Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 358 Wu Guogui, where are you?Li Laishun, come quickly! (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)
Of course, Li Fuchen couldn't admit that he was stunned by the severe situation on the battlefield. He turned his head and said eloquently: "What are you talking about? I am observing the enemy's situation! Look carefully to know where to attack? How many troops are needed?"

"See clearly? Do you know where to attack?" Li Zhongshan asked, "How many troops are needed?"

"I've seen it clearly. Give me the cavalry mark on the right wing, plus our personal guard cavalry, a total of more than 4000 cavalry, enough to penetrate the enemy's formation!" Li Fuchen patted his chest and said, "But the cavalry with more than 4000 cavalry assaulted It is difficult to last, and the infantry must follow up in time!"

"Okay!" Li Zhongshan nodded heavily, and then said to Yao Qisheng next to him, "Xi Zhi, send the right-wing cavalry to come over quickly! Then give orders to the ninth town and the tenth town to prepare for the entire column charge. !"

"Yes!"

Sitting on a small bench, Yao Qisheng, who had a small table with pens, ink, paper and inkstones in front of him, responded, and immediately picked up a brush and wrote on a stack of military order books with a special hard brush, using the most concise and accurate words, Four orders were written.

One of them was for Li Fuchen, and the other three were for the commander-in-chief of the ninth town, the commander-in-chief of the tenth town, and the standard participating generals of the right-wing cavalry.

After writing the order, he asked Li Zhongshan's chief bookkeeper, Huang Baijia, for the seal of the general's military governor. After using the seal, he immediately called three cavalry to pass on the order as quickly as possible.The remaining order was handed over to Li Danan Wang Li Fuchen - there are no fathers and sons in the army, and the procedures that should be followed still have to be followed.

After receiving the order in a big way, Li Fuchen began to deploy cavalry to charge the formation.

Now the Republic of Ming Dynasty has a little less cavalry, but it is not completely absent - Wu Zhou can buy flintlock guns and rifles from Daming, and of course Daming can also buy good Northwest horses from Wu Zhou.

Moreover, Li Fuchen and a group of his own sons, godsons, and good brothers are mostly proficient in horse warfare. Even Yu Deshui, the queen master of Huo Lu Bu's family, is an armed master who can use long spears on horseback.

Therefore, under the training of the Li family father and son brothers, the Ming army of the Republic of China still has a little bit of fine riding!

However, it is also an objective fact that there are few horses and knights in the Ming Dynasty, and there is no grassland where a large number of horses can be raised in the actual control area of ​​the Ming Dynasty, so the horse management ideas of the Li family and his son are high-quality goods.
On the one hand, they built a military horse farm in Fengyang Prefecture, and raised stallions from Macau with tall mares from the northwest and northeast (obtained by Yang Qilong), striving to breed Ming Dynasty's own fine-bred war horses.

On the other hand, they bought ready-made war horses and draft horses at high prices everywhere, and they also scraped together a little cavalry.

Since there are only a few cavalry, we have to treat them as treasures and take the boutique route!
The most elite among them, of course, are the cavalry guards of Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen.

They are all equipped with bright and blind eyes, horses have equipment, people have plate armor, and the average three shots per person is one more than the famous two-pike soldiers!
When going out in battle, each person holds a long gun, a pistol in his waist, a flintlock on his shoulder, a saber or long sword for cutting people, an iron whip and hammer for piercing armor, and a gun for shooting people and horses. Bows and arrows are also equipped.

With this equipment, it is really hard work to give them a horse to ride on their crotch. It is like charging with a cavalry and a small arsenal on their shoulders!

Two guard cavalry marks and a light cavalry standard equipped with bamboo spears (which were originally deployed on the right wing) were quickly assembled in front of Caijiapo.

A total of three standards, a total of [-] cavalry, formed three large horizontal teams, and each large horizontal team was composed of ten small horizontal teams with three rows.These ten three-row small horizontal teams can charge together, or they can spread out and charge separately.

In other words, the [-] cavalry were divided into nine rows, and each row had a wide front of [-] cavalry!
Among them, the first three rows are all lightly armored cavalry, while the last six rows are all armored cavalry.However, because the troops led by Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen have been marching during this period, in order to reduce the load, these armored cavalry did not carry armor.So the horses under their crotch are all naked and "naked".

