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Chapter 228: Blocking the back road

"Get out of the way...everyone is getting out of the way..."

Gou Xingma issued an order loudly. The Jiangning Army's idea of ​​building an army was to obey orders as its mission. During the battle, Gou Xingma, as the commander in the front line of the square formation, had to obey unconditionally his orders. Although he was still a little confused, all the musketeers and heavy shield soldiers gave way to both sides.

The Later Jin Tartars, who were struggling to move forward with difficulty in enduring the bullet rain of the Jiangning Army, suddenly saw the Ming army in front of them moving away from both sides. The dense rain of bullets suddenly stopped. They were stunned at first, but then they began to be ecstatic.

"The Ming army was defeated...the Ming army was defeated...they were about to run away!" Someone shouted loudly.

All eyes on the battlefield looked at the square formation where Gou Xingma was. Although the battlefield was still filled with smoke, the vision was very blurred, we could still vaguely see the Ming army in the square formation in the middle of the Ming army dodge to both sides. Now all the Later Jin army was excited. As long as they could rush into the square formation in the middle, the Ming army's muskets were not worth worrying. Can the Ming army, which had lost their firearms, still pose a threat to them?

In fact, it was not just the Later Jin Tartars who were trying hard to move forward. It was not an exaggeration to describe Amin's mood at this moment. Although he didn't know why the Ming army suddenly went crazy and tried to spread the originally good phalanx, he was a bastard without taking advantage. Seeing that there was no chance to break through the Ming army's formation, Amin pointed at the front and laughed wildly.

"Haha... the Ming army's formation was broken by us, they collapsed. The warriors of the Dajin, rush over! rush over!"

"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..."

The rapid sound of trumpets urged the Later Jin army to move forward bravely, and the Later Jin Tartars obviously did not disappoint Amin's expectations. In just over ten seconds, they rushed to a distance of twenty or thirty meters away from the square formation. This distance can be said to be within reach of both sides, and the next step was the cruelest hand-to-hand combat.

In the eyes of the Jurchens, the goddess of victory had already lifted the corners of her skirt at them, but is this really the case?

At this moment, Dai Shan, who was staring at the battlefield with a thousand-mile lens, suddenly changed his face and shouted loudly: "Not good... I've been trapped, so hurry up and let the warriors retreat."

"What?" Amin was stunned, not sure why Daishan suddenly said so.

Just as Dai Shan's face changed drastically, the countless Later Jin Tartars who rushed in the front were suddenly stunned. Many people stopped and looked ahead in a daze. Because twelve Napoleon cannons lined up suddenly appeared in front of them, the black muzzles were aimed at them and showed a grim smile. Several gunners stood behind each cannon. An officer with a dark skin looked like a hundred households had already raised the red flag in his hand high.

The hundreds of Tartars who were rushing in front were stunned on the spot as if struck by lightning. Under their pressure, the black muzzles they saw at this moment had turned into the grim smile of the god of death, and this moment also became the last memory in the minds of countless people.

"fire!"

"No……"

Amin, who had just seen the Ming army's actions, suddenly let out a shrill scream.

"Boom boom boom...boom boom boom..."

Twelve Napoleon artillery began to spew out flames one after another, and more than a thousand iron beads flew towards the target at a speed of 490 meters per second. Because the distance between the two sides was too close, the gunners almost fired at a flat-fire angle.

A gust of wind seemed to have passed more than twenty meters in front of the artillery. Fate swarmed and rushed to the front hundreds of Later Jin Tartars, all of whom were blown back by the strong wind from the muzzles. When they landed, everyone's bodies turned into a broken sieve. When the twelve artillery fired, the entire square formation suddenly became silent, and the crowds of people in front of the square formation suddenly disappeared. This situation was indescribable.

Installing shotguns into all artillery and using dense firepower to kill approaching enemies is a feature of the hollow square formation. In another time and space, the British Red-clothed Legion can dominate the earth with two things, the navy's invincible fleet and the army's hollow square formation.

