When Dong Yanghong wore armor and brandished a saber and led his cavalry to rush into the baggage regiment and slash and slash, the battles in other directions on the battlefield also became extremely fierce.

Lin Chengting had already personally led the infantry in the battalion to launch a counterattack, regardless of casualties!

The soldiers of the First Infantry Corps and the First Artillery Company resisted desperately, but fortunately, although the Taiping Army had a large number, they were only infantry in the end, and they did not have the rapid impact power of the cavalry, so it was quite difficult for them to cross the death zone of more than 400 meters and approach the position of the First Infantry Corps.

Although the infantry of the Taiping Army is higher than the Qing army in this era, and many historical materials in history evaluate them as well-trained, but in the final analysis, they are only stronger than the Eight Banners and Green Battalions in the Qing Army.

They can't afford to be like modern armies, and still launch a decisive charge despite suffering four or five percent casualties.

Therefore, although the situation of the 1st Corps and the 1st Artillery Company is now critical, they are still firmly holding the battle line, and no soldier of the Taiping Army can rush to within 200 meters of them.

In addition, the Second Infantry Regiment of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County, under the leadership of Lin Anfei, turned around and ran forward in two columns to rescue the rear of the Baggage Regiment and the Second Artillery Company.

But the baggage regiment they wanted to rescue was now in a complete collapse, more than 300 soldiers fought almost on their own, one after another by the cavalry of the Taiping army cut down and fell to the ground, many soldiers even began to throw down their guns and turn around, and a few bloody soldiers took the initiative to resist, with the bayonets on the rifles in their hands and the enemy's cavalry hand-to-hand combat.

If you don't look at these details, just from a big picture, when the forward cavalry of the Taiping Army broke into the array of the baggage regiment, and the cavalry of the Taiping Army behind followed, it was only about a minute before and after, and the entire baggage regiment had completely collapsed.

Looking at the collapsed baggage group, Lin Zhe took a deep breath, he was waiting, waiting for Wang Lu Yun to appear!

Four hundred meters away from the melee between the baggage regiment and the cavalry of the Taiping army, Wang Luyun quietly appeared with his personal guards.

Wang Luyun was different from usual at this time, he used to wear regular clothes, but now he was wearing a suit of armor like the traditional generals, and the more than ten cavalrymen behind him were also wearing armor.

However, a considerable part of the cavalry in the back did not wear armor, this is because the cavalry of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County has been trained according to the light cavalry, and some cavalry are not used to wearing armor and like to wear regular clothes to fight.

The personal guards in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County are a cavalry that has not been accurately positioned!

They were sometimes dragoons, armed with muskets and dismounted on foot.

Sometimes, they were hussars, accompanied by sabers for reconnaissance and other tasks.

They were sometimes lancers, charging in formation with hollow spears several meters long.

For a long time, because the number of cavalry in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County was too small, Lin Zhe wanted them to shoulder the tasks of all cavalry arms, so this caused the positioning of the small-scale cavalry of the pro-guard team to be very vague.

And today, this cavalry of the Personal Guard, which had only more than fifty people, turned into some nondescript lancers, some wearing armor, some not wearing it.

The difference was that they all carried a hollow spear that was several meters long.

Wang Luyun pulled down the mask under his helmet, then clamped the spear, and shouted: "Trot forward!" ”

Immediately, he lifted the horse's belly with both feet, and in an instant the war horse turned from walking to trotting.

As Wang Lu Yun controlled the war horse and trotted up, the other cavalry behind him also controlled the war horse and trotted up one after another, and the speed of the entire cavalry phalanx slowly increased.

Although they were both cavalry charges, the cavalry charges of the pro-guard troops were completely different from the cavalry charges of the Taiping army.

The cavalry charge of the Taiping army was divided into multiple rounds before and after, and there was no strict distance between the cavalry and the cavalry, in other words, the cavalry charge of the Taiping army was a loose and free charge.

However, the cavalry charge of the pro-guard formed a dense whole!

The personal guards are strictly trained by modern cavalry, and what is the biggest advantage of modern cavalry over ancient traditional cavalry?

That is strict discipline and a perfect military system!

From beginning to end, they will always maintain a tight formation, whether they charge or break into the enemy line, they will always maintain a tight formation, they will not stop to engage the enemy, they will rush through the enemy array without stopping, even if the enemy behind them shoots arrows at them.

After rushing through an array of enemy troops, they will gather their formation, then turn around and charge again, repeating until the enemy has completely collapsed or they have been destroyed.

Although today's pro-guard troops cannot be compared with the regular cavalry of the West because of their short training time, it is undeniable that they are also a modern cavalry.

