in, Zhu Yunxiu sneered again. He really didn't hit the wall and didn't look back. It was so stupid! As he said that, he waved his hand and wanted to die? I'd like to fulfill them!
Lan Yu, who was standing solemnly, silently tightened the jade belt around her waist. Then, with a stern face, he rode his horse directly to the front of the army.
Six hundred steps!
Five hundred steps!
Four hundred steps!
The soldiers watching were shouting desperately on the watchtower. The Ming soldiers on the ground had the same expression on their faces as Lan Yu who was commanding in the front line. They were all ancient Jing Bubo, and they looked like they were used to seeing big scenes.
Three hundred steps!
At this moment, Lan Yu suddenly shouted immediately, let it go!
Wow, a strange thing suddenly sounded between the heaven and earth, like the legendary ghost screaming. It was extremely sharp and particularly harsh.
I saw hundreds of pipes in the Ming army's positions. In the square cannon carts, ferocious rockets rushed directly to the rushing Koryo cavalry with choking white smoke.
The burning rockets were irregular in the air, storming left and right like snakes. On the fuse at their tails, when the flames disappeared, they suddenly exploded in the air.
The charge of the Goryeo cavalry was extremely shocked when facing the sudden secret weapons of the Ming army. But the next second they found that these rockets seemed aggressive, but in fact they were far from the lethality of bows and arrows and artillery.
But at this moment, they were even more frightened to find that the war horse under their crotch was restless.
The war horses were most afraid of noise, and most afraid of the sharp sounds they had never heard before. The charge of the Koryo cavalry formation suddenly became a little panicked.
At this moment, in the Ming army's positions, the spears that should have been erected on the ground suddenly moved. The Ming army in the front row separated a road, and countless large chariots with sharp barbs were pushed out. The Ming army was pushing them, and they actually came towards the charge of the Goryeo cavalry.
Thousands of Ming troops pushed the cart forward in the opposite direction, and the rain of arrows, rockets, and muskets swept over like rivers.
The knight controlled the terrified war horses and wanted to avoid the Ming army's formation. The big chariots that suddenly appeared had to slow down.
In the Ming army's positions, more than 1,600 musketeers fired uninterruptedly in front of them.
The smoke of gunpowder spreads everywhere.
The fire light kept flashing.
Blood has become a river.
However, the death order of the Goryeo cavalry was to rush in regardless of casualties.
Therefore, the Goryeo cavalry, who used as heavy cavalry, finally rushed into the Ming army's position after suffering a lot of casualties.
But when they rushed in, they were shocked to find that what they rushed in was a trap.
The Ming army's position was a huge hollow formation. The positions were everywhere dug in advance, hovering layer by layer, with trenches with bamboo sticks and wooden thorns inserted inside.
ah!
Amid a series of desperate exclamations from the Goryeo people, countless cavalrymen and horses were planted into the trench. It was like a bamboo stick with many large pieces of meat inserted.
At the same time, just as the Goryeo cavalry rushed in, Lan Yu changed the formation again.
In the rear army, the cavalry who had been warming up suddenly roared out from the flanks next to them, directly attacking the second wave of the Goryeo cavalry team, and directly breaking them in the middle.
The cavalry went back and forth and became entangled. The infantry of the Ming army directly submerged the Korean cavalry that rushed in.
Among the crowd, the long-handled axe was raised high and fell down fiercely. The Ming army's crossbowman abandoned the weapons in his hand, pulled out the short guy, and began to fight in close combat.
Not only in the Ming army, but also in the Central Plains dynasties, the most elite soldiers were these armored crossbowmen.
Since the prosperous Tang Dynasty, in all battle formations, crossbowmen are listed in front of the formation, and after shooting arrows in the front, they draw their swords forward.
If you look down from the sky, the Ming army's soldiers have turned into a tide and swallowed up the Goryeo cavalry.
Lan Yu immediately looked back at the central army's golden dragon flag when standing, looked back at Zhu Yunxi under the golden dragon yellow umbrella, and recalled what Zhu Yunxi said to him last night.
If you are a front guard of the Ming Dynasty, if you watch this battle on the wall, you will definitely leave regrets.
I promise you that you will be in command of the battle and fight. There will be criticism in the court, and the emperor will make a small decision. I will take responsibility for it!
Your Highness!
Lan Yu murmured to herself, tears hidden in her eyes.
Lan Yu would rather die in battle than be a useless old man who was farming at home! In the world, only His Highness knows his heart and knows what he thinks. Only His Highness still regards Lan Yu as a clerk of the Ming Dynasty.
With a whistle, Lan Yu pulled out the sword from his waist.
All the soldiers, follow me!
Ming Dynasty! Ten thousand victories!
In an instant, the cry came again. The 20,000 infantry in the Ming army's phalanx followed the direction of the commander and launched a counter-charge against the Goryeo cavalry that were entangled by the Ming army.
Kill!
Amid the shouts of killing that stirred the world, the Ming army was like a tide and the Goryeo army was like a pebble. The sun and moon battle flag was flying high. This big flag was erected in Liaodong, northwest of the enemy country, and north of the Central Plains, these Ming men shouted the same slogans.
These Ming men did the same thing when facing the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Tubo, and other Hu people.
The Ming army was never afraid of cavalry, but they were afraid that there were too few enemies and they were not enough to kill them!
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However, the enemy of the Ming army had never seen the means of the Ming army. Just as Li Jinglong said, the ignorant is fearless.
When Lan Yu led the infantry to charge back, Li Fangyuan was overjoyed.
The Ming army was empty!
At this moment, he was like a red-eyed gambler, catching a good hand of cards, shouting ecstatically.
Zhu Yunxiu only brought more than 50,000 infantry to stop him. The first wave of cavalry was fighting bloodily on the right wing. Lan Yu led his troops to surround them in the second wave. There were only tens of thousands of people around Zhu Yunxiu.
Ten thousand infantrymen faced nearly 8,000 cavalry under Li Fangyuan, and had no chance of winning. As long as the Goryeo cavalry rushed over, the Ming army would be defeated.
When the golden dragon flag fell, the fleeing Ming army would be everywhere in the mountains. What the Goryeo warriors had to do was to use a saber to open their backs and cut off their throats.
It seemed as if he had imagined that scene, and it seemed that he could smell the blood of Ming army, Li Fangyuan became crazy.
The warriors of Goryeo defeated China today! All the troops, follow me to kill and capture Zhu Yunsheng alive!
Li Fangyuan roared wildly on the war horse, as if he was crazy.
However, just as he finished speaking, the war horse under his crotch suddenly began to look at him in anxiety and fear. At the same time, he also felt the grass and vegetation on the ground began to tremble like trembling.
Lord! Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty!
As the deputy general shouted hysterically, countless Ming cavalry rushed over on Li Fangyuan's flanks like wolves.
First, a big banner with a character Yan flew high.
The burly knight immediately raised his right hand, God blessed!
Behind the rear, the dragon-like knight raised his sword and shouted, the Ming Dynasty!
God blesses the Ming Dynasty!
Chapter completed!