When Wang Luyun led the Second Cavalry Regiment to rush through the array of cavalry on the right flank of the Qing army and went straight to the direction of the Qing army's central army, the other side, that is, the right flank of the Chinese army, was also attacked by the cavalry on the left flank of the Qing army!

The 4,000 cavalry of the Qing army were deployed on the left and right sides before the war, and there were 2,000 cavalry on one side, and the cavalry on the left wing was attacked by Wang Luyun's second cavalry regiment and was already defeated, but its left wing cavalry was not blocked by the cavalry of the Chinese army, so as to successfully reach the direction of the right wing of the main force of the Chinese army.

Regardless of the follow-up development, just look at the current situation, then you will find that the Chinese army lacks cavalry, although the cavalry combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is stronger, but the number is too small, it is better to fight the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which also lacks cavalry, but when encountering the Qing army with a large number of Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, the defect of insufficient cavalry is magnified.

If you want to intercept the enemy's cavalry impact, the best way is to use your own cavalry to intercept or even launch a counter-charge, as for the use of infantry to form a hollow phalanx or other formations to meet the enemy, although the effect is not bad, but it is always a passive defense, if the cavalry commander on the opposite side adjusts in time, the cavalry will not be stupid to directly impact the front of the infantry phalanx, but will detour to avoid the battle, and look for weak points again.

Your cavalry can move at high speed and can charge at your weak point at any time, but your infantry can only passively form a formation to defend in place, thus losing strategic mobility.

As for the stupid direct attack on the hollow phalanx of the infantry, this kind of stupidity has recently been done only by the French cavalry of the Napoleonic Wars. No one has ever done this since, and today, decades later, generals with a little knowledge of modern military knowledge will not let the infantry attack a complete and tight infantry phalanx.

But unfortunately. The cavalry generals of the Qing army on the opposite side lack this kind of modern military common sense!

So in the face of the Chinese infantry who had urgently formed a hollow phalanx, they still shouted and continued to rush up!

The two thousand cavalry of the Qing army on the opposite side ran as deafening as the thunder of the autumn rain, and the sound of horses' hooves formed a sound wave that spread for miles away, and the Chinese infantry who were only seven or eight hundred meters away from them felt it even more closely.

The officers of the Chinese army on horseback shouted and asked the soldiers to form a dense hollow phalanx, although the Chinese army had directly listed horizontal formations in previous battles. An example of relying on the long range of the Minny rifle to meet the enemy and win, but this tactic is not safe, and it is better to say that in the face of small enemy cavalry. However, in the face of today's cavalry assault of more than 2,000 cavalry, although the three-row horizontal tactic can obtain a more dense amount of bullet projection, the formation is too fragile, and it is easy for the enemy cavalry to make a breakthrough on the flank. Because of the combat of the line infantry in modern times. Especially when fighting cavalry, it is extremely dependent on tight formations.

If you don't have the cover of the flanks, you just stand alone in a horizontal formation, and the enemy cavalry will go around your front and attack from your flank or even the north, and then you will have to be blinded.

Because even if a well-trained infantry wants to change formations, for example, the whole team turns to 90 degrees, it does not mean that each soldier can turn 90 degrees on the spot, but a whole horizontal formation is based on the soldiers at the center point. The soldiers on one side ran backwards, and the soldiers on the other side ran forward. A ninety-degree turn is formed in a whole horizontal line.

Therefore, changing the formation requires the soldiers to keep running around, and the soldiers run dozens or even hundreds of meters, which not only consumes the physical strength of the soldiers, but more importantly, you can't outrun the cavalry.

The slow speed of the infantry's formation change is the biggest reason why the infantry chooses a hollow circle formation or a hollow phalanx when facing the impact of cavalry, because once this formation is formed, it does not need to be changed, it is simple and convenient to use.

However, the lethality of the hollow phalanx is relatively much reduced, but this is not a big problem, because there is no cavalry general who can stupidly directly attack the front of the enemy's infantry phalanx, so it is acceptable to reduce the firepower a little.

When the opposite side of Seng Lingqin had just ordered the cavalry to attack, the infantry on both flanks of the Chinese army had already moved rapidly at the same time, and the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division deployed in the direction of the right flank stopped advancing and pursuing, but quickly formed three hollow phalanxes on the spot with the infantry battalion as the standard.

The troops on the right flank of the Chinese Army are not only the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division, but also the 9th Auxiliary Defense Division!

The Ninth Auxiliary Defense Division can be regarded as one of the few units in the Chinese Army with relatively reliable combat effectiveness, with two standard hand-to-hand infantry regiments and one musket regiment.

They were also shouted by officers at all levels to form three huge hollow phalanxes, which were different from the hollow phalanxes used by the Royal Army.

Because the Auxiliary Defense Force and the Royal Army can be regarded as two systems of troops, even the weapons and equipment are different, so their phalanx is more of its own characteristics, three phalanx finished glyphs, of which the musket regiment hollow square array is in the front, this musket regiment is similar to the Royal Army's hollow phalanx, but not three rows, but four rows, this is mainly because the Chinese army high-level has doubts about the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Assistance Defense Army, so they would rather further narrow the range of fire coverage of the hollow phalanx of the Musket Regiment of the Assistance Defense Army, It is also necessary to ensure safety in a limited way.

In addition to this musket regiment, there were also two hand-to-hand combat regiments with cold weapons, which were about 100 meters to the left and right of the musket regiment, each of which was lined up in a tight phalanx, with the long hair of the spearmen as the main defensive weapon.

