Please ask me to be the emperor

The galloping cavalry quickly arrived in front of the rebel formation.

The two sides collided without any fanfare. Some officers and soldiers were skewered on the spot, including their horses. Others were tripped by their horses and fell directly into the rebel formation. There were also many soldiers with superb riding skills. The cavalry beat their horses and crossed the horse and caltrops, slashed the rebels' spears with their swords, and killed the rebels who blocked them.

For a time, both sides were in chaos, with people falling on their backs. It is unclear how many rebels were killed on the spot, nor how many riders were killed.

Resisted! The director of the right wing couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the soldiers in front of him were pushed back several steps by the cavalry and finally stabilized their steps.

He quickly shouted loudly: "Sword and Axe-hand, please bring me the sword and ax quickly!"

Many people in later generations have been influenced by movies, television and games, and have never understood why the axemen can restrain the cavalry. I even feel that the so-called "big axe and long sword" used to restrain cavalry in the Song Dynasty was simply made up by unscrupulous scholars who did not understand military affairs.

In fact, this is not the case. When cavalry faces cavalry in formation, they often have the following tactics:

One is harassment by galloping fire, which requires infantry to use crossbows to return fire.

One is to charge directly into the formation. This requires the infantry to line up with guns and resist the impact of the cavalry like hedgehogs.

The third one involves hand-to-hand combat. The cavalry is not a tank, so it is impossible to defeat the infantry in front of them with a single charge.

Then the two sides will have a short melee stage after the cavalry attack. At this time, the swordsman needs to rush forward, chop the cavalry upwards, and chop the horse legs downwards.

Especially since the cavalry is so high up, it is difficult for the infantry to attack from above. On the contrary, it is more convenient to chop down the horses.

Bai Guangen's right-wing sword and axeman also played the same role. As soon as he saw the officers and cavalry stopped, he immediately charged towards the cavalry with his sword and axe.

He said he was going to cut off the horse's legs, but actually he didn't think much about it on the battlefield?

These people are all carefully selected strong men, each like a dragon or a tiger, ready to cut down whatever they see. Some chop the horse's head with a knife; some chop the horse with an axe.

Anyway, as long as the horse is injured and the cavalry is thrown off the horse, it is a victory.

As long as the opponent's infantry is dismounted, no matter how superb your martial arts or your strength, as long as you kill them with random swords and guns, there will be no one who will not immediately be filled with hatred on the spot.

The officers, soldiers and cavalry also knew that this was not a place to stay for a long time, so they quickly dialed the weapons of the rebels, turned their horses' heads, and fled to the side.

When the swordsman saw that he had lost his officers and cavalry, how could he dare to stay long?

They quickly ignored the loot and fled back to the rebel formation.

Don't underestimate this simple tactical move. Zhang Shun had beheaded seven or eight people in succession before and informed the whole army, and he barely managed to stop this evil trend.

People who live a prosperous modern life cannot imagine the price placed on human life in this era.

When an ordinary soldier dies in battle, if he has an old mother, wife and children, his pension is only ten taels of silver. If he had been cheated by an official, he might not have been able to get so much money.

The war horses of the defeated officers and soldiers were worth more than ten taels each, and the armors were worth three to five taels depending on their quality. The heads of officers and soldiers are the standard for requesting merit. Not only can they be rewarded with silver coins and houses, but they also have the opportunity to be promoted to one level.

And each of these items is much more valuable than one's own life, not to mention that if one dies in battle, the family will still have coffin silver and pension money to take, so it will be even more cost-effective.

In response to this shortcoming of "accounting merit based on the head", Zhang Shun, in addition to strict military law, the most important measure is to reduce the role of the head and calculate merit based on the final victory.

Change the "merit calculation for head injury" to "merit calculation for climbing a city and breaking a formation, with heads, flags and capture as auxiliary methods" for calculation of merit.

In this way, these war horses, weapons, armor and heads were no longer valuable, so the soldiers were restrained to avoid disrupting the formation.

