The sun gradually moved westward, and just when Yue Le felt desperate, Duoduo led 10,000 Tartar cavalry soldiers to kill them in two ways.

The horses were running on the ground, dusty, and the sound was very loud, miles away, dusty, and the sound of horses' hooves filled the brain.

As soon as the cavalry of the Qing army was dispatched, the watchtower car on the top of the mountain found that Yang Xuan held the binoculars and looked at it carefully, although he was quite nervous in his heart, he still pretended to be relaxed, and said to everyone with a smile: "Everyone, although it is the sun and the sun is not very big, the Tartar cavalry is still quite uncomfortable.

Now Duoduo is desperate and fights back with all his might, and victory or defeat can be said to be in this battle.

If the king's prediction is good, the main force of the Tartar cavalry should be on the northern road. ”

The staff officer quickly made a mark on the sand table in front, and through simple estimation, it was consistent with Yang Xuan's judgment.

With the possible addition of the Tartar cavalry, the situation on the front line reversed again, and the various units of the Volunteer Army, which had just been chasing after the Qing army outside the city, adjusted their formations again to cope with possible changes.

Guo Chonglie's 3rd Town, which was defending the north, quickly made contact with Cao Xun's 9th Town, and the two sides formed a mandarin duck formation to control the various passes to block the charge of the Tartar cavalry.

Liu Wenxiu's 13th Town, Liu Weiming's 6th Town, and Li Laiheng's Independent Association, which were attacking head-on, shouted and killed and pursued the Qing army's green camp position outside the city to gain a local advantage on the battlefield.

In the rear, Yang Xuan quickly ordered various qualities, and the guard town, the 7th town of Jin Tongwu, the cavalry association, the artillery standard, and the naval army all entered a state of combat readiness.

Due to the proximity to the river in the south, which was not conducive to the assembly of the Qing Tartar cavalry, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were killed from the north, but the most headache for Duoduo was the volunteer artillery.

The cavalry rush, the most fierce is the cavalry dense wave charge, on the plain full of Mongolian eight banners often scattered into 5 horizontal teams, Bayala battalion in front, Xiao cavalry battalion in the rear, head-on killing.

In the face of the wave-like charge of the Tartar cavalry, the general soldiers and horses often broke first in battle, and everyone fled in panic, and then became the undead of the cavalry sabers in the pursuit battle.

If the opponent's formation was not out of order and the charge was unsuccessful, the Tartar cavalry often used their mobility advantage to flow to the flanks, leaving frontal space for the infantry.

Unlike the Mongol cavalry, the Manchurian Tatars had infantry formations, and most of these people wore thick cotton armor to charge into battle, and were considered by some later researchers to be Manchurian heavy infantry.

According to Kangxi's "Great Qing Huidian" volume 81: the Beijing Banner Manchuria Zuo Ling, set up 2 forwards, 2 pro-army, 17 guards, 6 Pashiku (leading and urging), 40 horsemen (horse armor, also known as Xiao cavalry), 2 infantry Pashiku (infantry army leader), 18 infantry (infantry armor, also known as infantry army), and 2 blacksmiths.

Such a Niu Lu Manchurian Eight Banners, a total of 90 soldiers and horses, including the most 80 soldiers, in addition to the forward battalion pro-military camp under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor, the banner master personally led the escort battalion (Bayala battalion), and under the jurisdiction of each Niu Lu 40 people Xiao cavalry battalion, and 18 people infantry army.

In the era of cold weapons, it was difficult to resist the momentum of the iron cavalry without building a solid camp in advance.

On the battlefield, the Iron Cavalry is unstoppable, but there are three main drawbacks:

First of all, the plain area is needed, the infantry is conducive to fighting in the mountains and hills, and the cavalry is the king of land warfare on the plains

Since the establishment of the Volunteer Army, they were able to win in the Battle of Shunqing, mainly because of the advantage of the terrain, and the hilly terrain limited the opponent's cavalry.

Secondly, the cavalry needed to form a dense formation at a distance of several hundred meters, and then charge with horses two hundred paces away.

