Buzgud was in the rear, almost watching helplessly as the Tatar cavalry in front repeated the situation in which he attacked the 5th Infantry Division of the Tang Army!
Even the process is exactly the same!
Braving the artillery fire and rifle fire of the Tang Army, they attacked head-on. Although they suffered heavy casualties, they did not give up or flinch. They still bravely moved forward. After suffering huge casualties, they finally rushed to a distance several meters away from the Tang Army's hollow phalanx.
At a distance of ten meters, while starting to bend the bow and shoot an arrow, he turned sharply to avoid rushing head-on into the dense forest of bayonets, and continued to go deeper after bypassing!
If it is a traditional battle, they can bypass the front of the infantry square and then penetrate deep into the side, and can easily avoid the enemy's frontal firepower, and then tear the enemy's side to pieces, causing the entire enemy's front to collapse.
Therefore, these cavalrymen poured into the passages between the many hollow square formations without any hesitation!
In other words, they have no choice at all, because the hollow square formation of the Guards or the four-cornered square formation of the 9th Infantry Division, although the specific formations are different, are still essentially the same, that is, multiple square formations separated
Come, and then support each other. If the enemy forces avoid the front and make a detour, they will inevitably fall into the firepower of two or more square formations!
Thus withstanding heavy fire from all directions!
During this process, they would also use cavalry bows to fight back, and some braver cavalry would directly attack the Tang army's hollow square array with their scimitars. Then, those who continued running would be hit by muskets and fall in the seemingly endless passage.
, As for the cavalry who directly attacked the square formation, although they would also cause some casualties to the Tang Army's musketeers, they were often killed or wounded at the moment of charging.
Then, the hollow square array remains the same!
When Burgeud gathered in Liangshan, he was so inexplicably defeated by the Fifth Infantry Division. He lost a full three thousand cavalry on the spot. Later, he was charged by the Tang Army's third cavalry detachment, which led to further
A fiasco!
In the end, he could only flee in embarrassment with 6,000 disabled cavalry. After returning, he was directly removed from command by Anda Khan. Now he can only worry about the rear!
On the battlefield, no one paid attention to the cry of Buzhigude, the defeated general!
Therefore, the Tatar cavalry still followed the tactics of Anda Khan and used their traditional tactics to attack!
More and more Tatar cavalry rushed forward, one thousand, two thousand, five thousand...
Countless Tatar cavalry roared over and broke into the Guards. Looking at this posture, it seemed that the Guards had been completely overwhelmed by the Tatar cavalry!
However, this was just an appearance. When the Tatar cavalry roared in and rushed up with the casualties of shelling and musketry, they discovered that they were not facing the expected situation at all.
They bypassed several hollow phalanxes of the Guards on the front and tried to attack the flanks of the Guards. However, they found that these Tang Army phalanxes were very strange, and there were no so-called flanks at all.
Any hollow square formation has a front, front, rear, left, right, and a dense forest of bayonets, and they are constantly attacking them with muskets!
They feel confused about this situation and they are at a loss!
They can only continue to run forward according to the inertia of the charge, trying to find weaknesses!
However, their run was also an opportunity that the Guards had been waiting for a long time!
Every fusilier reloaded as quickly as possible and then fired. From the infantry array, two black two-pound shotguns would occasionally be launched to bombard the Tatar cavalry!
Every moment, the Tatar cavalry suffered intensive casualties!
Although they also used bows and arrows to cause heavy casualties to the Guards soldiers, some of them even tried to launch direct hand-to-hand charges against these hollow phalanxes.
The Guards infantry of the Tang Army would always suffer heavy casualties in the frontal charge of the cavalry, but they shouted that the Guards would fight to the death and firmly stabilize the front.
The numerous phalanxes of the Guards were like rocks in the rapids. Despite the roaring and violent impact of the Tatar cavalry, they seemed to be drowned by waves of Tatar cavalry. However, the reef of the Guards
, but always stand upright in the torrent!
Guards!
without crashing!
The Guards, it still stands erect, maintaining a seemingly fragile line of defense that can be breached at any time!
However, at this time, An Dahan from behind finally saw that something was wrong!
Most of his cavalry had already charged forward, and more than 10,000 cavalry had completely rushed into the square formation of the Tang Army's Guards, but the Tang Army's square formation was still there!
And he also saw a scene that made him even more frightened. His own cavalry was being knocked down quickly!
Not one or two, nor the dozens or hundreds of casualties caused by shelling like before, but they were knocked down in pieces!
"No!"
"impossible!"
"This is absolutely impossible!" An Dahan finally couldn't calm down at this time!
