In the wilderness, the cold wind blew, the dust flew, and people howled and horses neighed.
Lu Xiangsheng raised his sword and rode his horse, but he did not dare to run fast, firstly to save horse power, and secondly to maintain the formation.
He can rush in front of the military formation, but he cannot cause chaos in the military formation. If a row of knights cannot maintain a constant speed, it will give the opposite Qing cavalry a chance, and the Qing cavalry will plunge in like a sharp knife.
Lu Xiangsheng's military formation divided it.
The sound of shouts from the officers kept reminding me of the loud shouts from the groups of knights. They trotted in a neat horizontal formation to wrap up the cavalry that was rushing towards the Qing army on the opposite side.
When the distance between the two sides reaches within 200 steps, they will start to accelerate again and switch from trot to accelerated running. After accelerating for about 50 steps, they will launch a charge. In the last 100 steps, they will charge to the death and strive to defeat them in one battle.
enemy.
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View from the air.
There was a sea of armor like a red cloud, and while thousands of war horses were galloping, a large cloud of smoke more than two miles long rose up, rolling forward like a formation of wild geese.
The speed of the two wings of the wild goose formation increased rapidly, gradually surpassing Lu Xiangsheng in the middle, and swept towards the arrow-like blue cavalry on the opposite side.
The arrow-shaped Qing cavalry on the opposite side also began to accelerate, rolling up a puff of smoke like an arrow and rolling forward. Behind them, more than 200 steps away, there were two more cavalry, separated on the left and right.
They charged diagonally, like sharp arrows, straight towards the two wings of Lu Xiangsheng's cavalry formation.
Zhang Cheng urged the war horse under his crotch. Although he was behind Lu Xiangsheng's central army, because of his early acceleration, he could not keep up with the Yan Yi on the left wing of the central army.
However, because it was blocked by the wings of the wild geese on the left wing of the central army, the Qing army on the opposite side rushed to attack the Han army on the flank. He Chenggong's cavalry could not see Zhang Cheng.
Suddenly, Yang Guozhu turned his horse around, charged from left to right, and rushed directly to the waist of the Qing army's Jia La Zhangjing Altin assault formation.
His general, Guo Yingxian, kept shouting with a loud voice, reminding the soldiers behind him to turn around and flank the Qing army under Alzin.
Zhang Cheng's vision suddenly brightened. Yang Guozhu led his knights to charge eastward, but now they changed their direction from north to south and launched a forward charge straight towards the waist of Alzin's forward formation.
Two hundred paces away, he saw a group of Qing cavalry, about five hundred in size, trotting towards Yang Guozhu's troops. It was the five hundred Qing soldiers led by Jia Lazhang Jingdandai of Zhenglan Banner.
Dan Dai had been aiming at Yang Guozhu's men, but as soon as he started to accelerate, he found that Yang Guozhu's nearly a thousand knights suddenly turned around and rushed towards Alzin's waist.
He also wanted to turn around and rush towards Yang Guozhu's army formation, but suddenly he saw that behind Yang Guozhu's Ming army, another Ming army with nearly a thousand riders came out and came straight towards him.
At this time, if he charged towards Yang Guozhu's troops again, he would face being flanked by two Ming armies, so he had no choice but to continue to mobilize his horses, rush towards Zhang Cheng's troops on the opposite side, and charge with all his strength.
The only hope is to break through quickly, defeat the nearly a thousand Ming army cavalry in front of them, and then cooperate with Alzin's troops to flank the Ming army's central formation.
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"Ding……"
Lu Xiangsheng was urging his horse to charge at full speed when an arrow flew towards him and hit his sword with a crisp sound.
Seeing that there was only fifty steps left between the two sides, Lu Xiangsheng shouted: "The Chinese army separates, three-eyed guns, fire!"
"...bang...bang...bang...bang..."
The fire flickered, there were bursts of explosions, and clouds of smoke rose into the air, gradually converging into a large sheet, mixing with the smoke and dust rolled up by the horses' hooves, making it particularly pungent.
Following Lu Xiangsheng's order, a gap opened in the middle of the Ming army, allowing the tip of Alzin's arrow to pass. However, what greeted him was a barrage of three-eyed blunderbuss.
