Among the many senior generals of the Chinese Army, Wang Luyun can be regarded as the most senior, but his cultural level is too low, and he has not studied in the camp school, so when he commands the troops to fight, he relies more on personal experience and bravery.

As early as 1853, he was one of the top senior officers in Yu Sheng's army, and after 1854, his status was vaguely lower than Shi Langyi, Xu Yanqing and others, and until today in 1857, he relied on his qualifications and military exploits Although he was viscounted, his military rank was still only colonel, serving as the commander of the Second Cavalry Regiment.

In today's Chinese army, the five division commanders and the brigade commanders of the two mixed brigades are undoubtedly the first echelon, and these people are all in the rank of major generals.

And Wang Luyun unknowingly fell into the second echelon, but even so, he was still one of the few cavalry generals in Yu Sheng's army.

At present, there are not many cavalry in the Chinese army, and it is far from being able to meet the full strength of the divisions and brigades in Yu Sheng's army, and an infantry division in the Chinese army has a cavalry regiment under its jurisdiction according to the requirements, but in fact there are only three cavalry regiments in the Chinese army at present, namely the first cavalry regiment, the second cavalry regiment, and the fifth cavalry regiment. The 1st Cavalry Regiment belonged to the 1st Infantry Division, and the 5th Cavalry Regiment belonged to the 5th Infantry Division, but the 2nd Cavalry Regiment belonged to the direct jurisdiction of the General Headquarters and did not belong to any infantry division.

The other three infantry divisions and two mixed brigades generally have only one cavalry company, which is used as reconnaissance and forest cavalry.

As the only independent cavalry regiment, the Second Cavalry Regiment generally fought independently under the command of Wang Luyun!

This time, the Chinese army went out to Zhenjiang and Nanjing, and his second cavalry regiment did not follow the army north to Zhenjiang, but stationed in the Danyang area, mainly to cover the transportation and supply lines of the Chinese army, and to combat the attacks of the small Taiping army that might be in Zài.

But what Wang Luyun didn't expect was that there would be such a big drum of thieves near Danyang, and there were more than 20,000 people.

Although he had doubts about this, Wang Luyun quickly led his troops south, regardless of where these Taiping troops came from, but since he came here, it was naturally impossible for him to turn a blind eye.

He also had no intention of resting in Yan'er Township, but quickly led the cavalry of his headquarters to the south at high speed!

A few hours later, he had already seen the Great Drum Thieves in the distant field, and it was clear that their arrival had also aroused the Taiping Army's idea.

In the Taiping Army, Li Xiucheng looked at the Chinese cavalry galloping from the north, his brows couldn't help frowning, and he saw that he was about to bypass the south of Danyang, and then go straight to Jintan, but he didn't expect to meet a large number of Taiping cavalry here.

This not only means that the traces of their own army have been discovered, but more importantly, although they have an army of 20,000 people, they do not have many cavalry, only 400 cavalry, and once their cavalry cannot contain and stop the harassment of the enemy's cavalry, then it is a huge threat to the follow-up march and combat of their own army.

If you think about it, there are seven or eight hundred cavalry behind you, and people will come to attack you from time to time, and you can only line up to meet the enemy, so that although you can protect yourself, you will not be able to escape.

After that, once a large number of troops of the Chinese army catch up in time, it will be completely dangerous at that time.

Li Xiucheng rushed to Jintan, what he wanted to fight was a surprise, but he had no intention of confronting a large number of Chinese troops head-on, after all, he was alone, and once he was entangled, the end would be very bad.

"Haoluan, you take your headquarters over, remember to leave them alone if they just follow from a distance, but if they want to rush up, drag them down!"

"Zhao Tongshao, you also take your headquarters to the north, continue to advance if you have nothing to do, once they fight with our cavalry, you must immediately lead the army to support our cavalry!"

Li Xiucheng's cavalry was less than 400 cavalry, but the Chinese cavalry that came to attack had more than 700 cavalry, and it was still a little unsafe to rely on cavalry alone to block them, so Li Xiucheng still sent 3,000 infantry to follow behind, so as to support his own cavalry at any time.

Li Xiucheng originally thought that with 400 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, it would be enough to dispel the idea of this Chinese cavalry to launch a surprise attack, but he underestimated Wang Luyun's intention to fight, and he didn't know that Wang Luyun had the title of a madman in the Chinese army.

Seeing a large number of thieves leaving the Chinese army and coming towards him, Wang Luyun did not show any hesitation, and immediately ordered the whole army to prepare for battle!

A few minutes later, Wang Luyun said: "The whole army is attacking!" ”

In the face of 20,000 enemy troops, he dared to launch an active charge, this kind of thing can only be done by Wang Luyun, if it is replaced by other cavalry generals, such as Qian Niubei, he will follow from afar, occasionally dismount and line up with guns for a while, and then immediately flee away, if the enemy comes to chase him, he will kill a horse gun, if he does not come to chase, repeat this routine.

This is also a more commonly used tactic of light cavalry, but Wang Luyun is different, when Wang Luyun leads the army to fight, he rarely lets the cavalry dismount and fight, and in most cases he rushes out directly with a saber.

And throughout his several times he led the army, this is the case!

