In the snow trail, a team of more than 100 knights wearing the dark green uniforms unique to the Chinese army was galloping horses, and the rumbling sound of the war horses running could be heard for miles away.

I saw that the leader was a cavalry officer wearing a lieutenant colonel's uniform, this man was about thirty-five years old, and he did not look very tall on a horse, and his expression was resolute at this time, and his eyes were full of excitement and expectation.

I hope Zhuo Jiechen can hold back the Qing army in front of him, as long as he holds it for a while and waits for himself to feel it, he is confident that he will leave the Qing army in front of him, and maybe there is still Xianfeng in that Qing army.

These Chinese cavalry were right, Xianfeng was staying in this team at this time, and asked Mu Yin with a panicked face: "What should I do now, why has the speed slowed down?" ”

Mu Yin also showed beads of sweat on his forehead in the cold weather: "It's not fast now, although the number of enemy cavalry is not large, but Lieutenant Colonel Fuqi thinks that if you let the enemy attack it, the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

"And what does he mean?" Lieutenant Colonel Fuqi in Mu Yin's mouth was the third standard commander of the first town before, and like most of the officers of the new army of the Qing army, he was born in a family of eunuchs, and served in the new army after graduating from the general's school, because Leshan decided to personally lead the troops to break off, leaving only one battalion to continue to escort Xianfeng to the east, for this reason, he specially picked out Fuqi, who was highly valued under his command and was also one of the few Manchurian middle and senior officers in the new army, and asked him to command the infantry battalion that escorted Xianfeng.

It is worth noting that in the new army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, except for a very small number of high-ranking generals, such as Du Xing'a, Nade, Leshan and others, they were Manchu and Mongolian generals. The others were basically Han Chinese, especially soldiers. Except for the first town, the soldiers in the other six towns and the provinces are all Han Chinese.

Among the officers. In particular, the officers trained in the Ben Academy are mainly Han Chinese, and there are quite few Manchu and Mongolian officers.

This escort of Xianfeng to Shengjing Leshan was naturally not at ease to let a Han officer be fully responsible, so he specially chose Fu Qi to come.

As a result, Fu Qi, who is now only a lieutenant colonel in the Qing Army, has become the supreme military commander of this fugitive army.

"Now the only way to do this is to maintain the current alert formation to prevent them from attacking again, although the speed is slower, but it can ensure safety!" In the face of Xianfeng, the emperor, although Fu Qi was also terrified, he still insisted on his opinion.

An hour ago, a group of more than twenty rebel cavalry suddenly appeared in the rear. This small-scale cavalry actually took advantage of the defenselessness of the Qing army on the march, and directly swung their swords to kill them, and finally although they successfully stopped them, they finally did not let them rush over, but the soldiers under the command of Fu Qi were killed and wounded more than 30 people.

What's more, after the cavalry team led by Zhuo Jiechen saw that the Qing army stabilized the formation, they did not continue to charge, and after slashing for a while, they left quickly, and the Chinese cavalry that the Qing army could stay behind was only two people.

Now that cavalry squad is like a shadow. Swaggering around the right rear of this Qing army, the distance was only five or six hundred meters, and if the Qing army was a little slackened at this distance, they would be able to kill again.

In this case. Fuqi couldn't help complaining that if he had a cavalry unit under his command, it wouldn't be much. Even thirty or fifty men could have expelled this cavalry squad of the Chinese army, but the reality was that he didn't.

When the Qing army fled from Beiping. In fact, there are nearly 1,000 professional cavalry troops, including more than 400 cavalry of the new army in the first town. But after such a long period of escape, now the first town is finished, and these cavalry have already been gradually exhausted.

Leshan can't make up cavalry for Fu Qi at all!

In this case, Fuqi had no choice but to recruit nearly fifty guards and soldiers who knew how to ride from the people who accompanied him, and then rode on horses to fight, but this kind of improvised cavalry was not a cavalry at all.

They just know how to ride horses, and they don't know how to fight on horseback, and after this back and forth confrontation, it doesn't take a few minutes to be killed by more than 20 cavalrymen of the Chinese army.

The gap between the modern cavalry and the ancient cavalry in these years is quite large, and the traditional cavalry in the Qing army can't beat the modern cavalry of the Chinese army, let alone these 'cavalry' that are temporarily put together and can only ride horses and not fight.

In the end, there was no way, Fuqi could only let the troops continue to maintain the current alert formation, and in this way, although the troops could still continue to advance, the speed of progress was unbearable.

Modern troops, not to mention infantry equipped with mini rifles or breech-loading rifles, even infantry equipped with front-loading smoothbore guns, as long as they remain vigilant, and then maintain a dense formation when facing the cavalry charge, and form a hollow phalanx when necessary, the cavalry has no way to take the infantry.

