Fortunately, there is no unstoppable road, and the wonder of the Shun army's heavy cavalry also shocked Jierhalang. He knew that Tang Tong and his men would never be able to cause much damage to the Shun army in this situation.
In this case, instead of letting the Han soldiers be killed and wounded in vain, reducing their own morale and cannon fodder, it is better to quickly notify Tun Qi and withdraw all the Han soldiers to the rear of the heavy trenches as soon as possible, and guard the position with the Manchurian soldiers.
The fierce offensive of Chu Chuang's cavalry really changed Jierhalang's mind:
Now it seems that it is very difficult for our own soldiers and horses to surround Shenzhou and hold the position. It is simply fantastic to find opportunities to kill and injure the defenders in large numbers!
"Get back to the formation!"
The Manchu princes took the lead in retreating to the center of the formation, followed closely by the Ming and Han soldiers. However, during this retreat, Liu Fangliang and Hao Yaoqi certainly would not let go of the opportunity easily.
The sky was covered by the dust of the battle, and the cavalry ravaged the rear of the Qing army's attacking troops. They galloped, charged, and killed countless people. As a result, the Qing army could only leave behind many corpses in the process of retreating to their positions, and their morale was naturally weakened.
Inevitably, he suffered a lot of damage.
"Step over!"
Chu Chuang's cavalry took over the vanguard position of the heavy cavalry of the left camp, and Hao Yaoqi took the lead in the charge. These cavalry, equipped with spears, waist knives and short muskets, still maintained a highly dense assault formation. Don't say they were hostile cavalry or were in the process of attacking.
Infantry in the process of movement, even when faced with a solid infantry line formed by field fortifications, can still cause enough shocking damage.
Hao Yaoqi rushed to Liu Fangliang's side. The two brave generals in the Dashun Army smiled knowingly at each other. Liu Fangliang, who was unparalleled in his sharpness, suffered some minor injuries. He didn't know whether it was the enemy's blood or his own wounds.
The blood soaked the robe worn outside the cloth mask with bright red, and as time went on, it slowly turned into a deep and terrifying black purple.
Hao Yaoqi reined in the horse's head and laughed easily and happily: "Can Liu Shuai still charge into the battle? Let me do it next!"
Liu Fangliang wiped the sweat and blood from his forehead. He first looked down at the blood on his hands, and then said with a wry smile: "The elite soldiers of the Three Chus have gone through several battles in Beizhili, and they are enough to be proud of the world. No matter it is
It seems that the elite soldiers of the three sides of Qin and Zhong, or the Guanning cavalry built by the Ming Dynasty court with tens of millions of Liao's wages, are not as powerful as the elite soldiers of the three Chu... Even Qi Shaobao's Zhejiang army at that time made people wonder.
, can they have the strength of Chu soldiers today!?"
Since Li Laiheng was summoned by Li Guo to go north to pursue Yuan Shizhong, the Chu soldiers first defeated Xiao Yuan's camp in Huaibei, and then besieged the elite Chen Yongfu troops of the inland army in Mamu, and defeated the elite troops of the Eight Manchu Banners and the Han Army Banner in Dangshan, threatening the victory.
The power of Manchuria's "Heavenly Soldiers" easily conquered Guide, Ma Muji, Xuzhou, and shocked Huaihai.
In fact, when Li Laiheng annihilated Zuo Liangyu's group, the elite Huguang Chu soldiers had already begun to impress the people within the Chu army and the world.
Li Laiheng's series of victories on the Huai River continued to strengthen the image of the Chu soldiers' capable troops. Finally, after the Chu soldiers crossed the river and marched north, a new iron army myth was formed in the hearts of the Ming army, the Qing army and the Northern Dashun army.
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The ice water of the Baigou River laid the foundation for the Chu army and the iron army, and the battles between Zhending and Shenzhou expanded its power many times. It does not take many years to come, but at this moment, in the middle of Hebei and the south of Shanxi
In this area, through the mouths of refugees and refugees, the rumors of "Master Li's benevolent and righteous soldiers", "Huguang Tigers", and "Elite Soldiers of Three Chu" have become popular and widely circulated among the people, and have become a new myth.
