When a battle breaks out unexpectedly, both sides of the battle must be a little chaotic, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, at this time there are many factors that determine the outcome of the victory, there are training, courage, the reaction of the generals, there is also the gap in weapons and equipment, and so on.

However, when they were both Mongolian cavalrymen, the difference between these factors between the two sides was not too big, and even if the prestige of Toktok really began to fight, the effect would not be as obvious as usual.

The biggest variable in this battle was Li Rusong and his 5,000 horsemen. As Li Chengliang's "head of the border commanders", these 5,000 cavalrymen are not ordinary 5,000 cavalrymen, and they can be said to be indeed upper-class in terms of combat experience, physical fitness, and desire to fight. Needless to say, Yishui's private equipment is by no means comparable to the scum of the previous government workshops.

As we all know, Li Chengliang is different from Qi Jiguang in governing the army, Qi Jiguang is famous for leading troops in the system, while Li Chengliang relies on his personal prestige and charisma, rewards meritorious soldiers very generously, and relies on allowing him to boost morale with glory and wealth. Therefore, later, "Chengliang Zhuzhan power borrowed from the athletes." Later, the athletes Li Pinghu, Li Ning, Li Xing, Qin Deyi, and Sun Shoulian were all rich and noble, and they had a special city, and it was difficult to revive the twilight. ”

The enterprising spirit of the early years was lost, and the achievements gradually declined from prosperity to decline. First, there was cowardice, and then there were rumors of covering up defeat and killing good people and risking merit, although these were all done by his subordinates, but Li Chengliang could not escape the blame after all.

However, that was the original history of Wanli about 20 years before the beginning of the signs, and at that time Zhu Yijun adopted the method of reusing Li Rusong, intending to replace the old Li Chengliang with him, so the Liaodong cavalry was excited for a while, until Li Rusong died unexpectedly in battle, this "twilight is difficult to revive" is really irretrievable.

At this time, the Liaodong cavalry was still basically at its peak, and there was no obvious decline in various "indicators". The reason why the Liaodong Iron Cavalry was able to defeat the Mongol and Jurchen Iron Cavalry in nearly 40 years was not because of the so-called "three-eyed weapon" that can be used as a hammer as a continuous fire, but because of two points: willing to spend money and not afraid of playing with life.

Willing to spend money is a good habit that Tieling Li is famous all over the world, and the sentence just mentioned "Chengliang Zhuzhan power is borrowed from athletes." Later, the athletes Li Pinghu, Li Ning, Li Xing, Qin Deyi, and Sun Shoulian were all rich and noble, and they owned the city. "It's proof. There must be a brave man under the so-called heavy reward, an ordinary martial artist, who had no hope in his life, suddenly had such a beautiful future, who is not willing to fight and try it? However, the reason why this method did not last long is precisely because after the generals were too rich, their life goals were realized, and they began to indulge in pleasure, and they became "twilight".

As for not being afraid of playing with life, the specific performance of Li Chengliang and Li Rusong during this period was to charge personally. Li Chengliang has been personally leading the charge for so many years, so his subordinates dare not play with their lives, and Li Rusong's temper is harder than his father's, and he must be in front of the battle in every battle, and he is even more convinced by his cavalry.

In terms of tactics, the Li family's iron cavalry "and the battle mostly use iron horses, listed as a horizontal formation, send bows and arrows to rush the thief, if the thief formation does not move, then slowly retreat and then rush. After more than a dozen times, there was no one who could not be defeated. It can be seen that the Liaodong iron cavalry in the original history, like the Mongolian cavalry, was an archer, not a pure musket cavalry.

However, in this life, due to the emergence of high pragmatism, the riding gun produced by Jinghua has surpassed the ordinary riding bow due to its range, accuracy and lethality, so Li Rusong arrived in Taiyuan only half a year later, he spared no expense for his department, and replaced the riding gun Wanli one-style riding gun.

According to the news reported to Gao Pragmatic by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Jinghua, this matter was still a little troublesome within the Li family in Tieling at that time, and many Li family members questioned whether Li Rusong did this because he did not take Li Chengliang as an old man, because Li Chengliang had already taken refuge in the Xin School at that time, and the relationship with the Shi School was quite tense.

Many people's attitudes are: Since you have fallen out with Gao Pragmatic, what are you going to do with his firearms and give him money? As a result, he began to doubt Li Rusong's position.

However, the affairs of the Li family obviously have to be decided by Li Chengliang in the end, and Li Chengliang's decision made everyone stunned, he only said: "It's in Shanxi, or it has to be." Then he didn't bother to ask about it.

This attitude made everyone a little confused, and the news that Gao Pragmatic got was that after this family meeting, Li Rusong's two uncles had a secret talk with his eldest brother Li Chengliang, but it was unknown what they talked about. No matter how powerful the "black top" is, it has not yet reached the level where it can buy Li Chengliang's younger brother.

