Dugu Hanjiang's complexion is a little fair, with a high nose bridge, big eyes, and slightly curly hair, just like Li Zicheng's appearance, he knows at a glance that he has the blood of ethnic minorities in the northwest. He was in his twenties, holding a notebook in his hand and looking through it boringly, wearing a large coat made of thick tweed, and a palm-wide cowhide belt tied around his waist, on which hung a cowhide medicine box, a short-handled firecracker, and so on. In front of him was a horse with a long-maned horse tied to the ground, searching the ground with its soft tongue and curling up hay. On horseback, there are also weapons such as horses, guns, and long knives.

Dugu Hanjiang is the infantry general of the New Army promoted by Li Yan. This infantry of the New Army was all Li Yan and the remaining members of the Qin Law School as the backbone of officers at all levels, and selected those children of middle peasants and small landlords below the level who had benefited from the new policy in various parts of Huguang in Shaanxi Province to serve in the army and trained them strictly. He also taught them the principles of expelling the Tartars, and let them practice the methods of warfare in Nanzhong.

"If you can't use the knives and guns in your hands to drive away the Tartars and Ming dogs, then they will kill in Guanzhong and Huguang, and all the fields and money and grain in your family will be snatched back by those big gentry and grain!"

In the eyes of Liu Zongmin and other veteran generals, the combat effectiveness of this infantry of the new army can only be described as better than nothing. However, Li Yan did not think so, he believed that the combat effectiveness of this new army would not be much worse even if it was not as good as the authentic Southern Barbarian soldiers. Because Li Yan thinks that he has mastered the trick of training soldiers in Nanzhong, that is, soldiers must be educated, so that they can practice battle formations and forget their lives.

"Old Dugu, the Tartar is here. How to fight? ”

Wang Fuchen spit the straw stick in his mouth on the ground, and discussed the next course of action with Dugu Hanjiang.

Dugu Hanjiang didn't answer directly, but just used his cigarette pouch to sketch on the ground: "Ma Harrier, look." This is the marching formation of the Tartars. ”

On the ground, the Dugu Hanjiang used circles, squares, triangles, etc. to mark the marching columns of the Qing army.

"More than a thousand cavalry opened the way in front, and more than a thousand cavalry roamed back and forth on both flanks. In the middle were more than 10,000 infantry, and behind the infantry ranks were Tartar baggage vehicles, stretching for dozens of miles. It was about dozens of miles away from the baggage team, and it was the thousands of elite cavalry personally led by the Tartar leader of Bolo as the rearguard. His formation can be described as a copper head and an iron tail. ”

"Tofu waist!" Wang Fuchen grinned widely. It seems that the two have basically the same idea.

"I led the cavalry to rush out, cut off the communication between his baggage and the rearguard, and cut off the retreat of the Tartar army! Those grains and grass are heavy, if you can grab them, you can grab them, and if you can't grab them, you will burn your mother! Anyway, we can't let the Tartars be fed and clothed to beat us! ”

"Good! I'll give me more than 10,000 Tartar infantry! It's just right to use them to try the quality of our brothers' training! ”

As for the more than 1,000 cavalry who served as the vanguard in front of the marching procession, and the more than 1,000 cavalry who guarded back and forth on both flanks of the procession, they were ignored by the two. In the big war, the Qing army and the Dashun army fought in one place, and the more than 2,000 cavalry could not play a role, and maybe they would be scattered by their own defeated troops.

Behind the two, there was a dense queue of the Dashun army. The cavalry and infantry spread all the way to the depths of the mountains and forests. Most of the cavalrymen wore iron helmets on their heads, and under the iron helmets were white felt hats to protect them from the cold. There are many kinds of cotton armor, iron armor, and dragon leather armor on the body, but often those officers and veteran backbones are wearing double armor, cotton armor, leather armor is covered with a Nanzhong breastplate, and there are all kinds of weapons such as long knives, bows and arrows, spears, and bones on horseback. The equipment of the infantry was much neater and simpler. An eight-petaled hat with an iron-tipped helmet, and a cuirass over a cotton coat. The firecrackers sorted out their sub-potion boxes, examined the flints, and cleaned the guns with a strip. The pikemen sat around with their guns in their arms, laughing and whispering.

