Chapter 103: Field Cavalry
Qin Yu marched forward at a trot with the army.
However, it was a horizontal team, not a column, running a few hundred meters, and it had to stop for a while, running to the beat of the drum, and with the usual training, the team was not far away.
The four hundred spear boys were in four rows in front, and the four hundred firecrackers were also in four rows behind, with the Ox team on the left, the Tiger team on the right, and Qin Yu and the personal guards in the last row.
"Stop moving forward and meet the enemy in whole formation."
Looking at the cavalry rushing in the distance, Qin Yu immediately shouted.
As soon as the drums stopped, everyone subconsciously stopped and quickly stood in the starting formation.
It only took twenty or thirty seconds for a thousand people, and the cavalry a few miles away rushed to a few hundred meters away in the blink of an eye, and rushed directly with a bang.
"The pikemen crouch down, the musketeers prepare."
Although it was only three hundred horses, the momentum was still amazing, and the teenagers in the first four rows half-knelt down, pointing their spears diagonally forward, and the tail of the spears was against the ground.
The four rows of musketeers in the back quickly lit the arquebus, and the three hundred adult soldiers on the left and right flanks were still standing, with the sword and shield hands in front and the pikemen behind.
The leader of Qin rode condescendingly on his horse, and was also shocked by the movement caused by the three hundred horsemen who were rushing quickly.
But he didn't believe that the other party would rush up directly, so he kept howling: "Don't be afraid, they are scaring people, steady!" ”
"Whoever moves Lao Tzu kills whom."
Although Leader Qin was both cheering and threatening, the young men in the first four rows still looked frightened.
Fortunately, Qin Yu has always instilled that the cavalry charging into battle is just a paper tiger, and facing the musket cavalry is a live target, so the teenagers also gritted their teeth and persevered.
Thundered!
The cavalry soon rushed to a hundred meters, and seeing that the other party was still stable, the cavalry in front of the head was very surprised, and ran again, seeing that the formation was not chaotic, it was no longer calm.
Looking at the dense and glittering spear tips, the cavalry at the head turned their horses and rushed to the sides.
At this time, a burst of beans sounded, and the first two rows of musketeers only had a second apart, and they pulled the trigger, and two hundred pellets suddenly hit the war horse with a neigh, and the man turned on his back.
More than forty horsemen fell, because the cavalry in front of the head just turned sharply, which made Liu Guoneng be shocked and hurriedly avoided to the left.
He didn't expect that the other party was equipped with so many firearms, and it was so sharp, his intestines were about to turn green, and he hurriedly summoned the cavalry to make a detour and rush from behind.
Qin Yu also immediately responded, letting the back two rows of teenagers turn back, a hundred guards squatted down with short firearms, and the first two rows of firecrackers hurriedly loaded.
On the defensive side of the Bulls and Tigers, the first four rows of young pikemen also stood up.
There were more than a thousand people, and Qin Yu was already a little difficult to command, and his throat was almost bursting.
Fortunately, the captains of each team are not fools, and they have usually rehearsed, even if they don't hear clearly, they can probably guess what to do.
After all, the cavalry of the people have made a detour to the side, and it is impossible for the Ox and Tiger teams to stand still facing forward.
Liu Guoneng thought that he was attacking from behind, the other party was infantry, and the reaction could not be as fast as their cavalry, and seeing that there was no spear behind, he gritted his teeth and rushed up.
As a result, the two rows of musketeers in the back opened fire in unison, knocking down more than 20 horsemen, and then the guards rang the trigger again.
The last two platoons quickly loaded their bayonets after fighting, and the first two platoons were also reloaded, and then turned their guns and fired freely at the rear.
After losing more than 60 horses, Liu Guoneng was like a knife, and he never wanted to hit the other party's gun again.
Although he rushed forward desperately, he would definitely be able to rush into the formation, but even if the opponent's entire army was wiped out, if these three hundred horsemen were killed, it would not be worth losing half of them.
I wanted to try again from the left and right flanks, and looked at the dense shield spears, but finally gave up.
In this way, more than two hundred horsemen circled the phalanx, circling more than a hundred paces away, looking for the opponent's loopholes.
It's a pity that they don't know how to ride and shoot, otherwise Qin Yu and they will definitely suffer a big loss.
Qin Yu kept encouraging everyone to stabilize in the formation, but he panicked in his heart.
He found that he still did not know enough about cavalry, and far underestimated the role and deterrent power of cavalry in this era.
Not to mention that they were going to flank the opposing infantry now, more than 1,000 people were surrounded by more than 200 cavalry running at high speed, and they didn't dare to move.
At the same time, he made up his mind that he must vigorously develop cavalry, if he has cavalry now, even if it is only a hundred, no, as long as fifty cavalry, the infantry can follow the cavalry to rush up and fight to the death with the other party.
Although he knew that now the round formation with spears, swords, and shields outside, and the firecrackers were tightly tied together, and it was much safer, but under the watchful eye of the other party, changing the formation would be a dead end on its own.
At this time, a thousand infantry also arrived, and seeing that the war horse was also a little weak, Liu Guoneng slowed down his horse speed and retreated with the cavalry.
Ready to let the infantry charge, anyway, the thousand infantry died, and he didn't feel distressed.
Qin Yu also hurriedly took the opportunity to change the formation, the Ox team and the Tiger team expanded forward and backward, the young pikemen in the third and fourth rows rushed back from the gap in the musketeers, and the musketeers converged in the middle.
Fortunately, there are only a thousand people, and the action of changing the formation is not complicated, just two minutes, a long phalanx, and it becomes an oval.
Under Qin Yu's constant roar and adjustment, the oval slowly closed to the middle, shrinking smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a small circular array with a diameter of dozens of meters.
"Whew!"
"The sword and shield soldiers, the pikemen, squatted down for Lao Tzu, and the musketeers knocked out the short swords for Lao Tzu and loaded them with ammunition."
Qin Yu breathed a heavy sigh of relief at this time, and rode on the horse again.
And the 1,000 infantry a few hundred meters away were dumbfounded.
Liu Guoneng was also horrified as if he had seen a ghost, he just beckoned the infantry and told them to divide into two teams and charge from both sides of the left flank.
But in the blink of an eye, the other party shrank from a long phalanx nearly two hundred meters wide into a small circle as if it were playing a trick.
"Big brother, this... This... That's too wicked, isn't it? ”
"Send a brother to shout, ask the king of Xiaohua to pay 10,000 taels of silver, and then hand over the red Luanying, Lao Tzu will not only immediately collect the troops, but also make him a guerrilla general, just say that this is the meaning of the governor."
Liu Guoneng took a deep breath, and then said to the guards on the side.
At this time, the fight near the town is also very lively.
Two thousand bandits and more than three thousand heroes, you chase after me, and I don't know who has the upper hand, and it is a complete mess.
If it weren't for the strips of cloth around the neck of the Chinese army, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to distinguish between friend and foe.
The red warbler rode on a horse and climbed high to look into the distance, but found Qin Yu and their predicament, ordered the black bear, and ran towards the town with thirteen cavalry.
In a short time, he took three hundred female soldiers on bantam horses and slaughtered them to the north, and the horses were only trotting.
Even so, there were many women who staggered, clutching the saddle and the bridles, their faces as pale as paper.
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