To the west of Kaifeng City, thousands of horses galloped and the sound of killing shook the sky!
The soldiers of the New Army cavalry battalion galloped wildly, and Xu Ming's roar never stopped, constantly ordering the cavalry army to speed up.
On the battlefield, Li Laiheng's tens of thousands of armored soldiers had been defeated. Countless defeated soldiers fled backward, mixed with the previously collapsed infantry and dead soldiers, and densely blocked the path for the cavalry battalion soldiers to attack. Even if the New Army cavalry battalion officers continued to ride their horses to kill the enemy, the impact speed of the cavalry army inevitably began to slow down.
Xu Ming was extremely anxious when he saw this. Although the soldiers of the cavalry battalion were powerful, they were too small. With more than 10,000 people, they broke into the formation of hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the front camp of the bandits. Even though most of the troops in the cavalry battalion had been defeated, it was still very dangerous. . Li Laiheng was reorganizing his formation at the front. Xu Ming had already seen the knights from the bandit's front camp gathering, and the bandit Li Zicheng's black King Chuang banner was also coming quickly. The situation on the battlefield began to reverse.
"Come in!"
Xu Ming's eyes were red. Regardless of the obstruction of the surrounding guards, he rode his horse past the cavalry soldiers in front, led the guards around him, and rushed to the front of the army with one guard and one guard at night.
"Bring it!"
Xu Ming roared, grabbed the battle flag of the cavalry battalion from the flag bearer, held the flag high in one hand, raised the gun in the other, rode the horse with only two feet, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me and kill the leader of the thief. kill!"
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"
Seeing that the general was so brave, the morale of the cavalry battalion officers was greatly boosted. The impact speed of the cavalry army began to slowly increase. Many soldiers in front even raised their blunderbuss. Hundreds of soldiers who had not yet fired fired their triggers. After a roar, the army The bandit troops in front immediately fell to the ground. The soldiers followed Xu Ming and took advantage of the situation to attack, clearing the way for the cavalry army behind.
Suddenly, Xu Ming saw the battle flag of the bandit leader Li Laiheng begin to move forward. Immediately afterwards, more than 10,000 knights from the bandit's front camp appeared in the wave of rout, and Li Laiheng personally led the charge.
At the same time, Xu Ming saw that Li Zicheng's Chuangwang Dagu had arrived two miles away. The forty thousand warriors from the bandit camp were coming in a mighty manner. It's a black and heavy bandit cavalry!
"Haha! You're good to go, let's watch me kill the general and capture the flag!"
Xu Ming took the lead, and the cavalry formation formed by the soldiers of the cavalry battalion was extremely tight, like a huge iron awl, hitting Li Laiheng's troops in front.
Li Laiheng's Qiaoqi also reorganized their team and charged in a wild goose formation. The army was like a wild buffalo, roaring and charging forward, vowing to flatten everything in front.
The two cavalry armies were approaching at a rapid speed. The rogue bandit troops along the way suffered numerous casualties. Not only were they constantly trampled by the new army cavalry battalion, but they even ignored the charging rogue knights and rushed over, stepping on their companions all the way.
The dead soldiers and infantry on the battlefield were horrified to find that the two cavalry armies were getting closer and closer. The overwhelming cavalry stretched for several miles. They had no way to escape. They all let out desperate wails, and were then dragged into the iron hoofs by the war horses. Down, it turned into scarlet flesh.
"kill!"
"Go to hell!"
The two cavalry armies collided with each other with a loud bang. More than 30,000 people in the two armies collided desperately, and then began to fight.
Screams, curses, the neighing of war horses, and the sound of bones and flesh cracking due to the collision of human bodies and horses were intertwined together. The defeated soldiers on the battlefield only felt a buzzing in their ears, and then He couldn't hear any other sounds and became a victim of the fierce fighting between the two sides, constantly dying on the battlefield.
Under the protection of the first guard and the first guard, Xu Ming rode his horse into the formation of the knights, stabbing four knights to death with the spear in his hand.
