On the second day, when the city gate of Erlong Valley was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and five thousand iron horsemen rumbled out of the valley, and arranged three phalanxes in the wasteland outside the valley mouth, like a dark pine forest in three directions.

At this time, the 5,000 cavalry of the Qing army had already formed a large phalanx outside the book, and the cavalry of the Qing army were all wearing various colors of composite cotton armor, obviously not from the same flag. All kinds of flags are waving in the wind, the war horses are neighing, and the voices of people are boiling.

Behind the two armies, there is a cloud cart on each side, on which are the commanders of the two armies and the flag-bearer commanding from afar.

Under the cloud cart, there is a row of cowhide drums and more than a dozen horn players holding horns and trombones.

Duoduo was high above the cloud chariot, looked at the cavalry phalanx of the Jiang family army opposite, nodded slightly, and was quite appreciative, and he also admired Jiang Chuan who could train such an iron horseman, but it also aroused his competitive spirit and the idea of taking this team under his command.

Jiang Chuan was also looking at the cavalry phalanx of the Qing army on the opposite side of the cloud car, and a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth after a moment.

Yesterday, the lieutenants of the battalions discussed all night, and finally worked out the tactics for today's battle, as well as various precautions to prevent the Qing army from taking the opportunity to seize the city in the event of a confrontation.

Just now, Jiang Chuan saw the formation of the Qing army, and indeed only put out five thousand cavalry, and the rest of the men and horses were on guard one or two miles away, which seemed to be obviously full of confidence in this battle, which further proved the arrogance and arrogance of Duoduo.

In this battle, Jiang Chuan is not afraid of losing at all, and to be honest, he can afford to lose.

In terms of general situation, even if he loses all these 5,000 cavalry here, he can replenish it in a very short time, because his back is against the golden thigh of the fortress base.

But the Qing army is not good, their own population is already small, the Jiangjia army has lost 10,000 horses before and after the expedition, although most of them are the Mongolian and Han army eight banners, but if the loss of the Manchurian people is too large, then their deterrence and suppression power for the internal Han and Mongolian tribes will be reduced a lot.

If you want to replenish another 5,000 elites who can fight well, it is not so easy. If we had waited for those recruits to join the army ten years later, the situation would have been turned upside down.

In the battles of the Cold Weapon Age, most of the soldiers who died were not killed during the battle, but were chased and killed when the team fled after being defeated.

The combat effectiveness of an army, in addition to equipment, the quality of soldiers is very important. This quality includes both physical fitness, combat skills, and more importantly, battlefield psychological quality.

In battle, once the enemy is defeated, then the morale of the soldiers who have lost their effective command will soon plummet, even if the equipment is good, no matter how powerful the combat skills will be useless, a group of soldiers who have lost the courage to fight is not much different from a group of farmers.

But this is an army composed of ordinary people, and this problem does not exist for the Jiang family's army, which is almost entirely composed of soldiers from the fortress.

Even if they lose their effective command, they will fight the enemy to the end until they are all killed, and there is absolutely no possibility of a rout or surrender.

This was something that Dordor could not have imagined. Because in the past battles, whether it was the Mongols, the Ming army, or the Korean army, as long as they were defeated, they would scatter and flee, and then they would become lambs to be slaughtered by Manchurian soldiers.

It's just that after he appreciates the frontal combat effectiveness of this thief army in his eyes today, I'm afraid he will change this mind. At that time, it is not certain who will be defeated and flee and be chased and killed in embarrassment.

So from these two aspects, Jiangchuan is already invincible. Not to mention whether he will lose or not, just that he is not afraid of losing at all.

But the Qing army also felt that they would not lose, and they could not afford to lose.

It can be said that, to some extent, the outcome of this battle was already doomed before it even began.

A general flew out in front of the cavalry of the Qing army, dressed in cotton armor inlaid with yellow flags, and the high helmet flag fluttered in the wind.

