Chapter 616 Songshan Breakthrough (Part 2)
"No, we can't leave the supervisor behind and ignore it!" Cao Wenzhao shouted and led the cavalry to rush towards the Qing army without hesitation.
At this time, with the arrival of the Mongolian light cavalry, the central army of Hong Chengchou with less than 2,000 men had been trapped in a heavy siege.
"Two wings assault!" Dorgon asked someone to issue an order.
Five thousand Mongolian light cavalry and horses penetrated to both sides of the Ming cavalry. The Korqin people made various strange sounds, and they opened their bows and arrows to the rear of Hong Chengchou's cavalry. The Mongolian light cavalry pulled out two crescent-shaped arcs and approached the Ming cavalry, but did not rush forward, but kept archery and harassing them twenty steps away.
"Gabushxian Chaoha Camp, dismounted and shot arrows! The white-armored soldiers dismounted and blocked the retreat of Hong Chengchou's central army!" Dorgon issued a series of orders.
"Zu Dale, block the left wing of the Tartars! Rao Xun, block the right wing of the Tartars! Zhu Wende, protects the governor, rushed out from the front and met with General Cao!" Hong Chengchou issued a series of orders.
"No!" The soldiers saluted on the horse's back and then rushed towards the Qing cavalry.
Zu Dale and Rao Xun each led 500 cavalry to rush out. When the Mongolians saw the Ming cavalry rushing towards him, they immediately turned their horses and kept attracting the Ming army to the distance. At the same time, they turned around from time to time and shot an arrow.
At the same time, the Qing army's Gabush Xianchao and the white-armored soldiers who had already dismounted, all pulled their bows and shot arrows all over the sky.
The ordinary Guanning cavalry has little protection ability. It is better to have a piece of leather armor or a piece of cotton armor on its body. The ordinary cavalry has a piece of leather or cotton armor on its body, which can't defend against the heavy arrows of the light arrows of the Bushxian Chaoha soldiers. Although the light arrows of the Mongols cannot penetrate the armor, they only have half of the armor, and their arms and legs are not protected. When they are shot by the light arrows, they will pierce into the flesh.
The heavy arrows shot by the Kabush Xianchao and the white-armored soldiers of the Qing army were mixed with the light arrows shot by the Mongolian light cavalry, and intertwined the rain of arrows. Zu Dale and Rao Xun's Ming cavalry fell from the horse's back one after another, but they could not even catch the shadow of the Qing army.
"Aliha Chao's soldiers, block Minggou's retreat from the front! Hong Chengchou must not be allowed to run away!" Dorgon ordered.
The Qing army's Gabush Xianchao heavy infantry rushed to the front of Hong Chengchou's retreat route and blocked the road. The heavy infantry riding horses dismounted and formed a formation. In front were sword players, and super long spears two meters long stretched out from between the shield formations to form a spear forest. The two wings of the Gabush Xianchao's soldiers were heavy cavalry of the Alihachao battalion.
"Aliha Chao Ha Camp, accelerate!" Dorgon gave an order.
The heavy cavalry of the Qing army was arranged in a cone formation and rushed towards Hong Chengchou's more than 800 cavalrymen, looking like a black cavalry wall crushing up.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Hong Chengchou had to bite the bullet and order: "Go and rush to Jiannu Infantry Formation!"
More than 800 Ming cavalry rushed towards the heavy infantry formation of the Qing army's Gabush Xianchaoha camp. Before they could reach the front, they were shot one-third of the dense arrows. The remaining more than 500 cavalry rushed forward and were forced to retreat in front of the super spear formation.
"White-armored soldiers attack!" Tu Lai roared.
The white-armored soldiers rushed out from behind the spear formation and chased the Ming cavalry on foot, which had slowed down. Rows of white-armored soldiers rushed forward, and the Ming cavalry who had lost their speed were all dismissed.
"Minggou rescuers are coming, Korqin cavalry, stop them!" Dorgon's central army shook a large flag and commanded the Korqin people to block Cao Bianjiao's elite cavalry.
Cao Bianjiao led the remaining more than 800 elite cavalry to come from behind the infantry formation of the Qing army's Gabush Xianchaoha camp. Who knew that before he rushed to the back of the Qing army's infantry, groups of Mongolian light cavalry had already surrounded him and blocked Cao Bianjiao's way.
