On the fourth day after Lin Chengting led his army to Huzhou City, the first mixed regiment of Yu Shengjun, which had been cowering in Huzhou City, also issued its first counterattack.

At dawn that day, Yu Shengjun's second cavalry company quietly left the city from the West City Gate!

In the face of Yu Shengjun's second cavalry company out of the city, the Taiping army stationed at the West City Gate naturally tried to intercept it, but the main force of the Taiping Army was on the side of the North City Gate, although there were nearly 3,000 troops here at the West City Gate, but there was not much artillery support, and the troops were all old and weak who were still equipped with cold weapons.

Lin Chengting didn't think about besieging Huzhou at all, what he wanted was to capture Huzhou City, and even Yu Shengjun's abandonment of the city and fleeing was a victory for him, so he put the main force on the north gate, and only put a partial division on the west gate.

Leading the Second Cavalry Company was Wang Luyun, a cavalry veteran in Yu Sheng's army, who had been seriously wounded in the Battle of Si'an last year and had to recover for more than half a year.

Lin Zhe did not forget the credit of leading the personal guards to charge the enemy formation three times, and before his injuries were completely healed, he had already appointed him as the company commander of the Second Cavalry Company, and at the same time, he was promoted to major and rewarded with a generous reward of 1,000 taels of silver.

In addition to Yu Shengjun's internal promotion and reward, Lin Zhe also promoted him to the imperial court as a five-rank garrison.

Although Yu Shengjun said that it was Lin Zhe's private army, the officers in it were generally promoted by Lin Zhe and had official bodies of different grades, for example, Bi Yutong is now an alternate governor from Wupin. Shi Langyi is a five-grade garrison, and Shi Qingxuan is a five-grade garrison.

However, these officials have little significance within Yu Shengjun, for example, Shi Langyi and Bi Yutong are both five-rank garrisons, but one is a high-level general on the leading side, and the other is only the company commander of the cavalry company, and the gap between the two is still quite large.

Wang Luyun, who had just recovered from his injuries, led the cavalry of the Second Cavalry Company out in a row, but unlike in the past, when he led the cavalry to attack, he carried a knight's spear, this time the cavalry under his command did not carry a spear, but all carried a mini rifle on their backs.

After seeing them come out of the city gate, the Taiping army, which was guarding and monitoring several miles outside the city, saw a cavalry rushing out from the opposite side, and immediately panicked, and many Taiping soldiers were driven up by the leaders to line up and prepare to meet them.

But they saw that the cavalry did not approach them at all, but left the city and headed straight to the northeast, leaving them with nothing but smoke and dust.

At this time, Lin Chengting, who had already learned that Yu Shengjun's cavalry was out of the city, was also busy transferring troops and sending generals: "Transfer the musket teams of the two brigades over, and tell Dong Yanghong, let him immediately lead the cavalry to stop those Qing Demon Cavalry!" ”

After several orders were issued in a row, Lin Chengting once again rode his horse to a small hill outside the city, looking at the southwest direction, he could already see the smoke and dust raised by the galloping of a large number of cavalry in his sight, and in addition to the rumbling cannons of his own side, he could also hear the sound of horse hooves.

"It's only two hundred cavalry, and two brigades of muskets are enough to stop them, not to mention nearly a thousand cavalry to help in the battle!" Lin Chengting seemed to be speaking to others, and seemed to be speaking to himself, and his tone was full of confidence.

However, it is reasonable for him to have self-confidence, the two brigade musket teams he dispatched, plus a thousand cavalry, against the two hundred cavalry of the enemy military district, are they still not hand-to-hand?

According to Feng Yunshan's "Taiping Military Eye" written and published in the second year of Xianfeng, the Taiping military system was composed of five people and a military commander; Five soldiers are two, there are twenty-five soldiers, and there are two Sima members; Four taels are pawns, with one hundred and four soldiers, and a pawn commander; The five soldiers are brigades, with 525 soldiers and a brigade commander; The fifth brigade is a division, with 2,625 soldiers and a division commander; The fifth division is an army, with 13,125 soldiers and a commander.

Of course, this is just an ideal establishment, and it is impossible to maintain a complete establishment in the course of the war, and some Taiping troops have as many as 10,000 troops, as little as 3,500, and some brigade commanders have 4,500 soldiers, while others have only 100 hundred.

Although Lin Chengting imitated Yu Shengjun to train the musket team, it is impossible to say that he directly copied the establishment of Yu Shengjun, he still followed the establishment of the Taiping Army, and the musket team was based on brigades, with about 500 people per brigade.

In terms of troops, in fact, the brigade-level establishment of the Taiping Army and the battalion-level establishment of Yu Shengjun are about the same, both of which are more than 500 people, but an infantry battalion of Yu Shengjun has six companies, while the brigade of the Taiping Army has five pawns.

The two musket brigades sent by Lin Chengting, that is, a musket team of more than 1,000 people, even if they are only equipped with old-fashioned arquebuses, but as long as they are listed in a tight formation, they are enough to prevent the impact of the enemy's light cavalry.

At the beginning, his own cavalry suffered heavy casualties in front of Yu Shengjun's infantry phalanx, and today he also wants to let these Yu Shengjun's cavalry fall under the guns of his musket team.

However, when Lin Chengting watched with confidence as his musket team phalanx slowly advanced, preparing to meet the cavalry of Yu Sheng's army.

But he saw an unexpected picture.

I saw that the cavalry of Yu Shengjun, who galloped over, did not charge with their rifles in their hands as they remembered, but stopped their horses four hundred meters away, and formed a three-row horizontal formation like the line infantry.

Next, one by one, they sat on horseback and began to reload the Minnie rifles in their hands!

Seeing this scene, Lin Chengting was dumbfounded!

