The sun never sets in America

Chapter 115 The Last Battle
As Matt Ford's order was issued, the Mexican cavalry troops that had been entangled with the Han cavalry in the rear moved...

They even planned to divide their forces to attack the frontal battlefield, the lightning gun formation that was like an iron wall.

Although Tang Wuwei quickly discovered the opponent's movements, [-] Mexican cavalry still rushed towards the Han infantry.

So much so that even Tao Wang, who had always been very confident in the current war, was so frightened that he immediately sent the infantry battalion equipped with flintlock rifles in the rear to reinforce the enemy to prevent the Mexican cavalry on the opposite side from taking advantage of their speed to rush through the military formation.

"Shooting...shooting..."

"Stop them..."

Wu Yunfeng and Qi Yunfei looked at the cavalry charging over. Although they were nervous, they still issued the order to fire in an orderly manner. However, they could still hear some fear from the slightly trembling and hasty orders.

After all, for the infantry, before Maxim appeared, the fear of the cavalry was hidden in their bones.

After all, the speed of the cavalry and the tall body of the war horse are objects that the infantry cannot ignore. What's more, once the cavalry rushes over, it can almost be described as a disaster for the infantry.

This is true even in the age of firearms. Due to various reasons such as the range of flintlocks and matchlocks and the slow loading of ammunition, once the cavalry breaks through the fire blockade, the infantry will die miserably in the end.

The only thing that the infantry can effectively slow down the cavalry is the wall of bayonets. But this is a passive defense after all. Once the cavalry finds a flaw, the consequences can be unimaginable, and for a qualified cavalry unit, entangled with the infantry, It is originally part of the training subjects and belongs to the most basic learning.

From these we can also see the restraint of cavalry on infantry.

And can infantry really not be able to defeat cavalry?
Not necessarily, the earliest Spanish hollow phalanx is a typical example, but this requires the cooperation of a large number of troops, but on this battlefield, there is no so-called hollow phalanx, only the most primitive and barbaric shooting.

bang... bang...

A series of horse hoofbeats came, and these horse hoofbeats were also accompanied by gunshots, so that people could hardly tell what was gunfire and what was horse hoofbeats. They could only rely on the vibrations coming from the ground to distinguish.

When the Mexican cavalry approached the 300-meter area known as the line of death, something completely different from the infantry happened. Although a large number of cavalry were hit by lightning rifles, with the speed of the horses and the inertia of the sprint, there were still A large number of cavalry rushed over and entered the most dangerous 300 meters.

Just when the little Matt Ford at the rear was about to raise his arms and shout, the Mexican cavalry who had just entered the 300-meter area encountered the same encounter as the Mexican infantry just now, which was a dense and continuous rain of bullets.

Most of these bullets hit the war horses because the bullet-receiving area of ​​the war horses was large enough.

bang... bang...

The Han soldiers on the opposite side held lightning rifles and fired wonderful and overwhelming volleys over and over again, causing the Mexican cavalry rushing over to fall to the ground one by one. The horses fell to the ground first, and finally the horses fell to the ground. The knight fell heavily to the ground.

After they finally got up, they were knocked down by the same hail of bullets as before.

In the end, of the three hundred cavalry, only forty cavalry were left. They rushed through the spear formation and came to an area only ten meters away from the Han infantry. However, in the end, only seven or eight cavalry rushed through the final spear formation. , and those few cavalrymen eventually died under the bayonet forest of Han infantry.

The little Matt Ford across from him tremblingly put down the telescope in his hand. His confidence had been completely destroyed by what had just happened.

"Retreat...retreat..."

This is the clearest decision Matt Ford has made so far.

Just when the Mexican infantry were preparing to retreat to preserve their strength, the largest cavalry showdown in the history of the Chinese and Mexican sides was taking place on the other side.

The total cavalry of both sides exceeds five thousand. Even in Europe, this is an incredible cavalry battle.

"Raise the gun..." Tang Wuwei raised the lance in his hand.

swoosh...

Then a series of gunshots sounded.

The Mexicans on the opposite side also raised their lances, but if you look carefully, you will find that the formation of the Mexican cavalry is more loose than that of the Han cavalry.

"Dragon Cavalry Brigade, charge into the formation..."

After a few months, since that unforgettable night in the second Battle of Los Angeles, Tang Wuwei once again shouted the inspiring slogan that turned the tide of the war.

The dense cavalry moved, because the silver breastplates on the Han cavalry looked like silver-armored generals under the sunlight! !
Even the thick breath exhaled from the war horse's nostrils turned into streams of white smoke.

Thousands of Mexican cavalry on the opposite side were also prepared and charged towards them with their lances drawn.

bouncing……

When two huge cavalry teams collided with each other, it was like two city walls colliding.

The cracks caused were like being blown by a heavy hammer.

In an instant, the two huge cavalry teams merged together, and then separated again in a short time.

But when both sides turned around, what was left behind was a series of corpses of cavalry and war horses. On their bodies were lances that had broken off automatically during the sprint.

