Chapter 637: Riding the Wall
"Form two horizontal columns!"
The order flag waved, the Chinese army issued an order, and the cavalry of the Longwu Army followed the skilled array, with the battalion as a unit, two battalions in a group, lined up in a tight queue on the grassland, man by man, horse by horse, it was Napoleon's cavalry tactics.
The firearms equipped by the cavalry of the Longwu Army usually include: a Heding rifle, one or two rotating handguns, but the cavalry is basically in a high-speed running state when charging, and it is impossible to aim and fire normally, even if it fires, it can only fire one shot, and there is no time to reload.
Therefore, the Heding rifle was undoubtedly a burden to the charging cavalry, and sometimes the cavalry thought that the musket was in the way and simply discarded it before charging, although it was sometimes financially punished, and many cavalrymen still thought it was worth it.
The Rotary Bolt can be used for a little bit in hand-to-hand combat, but a pistol can only shoot five or six rounds, and it is no different from scrap metal after a shot.
The role of the Longwu Army and the Ding Rifle can only be used when the cavalry dismounts to fight, and the formation is equivalent to the infantry.
Therefore, the advantage of the Longwu army in firearms is not great, and it can only rely on new tactics to open up the gap with the cavalry of the same era, which is the strategy of riding the wall based on dense density proposed by Zhu Cihong a few years ago.
In this tactic, all the cavalry are lined up, and the distance between the cavalry is very close, the width of each cavalry is about one meter on the left and right, and a battalion of four hundred horsemen, that is, a horizontal row of nearly a mile.
Two battalions in a group, two horizontal columns, that is, 800 people in two rows in front and back, the cavalry in the two columns of horizontal formations are about one meter apart, so as to maximize the charging effect of the cavalry.
On the battlefield, a group of a few hundred people could not form enough impact, and the Longwu army launched a charge in groups, with a distance of ten meters between each group, and launched an attack at the same time, hitting the enemy wave after wave like a wave, until the enemy was slapped on the shore and could not move.
Zhu Cihong was on his horse, and the horses under him were restless, looking at the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army beside him, and the cavalry battle formation was lined up.
Looking back, I saw rows of soldiers behind me, with resolute faces under the hats and helmets.
The cavalry's charge proceeded at an accelerated pace, and both sides began to deploy their formations and slowly move forward.
Seeing that the Mongol army had already advanced and was ready to rush and kill, the Ming army, which had already lined up in formation, did not move at all, quietly waiting for the order of the Chinese army.
At a distance of 130 to 200 steps from the enemy, Zhu Cihong shook the order flag in his hand and raised his hand to issue an order.
There was a sound of horns from the Chinese army, and the shouts of the generals of the various departments continued: "Prepare to charge, unsheath your weapons, and advance in small steps!" ”
At that time, the sound of the collision of steel and steel, the cavalry drew their swords, and the erected sabers flashed silver, as if they felt the atmosphere of battle, and some of the war horses snorted and trampled on the ground to make a noisy sound.
With the sound of the trumpet, the columns of cavalry marched in unison and began to gallop slowly, they lined up more closely, and even after the horses galloped, they were always united, and the rows of sabers only pointed diagonally forward.
Hearing the roaring sound, and then looking at the rows of Ming troops in front of them coming like iron floating slaughter like a wall, the Mongols who were moving forward were stunned, but many of them showed mockery.
Prince Tushetu Badali smiled and said, "I really can't figure it out, the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom is also a wise person, why did he send a fool to command the army." ”
Some Mongolian generals who knew the army nodded again and again, they also couldn't understand that the other party actually used tens of thousands of cavalry as infantry, so crowded together, as long as our Mongolian army fired a few rounds on its back when charging, the other party would definitely suffer heavy casualties.
"I don't know which immoral thing came up with this tactic, which harms people!"
Wu Keshan underestimated that even if the Ming army won the victory by relying on more people, their losses would not be less, in a sentence of the Han people, killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, isn't this a lack of virtue?
In the eyes of an excellent Mongolian cavalry, it is a fool's way to urge the war horse to charge the battle on a large scale and fight hard, especially this kind of deadly play.
Therefore, the Mongolian tribes have already calculated the next tactics in their hearts, if they charge in formation, the Mongolian warriors will still suffer heavy casualties under the opponent's decisive battle, which is a stupid thing to absolutely avoid!
Only by giving full play to the Mongols' housekeeping skills, only mounted archery is the best tactic to annihilate the enemy at the cost of the smallest casualties!
When the enemy was a hundred paces away, the Ming army and the Chinese army once again came with an order, and the generals of all departments shouted vigorously: "The whole army is moving forward quickly!" ”
With the order, the flags in each column leaned forward, all the cavalry of the Ming army accelerated, and the scene of ten thousand horses galloping was extremely shocking.
Thousands of horses galloped, hooves like thunder, the cavalry of both sides was getting closer and closer, the fighting spirit was getting more and more victorious, and the Mongolian army held bows and arrows one after another, preparing to enter the range to teach the Ming cavalry a profound lesson.
"Ulla!"
In the midst of shouts, the sound of bowstrings clattering, and the Mongol cavalry's locust-like arrows shot forward.
The strength of the Mongols was very large, and the first few arrows were fired extremely fast, and wave after wave of arrows rained down, just shooting towards the Ming army that was killing in front.
The arrows were so powerful that they would be overturned and dismounted if they were shot, and the horses that were hit by the arrows, although they would not fall all at once, were in pain and anger, and some of the knights on the horses were also thrown off their horses.
However, for some reason, the cavalry formation that the Ming army accelerated and rushed towards was almost unaffected, and those arrows rained down like nothing, only hitting a very small number of Ming cavalry.
A group of two horizontal rows of cavalry, covering an area of only six meters wide, and the front and rear groups were ten meters apart, and the Mongolian army's upward fire could only look at the face if it wanted to hit the cavalry formation in high-speed movement.
When the enemy was thirty paces away, Qi Guangyang, who was in the middle of the first row in the sea, raised his weapon and shouted vigorously: "Charge!" ”
All the trumpeters of the Ming army sounded the trumpet of the charge, and the first group of 800 cavalry immediately pointed their swords forward in an assassination motion, followed by the second group of cavalry, ten meters later, holding their weapons high and ready to attack.
As soon as the horn stopped, Li Shaoyou raised his fire dragon spear violently and shouted: "Daming Wansheng!" ”
The battle was boiling, and the riders who had been silent for a long time let out a thunderous cheer: "Daming Wansheng!" ”
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
"Long Wujun, kill!"
The forward cavalry of the Longwu Army pushed the speed of the war horse under the crotch to the limit, and frantically rushed towards the Mongolian army not far away.
In the sound of hooves like a shower, the two cavalry torrents finally collided together, and the two cavalry formations collided, and there was a loud sound, and there was a burst of various tragic sounds on the scene.
After the dull sound of impact, people turned over on their backs, the horses neighed, the soldiers howled, the sound of broken bones, and the sound of weapons colliding, one after another, extremely tragic.
In the loud noise and blood light, some knights who landed on the ground were trampled into flesh in the blink of an eye, red blood mist was filled, and some flesh fragments rose up.