In the history of human warfare for thousands of years, it has been fully proved how vulnerable the infantry is in the face of the impact of cavalry, even in 1853, even if it is equipped with the Yongying Battalion of Yuyao County, which is equipped with Mini rifles, there is a lot of fear of the cavalry of the Taiping Army.

In the battle that broke out in Si'an yesterday, because the cavalry troops led by Dong Yanghong under Lin Chengting had been eyeing the flank, forcing the Yongying Battalion of Yuyao County to transfer half of its troops for passive defense.

Although yesterday's combat effectiveness, the first corps of the Yuyao County Yongying repelled Dong Yanghong's cavalry attack, but this can definitely not be said to be a victory, because if there is no cavalry to contain it, Lin Zhe and the other officers of the Yuyao County Yongying Battalion have reason to believe that relying on their own strong infantry firepower, they can gradually advance and finally defeat the enemy infantry several times their own.

Today's situation is very similar to yesterday's, because the appearance of the Taiping cavalry forced the Yuyao County Yongying to deploy half of its troops for defense.

The difference is that yesterday's cavalry movements of the Taiping Army have been watched by the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, and they have been lined up and ready even before the enemy cavalry attacks.

However, now, although the Yongying side of Yuyao County got the appearance of the enemy cavalry more than ten minutes in advance and began to adjust the formation to meet the enemy, the time was still far from enough.

The adjustment of the infantry formation in the era of queuing and shooting is extremely complicated, which not only requires the troops to be well-trained, but also requires the command ability of the officers to be quite high, and if the officers cannot adjust the formation in time, then it is easy to get into a dilemma.

Especially in the face of cavalry impact, the time left for the infantry to adjust the formation is very short, and once it is not possible to list a similar hollow phalanx or other complete formation in time to deal with the cavalry impact, then once the enemy's cavalry rushes to the front, even the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, which is equipped with Mini rifles, will not be able to resist the impact of the enemy.

The current Lin Anfei was extremely nervous at this time, although his expression remained calm at this moment, and he kept giving orders, trying to make the Second Infantry Regiment under his command change formation as much as possible.

"Immediately put the team in place, all of them, bayonets ready!" Lin Anfei shouted, at this time, he was using the limited tactics he learned from Hunter William to direct the troops to change formation, and now it was pointless to seize the small hill opposite, and at this time the enemy cavalry had already begun to charge, and he did not have much time to build a hollow phalanx.

The time required for the infantry to change formations is too long relative to the charging speed of the cavalry, and now Lin Anfei's only tactical choice is to form a team on the spot, and then use his own superior firepower to fight against the enemy as before.

However, when the cavalry of the enemy army not far away kicked up a puff of smoke and dust and rushed over with the deafening sound of horses' hooves, the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, who had not been trained for a long time, panicked to a certain extent.

Although there has not been a situation of turning around and fleeing yet, the formation has begun to disperse!

This made Lin Zhe's brows, who were watching the battle from the rear, furrow more and more tight!

It seems that the training time of this second infantry regiment is still too short, although it is all facing the impact of cavalry, but the first regiment of the army, which has been in army for several months, can quickly change formation, and then face the impact of the enemy cavalry head-on, but now it is replaced by the second infantry regiment, but it is too reluctant.

At this time, Lin Zhe remembered that when he set out from Changxing to Guangde, when Lin Zhe decided to take the whole army, including the Second Infantry Regiment and the Second Artillery Company, to battle, and Hunter William said to him: "As long as you give me three more months, General, I will train them to be qualified soldiers, but now, they are not ready!" ”

At that time, Lin Zhe didn't care too much, because at that time, facing the crisis of Guangde being captured by the Taiping Army, Lin Zhe would care whether the Second Infantry Regiment and the Second Artillery Company were well trained, and directly pulled them up to fight.

Later, the Battle of Guangde and yesterday's Battle of Si'an did not seem to have any major problems, although the tables of the Second Infantry Regiment and the Second Artillery Company were not very good, but they were still enough to complete the various tactics requested by Lin Zhe, so that the Yuyao County Yongying Battalion could achieve victory.

But now, Lin Zhe knew what Hunter Wilhelm said they weren't ready for.

The Second Infantry Regiment was only formally organized and trained last month, and the soldiers were all trained for more than a month, although they had completed all the most basic training, formation, basic discipline, loading and shooting, and so on, although they were not as good as the First Infantry Corps, but they were barely able to fight, but compared with the First Infantry Corps, they lacked one thing.

That is a disregard for life!

The reason why the modern army is a modern army is because the soldiers in it are all soldiers without autonomy, they don't need fanatical feelings, nor do they need the stimulation of honor, they just obey the orders of the officers almost instinctively, but the mechanical and monotonous combat.

The First Infantry Corps has been in the army for many months, under the strict military law, under the leather whip of the officers, those soldiers have been initially dehumanized, and they have the most basic instinctive reaction to the officers' orders, they will not think, they will not be afraid, even in the face of the cavalry charge yesterday, the soldiers of the First Infantry Corps are still calmly lined up, shooting, and shooting under the orders of the officers.

