Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 212 Cavalry Vs Cavalry

At about noon, when the Second Corps of the Guards Army was a little tired, the iron cavalry of the Wanqing Army suddenly attacked the Second Corps of the Third Guards Army with the momentum of galloping horses, and directly divided into five groups!

There were two thousand iron cavalry in each route of the Qing army, and the outermost two wings directly attacked the first and second battalions of the cavalry battalion, while the inner two wings bypassed the infantry battalion and charged towards the artillery battalion!
Nikan, on the other hand, personally led the Manchurian iron cavalry and rushed directly to the three infantry battalions of the Guards Army. Geng Zhongming did not go into battle, but led a cavalry behind, ready to respond at any time.

"Look at this, the Tartars are trying to attack the infantry battalion with a multi-pronged approach, but their main route is still to attack the infantry battalion. They still want to break through the infantry battalion, and even want to take advantage of this to defeat the artillery. It's really cunning!"

When Zhu Youjian said this, Li Banghua also became a little flustered: "Your Majesty, my cavalry is new to cavalry, infantry is also new to artillery, and so is artillery. This Tartar is multi-pronged, and it is difficult for each battalion to interact with each other. However, once a battalion breaks down, the Qing cavalry attacking the battalion can rush to support another Qing cavalry. In this way, once the first battalion-level military unit collapses, there will be a second battalion-level military unit. The unit collapsed, followed by the third and fourth, and the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards will be completely defeated! What should we do now?"

"Liu Qian, the deputy commander-in-chief, is a veteran of the frontier army. He has rich experience in fighting the Tartars. In this situation, he should know how to deal with it. You are the governor of the third army of the Guards. I am the honor of the Ninth Five-Year Plan. Don't worry about yourself Take a stand, just watch the scenery from the top of the city tower, and see how the generals below command, whoever can come up with a proper countermeasure in such a situation, or be brave in the face of danger, will naturally be a famous general that you and I can promote in the future!"

As Zhu Youjian said, he saw that Liu Qian's communications soldiers had begun to come out to give orders. After a while, he saw two cavalry battalions and two cavalry battalions directly under the regiment rushing up, facing the two Qing troops on the left and right. Iron cavalry, while the infantry consisted of three Type A battalions running towards the Manchu Qing cavalry led by Nikan in the middle.

The artillerymen pushed the vehicle-mounted Daming Field Cannon around the two wings of Dingyuan City, risking being rushed by the cavalry, and adjusted the direction of the muzzle to the direction of Geng Zhongming.

"What is Deputy Commander Liu doing? Do you want to have a steel knife against a steel knife? Head-to-head? The cavalry and infantry all charged up, and the artillery went to the front. Is this using artillery as infantry?" Shi Kefa Can't help but say in surprise.

Zhu Youjian also thought that Liu Qian was crazy, and he didn't even stay in the cavalry reserve team.

Gao Hongtu couldn't help but widen his eyes. He couldn't understand the military formation, but he also understood that most of the officers and soldiers on his side were southern soldiers, and they were generally small in stature.

Both Wang Chengen and Li Ruolian stuck close to Zhu Youjian, fearing that the Second Corps of the Guards would be defeated in a while, so they could immediately take Zhu Youjian to Chuzhou.

For the first time, the cavalry of the Second Corps of the Third Army of the Guards rushed towards the cavalry of the Qing army according to Liu Qian's command. , did not retreat.

Even the Qing army was a little anxious. How could any cavalry charge directly against the cavalry? Once they collide, both sides will be hurt. Therefore, the Qing cavalry began to turn around, preparing to outflank the cavalry rushing in front of them. At that time, all the cavalry of the Guards directly threw Zhen Tianlei out.

At this time, the cavalry of the guards were less than fifty steps away from the cavalry of the Qing army, and the cavalry of the Qing army suddenly turned around and outflanked, so that all the cavalry could encounter the cavalry of the Qing army on their flanks.

Under this kind of high-speed movement of cavalry, the enemy and itself are like two cars running opposite each other at high speed. Among them, the cavalry of the Guards throws the thunder, which is equivalent to the car occupying the middle lane throwing the bomb two times. Cars in the side lane.

In an instant, the cavalry of the Qing army who were trying to pinch the cavalry of the guards on both sides were blown upside down, and the fragments ejected from the explosion of the thunder crazily cracked the armor, skin and horses of the cavalry of the Qing army.

The cavalry of the Qing army on the two wings were in chaos, while the cavalry in the middle rushed out, then retreated hastily, and began to chop the chaotic cavalry of the Qing army from the side.

kill!

Xu Fuyuan slashed the neck of a tartar, and at the same time threw a thunderbolt into the camp of the Qing cavalry who were still charging.

The Guards cavalry like him reaped the lives of the Eight Banners Cavalry of the Han Army wantonly because of this. For the Manchuria Cavalry, it was still dealt with by the three battalions of the Infantry A Battalion.

Gushan Beizini didn't know what happened to the Eight Banners of the Qing army and Han people on both sides of him, and the shouts of killing were so chaotic. In his opinion, it might be because they had already fought together.

Nikan is still calmly leading his two thousand full cavalry towards the three battalions of infantry, each with a longbow in his hand, but they are not attracted, but they start to turn slightly, split into two roads, each with a Thousands of Manchurian iron cavalry rushed to the flank of the infantry battalion.

"It seems that the Tartars have realized that the firearms of our guards are amazing, and instead of attacking directly from the front, they are trying to attack from the flanks. Liu Zhaoji of the [-]st Corps of the [-]st Guards Army reported that the cavalry of the Left Army also used such weapons. The flank breakthrough tactic, but now the left army has replaced the Manchu army with this tactic."

Shi Kefa couldn't help but say a few words at this time, and Li Banghua also said beside Zhu Youjian: "Fortunately, our guards have strengthened their formation training again since March, especially for this kind of flank attack training, and While responding within a battalion at any time, the three infantry battalions are responding in a character-shaped manner, or forming three lines of defense to block the attack. A total of nearly 2 muskets should be able to withstand the attack of [-] cavalry."

Zhu Youjian didn't speak. He is now engrossed in watching how Liu Qian, a veteran of the frontier army, is directing the battle in the face of the attack of [-] cavalry. Using cavalry against cavalry and even using thunder to make the enemy army chaos first is a stroke of genius , and at the same time use the three strongest infantry battalions to deal with the enemy's strongest Manchurian battalion. It is not an experienced veteran who cannot quickly come up with such a countermeasure at this time.

Nikan showed a sly smile, and he directed the soldiers in front of him to shoot the officers of the first infantry battalion with Manchu.

At the same time, he himself jumped up, and while the horse was falling and galloping, the three heavy arrows in his hand left the bowstring and directly hit the three infantry soldiers of the Guards, causing a gap to appear on the right side of the first battalion. Du Linzheng, who was on the side at the time, also turned pale with fright.

Fortunately, at this time, the first battalion had changed in time, the flanks became the front, and the front became the flanks, and the formation also changed. When the Tartars began to attack with a large number of bows and arrows, the shield soldiers had already begun to exert their effects, resisting the large number of bows and arrows. At the same time, at a distance of less than 150 steps, the firepower formed by two thousand guns on one side is enough to cause great damage to the one thousand Manchu cavalry of the Qing army.

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