In fact, Li Rusong is a very simple person, he doesn't care who his father is messing with now, the principle he believes in is simple and rude: the people under my command listen to me and can fight, then I can face anyone without fear.

Don't look at him in his thirties, in fact, he is almost the same as Huo Quai, who believes in the supremacy of bravery, and all difficulties can be overcome with courage and force.

Since Jinghua riding a spear is better than riding a bow, of course he changed it, and there is no other reason. And this change of clothing also played a corresponding role in this battle, shooting at will in the charge, three shots crushed the five thousand fire fall Chibu cavalry in a state of readiness - the reason why it is three shots, not because the Jinghua cavalry gun can already be fired continuously, but because the cavalry gun is much shorter than the rifle (so the performance is also worse), Li Rusong is equipped with three each, loaded in advance, relying on the advantage of the flintlock pistol to do three consecutive shots in the charge.

The difficulty in this is nothing more than a quick change of gun, and this difficulty is certainly not difficult for the Li family's horsemen, how their riding skills are, the Mongols and Jurchens who died in their hands can bear witness with their heads.

In fact, speaking of which, the four words of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry are not as suitable for the later "Guanning Iron Cavalry" as Li Chengliang's army, because the actual record of the Guanning Iron Cavalry is too stretched, and most of the time it is in the transfer - what is the transfer in? Don't dare to fight, run; If you can't beat it, you can run.

In many books in later generations, the "Guanning Iron Cavalry" was praised as the strongest team in the late Ming Dynasty and the only army that could "face up" with the Manchu Eight Banners. But if you really dig deeper into history, you will find that most of the strong reputation of the "Guanning Iron Cavalry" is blown. This army was nominally cavalry, but it was all about defending the city; Nominally, it is the army of the Ming Dynasty, but it can't be fought by the Manchu Dynasty, but the combat effectiveness of the Southern Ming Dynasty is off the charts, such an army cannot be called an "iron horse", and it is actually difficult to live up to its reputation.

For example, according to the record of "Ming Xizong Records", in the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), Sun Chengzong took the initiative to attack Houjin, 700 Guanning cavalry and 800 infantry, and was defeated by the Eight Banners Army of less than 100 people in the Battle of Liuhe. The commander, the vanguard, and the overseers were all killed. This was the only time in history that the Guanning Army took the initiative to attack Houjin.

Later, in the Battle of the Hunhe River, 5,000 white pole soldiers and 3,000 Qijia troops fought bravely in the face of the 60,000 Eight Banners Army, and the main forces of the Eight Banners were all gnawed and crushed, waiting for reinforcements. And the 30,000 Guan Ning Tie cavalry as reinforcements went to the rescue, but they were easily repelled by the 20,000 people of Huang Taiji. Then Guan Ningjun was so frightened that he hurriedly fled back to the city, and refused to fight until the white pole soldiers and the Qi family army ran out of ammunition and food, and the whole army was annihilated.

After the Battle of Daling River and the Battle of Songjin, Wu Xiang (Wu Sangui's father), the chief officer of the Guanning Army, took the lead in escaping, resulting in the annihilation of all foreign reinforcements.

Later, in the hands of Yuan Chonghuan, the Liaodong War pursued the so-called strategy of "relying on the strong city and using the giant cannon", and the Guanning cavalry, as a cavalry, "repelled" several attacks of the Eight Banners Army in the battle of defending the city, which was also a rare record that the Guanning Iron Cavalry could get a few times.

After the death of Yuan Chonghuan, the supreme leader of the Guanning Iron Cavalry became Zu Dashou, under the leadership of Zu Dashou, the Guanning Iron Cavalry continued to fight against the Manchu Eight Banner Army, and finally lost the Houjin Army in the Battle of Songjin in 1641 AD, and Zu Dashou led his troops to surrender to the Taqing Dynasty.

However, at that time, only part of the Guanning Iron Cavalry who surrendered with Zu Dashou was followed, and some were led by Zu Dashou's nephew Wu Sangui. Later, Wu Sangui also surrendered to the Tarqing Dynasty, and most of the Guanning cavalry became the Eight Banners Army, which entered the Guannai under the command of the Tartar Qing and fought against Li Zicheng and the Nanming army. 17

Although it was not possible to fight the Qing soldiers, after shaving their hair and descending to the Qing Dynasty, the Guanning cavalry fought against the Southern Ming Dynasty and Li Zicheng, but they were invincible, and their combat effectiveness was off the charts, and they made great contributions to the Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into China.

