In fact, Ruan Phuc Bin is actually regretting it. If he had known that the Ming Emperor would only send cavalry troops, he would definitely send out war elephant troops. Defeating the Ming army in front of a large army will definitely boost morale and the prestige of the Ruan army! This will have an impact on the subsequent defeat of the Ming army, even if there is another war between the north and the south.
Just as he was regretting it, he suddenly saw the situation on the battlefield suddenly change.
I saw groups of light cavalry in the Ming Dynasty cavalry suddenly speeding up, passing over the armored heavy cavalry to meet the charging war elephants. After the distance was close, instead of accelerating and charging with the help of horsepower, they began to slow down, and finally even stopped, lining up in rows, blocking the way of the war elephants' charge.
"What are these Ming troops doing?" Ruan Fulin was very confused and looked carefully. Suddenly, his expression changed because he discovered something special about these light cavalry.
In fact, by this time, let alone him, even Zheng Zhi had already discovered the problem. But they all still have doubts, wondering what is going on?
If he, King Long, were still alive and could see this scene, he would definitely scream and tell the war elephant to stop charging.
I saw the team of Mingguo Qingqi taking off a long musket from the hook on the horse's back. At first, Zheng Zhi and others thought it was a spear specially made by the Ming army for charging into the formation. But then, it was discovered that it was a musket.
The soldiers of the Ming army took out a hook from the horse's neck, and the long spear was hung on the hook, extending its long barrel and pointing directly at the war elephant of Annan's army. The handle of the gun was held in the hands of the Ming army soldiers, and there was a fire in the hand, which was already burning.
Apparently, as soon as the war elephants got any closer, they would light their muskets and start firing.
If it were an ordinary musket, Zheng Zhi wouldn't care at all. Of course he has tried it. The armor on the war elephant does little damage to ordinary muskets. However, looking at the size of the musket now, he felt a little overwhelmed.
On the battlefield of Dongwu, without the key performance of Yan Yingyuan, the master archer, the Ming army would have been greatly harmed by Dongwu's war elephants, and the reason was that the highly mobile guns were not enough.
Having learned such a lesson, how could Emperor Chongzhen be unprepared when he came to attack Annan. Not only did they mobilize some more guns. And also let the gunmen mount the war horses. Originally, two people were required to fire the gun, but one knight could also fire the gun with the help of horseback. Of course, if you fire in this situation, your accuracy will be worse than if you fire with two infantry. It can even be said that there is no accuracy at all.
It is also for this reason that these lancers lined up side by side and waited in front of the formation for the war elephants to rush close enough before focusing their fire on them. Use quantity to make up for accuracy and inflict a fatal blow to the enemy!
Closer, closer, closer...
"Bah, bah, bah..."
The sound of the guns being raised was much louder than ordinary muskets. Several rows of guns were raised and fired in turn. Even the trained horses were frightened and became restless.
Just hearing this sound, Zheng Zhi in the distance secretly thought that something was going to happen. At the same time, he saw more than 20 war elephants he sent out, as if they had hit the invisible tripping rope, falling to the ground forward, because Due to inertia, it still slipped a long way.
Whether it was the war elephant or the elephant soldiers on the back of the war elephant, even if they did not die, they were almost beaten.
The sudden occurrence of this situation immediately frightened all the Annan troops. Many people couldn't understand why the war elephants were all gone all of a sudden. Wasn't it because the Ming army's artillery didn't come up?
For the Annan army following the war elephant, the war elephant is their greatest psychological support. If they charge behind, they will not be afraid of anything. But suddenly, the war elephants died in front of them, and they were stunned. For a moment, many of them forgot to continue the charge.
They were stupid, but the Ming army was not stupid. The heavy armored cavalry had accelerated, passed the cavalrymen carrying lances again, and rushed towards the stunned and confused Zheng army.
This Zheng army, yes, does have elites. But this elite is only compared to Annan's army. The ones who can deal with heavy armored cavalry are the war elephant troops. Without the war elephant troops, even if the closely arranged pikemen were hit by the heavy armored cavalry, they would still have to be knocked away. Not to mention, these Zheng troops never thought at all that they had to defend against the heavy armored cavalry of the Ming army.
So, yesterday's scene happened again.
As the arrows of the Ming cavalry, the armored heavy cavalry plowed through the Zheng army and penetrated a large open space. The Qingqi of the Ming Dynasty followed closely behind and continued to expand their results.
The soldiers of Zheng's army, no matter whether they are elite or not, are first of all human beings and they will all be afraid of death. Faced with this kind of impact, which could even be said to be a massacre, by the Ming cavalry, they still wanted to form a formation for confrontation, so they quickly turned around and ran away. Because they knew that if they formed a formation to fight, they would only be hit hard by the heavy armored cavalry of the Ming army, and they would die miserably.
When Mo Jun and Ruan Jun on both sides of Zheng Jun saw this situation, they were so frightened that they dared to fight, and they ran back quickly, fearing that the heavy armored cavalry of the Ming Kingdom would rush over.
This time, the Ming Dynasty cavalry did not want to fight. After driving away a group of defeated soldiers, they did not pursue and kill the other two Annan armies. They took a detour and returned to Hekou City.
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!"
"Long live the Emperor!"
"..."
