Chapter 851: The swan song of the Cossack cavalry
Khmelnitsky's original plan was very good, after all, he was fighting on the territory of his own country, and compared to the Ming army that was on an expedition of thousands of miles, his side should always have an advantage in logistics and supplies, right?
However, there is an old saying that is good, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny, whether it is the so-called goddess of war or the goddess of luck, it is obvious that she did not stand on the side of Khmelnitsky, but lifted her skirt against Daming, revealing the ...... inside
The current situation is that the Ming Dynasty did not face the problem of material supply, but the Khmelnitsky side had a headache in terms of logistics and materials, and the longer it dragged on, the more unfavorable it was for these Cossack cavalry led by Khmelnitsky.
On the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder could not be seen, the rangers and outposts on both sides were testing back and forth, killing each other, and dozens of fresh lives disappeared into this world almost every day.
It was the Cossack cavalry that disappeared the most.
There is no way, there has never been anything fair in the world, even if there is, in fact, it is only relatively fair, whether it is weapons or armor, the Cossack cavalry is the weaker side compared with the first-level combat reserve troops of the Ming Dynasty.
Even in terms of war horses, which should have taken advantage, the Cossacks did not have much advantage.
After all, the quality of horse breeds is one thing, but in terms of the cultivation and training of war horses, the Ming Dynasty took advantage of it, after all, the knowledge accumulated over thousands of years is the most valuable and cannot be replicated.
After countless times of testing each other, Amin was still calm, and he didn't see any anxiety at all, even Meng Xianglin and Wan Yanli, the two killers, no longer considered other issues now, but took advantage of this rare opportunity to humbly ask the regular army for survival skills on the battlefield.
Khmelnitsky could not bear it any longer.
If you endure any longer, there will probably only be one left, all the civilians on your side will run out, or all of them will fall to the Ming Empire, and the Cossack cavalry led by you will not be able to wait for the supplies sent by Moscow, and then it will be over.
Then Khmelnitsky and his Cossack cavalry took on the blue and blue flags led by Amin.
Amin sat on top of the war horse, looked at the Cossack cavalry in the distance with a telescope, and said to the eunuch who was in almost the same posture next to him: "Speaking of which, this staff system is really useful.
In the past, you had to think about almost everything in a war, and if you didn't think about it, there would be big problems. Well, now that we have all kinds of operational staff officers, we just need to choose the right one among the plans they put forward, and it is very worry-free. ”
The eunuch Zuo Duan of the prison army was a little eunuch who castrated himself into the palace in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and later entered the imperial horse eunuch by chance, and he was also a ruthless character who followed Emperor Chongzhen to sweep Mobei, and then he was sent to become a eunuch of the prison army.
After listening to Amin's words, Zuo Duan smiled and said, "Who are those staff officers?" They're all readers, right? It is said that the hearts of the scholars are dark, and it can be seen from the battle plans they have formulated.
Don't look at our family as a eunuch, and we have seen a lot of tricks in the palace, but if you really want to talk about viciousness, those methods in the palace are not worn even if they lift shoes for these combat staff officers! ”
Zhou Yu, the chief of operational staff on the other side of Amin, was immediately unhappy after hearing Zuo Duan's words: "Why do you say that? How good are the methods in your palace? Didn't you take out all that bullshit?
Besides, what's wrong with these vicious battle plans made by the staff officers? When used on the barbarians, can it still be called vicious? ”
Amin hummed and said, "That's right, where in the world are there so many upright? Soldiers, treacherous people, can win the war is a good strategy, especially for these barbarians. ”
While the three of them were arguing, the Cossack cavalry on the opposite side had already begun to urge their horses to charge.
Khmelnitsky used the most customary and favorite tactics of the Cossacks.
In other words, there is no tactic at all, directly pressing on the large army, and directly rushing to the enemy's Chinese army array, playing thousands of years of war with the Central Plains Dynasty, developing countless different tactics, there is a fart tactic on the European side......
Just like the Macedonian phalanx that the Ou Blowers have knelt and licked countless times, if they were to compete with Wei Wushu during the Warring States Period, it is estimated that the fathers of these Ou Blowers would have been gone long ago.
