Chapter 149: Soldiers approach the city
Return to virtue.
"Master Ci, the emperor entrusts Master Ci for the affairs of the north. How can Master Ci be so hasty? Guide City is high and deep, and the people in the city are united. As long as you keep your door and keep the monster behind the door, you will definitely not be able to conquer it. Master Ci has given up this perfect strategy and the whole army leaves the city to fight to the decisive battle. If there is any mistake, Henan will be in danger. Master Ci, He Yan, can't think twice about the emperor!"
In front of Binyang Gate, Hou Xun stopped Liu Fangliang's war horse and said righteously.
A group of gentry behind him quickly agreed.
The Dog Emperor's army arrived.
But Liu Fangliang was not going to close the city gate and use Guide to defend the city, but instead used the entire city of 60,000 troops to leave the city and fight to the death with the dog emperor. This move is simply no different from being a brainless person. Where is Guide? This was the Suiyang City, which Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan defended half of the Tang Dynasty. Instead, he did not use this iron barrel-like city wall to defend, but went out of the city to fight the dog emperor who had never been defeated in the field. This is not a way to die. What should the gentry in the city do? He took all his troops out. If he was defeated, the gentry in the city would wait for those who had long been eager to try to come to the door.
Liu Fangliang rode on the horse and looked at him with a smile, which made Hou Xun's eyes slightly flustered.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Fangliang urged him to step forward.
"Old guy, do you want to take the people in this city to be hostage? I am not as you wish. I am loyal to the King of Breaking, not loyal to you, dogs. Don't think I don't know where your son is. To be honest, I will defeat Chongzhen by chance. When I come back, I will kill your whole family as well. If I lose, I will wait underground to see you cut into pieces."
When he walked past Hou Xun, Liu Fangliang whispered.
Hou Xun's face changed.
"Then I'm waiting for the Magnetic Hou to return!"
He took a deep breath and said with a hint of sneer.
"Then let's wait!"
Liu Fangliang said.
Immediately afterwards, he laughed and rushed out of Guide City, and behind him, a total of 60,000 troops including 10,000 elite troops of Shun Army continued to walk out of the Binyang Gate.
Looking at Liu Fangliang's back, Hou Xun, with a gloomy face, turned around and ran to his mansion without hesitation. Just as Liu Fangliang led the army to line up outside the city, he also appeared in a carriage with his family and a batch of gold and silver from his mansion in front of Gongyang Gate facing south.
But unfortunately the city gate is closed.
"Master, what should I do?"
The butler in the car said in panic.
Hou Xun lifted a corner of the curtain and looked at countless casual men holding their arms on the street outside. The latter was looking at his carriage with a look at his prey. The dozens of guard slaves around the carriage were trembling, obviously frightened.
"Go to Yuzemen!"
Hou Xun said immediately.
The carriage hurriedly turned on the street, but no one among the idle men shouted, and then everyone rushed towards his carriage. Several servants were quite loyal, and they slashed over the two of them, and then guarded several carriages to turn, but the carriage at the end was stopped. Hou Xun watched his daughter-in-law scream and dragged out. As countless hands fought over, the jewelry on his head and the gorgeous clothes on his body disappeared instantly, and the next moment even the people disappeared.
He wiped his cold sweat.
However, at this moment, a lit cart suddenly came out from the alley on the right, and the raging flames instantly blocked the not-so-wide street. The driver hurriedly stopped the horse, then jumped out of the carriage without hesitation and got into the bottom of the carriage. Almost at the same time, the crowds surging from behind suddenly flooded Hou Shangshu's convoy.
At this time, Liu Fangliang from east of Guide City had completed the array.
Ten thousand cavalry, twenty thousand shield chariots and infantry, and a huge battle formation of 30,000 miscellaneous infantry stretches across the green field.
Opposite him were Yang Feng's three infantry brigade-level line rows, each with three battalions and four horizontal lines in front, one battalion is the reserve team, each brigade is eight four and a half guns at the front, and twelve nine jin cannons are at the rear, forming a large line row. Behind this large line row is the artillery brigade, with thirty-six nine jin cannons and thirty-six twenty jin cannons lined up near the central army. On the right wing of the artillery brigade is the cavalry brigade arranged in the array, and the left wing is the heavy cavalry brigade of the same array, with eight thousand cavalry and 12,000 infant artillery guarding the artillery brigade. The entire formation is close to nearly two thousand meters. In order to facilitate command of the position of the artillery brigade, two tethered balloons were raised early to overlook the entire battlefield from a height of one hundred meters.
After the two sides finished their array, Yang Feng rode the pretentious rhino, with a giant shield in one hand and a four-meter Mo knife in the other hand.
Liu Fangliang also stepped forward.
The two stopped twenty meters apart.
"I'll give you a chance to put down your weapons and surrender you will be forgiven!"
Yang Feng said.
"Your Majesty, loyal ministers do not serve the two masters. Even though your majesty is wise, I am a minister of the King of Rebellion and dare not defeat the King of Rebellion. I have no choice but to fight with Your Majesty!"
Liu Fangliang lowered his head and said.
"Since this is the case, I will fulfill your wishes."
Yang Feng said.