In the battle ahead, it looked like one's own cavalry had rushed in, but in fact they were strangled in pieces by the Tang Army's Guards. He could see such an outcome with his eyes closed!
If this continues, all 20,000 cavalrymen may be killed or injured in front of the Tang army's phalanx!
"Quickly, Ming Jin withdraws his troops and tells them to retreat. Quickly, tell them to retreat immediately!"
An Dahan said directly loudly!
The current situation is quite dangerous. If you continue to trap your cavalry in the Tang army's square formation and attack forcefully, I am afraid that these 20,000 people will not be able to come back!
So he gave the order to withdraw the troops without hesitation!
However, before Anda Khan gave the order to retreat, the Tatar generals who were leading the charge at the front had already sensed that something was wrong. Compared with Anda Khan who was watching the battle from behind, the generals who were personally leading the battle at the front knew more clearly that the situation was very serious.
danger.
They rushed into the Tang Army's phalanx, but the expected weak points on the sides and rear were not found. They were greeted only by waves of shooting!
They could only continue to move forward blindly along the passages. Even these passages were no longer straight lines. They had to turn to avoid running into the Tang Army's dense infantry defense line. Then they continued to move forward blindly, turning around midway.
Along the way, their speed is constantly decreasing!
The more than a thousand Tatar cavalry who were the first to charge have now penetrated deep into the Tang army's formation, which means that they have been hit by almost ten or twenty rounds of firepower!
And this caused them to suffer heavy losses. They had more than a thousand riders, but now they only had less than 500 left, and the casualty ratio directly exceeded 70%!
If it were an ordinary attack, with such a ratio of casualties, even if they were the bravest forward cavalry among the Tatar cavalry, they would have collapsed long ago. But now, they can only keep their heads down and continue to charge forward!
They continued to rush forward, not to tear open the Tang army's defense line, nor even to counterattack, they just wanted to rush out of the passage and escape with their lives!
And this is actually a common phenomenon among many Tatar cavalry who broke into the Guards formation. They succeeded, and it can even be said that they rushed in without any resistance, but they soon realized that something was wrong and tried instead.
Rush out!
But even if they want to rush out, they have to continue to rush forward and pass through the firepower of many phalanxes before they can rush out!
Because cavalry is not infantry!
When the infantry sees that the situation is bad, they can just turn around and run away!
But the charging cavalry could not turn around at all. They could only continue to move forward, then turn, and while they continued to move forward and turn, they were knocked down one by one by muskets!
When Burgeud saw this scene from behind, he closed his eyes weakly!
This is a disaster!
A complete disaster, a disaster worse than the Battle of Liangshanji!
When he led his troops to attack, he was very cautious and sent two thousand cavalry forward to test. Then he continued to charge to avoid the situation of two thousand cavalry. At that time, Buzgud led the main force of cavalry to charge.
, but instead of choosing to go around, they took a forced charge.
But when it comes to fighting, it's almost a head-to-head confrontation, cavalry versus infantry phalanx, saber versus bayonet!
However, even so, the 10,000 horses under Burgeud's command had lost 3,000 horses!
Today, the Tatar cavalry were not cautious. They were not trying to test, but to break through the Tang army's defense line, so they launched an all-out attack from the beginning. The 20,000 cavalry launched waves of attacks, and they
They did not directly hit the front of the Tang army's formation, but chose their best horse shooting, which resulted in almost all the cavalry choosing to go around and then enter the passage between the many hollow square formations.
.
This is a complete disaster, even an irreversible disaster!
After 20,000 cavalrymen rushed in, how many people could come back alive in the end?
he does not know!
But he was very sure that this time the attempt to tear apart the defense line of the Tang Army's Guards had completely failed!
Even though Anda Khan had already begun to withdraw his troops, even the Tatar cavalry in front were about to retreat, but they had no way to retreat easily.
Except for the thousands of Tatar cavalry in the rear who had not had time to rush in, they changed their direction in time and successfully withdrew. The remaining more than 10,000 Tatar cavalry were still galloping in the Tang army's formation!
It's just that as they run away, their numbers are constantly decreasing!
Finally, a desperate Tatar cavalry general shouted and led the cavalry to start a large-scale attack on the front of the phalanx, trying to directly hit the bayonet forest with their horses and fight a bloody path!
But this is in vain!
There are four large square formations and more than ten small square formations composed of more than 13,000 Guardsmen. They are not so easy to break through!
More Tatar cavalry were still running rationally through the passage, trying to rush out of the passage as quickly as possible!
But can they break out?
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