The Manchurian cavalry under Yue Le's command skillfully controlled the horses, and the cavalry at the rear of the team also took out long-range weapons such as horse bows and javelins. In the early years, the cavalry that swept the world across Manchuria took the all-round path, able to ride and shoot, to charge into battle, to fight hand-to-hand, and of course to dismount and fight!

It's just that the comfortable life of "commenced citizens" after Dingding Beijing has made them lose the ability of their ancestors to take the world immediately. But now the Qing Dynasty is still the year of Kangxi after all, not the year of Daoguang or the year of Xianfeng. The older generation of Manchurian ruthless people is not dead yet! With their words and deeds, it is not too difficult for the small group of people below to practice the lost martial arts again. In addition, this year's Eight Flags children do not have a habit of smoking, so their physical fitness is still online. So these Manchurian heroes who followed Yue Le to the battle today are still quite powerful.

Today, the formation of these very powerful Manchurian cavalry is not dense, and the tactics used are not the dense horizontal or square group charges often used by the cavalry of the Ming and Zhou armies today, but more flexible wave charges. It's not that he keeps rushing with his head covered, but he will shoot arrows and guns in the process of charging. If they encounter an enemy spear formation, they will even rush to the spear formation and kill the enemy by shooting them in the face. And after breaking away from the enemy line, they will also fight hand-to-hand!

Of course, if the enemy formation stood still, it didn't matter if Yue Le's cavalry couldn't rush down. This traditional cavalry charge is not a hammer deal, it is common to rush more than a dozen times a day, and it is rare to rush down at one time.

That's why Yue Le divided the eight or nine hundred cavalry under his command into eight teams, ready to charge the wheels one by one. The cavalry he led was the second of the eight cavalry, and in front of him was a Manchurian cavalry. It was also a helpless choice to let the Manchurian cavalry take the lead and the second formation.

After all, Emperor Geng Jingzhong of Dajing was a Han Chinese, and Yue Le and his Manchurian warriors could not be the great masters of cowhide coaxing in Dajing. Those Han military leaders in Dajing only looked down on Yue Le because of his status as the national ruler, and wanted Yue Le's cavalry to charge with their family, but there was no way.

However, when Yue Le rode his horse to the field that was only more than 200 steps away from the Ming army's front, he felt that the first and second formations of the Manchurian soldiers were still right! Because the Ming army on the opposite side put on a stupid and extremely stupid "three-character thin line array" like a thin line. Such a formation is used to resist the charge of the infantry pike, let alone resist the cavalry? By the way, the infantry that formed the "three-character thin line array" were all musketeers, and there was not a single spear, so such infantry could block the cavalry from charging into formation?

It seems that Chen Yonghua really can't fight!

As soon as he thought of this, the first thin red line of the Ming army, which was a little sparsely populated, suddenly flashed rows of large and small fires!

And at this time, the Manchurian cavalry team in front of Yue Le was at least one hundred and eighty steps away from this thin red line!

Hehe, sure enough, I still indiscriminately! Yue Le thought happily in his heart. In fact, it is very common for musketeers to fire outside the effective range because they are afraid of the enemy's approach. On the contrary, it is extremely rare to find a musketeer who can put the enemy at a very close distance and then shoot again.

He had just been proud for a while, and suddenly he saw a small pigtail on the back of his head directly in front of him, and the Manchurian warrior who was shaking and throwing was like being struck by thunder from the sky, twitched twice and fell off his horse!

What's going on?

Yue Le was startled, and hurriedly raised his eyes to look forward, looking left and right, only to find that something was wrong, there were a lot of vacancies on the back of the war horse running in front, and the cavalry on horseback didn't know where to go? There were also some Manchurian warriors who threw themselves on their horses and couldn't move! There are also some war horses that have lost control and are rushing left and right! Then he looked down again, and at a glance he saw a Manchurian soldier who was prostrate on the ground, obviously seriously wounded, and still struggling!

