First of all, it is important to establish that it is very difficult to fight cavalry with infantry.

However, the difficulty does not mean that the cavalry has some kind of suppression of the infantry, but it is not the case, but it is very difficult to train an infantry unit that dares to face the roaring of the iron cavalry but still does not move like a mountain and persists in fighting bravely.

That is, the difficulty is not in the infantry against the cavalry itself, but in the training and organization of the infantry itself, which can resist the attacks of the cavalry.

In the era when there were no saddles and stirrups, most of the cavalry fought on foot, and both sides used horses to speed up the march to the front, and then dismounted and fought on foot.

They have exercised their leg muscles since childhood, so that their legs have a strong strength to clamp the horse's belly, so as to free their hands to fight to fire bows and crossbows, this kind of people are few, and the Central Plains Dynasty, as an agricultural dynasty, can rarely train such troops.

Relatively speaking, the nomads grew up on horseback, and their legs naturally had strong strength to clamp the horse's belly, but even so, it was difficult for them to hold on to a long horse fight, so they relied on cavalry to defeat the Han army.

This has not changed until now, after the emergence of stirrups and saddles, the Central Plains Dynasty was able to train qualified cavalry, but at the same time the advantage of the nomads was greater, the confrontation between the cavalry and the cavalry escalated, and the cavalry became more powerful.

Especially at the end of the two Song Dynasty, the Jin and Mongols used the technology of the Han people to play cavalry tactics to the extreme, and the Song army, which lacked horses, training and the will to fight, was defeated like a mountain, so it left the Han people with the impression that the cavalry was invincible and that cavalry could only be used to deal with cavalry.

But this is absolutely not the case, and it is definitely not just cavalry that is needed to deal with cavalry.

When dealing with the Japanese, Xiao Ruxun's firearms array still needed large objects such as shield carts to resist bullets, but this time, the Mongols did not have muskets, and under the long-distance attack, they did not have any firearms, only steel knives and bows and crossbows, and Xiao Ruxun's 3,000 Zhennan troops were enough to deal with it.

The shield soldier builds a shield defense line on the outer layer, and the gunner pierces the spear through the gap between the shield so that the horse does not dare to collide unless the horse is blindfolded, after all, the horse is also a living thing, and it will be afraid, and the best trained horse will be afraid of sharp objects and fire, and it will never dare to rush up.

It did not dare to rush on a large scale, so the cavalry's strongest impact ability was severely limited, and if it wanted to fight in close combat, the cavalry had to stop in front of the infantry phalanx, ride on horseback and guerrilla, or simply dismount and fight on foot.

At this time, the gunners would use their strength to stab the approaching cavalry and infantry fiercely, blocking them from the main formation.

If it is an ordinary infantry phalanx, it is like this, there is no stronger means of attack, if there are crossbowmen in the large array, you can also fight back from a distance.

This is a bit uncomfortable for the cavalry, at this time the infantry formation is similar to a hedgehog with nowhere to mouth, and the thorns on the back of this hedgehog can still be fired, you can imagine how uncomfortable this is.

Xiao Ruxun didn't bring crossbowmen, in fact, now Xiao Ruxun's Zhennan army does not have many crossbowmen, all crossbow arrows, bows and arrows have been eliminated, and each other will receive training in muskets and crossbow arrows, when it rains, all of them are replaced with crossbow arrows, and on sunny days, they are all muskets.

Shooting a bow and arrow requires a lot of physical strength, and even the strongest soldier will be out of breath and extremely tired after firing ten times, and it will be difficult to continue fighting without resting.

Crossbowmen and musketeers, on the other hand, did not have this problem, as machines replaced manpower, freeing up strength to last longer battles.

Yesterday there was snow in Taiyuan, there was also snowfall here in Qi County, but not as much as Taiyuan, today is a sunny weather, although it is more and more cold and biting, but the dry snow in the north is not as moist and beautiful as the snow in the south, melting, will not affect the musket battle.

In addition to the seven hundred flintlocks, there are also three hundred flintlocks, these three hundred flintlocks are all shooters with superb shooting skills, Xiao Ruxun wants them to shoot at fixed points, as long as they see it, aim and shoot, under the protection of the outer shield and gunners, the gunners can shoot with confidence.

Try your best to eliminate the opponent's will to fight and the number of people, and relieve the pressure on Li Rusong's cavalry, after which there will be two or three such high-intensity battles, and there may be more high-intensity battles after that, and the elite cavalry will be 20,000, which cannot be consumed too much.

This time it was the same, Xiao Ruxun asked Li Rusong to arrange for the Jurchen cavalry to play the vanguard, and let Nurhachi's two sons, Chu Ying and Dai Shan, take the lead in the charge.

Li Rusong didn't understand Xiao Ruxun's arrangement, he didn't understand why Xiao Ruxun seemed to have a lot of opinions about Nurhachi, and if he wanted to use it, he would use it at the forefront.

Although Xiao Ruxun explained that he was going to use it on the blade, it was not the first time that Li Rusong used this method of killing his enemies with the hand of war.

Nurhachi is a character, but Li Rusong has the confidence that he can control him, but there is no one else who can control him except himself, Li Rusong said that he is not sure, so it is better to weaken it, so that Nurhachi can not leave his support and control.

As for whether Nurhachi will feel resentment and a sense of resistance because of this, Li Rusong is not worried - if you dare, Lao Tzu will be the first to destroy you!

A house slave must have the consciousness of a house slave! Have the intention of giving everything for the sake of the Lord at any time! Everything you have today is from my Li family! You have to know gratitude!

So Li Rusong has no opinion on this.

The city gate slowly opened, and it would take a little time for the Northern Cavalry to storm here, which was enough time for Xiao Ruxun to put out a large array of firearms.

Xiao Ruxun pulled out his sword and raised it upward, and the soldiers at the head of the city immediately beat the war drums of the march.

Although he can get the support of the soldiers in the city with his back to the city, Xiao Ruxun feels that the infantry who dare not confront the cavalry head-on is not a qualified infantry, and after training for so long, they all regard large-scale cavalry units as an imaginary enemy, but this is the first time that they really face the cavalry attack.

Leaving the city for some distance, he chose an open place, and Xiao Ruxun ordered the large array to unfold.

The shield man acts, the gunner acts, the bird gunner loads the ammunition and ignites the arquebus, and the flintlock gunner quickly reloads the rifled flintlock guns with two rifles per person.

The large array unfolds in a circle.

Naturally, Xiao Ruxun will not be blindly confident, Li Rusong's cavalry is ready to attack, and at this distance, his cavalry can rush over in less than two minutes.

If it is really defeated, the army will not face the catastrophe, as long as the complete phalanx is maintained, the survival rate of the infantry will be greatly increased, the only defeat to the cavalry is speed, the infantry can not pursue the cavalry, can not expand the results, this is the part of the cavalry before the birth of the mechanized army.

But right now, there is a phalanx and cavalry, and what Xiao Ruxun wants is total annihilation!