Instead of charging, you cavalrymen stop hundreds of meters away and take out their rifles to load, and think you are musketeers?

But he was only slightly stunned for a while, he immediately realized the strict nature of the problem, and he knew that the firearms in Yu Shengjun's hands were extremely sharp, and he didn't know why they could hit three hundred steps away.

In the face of Yu Sheng's advantage in the range of firearms, his predetermined way to deal with it is artillery, what if you hit far, my artillery will hit farther than you.

With the help of a large number of artillery, his musketeers should be able to rush to within 100 paces, although the range is not enough.

But the current situation is different, his artillery is still outside the north gate, and it is not so easy to transfer support it.

The only way to do this is to rely on Dong Yanghong's cavalry!

Sure enough, living up to Lin Chengting's expectations, Dong Yanghong in front saw that Yu Shengjun's cavalry did not take the initiative to charge, but instead survived more than 300 meters in front of the infantry phalanx.

Immediately, he just shouted: "Rush! ”

Since you don't take the initiative to rush into battle, then I'll rush!

Seeing the thief army's big drum cavalry rushing out from the right front, Wang Luyun sneered: "These thieves' cavalry still haven't grown!" ”

The reason why these Taiping cavalry were despised by Wang Lu Yun was because they were the same as usual, although the large group of men and horses rushed out with great momentum, but if you look closely, you will find that their charge is the same as in the battle of Si'an, there is no concept of dense formation at all, and the gap between the cavalry and the cavalry is very large and loose.

Moreover, a large group of cavalry is in a kind of vertical formation, each row is only about 100 people, the front and rear rows are separated by tens of meters, if it is a cavalry shooting, they will rush to the distance of about ten meters of the enemy, start to bend the bow and shoot arrows and begin to turn, turn and leave the position to the cavalry in the next row, and then repeat the above action.

This is the typical mode of combat of the Eastern cavalry, which has been practiced for hundreds of years since the Mongols swept the world.

Of course, these cavalry under Dong Yanghong's hands naturally won't be cavalry archery, they haven't reached that level yet, so they can't play cavalry.

They were just a group of mounted infantry, and they only learned a half-hung cavalry formation, and they did not rush up in a swarm, but divided into several rows to charge, which was already considered Dong Yanghong's ability to govern the army.

Looking at the enemy cavalry rushing up from the right front, they were not only loosely formed and wielding all kinds of weapons in their hands, but more importantly, they were still far away, so Wang Luyun was not moved, but ordered: "Shoot!" ”

With a burst of gunfire, the cavalry of the second cavalry company pulled the trigger in their hands and fired out two hundred bullets in unison, the bullets flew through the air, and then fell into the body of the Taiping army's musket team.

However, Wang Luyun was not in the mood to look at the results of his array of guns, but raised the saber in his hand and shouted: "Turn left, let's go!" ”

In the face of the impact of thousands of cavalry, Wang Luyun did not choose to hedge head-on, although he was confident that he would lead his second cavalry company to defeat them, but even if the hedge between the cavalry was victorious, it would be a thousand kills and eight hundred self-losses.

What's more, the other party still has thousands of musketeers on the side, and when the time comes, one of them will suffer heavy casualties if they are not careful, so Wang Luyun chose to avoid it.

However, his direction was not to go to the West Gate, but to turn directly to the left.

Dong Yanghong looked at the retreat direction of the Qing Demon cavalry on the opposite side, did this run in the wrong direction? Or do they have other plans?

After a little thought, he still chose to continue to lead his troops to catch up, no matter what these Qing Demon Cavalry wanted to do, he had to catch up and kill them.

When Wang Luyun retreated to the left with his subordinates, he looked at the Taiping cavalry behind him chasing after him, and couldn't help but show ruthlessness: "I even dare to chase after you, it seems that I don't give you some color to see, I thought that your Uncle Lu was really afraid of you!" ”

Wang Luyun did not intend to engage the enemy's infantry and cavalry in this battle, their purpose was to bypass and then destroy their artillery positions from the flank and rear positions, and it was a predetermined strategy to retreat after a little battle with the enemy's infantry phalanx just now.

But Wang Luyun originally thought that these Taiping troops would not dare to chase after them, and then he would be able to calmly detour behind them to sneak attack.

Unexpectedly, Dong Yanghong was more daring or reckless than he imagined!

Riding horses all the way, they soon broke away from Huzhou City in time, seven miles away from the west gate of Huzhou City, Wang Luyun looked at the surrounding terrain a little, and then commanded the knife to point to a small hill in the northeast: "Let's go there!" ”

This hill is not very high, and the slope is very gentle, which may not be a big deal for infantry, but if the cavalry rushes down from the hill, it will gain a higher speed bonus.

In a short time, the two hundred horsemen galloped up the mountain!

"Reload!"

Wang Luyun pulled out the dock, and the command knife in his hand pointed to the Taiping cavalry that was chasing thousands of kilometers away.

These Taiping cavalry were completely scattered in the long-distance pursuit and running, and the enemy troops from the front row to the last row were six or seven or eight hundred meters away.

Although the more than 100 Taiping cavalry who were chasing at the forefront didn't know why these Qing Demon cavalry stopped, they habitually continued to forget to rush forward!

When they rushed to a distance of about two hundred meters, Wang Luyun waved his command knife: "Shoot!" ”

After a burst of gunshots, Wang Luyun was heard shouting: "Draw the sword!" ”

The cavalrymen put their rifles back on their backs one after another, and then drew their sabers one by one!

Wang Luyun took two steps forward from the horse, and then raised the saber and shouted: "Rush! ”

In the next moment, these two hundred horsemen galloped down from the top of the mountain like a mountain stream torrent and rushed directly towards the Taiping cavalry!

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