The most powerful impact of the cavalry group was at the moment of the collision. Hundreds or even thousands of war horses collided in groups at maximum speed. The weight of the people and horses plus the speed of the horses produced a huge collision force. Before the age of the steam engine, the force generated by this collision was perhaps one of the greatest forces that humans could effectively control.
The infantry squatting on the ground could only use dense arrays and spears to resist these monster-like charging cavalry that were galloping towards them. If their array is not close enough, their people are not calm enough, and there are not many shooting weapons that can disrupt the opponent's impact formation, then the result is usually a disaster with heavy casualties!
Now the Shandong regiment, which is on the front line of training, has suffered a disaster! Their array was already a bit loose, but it had been struck again by seven or eight thousand arrowheads, and now it was just barely holding on. Moreover, the people's hearts were extremely panicked. Even if Li Dakai personally brought the supervising team to the front, it would not have any effect.
Before the impact, some regiment training soldiers had already moved back uncontrollably... At this moment, hundreds of galloping horses crashed into this shaky defense line!
The defense line collapsed in an instant! Although one or two hundred spearmen fought to the end, piercing the chests of dozens of war horses with their one-foot-long spears, and stabbed to death many brave Eight Banners soldiers. But the remaining hundreds of cavalry were still like a flood, completely submerging them.
The war horse itself is a weapon. The trampling of the horse's hooves and the impact of the chest can cause fatal injuries. And the spear in the hands of the Eight Banners soldiers is a sharp weapon for harvesting lives. At the moment of impact, everything was unstoppable due to the high speed.
The Shandong regiment's training front was shattered by a collision!
After the collision, it was a saber attack!
The fierce Eight Banners soldiers will not retreat immediately after completing a collision, because their hand-to-hand fighting ability is far stronger than any opponent they encounter. The soldiers of the Shandong regiment whose battle formation collapsed were unable to resist at all, and they just retreated in panic. The archers behind them didn't even have spears, and couldn't resist the Eight Banners soldiers on horseback, so they could only run backwards together.
At this moment, the sound of charging trumpets and drums once again resounded over the Qing cavalry group. Then the horses' hooves were like thunder, shouting to kill the sky... Another round of Qing army's cavalry attack began!
This time, the two waves of cavalry cooperated, riding in front and charging behind, but the target was pointed at a section of the Ming army's front that had not yet collapsed - the charge just now only destroyed a section of the front that was three to four hundred steps long. There was no total collapse. Since the melee fighting was still continuing at the breakthrough point, Duduo changed the front and continued to charge.
As long as he breaks through a few more sections, he can drive the old guy Gao Hongtu into the Tu River to feed the fish!
"Kill the Tatars! Divide the fields! Kill the Tatars! Divide the fields..."
Just when Duduo thought victory was in sight, the Ming army's rear formation suddenly let out a roar like a mountain roaring and a tsunami.
The Ming army's counterattack actually started!
The target of the counterattack was the hundreds of Eight Banners soldiers who had just broken through the front line of the Ming army. Just as they were killing the fleeing Ming army soldiers, Gao Hongtu, who was already standing on the edge of the Tu River with no place to retreat, bit into Ya offered a huge reward of "one hundred acres for each person" to the pikemen and swordsmen guarding the second line!
One hundred acres of land in today's murderous Shandong is actually not a big reward. It's just the farmers' desire for land that has taken effect, and it has inspired everyone to fight again.
There is only one condition for receiving a heavy reward, which is to defeat the Qing soldiers and return to Jinan with Gao Gao as the governor. If Gao Hongtu jumps into the Tuhe River, no one can give them land to a bunch of miserable farmers!
The Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners who were in the mood to kill people were also startled by the sudden shouts. Some of them stopped cutting people and looked up, wondering what happened?
What appeared in their eyes was a scene they would never forget. I saw hundreds of swordsmen running over with a shield in one hand and a javelin in the other, shouting... They were about to stab the javelin!
