According to the plan last night, Lu Daqi's Nanjing troops were supposed to attack the rebel positions from the west flank. However, early in the morning the rebels took the initiative to send troops to invite a fight. Chang Yu changed his tactics and used a kidnapping horse formation to fight. Since the battlefield was narrow and he could not invest so many troops, Lu Daqi encouraged them.
Watch the battle in case something unexpected happens.
More than 10,000 of his troops were infantry. When they arrived near the battlefield, a battle was already underway in the front. I wanted to watch the little eunuch show off his power, but I found that the situation was not good. The cavalry on both wings retreated in succession. In surprise, Chang Yu's military order arrived: divide the troops quickly
Two groups surrounded the enemy's rear from both flanks.
Although Lu Daqi didn't know the significance of this move for a while, he did not dare to neglect the military orders, so he ordered Jin Shenghuan to lead more than a thousand soldiers and horses from the west wing to the south to outflank the river, and ordered Chang Yanling to take the mountain road from the east: "Remember,
Don't be obsessed with fighting, just go south and go as far as you can," Lu Daqi roared.
"The cavalry on both wings have been killed and we have no chance to fight back. The situation has been defeated. Now the top priority is to withdraw the troops back to the city to reduce losses. What's the point of sending these two troops? Is it possible to turn the tide of the battle?" Xu Hongji muttered with a livid face.
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"What we can't understand may not be useless," Lu Daqi said lightly. Zhao Zhilong next to him snorted: "Some people were lifted too high, and now they seem to be nothing." Zhu Guobi smiled and said nothing.
Lu Daqi glanced at him and said coldly: "How about you come up?"
Zhao Zhilong and Zhu Guobi were immediately choked and had nothing to say, so they could only cough lightly to cover up their embarrassment.
A few people behind the formation were in a weird mood, but the battlefield ahead was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. The two armies were fighting fiercely. Wu Sangui on the east wing was spitting fire. Although Guan Ning's cavalry could not be said to be invincible, they had never suffered such a big loss in internal battles.
He was almost unable to fight back unless he was hit.
But the reality in front of them is so bloody. The rebel army is obviously prepared to fight, and has formulated targeted attacks on the cavalry. In addition to tripping horse ropes, all the rebel cavalry use long weapons, spears, and horse spears, and there is even a shortage of one.
Holding a modified hook-and-scythe gun, he chopped off heads from above and horses' legs from below. Their coordination was perfect, catching Guan Ning's army off guard and causing heavy casualties.
However, Wu Sangui knew that he could not retreat at this time. Once he withdrew, the Chinese army would be outflanked by him and the entire army would be annihilated!
Glancing at the rear formation of the Central Army, he saw that Chang Yu had divided his troops to support the two wings, and he even joined the battle in person. Wu Sangui was heartbroken and led dozens of soldiers to rush into the formation to fight. He had fought side by side with Chang Yu, although he was against his opponent.
Pin had many dissatisfactions, but he had immense trust in his military talent. He believed that the young eunuch could make a comeback, but he had to buy him time.
Ma Kehe on the west wing also complained endlessly. His cavalry combat ability was slightly inferior to Wu Sangui's Guan Ning cavalry, and the losses were greater. However, he had the same idea. Seeing Chang Yu personally coming to help, he did not hesitate to lead his troops to advance.
In the formation: "Reinforcements have arrived, hold off the thieves!"
But it is so easy to call for reinforcements. From the mountains in the east to the riverside in the west, tens of thousands of people are fighting on the ground, which is only a few miles away. There is almost no place to stay. Chang Yu and Lao Jiu led their troops to the west, but they were blocked by their own people and could not quickly enter the battlefield.
Lao Jiu was so angry that he didn't care about patting his horse and rushed forward. He actually broke through a passage from the Chinese army in the king's body and went straight to the rebel cavalry position in the west. Many people were injured, which caused many people to yell and curse. He was almost killed when he killed the enemy but failed to die for his country.
Killed by one of his own.
