1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 440
"Hold on!... Hold on!" Ding Shusong, the company commander of the Sixth Marine Corps, shouted loudly while waving his saber, and fixed his eyes on the more than 100 cavalry rushing forward.

With the rumble of horseshoes, the ground shook even more violently. The cavalry on the opposite side raised their sabers, shouting, and were about to hit the bayonet formation formed by soldiers of the Sixth Marine Corps.

The soldiers standing in the front row had turned pale, their teeth were clenched tightly, and the guns they held in both hands were trembling inadvertently.Although there are only more than 100 cavalry on the opposite side, the horses are galloping, as if there are thousands of troops.However, after long-term rigorous training, although the heart was already extremely scared, the body did not dare to move the slightest.

Erjitu was riding on a horse, looking at the thin army formation on the opposite side, he felt his blood suddenly start to swell again, he couldn't help holding the saber tightly in his hand, ready to cut down the enemy's army with the knife when he joined the formation. Soldier's head.

"Split!" Fu Jinbiao, the commander of the leading cavalry, saw that he was only three or forty meters away from the Marine Corps formation. He shouted, then turned his horse's head to the right, and ran towards the left side of the Marine Corps.

Erjitu was awakened by Fu Jinbiao's loud shout, and then he also shouted: "Fen!" He tightened the rein with his left hand, and led the horse to the left.

The cavalry, running like thunder, was more than 20 meters in front of the Marine Corps' formation. It was almost separated from the army and rushed past the two sides of the team. The smoke and dust brought up more than 100 soldiers of the Marine Corps.

"Bah!" Ding Shusong spat, just about to yell at the cavalry for not talking about "martial arts" and for splitting the army at such a short distance in front of the marines, but as soon as he opened his mouth, smoke, dust and mud fell into his mouth. It made him turn his head and spit continuously.

On the other side, the cavalry had already stopped, sitting on their horses, jokingly looking at the smoky Marine officers and soldiers over there.

However, as the only army in the Daqi Kingdom, the cavalry is a very embarrassing existence.In previous wars, they almost never went to the battlefield.A few years ago, the Spaniards invaded the mainland of Hanzhou, and they only served as scouts and harassment forces, playing an auxiliary role in the war.

As for the three-year war with the East India Company, they couldn't get any chance to play.Almost all the strongholds in the East Indies occupied by the Dutch are by the sea, and the nearby terrain is also dominated by tidal flats, dense forests, or valleys, so naturally no cavalry is needed.And their cavalry team basically only undertakes the inland exploration function of the Hanzhou itself, and occasionally bullies the Hanzhou natives scattered in the inland during the exploration process.

Compared with the simple combat weapons of the natives of Hanzhou, the cavalry can be said to be armed to the teeth, with muskets, sabers, and armor. The huge difference in equipment generation seems to make them feel no joy in fighting.

In the military of the Great Qi Kingdom, there is an invisible chain of contempt. The officers and soldiers of the navy warships look down on the marines, the marines look down on the local soldiers, and some local soldiers look down on the cavalry.

What, my cavalry is at least the army of the Daqi Kingdom, why do you look down on us as a country soldier?

However, even rural soldiers have been on the battlefield, fought in battles, and seen blood.Not to mention the several battles between Xinsheng Island (now Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam) against the Annans, and several bloody battles between Zhenhaibao (now Dili City, East Timor) and the Dutch.Apart from fighting with the monkey-like Hanzhou natives, have your cavalry team ever experienced any battles?
In recent months, the cavalry team has been given a new task by the military government's staff. As a training partner of the marines, the opponents will practice riding against each other, and they will also throw two captured real tartars to the cavalry team to help them train. Real cavalry combat mode and combat skills.

Fu Jinbiao was extremely displeased with this. In the various units under the military government, the cavalry seemed to be on the edge all the time, either helping the immigration department to explore inland settlements, or escorting the mining personnel of the Ministry of Industry into the barren land. Now it has to be used as a training partner, so that the officers and soldiers of the Marine Corps are familiar with the combat and charge mode of the slave cavalry, and practice riding confrontation.Co-authored, cavalry will always be a supporting role in the army.

