Chapter 539 Epic Victory

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Not long after the Major of the Guards left, Zhu Xingfa saw a group of fireworks rising in the southeast. This was a signal from the Guards that an all-out attack was about to be launched.

Army Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa immediately ordered: "Counterattack, launch a counterattack immediately!"

"Artillery unit, launch a rapid fire artillery attack on the enemy cavalry in the southeast!"

"The 1st Cavalry Division and the 4th Cavalry Brigade immediately launched a counterattack to contain the enemy's frontal forces!"

"The victory or defeat depends on this battle. Please work hard and fight hard. When you are victorious, Mr. Zhu will personally take credit for you!"

As Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa issued detailed orders one after another, the artillery units at the front were the first to take action. About forty artillery pieces that stopped shelling and urgently used cold water to repeatedly cool the barrels passed by. Two or three artillery pieces suddenly moved towards the southeast.

Thousands of enemy cavalry launched a fierce bombardment.

Although the bombardment distance is relatively long, a full six to seven hundred meters away, many two-and-a-half-pound cavalry cannons have to temporarily increase their elevation angle to bombard, and the terminal kinetic energy of the shells is seriously insufficient, resulting in limited lethality.
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However, artillery fire is artillery fire. Even if the kinetic energy of a fist-sized artillery shell is insufficient, if it hits the enemy accurately, it can still cause considerable damage. Even if the artillery shell cannot bounce a few times after landing, the penetration ability is also poor, resulting in poor follow-up damage.

That’s all.

In addition, the five-jin cavalry cannon was not affected. The five-jin cavalry cannon was more powerful. The distance of six to seven hundred meters was still within the normal combat range of solid artillery shells. This was why Zhu Xing sent almost all the five-jin cavalry cannon.

, are all used to support the Guards in their operations.

As more than forty cavalry cannons of the First Cavalry Army began to fire rapidly, the Chu Army's First Cavalry Division and Fourth Cavalry Brigade also launched a large-scale counterattack.

Naturally, their counterattack cannot be a direct large-scale charge. They are traditional mounted archer cavalry. Large-scale charges are not what they are good at. The tactics they use are still traditional mounted and archer tactics. They use quick maneuvers to find the enemy's weaknesses, and then

Go forward and shoot an arrow, then quickly retreat after shooting the arrow, form a team under the cover of your own line of infantry, recover a certain amount of arm strength, and then attack again...and so on.

The overall tactics are actually very similar to the half-turn tactics of the pistol cavalry, but they are more flexible.

Thousands of Chu army's cavalry launched a counterattack. This was to contain the Eastern Cavalry in front and prevent them from deploying troops to reinforce the southern battlefield, thus reducing the pressure on the Guards Cavalry Detachment.

The First Cavalry Corps has launched a counterattack under the command of Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa, and now it is the turn of the Guards Cavalry Detachment.

Guards Major General Sheng Yushu is still the same as before, personally wearing armor and riding horses, standing at the front of the 4th Cuirassier Regiment!

On the left and right flanks are the 2nd Hussars Regiment and the 3rd Hussars Regiment.

Further ahead of him is the Guards artillery unit that is undergoing short-distance rapid maneuvers. These more than 20 cavalry cannons need to step forward one step ahead and then suppress the enemy cavalry with artillery to kill as many enemy troops as possible.

Cavalry, and need to break up the enemy's formation as much as possible.

At the same time, during this process, the enemy may launch a charge in advance or retreat, and no matter which one it is, it will be beneficial to the subsequent Guards cavalry charge.

Soon, the Guards cavalry and artillery troops were quickly in position. In order to rush for time, the nearby terrain was also relatively restricted. They were all flat terrain with an unobstructed view. There were no low hills for them to bombard from a high position. Therefore, the Guards artillery

The troops were forced to deploy directly on the ground and then conduct artillery fire.

When the artillery unit of the Guards also joined in the bombardment, Major General Sheng Yushu of the Guards at the rear raised his hand slightly and said: "Mount the horse!"

"Move forward slowly!"

More than two thousand Guards cavalry, with the Fourth Cuirassier Regiment as the core, slowly rode forward.

It was vaguely visible that many of the Guards cavalry were stained with blood, and most of these bloodstains were left by the previously defeated Dongfang cavalry.

"Go forward quickly!" As the distance continued to close, Sheng Yushu once again gave the order to speed up.

The speed of the Guards Cavalry Detachment has begun to increase!

This kind of rapid advance may not seem to be very fast, but when more than two thousand riders advance together in a unified formation, it puts a lot of pressure on people.

Especially the more than 3,000 Dongbu cavalry on the opposite side... When they first started, they couldn't understand why the 3,000 cavalry on the left wing in the south were completely defeated. They heard that they couldn't even block an attack by the Chu Barbarian cavalry.

The Chu barbarians only used one charge to completely defeat the three thousand fine cavalry on the left wing, killing hundreds of them. The rest fled in panic, unable to reorganize to fight.

Now, they have a preliminary understanding of why the three thousand cavalry on the left wing were defeated so cleanly.

These Chu barbarian cavalry on the opposite side are abnormal!

Damn it, how could anyone just rush over with a spear and saber from a few hundred meters away...

Where are your bows and arrows?

Where are your muskets?

And when the cavalry of the Guards crossed their own artillery position and started running forward, the Donglu general on the opposite side looked panicked: "Madmen... a group of madmen, they are going to charge directly!"

"Quick, speed up... If you can't speed up, you will die!"

"Change your saber...don't use a bow and arrow..."

"It's too late, hurry up, throw away the bow and arrows and change the saber..."

"It's over... They're coming..."

