I want to be emperor

Chapter 538
Chapter 530 Nine Epic Victories

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Not long after the Major of the Guards left, Zhu Xingfa saw a cloud of fireworks rising in the southeast direction, which was a signal from the Guards that a full-scale attack was about to be launched.

Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa immediately ordered: "Counterattack, launch a counterattack immediately!"

"Artillery unit, launch a rapid-fire artillery attack on the enemy cavalry in the southeast!"

"The First Cavalry Division and the Fourth Cavalry Brigade launched a counterattack immediately to contain the enemy's frontal forces!"

"The outcome is in this battle, and I ask you all to fight hard. When the victory is reported, Zhu will personally ask for credit for you!"

As Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa issued detailed orders one after another, the artillery units in front started to take action first. About 40 artillery pieces passed through the artillery that stopped the shelling and repeatedly cooled the barrels with cold water in an emergency. An enemy cavalry launched a heavy shelling.

Although the shelling distance is relatively long, there is a full distance of six to seven hundred meters, so that many two-and-a-half catty cavalry guns have to temporarily increase the elevation angle for shelling, and the end kinetic energy of the shells is also seriously insufficient, resulting in limited lethality.

However, bombardment is bombardment. Even if the kinetic energy of a fist-sized shell is insufficient, if it hits the enemy accurately, it can still cause decent damage. That is, the shell cannot bounce a few times after landing, and its penetration ability is not good, resulting in poor follow-up damage. That's all.

In addition, the five-pound cavalry cannon was not affected, and the five-pound cavalry cannon was even more powerful. The distance of 700 meters was still within the normal combat range of solid shells. They are all used to support the Guards in combat.

As more than 40 cavalry guns of the First Cavalry Army began to fire rapidly, the Chu Army's First Cavalry Division and Fourth Cavalry Brigade also launched a large-scale counterattack.

Naturally, their counterattack cannot be a direct large-scale charge. They are traditional cavalry and archery cavalry. Large-scale charges are not what they are good at. The tactics they use are still traditional cavalry and archery tactics. Step forward to shoot arrows, quickly retreat after shooting arrows, form a team under the cover of one's own line infantry, recover a certain amount of arm strength and physical fitness, and then attack...and so on.

The overall tactic is actually very similar to the half-round tactic of the pistol cavalry, but it needs to be more flexible.

Thousands of cavalry from the Chu army launched a counterattack. This was to contain the cavalry from the front and prevent them from deploying troops to reinforce the southern battlefield, thereby reducing the pressure on the cavalry detachment of the Guards.

The First Cavalry Army has launched a counterattack under the command of Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa, and now it is the turn of the Guards Cavalry Detachment to appear.

Major General Sheng Yushu was still the same as before, putting on his armor and riding his horse, standing at the forefront of the Fourth Cuirassier Regiment!

On the left and right flanks were the [-]nd and [-]rd Hussars.

In front of him is the artillery unit of the Guards who is maneuvering short-distance and rapidly. These more than 20 cavalry cannons need to step forward one step ahead, and then suppress the enemy cavalry with artillery, killing as many enemy cavalry as possible , and need to break up the enemy's formation as much as possible.

At the same time, in this process, the enemy may launch a charge in advance or turn to retreat, no matter which one it is, it is good for the subsequent charge of the Guards cavalry.

Soon, the cavalry artillery unit of the Guards was in place quickly. In order to hurry, and the nearby terrain restrictions were relatively large, they were all flat terrain with a clear view. The troops were forced to deploy directly in the flat ground and then shelled.

When the artillery unit of the guard army also joined in the shelling, Major General Sheng Yushu raised his hand slightly and said in his mouth, "Get on the horse!"

"Go slowly!"

More than 2000 guard cavalry, with the fourth cuirassier regiment as the core, slowly rode forward.

It can be vaguely seen that many of the cavalry of the guards are still stained with blood, and most of these bloodstains are left by the defeated cavalry of Dongyao.

