Chapter 595: Duolong and Tian Bin's Encounter 3
Dolgotogo wanted to use the 500 cavalry of the green battalion to entangle Tian Bin's 200 vanguard cavalry, how could Tian Xian, who led the troops as an intelligence officer of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, not know that he was an old intelligence officer of the Ministry of Military Intelligence, and he used to be an elite infantry officer of the Jinhua Righteous Army, and left the Jinhua Righteous Army as an intelligence officer from the time of the Jinhua Righteous Army, and also fought with Tian Bin in many battle formations, and often fought with small units of the Huaxia Army in the Qing Army, fought with the soldiers and horses of the Lu State, and also participated in battles such as suppressing bandits, and had rich command experience.
The first time to change the battle formation, these soldiers are the Jinhua Righteous Army era to follow the intelligence officers, it can be said that they are all veterans of the Jinhua Righteous Army era, although with the extension of time many people are either killed, or missing, escaped, supplemented by a lot of Qing army recruited by the Xiangyong and regimental training soldiers, combat effectiveness declined, but how to say that they are commanded by some old Jinhua Righteous Army intelligence officers, heard the horn, saw the flag waving, immediately retreated and formed a formation.
Without waiting for the cavalry of the Green Battalion to rush over, the troops of the new army led by Tian Bin, who had 3,500 troops, formed a peripheral zigzag phalanx composed of musketeers and crossbowmen, with a spearmen phalanx in the middle, surrounding Tian Xian's general guards of the Chinese army, while two hundred cavalry were lined up on both sides of the general's guard, protected in it.
The cavalry of the five hundred green battalions who rushed to the front suddenly felt a kind of dilemma where a tiger had encountered a hedgehog and had no way to speak.
Five hundred cavalrymen ran around the large array formed by countless phalanxes, and when they got too close, they were shot by crossbowmen, and when they were behind, they were shot by the musketeers' volleys, and more than 100 people fell from their horses, and they changed their route in a panic and rushed to the rear of the vanguard army to stop the horses, and by this time they had already lost a lot.
The green battalion soldiers are not a ragtag soldier composed of village warriors and regimental training who don't know anything, they know how to save themselves on the battlefield, seeing the heavy losses, they looked back, the green battalion leader rolled his eyes, led the cavalry to run away, as if he couldn't stop his footsteps, ran out of a mile or two before slowly turning around, slowly circling around the vanguard formation.
And more than 1,000 Han army banner cavalry rushed over solidly, they also know how to avoid, but they always have a friendship with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they are landlords and old wealth, strong squires, children of scholars, Han cavalry composed of children of big officials, if there are military merits, they can carry the flag, can be superior, so their combat determination and combat effectiveness are one level higher than the green battalion soldiers, they can't cheat and play tricks, especially there are Mongolian lords who are one level higher than them in the back.
After knowing the difficulty of Tian Bin's return, Zhang Qiang sent his war eagle out again to check the battlefield, and looked for it along the way along the road where Tian Bin and them returned, and now all the soldiers and officials of the Huaxia Army know that Zhang Qiang has a hobby of raising eagles, and he has a few eagles in his Dadu Governor's Mansion, and these eagles can fly thousands of miles away, check the enemy's movements, and reconnoiter the battlefield, so everyone is no longer surprised by Zhang Qiang's war eagles, everyone knows that some Mongolians on the grassland also like to raise eagles, and they also know that eagles can reconnoiter the battlefield, Therefore, the news brought back by Zhang Qiang's eagle was accepted by everyone after Zhang Qiang's cover-up and decent deduction.
At this moment, the sky above them flew to find their war eagles.
When Tian Bin's troops arrived in Shandong Prefecture, Zhang Qiang's war eagles searched for them in the sky, and followed them after finding them, and then Zhang Qiang sent someone to inform the Henan Prefecture Army commanded by Xuanyuan Longfei and asked them to send troops to pick up Tian Bin, but because Tian Bin still had to go undercover to Hong Chengchou, this force did not set off, but only sent scouts to secretly go deep into Shandong Prefecture to contact Tian Bin.
