From ancient times to the present, hand-to-hand combat is still the most dangerous and cruel! People on both sides are constantly falling on the positions, and the number of casualties on both sides is almost the same!

In fact, the musket soldiers had armor and were able to cover each other, so their death rate was not high. However, they were rushed back step by step by step by step by step by step by step by the opponent's impact force, leaving many inactive wounded soldiers on the position, and as a result, they were all killed directly by the Dashun soldiers!

As time went by, the musket soldiers finally stabilized the front line before they could stabilize the casualties. At this time, Qi Qitao had already adjusted the position, and the musket soldiers on both sides were moving, trying to attack the vanguard of the Dashun Army from both sides.

However, the remaining Dashun Army archers entangled them tightly and did not let the order be executed. If the musketeers on both sides wanted to reach the designated position, they had to first sweep the archers in front of them.

Although they were so anxious, the archers on the opposite side were entangled with them as if they were crazy! After the arrow was shot, they pulled out their waists and rushed over to fight! They couldn't do it if they wanted to defeat them for a while!

But the situation at this time was already quite dangerous! The first line of defense was completely destroyed by the war horses, and the second line of defense was shaking under the impact of the Dashun Army, as thin as paper! The Dashun Army could penetrate the entire line of defense at any time!

But the third line of defense is still in the process of forming and cannot borrow any power! This makes Qi Qitao even more anxious! But he has no choice but to urge the soldiers on the third line of defense to seize the time and form a line of defense as soon as possible.

At this moment, a sudden sound of horse hooves came not far away! The cavalry who had received the order and retreated to the outside rushed over at lightning!

Their target is the column behind the Dashun Army's vanguard! Judging from their appearance, they are planning to put all the enemy's column in two sections!

When the Dashun Army saw the cavalry attack, it immediately responded, and a small group of people split out from the column and met.

They had a mixed team of bird gun soldiers and pike soldiers. The bird guns they used were all captured from the Ming army, and some soldiers were even just the original Ming army's bird gun soldiers!

They were quickly outside the column

A formation was formed on the side. The spearmen poked the tail of the spear on the ground to form a horse-resistance. The bird-gun soldiers lined up behind the spearmen and were ready to shoot at any time.

But after all, these bird gun soldiers are not good at quality. They have lost their normal mind on the battlefield! They saw that their opponents could shoot targets a hundred steps away, so they also saw that the opponent's cavalry fired a bird gun a hundred steps away! But they didn't think about it, the weapons used by both sides were not the same type of weapons at all!

As expected, all the first two bird guns they fired were lost. Although the subsequent row of bird guns hit some cavalry and knocked them to the ground, their unskilled three-stage strike did not provide them with enough firepower to suppress them, allowing the opponent's cavalry to easily force into the gun formation.

The officers of the Dashun Army shouted desperately, asking the soldiers to stabilize the spear and try to maintain the gun formation. At this time, Liu Pei's cavalry had rushed to a distance of twenty or thirty steps in front of the formation. At this time, the spearmen of the Dashun Army discovered that at some point, the cavalry were actually carrying two short guns in their hands!

Before the spearmen could be surprised, the cavalry's short guns were already fired! Lead bullets shot into the dense spear forest, and the huge impact force immediately overturned the people! As the spearmen kept falling to death, gaps appeared in the gun forest!

The cavalrymen without hesitation pointed their horses into the gap in the gun forest! The muffled sound of the human body flying, the tearing sound of the spear piercing into the flesh, and the collision of steel became a whole! In just a moment, almost all the cavalry in the front rows were killed!

But they successfully tore a hole in the gun forest! The subsequent cavalry pulled the reins and jumped over the corpse, or simply stepped over and continued to rush forward!

Li Zicheng never expected that the gun he arranged was destroyed in the cavalry's short gunman, and it was too late to make the army react! He could only watch the team charging forward and was hit by the cavalry on the side!

A large number of cavalry were dumped from the war horses when they collided with the infantry. But they successfully cut off the Dashun Army's team! The cavalry behind them still rode their horses up and swung their sabers to slash and kill!

After cutting off the Dashun army, the cavalry did not retreat

Instead, he circled back at the cutoff of the Dashun army to block their attack.

Li Zicheng, who was so angry that he ordered the infantry to speed up and must wrap these cavalry! The subsequent Dashun Army slowly stretched out to wrap around the personal soldiers, but the tip of the team was resolutely counterattacked by the cavalry!

The bows and arrows and muskets shot at the cavalry with their heads and faces. The spearmen also gathered together to form a forest of guns to approach the cavalry. Although the cavalry tried hard to intercept their opponents, the cavalry had to retreat under the dense forest of guns, and they had to lead the team to evacuate until their hovering space became smaller and smaller.

After I paid the price of nearly half of the cavalry being killed and injured, they successfully cut off the Dashun Army's front for nearly two quarters of an hour!

These precious more than 20 minutes were very important to Qi Qitao! Because the forwards of the Dashun Army lost their subsequent military support, their offensive had to pause. He successfully saved the front line and was not penetrated by the Dashun Army! At the same time, the archers on both sides were completely swept away.

This made Qi Qitao breathe a sigh of relief! Then he ordered the soldiers on the second front to gradually retreat and the third front to take over the defense work. At the same time, the troops he commanded continued to extend to the west, preparing to join forces sent by Liu Pei.

Liu Pei and Qi Qitao both judged that the only direction for Li Zicheng to escape was the west side, because the east side was their way. So as long as the west side was blocked, Li Zicheng would be unable to fly!

Li Zicheng also realized this, and immediately commanded the troops to turn around and rushed to the west, and even the vanguard troops commanded by Liu Zongmin were thrown away. Fortunately, Li Zicheng knew that he could not leave Liu Zongmin, so he sent someone to notify him.

Liu Zongmin did a more straightforward job. He left the troops still fighting and led his confidant to quickly turn around and want to meet with Li Zicheng.
Chapter completed!