Not to mention him, the British Army built one colony after another according to the hollow square formation composed of the "brown bass" flintlock gun and artillery, and finally achieved the hegemony of the Sun-Down Empire. The characteristic of the hollow square formation is to use powerful and dense firepower to tear the opponent's attacks. It is not only the British who achieved hegemony through the hollow array. The French emperor Napoleon also conquered Europe with this square formation and his Napoleon cannon. Now this square formation has been drawn out in advance by Yang Feng.

Under the bombardment of the shotgun, the entire people in front of the square were instantly cleared, especially the hundreds of archers with blue flags were instantly beaten into sieve by iron beads that were covered with raindrops. Blood flowed out of them, covering the ground in front of the square, and finally gathered into small blood-red puddles.

The entire battlefield seemed to have calmed down, and everyone stared at the scene in front of them in amazement.

But there is another old saying in China that misfortune never comes singularly. Just as everyone was stunned by this scene, the two phalanxes of the musket soldiers next to them also flashed to the side and exposed rows of black holes.

"No……"

Seeing this scene, Daishan, whose eyes were so angry that he was weak, almost collapsed to the ground. At the same time, a series of huge roars also sounded one after another, and countless shotguns flew towards the Later Jin Tartars who were still stunned on the spot. When the cannon sounded, there was no other creature standing within 300 meters in front of the Ming army.

"Well……"

Seeing this situation, Dai Shan knelt on the ground and was about to suffocate. The only round of artillery bombardment had lost at least a thousand people. In addition, the losses were lost one after another. With less than two quarters of an hour in the war, his six thousand auxiliary soldiers and coats lost 30% of them.

I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly a shrill voice shouted, “I lost… I lost… I ran away!”

"Crazy..."

As this sounded, the Later Jin team finally collapsed. Countless auxiliary soldiers and Baoyi cried and turned around and ran towards the rear. Although there were still many infantry armors who were supervising the battle desperately waving their weapons in their hands to kill the defeated soldiers, the frightened soldiers not only did not get driven back, but the defeated soldiers instead waved their weapons in their hands to chop the infantry armors who were supervising the formation.

As the saying goes, rabbits are still biting people when they are anxious. At the critical moment of life and death, these auxiliary soldiers and Baoyi have already been red-eyed. At this moment, no matter who dares to block their way, they are their enemies. For a moment, more than one hundred infantry and armored soldiers in the blue flag supervising battle behind were flooded by the auxiliary soldiers and Baoyi who were rushing in like a tide.

"How dare they do these damn Nikans, damn old bastards...how dare they do this?" Amin couldn't believe his eyes. Those slaves who were as gentle as sheep dared to slash at their former masters. Is there any reason for this?

"The lowly Nikan... these lowly Nikan... I want to kill them all!"

Amin was so angry that he turned around and ordered the Lanqi to send out the auxiliary soldiers and Baoyi to kill them, but he was stopped by Dai Shan.

Looking at the furious Amin Daishan, he said with a gloomy face: "Amin, those people are our slaves of the Red Flag. It's not your turn to kill them!"

Amin looked at Dai Shan in disbelief, "You are crazy, have you not seen those slaves killing our warriors with blue flags? If such slaves don't kill them all, how can we maintain the reputation of our Jurchens?"

"The great reputation of our Jurchens is not maintained by killing slaves." Dai Shan resisted his anger and said, "If all the slaves are killed, who will plow the fields for us? Who will grazle and work for us? What are you here? Besides, those slaves are not yours. If you really want to kill them, you can kill your slaves with the blue flag. I will never stop you!"

"I'm not crazy yet when I kill our own slaves of the Lanqian Banner." Amin rolled his eyes, suppressed his anger and raised the Qianli Miles to look down at the mountain. When he saw that the Ming army did not come out to pursue the defeated soldiers, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "Fortunately, those Ming dogs are relatively brave and dare not chase them out, otherwise it would be a bit troublesome."

"Is that so, what should you do with your cavalry? They are still fighting with the Ming army now." Dai Shan said lightly.

Following Dai Shan's words, Amin then focused his eyes on the battlefield on the other side. After seeing it, his brows frowned again. On both sides of the Ming army formation, the four thousand Ming troops were fighting with the two thousand vest soldiers of the blue flag. The two sides fought fiercely, but in general, it was the cavalry of Zhao Shushu who had the upper hand.

