The Houjin Forward Cavalry Force did not pause at all to take a look at the situation on the battlefield, and directly lined up in battle formation, charging towards a part of the reconnaissance battalion that had not yet raised the speed of the soldiers.

As soon as the cavalry battalion commander saw the enemy's posture, he knew that the other party's idea was to put his own troops in a melee, and then, taking advantage of the temporary numerical superiority, to give priority to the cavalry of the reconnaissance battalion with the greatest threat.

It seems that the other party didn't take the spy he led in the slightest.

The cavalry battalion commander snorted coldly, immediately jumped off his horse, walked to the center of the front row of the team, and roared loudly at the two positions composed of four squads on both sides, "Load the bullet and prepare for battle." ”

"Those who are from the reconnaissance battalion over there, what are you running, come over quickly, and form a rejection horse in front of us."

He turned his voice up to the loudest gear, and the order was conveyed clearly in the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, so that the people around him could hear it clearly.

In this era when there is no high-quality communication equipment, when the Huaxia Army selects middle- and low-ranking officers from among the common people, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers, in addition to looking at military merits, achievements, and other things, it also has to examine the volume of the voice.

While learning how to command operations under the system of the Huaxia Army, the quasi-officers who have newly entered the martial arts hall also need to constantly exercise their voices and cultivate a good voice.

Because, in the chaotic battlefield, without a loud voice, the shouted orders cannot be conveyed to the ears of the surrounding combatants, and it is easy to lose the opportunity.

It was like this moment that the enemy's cavalry had already begun to charge, and if they had waited for the herald to deliver the order with banners and trumpets, it would probably have been before the enemy had already rushed in front of him by the time the order was delivered.

Of course, this is not to say that those who have a small voice cannot become an officer, but that they naturally have a relatively large voice, and they have some hidden advantages, and it is easy to obtain the position of a full-time commander more quickly than a person with a small voice.

The rest of the cavalry of the reconnaissance battalion were in awkward at this moment, because they had not been able to pick up their speed, and the enemy was already rushing straight at the sea. Hearing the words of the cavalry battalion commander, their eyes suddenly lit up.

This is a good way, with inferior cavalry, or cavalry without speed, to hedge against the imposing enemy cavalry, that is a fool's business. But the front of the enemy's discharge is very long, and it is not something that they can escape in three or two strokes.

But now, with the brothers of the infantry battalion in the back, it would be much easier to get mixed up in the queue over there.

They sprang into action, ran to the front of the platoon of the cavalry battalion, drove their horses to both sides, and then quickly loaded the flintlock rifles with bayonets.

Then, with great speed, he aimed his flintlock rifle with a bayonet at the front, and at the front a row of rejecting horses was listed.

This set of actions is very similar to the previous actions of the pikemen in the army who refused to resist their horses, but the process of hoeing the ground with the end of the spear is missing, after all, the length of the rifle and the bayonet still can't catch up with the spear, so it can only be roughly imitated.

In this way, the whole team became two arrays, three rows each, and the number of people was replenished to a certain extent.

In front of them was the rolling cavalry, and the soldiers of the First Mixed Brigade of the Chinese Army were a little nervous, but fortunately, there were non-commissioned officers and officers in the army who kept giving orders.

"The second platoon, crouch, the third platoon is ready to shoot."

The soldiers subconsciously obeyed the orders issued by their superiors, and this method of letting the rear row shoot first was already an old method in the Huaxia Army.

At the earliest, around the time of the Xuan Army, when the front-loading arquebus was equipped, some officers in the army believed that letting the rear row shoot first would allow them to reload upright after the shooting.

Studies have shown that in companies with better platoon training, this method of shooting helps to increase the firing speed of firearms in the troops, so this method has been handed down.

When it came time to lead elite troops armed with pump-action rifles, this tactic was sometimes used for the sake of continuity of firepower. Just like the timing now.

The Houjin Forward Cavalry Force has now reached a distance of about 200 meters from its own array, and the cavalry battalion commander roared with a hideous face at this moment, "Third platoon, prepare!" ”

The soldiers in the third row erected the gun body at the same time and checked the gun barrel magazine and safety for the last time.

"Aim!"

Twenty-four pump-action rifles lay flat in unison, and the warriors spread their legs and leaned forward slightly, aiming at the back-gold tartars that were charging ahead.

The cavalry battalion commander calmly waited for the Houjin army to enter the 120-meter position amid the thunderous roar of horses' hooves.

If a pump-action rifle uses a special charge for long-range shooting, the maximum effective range is about 400 meters.

However, the cost of special ammunition for long-range shooting is too expensive to fit a large number of troops on a large scale, and can only be distributed to a small number of special shooters, after all, it is a problem whether ordinary shooters can see targets at a distance of 400 meters.

Therefore, the long-distance shooting ammunition installed by the large army is an ordinary single-headed ammunition, and the maximum effective range of this ammunition is about 200 meters.

However, even if you want to reach a range of 200 meters, you must use a high-quality pump-action rifle made by the Ordnance Factory.

Others, at this stage, most of the pump-action rifles that have begun to be mass-produced using the method of large-scale division of labor and cooperation for the purpose of expanding the army have not yet reached this accuracy requirement.

Therefore, for the sake of safety, the cavalry battalion commander decided to choose the minimum accuracy standard of the pump-action rifle when it left the factory, that is, the distance of 120 meters, and shoot it.

In this way, the hit rate can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

"Whew, Whew······" In this noisy battlefield, everyone's heartbeat seemed to stop, and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves no longer attracted attention, and only their own breathing could be heard between heaven and earth.

Suddenly, with the "put! With a burst of applause, the orange-red flames of the muzzles bloomed into many gorgeous flowers, and the shooters in the third row fired a volley. More than a dozen Houjin cavalrymen, who were running in the front row, fell to the ground with the sound of guns.

The cavalry unit, before the invention of Maxim's extremely strong strength, has always been the most majestic existence on the battlefield, and is the darling in the eyes of military and political personnel of various countries.

However, while bearing such a shining aura, the cavalry also provided the enemy with a larger and easier target to shoot.

Because the cavalry was hiding behind the tall head of the horse when charging, most of the 18.5mm diameter single-headed bullets fired by the pump-action rifle were still the war horses ridden by the enemy.

The horses that were hit fell to the ground and rolled violently, causing confusion in the ranks of the Houjin cavalry.

At this time, some of the Houjin cavalry, who were charging in other directions, found that the muskets on this side had already been fired once.

With the habit they had developed when they were fighting with the Ming army before, they thought that there was no longer a threat here, so they actually turned the head of the horse that was charging, turned around and rushed in the direction they had just shot.