Chapter 874: The Peak Duel of the Cavalry
However, no matter how much he was able to come back alive, he lost this battle, and in Břigood's opinion, this battle was a bit inexplicable!
He had never seen an infantry that could remain calm and fight to the death under so many cavalry charges.
It's not superstitious!
Looking at the cavalry that had returned from the rout in front, Burigood's face was extremely gloomy, this time he suffered heavy casualties, how could he explain to Altan Khan!
Although they have not all been evacuated, it seems that even if the number of people withdrawn is more, the casualties will definitely exceed 3,000 horsemen!
This is 3,000 cavalry, not 3,000 infantry, not 3,000 ordinary young men, but 3,000 skilled cavalry with bows and horses!
But what else can be done, defeat is defeated, all that can be done now is to withdraw first, and then find an opportunity, but just when he was about to give the order to leave this place that made him sad, he faintly heard something in his ears, this voice is somewhat familiar.
However, he suddenly thought of something, and then looked up in the direction where the voice came from, only to see a puff of smoke and dust rolling up in the northwest direction!
It's cavalry, and it's a lot of cavalry, even if there are not two thousand cavalry, but it's not much worse.
Burigood instantly made a judgment in his heart, and then squinted and continued to look, whose cavalry was it?
Was it the reinforcements sent by the Great Khan?
Or the cavalry of the Illustrative Army, but isn't it the cavalry of the Explanatory Army on the east bank of the canal?
Or is it the cavalry of the Don Army?
But didn't the Tang army say that there were not many cavalry, and they were always wandering around, and they did not fight with their Tatar cavalry at all.
As time passed, the sound in the distance gradually became clear, it was the sound of the hooves of many war horses trampling the earth!
Then he also saw that those cavalry were not reinforcements sent by Altan Khan at all, nor were they Ming cavalry, but Tang cavalry, because those cavalry were wearing uniform dark blue military uniforms.
Throughout the land of China, only the Tang Army wore it like this
"Quick, get ready to meet the enemy!" The Tatar cavalry, who had just withdrawn from the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army, had not had time to catch their breath when they were urged by the Tatar generals to line up to meet the enemy.
At this time, Buzhigud's face was no longer gloomy, but became extremely annoyed, numb, the infantry of the Tang Army bullied us, and you Tang Army cavalry even want to come and rob with fire!
He just wants to show these Tang troops today that your infantry phalanx is powerful, and your guns are powerful, but when it comes to cavalry, we Tatars are kings!
The cavalry of the Tang Army, which is less than 2,000, actually wants to charge against him, which is definitely impatient!
The Tatar cavalry who withdrew once again urged the horses, this time, they took the initiative to meet them, although they had suffered a lot of casualties before, but now there are more than 6,000 cavalry, more than three times the cavalry strength of the Tang Army!
This time, Burigood wants to use the most direct cavalry hedge to tell these Tang cavalry that Lao Tzu is not easy to mess with!
At this time, Chen Keqiao was also holding a telescope in the rear, since the Tatar cavalry chose to take the initiative to retreat, in fact, the Fifth Infantry Division was idle, because the enemy's cavalry was six-legged, and his own Fifth Infantry Division could not catch up even if it wanted to pursue, and if this pursuit, if the formation was not gone, people would kill a horse pistol casually, and their Fifth Infantry Division would be finished.
Besides, being able to take out three thousand Tatar cavalry, this is already enough.
The next battle basically has nothing to do with the Fifth Infantry Division, no matter whether Lu Yuzhi's cavalry is defeated or won!
However, the necessary support was still needed, and Chen Keqiao immediately ordered that the multiple infantry regiments in front of them advance quickly while maintaining the basic formation, which is not to say that in order to cooperate with the third cavalry detachment, the infantry could not intervene in the battle between the cavalry.
What Chen Keqiao had to do was to respond to the Third Cavalry Detachment when the Third Cavalry Detachment was unfavorable in battle, or to help clear and capture the enemy's remnants when the Third Cavalry Detachment was victorious.
In short, it's to get started!
After giving the order, Chen Keqiao continued to watch the battle with a telescope in the rear!
Through the binoculars, he clearly saw the cavalry of the Tang Army killed from the north, which was the main force of the Third Cavalry Detachment, if nothing else, it should be led by Major General Lu Yuzhi himself, with a strength of about 1,800 cavalry.
This is only 1,800 cavalry, and against the Tatar cavalry of 6,000 cavalry, the disadvantage in strength is very great.
Chen Keqiao had already contacted the Third Cavalry Detachment to support the operation, and the Third Cavalry Detachment also arrived quickly, but Chen Keqiao's previous idea was just to let the Third Cavalry Detachment respond to himself.
