Of course, Lu Yuzhi, who was leading his cavalry to trot at the front, didn't know about the situation on Li Chunjing's side. The cavalry started trotting with great momentum, and the smoke and dust they rolled up made it difficult for him to observe what was going on at the rear, let alone
The semaphore!
As the messenger blew the trotting horn, the cavalry also controlled their horses to trot, but the overall speed was still not fast because they had to maintain their formation!
The cavalry officers are constantly urging their cavalry to maintain their formation and not to cause chaos!
After they trotted for tens of meters, the speed of the war horses had increased, and at the same time, they were not far away from the Ming army on the front line and behind them!
At this time, there was a messenger in the rear riding the most elite Mongolian horse in the Tang Army. He did not care about the physical fitness of the horse and twitched the whip desperately, causing the horse under his crotch to burst out and sprint forward at the fastest speed.
Then, he wanted to convey Li Chunjing's order to Lu Yuzhi in a timely manner.
Nowadays, the battlefield is extremely chaotic, and flags cannot effectively convey orders. We can only rely on messengers on horseback to convey orders!
This messenger was extremely fast, and he chased him all the way forward, but it was obviously impossible to catch up with Lu Yuzhi and the others in a short time.
At this time, in the formation of the Second Cavalry Battalion, a second lieutenant cavalry officer behind Lu Yuzhi had already seen the Ming Army infantry phalanx in neat formation in front. Although these Ming Army infantry were not many, there were more than three hundred.
What about people.
Naturally, these Ming troops discovered early that the puppet Tang rebel army outside the city had a cavalry. Any general with some brains would arrange troops to resist the impact of the enemy cavalry!
This 300-strong Ming army infantry was obviously used to prevent the cavalry of the Tang Army from attacking their flanks.
At this time, the second lieutenant officer slightly accelerated the speed of his horse, and then said to Lu Yuzhi: "Batalion Commander, something is wrong. The enemy in front has a complete formation. If we rush over, I'm afraid...!"
However, Lu Yuzhi had a straight face, and then reprimanded: "Our army is about to charge, it is strictly forbidden to shake the formation, and it is even forbidden to shake the morale of the army, retreat!"
The ensign cavalry hesitated for a while, but still slowed down the horse and retreated behind Lu Yuzhi!
As the commander of the first battalion and the highest and only commander of this cavalry battalion, Lu Yuzhi had the duty to rush to the front when charging. Moreover, military regulations stipulated that during the cavalry charge, before the final charge, the cavalry
The queue must not pass past the commander!
This is to keep the cavalry queue orderly, and the commander at the front controls the forward speed of the entire cavalry!
When the second lieutenant officer saw Lu Yuzhi's expression, he naturally did not dare to continue speaking. He slowed down and followed Lu Yuzhi again.
But at this time, he could clearly see that the more than 300 Ming troops in front had completed the formation change and were waiting for them to rush over, but the worried look on his face remained the same!
At this time, a second lieutenant officer next to him also came over: "Do you also feel that something is wrong?"
The young second lieutenant said immediately: "There is indeed something wrong with the situation, but since the order has been passed down from above, it naturally makes sense to do so!"
After that, he took a deep breath and said: "Last time we rushed through the Ming army's more than a thousand cavalry, but this time it's just three hundred infantry. Charge up and crush them!"
The second lieutenant next to him also nodded and said: "Yes, as long as we charge forward, we will definitely be able to crush them!"
At this time, Lu Yuzhi in the front row still held his head high, as if he didn't see the 300 infantrymen of the Ming Army in front of him, waiting for them to rush over in a tight square formation!
He continued to urge the horse to trot. When he felt that the distance was almost the same, he raised his saber high and shouted at the same time: "Charge the whole army!"
As he spoke, his saber was already pointing at the enemy infantry phalanx ahead!
In an instant, the messenger blew an extremely rapid and non-stop trumpet sound!
The cavalry began to urge the horses to start running!
Just when Lu Yuzhi issued the order for the entire army to charge, although the fast horses mounted by Li Chunjing's messengers in the rear were still galloping, it was already difficult to quickly shorten the battle with the cavalry in front, especially Lu Yuzhi's at the front of the cavalry array. Distanced.
Seeing that more than a hundred of his own cavalry had launched their final charge, and were still charging towards the more than three hundred infantry phalanx on the enemy's flank, the sergeant's face changed drastically, and he finally couldn't help shouting: "Stop, stop, you are going in the wrong direction!"
But let's not forget that there is still more than a hundred meters between him and the cavalry troops in front. Even if he is within a few meters, no one will be able to hear what he says.
After the war horse started running, the speed became faster and faster, and the sound of the horse's hooves became louder and louder!
Although it was only a charge of more than a hundred riders, its huge momentum exceeded the shouts of thousands of people in front of them during the battle!
When the 2nd Cavalry Battalion began to charge at a faster speed, most people on the battlefield involuntarily looked to the northwest. There, a puff of smoke was rolled up. In the smoke, horses were faintly visible running, and the sabers flashed coldly. !
