Li Yuanyin looked at the place pointed by Guo Jingyun, the mountain peak was more than two miles ahead, stretching out in an irregular arc convex angle, if this is the bottom of the gourd, it is the mouth of the gourd, if you can stop from there at the critical moment and kill a surprise soldier, then ......

If you look closely, the hillside is very steep, and the cavalry can't hide, but the mountain is full of rocks and trees, and it is not a big problem to hide a few infantry, he looked at Guo Jingyun approvingly, and immediately divided a battalion of Pu Daomen and handed it to him.

Guo Jingyun sent people to drive the war horses back to Guohua Town, took these people to the foot of the mountain, and instructed the battalion Qianzong who led the team to disperse, climb the hillside to find the hidden behind the rocks, and not to move without orders.

Subsequently, he called his platoon commanders and machine gun squad leaders to the front to teach the opposition, the hillside is rocky, and the machine gun bunker can only be built in the bushes at the foot of the mountain, which is relatively close to the road, and it is a bit difficult to conceal.

"You remember, two machine guns should form crossfire, and the machine gunner should be protected by a few more people to prevent a sneak attack, and don't let the opposing archers get close after firing,"

Guo Jingyun said in a deep voice to the machine gun squad leader, "Don't fire mortar indiscriminately, kill the enemy's heavy artillery first." ”

Machine guns are not afraid of cavalry, only the range of heavy artillery can pose a threat, as long as he finds a way to blow up their heavy artillery, no matter how many enemies come, he is confident to give heavy damage, he will fight until Sun Kewang's army does not dare to charge.

"Yes, understood!"

The machine gun squad leader replied loudly, he is also a veteran, and seeing the company commander so serious, of course he does not dare to slack off.

"You platoons, spread out in a skirmish line, in groups of three people, once fired, when the machine gun seals the back, rush out and beat me up, and destroy all those who come in, don't take prisoners."

Guo Jingyun paused after speaking, and saw that this was only about 300 meters away from the main road, and he was still a little worried, "We must do a good job of camouflage the position, we must check it point by point, and we must not expose it too early, what I want is a war of annihilation, not a battle of defeat." ”

"Yes!" The two platoon commanders saluted and took the order.

Finally, he said to the reconnaissance squad leader:

"Your men follow me, support everywhere at all times, and focus on protecting the flanks of the machine-gun positions first."

"Yes!"

……

There were more than 7,000 people in the vanguard commanded by Zheng Guo, including 5,000 foot soldiers, all of whom were lined up less than two miles in front of the Ming army, just entering the open field of the gourd's belly, but the cavalry behind them lingered behind Guo Jingyun's position, Guo Jingyun visually measured that its number was about the same as Li Yuanyin's forbidden cavalry, and there were about 2,000.

In the field warfare of this era, the cavalry was a great threat to the infantry formation, so generally both sides would set up a rejection horse in front of the infantry formation, and if the time was calm, the weaker side would also dig several trenches in front of the formation, and then use pikemen to the front, followed by sword players, musketeers and crossbowmen.

In this way, the impact of the cavalry can be effectively weakened, so both sides will bombard with artillery before charging, hoping to disrupt the infantry formation, even if it is good to smash some of the rejecting horses.

Of course, the cast iron cannons of this era could only fire a maximum of six or seven cannons at a time, and if they continued to force the cannons, they might explode, so as long as they could survive the bombardment of the cannons, the final victory still depended on the cavalry hedging of both sides.

At that time, the cavalry was mainly divided into heavy cavalry and light cavalry, among which the slower heavy cavalry was heavily armored and mainly used spears, and the light cavalry was divided into hussars, chasers, archers and cavalry, etc., with different functions and combat effectiveness, the chasers were mainly used for reconnaissance, the heavy cavalry was mainly used for attacking and pressing the formation, and the real main force of attack was still light cavalry.

At that time, the Ming army mainly relied on hussars to charge, and the Qing army's Manchurian Eight Banners cavalry was good at cavalry shooting, and often used crossbow cavalry to flank and wound enemy cavalry, and then sent hussars to attack, which basically had an overwhelming advantage over the Ming army.

The only cavalry in the late Ming Dynasty who can eat full of cavalry is the Guanning Iron Cavalry created by the famous general Yuan Chonghuan, this army is more demonic, and the military salary is extremely high in peacetime, not only are they all not afraid of death, but also only have the commander in their eyes and no emperor, except for the direct commander, no one listens to anyone's orders.

The weapon they use is called the three-eyed god gun, in fact, it is a cast iron three-shot fire gun with thorns all over the body, it looks like a mace from a distance, you can first fire three guns in a row when charging, the range is not inferior to the strong bow of the full horse, the lethality of the iron sand fired is stronger than the arrow a lot, and then hold the gun pipe upside down when rushing to the front, pick up the heavy gun handle and smash it, several times the battle down, each time the Qing army corpses are killed all over the field, so that the color of the tiger changes, and the Guanning iron horse runs away when he sees it.

It's a pity that after Yuan Chonghuan's death, this invincible army was divided into three and its strength was greatly damaged, and now only Wu Sangui has less than 10,000 people in his hands.

And Lin Xiao and almost everyone before the reorganization of their whole army was cavalry, which is a new type of military that only appeared in later generations - dragoons, the weapons are mainly cavalry rifles or submachine guns, in fact, they are infantry that can ride horses, from a certain point of view, Guanning Iron Cavalry may be called the originator of dragoons.

……

Now, the forbidden army commanded by Li Yuanyin is a light cavalry, and the weapons used are only sabers, and on the opposite side of him, Sun Kewang's army also only has light cavalry, Li Yuanyin squinted, at least in front of him, it will be a bloody battle of equal strength.

Li Yuanyin's pre-war mobilization was very simple and incendiary, and I saw him turn his horse's head and shout: "Soldiers, what is behind us?" ”

"It's Xingdu, it's the emperor!" All the riders shouted in unison.

"That's right! There, there are also our parents, our brothers and sisters, if we don't want them to fall into the hands of thieves and Tartar soldiers, and become their slaves, what should we do? ”

"Kill them! Kill them! ”

The soldiers waved their swords and guns in their hands, and the shouts were like thunder, and the sound shook the field......

Zheng Guo, who was on the other side, saw this scene and sneered, if you play false, then we will come to the real one, and then shouted: "Out of the gun!" ”

When Li Yuanyin saw the other party push out the artillery, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

Judging from the visual distance, the opponent has heavy artillery, this distance is beyond the range of their own light artillery, and they can only be reached by the bounce of the cannon after it lands.

At present, the Yongli Imperial Court is located in a land of poor mountains and bad waters, and its financial and military manufacturing capacity is almost zero, so the Ming army has no large-caliber heavy artillery to equip, and its real combat effectiveness is not only far inferior to that of the Qing army, but even Sun Kewang's peasant army is inferior.

At the beginning, Lin Xiao captured a lot of artillery after several battles, including a lot of powerful red-coated cannons, but because Li Yuanyin's department was a forbidden army, Lin Xiao did not give it to him, and all of them were transported back to Fangcheng Town, leaving him only a dozen copper light cannons and some old-fashioned firearms.

According to Lin Xiao's idea, the fifty steel rifled guns made by Cao Gong could be sent to the Ming army at any time, and his requirements for his troops put mobility in the first place, with mortars and "Javelin" missiles, he simply disdained to be equipped with such heavy breech guns.

(Question: What kind of sail did Sun Lei use to build the first battleship, the Qinzhou?) Please sum it up in five words. ）

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