"Fast forward!" As the distance continued to narrow, Sheng Yushu gave the order to speed up again.

The speed of the cavalry detachment of the Guards began to increase!
This kind of fast-paced advance, it seems that the speed is still not fast, but when more than 2000 riders maintain a unified formation and advance together, it puts a lot of pressure on people.

Especially the more than 3000 Eastern captive cavalry on the opposite side... When they first started, they still couldn't understand why the [-] cavalry on the left wing in the south were defeated.

With only one charge, Chu Manzi completely defeated the three thousand elite cavalry on the left flank, beheading hundreds, and the rest fled in embarrassment, unable to reorganize to fight.

But now, they already had a preliminary understanding of why the three thousand cavalry on the left wing were defeated so cleanly.

These Chu Manzi cavalry on the opposite side are abnormal!
Nima, how can someone charge directly with a spear and a saber a few hundred meters away...

Where are your bows and arrows?

Where are your muskets?

And when the cavalry of the guards crossed the artillery position of their own side and started to run forward, the general of Dongyao on the opposite side panicked: "Crazy... a group of lunatics, they are going to charge directly!"

"Hurry up, speed up... If you can't speed up, you will die!"

"Change sabers... don't use bows..."

"It's too late, hurry up, throw the bow and arrow directly and change to the saber..."

"It's over...they are going to rush over..."

"The formation on the opposite side is too dense. If you can't rush through, you have to turn...we will use the front turn to use the cavalry to shoot and then evacuate directly..."

These three thousand captive cavalry... When facing the charge of the cavalry detachment of the Chu army's guards, there was a panic inside. Seeing that there was nothing to be done, they made the opposite choice. Some of them, especially some Niu Lu on the two wings, directly started to turn and wanted to evacuate to avoid the rolling guards, as if they wanted to crush everything Army cavalry.

Ever since, the three thousand captive cavalry were in chaos.

There are more than a thousand Dongyao cavalry in the center and launched a counter-charge, but many Dongyao cavalry on the two wings started to turn ahead of time, leaving the battlefield hundreds of meters away... As for the archery in front of the formation... that is to say In other words, after entering the effective range of the cavalry bow, it only takes a few seconds for the cavalry of the Guards to rush over.

If you turn to archery in front of the formation, it is equivalent to exposing your flanks and being attacked by the cavalry of the Guards...

If you want to use your saber to continue charging after shooting an arrow, then there is not enough time in the short few seconds. Before you change your saber, the hollow cavalry spear of the [-]th Cuirassier Regiment has already shot you. killed……

In the face of this intensive charge of the guards, it is impossible to shoot arrows in front of the formation. There are only two choices, either turn to retreat in advance, or bite the bullet and launch a countercharge. A dead end.

The same principle actually happened to the early pistol cavalry of the Chu army... The early pistol cavalry of the Chu army wanted to use the pistol to play half-round tactics before the formation, or to use the pistol to shoot before charging. Gun kills a wave of enemy soldiers.

However, it has been found to be very unreliable in actual combat many times!
If you play semi-circular shooting, the pistol only has one bullet, but the cavalry cavalry can shoot several arrows in a short time, and the difference in the amount of firepower projected is too great.

More importantly, when the other side sees you playing with muskets, they don't play any shooting with you at all, they just charge up with a saber, and then the pistol cavalry can't take care of themselves after being beaten.

Ever since, the cavalry of the Chu army simply reduced the equipment of the pistols of the cavalry, and ordered the cavalry to strictly prohibit the use of pistols when charging...

In Zhu Xingfa's words: Since everyone is fucking charging, let me charge up with a saber and use a fucking pistol.

This is a series of problems that the Chu army encountered in the early development of cavalry pistols, and it is also the reason why the pistol cavalry was short-lived in the Chu army's combat sequence.

But now, when facing the cavalry detachment of the Guards, the cavalry and archery cavalry of the Dongbuo people also encountered the same problem as the pistol cavalry of the Chu army.

