Outside Changyi County, there is a wide area near the official road, and there are only a few hilly terrains, and it is not easy to intercept the highly mobile cavalry in such terrain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In order to prevent the Tartars from taking advantage of the cavalry to easily rush through the blockade line, the Qiong navy laid out a huge pinzig shape along the official road, the side of the pinzi was facing the direction of the Tartars, and the three regiments were staggered along the official road according to the number. In this way, no matter how the Tartar rushes left and right, it will always be hit by fire from the front and side, and even if it crosses this character in a serpentine route regardless of casualties, it will definitely pay a heavy price in the end.

The headquarters of the Qiong Navy was located on a small hilly mountain in the middle of the second regiment, Lin Weiye stood on a high place and used a telescope to check the deployment of his own troops, and praised: "This arrangement is very good, it is better than both the column and the horizontal team, it not only expands the width of the defense, but also does not break through by the enemy's concentration, and this staggered defense formation can echo each other, and can form a certain degree of crossfire, which is similar to the fortress!" ”

Xia Nan was also very satisfied, and said: "This idea was conceived by Su Thick Legs, and then it was perfected by the Military Aircraft Staff Office. Although this Su thick leg was born from the grassroots and has a poor cultural foundation, he is very talented in fighting wars, and he is a rare talent! ”

Wei Lianheng, the commander of the second regiment, also said: "Although Commander Su was born as a blacksmith, he worked hard in literacy and arithmetic. ”

"He's not stupid, he has a lot of ideas." Xia Nan said with a smile, "But I worked hard in the officer training class and later in the military academy, I was talented, and I had a good attitude, so it is natural to be able to stand out." ”

At this time, shouts of killing sounded, and Gartu led two thousand cavalry to begin the assault on the position of the first regiment.

If it was replaced by other Ming troops, it would be difficult to survive in the face of the onslaught of the 2,000 Tartar cavalry, whether it was spearmen or bird guns - the former lacked sufficient willpower and courage, and the latter completely collapsed once they were close because of the lack of will to fight and weapons and equipment.

The Qiong Navy greeted the arrival of the Tatar cavalry with a hollow phalanx, and in the face of the menacing cavalry, the officers and men of the 1st Regiment were both nervous and excited, and were ready for battle.

Since the popularization of muskets, until the advent of machine guns, the hollow phalanx was the best formation for infantry to restrain cavalry, especially the emergence of bayonets, which became the nemesis of cavalry. The combination of bayonets and flintlock muskets completely abandoned the cold weapons such as spearmen, and the musketeers became a combination of far and near, offensive and defensive arms, and the long-range muskets could be used to strike at long distances, and the bayonets could be used to contain the impact of the cavalry at close range.

For those who do not know the era of queuing for shooting, it is difficult to understand why the thin hollow phalanx was able to hold back the cavalry with strong impact, thinking that once the cavalry rushed into the formation, the infantry was finished. In fact, this understanding stems from a lack of understanding of the habits of horses. Horses of all breeds have an instinctive fear of pointy, shiny objects, even those that have been trained to do so. Unless in extreme circumstances, the war horses will not rush into the bayonet formation, and the soldiers in the front row of the hollow phalanx will generally not be directly charged by the war horses, and their role is more to scare the war horses and make the war horses avoid. And in a square formation, there is no so-called rear, and even if the cavalry has great mobility, it will not be able to find a weak point to attack through roundabout tactics.

The only effective way for cavalry to break through this formation was to knock down a certain number of soldiers with bows or artillery, make a gap in the formation, and then charge through the gap. But Abatai had no artillery, and the road was half blocked; As for the effectiveness of the bow and arrow, it has been verified in the skirmish of the cavalry battalion that encountered Ma Wei - whether it is a foot bow or a mounted bow, there is no advantage in the face of large-scale muskets.

What Galtu was going to attack was a huge infantry hollow phalanx. Both the 1st and 2nd regiments had four infantry battalions evenly distributed on all four sides, each with a thousand men in each transverse plane, divided into two rows, with five hundred men in the front and back rows, the front row crouching with bayonets, and the rear row responsible for shooting.

Thanks to years of combat experience and tacit understanding, in the process of running, the cavalry of the Houjin and the Mongols naturally divided labor, the horse armor raised their sabers and followed the arrow of Gartu to form a cone - this charging formation was used to chisel through the infantry array, although the Houjin cavalry was evaluated by later generations as a heavy infantry on horseback, but in front of the opponent who had almost no cavalry, it could also make a cameo as a heavy cavalry; And the Mongols spread out on both flanks, ready to attack with a projectile after coming within range of their bows and arrows.

On this continent, the contest between the largest phalanx of firearmed infantry in history and the so-called invincible Houjin cavalry began. In the past, although the Qiong Navy had a battle example of using a phalanx against cavalry, it was the first time that such a large scale and such a strong opponent had been attacked.

Huang Hansheng calmly looked at the cavalry that was getting closer and closer, and did not give the order to open fire until the cavalry entered the range of seven or eight hundred paces, and then ordered the artillery to attack.

The commander of the artillery battalion gave a specific order: "All artillery groups in front of them fire their guns!" Mountain cannon hanging! The herald waved a small red flag and signaled the artillery to open fire.

"Boom, boom, boom", the 10-pound field guns placed in the four corners of the phalanx took the lead in firing, and the 10-pound solid shells whistled through the air and flew towards the enemy. Since there was no plain terrain to cover, in order not to affect the defense of the front of the phalanx, the gun emplacements could only be placed in the corners. The muzzles of the guns were diagonally opposed, and the shells fired from the cannons at the two corners formed a cross fire.

The large iron balls flew staggered, passing through the ranks of the Tartars, and one after another the cavalry was smashed by cannonballs, many of them had their heads blooming, and others were smashed to the stomach.

Galtu has a lot of experience and knows that the more times like this, the more you have to rush forward, and it is taboo for soldiers to easily retreat cavalry on the battlefield. As long as the Mongols can compete for strength, enter the range and open a hole with random arrows, and let themselves lead people to rush in, they can decide the success or failure of the battle. He leaned down and clinged to the horse's back, as if he didn't see the cannonballs whistling by him, and cheered himself up in his heart: Galtu, you must rush up and let Belle Ye see that you are still the Baturu who slaughtered the Ming army like chopping melons and vegetables.

The solid shells of 10 pounds of field guns are devastating weapons against dense infantry, but against cavalry with extremely fast speed and relatively sparse formations, the power and effect are reduced, and there is a feeling that the cannon is fighting mosquitoes. Even so, the charging cavalry felt a great pressure, and in the past, they had never been attacked by artillery fire at such a distance in the field, and there were many casualties - most of the Hongyi artillery of the Ming army was used to defend the city, and it was almost impossible to use it in field battles and against cavalry.