Chapter 678: It's going to rain
Cavalry hedging, there is no jishu content at all, only courage is the competition. It is to see who is brave and who does not avoid hedging, then whoever wins.
Strangely, however, while cavalry clashes were a common occurrence on the battlefield, it was quite rare for the two armies to actually collide. Generally, when one side charges violently, the other side has already retreated out of fear and dispersed in order to dodge. Because everybody knows that as long as you collide, it's basically lifeless.
And the history of the Manchu dynasty is the history of this kind of collision of outlaws. This was how Nurhachi died, and finally subdued and integrated one Jurchen tribe after another, forming the Eight Banners. Then, with such fierce tactics, the Eight Banners repeatedly won more with less in the grassland, subdued the tribes of Eastern Mongolia, and established the Manchu and Mongolian alliances.
After that, he used this outlaw hedging to defeat the Ming army in Liaodong repeatedly, and Zuihou was the Guanning Iron Cavalry who did not dare to go out of the city again, and did not dare to fight with the Qing army. Therefore, in any war throughout the ages, the courage of soldiers has always come first.
But Dolgon never expected that today's Qing army would encounter such a Ming army that dared to hedge. Faced with the rows of cavalry in front of them constantly sending them to death, Tan Tu and Ji Lang'a's troops immediately collapsed.
After all, this force was made up of Mongolian Eight Banners and Mongolian tribal herdsmen. At this time, the Mongol army had degraded quite badly, and there was no trace of Genghis Khan's Mongol army at all. Besides, in fact, the intensity of the fighting on the steppe is quite low.
In a big battle on the grassland, although both sides may use tens of thousands of horsemen, it seems to be huge, but often the two sides rush into battle at once, and after the other party's elite is scattered, the war is over. And the enemy army will also surrender itself and become its own troops. Because in the grasslands, scattered herders cannot survive without relying on tribes.
Therefore, in a war on the steppe, the losing side will not resist desperately, and the winning side will not be killed. And the Mongolian soldiers who were trained in such a war atmosphere, his will to fight can be imagined.
And this is the case with Tan Tu and Ji Lang A's troops. The first few rows were all Mengbaqi who had been severely trained by the Qing army, so their will to fight was still tenacious. But the Mongolian herdsmen who followed behind couldn't hold on. They came to loot when they entered the customs, not to send them to death, so they saw the Runing army rushing one by one. They were frightened, and immediately dispersed their formations on both sides, trying to give way to the cavalry of the Runing army.
And once the front row gives way, the back row will definitely not be desperate, so it is like an adjective - a hot knife cuts butter. The entire formation of the Qing army was cut open.
Although the cavalry of the Qing army was numerous, they all avoided to the left and right. There are just a few who don't open their eyes. It was absolutely unable to stop the group charge of the Runing Army, and it was submerged under the iron hooves in an instant. Therefore, after the fierce collision at the beginning, the cavalry of the Runing Army suddenly lost their hindrance and ran violently for a while, and they actually passed through the formation.
Suddenly penetrated the formation, and the cavalry of the Runing Army were also stunned. They also slowed down their horses at the signal of the commander of the cavalry regiment. At this time, these cavalry had two choices: one continued to attack the Qing army's main position where Dolgon was located; The other is to kill through the Qing army's formation again and kill back his own troops.
Commander Wang made his choice without hesitation, he straightened up his spear and shouted, "Brothers. Are you interested in doing it again? ”
"Good!" All the cavalry were excited, and they shouted in unison.
Commander Wang still remembered what Chu Ge had told him before he set off, that he wanted his cavalry regiment to delay the Qing army's charge, not that he should attack the Qing army's main formation, so Commander Wang was going to attack Tan Tu and Jilang Abu again.
"Tan Tu and Ji Lang A, these two rice buckets, they don't want to die like this?" Dolgon, who was watching the battle, was furious.
Not only was Dolgon angry, but whether it was Tan Tu and Ji Lang A, who were pierced through the formation, or Mazari and Quangui, who were forming a team, they were all annoyed and angry by this arrogant cavalry of the Runing Army, and they mobilized their own troops to rush to the front line, and they wanted to destroy this cavalry of the Runing Army.
After Commander Wang ordered "the whole army to turn around", he drove his horse to the Zuihou platoon with a few of his own soldiers, then flattened the riding spear, and blew the long whistle for charging into battle.
And this time the charge was not so smooth, although in front of the array of the Runing army, there was no Qing cavalry to block it, but the war horses that had already rushed once had not been rested at all, so their speed could not be raised. So the Qing army swarmed in, and they rushed in on both sides of the array to slash and kill, so that the cavalry in each row of the Runing army was getting smaller and smaller, and when they arrived at Zuihou, there were only more than 100 cavalry left in the cavalry that passed through the formation again.
However, this charge can be regarded as the completion of the mission, after all, it delayed the time for the Qing army to attack the main formation of the Runing army, and taking advantage of this created opportunity, Li Sanhe's troops gradually approached the center.
So the Qing army focused its attention on Li Sanhe's department again, but Li Sanhe's campaign went unexpectedly smoothly.
Because the Qing army was pierced twice in a row by the cavalry regiment of Commander Wang, there was no time to form a good formation, so it could not form a continuous charge against Li Sanhe's department.
However, Li Sanhe's two infantry regiments did not lose any artillery and firearms, and during the movement, they constantly used firearms to shoot at the Qing troops who were charging into formation, and then resolutely counterattacked with the cavalry of the infantry regiment. The Qing army returned again and again in vain, and it did not stop the pace of the two infantry regiments.
With the gradual shift of Li Sanhe's troops to the left, the Qing army was also somewhat helpless against this army. Seeing that they were about to be blocked in front of the main force of the Runing Army.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Runing Army also stepped up its artillery array in front of the two phalanxes, and gathered more than 700 soldiers who had fled back, and temporarily formed a phalanx, which was arranged behind the middle phalanx.
Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was about to stabilize, Wu Shigong also breathed a sigh of relief. He prepared that as soon as the battle situation stabilized, the whole army would immediately retreat, and no matter what, he would first withdraw from the range of the Qing army's artillery.
And when Dolgon saw that he couldn't break the deadlock, he also frowned, constantly afraid of hitting his thighs, and his heart was extremely unwilling. He knew that after the Ming army on the opposite side suffered this loss, he would never be fooled again, and he would no longer take the initiative to go into the range of the general's artillery.
But at this moment, "Boom! Suddenly there was a muffled thunder in the sky over the battlefield, Wu Shigong was surprised, Dolgon was surprised, the two of them looked at the sky in unison, only to see a drop in the sky, two drops of ......, and then continuously, zuihou is pouring rain. (To be continued......)