At this time, Li Laiheng also rode his horse and rushed into the New Army cavalry camp. He also had a long spear in his hand. He pointed it at an oncoming cavalry battalion soldier and stabbed forward, but the spear tip hit the New Army. The soldier's heavy armor instantly exploded with sparks, leaving a dent in the armor but not piercing it.
"Asshole!"
Li Laiheng rode his horse and continued to rush forward. Even though the New Army soldier was hit hard and vomited blood immediately, Li Laiheng was already yelling angrily.
At this time, Li Laiheng had already picked on more than a dozen New Army soldiers one after another, and only succeeded in killing four of them. The rest of them relied on their sophisticated heavy armor to successfully block the spear in Li Laiheng's hand.
On the battlefield, the two cavalry armies were confronting each other. Countless cavalry and war horses were crisscrossing each other. After the initial violent collision, the two huge cavalry formations successfully "fused" with each other. All the cavalry on both sides were confronting each other. People constantly use the weapons in their hands to assassinate the enemy, and at the same time they themselves become the target of the opponent's killing.
However, the sophisticated heavy armor of the New Army Cavalry Battalion soldiers deeply shocked Li Laiheng and other rogue knights. The heavy armor made of fine iron allowed many New Army Cavalry Battalion soldiers to escape disaster, and even many soldiers were killed. With a blink of an eye, facing the rushing Thief Knight, he directly raised his gun and swung his knife to exchange his life. He used the heavy armor on his body to resist the Ranger's weapon, and then killed with one blow, killing the rushing Thief Knight. Kill him off his horse!
The desperate dismissal of the new army soldiers made Li Laiheng and other cavalrymen feel deep fear. They had followed Li Zicheng for many years and traveled across the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, so they were battle-hardened.
However, Li Laiheng and other rogue knights have never seen such desperate officers and soldiers. Even when they faced He Renlong, who was known as "He Madman", and Cao Wenzhao, who together with Cao Bianjiao was known as "Big and Little Cao", those two Ming troops Although he is tenacious and brave, he is far less crazy than Liu Yanbu!
"When did the Ming Dynasty have such a powerful army!"
Li Laiheng was horrified. Not only did Liu Yan's troops have sharp firearms and well-equipped equipment, but they were also all brave soldiers who dared to trade their lives for their lives. How on earth were such officers and soldiers trained? Liu Yan is really a monster!
Suddenly, when Li Laiheng was slightly distracted, a soldier from the cavalry battalion rushed forward more than ten steps, then suddenly used the spear in his hand as a javelin and threw it at Li Laiheng.
"ah!"
Li Laiheng screamed in shock, raised his gun with all his strength, and knocked down the thrown spear, but the cavalry battalion soldier had already rushed forward, with a sword in his hand, and was about to chop it down at Li Laiheng.
"Get away!"
Li Laiheng was furious and used all his strength to thrust his spear at him. The armor of the cavalry battalion soldier had been damaged in many places. At this time, Li Laiheng stabbed him fiercely, and his defense was immediately broken. The spear directly penetrated the cavalry battalion soldier's abdomen.
Li Laiheng then wanted to draw out his spear and continue to charge. However, when the two horses crossed each other, he was horrified to find that the cavalry battalion soldier was holding the spear tightly with both hands and staring at Li Laiheng with red eyes, as if he had seen his father's murder. Like an enemy.
"The leader of thieves!"
The soldier of the cavalry battalion shouted loudly and jumped down suddenly, trying to pull Li Laiheng off his horse. He was so frightened that Li Laiheng immediately let go and rushed over on horseback.
At this time, Li Laiheng's face was covered with cold sweat, and he was flying forward with his bare hands. The surrounding guards were also frightened by the scene just now, and they all rode their horses to protect him.
Fortunately, the front suddenly became clear at this time, and the forwards of the two armies finally rushed out of the battle formation. Only then did Li Laiheng react, shouting and ordering the entire army to turn to the right, preparing to reorganize their formation and continue to confront the New Army cavalry battalion.
"Hu~hu~"
Li Laiheng stopped his mount reluctantly, took the spear handed over by one of his guards, and looked at the battlefield he just passed with fear, only to see that many more people had been added to the battlefield that was already littered with corpses and blood. Corpses, including those of humans and horses, were piled on top of each other, as if a carpet of flesh and blood had been spread on the ground.
