All the generals have heard the four words of riding on foot, but Guo Xing'a really wants to do this, and everyone has no bottom in their hearts. Since the appearance of stirrups, cavalry has dominated the territory for thousands of years, and riding on foot has always been a beautiful vision of the Central Plains Dynasty, but except in some specific environments, it has almost never been realized.

In dynasties such as the Han, Tang, Ming, and Qing dynasties, the only way to restrain the nomads outside the Guanwai was to have an equally powerful cavalry force. Only the Song Dynasty, which really couldn't find a horse, came up with a helpless plan to ride on foot. In order to realize the great ideal of riding on foot, the Great Song Dynasty often set up a huge military formation of more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, which was difficult to judge tactically, but was a complete defeat strategically. A four-legged war horse has a huge physical advantage over a two-legged person, and if you can't beat you, it can grind you to death. Moreover, China's geographical environment is completely different from that of Europe, the territory is too vast, and the cavalry's mobility ability can be brought into full play.

Even if the cavalry is under a strong city, it can also quickly maneuver to carry out jump point operations, and the Jin Annihilation of the Northern Song Dynasty is a classic case. Genghis Khan even brought the Chinese cavalry to the extreme, and the key point of the cavalry was no longer the impact force, but the cavalry that could grind the Iron King Eight alive. The terrifying record of sweeping across the Eurasian continent has raised the position of the cavalry high, and everyone in the world almost obsessively admires the cavalry.

Many people at home and abroad have thought of using infantry to fight cavalry, and the Macedonian phalanx and the Great Song Dynasty are classic cases, but this requires extremely strict tactical and strategic conditions, and it is not possible to face any kind of enemy in just one place. Modern Europe's use of highly disciplined infantry phalanxes seems to solve this problem, but that is limited to Europe, and it is as blind as China. The Qing Dynasty's successive defeats in foreign wars all had almost unimaginable objective conditions, and not all of them were war crimes.

The Chinese actually engaged in this infantry phalanx earlier, but the result was very tragic, and the cavalry first adopted the method of shooting around the formation, and as a result, the infantry suffered heavy casualties before they touched the enemy. After the infantry put on heavy armor and counterattacked with strong crossbows, the cavalry took a more savage approach, encountering a brutal charge. According to the understanding of Europeans, in the face of a forest of spears, the charge of cavalry did not work. But they don't understand that there is a branch of the army in China called the dead soldiers, and this branch is even one of the standing arms of the Eight Banners Army, and once the commander no longer cares about the casualties of the dead soldiers, the dead soldiers will launch a death charge. The Chinese Han Dynasty would play this little trick of the horse eye, so the dead soldiers would drive their war horses straight into the gun forest. Although spears can stab horses and dead soldiers, galloping horses and corpses on horseback can kill and injure a large number of infantry. Once the infantry formation is disorganized, Rulin's spears cannot be maintained, and the heavy armored cavalry behind will begin to slaughter. So as long as the cavalry dared to ignore casualties, the infantry would almost never be able to defeat the cavalry, at least not until 1860. Even if there really was a perfect phalanx, the infantry would always be on the defensive, and the cavalry would still firmly hold the initiative on the battlefield. If it can't beat you, it can entangle you, people's physical strength is limited, but war horses can last, or they can grind you to death.

Returning to Goxinga's current environment, his order to dismount the cavalry was almost tantamount to suicide. Although the Twist Army does not look like a dead soldier, after all, it has an advantage of nearly eight times in terms of strength, and they can even drive mules and horses into battle. After the Qing cavalry dismounted, they were completely on the defensive and lost the ability to attack. However, Guo Xing'a was resolute, and the generals could only carry out the order, and Guo Xing'a looked confident, and no one knew what medicine he was selling in his gourd.

The Qing army set up a huge hollow phalanx of more than 2,000 people, encircled the main army's war horses, important supplies, and artillery in the center, and left the rest of the mules and horses in the rear, and then circled them after the battle. The huge phalanx left behind the herd of mules and horses behind, and began to slowly advance towards the front of the twisted army, and the horses and men roared on the battlefield in a solemn atmosphere. The Twist Army didn't expect the Qing Army to take the initiative to dismount, and was a little at a loss for a while, but since it was impossible not to fight, a Twist Army of more than 1,000 people broke away from the big array and launched a tentative charge to the Qing Army.

