Abatai nodded slightly, all along, the older Bolo was more liked by him, because Bolo often showed superior wisdom, while Yue Le was labeled as impetuous by Abatai because he was young, but it turned out that Yue Le was not only impetuous, but also had a calmness that he did not have at his age.

As Abatai's father and son guessed, Yang Yandi deliberately did not gather the straggler phalanxes on the left and right flanks, just to let the Qing army attack these two small phalanxes, and then carry out the firepower of the large phalanx to attack. This was also a tactic commonly used by Li Zhaoji, which ran through the entire Eastern Trading Company's war against the Manchus.

The line infantry can be regarded as consumables, even the elite veterans and hunters among them can be trained with time and ammunition, and it is definitely not a loss to use these soldiers to exchange with the Eight Banners of Manchuria. Manchuria is just a nation with more than 60,000 dingkou, and every soldier who dies cannot be made up for in a short time.

Unlike the infantry of the Eastern Brigade, as long as you come up with money and put up a recruitment flag, you can train it.

After the battle of Qinghe, the Qing army put the hope of defeating the infantry of the Eastern Brigade on the red cannon, and now this plan is gradually becoming a reality.

There was a deathly silence on the battlefield, and after twenty minutes of formation, the Qing army had no intention of attacking, and their actions were only to rush from a kilometer away to a distance of 500 meters, and then retreat, and some cavalry teams did not even retreat.

Abatai hoped that Yang Yandi would use the same long-range hanging tactics that he had used to deal with Bolo in the Battle of Qinghe, because he had already discovered that there were only infantry, no artillery, not even vehicles, they had no supplies at all, and all the ammunition was only the ones they carried with them.

After waiting for twenty minutes, Yang Yandi announced that the plan had been abandoned, and he ordered the phalanx to assemble and prepare to retreat, he did not want to bear the blow of the red-coated cannon.

At present, the Eastern Brigade has no experience in fighting against red-coated artillery, but those artillery pieces are all heavy artillery of more than ten pounds, which has a much longer range than field artillery, and Yang Yandi does not even have field artillery now, only a group of infantry with limited ammunition.

The two battalion-level phalanxes were the first to gather together to form a regimental phalanx, and the next thing was to contain the straggler phalanx on both flanks, and it was at this time that Abatai ordered the attack.

"Yue Le, aren't you very confident? I don't believe that cavalry alone can break through the enemy's infantry phalanx, but your solution might work. So you can try this phalanx of less than 200 people in front of you. Abatai patted his shoulder, and said to the Zhang Jing beside him: "You all listen, you all listen, no matter whether Yue Le succeeds or fails today, don't rashly use cavalry to attack the enemy's hollow phalanx in the future." ”

Everyone should have heard in unison, they had long heard that Yue Le was studying the infantry hollow phalanx of the Eastern Thieves, and claimed that there was a way to break it. And now is the time to show the results of his research, if he fails, then the Qing Dynasty will not try to break the hollow phalanx with cavalry in the future, not even a small-scale phalanx of less than 200 people, let alone those battalion-level and even regiment-level phalanxes.

And even if it succeeded, it would only be a small phalanx of 200 people.

Yue Le nodded slightly and said, "You will see my results." ”

In order to avoid the co-operation and relocation of the Eastern Brigade, Abatai ordered the whole army to besiege, of course, the order he gave was only to contain and crucify the infantry of the Eastern Brigade in place, and the only thing that really wanted to break the phalanx was to select the target as Yue Le, the 500 people of the Ferreira battalion.

As the 3,000 cavalry launched an assault in all directions, the battlefield was immediately chaotic, and the smoke of gunpowder trampled by iron hooves spread, forming clouds of dust under this cold sky. When the cavalry of the Qing army attacked, the infantry could only stop to maintain the formation, because there was not enough ammunition, so Yang Yandi ordered the Qing army not to enter the 300 meters and not fire, but the cavalry of the Qing army attacked like a tide, wave after wave.

Approaching again and again, there will always be soldiers who can't withstand the pressure of the huge wave composed of thousands of cavalry, and open fire without authorization, and one person's mistake will bring out the mistakes of countless people, when the phalanx is fired indiscriminately, the smoke of gunpowder makes the soldiers unable to see the enemy's distance and proximity, and can only keep firing.

The officers had difficulty holding back the tense soldiers, and by the time they controlled their soldiers, a lot of ammunition had already been consumed, and only a few dozen corpses of the Qing army and a field of horses were left at the front.

As a result, Yang Yandi could only order all the soldiers to pour out the gunpowder in the priming pool and remain vigilant. Only in this way will the soldiers be restrained from firing out of excitement and fear. The third platoon, unable to shoot, stepped forward and collected the ammunition from the first two platoons, distributing only five rounds of ammunition to each soldier.

