The more they gather, the more vulnerable they are to the more aggressive the attacks.

The guest soldiers subconsciously began to retreat, hoping that someone else would face the tip of those blood-dripping guns.

That's pretty bad sign.

Min Yuanqi saw it, and Yao Wenqian and Liu Zhigan and other guest generals naturally saw it.

The Chinese army of the guest soldiers successively sent out Tang horses, shaking their flags, and then the sound of horses' hooves rumbling on the right side.

More than 800 cavalry struck out from the right side, less than half a mile below the city of Qianhusuo.

Because the battlefield was too narrow, the cavalry continued to collide with their own army when they rushed out, and dozens of guest soldiers were hit by the cavalry, spurting blood from their mouths and falling to the ground and dying.

Even those who were trampled into mud by the herd of war horses, and those who were trampled at first could scream, and then there was no sound at all.

Liu Kecheng was unmoved, he was dressed in Shanwen armor, which was the best in the iron scale armor, which was formed in the Tang Dynasty and became one of the thirteen types of armor in the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, the best thing in the Tang Dynasty was the Mingguang armor, which was more complex and more solid and sophisticated.

It's just that in Daming Mountain, the armor is already the top existence in the armor, and the mountain-striped armor leaves are stacked, with a hood and a don't, arm guards, heart goggles, plus a skirt and iron mesh boots, as well as an iron mask and iron gloves, almost forming a complete iron armor whole.

Liu Kecheng did not wear an iron mask and iron gloves, and the rest of the kits were basically complete.

In this way, he can defend against almost all the damage of cold weapons, but Liu Kecheng is still full of worries in his heart.

When the firearm was fired, he saw with his own eyes that the head of the man in the iron helmet had his head cracked, and his brain and blood were scattered all over the ground.

The bullet hits the iron armor enough to inflict fatal damage, and the bullet will penetrate the concave iron armor leaf, and stir when it enters the human body, causing the armor-clad person to suffer no less damage than the unarmored person.

After the prevalence of firearms, one of the reasons why the Ming army did not pay much attention to iron armor and heavy cotton armor was this.

The cotton armor of defensive firearms that has been tempered for thousands of years is even better, which is also the reason why the crude firearms of the Liaodong Ming army are not effective against the Jurchens.

Liu Kecheng regretted it in his heart, he originally thought it was just a casual war, and he didn't have to take it to heart at all.

As a result, the cavalry has been greatly embarrassed in the past few days, and it has also exposed the shortcomings of the cavalry's poor training.

This responsibility must have fallen firmly on Liu Kecheng himself, and he was afraid that he would have to face the anger of the marshal after he went back.

These cavalrymen are not all family members, but even if they are not family members, the training, equipment and treatment are extremely favorable. As a result, he was extremely embarrassed in the face of dozens of flag army rangers, which showed that the usual training was perfunctory, which made Liu Zeqing know it, and he must be very angry.

But now Liu Kecheng is not too worried about these things, what he is worried about is the artillery on the left side of the city, the artillery will be fired once in a while, and the artillery on the right side is the same, some cannonballs have fallen on the open space not far away, and the mud and grass roots are flying everywhere.

If it falls on a man...... Liu Kecheng shivered and shuddered.

There is also a fire gun, once it pierces the iron armor, it will be seriously injured, and even if it survives, it will be infected and die afterwards.

There is no salvation for the heart and soul to be hit by medicine, not like arms and legs, it can be solved by amputation, or digging up meat to cure poison, and there is still a trace of life.

Liu Kecheng fought against thieves in the army, and saw the fate of those who were hit by guns and artillery.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, but there was no way to retreat at this time, Liu Kecheng had a cold face, led his cavalry subordinates, galloped away, and rushed towards the flank of the banner army formation.

The front is unfavorable, and now the only way to use cavalry to storm the flanks is to do so.

When the large force of cavalry marched, it was extremely powerful, and when it stepped on the ground, there was a feeling of landslides and ground cracks.

If it can cause the cavalry to cruise on the flanks and charge, throw arrows, or constantly pull and disrupt the enemy's position, the effect is of course greater than direct impact.

Strictly speaking, Liu Kecheng's cavalry was light cavalry, only a small number of people wore armor, and most of them were at most cloth armor, cotton armor, or leather armor.

None of the horses wore vests, and such cavalry could only be regarded as light cavalry.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, this kind of light cavalry could only intercept the enemy's grain route or harass on the flanks, if it threw bows and arrows on both wings, it kept harassing guerrillas, so as to cooperate with the main infantry or heavy cavalry to break the formation.

In fact, in the Tang and Song dynasties, the cavalry fought heavy cavalry, and before the early to mid-Tang Dynasty, Yu Lie of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Eastern Qi and Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, when the development of Chinese classical cavalry was at the highest end, and the level of armored iron cavalry was the highest.

The horse has a full set of vests from the curtain to the parasitic, and the protection is extremely good when put on.

Coupled with the Xianbei knights who are good at riding and archery, and have super technical combat ability, when the Eastern and Western Wei Dynasty fought bloody battles in Luoyang and other places, they used a large number of armored iron horses.

Whether it was the Eastern Wei Dynasty or the Western Wei Dynasty, each knight had at least one or two horses, and every time a cavalry battle, the loss of war horses was calculated in 10,000 horses.

This expensive way of playing is mainly because the Xianbei knights were originally born in the grassland, and they cooperated and competed with the Rouran Department that dominated the grassland at that time, but the channel for obtaining war horses was relatively easy, and the six towns established by the Xianbei people were almost in the Hetao and grassland areas, and the art of grazing war horses and riding was originally deeply rooted in its roots.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Xianbei bloodline was integrated into the family of Han military generals, forming the so-called Guanlong Wuxun Group.

