After the Tatar cavalry came one after another and relied on their numerical superiority to directly swamp the one hundred Tang Dynasty infantry directly in front, the infantry on other sides of the square did not continue to stand stupidly as before, but under the leadership of the officers
They gathered around.
Although there is no such hollow square formation, these hundreds of infantry collided with the Tatar cavalry!
In this extremely short period of time, although the infantry battalion suffered heavy casualties in an instant, they actually stopped the Tatar cavalry from moving at high speed!
Countless enemy and friendly soldiers were mixed together in the front, and the Tatar cavalry in the rear could not run no matter how fast their horses were and how skilled their riding skills were!
There is no doubt that this infantry battalion has been overwhelmed by the Tatar cavalry, but the other infantry battalion phalanxes on the left and right and in the rear continue to fire at the Tatar cavalry coming from behind!
The screams of the war horses, the shouts and screams of the soldiers were insignificant among the dense and crisp gunfire!
The Tatar cavalry is advancing!
Countless Tatar cavalry are advancing. They are not dozens or hundreds of cavalry, but more than 8,000 cavalry. Even though they are divided into more than a dozen attack waves, each wave reaches hundreds of cavalry!
Numerous cavalry formed a huge arrow and rushed towards the hollow square formation in front. Then hundreds of cavalry in front were entangled with the infantry!
Although the infantry of the Tang Army were brave enough to resist the attack of the Tatar cavalry with their bayonets and even their own bodies, they were still killed by thousands despite heavy casualties and too few numbers.
The Tatar cavalry breaks through!
After suffering almost as many casualties as the Tang Dynasty infantry opposite, the Tatar cavalry finally broke through the first infantry phalanx, and the leading Tatar cavalry continued to charge towards the second infantry phalanx!
On the way to their charge, they had left corpses of both the enemy and ourselves all over the place!
At the same time, in front of them, on the left and right sides, there were still countless muskets aimed at them and firing!
They broke through the Tang Army infantry phalanx in front of them, but they only allowed themselves to enter a larger passage!
They were still besieged by Tang Army musketeers on the left and right!
These eight thousand Tatar cavalry, in some cases, followed in the footsteps of the two thousand Tatar cavalry before them!
Finally relying on their absolute numerical superiority and having almost more casualties than the Tang army's infantry, the Tatar cavalry broke through the first hollow square formation, but in front of them, a hollow square formation was still waiting for them!
The musketeers of the two infantry phalanxes on both sides did not stop at all and were firing continuously!
With so many musketeers firing, and the almost black cavalry on the other side being all Tatars, the musketeers didn't have to aim at all. As long as they didn't shoot their bullets into the sky or the ground, they would be able to hit.
The Tatar cavalry on the opposite side had a pretty impressive hit rate.
Every gunshot represents the death or injury of a Tatar cavalry!
The casualties and firepower density suffered by the Tatar cavalry far exceeded their previous expectations. Hundreds of cavalry fell on the charge, and hundreds more fell when they broke through the first square formation, and
Now, almost every second, a large number of Tatar cavalry are falling.
However, in front of them was the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army!
The leading Tatar cavalry continued to rush forward, but when they broke through the first square formation, their speed had already slowed down. Now it is almost impossible to increase the speed in a short distance.
Even though they pushed their horses forward with all their strength, their speed was still not comparable to when they attacked the first hollow square formation.
Cavalry without speed cannot use superb jumping tactics to jump over the human wall in front. At the same time, if the cavalry wants to blow their horses and rush forward to die, it is also a small probability to rely on their own bodies to break through the human wall.
Even if the cavalry themselves are not afraid of death, their horses are too!
If they are running at high speed, they can still forcefully charge, but now their speed is too low!
Ever since, after the leading hundreds of cavalry rushed to the front of the hollow phalanx, facing the dense forest of bayonets, they could no longer rush forward as bravely as before, especially when the other side continued to fire and threw grenades.
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The leading hundreds of cavalry were forced to turn in front of the formation. While turning, many Tatar cavalry once again took out their riding bows and tried to fire arrows on horseback to counterattack.
There are also a very small number of Tatar cavalry who are not afraid of death and directly urge their war horses to charge forward, and then die in front of the hollow square. If they are lucky, they can kill one or two Tang Army soldiers with the corpses of themselves and their horses.
Soldier.
At this moment, the Tatars' charging momentum has been completely lost after being blocked by the previous hollow phalanx. Now, like the two thousand Tatar cavalry before, they encountered the hollow phalanx in front.
