The reason why the Great Cong Dynasty, which lacks cavalry, has no ability to fight against the upper nomadic people is because the confrontation between infantry and cavalry is ultimately an extremely disadvantageous thing. The mobility of cavalry is far higher than that of infantry, and the initiative in the battlefield is in the hands of cavalry. When to fight and how to fight, the cavalry has the final say.

Although the tight and neat infantry formation can block the cavalry, the cavalry will not foolishly attack the infantry formation, but will detour, encircle, exploit loopholes, and force the infantry formation to follow the movement to defend the cavalry from attacking its own weaknesses. Once the infantry formation moves, flaws will inevitably be revealed. Once the infantry formation is in chaos, the cavalry will slaughter the infantry one-sidedly. What’s more serious is that once the infantry is defeated, it cannot even run away. If the cavalry is defeated, it can easily withdraw and the infantry will not be able to catch up.

Just like this time, Li Zicheng assigned more than 20,000 infantry to Zhao Peng, including more than 10,000 elite Qin soldiers to protect his artillery, but when facing the Guanning Iron Cavalry with less than 3,000 people, he still revealed flaws, causing Wu Sangui to detour to attack his rear.

Although there was still a circle of Jima and Luzhai around the sky-rushing cannon position to protect it, it couldn't last long. The Guanning cavalry, who were blocked by Jima and Luzhai, jumped off the horse and was chopping Jima and moving away from Luzhai. It won't take long for them to rush in.

"Master, go quickly, let's stay and break the rear!" The apprentices pushed Zhao Peng and Wang Xin onto the war horses with all their might.

"You are all my hard work, I can't leave you and leave like this." Zhao Peng roared.

"Master, we were originally hungry people in the capital. If you had not saved us, you would not have what we are today? Today, the thieves of Wu came to kill us, and we would have returned our lives to the Master today!" An apprentice walked to the powder barrel.

Several apprentices picked up the flowering firecrackers, held the lit fuse in one hand, and waited for the Guanning Iron Cavalry to rush forward, they lit the flowering firecrackers and died together with the Guanning Army to ensure that their generals could escape safely.

"Let's go!" Zhao Peng shouted helplessly to Wang Xin and whipped the horse hard on the butt.

Zhao Peng and Wang Xin rushed out from a small path reserved among the Mama and Luzhai, and galloped towards Hongwadian where the Central Army was located.

Wu Sangui commanded the Guanning Army, cut off the horses and moved away from Luzhai. When they were about to enter the Shun Army's sky-storm cannon position, a sudden sound of yelling and killing sounds sounded from behind the Guanning cavalry, and the sound of horse hooves rumbled. Among the Shun Army's cavalry, a large flag with the word "gao" was rushing in the wind. This was Gao Yigong's cavalry.

It turned out that Li Zicheng was not at ease with the surrendered soldiers of the Ming army. He sent Li Guo, Li Laiheng and others to lead cavalry across the river to block the Guanning army, but let Gao Yigong leave 10,000 cavalry stay near Hongwadian. He found that Wu Sangui had detoured around his infantry formation, and Li Zizheng immediately ordered Gao Yigong to attack.

"The treacherous cavalry is here, go!" Wu Sangui shouted anxiously. He was the first to turn his horse's head and turned around and wanted to run. However, he remembered that the sky-rushing cannons of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the tide of the Shun Army. He turned around and ran away quickly.

At this time, the Wang Shun Army of the rebel king was no longer the mob that was chased by the Ming army. Li Zicheng paid great attention to collecting war horses and armor in every battle. After years of war, the cavalry of the Shun Army's old camp had already been armoured and heavy-armed cavalry, and most of them were tall and strong Hequ horses. Although the armored cavalry of the Guanning Iron Cavalry were also good horses such as Hequ Horse and Wuzhumuqin Horse, they were far inferior in number. If they were head-on, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was no longer a rival to the Shun Army's old camp.

Wu Sangui quickly raised his speed by relying on the horse's goodness, but his servants with less than 2,000 people were not as good as his. Because the Guanning Army was blocked by Luzhai and Jima before, they dismounted to destroy obstacles. As a result, when they found that the cavalry of the Shun Army had to hurry up and prepare to run away, the speed had not yet increased.

