Chapter 34 Cavalry Counterattack
At this time when Zhao Tong died, the battle situation under the gate began to change dramatically. Originally, countless slave soldiers gathered under the not wide gate like ants, and launched a fierce attack on the front line of Shanhaiguan. However, in a blink of an eye, a large and medium-sized cavalry rushed out of the customs and began to be like The tiger entered the flock and launched a counterattack against the construction slave army.
Dorgun's speculation was not wrong. After Wang Chengping arrived at Shanhaiguan, he did not delay for a moment. First, he sent some of his cavalry to get off the city, and hit the city wall with a small number of soldiers who had climbed on the wall, which stabilized the defense line again, making the morale of the Ming army that had begun to collapse in this area. He recovered again, and after a little thought, he immediately ordered the rest of the soldiers to divide the troops from the gates of Xiluo City and the other two Great Walls.
At this time, a large number of Jiannu troops were swarming outside the customs, busy launching a fierce attack on the Guanqiang and Guancheng, and the Jiannu side did not consider that the Ming army, which was defending the customs, would choose to go out to fight against the customs at this time, and they did not expect that the Dazhong army would come so quickly, and it was so fierce that they actually did not take responsibility as soon as the soldiers and horses arrived. When he rested, he brazenly went out of Guancheng.
The unprepared Jiannu army was suddenly killed out of the gate by these large and medium-sized cavalry, and immediately killed people and turned over. The advantage of the cavalry was fully played by Wang Chengping at this time. Thousands of large and medium-aged cavalry were like fierce tigers, rushing out of the door and roaring and crashing into Jian. In the slave army, as soon as they got out of the customs, these large and medium-sized soldiers pulled out their swieled hands one after another, and swept the Jiannu swarmed under the gate. Even if the slave army was turned over in rows, the formation was swept away in chaos. Then the cavalry of the middle army put away the empty hand and took out the long gun. After killing the enemy group, the long gun obviously could not be used in such a dense crowd. It got stuck in the enemy's body a few times. The cavalry did not miss their long guns at all. They threw their guns, and then pulled out their sabres. Along the way, there were knives and horses, and the enslaves who attacked the city were killed directly.
Cavalry has a natural advantage over infantry. They are not only fast, but also have great impact. Even light cavalry are much more powerful than ordinary infantry, especially when the cavalry deal with those infantry that do not have a good formation to form an effective defense system. Their assault is definitely a way for the infantry. The lingering nightmare, so I was caught off guard. The Jiannu army, which was attacking the city, was killed by these large and medium-sized army cavalry who were suddenly killed. One by one, they could only roll down the flag and flee to the back.
Although the Jiannu army is more powerful than the Ming army, it still can't escape from the category of the old army. Although their hierarchy is strict and the military discipline is also very harsh, in this case, if they are not defeated, it will be really a damn.
This Dorgan is not given for nothing. Since childhood, these sons of wild boar skins have fought with the army. It can be said that everyone has accumulated rich combat experience on the battlefield. Although Dorgan is not young, he can be said to be the best among them. Seeing that the situation is not good, Dorgan immediately made him have two flags under his command. The two wings of the soldiers dispersed and retreated his own defeated soldiers from the middle. First, he avoided these defeated soldiers from hitting the position of the Chinese army and causing the whole army to collapse. Once the large and medium-sized army took advantage of the situation to cover up, the consequences would be unimaginable. Another reason was that he wanted to use his cavalry under his command to counterattack.
Think about the fact that after their slaves started their wild boar skins, they have won such a large territory and established the Qing Dynasty for so many years. The bullying of the Ming Dynasty is only a fight and has no power to fight back. In their view of Jiannu, it is all the world they immediately fought down. Daming has been so many years. It also exhausted the country and created a Guanning iron horse based on cavalry, but this Guanning iron horse fought against their slave army, but there was little chance of winning.
How have they ever suffered the loss of enemy cavalry? The enemy has always been killed by their cavalry, but today, because of his misjudgment and ignorance of the enemy, he only wanted to quickly attack the gate, but ignored the speed of Xing Tianjun's arrival, and also underestimated the Xing Tianjun's cavalry.
I didn't expect them to play with eagles all day long. Today, they were pecked in the eyes by eagles, which made Dorcon and many slaves feel embarrassed! Looking at the cavalry of the Dazhong Army chasing their slave army from afar, the hearts of the tsars were full of indignant.
So Dorgan immediately separated the Tatar cavalry under his command, let go of the defeated soldiers in front of him, and then tried to intercept the cavalry of the large and medium-sized army with both wings. Today, there was no hope to attack the key, and they were defeated miserably. It can be said that the defeat was determined and the loss was heavy, but Dorcon was not willing. Now that the cavalry of the Dazhong Army has been killed outside the customs, it has also given them a chance. If they can intercept the cavalry of the Dazhong Army before dark and successfully annihilate it outside the Shanhaiguan, they will undoubtedly be able to win back a game and regain some face. In addition, it has also greatly hit the arrogance of the Dazhong Army, which can be mentioned again. Boost their morale, so if he succeeds, he will still have a way to explain to their emperor Taiji and continue to stabilize his position in the Qing Dynasty.
