The confrontation between cavalry and infantry is a very old topic, before the invention of modern firearms, cavalry fighting infantry is often as easy as chopping melons and vegetables, but when modern firearms are used on a large scale in warfare, the situation has changed, and it is no longer easy for a cavalry dominated by cold weapons to break through the array of musketeers lined up, and it can even be said that the frontal charge of cavalry is not much different from suicide, history has proven this - In this time and space, the 15,000 cavalry of the Dzungar Division attacked 5,000 Russian musketeers and suffered a crushing defeat; In the time and space from which Yinzuo came, Seng Lingqin led 17,000 Mongolian cavalry and 13,000 infantry to attack the British and French forces of more than 2,700 people.

Courage is of course a necessary condition for the army to win a battle, but courage alone is not enough to win a battle, the Mongolian cavalry has never lacked the courage to charge, but it is a pity that the price of their bravery is to rush to the gate of hell one after another - Lao Maozi did not even use artillery, but after a few rows of volleys, the three thousand Khalkha Mongolian cavalry who rushed in front fell more than a thousand horses, and the rest hurriedly turned their horses' heads and fled into the oblique stab.

Ah Quan'a, who has always been at the forefront, is very lucky, he was unscathed in such a dense rain of bullets, but his face was already frightened and pale, seeing many of his subordinates struggling in a pool of blood, Ah Quan'a, who had never experienced a big battle, was completely frightened, and shouted with a white face: "Retreat, retreat!" "He galloped into the distance, regardless of whether his men followed, or whether the direction of escape was a predetermined retreat.

It will be the courage of the soldiers, this is not wrong at all, Ah Quan Ah fled, and the Khalkha Mongol cavalry under his command suddenly messed up, and all of them swarmed away with Ah Quan Ah Mouse, and the original feint became a real rout, the problem is that the direction of the escape of this group of defeated soldiers and the predetermined route are completely south and north, and he can see that he is arrogant and Alabtan shook his head.

"Phew, *** shit!" Arabutan had already stopped the horse, and seeing that Ah Quan Ah was out of proportion, the anger in his heart suddenly rose.

"Great Khan, what now?" Tseringdondob rode up to Tselu Arabutan's side and asked in a low voice.

"Humph!" According to the original plan, at this time, the Junggar Department should also turn to the predetermined retreat route, but now it is good, Aquana ran in the wrong direction, and the Junggar Department is not following, and it is not following - if Lao Maozi cannot be led to the front of Kalamaili Mountain, the Qing army and Lao Maozi will not be able to fight at all, so that the Junggar Department who wants to benefit from the fisherman can only carry Lao Maozi's attack alone - at this time, the herdsmen gathered in Urumqi cannot migrate on a large scale at all, Otherwise, you will have to suffer huge losses.

"Array." After thinking quickly for a while, Arabutan gave the order in a calm voice, but when the horn sounded, the three thousand Jungar elite cavalry lined up in a charging formation, but did not attack, but just stopped outside the range of the muskets, monitoring every move of the Russian army.

"Oh, what do those yellow-skinned monkeys want to do?" Major General Buchrusky looked at it for a long time, and when he saw that the Jungar cavalry neither attacked nor retreated, he frowned and asked casually.

Major General Lolinsky shrugged his shoulders and whistled, "Oh, maybe it's waiting for us to attack." ”

"Uh-huh, learn to be good? Hah, then let's give them another offensive lesson. Artillery fire was ordered to be prepared, and the 1st regiment was ready to advance. "Major General Buchrusky gave the order to attack without hesitation. After the heralds ran to give the order, Major General Buchrusky glanced at Major General Lolinsky and said: "Major General, let your people get ready, and when my men break them up, the remaining remnants of the defeated army will let your people also move and move, and by the way, save the face of being chased and peed your pants just now." ”

Major General Lolinsky was so angry that his face turned white, but there was no way, who let his men lose so hard just now, his face twitched for a while, and he still didn't reply at the end, cursed in a low voice, and no longer paid attention to Major General Buchrusky, ran to the flank to collect all the Cossack cavalry, and prepared to launch a cavalry charge.

