After seeing the signal to attack, Bu Ning, the deputy general of the First Cavalry Association, stepped on his horse, waved the three-eyed gun in his hand and said: "The Tartars claim that the golden people are not more than 10,000, and if they exceed 10,000, they are invincible in the world."

Brothers, at the beginning of the year, although we defeated the Tartar Iron Cavalry under Shunqing City, the Tartars thought that it was a hilly area, and stubbornly believed that they were the king of land warfare.

Today we are going to pull it out and have a showdown with each other, so that they can see that even on the flat ground, which one is a bad seed, and what is the first one who is scared to urinate. ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and everyone stepped on their horses, gradually forming a six-row cavalry formation in front and behind during the march.

Seeing the arrival of the Volunteer cavalry, Ma Laxi, Haningge and others abandoned the besieging Volunteer infantry on both wings, reorganized their formation, and prepared to meet the Volunteer cavalry.

Different from the phalanx in the past, the hollow array often formed a small phalanx with a battalion of infantry as a unit, and after some fighting, the Tartar iron cavalry had already penetrated into the middle of the phalanx, and some were even in the middle of several infantry phalanxes, and it was not easy to withdraw from the battlefield.

Of course, Yang Bingyi, Jing Keqin and others knew that it was now at the juncture of a decisive battle, and they must not let the Tartar Iron Cavalry regroup, if that happened, it would be a nightmare for the Cavalry Association.

Seeing that the Tartar cavalry wanted to retreat, everyone fought out one after another under the cover of artillery and birds, desperately blocking the assembly of the Tartar cavalry.

At the height of the battle, some infantry even fought with the opponent with bird guns equipped with spurs.

The advantage of cavalry lies in rapid mobility, from the assembly to the battle between the two armies, it is only half a pillar of incense before and after, and the cavalry that Malashi can gather is less than a thousand people, but everyone fights separately, and does not form any formation at all.

However, the Tartar iron cavalry has been fighting in the south and north for decades, and it is worthy of a strong army.

Ma Lashi led the charge at the forefront, shouting left and right while charging, so that everyone should be careful of the three-eyed guns of the Ming army.

Compared with the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, the Ming army's cavalry archery was poor, and the greatest power of the Ming cavalry was the three-eyed gun, which used to light the fire rope a hundred steps away, and release the gun at forty or fifty steps away.

This time it was completely different, rushing all the way over, the other party had no intention of lighting the fire rope at all, and did not release the gun from a distance.

Just when everyone was elated and thought that the knights of the Ming army had lost their ability to take care of their homes in the past, just as everyone took off their bows and arrows and prepared to shoot arrows, twenty paces away, they saw the volunteer soldiers raising something similar to a three-eyed gun from a distance.

Three-eyed gun, a kind of horse pistol invented in the Ming Dynasty, has three barrels fixed one under a butt, and the three barrels are filled with gunpowder and lead before the battle, and the gunpowder outside is ignited through the fire fold to kill and injure the enemy at close range.

Due to the ease of operation and the ability to shoot continuously (three barrels), the three-eyed gun became a weapon in the late Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, relied on his 3,000 Guanning iron cavalry equipped with three-eyed guns to crisscross Liaodong for more than 30 years, killing and injuring countless Manchurian and Mongolian Tartars.

However, like the arquebus of the same era, the three-eyed gun also has many weaknesses, such as weak firing power, the need for fire fold ignition, it is not easy to fire in wet weather, windy weather, and the firing speed is slow.

In order to make up for the gap between the cavalry of the two sides, Yang Lin improved the three-eyed gun, combined the characteristics of the three-eyed gun and the thunderbolt gun, and made a firearm called the thunderbolt horse gun.

The Thunderbolt horse gun was about 60 centimeters long, and the tail was equipped with three sub-guns, which could be turned manually, and the trigger of the tail of the gun was pulled, and the gantry equipped with flint fell and ignited the gunpowder for firing.

This kind of gun combines many advantages of the three-eyed gun, the thunderbolt gun, and the Fran cannon, and has the prototype of the revolver, which is far more convenient to operate than the three-eyed gun, and the power is also more than the three-eyed gun.

Aiming at the Manmeng Iron Rider who was sprinting at close range, he raised the fire gun in his hand and gently pulled the trigger, the fire ignited, making a dull sound, and the missiles burst out and flew in.

In the face of this kind of three-eyed gun that did not need to be ignited, the Tatar cavalry in front broke out in a cold sweat, and everyone dodged one after another.

A successful blow, the opponent's rider's body prostrate on the horse's back, the two horses are more than ten steps apart when the Tartar knight shoots an arrow, the opponent's rider raises the thunderbolt rifle in his hand again, the Tartar rider is shocked into a cold sweat, the bow and arrow in his hand can't hold the shot, and the crosshair is very poor.

The horses were staggered, and the riders in the back continued to arrive, unlike the first battalion equipped with Thunderbolt horse guns, the back was equipped with three-eyed guns (too late to change all the equipment) and bows and arrows, and everyone fought with the oncoming Tartar cavalry.

