I want to be emperor

Chapter 533 Guards, attack!

After Hauge's order was issued through the semaphore, more than 2000 Dongyao cavalry forwards located in the northwest of the Dongyao cavalry camp also began to act.

The messengers riding the horses passed the orders from the generals step by step, and finally passed them to a group of more than 500 cavalrymen on the left side.

The leader of this cavalry was a middle-aged man with a scar on his face, most of his head was bare, and only a thin rattail braid was left on the back of his head.

After the middle-aged man listened to the order of the messenger, he nodded slightly: "Report to the general, I already know, we will launch an attack immediately!"

After finishing speaking, before the orderer could turn around and leave, he grabbed the helmet handed over by the soldier next to him, put it on, looked around and shouted, "Boys, prepare to rush up with me to kill Chu Manzi!"

The hundreds of cavalrymen under his command are all battle-tested veterans, and the auxiliary soldiers under those soldiers are also people who have followed their masters on many battlefields.

So after hearing the middle-aged man's words, there was no surprise, and no one even responded loudly to the booing. Instead, they silently checked the armor on their bodies, the knives, bows and arrows and other weapons in their hands.

Others replaced the war horses they had ridden before, and replaced them with a batch of war horses that had never been ridden before and had better physical fitness.

After the Dongyao people took control of Monan Mongolia, they not only controlled a large number of Mongolian cavalry to serve themselves, but also obtained a large number of Mongolian war horses, so that the number of horses rationed among the elite of the Dongyao people's headquarters was extremely large.

Even those infantrymen are equipped with a large number of war horses to ride on the road and use them for short-distance and fast maneuvering.

And these elite cavalry in Dongyao Li have three or even four horses together, and it is a basic operation to switch to war horses before going into battle.

This is not just the case with the elite cavalry in Dongyao. In fact, most of the elite cavalry in the Chu army ride two horses or even three horses. However, the number of horses is still relatively limited, and it is impossible to over-allocate horses to all cavalry.

Cuirassiers, hussars and these cavalry are all equipped with one rider and three horses, basically a Central Asian war horse used as a combat horse, a superior Mongolian war horse used in rotation, and a pack horse The middle and lower Mongolian horses for supplies.

In the case of traditional cavalry and archery cavalry, it is common to ride two horses.

The division belongs to the dragoons. Because of the characteristics of their cavalry infantry and the lack of horses, they are only equipped with single horses.

Therefore, after seeing the hundreds of cavalry from the east on the left wing changing horses on the battlefield, the right wing of the Chu army cavalry on the opposite side also realized that the opposite side might really rush over.

Immediately, the officers on the front line also quickly ordered the main horses to be replaced, and asked the auxiliary horsemen to move away the ordinary horses that had been replaced.

This place is about to become a real battlefield. In such a chaotic battlefield, it is absolutely impossible to let hundreds of war horses dangle.

"The other side is unwilling to give up, I am afraid they will launch a charge against us!"

"Maybe it's just a temptation, maybe it's just a prelude before the big battle, no matter what it is, we must block them!"

Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa at the rear also saw this scene on the battlefield in the northeast corner. Although he was a little far away, he couldn't see some specific situations on both sides, but hundreds of cavalry could still watch as they transferred directly on the battlefield to prepare for the battle. from.

When the cavalry on both sides began to transfer, check their equipment and start to form, the cavalry artillery under the Chu Army's [-]rd Cavalry Brigade also deployed urgently in front of the formation.

Eight two-and-a-half-jin cavalry cannons and four five-jin cavalry cannons were divided into two small formations, and the twelve artillery pieces that had just been deployed were aimed at the Dongyao people 800 meters ahead. cavalry.

They had just launched in an emergency, and the gunners were still busy carrying ammunition. While the gunners were visually calculating the distance and azimuth, the Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side had completed their final preparations.

More than 600 Dongbang people rode forward slowly on their horses, and their horses were dragging the cavalry on horseback forward slowly at a slow walking speed.

As soon as they moved, a Chu army cavalry colonel on horseback squinted his eyes and said at the same time: "This should be a cow record, about 250 soldiers and 300 auxiliary soldiers! "

"Their main soldiers are concentrated on the right side. There are at least 100 armored soldiers there. Ask the artillery battalion to fire at them. First, shoot a few rounds of normal artillery, and then fire rapidly after they enter 500 meters!"

