On Maiser's side were sixteen Baya soldiers, plus one hundred and twenty Tatar armored cavalrymen under the Zhengbai flag. They formed a spear formation according to Maiser's order.
They led the charge with Maisel and the Bajala strong man in front, followed by five Bajala soldiers, plus eighty Tatar cavalry to form a strong center.
There were five Baya soldiers on each side, leading twenty Tatar cavalry with white flags. One by one, they took out the iron bones, javelins, throwing axes and other weapons hanging on their saddles and held them in their hands, ready to throw them at any time. preparation.
On the other side, Ji Zhonglun, the commander of the Ming army, had gradually moved southward and soon joined the cavalry of Li Qinggong's troops running from the south. In this way, the Ming army had 600 cavalry, and its strength was far better than that of the Tatars.
They also formed a fish-scale formation with a central breakthrough, with heavy troops gathering in the middle. They were also divided into several small fish-scale-shaped square formations, arranged in echelons with a slightly convex front end.
The Fish Scale Formation is a purely offensive formation, with heavy troops stacked at the front, only seeking to break through with one blow, and ignoring the defense at the rear. If the charge is blocked, the rear will have no protection at all.
Obviously, the Ming army that chose this formation was also an army that dared to fight, and the only way in their eyes was to attack.
Dusi Ji Zhonglun was at the front of the formation commanding the first wave of assaults, while Li Qinggong was in the middle of the formation and would launch the second wave of assaults.
The two of them each led groups of small phalanxes. In their eyes, there was only victory through assault, and there was no such thing as failure at all, because that meant death.
The cavalry from both sides roared and galloped over.
However, the Ming army showed strong strength. Their densely packed elite cavalry were freed from time to time and surrounded them on both sides. At a glance, one could not tell how many men and horses there were.
Meisel's eyes were as sharp as an eagle. He was an old Tatar who had experienced battles. What scenes had he not seen before?
Although the Ming army looks extremely elite and has a large number of people, since the beginning of the army's campaign, has he ever been afraid of the Ming army, and has he ever been defeated because of the large number of Ming soldiers?
Maiser suddenly raised the Jia La Zhang Jing in his left hand to recognize the flag. All the Baya La who were riding galloping looked at his flag. He rode his horse ahead and shouted loudly: "Kill all the Nikans!"
"Kill all the Nikans... kill all the Nikans..."
All the Zhengbai Banner Baya soldiers and the elite armored cavalry also roared in unison.
"Kill all the Tatars...Kill all the Tatars..."
At the same time, Ji Zhonglun also let out the same roar.
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Amidst the billowing smoke and dust, the iron hooves of the elite cavalrymen of both the Ming and Qing Dynasties struck heavily on the hard ground, making a chilling and dull sound.
In an instant, the distance between the two sides gradually increased. Once within twenty steps, the elite knights from both sides began to kill the enemies on the opposite side.
In the knight array of the Ningyuan Army, the roar of the three-eyed gun suddenly became loud, while the Zhengbai Banner Ba Ya La on the opposite side threw their javelins, iron bones and other weapons with all their strength.
The centers of the two armies were the first to engage in the battle, and the first row of knights of Ningyuan's army were the first to contact the enemy. Their center was stacked with nearly 500 elite cavalry, and there were fifty men and horses on each wing.
At the moment when they made contact with the enemy, the center of the Ningyuan Army immediately transformed into five-man teams. They cooperated with each other and rushed into the Tatar formation. Although some people were hit by iron weapons thrown by the Tatars when they made contact with the enemy. The bones were hit, but the team was still able to maintain order.
When the Tatars threw iron bones and other weapons, the three-eyed muskets in the front two rows of the Ming army also fired alternately. Many of the Tatar Baya soldiers and ordinary armored cavalry who rushed in front were instantly knocked down.
Layers of knights continued to rush into the opponent's formation. The firelight no longer appeared, but the sound of fighting and roaring continued to be heard. Mixed with the screams of the horses and the miserable howls of the soldiers, they fought together.
Although the three-eyed gun is very powerful at close range and can shoot three times in a row, it can only continue to fire and shoot when it is swimming. In today's situation, it can only shoot once.
The Baya soldiers in the front row of the Tatars were shot one after another. The thick lead bullets instantly tore apart their expensive outer armor leaves, then penetrated the cotton armor inside the armor leaves, and finally broke through their innermost locks. A, crash into their bodies.
The lead bullets then rolled inside their bodies, and when the wounds encountered air, the strong internal pressure caused the blood inside to turn into streams of blood arrows and shoot out rapidly.