Because of this, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Tang Army was extremely high, and before the early and Wuhou disturbed the border defense, most of them were to gather the family and the government army in Guanzhong to fight the Turks and Tuyuhun and suppress the Khitan.

In the middle of the period, the family was corrupted, and the military system was not suitable for the perennial warfare in the border counties, so the cavalry began to be lightly armed, and Hu generals and Hu soldiers who were more fierce and more suitable for the light cavalry tactics were also appointed.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the Jin people's Tiefutu was even the swan song of the Chinese armored cavalry, and the Mongols also attached great importance to heavy cavalry, but they were better at harassment and Rava tactics, their riding skills were better, and they were more suitable for attacking the enemy with light and heavy arrows.

As for the cavalry led by Liu Kecheng in front of him, the words "the peak of the Chinese cavalry" must be missing, and they should be regarded as representatives of the trough of civilization.

There is neither the tenacity of the Han army and the technical generation difference against the barbarians, nor the cold and dazzling cold determination of the iron-clad knights in the Northern Dynasties, and the glorious atmosphere of the Tang army, only chaotic.

To put it simply, it is a group of low-end cavalry who can ride and swing, and they can't even shoot on horseback.

If the nine-sided cavalry in the north practiced martial arts diligently, immediately passed the skill of riding and shooting, and had fine iron weapons and armor, such cavalry would be enough to deal with those herdsmen on the grassland.

Especially in small-scale cavalry battles, after Jiajing, the combat effectiveness of the Mongols continued to decline after believing in lamas, and the Ming army of more than 1,000 people could run rampant among the Mongol tribes of tens of thousands of people, shuttle and slash and then successfully return to the station.

Jizhen, Datong Town, and Liaozhen all have experience in small-scale interspersed cavalry battles, and in battles of hundreds to thousands of people, the victory rate of the Ming cavalry against the northern captives is still very high.

But if the northern captives gathered more than 100,000 and 200,000 cavalry, the small-scale Ming cavalry would not be an opponent at all.

Even if there are too many ants, they can bite the elephant to death, not to mention that the herdsmen can ride horses and shoot arrows no matter how much they decline, and more than 100,000 or 200,000 people gather together.

Lin Dan Khan was driven from Liaodong to the Tumut Department by Huang Taiji during the Chongzhen period, and as a result, he was able to attack Datong Yulin, defeat the local Ming army, burn and loot, and kill and loot tens of thousands of border people.

It can only show that the cavalry tactics are too wasteful, and they are the lowest existence among the three major forces.

The cavalry in front of him looked amazingly powerful, but in fact, the attack power was quite weak.

But Liu Kecheng was still full of confidence, he only knew that cavalry had an innate advantage over infantry.

Impact, detour, assault, slashing and killing infantry, the battle is unfavorable and can get out of the battle, and the infantry will not chase the cavalry with two legs, right?

With full confidence, Liu Kecheng made an impact hand pose when he was close to a hundred paces away.

The flags waved, the cavalry shouted, and put down long weapons such as mounted spears, long knives, and halberds, or pulled out short weapons such as waist knives and placed them horizontally.

In front of him was a group of banner soldiers, and the cavalry shouted and rushed over.

"Don't panic." After Shen Liang withdrew from the battle line with all the firecrackers under his command, he was already waiting on the right side, and when he saw the cavalry rushing in, Shen Liang strode in front of the formation, still with his back straight.

Shen Liang, who had seen the battle of Dengzhou, had seen the formation of thousands of horses and horses, but he really didn't look at the hundreds of cavalry in front of him.

After only running a few hundred paces away, the cavalry formation was very crooked, the thickness of the entire cavalry formation was different, the speed was not equal, the first was only a few dozen paces away, and the rear formation was still 200 steps away, and it was quite an excellent command to be able to pull the cavalry formation into such a shape.

Even if the Liaozhen cavalry is not defeated by the Jurchens, the cavalry formation will not be so ugly, right?

Shen Liang's heart was full of contempt, but he did not slack off and despise it in terms of command tactics.

More than 150 firecrackers were completely placed in a line array, and just considering that the quality of firecrackers was uneven, and it would not be effective if they were not fired at close range, so they also retreated after firing once.

This time it was against the cavalry, the cavalry was faster, and the process of impacting was extremely short, so it would be good to be able to successfully hit once.

In the confrontation with the Dongjiang cavalry, the Dongjiang soldiers are familiar with the tactics of the Houjin soldiers, the cavalry is involved in the front and flanks of the firearms, and the number of firecrackers in Dengzhen is not bad, and the quality is not bad, but also after the training of the Portuguese, but under such cavalry tactics, it is also quickly involved and collapsed.

The Dengzhou town soldiers were far from those tough and fierce Dongjiang soldiers, and they collapsed directly after a few rounds of attacks.

Shen Liang looked back on the past, and his eyes became brighter and brighter.

The battalion owners in Dengzhou are uneven, Sun Yuanhua is attentive to the casting, and the way to control the next is really ordinary.

The equipment and training of the battalions were unsatisfactory.

That fiasco and the experience of getting out of the corpse pile were like a brand in the depths of Shen Liang's heart, and at this moment, his subordinates and partners around him were trained with strict and consistent standards, compared to when he was in Dengzhou Town, Shen Liang's status was higher, but it didn't matter, the strength and confidence in his heart stemmed from the trust in his fellow robes, and it had nothing to do with anything else.