"Great Khan, Lao Maozi has moved, it looks like he is going to attack, our army can no longer concentrate and be shot, it has to be dispersed." Seeing that more than ten artillery pieces had been launched in the Russian army's formation, Tseringdundob immediately guessed the intention of the Russian army and hurriedly reminded.

"Hmm." Arabutan has suffered a lot from firearms, so he naturally knows it well, but if he wants to complete the task of luring the enemy at this time, he can't help but make a certain sacrifice, and he thought about it and said: "Take a hundred people as a sequence, disperse, don't move, and wait for the enemy to open fire, and immediately retreat to the meadow." ”

After a period of panic in the Russian army, an artillery major stood in front of the column, inspected back and forth, urged the group of artillerymen under his command to set up the gun mount, drew the command knife at his waist, waved it violently, and said loudly: "Fire!" The gunner, who had long been ready, lit the fire rope above the gun with a long ignition stick, and after hearing a squeak, more than a dozen cannons shook violently, and more than a dozen shells roared and smashed into the direction where the cavalry of the Jungger Division was, exploding mud flowers on the grass, breaking soil and blades of grass, mixed with the stumps of men and horses, splashing in all directions. Although the cavalry of the Jungar Division had dispersed, and the actual casualties were not large, they were still in a mess by this artillery bombardment, and the men and horses were roaring and neighing into a mess, of course, there were some elements of drama.

Major General Buchrusky whistled very easily: "Attack." ”

As soon as Colonel Olokask, the commander of the 1st Regiment of the Russian Army, who was at the forefront of the Russian phalanx, received the attack order from the herald, he drew his command knife, pointed forward, and ordered in a loud voice: "Attack!" All for the Empire, Attack! The drums sounded in the three Russian military formations with the battalion as the unit, and with the fierce drum beat, the three Russian military formations began to move forward with rifles in their hands and neat steps.

Accompanying the Russian phalanx was the continuous firing of artillery from the rear, although the density was not very large, and the lethality caused by smashing on the soft grass was not very sufficient, but it was very effective in disrupting the efforts of the Junggar Department to close the formation, until the Russian army had advanced to a distance of only more than 50 zhang from the Junggar Department, the Jungar cavalry was in confusion and could not organize to launch a charge at all, and at this time the Junggar cavalry was already within the effective range of the flintlock pistol in the hands of the Russian army.

Colonel Oluokask, who was full of ambition to "open the ......", had just raised the command knife in his hand and was about to give the order to shoot, but he saw more than 100 cavalrymen in the chaotic army of the Junggar Department suddenly raised their guns in their hands, and a neat burst of gunfire rang out, and Colonel Oluokask, who was caught off guard, was hit by a bullet before the word "fire" could be exported, becoming the first high-ranking officer to die in Russia since the beginning of the war.

The sudden attack of the Jungar Department not only killed the front-line commander of the Russian army, but also shot dozens of unprepared Russian soldiers, and there was some commotion in the Russian phalanx that lost its unified command for a while, although the Russian troops in the three phalanxes also fired back, but the guns were messy, and at this time they had just reached the effective range of the flintlock pistol, and this counterattack did not bring much damage to the cavalry of the Jungar Department.

"Oh,!" Seeing that the regimental commander under his command was killed in one face, Major General Buchrusky cursed viciously, took off a monocular from his waist, raised it to his eyes and looked at it carefully, only to find that the cavalry of the Jungar Division also had muskets in their hands, although the number was not much, and the style was strange, but the power was very great, and he suddenly chuckled in his heart, turned back to the herald and ordered: "Go, inform the commander of the first battalion to act as the commander of the regiment temporarily, and order the Cossacks to attack, and this cavalry must not be allowed to escape." ”

"What's going on?" Major General Lolinsky, who suddenly received the order to attack, angrily rode up to Major General Buchrusky and asked in a loud voice.

"Damn, this group of yellow-skinned monkeys also has muskets in their hands, there are not many of them, but the firepower is very fierce, it is estimated that this is their main force, and they must not be allowed to escape!" Major General Buchrusky said as he handed the telescope to Major General Lolinsky.

