To speak in good conscience, using a "hollow phalanx" against cavalry has not been a reliable idea since ancient times.

Even in the more than 100 years when the "Spanish Phalanx" became popular, this kind of trick was also a stupid move, because if the enemy cavalry was good at riding and archery and fighting with you, the long-range musket output firepower of the phalanx infantry was simply not enough.

The cavalry could have made a detour to the weakest side of the phalanx's long-range firepower, and then tried to kill the musketeers as soon as they found that the musketeers in the formation were too slow to turn around and re-array, and there was a gap to drill.

Even though the cavalry would be stabbed by the barrage of spears at the beginning of the encounter, as long as they carried the difficult moment before tearing the gap, they could completely smash the hollow phalanx and achieve backstabbing in the future.

Who made the early Spanish phalanx only 20 percent musketeers, and the remaining 80 percent pikemen? Even in the last type, there are barely a small half of the musketeers.

When facing the enemy head-on in a line formation, although there are few muskets, they can be used intensively, and the density of firepower is enough to see. In the phalanx, if the muskets were evenly distributed on the four sides, it would not be at all comparable to the desperate enemy cavalry that gathered the whole army.

If they are not evenly distributed on the four sides, but still try to use them all together, so that the musket team is always oriented towards the enemy horseman, according to the detour direction of the enemy horse, then another problem arises:

The cavalry is more flexible when charging, and the musketeers must be in strict formation to ensure that they do not hit their comrades in the chaos, and the cavalry will circle for a while, and the musketeers themselves will be in chaos, and once this information is captured, the cavalry will take advantage of the chaos to rush up, which can definitely cause a catastrophe.

Infantry carrying cavalry is inherently under great pressure, this is not a video game, it can allow the bloody soldiers to continue to fight to the death without retreating, and they can change formations at will without panic and low morale.

Since ancient times, it is taboo to ride on foot, and it is taboo to repeatedly change the formation in battle, Han Xin is not good at command, so he can only ask the infantry not to move after standing on the pile, and those who retreat without permission will be killed!

However, times have changed, and in the West, hollow phalanxes crushing muskets, which occurred around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, an important reason is the widespread use of bayonets in hoops, and the fact that all men are equipped with muskets, and there is no longer a separate pikeman.

Such a high density of muskets, resulting in even if the four teams are evenly divided and do not need to support each other, the long-range firepower is enough to crush the cavalry on the opposite side, all the musketeers can stand on the pile from the beginning to the end of the battle, no matter what the situation is, there is no need to run around to change formations to create chaos, and they are counterattacked on the spot when they are sprinted closely, and the bayonet that has just finished firing can also be directly stabbed, and there is no switching between far and near weapons.

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At this moment, Bambulshan and Sukh Saha are encountering this situation!

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"Bang bang bang-"

As Bamburshan's elite cavalry approached Huang Fei's hollow phalanx between two hundred and one hundred and fifty paces, the Ming riflemen opened fire one after another.

If there are bystanders who don't know why, they may think that this is because the Ming army riflemen can't hold their breath and don't let go of the fight.

But in fact, these soldiers strictly carried out military orders, because from Huang Fei to the garrisons and commanders of each formation, they were all ordered in this way, so that when the enemy had just entered the effective firing range, they should not spare their firepower and fire a salvo with all their might.

The goal of the Ming army was not to expect the first wave of blows to inflict heavy casualties on the Qing army, on the contrary, they were luring the enemy and forcing the enemy to move, so that the enemy would retreat as soon as possible and launch a detour!

This is also the standard combat method that the elite Ming Army rifle team that has been trained for a long time in the past three years has learned from the tactical drill code to deal with cavalry assaults! It's just that their enemies don't know it yet.

When Bamburshan heard the gunshots ringing out intensively, his hair stood up slightly, which was not his timidity, but human instinct.

Dozens of cavalry of the Qing army also snorted and fell off their horses, and many more were shot on their horses, throwing the cavalry off their horses.

The performance of the new rifle of the Ming army can be fully compared with the Charleville 1763 model of the later French, and the individual performance can even surpass. Even if the deterrent shooting is carried out at a distance of nearly two hundred paces, the hit rate is impressive, but after the number is large, it is more than enough to shoot dozens of horsemen and injure nearly 100 horsemen at one time.