Are these people crazy? I'm still fighting hand to hand here! When people from both sides mix together, you throw javelins... If you guys are so cruel, you'll kill your own people!
"cast!"
The Ming army officer leading the team shouted, and hundreds of javelins were thrown out with strong wind!
This is not aiming the javelin, but covering the fire! Hundreds of javelins were thrown down without thinking, and dozens of Tatars were killed in one wave...Almost the same number of training soldiers from the Shandong regiment were accidentally killed and injured, and dozens of war horses were stabbed. Wearing the body.
The originally one-sided fighting ground became a mess. Everyone was frightened and ran away together... The Ming army ran towards the Tu River, while the Qing army ran towards the formation where Duduo was. go.
On the other side, Duduo had just commanded two teams of cavalry and used the tactics of cavalry shooting and charging to break another section of the Ming army's front. He was so happy that he actually saw his warriors being driven back!
what 's wrong? Why are the Eight Banners warriors not brave anymore? Duduo was a little annoyed, so he asked the white-armored soldiers around him to go up and grab Jia La Zhangjing, who was leading the attack, and ask him.
After asking, he also took a breath of cold air.
Throwing javelins at the melee between the two sides... This group of Ming soldiers are so damn willing to take risks!
"Pass it to Cao Zhenyan!" Duduo gritted his teeth and asked someone to pass it on to Zhang Jing Cao Zhenyan of Hongyi Cannon Niulu.
Because he already knows that there will still be another bloody battle today! The advantage of course lies with the Qing army, but the Ming army is not about to collapse at the first touch... Their fighting will and combat effectiveness have reminded Duduo of the white pole soldiers in the Battle of Hunhe River.
To deal with such an enemy, it is impossible to just charge headlong. Now we can only use cavalry to charge to seize their shield vehicles, then force them to the edge of the river beach, and then use Hongyi cannons and bows to slowly resolve the battle.
Victory belongs to the Qing Dynasty after all!
...
"Boom boom boom..."
Having led his men all the way to Tuhe Renzihao Fort, Li Chengdong, who was about to enter the city, suddenly heard the sound of thunder in his ears. He looked up at the sky. It was already dawn, blue and cloudless.
Li Chengdong asked: "Did any of you hear thunder?"
"Commander, that's not thunder, it seems to be a Hongyi cannon!"
"Hongyi cannon? They have already rushed out, why are they still firing?" He quickly turned back and looked to the west, and suddenly saw many "old farmers" throwing away their helmets and armor, running barefoot in groups along the official road. coming.
what 's wrong?
A battalion leader who was a scholar was a disciple of Gao Hongtu. He cried and came to Li Chengdong's horse. He pulled his reins and said, "General soldier, we were ambushed by the Tartars. The teacher's team was surrounded on the ground." On the river bank, life hangs on a thread..."
What? Is Gao Hongtu's life hanging by a thread? What should I do?
Li Chengdong was also a little confused and didn't know what to do for a while. One of his confidants came forward and said to him: "Futai is surrounded by Tartar soldiers. The situation is very dangerous. It is better for the general army to pack up the troops and retreat to Jinan Fucheng before making plans."
"No way!" Gao Hongtu's disciple hurriedly shouted, "Without a teacher, there is still King Lu in Shandong and Zuo Tuanlian!"
yes!
Without Gao Hongtu, there are Zhu Yihai and Zuo Maodi... As long as there is Zhu Cixiang's will, one of them can succeed as governor of Shandong and take over Gao Hongtu's regiment training and territory.
Therefore, Li Chengdong's desire to control Jinan Prefecture and become a warlord is simply a dream! And among the 2,000 or so people who have followed him out now, only a little over 400 are his servants, and the rest are Shandong regiment trainees. With a strength of just over 400, he is still a traitor at the level of a thousand generals!
"This..." Li Chengdong was also in a dilemma!