So when they charged, the fifty or so cavalrymen were as if they were only one horseman, and the speed of each other was the same, and the distance between the cavalry and the cavalry was very close, and they always maintained a unified formation during the charge.

Whether in the East or the West, both sides also use cold weapons to fight, and there has never been a defeat in the battle between modern hand-to-hand cavalry and traditional hand-to-hand cavalry!

Because although modern hand-to-hand cavalry still uses cold weapons, and even picks up hollow spears from hundreds of years ago, they rely not on weapons or personal bravery, but on discipline and system.

Its nature is similar to that of modern infantry against feudal infantry, speaking of personal bravery, it is easy for a samurai in the cold weapon unit of the feudal era to beat a peasant musketeer who has only been trained for a few months, but a hundred samurai can never beat a hundred musketeers who have only been trained for six months.

Today's Guards cavalry can barely be regarded as a modern cavalry, even if it is only superficial, and its combat effectiveness is nothing compared to those well-trained regular modern cavalry, but they are not now fighting with the modern cavalry of the great powers, or even with the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry of the traditional Eastern cavalry.

Their opponent is nothing more than a bunch of mounted infantry!

Therefore, when Wang Luyun led the cavalry of the personal guards, they still maintained a tight formation while maintaining a high-speed charge, which stunned the cavalry of the Taiping Army.

Although these cavalry of the Taiping Army are not regular cavalry, they are also people who have fought for several years, and they can be selected to become a mounted infantryman, and their personal martial arts are naturally not mentioned, which can be seen from the table Xiàn after they rushed into the array of baggage regiments.

After these personally skilled Taiping cavalry rushed into the array of the baggage regiment, like all traditional cavalry, they began to enter the stage of grappling, using sabers, spears and other weapons to kill and injure the soldiers of the baggage regiment.

What does this mean?

This means that the cavalry has actually lost their greatest threat: the impact!

It took less than a minute before and after the collapse of the ranks of the baggage regiment, but the reality was that in the next few minutes or even longer, the cavalry of the Taiping army could still only fall into the same chaos and slash the baggage regiment, and it would take at least half an hour to regroup and attack.

However, could Wang Luyun give them half an hour?

It's impossible, let alone half an hour, Wang Luyun won't even give them five minutes!

When Dong Yanghong led a large number of cavalry into the array of the baggage regiment, Wang Luyun on the left led his cavalry to attack the flank of the Taiping cavalry!

Fifty against eight hundred!

This is an absolutely inferior force ratio, this force ratio is enough to make even any military general despair, but Wang Luyun is fearless to charge towards the Taiping cavalry, which is more than fifteen times his own.

This is not only because Wang Luyun is a fierce general and has courage beyond ordinary people, but because although the cavalry of the Taiping Army on the opposite side far exceeds the number of pro-guards in the whole.

But this is not the case, as mentioned above, the cavalry shock of the Taiping army is the same as the traditional cavalry charge, which is to use multiple rounds of impact to form a multi-level impact force, although this charge method is good, so that when they attack the baggage regiment, the casualties are greatly reduced, and they break into the array of the baggage regiment.

But on the other hand, this tactic of the Taiping army led the front and rear cavalry to pull very far, and even the forward cavalry was already in close contact with the soldiers of the baggage regiment, but the cavalry at the back was still hundreds of meters away.

In addition, this multi-platoon charge mode can also be seen as a kind of column.

And now what Wang Luyun has to do is to choose a point from this column to attack, rush over and divide the enemy cavalry, and then turn around and charge until he is killed or the enemy army collapses.

This also created a very interesting situation, that is, when Wang Luyun launched a flank charge towards the eight hundred enemy cavalry, in fact, the number of enemy cavalry he directly faced would not exceed one hundred cavalry.

Otherwise, you think that Wang Luyun is really a reckless man, using more than 50 horsemen to attack other people's 800 horses, this is not brave, but stupid!

It is one thing to directly charge more than ten times the number of enemy troops, but it is another thing to concentrate on one point, then it is another thing to hit no more than twice as many enemy troops.

Wang Luyun believed that his well-trained brothers were not afraid of twice the number of enemy troops.

The speed of the war horse is getting faster and faster, and the spear in Wang Luyun's hand has already begun to be put down, and beside him, the other cavalry have also put down their spears like him.

The 2.7-meter-long spears form a dense forest of guns, which is the standard modern lancer charging formation.

Looking at a group of Qing Demon cavalry rushing over in a dense formation with spears, some of the Taiping cavalry were stunned, and they didn't react when they stayed in place, while a few cavalry officers who reacted shouted loudly and ordered the cavalry under their command to follow them for a counter-charge.