Chapter 389: The Great Chaos

If an eagle passes through the air at this moment, you can see that the blocks in the battlefield below are still neatly, but the cavalry on three sides around suddenly tighten like a big pocket.

Even if the charge launched by the Mongolian cavalry was brave enough, the square formation composed of more than 10,000 people in the Jiaozhou camp was solid enough, with spears like forests and square formation like mountains, and it was not so easy to shake it easily.

The Mongolian cavalry who rushed in front screamed loudly, and the soldiers of Jiaozhou camp who were standing there were also shouting loudly. At this moment, the entire battlefield was full of shouting and killing from both sides, and even drowned out the sound of horse hooves.

The diffuse bows and arrows have certain damage to the non-armor-piercing musket soldiers, but the soldiers on the outermost side of the Jiaozhou Camp basically have half-armored armor, and there are iron pieces in the felt hat on the top of their heads, which plays the role of a helmet.

In the training and combat exercises of infantry queues, the spear soldiers on the outermost front line must at least have half-body armor and helmets. The musket itself is very heavy. If the musket soldiers wear armor, their movements and speed must be reduced to the point where they cannot go to the battlefield, but the spear soldiers do not have this problem.

The bow and arrows are very harmful to the musket soldiers, but they do not harm the spear soldiers. Moreover, they are already rushing to the horse. It is difficult to do any action. If the back row shoots again, the possibility of injuring the companion by mistake is greater than that of injuring the enemy.

With such a huge and neat charge, every Mongolian soldier in it was full of blood. Even on the grassland, such a battle had not happened in decades.

The Ming army infantry formation in front of us seemed to be something in my pocket, something that was within my reach. Such a great attack and pressure could be destroyed immediately.

However, such squeeze and impact actually made the infantry queue of the Dengzhou Army more strict. Because of the continuous shrinkage, the gap between the teams became smaller and smaller, and became more dense.

When resisting the horse, the first row of arches step forward, the end of the spear is inserted into the soil, and the foot is stepped on. The angle of the second row of spears is slightly higher, and so on.

Horses are not machines, they are also spiritual creatures. When they see many sharp blades flashing with cold light in front of them, horses also need to instinctively dodge, and cavalry charge and rush into the infantry array head-on. The cavalry in the front rows is basically dead end. The cavalry charging generally thinks that when the opponent's infantry faces the terrifying cavalry charge, they will instinctively dodge.

When the spear front was about twenty steps away, the Mongolian cavalry, who were quick to react, had already begun to adjust the speed of their mounts, even if they were rushing forward, the horses themselves had to slow down.

It can be stacked layer by layer, the front row slows down, and the rear row still squeezes up, and the speed of the mount cannot be stopped...

Amid the shouts, the Mongolian cavalry and the Jiaozhou camp local formation collided. The weapons in the Mongolian soldiers were trying to stretch forward as much as possible, but even the cavalry holding wooden guns, the length of the wooden spear was not as long as the spears of the Jiaozhou camp infantry, and the length was very different.

Many horses rushed up and stood up with their predecessors. The cavalry on their backs were either thrown down or were in such a state of loss of balance with the horses. The cavalry who could not hold onto the horses immediately crashed into the spear formation with their men and horses.

At this moment, the shouts of the soldiers on both sides turned into one side's shouts, and the screams of the other side rushed into the ground. The behavior of the Mongolian cavalry itself seemed to be more heroic, and the cavalry's stragglers could not form a joint force. Under the defense of the front line with a spear together, they could not do anything.

Those who bumped into the crowd were stabbed into honeycomb eyes. The people screamed and the horses neighed, and fell down together. The cavalry charged. If the infantry did not disintegrate, the cavalry would turn temporarily and look for gaps and opportunities again, but the scene in front of him rushed over and fought head-on.

The cavalry and horses fell to the ground in front of the spear formation, as well as the cavalry that hit the steel thorn bushes, became an obstacle to the back row before the infantry formation in Jiaozhou camp. The cavalry who were about to rush up from behind would jump over the corpse of this companion, which would slow down even more.

