Chapter 507: Even if you retreat, you will not lose.

After giving the order to charge, the horse team rushed towards the Jiaozhou camp infantry in front. In this case, it was unlikely that they would even want to stop the troops.

Tens of thousands of cavalry move in one direction. When they are in it, they are really like a light boat swaying in the stormy waves, just walking down the waves. If they want to turn head-on, they will most likely be smashed by the huge waves.

The only thing that could stop was the rear team, but Li Zicheng still wanted to try it. In his mind, cavalry charges of such a large scale were also on such plains and terrain, and there was no force in the world to stop them.

If you stop the back team and cause insufficient impact, it would be a big mistake.

Thinking of this, Tian Jianxiu, who was leading the army in front, had different thoughts. Seeing the lurid firearm array in front, although Tian Jianxiu also felt that his large cavalry could break through the array, the losses would be huge. It is still unknown whether the strict infantry array behind could be broken through.

Because the distance between the various brigades of Jiaozhou Camp is very wide, the horse team is now at the time to accelerate. If they do not restrain the troops and stop some of the cavalry, it will be too late to go ahead.

The generals and schoolmen of the Shun Army's cavalry have begun to issue orders, although the width of the cavalry column is very narrowly bound by the two large arrays, they must be dispersed and accelerated after rushing out to exert their maximum power.

Ten thousand horses were galloping, and the sound of horse hooves was like thunder. It was unlikely that Tian Jianxiu wanted to hear the orders of the team. Seeing the cavalry around him gradually dispersed and began to hit the horse's belly with the soles of his boots to accelerate, Tian Jianxiu's face turned pale.

There are less than two hundred steps away from the firearm array that almost blocks the front of the charge. This distance cannot be seen too carefully, but the array looks a little cold.

This horizontal squad is too thin for the impact of the cavalry. The infantry formation of the Jiaozhou camp is a 40-by-40 squadron, which is to ensure that it can withstand the impact of the cavalry. The generals of other forces may not know this, but the generals of the situation can still be estimated.

The opposite side is about six rows, which can be easily broken through, but facing his own troops, this thin horizontal lineup is as stable as Mount Tai.

The general of the Shun Army system, Tian Jianxiu, is also a veteran of war. In many cases, he is far inferior to his current cavalry team. When he is four or five hundred steps, some troops will be in a state of chaos and disintegration. When he reaches this distance, even the opponent's chief general will rush to flee.

But the other party still did not move. Could this array be scared? Such a neat queue would naturally not be scared, that is, you have absolute confidence to face the impact of the cavalry.

Tian Jianxiu brought a horse to the side, gritted her teeth, and said ruthlessly in her heart:

"I also know that your Shandong soldiers' muskets are fast and powerful, but I don't believe that I can't break through your array with tens of thousands of cavalrymen!!"

The commander of the horse team in front of the formation was in front of the brigade at the beginning, and it was a distance away. When it was approaching the enemy formation, the main general and the personal guards would go to the right side of the formation and slow down. After all, it was a group of tens of thousands of people, and a main general needed to be dispatched in the center, rather than charging in the formation.

The Shun Army cavalry running in front were already desperately fighting the horses and began to accelerate the sprint. The people were tightly pressing on the horses, and the cavalry and swords in their hands stretched forward desperately.

Since the horses came to the Xiangcheng area, they have never lacked the supply of fodders. They would rather give the infantry to be hungry than feed the horses, just to use them at critical moments. The infantry was killed with the soldiers in Shandong in front, but the cavalry behind were resting, although they were also bombarded and caused chaos.

The cavalry crushed their dry food at noon and gave it to their mounts to eat, just to have enough strength when charging. At this time, the horses did not make any mistakes and each ran very fast.

The cavalry rushing in the front are dying. They charge into the front and they are not without them. However, such an army will not survive until now, and they are still in a formation. They are waiting for the charge to approach.

The cavalry in the front of the Shun Army was called the head horse. He was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was closest to the firearms.

You can hear the shouts and shouts in the horizontal line:

"One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and forty steps, pay attention to the fuse..."

The voice was faintly vague. After a while, the cavalry realized that the other party was talking about the distance between him and the crossing team. The cavalry was originally very tense, but suddenly smiled. Anyway, it was the same end. When the matter was about to come, it was easy to see it. This time I heard it more clearly.

"Ninety steps.....Prepare to.....Fire!!!"

Then suddenly there was smoke in front of me, as if the sound of firecrackers set off during the New Year. At that time, I was still a child and I was having a happy New Year with my family. Then I was hit by the disaster, my parents and sisters starved to death one by one, and came out to follow the prince to seek life.

This was a very short moment. Then he felt something hit hard in his chest, and then there was no feeling. The cavalry rushing like thunder behind him and the muskets bursting in front of him could not hear or see anything. There was darkness in front of him, and then the smiling faces of his parents appeared.

"I want to go home..."

He will never be able to shout this sentence.

The horse's intuition reaction is more sensitive and quick than that of a human. He wants to make a turning move while running, but how to adjust it? The mount will fall over if it loses balance. The dense rain of bullets will not stop at the beginning. Countless blood flowers burst out of the horse and the knight.

