#1007 Xiangyang decisive battle (eleven)
The Huai Army's scattered soldiers opened fire and immediately attracted the Qing army's bird gunners, turtledove-footed gunners and other firearms to open fire. A large number of Qing army's scattered soldiers aimed at the direction of the Huai Army's scattered soldiers. Needless to say, those smoothbore guns had no effect on the scattered soldiers a hundred and twenty steps away. The only function was to listen to the sound, make a lively, and give yourself courage.
The Ming army scattered soldiers, who had no casualties, immediately turned around and ran away.
"Mingdog poison gunman! Let the cavalry come up and chase!" Nikan shouted.
"Prince, Minggou Poison Gunners are all the best Taixi Shenluo war horses. Where can our cavalry catch up?" Li Guohan said.
Nikan snorted: "If you can't catch up, you have to chase us. You can't let them load ammunition and hit us!"
"Kill!" Wakda shouted and chased out with 20,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry.
Seeing the Qing army chasing us, 15,000 dragon cavalry turned their horses and ran to the place where the heavy cavalry were ambushed.
The scattered soldiers riding the Don hippo were extremely fast, and soon surpassed the Dragoons, disappeared without a trace, leaving 15,000 Dragoons riding Mongolian horses behind.
The speed of the dragon cavalry was not as fast as the stragglers and was left behind.
Seeing that the large group of Ming cavalry were not fast, Wakda ran not far ahead, and shouted, "Come on, catch up with these Ming dogs and kill them all!"
The dragon cavalry ran desperately in front. With Wang Fuchen's order, the two thousand dragon cavalry running behind turned around in unison. The flintlock rifles in their hands were aimed at the back. Only a row of deafening roars were heard, and the muzzle spewed out of flames, and the smoke filled the gun immediately swallowed the cavalry on both sides.
The smoothbore gun was originally very accurate, and it was shooting on the bumpy horse's back, which was moving. However, more than two thousand muskets fired volleys, but many Qing cavalrymen were knocked off the horse.
More than two thousand flintlock rifles were fired in a volley, and the roar was comparable to the shooting of the Red Barbarian cannon. Rows of projectiles shot backwards. The Qing cavalry that caught up with them were dropped one after another, and at least more than one hundred people were shot. However, the casualties of these more than one hundred people were simply a drop in the bucket for the Qing cavalry with more than 20,000 people.
"Catch it quickly! The barbarians use firearms on the horse's back, and they can't fight accurately! After they fight, it's our turn!" Wakda shouted, driving the cavalry to chase the Ming Dragoons.
The dragoons who had fired the bullets accelerated their speed and chased the dragoons that had not yet opened fire. Then more than two thousand dragoons opened fire, knocking down dozens of Qing cavalry.
Originally, the Dragoon was a horse-riding infantry, and he had to stop or dismount and fight to play his greatest advantage. Now he was riding on the horse and shooting with a flintlock rifle, so it was naturally impossible to cause much damage to the Qing army. The flintlock rifle used by the Dragoon was a short flintlock rifle, which was actually a carbine and a rifle. In later generations, there was a name called a carbine. This weapon could be fired on a running horse's back. Under normal circumstances, the Dragoon could only stop and shoot, or dismount and then leave on a horse.
Seeing that the shooting effect of the Ming Dragoons was worse, the Qing cavalry was like they were injected with chicken blood, shouting and chasing them.
There are more than 10,000 dragon cavalry not firing. However, the effect of firing on horseback was too poor, so they did not fire, but kept the bullets and prepared for a while before using them. Anyway, the dragon cavalry is now bait, and the purpose is to attract the Qing cavalry and use their own heavy cavalry to attack the Qing cavalry.
The Qing army caught up, and the 15,000 dragon cavalrymen scattered to both sides, revealing a large group of heavy cavalry hidden behind them.
Wakda was chasing the Qing army relentlessly, but he saw the Ming army's "light cavalry" in front of him scattered, and the Qing army's formation also scattered to the two wings. At this moment, Wakda was horrified and saw a silver-white metal iron wall in front of him, moving upward towards his cavalry.