The power of the collision on the square formation was even smaller. On the front line directly in front, the lord had slightly squeezed and bent the spear line, but this time the speed was faster and the momentum was more powerful, but it did not play a corresponding role.

The spearmen of the Dengzhou Army were not iron men. Although a knight and his mount were stabbed by more than a dozen spears, the huge impact was scattered onto more than a dozen spears, the soldiers directly opposite him might not be able to bear it, and some spears were broken during the first collision.

The soldiers holding spears were so shocked that they vomited blood from their mouths, but the formation was too close. The soldiers of Jiaozhou Camp who were injured had no strength to continue standing, but they still couldn't go down because the soldiers in the back row and the front row were closely behind each other.

After the first and second waves of collisions, the Mongolian cavalry in the back row also controlled the horses. The momentum of charge that was indomitable stopped suddenly. The Mongolian cavalry all adjusted the direction of the horses. The rushing and shouting to kill just now was dusty. With such a sudden adjustment, the whole scene was in chaos again.

The attacks that went in and out just now had already caused the Dengzhou army to suffer heavy losses on the left, right and back three sides to be in chaos. The Mongolian cavalry stopped the momentum of the impact. In the gap between the platoons, there were not many people who had loaded ammunition and shot out.

However, the Mongolian cavalry on the periphery still retreated to a safe enough distance. During this period, people who were hit by muskets kept screaming and falling off the horse. This time the distance was not that absolute safety, but on the edge of the effective range, the Mongolian cavalry gradually became bolder.

The Mongolian cavalry surrounding the Dengzhou military formation gradually adjusted to the previous situation, forming a large circle from left to right.

The long horn sounded, and the large groups of Mongolian cavalry began to move again, with their speed always pressing, and they ran slowly around the Jiaozhou camp troops.

This long team bypassed the battlefield directly in front of them and surrounded the Eight Banners. The entire battlefield was surrounded by Mongolian cavalry running around.

Just in the chaos on the front line, the cavalry teams of the Eight Banners had already been combined, and an arc was formed vaguely, half-encircling the battlefield directly in front.

At this time, the Korean musketeers in the fleeing place, as well as the Han Eight Banners and the Sanshun King system, were running towards the periphery. However, after rushing past Li Rui and Li Rui's direct troops who blocked them, there were elite cavalry teams of the Manchu Eight Banners behind them. Although the soldiers on these cavalry teams had no action yet, they were ruthless about the defeated soldiers. They were like the Dengzhou Army. The Korean soldiers, the Han army of the Qing Dynasty, and these servants were born with a fear of the pure Jurchen troops in the Qing Dynasty, and were killed like this. The retreat was blocked.

They had no other way except to return to the battlefield, which made the originally chaotic battlefield even more unbearable.

Even though a few lucky people ran past the interception of the Jurchen cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry on the periphery would not show mercy and they could not run out at all.

In desperation, these infantrymen of the Tartar army could only turn back and throw themselves into the battlefield. The front line of Jiaozhou camp musketeers had already completed the loading of ammunition. Seeing the enemy returning, they were so messy and were just a good target. The firearm commander had already issued an order to shoot freely.

The muskets kept roaring and the enemy kept falling. However, Zhao Neng became more and more anxious. The grassroots officers and soldiers in the front line did not know the situation of the other three fronts. The formation of about a thousand people was already very large. Li Meng once had a calculation. With a commander assisted by the commander, it was already the limit to directly command 20,000 people. Li Meng thought that when he was in elementary and middle school, the intercourse between hundreds of people or less than a thousand people on the playground was already occupied by a large area. As a part of it, it was difficult to see through this queue.

So his requirement for the officers below is that when the team reaches a certain scale, there is no need to do everything personally. You must let your own adjutant do something, which will be more efficient.

This is the situation at this time. The firearm commander and the battalion General Qian did not know the situation in the other three directions. They just knew that they had achieved a great victory now. Judging from this trend, it is very likely to be a defeated battle, so they always move forward with all their strength when attacking, but they don’t know how to hold back.