Even Liu Fangliang, a top-notch general in the Dashun Army, was impressed by Li Laiheng's unique skills in building an army!
He wiped the blood on his armor with the battle towel tied around his neck. He looked at the not-so-deep trench in front of the Qing army's central formation, but his eyes darkened and he whispered:
"The Tatars' position is very strong. We are all cavalry. I'm afraid we can't destroy it in one fell swoop..."
Hao Yaoqi laughed. He pointed to the rear of the Shunjun cavalry and said, "The commander-in-chief has been prepared for a long time! Now let Mr. Liu see the power of the elite soldiers of the Three Chus!"
Not long after the heavy cavalry of the Shun Army rushed out of the Shenzhou City Gate, Li Laiheng was always paying attention to the fighting situation below the city. When he discovered that the Qing Army's counterattack troops were driven back to the Chinese Army's position by Liu Fangliang and Hao Yaoqi, he realized that what was happening was
For the Shunjun breakout troops, the most difficult task finally came.
For the breakout troops, field battles are not difficult, but attacking fortresses is difficult!
Jirhalang is a cautious and prudent veteran. He does not have many high-quality troops at his disposal, so he pays more attention to building fortifications.
At least in terms of digging trenches and building wooden fences, there should not be a big gap between the performance of the Ming army's miscellaneous troops and the real Manchu Taijun.
In particular, the position of the Donglu Chinese Army where Ji'erharang was located was even more crisscrossed by trenches, wooden fences, and antlers. The defeated troops of Tang Tong were already frightened, but after retreating to their positions and seeing such a tight formation, they were even more worried.
Shangjierharang brought many old troops with blue flags to prepare for the battle, and they actually stabilized their position and did not scatter in one fell swoop due to a temporary setback.
Liu Fangliang looked at these tight defensive positions and couldn't help feeling a little intimidated!
However, in the view of Li Laiheng, who was well prepared, the civil fortifications built by Jierhalang can only be regarded as ants in front of the wheel...
Standing under the gate of Shenzhou City, Li Laiheng, who was ready to attack, also put down his visor, and a ferocious armored ghost face covered his wry smile: Hey, the mantis arm is the chariot, this time it is the Dashun Army's turn to be the "carriage"
"Yes!"
Beside Li Laiheng, a large group of infantry gathered - about seven or eight hundred people in total, nearly a thousand in number. They were not just ordinary infantry, but also tall men carefully selected from the Chu soldiers.
, a person with strong arms.
The military uniforms they wore were similar to the ordinary infantry of the Shun Army, but before going into battle, Li Laiheng specifically asked them to bend the front brim of their large Fanyang hat upwards. From a distance, the raised brim of the hat,
This makes the soldiers appear taller and more powerful, as if each of them is a burly "giant".
A "giant battalion" like the Chu Army rarely had the opportunity to fight in the past, so many generals and officers of the Huguang Shun Army secretly said that this was just an honor guard specially prepared for him by Li Laiheng——
It's not bad to call them an honor guard, because these giant infantry rarely train in bow and arrow skills, nor how to use spears to form a formation. The training they do every day is to throw stone projectiles with their arms and use short weapons.
It's just an ax to chop wood.
Throwing stone projectiles, not to mention that manpower cannot be compared with trebuchets. Now that the Dashun Army has already been equipped with a large number of artillery of different types, why is there any need to throw stone projectiles?
Moreover, the infantry can neither fire a volley of bows and arrows, nor form a spear formation to resist the cavalry, which means that they are a pure assault infantry. But Li Laiheng did not prepare them for training in the use of sabers or sabers, or the use of large guns.
Even an ax works!
Short-handled axes are too inconvenient to use in field battles. What's more, the short-handled axes equipped by Li Laiheng for them are clearly wood-cutting axes specially used to chop wood?
Li Laiheng himself was a little helpless about this. Such an army was originally a secret weapon that he had carefully assembled and prepared to use as his trump card. However, in the previous wars, the performance of these "giants" was average, and they were not able to do anything at all.
Can't afford to be the trump card.
Li Laiheng equipped the "giants" of the Chu army with a good sword and a short-handled axe, and also carried a bird gun with a slightly shorter barrel on his body - and most importantly, it was fully loaded with