Looking at the death and injury of the trilogy, Bamburshan resurfaced a hideous expression on his face after a brief tremble, and the idea of fighting for his life once again took over in his brain:

"The musket team of the Southern Barbarians is really concentrated on the front! Pass from the barbarian formations, detour back to the rear, and trample and scatter them! ”

Bamburshan's speculation, if it is facing the old-style Ming army three or five years ago, it is absolutely correct. Because the firearms and equipment rate of the Ming army at that time was so low, or even lower.

Being able to show such a strong musket fire density on the front shows that the Ming army concentrated all the muskets on one side! The other long-range deterrence is useless!

Moreover, the musket is not as heavy as the bow and arrow, the arrow loss is heavy, the kinetic energy carrying rate itself is high, and the arrow loss with slow flight speed is quite lethal, resulting in the bow and arrow can be curved and projectile, and the crossbowman can fire arrows in the sky behind the pikeman, which can be relatively flexible to support any direction of the formation.

The projectile of the musket is extremely light, and the kinetic energy maintained by the mass is minimal, mainly relying on the projectile flight speed to maintain the kinetic energy, once the projectile velocity decreases significantly, the lethality of the musket is about equal to zero.

Since ancient times, the threat of musket warp fire has been minimal, and it is necessary to stand in the front row and shoot flat, which causes the musketeers to change their formation and adjust the direction of output, which will cause great confusion to the original military formation.

Bambur saw that the Ming musketeers couldn't hold their breath and exposed the truth in advance, so they were not angry but happy, and rushed more and more fiercely.

Like a hot knife cutting butter, the Zhengbai Flag Elite Cavalry sharply drilled into the gaps of the hollow phalanxes of the Ming army, and directly implemented a large-scale detour.

As the army entered the battle, the enemy and the enemy were staggered, and Bamburshan and Sukh Saha lost the ability to directly and finely command the troops under their command, after all, there was already me in the enemy, and there was an enemy in me, everyone was fighting a sports war, and they couldn't find all their troops at all, at most they could only command the group of henchmen in front of them.

However, the Qing generals generally did not think that this was a big problem, and the steppe nomadic army had always had the advantage of being far more "flat in the management structure" than the Han army, and was better at adapting to the situation and fighting independently.

At that time, the Mongols were typical, and before the war, they said who would attack the main attack and who would attack and contain it, but when it came to the actual battlefield, once they found that the situation had changed, and the troops that originally stipulated the sheep attack could seize a better opportunity, they would not hesitate to automatically switch to the main attack. And the main attacking force planned before the war will see that the friendly forces are more suitable for the main attack, and they will immediately switch roles and obediently cooperate.

The flattening of the Qing army was slightly inferior to that of the Mongols, but it was not far behind, and it was naturally handy with the form in front of them. The various divisions were soon dispersed into units of Jiala and even Niulu, and fought separately.

Each of them no longer needs to listen to the direct command of Bambulshan or Sukh Saha, and can command on their own according to their war talent and military sense.

Some radical and daring Qing army armor Lae Zhen chose to take one step and directly drill into the opposite direction of the dense side of the muskets of the Ming army's formation, that is, directly behind, and then close the distance and start to launch a counter-charge.

Some of the irritable and impatient Qing army armor Lae Zhen chose to just detour back to the flank, and directly attacked the waist in the direction of the waist of the Ming army's formation, and they couldn't wait for a complete detour to the rear to carry out backstabs.

There are many specific tactics, and a hundred flowers are blooming, but the ending is also the same.

The imaginary situation in which the density of long-range fire drops when you go around the flank of the hollow phalanx does not occur.

On the contrary, in every direction of the hollow phalanx of the Ming army, the density of muskets was so high!

No matter which side the Qing army rushed from, it was faced with a stormy barrage.

"Kill all the dog tartars!"

"Da Ming will win! There is no tartar with me! ”

Zhu Shuren prepared 25,000 new Wuchang-made rods for today's battle, as well as nearly 10,000 other relatively old-fashioned weapons. And the left flank of the Ming army was the top priority that had been envisaged before the war, and more than half of the firepower was gathered.

