This is truly an ideal cavalry charge! The terrain is open enough. Although the land next to the Wei River has absorbed rainwater and is somewhat muddy, after being exposed to the sun for most of the day, it no longer affects the galloping of the war horses.
Of course, the most ideal thing is to have a very cooperative opponent - Li Guo's cavalry has been rushing back and forth on the battlefield for a while, and is now exhausted. The men can still hold on, but the horses can no longer eat. Many war horses were foaming at the mouth, and they were almost exhausted after this battle! Now they can't charge at all. They can only form a dense formation like infantry to barely protect themselves.
But how could this group of cavalry under the banner of Wu Sangui give Li Guo time to complete the array? Before he could gather his men, he launched a landslide and tsunami-like charge!
It was not that more than a thousand riders swarmed forward, but groups of forty or fifty riders launched wheel impacts, one after another, all rushing in the same direction. Moreover, they retreated immediately after charging, and did not hesitate to fight. They gave up the charging comrades to the rear formation to continue the attack.
This is the most common tactic used by Wu Sangui's personal soldiers, the Yiding cavalry, and it is a strategy that is enough to confront the powerful Eight Banners force!
And the ability of this group of cavalrymen under the command of Wu Sangui to control their horses and charge was not comparable to that of the Xibei guys led by Wu Sanfu. I saw them first controlling their horses to walk quickly, then trotting, and then moving faster and faster, with a momentum as fast as thunder!
The one who rushed at the front was a strong man wearing long iron armor under a gray cloth robe. He was the same strong man who took advantage of the wind and rain that day to sneak away with dozens of cavalry thirty miles outside the northern city of Tianjin, which was under siege. At this moment, he was carrying a carbine for charging into the battle. The Wu family knights, who were dressed and equipped similarly to the Qi Ba Qi, were advancing side by side. With shouts, they were like running into a wall, and they bumped into Li Guo. Among the troops that have not yet gathered together!
The long spears used by the cavalry to charge into battle were all specially made. In the early years, they were called majins. The lances were soft and elastic, which could offset the rebound force of the fast-moving majins when they hit the target.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the production of carbine was relatively sloppy. However, the knights also had a corresponding method, which was to hold their carbines and send them away as soon as they came into contact with the enemy. At the same time, a rope was used to tie the sword of the carbine, so that the carbine that had penetrated the human body could be recovered.
The carbine held by this strong man of the Wu family army has been released. But with the huge momentum generated by the galloping war horse, this spear still knocked a knight from the old camp of Dashun Army off his horse! The tip of the spear came out of his chest, and the knight of the Dashun Army died before he could even scream.
The huge kinetic energy of the Wu Jiajun knights who charged into the battle with all their strength was not exhausted by the stab of the spear. Because the opponent's cavalry formation was too loose and could not stop the fast-attacking armored cavalry, they were penetrated directly into the formation.
These Wu family's armored cavalry did not have the time to take back their lances, but instead drew out the short weapons on their horses. It is not a sword, but a slender and rough iron whip. This kind of iron whip has no edge, but there is a small iron bump on the head, which is like a hammer. Any knight of the Dashun Army who is hit will immediately be hit. Disaster. The strong man who led the charge had extremely strong arms, which made even an iron whip longer and heavier. With the swing, the opponents who were hit either suffered broken bones or vomited blood, and no one could resist it. In the chaos, he was actually killed through the formation.
The strong man from the Wu family looked around and saw that there were more than forty horsemen behind him. He was not interested in fighting. He just shouted "Follow me!" Then he continued to gallop on his horse, circled the battlefield, and turned to where he was standing. Behind the queue of cavalry detachments that launch attacks one after another, wait in line for the next charge!
This is actually an extremely clever cavalry tactic. It is the original version of the "wall charge". It appeared on the eastern battlefield as early as the Liao and Jin wars. It was the ultimate move used by the Jurchens' Jin soldiers to defeat the Liao and Song Dynasties.
The servants of Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui were actually able to pull off such a trick! It seems that Wu Sangui's cavalry does have the ability to compete with the powerful Eight Banners team.
It's just that the Wu family has only 3,000 servants, while the Eight Banners' powerful army has a total of 80,000 people. Among them, there may be tens of thousands of elites who can compare with the Wu family's servants!