Liu Fangliang lowered his head again, urged the horse to retreat a few steps, and then turned back to the formation.
Yang Feng glanced at the Shun Army that was arranged on the opposite side, and also turned around and returned to the rear of the formation. This battle was the first real battle since the bandit army was formed, and it was also a good opportunity to hone the soldiers. He would not take action until the situation was critical. In fact, he did not think he had the opportunity to take action. The real fighting will be the only one hundred thousand elite cavalry in the old camp of the Shun Army. The remaining ones who could line up and not run were considered as giving Liu Fangliang face.
He returned to the rear of the formation, and then Liu Fangliang on the opposite side launched an attack.
Yang Feng guessed it right.
Liu Fangliang, who also understood this, simply led 10,000 elite troops from the old battalion he fought out from Guanzhong to the Ming army line. None of the 50,000 infantry arranged behind him stepped forward. Among the infantry, the former imperial generals who were unwilling to accept their fate roared and whipped and even slashed with swords in despair. However, the infantry arranged in the array remained indifferent. In some places, the angry soldiers simply pulled the generals off the horse and then surrounded them and punched and kicked them.
They watched a big show that had nothing to do with themselves, watching ten thousand elite troops rush towards the Ming army.
"Fire the fire!"
Yang Feng said with emotion.
Suddenly, one hundred and thirty-two cannons in the Ming army roared at the same time, and the whistling of solid bullets and flowering bullets sounded instantly.
The next moment, the charge of the Shun army was exploding, and blood and broken limbs and arms were scattered in the flames.
But they still didn't stop.
The cavalry torrent with Liu Fangliang as the vanguard accelerated desperately in the artillery fire. All the cavalry were roaring immediately. They controlled the war horses with one spear and the other. The flowering bullets were still blowing up among them. The power of the explosion and the splattered shrapnel were reaping their lives unscrupulously. The solid bullets also kept splattering blood and flesh among them.
But none of the dozens of cannons behind them opened fire, and the artillery soldiers also watched them fall down in the fire silently.
Soon after dropping countless bodies, the Shun Army cavalry vanguard entered the Ming army's range.
"Open fire!"
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The roars of countless officers sounded one after another on the Ming army formation. Nearly 8,000 infantry on the front line pulled the trigger at the same time. In the densely sprayed flames, nearly 8,000 bullets were shot at the Shun Army like a storm. Countless cavalry vanguards fell off their horses, but the cavalry behind them were still moving forward, and soon they began to impact the Ming army formation.
Yang Feng waved his hand.
The signal soldier waved the signal flag in his hand on the hot air balloon above his head.
"go ahead!"
In the middle of the left-wing heavy cavalry brigade, the brigade commander Chen Zhong pointed forward and pointed his straight sword in his hand, imitating the British 1908 cavalry sword.
The chest-plated cavalrymen, densely packed with chest-plated horses, hung down the giant spears in their hands, and controlled the war horses to slowly move forward like moving walls. Then they began to accelerate. Countless spears with small pennant flags swayed as the horses galloped, and countless horse hooves trampled on the ground and made a loud thunderous sound.
This cavalry that Yang Feng spent more than a year training was on the battlefield for the first time, and even many cavalry on horseback were like this. Except for the officers who followed his Jinyiwei heavy cavalry in the past, the remaining soldiers were recruited from the righteous people. This cavalry does not require everyone's superb riding skills. All they need is discipline. Many young farmers who could not even ride horses before have completely achieved discipline after a year of continuous training and whip education.
At this moment, they kept moving forward like machines.
The Shun Army cavalry immediately split into one group to fight, and the two running cavalry collided head-on in a blink of an eye.
The most spectacular scene in the Cold Weapon Age was staged like this.
At a relative speed of nearly 100 kilometers, he hit the Shun Army's spears one after another, and instantly took down the Shun Army in front like a road roller. Then the walls of cavalry kept crushing them, and kept moving forward like a torrent that destroyed everything, crushing everything and moving forward.
The Ming infantry in the array in front of the Shun Army had already begun to fight against the cavalry. The soldiers who had no time to load the bullet simply raised the bayonet gun with a bayonet gun, relying on the densely arranged formation, blocking the cavalry like a tough wall. The soldiers who had completed the loading bullets immediately pulled the trigger at a distance. As the back row of the reserve team, they also began to quickly replenish the relatively critical position. Behind them all the soldiers of the emperor's bandit retreated in the face of the ferocious cavalry, and everyone was tenaciously blocking the Shun Army cavalry.
At the same time, all the artillery brigades in the rear were concentrated on bombarding the back of the Shun Army's vanguard, and dense shells were used to form a split. The brigade artillery on the front was replaced with shotguns and kept bombing at an extreme speed of two rounds per minute within a distance of 200 meters.
The Shun army cavalry who could never break through the Ming army's infantry bayonet fell in large numbers.
The heavy cavalry brigade, which completed the first round of charge, was once again formed. The cavalrymen with their spears had their chests broken, all pulled out their cavalry swords and leaned out on the running war horses. As they had been training for a year, they turned their whole body into a high-speed forward spike, and soon collided with the cavalry of the Shun Army from the flank again.
Chapter completed!