This was a strong attack signal, seeing that the Eight Banners of Manchuria gradually spread out to form an attack formation, and the various units of the Volunteer Army also stopped attacking, everyone took the battalion as a unit, relying on the surrounding terrain, or relying on the Wugang chariot and horse-drawn carriage to form a hollow formation.

Although there is no such name as the hollow array in China, since Qi Jiguang, the chariot array has been the best means to resist cavalry.

In the past, arranging a military formation often required thousands of soldiers and horses (see Sun Chengzong et al.'s soldiers), but Yang Lin simplified it, generally taking a battalion as a unit, a brigade on each side, and a battalion headquarters in the middle.

Seeing that the volunteers turned from offensive to defensive, Haoge let out a burst of mockery, the southern barbarians were cowardly, not as heroic as the Manchurians.

The situation on the battlefield was reversed again, and the soldiers and horses of the Green Battalion, who had been oppressed and threatened, eased their strength, and under the leadership of one general, attacked the hollow phalanx of the volunteers.

The horse's hooves raised a splash, the earth was boiling, and the atmosphere of the battlefield solidified again.

Haoge and Ao Bai led their troops to kill, and although they reversed the situation on the battlefield in one fell swoop, there was no rout that everyone expected.

As mentioned earlier, the Volunteers have been conducting infantry and cavalry confrontation drills in the past few months, and in the face of the Tartar cavalry rushing over, the various divisions have already had an idea.

The volunteers generally take the battalion as the unit, relying on the slopes of rivers, mountains and rivers, relying on the vehicle formation, and forming a hollow formation to meet the enemy.

As mentioned earlier, each battalion of the Volunteer Army has two fire support squads (one squad is either equipped with 5 bazookas, or 3 tiger squat guns), and when they saw the enemy cavalry killed, everyone had already secretly put the bazooka on the Wugang car and rickshaw to resist the enemy.

Everyone secretly took aim, and after the enemy cavalry entered the target area, they lit the bazookas one after another, and more than 100 rockets pierced the sky and rushed to the enemy formation, killing and wounding a large number of people.

The Anglo-French forces of Baliqiao relied on rockets to destroy the Eight Banners formation, although rocket technology was still immature in this era (mainly relying on inertia to kill the opponent, unlike Baliqiao, which relied on the explosives carried by rockets to kill and injure the opponent. But they can still achieve the original goal, which is to intimidate the other side and encourage their own morale.

The infantry battalion, which was not equipped with bazookas, also had a squad of 6 No. 3 Furlong cannons, and when the opponent rushed to more than 100 steps, they also lit the Franc cannons one after another and attacked with scattered bullets.

Each No. 3 Franc cannon contains more than 50 pieces of lead, which scatter a large area after falling, and can be fired continuously (once every two minutes), both in power and continuous firing effect on the bazooka. (This is also the reason why artillery gradually replaced bazookas, and the British and French forces at Baliqiao used rockets, which carried explosives.) ）

Obviously, the basic goal was achieved, and seeing that there were a large number of bazookas and Fran cannons in the Volunteer Army, not only did they kill and wound a large number of Tartar cavalry, slowing down their momentum, but the Tartar cavalry did not dare to get too close and reduce the pressure on the infantry.

Due to the protection of rivers and mountains, the strength of the hollow array is relatively strong in some places, and the strength is very weak in others.

In the face of the Manchurian Eight Banners that rushed over, he first bombarded with the No. 3 Franc machine gun to disrupt the opponent's momentum, and then fired guns and arrows in more than 80 steps.

The cavalry was quick to maneuver, but it was also quite difficult to shoot on horseback, not only because of the close shooting distance (more than 30 paces on horseback), but also because it was difficult to aim, which was as convenient as the volunteers hiding behind the chariots.

Some knights are skilled in riding, and they are ready to rush into battle, but they often rush out of a small group of soldiers in the formation, and the two soldiers in front of them wave the wolf whisk to block the way, and finally bypass the wolf whisk, and are blocked by the boring palladium hand and the spearman, often before rushing to the front of the formation, the horse's leg has already been cut off, and the whole person rolls off the war horse with a loud noise.

