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The drier ground in autumn and winter made it easier for the army to advance and, of course, for the Tatar horse corps.

Since the autumn and winter offensive was chosen, it meant that the coalition forces accepted cavalry warfare.

Unlike the majestic heavy cavalry troops, the 2nd Division's chaser horses are hybrid breeds of mixed horses and Nanyang horses, with an average shoulder height of less than 135, and a horse with a shoulder height of 135 weighs 320kg and carries an upper limit of 80kg, barely enough for a light cavalry to carry 20kg of equipment into battle.

The Tatar horses were worse than the chasseur horses, but by the Tatar standard, the horse team was equipped with three horses per person, and if the soldiers could not afford it, the officers were given enough. This is better than the conditions of the federal cavalry. Therefore, according to the current discipline, the federal cavalry is not an independent branch of the army that conducts battles, and the cavalry is attached to the infantry and will not be too far away from the infantry.

Fillhoff was reinforced by the Navy's Dongjiang Detachment, and the 12-pounder field heavy artillery battery was rebuilt.

Half of the 2nd Division had half a battalion in the rear to protect the line of the troops, and most of the battalion was attached to 1 cavalry squadron and part of the Ming army to guard in the direction of Huizhou.

The troops that drove to Dongguan City had 1 and a half battalions and the main force of the Ming army to surround Dongguan City. The infantry under the city of Dongguan built 4 multi-sided forts with earthwork in one day, with a total of 9 field guns and 14 artillery pieces of the Ming army, and the field heavy artillery company was placed under the city of Dongguan to bombard the city wall.

The rest of the troops crossed the Dongjiang River and occupied a bridgehead in the north of the river. Among the troops crossing the river, one battalion was behind the chasseurs, relying on several hills, to open the battle line, and the remaining one battalion was lined up in a horizontal formation behind the hills, and the four infantry companies and the main force of the Houjiang Chesseur Regiment were the reserves controlled by the division commander.

Pan Hao led his company of chasers to open the cavalry curtain in the northwest of Dongguan City. Pan Hao's previous enemy was Shang Kexi's subordinate Mongolian horse team. Some of these Mongol soldiers still carried bows and arrows with them, and all of them had shotguns. The weak tactic of mounted archery was gradually being abandoned by the Mongols, and the shotgun was a more reliable and effective weapon.

Cavalry hedging was very rare in previous battles, and the scale was relatively small, at most a dozen or so cavalrymen showed off their might to intimidate people. More of a battle is that the two sides approach and dismount, find a good terrain to rely on, and shoot each other.

Today the situation was a little different, the enemy army was massed in more and more numbers, including several eight-banner Meler banners, mixed with infantry and artillery, and more than 7,000 troops were assembled on the opposite side, and the Tatars marched into the battlefield in multiple columns.

The cavalry of the 5th Hewan Chasseur Regiment where Pan Hao belonged retreated behind the scenes and moved closer to the infantry.

On the surface of the Dongjiang River behind the army, 5 light galleys and 30 Ming warships and more sampan boats were waiting to protect 6 large and small pontoon bridges on the Dongjiang River and its tributaries.

Pan Hao felt that if the Tatars attacked with all their might before the troops crossed the river or the pontoon bridge was built, they might be able to achieve greater results, but the speed of the Tatars' deployment was really a bit slow, and of course, they might be waiting for their own army to attack halfway.

Pan Hao was a lover of armor, so he bought a silver full-body armor. The Tatars were most heavily armed with iron cotton armor and iron armor, which may not be as protective as plate armor, but they also had their external beauty.

The sun shone on the iron helmets and armor of the Tatar soldiers, and the high lightning rods pointed to the sky, and the armor glittered silver in the sun, making the opposing army even more dazzling.

The Tatars had a long front, which forced the infantry battalion behind the chasseurs to divide up and spread out six firing positions along the hilly ridge, covered by howitzers on both flanks. The valleys outside the hilly ring firing positions were mostly empty.

The Tatars found out about this.

The Green Battalion and the Eight Banners relied heavily on their cavalry, while the infantry was relatively unvalued.

The Green Battalion infantry struggled to form out of battle formation, forming a horizontal column of six or more men in depth, and the Green Battalion horizontal column looked okay when standing still, and once on the offensive, a poorly organized formation was ridiculous in front of the Union Army.

It was the cavalry that brought trouble.

Several Tatar cavalrymen performed all his dexterity and bravery in front of the formation, causing the enemy on the opposite side to burst into cheers. They clinged to their horses, and the dexterous horses seemed to share all the enthusiasm of their masters.

The Tatars carried a saber on their wrists and fired sequentially with shotguns and bows.

After firing several weapons, the Tatars bypassed the advancing chappers and ran through the middle of the infantry positions and the lines of the chappers with amazing agility.

The enemy's excellent cavalry, commanded by the seven-pole general, galloped into the area between the phalanx of the 2nd line and the firing positions on the hills, and there was no doubt that the Tatars were trying to find an undefended place in the rear of the coalition in order to rally the line from behind.

The coalition forces immediately fired a series of shotguns and artillery fire from the front, then from the flanks, and finally from the rear, killing and wounding many of them, and several Tatar warriors who rushed into positions from the rear also died under bayonets.

The battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, and the formation of the Tatars was in disarray.