"Let's go!"

With the shouts of the star officers on duty in each battalion, a sea of flags and weapons was immediately erected on the originally empty field. The flags of each battalion and team, the flags of the generals, and the spears and guns in the hands of the soldiers gave birth to a forest on the flat ground.

The tactics of Ma Harrier Wang Fuchen and Dugu Hanjiang are actually a copy of Tian Ji's horse racing, using the strongest cavalry team to attack the weakest baggage troops of the Qing army. The baggage troops were destroyed, and the burned wreckage of the baggage vehicles was abandoned along the way, which became a road to isolate the rescue of the elite cavalry of the Qing army's rearguard. And the infantry of the Dashun New Army led by Dugu Hanjiang was used to deal with those infantry teams that were still Ming troops not long ago, and then changed from Ming army to Shun army, and from Shun army to Qing army.

If such a tactical arrangement cannot win, then the famous war general Ma Harrier Wang Fuchen in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties is not worthy of giving Kangxi a pair of leopard tail guns as a special reward to win him over.

The infantry of Dugu Hanjiang silently drove westward, and the cavalry led by Wang Fuchen pulled the war horses to the east.

Because of the march behind enemy lines, the cavalry of the Qing army adopted the method of changing tasks in sections in order to ensure that the horses had sufficient physical strength to deal with possible enemy situations. The cavalry, who had been in the vanguard at the front of the line, had walked for dozens of miles, then stopped in place, waiting for the cavalry on both flanks to take their place. Let these escort cavalry, whose actual mileage far exceeds that of the avant-garde cavalry, have time to rest and regain their strength.

Just as the two or three thousand cavalry were gradually gathering in one place, suddenly an astonishing news came from the westernmost end of the line: "There are Li Chuang's soldiers and horses blocking the road!" ”

Jialazhangjing Ada Hai, who was responsible for the forward mission, heard the military information reported by his subordinate slaves, and he also laughed wildly: "This group of thieves! How bold! That's good! Ben Jiala would like to thank them for their military exploits! ”

"Array!"

"Change horses, it's time to hunt!"

After his military order was handed down, the more than 1,000 cavalry under his command immediately converged into a formation, and the collection of one Niu Lu and another Niu Lu formed a wedge-shaped battle formation suitable for cavalry combat. All the Qing soldiers also jumped on the war horses beside them and calmly put themselves in order.

The horses of the nomads and fishermen and hunters, who lacked bean feed and salt powder, were slightly inferior to the horses of the Central Plains, so they marched mostly with a number of horses. When marching, they rode inferior horses or mule horses, and the rest of the horses were placed with tent weapons and other baggage, and they were changed into war horses during the battle to maintain the horse's physical strength at any time.

These Qing soldiers have been in battle for a long time, and although they are trapped on a long march, and they have heard that a large number of enemy troops are coming, they are not chaotic at all.

Soon they changed horses one after another, forming a cavalry battle formation that was both offensive and defensive.

"Basha! Gurib! ”

He sharply summoned his officers one by one, and there was a Niulu on the left and right flanks, about two hundred cavalry, and one of them each had a group of Bayala soldiers. He personally led the frontal assault, including two hundred heavily armored cavalry.

One after another like a wolf's howl whistle sounded, as the Ada Hai adjusted the deployment, a group of clear cavalry came out of the formation, the cavalry began to move, first jogging in small steps, then into small steps to run, then increased speed, and then increased the speed of the horse, hundreds of cavalry were all red and yellow armor color, iron hooves churning, they swept over like a hurricane. Although the number of people is small, the momentum is not small.

They urged their horses faster and faster, and they swept towards the infantry team of Dugu Hanjiang from three directions. They are arranged in a wedge-shaped battle array, in an arc-shaped array, the recess in the middle is a heavy armored cavalry, they are armed with spears, all of them are covered with iron cotton armor, there should be chain mail in the middle, and even the war horses under them are covered with cotton armor only showing their mouths and noses. On either side of them, there were also lightly armored archers with bows and arrows, and the clear horsemen either screamed with joy or rode their horses without a sound, and their faces were full of cruelty.