The same is true for the cavalry in the back row. They put their bodies on the horses regardless of their concern, hoping that the horses could cover themselves with bullets, and hoped that they could take advantage of this opportunity to rush in front of them.

There is always a cruel gap between fantasy and reality. The horizontal musketeers were not aiming at anything, but just shot flat. After firing, they immediately held the musketeers and retreated from the gap between the team to the last row, loading ammunition nervously, and the second row was shooting with expressionless faces.

The horse was hit by a lead bullet that flew over. The lead bullet hit the horse's body at this speed, and it would not have any penetration effect, but it had great momentum. Anyone who was hit by a wound or internal damage would not permeate the injury, but seemed to be hit hard by a blunt weapon.

Such damage is directly incapable of movement, whether it is a human or a horse. The musket that is held flat often hits only horses.

But the horse fell to the ground while galloping at high speed, and the cavalry charges like this. The fallen knight basically has no chance to get up again. Even if he can continue to stand up, he will be knocked down by the next shot.

The rotation of the firearms horizontal rows this time was a bit different from usual. When the first row retreated, the second row did not take a step forward, but stood in place and fired.

With such continuous rotation, the horizontal line of the firearm was actually constantly retreating, becoming closer and closer to the spear array behind it.

Although the firearms are retreating in an orderly manner, it is like an invisible wall at a distance of about 85 steps in front of the firearms.

The cavalry of the Shun Army collided with the wall, and the people were overturned, and the bodies of the people began to cover the ground. If the firearms of Jiaozhou Camp remained unmoved, the cavalry of the Shun Army would definitely be blocked eighty-five steps away and would be defeated little by little by little by little by little by little by little by this continuous firepower.

But in that case, the Shun Army cavalry, who were bleeding from the head in front of the firearms, would be confused because the front team was unable to advance, but would be pushed further and further, sooner or later outside the range.

At that time, the Shun Army cavalry, who were forced to stop rushing forward, would definitely not continue to rush forward, but would look for other ways from the chaos, or turn directly to other directions.

Fire each row and then turn around the back row. This is actually the entire horizontal line takes two to three steps back after each row of shooting.

Such retreat is not because the opponent's cavalry is fierce, but because in order to lead the opponent's cavalry to continue to move forward, the firearms are constantly retreating, which means that the corpses on the ground will not accumulate, and will not cause obstacles to the cavalry behind it, and at the same time, it will give the opponent an illusion that they can approach.

In each row of nine hundred muskets, because the musket soldiers and musket soldiers are still far apart from each other, the large horizontal row of nine hundred people must have two and a half to three times the length of the same number of spear queues.

In comparison, the Shunjun Cavalry rushing between the two large arrays in front is not as wide as the horizontal platoon due to space limitations. The muskets on both sides actually have to tilt inward. In other words, the front of the Shunjun Cavalry is completely within the range of the firearm shooting.

If you look down at this battlefield, you will find that whether it is the Shun Army or the Shandong troops, the teams everywhere are very neat and orderly.

The only chaotic place is the front of the Shun Army's horse team. There are no sounds here. There are waves of dense firecrackers exploding, dust raised by horse hooves, and the smoke filled the guns. The cavalry of the Shun Army often cannot see clearly the teammates in front and the companions around them.

The people in the front row fell down in the rain of bullets flying everywhere, and the people behind continued to follow. What was so desperate was that the cavalry following behind did not feel that there was any obstacle in front of them, and they always accelerated and rushed forward.

But Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, who were watching the battle on the high side of the slope, had changed their faces. Their position was a temporary earthen platform, and the position on the slope was even higher.

Looking far away from a high place, you can also see the battlefield more comprehensively and see your cavalry moving forward, but the dusty side is full of firearms and rotations.

This is simply a flesh-and-blood mill. The elite cavalry of the Shun Army and the fierce cavalry who fought for a long time were constantly filled in and ground into meat paste by the mill.

General Quan Liu Zongmin couldn't help but shout:

"Stop the horse team quickly, stop the horse team quickly..."

While speaking, Liu Zongmin took the whip and whipped around him, driving away the personal guards who had reacted slightly slower. After a while, he delayed his time, he didn't know how many lives would fill the front.

Now Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng are both together. Compared to Liu Zongmin who was anxious around, Li Zicheng was extremely calm. However, if you look closely, you can find that his eyebrows and eyes were a little desolate. Li Zicheng had more than 100,000 troops in his troops several times, and only a dozen cavalry were left after several times. Such ebbs and flows have been experienced many times. Although the situation in front of him is tragic, it will not make him despair.

After all, in Xiangyang, he still has other power around the battlefield. However, what Li Zicheng felt uncomfortable was that after managing for so long, he thought he could fight for it, but who would have thought that he would be able to fight for it. He thought that it would be like this situation. The opponent 40,000 yuan was against him, calmly attacking first, and then luring his cavalry out.

Li Zicheng really didn't understand. Isn't the musket a weapon that adds icing on the cake? Why was it used by the other party so powerfully? For so many years, I heard that the camp relies too much on firearms, but it was rushed to the front and it was disbanded in a fight. But the situation is completely the opposite.