While Li Fuchen was busy reorganizing his 11 cavalry, the [-]th battalions of the Ninth Town and the Tenth Town were located behind Luo Dawei's No.[-] Town, which was in trouble.Already under the sound of drums and the guidance of the red military flags of these two towns, they marched to the front of Wu Zhou's army in a mighty way.

At the same time, the remnants of No. 11 town under the command of Luo Dawei are already on the verge of being wiped out.

Although Wu Zhou's cavalry failed to break through the remaining four small hollow phalanxes, they had rushed to the back of these four small hollow phalanxes, separating these four small phalanxes from the Ming army brigade behind them.

And the infantry of Wu Zhoujun's right Jinwu upper guard, right Jinwu middle guard, Zuo Yingyang upper guard, and Zuo Yingyang lower guard surrounded the four small phalanxes, continuously outputting them with flintlock guns and matchlock guns. In the rain of bullets, a few cannons were even brought in to release the cannonballs, and the corpses of the Ming army were scattered all over the field in front of the small square formation, which was in danger.

Seeing that these four small hollow phalanxes are about to collapse, and Luo Dawei in one of the phalanxes is about to die as a martyr, the situation on the battlefield has changed again!
Suddenly there was a burst of drumming sounded on the other side of the Ming army formation, and the impact of the Ming army cavalry commanded by the living Lu Bu Li Fuchen himself began!

The formation charge launched by 1 Ming cavalry was quite shocking. The sound of more than [-] horseshoes hitting the ground resounded throughout the battlefield, and the ground trembled.Fifteen hundred cavalrymen rushed to the front, each of them holding a bamboo spear measuring five or six feet in length.

Now the bamboo spears of the cavalrymen in the front row have been leveled, and the iron spear points inserted on the bamboo poles, under the reflection of the rising sun, glowed with a frightening cold light.

The cavalry of the Wu family are also proficient in similar spear attack tactics, but they have just rushed into the hollow phalanx of the Ming army, and chased and killed a wave of fleeing Ming army spearmen. , As a result, the spears of the Ming army came up suddenly.

These Lancers of the Wu and Zhou Army are all knowledgeable. Looking at the formation of the Ming Army Lancers, they know that they cannot resist. They can still grit their teeth and persevere, but the horses under their crotches can't!A horse is an animal, but a very delicate animal. How can a horse be used as a human?

Now the "horsepower" of these war horses is insufficient, and they can't move. They have to go back to drink salt water, eat some concentrate, and rest for a while before they can make another wave.

So facing the roaring Ming Army Lancers, these Wu Zhou cavalry could only spread their hooves and run away.And when they ran, they pitted the infantry of the four Wu Zhou army guards who were besieging the four small phalanxes of the Ming army.

They were firing guns and cannons while shouting to kill, and just as they were fighting, the Lancers of the Zhou Army who had been covering them retreated in disorder, and when they retreated, they also disrupted their formation a little bit.Before they could recover, the Lancers of the Ming Army stepped up!
Because the incident happened so suddenly, they didn't have time to form a hollow phalanx—there are hollow phalanxes in both the east and the west, and Wu Zhou would have been able to, but they hadn't been trained to quickly form a hollow phalanx.So at this moment, being charged by 1 Ming Army Lancers, the four guards and more than [-] Wu Zhou infantry could not stabilize, and they had no spare energy to besiege the four small phalanxes that suffered heavy losses, and began to run in disorder. On the road, the formation was in chaos for a while, and the casualties began to become heavy.

However, the [-] Ming Army Lancers also completed their mission, exhausted their impact, and began to divide into two large columns and retreat from the left and right sides to the rear.

But the cavalry attack of the Ming army is not over yet!