Although there seemed to be 600 Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side, the frontier soldiers who had fought with the Dongyao people for a long time basically knew that this was at most a record of the Dongyao people.

They often have 300 people for one Niulu, five Niulu, that is, 500 people for Jiala (what barbarian breaks the term, and the words cannot be typed).

But, don't think that there are only [-] soldiers in one Niu Lu...

In fact, it is often more than that, because these soldiers will basically bring auxiliary soldiers to the battlefield together...

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The Dongbang people still practiced the barbaric and backward slavery system. They would distribute the plundered population, criminals, opponents and their families to the armored men as slaves.

These armored men are worthy of being these official soldiers.

At the same time, when these soldiers are fighting outside, they will also plunder the population as slaves.

Therefore, many Eastern Captives' Eight Banners soldiers often have a lot of slaves under their hands, and then they will select a few loyal young and strong from these slaves, and take them with them as their auxiliary soldiers to fight together.

Well, it's not just slaves, some people will also bring their fellow villagers or even nephews.

On weekdays, these auxiliary soldiers boil water, cook food, carry luggage, take care of grooms and so on.

In wartime, they go to the battlefield with their master or father and brother with their weapons.

Of course, because these auxiliary soldiers generally lack armor and weapons and equipment are not very good, so most of them follow behind to pick up a leak.

The existence of these auxiliary soldiers also led to a Niu Lu in the early Qing Dynasty. Although the rated number is 300, there will often be 600, [-] or more.

This is the case with the Eastern captive cavalry that appeared opposite the Chu army now!

A Niulu of more than 250 soldiers came up with more than 300 auxiliary soldiers.

But those auxiliary soldiers also rode on horseback, so don't confuse them with the young and strong civilians in the Ming army. Although they are auxiliary soldiers, they are all eager to make contributions on the battlefield and become real soldiers. The soldiers also hope to plunder enough money and food during the battle.

Especially the latter!
The reason why the Dongbao people are more powerful in fighting power, and the Ming army fought in all kinds of fighting power, is not because their equipment is better, nor their tactics are better, but because their fighting spirit is higher.

Why high?
Because they are poor...Whether they fought against the Ming Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula, or even Monan Mongolia, many of the wars they launched were not for the purpose of expanding the territory, but for plundering enough money and food to make a living.

Joining the army, even as an auxiliary soldier, has the opportunity to plunder a large amount of money and food, so that the family can live a winter full of food.

This is the reason why most Dongren soldiers have always had a high fighting spirit!
They are fighting for survival!

And the army fighting for survival is often very powerful!
However, fighting for survival made Dongyao's strong combat power in the early days, and also led to their rapid decline after entering the customs!
In the original time and space, after the Eight Banners entered the customs, they quickly decayed in just a dozen years, and by the time of Kangxi, they had completely become a show. The main force of the army.

And the predecessor of the Green Camp was nothing more than a servant army reorganized from the surrendered Ming army when the Eight Bannersmen entered the pass!

Just such a branch, which was full of decay from the source, disgusting green battalion, in the end even replaced their master and became the main force of the Qing army...

I have to say, this is quite ironic.

Why all this?
Because the eight banners are full after entering the customs, they don't need to fight for survival!
They already had a large piece of land, a group of servants, an inexhaustible amount of food, and a large brick and wood house.

They no longer have the courage and motivation to fight desperately!

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In the original time and space, the Eight Banners quickly degenerated after entering the customs, but now the Eight Banners captive in the East, the combat power... Well, it can't be said to be combat power, but the morale of the army, and the fighting willpower is still very strong.

More than 250 armored soldiers and more than 300 lightly armored or unarmored auxiliary soldiers, with a total of nearly [-] Dongcap cavalry, rode forward slowly after finishing their formation.

Although the distance is still far away, you can still feel the indomitable momentum of the other party.

When the cavalry of the Eastern Captives began to advance slowly, the cavalry of the Chu army also began to move!
The cavalry in the [-]rd Cavalry Brigade also changed their horses and began to move forward slowly, but the speed was very slow. Obviously, this was deliberately controlling the speed, in order to let the opponent come first, and then let their own The artillery unit fired first.

When the cavalry in the rear began to move forward slowly, the cavalry artillery who had stepped forward for more than 100 meters was the first to fire at this time.

