At the beginning, although the training army commanded by Du Xing'a was inferior to others in terms of weapons, so that at the beginning, they ate several rounds of salvos from the Chinese army, but they were able to carry forward to within 100 meters before they could fire in line with the Chinese army.

They also suffered great losses in the course of firing, and their salvo and subsequent scattered shots caused only 300 or 400 casualties to the Chinese army, but their own casualties exceeded 3,000, and the casualty rate was as high as 20 percent.

But despite this, they still did not collapse, but continued to shoot at the Chinese army!

From this point of view, they already have the requirements of line infantry, but the reason why modern infantry is modern infantry is not only because of their bullets, but because of their bayonets!

For a modern army, in fact, the most important thing is not the level of their line shooting, but the level of their bayonet hand-to-hand combat ability.

There are many such examples in many Chinese and foreign battles, that is, when the two sides are engaged in line shooting, it is often the final bayonet hand-to-hand combat stage that determines the victory.

The traditional armies of the Western powers, such as the British, Prussian, French, and Russian armies, are extremely good at bayonet hand-to-hand combat!

Similarly, as an army modeled after the British Colonial Army, the Chinese Army naturally attached great importance to the ability to charge with bayonets in hand-to-hand combat, and in many battles between the Chinese Army and the Taiping Army, such as the battle with Lin Chengting in northern Zhejiang, the battle with the Taiping Army outside Suzhou in 1854, and the battle with the Taiping Army Li Xiu in Danyang this year. In these large-scale field battles, although the Chinese army used the Mini rifle to occupy a certain tactical advantage, it was not the bullet of the Mini rifle that finally defeated the enemy. It's a bayonet on a rifle!

It's just that the firearms of the Chinese army are so dazzling that many people think that the Chinese weapons are sharp, but their hand-to-hand combat ability is very poor.

But this is not the case!

To put it bluntly, bayonet hand-to-hand combat is the last reliance of the Chinese army!

On the other side, although these training armies were also modeled after the Chinese army, they learned a lot, but most of them only focused on the use of firearms. This is especially true for the use of artillery and rifle fire.

But the deeper level of bayonet hand-to-hand combat, they still stay at a very primitive level about it, of course. This is also related to the general fear of hand-to-hand combat in the Qing army.

Such a training did not collapse in the face of the rifle salvo of the Chinese army, but now in the face of the bayonet charge of the Chinese army, they collapsed.

Looking at the defeated army in front of him, Du Xing'a was gray. Although he had a bad premonition before. Knowing that it would be very difficult to win this battle, but according to his expectations, his side was suppressed by the opposite side in the line line and was finally killed and wounded, resulting in collapse, but during this period of time, his own troops would definitely be able to cause a large number of casualties to the enemy, and the Qing army might be able to rely on the remaining green battalion forces to get close to the battle and rely on the strength of the army to achieve victory.

If it was a crushing victory, it would be a big victory for the Qing army. A draw would be a strategic victory for the Qing army, because there was a steady stream of more Qing troops coming later. And then if it's just a small defeat, then it's not a big problem.

But the current complete collapse is beyond Du Xing's expectations!

Not to mention, this rout did not occur during the confrontation phase due to heavy casualties on the side, but because the opponent launched a bayonet charge.

This made him puzzled and panicked at the same time!

If there was a rout when the two sides gathered 100 meters together, he would still have a chance to gather his troops and fight again, but now they are chasing behind their buttocks with rifles with bayonets, and they can't stop at all, at first there are only a few hundred people, and then they are driven by a few thousand, so that by now, more than 10,000 people in the whole army have all turned around and fled.

No matter how much the officers shouted, they couldn't stop the soldiers from fleeing backwards.

"It's over, it's all over!" The monk in the rear, who watched the rout of the army in front of him, was already in despair.

Although the army he brought south this time was full of more than 50,000 people, everyone knew that the core main force was the training army of more than 10,000 people, and the 4,000 Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry could also be regarded as one of the main forces, as for the other more than 30,000 people, they were all local green battalions, regimental training, and the old army of the Eight Banners.

Now the more than 10,000 people who trained the army have failed miserably, and the old army of more than 30,000 people alone can't stop it!

"I can't go on like this, let the cavalry attack, now I can only let the cavalry attack their flanks, so that we can gather the training army in front and fight again!" At this time, Hu Linyi on the side also hurriedly spoke, although Hu Linyi did not have a good impression of Du Xing'a and Nader, but now everyone is a grasshopper with a thread, once the training in front of them fails, none of them present can please him.

Monk Lingqin also knew that the situation was serious, and immediately said: "Order, let the cavalry on the left and right flanks immediately attack the flank of the rebel army!" ”

After the order of Monk Lingqin was passed down, the cavalry of the Qing army had just moved, and on a low and gentle hillside on the edge of the left flank of the battlefield, a group of cavalry appeared one after another.

Those who can appear here at this time must be the cavalry of the Qing army or the Chinese army, and you can easily tell by looking at their clothes that these are the cavalry of the Chinese army!

Among these cavalrymen, Wang Luyun rode a tall horse at the front of the team as before!

Wang Luyun had already moved to this remote location half an hour earlier, that is, before the official decisive battle between the two armies of the two sides, and due to the obstruction of the two low hills on the right, it would be difficult for the Qing army to discover their existence if they did not enter.