"Sir, Lord Zhao is suffering from a hardship." In the Jiangning Army formation, Huang Zhenye asked Yang Feng with some concern: "Do you want to send our cavalry out for reinforcements?"

"No!" Yang Feng said decisively: "Our cavalry number is too small. It's a guest appearance at Ye Bushou or a thief. If you go up and fight with the Tartars, you will only be dead."

Huang Zhenye stopped talking, which was pitiful to say. The Ning army now has 6,000 infantry, but the cavalry is only 500. This number of cavalry is not enough to squeeze people's teeth in large-scale cavalry battles. It seems that there are too few war horses. A regular cavalry standard is three horses, one main horse and two are spare horses, so that the cavalry can have enough horsepower to gallop back and forth on the battlefield. But now the cavalry of the Jiangning army has only two batches of horses at most, and most of the spare horses are still inferior horses to make up the numbers. How can such cavalry fight head-on with the elite Jurchen cavalry?

While speaking, the cavalry led by Zhao Rujiao and the cavalry of the blue flag were already at a critical moment. Most of the cavalry of the Liaodong Army used cavalry, and a small number of people used sabers. However, even the sabers were mostly thick-backed sabers, and the weight was at least more than ten kilograms.

What moved Yang Feng in particular was that the formation of the cavalry of Zhao Shujiao was very tight. They lined up in a very tight array, and almost relying on people, horses, knees next to knees. Such a tight formation was also the result of the hard practice of Liaodong cavalry. Their tactic was to rely on dense formations to attack the enemy, disrupt the enemy's formation and crush their system.

On the other hand, the Jurchen cavalry were different. Their equipment was quite complicated, including bows, knives, hooks, sickles, palladium, big sticks and other weapons. The space required for these long weapons to dance was much larger than that of cavalry, so that the formation could not be too dense. Moreover, the Jurchen cavalry was much higher in personal martial arts and experience than the Liaodong cavalry.

If the knights were neat in formation, the cavalry of the Later Jin was actually much stricter than the cavalry of the Ming army. After all, they had higher organizational strength and better horses. Moreover, they learned to ride horses just after they learned to walk. This is also the characteristic of nomadic peoples and is incomparable to agricultural civilization.

Seeing that Zhao Shuzhi had an absolute advantage in the number of cavalry fighting so hard, Yang Feng couldn't help but feel so anxious. He secretly compared himself in his heart and found that if his cavalry had not relied on the advantages of pistols, he would really fight, let alone those cavalry of the Later Jin Dynasty, even the cavalry under Zhao Shuzhi were far inferior. Although Yang Feng had tried his best to give this cavalry the best equipment and training, unlike those infantry who could form an army after a few months of training, the cavalry was a group of troops that needed time to polish, and they were eager for a short period of time.

Just as Yang Feng frowned secretly, an urgent voice came from the intercom. After hearing this, Yang Feng's expression suddenly became serious. He sighed and said lightly: "The Tartars are still here. Huang Qianhu, you should go to the back to preside over the host. Remember, the Tartars' cavalry has a strong impact. We can let them rush in, but our square must not be messed up!"

"I understand!" Huang Zhenye replied solemnly, and then led dozens of servants to run out of the formation.

"Okay... OK... Yue Tuo and the others are finally here." On the mountain, after seeing the dust rising from afar, Amin also shouted happily, "In this way, it is difficult for Ming Gou to not collapse under the attack on both sides."

Unlike Amin who was so happy that he danced, Dai Shan was not as optimistic as him. The situation now was very different from the plan they formulated. The plan they formulated was to take advantage of the exhaustion of the Ming army attacking Kucaoling, so that the Ming army would collapse in an instant, but now the two sides fought a stalemate, and the Later Jin Dynasty even suffered a great loss. In this way, the Ming army could calmly turn to deal with the army led by Yue Tuo. Can Yue Tuo and others win easily?

As time passed by little by little, the entire earth began to shake slowly. It was the movement that could only be made by countless pairs of horse hooves trampling on the earth.
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