After the young cavalry said this, the middle-aged cavalry on the side also stepped forward quickly, and then said, "Lord Jiang? Are there enemy riders, how many? ”

Looking at the way the middle-aged cavalryman spoke, it was not the tone of the elder speaking to the juniors, but the tone of the subordinate speaking to the superior, the reason was very simple, on the shoulders of the young cavalryman, he had the rank of second lieutenant, and he was wearing a dark blue officer's uniform, while the military uniform worn by the middle-aged cavalryman was the blue coat and red pants worn by ordinary soldiers, and the rank hung was sergeant.

The young ensign nodded slightly, then turned his head and said, "Sergeant Lin, you listen to it yourself, if I hear it correctly, I'm afraid there are more than twenty riders!" ”

When Sergeant Lin heard this, he also leaned over and listened with his ears close to the ground!

Second Lieutenant Jiang frowned slightly, and then went backwards, he wanted to quickly inform the other comrades in the woods and his commander, the platoon commander of this cavalry platoon, Captain Wu Bei.

Although Second Lieutenant Jiang Baocun is only a sixteen-year-old boy, he is an old qualified thief, no, you can't say that, it should be said that you are an old qualified Tang soldier.

His Lao Tzu is a bandit, in the Huangzhushan era, the small cottage where his father was located was broken by the Tang Dynasty, and then joined the Tang Dynasty as a whole, he naturally moved into Huangzhushan with his family.

When Li Xuan selected the first batch of soldiers of the Guards, he was not selected because he was too thin, but later the Tang Dynasty was unable to be selected because of frequent fierce battles with the Ming army, so the demand for soldiers was expanding day by day, and when the Guards expanded again, he was finally selected for the army.

But his luck was not very good, he just became a soldier of the Guards, and before he had time to train for a few days, the Guards were disbanded, and then merged with other units, so he was not promoted as quickly as his previous Guards colleagues, and he was still an ordinary big soldier after being assigned to other units.

In addition, his body was relatively thin before, and he was not able to get too much reuse, but after the food supply of the Tang Dynasty was followed, he also ate desperately, and all kinds of training were more hard.

Later, when the Tang Dynasty formed a formal cavalry unit, he could not become a formal cavalry because of his excellent physical condition and his integration with horses, although he did not have any equestrian foundation.

But a cavalry unit naturally has other auxiliary forces, and after Jiang Baocun entered the cavalry unit, he did not become a formal cavalryman, but became a horseman.

Dealing with horses all day long, but also learning equestrianism from the cavalry who surrendered to the Ming army, when the Tang Dynasty rushed out of Zhengtai County and entered Xingquan Mansion, he finally became a formal cavalryman as he wished.

After fighting several large-scale battles with his troops, he quickly became the pinnacle of what a soldier could reach: a sergeant!

Then it was because he had learned a lot of words in the past period, although he was still eight thousand miles away from reading and writing articles, but the reading and writing of commonly used words was still barely possible, so he got an opportunity to go to the martial arts academy for further study.

After a month of study in the martial arts academy, he became a second lieutenant officer in the Tang Dynasty and was sent to the second cavalry battalion after the split as a second lieutenant deputy platoon commander.

Because of the scarcity of the number of cavalry, and at the same time, the cavalry originally belonged to the elite troops, and because the expansion of the cavalry troops of the Tang Dynasty was more difficult, and the battles were frequently meritorious, it was difficult to give promotion in the position, and it could only be compensated for the high match in the rank.

Therefore, at present, the military rank configuration of the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is usually relatively high, and there is almost no second-class soldier in the official cavalry, and even there are few first-class soldiers, many of whom are non-commissioned officers.

The military ranks of the officers are usually high, often a platoon leader is a lieutenant or even a captain, and if the captain is a captain, the lowest is a captain, and even a major will appear.

The battalion commander of the cavalry battalion is often a lieutenant colonel, and some senior cavalry battalion commanders, such as Lu Yuzhi, the commander of the second cavalry battalion, have the rank of colonel.

In terms of military rank, the commanders of cavalry battalions and artillery battalions are often of the same rank as the commanders of infantry regiments of the regular army.

Although Sergeant Jiang Baocun is young, he is a lot taller than the middle-aged cavalry Sergeant Lin behind him in terms of military rank!

When Jiang Baocun walked back, Sergeant Lin behind him also got up, and then quickly followed: "It is indeed cavalry, there are at least twenty people, and the cavalry of our army around us has no other friendly troops except us, these cavalry must be pseudo-Ming cavalry!" ”

This judgment of Sergeant Lin is also the unified judgment of Second Lieutenant Jiang Baocun and Platoon Commander Wu Bei!