The infantry cultivated by Huang Fei and Lin has a total of 15,000 new Wuchang shots! 5,000 old firearms! The total number of 20,000 was enough for them to equip most of their soldiers with muskets, a density that the Qing army could not imagine.

With a three-year truce, the world has completely changed!

Times have changed!

Some people may wonder: Bambulshan and Sukh Saha don't observe the enemy before diving headlong into the trap? Now that it has been three years since Shunzhi, there are also some telescopes in the Qing army, which have long been popularized, which is nothing more than that the magnification and accuracy are not as good as those of the Ming army, but you can also see the state of the Qingming army in advance.

This has to be said that the battlefield here is relatively flat, and the Qing army cannot find enough highlands to wait and see the enemy situation in depth. Even if you look at the telescope, you can only see the front row of the Ming army carrying muskets from a distance, and the soldiers in the back row who are blocked cannot be seen clearly.

The Qing army used old experience to estimate and speculate, made wrong judgments, and felt that the Ming army was bluffing, which was understandable.

Tens of thousands of people on the battlefield are intricately intertwined, and there is no condescending overlooking condition, how can it be so easy to see the reality in the back row?

And all this, at this moment, is the time to pay the price.

Hundreds of thousands of Qing cavalry were shot from rifles and fell to the ground in a very short period of time, blood flowed wantonly, and the corpses of men and horses were in a mess.

Because the various departments of the Qing army are fighting their own battles, they cannot respond uniformly and quickly, so they can only judge according to their ability and intuition.

Some of the armor is really brave, then straighten up and continue to carry out the backstab assault, the Ming infantry on the opposite side are all in full formation, have already been bayonet hoop, insist on firing and killing the enemy until the last thirty steps before being close, only then flatten the bayonet and pose a posture of resisting the sprint.

Countless Qing cavalry were shot on their backs in the process of approaching, suffering heavy casualties, and those who finally rushed in front of them could not stand in front of the dense array of seven-foot-long bayonets and rifles.

Under the frantic intensive stabbing of bayonets, groups of cavalry were pierced into hedgehogs, and even if they fell off their horses with screams, they would be subjected to follow-up intensive replenishment, and suddenly the flesh and blood were unrecognizable.

At such a heavy price, the results achieved by the Qing army were less conspicuous in comparison. Except for knocking some Ming musketeers away, the capture is really not much.

Even if a small hole was torn in the hollow phalanx, the reserves of the Ming army would immediately fill up, and the bayonets on the left and right would immediately press and press, frantically stabbing the Qing cavalry who lost their speed and fell into hand-to-hand combat.

The Ming riflemen's defenses were also not to be underestimated, as they were their Dutch musketeers, wearing water-forged steel cuirasses and helmets to ensure focused protection and spending a limited amount of weight on the blades.

The defense of the limbs, such as arms, legs and feet, was abandoned, and only thick cotton pads were used for protection, so that it did not affect the movement and was convenient for accurate aiming and shooting.

In the face of the Qing cavalry's charge, such armor can also maximize its practical effect. Anyway, when being charged by the cavalry, the probability of fatal injuries to the limbs is extremely small, and the dexterity of the hands and feet is also convenient for controlling the landing posture when being hit by the side, and surviving in death.

The cuirass also has a padded lining to protect the internal organs and cushion the pressure of impact, which is the best solution that has been proven.

The biggest drawback of this practice of almost giving up the protection of limbs is that when facing the enemy's light cavalry fighting and flying kites and harassing with cavalry bows, the probability of riflemen being injured will be greatly increased, especially modern riflemen will not be equipped with large shields to prevent arrows from being missed.

However, the firepower density and range advantages of the new musket have long been destined that the Qing cavalry of this era will not be separated by more than a hundred paces from you, sweeping across the formation to harass and shoot, so the Qing army will definitely die more miserably.

was restrained by the Ming army everywhere and fell into the preset fighting mode of the Ming army, which eventually led to these Qing army armors who chose to fight to the end and completely fell into a desperate situation.

At the same time, it was precisely because the Qing army fought separately in Jiala. And people's hearts are always uneven, and everyone's judgment of the battle situation is also different.

Those who were more cowardly, or more cautious, had already begun to judge the situation after paying the price of the first 100 casualties, and would rather fight to immediately turn around and flee, and be chased by the enemy in vain on the way to escape, but also resolutely choose to shift their strategy.