Facing the two Jian slaves who were thrown over, the cavalry didn't have a good face.How could the barbarians, and the captive Tartars who were defeated in the battle of Liaodong, dare to teach us how to fight cavalry?Because the cavalry team has more than 100 officers and soldiers who have used muskets for a long time, and they are dealing with Hanzhou natives who have no combat effectiveness.No matter how well you ride your horse and how accurately you shoot your arrows, you will still be knocked to the ground when you meet the platoon guns of my Daqi Kingdom.

According to the original combat style and tactics of the cavalry, he practiced several times with the Marine Corps, which immediately attracted the anger of the Marine Corps commander Niu Hu.Damn it, do your cavalry think our marines are those stupid Hanzhou natives?Waving sabers and shouting, they rushed directly to the front of the Marine Corps formation in twos and threes!If the Jiannu cavalry looked like this, how did those elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty lose to them one after another?With Jiannu's combat skills like chicken chickens, how could they break through the Daming Pass four times in a row, invade Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi and other places, defeat hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, and plunder countless people, cattle and horses.

After being severely reprimanded by Niu Hu, Fu Jinbiao had to calm down and began to take cavalry training seriously.The two Jiannu were also entrusted as cavalry instructors to simulate the Jiannu's cavalry combat mode.

After all, is it a senior "horse thief" on horseback? If he only fights on horseback and uses cold weapons, none of the seven or eight cavalrymen in the Daqi Kingdom can match the two slave instructors, and they are said to be good at it. Archery.But Hanzhou does not produce bows and arrows locally, so the two heroes of Baishan Heishui could not show off.

As the days of training together increased, the relationship between the officers and soldiers of the cavalry team and the two slave instructors gradually became more harmonious.Because of Erjitu and Tong Yanghui's superb horsemanship and riding combat skills, the cavalry team no longer called them "Jiannu" and "Tarzi" contemptuously, but began to respect them as instructors.

The two Qing warriors who were captured and traveled thousands of miles to the mainland of Hanzhou also accepted their fate as the cavalry instructors of the Daqi Kingdom, and began to gradually adapt to the environment that was completely different from Liaodong.

Training with the cavalry and serving as sparring opponents for the Marine Corps, the two former Qing warriors were surprised to find that the Daqi Kingdom had a lot more firearms, not to mention that they possessed almost [-]% firearm equipment, that is, artillery The number is also scary.On the top of that Jianye City, there are thirty or forty cannons, large and small, just by random number.

In the Montenegro barracks, Erjitu and Tong Yanghui were even more shocked after observing several drills of the Marine Corps artillery.The cannons of the Great Qi Kingdom are actually extremely light, a pack horse can easily pull away the cannons fixed on the cannon cart, and even a few soldiers can transfer and move the cannon cart for a short distance.Although the artillery is light, its power is not bad at all, and it is almost the same as the Hongyi cannon at the head of Shengjing (now Shenyang) in the Qing Dynasty.

I thought that the number of such portable artillery must not be many, but when two old Qing warriors said that the three or five artillery pieces of the artillery squadron can only block the vests of two or 300 people rushing into the formation, if there are more numbers, the artillery will not be able to delay Cavalry attack.Hearing this, the artillery commander immediately ordered the soldiers to deploy another ten artillery pieces in front of the formation, and then asked Erjitu and Tong Yanghui how many cavalry charges could be blocked by this artillery density.

Watching the artillery squadron rehearse the simulated artillery attack, the artillery of different calibers, starting from two miles away, to [-] meters in front of the formation, solid bullets, flowering bullets (experimental nature), and grape bullets, endlessly vent their firepower, which made the two former generals The warriors of the Qing Dynasty were astonished.Although my warriors of the Qing Dynasty are brave and good at fighting, and are proficient in swords and horses, how can we resist such fierce firepower with flesh and blood.What's more, there are so many muskets in the Great Qi Kingdom's army formation, their power is much stronger than that of Daming's blunderbuss.

Looking at the Daqi Kingdom's non-stop practice of cavalry and cavalry confrontation, it seems that they are faintly trying to become an enemy of my Daqing.But the question is, why do you want to target me, the Qing Dynasty, in this distant Hanzhou continent?
(End of this chapter)