"This is the piranha of the Valley of the Wicked in the North, I didn't expect the Qing court to raise it to Putian. Chen Jinhua said thoughtfully.

"There is a cavalry rushing towards this side from the side of Jiulian Mountain, about 8,000 people, and it is menacing. "The signal corps of the special combat team came to Li Xian to report on the latest battle situation.

"This Qing court is really dead but not stiff, first use spells to overturn the pontoon bridge, use piranhas to isolate both sides of the river, and then use cavalry to attack our landing army, one link after another, this is to annihilate all our vanguard troops. Li Xian paused for a moment, and then suddenly burst out laughing.

"It took a lot of effort to plan this plan, but it always relied on courage and perseverance on the battlefield, so let's see how strong the Qing court's counterattack was. ”

At this time, the Huaxia army that marched into Jiulian Mountain encountered a great crisis, and there was the possibility of losing the army or destroying it in an instant, but at this time, Li Xian's heart was surprisingly calm, but an unyielding battle spirit slowly rose.

If the troops are withdrawn at this time, the special combat team may be able to withstand the attack of the strange fish and return to the other side of the river by relying on equipment and martial arts cultivation, but the ordinary soldiers are afraid that they will be killed and wounded, and the blow to morale will be very heavy, and the loss of personnel will be very huge.

Since this is the case, we can only fight with the whole army to see how much combat effectiveness the troops ambushed here by the Qing court are.

The Huaxia Army had about 1,500 soldiers on this side of the river, of which 300 had just fallen into the water and climbed up again, and their combat effectiveness was affected to a certain extent, but the rest still had 500 special combat teams and 700 soldiers, and it was difficult to predict the outcome of the battle against the 8,000 cavalry.

"This is the Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing court, not a corpse soldier. "After careful observation of the incoming cavalry, the experienced officers all came to such conclusions.

The Huaxia Army has fought many life-and-death battles with the corpse soldiers of the Qing court, but they have rarely encountered corpse cavalry, in the final analysis, zombie cavalry is difficult to make, and the Qing court does not have many in its hands.

Horsemanship may not be difficult to make, but resurrecting a dead horse and turning it into a corpse horse is very difficult.

You must know that the principle of refining corpse soldiers is to keep the corpse as it is as much as possible, so that the spirit of wisdom is reborn in the corpse, and then it will come back to life and become a corpse soldier who can carry out certain combat orders.

Humans are the most intelligent creatures, horses may be strong, but they are not much worse than humans, even if the corpse is well preserved, it is almost impossible to regenerate the intelligence, which makes the number of corpse horses that the corpse soldiers can ride is very small, and the occasional appearance of some also requires a surprising amount of resources.

As for the corpse soldier to fight on a live horse, it is even more impossible, the rotting breath of death of the corpse soldier will only make the horse fearful, restless, or mad, and it is impossible to ride at all.

At this time, the cavalry from the bushes of Jiulian Mountain, the cavalry supplied to the river was indeed a cavalry team composed of living people, judging from the armor style and the formation of advancement, it was still a famous cavalry, that is, the Eight Banners cavalry of the Qing court to fight the world, known as invincible.

There is an open space of about two kilometers between the Xianrendu River and the foot of Jiulian Mountain, and the Huaxia Army has exposed all the five trenches in the open space in the previous artillery bombardment, and has also killed and injured a large number of white-armored soldiers with the help of firepower.

However, there were many sections of these trenches that were tens of meters wide and not opened, and I didn't care about it at the time, and at this time I found that this kind of place was reserved for the cavalry behind to charge.

At this time, more than 8,000 cavalry were starting from the foot of the mountain and rushing straight towards the position of the Huaxia army.

The Hai Dagui Division, which remained on the other bank of the river, also found that the situation here was wrong, and hurriedly activated rocket artillery and artillery to block the rushing cavalry, and caused hundreds of casualties to the cavalry, but it was impossible to stop the running cavalry by long-range fire alone.

"Formation!" Zuo Shaoqing, as the commander of the special combat team, shouted loudly, and the special combat team immediately established a defensive line with the halberd soldiers as the backbone.

The Huaxia army has very little experience in fighting with the cavalry, but it does not mean that there has been no relevant training, the halberd soldiers are backed by a small river, lined up in three columns, and the halberds are unanimously outward, which is a good defense line to block the cavalry.

The sword and shield soldiers with huge rectangular shields quickly attacked, reached dozens of meters outside the halberd line, plunged the large shield into the ground, formed an obstacle, and then ran back empty-handed, hiding behind the halberders, picking up muskets and aiming at the attacking cavalry.

It should be excellent to hold back the cavalry attack with halberders wearing heavy armor, but unfortunately there are only 200 halberders, and the number is insufficient, so they can only maintain a front, and the rest of the flanks are guarded by musketeers composed of ordinary soldiers in a phalanx.

Looking at this kind of phalanx, Li Xian frowned secretly, if it was an ordinary cavalry, it would be able to resist it by relying on the phalanx of ordinary soldiers, but he was afraid that there was a secret trick in this Eight Banners cavalry.

The cavalry advanced very fast, braving the artillery fire and rushing quickly, even the fire of the Chinese musketeers could not slow them down, and the first column of cavalry bravely crashed into the array of halberders, causing a turmoil in the array of halberders.

However, the halberd soldiers are all composed of well-trained warriors, with a strong mind and strong martial arts, relying on strict military discipline and super quality, they can withstand the first wave of attacks, but there are also more than a dozen halberd soldiers who were knocked out by the cavalry.

Horses are easily frightened creatures, rarely ramming into a wood-lined halberd, and the sound of a cannonball explosion or musket fire should have been enough to make a horse panic and run around.

At this time, this cavalry can still strictly maintain the lineup, either because of the usual strict training, or before the attack, the ears of these military horses are pierced, and the eyes are also wearing earmuffs, etc., no matter what the situation, it shows that this cavalry is well prepared and has strong combat effectiveness.

At this time, the halberd soldiers were subjected to the frontal impact of the cavalry, and the sword and shield soldiers who had lost their shields picked up their spears and shot in the gap between the halberd soldiers' ranks, and most of them aimed at the horses, so that the horses were constantly frightened and lifted off the knights above.

Li Xian led the guard company, together with those grenadiers, frantically throwing grenades out, not seeking accuracy, anyway, now the halberd army outside the army is full of enemy cavalry.

The camp of the halberders swung three times under the onslaught of the enemy cavalry, and miraculously maintained the array, holding the enemy firmly from the outside.

It's just that the flank line of defense made up of ordinary soldiers is not so lucky.

These ordinary soldiers followed the standard phalanx, with their spears pointing outwards in unison, firing projectiles at the approaching cavalry, and using rifled guns, both in terms of range and bullet penetration, which were much more powerful than ordinary smoothbore guns.

The infantry of this era already had a strong resistance to cavalry.

When Napoleon invaded Russia decades ago, the Russian infantry formed several huge hollow phalanxes, using smoothbore guns equipped with bayonets against the famous French cuirassers, and actually withstood the cavalry attack 43 times in one day, and finally waited for their own artillery to reach the battlefield, and then turned defeat into victory.