But at this time, he didn't care so much. Chang Yu led his bodyguards to follow Lao Jiu and rushed forward. Not long after, he met the rebel cavalry and took a quick glance. He saw a large pole in the rebel formation dozens of meters away.
The flag was written with a big word "Yuan" on it. He took out his bow and shot the flagpole in half with one arrow. He raised his knife and said, "Lao Jiu, don't be too eager to fight yet and rush forward from the side. Block him from the waist!"
Lao Jiuzhong understands that the rebel cavalry uses hooks and sickles with long weapons and infantry. If you meet the enemy head-on, you will definitely suffer a big loss, but if you attack from the side and disrupt their formation, the result will be very different.
So he led the Black Wolf Battalion and Chang Yu separately to break out a passage from the infantry and headed straight south, then turned around and headed west to attack the rebel cavalry formation.
Here Chang Yu faced the enemy head-on. Seeing that Ma Ke's men were being killed and retreating one after another, he kept a close eye on him. He already had the knife in his hand and changed his bow again. His soldiers, many of whom were sharp archers, opened their bows and fired continuously.
Dozens of hard bows and arrows were fired without any hitch, causing the cavalrymen in the front line of the rebel army to flip over and stop their momentum. Ma Ke took the opportunity to charge forward and kill them.
After shooting all the quivers in one breath, Chang Yu's arms were already feeling sore. The two-stone hard bow he used had a long range and strong penetrating power, but of course it also required more effort. An ordinary person could shoot ten quivers in a row, which was considered the limit, but he was gifted with extraordinary strength.
He recovered quickly, but even so his arms were a little weak.
You can be soft-hearted, but you can't be soft-hearted. After finally slowing down the momentum of the rebel cavalry, Chang Yu would not let go of this fleeting opportunity and led more than thirty soldiers to kill him. Over there
Lao Jiu was hitting the rebel army's waist. Chang Yu knew in his heart that if nothing unexpected happened, the defeat here could be considered to be a comeback. He hoped that the east wing could do the same.
It's just that Tu Yuan didn't have the resourcefulness of Chang Yu, and his men were not expert archers. He finally rushed to the cavalry formation without thinking of using bows and arrows to suppress it, but just rushed in. His tactics have always been straightforward, simple and crude, that is
One word, do it!
Tu Yuan was using a horse spear, the sharpest heavy weapon of the cavalry. He rushed into the formation at the head of the horse and faced a thief infantryman who stretched out his hook and sickle towards his horse's leg.
Lifting up a few meters, he made a sweeping sweep and smashed the head of a cavalryman who was charging towards him... In the blink of an eye, he smashed six or seven thieves around him off his horse. The momentum was like a stormy sea rising into the sky, making the thieves afraid.
Coming forward, Wu Sangui saw his bravery from a distance and couldn't help shouting: "Brothers Guan Ningjun must not be underestimated!" He also rushed forward to kill him. He was originally a fierce general, but became more ferocious when he went crazy.
The cavalry on both wings suffered heavy losses due to the plot by the rebels, but for the sake of the overall situation they had to keep an eye on them, and the fighting was the most brutal. The men and horses in the king's body of the central army were inextricably killed by the rebels, and even had a slight advantage, especially Wang Zamao, the main force of the vanguard.
, because of Chang Yu's words before the battle, he was so excited that he rushed into the enemy formation and fought all the way, and even rushed to the center of the rebel army in one breath. He didn't take a breath until he was exhausted. Looking at the banner of the rebel army not far away, he knew it was Wang Yi'en.
The men and horses were secretly happy. It would be a great achievement to capture Wang Yi'en. They wanted to wait for a breath before rushing over. Unexpectedly, their eyes swept over the two wings, and they were shocked. Why were the cavalry on the two wings retreated so far?
The rebel cavalry took the opportunity to encircle them, and they were caught in a trap.
This discovery made him feel cold and panicked. If he was surrounded... Bai Wang would definitely not spare him. What if he suddenly betrayed him and helped Bai Wang defeat the officers and soldiers? He thought in his mind and looked behind him, Wang Ti Zhong was not far away.
While he was fighting with the bandits, Wang Zamao's heart moved. If he were captured...