Chapter 709: Rookie's Baptism, I Survived
The impact of 7,000 cavalrymen is so powerful that even the best painter cannot depict it.
The sound of horse hooves is so deafening that you can even feel the ground shaking...
Ma Fang was in the formation, at the front.
He squinted at the enemy and quickly judged the opponent's strength based on their various performances.
not bad!
Ma Fang looked back, and the silence under the big flag finally quieted down.
He looked around, where was Du He...
Du He ordered him to lead his troops to intercept the enemy here, but he himself said that he was cruising nearby, waiting for the opportunity to act.
But you have to give me a clear time or direction!
An Jing was uneasy. He had served in the Nine Frontiers and fought with the foreign tribes on the grassland. He knew very well the impact of these enemy forces. Once a gap was opened...
The cavalry was a massacre against the infantry.
Long Wilbur should send a messenger!
The people in the capital said that Du He was a running dog of Jiang's clan, while the troops on the border said that he was a flatterer. He turned a disaster into a blessing by clinging to Chang Wei Bo's thigh, and now he has become the object of envy, jealousy and hatred of the military heroes in the capital.
"Archer..."
Shouting from the front.
"Fire arrows!"
A wave of arrows flew over and the archers quickly retreated.
“Lance…”
The spears were pointed at the enemy in front, but one could see that the spears were shaking.
At the front are the border troops.
Next came the Jinwu Youwei, and Ma Fang’s five hundred men were among them.
"Prepare to engage the enemy..." Many enemy soldiers were knocked down by a wave of arrows, but their speed increased.
"Get ready!" the general in front roared!
The cavalry rushed forward fiercely.
You can see the ferocious expressions on the faces of those aliens on horseback.
Zhu Shitai saw several war horses suddenly slow down. Why? He looked carefully and saw several spears stabbing, and the war horses on the side suddenly rushed up.
Bang!
Amid the loud crash, the infantrymen in front were knocked away one after another.
The spears pierced through the horses or the enemy soldiers on horseback, and then the infantrymen let go and tried in vain to draw their swords... and were then knocked away.
At high speeds, any reaction is a joke.
The war horses neighed loudly and stood up. The enemy soldiers on their horses were thrown out by inertia and crashed heavily into the formation.
"Fire arrows!"
The generals behind were shouting, and a wave of arrows flew over from behind.
Zhu Shitai lowered his head subconsciously.
He thought of Zhu Xizhong's teachings before he set out.
——Remember, protect yourself!
But his second uncle told him: The more you fear death, the faster you will die!
Life and death are determined by fate. If it is your turn to die, no matter how careful you are, you will still die.
You shouldn't die. Even if you walk through a rain of arrows, you will still be safe.
Zhu Shitai was trembling.
Reason told him that he should listen to his father, but somehow, Zhu Shitai felt that his second uncle's words would be more reliable.
A gap appeared in the array ahead.
"Oh!"
A soldier in front was knocked away by his horse, rushed backwards through the gap in the formation, and fell in front of Zhu Shitai.
The old soldier Tian Fang behind him shouted, "Little flag, morale!"
Zhu Shitai stared blankly at the soldier who fell in front of him.
The soldier's waist looked limp, and his chest was a little sunken. The soldier opened his mouth and smiled at him.
puff!
A mouthful of blood spurted out of the soldier's mouth, and his eyes dimmed instantly.
"Xiao Qi!" Tian Fang came closer and shouted in his ear, "Shout! Scream at the top of your lungs if you're scared!"
"Second uncle!"
Zhu Shitai looked up blankly, and a wave of arrows flew past him from behind, but the rain of arrows was very thin.
The enemy soldiers in front were lying on the ground, with corpses of men and horses piled up. The following cavalrymen might pass through the gaps, but more cavalrymen chose to ride their horses over the corpses of their comrades.
Zhu Shitai saw an enemy soldier who was not dead just got up, but was knocked down by his comrade's horse. Then the horse's hooves trampled on him fiercely. The enemy soldier raised his hands and shouted, and was immediately trampled heavily on the face by the horse's hooves.
The face immediately became flat.
Zhu Shitai felt his throat burning, and a voice was telling him... to leave quickly!
"Little Flag!"
Tian Fang's voice seemed to come from the sky.
