488 Breaking the Formation
Although such long-range shots from hard archers did not actually cause too many casualties to the Qing army, the blow to morale was too great.
When Meng Qiaofang saw this, she didn't dare to continue like this. Otherwise, if the situation was unfavorable, if morale dropped again, it would be difficult to fight later.
So he hurried to Turge and reported to Turge: "Sir, this is not a solution. We must try our best to lose more and speed up and return to Ningyuan City as soon as possible before dark!"
Turge certainly understood, so he nodded with a gloomy face and said, "Don't worry, the cavalry will cover it, go!"
Meng Qiaofang's main intention was to protect the cavalry. Otherwise, the infantry would not dare to move at all.
After getting the promise he wanted, Meng Qiaofang immediately went back to command his men and asked the archers and musketeers to open the way. As long as they were within the range, they were allowed to shoot at the Ming cavalry.
Seeing the movement of Jianlu, the Ming soldiers who dismounted the horse boarded and returned to their team.
The generals from all walks of life led their subordinates and stared at the abnormal movements of the Jianlu infantry like wolves. When they looked for flaws, they would rush up and take a bite.
However, the Jianlu Cavalry has been flanking covers, and at least there are not many flaws in the early stages of the Jianlu infantry's stance.
Generally speaking, the cavalry can also be allowed to face it, first fight the Jianlu cavalry, and then the Jianlu infantry will be able to deal with it.
However, Zhang Mingwei did not do this, but sent military orders.
The Ming cavalry began to slowly retreat and did not fight immediately.
Not long after much time, Jianlu's infantry was stretched out and the formation was no longer intensive.
When Meng Qiaofang saw this, she immediately sent an order to take a slow step and the rear army followed suit, and to complete the team to maintain a dense formation.
Zhang Mingwei kept observing the Jianlu army with a telescope. He found that after such a long period of confrontation, the morale of Jianlu was obviously not as good as at the beginning.
Moreover, their spirits were very nervous. After a long time, Jianlu had already looked tired.
When Zhang Mingwei saw this, he looked up at the sky. It was probably half an hour before dusk.
Once it gets dark, there are pros and cons.
But Zhang Mingwei was unwilling to fight in the dark, because the uncertainty was too high.
So he asked the Jinyiwei captain beside him to blew a trumpet: "Didi..."
The continuous sound of trumpets is very sharp and can be heard far away.
Jianlu had never heard such a voice. For a moment, it was a little strange. He didn't know what the Ming army was going to do!
But they didn't have much time to be surprised. Just after the trumpet rang, behind them, the loud voice of the Ming army suddenly came: "Kill..."
This movement immediately made the Jianlu sound, and behind them was a Ming infantry army, and there were tens of thousands of people. Could it be that they were killing him?
At the end of Jianlu, we could naturally see that the Ming infantry was just shouting, as if he was going to charge, but in fact, it did not rush over to fight.
However, Jianlu, who was in the middle and in front, did not know what was going on behind him. When he heard the shouts of killing, he subconsciously thought that the Ming infantry army behind him had come, and suddenly, he was naturally panicked.
However, at this moment, a cavalry suddenly rushed out of the Ming cavalry and rushed towards the Jianlu army.
The rumbling sound of horse hooves rings in Jianlu's heart, making them a little nervous.
The Jianlu musketeers and the archers immediately became nervous and prepared to shoot, and then they had to hide behind the spearmen in time.
But they were also a little puzzled. The light cavalry that rushed over was dared to charge like this?
While thinking about it, these Ming cavalry suddenly stopped outside the ground with an arrow, immediately dismounted and formed a tight formation, and raised the muskets in their hands.
These Ming soldiers were not real cavalry at all, but horse-riding infantry, or in other words, horse-riding flintlock spearmen.
It is obvious that this Ming army has been trained many times and has seen blood. When they are in battle, they are not afraid and move quickly.
The front line was already lined up, the back line was also following, and they were also moving forward in unison, facing the vanguard of the Jianlu infantry.
When Turge saw this, he quickly wanted to send a cavalry to attack and not give the Ming army a chance to form a formation. However, as soon as the Jianlu cavalry moved, more Ming cavalry came over.
Obviously, as long as the Jianlu Cavalry dares to leave the infantry formation, it will start cavalry warfare. Although the Jianlu Cavalry feels that it has stronger individual combat capabilities, there are too many cavalrymen on the opposite side. Turge dares not take any action when he sees it, so he can only hope for the infantry to showdown.
At this moment, the Ming army's musketeers had already begun to line up to face the Jianlu infantry and entered an arrow.
It has to be said that this Jianlu army can be stationed on the front line to fight against the Ming army, which is indeed an elite force. Faced with the attacks of rows of Ming army musketeers, they did not receive military orders, and no one fired or shot arrows.