Yue Le was shocked by this scene, the Ming army's musket could actually hit so far. Ah, they're using those deadly expensive rifled guns! He has been fighting against the Republic of the Ming Dynasty for several years, and once served as a Ming Dynasty's festival envoy, of course, he knows that there is a rifled gun in Foshan, Guangdong Province that is far and accurate, but the price is ridiculously expensive, and it is difficult to buy a rifled gun. He also knew that a small number of Li Zhongshan's personal soldiers in the Shanzi battalion were equipped with this kind of rifled guns, and Li Fuchen's personal soldiers also had some, and the other Ming troops didn't seem to have them!

And the Ming army in front of them, which is not even armored, should be a rabble, how come they also have rifled guns? Aren't they as rabble as they seem? Could it be that they are pretending to be the mountain character camp?

"Woohoo"

Another crackling gunshot rang out, dragging Yue Le out of his own thoughts, he hurriedly looked up, and found that he was very close to the Ming army's "three-character thin line array", and the Manchurian cavalry that was originally blocking the front, it seemed that there were not many people left, and they were all scattered and ran left and right At this time, he saw that the first row of Ming troops in the "three-character thin line array" less than a hundred steps away in front of him had half-squatted down, and then the three rows of Ming troops raised their muskets at the same time, At least eight hundred muskets were pointed at him and more than a hundred Manchurian cavalry around him.

Suddenly, Yue Le's heart welled up with a feeling of death, he was now less than a hundred steps away from the muzzle of the other party's gun, and in the face of the firepower network composed of eight hundred rifled guns (most of which were actually not rifled guns), he didn't even have a chance to turn his horse's head and escape. Yue Le's eyes widened and he looked ahead in despair.

"You anti-thieves, Lao Tzu fought with you!"

Yue Le, who knew that he was fierce and unlucky, raised his horse pistol and let out his loudest roar, at this time his mount had already rushed with him to a position less than fifty steps away from the enemy formation, and the Ming army was still calm, no one fled, no one fired, just pointed the muzzle of the black hole at the target that was approaching quickly.

With this kind of composure that does not panic in the face of cavalry charging, this kind of all-firearms Ming army is worthy of the word "elite"! And themselves. It's like giving away someone's head!

Thinking of this, Yue Le took one last breath of air with the smell of gunpowder smoke and shouted, "Amma, Marfa, I really tried my best."

A piercing suona sounded, and the last thing Yue Le's eyes saw was three rows of large and small muzzle flames!

"Hahaha!"

In the rear of the "three-character fine line array", Chen Yonghua grinned as he looked at the battlefield where the guns were roaring, and shook his folding fan while laughing. Just now, the second cavalry hundred-man squad of the Jing Army, which was attacking his left flank, disappeared under a volley of musketeers from a battalion of musketeers plus a rifled spearmen (the rifled spearmen of both battalions were concentrated on Chen Yonghua's left flank) disappeared! The volley of more than 800 muskets killed and wounded most of the more than 100 Yasukuni cavalrymen, and also knocked down many war horses by the way, forming an insurmountable obstacle of human and horse corpses in an instant -- it was not that the Yasukuni cavalry behind could not jump over, but they were frightened by the fate of the cavalry of the two centurions in front of them who were almost wiped out.

Watching these Yasukuni cavalry scatter and flee, Chen Yonghua couldn't mention how beautiful it was. Who will dare to say that he will not fight in the future? He, Chen Yonghua, can also fight, and he can win battles!

Besides, it doesn't seem that difficult to win the battle! By commanding two battalions and 12 cannons, he made the more than 10,000 infantry troops of the Jing Army dare not move, and by the way, he repelled the flank attack of more than 1,000 cavalry of the Jing Army!

It seems that the trick to winning a battle is to form an all-firearms infantry army, and the musket must be with flintlock pistols, preferably rifled flintlock pistols. By the way, the bullets have to be made with special corks!

With this set of winning tactics, the unification of the world is just around the corner!

Chen Yonghua, who finally realized the "art of war" in the 17th century, suddenly had a sense of enlightenment, and loudly ordered Wang Andao beside him: "Wang joins the army, quickly send someone to tell the general that Geng Jingzhong's soldiers and horses are vulnerable, ask him to march quickly and defeat Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army in one fell swoop!" ”

"Order!"

