At about noon, when the Second Corps of the Guards Army was a little tired, the iron cavalry of the Ten Thousand Qing Army suddenly attacked the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards with the momentum of ten thousand horses, and it was directly divided into five roads!

There were 2,000 iron cavalry on each road of the Qing army, and the outermost two wings attacked directly towards the first and second battalions of the cavalry battalion, and the inner two wings bypassed the infantry battalion and attacked the artillery battalion!

Nikan personally led the Manchurian iron cavalry to directly rush to the three battalions of the Guards infantry, while Geng Zhongming did not go into battle, but led a cavalry to the rear in case of any response.

"Look at it like this, the Tartars want to use multiple prongs to break through each one, but their main road still attacks the infantry battalion, or they still want to break through the infantry battalion, and even want to take advantage of this to defeat the artillery, which is really cunning!"

As soon as Zhu Youzhen said this, Li Banghua also panicked: "Your Majesty, our cavalry is a newly trained cavalry, the infantry is also newly trained, and the same is true for artillery. What is the best of now? ”

"Deputy General Liu Qian is a veteran of the border army, with rich experience in fighting with the Tartars, in this situation, he should know how to deal with it, you are the governor of the Third Army of the Guards, I am the Ninety-Five, you don't have to mess up with your own position, just look at the scenery on the city tower, see how the generals below command, who can come up with a proper response in such a situation, or not afraid of danger, in the future, you and I will naturally be a famous general that you and I can promote!"

Zhu Youzhen said, and saw that Liu Qian's communication soldiers began to come out to give orders, and after a while, he saw that two cavalry battalions and two cavalry battalions directly under the corps rushed up, and they happened to face the two Qing army iron cavalry on the left and right, and the infantry was three A battalions running towards the Manchu iron cavalry led by Nikan in the middle.

The artillery pushed the vehicle-mounted Daming field gun from both flanks of Dingyuan City in a detour, risking being killed by the cavalry, and the muzzle of the gun was adjusted to the direction of Geng Zhongming.

"What is Deputy General Liu going to do, also have a steel knife to steel knife, is it hard, the cavalry and infantry are all pushed up, and the artillery has gone to the front, is this using artillery as infantry", Shi Kefa couldn't help but be surprised.

Zhu Youzhen also felt that Liu Qian was crazy, and he didn't even leave a cavalry reserve.

Gao Hongtu couldn't help but widen his eyes, he couldn't understand the military formation, but he also understood that most of the officers and soldiers on his side were southern soldiers, and they were generally small, so it would undoubtedly be a loss to go up and fight hard.

Wang Chengen and Li Ruolian were close to Zhu Youzhen's side, fearing that the Second Corps of the Guards Army would be defeated for a while, so they would immediately take Zhu Youzhen and retreat to Chuzhou.

For the first time, the cavalry of the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards took the initiative to rush towards the Qing iron cavalry according to Liu Qian's command, and all of them were full of strength, and even when some of the Qing iron cavalry shot them with amazing arm strength, they did not retreat.

Even with the Qing army, they were a little anxious, how could there be cavalry and cavalry charging directly against each other, so that once they collided, they would cause both sides to lose, so the Qing army's iron cavalry began to make a detour, ready to outflank and attack the cavalry rushing in front of them, but unexpectedly, at this moment, the cavalry of the Guards directly threw the earth-shaking thunder out.

At this time, the cavalry of the Guards was less than fifty paces away from the Qing army's iron cavalry, and coupled with the sudden detour of the Qing army's iron cavalry, all cavalry could encounter the Qing army's iron cavalry on their flanks.

Under this kind of high-speed movement of cavalry, the enemy and himself are like two cars traveling opposite each other at high speed, and the cavalry of the Guards throws the earth-shattering thunder, which is equivalent to the car occupying the middle lane dropping the bomb from the car on both lanes.

In an instant, the Qing iron cavalry on both sides who tried to flank the cavalry of the Guards was blown up, and the fragments ejected from the explosion of the earth-shattering thunder frantically cracked the armor skin and war horses of these Qing iron cavalry.

The Qing iron cavalry on both wings was directly in chaos, while the cavalry in the middle rushed out directly, hurriedly retreated, and began to chop the Qing army iron cavalry from the side.

Kill!

Xu Fuyuan slashed a Tartar's neck with a knife, and at the same time threw a sky-shattering thunderbolt into the Qing army's iron cavalry camp that was still charging.

The cavalry of the Guards like him reaped the lives of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Han Army as a result, and for the Manchurian Iron Cavalry, it was still dealt with by three battalions of infantry battalions.

Gushan Beizi Nikan didn't know what situation the Qing army and Han Eight Banners on both sides of him had encountered, and the shouting of killing was so chaotic, in his opinion, it was probably because they had been fighting together.

Nikan was still calmly leading his two thousand Manchu iron cavalry to charge towards the three armored battalions of the infantry, and each of them had a longbow in hand, but he did not lead to it, but began to turn slightly, and divided into two roads, each with a thousand Manchurian iron cavalry charging the flank of the infantry battalion.

"It seems that the Tartars have realized that the firearms of our guards are amazing, and instead of directly attacking from the front, they are trying to attack from the flank, and Liu Zhaoji of the first corps of the first army of the guards has reported that the cavalry of the left army has also used such a flank breakthrough tactic, but now the use of this tactic has been replaced by the left army and the Manchurian army."

Shi Kefa couldn't help but say a few words at this time, and Li Banghua also said beside Zhu Youzhen: "Fortunately, our guards have strengthened the training of changing formations again since March, especially for this kind of flank attack training, and at the same time that a battalion can respond at any time, the three infantry battalions will respond in a zigzag manner, or form three lines of defense to block, and a total of nearly 20,000 muskets should be able to resist the attack of 2,000 iron cavalry." ”

Zhu Youzhen did not speak, he was now engrossed in watching how Liu Qian, a veteran of the border army, was commanding this battle in the face of the attack of 10,000 iron cavalry, using cavalry against cavalry and even using earth-shaking thunder to make the enemy army chaotic first, which can be described as a stroke of genius, and at the same time using the strongest three infantry battalions to deal with the strongest Manchurian battalion of the enemy, not an experienced veteran could not quickly come up with such a countermeasure at this time.

Nikan showed a sly smile, and he commanded the soldiers in front of him in Manchu to immediately shoot the officers of the 1st Infantry Battalion with arrows.

At the same time, he himself jumped up, and when the horse fell and galloped, the three heavy arrows in his hand left the bowstring and directly hit the three Guards infantry soldiers, causing a gap to appear on the right side of the first battalion, and Du Linzheng on the side was also frightened and pale.

Fortunately, at this time, the first battalion had changed its formation in time, the flanks became frontal, the front became flanks, and the queue also changed, when a large number of Tartar bows and arrows began to attack, the shield soldiers had begun to exert their effect, resisting a large number of bows and arrows, and at the same time, at a distance of less than one hundred and fifty paces, the firepower formed by two thousand guns on one side was enough to cause great damage to the Qing army's 1,000 Manchurian iron cavalry.

(End of chapter)