As a result, even if one accidental fire is fired, only five rounds of ammunition are wasted.

After arranging all this, Yang Yandi found that the Qing army was not a complete feint, and the attack on the straggler phalanx composed of soldiers from the Ferreira battalion was real, but it was very difficult to support from the main formation.

Because of the early tightening of the two infantry battalions, there are not many infantry that can support the hollow phalanx, only about 170 rifles can provide fire support, considering that the large and small phalanx is only 90 meters, in order not to injure friendly troops, the soldiers of this formation will take out the shotgun in the ammunition before shooting, and only fire a single bullet.

But it still could not completely hinder the Qing army's offensive.

Yue Le personally commanded the attack on the phalanx of the Ferreira battalion, and he first sent three small cavalry galloping close to attract the soldiers of the phalanx to open fire, creating a large cloud of undispersed gunpowder smoke around the hollow phalanx in this windy weather.

Ferreira's phalanx was full of chasseurs and grenadiers, which could be said to be the elite of a battalion, but in the poor vision conditions, in the face of the approaching cavalry of the Qing army, it was still uncontrollable to carry out free fire. And after a burst of free fire, the main force of Yue Le's cavalry arrived.

He divided the remaining four hundred cavalry into two waves, each with two hundred flags, arranged in a dense formation, two rows in front and back, and attacked the easternmost corner of the phalanx of the Ferreira camp.

Storming the corners of the phalanx was a standard tactic for cavalry against infantry formations, as all fire was fired diagonally. Whether it's an arquebus or a flintlock pistol, when a soldier aims, pulls the trigger, ignites the gunpowder, and fires. The charge ignites, the bullet spews out of the muzzle, and hits the target, and there will be a noticeable period of time.

If it is a frontal assault infantry, then the infantry can aim at the cavalry in front of them, anyway, regardless of whether they fire a little earlier or later, the enemy himself will remain on his own line of fire, that is, will actively ram into it.

But if it is an oblique shot, it is necessary for the soldier to calculate the amount of advance, and the cavalry is constantly speeding up when approaching the phalanx, for the soldier, calculating the amount of advance, but also counting the reaction time of the musket, it is really an uncomplete project.

Therefore, even though the impact on one corner will cause infantry strikes on the left and right sides, the actual strike effect is very bad.

It turned out that Yue Le was very shrewd in his calculations, and the soldiers of the Ferreira battalion could not effectively deal with the onslaught of the Qing cavalry when the smoke of gunpowder blocked their vision, even if they dispersed the first wave, there was a wave that immediately caught up.

The soldiers of the Ferreira battalion showed good combat qualities, and when facing the onslaught of the enemy's cavalry squads, they fired volleys in groups to maintain good continuity of fire, and in the face of the onslaught of the Qing army's brigade, they fired as many bullets as possible with free fire, causing the enemy the greatest casualties.

And the two company commanders who commanded them, after the Qing cavalry approached, really ordered bayonets, and the soldiers immediately put on bayonets, forming two bayonet walls.

The impact of the Qing cavalry came to an abrupt end, and the sensitive war horse relied on its own instinct and did not hit the bayonet wall, and as the war horse stopped, the formation of the Qing army was in chaos.

Immediately, the two sides of the infantry, which were not attacked, turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and the bayonet wall immediately crouched, and the soldiers in the rear fired a fatal volley.

The infantry of the Ferreira battalion did their best, but unfortunately, Yue Le still had a backhand.

The last wave of Qing cavalry arrived at a gallop, all the bullets were blocked by the front row, they were almost unharmed, and after approaching seventy meters, the cavalry began to shoot with their cavalry bows but only fired one round, and then quickly pressed on.

At this time, the second wave of cavalry and the soldiers of the Ferreira battalion were full of wounded and corpses of the Qing army, the horses fell to the ground, and they couldn't get close at all, but the second wave of cavalry didn't want to get closer, and the Qing army with a clear vision in the front row bent their bows and arrows, and shot the unprotected Ferreira battalion soldiers at a distance of less than twenty meters.

However, the firepower of the Qing army was very strong.

Yang Yandi, who was in this formation, saw a scene that he would never forget, only a few of the Qing cavalry in the second wave shot arrows, and the rest pulled out all their weapons and threw them out.

Throwing spears, bones, sabers, flasks filled with water, scabbards, bows that shoot arrows, everything, everything that could be thrown by these guys, at close range, all of these things were fatal to the soldiers of the Ferreira battalion, and the stormy attack also broke the Ferreira battalion, which was made up of elite veterans.

The soldiers of the first two rows were the first to flee, and the soldiers in the last two rows who were not affected fired the last round of shots, and then fled backwards, and the Qing cavalry immediately followed the pursuit, and Abatai also found this golden opportunity, his cavalry could follow the rout of the Eastern Brigade and directly attack the enemy's main position.

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