Although the performance of more than 400 strikers of the Tang soldiers before exceeded the estimates of the Tatars, and this estimate is not how strong the Tang soldiers are, but the strength of the Tang soldiers seems to be weaker than expected.

Before going south, they had heard that the Tang soldiers in the south were strong, and after going south, in the limited contact with the generals of the Ming army, they also learned about the strength of the Tang soldiers in the rumors, and the most heard adjective was sharp guns.

So at this time, they already had an advance understanding of the sharpness of the Tang soldiers' guns, but they, like many civil servants and generals of the Ming Dynasty, thought that the strength of the Tang soldiers was purely dependent on the sharpness of the guns.

This is not the illusion of the arrogance of the Ming army, but because when the Tang Army and Navy are fighting, the power of guns is too great, and it is indeed very dependent on guns, especially when attacking fortified positions, hundreds of cannons are swinging, which is almost invincible, so far, no city can withstand the strong attack of the Tang Army.

Intensive artillery bombardment and blasting, even Changsha, Yangzhou and other cities that had been operated by the Ming army for a long time and had perfect city fortifications could not be resisted.

At this time, the Ming army often directly ignored another characteristic of the Tang Army, that is, the hand-to-hand combat ability of the Tang Army was not weak, not only was it not weak, but it also surpassed the Ming army a lot.

Even if you put aside the special combat example of the assault siege, just say that in the field, the bayonet charge has always been the Tang Army's forte!

In several large-scale field head-to-head battles, even if the Ming army suffered a lot of casualties in the firing stage, it was still able to barely maintain the formation and continue to fight, but when the two sides approached and a brutal white-knuckle battle broke out, then the Ming army often collapsed completely.

There are many reasons for this, on the one hand, the soldiers of the Datang Army are all professional soldiers, who carry out various trainings all year round, and have sufficient food, and the nutrients they absorb can support their high-intensity training, which also leads to the soldiers of the Datang Army, whose physical fitness is generally better than that of the Ming Army.

Secondly, the Tang Army is based on the training of the modern army, and the emphasis is on military law more than everything, so that the soldiers are more afraid of military law than death, so that the soldiers form the instinct to obey orders, and will not think too much, to put it bluntly, it is to train the soldiers into robots who only know how to obey orders to fight.

Finally, the equipment of the Datang Army, a large number of muskets, grenades, and artillery equipment can often make a large number of enemy casualties before hand-to-hand combat between the two sides, and with the large number of plate armor equipment, the protection ability of the Datang Army has been greatly improved.

Such many advantages, summed up, are that the melee ability of the Datang Army is actually not as weak as the Ming Army thinks, on the contrary, the melee ability of the Datang Army is very strong.

The guns are sharp, this is just the Tang Army that outsiders see, but in fact, the guns are sharp, just the appearance, the most powerful in the Tang Army is actually the bayonet charge!

The influence of the Tatars on the Tang Army was almost always heard from the Ming army, and some were heard by themselves from various rumors, and whether it was the Ming army or the rumors outside, they all said that the Tang Army had sharp guns, and other aspects were rarely mentioned.

When the previous hundreds of 'Tang soldiers' forwards were directly dispersed under the impact of their own cavalry, the confidence of the Tatars also rose, and there was a feeling that the Tang soldiers were nothing more than that.

Of course, even if the evaluation of Tang Bing in his heart has dropped several notches, the Tatars are still not arrogant and despise.

did not say that he rushed up directly, and launched a cavalry charge without saying a word, but only sent two thousand cavalry to test, if the results of the test proved that the combat effectiveness of the Tang soldiers was indeed nothing more than that, then Burigood would not hesitate to lead the main cavalry to rush forward and completely annihilate the 10,000 Tang soldiers.

If the result of the temptation is not too good, then he will not hesitate, he will cover the withdrawal of the 2,000 cavalry of the temptation, and then withdraw directly with tens of thousands of cavalry.

Anyway, there is no need for him to fight to the death with the Tang Army, if there is a bargain, it doesn't matter, anyway, as long as he is active in the south, the Tang Army has to divide his forces to guard against them, so it can be regarded as achieving the goal of containing the Tang Army and reducing the pressure on the 100,000 Ming Army in Anping Town.

The two thousand Tatar cavalry in front of them began to advance slowly in a traditional formation, what is a traditional formation, no matter what kind of chaotic cavalry formation the classical cavalry is, it is basically a group of cavalry gathered together, and then advance in a group, and then a large group is divided into several small teams, and the front and rear will be very open, forming a wave-like offensive rhythm, and there is basically no uniform queue.

Because there is no centralized training, and the speed of the war horse and the cavalry's riding skills are surprising, it is difficult to maintain a unified queue formation when charging.

Of course, this is still talking about the situation of heavy cavalry directly attacking the enemy array!