The Eight Banners of Manchuria did not dare to rush into battle, nor did they want to waste their precious soldiers and horses in battle with ordinary volunteers.

Everyone relied on the gap left by the hollow array, charging and firing arrows at the same time to cover up their true goals.

However, the distance between the various hollow formations was only 200 meters, and they could completely cover each other, and the Manchurian Eight Banners that went deep into the formation were often shot at by the musketeers of the volunteers in the formation, taking care of one and losing the other.

The Qing army's iron cavalry swept through the gaps between the various military formations and rushed to the destination, the tent of the Chinese army of the volunteers.

Gong Ayao, the commander of the Manchurian Blue Banner Protector Army, led 500 Baya Lama to rush to the front, bypassing the Wang Zhibang regiment deployed on the left flank, and rushed over.

But this time Hauge can be said to be desperate and full of strength, the scattered infantry on the position is undoubtedly the mantis blocking the car at all, Gong Ajiao has no heart to take care of these soldiers, and leads his troops to rush straight to the Chinese army of the Volunteer Army-Escort Regiment.

Riding on a tall horse, he saw the cavalry rushing towards him, which was different from other cavalry, and was a rare fine cavalry in the world.

Not only are the horses tall, but the horses are equipped with harnesses all over their bodies, and the riders wear cotton armor on the outside and iron armor on the inside to prevent bird guns and crossbows from shooting.

This is still the armor of ordinary soldiers, and for those generals, some of them wear an iron armor outside, so it can be seen that their defense is not tight.

Now seeing the other party's mighty slaughter, everyone understands the goal of the Qing army, to assault the middle army of the volunteers, complete the beheading, or reverse the decline of the battlefield in one fell swoop.

Rao is volunteers around him have been in battle for a long time, everyone is quite nervous, Yang Lin is up and down in his heart, I don't know if I can resist the impact of the other party.

Putting down the monoculars, the opponent's war vest looked very dazzling in the sun.

The war horse has harness all over the body, and the rider on horseback has two layers of three-layer armor, unless it is killed at close range, it is even more difficult to kill the opponent in too large an area.

The musketeers were now lined up, and the use of flintlock muskets had been introduced last year, and after a year of hard work, most of the convoys were now equipped with such weapons.

Unlike the arquebus, since there would be no sparks exposed, the formation was very close, and now the musketeers of each squadron lined up together, and when they saw the opposing riders rushing over, they began to fire in a dense manner about eighty paces.

Mainly through the impulse or kinetic energy between the target and the projectile to kill the opponent, because of the projectile in the opposite direction, so that the relative speed is much greater than the projectile speed, so that although the cavalry is far apart, but the lethality is equivalent to the infantry at a distance of fifty paces.

Although such a long distance did not cause much damage to a general in three layers of armor, it was completely different for an ordinary soldier wearing two layers of armor, and he was often injured by lead pills at such a short distance.

This is true for knights on horseback, and even more so for armoured horses.

However, the horses galloped very quickly, especially in Manchuria, and their main role was to break up the opponent's formation, rather than shooting arrows from a distance, and the enemy was constantly approaching, and even the kind of generals wearing three layers of armor could not be completely effective in defending themselves at about fifty paces.

Even so, the Tartar cavalry ran very quickly, and when they saw that the opponent was about to rush in front of them, many of them took their javelins from their horses and prepared to throw them forward.

Suddenly, I saw that the horsemen in front of me seemed to be tripped by something, and some of the high-speed running horses were actually tripped and fell to the ground, and the knights on horseback were thrown far away.

This is a temporary design of the tripping horse, seeing that Hao Ge was about to lead the Manmeng Eight Banners to charge into battle, Yang Lin secretly sent someone to install it, and now it really plays a role, at least greatly delaying the opponent's attack.

