Today's Praetorian Guard has been expanded, with an army of 30,000 to 40,000 troops, and a brigade of more than 6,000 people, while Jiao Lian's 3rd Cavalry Brigade has more than 6,000 people in addition to auxiliary troops. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among the more than 6,000 people, the grassroots officers are basically the third and fourth cadets of the Royal Military Academy, most of whom have participated in the bloody battles against the extermination of the Khalkha Department and the Korqin Department, and many of them have also fought against the Cossack cavalry, and the actual combat experience can be described as rich, coupled with more than a year of high-intensity training, many cavalry riding skills have naturally been perfected, and many of them are not much inferior to Batu Lu of Jiannu.

Even Jiao Lian, a fierce general in the late Ming Dynasty who would only begin to shine in the Yongli period of the Southern Ming Dynasty in the original history, already had the ability to be at his peak at this time, and after the return training of the Royal Military Academy, he was only afraid that he would be more brave and good at fighting than in the original history.

Jiao Lian knew what the concept of the enemy he was about to face, and the Eight Banners Brigade in Yigu Mountain showed that there were as many as six or seven thousand armored soldiers alone, and if you added the clothed minions who served its armored soldiers, I was afraid that it could reach 20,000, which meant that the total strength was about to triple that of himself.

Moreover, if the Jiannu Eight Banners of this scale had been afraid that the entire Ming military system would have been frightened a few years ago, the entire nine sides would have been alarmed frequently, and everyone would have been in a loud voice.

Even now, for many soldiers who have been low-level officers in the Beijing camp or in the border army and have now become high- and middle-level officers of the Praetorian Guard, they are also a little apprehensive and nervous, but they have seen the power of those Eight Banner soldiers who can pull out their bows and pierce several layers of iron armor with one arrow, and they have also seen with their own eyes the scene of their fearlessness of death.

But fortunately, most of the officers had also fought against the Eight Banners, so they were not completely panicked when they were about to face a battle against the larger Eight Banners Force.

Jiao Lian raised his monocular and looked at the direction of the Iron Horse Fort in front of him, and saw that he could clearly see the wolf smoke billowing out, so he also knew that he was not far from the Iron Horse Fort, and he could still see the wolf smoke, indicating that this Eight Banners strong force had not yet broken through the Iron Horse Fort, perhaps deliberately did not break through the Iron Horse Fort, and was waiting for the main force on his side to go, so as to achieve its goal of attracting the main force of the Praetorian Guard on his side. 、

Jiao Lian, who had already learned about the entire war situation through Lu Xiangsheng's heralds, had guessed the intention of the Eight Banners in front of him at this time, and his current task was to attack it directly, and he must defeat this Eight Banners force, so that he could mistakenly think that the main force on his side had arrived.

Therefore, after Jiao Lian saw that he had already entered the territory of Iron Horse Fort, he immediately issued an order to speed up his advance, so as to achieve the goal of directly breaking through the enemy army with lightning speed.

Here, the leader of this Eight Banners is Duoduo, who has been to the capital once with Huang Taiji, Duoduo is now hating the Ming Dynasty, and he is hoping to be ashamed of it, so when he learned from the sentry that the Ming army had rushed in, not only did he not have the slightest fear, but he was even more excited to order the elite of his department to immediately give up attacking the Iron Horse Fort and charge directly towards Jiao Lian's third cavalry brigade.

These Eight Banners were very tactically skillful, and although they were running fast on their horses and were very bumpy, they could still easily pull out their big bows, and as long as they entered the firing range, they could shoot a rain of arrows from the sky, piercing through people's armor and causing death and injury.

However, on the side of the Praetorian Guard, Jiao Lian saw that the enemy army had entered the range of the cavalry field artillery on his side, so he decisively issued an order for the cavalry field artillery to move forward and the cavalry to attack from both flanks.

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of cannonballs, and the dense cannonballs galloped directly towards the team charging at the front of the Tartars like scattered flowers.

In an instant, a large number of Eight Banner armor soldiers who tried to draw their bows and shoot were blown up!

It turned out that with the recommendation of the Daming steam industry, steel smelting and machine tool processing have been rapidly improved, so that the artillery casting skills have also improved a lot, and even the cavalry has its own mobile artillery power.

The field artillery used by the cavalry is small and lightweight, so the caliber is relatively small, because the cavalry has to operate on horseback.

However, the Third Brigade of the Praetorian Guard, as the trump card of the Praetorian Guard system and a brigade-level establishment, has two team-level cavalry artillery units, and a full 300 cavalry field guns bombarded these Eight Banners, even if they are really not afraid of death, they will be blown to pieces.

A cannonball exploded directly in the middle of several white-armored soldiers, and these white-armored soldiers who were capable of fighting dozens of warriors in the past were blown up directly to the stomach, some rolled directly off their horses and were trampled into flesh, and some fell to the ground with men and horses, bleeding all over the ground.

These Eight Banners didn't expect the cavalry and artillery in front of them, and they were a little caught off guard, but they were still charging, and they wanted to rush over as fast as possible to break through the Praetorian Guard camp of the Third Brigade, especially those artillery that could move quickly.

By this time, however, the cavalry of two battalions of the 3rd Janissary Brigade had already rushed from the left flank, many of them armed with rifled cavalry guns, and the soldiers were also new-type firing cavalry guns with a longer range, and they opened fire before the Eight Banners could not suppress them with their bows and arrows. 、

Crackling, like fried beans, when countless white smoke rose, many Eight Banners soldiers also followed the crackling and hung from their horses to the ground.

Seeing this, Duoduo couldn't help but be angry, and immediately rushed directly to fight, but the battalions of the Third Brigade of the Praetorian Guard immediately retreated, and scattered from several squads, constantly attacking and shooting, like wolves, causing these Eight Banners to lose a lot.

After a fierce battle, the number of Eight Banners on Duoduo's side has reached more than 1,000 people, but they are not close to the third brigade of the Praetorian Guard, and it is rare for the Praetorian Guard to have zero casualties.

However, Jiao Lian did not give this main force of the Eight Banners a chance to breathe, his task was to defeat this main force of the Eight Banners, completely defeat, and make it mistakenly think that he was the main force, so he did not hesitate to order his cavalry to continue attacking.

The artillery continued to fire shells, and the cavalry battalions continued to attack from both sides.

If it weren't for the fact that these cavalry were moving too fast, and this was an open place, Jiao Lian really wanted to use gas bombs to solve the problem at one time, but it was precisely because there were no gas bombs to paralyze the enemy's nerves that Duoduo could quickly avoid it after seeing that he had lost more than 2,000 people on his side.

And Jiao Lian's side was still in pursuit, and personally led two cavalry battalions to return to the back of this Eight Banners Brigade at the fastest speed to intercept this Eight Banners Force.

The other battalions were also outflanked, and they simply surrounded Duoduo's Eight Banners who tried to retreat while fighting.

Seeing this, Duoduo immediately fired his own Eight Banners directly with bows and arrows, because the two armies were now very close to each other, so the feathers and arrows of these Eight Banners soldiers also caused large casualties to the Praetorian Guard, but the cavalry firearms of the Praetorian Guards had a faster rate of fire, so they could always fall four or five Eight Banners soldiers at the same time as the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard.

And Jiao Lian would not have to be stupid to fight in the range of the bow and arrow of the Eight Banners after intercepting this Eight Banners, but retreated to a safe distance while shooting, and then shot with firearms.

This will always result in greater losses for the Duoduo Eight Bannermen.