Ao Bai Pegasus rushed past in front of the Qing army, and shouted angrily while galloping: "Manchurian sons, today is the time for you to make meritorious contributions, take out your bravery, cut off the heads of those thieves on the opposite side, and let them know what the Eight Banners warriors are and what is invincible in the world!" ”

The cavalry of the Qing army shouted in unison: "Eight Banner warriors, invincible in the world!" Eight Banners Warriors, invincible in the world! The voices of the five thousand people were joined in one and rumbled all around, which was indeed extraordinary.

Ao Bai laughed in front of the battle with satisfaction, and looked at the Jiang family's military array on the opposite side with contemptuous eyes.

On the other hand, the Jiang family's military array, the three black phalanxes, were silent, and everyone's faces were expressions, and only a pair of eyes full of fighting intent were revealed from under the masks.

Jiang Chuan looked at the mighty formation of the Qing army opposite, unmoved, and instructed a general beside him: "General Baishan, this battle will be handed over to you to command." ”

"No!" Bai Shan replied in a deep voice.

This Baishan was one of the first three knights recruited by Jiang Chuan with Ran Wu, and according to the attributes of the system, all the knights were not only the bravest warriors themselves, but they also had their own cavalry command skills.

Therefore, after Ran Wu went out with 5,000 cavalry archers, the remaining 5,000 cavalry light cavalry was served by Bai Shan as the captain of the light cavalry, and the 500 heavy cavalry was served by another knight Shanjia as the captain of the heavy cavalry battalion.

This time, in order to strengthen the combat power of the light cavalry battalion and make the command smoother, Jiang Chuan separated 400 people from the heavy cavalry battalion to join the light cavalry battalion, serving as generals at all levels, from the commander to the centurion, and even to the captain, and the commander was held by the knight.

The remaining 100 heavy cavalry were personally led by Shanjia and joined the 5,000 cavalry, becoming the core of the team.

Ao Bai Pegasus galloped back to the front of the Qing army's formation, and a burst of instructions was given, raising his war knife and shouting: "Rise, kill-" Suddenly, dozens of horns and trombones whined and roared, and the first wave of the Qing army's iron cavalry rushed over like a hurricane.

The Qing army's iron cavalry originally formed a phalanx about one mile wide, and the 5,000 cavalry were divided into three echelons: 1,000 in the front army, 2,000 in the middle army, and 2,000 in the rear.

This charging formation is a tactic tempered by the Qing army in years of fighting with the Mongolian cavalry, and it is called the "three waves of the sea tide" in Manchuria: the first wave, the former army of 1,000 spear knights, each with a light sharp wooden spear about one zhang long, and a war knife at the waist. The main weapon of the Mongol cavalry was the scimitar, so it was often easy to be dashed by this spear cavalry.

And the real intention of this first wave of spear impact was precisely to disrupt the enemy's cavalry formation and create favorable conditions for the main force of the Chinese army to kill the enemy.

The spear cavalry of the Qing army has tried many times in the process of conquering the Mongols, so today they still put it out and plan to teach a good lesson to the thief cavalry in front of them.

The second wave, the saber cavalry, which is the main force, is composed of warriors with superb riding skills and excellent sword skills, each with a spare sword at his waist, dedicated to fighting and slashing.

The third wave, the Knights of the Short Sword, this is the light cavalry that pursues the fleeing enemy, and the horses that sit down are particularly outstanding, and the light horses are as fast as lightning hurricanes.

Seeing the Qing cavalry rushing over like a tsunami, Jiang Chuan took a step back and gave up the command position to the cavalry captain Bai Shan.

Bai Shan arched his hand, stood firmly at the front of the cloud car, looked at the stormy Qing cavalry calmly, and gave a deep order to the standard-bearer next to him.

Soon, a huge arc was drawn on the Jiang family's military cloud car, and then ten cowhide drums rumbled,

The two black phalanxes on the left and right preemptively launched and plunged from the two wings into the intermittent parts of the Qing army's front army, while the three thousand iron cavalry of the central phalanx spread out into a huge fan shape and went up against the spear front of the Qing army.