However, the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment have not yet been able to reach this point in their training time.

In the face of the Taiping cavalry swept in like a decisive water, the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment were frightened, although the officers shouted for them to line up.

"Hurry, hurry!" Lin Anfei shouted, letting his infantry run, forming a denser formation to cope with the onslaught of the enemy cavalry.

Under the assistance and command of each company commander and deputy company commander, although the movements of the soldiers of each company were not coherent, the formation of each company was also rapidly shrinking, basically crowded with people, shoulder to shoulder, this close formation in addition to trying to exert more intensive firepower, its dense formation in dealing with the impact of cavalry is also more powerful.

"Quick, aim, shoot!"

Now the cavalry led by Dong Yanghong has rushed within five hundred meters, relying on the impact speed of the cavalry, they will not give themselves too much time to shoot, Lin Anfei knows that he must seize every second, let the troops kill and injure the enemy as much as possible, and stop them from rushing up.

As the white smoke filled and the continuous crackling sound sounded, dense and continuous gunfire rang out in front of the Second Infantry Regiment, but Lin Anfei, who was riding on a war horse, frowned even tighter through the white smoke.

The cavalry of the thief army on the opposite side seemed to have accurately judged the range of their muskets, and they actually made a left turn at a distance of about five hundred meters, and did not rush directly as Lin Anfei imagined.

What are they going to do?

At this time, Lin Anfei looked towards the left rear.

In the left rear of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, which was actually the rear of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County, there was a 12-pounder gun of the 2nd Artillery Company on a low hillside that was constantly firing shells.

Their purpose was not my 2nd Infantry Regiment, but artillery positions!

Thinking of this, Lin Anfei knew that the battle situation had exceeded his expectations.

He looked at the enemy cavalry that was turning, and at the 1st Corps in front on the right, which was resisting the onslaught of more than 4,000 enemy infantry with an absolute inferior force of 600 men.

He gritted his teeth and said, "All of them, immediately turn left, turn into two columns, and run forward!" ”

Although the first regiment behind him faced the counterattack of the enemy's superior forces, Lin Anfei believed that the first regiment under Shi Langyi could hold it, and the biggest crisis now was not the superior strength of the enemy infantry counterattack, but the enemy cavalry that bypassed him and went straight to his own artillery and even Lin Zhe.

If they were not stopped, not only would the artillery positions be destroyed in their hands, but I am afraid that even Lin Zhe and a large group of senior officers at the battalion headquarters would be killed in the onslaught of the enemy cavalry.

The cavalry of the Taiping Army changed their normal state, and did not take the initiative to attack their own infantry phalanx, but made a tactical turn in front of the formation, and went straight to the artillery position and his own position, Lin Zhe's calm expression finally changed.

In the previous battles, although it was said that he was in command, in fact, he was watching from the rear from beginning to end, and the bloodshed on the battlefield basically had little to do with him, but now.

Now the enemy's cavalry has bypassed his own infantry phalanx and rushed directly towards him, how can this make him not frightened.

Although the enemy army is still more than a thousand meters away, the gallop of nearly a thousand cavalry is huge, which makes Lin Zhe feel the greatest psychological pressure since coming to this era.

Although Lin Zhe set up a regimental training after arriving in this era, and also led the Yuyao County Yongying to win several battles in a row, Lin Zhe himself is still an ordinary person, with his own fear of the battlefield and a natural fear of death.

"Quick, let the baggage regiment catch up and stop them!" When Lin Zhe spoke, his tone had already changed a little, although it was very subtle and could not be heard by others, but it was undeniable that Lin Zhe's psychological state at this time was not as calm as before.

Fei Qunyang, the head of the baggage regiment on the side, and Fei Qunyang, rode his horse and galloped up, leading those soldiers of the baggage regiment who were just ordinary people more than a month ago to meet them.

At the same time, Wang Luyun on the side was already close to Lin Zhe, and then lowered his voice and said, "Young Master, what now?" ”

After saying this, Wang Luyun added another sentence: "Before going north, the old lady said that she wanted the young master to put her own safety first!" ”

Although Wang Luyun was asking Lin Zhe what to do, his expression had already revealed a very obvious meaning, that is, he did not believe that the baggage regiment in front of him could block the impact of the enemy's cavalry.

And once the baggage regiment fails to intercept the enemy cavalry, Lin Zhe will inevitably fall into danger!

Therefore, Wang Luyun hopes that Lin Zhe will be prepared, once the heavy regiment fails to intercept, the enemy's cavalry will only be a few hundred meters away from his side, even if there are pro-guards desperately escorting Lin Zhe to break through, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape from the battlefield, so Wang Luyun hopes that Lin Zhe can make a decision as soon as possible.

In other words, while the baggage regiment in front is still in the way, it will be escorted away from the battlefield by the pro-guard team now.