When Li Xuan personally commanded the Chinese army units such as the guard battalion, cavalry battalion, baggage regiment and even artillery battalion to prepare for the attack of the Ming army's cavalry.
On the other side of the battlefield, the Fifth Infantry Battalion, also commanded by Qiu Yu, was engaged in extremely brutal hand-to-hand combat!
When Qiu Yu led the charge, he was riding a Mongolian horse. This horse was much taller than the Southwest horses that the others were riding. Its shoulder height may have reached 1.3 meters. Such a horse would be placed here.
The southwest region is already considered a big power.
But now the tall horse was lying on the ground. The huge wound on its chest made it whine continuously. At the same time, it struggled to stand up with all four hooves, but no matter how hard it tried, it could not stand up.
Not far in front of it, Qiu Yu, who was dressed in scale armor and brandished a waist knife, was fighting with a heavy armored sword and shield soldier of the Puppet Tang thief army.
Although Qiu Yu is not young, he is very skilled in martial arts. He has blocked the long sword of the pseudo-Tang thief Saber and Shield Soldier with a slightly younger face under the helmet in front of him several times.
Then he grabbed a gap and stabbed the long knife in his hand directly into a gap in the armor joint of the Pseudo-Tang Sword and Shield soldier on the opposite side. As blood seeped out, the young Pseudo-Tang thief soldier in front of him screamed in agony.
He didn't even say anything, he just collapsed on the ground.
Taking out the steel knife in his hand, he looked back and saw that soldiers from both sides were fighting each other. However, more soldiers were lying on the ground, some were silent, some were still twitching, and more were
Different screams were emitted.
Among the dead and injured lying on the ground, the majority were wearing Ming army uniforms, while there were not so many soldiers from the Puppet Tang rebel army.
Further back in the battle between the two sides, there was a group of more than 2,000 Ming troops. They were actually chased by a group of puppet Tang rebels with only more than 100 people, and they ran all the way towards the Tonggu Acropolis.
Looking back, he saw despair in his eyes!
Three thousand people attacked, but the only ones who actually rushed to fight the puppet Tang rebels were more than 300 soldiers led by himself and several other senior generals, while the more than 2,000 people in the rear did not rush up at all.
They were about a hundred meters behind.
The Pseudo-Tang rebel army on the opposite side initially separated out a thousand people to try to intercept them, but just a few minutes later, half of them had already turned around and turned back to deal with the main force in the north, leaving only about five hundred people to continue.
Rush up and fight them.
The ensuing battle situation was almost predictable. The soldiers led by Qiu Yu and others were attacked by intensive musketry and shotgun fire on the charge. More than 300 people had not even rushed to the front of the 500 bandits.
Dozens of people fell. When the two sides got closer and started a hand-to-hand fight, even though Qiu Yu himself was already taking the lead and fighting in person, he was still completely defeated by the current 500 puppet Tang thief army like melons and vegetables. In the end,
They can only fight on their own.
In just a few dozen seconds, the elite force of more than 300 soldiers he led was declared completely defeated. Most of them were killed or injured on the spot. The few survivors were also faced with the siege of more puppet Tang rebels.
Now, those pseudo-Tang rebels dared to mobilize more than a hundred people to launch an active attack on the more than 2,000 Ming troops in the rear. What made him even more desperate was that his more than 2,000 people turned out to be the same as last time.
Flee without a fight.
Astonishingly, more than 2,000 people were frightened by more than 100 puppet Tang rebels and they turned around and ran away!
Such a battle and such a scene made him despair!
At this time, several soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty discovered that Qiu Yu was special, because the armor and clothing on his body announced his special identity. This man was definitely a mid-level and senior general of the Ming Army, and more importantly, now Qiu Yu
He was still surrounded by two surviving soldiers.
The presence of these three people was extremely conspicuous on this small battlefield, and soon seven or eight soldiers from the New Army of the Tang Dynasty rushed up quickly carrying spears and shields.
Four or five of the spearmen approached and it seemed simple for a while. Well, it was indeed an extremely simple stab, leaving his last two soldiers lying in a pool of blood!
When the spearman was stabbing, two soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty who were holding shields and steel knives also rushed forward. While holding up their shields, they raised the steel knives in their hands to strike at the head.
These two sword and shield soldiers seemed to be heavily armored sword and shield soldiers, but in fact they were just heavy armored spearmen tens of seconds ago. However, after charging in formation and entering the melee stage, they just dropped their long spearmen.
The spear raised its shield and saber, transformed into a heavy-armored sword-and-shield soldier, and fought in coordination with the light-armored spear soldiers.
Although they are only temporarily transferred to heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers, in fact, they will also receive the relevant combat skills of sword and shield soldiers during the training process, but generally speaking, they are not as skilled as professional heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers.