The team gradually became a little disconnected. Zhao Neng also saw this problem, but could not stop it. He understood the overall situation and saw it more broadly and farther than the officers below.

With such a chaotic strangle in front of me, I retreated slightly, and the huge advantage of the current victory may collapse in an instant, but in the current situation, if I don’t make a decision as soon as possible, my army will suffer sooner or later, because the opponent’s local troops are circling outside, while my troops are passively beaten here. Moreover, the Mongolian horse team charges, and the news reported from all over the place is almost leveling the casualties.

"The musketeers in the front, shooting in the front three rows, retreating in the back two rows, the cavalry team went to the left wing to support the spear formation forward!!"

Zhao Neng must make adjustments. If the formation does not move, the other three directions will sooner or later be in danger of collapse. Without the long-range attack from the musket soldiers, it is extremely dangerous to allow the infantry front to withstand the impact of the cavalry so hard. The consequences can be imagined.

While making adjustments, the short horn sounded again in all directions. The slowly circled Mongolian cavalry suddenly turned again and rushed towards the inner circle.

Now, the musket soldiers are not so dense, and the Mongolian cavalry did not think about rushing from the beginning, but just fired the arrows in their hands as much as possible.

This time, the remaining musket soldiers outside were able to fire the muskets in their hands, but many arrows were still shot into the spear yard.

If it were other troops of the Ming Dynasty, even if they had such a strict formation and were covered with such arrow rain, they would have to suffer huge casualties and injuries, and the formation would collapse immediately. However, for Jiaozhou Camp, there was also a method that was not a solution. The first few rows of armored soldiers bowed their heads, while the soldiers behind them leaned their spears slightly forward and shook them. The ash pole was a wooden-handled spear, which was very flexible. With the length of the spear, it shook, and the spear tip swung very much.

Such a dense spear was shaking, which actually formed a fan. The entire team's fans were combined together to resist defense.

Moreover, the Mongolian cavalry on the outside did not dare to get too close, and they also had to be guarded against the shooting of musketeers. Although it had become scattered, it was still threatening and had just rushed to the battlefield. The Jiaozhou Ying Dengzhou Army was quite astonishing as the mountain, which was a great psychological shock to the Mongolian cavalry, which was some herders.

If you can't get close, you can only use upward shooting. After all, the distance of this shooting is farther. However, the archery angle is a soft bow of the herdsmen, and its speed and strength are not too strong. Under such defense, the lethality has been reduced to a very low level.

The sound of drums, horns and sharp whistles sounded frequently on the battlefield. This was not the command of the Jiaozhou camp, but the order of contact and issuance of the Tartar army.

Such frequent orders and secret codes must have major military operations, but the Dengzhou army did not know what the other party was going to do. They became more and more nervous, but they could only deal with it, but they could only tighten the formation.

30% of the musket soldiers in front had already begun to maneuver in the other three directions. They added long-range strike power. After shooting a round of arrows, many Mongolian cavalry were shot off the horse by muskets, and they retreated to the range, but this time they did not continue to circle around.

The spear team took the initiative to move forward. They began to respond to the musket soldiers who were preparing to retreat, the Korean musket soldiers, the eight banners of the Han Dynasty and the Sanshun King soldiers were already mixed up, and they were in chaos. They ran around like headless flies. However, they were still oppressed by the Mongolian horse team and the Jurchen horse team behind them.

The musketeers on the front line of Dengzhou Army were unable to pull them down in a hurry. The artillery team, which had already retreated to safety, retreated again. After the medicine bag was stuffed into the cannon bore, they did not continue to stuff the shells, but stuffed them into the packages of about the size, shouted and pushed them to the front again.

Seeing that the artillery that seemed to be the god of death was pushed to the front again, the soldiers pushed and squeezed each other. They retreated desperately, but the people behind were driven forward with swords and the soldiers who were moving forward desperately. They were stalemate there for a moment. The commander of the artillery team looked at the distance and couldn't help frowning.