"Shout!"
Zhu Shitai's lips trembled. He raised his hand, lowered his body, and then stood up straight, shouting, "Be alert!"
We are about to meet the enemy!
Are you shouting alert?
Wang Kaoshan cursed, "Coward!"
Strangely enough, Zhu Shitai did not feel ashamed, but rather a sense of relief.
——When you don’t know how to deal with it, move forward!
My second uncle’s words echoed in my ears.
——Just like your life, when you are confused, move forward!
Under the big flag, An Jing cursed: "The damned ones are really fierce. The Datong defenders can't hold on any longer. Let our people prepare."
The soldiers of the Jinwu Right Guard who watched this brief battle were also nervous.
"Commander An, the enemy's charge has been blocked." The general of the Datong garrison who led the team in the front turned around, his eyes full of madness, "Pull out the Jingwei, let grandpa see if they are worthy of the praise from Long Wei Bo!"
His subordinates suffered a lot of losses in the previous wave of resistance, but the bloodiness they showed moved An Jing.
"Jinwu Right Guard!"
The entire array moved violently.
"Attack!"
In front, Ma Fang drew out his long sword and looked back at Zhu Shitai.
"follow me!"
He stepped forward quickly with five hundred of his men.
Soldiers from the Jinwu Right Guard were on both sides. They watched as the 500 soldiers from the Huben Left Guard followed Ma Fang forward without hesitation. Each of them had an indifferent look, as if they were not going to a fight.
"Lance!"
Ma Fang shouted.
Zhu Shitai shouted subconsciously: "Hold the spear level!"
Rows of spears were held level.
"Get ready to engage the enemy..." Ma Fang raised his sword.
The flags waved and the horns sounded. "Retreat!"
Just when the enemy's momentum had come to a complete standstill, the military order arrived and the frontier troops retreated one after another.
The enemy's pressure was relieved, and just as they were rejoicing, rows of spears came up.
"Kill!" Ma Fang roared, and killed the opponent in front of him with one sword. Then he put away the sword, picked up the spear and stabbed.
"kill!"
Zhu Shitai stabbed with his spear, but the spear passed through the opponent's waist and cut his armor. The opponent cried out in pain, but then rushed forward subconsciously.
The best way to fight a long sword against a long spear is to get close.
"Xiao Qi, be careful!" Tian Fang shouted.
Zhu Shitai was already panicking. He didn't know how to respond. At this moment, a long spear quietly stretched out from behind him and stabbed into the opponent's lower abdomen.
Then he put away his gun.
"Little Flag!"
Yang Sheng also engaged the enemy. The 14-year-old boy actually stabbed his opponent's thigh with his first shot, but he failed twice in a row when he tried to put the gun away.
An enemy soldier rushed over, sword raised high...
——As a flag bearer, it is your duty to look after your subordinates!
Zhu Shitai shot and killed him subconsciously.
The spear stabbed into the enemy's waist. Zhu Shitai suddenly put away the gun. At this moment, a strange feeling made him find a calm state of mind.
There was fighting all around, and every soldier was shouting and fighting hard!
And the same is true for the enemy.
Zhu Shitai had only one thought in his mind: When you don’t know how to deal with something, just move forward!
Second uncle is right!
Zhu Shitai was looking at the fallen enemy soldiers when a rider rushed towards him.
The speed is not that fast.
Zhu Shitai suddenly raised his gun and stabbed.
The cavalryman on horseback had just blocked an assassination attempt from the side, and he twisted his body hard to avoid the shot.
But Zhu Shitai's shot was exceptionally fast.
The spear pierced into the opponent's lower abdomen.
Put away the gun!
Zhu Shitai found that his fear was gradually dissipating, his previously weak body was gradually recovering, and his strength was returning...
He forgot his fear and looked at the brutal fighting around him, feeling a surge of energy in his chest.
"kill!"
In front of Ma Fang, there were at least seven corpses piled up in front of him.
He was covered in blood and looked up suddenly. The enemy in front of him actually reined in their horses and tried to retreat.
The spear in Ma Fang's hand pierced into the chest of the opponent's horse like lightning, and the horse stood up, and the enemy fell off the horse. As soon as he stood up, the spear pierced through his chest like a poisonous snake.