Especially when the soldiers of the Ming army saw this scene, they didn't know that they were the cavalry of the puppet Tang rebel army!
Because they don’t have any cavalry to fight!
Most of the soldiers of the Ming Army, especially the soldiers of the Chinese Army, have already fallen into suicidal hand-to-hand combat. The Ming Army soldiers in the back row are constantly pushing the soldiers in the front to come forward, and then the soldiers in the front are fighting one by one. Died under the array of the 2nd Infantry Regiment!
The spearmen's spears were already dripping with blood, and the ground was already covered with the dead and wounded of the Ming army's soldiers. There were so many dead and wounded that they were even stacked on top of each other, and the soldiers from both sides in the back row even They were fighting on the bodies of these Ming army casualties!
If we look at the frontal battlefield alone, there is no doubt that the Tang Army will win this battle!
But although they can win, they will also suffer some casualties, because these Ming troops don't know why they are crazy, and they still do not retreat after suffering such heavy casualties. At this time, the death and injury ratio of these Ming troops must have been It exceeded 20%. This casualty figure was an unbearable casualty ratio even for an elite modern army.
But the Ming troops still fought to the death!
Under such circumstances, casualties on the Tang Army's side were inevitable!
Previously, in order to avoid increasing casualties, Li Chunjing wanted to defeat the Ming army as quickly as possible, so he sent the second cavalry battalion to charge.
But what would he have thought that there would be an error in transmitting the order of the flag messenger, causing the 2nd Cavalry Battalion to not charge towards the weak enemy rear formation, but instead charge towards the west side where the formation was still intact? attack!
Later, although he sent messengers to chase Lu Yuzhi on fast horses in order to correct this mistake, it was already too late!
But what he saw before him was completely different from his planned battle plan!
Such a major mistake should never have happened!
The flagman who passed the wrong order was executed on the spot by the military police, and his blood flowed out and soaked the ground, but this still could not change the fact that the 2nd Cavalry Battalion charged towards the tightly formed infantry square!
Seeing the Second Cavalry Battalion getting closer and closer to the enemy infantry square, Li Chunjing could only sigh. Now all he could pray for was that the Second Infantry Battalion could successfully break through the three hundred Ming Army infantry in front of them.
In this case, although the casualties of the cavalry may be greater, they can still destroy the enemy's array and cooperate with their own infantry to quickly defeat the enemy.
The cavalrymen of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion have no time and energy to pay attention to the thoughts of future generations, because at this time, their speed has increased to the fastest!
Two cavalry phalanxes, one in front and one behind, are charging at the fastest speed. Unlike traditional cavalry, when they charge, the cavalry still maintains a complete formation!
And this complete formation is also the most feared thing about modern cavalry!
Closer, closer. When more than 150 cavalrymen of the Second Cavalry Battalion rushed to only 70 or 80 meters away from the Ming army's formation, many cavalrymen holding sabers looked at the tight infantry phalanx in front, and they also
Some doubts!
Because according to common sense, these light cavalry should not charge against these infantry who still have a complete phalanx!
How come they were ordered to charge against these infantry phalanxes? How many people would be killed or injured if they charged at them?
The cavalry were still confused, but most of the Ming infantry in front were frightened!
The timid soldiers in the front row could no longer even hold the spears in their hands, and their legs were still shaking!
Not many people can watch more than a hundred cavalry charging towards them and still remain calm!
No, not even the most elite heavy armored infantry phalanx can!
Especially the soldiers in the first few rows, most of them were killed or maimed in the first moment when the enemy's cavalry rushed over. Even if they had stabbed the galloping horses or knights with their spears, they still couldn't.
It will definitely not be able to withstand the huge impact of the charge of the war horse!
War horses and knights weighing hundreds of kilograms will crash into the infantry array like boulders. Maybe they will be stabbed to death in the first place, but their bodies will still move forward and then crash into the infantry array.
middle!
While the cavalry in the first row suffered heavy casualties, the cavalry in the back row were able to rush in smoothly and massacre the infantry!
Therefore, when the cavalry and infantry come into contact at the first moment, the front row soldiers on both sides will suffer heavy casualties!
Of course, this does not mean that the cavalry cannot win against the infantry phalanx in a frontal charge, but it is a question of cost-effectiveness!
In a battle between two armies, even if ten infantry are exchanged for one cavalry, the infantry will definitely make a profit. And this is why since ancient times, not many cavalry will take the initiative to attack the infantry square. It does not mean that the cavalry cannot defeat the infantry.
, but the gain outweighs the loss!
In fact, if the cavalry general is willing to trade his cavalry for the lives of the enemy's infantry, he can completely let the cavalry charge towards the enemy's infantry square!
Now, Lu Yuzhi led the cavalry of the Second Cavalry Battalion to charge towards the Ming army's infantry square. The distance of just tens of meters was only a few seconds for the charging cavalry.
Before the Ming army even had time to fire their arrows, the cavalry in the front row had already crashed into the Ming army's infantry square!