"Meaningless! Beat! "Goxinga seems to be expecting a massive swarm charge from the Twisted Army.

The Twist Army quickly approached the range of the Qing army, and then made a move that was no different from suicide, they did not rush straight into the Qing army's formation, but inserted diagonally, and met the enemy on the side in an attempt to show the Qing army a horse archery kung fu.

"What a fool!" Feng Sheng'a, who was commanding on the front line, saw the formation of the Twist Army and was deeply shocked by the strange brain circuit of the Twist Army Commander. If the Twist Army rushed straight over, the Qing army estimated that they would have to use artillery, and they might not be able to knock them all down with rifles alone. But now the Twist Army took the initiative to face the Qing army sideways, lined up in front of the Qing army like a row of targets, and the Qing army, which had been trained in moving target shooting, could kill them all with two volleys.

"Kill!" Bi Yuntao didn't feel as much as Fengsheng, the more stupid the enemy, the happier he was.

The soldiers of the third column of the Qing army did not shoot, because the comrades in the first two columns had already killed all the enemy. A group of ownerless war horses ran about 300 meters from the left side of the Qing army's formation, leaving thousands of corpses on the battlefield, and of course, one corpse was dragged away by the war horse.

With a single face-to-face effort, a thousand elite cavalrymen who were good at riding and archery died cleanly, and the entire encirclement of the Twist Army was in chaos. There were large gaps in several places, as if the twisted army that had just been there had already escaped, and even if they didn't run, the formation fluctuated for a while.

"The garrison of Texas City has been dispatched, run!" One of the leaders of the Twist Army roared, and the Twist Army had always thought that it was the Eight Banners of Texas City that defeated them outside Texas City. However, the Twist Army also knew that the garrison of the Eight Banners Army could not easily leave the garrison, so they never dared to spread wild near Texas, but they made a lot of trouble in the surrounding counties.

"Run a fart, run and it's messy, they get on the horse and chase it all over. We have to retreat slowly, we can't mess up, if we don't mess up, they won't dare to chase after them! "A leader who had been in the regimental training in the early years immediately rejected the proposal to flee immediately, and he knew that the army would become a lamb to the slaughter when it was in chaos.

"Leaders, there are only more than 2,000 of them, that is, the muskets are powerful, but the muskets are very slow to reload!" A small leader in his twenties said.

"Shut the fuck, didn't you come up with the idea to come to Shandong, can the banner owner die?" The leader who had just proposed to flee directly immediately scolded. The little boss turned out to be a bandit from Huaibei, and he gradually became a small leader by doing things for the elves. Last time, he followed the son of the banner owner of the headquarters to Yixian for a generation of activities, but he suffered heavy losses, and the son of the flag owner was also seriously injured. However, this kid put forward the proposal that the green battalion and the defenders in Shandong were weak, and the headquarters should march into Shandong, which was greatly appreciated by the banner owner, not only was he not punished for his injury, but he was also promoted.

However, after entering Shandong, the banner lord did not immediately increase his power, but kept chasing the Qing army that injured his son, so he followed all the way to the city of Dezhou. As a result, Texas won first and then lost the first battle, and the next day he wanted to turn the book, but he even took the life of the flag owner. The twisted army is scattered all over the place, but everyone is happy, this kid is right, Shandong is indeed rich and the defenders are indeed incompetent. After this gathering, everyone was in a stomach, so this kid was quite pleasing to the eye, but he actually proposed to fight with the Qing army, so he couldn't be tolerated.

"Shut up! What he said makes sense, we will suffer heavy casualties if we attack hard, but as long as this Qing army is destroyed, Shandong will be our world, and it will not be easy to recruit troops at that time! "The leader of the regimental training is knowledgeable, and after the death of the banner master, it is he who can convince everyone.

"Reasonable, let's do it!" The leaders deliberated for a while, and they all nodded in agreement.

The Qing army was still slowly advancing, but the Twist army stopped because they had to redeploy their troops. The heroes of the rivers and lakes are all simple people, so they also do a hammer deal when they fight, and they concentrate the elite main forces on the front. The strategy is simple, the other three sides first feint to consume the firepower of the Qing army, and then launch a charge at all costs to determine the outcome of the battle.