The Ming army's large horizontal team of cavalry composed of two iron cavalry behind the thousand and five hundred lancers also rushed up roaringly. The three thousand iron cavalry were like silver and black tides, not rushing fast, but with an unstoppable momentum The momentum spread across the green field, 1 horseshoes beat the ground like raindrops, and the thunderous hoofbeats seemed to crush the enemy's heart!
Li Zhongshan, who was on Caijiapo, also felt the power of his own iron cavalry at this moment. I have to say that the cavalry charge organized by this living Lu Bu still has two brushes!
This time, he should scare away the enemy's cavalry first, and then use the impact kinetic energy of the first row of cavalry to disperse the Wu and Zhou infantry who are besieging the small hollow phalanx of the Ming army, and then use the second and third cavalry to form a horizontal formation. Go and drive those Wu Zhou infantry to rush to the second line of Wu Zhou's army. This is a really good timing!
With such a style of play, this living Lu Bu might really be able to penetrate Wu Zhoujun's formation!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan once again ordered Yao Qisheng: "Let No. 12 go up to the top and form an attacking column!"

"Order!"

When Yao Qisheng agreed loudly, the two standard armored cavalry commanded by Li Fuchen had already driven [-] to [-] Wu Zhou routs, rushed into the front line of Wu Zhou army, and began to rush towards their second line.

Seeing his defeated army and Ming army's iron cavalry getting closer to his second line, Wu Yingqi couldn't take his eyes off it, and the hands holding the binoculars were dripping with sweat.

At this moment, his son Wu Shicong suddenly asked for a fight: "Father, our left wing is about to be pierced, please let the boy take ten battalions of cavalry to the left wing and line up after the Ming cavalry breaks through." Launch a counterattack immediately!"

"Okay! Shi Cong, you go right away, you must be quick!" Wu Yingqi also felt that these Ming army cavalry were difficult to deal with, and was afraid that the line of defense would really be penetrated by them. Now the Ming army has already pressed up the entire line!
Is this going to be desperate?
If there are a large number of infantry along the breach from the cavalry to smash through the Wu Zhou army's front line, it may be a total collapse!
So he immediately transferred ten battalions and a total of [-] cavalry to Wu Shicong, and asked him to line up behind the left wing of Wu Zhou's army and prepare for a counterattack.

While Wu Shicong was busy dispatching troops, Li Fuchen was galloping among the cavalry, and the wind blew past his ears. This was how he felt when he was fighting with his godfathers!Although the godfather's fighting skills are not very good, but Li Fuchen himself is as fierce as a flying tiger, invincible on the battlefield.

And this time, instead of helping his godfather to charge, he helped his own son to charge. If this wave is won, then the prophecy of "eighteen sons rule the world" will be applied to this boy Li Zhongshan!
Thinking of this, Li Fuchen regained his energy all of a sudden.

Suddenly there was a thunderous gunshot in front of him, and Li Fuchen knew that it must be Wu Zhoujun's second-line infantry that was firing.Their goal should not be the iron cavalry of their own front team, but to disperse those Wu Zhou routs who are about to attack their own formation.But for me, this is an opportunity for a breakthrough!

He guessed right, the volley of guns just now was indeed fired by a phalanx of Wu Zhoujun's second line to disperse the rout of his own troops that came pouring in like a tide. He also shouted "It's not good, live Lu Bu is here", which really hurt morale.

Their random guns forced the fled Wu Zhou's rout to avoid some of the phalanx, but before they could reload their ammunition, the [-] cavalry led by Li Zhongshan's personal leader Wang Anqin had already rushed in front of them .

Since most of the Musketeers of the Wu Zhou Army were still using matchlock guns and were not equipped with bayonets, they could not withstand the impact of the Lancers, so they had to turn around and retreat quickly, leaving the front line to the spearmen behind them.

If only bamboo spear cavalry were charging towards them at this moment, the charge might have come to an end.

However, these personal guard cavalry of Li Zhongshan are all multifunctional cavalry.

They can not only charge, but also use pistols, flintlock rifles, and even bows and arrows to kill the enemy.Even if they were asked to dismount and fight hand to hand, their performance would not be too bad.This is probably the so-called hexagonal knight, right?

Therefore, after these cavalrymen saw Wu Zhoujun leveling their spears on the opposite side, they did not choose to charge hard, but threw away the bamboo spears in their hands, then drew out the cavalry pistols, and at the same time pulled the reins of the horses, driving the horses to turn, and then walked along the guard. The front of the phalanx ran and fired at the same time.

