More than 500 cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, relying on their advantage of good mobility, bypassed the path and stared at the long dragon of the Ming army's baggage team from a distance.

"Stop, Formation!" Zhang Zhi, the general of the Fujian army who was responsible for escorting logistics materials, gave an order.

The auxiliaries pushed the carts and formed a formation in carts, the pikemen stood behind the carts, spears sticking out from behind the carts, and behind the pikemen stood musketeers and archers, the muzzles and arrows pointed at the cavalry of the Eight Banners in the distance.

The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry will naturally not be stupid enough to rush into the car formation, but from a distance in the periphery of the horse trot, from time to time there are Qing soldiers riding horses to rush a few steps closer, turn over and dismount, take out the bow, hang at a distance of 100 steps, shoot a few arrows to disturb the Ming army. The musketeers of the Ming army could not shoot that far, and could only watch the Qing soldiers shoot arrows. When the archers of the Ming army came out to shoot arrows, the Qing soldiers mounted their horses and rode away.

After a while, the Eight Banners approached again to fire arrows to harass them, and then mounted their horses and left.

This is the tactic of the Eight Banners Cavalry against the Ming army's baggage soldiers, once the Ming army's formation is chaotic, the Eight Banners will take advantage of the situation to break the formation; If the Ming army had been in formation, the Eight Banners cavalry would have taken advantage of their good mobility to fight the Ming army from afar. Anyway, the cavalry can't beat and can run, as long as the baggage soldiers are in chaos, they will be chased and killed all the way, lose a large number of baggage materials, and the soldiers will also be chased and cut all the way, killing almost all the army.

The infantry, especially the auxiliaries, suffered a special loss to the cavalry, the cavalry could harass again and again, could fly kites from a distance, and constantly tested the patience of the infantry, so that the infantry could not move around, but could only wait in formation, while the cavalry could come and go freely, waiting for opportunities. When infantry meets cavalry, it is always passive.

"My lord, there's a dog's carriage over there!" A soldier of the Eight Banners pointed to a convoy that appeared not far away and said to their assistant leader, Alhatu.

"What carriage is running so fast? Not slower than us on horseback? Alhatu saw the Ming convoy from afar, turned his head to look, but saw that the convoy was marching fast.

One of the Eight Banners asked, "Could it be that Ming Dog uses a war horse-drawn cart?" They built a chariot again? ”

"Hahaha!" Alhatu laughed disdainfully, "The barbarians think they can deal with us by rebuilding the chariots?" Their carts can't beat our iron riders! If the chariot is easy to use, why has there been no chariot since the Qin and Han dynasties? It's because the chariot of the Han dog can't beat the cavalry! ”

But Alhatu's smile quickly froze on his face, because he saw that many cavalry rushed out from both sides of the Ming army's chariot, looking at the posture of about two thousand people, a large area of black pressure.

"Barbarian cavalry?" One of the Eight Banners asked.

Alhatu sneered: "Can the barbarian riding skills compare to us? Don't look at the number of them, as long as we keep harassing them and dragging them down, no matter how many cavalry they have, they are no match for us! ”

Those who came to meet the Eight Banners Cavalry of the Qing Army were the soldiers of the three battalions of the Qiongzhou Army's Iron Cavalry Battalion, Dragoon Battalion and Flying Cavalry Artillery Battalion, plus Wang Xinyu's personal guards. Needless to say, it is also known that those running "chariots" are actually cannons, the cavalry rushing out of the wings are dragoons and personal guards, and the real iron cavalry is still waiting behind the artillery, they are saving horsepower, and when the Eight Banners cavalry pursues the dragoons and flying cavalry artillery, they will suddenly kill.

Alhatu decided to use the old tactics of their Eight Banners cavalry: the Manchurian cavalry approached the Ming army, dismounted and shot arrows; The Mongolian cavalry waited on horseback, waiting for the Ming cavalry to rush over, the Manchurian cavalry mounted and retreated, and the Mongolian cavalry took advantage of the advantage of cavalry and archery to perform Mangu tactics and consume the horsepower of the Ming cavalry by flying kites. After the horsepower of the Ming army is consumed, and then use the Manchurian cavalry to attack, you can disrupt the Ming cavalry.

The Manchurian cavalry was actually quite agile, and when on horseback they were heavy cavalry capable of charging; After dismounting, he is a heavy infantry who can break through the formation, and at the same time he is a good archer.

However, the cavalry of the Ming army rushed over with the "chariot", but the "chariot" did not approach, and when it reached a place still a mile away from the Qing army, the "chariot" of the Ming army stopped running, and then someone was busy. At this time, the Qing soldiers saw clearly that those so-called "chariots" were actually cannons!

"Barbarian cannon!" Alhatu was dumbfounded and opened his mouth wide. When have you ever seen a cannon that can run so fast? And it can be set up quickly, and the muzzle of the black hole is aimed at its side.

The cavalry of the Ming army was still approaching, and when they approached about eighty paces away from the Qing army, the Ming cavalry dismounted one after another. I saw these cavalrymen take their bows and muskets from their backs and aim them at the position of the Eight Banners.

"Whoosh" A row of random arrows shot out, flew across the sky, pulled out arcs, and fell towards the top of the Qing soldiers' heads.

The compound bow has a great range, far exceeding the bow and arrow in the hands of the Eight Banners. The Eight Banners had no way to shoot arrows, and the dragoons of the Ming army had already fired two rounds of random arrows. Although the distance is very far, and the Qing soldiers have two layers of cotton armor on their bodies, and the feather arrows will not be seriously injured when they are pierced on the body, but they are beaten in vain, but the taste of not being able to fight back is very uncomfortable, and some arrows also hit the war horses of the Qing army, causing the war horses to be injured. There are even Eight Banners soldiers who were accidentally shot in the face or in the legs, and fell down screaming.