Seeing that the situation had not yet been contacted, he immediately sent an order from the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to let them go, and Tian Bin turned to see that he could not meet Hong Chengchou and them, which lost the possibility of going undercover.
Hong Chengchou himself was rebelled by those officials and generals of the Qing Dynasty and repelled hundreds of miles, but due to the pressure of the Huaxia army, he could not respond, so he could only withdraw his troops and save himself first.
So Tian Bin and they can only solve the problem by themselves.
At least for now, in the face of Dolon's troops, they will have to deal with Dolon's 60,000 troops by themselves.
A thousand Han flag cavalry rushed head-on, and the musketeers immediately stepped forward, and the rows of continuous fire knocked the cavalry unable to advance, creating a wall of fire that blocked the Han flag cavalry outside, and occasionally the two cavalrymen who missed the target were also solved by bayonets.
The gunshots and flames made the horses of the Han flag cavalry, who had never been in contact with this kind of battle, stop moving, so that the Han flag cavalry suffered heavy losses, and the first wave of two hundred cavalry was beaten to ashes, and the other cavalry fell off their horses and were injured, and when the cavalry had to bypass from the two wings, the Han flag cavalry had lost more than five hundred people, and when the Han flag cavalry gathered the cavalry and detoured the flanks, there were less than five hundred cavalry left, and they began to cringe, at this time they became green battalion soldiers and began to be timid, cruising around.
After a while, the musketeers who were a little overheated retreated, handed over the front to the formation of a mixture of spearmen and crossbowmen, and poured water bladders on the barrel to dissipate heat from the barrel to meet the next battle, although this way reduced the service life of the barrel, maybe it may be blown up in the battle next, but the musketeers couldn't care about it, because destroying the enemy is the right way, and the probability of exploding the chamber is only two or three percent, and the remaining eighty percent of the musketeers' muskets can still be used to block the enemy.
Tian Bin: The muskets they used were all imitations of the Jingai-1 arquebuses manufactured by Hong Chengchou's arsenal, or the muskets that the Dutch and Portuguese later supported and sold to the Qing Dynasty and the quality of the muskets of the Huaxia Army could not be compared, not only heavy, but also inferior in quality, only three-tenths of the quality of the arquebuses of the Huaxia Army, that is, the arquebuses produced by the Huaxia Army could fire 500 times, and they could only fire 150 times. So their arquebuses could only happen thirty to fifty times.
The Mongol cavalry rushed up after the Han banner, they did not rush straight up like the Han banner, they shot arrows around the large array of the vanguard army, and fired at the crossbowmen of the Han banner.
The spearmen in the front row were shot one after another, but their defense was good, the number of dead and wounded was not much, as a new army unit garrisoning the capital, no matter how they were detained, no matter how they were not treated by the Manchus, but the times were like this, the Manchus still allocated them enough armor and armor, as well as high-quality weapons and equipment, whether these weapons and equipment were new or not, good, but the defense was still sufficient, in the face of the Mongols' hard bow, this defense can be said to be effective in reducing the damage received.
The hard bow of the Mongols is short, but the rate of fire is fast, the range is short, the Mongols have to shoot arrows within thirty meters around the vanguard army, no matter how good the technology is, they can't fight the standard crossbow, this crossbow is from the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is the traditional weapon of the infantry, the crossbow of the standard army has a long range, the strength is great, it is the best choice to deal with the enemy, and the quality of the soldiers is not very demanding, no need to practice for a long time, the large corps does not need to aim how good, just aim in one direction to throw on the line.
This is the best weapon to fight a large corps battle, the Mongolian cavalry suffered in the proportion of the wounded exchange with the vanguard army, because they gave up defense for mobility, so the crossbow arrows drilled into their bodies fiercely, drilled into the horses, many Mongolian cavalry horses stumbled, and were so hurt by the wounded horses fell down, and then were seriously injured, and those green battalions, Han army flag cavalry fell in front of the battle formation wailing.
(End of chapter)