If the distance is too far, the horse runs for too long and the horsepower is unsustainable, and if it is too close, the horse does not sprint.

In this way, the cavalry often pressed slowly from far and near, and then suddenly exerted force from two hundred paces away, using the advantage of the war horse to charge the opponent's formation.

Finally, it is necessary to form a dense formation, facing the infantry formation that has been arranged, if the dense formation is not formed, if the three or five cavalry hit the wall and charge, the two sides have not yet fought, and often die in the long-range weapons (bows, crossbows, artillery)

However, it is located in the north of the Yangtze River, which is a hilly terrain, although it is not as mountainous as the mountains, but there are also many slopes, and it is difficult for the cavalry to assemble on a large scale, and it is even more difficult to form a large-scale group charge.

In order to break through the formation of the volunteers, they often took a Jiala as a unit, with the cavalry battalion in front and the infantry in the rear, and after rushing along the passes, they rearranged the formation hundreds of meters away and launched a dense charge.

Seeing that the Tartar iron cavalry was killing all over the mountains, and now when they were coming through the convergence of various mountain roads, under the shouts of various generals, everyone was completing the preparations for the battle in an orderly manner.

Everyone made use of the terrain of the mountain road, or built a fortification with the help of horse-drawn carriages and carts in the army, and now after seeing the Tartar cavalry rushing through the pass, in order to delay the opponent's impulse, the artillery of each battalion took the lead in firing.

In addition to the tiger squat guns equipped with each battalion and the large Franc machine guns equipped with each standard, there are also 2-pound guns temporarily distributed to various towns.

The firing range of the 2-kilogram cannon is more than one kilometer, and although it is inaccurate at such a long distance, the accuracy is still certain from a distance of three or five hundred meters.

Seeing the Tartar Iron Cavalry rushing out of the pass to kill, worried about the opponent's continuous wave charge, the 2-pound artillery battalion equipped for the 3rd Town took the lead in firing.

In later generations, the biggest role of artillery is, of course, to block the passes, but the ancient artillery was less powerful and the accuracy was not high, so it was even more difficult to block the passes.

Difficulty does not mean not to do, and everyone quickly discovered the mystery, after rushing out of the pass, the Manmeng Tartars continued endlessly, and the momentum was quite large, but as long as three or five artillery pieces were concentrated on the pass for a fierce bombardment, if the iron ball hit the men and horses, there was no reason to survive, even if the people and horses were not hit, if they hit the surrounding rocks, they often delayed the opponent's cavalry impulse.

On the battlefield, in addition to killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions, it is necessary to destroy the opponent's momentum.

Horses that were hit by iron balls and fell in pools of blood, and men and horses killed by flying rubble often became a burden to the cavalry behind, and under its influence, the Tartar cavalry often slowed down.

In order to regain the battlefield advantage of the tartar cavalry, the destroyed momentum is greatly reduced in the face of the infantry defending in formation, in addition to regrouping.

In this way, the main force of the Tartars was blocked by artillery fire in two or three mountain passes, and it was difficult to effectively assemble and charge, and the situation did not improve in other mountain passes.

The Tatar cavalry had just rushed out of the mountain road, and the artillery of the volunteers who had formed a camp was fully fired, except for the Franc machine guns of each standard, the tiger squat guns of each battalion, and the most headache was the bazooka.

In order to prevent the Tartar iron cavalry from charging intensively at close range, the battalions of the 3rd and 9th towns were temporarily equipped with three swarm bees.

A swarm of bees is a kind of bazooka weapon, each bamboo tube has more than 50 rockets, a battalion is equipped with 6 bazookas, and the momentum is quite amazing.

Seeing the Tartar Iron Cavalry rushing through the fire nets, about one hundred and fifty paces away, the Tartar Iron Cavalry who rushed to the front seemed to find an opportunity, and everyone took off their bows and crossbows and spears, and let out a deafening roar.

In order to deter the opponent, the Tartar Iron Cavalry often roared three times, hoping to suppress the opponent in terms of momentum through the roar, so as to seize the opportunity.