Behind the Jianlu Army formation, loud shouts of killing continued. The Ming cavalry also began to press forward, as if they could pounce at any time. However, on the Jianlu side, the one who put the greatest pressure on them was the Ming army musketeers who were stepping forward in line.
After waiting for a while, the North Korean musketeer with the worst psychological tolerance could not help it. He didn't know which one was, but in short, someone fired the gun.
With this "bang" gunshot, other North Korean musketeers also fired.
“Mush…”
The gunshots kept ringing, but at this time the distance was still a bit far from the grenade gun in the hands of the Korean soldiers.
And because they were using a clamp gun in their hands, they were afraid that the ignition fuse would touch the gunpowder of the people around them, so they had a relatively large gap and were not dense in formation. Although the continuous musket shooting sounded scary, not many people were shot and fell to the ground on the side of the Ming army's flintlock spearmen.
When Meng Qiaofang saw this scene, she was so angry that she wanted to kill someone.
In the past, this situation only happened to Ming Jun. But this time, he actually saw that his subordinates were also afraid of this kind of timidity.
The North Korean musketeers who had finished shooting quickly started to load gunpowder and lead bullets again. However, even though there were so many chaotic sounds on the battlefield, for some reason, they heard the neat footsteps of the Ming army musketeers on the opposite side, and their hands began to disobey.
When Meng Qiaofang saw it, she had no choice but to order an attack.
The archers in Jianlu and some musketeers who did not shoot began to take action.
However, at the same time, the Ming army also ordered shooting.
“Mush…”
Rows of gunpowders rose into the air in the dense formation of the flintlock spearmen, and almost at the same time, a large number of Jianlu fell across from them.
At the beginning of this musket, one of the biggest advantages of the flintlock gun against the flintlock gun was that the flintlock gun could be arranged in a tight formation and make up for the accuracy with the density of lead bullets.
This advantage was fully reflected in this matchup.
Under the volley of the Ming army, Jianlu fell to the ground in rows. Jianlu's shooting, the Ming army fell to the ground in sporadic ways.
From the visual effect, you can see the difference between the two at once.
This huge difference result made the North Korean musketeers finally unable to withstand the fear in their hearts and hid back one after another.
Originally, the Jianlu in front of the military formation felt that they were attacked by the Ming army from all directions, and when they were attacked by these Korean musketeers, they were immediately in chaos.
If the Ming army had done this as soon as they came up, Jianlu's psychological advantage over the Ming army would probably not have made them so easily confused. After so long, their morale had been consumed a lot. When they were surrounded by the Ming army, they listened to the shouts of killing behind and saw the terrifying advance of the Ming army musketeers in front.
After all, Jianlu is also a human being, and these Jianlu infantry are mostly Koreans and Han people. Their psychological advantages against the Ming army are much smaller than those of the real Jianlu, and it is reasonable to collapse.
Li Dingguo and the others, who had already been waiting for an opportunity to move behind, immediately drove their horses forward.
When Turge saw him, he immediately directed his cavalry to stop him. However, Yuan Zongdi and others who were waiting on the side immediately met him.
The cavalry's cover on the two wings of the infantry are actually mutually connected. Because the infantry can also support the cavalry and protect the cavalry.
But at this time, the Jianlu infantry was in chaos. If the cavalry rushed forward, they would definitely not be able to obtain the cover of the infantry. If it was just a cavalry duel, as long as the cavalry's elite level was not far apart, the one with a large number would definitely win.
Now, the Ming cavalry is several times more than the Jianlu cavalry. If you fight head-on, even if the Jianlu cavalry is elite, it will definitely be wiped out! Turg is willing to consume the cavalry, even if the infantry is complete, the cavalry cannot be finished!
So, just as he was hesitating, Li Dingguo and the others had already led the cavalry to rush over, like hungry wolf, biting the wound opened by the flintlock spearmen, making the wound bigger.
As soon as Turge saw this, he knew that there was no room for recovery for this war.
Since that was the case, his first thought was to throw away the car and guard the soldiers. He died from Han and Koreans, and that was worthless.
With this idea in his mind, he immediately looked up and looked for opportunities, but immediately found that there was a big gap on one side of the Ming cavalry. I wonder if it was because the Ming cavalry rushed towards the infantry, there was actually a gap!
So, without saying a word, he immediately led the cavalry, ignoring the infantry, and hurried to the gap and fled to Ningyuan City.
Turge didn't know that this gap was actually arranged by Zhang Mingwei.
If Jianlu is surrounded and attacked, and if Jianlu is not given a possible way of survival, it will make Jianlu defeat the dead and force Jianlu to fight to the death. It is not cost-effective.
Chapter completed!