The black cavalry wall carried the momentum of crushing a qiē, but it still maintained a tight array and pushed it horizontally.

Yu Qi and the others, who were looking out from a high place behind the formation, opened their mouths wide, their eyes open for a moment, holding their breath and waiting for the moment of collision. The dense formation made the Qing cavalry on the opposite side have no way to retreat, and there is no room to dodge, killing and being killed is only in the moment when the horse's body is staggered, at this time the personal combat skills and riding skills have no effect, and courage and fearlessness will be the greatest embodiment in the cavalry battle.

Also frightened were the Qing soldiers on the other side. These Eight Banner cavalry who stayed in Liaodong were either young people who had never experienced war, or bearded soldiers who had not been on the battlefield for nearly 20 years, and in the legends they heard and the facts they witnessed, the Ming cavalry who dared to hedge against the Eight Banners had never been. Moreover, the distance is getting closer and closer, and the speed of the Ming cavalry has not yet been mentioned as the fastest, but such a dense formation is full of pressure and murderous aura.

Can cavalry fight like this? Meler Zhangjingbale's mind was spinning rapidly, and he felt that it should not be enough to disperse, and the Ming army was bluffing.

But the cavalry around Balak began to show panic, and the threat in front of them was like a mountain, and some of the horses ran diagonally to the side despite the control of the riders, and their formation became scattered, but at this distance, no one on the hedged cavalry could retreat.

Because of the way they were trained, the strength of the Manchurian cavalry was mostly on their feet and they were good at using large bows. Horse archery is actually not as good as the Mongols, although many people can also turn left and right, left and right to shoot right, but more are still used to dismounting and lunge.

The speed was mentioned to the fastest, and the Ming cavalry array began to curve, but the short distance of a few dozen steps was no longer enough to affect the integrity of the formation.

A light arrow from a bow whizzed in, but only a few fell from their horses under the protection of the sturdy armor, and the short distance was fleeting.

The horse is fast to the fastest. The two sides approached at a speed of about 20 meters per second, and Gao Dejie's eyes were wide open, and he clenched the horse lance in his hand and aimed at the Qing soldiers on the opposite side. The Qing soldier was bearded and led the way with a broadsword, but this guy also showed a little hesitation and panic in front of the cavalry advancing like a wall on the opposite side.

"Kill!!" Gao Dejie let out a hissing roar.

Boom, the torrent of two horses collided head-on. The sound of the blades rubbing against the armor made the roots of the teeth sore, and the horses that could not avoid it smashed each other to the bone, some of the horses were knocked into the air, and some of them fell to the ground with their riders, rolling desperately on the ground.

The horse staggered past the enemy with the roar of hooves, and by the time he felt the resistance at the tip of the lance, he had nimbly turned his wrist slightly. This allows him to not knock off his lance due to the huge impact force after hitting an enemy, or directly push a person under his horse. Meantime. Cavalry walls are very demanding to use long weapons, and if you accidentally cross them, you can stumble your teammates and cause chaos.

It can be clearly seen that the well-organized cavalry of the Ming army still has a considerable advantage after colliding with the relatively loose Qing cavalry array on the opposite side. Because a Qing soldier often has to face two or three sabers chopped over, as long as the momentum is slightly weaker. and he will be in a different place.

In the first round of confrontation, more than 20 Qing soldiers were shot down, and the remaining Qing soldiers passed through the front line of the Ming army. But not before they could catch their breath. The second row of cavalry walls was already rushing towards them, and the sharp sabers were raised high, like the scythes of death in the thunderous sound of hooves. These soldiers either broke their blades, or they couldn't retract them, or their horse speed was reduced, and the dense and straight arrays on the opposite side gave them no room to avoid to the side.

"Kill!" Wang Zhan roared angrily. The spear stabbed out.

Meler Zhangjingbale shot down a Ming cavalry in the impact just now, but in the face of the second cavalry wall of the Ming army, his pupils suddenly contracted, and he urged the horses urgently, wanting to raise the speed again, but it was too late. The tip of the spear on the opposite side stabbed at a rapid pace.

In a hurry, Bale made a move to avoid the vital point, but he was still swept by the spear, and under the shaking of his body, a saber on the left side slashed diagonally, and after a heavy blow on the shoulder armor, the knife slid down and opened a bloody hole in the horse's neck.

The first pull-out attack Ming army lost nearly half of the cavalry, but the second pull-out shock only lost more than a dozen people, but killed and wounded the enemy who exceeded the loss by several times.

Mel Zhangjingbal got up from the ground in a daze, the wound on his shoulder made it difficult for him to lift his arm, he raised his head with difficulty, and watched the third pull of the black wall rush to his face, but he had no power to resist.

"Too many people......" was Bale's last thought before he lost consciousness. Knife after knife, he splattered blood and fell to the ground like a log.

Several rounds of attacks were like a storm, violently beating more than 200 cavalry of the Qing army to corpses all over the ground, leaving corpses and wounded in a place. The galloping cavalry wall disappeared in an instant like a sudden frenzy, and they continued to move forward, slowly slowing down after a few hundred paces and starting to line up again.

"No more fighting." Yu Qi could see clearly that the cavalry of the Ming army charged five times in a row with a column of fifty people, and only a few lone enemy cavalry were left on the battlefield to escape from the attack range, and the enemy in the front of the attack was gone.