The speed of the more than 800 Guanning cavalrymen who were behind had not yet increased, the pursuers behind had arrived.

Seeing that he could not escape, Yang Kun turned his head and shouted, "We can no longer escape. Instead of being caught up and chopped off the head from behind, it is better to turn around and fight to the death to protect General Wu from evacuating safely. He had no choice but to fight to the death, and perhaps he could have a chance to survive."

"Kill!" More than 800 Guanning cavalry turned their horses and rushed towards the old cavalry of Shunjun who were about to devour themselves.

The three-eyed guns in the hands of the Guanning cavalry had just finished the ammunition and had no time to load them. The Guanning cavalry in the front row waved the three-eyed guns as a hammer. The Guanning cavalry in the back row shot out a row of light arrows with their cavalry bows, trying to disrupt the formation of the Shun Army's cavalry charge. However, the light arrows shot on the old cavalry in the Shun Army, blocked by armor, and had no lethality. The Shun Army continued to charge as if nothing had happened.

Gao Yigong's 10,000 cavalry were divided into three teams, the first team was 4,000, and the two teams behind were 3,000, and rushed over in three times. This is the three-wall tactic of the Shun Army. Each team of Shun Army cavalry was arranged in dense horizontal formations and crushed towards the Guanning Army.

The eight hundred Guanning Army cavalry who fought desperately shouted, running towards the neat old camp of Shun Army like moths to fire. Just as the two sides were about to contact, the Shun Army cavalry did not accelerate to the highest speed like other cavalry, but slowed down a little so that the cavalry could maintain a dense side-by-side formation, and looked like a ventilated wall crushing it.

Gao Yigong had a cavalry rifle under his arm, mixed in the middle of the team, with the spear head forward and pointing to the Guanning Army. On the left were two personal soldiers, each of them was the same as him, with a cavalry rifle under his arm, and three of them charged side by side. On the same line, there were countless Shun Army cavalry like them, all of whom were charging head-on with cavalry rifle.

"Bang" the cavalry of both sides quickly collided. When his cavalry was about to stab the enemy, Gao Yigong's arm relaxed a little. When the cavalry hit the target, he let go of the cavalry to prevent the powerful impact from knocking him off the horse.

The cavalry rifle hit the cavalry opposite. The thick armor on the Guanning soldier could not resist the powerful impact. The cavalry rifle directly penetrated the body of the Guanning soldier, and the gun rod was also broken under the huge impact force. The Guanning soldier was dismounted. Even the war horses under his crotch were knocked over by the iron cavalry rushing towards him. The war horses of the Shun Army cavalry trampled over the Guanning soldier and horses, and their stomachs were broken. The countless horse hooves behind them stepped on the human corpses and horses, trampling the corpse into a pool of mud.

Gao Yigong, who threw away his rifle, drew his saber and swung his sword to slash the Guanning Army soldiers who were passing by him.

Although the Guanning Army soldiers were braver than the Shun Army cavalry, each Guanning Army cavalry had to face the head-on collision of three Shun Army cavalry. The Guanning Army soldiers who escaped the head-on collision from the side had to face the slashing of sabers on both sides at the same time. The personal bravery was ineffective at this time. In a blink of an eye, more than 800 Guanning Iron Cavalry were swallowed by the Shun Army and all were trampled into meat sauce. Only more than ten people on the Shun Army were caught off guard.

Yang Kun was also knocked down by a rifle, and then he was trampled into meat paste by thousands of horse hooves.

More than 800 Guanning Iron Cavalry were crushed by the Shun Army like a mantis arm blocking a chariot. The only function they played was to delay the speed of the Shun Army's cavalry, allowing Wu Sangui and the remaining more than 1,000 cavalry to escape safely.

Wu Sangui, who saved his life, led more than 1,000 remaining cavalry and ran towards Shanhaiguan with no life. He was defeated in this battle too miserably. He brought out more than 3,000 elite servants, and only more than 1,000 people were brought back, which lost two-thirds.
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