They screamed and fell backwards from their horses, accompanied by a shower of blood-red arrows flying in the air.
However, these Baya soldiers were all skilled in equestrian skills, and many of them were good at dodging. Some of the lead bullets only hit their horses, or hit the Tatars riding behind them with the white flag.
After the horses were shot, they let out long mournful screams, and then jumped and rolled wildly, causing the knights on the horses to fall off. Fell aside again.
In the first wave of contact between the two sides, three of the five Baya soldiers who were leading the charge as the center were hit by three-eyed muskets. Fortunately, Maiser and the Baya soldiers were unscathed.
And the throwing axes, iron bones and other weapons thrown by them and the Tatar cavalry were accurate and ruthless with the momentum of the horses, causing dozens of Ming army knights to fall off their horses.
A knight from the Ningyuan Army had just fired a musket and knocked a Baya soldier off his horse when he saw something flying towards him. The force was extremely strong, but it was an iron bone filled with iron nails.
He subconsciously raised the buckler on his left arm to block it. With a "boom", the buckler immediately fell into pieces. Under the violent force, the knight was also driven unsteadily on his horse and rolled off the horse.
He was then kicked hard by his own war horse rushing from behind. The pain was so painful that he curled up on the ground, not daring to move at all.
There was also a knight from the Ningyuan Army. Before he could shoot the three-eyed gun, he saw a javelin coming towards him. The knight had no time to dodge and was hit by the javelin.
The three-eyed gun fell into the dust, and he tried hard to hold on to the saddle: maybe his lungs were punctured, right?
The knight tried hard to breathe, but he only coughed up bloody foam from his mouth. He felt darkness in front of his eyes, and tried hard to take another look at the mountains, the clouds, and the land he was fighting for.
However, God is not willing to let him have his way again!
In the end, his body fell straight under the horse without consciousness.
Although, as the center, Zhengbaiqi Bagara and the heavily armored knights charged and fought desperately, constantly throwing their weapons, and fighting in close combat, causing considerable casualties to the Ming army knights.
However, after all, they were small in number, and the knights of the Ningyuan Army were also determined to fight. They were not easily defeated like the two Ming armies before. After fighting hard, the Tatars suddenly felt outnumbered.
Furthermore, the knights of the Ningyuan Army were also very capable in fighting. They were only killed more by the Tatars' throwing weapons in the initial battle. Once they fought in close quarters, they were evenly matched.
Except for the Bagara soldiers among the Tatars, the threat from ordinary Tatars to them is not as powerful as imagined!
In a situation where both sides have similar levels of elites, more people will definitely bully fewer people. Therefore, this is the wonderful use of military strength.
In battlefield fighting, one always has to use one's most elite force to defeat the enemy's weak brigade, and use one's own weak brigade to delay the strong local army. Whichever side gains the advantage first will basically win.
Not long after the centers of both sides engaged, the knights on both flanks also engaged. However, they did not fight together at close range.
The knights of the Jingbian Army just passed by the Tatars in waves, and shot at the Tatars with their three-eyed muskets from a distance of one or twenty steps.
As for these Baya soldiers and Tatar cavalry, they have practiced various combat skills since childhood, and their abilities can only be displayed by riding horses and throwing.
The knights of the Ningyuan Army passed by, taking turns going back and forth, seemingly in constant succession.
The explosions of the three-eyed gun continued one after another. Each Tatar knight howled miserably and fell under the horse one after another. The Ming army knights were also constantly hit by weapons such as iron bones and other weapons thrown at them. Both sides suffered considerable damage. .
A tiger-backed Baya soldier had a look of unwillingness on his face. He roared angrily and projected the tiger spear that he usually cherished like a treasure with great force.
Just a dozen steps in front of him to the right, a knight from the Ningyuan Army, including his man and his horse, was pierced by the powerfully projected tiger spear.
However, then a blood flower sprayed out from the neck guard of the Tatar Baya soldier, followed by a burst of intensive gunfire, and streams of blood mist were sprayed out from all over his chest and abdomen.
The Baya soldier seemed to want to open his mouth and roar, but he could no longer make a sound.
He was shot in the neck and trachea. Even if he tried to roar, it would only make the blood on his neck splatter faster. In the end, the Tartar Bagara stared with anger, his face full of They were all unwilling to do anything, and they just sat on their horses and died.
The damage on both wings of the Front Arrow Formation was increasing, and the number of Tatar soldiers became smaller and smaller as the battle continued.