At a distance of twenty or thirty steps, the three-eyed gun is a deadly weapon. If someone is hit by its bullets, even if they are not killed immediately, most of them cannot be saved. After all, in this era, infection is not so important.
Even if the bullet did little damage to the body's organs, the wound infection was even more torturous. In the late Ming Dynasty, when there were no antibiotics, the only option was to wait for death.
Arzin was lucky and was not hit by the bullet, but the speed of the war horse also slowed down when the two sides collided.
When the two sides were fifty steps apart, he threw a spear and shot a Ming knight. At this time, he brandished a mace and smashed it hard, knocking over two knights one after another.
On the other side, Lu Xiangsheng almost collided with a Qing army cavalry. Fortunately, Chen An followed him and shot the Qing soldier's horse directly with the three-eyed gun in his hand. He took two steps forward and fell to the ground.
Lu Xiangsheng raised his sword and beheaded the Qing soldier who had just fallen off his horse.
He roared loudly: "Kill the slaves, kill..."
Riding his horse into the Qing army's formation, he danced his fine iron sword, which weighed dozens of kilograms, flying up and down, either slashing people or hitting the horse's head. In the blink of an eye, he chopped down four Qing soldiers.
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Zhang Cheng roared angrily: "Rush over and kill the Tatars..."
With a "swish" sound, a cold arrow flew past his face, and there was a "click" sound behind him, as if it had been shot into the saddle of the horse.
Then several spears were fired at him. Zhang Cheng held the rear third of the big stick with his right hand, clamped the tail of the stick with his armpits, lowered his head on the saddle, clamped the horse's belly with both feet, and controlled it tightly with his left hand.
The reins spurred the war horses to rush towards the Qing army.
As soon as he heard several screams coming from behind him, he faced the Qing soldier. The two horses were staggered. Zhang Cheng was rubbing the Qing soldier's waist with his sword and stick, and a piece of bright red liquid flew up.
The pieces of the Qing soldier's armor were scattered into pieces.
"Bang...bang...bang..."
Smoke rose, and explosions were heard one after another behind Zhang Cheng. Three-eyed muskets were fired one after another, and the fire exploded in succession.
Zhang Cheng swung his sword-clipping stick and hit the head of a war horse. The horse's head burst open, groaned, and fell to the ground. The Qing soldiers reacted quickly.
The moment he landed, he stretched out the ax in his hand and propped it on the ground. He used the force to roll forward, and at the same time, the ax swept across the two horses. He swept off the front legs of the two horses, and they immediately fell to the ground.
"boom!"
Before he could get up, he was hit directly in the head by the three-eyed blunderbuss of the knight behind him, causing blood and brains to fly everywhere.
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In a wilderness northwest of Gaoyang City, red and blue were fighting together, and the flags were mixed, making it difficult to distinguish one from the other.
To the north is the Ming army under Zhang Cheng's guerrilla army in Xuanzhen. It has just crossed paths with the Qing army under Jia Lazhang Jingdan Dai's army. The two sides are turning around and regrouping.
In the south, the Shanxi Town Counselor Jiang Mingwu's troops were fighting with the Mongolian Deke Lei's troops from the outer vassal vassal. Deke Lei was very cunning. He did not want to fight with Jiang Mingwu at all, but only led his troops to attack with arrows from a distance.
The Mongolian cavalry under his command was divided into three teams, advancing and retreating, covering each other and supporting each other. They only used bows and arrows to shoot or projectile. Jiang Ming's military department had no way to deal with them at the moment. They could only endure casualties and drive them away.
So that it would not disrupt Lu Xiangsheng's Chinese army formation.
Only a large group of red and blue interlaced in the middle. Lu Xiangsheng led more than 3,000 knights from Xuanzang and Shanxi towns, fighting with more than 1,600 cavalry from La Zhangjing and Alzin of the Zhenglan Banner of the Qing Army.
Although Alzin's strength was only half of Lu Xiangsheng's, he was able to equalize with Lu Xiangsheng's nearly 3,000 elite cavalry. Teams of blue-armored Qing cavalry were seen charging back and forth in a sea of red armor.
From time to time, someone falls down.
In the wilderness, corpses were strewn all over the ground, and there was a wailing sound, as if it was the end of the world.