Li Qiao's cavalry brigade rested in Mustoke for more than two hours, and the cavalry under his command also replaced their tired mounts with full of vigor and strength. After more than two hours of hard pursuit in such a state, the Cossack cavalry, which was fleeing, naturally caught up in a few steps.

"Spread the net and hold them for me!" After the two groups approached, Li Qiao did not order a charge to disperse the enemy, but ordered the troops to disperse and outflank the enemy from both flanks.

Although it is a good fight, Li Qiao is still very cautious, the Mongolian cavalry is now basically relying on the skills accumulated in life to fight, if it really fights for military quality, it is definitely not as good as the well-trained Cossack cavalry. Therefore, even if he took advantage of his physical strength and horsepower, Li Qiao would not easily attack with his troops. Once the two sides start hand-to-hand combat, even if they win, Li Qiao's own casualties will not be small.

The Mongolian cavalry has always had the title of riding and archery, and the Manchu government is also known as using bows and horses to determine the world, so the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry attach great importance to cavalry and archery. In several wars with the Central Plains Dynasty, the Mongols and Manchurians also relied on these two stunts to defeat powerful enemies and enter the Central Plains.

Riding refers to the skill of riding, and the rider must move freely on the horse's back, up and down with extraordinary skill, and cannot fall off the horse under any circumstances. The Mongols have lived a nomadic life for hundreds of years, and horses are already a part of their body, and they can dance on galloping horses when they are drunk, so riding is certainly not a problem for them. The Manchurians also had to migrate frequently in search of hunting grounds, and although their riding skills were a little worse than those of the Mongols, they were still considered warriors on horseback.

Archery used to refer to archery, and the Mongols and Manchurians did not mention a hundred steps through the Yang, but there was also a saying that the eagle was a hero. The Mongols live in the vast steppe, where there is not only pasture, but also fierce steppe wolves and all kinds of fierce beasts. In order to live, the Mongolians had to work part-time as hunters for a while, and after years of training, everyone's archery skills were good. Of course, the amateur hunter Mongolians are still a little worse than the professional hunters in the white mountains and black waters. The Manchurians lived in the northeast, where they grew almost nothing during the Xiaoice Age, and they had to hunt to obtain all their necessities, so their bows and arrows were extremely accurate and fast. If you can't shoot accurately, you have to go hungry, and this pressure is terrible, so the Manchurians are almost all sharpshooters.

The Han people in the Central Plains who live by farming all year round, even after a period of training, are difficult to get past these guys who live outside the Great Wall. After all, one side fights on the basis of acquired combat skills, while the other side fights entirely on instincts formed in life. Historically, the Han people have to rely on sufficient money, food, and scientific and technological weapons to suppress these little brothers who live a hard life. The decline of the Manchurians was due to changes in their living environment and habits, while the decline of the Mongols was very sudden. It seems that when he woke up, a man named Seng Lingqin fought a defeated battle, and the once incomparably brilliant Mongolian cavalry suddenly failed.

It's not that as soon as the muskets appeared, the cavalry would not work, but when the Mongol cavalry declined, the British Guards cavalry, the Indian Sikh cavalry, and the Russian Cossacks were still playing important roles on the battlefield, and it was not the cavalry that could not be used but the tactics of war. Although the Mongol cavalry could also charge, they rarely fought hand-to-hand like the European cavalry, and they were more adept at shooting around the formation and using bows and arrows to solve problems. One is that Mongolian horses are short in stature and are not suitable for hard fighting, and second, in order to match the physical strength of Mongolian horses, the Mongolians are not equipped with heavy armor, and the casualties of sabers are bound to be small, and the cost of using bows and arrows is lower. However, with the development of musket and infantry tactics, shooting around the formation with bows and arrows has become an act of seeking death, and Monk Lingqin has looked for death once at Bali Bridge. Even the cavalry of Northern Manchuria, which was equipped with guns, was not suitable for shooting around the formation, and the target of the group operation was too large, and it was simply a large group of live targets if it moved around the position regularly.

It seems that the cavalry only has two ways out, either to carry out heavy charges like European and American cavalry, or to be the cavalry infantry that Goxinga attaches special importance to, and to get on their horses and move and dismount to fight. The cavalry of Northern Manchukuo has always followed the path of cavalry infantry, except for rushing and chasing and destroying the remnants of the enemy, they are all following the routine of the infantry. However, Bozhtu, who was in charge of Mongolia, was not particularly optimistic about this road, he wanted to make some tricks of his own, and the Mongols were still a little tired of infantry tactics, and they were very reluctant to leave their horses. The battlefield environment such as the battle is originally the world of the infantry, and the cavalry does not need to think about it at all, but for cavalry battles and encounters, Bo Ritu still has some ideas.

Shooting around the line is definitely out of place. The premise of shooting around the formation is that the output of both sides is limited, so that the cavalry can reduce the density of their own fire by constantly moving, and then annihilate the local sound force by continuous destruction. Goxinga has now made machine guns all over the world, and the fire output of the infantry has made a qualitative leap. However, now the cavalry also has muskets, and the output of the firepower itself has been greatly improved, and the Mongols have good marksmanship, so they can still use it.

The method that Bo Zhitu came up with was to shoot on horse, of course, not to attack the enemy's entrenched position, but to attack with mounted archery in the face of the same moving enemy, such as enemy cavalry or infantry on the march. Scattered and high-speed moving, bumpy war horses can provide some cover for the Mongol cavalry, and the enemy cavalry and infantry are generally inaccurate, so they can only fight probability. The Mongol cavalry, on the other hand, could kill the enemy in motion, and continue to kill and wound the enemy, and when the enemy was chaotic and defeated, they could wield their sabers to chase down the remnants of the enemy. This number of roads was also pioneered by Bo Ritu, and Date Masamune, who was in the last years of Japan's Warring States period, had a thousand iron rides, which is probably what it means. Let the troops have both the impact of cavalry and the lethality of musketeers, but Date Masamune is stingy, only a thousand people, and Bozhtu has three divisions and four brigades. And the time of Date Masamune was also probable, and the smoothbore arquebus was not accurate, but the cavalry of Bozhtu was different, their rifles could fire continuously, and the Mongols were absolutely accurate.

After Li Qiao surrounded the Cossack cavalry, he began a cavalry offensive, and the fierce Cossack cavalry was shot and fell off their horses. The Russians were not stupid and raised their guns to shoot back, but they really did not have the accuracy of these intensively trained Mongols, and the bumpy horses seriously affected their accuracy. Moreover, their single-shot Schneider rifles were too troublesome to load on their horses, and the Manchurians fired seven or eight shots before they could return one shot, and this casualty was naturally large.

"Fight with them!" When the division commanders noticed that the Mongols had repeatedly slowed down and pushed them deeper into the steppe, they knew that the enemy was trying to slowly grind them to death, and immediately ordered their troops to draw their sabers.

It's a pity that the Cossacks' brave challenge did not get a response from Li Qiao, and the Mongols have always kept a distance from the Cossacks and will definitely not let the Cossacks get too close to themselves. The battlefield seemed to have gone back hundreds of years, when tall, heavily armored European knights could not reach the lightly armed Mongol cavalry with great effort, and then were ground alive in the wilderness by the constant fire of arrows.