Chapter 100 King Gaoyang is good at using cavalry

Of course the generals of the Confederate Army knew this already.

The deputy general of the left army was the prince-in-law Li Jian.

Li Jian's banner actually came up.

Originally Li Jian's flag was in the rear camp, but in order to prevent the road from collapsing, Li Jian had moved all the command flags forward.

It was a pity that Zhu Gaoxu could not see what was happening behind Li Jian's formation. It turned out that behind Li Jian's formation was a crossing of the Hutuo River, and now there were a large number of troops coming from the south bank.

Li Jian moved his troops forward to block Zhu Gaoxu, while also making room for the reinforcements behind him.

"Gather your troops and defeat Li Jian." Zhu Gaoxu immediately ordered: "Come to the west."

More than a dozen soldiers immediately rushed out of the team and notified various ministries.

Zhu Gaoxu led his troops to the west and gathered there. Li Jian was also gathering the defeated troops and reorganizing the defense line.

At this time, the infantry camps behind gradually moved forward, and a large number of infantry gathered around Li Jian.

Xu Xiang also said in a deep voice: "We have more than 10,000 for two thousand, so it's not bad to be able to fight like this."

But at this moment, with a rumble, a large group of Yan troops behind them rushed over, including cavalry and infantry.

Li Jian had three battalions in his hands, and was supported by soldiers and horses from the south bank behind him. How could it be so fast? How long had the fight lasted?

"Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Gaoyang County, was too fierce. He first led his cavalry to overwhelm one of his battalions, and then joined forces with another Yan army."

The Confederate army leaned against the city wall, hoping that if they could not defeat it, they could retreat into the city. If everyone thought so, who would fight tooth and nail?

Xiang Yu broke the cauldron and sank the boat, and Han Xin fought with his back to the wall. They both put themselves to death first and then survived.

The Confederate army lined up many bowl-mouth blunderbuss and Hongwu iron cannons on the city wall.

Ping An ran over in three steps and two steps, and said in a deep voice: "Li Jian on the left wing has collapsed. Li Jian seems to have fallen into the formation. His defeated troops are attacking our western defense line."

On the other hand, one or two thousand people on the opposite side were shot, and most of them were shot down by their five rounds of arrows. It can be regarded as a great victory.

Moreover, the range of the artillery here was limited. Many times the Yan army rushed up and then retreated, but they couldn't reach it even if they tried to hit them. Several of their guns even hit their own people.

Without waiting for Zhu Gaoxu to respond, he added: "If Prince Gaoyang cannot do it, ask the late emperor to do it for me."

"Gather all the shields for use and come to the first five rows." Li Jian immediately ordered.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, today's battle should be the one in which artillery was used the most.

Geng Bingwen's expression changed drastically: "So fast?"

In view of the fact that Geng Bingwen rejected the last division of troops to attack Peking, Sheng Yong thought about it, thinking about how to appropriately and tactfully put forward opinions to Geng Bingwen.

If Geng Bingwen was willing to divide his troops to garrison each city and let the Yan army attack the city, then this battle would be much easier to fight.

From time to time, there were loud curses at the bottom of the city. Sheng Yong, who was standing on the city wall watching the battle, looked livid and didn't know what to say.

He thought that if Geng Bingwen wanted to defend, there was no need for a large number of soldiers and horses to fight with the Yan army outside the city.

"Are all the bows here?" Zhu Gaoxu asked the generals around him at this time.

The total number of troops participating in the battle from both sides exceeds 200,000, and more than half of them are concentrated in front of the North Gate of Zhending City.

Then there seemed to be fluctuations in the Confederate army's formation.

Zhu Gaoxu was originally planning to shoot ten more rounds before charging again, but he didn't expect that many people had already thrown away their bows.

Cheers came from the city in the distance on the west side.

Just then, suddenly.

Li Jian is also very experienced. As long as the infantry formation is deep enough, the cavalry will definitely be useless.

After just watching for a while, Sheng Yong felt that the situation of the Southern Army was not good.

It's a pity that the Yan army has too many troops, and the limited cannonballs falling into it are like throwing a stone into the sea.

But it was Zhang Wu who led people here.

Everyone was unhappy with Zhang Wu.