Although the Ming army used the fish scale formation to fight against the Tatars' sharp arrow formation, in order to deal with the armored cavalry coming from both wings, they also deployed hundreds of Ningyuan Army soldiers on both wings.
Even so, the center of the Ming army in Ningyuan Town still had more than 400 cavalry, which was obviously much larger than the oncoming Tatars, giving it a huge advantage.
The knights of the Ningyuan Army became more and more courageous as they fought, because they faced fewer and fewer Tatar soldiers. Although the Ming army also suffered constant casualties, its base number was already greater than that of the Tatars. In this state, even if the casualties were the same, The advantages of the Ming army will become more and more obvious.
In particular, the Tatar soldiers who were the center of the Qing army had to concentrate on fighting the oncoming knights of the Ningyuan Army, and also be prepared for the bullets fired from the flanks from time to time.
Their flanks were seriously damaged and their strength became increasingly thin. They were almost unable to stop the knights of the Ningyuan Army from harassing and attacking the Chinese army.
"Kill all the Nikans...Kill all the Nikans...Kill all the damn Nikans..." Messer rode his horse and roared loudly.
He still held the flag in one hand to lead the army, and the tiger spear in the other hand to fight with the knights of Ningyuan Army.
Maisel and the Bagala were assigned to Pashiku, and the two most ferocious Bagala soldiers left in the team took the lead, forming the front end of the front line. Behind him was the formation that slowly opened to both sides. .
Under the churning of iron hooves, the snorting of the heavy horses mingled together. They and the cavalry of the Ningyuan Army rushing from the opposite side finally completed the first round of fierce fighting and passed each other.
However, at this moment, Maisel also knew that the only way to escape was to defeat and defeat the Ming cavalry in front of him. Otherwise, once they got into a fight and the Ming cavalry caught up, he would no longer be able to escape. Chance.
"Kill...kill Nikan..."
He quickly reorganized his formation and charged towards Ji Zhonglun with an angry roar again.
Facing the approaching Tatars, Ji Zhonglun raised a slightly contemptuous smile, and he also shouted loudly: "Brothers, today let the Tatars know the power of our Ningyuan Army.
Kill...kill the Tatars..."
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At this moment, the knights on both sides were not afraid and had the courage to fight to the death.
In the blink of an eye, when the two sides rushed into a distance of about twenty steps again, the Tatar soldiers almost threw their last weapons such as iron bones and throwing axes.
But the knights of the Ming Army did not flinch. For them, if they were hit by the weapons thrown by the Tatars, as long as it was not a vital part, they would not necessarily die, but the three-eyed gun in their hands would be fatal as long as it hit the Tatars. Death is almost certain.
Most of their knights had only fired one round of three-eyed muskets in the previous battle. At this moment, another burst of three-eyed muskets that was close to a salvo was fired, and the Tatar soldiers turned over and fell.
Even if some Tatars were not hit by the bullets, the war horses under their crotches were shot and fell to the ground. How could they survive alone? Several Tatar soldiers were heavily pressed by the horses.
The three-eyed cannon sounded like exploding beans, and streams of white smoke and fire came out. In the white smoke, knights of the Ningyuan Army kept turning over and falling off their horses, but even so, it could not stop the gradual expansion of the Ningyuan Army's advantage.
There are also Ningyuan troops on the two wings. At this moment, more bullets are fired towards the Chinese army. Some Tatar cavalry and war horses in the formation are shot from time to time, and there are even two strong Tatars who roll off their horses.
Maisel's horse was also hit by a bullet in this round of confrontation, but he had been on the battlefield for a long time. He jumped up nimbly, got on the other horse beside him, and continued to charge with the flag.
However, his exquisite tiger spear was missing at the moment. It was probably dropped when his horse was hit by a bullet.
Ba Ya La Fen De Pa Shi Ku roared angrily next to Maisel. He threw a javelin with all his strength, and a knight from the Ningyuan Army screamed and fell off his horse.
In the blink of an eye, the cavalry roared in, and the two sides engaged in close combat again. The knights of Ningyuan Army raised their three-eyed blunderbuss, like hammers, and swung them hard.
The dull clashing sound of the war horses and the pitiful howls of the knights on both sides rang out in waves.
Maiser now held the flag with both hands, using the flag as a spear, stabbing horizontally and straight, and fought with Ji Zhonglun, the commander of the Ningyuan Army.
He held the horse's belly tightly with his legs, and his buttocks hung up from the saddle. The big flag flew up, down, left and right in his hands, sweeping, chopping, or stabbing, and its power was no less powerful than that of a tiger spear. in hand