When the Tatars found that the fire in the rear was as fierce as in the front, some of the troops hurriedly retreated and instead attacked the two fortified villages where the reserves were stationed, and were greeted by heavy shotgun fire from four 6-pounder guns. The Tatars hurried to the right again, retreating to a halt half a mile from the right flank of the coalition forces.

More than 500 corpses of Tatar soldiers were left outside the village. These corpses made the allied soldiers very happy, because the Tatars had a habit of taking all the silver with them when they set out to fight, and the Tatars would not go to war unless they received a reward for going out to battle, and the corpses of these horses could be worth tens of thousands of taels of silver.

The commander of the 5th River Bend Chasseur Regiment where Pan Hao was located and the regimental guards gathered on the top of a hill.

After carefully observing the battlefield, the regimental commander threw away the binoculars and walked quickly down the hill.

He mounted his warhorse, drew his command knife, and said in a loud voice, "Let's go and knock those Tatars off their horses, attack the direction, and watch my horse's ass!" ”

The cavalry burst into laughter.

The regimental commander brandished his saber, "Follow me!" ”

The 5th Bend Cavalry Regiment assembled into 3 cavalry squadrons and charged the Tatar horse corps behind them.

The heavy cavalry charge was flat and straight, and there was silence. The chassars did not have the organization and discipline of heavy cavalry, and the cavalry brandished their sabers in the air and made a Tatar-like whistling sound from their mouths.

In the first wave, there were 2 cavalry squadrons, 4 cavalry companies, and about 400 people lined up in two parallel cavalry formations, with squadrons spaced 20 meters apart and a total length of about 220 meters.

The commander of the Hewan Cavalry Regiment did not sound the charge from beginning to end, and the cavalry column only rammed into the enemy column at a brisk pace.

Admittedly, the kinetic energy possessed by a cavalry charge unit is terrifying, but a brisk run is better for maintaining a queue. The Bend Cavalry Regiment believed that maintaining a tighter line at this time was more important than speed.

The sabers exchanged blows, and the enemy's tiger guns quickly became useless.

The armored cavalry of the Tatars had a certain individual advantage in such battles, and if the size of the engagement was less than 100 people, the probability of victory for the chasseurs was relatively small. When the scale of the battle is 200 people, there is a high probability that the two sides will be tied. As the scale of the battle rose to 400 men, the queue and discipline became even more important.

The second wave of cavalry squadrons charged the right flank in a company column, i.e. four platoons, breaking the enemy's flank, and then rotating to the center to form an approximately right-angled battle formation.

The Tatar cavalry turned and fled.

The 3 cavalry squadrons of the 6th Houjiang Chesseur Regiment showed their sabers, jumped out of the reserve position, and delivered a fatal blow to the enemy.

The 350-meter-long cavalry column swept the battlefield from left to right.

When the cavalry was outnumbered, it was difficult for even the Emperor's army of a hundred battles to fight against the medieval cavalry of the Mamluks. The slow progress of the Desai division in Upper Egypt was rooted in the eternal cause, the French army was completely destroyed when the battle was lost, and the victory was not able to take advantage of the victory to extend the victory, all of which was reversed after the Desai division was reinforced by 1,200 cavalry.

This is also the reason why the guard insisted on entering the continental battlefield only after the establishment of a large number of cavalry.

The remnants of the Tatar cavalry fled north through the valleys, and two cavalry regiments attacked.

Two and a half infantry battalions charged with bayonets in columns, and mounted artillery batteries accompanied the infantry advance, approaching 200 meters from the enemy and firing at the enemy front.

The Tatars also had artillery, but their artillery mounts were not good and did not turn well. The allied infantry captured the enemy artillery with a swift charge.

This mixed cavalry artillery attack easily shattered the Tatar infantry line, and the army soldiers were presented with the backs of thousands of bombed battalions.

Pursuit, pursuit, relentless pursuit.

Filhoff organized the troops crossing the river into two columns, each with 12 infantry companies, 3 cavalry squadrons, 4 cavalry guns and 300 Ming troops, and pursued them towards Guangzhou.

The Tatars tried to stop camping three times, but were crushed three times and were forced to flee all the way into the city of Guangzhou.

That night, the detachment with the main force of the 6th Regiment as the backbone closed the east gate of Guangzhou, and the detachment with the main force of the 7th Regiment occupied Baiyun Mountain and closed the north gate of Guangzhou, and the artillery built a position at Baiyun Mountain.

In Guangzhou City, the vanguard only controlled the peripheral points and did not achieve the encirclement.

Outside the city of Dongguan.

The field heavy artillery battery fired rapidly into the city.

The Ming army cut off 3 heads of the Eight Banners Melle Zhangjing and picked them on the flagpole.

The eight guerrilla officers and above who were captured in the Green Battalion were all stripped naked and tied up outside the city and executed on the spot.

The 5th Regiment immediately issued an ultimatum to Dongguan City, if it did not surrender within one hour, all the soldiers and civilians in the city would be sent to the Nanyang Mine after the city was broken.

Zhixian meat is out of the country, and the whole city of Dongguan is braided, and this successful case is later known as the Dongguan ISO model.

Filhoff didn't have time to dwell on Dongguan.

The regimental headquarters of the 5th Regiment led 1 infantry battalion, 2 cavalry squadrons, and 1000 Ming troops to defend the axis of attack, and the Dongjiang detachment to guard the water. The rest of the troops arrived at the city of Guangzhou one after another.

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