Amid the rumbling shelling, the Liangzhou Guanjian (Kuang Qi) led by Li Mingda finally gave up chasing the chased soldiers under the city with some regrets, and could only watch them in the dry moat. Actually gathered the whole team again to form an irregular lineup.
While some of the Guanjian cavalry who chased the top and wanted to continue to chase off, they were lined up against the wall by several rows of thieves opened from the inside of the door. They used the height difference between the moat and the horses to connect with firearms. In the salvos, horses fell one after another; and only a few surviving cavalrymen turned around and fled back quickly.
"Kick it without breaking up, but reuniting after being collapsed, it really is a fierce thieves that the court thinks deeply of fear!"
While controlling the horse while running, Li Mingda said with a solemn expression, and then ordered to the left and the right:
"Blowing the trumpet, Xu Jin, don't want to fight, go to the south of the city quickly... Then follow me to break the thieves!"
With the continuous sound of the snails, Liangzhou Guanjian, who was almost undiminished like a billowing torrent, quickly stretched his formation and stepped through the camp that had been broken through many places and appeared to be a mess, and under the city wall. The corpse crossed the distance between the battlefields; it flew quickly like a tide at the southeast corner of the city wall.
And these Liangzhou officials moved from the east of the city to the south of the city. It seemed that it had only taken half an hour. Most of the cavalrymen and horses were just sweating. However, it was the delays and delays in the east of the city that they appeared before them, and they were already quickly retreating from the fire-prosperous Xianyang barracks, a tight array of knives, guns and crossbows.
This time, there will be no more bluffing and arrogance. Looking at the Xianyang army camp that has been ignited everywhere, Liangzhou Guanjian, who is speeding up, is almost familiar with the road and full of tacit understanding. A hundred steps away from the maximum range, the people and horses suddenly neighed and split left and right. It has become a crane wing that has swept through the multiple formations and two tests of the Taiping Army.
I saw these light knights stretched out like spreading wings. The moment they flew past the side of the Taiping Army array, they raised their horn bows with arrows in their hands, almost without interruption. Rain; just between the dozen or so breaths that hovered past, they had already shot four or five to seven or eight arrows in one go.
And the Taiping Army, who was facing the side with a stable and hollow square formation, did not hesitate to chase these galloping troops amidst the sound of commands and whistles, and fired at a predetermined boundary in advance, holding guns and spears across the hanging spears. Over the head of the white soldier in a crouching posture with a license, bursts of stacked smoke and dense projectiles were continuously released.
I saw the sizzling arrow feathers intertwined with the scorching lead in the air; among the white feathers trembling and the blood splashing, the front of the Taiping army was busily reloading the bullets and the white soldiers who squatted down. ; Or it was the knight who was involved in the speeding, suddenly the horses neighed to the ground and were trampled over without interruption, or they fell on their backs and were dragged out of the queue. . . .
As the youngest of the Wang brothers in Gwangju, he is also the only single dog left. Wang Shen-kyu, who was originally in the fourth row on standby and was responsible for transferring medicines and delivering fire guns, has also followed the sequence of continuous substitution forward. In the end, he stood at the head of the first row facing the enemy on the periphery of the Great Array. And those white soldiers who were in charge of squatting and holding a license to cover them had already become sparse.
And the endless enemy riders are still in front of them, constantly circling and circling past and throwing and throwing a rain of arrows; the blood of the same robe that has fallen one after another has also splashed on him many times. His face and body are also weakening and oppressing his spirit and morale a little bit, making the movement of filling in his hands and feet tremble, becoming more and more stagnant and slow.
However, he finally made a mistake. He actually failed to remove the cleaning rods for clearing the chamber and filling the medicine. Amidst the already messy passwords and whistle sounds, he was busy radiating out; and then he suddenly splashed out. Amidst the sparks and smoke, his head, face and arms turned black, before falling back on other people, and the standard blunderbuss in his hand broke apart into several long fragments from the front end.
In the next moment, a streamer pierced his iron shoulder armor and nailed it into his arm, and half of his body that was sore was losing strength. But instead it made him wake up all of a sudden, as if recalling the instincts of those teachers who used bamboo whips to carve them into their bones. With the other hand, he grabbed a groaning colleague who was lying down on the ground beside him. On the bloody arm that barely lifted, the light and shadow of the horses and horses in the smoke and dust dozens of steps away was buckled.
Then before he could confirm the result of the battle, he was dragged backwards by several big hands at the same time, squeezing through the gap where the back team let out sideways; and appeared in the open space that had been lying down and relying on many wounded and several corpses. More than a dozen rescue sergeants with red sleeves on their arms were holding knives, scissors, cotton gauze bandages and ointment posts. During their busy exchanges, they aroused one after another screams and cries of pain.
Although Wang Shengui had been bleeding half of his body, a rescue nurse applied scald plaster on his face and arm, and checked and confirmed that the arrow cluster on his arm had been inserted into the shoulder blade, so he could only cut off the arrow shaft temporarily. Paste it together with the arrow cluster with a plaster post, and then wrap it with a fixed bandage for emergency treatment. Then, as a lightly wounded person with partial mobility, he joined the auxiliary sequence of one-handed reloading of the blunderbuss.
For Wang Shengui, all of this seemed to have gone through a lot of extremely long things, but for the entire Chengnan battlefield, it was only a matter of flint. New changes occurred again in the face-to-face battle. In the sky of smoke and dust raised by the Liangzhou Guanjian, who was like drifting away, there was a particularly dull rushing sound again.
