It was very difficult to hold off the charge of a cavalry cluster with infantry. On the entire Eastern Continent, the current system mainly relies on rejecting horses to limit the charge of cavalry, and then uses heavy infantry arrays and archers to confront.

The things that Chen Wu ordered people to create, including a large number of rejected horses and large thistles.

It is worth mentioning that the rejection of horses here is not an ordinary rejection of horses, but the rejection of horses used by the Taiping army outside Longshan City in Taiping County. On top of the original rejection horse, a sharp spear head was added, which could inflict amazing damage on the cavalry. As for the thistle, although it is most suitable for restraining infantry, it can still have a certain effect on horses that have beaten horseshoes.

Of course, these things alone are far from enough to fight a full fifteen hundred cavalry.

As early as after Chen Wu captured Dingguang County, he had considered how to deal with the 2,000 cavalry of Songjiang County. Although the specific strategy had not yet been decided at that time, from that time on, a large number of craftsmen of the Taiping Army, especially the craftsmen of the Wu'an Ordnance Division who were captured by Chen Wu, began to make something that had never appeared in the Eastern Continent according to the drawings.

It comes from the real world before Chen Wu traveled through it, and the outstanding tactics used by the infantry against the cavalry - the partial van formation!

The construction of this van is so strong that it can even be called a chariot directly. On weekdays, they could carry heavy food, and when they encountered a cavalry charge, the heavy vans were parked in a row and locked with pre-prepared chains. Heavily armed infantry with spears in the back, supplemented by archers and even bed crossbows mounted on the roof of the wagon, could inflict staggering damage on cavalry.

In Empire, this is a kind of battle formation that is not used in the mainstream, but it shines from time to time. There are many advantages, such as the miraculous effect of restraining cavalry, and the tactics are simple, no training is required, only the infantry needs to be guarded behind the van formation. But it also had many shortcomings, the most obvious and the most important of which was that there must be a reason for the enemy cavalry to attack. Otherwise, after discovering such a paravan formation, the enemy cavalry could completely leave with mobility, or bypass this target from the beginning.

However, in the upcoming battle of Yuyang Mansion, Chen Wu used to attack the enemy and save it!

If the 1,500 cavalry sat idly by, Chen Wu would dare to turn a feint attack into a real attack and directly seize the city of Yuyang Mansion - anyway, there were not many defenders inside, even if it was worth paying some price.

If the other party doesn't want to be imprisoned and held accountable by the Imperial Prison afterwards, he can only attack.

This is the basis of the whole program!

The rest is to implement it.

April 3rd!

More than 300 Taiping army horses swarmed out of Daqing Pass and swaggered straight to the direction of Dengzhou, each cavalryman brought enough rations for half a month. At the same time, Daqingguan is still loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and there is no sign of large-scale action or attack on Yuyang Mansion.

It didn't take long for Songjiang's cavalry to grasp the intelligence of the Taiping Army's horse team.

Although the Taipings' tactics at Songjiang had changed, in order to attract the official cavalry, the Taipings' horse corps deliberately broke through a village on the Dengzhou border. Although he didn't hurt many people, he robbed his belongings and set fire to the house, and walked away triumphantly. Before leaving, Yan Dongxing even made a gesture and threatened to sweep the entire Songjiang.

As the Taiping Army horse team deliberately released the news all the way, the officers and soldiers soon learned of the atrocities of the Taiping Army horse team. Indignant, these cavalrymen, from soldiers to officers, all demanded to be the first to annihilate these thief cavalry.

As for the original target, Daqing Pass, the news that came yesterday seems that the thief army has been staying in the pass with peace of mind and has no intention of coming out.

After a brief hesitation, 1,500 cavalrymen reversed course and decided to annihilate the 300 horses of the Taiping army first. This is actually a reluctant decision, if left unchecked, God knows how much chaos these thieves will cause in Songjiang County. I'm afraid that except for county-level cities, no other villages and towns can fight against so many horse teams.

The order was reached, and the cavalry of the official army divided into two routes, while chasing directly behind and preparing to outflank.

However, the whereabouts of the Taiping Army horses were too erratic. Today it was still north of Dengzhou, and the next day it suddenly ran 60 or 70 kilometers eastward, and even almost ran into the territory of Osan Province. Without waiting for the cavalry of the official army to catch up, the horse team of the Taiping army commanded in Yan Dongxing, and without warning, it went south overnight, and recently rushed to a hundred miles outside the closed city.

Half of Songjiang County was run by them.

When Yan Dongxing was a horse bandit in the Northland, he had fought many times with the elite cavalry of Yanyun County and the famous rangers of the Lena Dynasty, so he was very familiar with this game of taking the pursuers in circles. At this moment, he regained his profession, coupled with the simple map provided by Chen Wu, Yan Dongxing even found the pleasure of being a horse bandit after a long absence.

When the cavalry of the official army finally realized that they had been tricked, the rations carried by the horse team of the Taiping army were almost exhausted, and the riders were even more tired. Counting that Chen Wu's side should have almost prepared, Yan Dongxing gave an order, and the team went straight to Yuyang to prepare for the return journey.