Bows and arrows are useless in this kind of fast charge combat!

Because the charge speed of the guard cavalry is too fast, it is completely different from the back-and-forth maneuver of the traditional cavalry and archery cavalry... They just mount their horses and advance directly from a few hundred meters away, and then gradually increase their speed until they reach a distance of 300 meters At that time, the war horse had already run completely.

By the time the cavalry of the Dongyao entered the effective range of tens of meters of cavalry bows, the cavalry of the guards had already entered the final sprint stage...

Mere tens of meters, for the cavalry who has already entered the sprint stage, it is only a matter of a few seconds... If you ride and shoot the cavalry with a bow and arrow, before you can aim, the saber will have already killed you.

It's just like it is now... Faced with the cavalry detachment of the Guards, these Eastern captive cavalry launched a charge beyond their expectations, and fell into difficulty and even disagreement.

There were hundreds of cavalry who evacuated ahead of time. Most of the cavalry were switching back and forth between bows and sabers. When they gradually increased their speed and gradually entered the charge state with their sabers raised.

The guard cavalry on the opposite side has entered the attack stage!
More than 2000 cavalry have been fully running, and even at this time, these guard cavalry still maintain a complete and unified formation.

The cavalry formed a wall, one layer after another, rolling forward continuously.

Before these Eastern captive cavalry could react, the front guard cavalry had entered the final sprint stage!

At this moment, the guard cavalry at the front lifted all the restrictions. They no longer deliberately maintained the formation, but increased their speed as much as possible, and began to put down the hollow spears in their hands to aim at the enemy...

"kill!"

"kill……"

The Guards cavalry shouted from the beginning of the charge to the present, the only voice, and more than 2000 people shouted together!

kill!This simple word, one after another, made every guard cavalry who participated in the battle couldn't help shouting together, and then urged the horse to increase to the highest speed, and used the saber or hollow spear in his hand Aim at the enemy!
At this point, they have entered the highest speed, and their morale has also reached a little bit!
These Guards cavalry rushed directly into the scattered cavalry formation on the opposite side!
A cavalryman of the [-]th Cuirassier Regiment pointed the hollow spear in his hand at a general-looking cavalry in front of him. At the moment when the hollow spear accurately hit the enemy's head, even if the opposite general was wearing a helmet, But almost the whole head was smashed, and the head seemed to be broken backwards, and at the same time, the whole body fell off the horse directly, but one foot was still hanging on the stirrup, and his horse had not yet charged. The reduction was so great that he ran forward with the decapitated corpse for more than ten meters before gradually stopping.

And the cuirassier of the Guards, the moment his hollow spear hit the enemy, he evaded in advance to avoid accidentally injuring himself with the broken hollow spear. The second half of the broken hollow spear was directly pulled out from the saber at the waist, and the next second the saber was pointed forward, and it was aimed at the next Dongyao cavalry and hacked away.

The whole movement process is extremely fast, if you don't pay attention, you can't even see the details of his movements clearly.

On the other side of the battlefield, a sergeant cavalryman of the [-]rd Hussars Regiment had left his buttocks off the saddle from the beginning of the sprint, and only relied on his feet on the stirrups to support the weight to lighten the galloping horse. The resulting bumps affect tactical actions.

At the same time, the left hand is holding the rein, and the right hand is holding a five-year saber, which is different from the machetes or waist sabers commonly used by traditional cavalry equipped by Mongolians. The five-year saber has a curved blade. The range is smaller, and it can be chopped or stabbed.

The blade is half-opened, double blood grooves increase the lethality while reducing weight, the handle is equipped with a lower hand guard, the whole body of the blade is made of mild steel, and adopts a variety of new processing techniques, and the blade is partially carburized and hardened deal with.

Well, according to the technical standards of the seventeenth century, this thing is a fine steel saber, which belongs to the top standard cold weapon. The officer's saber in the Great Chu Empire Army is not at this level...