"The formation on the opposite side is too dense. If you can't rush through it, you have to turn... We use the steering in front of the formation and use the cavalry to shoot and then evacuate directly..."

These three thousand Eastern Captive Cavalry... faced the charge of the Chu Army's Guards Cavalry Detachment. There was an internal panic. The leading general ordered to speed up, abandoning bows and arrows to welcome the saber charge. However, under the huge pressure, many mid-level officers Seeing that there was nothing they could do, they made the opposite choice. Some of them, especially some Niu Lu on the two wings, immediately started to turn around and wanted to evacuate to avoid the guards that were rolling in and seemed to be crushing everything. Military cavalry.

As a result, these three thousand Eastern captive cavalry were in chaos.

More than a thousand Dongfeng cavalry in the center launched a countercharge, but many Dongfang cavalry on both wings started turning in advance and left the battlefield hundreds of meters away... As for shooting arrows in front of the formation... that is to say Said, after entering the effective shooting range of the cavalry bow, it only takes a few seconds for the cavalry of the Guards to rush over.

If you turn to shoot arrows in front of the formation, it is equivalent to exposing your flank and being attacked by the Guards cavalry...

If you want to shoot the arrow and then switch to the saber and continue to charge forward, then the short few seconds are not enough time. Before you can change the saber, the hollow cavalry lance of the 4th Cuirassier Regiment has already hit you. Kill...

Faced with this intensive charge of the Guards, it was impossible to shoot arrows in front of the formation. There were only two choices available, either to evacuate in advance, or to launch a counterattack. Apart from these two options, both A dead end.

The same principle actually happened in the early pistol cavalry of the Chu army... The early pistol cavalry of the Chu army wanted to use pistols to play half-turn tactics before the formation, or to use pistols to fire before charging. Gunshot wounds a wave of enemy troops.

But many times in actual combat, it has been found that it is very unreliable!

When playing half-round shooting, the pistol only has one bullet, but the cavalry can shoot several arrows in a short time, and the difference in firepower is too big.

What's more important is that when the other side sees you playing with muskets, they don't even engage in any shooting with you. They just rush up with their sabers, and then the pistol cavalry is beaten and cannot take care of themselves.

As a result, the Chu cavalry simply reduced the equipment of cavalry pistols and ordered the cavalry to strictly prohibit the use of pistols when charging...

In Zhu Xingfa’s words: Since you’ve already started a fucking charge, I’ll charge forward with a saber and a damn pistol.

This was a series of problems encountered by the Chu Army in its early development of cavalry pistols, and it was also the reason why the pistol cavalry was short-lived in the Chu Army's combat sequence.

And now, when the Dongjiu people's cavalry and archers faced the Guards cavalry detachment, they also encountered the same problem as the Chu army's pistol cavalry.

Bows and arrows have no place at all in this kind of rapid charge combat!

Because the charging speed of the Guards cavalry is too fast, it is completely different from the back-and-forth maneuvers of traditional cavalry... They just mount their horses and advance directly from a few hundred meters away, and then gradually increase their speed until they are two to three hundred meters away.

When it was about 100 meters, the war horse was already running completely.

By the time the East Riding Cavalry entered the effective shooting range of tens of meters of riding bows, the Guards Cavalry had already entered the final sprint stage...

It's only a few dozen meters, and for the cavalry that has entered the sprint stage, it only takes a few seconds... If you ride and shoot the cavalry with a bow and arrow, the saber will have already hit you before you can take aim.

Just like now... Facing the Guards Cavalry Detachment, these East Riding Cavalry launched a charge beyond their expectations, and fell into difficult choices and even disagreements.

There were actually hundreds of cavalry evacuating in advance. Most of the cavalry were switching back and forth between bows and arrows and sabers. When they gradually increased their speed and gradually entered the charging state with their sabers raised.

The Guards cavalry on the opposite side has entered the assault stage!

More than two thousand cavalry have already started running, and even at this time, these Guards cavalry still maintain a complete and unified formation.

The cavalry formed a wall, one after another, and kept rolling forward.

Before these East Riding Cavalry could react, the Guards Cavalry at the front had already entered the final sprint stage!

At this moment, the Guards cavalry at the front lifted all restrictions. They no longer deliberately maintained their formation, but increased their speed as much as possible, and began to lower their hollow spears and aim at the enemy...<

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"Kill!"

"Kill..."

The Guards cavalry shouted the only voice from the beginning of the charge until now, and more than two thousand people shouted together!

Kill! This simple word came up one after another, so that every Guards cavalry involved in the battle couldn't help shouting along with it, and then urged the war horses to increase to the highest speed, and used the saber or hollow sword in their hands.

Aim the spear at the enemy!

At this time, they have entered the highest speed, and their morale has reached the lowest level!

These Guards cavalry rushed directly into the scattered Dongdu cavalry formation on the opposite side!

A cavalry member of the Fourth Cuirassier Regiment directly pointed the hollow spear in his hand at a general-looking Eastern Cavalry in front of him. The moment the hollow spear accurately hit the enemy's head, even if the general on the opposite side was wearing a helmet,

But almost the whole head was smashed

Like this, and the head was thrown back as if it was broken. At the same time, the whole body fell directly off the horse, but one foot was still hanging on the stirrup, and the momentum of his horse did not decrease, so that it carried the severed head with it.

The body ran forward for more than ten meters before gradually stopping.

As for the cuirassier of the Guards, the moment his hollow spear hit the enemy, he stepped aside in advance to avoid accidentally injuring himself with the broken hollow spear. At the same time, he let go directly and let go of the already broken spear.

The second half of the broken hollow spear was directly grasped at the waist and the saber was pulled out. The next second, the saber pointed forward and was aimed at the next Dongbu cavalry and slashed away.
To be continued...