At this time, with a wave of the saber in Wang Luyun's hand, the 800 cavalry of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment rushed towards the 2,000 cavalry in the direction of the right wing of the Qing army like a tide!

In a modern army, if you want to deal with the onslaught of enemy cavalry, the best thing is not to have a hollow phalanx or other infantry phalanx, but to send your own cavalry to counterattack! If your cavalry is insufficient or unable to arrive in time. Only then will the infantry form various formations to passively respond to the charge of the enemy cavalry.

At this time, the 2,000 cavalry of the Qing army wanted to rush towards the infantry of the Chinese army, which was already scattered in formation and was fighting hand-to-hand with bayonets. Wang Luyun's original task was not to stop these cavalry, but the same task as the Qing cavalry, which was to attack the enemy's flank, but now that it is good, each other's tasks are similar!

Therefore, Wang Luyun and the cavalry generals of the Qing army on the opposite side made the same choice, they all ignored these infantry first, but launched an attack on the cavalry on the opposite side!

With the war horse trotted up. Wang Luyun relied on his superb riding skills to control the horse with only his feet, and held a saber in both hands. In the other hand, he held a six-shot cavalry pistol with a left wheel.

Behind Wang Luyun, these ordinary cavalrymen were not so strong, they all carried sabers in their right hands, and the equipment of these cavalry was actually not limited to sabers. They also usually also have a short-barreled Mini rifle. In addition, each person is equipped with a cavalry-type left-wheel six-shot pistol on his waist.

The Minny rifle was used in positional warfare, while the saber was used in group charges, and the revolver was used in skirmish engagements as well as in large-scale dogfights.

However, although the pistol was used as a weapon in the melee, in fact, limited by the previous combat examples and traditional restrictions, the cavalry generals of the Chinese army generally still had a certain sense of distrust in this revolver, and they trusted the saber in their hands the most, especially in this kind of large-scale charge battle.

It's also interesting to say, the cavalry of the Chinese army doesn't look at it from that point of view. It's just light cavalry, but in real combat. The light cavalry of the Chinese army often undertook the task of heavy cavalry, that is, to launch a group charge!

In addition to reconnaissance missions, the vast majority of the cavalry operations of the Chinese army are charged on the frontal battlefield, and it is rare to talk about dismounted and foot combat.

This time, the Second Cavalry Regiment led by Wang Luyun once again launched a group charge!

However, the Qing cavalry on the opposite side was not like this, they did not come directly with sabers like Wang Luyun's cavalry, in fact, their speed did not run at all, they always only trotted at the speed, and when they approached, they would shoot with flintlock pistols and bows and arrows in their hands!

This can't be said to be their fault, because the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry have been fighting like this for hundreds of years, although there are not many people who use bows and arrows now, and they have replaced them with flintlock pistols, but in essence they are still mounted archery!

But they soon discovered that although their first round of fire had knocked down many of the Chinese cavalry rushing from the opposite side, the cavalry charge was very fast, and it did not take long for the galloping horses to carry the cavalry into the enemy's phalanx.

At this time, the advantage of the cavalry of the Chinese army was completely displayed, only to see them lined up in an extremely dense formation, and the entire cavalry phalanx was like an entity, directly inserted into the hinterland of the loose formation of the Qing cavalry, and continued to impact forward, tearing the formation of the Qing cavalry.

The saber was constantly swinging, and the sound of pistol fire was heard at the same time, although the Chinese army strictly forbade the cavalry to use any muskets during the charge, but after the charge, the soldiers were allowed to use the revolver after entering the melee, so as to kill the enemy at close range.

Compared with the previous single-shot pistol, the biggest improvement of the revolver is naturally that the previous pistol can only shoot one bullet, but the current pistol can fire six shots in a row, which is simply a sharp weapon for cavalry melee at close range.

The saber and the left revolver made Wang Luyun's second cavalry regiment rush from the front row of the Qing cavalry to the rear row, and the whole situation was like a solid ball cannonball fired by artillery, ruthlessly plowing through the ranks of the enemy army, and paving a bloody road!

For this kind of charge, Wang Luyun has experienced many times, when he saw that the Qing army on the opposite side did not pick up the saber, and raised the speed to hedge with himself, he knew that these cavalry on the opposite side were dead.

Even if the other party raises the speed to charge in the opposite direction with him, he is confident of victory, after all, the Qing cavalry is in a loose formation, and his own is a high-speed charge in a tight formation, and Wang Luyun is sure to defeat them on this alone.

Not to mention that they even dared to play cavalry shooting under the cavalry charge of the Chinese army, even if they returned to the volley level of the Manchurian and Mongolian ancestors hundreds of years ago, they would not be able to stop the dense hand-to-hand combat charge of the Chinese army, let alone the Manchurian salvo that had degenerated.

Wang Lu Yun, who was covered in blood, didn't look back to see how many enemy cavalry had been killed and wounded, but stood up directly from his horse, and then pointed in the direction of the Qing army in front of him with his blood-stained saber: "Kill!" ”

After the 2nd Cavalry Regiment rushed through the 2,000 cavalry of the Qing army, and after causing a large number of casualties of the Qing cavalry, it continued to rush to the position of the Qing army's central army, that is, the position of Seng Lingqin. (To be continued......)