What does a true Hundred Battles Elite look like?

At least in this era of alternating hot and cold weapons, a strong army that can crisscross the land should use the following advantages.

First of all, a powerful cavalry! Including heavy cavalry for shock and light cavalry for reconnaissance, harassment, control of the battlefield.

Because the battles of this era are all prelude to the continuous outpost battles. Countless light cavalry squads will repeatedly entangle, probe, hedge, and fight in front of their respective main forces in front of the battlefield. And the side that has the upper hand in this series of conflicts will be able to control the battlefield to the greatest extent, covering the opponent's line of sight and covering the deployment of its own main forces.

And the heavy cavalry often plays a decisive role on the battlefield of this era!

Artillery bombardment, rifle fire, salvo fire, and infantry battles were often used to pave the way for heavy cavalry charges. When the belligerents were thrown into disarray under the enemy's gunfire, rifles, bows and arrows, and infantry fighting, it was the turn of the heavy cavalry, clad in strong armor and spear-wielding.

If there were no heavy cavalry available, it might be possible to win by relying solely on infantry to attack, but it is unlikely that the maximum results would be achieved.

And if the opponent has good cavalry, then the victory that the artillery and infantry can achieve will have to be discounted.

In terms of light and heavy cavalry, the advantages of the Qing Dynasty are beyond doubt!

Because all the Eight Banners Manchuria are light, heavy, foot, and shooting in one! The Eight Banners of Mongolia are also cavalry, and a considerable part of the Eight Banners Han Army is also a horse team.

Among the total number of two or three hundred thousand Qing soldiers, how can they fight on horseback, all of them are around 100,000!

And among the Manchu army of the four banners of blue, red, yellow, and yellow that followed Haoge to the south, there were no less than 20,000 men who could fight on horseback!

The second is artillery!

Now it is not arquebuses or flintlock pistols that have not yet matured that support most of the hot weapons armies, but artillery!

The dense infantry phalanx, which was used to resist the onslaught of the cavalry, suffered greatly in the face of the bombardment of the new artillery...... Therefore, the side that does not have the advantage of cavalry must have a strong artillery, and only in this way can it regain some disadvantages when fighting in formation.

If there is neither a strong cavalry nor an advantageous artillery, then don't think about any field battles.

Even if the Morris phalanx can be put on a good-looking position, in front of the artillery and cavalry of the Qing army, it is just cannon fodder and prey.

Under the condition that the artillery could still support the situation, the European-style method of warfare was introduced, and a large number of infantry equipped with firearms were used, and as long as the method was used correctly, their role should not be underestimated.

The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties who participated in the Battle of Fengyang in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty had their own merits in the three aspects of cavalry, artillery and infantry.

The Qing army naturally had an overwhelming advantage in cavalry, so the Ming army from the camp north of Jiangbei could only barely support a cavalry search curtain near the large army - this was achieved by relying on the home advantage and the numerous rivers in Huainan.

In terms of artillery, the Qing army had a large number of Hongyi cannons, and its strength was not weak. However, Zhu Cihong's New Army had a group of Western gunners and the New Army gunners they had taught them by hand, and although they suffered losses in the caliber of artillery (mainly three-pounder regimental guns), they had obvious technical advantages and could still gain a little upper hand.

In terms of infantry, the New Army Northbound Corps, which is composed of 12 model regiments and 8 ordinary infantry regiments, certainly has absolute superiority.

The 50,000-strong army of 20 regiments alone can overwhelm Hauge in numbers, and the 12 model regiments as the main force have all completed the training of "Morris tactics", and the ratio of guns and spears has reached one to one, and a total of nearly 12,000 bird guns and turtledove legs!

The firepower is so powerful that the Qing army's infantry, which is dominated by the green battalion soldiers, can not resist at all...... This is also where Zhu Cihong's confidence lies in daring to fight a decisive battle!

Zhu Cihong is confident, and his opponent Haoge is of course also full of confidence!

Now Haoge's Chinese army camp is located on the east bank of Haoshui, and it is only five or six miles away from the east wall of Fengyang City. It was a large cavalry battalion with open access and a great range of control, and the sentinels were placed far away. Next to the camp is Haoshui, which can not only be used as a support, but also convenient for horses to drink. There was no deep ditch or high fortification on the east side of the camp, but a shallow trench was dug and a breastwork was built with the excavated earth.