But the problem is, there are more than 10,000 people on the other side.

Zhu Gaoxu quickly gathered his troops and horses, observing while concentrating. He didn't have time to count, but he estimated that he had lost about one or two hundred men after rushing like this just now.

After a while, someone hurried over from the west. It was Ping An.

Sheng Yong was not only good at using infantry, but also good at using artillery.

He placed all his artillery at the due north gate, and sure enough, the Yan army attacked most fiercely here.

"Damn it, who told you to throw it away?" Weida yelled.

"tui" Sheng Jian vomited on the ground.

"General, the archery on the other side is very good." At this time, a Qianhu asked him.

In the early Ming Dynasty, there were two kinds of bowl-mouth blunderbuss, which were used for direct shooting and projectile shooting. The former could be called artillery, and the latter was also called mortar. Most of those used to defend the city were for direct shooting.

After Zhang Wu finished speaking, without waiting for Zhu Gaoxu's reply, he waved his hand, and the soldiers and horses behind him rushed forward like a tide.

At this time, around the north gate of Zhending City, there were loud shouts of killing and the sound of cannons.

"Let's go, don't let them look down upon us, let's go up." Zhu Gaoxu waved his hand and decided to follow Zhang Wu.

But what Zhu Gaoxu wanted to do was not to hold back Queen Yan, because everyone is in the same boat now.

At this time, nearly 100,000 people were fighting under the city. The cannon at the top of the city roared from time to time, and then the cannonballs flew into the Yan army's formation.

Now Geng Bingwen did the opposite and asked the entire army to defend with their backs to the city. Everyone felt lucky that they could retreat into the city if they couldn't defeat it. This would definitely not be good for the Southern Army.

"Why didn't Prince Gaoyang move forward? King Yan had an order to destroy the southern army's infantry camp on the left wing as soon as possible." Zhang Wu spoke rudely after arriving.

Because after Zhu Yuanzhang took over the world, the development of firearms in the Ming Dynasty lacked war needs, and the development speed slowed down significantly.

Many people looked at each other in confusion. After just shooting a few rounds, some people just threw their bows away and rushed forward. Then many people followed suit.

The main enemy of the unified Ming Dynasty was the Mongols on the grasslands, but this would obviously make it impossible to build field artillery that could be used on the grasslands. Therefore, large artillery did not exist in the early Ming Dynasty or even for a long period of time in the Ming Dynasty.

Due to demand, even artillery of the Hongwu Iron Cannon type had few records of its manufacture and use after Hongwu.

Sheng Yong turned his head and saw Geng Bingwen not far away, whose face was not very good.

In this battle of Zhending, Sheng Yong overcame all objections and asked to bring all kinds of dusty cannons in the warehouse, so that the battle of Zhending had artillery.

The Yan army certainly could not afford the cost of attacking the city.

Li Jian originally had three large camps, but one was destroyed by Zhu Gaoxu. Then Li Jian regrouped and still had more than 10,000 people in his hands.

However, infantry has one disadvantage compared to cavalry: it is slower to gather.

At this time, Zhang Wu's soldiers and horses were rushing forward, but they were much safer behind.

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The battle situation on the two wings outside the city is not important compared to the entire battlefield.

But Geng Bingwen didn't want to divide his troops, so he gathered 130,000 troops together, but they couldn't enter the city at the same time. Now more than half of them are fighting with the Yan army outside Zhending City.

If more than 10,000 people were twisted together, there would be nothing Zhu Gaoxu could do against him.

A large number of soldiers and horses of the Confederate army were near the city gate, some stationed outside the city and some inside.

Zhending City cannot hold so many soldiers and horses, but it can be moved to other places, such as Jinzhou.

The camp in front was shot by Zhu Gaoxu's arrow and collapsed.

"I was on the city wall and observed that Prince Gaoyang was very good at using cavalry. He would ride and shoot first in every battle, just like the Mongols."

"The soldiers had no cover and suffered heavy losses."

"The last general is asking for a battle." Ping An said at the end, clasping his fists and saying: "I would like to lead the cavalry and fight Zhu Gaoxu decisively."

Ping An looked excited, as if he had met his opponent, and couldn't wait to have a showdown with Zhu Gaoxu.

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