nanming man

Chapter 944 Defeating the Ming Army
The hollow phalanx must be distributed in groups to restrain the cavalry.

The Ming army's phalanx is divided into three parts. Now the front line collapses and retreats, and the back line moves forward to reinforce the center line, with the intention of stabilizing the front line.

The front army of the Ming army broke down and passed through the gap between the central army's phalanxes. The six phalanxes behind them gathered forward to form a horizontal formation, and then raised their guns to shoot.

Standing in the formation, Gao Yizhen saw Wei Jun marching forward, and immediately shouted anxiously, "Shoot!"

The advancing Wei army was immediately shot down in pieces, and the Wei army also raised his gun to fight back while taking a step, knocking down the spearmen in the front row of the Ming army.

At this time, the Ming army had a large number of people, and under the volley of firecrackers, it immediately stopped the pace of the Wei army, and even knocked the Wei army's infantry back. , detoured from the two wings to attack the Ming army after the change of attack front, and broke into the Ming army.

In the firefights, the spearmen of the Ming army suffered heavy losses, and the army formation changed from a scattered square formation to a horizontal formation, with strong frontal firepower and weak firepower on both wings.

The cavalry rushed in from both ends of the horizontal formation, and the gunners who were shooting at the infantry of the Wei army hurriedly turned their muzzles and shot at the horse army of the Wei army.

However, no matter how dense the firecrackers were, they could not stop the charge of the Wei army's horse army, and the horses inevitably ran into the Ming army.

The thin spearmen were knocked into the air, and the rest of the musketeers lost their protection. The two cavalrymen of the Wei army were almost like two giant hammers at the same time, smashing the Ming army's line into chaos.

With more than 2 Wei troops, against [-] Ming troops, the Ming army's ability to persist until now has already surprised the generals of the Wei army.

The Wei army's horse army rushing forward rushed into the Ming army's formation with great momentum, and kept flying the Ming army in front of them.

Although the Ming army has undergone long-term and rigorous training and still defends the front line, it was soon smashed into pieces by the Wei army and horse army.

After all, there were only 6000 people. Once the formation was lost, the situation deteriorated rapidly. The Wei army cavalry continued to strangle the Ming army gunners with a massacre attitude.

The cavalry pierced through the Ming army, the horse army made a detour, and crashed in again, not giving the Ming army a chance to recover its formation.

Gao Yizhen fought desperately, but there was a huge difference in the strength of the two armies, and there was also a gap in combat power, and the Ming army lost more and more.

"General, if this continues, our army will be killed by the Wei army!" The general reminded loudly.

At this moment, Wei Jun's artillery pushed up and began to bombard the warships in the river.

Gao Yi looked around, the situation was already very unfavorable for the Ming army, he bit it angrily, "Follow the warship, retreat!"

The warships of the Ming army on the river immediately anchored and controlled the sails. The warships continued to fire their cannons while going down the river. When the soldiers of the Ming army heard the sound of gold, they leaned towards the side of the canal one after another and followed the warships to break through to the east.

"Kill!" Hu Dawei roared, and waved his army to cover up the kill. However, the artillery on the ship bombarded from time to time, and the soldiers on the ship continuously fired guns to the shore, which made the cavalry of the Wei army not dare to approach the ship.

At this time, the cavalry chased and killed all the way, and the Ming army fought and retreated. The sound of shouting and killing spread by the canal. The Ming army wanted to get rid of the Wei army, but the horse army was so fast that they couldn't get rid of it at all.

After chasing for more than [-] miles, the rest of Li Jiyu's department, who had penetrated eastward in advance, appeared. The soldiers of the Wei army cut down trees and drove piles in the river to create obstacles. .

Seeing this, the Ming army on the bank fled in all directions, but most of them were surrounded, and only a few sentry cavalry escaped.

Hu Dawei led the cavalry and surrounded Gao Yizhen. Thousands of cavalry galloped around hundreds of Ming soldiers.

The cavalrymen of the Wei army did not attack either, and the horsemen circled around for a while, when Hu Dawei suddenly reined in his horse and roared angrily, "Gao Yichu, you still don't surrender, do you want them all to die?"

On the canal, soldiers of the Wei army piled firewood on the raft, sprinkled gunpowder, and declared that they would burn the warship and force the Ming army on board to surrender.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Shi Lang didn't make a fearless resistance, and ordered his soldiers to surrender. The trapped Ming soldiers immediately dropped their weapons and surrendered.

Along the banks of the Dagu River in Tianjin, a group of cavalry fled in a hurry, followed by thousands of Wei troops galloping on horseback in pursuit.

"Catch up! Let's go!" Yan Yingyuan ran away with nearly a hundred people, and when he turned around and saw the cavalry of the Wei army catching up, he immediately shouted.

The fleeing Ming army immediately cried out in alarm, and the rout soldiers took their last breath and ran desperately. Looking back boldly, they saw the cavalry of the Wei army rushing up again, and they couldn't help but despair.

Behind the Ming army, the Wei army galloped on horseback, chasing the Ming army to the death.

It should be said that there was no enmity between the Wei army and the Ming army, and there was no need to kill them all, but Hu Dawei confessed to the Wei army that he would not let a single Ming army go.

This battle is a mess, after the fight, there must be an explanation, and the best way for the Wei army to grasp the interpretation of the incident is to shut up all the Ming army, capture them, or behead them.

The horses were galloping, and seeing that they were about to catch up again, the cavalrymen of the Wei Army clenched their weapons on their horsebacks, pressed down their spears, aimed their guns at their prey, and were ready to launch the final blow!
At this moment, there was a sound of "crashing, crashing" waves in the distance. Hearing the sound, the cavalry of the Wei Army immediately raised their heads and looked east.

The naval ships of the Ming army were huge. Except for a few medium-sized paddle boats, which could barely swim upstream, the large ships could only berth in the open sea.

"Look, General!" A cavalryman beside General Wei shouted loudly, "It's the fleet of the Ming Army!"

General Wei was eager to chase, but he didn't hear the warning from his subordinates. He rode forward and stabbed a fleeing Ming soldier off his horse. There was a loud bang.

"Boom boom boom!" The warships anchored on the sea opened fire in unison. Nearly a hundred shells were fired from the boat, and the sound was like thunder.

These shells flew close to the surface of the sea at a very high speed, smashed into the pursuing Wei army, splashed mud pillars, and immediately turned people on their backs, screaming, and the cavalrymen who were shot fell off their horses one after another.

"General, look!" The soldiers shouted again, Wei Jiangzhong reacted, he looked up to the east, his expression changed drastically.

On the vast sea, you can see densely packed masts soaring into the sky, and the roaring momentum of the broadside guns of nearly a hundred large ships is chilling.

Seeing this, General Wei made a decisive decision, pulled the reins of the horse violently, and shouted loudly: "Get back to the horse! Withdraw!"

The cavalry of the Wei army pulled out their horses and retreated, and more than a thousand cavalry left the sea immediately. They stopped their horses outside the shelling range, turned their heads to observe the sea surface carefully, and watched the warships of the Ming army for a long time.

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