As a result, all the units of the Qing army, which had contracted strategically, were all pursued by the Ming army, and the casualties were considerable. The Ming army, which had repelled the frontal enemy, was able to free up its hands to deal with the die-hard Qing army that was still fighting with friendly forces and would not retreat.

Less than half of the main forces of the Qing army's two white flags chose to fight to the death, and these people were under double pressure on the battlefield and fell into an absolute local battlefield disadvantage.

The various hollow phalanxes of the Ming army carefully fine-tuned and moved closer, and soon those phalanxes that had not yet finished the battle, those where the Qing cavalry rushed and killed intensively, were shortly fired by the Ming army's muskets from behind, and suddenly became more and more chaotic.

And these Ming troops who backstabbed the Qing army did not dare to open fire, because the Qing army and friendly troops were entangled together, if the Qing army was too sparse, a careless backstabbing Ming army might accidentally injure their own people.

Therefore, they could only shoot at the particularly dense points of the Qing army, and once the Qing army was broken up and scattered and fought separately, they had to cease fire. Even so, in this process, a small number of Ming musketeers were mistakenly injured by their comrades.

Fortunately, the forged steel cuirass of the Ming musketeers could block the kinetic energy of stray bullets two hundred steps away, and only those who were shot in the hands and feet would be seriously injured, which more or less alleviated the loss of accidental injuries.

Once the Qing army's dense charging and tearing formation was broken up, forming a loose cavalry hand-to-hand combat, the Ming army's bayonet soldiers could quickly clean them up.

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However, after more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the most fierce bloody battle on the west side of the main battlefield completely divided the winner and loser.

The Zhengbai Banner, which rushed deepest, suffered the heaviest casualties, and Bamburshan, who led the troops, died directly in the battle. At least two more Jiala troops were wiped out in the battle, and they were strangled and annihilated by the Ming army, and they couldn't break away at all, and the two Jiala were really killed in battle.

The other three Jiala, after finally realizing that the fiasco was not right, fled in a hurry, but only two of the three Jiala, Ezhen escaped alive, and the other Jiala, Ezhen, was killed by the Ming army's back shot in the process of disengagement.

As for the officers at the level of Niu Lu, they had accumulated more than a dozen dead and seriously wounded in battle.

The cavalry with the white flag on the other side, because they did not rush so fast and deep, suffered relatively small losses, and they recognized the defeat in a more timely manner, and Sukh Saha also picked up a life, but was also injured by stray shrapnel, which was not fatal.

Of the Jiala under his command, only one was completely annihilated, and the remaining four escaped with hundreds of people killed in battle. There were also hundreds of wounded soldiers, but as long as they were seriously injured and fell from their horses, they would undoubtedly be shot and killed by the Ming army, which had won the victory and won the right to clean up the battlefield. Only those who were slightly injured who did not fall from their horses could escape with their lives, and falling from their horses was directly equivalent to death.

While the two white flags were lured by the hollow phalanx tactics to lure the enemy hard, the Ming and Qing armies were not idle on the frontal battlefield in the middle.

After only one or two cups of tea after the exchange of fire on the west side, the frontal Chinese army entered a bloody fight. It's just that because the Chinese armies on both sides have no room for detours, the tactics are relatively old-fashioned, and all the lines of the Ming army are in formation, stacked into the Falun and shoots,

There is no hollow phalanx, there is no luring the enemy to go deeper, it is a dignified division that fights with real fists to the point of flesh and guns, and it is a righteous battle. The casualty figures of the battle did not climb as fast as the "you have me, I have you" dog-tooth staggered fighting on the west side.

Just like a chemical reaction, even if two solid reactants are put together, there is only one contact surface between each other, and the reaction speed is not too fast.

However, if it is two cups of liquid reactants, directly pour them together and stir them to fully form a solution, the contact surface area is countless times more than that between solid reactants, and the reaction speed will naturally skyrocket.

The Chinese army of the upright line of musket teams is like a solid reactant, luring the enemy deep into the hollow phalanx of entanglement, like a reaction solution, and it is clear which side will divide the victory and defeat at a glance.