"General, Wang An's two battalions have suppressed the left flank of the Jing army, and they have also defeated a flank attack of the Jing army's cavalry, and they have performed very well, and it seems that the combat power of the model army far exceeds that of the old-fashioned land division. As long as we concentrate our forces now to attack Geng Jingzhong's Chinese military formation, we will definitely be able to win quickly! ”

Li Zhongshan nodded, he had always been very confident in the combat effectiveness of Model Town, after all, the equipment and tactical representatives of the Model Formation were all at a super high level in the seventeenth century! However, the theoretical super high level also needs to be tested by actual combat!

And today's battle, is to take Geng Jingzhong to the model town to practice, if the model town performs well, then the next direction of military reform of the Ming Army will be. Now the production capacity of the military handicraft industry of hand-rubbed flintlock pistols and rifled guns in Foshan has gradually risen, which is enough to support the Ming Dynasty to form more model towns.

In fact, the cost of forming a model town is not high - a flintlock pistol, even if it is a rifled flintlock pistol, is cheap compared to the equipment of an ironclad samurai.

Moreover, flintlock musketeers are easy to train, a little sloppy, a few months is enough, a little strict, six months to become an elite soldier. Such a class of troops is a perfect match for the Ming Dynasty's national republic!

Wasn't the modern republican system of Westerners established in the era of queuing up to be shot? If it is still knights in full armor who dominate the battlefield, why should the common people be republican? Be a serf honestly!

Thinking of this, Li Zhongshan said to Li Zhongxian: "Zhongxian, now concentrate your forces in front of Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army. Except for the two battalions that attacked the Zeng Yang Formation on the left flank, the other three Jing troops all arranged one battalion to contain them, and Geng Jingzhong's central army array arranged five battalions to storm onslaught! There were also two battalions that served as reserves.

In addition, bring up the cavalry of Zhongzheng and let them line up behind the second battalion of our left flank to intimidate the enemy's right flank. When Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army was defeated, he immediately entered the pursuit battle! ”

"Yes!"

When Li Yat-sen was about to launch a fierce attack on Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army, the founding emperor of the Great Jing Dynasty was already about to collapse because of the death of his father-in-law, Old Taishan Yue Le!

The enemy obviously has more than 10,000 people, obviously there is not even armor, obviously there are only muskets and no spears, no matter how you look at it, it is a rabble, but it is really too strong to say! Zeng Yangxing of the left wing can also be regarded as a fierce general, and the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command are also considered elite in Dajing, second only to the army directly led by Geng Jingzhong. However, these more than 10,000 people were pressed and beaten by less than 2,000 people under Chen Yonghua's personal command, and they were seriously injured and wounded, and they sent people to Geng Jingzhong again and again to warn Geng Jingzhong!

And what surprised Geng Jingzhong even more was that his father-in-law, Taishan Yue Le, personally led eight or nine hundred cavalry to charge Chen Yonghua's eight or nine hundred cavalry on the left flank to charge eight or nine hundred infantry, and the infantry had not yet formed a phalanx, but met the battle with a "three-character fine line array", and in the end, with accurate and intensive firepower, almost all the two hundred Manchurian cavalry led by Yue Le, who was at the forefront, were killed, and even Yue Le himself did not come back? I don't know if I went down to see Abatai?

And the Han cavalry who followed behind Yue Le didn't even have the courage to send their heads, they were all scared away!

When these cowards return to their own formation, they still have to add salt and vinegar to Yue Le's death and the strong firepower of the Ming army before they are transferred out? When the time comes, the morale of the army will not be shaken?

When Geng Jingzhong himself was greatly shaken, I don't know who suddenly shouted in a crying voice: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something is wrong, the Ming army is coming to our side!" ”

What? Are they all coming to me?

Geng Jingzhong hurriedly raised his head and looked forward, and when he looked at it, his heart was cold. I don't know when he was directly in front of him, but he had already gathered four or five thousand Ming army infantry! All of them carried flintlock pistols with bayonets on their shoulders and strode forward!

Before he could recover from the panic, someone shouted again: "Cavalry. Cavalry! The cavalry of the Ming army is coming! ”

Did the Ming army have cavalry?

Geng Jingzhong hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked ahead, and soon found hundreds of "bright" "silver-armored cavalrymen"! All of them were dressed in polished iron armor, glowing silver under the sun, and each cavalryman carried a slender bamboo spear, the tip of which was made of fine iron, and the cold light that also shimmered under the sun!

