Linhuaiguan pontoon bridge.

"My lord, it seems that this tactic alone cannot defeat the cavalry."

Li Zicheng said cautiously.

The bypassing attack of the Mongol cavalry was useless, firstly, there was a mudflat swamp next to Li Jin, and secondly, a battalion of cavalry was also enough to protect the flanks, although those cavalry had not attacked so far, in fact, the enemy would not attack without a rout, and these cavalry really wanted cavalry to not be able to beat the Mongol cavalry, on the contrary, they had to rely on the musketeers in the middle to provide cover.

At the same time he himself shot at the Mongol cavalry with a short gun.

But......

They were cavalry.

And it was a cavalry formation, as densely packed as the infantry.

The Mongol cavalry could not rush them.

The Mongol cavalry who tried to charge them had to withstand the six rounds of arquebus, and then they had to face their short guns, and at last there was very little left to rush in front of them, at most adding a few more to their spears, and they had to be careful of flank attacks, because the musketeers who were hiding behind the spear phalanx were constantly firing at them.

As for the one who stormed the phalanx of spears, that one was meaningless.

By this time, even the Mongol cavalry had abandoned the spear charge and switched to using bows and arrows for counterfire.

However, the two musketeers in the main formation also resumed six rounds of fire, and the arrows of the Mongol cavalry were not lethal to the spearmen's half-body armor, but their turtledove bullets hit the latter's chain mail as if they were playing.

This thing is indeed accurate, and the killing distance is only about thirty meters.

But it doesn't mean that you can hit 30 meters.

In fact, the Spanish heavy arquebus was the farthest with a killing range of more than 200 meters, and there is a legend that the farthest recorded was the killing of a horse at 400 yards.

Cavalry bow and shoot at it?

That's funny!

However, this tactic did not protect the cavalry with infantry alone......

The Swedes relied on cavalry to protect the flanks, and Gu Erye reformed not only the infantry, but also the Swedish cavalry. It was not until after the reform of the second master of Gu, that is, the current cavalry of Yang Xin's musket phalanx, that the Swedish cavalry withstood the impact of the bird feathers, and was no longer beaten by the latter and fled, and the bird feathers of the same cavalry could not rush the Swedish infantry.

But without the inverted T formation of the cavalry, it was almost impossible to withstand the cavalry attack alone.

In this point it is inferior to the Spanish phalanx.

The exaggerated thickness of the latter and the solid formation of the four directions made it impossible for any cavalry to be crushed before they were consumed until they collapsed, so at the end of the Battle of Rocroix, a Spanish phalanx in a desperate situation still made it extremely difficult for Grand Condé.

And the Swedes had to have cavalry to guarantee not to be overwhelmed by bird feathers.

But......

"This one can be!"

Yang Xin pointed to the distance and said.

There......

There were four battalion-sized columns advancing.

The crossing point is not only the pontoon bridge, the Huai River is a V-shaped in the Linhuai Pass area, the pontoon bridge is at the tip of the V-shape, both sides of the upstream or downstream, are the infantry transported by boat, and the militia and ferries collected from Fengyang, Shouxian and other places in the upstream have already transported the guard brigade across the river, but the artillery and cavalry have not yet passed.

But just four battalions of infantry were enough.

The four infantry battalions joined the battlefield in a standard lobster-style battalion-level column, and the reorganized ten sentry posts were at the forefront with grenadier sentry at the front, and nearly 100 soldiers were in three rows of horizontal formations, all burly in shape, carrying flintlock pistols on their shoulders, carrying thunder guns and grenades on their backs, and even equipped with combat sabers.

However, mine-shooting guns are not used in the field.

Even if it is a flintlock pistol, the success rate of firing cannot be 100%.

You can imagine the consequences of a lit grenade in the barrel and then not hitting it, this thing is only used for storming.

The line of infantry posts behind the grenadiers is also three columns, one sentry and one team are arranged backwards in turn, between the fifth and sixth sentry posts are the battalion commander and his subordinate officers on horseback, and the distance between the sentry posts is more than one zhang, the sentry commander and the drummer, and the standard-bearer are still in front of their respective horizontal columns, and the deputy sentry commander and the instructor are on both sides.

Finally, there are the skirmishers.

In this way, the four battalion-sized columns began to march towards the flank of the Mongol cavalry to the beat of drums.

The latter immediately split a third......

Apparently they were careless.

After all, for them, this infantry without spears and plate armor is not even as threatening as Li Jinbu, whose spears are terrible, and these Mongol cavalry are more afraid of spears than muskets, after all, muskets have a limited rate of fire. The actual combat rate of fire of the arquebus is hardly lower than one round a minute, and even on the battlefield for various reasons, a round of two or three minutes is not an exaggeration.

This is really not as terrible as the jungle with spears for cavalry.

But these do not have spears.

At the same time, in the middle of the battalion-level column, those battalion commanders issued orders to change formations.

One by one, the horizontal teams were quickly mobilized, and groups of two and two occupied one side respectively, and a battalion-level hollow phalanx was completed in a blink of an eye.

The grenadiers are outside.