When one of the two white flags was killed and wounded, and the other was also seriously injured and fled back in disarray, the Chinese army had actually just finished warming up, and the number of casualties on both sides was only one or two thousand, and there were not too many wounded. Compared to the more than 50,000 heavy soldiers of each side, this casualty was originally nothing.

As a result, the complete collapse of the two white flags soon led to the chaos of the Qing army's Chinese army.

The musket formation cultivated by Huang Fei and Lin still needs time to readjust the formation, and then maintain a decent speed close to the Chinese army to support their comrades.

However, the iron cavalry of the Ming army of Cao Bianjiao's department, which had his hands free, was able to react quickly in a very short time and immediately flank the flank of the Qing army.

What's even more vicious is that Cao Bianjiao also learned to be treacherous, he not only led the cavalry to quickly fill the position and pull, control the position, and compress the flank space of the Qing army.

He also learned to use the six-horse horse-drawn cavalry cannon and the cavalry to quickly deploy to the front line, and after the cavalry pulled out of position, he immediately deployed the cavalry cannon in the weak position that had just been torn apart on the west flank of the Qing army.

When the infantry of Huang Fei and Lin Chengcheng arrived and rearranged their positions to deter the flanks of the Qing army, the cavalry artillery was also generally deployed, and it was just right for the infantry artillery to coordinate.

Yue Le of the Qing Army, in fact, has been paying attention to the movements of the two white flags in the west, and when he learned the news that Bambulshan was killed in battle and Sukh Saha was injured and fled, he also made a hasty response as soon as possible, and transferred a part of the troops from the Chinese army to barely protect his right hand.

But when he was in a hurry to change the formation, he would not have expected the Ming army's sudden deployment of cavalry artillery, when his side could barely set up a position, dozens of cavalry guns of the Ming army fired fiercely at the flank of the Qing army, beating the right side of the Qing army to pieces, and more importantly, the morale was exhausted, they did not expect that their flanks could be shelled.

The cavalry artillery of the Ming army already has some models that use small-power flowering shells, but the shells are too light and the charge is too much, so they mainly use solid iron ball bullets.

As we all know, the most tragic lethal effect of solid iron ball shells on infantry cavalry is achieved by "firing at the side of the horizontal team and using ricochets to directly kill a platoon of people".

In the era of fortress attack and defense, even the musketeers on the city wall were very afraid of the siege artillery bouncing horizontally along the city wall, and it was easy to kill many people with one shell.

At this moment, the situation on the right hand side of the Qing army is also the same, the flanks of the horizontal team are exposed, and they are covered by a few ricocheting bullets, and they are directly wearing a whole row of sugar gourds, and the flesh and blood are miserable, and the morale is also collapsed in an instant.

Under the tearing of the cavalry artillery, Cao Bianjiao and Huang Fei launched a charge one after another, completely shattering Abatai's right side.

And the main force of the Ming army, Huang Degong, who was carrying the line on the front, also boosted his morale and began to advance after seeing the success of the friendly troops on the flank. The rifle team used a strict stacking method, taking turns to advance dozens of paces and then stop firing, and then stop loading, allowing the friendly troops in the back row to move forward, fiercely pressing the battlefield space of the Qing army.

The 120,000 Qing army finally ushered in a complete general collapse. Several high-ranking generals of the Mongol cavalry first realized that the tide of the battle was irreversible and began to flee north.

also took advantage of the fact that the friendly army would not be pursued by the Ming army in the process of carrying the line and crossing the Shaoshui back to the north bank, so he calmly waded across the river.

In contrast, it was not so easy for those Qing troops who were slow to escape. There must always be a dead soldier who is responsible for the broken back to resist the damage and drag the Ming army.

Otherwise, whether the Qing army swam to the east and crossed the river on the spot, or ran north for more than ten miles, and waded through the shallower and narrower Shaoshui, they would be brutally killed by the pursuing soldiers of the Ming army.

As for going west, swimming across the lake that spreads for dozens of miles, it is absolutely impossible, and if you don't swim in a river that is only 100 meters wide, but swim in a lake dozens of miles wide, you won't be killed fast enough.

The terrain of the battlefield "surrounded by water on three sides", which the Qing army did not care about before the war, has been exposed at this moment with the rapid collapse of the Qing army in less than half a day, exposing its huge hidden dangers.