Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 317
Facing the arrival of a thousand reinforcements from the enemy, Ainengqi immediately changed his strategy, moved another hollow square formation, moved forward for a certain distance, and then moved a certain distance to the square formation next to it.

In this way, if the enemy's reinforcements go to support, their flanks will be exposed to the firepower of their own hollow phalanx.

Ainengqi didn't need to move too far to complete the formation change. The Cossacks naturally discovered Ainengqi's intentions, and while secretly hating them, they had no choice but to give up frontal support.

In view of the price paid for attacking a Ming army phalanx just now, no matter how stupid they are, they would never attack another intact phalanx.

Under the command of the commander, they quickly changed their strategy and went around to the left side of the phalanx they were attacking.

Since the two sides had already fought together in the front, the Ming army's artillery could no longer attack the enemy's reinforcements.

As for the other three positions of this hollow phalanx, since the third row of soldiers went to support the frontal battle, there were only two rows of soldiers left.

In this situation, if the enemy Qianqi launched a fierce attack, although it could cause a lot of casualties to the enemy, it may be difficult for one's own phalanx to maintain.

After all, although the hollow phalanx has a good effect on dealing with cavalry, it is not a panacea, not to mention that the enemy cavalry also has strong firepower.

Therefore, Ainengqi immediately organized the cavalry, and when the enemy launched an attack, he was ready to personally lead the cavalry to attack his flank.

"Rumble..." The enemy's thousand cavalry detoured to the left side of the hollow phalanx of the Ming army, and then accelerated their attack.

"boom……"

"Bang..." Two platoons of soldiers from the Ming army fired successively. The rushing enemy troops fell like dumplings, and some cavalry who followed were tripped by the overturned horses and soldiers who fell to the ground because they couldn't dodge in time. Pour a slice.

But they didn't pay any attention to it, and the cavalry behind avoided it in time and continued to charge forward, because they knew that as long as they avoided the second round of firing by the Ming army as much as possible, their casualties would be reduced a lot.

Sure enough, the Ming army had no chance to shoot the second round, because when they turned around, they were less than [-] feet away from the Ming army, and with such a fast speed, the Ming army soldiers could not carry out the second round of shooting in such a short period of time. bomb.

Therefore, they could only give up and raise their muskets to deal with it.

Rumbling, these Cossacks were like lunatics, facing the gleaming bayonet, their speed did not slow down at all.

At this moment, the Cossacks saw a black shadow rushing towards the flank.

"Ming cavalry..." The Cossacks were shocked. They believed that they charged in such a formation that they might break through the Ming infantry phalanx.

But in this case, his flanks will be completely exposed to the Ming cavalry, and there are thousands of Ming cavalry, and it is very likely to disrupt his formation, which is very dangerous.

"Turn..." Under the command of the commander, the Cossacks gave up attacking the Ming army's infantry phalanx, and instead responded to the Ming army's approaching cavalry.

The Cossacks admired cavalry tactics very much, and they were even unwilling to dismount from their horses to fight.

Therefore, for them, defeating the opponent's cavalry is much more important than defeating the infantry, so at this critical juncture, they did not hesitate to change their targets.

This was also completely beyond Ainengqi's expectations. He thought that after the opponent found out, he would only send some cavalry to block it, but he didn't expect that they would all turn to deal with his own cavalry.

The Ming army had 3000 cavalry, while the Cossacks had only 1000 cavalry in this regard.

However, the Cossacks were not timid at all. They had enough confidence in themselves, and they also proved their strength to many enemies. The reputation of Cossack cavalry was spread everywhere on the Eastern European plains.

Now, facing the cavalry of the Ming army who are thinner and have smaller horses, even if they are one against three, they still feel that their winning rate is very high.

The Cossack cavalry suddenly changed tactics, and Ainengqi immediately waved his arms and shouted, "Stop the army, line up..."

The flag of the Chinese army was waved immediately, and all the cavalry who saw the flag of the Chinese army slowed down immediately.

Rumbling, the Ming army cavalry that was charging forward stopped slowly, and then quickly formed three horizontal lines.

"Dismount, line up..." Ainengqi gave an order, and all the cavalry dismounted, and then quickly rushed forward, forming a three-row line.

At this time, the Cossack cavalry had rushed to within fifty feet. When they saw the Ming cavalry dismount and abandon their horses to become infantry, they were shocked and immediately showed disdain.

There are cavalry who voluntarily give up the advantage of cavalry and choose unbearable infantry. This is like a person who voluntarily throws away the spear in his hand and chooses a short knife. It is extremely stupid.

In fact, they didn't know that the Ming army's use of this method of tactics was specially requested by Tangning, the king of light who had won every battle and created a line-style tactic and a hollow phalanx.

The reason why Tangning made such a request was naturally summed up through the experience of later generations.

In the official history, in the Russo-Japanese War of later generations, the situation of the Japanese is similar to that of the Ming army at present.

The war horse horses used by the Japanese cavalry were imported from Mongolia. The Mongolian horses were already short, but after being introduced to Japan, they shrank further and became smaller.

The shoulder height of Japanese horses is only about 1.3 meters, while the shoulder height of the opponent's Cossack cavalry horses is generally 1.5 to 1.6 meters, which is a bit short.

Each Cossack cavalry is equipped with a spear, while the Japanese cavalry mainly uses sabers.

Without fighting, the Japanese knew that their own cavalry was no match for the opponent's Cossack cavalry, so they never dared to engage in cavalry battles with the Cossacks head-on.

In the crucial battle of Heitaigou, the Japanese commander directly ordered the horses to be hidden in the bunker, and all the cavalry dismounted to fight, and used the pre-arranged firepower to kill the rushing Cossack cavalry, leaving their corpses strewn across the field.

Of course, machine guns had already appeared in that era, which posed no small threat to the Phalanx.

However, the Russo-Japanese War was still more than ten years before World War I, and trenches and barbed wire had not been used on a large scale, nor had machine guns been put into use on a large scale.

Therefore, the Japanese army compared the pros and cons of the cavalry of both sides, and chose to dismount and fight on foot, which was affirmed by military strategists in the same period and later countries, showing that this tactic was feasible.

Now, Tangning also felt that her own army should try to avoid confronting the Cossack cavalry of this era as much as possible.

Before the opponent approaches, dismount and fight to consume its vital strength, and then consider concentrated annihilation.

Ainengqi carried out Tangning's tactical policy. When he saw the enemy abandoning his hollow phalanx and targeting his own cavalry, he immediately followed his usual training and ordered all the cavalry to dismount and fight on foot.

There was really no time to build fortifications, otherwise, Ainengqi would have liked to dig a few trenches and install barbed wire.

Because the entire army was obsessed with Tangning, the King of Light, they all carefully studied and implemented the tactics Tangning had created.

(End of this chapter)