In addition, the common tactics of the Mongols include flank attacks and key piercing. I think it was with these tactics that they added a large number of horses to fight from East Asia to Europe.

But no matter how good things are, they can't beat time, three or four hundred years have passed, and this style of play has completely lagged behind the times, especially after the popularization of firearms in large numbers, it has been abused to the point that it is incomplete.

On the vast steppe, more than 2,000 Mongolian cavalrymen were divided into several rows in front and back, and under the leadership of Teng Jite and Mang Gudai, they waved their bows and arrows and scimitars and quickly pressed towards the Qing army's position.

The men and horses on both sides were still nearly a mile away, and the cannons lined up in front of the formation began to roar. Although Shuo Lei did not carry heavy artillery because of the need to march quickly, he still carried seven or eight light guns of three or four pounds.

As several iron balls flew into the cavalry of the Sunit Division, a cloud of blood and minced flesh was immediately lifted. Fortunately, the light cavalry in front of the Mongols were loosely arranged, and each shell could only kill two or three people at most, but even so, the terrifying momentum of the artillery still caused their formation to be somewhat disorganized.

When Teng Jisi's men and horses advanced more than a hundred steps, the cannons on the opposite side began to change to scattered shells, and at the same time, small cannons such as tiger squat cannons also began to fire. The casualties of the Mongol army immediately multiplied, and the light cavalry at the front had lost at least two or three hundred men.

Because it was a U-shaped formation, the men and horses on both wings of the Sunit Department were the first to contact the Qing army. According to their usual style of play, the main task of the light cavalry on both flanks was to harass and pull the enemy formation with bows and arrows, creating opportunities for the men and horses in the middle.

The cavalry on both flanks of the Mongols received minimal artillery fire and were fairly well manned. Harhu, who commanded the flank attack, had just seen that his Chinese army had suffered a lot of losses, and knew that he had to open the situation by himself.

He raised his eyes to look at the Manchurian position, estimated that there was still about an arrow and a half away, and immediately raised the hard bow in his hand and shouted, "Warriors of the Sunit Division, follow me!" ”

The Mongol cavalry, which had been trotting forward, immediately whipped their horses, and this formation accelerated sharply in the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, and galloped towards the Qing army in a column, while all the cavalry drew their feathered arrows and put them on the strings, and drew their bows with all their strength.

However, as with most of the Cold Weapon Age, they were greeted by neat rows of birds.

Before Harhu's cavalry could enter the firing range, the Qing army's gunners were the first to start shooting, and the Mongols were immediately shot and fell off their horses.

After two rounds of blows, the effective killing range of the bow and arrow was finally reached, and Harhu immediately ordered the arrow to be released with red eyes.

When it comes to horse archery skills, the Mongols, who grew up on horseback, are far stronger than the Manchus. For a while, the bowstring hummed endlessly, and hundreds of light-feathered arrows rained down on the two wings of the Qing army.

The sword and shield men in the front row of Jianyu immediately raised their shields in unison, and most of the arrows were nailed to their shields. Even though dozens of arrows drilled through the gaps in the shield, this kind of light arrow with a long range had limited lethality, not to mention the elite infantry armor of the whole body cotton armor, even ordinary scale armor could not penetrate it.

Although the Mongols were extremely fast, six or seven rounds of arrows were fired in a few moments of galloping. But except for a very small number of arrows that directly hit the face and delayed, they basically failed to cause much damage to the Manchurians, let alone disrupt their formation.

However, at the moment when the two sides approached just now, the Mongols ate two more rounds of firearms, and the light cavalry lacking armor was shot and killed hundreds of people at once.

The light cavalry led by Mang Gudai in the middle of the Sunit division also began to charge, and a large number of light feather arrows were shot towards Jianlu with the power of the forward horsepower. But almost the same as on Harhu's side, they were greeted by a dense crowd of birds.

However, the lethality of bows and arrows is still difficult to match with firearms, especially the Mongols' bows are still relatively rough. He shot several rounds of bows and arrows with Mang Gudai, but his own losses were greater than those of the enemy.

The principle of the Mongols was that if the enemy's formation was not chaotic, the heavy cavalry would never break through.

Seeing this, Teng Jite in the back row had to order the heavy cavalry under his command to turn back and regroup to wait for the light cavalry to achieve results.

On the other side, the Qing army followed the method of advancing round shooting, and after eight or nine rounds of volleys, the infantry phalanx steadily advanced ten zhang. Then the cannon was again pushed back to the front of the formation, and another round of bombardment began.

Teng Jite felt this grievance in his heart, he wanted to attack, but he couldn't attack it, but he took a step back but wanted to eat the enemy's shells.

Mang Gudai led his team past the two flanks of the enemy formation, and was about to regroup in a circle to attack with bows and arrows again, when he suddenly heard the dense and heavy sound of horses' hooves on his side.

He estimated that it should be a full cavalry, and hurriedly ordered his men and horses to line up in place, facing the direction of the enemy cavalry attack and preparing for engagement.

The people of Jianzhou were quite familiar with the dispatch of the Mongols, and Shuo Lei arranged for Jialazhang Jing Alin to lead 700 elite horsemen with a white flag to wait two miles away on the west side early in the morning. First, if the Mongol flank attack tactics worked, these horses could be used to cover the flanks. Second, if the Mongols did not gain an advantage in the front, Alin could take advantage of their formation to carry out a surprise attack.

To say that the Mongols still have a strong and brave momentum in the war, although they only hastily gathered a formation, they still rushed towards the Jianyu cavalry under the leadership of Mang Gudai.

The tactics of the cavalry on both sides were taught by the same father, and when they were one hundred and twenty or thirty paces apart, they drew their bows at the same time. At the same time, they did not fight hard with each other, but slightly deviated to their left side, and the two armies staggered, and the bows and arrows in their hands kept shooting at each other.

However, the refined recurve bow used by Jianyu was higher than that of the Mongol bow in terms of power and operability, and the Qing army was well-armoured, although the Mongols had superior bow skills, but under the repeated shooting, the people of Mang Gudai suffered heavy casualties, and soon they could not support it, and gradually scattered and fled in three directions.

Seeing that his light cavalry was scattered, Teng Jite glanced to the south from a distance, although he only had a large area of pasture in his sight, he knew that all the herdsmen, women and children, cattle and sheep in Rolling Gatai were there. If this battle does not repel the Manchurians, they will not be able to defend themselves.

A heavy iron ball slashed not far from him, smashing the upper body of the three cavalrymen, and the screams pierced his eardrums.

Teng Jite gritted his teeth, pulled out his scimitar, and ordered in a deep voice, "Form a formation, and charge the enemy in the middle of the formation!" He secretly said in his heart that if he fought this hard and could kill the Manchurian commanders, there might be hope for this battle.

Soon, more than 1,000 Mongolian heavy cavalry formed a column of five rows in front and back, pressed their scimitars against the saddle, and began to slowly press towards the Jianyu Chinese army.

In fact, the Qing army in Shuolei was only more than 3,000 forwards, which was not much more than the Sunit soldiers and horses in Rolling Gatai. At present, the Mongols concentrated all their remaining forces in the center, and for a time they had a local numerical advantage.

However, as if he did not see the heavy cavalry rushing in front of him, he still advanced steadily ten zhang, rolled out the cannon, and lit the fire......