Chapter 53                                                             �

Because of this, if these more than a hundred personal guards are too damaged on the battlefield, they will also have complaints inside and outside Datong.

But the problem is, that's what happened in the future.

If you can't fight this battle today, there will be no future.

The most important thing now is that these 5,000 cavalry, although the remaining less than 5,000 are still a very important force on the battlefield. To be honest, the enemy army can fight like this. It has been considered to have exceeded the task, but the first cavalry general Zhou Mengchen relied on, Ma Fang was not by his side.

Only cavalry can deal with cavalry. Even if there is a tight formation, cavalry needs to guard the flanks.

Once it really appears, the defeated soldiers rush back to the military formation and were shot to death by muskets. It is true that this is implementing military laws, but the hearts of the people are not regulations. However, there must be complaints among these foreign troops. How to cooperate in combat for a while?

Therefore, Zhou Mengchen tried his best to save the situation. But he had no bargaining chips in his hands now? Since the personal guards were sent out, it might be of little use, so he would throw them in without hesitation.

It is not a time when you are so kind that you don’t control the soldiers.

Instead, stay calm and maintain combat power.

After Ma Jin got the order, he rushed into the battlefield without saying a word with more than a hundred personal guards.

It has to be said that these personal guards composed of children of generals and outstanding grassroots officers have considerable combat effectiveness.

Speaking of the system of the garrison, almost every officer is a general's son. However, the general's son is also different from the general's son. Under Zhou Mengchen's cleaning, the officers left behind are capable. I dare not say that a father is like a son. However, the father was able to fight the enemy with real swords and guns, and saw the cruelty of the battlefield, and understood even more that the fate of their military children would never relax under the education of their children.

It can even be said to be more stringent.

These generals are not afraid to say that they are better than the blue ones. However, they have at least experienced special military education since childhood. They eat well and practice well. They are familiar with the military formations. When they fight, they even set up a standard arrow formation under the leadership of the two brothers Ma Jin and Ma Gui. The two brothers of the Ma family were arrows and immediately rushed into the Tartars.

Ma Jin saw clearly, and was not indulged in fighting, and shouted loudly: "Retreat from both sides, retreat from both sides."

As Ma Gui said, Zhou Yichang and Liu Jia's two divisions are also the essence of Shanxi Town and Jizhou Town. They should not make such low-level mistakes. They are too tired and tired, and there are too many people who die. They are confused for a moment. At this moment, Ma Gui attacked violently, and with the strength of the new force, he gave the Tartars a fierce pursuit, and also gave the two divisions a little room for maneuver.

So I came to Magui's reminder.

Zhou Yichang and Liu Jia, one left and one right, led their subordinates to retreat around the military formation.

The Tartars chased them too hard, almost only a dozen horses behind.

From the perspective of the Tartars, there was almost a flash in front of them, and the two armies dodged left and right, and the Ming army's infringement formation was right in front of them.

Although it surprised the Tartars, they immediately bent down and waved their whips to their mounts hard, increasing their speed faster.

This is also impossible.

The cavalry on both sides were chasing and moving at high speed, and there were a large number of cavalry following them. Once they stopped, they would not know how many people would knock them down. Once they were dismissed, they would probably be a ball of meat paste and nothing would be left.

Now, in order to give the two cavalry more time, Qi Jiguang was already about fifty steps in front of the formation when the Mongolian cavalry discovered the military formation.

This is only a short time for the cavalry.

They felt that it would be better to rush up and break through the enemy formation now or do other avoiding actions.

But Qi Jiguang was expressionless and coldly swung the sword in his hand.

With a "bang", a large amount of gunpowder smoke blew out. Without Qi Jiguang's command, the array of musketeers began to rotate. In a moment, gunpowders covered the battlefield.

But it's too close.

Even under such firepower, Mongolian cavalry still rushed out of the gunpowder and entered the military formation.

However, Qi Jiguang was prepared for this.

The army he listed at the forefront was the army reorganized in Datong after Qi Jiguang arrived in Datong. If the troops from the Beijing camp were placed here, they would probably collapse. However, the army from Datong was born in another way.

Many of this army have blood feuds with the Tartars to kill their father, mother, wife and family. In addition, the long-term military tradition of the military town and the almost uninterrupted war have made them the most adaptable to the war.

This kind of quality in his bones was shown in this battle. Although hundreds of cavalry rushed into the military formation in front and behind, if you hear the sound of fire from the muskets, there is almost no disorder, and there are only a few more shouts of killing. The soldiers who were hit by war horses were lying on the ground, their bodies were abnormally twisted, and the soldiers behind them almost stepped on their robe's faces and stood in the position of the dead robe. The cavalry who broke into the military formation were even more stung by countless bayonets. Even the people and horses were stabbed into blood holes.

Some soldiers even saw the enemy rushing in, instead of the musket in their hands, they rushed up and rolled down from the war horse with their enemies in their arms, although the Tartars had countless guns killed.

Although many people in later generations think that bayonets seem to be very powerful weapons. However, for people in the era of cold weapons, bayonets are actually useless in hand-to-hand combat. The length and center of gravity are actually very uncomfortable to fight. This is also the case that many soldiers from Datong, once they fight hand-to-hand combat, they are used to throwing out the muskets in their hands and drawing their swords to fight.

But I marched all the way and kept lightly equipped. I only brought dry food, water, fire, projectiles, gunpowder. As for other things, and even sub-weapons, I threw them aside.

This is the reason why Datong soldiers are in the world. It is not that the people of Datong can become elite soldiers without training, but the training cost is too low. In addition, Qi Jiguang himself has a talent for training and has undergone many training practices. Perhaps he is not as good as Qi Jiguang in the late stage of history, but he already has unique features in training.

After Qi Jiguang's training, Datong soldiers, who are already well-founded, are now even more than a dozen. Don't think they are musket soldiers, you will think they can't fight with each other.

On the contrary, the reason why they were musket soldiers was Zhou Mengchen's strategic idea. They wanted to quickly train a group of combat-capable armies with the characteristics of musket soldiers, which was easy to train and form an army. To put it bluntly, it was convenient for the expansion of the army. As for these great soldiers, they all wanted cavalry.

I look down on the musketeers at all.

However, today's battle may make them look a little bit better.

Qi Jiguang has been paying attention to the battlefield. He felt that the enemy's attack frequency was not right, so he ordered the stop to shoot.

Then the battlefield suddenly became quiet.

On the battlefield before, dense gunfire overwhelmed everything, raped everyone's ears, leaving everyone only hearing gunfire. Now, the sound that dominated all the voice domains has gone.

Various sounds came with the wind, moaning, horse neighing, and screams, like strands of autumn wind, gently surround everyone's ears, becoming the background sound of the battlefield.

When the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, everything on the battlefield surprised everyone.

This location is a small highland occupied by Qi Jiguang, and it has no name at all. Perhaps there will be no name in the future. One day, you will think that human or natural changes will disappear on the ground. It is too small and the slope is not high, so there is no pressure to ride a horse to rush up. The only feeling is that it is going uphill, which is probably a little more horsepower.

Now, within a range of about one mile, there were countless corpses piled up, and it looked like the entire high slope was covered.

Of course, it looks spectacular, but in fact the number of casualties is not that exaggerated, because some people have horses, at most a few hundred people.

But even so, it is not exciting. Especially many musketeers, holding muskets, tightened their hands slightly, and suddenly felt that the fire stick in their hands became more attractive. They could only kill the enemy more efficiently. What they used didn't matter.
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