Although the firepower of the rear-loading guns in the hands of the cavalry of the Jungar Department is fierce, but the number is not much, and the ammunition is not very sufficient, a gun only has more than ten bullets, which is not enough to form an effective line of fire, after several rounds of firing between the two sides, the first Russian regiment completely suppressed the counterattack of the Jungar Department, and the dense bullet rain made the Jungar cavalry scurry.

"Damn, where did their muskets come from?" Major General Lolinsky put down the binoculars and cursed hatefully.

"Oh, it seems that only God knows about this problem, okay, let your people outflank it, you must not let them escape, I need to live." Major General Buchrusky shrugged his shoulders and said.

"Alright then!" Major General Lolinsky curled the two beards on his upper lip and said with a sneer: "At the critical moment, it depends on our Cossacks." As soon as the words fell, regardless of how ugly Major General Bukhrusky's face was, he rode back to the flank, drew his command knife, pointed forward vigorously, and ordered in a loud voice: "For the sake of the Empire, for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor, the Cossack warriors attack!" ”

"Ulla!" The two thousand Cossack cavalry shouted slogans and rushed out like a tide, their spears and sabers flashing in the sunlight with the cold light of death, while at the same time, the Russian artillery began to roar, smashing shells into the already chaotic cavalry positions of the Jungar Division.

"Da Khan, it's almost, you can withdraw, if you don't leave, you will be entangled by Lao Maozi and the casualties will be big." Seeing that the Cossack cavalry had attacked, Tseringdundob could not help but be a little anxious, and hurried to the side of Tselu Alabutan, and suggested in a loud voice.

"Okay, retreat, go according to the original plan!" Arabutan glanced at Celing Dundob with deep meaning, led the horse's head, and rushed straight to the right rear of the battlefield, and the Jungar cavalry, which had been in a mess, saw that the Shuai Qi was moving, and immediately swarmed and followed the Shuai Qi in the direction of the predetermined retreat.

This encounter was not fought for long, and in less than an hour, more than 900 Khalkha Mongol cavalry were killed and more than 400 wounded; More than 300 were killed and wounded in the Dzungar Division; More than 200 Russian Cossacks were killed and wounded; The Russian musketeers died more than 30 people, and the battle came to this point, it can be said that the Mongolian cavalry was a fiasco, and it stands to reason that the Russian army should also be satisfied with this result and can withdraw the troops, but Major General Lolinsky is holding a fire in his heart, without him, in addition to the self-esteem hurt by Major General Bukhrusky's contempt, the main thing is that most of the people who died in the Russian army were his subordinates.

Major General Bukhrusky didn't expect that as soon as his cavalry was dispatched, the Dzungar Department would slip away, and he was suddenly a little dumbfounded, at this time, he saw that Major General Lolinsky chased down regardless of it, worried that he would be ambushed, and hurriedly let the herald blow the trumpet to collect the troops, but he never thought that Major General Lolinsky would ignore it at all, and led the Cossack cavalry to still rush fast.

"Oh, *** shit!" Major General Buchrusky slapped his palms in annoyance and ordered in a loud voice: "The whole army will defend in place and clean up the battlefield." ”

The Dzungar cavalry and the Cossack cavalry fled and chased after each other, and the dust in the steppes was rolled up, and gradually went away, and Major General Bukhrusky dismounted, sat on the grass and sulked, thinking in his heart how to humiliate this man when Major General Lolinsky returned.

"Look, General, this is a musket captured on the battlefield, oh, and a map." Lieutenant Colonel Konevsky, the temporary commander of the 1st Regiment, rode to Major General Buchrusky's side and handed over a broken breech-loading gun and a map.

Major General Buchrusky was a master of playing with guns, and he took the broken rear-loading gun in his hand and examined it carefully, and immediately noticed the extraordinaryness of this gun, and cold sweat suddenly welled up on his head - if all the Jungar cavalry had this gun, this battle would not have been fought at all! Major General Buchrusky was stunned for a long time before he threw aside the broken gun in his hand, picked up the map of Nafu casually, and only glanced at it, and suddenly showed a look of ecstasy on his face......

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