When the Qing army had approached only one mile, the Twist army launched an attack, and in the face of feints from the other three sides, the Qing army still returned fire with muskets. However, the Twist Army did not play cavalry shooting anymore, and the salvo effect of the Qing army was very average, and it could only be suppressed by artillery. Although the three-sided twisted army was also difficult to enter the size of the dead and wounded one by one, it also firmly attracted the firepower of the Qing army.

"My lord, that's not right! I'm afraid that the bandits will concentrate on attacking the front of our department with all their might! Bi Yuntao and the others are all old soldiers, and they can see through the self-righteous and profound tactics of the Twist Army at a glance.

"Fuquan, get ready!" Guo Xing'a was ready to use his new weapons, starting from the canal to develop the finished treasure until Yixian.

All the generals looked curiously at the two strange weapons launched by the guard platoon, saying that it was a cannon, and he had a barrel on it, saying that it was a gun, and it was about the size of an artillery. The generals looked at it for a long time and didn't see what it was, as if they had dismantled a dozen rifles, bundled them into a bundle and loaded them on the gun carriage. Three soldiers operated the monster, two soldiers stood on either side with iron boxes, and one iron box stuck in the monster's ass, and I don't know what it was for. Of course, it is impossible for the generals to know this kind of thing that Goxinga plagiarized other people's ideas, and of course the Americans in a few years will definitely know that this thing is a twelve-barreled Gatling gun.

Looking at these two treasures, Guo Xing Ah was quite pleased, and Guo Xing Ah suffered a great sin for them. Simple machine tools and other equipment can help very limited, especially in terms of ammunition, the 12,000 rounds of metal bullets from these two machine guns can be said to be hand-rolled by Guo Xinga and the craftsmen. Except for a small amount of machine assistance, most of the things are made by hand, and the pass rate is extremely low. It can be said that every part of these two machine guns is stained with the sweat of Goxinga.

Of course, Goxinga also made some improvements, the magazine of 50 rounds was replaced by a double row of 120 rounds, and the six-barreled magazine was replaced by 12 barrels. The most important thing is that Guoxinga has installed a rebounding circlip, so that when there is a jam, the soldiers have a way to quickly troubleshoot. These two machine guns Guo Xing'a secretly tested once in Yi County, and the effect was still good, but this was the first time in actual combat.

When the heroes of the rivers and lakes do things simply and are not ambiguous, this time it is the same, the big boss from the regimental training personally pressed the formation, and directly staged a scene of thousands of horses galloping for the Qing army. More than 12,000 Twisters blindfolded their horses or mules, and rushed straight to the Qing army with the determination to die.

The rifle firepower of the Qing army was attracted by the Twist Army in the other three directions, and the artillery bombardment could not play a role in isolating the Twist Army, and in the eyes of all the leaders of the Twist Army, victory was already in sight.

"Da ......" On the battlefield, I suddenly remembered the gunfire with a very strange rhythm, although it was very single, but it was like a monk knocking on a wooden fish in the temple, and it seemed that it would never stop.

The Qing generals watched in shock as the two monsters sprayed fire snakes, and the charging warriors of the Twisted Army fell like moths to the lights, falling one by one, and then continued to rush to death one after another. The main shooter of the Qing army was also very strange, he blindfolded himself with a black cloth, and an ammunition man stuffed the magazine into his waist and took out two cotton balls to plug the shooter's ears, of course, this was also specially requested by Goxinga.

One machine gun of the Qing army was equipped with three shooters and two ammunition men. The main shooter is responsible for turning the handle to fire the guns, the two secondary shooters are responsible for aiming and adjusting the machine gun, one ammo is responsible for loading, and the other ammo is mainly responsible for blocking the main shooter's ears. Gatling's failure rate is high, mainly due to the fact that the shooter will shoot too fast on the battlefield due to the dead-eyed turning handle. Goxinga can't solve this problem technically, but he can start with people. If you are blindfolded, you can't see the enemy, and if you block your ears, you can't hear the sound of fighting, and the main shooter only needs to turn the handle or stop turning under the prompting of the ammunition hand, so that you can shoot at a uniform speed.

After all, the strength of the other three sides of the Twist Army was weak, and after launching the main attack from the front, they withdrew from the battle, and the Qing army began to concentrate all its firepower to attack the main force of the Twist Army.