"If it's me-" Yu Qixuan shook his head with a wry smile, he was also very confident in his riding skills and martial arts, but he didn't dare to guarantee that he could resist under this continuous assault a few times, twice? Three times?

"If the first column loses more than half of it, the second column will only be 30% at most, and the third column will not even be 10%." Jin Liangchen, who was the head of the observation officer corps, made a rough calculation, and said to Li Yonggong beside him: "If the distance of the charge can be longer and the queue is denser, the effect should be better!" ”

"It's not easy to extend the charging distance." Li Yonggong pondered for a moment and said, "The queue is dense, but it can be improved." If the boots that are higher than the knee mentioned by Banzai cannot be equipped with kuài, the use of knee pads can solve many problems. ”

It took the Europeans more than a century to sum up their experience before extending the distance of the cavalry line charge from 100 paces to 1,800 paces, and derived from a single dense line a variety of tactical deformations, such as horizontal formations, columns, big strides, fast steps, and scattered gallops, and made them canonical. Although the current Ming army does not have a variety of tactical transformations, it is already a great achievement to be able to extend the distance of the charge to 300 steps. You must know that the extension of the charging distance is more difficult the further back it goes, and the difficulty is increasing exponentially.

As for the riding boots that covered the knees, or knee pads, they were to avoid damage to the knees, so that the cavalry could safely adopt the "knee to knee" formation. Obviously, under the current material supply conditions, Li Yonggong's knee pads are more practical, and the speed of equipment can be faster.

Yu Qi licked his lips, barely suppressed the idea of galloping and galloping to kill the enemy in his heart, and turned his head to glance at Yu Jiu and Yu Shi who were mixed in the observation group sternly and meaningfully. The reckless habits of these two brothers made Yu Qi uneasy, so they were sent to Jeju Island as cavalrymen. Of course, these two men had a good foundation in horsemanship and martial arts, and met the criteria for hussar recruitment.

Yu Jiu grinned, stabbed Yu Shi who was still stunned and looked at the battlefield, and the two brothers looked at Yu Qi, and nodded again and again with a smiling face.

Thanks to Yu Qi's light, the riding skills and martial arts of the two people were also good, so they were promoted to officers and mixed into the observation group. If the two of them had a slight complaint about the concept of discipline and wholeness emphasized by the cavalry in the past, after witnessing the victory on the battlefield, the two should understand the true meaning of the whole being higher than the individual in the cavalry.

On the battlefield, Gao Dejie wielded a horse lance, led a few cavalrymen with superb martial arts, and was still chasing and killing a few Qing cavalry who had lost their souls. This can be seen by the seventh and other people, who are both envious, and have itchy hands, scratching their ears and cheeks, and they can't live in peace.

"Hehe, Lao Gao hasn't enjoyed it for a long time." Jin Liangchen smiled and said: "The rest of the soldiers will also come out to see the world, next year, the war in Liaodong will be a big fight." ”

Li Yonggong nodded, and said in a deep voice: "The cavalry of the Zhenshuo army should be stronger than us, and there are more than us, if it can't be used next year, I'm afraid——"

Jin Liangchen bowed slightly, indicating that he understood. Two large cavalry, one in the northwest and one in the northeast, this was the plan of the General Staff Headquarters. However, the urgency and importance of the northeast should be greater than that of the northwest, and if the cavalry trained by Gao Dejie, Jin Liangchen and others is not capable of fighting, then the transfer of troops from the Zhenshuo army will inevitably affect their promotion and reputation.

"Or—" Li Yonggong paused and said uncertainly, "If we can't recover the Jingshi this year, we will be transferred to the war next year?" ”

Who doesn't want to get the honor of recovering Beijing, Li Yonggong fantasizes about being able to establish meritorious service in this historic battle, but Jin Liangchen doesn't think so.

"Our army launched an offensive in Liaodong, which meant to force the Tartars back. If the Tartars are exhausted in the north, there is no need to fight this Liaodong. Jin Liangchen shook his head again and again, and explained in detail: "Can't the Tartars see this? Do you have to fight a decisive battle with our army in Beijing, so that it is difficult to return to Liaodong? Or the remnants of the defeated army will flee out of the customs, but it is just a lingering breath? ”

Li Yonggong thought for a while and said with a smile: "Brother Jin must know that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift. The Tartar has enjoyed happiness in the Central Plains Flower World, how can he return to the bitter cold land as a last resort? Well, in order to succeed, I expect that the Tartars will most likely fight to the death. ”

"It depends on whether the Tartars are wise or not." Jin Liangchen sneered and said, "If you are reluctant to the Central Plains, how can you defend Liaodong?" Even if you can temporarily hold the Zhili, it will not consume food and materials, which will make people's hearts even more lost. With the current ability of the imperial court, long live the wisdom, is to sit and wait, and the Tartars are also self-defeating. ”

Li Yonggong nodded, stretched out his hand, and said with a smile: "That guy is showing off his martial arts!" ”

In the distance, Gao Dejie led a dozen knights to return proudly, with blood-dripping heads on the spear heads and knife tips, and shouted and cheered towards the crowd at the heights.

.......... (To be continued......)