"I've fallen into a trap! Heavy riding! Mingdo's heavy riding!" Wakda screamed in shock.
The heavy cavalry had appeared, and the armor on the seven thousand heavy cavalry reflected the sun's light, arranged in dense formations of charges, looking like a silver wall, crushing the Qing army.
The speed of the Qing Mongolian cavalry archers who were rushing in the front had increased to the fastest and could not turn at all. They had to use their bows to shoot arrows at the approaching heavy cavalry. Rounds of arrows shot at the Ming army's heavy cavalry, and they were all bounced away.
The heavy cavalry of the Huai Army rushed in the front, with one thousand horse-sling heavy cavalry, followed by six thousand ordinary heavy cavalry. Ordinary heavy cavalry carried a disposable cavalry spear, and then threw away the target. After throwing the cavalry spear, it replaced it with a sabre, and then followed the heavy cavalry of the Huai Army to charge. Now, the heavy cavalry of the Huai Army has another piece of equipment: a short gun. After throwing the cavalry spear, you can draw out the short gun, and then get close to the enemy with a short gun to kill the enemy.
The sudden heavy cavalry caused the formation of the Qing army to collapse. Some Qing cavalry were still rushing forward, while others wanted to turn around and run back, but the formation was chaotic and some even collided with each other.
The cavalry running at high speed naturally could not turn around. The distance between the two sides was only thirty steps, so it was too late to turn around.
With a thunderous sound of horse hooves, the heavy cavalry of the Huai Army had already rushed into the formation of the Qing army's cavalry. The thousand horse-slings and iron cavalry in front were like a whirlwind. Wherever the horse-slings passed, the Qing army's men and horses fell to the ground. The heavy cavalry did not stop charging, but trampled directly over the corpses of the Qing army, leaving behind corpses that were trampled everywhere. Soon, the heavy cavalry of the horse-slings directly drilled through the Qing army's cavalry formation and split the Qing army's cavalry formation in half from the middle.
The cavalry and spears following the heavy cavalry of the horse lances attacked the fish that had escaped.
Vadak was one of the fish that had escaped the net. At least three heavy cavalry rushed towards him. He used his superb riding skills to avoid the collision of the heavy cavalry of the Ming army. He stabbed a tiger spear with his backhand and pulled one heavy cavalry off the horse. But his good luck ended here. The heavy cavalry behind him passed by one after another. Each heavy cavalry held a heavy weapon such as a nail hammer, a page hammer, and when he passed by him, he did not stop his horse, but just waved the heavy weapons and hit him.
Vadak tried his best to resist the nail hammers, page hammers, long-handled hammers, and even big axes. The tiger spear kept picking out the weapons. The first one was fine, but the second one felt that his arms were a little out of power. The third one, the fourth one, Vadak's arms were sore and numb, and the tiger's mouth was shattered.
"Chirp" the war horse under Wakda's crotch made a sad neigh. The horse could not withstand the continuous impact and heavy blows, and finally could not support the weight. His feet weakened and he fell to the ground.
A heavy cavalry of Ming army galloped past, and the axe in his hand swept with the help of the war horse. As soon as Wakda stood up, he was cut off by an axe in half, and his two and a half pieces of body fell into a pool of blood.
The Qing cavalry of more than 20,000 people was rushed by the Ming army's heavy cavalry and was immediately lost. Although it had not been completely destroyed, it could no longer fight back. At this time, it was the moment of the dragon cavalry performing.
Five thousand dragon cavalry turned their horses and killed them. In addition to being equipped with a short flintlock rifle, each dragon cavalry also had two short guns, even two latest double-barrel short guns, or flintlock tiger-winged guns, and also equipped with a sabre.
The dragon cavalry approached the already defeated Qing cavalry. When the two sides were still twenty steps away, ten thousand dragon cavalry pulled the trigger one by one, and the flintlock rifle made a deafening roar, and at close range, they beat the remaining Qing cavalry one by one and fell off the horse's back.
Chapter completed!