Because the only protective gear in Macedonia was a shield, the so-called spear was similar to a horse rejection, and was used to defend against cavalry.
In addition to the tactics of the military formation, the army of the Central Plains Dynasty wanted a shield with a shield, not the kind of round shield used by Macedonia, but a square shield When it comes to the protection of soldiers in the military formation, the gap between the round shield and the square shield is not an order of magnitude......
As for the so-called spears, the horses of the Central Plains Dynasty are gone? In addition to this, there is more armor than them and so on.
For a military formation like Macedonia, even if there is no equipment such as muskets and artillery, they can be killed by relying only on the most primitive cavalry archers and kite flying tactics.
As for the English longbowmen who can make the Obu people ** countless times, first count how many, how many arrows can an English longbowman shoot before he comes out to speak, especially in countries that can't even make bows and arrows......
The reason why these two goods can shine is nothing more than because Europe at that time was still in a worse time, just like the end of the Ming Dynasty in the original history.
It's just that in this bad process, the Macedonian phalanx and the English longbow table performed slightly better, so a large number of European blowers in later generations could be ** countless times because of this.
At the very least, the tactics of the Cossack cavalry led by Khmelnitsky in front of him made the telescope in Amin's hand almost fall to the ground.
Amin thinks that the means of fighting the war are not very clever, after all, at the beginning of his army, he relied on a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as the art of war to learn, even if he studied in the martial arts hall for a period of time, he did not make any progress, and was scolded countless times by the instructors of the martial arts hall.
However, even so, Amin felt that he was countless times stronger than the barbarians on the other side.
The reason is very simple, Amin can see from the news that the performance of the Cossack cavalry in Europe is indeed very good, at least many European countries, especially Poland, always look constipated when mentioning the Cossack cavalry.
However, when they really arrived on the battlefield, they found that these Cossack cavalrymen who were abused into dead dogs by the Mongol cavalry did not learn a little bit of the Mongolian cavalry's gameplay, let alone any tactics such as mangu, but they were still the same as before.
The army pressed up and took the middle army directly.
Amin felt a wave of sorrow.
The battle plan that more than a dozen staff officers had repeatedly deliberated several times was all in vain, and the military formations and defense plans prepared for this purpose were all in vain.
Flank? The Cossack horses led by Khmelnitsky did not think about it at all, and the unorganized and undisciplined Cossack characteristics were once again manifested, and then these spicy chickens rushed over.
Fuck, a large number of troops have been prepared to be distributed on both sides of the protective flanks, and all kinds of protective means have basically been put together, and the result is that they are not used at all!
Amin, who was extremely painful, simply didn't care about the affairs of the two wings, and simply ordered his own soldiers to give orders, and the Chinese army directly killed this group of Cossack cavalry.
When these unorganized and undisciplined Cossack cavalry rushed to a distance of more than 300 meters from the main formation of the Chinese army, the artillerymen brought by Amin began to speak with artillery!
Ignoring Alkimir's warning, the Cossack cavalry, who had collectively charged over, suffered a great loss, not to mention countless casualties by shells, and a large wave of horses trampled to death after being frightened.
The Zhenglan Banner and Blue Banner cavalry under Amin's command were originally distributed on both wings with Meng Xianglin and Wanyan Li's killers, but now when they saw that the Cossack cavalry formation on the opposite side was finished, these killers were immediately excited.
I've never seen such a rookie cavalry!
The Ming Dynasty has been fighting with the Jiannu cavalry for decades, and the Mongolian cavalry for three hundred years, whether it is the Jiannu cavalry or the Mongolian cavalry, at least there is still a little bit to see, and it can also give the generals of the Ming Dynasty a headache.
But it was the turn of these Cossack cavalrymen who were blown into the sky by the Europeans, and these killers were pleasantly surprised to find that this group of cavalry did not even do protection against artillery, let alone other tactics!
