The four-pounder gun hidden in front of the formation let out a low roar, and the two red-banner cavalrymen who rushed three hundred steps in front of the breastwork were caught off guard and were knocked down together.
Yang Guli did not expect that there was a field artillery hidden behind the slope.
It's no wonder. It should be noted that this soldier had just been shelled under the city of Hetuala. The shield vehicle was beaten to pieces and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Even under such circumstances, they were not seen using artillery to fight back against the barbican city.
Just when Hou Jinbing thought that his opponent could only huddle behind the parapet and be beaten passively, Zhu Dong suddenly came so suddenly, which made Yang Guli very uncomfortable.
Yang Guli rushed to the front of the formation, looked at the fallen horses and cavalry in front of him, and said angrily to the two wrappers next to him:
"Why is there a cannon in this Nikan across the street? Did you see clearly, where did the cannonballs come from?"
"Master, the call came from behind the slope."
The four-pounder cannon has an effective range of two miles and is fatal to armored soldiers three hundred steps away, not to mention light cavalry without armor.
The hit horse immediately fell to the ground, and the cavalry behind them had no time to rein in, so they turned around and ran towards both sides of the position.
The riverbanks on both sides were filled with soft silt swamps. More than a dozen elite cavalrymen plunged into the mire in a panic and plunged into the mire. Their horses struggled and neighed and sank into the mire together with the cavalry.
The riders behind skillfully maneuvered their horses over the corpses of their companions and continued to charge forward. They hit the horses' belly, then raised their riding bows and attacked the parapet more than two hundred steps away.
Thousands of light arrows poured down on the front and back of the parapet like a torrential rain. The short parapet was immediately shot into a hedgehog. Almost all the Kaiyuan soldiers standing in the front row were hit by arrows, and some even had three or four arrow feathers stuck in their bodies.
Fortunately, they were all wearing armor, and the damage caused by falling light arrows was very limited. Only a dozen unlucky spearmen were shot directly in the eyes and fell to the ground screaming and rolling.
In front of the parapet, the leading horses plunged into the horse trap in front of the trench. The Houjin riders who followed behind huddled together. They were about to avoid the horse trap and antlers. When the horses accelerated and charged, they were hiding. The four-pounder gun behind the slope fired again, and four iron balls weighing three kilograms rolled and smashed into the crowded group of cavalry, plowing out shocking blood grooves.
More cavalrymen behind passed over the messy corpses on the ground, and soon came fifty steps in front of the parapet. Some riders with injured horses jumped off their horses, replaced their riding bows with heavy bows, used their horses as shields, and opened fire with the cavalry behind the parapet. Archers of the original army shoot at each other.
More and more Houjin soldiers joined in and rushed to the trench. After stepping on a few mine cannons, they dismounted one after another. Under the cover of the heavy bow shooters, they climbed over the trench with long cards and rushed towards the half-moon position like a tide.
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Liu Zhaosun rode his horse to the east bank of the Suzi River, and four guards raised their long cards to guard him on the left and right.
The flames burning at the bridge head have been extinguished by the auxiliary soldiers. The auxiliary soldiers dismantled the burning bridge piers and replaced them with planks from carriages, and then fixed the bridge piers with ropes.
A steady stream of cavalry arrived on the east coast. Two thousand headquarters and six to seven thousand soldiers were left behind, and they were still struggling to move forward on the ice as smooth as a mirror.
"The two red flags were deployed in full force, and the Tatars' target was indeed our artillery."
Liu Zhaosun raised his telescope, and in his field of vision, thousands of horsemen and soldiers were crossing the Suzi River Valley and rushing towards the half-moon position in front.
Small groups of cavalry arrived on the east bank one after another. Wang Zengbin, the deputy battalion officer, loudly scolded the commanders of each battalion, asking the cavalry to line up according to the original formation, and when they were all together, they launched an attack on the enemy.
Liu Zhaosun shook his head and sighed. He couldn't help but interrupt the deputy battalion officer and shouted:
"Time does not wait for us. The cavalry will land ashore and gather a team of thirty cavalry. They will immediately attack the two red flags and continue to attack their flanks until they collapse or you are all dead! Act now!"
Wang Zengbin wanted to speak, but Kang Yingqian glared at him fiercely. The young and energetic cavalry officer had no choice but to retreat angrily.
The disembarking cavalry were organized into disorder one after another, and were only divided according to weapons, with long spears matching long spears, and palladiums matching palladiums. Thirty men were placed in a row. Five or six rows of cavalry immediately advanced towards the battlefield on the east bank three miles away.