Unless absolutely necessary, no cavalry general will easily take his cavalry to force the frontal defense line of the enemy infantry, even if he leads the armored heavy cavalry, he will not impact the frontal defense line of the infantry, and generally charge from the enemy's flank and rear position, as for the frontal defense line of the enemy infantry, this behavior has nothing to do with bravery, but is an extremely stupid behavior!

But why cavalry has been regarded as a strategic force by military powers of various countries until the advent of advanced weapons such as tanks and machine guns, is because the tactical mobility of cavalry far exceeds that of infantry.

Now the confrontation between the cavalry of the Chinese army and the infantry of the Qing army is the most obvious example, Zhuo Jiechen's cavalry is small, although he does not dare to directly impact the frontal defense line of the Qing army, but he can always follow, as long as the Qing army shows flaws, he can immediately rush over with the cavalry, and the distance of five or six hundred meters is just an instant for the cavalry.

As a result, although the Qing army was numerous, they could not catch up with the cavalry of the Chinese army, could not catch up, could not drive away, could not escape, and could only passively defend in the end.

The reason for the gap between contemporary cavalry and infantry is that it is active and passive.

So even if he knew that this state would wait for more enemy troops, Fu Qi didn't have much choice, even if Fu Qi wanted to take the six hundred soldiers under his command to attack the cavalry of the Chinese army, and then cover Xianfeng and the others to escape, but this was impossible.

Why?

Because two legs can't outrun four legs, other people's cavalry is not something you can entangle if you want to, once Xianfeng and Fuqi are separated, they can completely bypass Fuqi's infantry and catch up.

And there is a problem to consider here, if Xianfeng and these troops are separated, even if the Chinese army does not pursue them, it is not known whether the royal family can survive in this deep mountain and snow forest.

And the key thing is that now the distance between the two sides is too close, and people are staring at you from five or six hundred meters away.

But even if the probability of success of this kind of thing is very small, but Xianfeng can't stay here and wait for death, and soon under the advice of Mu Yin and other core ministers, Xianfeng changed clothes with an accompanying eunuch, this time Xianfeng didn't even bring those concubines, Zaichun, Rong'an and other royal family members, only him, and then more than a dozen entourages arranged by Mu Yin and Fuqi.

This time, Xianfeng finally did not get into the carriage, but turned over a horse that was originally used to pull the cart, and the others all turned over on the horse.

However, before they set off, the group left the group first, and there were more than twenty people in this group on horseback, and there was a carriage galloping quickly in the middle.

Zhuo Jiechen, who was monitoring the periphery, frowned when he saw these situations, but he didn't directly lead people to chase after him, but snorted coldly: "Sergeant Li, you take the headquarters to catch up, and if you can stop them!" ”

Immediately, Sergeant Li galloped out with four other cavalrymen and caught up with the team that had escaped from the Qing army.

And not long after, another group of more than 20 people left the ranks of the Qing army!

At this time, Zhuo Jiechen snorted coldly: "So I want to see if you can escape from my palm!" ”

"Sergeant Zhao, you take three people to catch up!"

At this time, Zhuo Jiechen didn't know that Xianfeng was mixed in the fleeing team of the second Qing army.

Since Zhuo Jiechen couldn't figure out which team Xianfeng was in for a while, he could only be monitored by all three teams.

Time passed little by little, and another hour later, Zhuo Jiechen suddenly heard a rumbling sound of horses' hooves from the rear, and soon he saw a large group of cavalry appear behind a low hill, those cavalry were wearing dark blue uniforms unique to the Chinese army, seeing the arrival of friendly reinforcements, Zhuo Jiechen was ecstatic, there were at least a hundred cavalry here, and it should be his own company commander who personally arrived with the main force of the cavalry company of the first division.

Soon, he met Lieutenant Colonel Qian Qiushi, the company commander of the cavalry company of the First Division, and when Qian Qiushi heard Zhuo Jiechen's pursuit and the way to deal with the Qing army's division and escape, he nodded: "You deal with it well!" ”

Immediately, he was an officer behind him: "Captain Li, you immediately take twenty horsemen to pursue the first enemy army!" Then he said to Zhuo Jiechen: "You lead your headquarters to chase the second enemy army!" ”

After saying that, he turned to the others and said, "The others are ready, ready to kill the enemy with me!" ”

After Zhuo Jiechen received the order, he immediately led the remaining eighteen cavalry of his headquarters to pursue in the northeast direction.

At this time, in the ranks of the Qing army, when Fu Qi watched the reinforcements of the Chinese army arrive and sent people to pursue them, he finally couldn't sit still and immediately gave the order to prepare for war.

He couldn't sit idly by and let the cavalry of the Chinese army bypass them and catch up with Xianfeng, he had to stop them!

In the next moment, more than 600 Qing soldiers led by Fu Qi fought with the cavalry led by Qian Qiushi.

Blood has once again stained the snow-white earth red! (To be continued.) )