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When the two soldiers came over with long swords, their movements seemed to be full of flaws. In normal times, he only needed to give him a certain amount of time, and he could kill these two thieves one-on-one.
Put it in, but so what!
They were not fighting alone, there were four comrades behind them holding spears.
They were looking for an opening to stab Qiu Yu!
Two fists were no match for four hands. After trying his best to dodge for several breaths, he finally couldn't resist and was slashed hard on the shoulder by a sword and shield soldier's long sword!
Although the armor on his body blocked the knife and prevented the long knife from directly splitting his shoulder in half, the heavy force of the knife still caused his body to sink involuntarily and his movements to inevitably stagnate.
For such a breath.
However, in such a short breath, a spear hit him directly in the abdomen. The heavy spear directly penetrated the armor, and then the spearhead pierced his abdomen.
The severe pain was instantly transmitted to his mind, but it did not cause Qiu Yu to scream. He just made a muffled groan.
But in the next moment, as the spear was pulled out, he seemed to feel that all his strength was being pulled out along with the spear. He staggered and fell to his knees half on the ground.
However, he still stuck the knife on the ground. Relying on the steel knife in his hand, he tried hard not to fall down completely, but he could already feel the blood starting to gush out, staining his lining and armor.
Finally it flows on the ground, warming the cold earth.
He was half-kneeling and looked up at the soldiers of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army in front of him. These people did not express the joy of defeating a powerful enemy, especially a senior general like himself, as he had expected.
Still expressionless, one of the spearmen half-knelt down, without much reason, waved the spear in his hand again, and then the spear went straight to Qiu Yu's chest!
Qiu Yu saw this blow, and a warrior's instinct told him that at this time he should roll on the spot to avoid the spear attack, then stand up, use the round shield in his hand as a support, and rush forward quickly for several seconds.
As long as he took a few steps forward, he would be absolutely sure to cut down this pseudo-Tang rebel spearman with one strike.
But it's a pity that both reason and instinct tell him that he should do this, but he can't do it!
The injured one can hardly move at all!
Although the body moved as far as possible to the side, it still could not avoid the spear!
He almost watched the spear piercing his chest, and he could even hear his heartbroken voice: I hate... I hate...
The next moment, with his eyes still open, he could not see the light, his eyes turned into darkness, and the noise on the battlefield also disappeared without a trace in this moment.
After Qiu Yu fell, he still seemed to be looking at the battlefield with his eyes open!
To the north of the battlefield, actually less than 300 meters away from him, the main force of the Ming army was engaged in a fierce close combat with the troops of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. The total number of people participating in the battle on both sides exceeded more than 10,000.
The whole scene seems extremely chaotic, but if you look closely, you will find that these more than 10,000 people are actually still fighting in infantry square formations, and there is no situation where the soldiers are fighting on their own.
Especially on the side of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, the battle consisted of infantry phalanxes with each infantry battalion as the core. The phalanxes were separated by hundreds of meters. The musketeers fired from long distances, and the spearmen provided close combat protection. The phalanxes were mutually dependent on each other.
Cooperate.
It was said that there was progress in hand-to-hand combat, but in fact, except for a few troops, most of them did not engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army's infantry. The main damage was still caused by the shooting of the musketeers.
On the other side of the battlefield, more than 1,500 Ming army cavalry were advancing slowly. Their target was the left wing of the Tang Dynasty's new army.
Directly in front of these cavalry was the First Infantry Battalion of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. Behind them were the Guards Battalion, the Cavalry Battalion, and the Baggage Regiment, totaling more than 3,000 troops.
Even though these cavalry were just marching forward and had not yet started running, the momentum of more than a thousand cavalry in action was still earth-shattering, even attracting the attention of high-ranking generals from both sides on the entire battlefield.
On the side of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, Hao Bainian commanded the eight battalions of artillery that had been assembled with a cautious expression. The First Infantry Battalion had already completed the formation change, and the formation had become extremely tight. The direction that the spears and muskets were pointing was the Ming Army.
From the direction of the cavalry attack, if the Ming army attacks, they will immediately bear the impact from the Ming army cavalry!
As for the Chinese army led by Li Xuan himself, the artillerymen of the artillery battalion had completed the muzzle transfer and were loading, preparing to launch an artillery attack on the attacking Ming army cavalry.
The cavalry team of the Guards Battalion and the two hundred cavalrymen of the cavalry battalion were gathered together, and the three hundred cavalrymen were waiting!
With the baggage regiment as the core, 1,800 soldiers formed a three-infantry square formation, and together with the 1st Infantry Battalion formed an infantry array facing the northwest.
There were more than 3,500 soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty who were immediately mobilized to deal with the attack of the Ming army's cavalry!