The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 154 Bloody Battle at the South Pass

"Stand up shield, stand up shield, hurry up, nail it down." Xu Wei, Wang Weizhong and others walked around and shouted loudly.

They have already selected the battlefield, and the Tartars have many soldiers, so they will definitely attack.

Of course, if Houjin soldiers know that their shields are nailed to the ground, they can choose to leave the battlefield and go around behind them. It's too late, after all, there are many cavalry soldiers in the Jin Dynasty.

But the Houjin soldiers will not go around. This time the troops are gathered, and they must want to break Ding Yi's army.

Just like fighting the Sichuan Army and the Zhejiang Army back then, as long as the Ming army stood up, Houjin would definitely attack and would never go around. This is their Dajin's confidence.

Because the old slave once said that as long as the Ming army dared to fight with them, they must all be killed, and they had to fight or go around.

Bang bang bang, Xiang Huailai picked up his big shield and stood it on the ground, driving nails into the ground with all his might.

When they got such a big shield for the first time, many people didn't understand it.

This shield is big, heavy, and has sockets and accessories.

Now we can finally see the role of these accessories and sockets.

The large shield stands on the ground first, with two iron bars nailed to the ground on both sides, and then two iron bars are placed in the socket in the middle, propped behind the middle, and form a triangle with the large shield.

Four long iron bars (nails) fastened their large shields firmly to the ground.

Everyone kicked a few times in front of them until they felt safe.

"There are many golden cavalry in the rear. When charging into the formation, everyone is close to the big shield, and the back row is close to the front row. The closer you are, the harder it is to break through." Rectify the formation.

The golden soldiers on the opposite side are also rectifying, with cavalry in front, archers and infantry behind, slowly press up from five miles away, and soon enter within two miles. At this time, both sides can see each other's big formation.

On Ding Yi's front, 200 people form a row, and 1000 two hundred gun and shield soldiers form six rows.

The right wing is Nanguankou Fort, so there is no need to defend.

The left wing has 50 people in a row, and 300 people in six rows, forming a large rectangular formation, close to Nanguankou Fort.

The remaining 300 people are all gun soldiers, but there are only more than 200 gun soldiers in the middle.

The rest without guns all held shields, one was to help the gunslinger block the arrows, and the other was to prepare for a relay, if a gunslinger fell down after being hit by an arrow, they would take the guns and continue shooting.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses are half pikemen and half pikemen, so there are many pikemen in the back row.

Ding Yi, Zhao Dashan, Zhang Jing, and the ten cavalry were on the far right side of the South Gate Fort. This is the safest place Ding Yi thinks, where he can avoid the rain of arrows.

His formation is a rectangle, with six rows on the front and left flanks. If the rear Jin soldiers go around and attack from the back, the front and rear three rows will attack from the back. It is still a rectangle, and both sides can attack.

Put six rows in the front first to see if the golden soldiers will come around to the back. If they go around to the back, they will have time to mobilize.

On Ding Yi's side, the soldiers and horses have just lined up, and shield walls have been erected on the front, back, left, and three sides.

Hou Jinbing's side has already moved.

Li Shutai saw Ding Yi's soldiers and horses arranged in a rectangle, and he and Zaba exchanged glances.

This kind of rectangle can attack the front or all sides, but Ding Yi blocked one side with the South Gate Fort, so they can attack three sides at most.

"They have few soldiers, so let them attack the front first, and the Mongolian cavalry will shoot at the Ming army's left flank and rear." Li Sutai quickly decided on his style of attack.

Zaba and Mu Lali felt that there was no problem.

The opponent's infantry formation is like a hedgehog, and their cavalry only has more than 2000 cavalry. The Mongolian and Houjin cavalry cannot be used to charge the formation. If they attack three sides, they are really afraid that they will not be enough.

"Teach Minggou a lesson, come on." Zaba drew his saber and held it high.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Hou Jinbing and Mongolgu yelled in various ways, and then three hundred Mongolian cavalry separated from their right wing and came quickly to the left wing of Ding Yi's formation.

Halfway through the run, it has been divided into two parts, 150 rides into one part.

