If you want to say that the combat effectiveness of the cavalry, the strongest in the past 200 years, is the iron cavalry when the Xianbei Yuwen Department entered the customs from outside the pass, only a hundred thousand cavalry, it swept the entire Jiangbei and became a famous empire in the Central Plains.

Until the Northern Zhou Dynasty, even though the Xianbei nobles had degenerated to the point where it was difficult to get on the horse, the standard cavalry of the Northern Zhou Dynasty still had to beat the Southern Jin Dynasty, but the cavalry could not defend the city, so Ye Sheng took more than 100,000 or 200,000 foot soldiers and forced them into Yandu.

Up to now, it has been forty or fifty years since the fall of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the Great Jin Dynasty has not caught up with the Northern Zhou Dynasty in terms of cavalry and archery kung fu or the quality and quantity of cavalry, and now the border army will keep a certain number of cavalry, and the hundreds of thousands of central forbidden troops placed in the capital have only 5,000 cavalry, and the quality is worrying.

These 5,000 cavalry, although they can fight on horses, most of them can shoot arrows with bows on horses, but the accuracy of archery on horses is far inferior to the current Yuwen Zhubu in the north, and can only be used for mobile interference, far less than the level of combat effectiveness of the Yuwen Ministry.

But even then, it's enough.

After all, the imperial court sent them out, not to let them ride on horses and kill the enemy with crossbow arrows, but to let them use the mobility of cavalry to throw the heavenly thunder of the imperial court into the southwest army formation.

The two thousand cavalry were the first to go out of the city, but they were not in a hurry to charge, and after the main forces of the four Zhichong Mansions were almost in position in front, these cavalry were divided into two groups, interspersed with the two wings of the Southwest Army from both sides, preparing to break up the formation of the Southwest Army with heavenly thunder.

These people are all lightly armed, in addition to bows and arrows, each with two to four heavenly thunders, their task is to smoothly throw the heavenly thunder into the military formation of the Southwest Army, disrupt the formation of the Southwest Army, so that the four Zhichong Mansion in front can successfully break through the defense line of the Southwest Army and defeat these Southwest rebels in one fell swoop!

The cavalry on both sides smoothly entered the two wings of the Southwest Army, because of the high mobility of the cavalry, the crossbow arrows in the front of the Southwest Army did not cause a large number of casualties to these cavalry, and less than 100 of the more than 2,000 cavalry were shot down by bows and arrows, and most of the rest broke into the two wings of the Southwest Army.

In charge of commanding this cavalry, it was Chong Xuantong's second grandson Chong E, who went to Yunzhou City after he was sixteen years old, this time returning to Beijing from Yunzhou City with his grandfather, and taking care of his grandfather Chong Xuantong.

There are not many cavalry in the capital, but there are a lot of cavalry in Yunzhou City, so it is natural for Chong'e, a breed who has been on horseback for many years, to serve as the commander of this cavalry.

He also brought five or six heavenly thunderbolts with him.

After breaking into the position of the two wings, Chong E immediately opened his mouth and shouted: "Brothers, find a gap to penetrate it, don't fall in love after entering, withdraw immediately after losing the heavenly thunder, and then stop the next intersperse!" ”

After receiving his order, more than a thousand cavalry on the left flank immediately dispersed and rushed towards the left flank of the Southwest Army.

At this time, in the military formation of the Southwest Army, thousands of people suddenly appeared, some of these people were holding strange iron pipes, some were holding longbows, under the order of the generals of the Southwest Army, with the sound of bowstring concussion, the longbow shot arrows, and there was a loud noise, and the strange iron pipe also burst out of fire!

Arrows, and lead bullets, shot at these forbidden cavalry!

Chong'e's face changed slightly, but he didn't panic, he opened his mouth and shouted: "Left and right, don't rush in a straight line!" ”

This kind of simple combat order is put into the cavalry of the Yunzhou army, and there is no problem, but the cavalry of the forbidden army is obviously inferior to the Yunzhou cavalry because of the lack of daily training.

He gritted his teeth when he saw it, and he shouted angrily: "The horse can't slow down, can't slow down!" ”

The reason why cavalry is noble is because of their valuable mobility, and once they lose their speed on the battlefield, they are equivalent to losing everything.

After the first round of salvo fire of the Southwest Army, more than 1,000 cavalry under the command of Chong'e fell more than 100 in unison!

Most of them were shot down by lead bullets.

After all, most soldiers in this era will not panic too much in the face of bows and arrows, but in the face of the fire guns that they have never seen before, they have no experience and are directly knocked to the ground!

The firecrackers of the Southwest Army were systematically trained, and they would divide into three rows for each shot, and then let the front, middle, and rear three rows take turns firing to offset the reloading time, so not long after the first salvo, the sound of the second salvo sounded!

"Bang bang bang!"

After the second volley, these forbidden cavalry fell dozens more!

After three rounds of volleys, at least 300 of the more than 1,000 cavalry led by Chong'e died under the crossbows and firearms, but the speed that the cavalry was most proud of was also reflected at this time!

After three volleys, these cavalry had successfully rushed into the formations on both flanks of the Southwestern Army!

Chong E inserted into the Southwest Army formation in the first echelon, his face was full of anger, he took out a heavenly thunder from the bag on his waist, lit it with a fire fold, and threw it fiercely in the Southwest Army Arms Position!

At the same time, the cavalry of the other first echelons also smoothly entered the military formations on both wings of the Southwest Army, ignited the heavenly thunder in their hands, and threw them into the military formation of the Southwest Army!

The lead of the thunder is rapidly igniting.

But these firecrackers and archers and crossbowmen did not panic much, although the heavenly thunder thrown by the imperial court was sometimes only ten meters or even a few meters away from them!

There were generals of the Southwest Army, who reacted quickly, and they shouted loudly: "All lie down!" ”

"Lie down!"

That's where the experience comes in.

The Southwest Army's contact with firearms was far longer than that of the imperial army, and the earliest Hanzhou Army was already fighting with firearms even in the eighth year of Taikang, and after so many years, they accumulated rich experience in firearms, and also had a lot of experience in dealing with firearms.

Of course, there is also a lot of credit to Li Xin, who personally taught the Southwest Army many ways to deal with firearms.

In response to the thunder this kind of "earth bomb", the first time to lie down, is undoubtedly a very practical method, first of all, the thunder, even if it is the southwest thunder, as long as it is not thrown on the face, the first time it is difficult to kill, most of the secondary damage caused by the splash damage of the pottery shard.

Therefore, as long as you lie down on the spot, you can avoid the impact of the thunder, and you can also reduce your own damage area.

After all, the pottery shards of the heavenly thunder are radially divergent, and it is impossible to fall from the sky.

With the explosion of the first round of thunder in the imperial court, only a few dozen of these lying officers and soldiers of the Southwest Army were seriously injured, and most of the rest were slightly injured or even unharmed.

"Bang bang bang!"

Three more volleys, and once again the cavalry of the Forbidden Army fell in a large area!

Seeing that the thunder was useless, Chong'e was completely red-eyed, he hatefully threw the thunder in the bag aside, took out the long knife from his waist, waved his arms, and roared angrily: "Brothers, don't throw the thunder, draw the knife with me, and kill these thieves!" ”

"Hack these thieves to death!"