These specially selected big men stood outside the side facing the cavalry, forming a single horizontal formation, each with two grenades, and a burning arquebus wrapped around their wrists, watching the surging cavalry on the opposite side, and waiting for the line of infantry behind them. The stragglers were encircled in the phalanx, and their task was to maneuver reinforcements, and the sentry officers also stood behind their posts with weapons.

And in the middle are battalion officers.

Including artillery.

It is true that the field artillery of the brigade is still crossing the river, but the infantry battalion has its own artillery......

"This is the Mongolian cavalry, our ancestors fought the Mongolian cavalry, and now we are also going to fight the Mongolian cavalry!

Brothers, don't disgrace your ancestors! ”

The sentry chief of the first battalion of grenadiers, Chen Sheng, who was originally a guard of Nanjing Xiaoling, shouted.

"Fight to the end!"

There was a roar to his right.

At the same time, in the phalanx behind them, six battalion nine-pound howitzers spewed flames.

This new type of artillery, which also has an artillery mount, but is more like a mortar, is currently only available in the Guard Brigade and the two cavalry brigades directly under it, because they shoot the same expensive flowering shells, in fact, they are more suitable for them are grenade shots, but unfortunately it is beyond the current technical level of Yang Xin. It can indeed be made, but the reliability is tragic, because it is difficult for the woodwind fuse to provide a really accurate detonation time, this kind of thing is better to use the medicine disc fuse, that requires technology, so the flowering shell of the woodwind fuze is the most suitable, if it is not facing the cavalry, this kind of artillery can also bombard the infantry with shotguns.

But solid bullets are rubbish, with little penetration.

Flowering shells immediately exploded in the Mongol cavalry.

But it can't stop them, at most it will cause some distraction.

The grenadiers, all composed of the guards of Nanjing, had a grenade in one hand, just like their ancestors more than two hundred years ago, quietly watching the Mongolian cavalry getting closer and closer, and the latter also carried spears under their ribs like their ancestors more than two hundred years ago, constantly urging their war horses to speed up......

Time and space seem to go back more than 200 years.

"Ready!"

Chen Sheng shouted.

All the soldiers raised their left arms to blow the fire ropes.

The advance of the Mongol cavalry gradually became clear......

"Light the fuse, drop the bomb!"

Chen Sheng's roar sounded again.

All the soldiers ignited the grenade in their right hand on the fire rope as fast as they could, then threw it with all their might aimed at the torrent of cavalry, and then without hesitation, took the grenade in their left hand and set it off in the same way. Having done all this, they didn't even look at the consequences of their own actions, took off the flintlock pistols they were carrying and ran back at full speed, then stopped in front of the line and turned to lie down, raising their guns and aiming them forward.

In the dense explosion sounded, the light of fire and the smoke of gunpowder exploded in the torrent of cavalry.

Even with training, such a dense explosion and smoke still left those Mongol cavalry in chaos.

However, most of the cavalry rushed out of the smoke of gunpowder.

But......

"Fire!"

A roar rang out behind the lines of the phalanx.

Together with the lying grenadiers, the kneeling first row and the standing second row pulled the trigger at the same time.

A salvo from a distance of thirty meters instantly brought the cavalry to a pulp.

The width of the battle line on one side of a phalanx is only a few tens of meters, and the width of two hundred infantry in three rows can be as wide as the row can be densely crowded, and the number of cavalry that can be accommodated by such a width is also limited. The width required for a cavalry charge is not comparable to that of infantry, and a cavalry charge must occupy two meters wide. What's more, the Mongolian cavalry did not ride on the wall, but a loose cavalry offensive formation, this width can have thirty cavalry is very crowded, and it has been blown up a lot by grenades before, at this moment a cavalry even has to face the fire of nearly ten flintlock pistols, and the forward of the entire cavalry is almost all down.

There was chaos in the back.

The cavalry, which had been disturbed by the grenade explosion, had to bypass or jump over because of the blocking of the fallen cavalry in front.

The rhythm of the charge, which was originally full of morale, was completely disrupted.

But there were still cavalry rushing through......

The soldiers of the second row who were standing silently exchanged muskets with the soldiers of the third row standing behind them, and the latter did not fire, which is why the British later changed to two rows of hollow phalanxes, because the third row did not have enough firing boundaries many times, but they could act as loaders.

The soldiers standing in the second row opened fire on the scattered twelve cavalrymen in front of them.

More than sixty flintlock muskets fired a thirty-meter salvo of twelve cavalrymen.

A lone cavalryman, as if blessed by his ancestors, rushed through this round of shooting, and he roared bravely without even knowing that there was no one behind him, but at the same time, Chen Sheng, who was in front of him, jumped up, and the axe and spear in his hand, which was the symbol of the sentry commander, fell in the air. The one-foot-long blade of the axe was slashing at the horse's neck, and the huge force instantly cut off the neck bone of the warhorse, and although the horse's head did not hit the ground, it also fell downward at a strange angle.

At the same time, the horse fell to its knees on its front legs.

The horseman on horseback flew out with a scream, and then a dozen bayonets at the point where he landed stabbed upwards at once.

The follow-up cavalry quickly split up and bypassed on both sides like a river hitting a pillar, but the line infantry on the left and right sides pulled the trigger......

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