Lin Anfei was wearing a double-breasted combat uniform as before, stepping on long leather boots and riding on a war horse, but now he did not have the relaxed look he used to have.

At this time, he looked nervously at the cavalry of the thief army and the baggage regiment and personal guards of the friendly army who were fighting in front of him, just in the past few minutes.

The thief cavalry unexpectedly bypassed his 2nd Infantry Regiment and then headed straight for the 2nd Artillery Company and the Chinese army, which made the array he had prepared to meet the onslaught of the thief cavalry useless.

In order to catch up with the transfer of the thief cavalry, he decisively ordered at that time to let the horizontal team turn into a column and then all run forward.

To tell the truth, this tactical move was very dangerous at the time, and once the enemy cavalry at that time turned back and attacked them, the 2nd Infantry Regiment, which had become a column, simply did not have enough time to re-turn into a horizontal line and then line up to block the enemy troops.

However, Lin Anfei had to take a risk at that time, because as long as he hesitated for a few minutes, the enemy's cavalry would seriously threaten the safety of the Second Artillery Company and the Chinese army.

What's even stricter is that if the enemy cavalry is allowed to assault the rear, they will appear directly in the rear of the First Advance Corps, and if they attack the First Tier Corps again, Lin Anfei can almost imagine the collapse of the entire First Tier Corps at that time.

Fortunately, Lin Anfei's adventurous tactical moves did not attract the attention of Dong Yanghong and other cavalry generals of the Taiping Army!

And this is the question of the ability of the tactical level of both sides!

It is true that most of the generals in the Taiping Army are experienced and experienced generals, and among the large and small officers in the Yongying Camp in Yuyao County, except for the foreigner Hunter William, the others have only a few months of military experience. This combat experience is completely incomparable.

However, the officers in the Yuyao County Yong Battalion are all from the Yuyao County Yong Battalion Camp School, and what they have learned are the mainstream tactics of the contemporary modern army, even if they just do it step by step, they are enough to be competent for the most basic battlefield command ability.

Yuyao County Yongying Suiying School, the current scale is very small, its most important teaching is Hunter William, in addition to him, Yuyao County Yongying has also hired a number of other foreigners who have served as teachers, which teach all the teaching materials are dictated by Hunter William or written by himself.

At the same time, the students of these camp schools are generally studying on the job, and many deputy company commanders, company commanders, and other officers of the battalion headquarters on active duty will go to the camp school every day to listen to classes.

Although this camp school is very simple, and the various tactics taught are generally stuck in the Napoleonic era, it is undeniable that a large number of officers, including Lin Anfei and others, have learned too much from this camp school.

At this time, the senior generals and middle- and low-level officers of other armies in China were still at the stage of relying on battlefield sharpening and self-taught!

And the Yuyao County Yongying is a simple camp school, it may not be able to let the officers of the Yuyao County Yongying obtain a superb tactical level, and it is impossible for these officers to become famous generals all of a sudden, but it teaches these officers the most basic battlefield skills.

And more importantly, this camp academy allows officers to have the most basic command ability of the modern army, which is very important.

However, for the Taiping army on the other side, they were just a feudal army, maybe their generals were better than the officers of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County in terms of strategic vision, and maybe they could use a variety of skillful tactics of the cold weapon era to fight.

However, they were not facing the same feudal army as them, but a modern army, which caused many middle- and low-level officers of the Taiping Army to actually not understand the purpose of various tactical transfers in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, and they could only fight in a way they were familiar with.

To put it simply, the officers of the Yongying in Yuyao County have a higher theoretical level, while the officers of the Taiping Army have more practical combat experience.

Now that the fierce battle between the two sides has reached the last moment, Lin Anfei looked at the baggage regiment and the personal guards who were in a bitter battle in front of him, and he knew that there was not much time left for him!

He rode his war horse to the forefront, estimating the distance in his heart, and when he reached a distance of about four hundred and fifty yards, he waved the command knife in his hand: "Three horizontal columns!" ”

Behind him, the infantry in the company ran quickly, with him as the center and extended to both sides, and soon the column was quickly organized into three horizontal columns!

This time, he did not use two horizontal columns, because in the battle just now, Lin Anfei had already noticed that his Second Infantry Regiment still had a huge gap from the First Infantry Corps in terms of training and morale, and although the two horizontal columns could exert greater firepower, the training and courage requirements for soldiers were very high.

In the unlikely event that the enemy cavalry rushed over, it was very likely that the two columns would not be able to stop him, so he adopted a slightly conservative three-column column.

However, his approach made Hunter Wilhelm in the rear very dissatisfied: "What is he going to do, damn it, time is so tight now, he has to fire the densest bullets in the shortest possible time!" ”

Hunter William was a typical British ** man, who greatly admired the tactics of two columns, and maintained a contemptuous attitude towards three or even four columns, believing that only third-rate armies could do such things, and he did not want to think that at such a critical moment, not every soldier in an army could calmly list two columns of columns and then fight like the well-trained and experienced British infantry.

Obviously, the words of Hunter William in the rear could not affect Lin Anfei's front-line command!

Looking left and right at the soldiers who were already panting a little, Lin Anfei didn't give them time to rest, and immediately shouted: "Reload!" ”

"Aim!"

"Shoot!"

Seeing that the Qing Demon had arrived hundreds of meters away and fired the first salvo, Dong Yanghong showed a pity expression to the position of the Second Artillery Company of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County, which was 100 meters away.

With just a little more time, you can break through into their artillery and even hope to cut down the enemy leader.

Now it was a little worse, not only did he fail to reach the enemy artillery, but the northern flank was hit by a dense bullet attack from the enemy troops.