As mentioned earlier, the Tartar cavalry generally rode and shot at a long distance, throwing javelins at close range, and throwing javelins at close range, although the front position temporarily arranged many triphorse ropes to greatly delay the opponent's offensive, but the opposing cavalry was very numerous, and the cavalry that jumped over the triphorse rope and rushed over was quite amazing, and suddenly threw javelins a few steps away.

Dozens of javelins crossed the sky and fell into the formation, because of the momentum of the war horse running, the momentum was very huge, and sometimes it actually pierced through the iron plate of the chest guard and pierced the person.

The momentum of the volunteer soldiers defending in front was slightly frustrated, and after seeing that the situation was not good, Wu Dazhu led a battalion of soldiers to kill, and everyone threw thunder with a handle from afar, and then killed it with the aftermath of the explosion, desperately blocking the front.

Hundreds of wheelbarrows, carriages have been connected together with iron cables, used to block the attack of the Manchurian Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, and now seeing the Manchurian Iron Cavalry rushing forward, the various killers rushed over, waving wolf whisks, boring palladium and fighting with each other.

In the face of ordinary enemy cavalry killers, the team was still able to defend the chariot formation, but this time Haoge desperately attacked, thousands of cavalry suddenly launched a fatal blow, after a period of stalemate, especially after the blue flag soldiers arrived, they released arrows in the back to support, in this case the chariot array was constantly torn apart, and the Manchurian Eight Banners cavalry behind swarmed.

The musketeers of the volunteers pressed the muskets more than the spurs, and they could be used like spears on the battlefield, and after seeing the Manchurian Eight Banners constantly rushing over, everyone did not panic at all, under the leadership of the squadron leader and squad leader, everyone shouted slogans, raised their spears and rushed over, desperately blocking the gap.

The battle continued, Hauge felt that his blood was swelling, it seemed that Yang Lin had made a fatal mistake, and now the left and right flanks were pinned down by Nikan, Malashi and others, and it was impossible to send troops and horses back to help.

Hauge waved the broadsword in his hand and shouted loudly, hundreds of years ago, the Mongolian Jin army fought at Yehuling, Genghis Khan used the Jin army to fight back against the Chinese army's big tent, causing its hundreds of thousands of troops to collapse, so as to win the victory on the battlefield.

Although the volunteers of today's First World War had the advantage, they have now made the same mistake, and now they can only win the victory on the battlefield by using the advantage of rapid cavalry maneuver to attack the opponent's center and disrupt the opponent's command system before the opponent reacts.

Under his encouragement, the morale of the soldiers of the Manchurian Zheng Blue Banner was greatly boosted, and everyone kept rushing over, and in the end, the forward battalion of the Gong'a Loan Department was only a hundred steps away from Yang Lin's big fashion.

The personal guard Wu Dazhu led more than 100 soldiers to rush up, first after constantly shooting the opponent's arrogant momentum, and then everyone was entangled with each other in groups of three or five, so that the big tent turned a little corner.

The staff around him were a lot of surprises, and Senator Yin Chengqi came out and admonished: "My lord, it's better for me to withdraw to the city, and my lord can command the overall situation from the city tower." ”

Yang Lin picked up the binoculars and looked at the Manchurian Eight Banners carefully, then shook his head and said: "The victory or defeat of the battlefield is often decided in the last quarter of an hour.

I will not retreat until the time of victory. ”

Wiping the beads of sweat from his face, Yin Chengqi then admonished: "My lord, it is better to order the two cavalry regiments of Bu Ning and Yao Chonglie to attack.

Each regiment has about more than 800 horsemen, and although their riding skills are far from that of the Tartars, many of them can be equipped with riding guns and can resist for a while. ”

Yang Lin shook his head and categorically vetoed: "Haoge is also a battlefield veteran, extremely cunning, if he finds out that I have prepared such a big trap for him, he will definitely not be easily baited."

Now that this is the case, then I can only put my life at risk, and after all the Manchurian soldiers and horses have entered the formation, we will launch a full-scale counterattack. ”