Liu Zhaosun looked at the retreating figures of the cavalry, took a long breath, looked at Kang Yingqian, and said with a stern expression:
"We are all elite soldiers during training, but when we go to the battlefield, we become Zhao Kuo. He either talks on paper or underestimates the enemy and advances rashly. Kang Supervisor, I have ignored the training of soldiers for three months, but I have mixed in so much sand. When I go back this time, you and Cooperate with me to clean it up!"
Kang Yingqian nodded and sighed:
"What Mr. Liu said was that there were signs of this after the Hunhe War. Fortunately, it was just the officers who were good and the bad, but the soldiers had little impact..."
The dense black spots on the Suzi River were still moving closer to the east bank, and the cracks in the ice were less than a mile away from them.
"One general is incompetent and the three armies are exhausted."
"Kill those who deserve to be killed, and remove those who deserve to be dismissed. From now on, I will personally be responsible for the training and selection of troops, with Qi Jin's assistance, and no one else is allowed to get involved!
Seeing the fierce look on Liu Zhaosun's face, Kang Yinggan couldn't say anything else. After all, he was also very responsible for this fiasco. He was silent for a moment and changed the subject:
"General Liu, I estimate that the soldiers can cross the river safely. We have nearly 10,000 troops, which is several times stronger than the Hunhe River. How should we fight this time?"
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As Liu Zhaosun spoke, he raised his telescope and looked in front of the west city moat.
Under a large woven gold scroll, a high-ranking Tatar official was sitting, surrounded by a group of generals and Han ministers.
"If it's not Huang Taiji, then who is it?"
Liu Zhaosun handed the telescope to Du Du, who was guarding the front. Du Du took the telescope, looked over there, and said in surprise:
"Abatai actually became the leader of the banner with a red flag? He is a concubine... What did Huang Taiji think?"
"Abatai? What is his relationship with Li Yongfang?"
Liu Zhaosun was not familiar with this Lord Baylor, who had a low sense of presence. He only remembered that this man had an affair with the Fushun Prince Consort.
"Sir, Abatai is Li Yongfang's father-in-law."
Liu Zhaosun nodded slightly, turned around and said to Kang Yingqian:
"Kang Jianjun, you just asked me how to fight? I will tell you now. It is better to cut off one of his fingers than to injure ten of them. No, two fingers."
"Last time, I let two red flags fly in Hunhe River and escaped. I regretted it for a whole year. This time, I will start with the two red flags and destroy them!"
After Liu Zhaosun finished speaking, he left Kang Yingqian who was still in a daze, took Du Du and other guards, and rode towards the battlefield on the east bank.
The thin Du Du rode on his horse and loudly introduced the details of Li Yongfang's father-in-law to Marquis Pingliao.
"Sir, he is a concubine from the Concubine of the Jin Dynasty. Among the Baylors, his status is not as good as that of Dorgon Duduo and other juniors!"
Liu Zhaosun faced the biting cold wind and shouted to Du Du:
"You mean, Abatai is worse than a nine-year-old baby?"
"Exactly! Last year after the Battle of Sarhu, Houjin Khan had a celebration banquet, and Abatai was seated behind Dorgon."
Liu Zhaosun stopped talking after hearing this. No wonder this man wanted to express himself so much that he used cavalry to attack the artillery position.
The Chinese guards followed Ping Liao Hou and galloped forward for two miles, stopping only three to four hundred steps away from the formation of two red flags.
The cavalry that arrived for reinforcements had already begun to attack the Jiannu cavalry. They rode in teams of thirty, like iron plows one after another, plowing through the weak flanks of the two red flags without interruption.
The initial attack of the cavalry battalion suffered heavy casualties. Almost all the charging cavalry were killed. Jiannu on the opposite side only regarded these cavalry as moths flying into the flame and did not care. They still used their main force to attack the half-moon position directly in front.
As more and more cavalry landed, subsequent cavalry continued to join the attack. In fact, this wall charge was a compulsory subject for Kaiyuan cavalry. After all the main cavalry battalions landed ashore, the charge of two thousand cavalry with thirty cavalry per line became It happened extremely frequently, and finally once every few breaths, it swept over the flanks of the two red flags like a wave.
By the time Yang Guli realized that the situation was not good and began to mobilize forward attack forces to strengthen the flanks, it was too late. The continuous attacks finally opened a huge hole in the flanks.
The charge cavalry finally divided all the cavalry of the two red flags into two sections. A group of about a thousand Jiannu near the west side was attacked from the east and west by the Kaiyuan cavalry and the soldiers of the Banyue position, and soon fell into the fate of destruction.
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