Wu Sangui asked, "How many Tartar cavalry came?" ”

The spy replied: "Back to the prince, there are about 5,000 Tartar cavalry, all of them are Manmeng real Tartars!" ”

"The Tartar cavalry is here, just enough to let our swarm of rockets go against the Tartars!" Fang Guangchen proposed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Shirong did not agree to use the fire box: "A swarm of bee rockets is really expensive, and it will never be used lightly unless it is absolutely necessary!" A mere 5,000 Tartar cavalry is not worth our use of a fire wagon. ”

Liu Xuanchu also agreed: "Just let General Gao meet the Tartars!" ”

Gao Dejie immediately stood up and asked Ying to fight: "Handsome! The last general is willing to personally lead the cavalry of his headquarters to meet the Tartars! ”

"Good!" Wu Sangui stroked his beard with satisfaction and nodded, "Today, let the Tartars see the majesty of our Guanning Iron Cavalry back then!" ”

Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry had fought with the Qing army in Shanhaiguan for many years, since the Qing army entered the customs, the Guanning Iron Cavalry pursued Li Zicheng all the way, and later entered Sichuan Yunnan, with the attrition of the war, the elite of the Guanning Iron Cavalry was lost, and the Qing court refused to give Wu Sangui a supplement. However, Wu Sangui kept a hand, he selected a group of elites from the recruits and descendants, trained them into the cavalry, and raised horses in Yunnan, and trained a cavalry with the old bottom of the Guanning iron cavalry.

The chief general of the cavalry of the Wu army is Gao Dejie, who is strong in martial arts and is known as the first fierce general of the Wu army.

After Gao Dejie got the order, he ordered the 3,000 cavalry of his headquarters and led the order to go to the battle.

"Brethren! We, the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the Tartars, have been fighting fiercely outside the Guanxi for more than 20 years! Because the thieves broke through the capital, we were forced to send people under the fence, and we helped the Tartars chase and kill the thieves, but the Tartars never treated us as their own family! Now, it's time for us to regain the prestige of the year! Gao Dejie opened his voice and yelled.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! More than 3,000 cavalry shouted in unison.

The 3,000 cavalry of the Wu army slowly moved forward in the direction of the Qing army's Eight Banners cavalry. When the cavalry did not charge, they were slow to maintain horsepower, and sometimes they had to dismount, and the cavalry led the horse to walk slowly, so that the horse had enough impact.

The 5,000 cavalry of the Qing army was one man with two horses, or even one man with three horses, and they killed them from the direction of Yuzhou at a speed of 150 miles a day, trying to attack the Wu army for a long distance to relieve the siege of Nanyang. These 5,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry are not the Eight Banners outside the Guan, but the Shaanxi Eight Banners that grew up in the Guan.

Although the Eight Banners of the capital were gradually moved to Guanwai for training by Bumu Butai and Kangxi, the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Xi'an, Jinan and other places did not move, and the Qing court did not have so much money to mobilize all the Eight Banners to go outside the Guan.

These Eight Banners soldiers who grew up in Xi'an since childhood, wearing bright armor and high lightning rod helmets, look majestic on the outside, in fact, they are not much different from the children of the Eight Banners who grew up in the capital, they have all fallen, coupled with the influence of the special offerings of the Eight Banners, the Eight Banners soldiers are actually unable to fight.

Gao Dejie's cavalry did not have as many war horses as the Eight Banners, only one person and one horse, and that was still the cavalry raised by Wu Sangui with the silver saved from between his teeth, so Gao Dejie could only maintain his horsepower as much as possible and approach slowly before approaching the Qing army.

The cavalry of both sides approached, and the distance was less than three miles.

"Get on the horse, get ready!" Gao Dejie pulled out his sword and pointed forward.

The soldiers waved their banners and gave orders, and all the cavalry of the Wu army mounted their horses one after another, showing their weapons. Most of the Wu cavalry used swords, and some of the Wu cavalry retained the tradition of the Guanning iron cavalry: the three-eyed gun could be released at a long distance, and the three-eyed gun could be used as a hammer when it was close.

"Ahead are the barbarian cavalry!" Qi Yan, the commander of the Qing army, reined in his horse, and the whip in his hand pointed forward, "Wu Shun was not a defeated general under our Qing warriors back then?" Let them know today who is the strongest on horseback! ”

"We are full of bows and horses and are invincible in the world, as long as one charge, keep the Han dog cavalry to death! Go ahead! A Eight Banners soldier leader shouted.

The war drums rumbled in the Qing army's large array, the horns sounded low, and the five thousand and eight banner cavalry waved their whips in unison, and the war horses slowly jogged towards the cavalry formation of the Wu army three miles away. Five thousand cavalry of the Eight Banners, although the number is not very large, but the volume of the cavalry is large, the five thousand cavalry set up a formation, it looks huge, more than 20,000 horse hooves trampled on the ground, making a thunderous sound, and the cavalry slowly accelerated.

"The Tartars are coming! Get ready for battle! Gao Dejie yelled.

The 3,000 cavalry of the Wu army also began to move forward slowly, trotting up against the incoming Qing cavalry. The distance between the two cavalry was getting closer and closer, and both sides were accelerating. However, the formation of the cavalry of the Wu army is obviously denser, in contrast, the Eight Banners cavalry, who grew up in the pass and has long been corrupted and degenerate, has long lost its combat effectiveness in addition to being good-looking.

It is undeniable that the Eight Banners cavalry are still very brave, but they are useless except for courage.

"Kill Wu Dog!" Qiyan roared.

The five thousand Eight Banner cavalry began to accelerate, and the speed of the war horse soon increased to the highest, and the Eight Banner cavalry began the final sprint, more than 20,000 horse hooves hit the ground, raising dust in the sky, and the five thousand cavalry rushed to the Wu army like a flood that broke the embankment, trying to drown the Wu army cavalry that was not worth mentioning in their eyes.

Gao Dejie took the lead, and his own soldiers followed him closely, forming a dense shock formation on both sides. Gao Dejie himself held a horse lance in his hand, and his own soldiers had short spears in their hands. The rest of the Wu cavalry, the cavalry in front was armed with short spears, and the cavalry in the back wielded sabers, or flat-ended three-eyed guns.

"Kill!" The cavalry of the two sides collided, and Gao Dejie's horse lance, which was more than a foot long, slammed into a Qing cavalryman, and the Qing cavalry was knocked into the horse's back and flew upside down, and the horse lance, which was extremely flexible, also bent into a circle.

The short spear in the hand of Gao Dejie's personal soldier also collided with the Qing cavalry, the short spear broke, and the Qing cavalry that was hit flew out upside down. At the same time, the soldiers threw away their broken spears, drew their sabers, and continued to charge. The cavalry of the Wu army behind surged up like a tide, and a row of short spears pierced out, which was discarded by the cavalry.

The Eight Banners cavalry in the front row also had short spears in their hands, but they had long lost their combat effectiveness back then, and they had a very poor grasp of the skills of the cavalry when they collided.

The cavalry of the Wu army in the back row of "bang bang bang" had already rushed into the formation of the Qing army, and the three-eyed guns spewed out dazzling firelight, and the white smoke rose from the cavalry of the Wu army. Although the accuracy and range of the Three-Eyed Gun were very poor, shooting at the Qing cavalry more than ten paces away still knocked down a piece of the Qing cavalry.

The cavalry of the Wu army held the fire rope and stabbed into the fire door of the three-eyed gun three times in a row, completing three launches, and then discarded the fire rope, brandished the three-eyed gun that had finished the ammunition, and smashed into the Qing army's formation.