"Brothers, work hard, Commander Wu Chao is waiting for us to come to the rescue!"

More than 20 miles south of the nameless hill where Wu Chao fought with Prince Daishan, just when Wu Chao and the last two hundred soldiers insisted on fighting to the death, the 10,000 Hongtang cavalry headquarters led by An Xianguo, the commander of the Hongtang cavalry division, activated all the steps of the war horses under the seat, and flew towards Wu Chao and their battlefield.

Originally, the Hongtang cavalry headquarters was supposed to be under the direct command of Wu Jie, the minister of the military department, because Wu Jie needed to passively fortify the defense and rarely took the initiative to deal with the main force of the Qing army that desperately wanted to fight back in Guannei, so this Hongtang's only cavalry was flanked by Wu Jie to the rear of the Ningjin defense line.

Until Wu Chao's department took the initiative to face the enemy's main force left behind in the Qing Dynasty on the battlefield, and reported the plan formulated by his headquarters to Wu Jie, Wu Jie, who knew that it was not good, simply let the cavalry army, which was not of great use for the time being, quickly go north to support Wu Chao.

Once again, using the fleet with great advantages of Hongmen itself, the migration of the cavalry headquarters did not delay too much time, but they hurried all the way, and still played a step, when they were on the way, when they met the Hongtang soldiers who were the first to evacuate, at this time it had been four or five days since they got the evacuation signal, plus the time delayed on the road, even if An Xianguo was trying to squeeze the speed of the cavalry's movement, but when their army arrived at the nameless hill, I could only watch the soldiers of the Qing army densely packed on the nameless hill, arranging the military formation in a panic amid the orders of their respective commanders.

"Ahh~~!!"

An Xianguo's eyes were red, and he roared to the sky to vent the grief and anger in his heart, and then with a wave of his big hand, the cavalry of the Hongtang headquarters, which was maintaining a high speed, charged towards the low hill.

This is also the first time that the Hongtang cavalry has shown its combat strength in front of the world, and the two thousand cavalry who rushed to the front sat under the war horse, which is the excellent offspring of the Hetao war horse and the Persian war horse bred in the pasture of Hongtang Da'an Town, just the tall and sturdy body standing straight, it is higher than the height of an adult man, and the dust brought up between the thick and powerful limbs running is not worse than the most elite cavalry of the Qing Dynasty.

After the vanguard army, the rest of the cavalry warriors who were a little behind were riding war horses for Mongolian and Goryeo war horses, although their stature was weaker than that of Hetao and Persian war horses, but their endurance was amazing.

Although the Qing people captured a lot of Hongtang muskets, but in the absence of matching bullets, they held a musket as good as a longbow; In this era, the Hongmen musket technology is advanced, but if you want to ride and shoot on a galloping horse, the power of a flat-fired musket may not be stronger and more durable than a cold weapon such as a delicate Zhuge repeater.

After getting close to him, the Hongtang cavalry thrust his bow and crossbow into his back and waist, and casually pulled out a snow-bright steel knife that exuded cold and cold, dragging and waving it towards the Qing infantry that was about to arrive in front of him.

In the Qing Dynasty, when the infantry army was relatively weak, whether it was dealing with the grassland peoples or other kingdoms with cavalry, they were the largest and most confident means of dealing with the enemy's cavalry, and they were naturally also cavalry.

However, the last cavalry army of the Qing Dynasty stationed in the country has been buried under the trap of the Ming army more than half a month ago, and there is not one surviving knight, and there is no scale of establishment, and if they want to resist the assault of the 10,000 Ming Dynasty cavalry, they can only rely on their inferior infantry to resist.

In the front line were the Han army and Korean soldiers with the lowest status in the Qing Dynasty, and the charging damage of the first wave of iron cavalry was completely absorbed by the flesh wall of the Han army and Korean soldiers, but even so, it only made the pace of the Hongtang cavalry forward slow for a moment.

It has been nearly ten years since Hongmen established the cavalry, and as Hongmen opened up the connection with the grassland from Mao Wenlong, the chief military officer of Dongjiang Town, and obtained the seeds of all kinds of good horses, Da'an Town, which was responsible for breeding fine war horses, began to operate actively.

Up to now, Da'an Town has more than 30,000 horse breeds, and thousands of foals are bred every year, which gives Hongtang the confidence and strength to build such a large cavalry army.

For the requirements of knights, the Hongtang military department is naturally very high, first of all, the individual does not have to be tall, but it must be agile, intelligent people with ears and eyes, and the martial arts and bows in their hands must be involved and proficient, etc.

From the day he became a knight, each knight will get a unique war horse partner, imitating the tacit relationship between the steppe people and their own war horses, these knights who get war horses from the first time they wake up every day, they basically live with their war horses: grooming and feeding the war horse, taking it to play in circles, and being familiar with the various character preferences of their war horses.

While taking care of the horses, the knights basically had to ensure that they had more than four hours a day on horseback, and for several years, these knights were enough to move and jump on small horses like the warriors of the steppe peoples who had been riding horses for a living since childhood.

Of course, the price that Hongmen needs to pay for this is still heavy, in addition to the salaries of the soldiers, the cost of horse materials, riding equipment and other expenses for a year of war horses is more expensive than training a qualified infantry soldier.

If this sharp blade, which has been sharpened in the past ten years, cannot achieve the results of the battle that he should have achieved in actual combat, doesn't it mean that Hongmen's investment over the years is not worthy of its name, and its training plan is also inappropriate?

But now it seems that the training of the Hongtang cavalry was extremely successful, although the forward horns were temporarily frustrated, but the Hongtang cavalry, which was constantly interspersed in the back, continued to attack inward along the contact points of the horns, tearing a huge gap in the defense line composed of flesh and blood of the Qing soldiers.

The Hongtang riders waved their blades to clear the way for their colleagues in the rear, and at the same time flexibly maneuvered their horses to move, turn or leap in the narrow battlefield, and their equestrian skills were no worse than the most elite Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, at least for now.

The defense line built by more than 50,000 Qing infantry did not last for more than two hours, and was torn open by 1/5 of the gap in the round cake-like formation of Hongtang's 10,000 cavalry, and gradually encroached on the infantry that was pulled out of the Qing infantry position.

The Hongtang cavalry, who kept shuttling back and forth, tirelessly tore the infantry formation of the Qing Dynasty, and now the infantry formation of the Qing Dynasty can still compete with the 10,000 strokes of Hongtang, but thanks to the transformation of the defense line on the top of the mountain by Hongtang Wu Chao for more than half a month, the crisscrossing ravines are like natural horse traps, so that the Hongtang cavalry has to be cautious and first go to encroach on the soldiers on the periphery of the Qing infantry position.

(End of chapter)