Although the Mongolian cavalry was very good at riding and shooting, the effective range of the horse bow was far inferior to the three-eyed gun (this is also the reason why Li Chengliang Guanning's iron cavalry had been crisscrossing the northeast for more than 30 years), and the unit was attacked by the infantry and cavalry of the Volunteer Army.

Just when Ma Lahi was stumbling and complaining, the Han army was in the blue flag and Li Guohan could only be described as desperate now.

When Bu Ning and Yao Chonglie each led an assistant to attack from the left and right flanks, Yang Lin led the artillery regiment to the front, and more than 20 3-pound guns were lined up on a hill in front, suddenly ignited, and shelled at the Han army's blue flag.

The Volunteers charged head-on, and Nikan threw Li Guohan's Han Army into the front, so as to slightly block the frontal charge of the Volunteers.

But the good times did not last long, and during the fighting, Yang Lin also found that the frontal defense of the Tartars was fragile, and now he concentrated two artillery battalions and more than 20 three-pound guns to bombard.

More than 20 iron balls pierced the sky and crackled and fell in the position, and those who were hit by the iron balls were either killed or injured, and under a round of shelling, the entire camp was in chaos.

Being continuously shelled, the Tartar army was in a mess, and it was impossible to stop any effective defense, and Wang Zhibang, who was on one side, took the opportunity to lead the 10th standard to kill from the left flank, and Yang Chengxie on the front was copied in two ways.

The Tartar army was in a mess, and they couldn't resist it at all, and after a fight, they were actually killed by Wang Zhibang.

Li Guohan, the commander of the Han army with a blue flag, saw the volunteers killing all over the mountains, and wanted to fight to the death, but the soldiers under his command were not like this, and when they saw the volunteers and cavalry killing, everyone threw away the artillery and fled to the back

The Tatar cavalry, which had lost the cover of artillery fire, were like headless flies, although they could still rely on the mobility of their horses to resist stubbornly, but the morale of the whole army was already very low, and everyone had no intention of fighting at all.

Tartar Mongolia is blue flag Gushan Ezhen Ma Laxi, the general army of the Han army

The various units of the Volunteer Army took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and did not stop until the city of Hanzhong, and everyone dug trenches and built fortifications for the siege of the city in the coming day.

In Hanzhong City, Heluo would sit in the lobby with a sad face, and his generals would quarrel non-stop.

Li Guoying, Gao Mingzhan and other green battalion generals believed that after this fiasco, the volunteers had already built fortifications at the west gate, and if they did not retreat, they would be wiped out.

Heluohui, Li Guohan and others did not think so, according to the agreement with Nikan, no matter what, they must defend until the arrival of Duoduo and Wu Sangui's overall situation, otherwise the volunteers will confront the Qing army with the Han River as the boundary, and the drag will also drag the Qing army down.

Although Li Guoying and Gao Mingzhan are unwilling, who makes the other party a master and a slave? There was no choice but to inspect the various city gates to appease the hearts of the Green Battalion soldiers.

After the volunteers set up camp 3 miles away from Hanzhong City, Yang Lin saw the crowd in a burst of excitement.

Under the city of Shunqing, the volunteers were defeated by the blue banner of Haoge's department, which was really because of the terrain, and because the red-coated cannon suddenly attacked, so the other party was caught off guard.

The defeat of Luo Luohun under the heavy (Qing) city was really because after he blocked the passage out of Sichuan, the Tartars not only had low morale of the whole army, but more importantly, they fought for several months in a row, and the soldiers and horses were tired.

This time it was different, it was an encounter, and it was deliberately planned by the Tartars to take the Volunteers by surprise.

Although the casualties of various divisions were quite large, especially the 10th Regiment of Wang Zhibang, which suffered more than half of the casualties, and the 3rd Regiment of the Dragon Frame was also more than 3 percent, but this time after all, the Tartar cavalry was defeated on the frontal battlefield.

Among them, there are 3,000 Manmeng Eight Banners, and it is roughly estimated that more than 1,000 people were killed on the battlefield alone, and it was a hearty victory in any case.

In addition, it is to find a way to deal with cavalry on the battlefield, that is, to use the Fran cannon and the tiger squat cannon to shoot continuously at a distance, to avoid the Tartar cavalry from forming a wave charge formation, to rely on bird guns to shoot at medium distances, to throw thunderbolts with handles at medium and close ranges, to rely on the terrain at close range, or to use wheelbarrows and two-wheeled carriages to build fortifications.

Through these four fire lines, even if a small number of Tartar cavalry entered, everyone could rely on the numerical advantage to annihilate them in the formation, and avoid the danger of the formation being breached.

And when the Tartar cavalry dispersed, the infantry attacked under the cover of their own cavalry to prevent the Tartar cavalry from regrouping, and then killed a return rifle.

Although Wang Zhibang's regiment suffered a huge sacrifice this time, it also tested the suitability of tactics through actual combat, and in this sense, this sacrifice was worth it.