The cheers of the Ming army were then heard, the sound was very loud and spread far away, welcoming the triumphant return of the cavalry comrades.
On the Annan army side, it was completely the opposite. Whether their leaders or the lower-level soldiers, all of them looked extremely ugly!
When the Annan allies faced the Ming army, they relied on their large number of soldiers, including war elephant troops, and the artillery of the Western Yi.
However, they had fought two battles from yesterday to today, and they had seen that the Ming army's artillery was no less powerful than the Western Yi's artillery. Although they had more troops, the Ming army could win with less each time. They have war elephant troops, but the Ming army has giant muskets specially designed to restrain war elephants, and their mobility is very high.
It can be said that every trump card of the Annan allies was easily cracked by the Ming army. What will be the final outcome of this war? The Annan Allied Forces, from the boss to the lowest level soldiers, all have no confidence.
The prospects are not good and it consumes the trust between them.
As soon as the war ended, Zheng Jie immediately sent an order to convene a military meeting. As soon as it started, he aggressively asked Ruan Phuc Bin and Mo Jingyu why they retreated and betrayed Zheng's army. With the opportunity just now, they should have judged the national cavalry from the side. The army's retreat and annihilate this Ming cavalry army in one fell swoop? Do Ruan and Mo really want to form an alliance? Do they want to watch Zheng's army lose its troops and then attack him secretly...
He was angry and roared for a while.
However, whether it was Ruan Phuc Bin or Mo Jingyu, they were not his subordinates. Why should they be angry with him? They immediately retorted, explaining that the National Cavalry Army came and went like the wind. Your Zheng Army was defeated too quickly. How could they go again? Determine the retreat of the National Cavalry Army...
If the coaches of the three parties were originally at odds with each other, this time, Emperor Chongzhen ordered the cavalry to attack Zheng Jun only, which exposed all the discord between them.
This situation is actually easy to understand. It happened when we were fighting Jianlu. If the war is defeated, no one will be in a good mood, and few people will take the responsibility for the defeat. They were originally mortal enemies. Although they temporarily worked together due to external pressure, the rift would never disappear. Even if they don't complain about each other this time, there will always be complaints about each other.
During this military meeting, several Annan leaders were under too much psychological pressure. They collapsed a little and got angry at each other. However, they still had some sense. In the end, they did not break up, but just broke up on bad terms.
Emperor Chongzhen was sitting on the Grand Master's chair in Hekou City, with his eyes closed and relaxed, as if there was no enemy army outside the city. But in fact, he was enjoying the quarrel between several Annan leaders, and finally saw them break up unhappy.
That night, when the moon and stars were dim, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to select some elites, went to the Annan camp, and sneaked over from the direction of Mo Jingyu's headquarters.
Emperor Chongzhen personally gave instructions on this route based on the overheard deployment of the Mo army. Therefore, the Ming army soldiers successfully arrived at the designated location and continuously fired rockets at the Zheng army camp. Then, regardless of whether they were burned or not, they immediately Take advantage of the chaos to retreat.
This kind of sneak attack could not have too many people, so although the rockets fired by the Ming army soldiers caused a fire, it was quickly extinguished by the Zheng army soldiers on duty.
The next day, the Ming army did not go to war. Emperor Chongzhen continued to sit in the city and watched the Annan leaders begin to quarrel. A sentence that will be remembered by later generations flashed in his mind: The fragile trust between the tribe and the alliance began to break down, and the thundering war drums sounded again. . Of course, because the Ming army is right in front of them, they haven't broken into each other yet. But it can be expected that if Emperor Chongzhen leads his troops to retreat, they will start fighting immediately.
In the next few days, as long as there is an opportunity, Emperor Chongzhen will send out elites to sneak attack; as for the main battlefield, if Annan does not come to fight, he will not fight; if there is to be a fight, he will grab the most powerful Zheng Jun. beat.
Among them, Xiyi was also sent out. However, the Ming army had a large number of artillery, and there were also many Hongyi cannons. The artillery had been popularized by Emperor Chongzhen and had been trained with gunpowder and artillery. They were no weaker than the Xiyi.
Moreover, the Ming army was on the defensive side, while the Xiyi army was on the offensive side. Before they entered the preset position, they were "welcomed" by the Ming army's artillery. After seeing the Ming army's accurate aim, whether it was Anders who didn't want to fight, The Dutch, who still really wanted to fight, were so frightened that they all shrank back.
For these Western barbarians, they had a way to retreat and were definitely not here to fight for their lives. Therefore, it was impossible to risk the Ming army's artillery bombardment to fight back.
Although Zheng Zhi and others were dissatisfied with this situation, they could not criticize them harshly. Otherwise, if these Western barbarians walked away, no one would be able to deal with the Ming artillery bombardment.
With the war going like this, the situation has actually become obvious. However, Zheng Zhi and others had no way out. They could only stand in a stalemate here, holding on to a little fantasy, hoping that something would turn around.
But they didn't know that in fact, Emperor Chongzhen still had a trump card that he had not yet played. If he doesn't take the initiative to attack, he is just waiting for this trump card. Because of the existence of the eavesdropping system, he can also clearly understand the situation.
After more than a month of stalemate, the morale of Annan's allies was already very low. But for them, the last straw came to add insult to injury.
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