However, Lu Yuzhi obviously had his own ideas, and when the Tatars just chose to retreat, they took the initiative to kill, and even did not hesitate to run long distances, and galloped on horseback several kilometers away.
However, the Tatar cavalry fought with the Fifth Infantry Division before, and the physical consumption of the war horse and cavalry was also very great.
In the telescope, the array of the 3rd Cavalry Detachment, as seen by Chen Keqiao in the past, was still a rigid and strict formation, and the actions of the cavalry were almost unified, with 1,800 horsemen, forming four waves before and after.
And every wave, it's basically a huge cavalry phalanx!
Chen Keqiao heard that when Lu Yuzhi was training cavalry, he was very strict, strictly prohibiting the cavalry from speeding up on their own when fighting on horseback, and requiring the cavalry to maintain a unified rhythm.
Even the speed of the charge must be uniformly ordered, and those who run fast with their horses, run past the horses and run to the front when they charge in formation, or deliberately neglect and lag behind, will be severely punished.
For the Tang cavalry, in fact, the training method is similar to that of the infantry, all of which strictly follow various disciplines.
When the officers tell you to trot, you must not run, let alone run fast, and when the officers tell you to draw your sword to fight, you also take a musket and shoot, and the officers are going to go crazy.
At this time, Lu Yuzhi, as Chen Keqiao expected, personally led the team to launch a charge!
Without any temptation, he didn't even let the cavalry meet them with muskets, but directly charged with his saber!
As one of the most prestigious cavalry generals in the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yuzhi is very fond of sabre weapons!
thinks that the battle of cavalry must be fought with sabers, and rows of cavalry wield sabers to kill them, no matter who is on the other side, they will directly cut them with a knife!
And Lu Yuzhi's idea is actually related to the disadvantages of the Tang cavalry, the Tang cavalry has few horses, and the quality of the horses is poor, and they can't afford to play heavy cavalry or lancers at all, so the cavalry in the Tang Army is currently only equipped with two weapons, arquebuses and sabers for cavalry!
Originally, there was an arquebus, but this thing was quickly abandoned by the Tang cavalry because of its difficulty in use
At present, the Privy Council is planning to replace the cavalry with cavalry flintlock pistols with slightly shorter barrels, but it has not yet been mass-produced, and it is estimated that it will take several months before they can be equipped in batches.
At the same time, the Privy Council also wanted to pick up the cavalry pistol again and use the rifle, but this kind of rifle, the Royal Institute of Technology was still conducting design tests, and it would not be possible to get it for a while.
But whether the flintlock pistol is equipped or not, in fact, in Lu Yuzhi's opinion, it does not have much effect, in his opinion: a saber is enough!
Now, Lu Yuzhi was too lazy to use other messy tactics, and directly led the cavalry to launch a saber charge!
After the defeat of the Tatar cavalry on the opposite side of the attack on the Fifth Infantry Division, the morale of the army was already very low, and the physical fitness of the horses and cavalry was also reduced a lot, which was very beneficial to the Tang cavalry.
So even if the Tatars had more cavalry, he was fearless!
The Tang Army, in addition to the artillery likes to overwhelm people by numbers, infantry and cavalry have always fought more with less, since the Huangzhushan era, the advantage of strength for the infantry and cavalry of the Tang Army, that is only a word that exists in legends.
When the Datang Army formulates various combat plans, it basically does not use the word force superiority, because they have never had a force advantage.
In the past, when the Tang cavalry fought with the Ming cavalry, they also fought more with less, and they were able to win.
So, this time he is just as fearless!
A mere 1,800 cavalry dared to charge at him, which made Burigood almost annoyed, this time, he must make these Tang cavalry look good and vent a thing or two!
The previous defeat to the Tang infantry made him depressed and helpless, and he accumulated a sullen feeling in his heart!
The Tatar cavalry also rushed up, and the cavalry on both sides galloped quickly over the field, constantly approaching, eight hundred meters, three hundred meters!
At this time, Lu Yuzhi had already raised his command knife, and gave the last order before the battle between the two sides with a flat expression: "Kill!" ”
The adjutant next to him shouted: "Kill! ”
The herald blew the horn in a hurry!
The cavalry charge to transmit the order is to use this horn sound, different frequencies, representing different orders!
And now the rapid sound of the horn represents the order to charge with all your might!
The heralds between multiple waves kept blowing the hurried horns, passing Lu Yuzhi's orders to the entire Third Cavalry Detachment, and then, the entire Third Cavalry Detachment, like a whole, quickly carried out the final acceleration.
In the end, only three hundred meters, under the high-speed charge of the cavalry on both sides, it was crossed almost in the blink of an eye.
Then, the cavalry of both sides collided fiercely!