After a burst of gunfire that sounded like setting off firecrackers, the originally neat long spear array had become very messy.The bodies of the dead can be seen everywhere, or the wounded are rolling on the ground-the absolute number of dead and injured is actually not too many, but it has greatly shaken the morale and formation of Wu Zhou's army.

After firing the guns, the iron cavalry of the Ming army also chose to retreat, and gave up the completed passage to the [-] cavalry led by Li Fuchen himself!
And this is exactly the opportunity Li Fuchen was waiting for!
I saw him pointing forward the Zhangliu spear in his hand, opened his throat and shouted: "Eighteen sons rule the world..."

With his loud cry, the armored cavalry who followed him also leveled their spears one after another, and started the final sprint.

Looking from a height, I could only see that the formation of the [-] armored cavalry gradually began to loosen, and the impact speed became faster and faster.

And a guard-level phalanx of Wu Zhou's infantry standing in front of them has fallen into a panic.The spearmen of the Ming army who were fighting bravely on the front line were already in a mess, and some of them even started to flee.

A general of the Wu Zhou army led some soldiers to try to maintain order.But everything has been of no avail!
In just a blink of an eye, more than 1000 cavalrymen who had attacked them without hesitation had already stabbed in with their thin, long, and easily broken bamboo spears.Thoroughly pierce this chaotic and fragile phalanx!
All of a sudden, the battlefield was full of Wu Zhou soldiers fleeing in a panic, shouting "defeated, defeated" one after another.It seems that today's battle has reached the time to decide the winner.

But at this moment, the [-] Wu Zhou cavalry led by Wu Shicong also sounded the horn of attack!

Although there was no suitable attack channel for them at this time, Wu Shicong still decisively invested in the cavalry in his hand.

He didn't even wait for Li Fuchen to attack his third line.The two infantry guards who had already led the cavalry across the third line and had not yet completed their deployment rushed towards Li Fuchen's troops who had just completed a beautiful attack.

Although Li Fuchen's cavalry is much stronger than his cavalry, he still has [-] cavalry under his command!So this decision is not only timely, but also very correct.

Li Fuchen, who had just pierced through a Wu army phalanx and had not had time to chase after him, saw Wu Zhou's cavalry rushing towards him like a tide, so frightened, he quickly asked the soldiers around him to blow the horn to withdraw the troops.

Immediately afterwards, he took the lead, ran first as a respect, and led his more than 1000 cavalry to turn around and retreat.

And behind him, three or four hundred steps away, the eight battalions of No. 12 Town of the Ming Army had already opened the hollow phalanx in time.

Just as Li Fuchen completed this rather beautiful cavalry charge and withdrew from the battlefield in time, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed again!

The battle between the infantry of the Zhou and Ming armies has already started across the board, and the entire front is filled with gunpowder smoke. Deadly projectiles come and go on the battlefield, wantonly harvesting lives!

The firepower of the Ming army's flintlock guns was obviously much more ferocious than that of Wu Zhou's army.Although separated by dozens of paces, with the power of miniature bullets and rifled guns, the opponents who were hit quickly suffered heavy casualties.

However, at such a distance, the shotgun sprayed by Wu Zhoujun's bronze cannon also caused a lot of damage to the Ming army!

The corpses in front of the front lines of both sides will soon accumulate more and more.

Just when the battle was about to fall into anxiety.On the right flank of the Wu Zhou army, the infantry and cavalry of the Ming army in the two towns have already completed a detour!

An army of more than 2 people appeared in a corner of the battlefield in a mighty manner, advancing rapidly with a large marching column.

"This... there is such a back trick!" Seeing this scene, Wu Yingqi knew it was not good.

But what he can do at this moment is to mobilize the remaining reserve team—thousands of cavalry, to quickly go to block it.

Then, he made emergency adjustments to his right wing, drawing three to four infantry guards from his third line to fill in as soon as possible to stop this Ming army brigade who did not know when it would complete its detour.

Standing on a high place, I watched the Ming army getting closer and closer to my right wing.Wu Yingqi couldn't help but muttered to himself: "Wu Laosan, Wu Laosan, when will you be there?"

And a similar question also appeared in Li Zhongshan's mind - Li Laishun, when will you arrive smoothly?
(End of this chapter)