Chapter 197: Wu Qing's cavalry fights
After all, what Amida led was not the Eight Banners of Guannai, which had been corrupted for many years, but the elite Eight Banners outside Guanwai. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info If it is the Eight Banners in the Guannei, it is estimated that as soon as he saw Wang Pingfan, he couldn't wait to rush up despite the fact that the war horse had been gone for more than two hours, and the result was to hit the horse nail and spear, and then the Wu cavalry could chase and kill them after recovering their horsepower.
In real history, the Eight Banners cavalry was beaten all over the ground by Gao Dejie and Wang Pingfan, and later relied on the clothed soldiers and the Huguang Green Battalion formed by Zhou Peigong to regain face.
Both were experienced veterans and did not rush into attack, but harassed with archers, who stood by while waiting for their horsepower to recover.
Wang Pingfan's cavalry only walked for an hour and a half, and Amida's walked for two hours, and Wu's horsepower recovered quickly, rested for half an hour, and was ready to attack. However, Wang Pingfan did not attack rashly, but used light cavalry equipped with bows and muskets to constantly detour, shooting arrows from the side to harass the Qing army. The Qing archers counterattacked, but did little damage to the horses moving at high speed.
"Signal for help!" Amida glanced at the cavalry of the Wu army on the opposite side, obviously more than himself, he would not risk attacking, but let people send fireworks signals.
Seeing the Qing army sending out a fireworks signal, Wang Pingfan also ordered to send out a fireworks signal and let friendly troops cut off the Qing army's reinforcements.
Nearly an hour passed, and the two sides were maneuvering, more patient. However, Amida did not wait for reinforcements, but saw a fireworks signal from friendly forces: they were intercepted by the Wu cavalry and could not arrive.
In desperation, Amida had no choice but to continue to deal with Wu Jun.
The two sides were more patient, but the few twenty rifled guns in the Wu army caused great losses to the Qing army, and the elite light cavalry of the Wu army, equipped with rifled guns, galloped on horseback, approached the Qing army and opened fire, and then quickly turned around and left, returned to their own phalanx to load their bullets, changed horses, and then went over and fired a shot from a distance.
After an hour of circling, more than 100 Eight Banner soldiers had fallen under the rifled guns.
"Sons, my Eight Banners Iron Rider is invincible in the world! How can you be so angry! Follow a certain on! Kill Wu Dog! Amita finally couldn't hold her breath anymore, jumped on her horse, pulled out her sword and pointed in the direction of Wu Jun.
More than 2,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners all mounted their horses and rushed towards the light cavalry of the Wu army, which was harassing on the periphery.
Seeing the Qing army coming, the light cavalry of the Wu army pulled their legs and left, retreating in the direction of their own cavalry formation.
Seeing that the Qing army had launched a charge, Wang Pingfan mounted his horse, drew his sword and shouted: "Brothers, the Qing dog has come up!" Prepare for the impact! ”
The cavalry of the Wu army got on their horses one after another, and looking at the cavalry of the Eight Banners rushing over from two miles away, the cavalry of the Wu army began to slowly accelerate. The speed of the war horse became faster and faster, and they rushed in the direction of the Qing cavalry.
The retreating bows and muskets and light cavalry scattered on both sides, and the Wu cavalry ran into the Qing cavalry. The cavalry of the Eight Banners ran at high speed for a mile and a half, the cavalry of the Wu army only ran more than two hundred steps, and the speed just increased to the highest, while the speed of the cavalry of the Qing army slowed down slightly.
At the moment when the two sides were about to collide, the Qing cavalry shot a row of feathered arrows on horseback, but it did not cause much damage to the Wu cavalry. Looking at the cavalry formation of the Wu army, there is a row of cavalry with spears in front of it, and cavalry with three-eyed guns in the middle. When the two sides were about to collide, the veteran of the Wu army took the fire rope from his neck and poked it into the fire door of the three-eyed gun, the sound of the gun roared, the fire flickered, and the white smoke rose from the cavalry of the Wu army, and the three-eyed gun shot out dense bullets, the distance was very close, only more than 20 steps away, and the two sides were hedged, and the Qing cavalry on the opposite side fell down at once.