Unless Gao Hongtu is fished out, he won't be able to survive - Gao Hongtu still owes him Tai'an Prefecture!
But if you want to catch Gao Hongtuo, you might get involved in it.
The battalion leader suggested: "Commander, why don't we call the 2,000 defenders of Renzi Fort, gather some of the escaped regiments, and gather 5,000 people to rescue Gao Futai."
"5,000 people are not enough!" Li Chengdong still shook his head.
"Commander, we can cross the Tu River and attack the soldiers and horses placed by the Tartars on the north bank of the Tu River... maybe we can succeed!"
This battalion officer had good observation skills, and while escaping, he also paid attention to the situation on the other side of the Tu River. He found that the Qing troops on the other side of the Tuhe River were scattered for more than ten miles, and they were not all Eight Banners soldiers. Most of them were infantry, probably Green Camp soldiers.
"Okay!" Li Chengdong was overjoyed, "That's it... let's go rescue Governor Gao together!"
...
"Futai, quickly avoid the cannon!"
Boom boom......
Gao Hongtu was forced into the Tuhe River at this time. It was not a "deep water area" but a "shallow water area" close to the river bank, with the water only reaching his knees. He now has two bare feet, a heavy cloth armor on his body, and an iron helmet on his head. There were two soldiers beside him who kept pulling him into the water - not to drown him, but to make him squat in the water to avoid the shells.
The 10 Hongyi cannons of the Qing army have been set up and are firing at the seven or eight thousand Ming army who were squeezed to the river bank and placed in a spear-quenching formation!
At the same time, many Eight Banners soldiers came up pushing shield carts (captured ones), and under the cover of the shield carts, they fired waves of arrows.
The Shandong regiment training army has suffered heavy casualties... The living people can even use corpses and sand to pile up a circular bunker.
But at this point, the Shandong regiment trainers under Gao Hongtu were still resisting - they had to carry it. Their families were all in Jinan Prefecture, and they were all under Gao Hongtu's "protection".
Moreover, there are many scholars in the army who have signed their names on the damn "Annoyance to Hulu", and now the blacklist is in the hands of Duduo, the Qing Dynasty's gold-diggering prince!
Otherwise, Duduo will arrest people according to the list and dig their graves!
So during the intervals between the Qing army's shelling, the scholars in the army shouted to cheer up the old farmers.
"Keep it up for a while, reinforcements will arrive soon..."
"King Lu's soldiers will arrive soon!"
"The 50,000-strong army trained by Zuo Tuan is on the way..."
"Governor Shi's Confucius Temple holy soldiers are coming soon. They are all invulnerable gods!"
The shouts reached Gao Hongtu's ears. He was already desperate. Where are the reinforcements?
"It's over, it's over... I had great ambitions to live a wise life, but now I am ruining the country by using troops to fight. No matter what, if I don't succeed, I will be benevolent!"
After saying his dejected words, the tall governor suddenly threw away the two soldiers who were pulling him, turned around and walked towards the Tuhe River.
The Tuhe River is not deep enough to drown Gao Hongtu. But there are many green soldiers on the other side waiting to perform meritorious service with bows, arrows, swords and guns!
Can Gao Hongtu do better if he hits the top? Either shot to death or captured alive.
The two soldiers guarding him became anxious and shouted while chasing him: "Futai, Futai, the water is cold, the water is cold..."
Gao Hongtu also answered them: "No, no, I'm not afraid of cold water!"
He was not afraid of cold water here. The Qing army's green battalion soldiers guarding the other side of the Tu River suddenly became confused and ran away in all directions, shouting.
When Gao Hongtu saw this scene, he was a little surprised. Could it be that his righteousness scared those Donglu Green Camp soldiers?
When he was confused, two of his soldiers had already rushed to grab him, and one of them was still shouting: "We are saved, we are saved, General Li's soldiers are here to save us!"