The rioters were forced out of the range of the muskets, as if there was an invisible barrier, because they knew that if they entered this range, they would only die.

"Push forward. Push forward and rescue our brothers with muskets!!"

In the Jiaozhou camp, the musketeers and artillery soldiers who are both firearms troops do not meet each other. In this situation, it is difficult to guarantee that the commander of the artillery team will not speak out a few words of ridicule. The firearms behind them are almost irritated, but there is no other way. Zhao Neng has already issued an order, and the musketeers must withdraw in time, but before withdrawing, they must provide cover for the artillery team that advances.

It was a big deal over there, but it would be too stupid to rush ten cannons to the front like this. The musket soldiers must provide support and cover.

The cannons equipped with iron wheels are also the lighter three-pound cannons and six-pound cannons. More than a dozen people pushed them from the side, and the speed was indeed not slow.

Soon, they walked forward a few dozen steps. The chaotic defeated soldiers also felt that the people in front of them were stupid. They were holding the chaotic infantry in front of these artillery and the infantrymen in front of them, so they were covered by these ten artillery and artillery soldiers. The muskets behind them could not hit them, so they could use this to get a bargain.

The ten artillery were very close to each other, and the muzzles were all flattened forward. Before these soldiers made a decision, the artillery commander had already stopped the artillery, arranged and sorted it out loudly, and issued a command to open fire.

The launch of Jiaozhou Camp artillery was much faster than the launch of those artillery in the Tartars. Before the other party could react, the ten artillery fired in a volley.

The metal fragments and lead sand shot out from the barrel instantly formed a death zone in front of the formation. The artillery of the Dengzhou Army used a shotgun, which was a real massacre. All the Tartar infantry in front of the ten artillery were torn to pieces by the metal storm.

The crowded and messy infantry fell down in large numbers. After being shot this time, there was a small pause on the battlefield. Many people did not react. Everyone was shocked by the sudden death. The next thing was that the musketeers on both sides of the artillery team fired a volley.

This was another big killing. Now, the battlefield that had been entangled for a long time has finally cleared a large piece of open space. No matter how the supervisory team behind them cut and killed them, these infantrymen were unwilling to go forward and die.

With the support of the spear team behind him, the musket soldiers and the artillery team finally calmly retreated to the formation.

The sun is already westward, and the situation seems to be in a stalemate again for the time being. Zhao Neng finally retracted the troops in his hand, completely in his own formation, and could be dispatched and supplemented. He doesn't have to be as nervous as before.

On the left wing of the Dengzhou Army, the sun shone in the west, which was exactly opposite the soldiers on this front. The soldiers on the left wing of the Dengzhou Army were unable to open their eyes, while the cavalry opposite them were facing the sun.

The stalemate was not long, and the short sound of horns sounded again, and the Mongolian horses everywhere began to shoot arrows forward and harass them. The soldiers of the Dengzhou Army, who had experienced this attack, were not so panicked. Anyway, there was no harm, and the Mongolian cavalry was suffering a lot this time, because the musket soldiers in the front row had already been allocated to the other three sides, and the range and power of the bow and arrow were naturally not comparable to that of the muskets.

But the left wing was different. In this direction, the Mongolian horse team endured the fire of the musket and fired the first round of arrows, shouted and rushed up directly.

On the left wing of the Dengzhou Army, two rows of musket soldiers were barely gathered together. After the shooting, many Mongolian cavalry were indeed defeated, but the people behind seemed to care and still rushed forward without hesitation. Several battalion generals in the middle of the left wing had already seen that these Mongolian horse teams were different from those in front.

Most of the cavalry who rushed up were wearing armor. Their uniforms were quite regular, and the weapons in their hands were long swords and spears of similar styles. Although their formation was sparse, they were also organized. These were not the Mongolian herders who rushed up in a scattered manner who seemed to be mad dogs.

"It's the Eight Banners of Meng!!"
Chapter completed!