I have to admire those veterans of the Wu army, on the back of a bumpy horse, they can stab three times in a row with a fire rope, what a high level of cavalry combat is required!
Although the three-eyed gun has a short range, the armor-piercing ability of the gunpowder weapon is not comparable to that of a bow and arrow, and the Eight Banners who were shot, no matter how thick the armor on their bodies is, they can't stop a small projectile, even if they are hit by a bullet in the arms and legs, they are all ineffective.
The speed of both sides is very fast, after the three-eyed gun of the Wu army veterans threw away the fire rope, brandished the three-eyed gun, as a hammer, into the formation of the Eight Banners, the Wu cavalry with a spear has collided with the Qing cavalry, the front of the Eight Banners of the cavalry some guys holding a spear were knocked down by the three-eyed gun, behind are only sabers, maces and other weapons in the cavalry. As a result, the cavalry of the Wu army collided, and the spear poked at the Eight Banners, and the Eight Banners who were hit flew out upside down.
The cavalry of the Wu army threw away their spears, and the spears of the people they collided with broke and fell to the ground. The cavalry of the Wu army drew out sabers, hammers and other cavalry weapons and slaughtered into the crowd of Qing troops.
The two sides looked at each other, sabers slashed, three-eyed guns and hammers struck, maces and axes smashed, and with a heart-rending scream, many cavalry on both sides fell from their horses. Comparatively speaking, the losses of the Qing army were greater, because the Wu army was large and the horses were fast, and the two sides exchanged mistakes, leaving more than 500 Eight Banner cavalry struggling in a pool of blood on the battlefield, while the Wu army only lost more than 100 people.
Of the more than 2,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners brought by Amida, more than 100 were killed by rifled guns before, and more than 500 people were lost by the two sides, and now there are only more than 1,300 cavalry of the Eight Banners.
Looking at the cavalry of the Wu army again, there are almost no losses, more than 3,000 people just now, and now there are at least more than 2,900 people. Amida knew that he couldn't beat him, so he took thirty-six plans as the best plan, so he pulled out his horse and left.
"Let's go!" Several Qing army leaders saw that their main generals had fled, and they all turned around and fled.
"The Tartars are defeated! Pursue! Wang Pingfan drew his saber and pointed in the direction of the Qing army's escape.
The cavalry of the Wu army followed the butt of the cavalry of the Eight Banners and chased after them, and from time to time the cavalry of the Eight Banners with exhausted horsepower was caught up and cut off by the Wu army. The Wu army chased out more than 20 miles in a row, killing the corpses of the Eight Banners cavalry all over the field. In the end, Amida fled back with only a dozen Goshha and more than a hundred cavalry.
On the North China Plain, the cavalry of the Wu army and the cavalry of the Eight Banners were engaged everywhere, and both sides suffered losses on both sides. In terms of combat effectiveness, the Eight Banners cavalry outside the Guanwai is above the cavalry of the Wu army, but the number of the Eight Banners cavalry outside the Guanxi is too small; The combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Wu army far exceeded that of the Eight Banners cavalry and the Green Battalion Horse Team in Guannei, and the Wu army also had an advantage in the number of cavalry.
In a few days of fighting, the Wu army annihilated more than 4,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners outside the Guan, more than 7,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners inside the Guan, and more than 10,000 cavalry members of the Green Battalion.
Hearing the news of the victory in the cavalry battle, Wu Sangui laughed: "Hahaha! I, Guan Ning Tieqi, have regained their prestige again! Thinking that back then, with my Guanning Iron Horse, the Tartars would never want to cross the Shanhaiguan Pass! ”
The Qing army was defeated one after another, and the Wu army completely controlled the initiative on the battlefield.
In the war of that year, the victory of the cavalry was equivalent to the victory of the air battle of later generations, and the cavalry gained the initiative, which was comparable to the air supremacy of later generations, and the initiative of the battlefield was completely in their own hands.