Their mission was twofold, to attract the attention of the cavalry of the official army, to buy time for the main force of the Taiping army, and at the same time to drag the cavalry of the official army as much as possible, which was conducive to the final annihilation.

Now, both tasks have been largely completed.

"Something is wrong!"

From a few days ago, the cavalry of the officer army felt strange. The horse team of the Taiping Army didn't look like they were going to loot everywhere at all, but more like they were taking them around in circles aimlessly. When the two cavalry units converged, it was determined that Yan Dongxing would lead the team straight back to Yuyang, and they finally guessed what the Taiping army wanted to do.

From beginning to end, the purpose of the main force of the Taiping Army is Yuyang Mansion!

Yan Dongxing's cavalry was just a false shot, a smoke bomb to deceive them. During this period, the Taiping army had already made full preparations and suddenly dispatched in mid-April.

In Daqing Pass, except for a 1,000-man unit, all the remaining troops were dispatched.

Including the main force of the 4,000 Taiping Army, including the infantry battalion, the engineering battalion, the baggage battalion, and the 2,000 recruits from Dingguang County, a total of more than 7,000 people, they were killed outside the city of Yuyang Mansion. At this time, the 1,500 cavalry of the official army were still chasing the Taiping army horse team in Dengzhou. By the time they arrived at the place where Yuyang was still a day and a half away, the southern city of Yuyang Mansion had already been surrounded by heavy troops of the Taiping army.

That's right, it's the South City, not the West City or the North City!

It stands to reason that Chen Wu's Taiping army came from Daqing Pass in the northwest, and should have attacked the West Gate or the North Gate nearby. In this way, even if the war is not smooth, when you withdraw to Daqingguan, the distance can be closer. However, Chen Wu commanded the army to block the southern wall of Yuyang Mansion, and the section was not near the city gate, but near the southwest corner.

And for a reason, of course!

The terrain outside Yuyang Mansion does not have any easy to defend and difficult to attack high ground for the army to camp, but this does not mean that there is no terrain to use.

For example, not far from the south gate of Yuyang City, there is a small river called "Banyang River".

When Yuyang Mansion was built and a moat was dug, it was the water that was diverted from this Banyang River. Because of the changes of the times over the years, coupled with the excessive intake of water by the people of Yuyang City, the width and depth of the Banyang River are far less than they were back then. But no matter how unbearable it is, it is enough to ensure that the cavalry cannot wade across the river!

This meant that the cavalry could not attack from the south of the Taiping army, and there was one less direction to defend.

At the same time, to the west of the camping site selected by the Taiping army, there was a relatively low-lying slope. Not to mention the rough roads, which were muddy due to the rain, and had sparse woods, it was difficult for the enemy's cavalry to get through. In addition, the cavalry of Songjiang County came from the east, and if they wanted to attack from the west of the Taiping army, they had to surround Yuyang City in a large circle, and there was no suddenness at all. The combination of various reasons determined that the west side could not be the direction of cavalry attack either.

Needless to say, to the north is the city wall and moat of Yuyang Mansion.

In this way, a result was doomed, the situation that was impassable on three sides, and Songjiang's cavalry could only kill from the east of the Taiping army. Whether they came directly from the east, or came out of the south gate of Yuyang Mansion to gather and then charge, there was only one line of attack.

The reason why Chen Wu insisted on attacking the city from the south was because of the four walls of the entire Yuyang Mansion, and only the south side had such a terrain.

In the end, the Taiping army still had to resist the charge of the 1,500 cavalry of the official army on flat ground. However, if the cavalry could be determined from which direction, the Taiping army would be able to concentrate all its forces and calmly deal with it.

That's a huge advantage in itself!

As the 7,000 army rushed to Yuyang Mansion, it frightened the hundreds of thousands of people in this prefecture city. Since before the war, people from some nearby villages and towns fled to Yuyang City, and now the total number of people in Yuyang Mansion should be 150,000, and only a lot more. The number of people recruited alone was as high as three or four thousand, and this was because there were really no more weapons in the city for a while.

However, there are so many people in the air, but no one has the confidence to defend the city.

The Taiping army broke through Longshan, Wu'an, and Daqing Pass, with great achievements. If Yuyang Mansion still had doubts about this record before, then when Hong Fei personally led the troops to fight, and was directly beaten with nearly half of the losses, and returned with a fiasco, no one dared to despise the Taiping Army.

What's more, the Taiping army moved a lot of city-defying weapons in Daqing Pass this time and set them up directly at the head of the city.

The city defense of Yuyang Mansion is not stronger than that of Longshan. In the face of these weapons from Daqingguan to defend the city, many of the recruited people turned pale, and they couldn't even hold the improvised rudimentary weapons in their hands, and they kept shaking.

"There are so many thieves ......"

The city guard of Yuyang Mansion and Hong Fei, who had not yet recovered from his injuries, personally went to the city, and saw that the Taiping army had deliberately expanded horizontally twice as much as normal, which was particularly spectacular, and he couldn't help but feel cold hands and feet, and felt deep suffocation and despair.