At the next moment, a cavalry with a hideous beast on the face of a man’s harness, like a sacred soldier from the sky, circled back and forth from those surrounding the Taiping Army’s hollow array, but only the scales and the armor State official Jianzhong came out suddenly. And this is also the killer that Li Mingdalai thought was the final word-the Xiliang armor, and it was also the last singularity of the armor mounted in this era.
He was a vigorous and vigorous warrior who was carefully selected from the athletes who have been fighting for many years by the Li family of Gu Zang following Gong Yi Chao, kicking and breaking the Tubo domains; A hybrid of the state horse and the Tubo horse; only this can bear the full load and burst of the armored horse. Therefore, when they appear in the battle, it is also the final moment of success or failure.
Almost along with the establishment of the Guiyi Army, the vast foundation of "Iwu in the west, Lingwu in the east; more than 4,000 miles of land, a household with a household registration of one million; six counties, mountains and rivers, return home in peace" Although the first generation of armored cavalry at that time is old, their skilled children with bows and horses have inherited the armor and profession, and continue to become an important force for Guo Yijun to deter the surrounding groups inside and outside.
Later, the Returned Army decided to advance eastward, and with the full support of the court represented by Zheng Tanglao, they used all the armors accumulated in the northwestern towns to be armed. The felt and leather on the warhorse that were originally used for anti-arrows were replaced with real iron-bound chest protectors, iron face pockets, and chicken necks. Now it is the core essence of the soldiers and horses belonging to the Li family. Only considering that it will not be of much use in the battle in Chang'an City, this is specifically used to monitor and defend the Taiping Army's actions in the south of Gyeonggi.
And now, in front of these ferocious iron currents that suddenly appeared as a united man and horse; those Taiping army arrays, which were still unceasingly arrogant, seemed to have received shock and shake, almost all turned around and retreated wildly. For a while; but it was re-formed into a new concave formation, like a beach reef after low tide, exposing stubby pipes lined up on the wheel hub, and gray cloth armored soldiers holding small flags.
Although they looked pale and trembling in front of the rushing armored rider, they still swiftly completed the final preparations according to the instinct of daily exercise and training, and then fell down one after another. Up the body. And Li Mingda, who saw this scene in the rear array, also hissed in his heart and his face changed:
"Blow the horns to speed up and rush forward..."
"Stagger apart to avoid concentrating on one line..."
"Blow the trumpet, and the other two wing cruising teams press on..."
Then, almost one after another burst of tremors and facial roars completely overwhelmed all the sounds that Li Mingda and his generals could make on the battlefield.
Among the Liangzhou Armoured Cavalry, who was the son of Li Mingda’s nephew, Li Mingzhen’s Yaqian Kwong Cavalry Horseman Li Guangjin, was also in the fierce reaction of his mount being kicked and kicked. , The spitting and blasting dark red flames and large plume clouds of smoke, as well as the dense and thin trajectories that broke through the air, flew away in the frightened and frustrated armor. .
The next moment, his horse's chest and abdomen spattered and exploded, and the trend continued to tear through one of his arms and calves; at this point, the horse and the horse fell to the ground and smashed. More than ten steps to go. The Liangzhou armored horsemen, who were interrupted by this head-on blow, were also among those who were suddenly frightened by their mounts, turning their horses on their backs and neighing, severely distracting their most precious speed and momentum.
Therefore, after a few breaths, only a few dozen horses were able to rush into the Taiping Army artillery teams according to their inertia and momentum, and drove them away. However, they entered the momentum, but they were blocked and blocked by the relatively heavy gun mounts and the narrow gap of the position. They could only jump up, and in the next moment they became the target of the artillery team. .
The sudden emergence of the artillery volley certainly disrupted the offensive of the armored equipment, but the other Liangzhou officials who were swept behind the flanks of the battle had to make the culling without hesitation. After being knocked down one after another, they also rushed into the array of intensively raised knives and spikes, and fought fiercely from left to right.
However, the rows of fire oil bombs and explosive bombs that were subsequently thrown from the inside also exploded one after another in the queue they subsequently entered, and once again created a short battlefield partition; and it was just such a moment. Partition and buffering are enough to regroup the arrays that have been penetrated and broken up. The spurs and other sharp blades in the hands stab and kill the lone horse's belly and legs and feet, throwing it bloody to the ground or bruising Drive out.
After not knowing how long, it has been confirmed that a variety of offensive methods, including armored rushing formations, have been unable to achieve more results, and it is difficult to continue to change the situation. Li Mingda can only look at the fireworks in the battlefield. Although the Taiping army still maintained its basic lineup, it sadly ordered the retreat of the snail to be sounded.
Only when he slowly recovered from the excitement of being unable to stop, he felt pain and regret in his heart. Because it was this way that the east and south of the city faced off for most of the day, he lost more than a thousand cavalry before and after, including more than a hundred precious armor; and the array of enemy infantry that killed and injured was only doubled. Half and this. No matter how the calculation is made, this kind of exchange is not an advantage or advantage.
However, what made him even more angry was that no matter how he fought the Liantian bloody battle under the city, the Xianyang Army and Yaozhou Unity Department as the target of the rescue; they were just sitting on the sidelines in the camp. If they can proactively attack and respond in time, I'm afraid the results will be even greater, and the result and loss ratio of Seongnam's match will be better, right
Li Mingda thought so bitterly, but no longer paid attention to the messengers who came to contact at those times; regardless of it, he went straight back to the main formation in the west of the city. However, when he turned to the southwest corner of the city wall, his heart suddenly sank, because in front of him was the base camp that was supposed to be guarded forever, and there were several bright fires and lights that could be seen very clearly even in broad daylight. Plume of smoke. (End of this chapter)