"Charge over, charge over quickly." The enemy cavalry leader shouted loudly, and slapped the horse hard on his crotch with the whip in his hand.
A cavalry charge that has lost its speed is a live target for artillery.
More and more enemy cavalry entered the farmland, and the green wheat seedlings were trampled into sections by the horses' hooves like weeds. The farmland was also trampled by the horses' hooves, making it increasingly muddy and difficult to walk through.
The advantage of the cavalry's charge soon disappeared.
When the gunners in the artillery array saw that the enemy cavalry could not get close, they had the opportunity to beat up the drowned dogs. One gun after another, they fired at the middle of the enemy cavalry.
After a while, the enemy cavalry dropped more than a hundred corpses.
"Withdraw! Withdraw!" The enemy cavalry leader saw that if he continued to stay, it would be of no use except increasing casualties, so he immediately ordered his troops to retreat.
However, the horse's hooves were stuck in the mud and it was not possible to get out of the farmland just by thinking about it.
The situation of the war horses that had not stepped out of the farmland was not much better. The sudden order to retreat caused many cavalry who were still charging forward to squeeze together with the cavalry in front who wanted to retreat. Some war horses were even unable to react in time and collided with each other. together.
The cavalrymen who were stuck in the mud were even worse. They were surrounded by horses stuck in the mud. Almost all of them were crowded together. It was very difficult to turn the horses' heads.
He couldn't move forward or retreat, but the cannonballs kept falling from mid-air.
The scene suddenly became chaotic.
Some cavalry wanted to continue charging forward, and at the same time, more cavalry wanted to escape, blocking the road to the Tiger Flag artillery array.
In addition, shelling constantly threatened their lives.
In order to survive, some of the officers and cavalry finally couldn't bear it and used a knife on one of their own people, causing a cavalryman next to him who didn't react in time to be killed by one of his own people.
The first cavalryman to take action unleashed the evil spirit in his heart, and more and more people around him were attacked by him.
Soon, more and more people had to be involved in order to protect themselves, and began to attack their companions crazily, and the situation suddenly became out of control.
"Asshole, what are they doing!" Jiang Yingzhao, who was on the slope behind, saw the situation of his cavalry killing each other, and the veins on his forehead popped out one by one in anger.
"Quickly beat the drum and ask them to come back." The lieutenant on the side shouted eagerly to the messenger.
The drumbeat of retreat soon sounded.
However, the cavalry in front who were already red-eyed did not pay attention to the sound of the drums, and the cannibalism continued.
The cavalry in the rear who were not caught in a fight with their own men quickly retreated from the battlefield, vacating their positions, allowing the cavalry in front room to retreat.
The cause of the fratricide was to survive and escape from the battlefield. The way back was no longer blocked. The fratricide naturally subsided. More and more cavalry finally left the muddy field and retreated from the enemy's cannon range.
"The general is incompetent, please punish me." After the general commanding the cavalry returned, he knelt on one knee in front of Jiang Yingzhao.
Snapped!
Jiang Yingzhao raised his hand and whipped him with a horsewhip. valley
The cavalry commander who was kneeling on the ground had his helmet whipped askew and his body was whipped with a whip.
"Tell me, general, who asked you to order the troops to retreat privately!" Jiang Yingzhao, after whipping out his riding whip, pointed at the opponent with the riding whip in his hand and asked.
The cavalry general lowered his head and reported back: "The general saw that the horses were stuck in the farmland and became targets of the bandits' cannons. In order to reduce the losses of the cavalry, he ordered the troops to retreat."
"Do you know how many people were lost in vain because you privately ordered the troops to retreat? You still have the nerve to say in front of the general that it was to reduce the losses of the cavalry." Jiang Yingzhao whipped the riding whip in his hand hard and said, Li scolded, "Pull him down and chop him. I don't want to see this idiot again."
Far more cavalry died from cannon fire than from cannon fire.
A confused order caused hundreds of cavalrymen under his command to be killed in vain. At this time, he wanted to cut the people in front of him into pieces to relieve the hatred in his heart.
"General, calm down. Now that the two armies are fighting, it is really not appropriate to kill the general. It is better to keep him useful and let him serve his crimes. It is not too late to kill him after the battle." The deputy general next to him quickly persuaded Jiang Ying. He issued an edict and at the same time winked at the soldiers who wanted to take the person down for execution.
The two soldiers stood aside knowingly and did not move.
Jiang Yingzhao pointed his riding whip at the kneeling cavalry general and cursed: "Because of him, so many cavalry were lost in vain, but he didn't even touch the enemy's artillery array."
"This man's death is indeed not a pity. We should think about how to deal with the hundreds of cannons of the bandits. As long as those cannons are still there, it will be difficult for our people to rush to the bandits' formation." The deputy general persuaded. Jiang responded to the imperial edict and turned to the cavalry general who was kneeling on the ground and said, "Why are you still kneeling here? Why don't you retreat quickly?"
The cavalry commander secretly glanced at Jiang Yingzhao.
Seeing that Jiang Yingzhao had no intention of stopping him, he hurriedly got up and retreated quickly.
Jiang Yingzhao snorted coldly and put away the riding crop in his hand.
The deputy general guarding the side said: "The defeat just now cannot be entirely blamed on him. There is a farmland between us and the bandits. It will be difficult for the horses to run inside, and the bandits have hundreds of cannons. He is shelling our cavalry, so don’t blame him, the commander of the cavalry battalion, for panicking."
"There's no need to put in a good word for him." Jiang Yingzhao said with a stern face, "I have seen the situation you mentioned. Although the farmland has trapped the horses, they are already very close to the bandits' artillery array. As long as they work hard , may not be able to rush to the enemy artillery array."
The farmland between the Tiger Character Banner's First Battle Division and the government army was closer to the First Battle Division, and even some of the cannons in the artillery array were in the farmland.
"What should we do next? Are we going to use cavalry to charge again?" the deputy general asked.
Jiang Yingzhao glanced at the cavalry who retreated, shook his head slightly, and said: "It's too late. If they had a chance just now with all their strength, now that they have lost their morale and let them face the cannons of the traitors, they are already timid. It’s hard to rush through that farmland again.”
"How about retreating?" the deputy general asked tentatively.
After hearing this, Jiang Yingzhao glanced at him and said, "If Man Gui captures Yongning City, we will have an excuse to retreat. Do you think Man Gui can capture Yongning City under the nose of thousands of thieves?" "
The lieutenant shrank his neck.
He could imagine the scene of more than 10,000 cavalry. Not to mention that Mangui only had about 20,000 soldiers and horses. Even if they added the 30,000 troops here, they might not be able to capture Yongning City among so many thieves and cavalry.
Jiang Yingzhao looked at the surrounding environment and said: "Since the front is not good, then go around from the side. I don't believe that they can still bring out hundreds of cannons."
"Who will be sent to encircle the rear?" the deputy general asked the general who would lead the troops to encircle the rear and attack in a surprise attack.