Kankan increased the speed of the war horse, and after only two or three miles, the scene in front of him made Adahai's heart chill! Directly ahead, several Shun military arrays opened up, blocking the way. A rejecting rifle was set up in front of the phalanx, and the dense tips of the spears made people tremble when they saw it. Behind the repulsion of the horse and gun array, there were rows of pikemen, crouching or standing, pointing their spears at the galloping cavalry.

These are all easy to do, and Adahai is also a person who has fought hundreds of battles, and he has seen a lot of scenes. However, what made him panic the most was the artillery that was placed between these phalanxes, and from a distance, from the shape of the machine, it should be the six-pounder cannon made by the Great Buddha Lang Machine and the Nanban. These artillery pieces are most suitable for this kind of mountain warfare.

On both sides of the artillery, behind the pikemen, are the musketeers who make all the Qing soldiers dream of nightmares at night!

"Damn scoundrels! When did they also learn the tactics of those southern barbarians? Adahai was furious in his heart.

The mountain road is rugged and narrow, and the cavalry brigade cannot be used, but it is a good battlefield for the infantry led by Dugu Hanjiang to set fire and artillery. Ada Hai was hesitating whether to withdraw his troops for the time being, waiting for the infantry behind him to catch up, and use those troops who had newly returned to the Qing Dynasty to fight these Li Chuang thieves. was thinking and hesitating, the opposite side of the fire flashed, a cloud of smoke rose, a round iron ball went straight to the Qing army, viciously hit the cavalry team, the iron ball jumped, hit the flesh and blood of the people and horses, and directly rolled out of a bloody road.

The Qing army's formation was chaotic, and it was crowded into a pile like headless flies, and it was best not to have a big target. As soon as the artillery bombarded it, it immediately caused a commotion among Adahai's men and horses, and the neighing and screaming of those wounded soldiers or horses seriously damaged the morale of these Qing cavalry.

Adahai desperately tried to stop the commotion of his subordinates, and he shouted violently: "Don't move, those who violate the order will be killed!" ”

The Shun army has already opened fire and can only move forward desperately. Break through the resistance of the infantry of the Shun army in front of you, otherwise, once you retreat, you will be covered by the infantry of the Shun army on the mountain road, and the men and horses will trample on each other and impact the ranks of your own army, in that case, the sin will be great!

He saw very clearly that the Shun army on the opposite side was lined up according to the formation of pikemen in front and musketeers in the back, and the cavalry was blocked by a horse and gun formation in front of him, which was clearly cowardly and did not dare to fight! What if such an army has artillery? Isn't it a rush to collapse?!

"Baturu, follow Ben Jia Ra and kill him without leaving a piece of armor behind! The heavy treasures and jade silks of the children in the camp of the thieves are at your disposal! ”

He waved the heavy tiger tooth knife in his hand, and let out a howl when he looked up to the sky, and the sound was earth-shattering. As his howl sounded, a wolf-like howl sounded around him, and all the Qing soldiers waved their weapons and let out a wolf-like howl, and more than a thousand cavalrymen seemed to instantly turn into a huge wolf pack.

In the howl, the elite cavalry of the more than 1,000 Qing troops closely followed the horse leaping out of Ada Hai rolling forward, Ada Hai's left hand tightly grasped the reins, and his right hand was wielding his tiger tooth knife weighing more than 20 catties. He rushed to the front of the line, and a house slave, also in heavy armor, followed him closely with his banner as a sign to guide the whole army to attack.

Encouraged by this, the Qing soldiers also rushed to follow behind, and the heavy armor soldiers and Baya soldiers in front of them came behind the lightly armored and unarmored bannermen. They rushed in densely, and they didn't care about the formation of the battle formation! What is artillery in front? What is the rejection of the horse and the gun array? What is the point of a firecracker? Our Eight Banners Manchurian warriors have to be bloody again, that is, to use this power to scare the Li Chuang thieves on the other side!

Hoofs rolled, dust fell, and the earth seemed to tremble under the blow of iron hooves. The heavy cavalry attacked, and the power was really extraordinary!

However, the mountain road is narrow and can accommodate up to a dozen horses to storm side by side. The reason why he chose to ambush the Qing army at this location was also decided by carefully looking at the terrain. At this moment, he stood calmly in the middle of the military formation, holding the red and yellow command flags in his hands, and looked at the Qing army team that was coming from far and near without blinking.