Having a huge advantage in the number of elite soldiers is the greatest asset that the Qing Kingdom outside the Pass can use to conquer the Central Plains...
Li Zicheng's capital in competing for the world was also the numerical advantage of the old soldiers.
The veterans of the camp are not as elite as the Wu family's servants. But the number is as high as 80,000 to 100,000, similar to the Eight Banners of Manchuria. Therefore, in the Battle of Stone in history, without the participation of Manchu soldiers, Wu Sangui would still have been defeated and perished.
But on today's Tianjin Wei battlefield, Li Guo only had 2,000 veteran soldiers, hundreds of casualties and missing soldiers, and there were pursuers, and he was short of men and horses. How to withstand the Wu family's cavalry that is attacking on wheels? Before the twenty or so formations of cavalry had finished their attacks, two brothers, Li Guo and Li You, had already fled.
Seeing Li Guo's old camp soldiers being rushed to pieces, they fled in panic. The "Yiding Tuqi" led by the other "Wu Sangui" also became more energetic, and no longer pursued slowly, but instead spread their horses' hooves and pursued fiercely.
The two brothers Li Guo and Li You were immediately in dire straits! One Wu Sangui had already made them miserable, and now two Wu Sangui came, which really cost them their lives.
The veteran soldiers under their command also completely lost their will to fight to the death and just tried their best to escape. As for how much strength the horses under their crotches still have, it is no longer a consideration.
Escape for a while!
If you really can't escape, just dismount and beg for surrender... maybe you can spare your life. After all, the world is in chaos and everyone is in need of fighting men! The official Xu wants to talk about loyal ministers and no two masters. How can they, the big-headed soldiers, talk about this?
So the chase didn't take long, and the battlefield was full of Dashun warriors who had killed their horses and begged for surrender. However, Li Guo escaped with his life by chance. His brother Li You sacrificed his life and shouted on the battlefield: " "Li Guo is here" attracted the attention of the pursuers and was chopped into seven or eight pieces on the spot! Li Guo took the opportunity to drive his horse into the Wei River, then tore off his cloth-covered iron armor, floated across the river, and joined Li Yan's remnants, luckily surviving.
Zhu Cixiang stood on the top of the cabin of the Dalongtou and witnessed the dramatic changes on the battlefield, but he was still a little unbelievable. He watched the Dashun soldiers in white hats and blue uniforms on the battlefield kneel down one by one and beg for mercy. Look at the cheering of the officers and soldiers on the pontoon and the surrounding sand boats as well as the sailors of the sand boat gang.
Only then did he realize that he had really won!
This battle between Tianjin Wei was really tough, but the result was unexpectedly good!
At the critical moment, Wu Sangui finally appeared and gave the old soldiers of Dashun Army a fatal blow.
Zhu Cixi pinched himself quietly again.
Damn it, isn't his ancestor trying to trick him, but does he really have the ability to save the Ming Dynasty from falling?
Yes, I am capable! Zhu Cixiang thought to himself: I am a pig trying to fly! A pig can fly, let alone a dragon now?
He turned to look at Cao Youyi. General Cao also stared at his eyes and grinned, looking as if he was overjoyed to have won the jackpot. Seeing Zhu Cixiang's eyes, he felt as if he had woken up from a dream. He cupped his hands towards Zhu Cixiang and said, "Master Qiansui, you can use all the old camp soldiers who are begging for surrender on the battlefield. Don't kill them rashly.
In addition, the war in Nancheng is now tense. Please immediately mobilize the Wu Army to cross the river to reinforce Nancheng! "
After being reminded by Cao Youyi, Zhu Cixiang remembered and hurriedly asked someone to withdraw his troops - don't get addicted to chasing him, which will delay Zhu Cixiang's rescue of his father.
In addition, the death-free flag must be raised high. The old camp soldiers of the bandits are quite capable of fighting!
And in another month, Li Zicheng should throw himself to death in front of Shanhaiguan. By then, I will be the mainstay of the Han people to resist the Qing Dynasty and save the world... Naturally, I can recruit those martyrs who came to join the Ming Dynasty after realizing that Li Zicheng was not resisting the emperor.