Well, this is said to be a mass-produced standard weapon, and those steel knives that cost a lot of manpower and material resources to build repeatedly are not within the scope of comparison.

At the same time, this five-year-style saber is also longer than the traditional curved saber in length. It is divided into two types: long sword and short sword. The long sword is 92 centimeters and the short sword is [-] centimeters.

Long knives are generally used by veteran cavalry with stronger physical fitness and stronger combat skills, while short knives are used by novice soldiers with slightly weaker arms and poorer combat skills.

Several cavalry regiments in the Guards, because they were all selected from veteran cavalry, basically have relatively good combat skills, so they all use long swords!

Now this cavalryman of the [-]rd Hussar Regiment of the Guards on a galloping horseback, the saber in his right hand is the five-year long saber.

The saber in his hand was tilted forward, and the whole person also bowed down!

Just in front of him, a Dongyao cavalryman wielding a Mongolian scimitar rushed over with a strange cry, and at the moment when the two sides were about to meet, the guard cavalry leaned back slightly and avoided At the same time, the five-year-style long saber in his hand has cut through the belly of the opponent's horse... Under the impact of the distance, even if the saber just slashed across the horse, it still brought out a line that ran through the entire body of the horse. , a huge wound from beginning to end.

The horses of the Eastern captive cavalry were suffering from pain. First, they raised their front hooves in a frenzy, and then fell to the ground...

The cavalrymen of the Eastern captives on horseback were brought and fell directly to the ground, hitting their heads on the ground...they couldn't die anymore,

Cavalry combat does not have to be aimed at the cavalry itself... In fact, it is also possible to target the enemy's horses, and sometimes the effect is better and easier.

Because once the high-speed sprinting horse is killed or injured, the cavalry on the horse will also die or be disabled!

After the hussar wounded the horse of the Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side with a single knife, he didn't look at the tragedy of the Dongyao cavalry at all, but continued to look at a Dongyao cavalry ahead!
Another confrontation followed, and this time, the young hussar directly chopped down the Dongyao cavalry on the opposite side.

It's just that after two consecutive fights, the speed of his horse slowed down a bit, and some comrades on the left and right who hadn't encountered the enemy had already run to the front, so he could only follow behind...

This followed, but he didn't encounter the enemy anymore.

The Dongyao cavalry's formation is too loose, and the troop density is too low, so that when facing the Chu army's cavalry, it is often more than a dozen Guards cavalry against a few Dongyao cavalry.

The difference in troop density between the two sides is as much as four or five times. In addition, during the high-speed sprint, the troop density of one's own side is high, and the cavalry of the Guards is unlikely to adjust too much direction. To deflect the direction to kill the enemy.

This will lead to chaos in the entire assault formation.

Ever since, this young hussar followed his comrades all the way to fight, without encountering the enemy in the whole second half, and rushed to the open space in front of which there were no Dongren cavalry.

At this time, he had the time and mood to look back a little. In his line of sight, all the cavalry behind him were his own cavalry, and the cavalry from Dongyao had disappeared.

On the other hand, there are quite a few cavalry from the East captives on the left and right sides!

At this time, he heard the command of the whistle chief in front to turn around, and killed towards the left, and he immediately followed up.

And this is just his perspective, he doesn't see much, and he can't see the whole situation.

He didn't know at all that they had completely smashed the Dongyao cavalry in front of them, leaving only hundreds of Dongyao cavalry fleeing for their lives on the left and right wings.

In addition, before the confrontation between the two sides, hundreds of cavalry from the East had already turned and retreated ahead of time, which meant that the [-] cavalry sent by Hauge had all collapsed at this time!
Actually, there were not many Dongyao cavalry who died directly in battle, only two or three hundred cavalry, mainly those who were killed and wounded in the frontal charge, and more of them either ran away ahead of time, or because of formation formation during the battle. Too lenient, did not meet the Guards cavalry at all.