It's really hard to understand, but it's obviously not the time to take care of this. King Li Zicheng of the Breaking King said in a deep voice:

"Zongmin, after stopping the horse team, we walked towards Lushan. The rest of the people asked them to come up with their personal soldiers and horse teams. Those who had no horses below were not caring about it."

At present, Xiangyang is the base camp of the Shun Army. From Henan to Huguang, there must be Nanyang Prefecture. The nearest road to Xiangcheng is Ye County, but in the other side of Ye County, it is almost blocked by the army led by Chen Liu, the general of Shandong's western expedition. Then you can only walk away and go straight to Nanyang Prefecture by taking Lushan Mountain. It is also a way.

However, if you run like this, you will discard all the infantry here, and the left and right wings are blocking the infantry in Jiaxian. I believe you don't want it.

Looking at what we are today, let alone infantrymen, even the retreating cavalry can follow them back to Xiangyang, and it’s okay to withdraw the troops.

But now the situation is a fleeing. Once the other party pursues, he can't catch the troops at all. I don't know how many of them will be dispersed halfway?

With Liu Zongmin's iron heart, he couldn't stand the words of King Chuang, and said in a stern voice:

"Brother, thank you for your hard work to conquer the situation here, just leave it here!"

Since the establishment of "Shun", Liu Zongmin and his group have also called King Chuang much more formal. Now that they call this "big brother", it shows how excited he is.

The face of the King of Breaking Li Zicheng finally showed a hint of decay, and he whispered:

"If we don't do this, we will leave it here, so that the green mountains are not afraid of burning firewood. What we are saying is reasonable when we go back, relying on the natural danger to survive. Shandong... No matter how we do it, we are not the opponent!"

At the end, he could hardly hear it. Seeing the other party's power, Li Zicheng felt that the enthusiasm in his heart for so many years seemed to have been poured into a basin of snow water, and it all became cold.

The gap in strength is the easiest to make people calm. Li Zicheng is now extremely calm. The so-called distinction between the world, the ambition and aspiration to achieve the title are just shattered.

The word "Eighteen Children are the main artifact", the word "Li" is probably to say that the Duke of Qi Li Meng, who is low-key and just wants to be in a corner and has no ambition. He is probably to make himself mess up the world. The other party uses the righteousness to send troops to give himself a legitimate excuse.

After more than ten years of life and death, he got up from a desperate situation several times and occupied most of Huguang and Henan. All the Ming army with vitality were wiped out by themselves, but after working hard, he made wedding clothes for the other party.

Li Zicheng is not angry now, and he is not even in despair. He is just as calm as he is, so he is extremely calm and may have a chance to return to Xiangyang.

Tian Jianxiu also saw the battle situation that Li Zicheng and Hao Yaoqi saw on the high ground. He and Hao Yaoqi had seen each other's musket shooting. When they heard the gunshots, they knew that things were wrong.

This was the most intense gunfire he heard, but the cavalry brigade did not show any confusion in the front of him, but instead ran forward.

The gunfire kept, and the horse team's impact continued. This time didn't last long, but the screams and horse neighing that could not be concealed in the smoke and dust made him despair.

According to his own calculations, how many cavalrymen should die in front of the formation during this round of musket shooting is the biggest bet and strength of the Shun Army. But unexpectedly, the Shun Army's self-confidenced horse team was just a target for the other party to massacre.

The musket team there retreated and they would lean against the eight infantry regiments behind. The distance between the eight infantry teams was very wide, which was the gap left for the musket soldiers.

If combined, this is the standard horse-rejecting formation. The Shun Army, which has been hit by the dense continuous shooting of the muskets, is impossible to break through the infantry formation opposite.

The voice of "Dangdang" suddenly remembered that Mingjin withdrew his troops! A large number of companions died under the shooting, and the space gradually became empty, and the impact speed of the horse team had slowed down.

Although the entire brigade seemed to be attracted by something, the cavalry of the horse team also came back to the scene. Although the smoke and dust could not see clearly, and although the team had no obstacles to keep moving forward, there was a dead end in front.

When many people heard the sound of Mingjin retreating, they were like a general amnesty, strangling their horses, wanting to turn around, or go back from both wings.

The clouds gradually increased, and the wind became stronger. The smoke and dust spread out a lot, and the dusty line of musket soldiers appeared in the dust.

Although the people were all gray, the formation was still not scattered. They could not see the situation on the opposite side clearly and judged whether they were shooting continuously, relying on the sound of horse hooves coming from the dust.

Now that the horse team stopped attacking, they did not need to consume their ammunition casually. The ground was covered with corpses of people and horses, but the queue of Jiaozhou Camp was still not shaken.

This fact made the Shun Army, who was unwilling to continue fighting, even more frightened. He rushed forward in a silence, thinking that so many cavalry charges, there was no enemy formation that could not be broken.

But looking at the corpses, the other party just stepped back and beat him, and how many corpses he had left, he didn't even dare to think about the number. Listening to the sound of gold behind, everyone was unwilling to fight.
To be continued...