"Gunner, reload gunpowder!"

"Fireman, check the flint! Check the sub-medicine! ”

As the sound of hooves became louder and louder, the officers of the battalions under Dugu Hanjiang passed orders one after another, urging their soldiers to prepare to meet the enemy.

"Check the medicine, check the flint!"

"Attention all guns, ...... shotguns"

The officers shouted one after another, telling the soldiers who were just coming to the enemy to prepare for themselves.

"Ready."

"First column come forward, ready, ready to shoot!"

At the sound of the order, the front row of pikemen immediately sat down on the spot, making way for the musketeers behind them to fire in the area. Behind them, a row of hundreds of firearms clanged incessantly, and they rolled down from their shoulders. Most of these firecrackers were the best firecrackers found in the Jiazhan warehouse in Beijing, most of them were the original Nanban firecrackers purchased from Nanzhong, and some of them were carefully created by the Imperial Horse Supervisor. The hundreds of firecrackers in the front row, holding firearms, were focused on aiming, aiming at the cavalry rolling in front.

Their minds are calm, and their hands are more steady. They all knew that in front of them, in addition to the horse rejection rifles, there was also a trench that was not deep but very wide, which was used to block the Qing cavalry and cover them from firing. However, the more reliable protection than the trenches and the repelling rifles are the brothers with spears in front of them.

"Fire!"

In the excited shouts of the artillery battalion officers, the ground shook violently, and there was a deafening sound of artillery salvos, and four Hongyi six-pounder guns and five large Francophone machines opened fire in unison.

The dense light and smoke quickly enveloped the repulsors, pikemen, and musketeers. In front of them, within a range of no more than 100 paces wide and more than 300 paces, they were all shrouded in the shotgun projectiles fired by these nine guns.

The density of projectiles within this range can be described as raining down bullets.

The most obvious result is that the heavy armored cavalry of the Qing army rushing in front of them were swept away, especially when they were densely crowded, and they were even better targets.

After a volley of artillery, the dead men and horses of the Qing army in front of the trench were suddenly piled up on the ground, with internal organs and stumps, and countless broken hands and feet. Those galloping heavy armored cavalry originally did not have any strict array, but they were stopped by a pile of dead corpses and dead horses in the east and west, and their speed suddenly slowed down, and they no longer had any charging power.

Constant galloping cavalry were tripped to the ground by dead men and horses, and the front was blocked. There were also some horses that were frightened by the sound of cannons, or who were wounded and angry, and galloped in all directions covered in blood, causing a great deal of chaos.

"Firecrackers, up!"

The cavalry of the Qing army had lost the speed of their impact, and Dugu Hanjiang was very determined to order the pikemen to get out of the way, and let the fire guns go to the first line, that is, to use the red-hot projectiles behind the horse pistols to entertain these guests from afar.

"Put!"

After hearing the commander's order, the musketeers of the Dashun army immediately pulled the trigger on the Qing cavalry not far away, who were either hesitating and hesitating, or were blocked by the dead and wounded everywhere and were advancing slowly. The sound of popping beans sounded, and after a few rounds of artillery bombardment, a dense and narrow area of gunpowder smoke was vacated in front of the battle formation.

In the neighing of people and horses, the principle of shooting people first and horses was well implemented by the musketeers of the Dashun army. Originally! The war horse has a big goal, and when the war horse is defeated, the rider on horseback also falls. As the sound of fire continued to sound, there were Qing cavalry men and horses who were shot and fell to the ground, and there were constantly riders on horseback who were thrown and eaten, and then most of these people were trampled into meat by the rolling cavalry.

"Put!"

After a few rounds of firing with firearms, the Qing cavalry were stunned to find that Lord Jialazhangjing Adahai, who had rushed in front with high spirits and majesty just now, had disappeared at this time.

Someone's eyes were sharp, and he vaguely found that only half of the body of Lord Jiala's war horse was left, and another thigh was still in the stirrup.

In a short period of time, such huge casualties caused even Lord Jialazhangjing to be killed. This was a huge blow to the morale of the Qing cavalry. I don't know who took the lead first, under the shroud of great fear, the remaining Qing cavalry turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the war horses under their crotches fiercely towards the way they came.