At this time, there seemed to be a lot of these scattered cavalry, but in fact there was no unified organization. They didn't even know how to get them, so they could only instinctively flee with their friendly troops.

These [-] Eastern captive cavalry have been completely defeated!

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Seeing this scene, Hauge in the rear couldn't believe that what he saw was real, and even thought he was hallucinating for a while.

"how can that be?"

"Absolutely impossible!"

"That's three thousand cavalry, not three thousand pigs. Even if they kill three thousand pigs, they can't be defeated in just a short time!"

Hauge felt that the war experience he had gained from fighting on the battlefield for many years, and the knowledge of various formations and formations he had learned from the many military books he had read had all been wiped out.

This is not normal!

Absolutely not normal!
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Zhu Xingfa on the other side showed joy on his face!
"That's it... that's how the cavalry should fight!"

"The cuirassiers and hussars are the future of cavalry!" Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa has always been very interested in cuirassiers and hussars.

Even though he was born as a traditional cavalry cavalry, he is very clear that cavalry cavalry has become more and more powerless after the arrival of the gun era.

Many cavalry and shooting tactics that were very useful in the cold weapon era became useless in front of guns.

In today's rapid development of the gun era, their cavalry must also keep up with the pace of the times, otherwise, sooner or later they will be completely eliminated by those infantry and artillery.

In Zhu Xingfa's view: The future cavalry should be a combination of cuirassiers and hussars, plus auxiliary arms such as cavalry artillery and cavalry heavy soldiers.

When fighting, first bombard with artillery, and then launch a charge to defeat the enemy.

By the way, Musketeers are also indispensable. Although Musketeers' impact ability is not good, their short-distance mobility is not comparable to that of infantry. They can be used as fast infantry, whether they are used to chase or intercept the enemy, or to find air strikes. Raids are much more expensive than infantry.

And the dragoons don't need to be equipped with too many war horses, it is enough to ride a single horse, so the cost will be much lower.

After Zhu Xingfa saw the charge of the Guards cavalry with his own eyes, he had already made up his mind. After this battle, he would make a strong suggestion to His Majesty, Xu Zhixian and other army leaders to form a breastplate in the army. The core cavalry unit is cavalry, hussars, and dragoons.

As for the traditional cavalry cavalry, they are completely behind the times and should be eliminated.

The horses and cavalry of the cavalry and archery cavalry were all changed into new cavalry, so that the cavalry troops of the Great Chu Empire Army could continue to roam the battlefield.

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Compared with the many thoughts of the main generals on both sides of the battlefield, Major General Sheng Yushu was very calm.

This time the shock battle was nothing, the enemy was far inferior to the [-] enemy cavalry they encountered before, no matter in terms of scale, fighting will, or even the combat skills of the enemy soldiers.

A charge to kill two or three hundred enemy cavalry has already explained this point.

It's not that the cavalry of the Guards has too much fighting power, but that there are far fewer cavalry in the enemy army who dare to attack head-on.

Now, the two hussar regiments are each divided into two cavalry posts and two wings to pursue the remnants of the enemy army. It is just a pursuit, but in fact, the number of enemies killed is not the main purpose. The main purpose is to further expel them and avoid captivity. People reorganized these defeated cavalry.

When the four hussar posts continued to move, he took the fourth cuirassier regiment and the remaining four hussar posts to rest, taking advantage of the precious time between battles to recover the stamina of the horses, and waited for the rear. The mounted artillerymen catch up.

Next, he will attack the enemy's central army headquarters!
On the opposite side, the headquarters of the enemy's central army, with at least ten thousand cavalry, was entangled by the [-]st Cavalry Division, the [-]th Cavalry Brigade, and the [-]th Cavalry Brigade.

As long as one's own side is launching an attack after a short rest, there will not even be many strategic reserves on the opposite side to block one's own side.

This battle, their Chu army will definitely win!
(End of this chapter)