The first to fire were the four five-pound cavalry guns. The gunners picked up the ammunition that had just arrived urgently and had not had time to get off the car, and loaded it on the spot, and then the gunner opened fire after aiming.

The cavalry of the Eastern Captives had already started to move, and there was no time left for the cavalry artillery to slowly carry down the ammunition and pile it up, and then opened fire calmly.

They must race against time to fire at the first time to weaken the enemy cavalry.

After the four five-jin cavalry guns fired, although their artillery positions were still about 700 meters away from the Dongyao cavalry in front, solid shells still fell into the Dongyao people's formation, causing casualties.

However, those Dongyao cavalry are obviously battle-tested, and it is not the first time they have been shelled by artillery from a long distance. Therefore, although some Dongyao cavalry were killed by artillery shells, the remaining Dongyao cavalry, although a little rioted, still Keep going.

It's just that they changed from the speed of normal infantry before to a trot.

But after seeing the Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side enter the trotting state, the battalion commander of the cavalry artillery battalion smiled at the corner of his mouth: "I thought you were made of iron, but I didn't expect you to run early!"

"Start trotting 700 meters away, you will never die!"

While muttering in his mouth, he saw the major raised his command knife again:

"Two-and-a-half catties, solid bullets, ready for rapid fire!"

After the cavalrymen of Dongyao started to trot, their speed has become faster. Naturally, they can’t fire at normal speed at this time. They must race against time and use the mode of rapid fire. Most of the shells will be fired in the shortest time to kill more. For the enemy cavalry, it is best to be able to disrupt the opponent's cavalry formation and shake their morale for charging.

In turn, it provides a favorable basis for the countercharge of one's own cavalry.

Soon, the eight two-and-a-half-pound field guns also fired!

There are a total of twelve cavalry artillery, large and small, firing shells at the hundreds of cavalry in front of them in a rapid-fire mode.

All of a sudden, cavalrymen or warhorses from the Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side were hit by shells and fell to the ground with howls!

At this time, the Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side couldn't help it anymore, and entered the charge ahead of time!
Continuing to trot down like this, I am afraid that half of them will be killed or injured before they have entered the distance of tens of meters of riding and shooting...

And when Zhuang Xian's captive cavalry from east of the river began to charge ahead of schedule, two field cannons were pulled out from behind their cavalry.

This kind of artillery can be seen at a glance as an imitation of the Chu army's two-and-a-half-pound field artillery, and it is almost identical from the barrel to the gun mount.

After the two East Captive artillery approached 500 meters, they also stopped quickly, and then tried to deploy and shell.

All of a sudden, the cannons of both sides have fired together!
From time to time, people on both sides were hit by shells!

However, due to the gap in firepower between the two sides, the casualties of the cavalry of the Eastern captivity were much higher than those of the cavalry of the Chu army.

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Seeing that the opposite side had begun to charge ahead of time, the cavalry of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment of the Chu Army also quickly entered the trot mode from the previous slow walk mode, and then quickly entered the sprint mode, and directly crossed the artillery position and charged go up.

In a short period of time, the cavalry of both sides were under the rumbling artillery fire, spanning a distance of hundreds of meters... At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than 100 meters, and the artillery of both sides also stopped their shelling in unison.

In the middle of the artillery positions of the two sides, thousands of cavalry are confronting each other. At this time, the respective artillery has no shooting range and stopped firing. They can't fire at their own cavalry array, isn't it...

When the cavalry of both sides rushed within a hundred meters, they saw the cavalry of both sides bending their bows and shooting arrows directly on their horsebacks at the same time!
Immediately, hundreds of arrows flew up from each side, and then fell across the sky and fell into the opponent's array!

A few seconds later, when the cavalrymen on both sides could already see the specific movements of the other side, and each had drawn out their sabers, or raised their cavalry spears, the arrows fell to the ground!

Some arrows fell on the armor of the cavalry and were spread out, and some arrows directly hit the position without armor protection, which caused the cavalry to be directly injured or even died on the spot.

There were also arrows that hit the part of the horse that was not protected by armor. The horse raised its hooves in pain, or ran wildly in a reverse direction and threw the cavalry off the horse.

The screams came and went amidst the sound of horseshoes!

And the next moment!

The cavalry formations of both sides collided directly!
The knights controlled the horses, rushed from the opponent's formation, and at the same time raised their spears or sabers, and killed the enemy cavalry!
From time to time, cavalrymen were cut off from their horses. Even if they were not dead, they would be trampled into mud by the iron hooves of the horses on both sides!