One of them will shoot at Ding Yi's left wing, and the other will shoot at Ding Yi's rear wing, and they will shoot in the middle of the formation, especially gun soldiers.

Just when the Mongolian soldiers were separated, Li Sutai gave an order at the same time.

Rumbling, [-] cavalrymen of the Han army began to speed up slowly. Many of these people were not cavalrymen before, and Li Sutai asked them to ride horses to charge the battle.

Although they were not regular cavalry, the scene of so many cavalry marching forward together was very spectacular. Compared with the three hundred fine cavalry from Chidu before, it was many times larger.

Thousands of cavalry rushed to the front of the Ming army like a torrent, their iron hooves shook, and the ground thundered, and the whole world seemed to tremble under the shock of the iron cavalry.

It was the first time for many Ming soldiers to see so many cavalry charging into battle. Many of them turned pale and trembled.

"Squat down, squat down." Xu Wei, Wang Weizhong and others all walked in the formation, holding shields in their hands.

"Don't panic, the cavalry rushing to the infantry will surely die, follow the training."

"Lord Ding, we must win." Zhao Dashan shouted suddenly.

"We must win." The Ming army shouted in unison to strengthen their morale.

Wow, all the gun shields in the first row, the second row, and the third row squatted down.

With the long spear forward and three rows of large shields, it looks like a hedgehog covered in thorns.

"Tighter, tighter, tighter." The officers were all shouting.

The first three rows moved forward desperately, except for the first row of shields which was fixed to the ground, the other two rows of shields were not fixed, and everyone huddled together desperately, tightly connected.

Xiang Huailai was in the first row, feeling out of breath. Turning his head, he saw Lao Zhang's shield almost touching his face.

"You want to pinch me to death, so close." Xiang Huailai asked with a smile.

Lao Zhang is a veteran of Xu Dabao, and he smiled honestly: "The closer you are, the more resistant you are to shock, as Master Ding said."

"Will I be killed?" Xiang Huailai asked again.

"Don't panic, the opponent's horse is not blindfolded, and many of them will not rush forward." Old Zhang said.

"Master Ding said it again?" Xiang Huailai asked.

"That's for sure, Lord Ding understands everything."

Xiang Huailai also felt that, and nodded quickly.

"Don't talk." An officer behind him yelled as he walked, "Listen to your orders."

Just as the two were talking, the cavalry of the Han army had rushed within 150 meters.

Nineteen hundred cavalry, on the front line of the two hundred pikemen, appeared densely packed and endless.

On average, each line has about 80-100 war horses.

Ding Yi saw that it was dense, and immediately said: "It's time to fight, and after the fight, we will fight the Mongolian cavalry."

"Hit." Xu Wei roared.

Bang, bang, bang, more than 200 musketeers averaged 70 of them once, and they fought three rounds in a row.

With such a dense cavalry charge, as long as they don't hit high places, they can basically hit people or horses.

The cavalry of the Han army, who were accelerating and charging crazily, suddenly seemed to have hit a city wall, rumbled, fell down in pieces, and fell down.

After some fell, the ones behind them bumped into each other and fell down again.

There was chaos at the scene, and a large number of cavalry fell to the ground.

Many people fly more than ten meters, and after falling to the ground, they never get up again.

Once these three columns are fought, the Han cavalry will lose at least three or four hundred cavalry.

Those who were not hit by guns were also knocked or tripped by their own men. After all, many of them were not real cavalrymen, and their riding skills were not good.

The screams of war horses and the screams of the Han army filled the entire battlefield.

Zaba's face turned green. If they let the Jin elite soldiers charge first, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses. Fortunately, Li Sutai was right, let the Han army charge first.

"No, I forgot." Li Sutai suddenly yelled.

"What?" Zaba asked in surprise.

"The horse's eyes are not tied." Li Sutai said anxiously.

Zaba's face suddenly turned ugly.

But it is useless to say these things at this time. After a short period of chaos at the scene, the subsequent cavalry quickly passed through the area.

100 m.

80 m.

60 m.

The mighty cavalry rushed towards the Ming army's infantry like a gust of wind.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.

(End of this chapter)