"The enemy is quite tenacious!" Sha Lei was giving some commands from the back. At the beginning, the first wave of attack was quite effective. When the Ming army was about to collapse, the opponent acted decisively and sent fresh troops from the back to take over.
This new force was somewhat unfamiliar with the battle formation at first, but as the fighting began, they demonstrated a strength that was far superior to that of the Datong border troops.
And a more resolute belief in fighting.
"It's the Beijing Guards!" Sha Lei sneered, "Jiang Qingzhi has dispatched the Beijing Guards. Just as the Khan said, these Beijing Guards have never seen blood... They may seem fierce, but they lack experience and adaptability. We must surround them from both sides... We must make them panic, and then we can defeat them calmly."
If the elite of the Ming army are defeated, the morale of the Ming army will inevitably plummet.
The negative impact of Lin Siyuan's defeat will also dissipate.
Kill two birds with one stone!
Two thousand cavalrymen bypassed from the left and right and attacked the left and right wings of the Ming army.
The Ming army's left and right wings began to change their formations at such a fast speed that Sha Lei nodded in approval of his opponent's performance. He then grinned and said, "New soldiers are most afraid of threats from the flanks and back. With such a pincer attack from both wings, the so-called elite will also panic. Send out the entire army..."
An Jing under the big flag was secretly cursing Du He.
——Where is Xianzhang Hou of Alpaca?
After the reconstruction of the Jinwu Youwei, not many soldiers had seen blood, and even fewer had fought with Altan's tribe.
The new recruits need to have experience in battle, and they need old soldiers who have seen blood to lead them, but such a small number of old soldiers are of little use!
Cavalry is needed at this time!
Use cavalry to protect both wings so that the new recruits in the middle can grow slowly in the fighting.
"The enemy has launched a general attack." The eyes of the Datong defender beside him were cold, "Where is Xianzhang Hou? Where is Xianzhang Hou?"
"Du He, what the hell!"
Someone has already cursed.
Sha Lei raised his long sword, "Defeat them in one fell swoop!"
The sound of horse hooves suddenly came from behind.
Sha Lei turned around suddenly and saw thousands of Ming cavalry galloping towards him.
A large flag was waving wildly in the wind.
"It's Marquis Xianzhang!" Cheers broke out among the Ming army.
Sha Lei had imagined that the Ming army had cavalry on both sides, and they would send troops to contain him at a critical moment. But seeing that the Ming army was in danger and no ambush troops appeared, Sha Lei felt that the outcome of the battle was already decided.
An Jing thought so too.
No one expected that Du He could be so patient, watching the Ming army passively being beaten all the way and on the verge of collapse... Just when the enemy launched a general attack, he did not appear from the left or right, but came from behind the enemy.
I'm going to poke your ass!
The morale of the Ming army in front is greatly boosted, and they will definitely be able to withstand this wave of attacks from their opponents.
Du He arrived in time and was able to attack from both sides.
The enemy troops are now in the front, and those in the front are even gathered together.
Apart from the two thousand cavalry on both wings, there was no other force to respond.
The enemy forces on both wings have already deployed, and there is no time to retreat!
Sha Lei's face flushed red. He had only two choices at this moment: fight to the death with the Ming army... but he had to defeat the Ming army's infantry before Du He arrived.
Looking at the high morale of the Ming army, he knew that this was hopeless.
The second option is... evacuate!
The Ming army's cavalry arrived, and with the cavalry's cover, it was impossible for him to calmly besiege the enemy.
In this battle, he was facing the Ming Army's Beijing Guards. These new troops were obviously composed mainly of new recruits, and they would transform rapidly after this battle.
So he wanted to use this battle to completely defeat them and not give them the chance to transform.
but!
"withdraw!"
At the moment his troops were scattered in a mess. If he didn't retreat, he would be beaten severely by Du He!
Amid the sound of trumpets, under the banner of the Ming army, someone quietly shouted, "Tangle them up! Counterattack! Counterattack!"
Zhu Fang raised his spear, "Counterattack!"
Zhu Shitai raised his spear and looked back at his subordinates.
I survived!
I survived!
Dad, Second Uncle, I'm alive... He screamed madly: "Fight back!"
"Fight back!"
"Fight back!"
(End of this chapter)