Bloody, cruel!
Two traditional classical oriental cavalry are fighting with almost identical tactics and even combat skills!

And all of this is in the eyes of the generals on both sides!
Seeing this, Hauge on the sentry tower in the distant camp turned around and went down the tower without hesitation. As soon as he got off the tower, he sneered at his generals and said, "Although Chu Manzi is a little stronger than the previous Ming Manzi, But it’s just mediocre.”

As he said that, he glanced at the main cavalry of the Chu Army in the southwest direction: "It is courting death to dare to attack my Guangning with these ten thousand cavalry picked up from Ming barbarians!"

After all, he took the helmet from the soldier and put it on, then got on his horse and pulled out his waist knife!

Riding his horse and looking back, it is the main force of more than [-] cavalry under his command. The formation is endless, and there is almost no end in sight all over the mountains and plains!
Hauge, who was sitting on horseback, looked at his soldiers, nodded slightly from time to time, and then trotted past the front of the formation: "The Qing Dynasty will win!"

"Kill all the Chu manzis!"

"The Great Qing will win!"

There were generals and soldiers responding one after another, also shouting that the Qing Dynasty must win.

Afterwards, Haoge turned his horse's head, stood at the front of the formation, and swung his saber forward... That was the direction where the main force of the Chu Army's First Cavalry Army was located.

"Army attack!"

In the next second, there was a burst of drumming, and a large number of Dongyao cavalry rode forward.

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At the same time, Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa's face was calm. After seeing the main force of the Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side start to move, Zhu Xingfa turned his head and looked at the commander of the cavalry detachment of the Guards, that is, the Cavalry Division of the Guards. Changsheng Yushu, Major General of the Guards: "I'll take my brothers from the First Cavalry Army to meet them later, and the flank attack is up to the Guards!"

In his twenties, with a pale face, Sheng Yushu said: "You can rest assured that the flank is handed over to my general. My guards have never lost a battle, and this time will be no exception!"

After hearing this, Zhu Xingfa laughed: "Who doesn't know that your guards have a lot of thoughts, gnaw hard bones and push three times, pinch soft persimmons and grab them. Can you lose the battle like this? You won't lose the battle if you change pigs to fight!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Xingfa put a smile on his face: "But this time, your guards are going to fight hard. The [-] elite cavalry on their left wing are the fine cavalry that were withdrawn from Balipu. It's not good. hit!"

Sheng Yushu didn't mean to get angry at Zhu Xingfa's sarcasm, but just had a determined face: "No matter how hard it is to fight, my guards will fight up and guarantee to penetrate their left wing, even if they stand to the last person!"

"In the three hundred years of my Sheng family, there have been honest and loyal officials, corrupt officials, and even traitors who have defected to other races, but there has never been anyone who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and Sheng will not be an exception!"

"And my Guards...have never been defeated, never before, and never will!"

Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa said loudly: "Okay, I like your self-confidence."

"After this battle is over, I will treat you to a drink. I have hidden several bottles of good wine that I robbed from the old palace in Youzhou. You will never forget the taste of it!"

After all, Zhu Xingfa stopped talking to Sheng Yushu, but directly rode forward, and his personal guard cavalry quickly followed, and behind him was the main force of more than ten thousand cavalry from the First Cavalry Army!
More than 1 riders lined up and slowly stepped forward, covering the field like a gray cloud!
When they moved forward slowly, the cavalry artillery of the Chu army deployed at the forefront had already fired at the forwards of the several waves of Dongcap cavalry that rushed over first.

Amidst the sound of rumbling cannons, Sheng Yushu led his soldiers around the formation of the First Cavalry Army, and came to the formation of the cavalry detachment of the right-wing Guards Army of the army. The direction of the Fourth Cuirassier Regiment took a second look, took two deep breaths, drew out his saber, and said loudly to the generals behind him: "The Fourth Cuirassier Regiment will follow the general in the center, and the second hussar Regiment and the [-]rd Hussar Regiment are separated from the left and right flanks to cover!"

"In this battle, there is no retreat!"

And our Guards will win! "

After finishing speaking, Sheng Yushu took another deep breath, then pointed the command knife in his hand obliquely forward, and at the same time clamped the horse's belly and rode forward, and said loudly at the same time:
"Guards, attack!
(End of this chapter)