The distance of a hundred steps caused many arrows shot by archers to fall to the ground before they could land in the Tiger Flag military formation. Even if a small part of the arrows hit the military formation, they were all stood up. The front row of soldiers with tiger flags wearing breastplates blocked the outside.
These feathered arrows did not cause much damage to the military formation of the Tiger Flag, let alone cause chaos to the military formation.
Beep!
A copper whistle sounded in the military formation.
The military formation composed of several thousand people began to move forward. More than twenty four-pound cannons on the side and rear of the military formation were still bombarding the officers and soldiers in front.
The archer closest to the tiger-shaped flag military formation once again hung arrows on the bowstring in his hand.
The second round of arrow rain fell quickly.
Because they were closer, some people began to fall down in the military formation that was hit by the arrow rain. However, they were quickly dragged behind by others in the military formation and supported by others.
boom! boom! boom!
Before the archers of the army could shoot their arrows for the third time, the musketeers in the military formation fired their muskets.
The archers standing in the front row were the first to be attacked by firecrackers.
A dozen archers were killed on the spot, and twice as many were injured.
The few archers left had lost nearly one-fifth.
However, this is just the beginning.
After a row of firecrackers sounded in unison, another series of firecrackers sounded immediately after.
Many more archers were hit.
Corpses were lying on the ground in a mess. The intestines of an archer who had been shot in the stomach were flowing out, and the ground was covered with mud and blood.
And those archers who were injured but not dead were unable to draw their bows and shoot arrows because of the pain caused by their wounds.
The archers who had not been harmed for the time being were frightened by the bloody scene in front of them. They dropped their bows and arrows, turned around and ran back without caring.
He could no longer take care of the soldiers and servants holding the battle behind.
As soon as the archers of the official army fled, the tiger-shaped flag army formation without any obstruction in front of them moved forward again.
When the military formation passed the place where the archers had stayed, the soldiers holding bayonets struck the archers who were not dead on the way.
Without the obstruction of the archers of the official army, the military formation composed of several thousand people of the Tiger Character Banner faced a large camp of soldiers and horses of the Datong frontier army.
The military formation with the tiger-shaped flag stopped fifty or sixty steps away from the frontier camp blocking the way.
The dense sound of firecrackers sounded almost at the same time, mixed with the sound of the squatting tiger cannon.
The soldiers of the frontier army camp under attack were like felled trees, falling down in rows.
The frontier camp, which had already been crumbling under the bombardment, finally couldn't bear it any longer, and the rout occurred almost instantly on the battlefield.
"Failed!"
I don’t know who shouted this on the battlefield.
Many soldiers in the camp had no time to throw down their armor, turned around and fled behind them.
There were tens of thousands of government troops in the rear, which made these camp soldiers subconsciously believe that they could escape with their lives as long as they escaped back to the main camp.
In order to escape for their lives, the defeated camp soldiers pushed many people into each other.
Trampling and killing each other happened to these defeated soldiers who fled.
"General, we can't hold on anymore, leave quickly!" A soldier next to General Zhang said anxiously.
The entire camp was defeated by manpower. At this time, the defeated soldiers did not care about the identity of the people standing in front of them. Any attempt to prevent the defeated soldiers from escaping for their lives was a mantis trying to defeat the enemy.
Either they will be swallowed up by the torrent of defeated troops in front of them, or they will be trapped in it and run for their lives together.
"Let's go." General Zhang knew that there was no use staying any longer. He took his own soldiers and servants and broke off the troops first and rode back to the camp at the rear.
As for those defeated troops, we can no longer take care of them.
Faced with the fleeing troops in front of them, several military formations of the Tiger Character Banner did not pursue pursuit. Instead, they continued to move forward in formation to put pressure on these fleeing soldiers.
At this time, Liu Qingzhou had already rushed up from behind with another battalion of soldiers.
The strength of the Tiger Flag suddenly increased by half.
Outside the battlefield, Yang Guozhu's face became extremely ugly when he saw that a large battalion he sent had been defeated again.
In just a short time, four frontier army camps had been defeated by the troops of Tiger Character Banner.
"General, when will General Wang's reinforcements arrive?" Xue Mu looked at Yang Guozhu nervously.
The defeat of several large camps of the border army made him lose confidence in the next battle.
The other generals on the side also looked unhappy.
The next defeat at the hands of the tiger-shaped flag soldiers and horses in front of them was a huge blow to the morale of the army. Even if there were more than 10,000 soldiers and horses behind them, they still had little confidence in defeating the soldiers and horses in front of them, which numbered less than 10,000 people. .
"Send someone to the Xuanfu Army Camp." Yang Guozhu said in a deep voice.
There were cavalrymen riding away nearby.
"General, the bandits are approaching." General Wu who was following Yang Guozhu said.
Yang Guozhu on horseback said nothing, with an uncertain expression on his face.
"General, let's fight. If you don't fight, you won't have a chance." General Wu spoke again.
Although the camp soldiers suffered a lot of losses, the most elite soldiers and servants in the army did not suffer much losses and could still fight.
Yang Guozhu looked hesitant.
I don't know if I should send out my own soldiers and servants to give it a try, or if I should hold on a little longer and wait for reinforcements from Wang Bao.
boom! boom! boom!
The sound of cannons, which had been quiet for a while, sounded again.
"Gather all the soldiers and horses, follow me and charge!" After the voice fell, Yang Guozhu took the lead and rushed out.
The sound of cannons in his ears made him understand that continuing to wait would only cause the army behind him to be defeated faster.
The chief generals of each battalion also went out with Yang Guozhu.
The many soldiers and servants who had not moved formed a huge cavalry team, and accompanied their generals to rush towards the tiger-character banner army in front.
Several military formations of the Tiger Character Banner stopped at some point.
There were originally gaps between several military formations. With the combination of several military formations, they became one, like a city wall, blocking the front of the officers and soldiers.
Liu Qingzhou came from behind, and the large camp of soldiers he brought was integrated with the several military formations in front, increasing the width and thickness of the military formation.
Uh-huh!
The soldiers in the first two rows showed their bayonets and made a gesture of resisting the horse.
The firecrackers who followed him raised their firecrackers and aimed them at the approaching imperial army ahead.
Everyone understands that the upcoming battle will determine the final winner on the battlefield.
Boom! Boom!
The sound of over a thousand horse hooves resounded across the battlefield, the earth seemed to tremble under the horses' hooves, and the clouds in the sky seemed to be shaken away.
The sun began to set in the west, and the patches of white clouds turned as red as blood, seeming to indicate that a tragic battle was about to take place on the battlefield below.