Thanks to the rigorous training of the Chinese army in the past, the three battalion-level hollow phalanxes of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Royal Army quickly split up, blocking the Qing cavalry, and on their right was the 9th Auxiliary Defense Division.

Don't impact the front of the infantry phalanx, this is basic common sense, and the Qing cavalry on the opposite side know it, so in the face of these rapidly formed infantry phalanxes, several cavalry generals led by them shouted not to charge directly into the formation!

"Divide and outflank them!" The charging Qing cavalry generals quickly thought they had found a way.

They did not go to storm the front of the infantry phalanx of the Chinese army, but swept through the air raid between the phalanxes of the three infantry battalions of the 3rd Infantry Regiment!

And at this time. The soldiers on the front of the three infantry battalions of the Third Infantry Regiment and on the left and right sides pulled the trigger one after another, and many bullets were poured on the swarming Qing cavalry.

For a time, the cavalry of the Qing army fell in pieces. The real gunfire and smoke generated by the musket fire of the Chinese army greatly frightened the horses of the Manchurian cavalry.

These Manchu and Mongolian cavalry led by Monk Lingqin to the south were all recruited from all over the north, especially Mongolia and the northeast, etc., these temporarily conscripted Manchu and Mongolian cavalry were not actually professional soldiers, in addition to having excellent riding skills and good courage that they had practiced since childhood, they lacked effective training, could not draw a strong bow, and could not be equipped with flintlock pistols like those training troops.

A lot of them are cold weapons. Some are also holding arquebuses!

But in terms of military readiness, they might as well train the army!

Not to mention the armament, and because it was a temporary conscripted cavalry. They generally lack training in professional military skills, which can be seen from the fact that they and Wang Luyun's Second Cavalry Regiment suffered a crushing defeat before, and were opened from beginning to end by the Second Cavalry Regiment.

When the cavalry on the right flank of the Qing army fought against Wang Luyun in the left flank direction of the Chinese army, there was still a problem that was not exposed. That is, their horses are not trained for a long time. It is easy to be frightened by the sound of gunfire, cannons.

The cavalry units of the Chinese army are all professional cavalry, not to mention that the cavalry has been trained for a long time, even the war horses have been trained, after all, the Chinese army mainly uses firearms, if their own horses are panicked because of the sound of guns, they must not laugh off other people's big teeth!

But these Manchurian cavalry horses have not been trained to adapt to the sound of guns!

At first it was better, and the cavalry could barely control the panic of the horses. But when these horses carrying the Manchurian cavalry arrived between the infantry phalanxes of the Chinese army, they were met with heavy fire from the 3rd Infantry Regiment.

Bursts of gunfire were in the ears of these horses. It's no different from a winter thunderstorm, so a lot of horses are just scared and run around!

When some Manchu and Mongolian cavalry rushed into several phalanxes of the Chinese army in a split and tried to divide and encircle, some brave Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, relying on their excellent riding skills, jumped directly under the bayonets of the three rows of rifles in the Chinese infantry phalanx, trying to cross the bayonet array and directly rush into the inside to kill the Quartet.

But the bayonet forest in the third row was not so easy to jump over, a considerable number of cavalry failed to rush in, but died under the bayonet forest, and a few guys with outstanding strength and luck controlled the horses to jump in, and they were surrounded by many soldiers with rifles as soon as they landed.

Then these infantrymen stabbed them very unskillfully, let you Zhang Fei live, and Dian Wei would have to hate the bayonet when he was resurrected!

The most important military technological innovation in the past two or three hundred years in modern times is not the appearance of the Mini bullet, nor the appearance of the flintlock pistol, nor the appearance of the fire cap fire, the most important military technological innovation in the past two or three hundred miles is something that is easily overlooked, that is: bayonet!

The advent and large-scale armament of bayonets made the infantry abandon cold weapons and completely use rifles as the only weapon, and the infantry unit with pure firearms is the most important symbol of the modern army.

And the rifle that hits the bayonet is the nightmare of countless modern cavalrymen, you can't rush, you don't rush!

Now the cavalry of the Qing army was fortunate to enjoy the treatment of the French cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars, and was hit by fire from the hollow phalanx of infantry from many sides.

Many cavalry swept around these hollow phalanxes, but one by one fell in the process of movement, and those cavalry who bravely tried to charge into battle were also stabbed to death with bayonets one by one without accident, and some even more stupid even stopped their horses and fired back at the hollow phalanx soldiers of the Chinese army with arquebuses or bows and arrows in their hands.

Needless to say, these Qing cavalry who were standing and shooting at the Chinese army soon became targets one after another, and fell to the ground from their horses one after another!

The cavalry of the Qing army took the initiative to attack the infantry phalanx of the Chinese army, which did not take more than a few minutes but was already heavily wounded, and by the time the cavalry generals in front realized that something was wrong, at least half of the two thousand cavalry had fallen!

Monk Greenqin watched his left wing cavalry suffer an almost unprecedented defeat in front, he still couldn't figure it out, just now when his own right wing cavalry and the rebel cavalry hedged, although it was also miserable, but this can still be accepted by Monk Greenqin, after all, it is not as good as others, his own cavalry are all temporarily recruited herdsmen and people, and the opposite side of the rebel cavalry is said to be a long-term war, although the number is small, but all of them are elite.

So he had nothing to say about the defeat of the cavalry on the right flank!

But why did the cavalry on the left flank successfully launch an assault on the flank defense line of the rebel army without the interception of the cavalry of the opposing army, and even suffered a crushing defeat?

Monk Greenqin is really a little incomprehensible about this! (To be continued......)