Now the formation of these Cossack cavalry has been chaotic, except for the dead ones in front, the rest are still rushing forward, except for those who are frightened by the horses, the rest are closely following and rushing forward, this kind of opportunity is simply a good time once in a century!
The cavalry with the blue flag and the blue flag, plus the killers under Meng Xianglin and Wan Yanli, rushed out with a roar.
It didn't matter if the Cossack cavalry didn't care about the two flanks, the favorite thing for these killers was to outflank them and then encircle them.
Isn't it just more than 15,000 cavalry against more than 50,000 cavalry, it was originally a scene of evenly matched, but now the opponent's war horse is frightened, but it is his own side that has the advantage!
And the killers of the Ming cavalry are obviously not those armies that pay attention to war etiquette during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, let alone the situation like the battle, but after using the musket to come first, they took out the crossbow hanging on the horse's neck, and finally drew out the saber.
It was a farce more like a war than a war, and the Cossack cavalry fell into a state of bewilderment from the very beginning, and the cavalry was killed and wounded at the hands of their own men, and even far more than at the hands of the Ming artillery and cavalry.
The most important thing is the unorganized and undisciplined formation, and the war horses that have not undergone the baptism of artillery cannot adapt to the impact of the Ming Dynasty's artillery salvo, whether it is gunsmoke or roar.
War horses are too intelligent creatures, all intelligent animals will be afraid of death, unless they are completely accustomed to the sound of artillery, no war horse can continue to keep charging in the roar of artillery, only by the rider's superb riding skills.
At the end of the entire battlefield, Amin put down the telescope that he had been holding, and sighed before saying, "It's over, there's nothing to see." ”
Zuo Duan said with a relation: "This is probably the swan song of the Cossack cavalry, right?" ”
Amin nodded and said, "I don't know if it's the swan song of all the Cossack cavalry, but it's definitely the swan song of these Cossack cavalrymen in front of me."
They are finished, there is no hope, even if they still have so many people left, but they are no different from pigs and sheep to be slaughtered. ”
It was indeed the final swan song, the number of people turned into a joke in front of dozens of artillery pieces and thousands of muskets, and the army of the Ming Dynasty had begun the final harvesting operation.
If nothing else, it will probably be time for lunch, this so-called war will be declared over, and no one believes that the Cossack cavalry, whether it is Amin or those Ming soldiers on the battlefield, can hold on any longer.
Khmelnitsky had closed his eyes tightly and no longer looked at the battlefield in front of him.
It's not that I haven't imagined a situation of defeat before, nor has I not planned what to do after failure, and even how to evacuate after defeat has been notified to the red stick below.
However, Khmelnitsky did not expect that he would fail to become what he is now, and it was impossible to even retreat.
With the artillery and muskets of the Ming Dynasty began to speak one after another, a large number of war horses were frightened, and then a large number of war horses galloped back and forth like headless flies, and the most loyal and reliable comrades-in-arms in the past became the god of death who harvested their lives.
More than 50,000, ten reorganized Cossack cavalry regiments, basically buried in this nameless wilderness at one time, since then, there are no more Cossack cavalry across the Eurasian continent, and they have lost their last use value.
What happens to a dog if it doesn't work?
If you meet a more merciful master, you will probably be able to get a good death, and if you meet a more cruel master, the biggest possibility is to be skinned and eaten meat.
And Mikhailovich, the tsar, is clearly not a benevolent master, and it is unlikely that anything good will end for him.
Taking a step back, even if Mikhailovich was kind, he would not have done anything to himself, but what about his own people?
If you take their sons, husbands, and fathers out to fight, but you don't take them back, what face do you have to meet those people? Will they let themselves go?
After exhaling a deep breath of turbidity, Khmelnitsky opened his eyes and looked at the battlefield again, rather than fleeing back, it was better to die here, at least he was killed in battle, not a deserter.
However, the changes on the battlefield made Khmelnitsky almost spurt a mouthful of old blood to death.
A large number of Cossack cavalry, unable to withstand the casualties and the fear of the battlefield, chose to dismount and surrender after being cornered......
ps: Today's chapter pushes a copy of "Three Kingdoms Zhao is the Emperor"