He started to circle around, then ran in the passage, watching helplessly as the Tang Army troops on both sides calmly shot him to death!
Seeing this scene, Chen Keqiao from behind also breathed a sigh of relief!
At first, he was worried that these Tatar cavalry were so brave that they could break through his infantry phalanx one after another. But now it seems that these 8,000 Tatar cavalry are not much better than the previous 2,000 Tatar cavalry.
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If you continue like this, then you may get a super victory today!
Using an equal number of infantry to fight the cavalry, and then beating the cavalry to a crawl, causing heavy casualties, if this is not a super victory, then what is a super victory?
This battle has been settled!
Ever since the Tatars' charge slowed down, ever since they were forced to take a detour and no longer dared to forcefully attack the hollow phalanx, the outcome of this battle had been determined.
And what comes next is nothing more than how many Tatar cavalry can be killed!
Chen Keqiao could see it, and Burgeud on the Tatar side could also see it. When he saw that his cavalry had to pay hundreds of cavalry casualties, it broke through a mere area of the Tang army.
When there was a phalanx of four to five hundred people, he realized something was wrong. This battle was different from what he expected!
Then when he saw that his cavalry had stopped charging and could only pass between the hollow squares of the Tang army, he realized that if he continued like this, his 10,000 cavalry might really have to answer.
Here it is.
Immediately he said loudly: "Ming Jin withdraws his troops, quickly, let them withdraw!"
The Tatars in the rear blew the slogan of withdrawing their troops. At this time, the Tatar cavalry who were still outside and did not rush in also breathed a sigh of relief. The fight in front was so fierce. If they continued to rush forward, I am afraid they would really be in trouble.
It's going to be over.
However, although the Tatar cavalry who were trapped among the many phalanxes of the Tang Dynasty received the slogan of retreat, in fact, it was no longer important to withdraw them, because before that, they had already tried to pass through
These passages leave this hellish place.
These passages are almost death passages. They seem empty, but the Tang Dynasty musketeers on both sides are firing all the time and throwing grenades. Every step forward, the Tatar cavalry have to pay.
Many casualties!
But even so, they still did not dare to stop. They could only urge the horses to run forward desperately. The hollow phalanx of the Tang Army was not endless. All the small phalanxes added together could
There were only more than ten, and they were not lined up in a row, but three large square formations. As long as the Tatar cavalry were not stupid, they could still break out at the cost of the area.
The Tatar cavalry is advancing!
The last time they advanced, they waved their sabers. They were full of confidence and wanted to defeat the phalanx of the Tang Army on the opposite side.
But this time, the advance turned into a desperate escape. Many Tatar cavalry stopped firing their bows and arrows to fight back. Instead, they just lay down on their horses and urged the horses to move forward.
run.
Although in fact, it only takes a few minutes for them to escape, but for many Tatar cavalry, these few minutes are like countless years. In such a battlefield where they can be hit by bullets at any time,
Not to mention a few minutes, even one or two seconds is too much. They want to put on their wings and fly away directly.
Burgeud, who was in the rear, had a gloomy face at this time. In the front, the sound of gunfire still did not stop, and what these gunfire sounds represented was the constant casualties of one's own cavalry.
The guns of the Tang Army were indeed extremely sharp, even more terrifying than the rumors said!
I don’t know how many more people can withdraw. There are tens of thousands of cavalry. If the loss is too great, even if these 10,000 cavalry are cannon fodder for the collateral tribes, if there are too many casualties, he will still not be able to attack me.
Dahan explains!
He no longer counted on the two thousand cavalry forwards. At the beginning, he did not let these two thousand retreat, but let them continue to fight. Although they would also escape on their own, it was impossible to say that he was Buzgud.
If they are not allowed to retreat, they will not retreat.
However, they had not been given a real retreat order before, which would have affected their retreat to some extent.
Now it seems that there are already ten or seventy-eight, and only a few hundred riders escaped in embarrassment.
As for the subsequent eight thousand cavalry, because he gave the retreat order early, only most of the cavalry actually went into battle. The remaining two or three thousand cavalry had not yet gone into battle, but they were forcibly withdrawn by him.
However, among the five or six thousand cavalry who went into the attack, there were already hundreds of casualties during the charge. Hundreds more were killed and wounded when they broke through the first square formation. When he gave the order to retreat, the number of casualties was actually close to a thousand. Now,
Countless cavalrymen fell every moment.
He was not sure how many of them would be able to successfully withdraw in the end.