boom! boom! boom!
There was no chance for the official cavalry to be in a daze. Countless fire gunmen fired their fire cannons again and shot at the approaching official cavalry.
The lives of seven or eight cavalrymen were once again lost on the battlefield.
At this time, there were more than two hundred cavalry, but less than a hundred were left.
These cavalrymen finally let out a weird roar, but it stopped abruptly in the face of such casualties.
The remaining cavalry were not much better either. Their faces were all pale and bloodless. Some of the cavalry looked at the green intestines mixed with mud and blood on the ground and lay on their horses and vomited.
The corpses that died under fire guns and tiger cannons were so miserable that they were almost unsightly, and some of them didn't even have complete corpses left.
The war between Datong's border troops and the grasslands has ended for many years, and there are usually only some small fights.
Many cavalrymen in the frontier army had never seen such a tragic scene.
Suddenly, a cavalryman turned his horse's head and fled away from the battlefield.
One person fled, and many others fled with him.
Even so, in the end, only less than seventy cavalry managed to escape from the front of the Thousand-man Tiger-character Flag formation.
The number of cavalry was limited, and there was some disconnect with the frontier camp behind them. Therefore, even if they escaped, the three frontier camp behind them would not be affected much.
As soon as the official cavalry retreated, the two rows of musketeers holding bayonets in the front row who resisted the horses took the initiative to retreat from the front of the formation, leaving space for the musketeers behind.
The gunner of the Tiger Crouching Cannon was also loaded again.
Because the three battalions of the official army were all infantry, they could not move much faster than the cavalry. Until the cavalry retreated, the front battalion at the front was still more than 200 steps away from the Tiger Banner army.
These border army camps were not greatly affected by the retreating cavalry, and they still moved closer to the Tiger-Character Banner army.
However, the shelling of the Tiger Flag Artillery Team did not stop, and several frontier army camps were experiencing casualties at all times, especially the front camp that rushed at the front suffered the most casualties.
If it hadn't been for the strong suppression by the commander of the front camp, they would have fled in chaos.
As the three large battalions of the government army approached.
On both sides of the previous thousand-man array, three identical thousand-man arrays appeared again, and were connected with the previous thousand-man array.
A camp of nearly 4,000 tiger-character flag warriors faced a camp of nearly 10,000 border troops.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.
boom! boom! boom!
The sound of firecrackers rang out from one of the thousand-man arrays, and only a moment later, the sounds of firecrackers rang out from several other arrays one after another.
Soon, the entire battlefield was covered in the sound of firecrackers, and it was almost difficult to hear any other sound.
Accompanied by the continuous sound of gunfire, the corpses of soldiers from the border army camp were thrown to the ground.
The front camp of the army, which was struggling to hold on, finally could no longer bear the casualties, and the camp collapsed. The general began to lose control of the situation. As one battalion soldier fled back, more and more battalion soldiers began to flee for their own lives.
The entire front camp of the frontier army was instantly defeated and fled.
The front camp of the frontier army was different from the dozens of cavalry who had fled before.
Even though there were many casualties among the officers and soldiers of the front camp, there were still one or two thousand people there. When they were defeated, they immediately swept away the other two camps that followed closely behind.
In an instant, the three camps were defeated.
"Order Yang Shunyi to attack the official camp immediately." When Gao Zhongyun saw that the attacking frontier army was defeated, he immediately found an opportunity to defeat the Datong frontier army in one fell swoop.
The messengers ran to high places, waved flags and gave orders to the several thousand-man troops in front to attack.
"Don't worry, Yang Shunyi has also fought a lot and will not miss such a good opportunity." Liu Qingzhou said excitedly standing aside.
This battle went more smoothly than previously expected.
Gao Zhongyun turned his head, looked at Liu Qingzhou and said: "Yang Guozhu has nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses left, and he still has the ability to fight back. Lao Liu, the next step is up to you. You must put enough pressure on Yang Guozhu to prevent him from reorganizing his troops. Chance."
"I'll just lead the troops over and give Yang Guozhu the final blow." After Liu Qingzhou finished speaking, he turned around and mobilized the remaining war barracks in the rear to set off.
Gao Zhongyun did not set off with him, but stayed with his own escort team.
But he never put down the monocular in his hand, and kept staring at the movements in the army camp.
If the Tiger Character Banner wants to capture Datong, Datong's frontier army is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.
The reason why Zhang Hong sent Gao Zhongyun to directly attack the camp where Datong's border troops were stationed was to defeat Datong's troops in one fell swoop and leave Datong without any troops to fight.
"go ahead!"
The four thousand-man squadrons that faced off against the official army began to counterattack under the order of commander Yang Shunyi.
The formations of the four thousand-man troops separated again, but still maintained the formation of a thousand men, and the official army camp in front was approaching step by step.
At the front of the array are fire gunners holding bayonets, and these fire gunmen wear breastplates, iron helmets on their heads, and leather boots sewn from various leathers.
Unlike the Ming army, the tiger-character flag does not lack leather at all.
After several wars with several tribes on the grassland, Tiger Flag did not spend any money and made a lot of leather goods in vain. Through the processing in the workshop, most of the soldiers changed into leather boots.
Yang Guozhu, who was in front of the army camp, looked ashen.
The defeat in front of him was beyond his expectation, and the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag were stronger than he imagined.
Although he had never fought against the slave thieves in Liaodong, he thought that the slave thieves who occupied the great companion Liaodong might look like the tiger-character flag soldiers in front of him.
"General, we are not defeated yet, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses here!" Xue Mu comforted Yang Guozhu from the side, worried that he would lose the courage to fight again.
Yang Guozhu ignored Xue Mu and said to one of his own soldiers: "Take a group of soldiers and horses and drive away the defeated soldiers and horses. Don't let them attack the camp."
As the commander of the army, even if he saw the huge defeat in front of him, he still maintained the rationality that a commander should have.
"Yes." The soldier agreed, turned around and rode away.
But he also left with him a group of soldiers and horses from the Chinese army camp.
The defeated soldiers who fled back prepared to flee back to the main camp. However, when they approached the main camp, they were directly driven away by the soldiers and horses of the Chinese army camp. If they resisted the slightest, they were killed on the spot.
In this way, although the defeated troops fled back, no one dared to attack the Chinese army camp, and they all fled around the Chinese army camp.
Although the several thousand-man troops behind the Tiger Flag were chasing after them, their pursuit speed was not fast because they maintained their formation.
Yang Guozhu was given time to prepare.
Regarding the defeated troops, Tiger Character Banner did not pursue or capture them politely.
It's not that they don't want to, but that their own troops are limited. Before Datong's troops are completely defeated, they can't divide their troops to gather the defeated troops.
All goals are to defeat Yang Guozhu's troops.