The ditch and the breast wall start from the outside of Linhuai County, which is close to Fengyang City, and end at Donghaoshui, a tributary of Haoshui, with a total length of more than ten miles. The defense line of this trench and the chest wall is used to isolate the communication between Linhuai County and Fengyang - Linhuai County, as the name suggests, is close to the Huai River, there is Linhuai Wharf in the north of the city, the city has changed the fortress, and it is still the place where the governor of Jiangbei and the governor of Fengyang are stationed. To the east of Linhuai, there are three fortresses of Wuhe, Sizhou and Xuyi along the Huai River, and Huang Degong's army is now placed in Sizhou and Xuyi.

Therefore, in the eyes of Haoge, Ao Bai and others, most of the reinforcements of the Ming army came from the direction of Linhuai along the waterway. Therefore, after crossing the Huai, he immediately went around to the east of Fengyang City, controlled Haoshui, set up a large camp, dug a trench, built a breastwork, and even prepared to build a fort at the confluence of Haoshui and Huai River - this fort is not far from the northeast corner of Fengyang City, and it is only three or four miles away.

Therefore, the Hongyi cannon erected there can not only block the Huai River, but also be used to bombard Fengyang City!

In the southeast of Fengyang, Haoge and Aobai did not build any fortifications, and completely relied on cavalry for vigilance and blockade. With the ability of the Eight Banners Cavalry, the enemy can be discovered by them from a long distance. If it comes, it is also a cavalry, and it has its own Eight Banners Iron Cavalry to deal with. If the brigade of foot soldiers approaches from the southeast land route, hehe, it will be looking for death!

In addition to this Chinese army camp, Haoge also set up a front army camp in the south of Fengyang City in the Ming Emperor's Lin, and a rear army camp in the south of the Changhuai Acropolis in the west of Fengyang City. Kong Youde and Shang Kexi were respectively responsible for leading the guards.

In addition, in the southeast of the Changhuai Acropolis and the northwest of Fengyang City, a fort was also built, which could also block the Huai River and bombard the Fengyang City Wall.

The three large battalions, plus the two forts built in the southeast of Changhuaiwei and Haoshuikou, surrounded Fengyang City.

Because Fengyang City was not piled up into a fortress, and the city wall was in disrepair, and it was destroyed by Gao Yingxiang's soldiers and horses once in the eighth year of Chongzhen, so it couldn't stop the bombardment of thirty or forty Hongyi cannons!

So at this time, Hauge and Aobai both felt that they were already undefeated...... Even if you can't hang Zhu Cihong's army out of Nanjing and beat it violently, as long as you push Fengyang City with Hongyi cannons, it will be a great victory!

At this time, in the camp, it was a group of people shouting and neighing. Somehow, several teams of sentinels who had been sent out to guard came back together. The clothed minions dragged the tired war horses to the edge of the water to sweat, and then unsaddled the horses and brushed the horses carefully. Some of the eight banner masters took off their cotton armor and looked for a piece of yin to drink water and wipe their sweat. The three leading Niu Lu Zhangjing didn't have time to unload their armor, so they rushed to Haoge's Chinese army tent. The order flag was shown to the white-armored soldiers guarding the tent, and then they were let in.

Hauge and Ao Bai are in the big tent, Ao Bai is studying the "Analects" - now that Confucius can bless invulnerability, of course Ao Bai has to read the "Analects", and Hao Ge, who is afraid of heat, is sitting there in a thin suit, looking at the Tang newspaper sent by Mandahai. The contents of these Tang newspapers are not only related to the Huaibei War, but some also report the battle situation in the direction of Shandong and Xuzhou - Duoduo finally surrounded Qufu City this time, and it was not completely encircled, but a large camp was built in the southeast, northwest, and northwest of Qufu City.

But at the same time, Duoduo is in trouble in Caozhou again! Li Huajing, the chief soldier of the Ming army in the Caozhou area, and Gong Wencai, the deputy general, were very stubborn, and they were not willing to submit to the siege on all sides, but continued to attack the territory controlled by the Qing army, which made Duoduo very angry. Therefore, he sent Gushan Ezhen Boluo to lead his troops to Caozhou, Juye, and Jiaxiang to investigate.

Just when Hauge was a little gloating about the trouble encountered by Duoduo, the three Niu Lu Zhang Jing of the Zhenglan Banner under his command walked in and beat a thousand children, and then one of them reported loudly: "Lord Wang, the minions and others have encountered Nikan's brigade of cavalry in the area of Dagunling, Huangfu Mountain, and Shigu Mountain!" ”