The arrow rain fell one after another, and almost all the elite Ming cavalry rushed over were stuck with arrows. Cao Bianjiao also had several feather arrows. Fortunately, they were protected by thick armor. The Mongol light arrows shot on their bodies were not very harmful.
"Go to die!" Cao Bianjiao caught up with a Mongolian man who was trying to turn around and pull out his horse. He picked up the Mongolian man from the back with a spear.
The Mongolians were whistling, and the lanterns surrounded the Ming cavalry, and arrows fell one after another. Although the Ming cavalry had thick armor protection, the protection of the war horses was very weak. Many war horses under their crotch were shot overturned and rolled down from the horse's back. The cavalry who had lost the war horse could not chase the Mongolian cavalry at all, and could only be flying kites by the Mongolians, and they were slowly shot by one arrow, and finally they were shot like hedgehogs. Even though they were wearing thick armor and shot by dozens of arrows, many arrows were stabbed into the flesh. The injured Ming soldiers lost their combat effectiveness and were finally knocked away by the Mongolian cavalry.
There were fewer and fewer people around Cao Bianjiao. Just as he turned his horse's head and returned with the remaining 500 cavalrymen, preparing to accumulate horsepower to charge again, Xu Liang came up and persuaded him again: "General Cao, it's useless. We can't rescue the supervisor, go quickly!"
"I won't leave! If you want to leave, you will go!" Cao Bianjiao roared, turned his head and pointed forward with a spear, "Brothers, follow me back and kill the slave!"
Before he finished speaking, Cao Bianjiao felt a heavy blow on the back of his head. He fainted when his eyes turned dark.
It was Xu Liang who used the knife to smash Cao Bianjiao's helmet and rolled him over. Then Xu Liang shouted: "Brothers, hurry up and protect General Cao to retreat! Just us, rush forward and fight against Jiannu, and no one can survive! Everyone lost their armor, and only put a round shield on their backs and evacuate quickly!"
The remaining more than 500 cavalrymen followed Xu Liang's instructions, discarded their armor, threw away their helmets, removed the vests of the war horses, and each tied the round shield to their backs.
Cao Bianjiao was tied to the horse's back. Xu Liang rode a war horse, holding the reins of Cao Bianjiao's war horse in his hand, and led the remaining five hundred Ming cavalry to retreat southeast.
At this time, the Ming army had all become light cavalry, running very fast, and the Mongolian light cavalry could not catch up with it for a while.
"Come on, when we get to the beach, we will win! Don't be stingy with horsepower! If the horse runs to death, the horse will run to death! As long as we go back alive, we will have a chance to take revenge!" Xu Liang shouted.
More than 500 cavalrymen ran desperately, each of them stabbed the horse's belly with a spur, and whipped the horse's butt with a whip in his hand, squeezing out the horse's last physical strength, driving the horse's horse and running desperately towards the southeastern seaside.
The Qing army chased after him. The cavalry of the Eight Banners was too heavy to catch up with the Ming army for a while, but the Mongolian light cavalry held on to the Ming army and refused to let go. From time to time, the unlucky Ming army was shot off the horse.
Xu Liang handed the reins of Cao Bianjiao's war horse to a Ming cavalry. He took the bow and arrow from his back, turned his head and shot it out. A Mongolian who was chasing the nearest was arrowed in his throat and fell from the horse's back. Then he shot another arrow, and another Mongolian cavalry stabbed a feather arrow in his chest, and the arrowhead stabbed out from his back.
Several servants of Cao Bianjiao turned their heads from time to time, shot arrows and shot down many Mongolian light cavalry.
However, the Korqin Meng Eight Banners Cavalry had already received the order from Dorgon to kill the Ming cavalry, so the Mongols didn't care about the losses of dozens of people. They rushed and followed the Ming army and chased them reluctantly.
"General Xu, the Mongolian Tartars are too fast! They are still three horses alone, and they can change horses without getting off the horse and on the back! Our horsepower is almost exhausted, and we can't run back to the Ming Dynasty!" A Ming cavalry gasped and said to Xu Liang.
"Yes!" said another cavalryman, "We only took General Xu to retreat to the Ming Dynasty, but Xingshan has been lost and we have no way out."
"As long as we get to the beach, we can survive!" Xu Liang shouted loudly.
But there are more than twenty miles away from the beach, and everyone is already trapped, and the Mongolians followed closely behind, and I don’t know if they can stick to the beach.
Chapter completed!