What now, do you want to withdraw directly? But what should I do with the 5,000 main force of Marshal Lin, without the rescue of his own cavalry, even if Marshal Lin has 5,000 troops, I am afraid that he will be annihilated by this group of demons one by one, this is not that Dong Yanghong scares himself, but after fighting with the Yongying of Yuyao County several times, he already has a very deep understanding of this Qing Demon Dong Yanghong.

If it weren't for their own rescue, these 5,000 people would never have been able to rush out!

If you want to take Marshal Lin out, you must defeat the Qing Demon Infantry that is blocking the front of the camp, relying on the mobility of your cavalry, it is entirely possible to cross the interception of the Qing Demon Infantry on the left rear flank, and then attack the Qing Demon Infantry on the left front.

But he also knew that along the way, his side would inevitably be hit by the dense firepower of the Qing Demon, and when the time came, would he still be able to rush over along the way?

Dong Yanghong looked at the direction of the camp again, he gritted his teeth and immediately turned the horse's head, and then galloped out, the standard-bearer carrying the big flag behind him also followed, and the Taiping cavalry behind him also hurriedly followed.

However, the direction of Dong Yanghong's gallop was not towards the south, but towards the northeast!

There is the First Steps! Dong Yanghong gritted his teeth and galloped away with his cavalry in the direction of the first step corps, while silently thinking in his heart: victory or defeat in one fell swoop!

Seeing that the cavalry of the Taiping Army did not take the initiative to retreat, but preferred to brave the fire of the Second Infantry Regiment and the Second Artillery Company, and went straight to the First Infantry Corps, Lin Zhe already had some remorse in his expression.

Today's battle, although it was very smooth at the beginning, but since the appearance of the enemy cavalry, the development of the battle situation has begun to get out of their control, why did this happen?

Could it be that the Taiping Army is really stronger than he thinks?

Or is it because of their own underestimation?

Shaking his head, shaking out all kinds of thoughts in his heart, now at this critical moment, there is no time for him to feel these messy things, and now he still needs to continue to command the troops.

"Let the 2nd Infantry Regiment be sure to stop the enemy cavalry!" Lin Zhe said, and the flag bearer behind him waved the command flag.

"Immediately order the First Infantry Corps to turn into a hollow phalanx and hold on to the spot!" When Lin Zhe said this, he knew that his tactics of trying to block the enemy's main force and then completely annihilate it had completely failed today.

The first corps faced the threat of enemy infantry in front and rear, and the enemy cavalry in the rear, it was impossible to continue to fight in a horizontal formation, and it was necessary to switch to a defensive formation such as a hollow phalanx.

It's just that after the first step of the corps was reduced to a hollow phalanx, its defensive power was naturally greatly increased, but the firepower of the infantry to intercept the Taiping Army was also greatly reduced.

At that time, the chances of the enemy infantry breaking through will be greatly increased!

Sure enough, after the rapid change of formation in the first step of the corps, Lin Chengting was overjoyed: "Quick, it's now, brothers!" ”

However, now, the infantry of the Taiping Army led by Lin Chengting has been ignored by Shi Langyi, with the phalanx composed of the First Rank Corps, even if the enemy army has many troops, it is not so easy to rush up, and now the real crisis of the First Rank Corps is the enemy cavalry coming from the rear.

Once the enemy cavalry approaches, you will fall into the predicament of being flanked by the front and rear, or even surrounded on all sides, will you still be able to hold on to it at that time?

Shi Langyi's face was full of melancholy, but Lin Anfei's face was full of anger!

These thief cavalry are bullying themselves with only two legs, just before the battle suddenly turned around, harming their own troops running for hundreds of meters, and finally rushed to the battlefield to just shoot a salvo, you cavalry want to go again, and still go to the back of the friendly army, how can you let him endure!

Hmph, I'm better for you to escape faster or faster for my bullets!

Now it is different from just now, the space of the battlefield has been compressed to only a few hundred meters, and if Dong Yanghong's cavalry wants to attack the first infantry regiment, then they can only rush over at a distance of about three or four hundred meters away from the second infantry regiment.

"Summon, turn to ninety degrees with me as the center, and each company fires freely!" Lin Anfei quickly gave the order.

If you continue to run up and chase after you, you can't catch up, and you don't have to chase, just turn on the spot, as long as you turn around, then you can shoot directly at the enemy's cavalry in a sweeping way.

He didn't believe it, under the attack of his own dense firepower, they were still able to continue to maintain the charging formation and launch an attack on the first step corps!

The battlefield was still changing, and the Taiping cavalry led by Dong Yanghong got rid of the remnants of the baggage regiment and the personal guards, and then turned and rushed towards the first corps.

The First Artillery Corps quickly shrank the defensive line and began to form a hollow phalanx, and the soldiers of the First Artillery Company still held the front line, firing scattered bullets at Lin Chengting's infantry hundreds of meters away.

The 2nd Infantry Regiment made a 90-degree turn of the whole group, changing the direction of fire from facing south to east.

The artillerymen of the 2nd Artillery Company continued to fire scattered shells at Dong Yanghong's cavalry!

The remaining remnants of the baggage regiment, which are less than 100 people, are still fleeing in all directions, and the remaining officers are simply unable to gather the baggage regiment whose morale has fallen to the bottom in a short period of time!

And the cavalry of the pro-guard team, who had less than ten horses left, were all wounded, and they watched the battle between the friendly and enemy forces in front of them blankly after the catastrophe, no matter what the final result of this battle was, for them, the battle was over!

And for the rest of the Yuyao County Yongying Battalion, such as the First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment, the battle continues!