I'm going to be hunted down by such cavalry in a moment? If I had known, I wouldn't have been the unlucky emperor! Geng Jingzhong really wants to cry without tears!

"Your Majesty, quickly order the whole army to attack!"

At this time, Geng Jingzhong's Shoufu University scholar Yu Renying suddenly came up to offer advice.

"Yu Renying, it's all your fault!" Geng Jingzhong turned his head violently and shouted angrily: "If I didn't belong to this unlucky emperor, how could I end up like this?" ”

Yu Renying hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, this is all fate!" You are the emperor's order, if you don't want to be the emperor, that is to change your life against the sky, and there will be no good end! ”

"I'm now" Geng Jingzhong is anxious, can he still have a good end now?

"Your Majesty, don't worry!" This scholar Yu was calm and relaxed, "You listened to the minister's analysis, and now we have just encountered the strongest soldiers of the Ming army, and we can't resist it." ”

"Isn't that in a hurry?" Geng Jingzhong glared at him fiercely, "What could be more urgent than this?" ”

"Yes!" Yu Renying nodded, "The minister speculates that there is such an elite Ming army, and it will definitely not divide the troops to take the defensive position, and most of the troops will divide into several ways to copy our back road!" ”

"Also, do you want to copy my back road?" Geng Jingzhong's face was pale, "That Jiande"

"Your Majesty, don't think about Jiande, there are more urgent ones!"

"More urgent? What you said was, "Geng Jingzhong's face is about to turn black.

"Liu Jinzhong!" Yu Renying said, "Liu Jinzhong betrayed us once before, if he knew that Daming had such a strong army, do you think he would be?"

"Ahh Geng Jingzhong's eyes were dark, and he almost fell out of Wangdou.

Yu Renying said anxiously and quickly: "Your Majesty. Liu Jinzhong has an army of 30,000! If he takes advantage of the fierce battle between us and the Ming army to march to Hangzhou, then we won't even have a way out! ”

That's it!

Dajing is really going to die!

Geng Jingzhong's whole body was trembling, "What should I do?" What to do? ”

Yu Renying said: "There is no other way, only to take advantage of everyone's morale, launch a wave of counteroffensive, throw all the forces into it, if we can force the Ming army to retreat, we can evacuate the battlefield, stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood!" ”

Evacuation sounds great!

Geng Jingzhong looked at Yu Renying: "Do we still have a place to evacuate?" ”

"Yes, yes," Yu Renying nodded, "We can also withdraw to Ningbo. Daoist Li is the Minister of Commerce in Ningbo, and he still has some naval and land divisions in his hands, so we can go alike! And then find a way out! ”

"A way out? Is there a way out? ”

"Yes!" Yu Renying said, "The minister listened to Daoist Li say that there is an island country hundreds of miles outside Ningbo, and the king's surname is Shang. The monk Kexi is probably the same sect, and we just happened to go to the same place. ”

Running to an overseas island nation?

Geng Jingzhong thought about it, and said in his heart: It's better than being captured by Chen Yonghua and executed by Ling Chi!

Thinking of this, he gritted his teeth and ordered loudly: "Beat the drum!" Marched into the army and raised the banner of the green dragon. Send a message to the various formations again, and now start the general attack! Tell the general soldiers of all towns that the rise and fall of Dajing, and with this blow, the whole army will move forward, without hesitation! ”

"Yes!"

A group of Geng Jingzhong's personal soldiers were still willing to protect him at this time, and after agreeing loudly, they got on their horses one after another and conveyed Geng Jingzhong's orders to the various formations below.

At the same time, a huge green dragon flag was also raised. According to the previous agreement, as soon as this flag is raised, the Jing army of each array will launch a general attack!

And a tight drum beat also began to sound from Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army array! It reached the ears of Li Yat-sen, who was advancing the overseer army and preparing to launch a general attack on Geng Jingzhong's Chinese army.

He immediately understood Geng Jingzhong's thoughts, so he said to the left and right: "Geng Jingzhong is going to work hard, it's a bit good, this general wants him to die!" Now, raise the general's flag! ”

"Yes!"

(End of chapter)