In addition, there are those war horses that have lost their masters, are aimless and at a loss.

"Dragon Cavalry Brigade, charge into the formation..."

shuh...

Tang Wuwei drew his sword and shouted loudly that famous saying that has been spread in the military history of the Han Dynasty for thousands of years! !
After moving, the Han cavalry moved again. All the cavalry pointed forward with their swords. The horses under them were panting heavily and rushed towards the opposite side with scarlet eyes.

Although the Mexican cavalry on the opposite side suffered more actual casualties than the Han cavalry just now due to loose opposition, now that the fight has reached this level, both sides have no way to retreat.

Just like what Morant said after the war:
"We fought the wrong opponent at the wrong time, ruining the future of the country and all of us. If you ask me what my biggest regret is, my biggest regret is that I was unable to prevent this war that took away countless people. The outbreak of the War for Mexican Lives…We should have stopped it!!”

When he said this, Morant had already been prosecuted by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Mexico for treason due to the failure of the war! !
But now, this war is still going on.

If you look down from a high altitude, you will find that in the west and middle of the battlefield, there are fewer Han infantry than Mexican infantry chasing and killing. However, in response to the bullets fired from behind, the Mexicans just retreat blindly and only For preservation, the few forces.

On the other side, two huge cavalry collided together again, like two tornadoes exuding violent aura, colliding and merging together...

When they separated, just like last time, they still left corpses on the ground and horses that had lost their owners.

But even under such circumstances, Tang Wuwei still shouted:
"Dragon Cavalry Brigade, charge into the formation..."

As this slogan was shouted, the remaining two thousand cavalry attacked, and the Mexican cavalry on the opposite side was no longer able to survive.

He had begun to fear war, and during the charge, he deliberately dispersed his formation in order to avoid those devil-like dragoon brigade cavalry.

But because of their cleverness, they gave the leadership of the war to the dragoon brigade cavalry.

In the modern cavalry charge tactical system, dense and strict formations, as well as uniform execution, have always been the goals pursued by cavalry generals from various countries.

A modern cavalry team that disperses its formation is no less than a modern cavalry degenerate into a medieval cavalry.

You must know that nomadic cavalry in medieval times also had longbows. What do you have, a musket? ?

Apart from being effective at first, that thing was useless later on. Not to mention, a single reload could give a cavalryman riding a high-speed galloping horse a headache.

In the end, modern cavalry returned to the most primitive and most efficient combat mode, which was to sprint. They used cavalry as tightly as a city wall to attack the opponent's loose cavalry formation, and then supplemented it with muskets, which could often defeat the medieval cavalry. The nomadic cavalry were beaten so hard that rats ran away with their heads in their hands.This has been proven all over the world.

During the third round of cavalry charge, the Han cavalry clearly felt a different pressure than before, no, even very relaxed.

Because you can't actually see how many Mexican cavalry are around, it's as if they don't exist.

Those Mexican cavalry still exist, but they have dispersed, and the dispersion is very severe, resulting in the appearance of four or five Han cavalrymen who often appear in areas where they are in conflict with the Dragoon Brigade. They use their swords to chop down a Mexican cavalryman. It is conceivable how serious the consequences will be.

So after this sprint, the Dragoon Brigade did not lose many people at all. On the other hand, the place where they just sprinted was full of dead Mexican cavalry and ownerless horses! !

In the subsequent small-scale sprints, everything that had just happened was once again verified, that is, these Mexican cavalry were really dead.

Therefore, the dragoons' fighting style became more and more aggressive, and in the end they split into two teams to pursue the Mexican cavalry who were ready to escape.

After all the Mexican cavalry fled, the war was filled with the corpses of Mexican cavalry and a large number of ownerless horses.

"Change horses..." Tang Wuwei looked at the direction of the infantry and found that the enemy had not completely retreated. He made a prompt decision and gave the order to change horses.

As the only large-scale cavalry unit in the Han Dynasty, the Dragon Cavalry Brigade is usually equipped with two horses, but in a battle like this, an additional war horse is often equipped from the rear, that is, a total of three horses.

These war horses are used for transfers in peacetime and for combat in times of war. However, the killing just now was so fierce that there was no time to transfer.

So many war horses lay down tiredly after the war.

If these horses that could participate in the first round of the war were not the best among the three horses, the horses might have died of exhaustion...

And when the cavalry brigade changed to new horses and picked up the prepared cavalry.

The soldiers of 1 mixed group were desperately trying to stop the Mexican troops who were trying to retreat. Although some of them ran away because there were too many people, most of them still stayed.

bang... bang...

The barrage of lightning rifles hit the Mexican soldiers trying to break through the blockade over and over again.

On the side, a battalion holding flintlock rifles was also fighting bloody battles to contain this group of Mexican troops trying to pass the blockade.

"Stop...stop..."

Wu Yunfeng shouted to the troops on the front line over and over again, asking them to keep these Mexican troops, for no other reason than because they were the only elite troops in Mexico, an army from the capital. For this reason alone , there is value in keeping them.