"Rush up and shoot the arrows!" Alhatu shouted.

The Eight Banners rushed forward on horseback and rushed into the range of their strong bows, and the Manchurian soldiers dismounted one after another, ready to counterattack with their rifles, but who knew that a row of gunfire rang out on the opposite side, billowing white smoke rose up, and bullets rained down.

The Manchurian cavalry, who had just dismounted and had not had time to shoot arrows, were hit one after another by lead bullets. Even though he had two layers of armor on his body, he was hit by a projectile, which still caused a lot of casualties. Only a scream was heard, and dozens of soldiers of the Eight Banners who had just dismounted fell down.

The Ming dragoons mounted their horses and quickly retreated.

"Despicable! Shameless! They're going to kill us like this! Rush up and crush them! Alhatu yelled.

Looking at the performance of those Ming troops, they are just a group of infantry on horseback, and their equestrian skills are not very good, and they probably don't know how to slash and kill on horses, but only know how to dismount and shoot arrows. As long as the Eight Banners rush up, they can be disrupted, and then they will chase and kill all the way, slashing these Ming cavalry from behind one by one.

The Eight Banners changed their tactics and no longer used the method of dismounting and archery, but directly pursued the retreating Ming dragoons.

"Boom" The artillery of the Ming army spit out firelight, billowing white smoke curled up, and the cannonballs smashed into the group of soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners, and a miserable scream sounded, which was mixed with the mournful neighing of war horses. Alhatu saw with his own eyes that a soldier of the Eight Banners and his horse were knocked away by a cannonball, and the head of the entire war horse was shattered.

Dozens of shells smashed into the charging formation of the Eight Banners, but because the cavalry formation was scattered, less than a hundred people were killed. As long as the cavalry did not stop charging, the artillery of the Ming army would no longer have a chance to reload.

The artillery also did not load, but quickly mounted the horses. Originally, at a distance of 600 meters, the cavalry could reach it in half a minute, but there were obstacles in front of the artillery position, which made it impossible for the Qing army to rush to the front so quickly, not to mention that the Qing army was chasing the dragoons at the beginning, and only turned around when they found the threat of artillery, which bought time for the artillery. One minute was enough time for the flying cavalry artillery to put on the cannon and start running.

Just when the cavalry of the Qing army was about to rush to the artillery of the Ming army, the gunners of the Ming army had already set up the cannons, and the gunners jumped on the artillery wagons and ammunition trucks. I saw that this heavy cavalry was moving, to be exact, it was speeding up!

Suddenly saw a heavy cavalry of the Ming army, Alhatu was also startled, and then looked at this heavy cavalry, only to see the armor on the upper body shining silver, with an iron mask on the face, the armor on the horse's head, and a piece of cloth hanging around the horse's neck. Each cavalryman held a short spear in his hand, and he was pressed over like a mountain in an airtight formation. And the war horses under their crotch, each of them is a high-headed horse!

Although they were taken aback by the sudden appearance of the Ming heavy cavalry, the speed of their horses had increased and they were charging against the Ming heavy cavalry, and they could not slow down at this time, let alone turn back and escape. If you turn around and expose your back to the enemy, you can only be hacked and killed in vain.

"Kill!" Wang Zihao, who served as the commander of the Iron Cavalry Battalion, roared.

A thousand iron cavalry lined up in a dense formation, like an impermeable iron wall, pressed over, no matter how the Eight Banners rushed head-on, the formation of the Ming army's iron cavalry was not chaotic at all. It's all a charge.

Several Mongolian cavalrymen in the "Whoosh" Eight Banners shot arrows.

The feathered arrow was shot at the iron armor and was gently flicked away; Shot at the anti-arrow curtain hung in front of the war horse, it shot through the curtain, but lost its strength and could not cause any damage to the war horse.

The speed of the Ming army's iron cavalry has been increased to the maximum, and when charging at high speed, it still maintains a neat formation. Seeing the iron cavalry pressed up like an impermeable wall, these Eight Banners soldiers already felt fear: the opponent's horse speed was faster than their own, the war horse was taller than their own, and their bodies were extremely sophisticated.

Before the two cavalry collided together, the short spears in the hands of the Ming cavalry shot out one after another.

With the help of the power of the war horse galloping, and then shot out a short spear, a row of short spears like rain shot, the Qing soldiers who couldn't dodge fell off their horses one after another, and some Qing soldiers used small round shields to block the flying spears that were shot.

The Eight Banners also threw throwing axes, which were blocked by the Ming army on the opposite side with small round shields, but several cavalrymen were also hit by the axes and fell from their horses with screams. Some people were trampled to death by the war horses behind, and some people fell between the war horses and the gaps between the war horses.

Just when the war horses of the two sides were about to collide, the war horses under the crotch of the Eight Banners made evasive actions one after another to avoid colliding with the opponent's war horses. After all, horses are spiritual creatures, and they know that if they hit their own kind at high speed, they will kill themselves.

The cavalry on both sides were intertwined, and each Eight Banners cavalry had to withstand two or three sabers at the same time, and in the blink of an eye, a large number of Eight Banners soldiers fell off their horses.

The iron cavalry of the Ming army had only one action: it was to hold a saber diagonally upward, not move the wrist, and slash the enemy with the help of horsepower. If the saber chopped by the first cavalryman was parried by the Qing soldiers, there were also comrades around him; Even if two or three knives were dodged, there were cavalrymen behind to continue to chop, and two sabers were cut at the same time.

Each of the Eight Banners had to face several knives at the same time, and the Ming iron cavalry rushed through the Qing cavalry side by side, and a large row of human heads rolled to the ground. (To be continued.) )