As early as 1853, he led 50 cavalry to attack the Taiping Army and 800 cavalry, successfully delaying Dong Yanghong's cavalry shock artillery and the Chinese army at that time, and laying the foundation for the victory of Si'an in 1853.

In the Battle of Guangde in 1854, he cooperated with Qian Niubei to attack the Taiping Army several times with 400 cavalry, carried out several large-scale cavalry hedging, annihilated nearly 1,000 cavalry of the Taiping Army, and killed Dong Yanghong, the number one cavalry general under Lin Chengting, creating favorable conditions for the follow-up victory.

In 1854, under the city of Suzhou, he led 300 cavalry to charge more than 30,000 Taiping troops, at that time it was almost like entering a no-man's land, close to these 300 cavalry forced more than 30,000 Taiping troops to change the direction of retreat, unable to return to Suzhou City, this battle, Yu Shengjun captured tens of thousands of Taiping troops unprecedentedly.

In almost every battle, he won more with less, and almost every time he directly led the cavalry to launch a white-knuckle charge, rarely using muskets like other cavalry generals such as Qian Niubei.

And today, as always, he played his fighting style!

I saw him holding up his saber, this was a stainless steel saber that Lin Zhe instructed the Ordnance Bureau to build specially for Wang Luyun, and its quality was much better than those ordinary sabers!

The Second Cavalry Regiment has been led by Wang Luyun for many years of training, and the whole department has become accustomed to Wang Luyun's combat methods, and even proud of Wang Luyun's brave and resolute combat methods.

Years of training allowed them not to shout to encourage their morale before the battle, Wang Luyun just turned over and raised the saber in his hand after turning over his horse.

There was not a word of order, but the other cavalry officers behind him already understood, and immediately shouted one by one: "Get on your horse!" "The hundreds of riders behind him have already turned over neatly and got on their horses!

The saber in Wang Luyun's hand pointed forward slightly, and then lightly clamped the horse's belly between his legs, and the Yanma under his crotch, which was also specially given to him by Lin Zhe, took a step forward and stepped forward slowly.

This war horse is different from the Mongolian horses with a shoulder height of no more than 1.3 meters behind many knights, this is a veritable Western horse, its shoulder height has reached 1.57 meters, and it is like a king in a group of Mongolian horses!

In recent years, in order to develop cavalry, Lin Zhe has tried to buy war horses in many ways, including exchanging them from the Qing army, and directly sending people to the northern grasslands to buy them, but these are Mongolian horses.

In addition, Lin Zhe also successively purchased a number of foreign horses from foreigners, including many batches of British thoroughbreds, as well as more than a dozen Arabian horses or other European mixed horses, but these were originally castration military horses served in the Asian colonies of various countries, although dozens of them were purchased at a high price, but they could only be used as mounts for senior generals, and the war horse under Wang Luyun's crotch belonged to one of them.

It is worth mentioning that last year, Lin Zhe also commissioned a number of foreign firms, and successively bought a number of castration Western stallions, which are still British thoroughbred horses and French Arabian mixed horses.

However, the military storage department of the Chinese army attaches great importance to it, in order to serve these four stallions, the military storage department has set up seven or eight departments, more than 100 professionals of all kinds, in addition to the establishment of a special breeding horse farm for these hard-won horses, and selected many Mongolian horses with high shoulders and relatively good weight mares for breeding, in an attempt to breed excellent military horses suitable for China.

However, this kind of cultivation takes time, and the process of cultivating a military horse that is suitable for China's environment and excellent in all aspects is very long, and it is not expected that China can have a large number of excellent East-West mixed military horses in a short period of time.

Wang Luyun rode slowly forward on this Arab horse, and the officers behind him also gave orders one after another!

"Draw your sword!"

"Slow Progress"

And in front of them, the cavalry of the Taiping Army who came out to meet them looked at the slowly moving Chinese cavalry phalanx, and they all showed horror in their hearts, did they really dare to charge against their own 20,000 people?

Fang Haoluan looked at the Chinese cavalry that was moving slowly, but his brows were furrowed!

As a cavalry general, he could see at a glance that the cavalry of the Chinese army on the opposite side was definitely a fierce division, and the whole army acted without a trace of noise, and the formation was so dense that Fang Haoluan could hardly believe it.

How did they maintain such a dense formation? And how can they charge in such a dense formation?

With these doubts in his heart, he also knew that he couldn't hesitate any longer, these Chinese cavalry on the opposite side were clearly going to attack, and if he waited any longer, he might not have enough time for his knights to line up and speed up.

Immediately, a group of cavalry leaders of the Taiping Army also shouted, bringing together the chaotic and disorderly cavalry of their own side, trying to line up in a complete formation to meet the battle, but the formation of the formation was loose and sloppy, and the neat and dense formation of the Chinese army on the opposite side was completely incomparable!

At this time, Fang Haoluan still didn't understand a little, if the cavalry of the Chinese Army on the opposite side wanted to charge, how could they charge in such a dense formation, wouldn't they be afraid of chaos?

But it didn't take long for Wang Luyun to tell him with the facts, what was the dense formation charge like!

As Wang Luyun's command knife was lowered forward, he shouted loudly: "Kill!" ".

The seven hundred cavalry behind him rushed towards the Taiping army in front of them like a torrent that broke the embankment! (To be continued.) )