So Dorcon issued a death order, so that Azig and Dodo's soldiers were divided into two ways, and the Dazhong army cavalry from the two wings were enveted against the customs, and the Dazhong army cavalry was annihilated in one fell swoop in one fell swoop.
After the cavalry of all major and medium-sized troops were killed outside the pass, each of them was like a fierce tiger going down the mountain, destroying the construction slave army that was attacking the city in one fell swoop, and then began to expel them to cover up.
When Wang Chengping sent troops out of the customs to fight against the war, because he had to be mobilized in the middle and contacted the generals under the command of Wu Xiang who was guarding the customs, he could not personally lead the troops out of the customs, but he boarded the tower of Xiluo City and stood on the gate with his thousands of miles of eyes, observing the battlefield outside the gate.
When those Ming soldiers who had already been at a loss, saw that the Dazhong army and reinforcements had arrived, they all breathed a long sigh of relief and quickly mobilized their respective soldiers to re-defense. In addition, they also accompanied Wang Chengping to board the gate to watch the battle situation under the gate.
When they saw these large and medium-sized cavalry out of the customs, many Ming soldiers were still worried about them. This time, most of the large and medium-sized troops that rushed to Shanhaiguan in advance were cavalry, but the number was not too many, but only about 6,000 or 7,000 people, and some of them had gone down to the city to help the defenders defend the city wall. Less than 4,000 people were ordered to kill outside the barrier.
And there are as many as 70,000 to 80,000 people in the Jiannu army outside the customs. Can these 4,000 people of the Dazhong army defeat so many Jiannu troops? Judging from their usual thinking, there is obviously not much chance of winning such an out-of-the-city assault. Some people even think that this kind of out-of-city counterattack can almost be said to be a suicidal attack, and there must be no return. Now they and the Dazhong army are already friendly forces, so they are all for these out-and-town troops. The cavalry were worried, and each of them closed their breath and looked at the gate nervously.
But what surprised them was that as soon as the cavalry of these large and medium-sized troops were killed out of the city, they were like tigers one by one. Even if the construction slaves gathered under the gate rushed away, they hit them with fire, and poked them with long guns, and then pulled out the bright sabers. Chopping, directly killing these construction slaves was a falling water, and retreating towards the outside of the customs like a low tide.
When many Ming soldiers who were watching the battle on the gate saw this scene, their morale was suddenly boosted. They shouted excitedly one by one. Some people jumped high and cheered. They just couldn't wait that they were also outside the gate at this time, and followed these brave large and medium-aged cavalry to chase and kill those Jian. Slaves!
The whole line of Shanhaiguan sounded with shocking cheers, which immediately swept away the worries in the hearts of these Ming soldiers.
At this time, Wu Xiang, who was watching the battle on the north gate of Shanhaiguan, was also looking at these large and medium-sized cavalry outside the customs. To be honest, he was not optimistic about the cavalry of these large and medium-sized army at the beginning. From afar, he knew that these large and medium-sized cavalry were not too many, and outside the gate was a terrible Jiannu. Look at that. The equipment of some large and medium-sized armies is not much better. Most of them are long guns, which are not as good as the three-eyed guns of their Guanning iron riders in large quantities. In his opinion, the three-eyed guns are a sharp weapon to kill the enemy. From afar, they can use bullets to kill the enemy. Nearly, they can be waving as a hammer to kill the enemy. If they touch it, they will die. If they are injured, and these large and medium-sized cavalry The armor is incomplete. It's just that the upper body is wearing a strange half-body armor and an iron helmet on the head. The rest of the place is basically unprotected. At most, it is wearing a lock armor, which is far less majestic than their Guan Ningjun's full-body iron armor.
However, Wu Xiang still admires the courage of these large and medium-sized cavalry. In the face of more than ten times their slave army outside Guan, they still dare to attack one by one. At least at this point, the cavalry of the large and medium-sized army is much more brave than the Guanning army under his command.
But what surprised him was the performance of the large and medium-sized army after leaving the customs. After these large and medium-sized cavalry came out of the customs, they actually pulled out a pair of short gun from their waists, and the Thunderbolt opened fire on the construction slaves, and it seemed that this guy was not very powerful. He overturned a lot of construction slaves at once, and these big Obviously, the Chinese army was well trained. All the movements were completed without dragging water at all, and their morale was extremely strong. Even if they saw a lot of robes being shot off the war horses by Jiannu's firearms or bows and crossbows, they didn't seem to see half of them and continued to shout to kill the sky.
Just because of this fierce style of looking at death, he went straight after the Jiannu Tats outside the customs, and it can even be said to be more than that. Then Wu Xiang saw that these Dazhong army cavalry who went out of the customs put away their short guns and put on long guns. After a while, he relied on their fierce style and skillful fighting. Skill, the Jiannu army under the gate killed a man and turned his horse, and began to retreat like a tide. Then these large and medium-sized cavalry did not give up. They drew their knives and continued to chase and kill the defeated soldiers of Jiannu. The Jiannu soldiers would cry for their father and mother, and their corpses were all over the field.