Just as the Tartar rider let out a roar, there was also a roar on the opposite hillside, and the opposing side was outnumbered, and now they were now in formation and hiding behind the chariot formation, and the momentum obviously overshadowed the roar of the Tartar iron rider.

In the whole combat system, the 3rd Town, as a reserve, assumed the role of defending the northern Tartar iron cavalry, and since the beginning of the campaign, it has been deployed on the northern flank, controlling key passes, digging fortifications, and setting up chariot formations to protect the safety of the frontal attack divisions.

Unlike other units of this era, the Volunteers paid attention to the combination of fiction and reality, and some units concealed their whereabouts on the battlefield.

It was a time when it was sparsely populated, and the area around the pavilion was densely populated with hills and trees, providing a great hiding place for the army.

Before such a Tartar iron cavalry impulse, there were only three or five hundred people in front of them from a distance, which was not too many, but in fact, more people were hiding in hidden places and it was difficult to find their whereabouts.

Now seeing that the Tartar iron cavalry has arrived, the volunteers guarding the various passes have been killed one after another, and everyone has shocked each other by shouting loudly, in order to achieve the effect of taking the lead in the first place.

The sound of horses' hooves in front, the neighing of war horses, and the shouts of the horses could deter the Tartar iron riders in front, but they could not be heard in the back.

But it doesn't matter, the next rocket attack is a complete anomaly.

Flames rose into the air, and then rain down on the back of the Tartar Iron Rider, forming a huge net of blows, killing and injuring the opponent.

This is the ancient daunting rain of rockets, before the large-scale application of artillery, strong bows, crossbows, etc. for the nightmare of cavalry, now see the front rockets raining down, is the horse galloping Tartar iron cavalry is obviously affected, everyone has tightened the reins of the horse to dodge in horror.

After a period of panic, everyone re-mounted their horses and galloped forward, but it was obvious that the momentum of the Tartar Iron Riders was destroyed, and the few Tartar Iron Riders who rushed in front could not form a suffocating dense charge, and their power was greatly reduced.

In the face of the volunteer musketeers hiding behind the chariot formation and the hill, although a small number of iron horsemen dodged the musket fire and rushed into the formation, it was difficult to produce a sense of oppression because the number was too small, and the Tartar iron cavalry that rushed into the formation were all besieged by the superior infantry without exception.

Seeing that the iron cavalry in the rear was unsustainable, more people chose to shoot arrows while beating horses and galloping, rather than colliding with the formation regardless of life and death, but it was not easy to ride and shoot on the horses, and there was not much crosshair, and it was difficult to cause effective casualties to the other party.

But even in the process of firing each other, the Volunteers musketeers and crossbowmen were numerous, and the Tartar iron cavalry could hardly find any bargain.

The battalions of the Volunteers defended themselves in danger by occupying various hills, and each battalion quickly aimed the tiger squat cannon at the incoming Tartar bombardment, and one by one the fireballs rained down in the crowd, blowing up the horses to the ground, so that the riders who rushed later had to lift the reins of their horses to avoid injuries to the horses.

At 100 meters, there were bursts of fire in front of them, and behind the small hills near the pass, hundreds of gunners opened fire one after another, taking advantage of the range of flintlock pistols to aim at the rushing horses, and constantly shooting the rushing horses. As the saying goes, the horse shoots the horse first, and the horse is so large that it is hit by a flintlock pistol, because the pain is so severe that it either jumps up and down, or it is thrown under the horse's back.

And when it comes to 80 meters, the riders take off the arrows in the quiver one by one, and prepare to shoot with a bow, but because there are bursts of fire smoke in front of the flintlock pistol attack, it is very difficult to aim accurately through the fire smoke, only blindly shoot the arrowhead, but the rattan and shield have already been erected behind the knife cart and the two-wheeled carriage array, and the effect is quite limited.

Some people rushed to the front of the two-wheeled carriage and knife cart position, and threw thunder like raindrops, killing and injuring everyone.