At the end, Liu Peng was also holding a telescope and nervously watching the battle ahead. When he saw the Dragoon Brigade winning the duel with the Mexican cavalry, Liu Peng almost jumped off his horse to celebrate, but after After seeing the Mexican troops preparing to retreat, his face immediately became anxious. He knew very well the importance of leaving this Mexican army behind.

Not to mention anything else, once these people go back, as long as they replenish enough troops, they can restore at least [-]% to [-]% of their strength and continue to fight against them. It will also easily make them more wary of the lightning rifle, and even make the lightning rifle no longer a weapon. A secret, although it is no longer a secret, but Liu Peng believes that in this war, it is best to delay it until the end of the war.

Let this war end as quickly as possible.

No one knows more about the toll this war has had on Han than Liu Peng.

In this war, the Han State spent at least 800 million Chinese yuan in military expenditures. Although it gained a large amount of territory, it seriously disrupted the Han State's domestic construction.

Liu Peng was not an arrogant monarch. He fully understood the importance of this era to the Han Dynasty. Trains had not yet become popular, the first industrial revolution had not yet ended, ironclads had not yet arrived, and the major powers had no energy to pay attention to or influence the Americas. , except for the United States, which is so close at hand.

In recent years, due to domestic reasons, the United States has found it difficult to pose a threat to Han. Therefore, these grades are the best construction period for Han. If you miss this period, you don't know how long it will take.

Time is so precious to the current Han State that Liu Peng so happily agreed to the decisive battle plan proposed by Li Zhaowu in this war not just to end this damn war as soon as possible.

"Mu Wu..." Liu Peng immediately shouted to the guard battalion commander Mu Wu beside him.

The so-called guard battalion is actually Liu Peng's personal guard, selected from the elites of each army and responsible for protecting Liu Peng's safety.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince..." Mu Wu replied to Liu Peng with his fists clasped respectfully.

"Come on, don't let a single Mexican army go...don't let them escape." Liu Peng gave Mu Wu an order to join the battle.

"His Royal Highness...we are leaving, who will protect you???" After hearing this, Mu Wu's face changed, and then he persuaded anxiously.

"Leave me one cavalry team, and the rest will join the battlefield..." The guard battalion is a multi-arms joint force composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery, and Liu Peng left the cavalry so that he could take him to escape at critical moments. When it comes to saving lives, Liu Peng is serious.

"His Royal Highness..."

"Stop talking and follow my orders!!" Liu Peng sternly rejected Mu Wu's advice.

"Yes, Your Highness the Crown Prince..." After saying this, Mu Wu could only leave a cavalry team of more than a hundred people, and trotted into the battlefield with the remaining [-] infantrymen.

As the Guard Battalion and the Dragoon Brigade joined the battlefield, the balance of the war had completely tilted. The Mexican army, which had long been demoralized, saw a large-scale surrender wave...

Even if there were resistance from various Mexican armies, they were quickly organized into a mixed group, dragoon brigade, and guard battalion, and were jointly strangled on this battlefield that made no Mexican cry...

When the war on the Eastern Front ended, there were only large bodies of corpses left on the entire battlefield, as well as prisoners who threw away their weapons and stood in a row.

"Leave a battalion and go see these prisoners." Liu Peng passed by the trembling prisoners on horseback and immediately issued an order, "Others, come with me to support the western front and the central part..." Liu Peng then issued an order. received orders to reinforce other fronts.

In other directions, including the northern and central fronts, the Han army already had the upper hand.

When the Han army in the central part heard the rumble of horse hooves of the Dragon Cavalry Brigade and the rising dragon flag symbolizing the Han state, their morale immediately rose.

"Kill the ink thief..."

"kill……"

The entire central battlefield was full of shouts of killing against the Mexican army.

By this time, any tactics and discipline have lost their meaning, and only the most primitive rush is left.

The Han army with bayonets and the Mexican army fleeing in all directions formed a sharp contrast.

Just like wolves chasing sheep, only the naked law of the beast is left! !
Survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest! !

And when the cavalry of the Dragoon Brigade rushed into the Mexican infantry formation, what they caused was a large-scale rout, and they were charged over and over again, punching through several holes in the battlefield.

Before the third sprint started, the Mexican army on the opposite side had already raised a white flag. When the Han army went to receive it, they had already dropped their weapons...

And when the central and eastern battlefields have been won, the only one still fighting is the northern front.

"Attack the whole army... target the northern front." Liu Peng came to Li Zhaowu, Xu Zhi and others on the central battlefield and gave the order with a serious expression, "In this battle, we will defeat the Mo army and win the victory." Liu Peng continued with firm eyes. ordered.

When the Eastern Front Allied Forces in the central part of Han Dynasty arrived at the Northern Front battlefield, the Mexican army on the Northern Front, which was still fighting the Yingyang Brigade, could no longer hold on and surrendered to the Han Army after less than 5 minutes of resistance. Already...

So much so that after the war Liu Peng said:
"Everything is good about this war, except that there are too many prisoners!!"

(End of this chapter)