And the Tatars didn't have any heavy cavalry, most of them were light cavalry playing mounted archery!

The standard cavalry light cavalry against the infantry phalanx, or against the enemy heavy cavalry, looks like this:

At first, they wandered around the enemy at a distance, or simply stayed where they were, leaving the enemy infantry to form themselves in a stupid formation, and occasionally sending small groups of cavalry up to harass and shoot a wave of arrows.

Then wait until the opposing infantry is impatient or unable to hold on and wants to advance, they continue to pull away, but if the enemy infantry wants to retreat, when the enemy retreats, the formation is chaotic and rushes directly to shoot arrows!

And then...... And then there is no then, because at this time often the enemy infantry phalanx is finished!

The subsequent charge is just to expand the results!

If you don't want to waste time, or for other reasons, the cavalry will also attack directly, and the way of attacking is particularly interesting, that is, it will make small maneuvers, directly around the flank of the enemy array, or more precisely, in the direction of not having a large number of enemy archers.

Then these light cavalry will attack, and the way of attacking is also interesting: they do not mean directly rushing to hand-to-hand combat, but they divide into many waves of attack, forming a long column, and the leading cavalry will begin to turn sharply about a few tens of meters from the enemy array, passing in front of the enemy formation, during which the cavalry will begin to bend their bows and shoot arrows directly on horseback.

If the enemy army has no archers at all, or has no time to support, they will even simply dismount and shoot arrows directly with their infantry bows from tens of meters away, which is why cavalry cavalry usually carries two bows and arrows, one is a small cavalry bow, and the other is usually a powerful infantry bow.

Well, yes, they are not stupid enough to directly hit the enemy's infantry phalanx, the basic principle is to rush up and shoot arrows!

When the traditional infantry archers turn and run to the flanks to counterattack, they will not hesitate to get on their horses and run away!

Then, they change direction and do it again, again and again, again and again!

Then, then the enemy's infantry phalanx and even the heavy cavalry basically collapsed, and finally beat the water dogs, caught up and directly expanded the results with swords.

This tactic can be described in a simple term: kite flying!

It was this trick that the Mongols used to fight invincible opponents all over the world!

The Song army was forced to equip a large number of heavy infantry and develop and equip powerful bows and crossbows, and then it could only be passively defended, and there was basically no ability to take the initiative to attack in the face of mounted light cavalry.

And the Europeans were even more miserable, when the Europeans in the Middle Ages were still playing heavy cavalry, and as a result, they were sent all the way to the Danube by the Mongols with kites!

Later, the Mongolian cavalry fell, and Zhu Yuanzhang's cavalry inherited the tactics of cavalry archery, and the Ming army also had a large number of firearms to cooperate, so the Mongolian cavalry was also killed with an advanced version of cavalry archery.

The current Tatars are naturally playing the same way as their ancestors, and just now they used this tactic to directly kill more than 400 'Tang Bing' forwards.

So this time, they were about to repeat their old tricks, and when the two thousand cavalry slowly approached, they found that the array listed by the Tang army on the opposite side was a little strange, and there was no distinction between front and back, left and right.

The Tang army of tens of thousands of people is divided into three large phalanxes, and the three large phalanxes each have a number of small phalanxes, and these small phalanxes actually look very thin, and they are all composed of musketeers, such a thin hollow phalanx, giving people the illusion that they can be broken as long as they rush up!

Could it be that these Tang troops want to kill themselves, and such a thin phalanx still wants to block their own attack?

The Tatar cavalry who slowly went up were a little puzzled, but since the Tang army had put on such a thin formation, then don't blame them for taking the opportunity to kill a wave!

At this time, they didn't look for flanks, because the Tang army on the opposite side had their backs to the river, and the front and left and right were the same, so there was no flank at all.

And when they approached more than 400 meters, they had already begun to slowly speed up, at this time, the artillery of the Tang Dynasty on the opposite side was also firing one after another, and many artillery pieces of the divisional artillery regiment of the Fifth Infantry Division had not had time to carry off the ship, only a few, and most of them were naval artillery fire support provided by the Navy's river fleet, which was not much, but there were also thirty or forty guns.

The cannonball streaked across the sky, then bounced on the ground and rushed into the Tatar cavalry, and every time a cannonball hit the Tatar cavalry, it set off a bloody storm, but!

The Tatar cavalry did not stop, they continued to rush forward!

Although the artillery of the Tang army was not small, the cavalry ranks of the Tatars were originally very loose, and this solid cannonball killed, as long as it was not particularly lucky, in fact, it could not kill and wound a few Tatar cavalry, and after being attacked by the shells, these Tatar cavalry were scattered even more.

And seeing the Tatar cavalry disperse, Chen Keqiao smiled!