"What kind of enemy army is this? Is this actually an official army?"
Li Laiheng couldn't believe his eyes. He turned back and looked at the army of knights behind him who were reorganizing their formation. Although he didn't have time to count the number of people, he looked at the number of battle flags behind him. Each captain, brigade commander, and commander-in-chief had their own battle flags. flag.
Looking around, Li Laiheng felt a chill in his heart. Looking at the number of battle flags, he had just clashed with Liu Yan's cavalry. He had suffered at least two or three thousand casualties among his thousands of cavalry!
Li Laiheng's face was ashen. He didn't know whether he was frightened by the New Army cavalry battalion or because he was angry because of the heavy casualties of his troops. He just kept thinking to himself: "King Chuang, please hurry up, otherwise the elite of my front battalion will be wiped out." !”
At the same time, two miles away from Li Laiheng's heroic cavalry, Xu Ming also led the soldiers of the cavalry battalion to stop and began to reorganize the military formation.
Xu Ming's face was equally ugly. Like Li Laiheng, Xu Ming also looked back at the military formation and estimated the casualties of his own troops based on the number of battle flags of each unit.
In this hedging, the casualties of the New Army cavalry battalion ranged from a few hundred to more than a thousand. Xu Ming did not know the casualties of the Rogue Cavalry, but for each battalion of the New Army, so many soldiers were killed and wounded in just one battle. This was the first time. For Xu Ming, this was already a defeat, even if the Rogue Knight suffered greater casualties, it would still be the same!
"Assemble! Prepare to charge!"
Xu Ming roared and rode his horse to patrol in front of the formation. The spear in his hand kept hitting the spear raised by the soldiers in the front row. When Xu Ming rode his horse to the front of the formation, he shouted loudly: "Today's bloody battle will be fought to the end." , fight to the death!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Xu Ming pointed his spear forward and started to charge. More than 10,000 soldiers of the cavalry battalion began to charge again. The rolling cavalry rushed towards Li Laiheng's headquarters two miles away. The morale of the army was like a rainbow.
Li Laiheng gritted his teeth and gave the order to charge, but this time, the remaining more than 10,000 bandit knights no longer had the same momentum as before. The fighting spirit of the entire army was exhausted, and they just followed Li Laiheng's battle flag to the direction. When charging forward, even the speed of the charge increases slowly.
Before this charge, Xu Ming ordered the soldiers who had not yet opened fire on the battlefield to line up in front. More than two thousand cavalry soldiers holding blunderbuss formed a new arrow, aiming at Li Laiheng's troops in the distance and hitting them.
Among the knights of the bandits, there are few who are skilled in bows and horses. After all, these knights and horses are "selected" through the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Even if they are trained on weekdays, their strength and skills are... Not as good as the regular army.
These knights are just brave and ruthless. They know all kinds of dirty and ruthless moves to fight for their lives on the battlefield, but they don't know the so-called martial arts. As for the use of crossbows, let alone the use of crossbows. Those who knew it before will naturally know it, but those "selected" knights have no time at all and are not willing to spend time practicing the use of crossbows.
And this kind of people are still the majority of the rogue knights.
Therefore, during this charge, Li Laiheng only gathered more than 300 cavalry horses that could bow and fire arrows on war horses. These more than 300 people were also placed at the forefront of the cavalry formation.
The two cavalry armies charged towards each other again. At this time, there were no living people on the battlefield between the two armies. The defeated bandits had either fled to other places on the battlefield, or they had died in the cavalry melee. .
In the blink of an eye, the two sides were less than a hundred steps apart. Xu Ming and Li Laiheng shouted almost at the same time: "Let go!"
In an instant, a dark cloud surged over the army of rogue knights, and hundreds of arrows were thrown at the soldiers of the cavalry battalion.
On the side of the cavalry battalion, more than two thousand soldiers at the forefront opened fire at the same time, and the firepower of sophisticated muskets swept over them.
The two armies suddenly fell down in front of the formation...
Some people died, but not completely...