The second wave of officers and soldiers rushed in very quickly. As soon as the swordsmen hid in the formation, the cavalry hit the pikemen's line again.

The powerful impact immediately caused the rebel line to sink inwards.

Then, the Axeman rushed up again, and there was another melee between the two sides.

After experiencing this four or five times, Bai Guangen's right-wing formation became increasingly unsightly. He couldn't help but frown, and quickly ordered the soldiers to wave the flag, asking them to temporarily withdraw from the battlefield.

"Change the formation!" The director of the right wing department couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the flag of the center department, and shouted loudly.

At the same time, the commander of the right rear wing of the rebel army also saw this order, and quickly adjusted his formation and slowly approached the front line.

At this time, Shaanxi Commander-in-Chief Zuo Guangxian also saw this signal. what to do?

Of course, they took advantage of the moment when the rebels changed formations and "win without force"!

The cavalry of the officers and soldiers roared in again. Just when a group of troops on the right rear wing approached the troops on the right wing, they were about to run into the troops who were planning to retreat.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Just as the officers and cavalry approached, the rebel cannons rang out.

A large number of shotguns are fired at a very close position, directly sweeping across the horse in front of them. Many cavalrymen and horses were immediately beaten with bloody holes, and blood mist and gunpowder smoke suddenly filled the entire battlefield.

It turned out that the rebel artillery had been loaded again, and before leaving, they deliberately left a "big gift package" for the officers and soldiers.

Zuo Guangxian, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi Province, looked from a distance and saw that the battlefield was gray-red, and he did not know what the situation was like.

At this time, he was not the only one nervous. Zhang Shun and Bai Guangen also stared at the battlefield, quietly waiting for the final result.

Sun Tzu said: Those who were good at fighting in the past were first invincible and waited for the enemy to become victorious. The invincible lies with oneself, but the victorious lies with the enemy!

Now the three of them deeply understand the meaning of this sentence. As commanders, they each made their own best judgment.

However, he has no way to intervene in the actual situation on the battlefield. He can only look at the final results of a series of accumulated advantages such as training, rewards and punishments, systems, and organization.

Not long after, a gust of wind blew over and the smoke dissipated. On the battlefield, the rebel formation was still complete and neat, but the officers and soldiers' cavalry fled in a hurry toward Zuo Guangxian's main formation.

Failed again! Zuo Guangxian clenched his hands tightly, his nails pierced his palms, and blood flowed out without even realizing it.

It turned out that there was a relatively large space in the middle of the hollow phalanx of the rebels. After the rear division came to support, the former division did not take the opportunity to retreat, resulting in an uncontrollable situation of trampling on each other.

After that, the officers and soldiers of the Division entered the hollow phalanx from between the soldiers and filled up the hollow of the former Division.

This hollow square formation is only slightly different from the solid square formation, but it actually performed miraculous feats at the critical moment.

So much so that although the officers and soldiers dispersed the spearmen in front of the former division this time, they were still unable to defeat the formation that had just been filled with fresh troops. Then after a period of fierce hand-to-hand fighting between the two sides, the officers and soldiers had to retreat again.

However, this exit was different from the others.

The rebels used their strict military discipline to prove their impeccability.

Even at such a fragile opportunity as the rotation of formations, the officers and soldiers cannot take advantage. Then in the subsequent battles, the officers and soldiers will have no choice but to continue to take lives.

Since the rebels can complete the first rotation in front of the cavalry, they can complete the second rotation and the third rotation. As long as the entire army is still alive, this new type of hollow square formation can be used indefinitely. Keep rotating.

Trading lives for lives, with no chance of victory in sight, is the most fatal blow to the morale of the officers and soldiers!

For a time, Shaanxi Commander-in-Chief Zuo Guangxian began to waver!

The officers and soldiers were defeated again and again. Even if Zuo Guangxian was hard-hearted, he still had the idea that "the officers and soldiers are gone".