"These twenty or so riders are outside, their speed has slowed down, they should have dismounted and walked, how about it, do you want to fight!"

"What else is there to say, of course we have to fight, their direction is in the direction of our army's main force, so many cavalry are rushing forward, our army's other lone scout cavalry can't be opponents at all, and the infantry can't stop their advance reconnaissance, they must be stopped, otherwise, they can run all the way to the front of our Chinese army camp!"

Captain Wu Bei quickly made up his mind, although his own troops were smaller, but now the enemy was in the dark, the enemy was completely defenseless against his side, and the enemy army was not far from his side, and now he could see the more than 20 Ming cavalry walking slowly hundreds of meters away.

This is almost an ambush fighter sent to the door, it is a pity to miss it, and in addition, under such favorable tactical conditions, it is not a big problem for the opponent to have a few more people!

So he quickly ordered: "Everyone prepare to fight, when you rush over, be clean and neat, put away the muskets, no one is allowed to use muskets without the order of the official, we will directly get on the horse and charge to destroy them, don't stop when charging, rush straight over!" ”

Now the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty has carried out equipment innovation, and in addition to equipping the necessary sabers, the cavalry has also begun to be equipped with short-barreled muskets.

Equip the cavalry with arquebuses, that is also a helpless thing, because the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is almost all light cavalry, and the horses on the horse are mainly southwest horses.

Therefore, it is impossible for the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty to be equipped with heavy equipment such as armor, and at the same time, because of the average equestrian skills, the cavalry and archery are more scummy, and they cannot play the same riding and archery as those nomads or the cavalry of the northern border army of the Ming army.

But cavalry, even light cavalry, can't just bring a saber to fight the world, and at the same time, Li Xuan didn't let these cavalry become mounted infantry, bring muskets and play dismounting, it was a complete waste of these hundreds of war horses in the Tang Dynasty.

Even if these war horses are all southwestern horses, only a few are Mongolian horses, which are extremely unsuitable for cavalry horses, but this is also a war horse, and it is also the only war horse that the Tang Dynasty can get at present.

All things considered, Li Xuan equipped these cavalrymen with short-barreled arquebuses and pistols, and originally wanted to directly equip the cavalry with several more easy-to-carry pistols at the same time to form pistol cavalry, but the pistols made by the craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty were too powerful, and the effective range was too close, and they needed to advance to within twenty or thirty meters of the enemy to shoot in order to cause effective damage.

Moreover, the industrial heritage of the Tang Dynasty is still a little worse, and the failure rate of the broken pistols is very high, often it does not hit, and the ignition rate is not even half, which makes the front-line cavalry quite resentful.

At the same time, this distance is for the cavalry, and it is also a cavalry that plays the wall charge, this distance is the best distance for close hand-to-hand combat.

Later, the cavalrymen were not equipped with pistols at all, but only with long-barreled cavalry arquebuses, which, of course, were shorter in length than those of the infantry.

The pistol was originally intended to be used to shoot a round of muskets before charging at close range, but because of the inherent defects of the pistol, the front-line cavalry usually used the pistol as a firearm for individual self-defense, or even for ornamentation, and it was generally not used in actual combat, so later the cavalry was simply not equipped with a pistol, Li Xuan thought that when the flintlock pistol research appeared in the future, the firing rate of the pistol would increase, and it would be easier to reload and reload the gun before equipping.

This long-barreled cavalry musket is used by the cavalry when they dismount and fight, but so far, these cavalrymen of the Tang Dynasty have never played dismount and foot combat.

The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is relatively deformed, and the tactics of playing the wall charge and then rushing up to fight hand-to-hand are okay, but playing in small formations, riding and archery with relatively high personal technical requirements is not good, and it is not possible to replace bows and arrows with pistols.

As for the dismount and foot battle, it is also not very reliable!

Therefore, although they all brought muskets, Captain Wu Bei did not choose to use them, anyway, the distance from the enemy was only more than 300 meters, which was the best charging distance for a cavalry, enough for them to increase their speed to the limit, and then use their sabers to kill all the enemies in front of them.

So he very simply ordered to charge directly with the sabre, and as for the musket, how far this thing rolled!

With Captain Wu Bei's order, many cavalrymen stood beside their horses in unison, and then listed a simple three-column formation, with five people in a row.

Although there are only a few dozen or so of these cavalry, they are still the most orthodox Tang cavalry, they are the best at, and it can even be said that the only thing they can play is to charge on the wall, so they listed a tight formation.

They're going to make a charge with their sabers!