In order to get military salaries from the imperial court, Li Chengliang raised his own respect, and this cavalry was more "privatized" than the private soldiers of other Ming army generals, and the worst thing is that they have always regarded themselves as a "national army" like the Qi family army, but only regard the army as a shortcut to promotion and wealth.

Compared with other armies of the Ming Dynasty at that time, the Liaodong cavalry had various privileges, such as double salary, the right to distribute the spoils of war, the shares of the military tun, and even a lot of various benefits and generous settling-in expenses, and even disability and retirement expenses.

As a result, the Liaodong cavalry has become a de facto self-financing military group.

Nurhachi's Eight Banners system was also born from the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, so the "Guanning Iron Cavalry" and the "Eight Banners Cavalry" are essentially derived from the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, the difference is that the camps of the two are different, and the most fundamental essence is that they are self-financing military groups.

However, compared with the Eight Banners Cavalry, the inertia of the Guanning Iron Cavalry was much higher than that of the latter. Because Guan Ning Tieqi also has an important source of income, that is, the military salary given by the Ming Dynasty, but the Eight Banners Army does not have it, and everything has to be robbed by himself.

In this way, you can see the strength and weakness of the high and low, the children of the poor are already in charge, people rely on themselves to rob everything, you sit in the city and the court will pay money, who do you say has a stronger will to fight, who is more willing to fight hard to win the battle?

Although Yuan Chonghuan's strategy and tactics were a mess, at least when he was alive, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was still "listening to greetings" on the surface, but since Yuan Chonghuan's death, Zu Dashou has basically been in a state of listening to tunes and not listening to announcements, and in fact has become an independent armed force independent of the military system of the Ming Dynasty.

When it affected the interests of Guanning Iron Cavalry, Zu Dashou was consistent with the Ming Dynasty towards Houjin, and he was particularly patriotic. But in order to preserve his strength, he can also announce the surrender of Houjin.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, with the further collapse of the Ming court's economy, it was becoming more and more difficult for the imperial court to issue military salaries, when Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry had not received military salaries for almost a year.

And what about after the surrender of the Tatars? The combat thinking of the Guanning cavalry has completely changed, at this time, the Central Plains in the Guannai is no longer the object of their protection, but a treasure land full of food, treasures, and women, waiting for them to plunder, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry no longer has to squeeze in Liaodong to resist the Eight Banners Cavalry, in exchange for "dog food".

This is "liberating the productive forces"! (Inevitably, it was barred, and it was specifically stated that this sentence was a mocking tone)

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the Guanning Iron Cavalry suddenly exploded.

Sad or ridiculous, or lamentable?

The reason why Gao Pragmatism has to stand on the opposite side of Li Chengliang is mainly because of this, not Li Chengliang's other problems - most of those problems are there among the Ming generals, and Gao Pragmatism can't manage them for a while, so he basically doesn't care much about it.

Gao pragmatic is not an idealist who has just come out of the ivory tower, the fundamental problem of the Ming Dynasty does not change, how can it be possible to expect those generals to give up their hands? He doesn't make money, and he takes guards like Hanako to fight with people? That's going to die.

Since he has made money, do you still expect everyone to use all this money to maintain the army like Qi Jiguang? Why don't you expect everyone in the Ming officialdom to be Haigang Peak!

At this time, after Li Rusong's troops defeated the Huoluo Chiqian army, the three cavalry spears were inserted on the right side of the horse's back, and they all drew out cold weapons, and continued to charge forward without stopping.

This hand often appears in cold weapon warfare, the purpose is to directly defeat the opponent's command system, forming a situation of defeat like a mountain, similar to Li Shimin's Xuanjia elite cavalry's "rolling up the flag through the camp", is one of the elite cavalry's most advantageous tactics.

And Tokh and Ilduqi have also led troops to kill at this time, although both of them are fighting with experience, but it is just right for the situation at this moment - Li Rusong's department has already cut into it like a blade, and as long as he continues to tear this wound at this time, the other party will either die or be injured.

Of course, Huo Luochi and Zhu Li Rabbit knew that this sudden change made them precarious, and at this time, Zhu Li Tu was relatively close, and he didn't have time to make other plans, so he took his own soldiers to meet him, intending to block Li Rusong and strive to create opportunities for others, so that they could use the method that the Mongols were most accustomed to fighting and withdrawing - of course, it can also be said that they were fighting while retreating.

According to Litu's idea, as long as this goal is achieved, even if today's defeat is inevitable, the casualties are still controllable, and there is still a chance to make a comeback.

However, the rabbit made a mistake. As soon as the two armies intersected, he was discovered by Li Rusong, the Taiyuan general soldier who believed in martial arts roared and patted his horse over, his hand raised his sword, and the rabbit who was too late to react in the future slashed his head cleanly.

A major defeat of the "Qinghai Erkou" has inevitably occurred.

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