On the verdant grassland, the yellow horse team formed a neat formation like a knife and an axe, and the front was almost 100 steps wide - this formation was obviously too wide, if it was replaced by the Russian army, it would definitely put a long or triangular formation, but the Eight Banners horse team still lacked practice, and there would not be so many formations, so they could only make up for it. So, hundreds of lancers rushed towards a phalanx like a jungle of bayonets three or four miles away. However, the slightly experienced Ming officers and soldiers can still see the elite of these Eight Banners, and the knights of this yellow horse team have already mentioned the medium speed, but the men and horses are not messy.

Looking at the approaching yellow horse team, Wang Wuming, the commander of the Ming army, took out his saber and raised it high, gritting his teeth: "It's a good time...... Aim! ”

More than 100 Besemai rifles were all loaded with bayonets and pointed forward, although the Suiyuan town army was not very elite, but it was not enough to be paralyzed by the Eight Banners horse team hundreds of paces away. Long-range foreign guns are the biggest reliance of these people, and if it is a smoothbore gun, they will not be able to hit any target at all from 70 paces. However, the Bese Mai rifle in their hands can easily hit a target 300 or even 350 paces away in a marksman! So when facing cavalry, the first salvo is 300 paces.

"400 steps!" Wang Maoming shouted loudly.

"380 steps!"

"360 steps ......"

"300 steps! Fire! ”

A neat white smoke erupted from the front of the gray-clothed soldiers in Suiyuan Town, and more than a hundred semi-oval lead bullets spun and flew forward under the combined action of the thrust and rifling of the gunpowder deflagration. The central part of the Eight Banners Horse Team phalanx was immediately splashed with dozens of blood lines - this was because the front of the Ming Army's hollow phalanx was much smaller than the front of the Eight Banners Horse Team, only less than 30 steps (almost 45 meters). So the wings of the Eight Flags were not fired at by bullets.

As a result, the center of the Eight Banners Horse Team, which was hit by a rain of bullets, was slightly stagnant. And its wings continued to charge. The original phalanx has become a depression in the middle, with two sides protruding, but it is not obvious.

"Damn, the firepower of the Ming army is also ......" Of course, Fu Fang, who was in one hand, could not personally lead the charge in person, but supervised the battle in the rear, and his curse was just halfway through, and another volley of foreign guns came out! More than 100 bullets swept through the center of the Eight Banners Horse Team, and the momentum of the impact suddenly stalled. Dozens of horsemen were beaten so that people turned on their backs. The rest of the knights were either frightened or stopped by the corpses of men and horses lying down or the horses that had lost their masters, and the pace of the attack slowed down again. And the cavalry charge is not the infantry to advance in the end, there is no way to form a group in the movement. Therefore, although the horse team of more than 400 people suffered less than one and a half casualties, the middle part of it was knocked out by one-third, and the impact was greatly reduced.

Still muttering about the power of the Bese Maiyang gun! Fu Fang already regretted his impulsiveness a little in his heart. He even felt that this kind of high-powered foreign spear might have eliminated the tactic of cavalry charge, at least, it could not use cavalry to attack the opposing infantry head-on......

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The third salvo is on again! The bullets of the Bese Maiyang guns were greased and fired with fire. The rate of fire has already reached the limit of the front-loading gun.

"Raise your bayonet and hold on!"

After three volleys. There is no longer time to reload the bullets. Wang Wuming roared loudly, this is the time to compete for will! Galloping horses. The sharp tip of the spear, the sound of thunderous hooves, this is not something that the idle infantry can bear. So the bayonet hollow phalanx restrained the cavalry was nothing more than a legend - of course, before the rifles were heavily equipped with infantry, and now, after three volleys, the middle part of the Eight Banners was almost half men, and the speed was greatly reduced. Their charging formation had changed from a phalanx to a crane wing formation.

Rumble......

The last thing to blow up was the grenade, not the A-oil grenade, but the latest starch grenade. More powerful than an A-oil grenade!

However, the horse team and the crowd collided violently, and the sound of the men and horses screaming resounded in the sky.

The lancers brought by Fu Fang were theoretically used to restrain the hollow phalanx of the infantry, and their spears were much longer than the rifles with bayonets in the hands of the infantry. So before the spears pierced the infantry, their bayonets simply could not reach the cavalry and war horses. As a result, under one blow, one side of this hollow phalanx was broken through several gaps. However, there were too few cavalry to rush into the Ming army's hollow phalanx, which was not enough to collapse the entire phalanx.

Rush in!

Fu Fang seemed to see the hope of victory again, and loudly ordered the remaining light cavalry to follow up! And he did not give the order to retreat to the lancers, who had completed the first wave of the onslaught. He wants to use hand-to-hand combat to crush the enemy in front of him in one fell swoop. And then, and then only again......

As the lancers and light cavalry joined the battle group one after another, the hollow phalanx of the Ming infantry finally collapsed. Less than 800 Eight Banner soldiers and more than 400 Ming troops fought in a melee. The Eight Bannermen on horseback wielded their sabers vigorously, the infantry on the ground responded with bayonets, and some of the infantry had bullets in their rifles and simply aimed and shot at close range! But the most ruthless are the officers. The weapon they used was a revolver! The lethality of this six-shot pistol at close range is terrifying, and it can almost kill the Eight Banners on the horse in a row!

Therefore, although the number of the Ming army was nearly half less than that of the opponent, the Ming army did not suffer much in close combat. Basically, you can play a one-to-two exchange ratio!

The bloody battle lasted for half an hour, and the battlefield finally fell silent, and the cavalry, who had suffered more than half of the casualties, retreated at the sound of a gong. There were less than 200 Ming infantry left on the battlefield, and it was also a struggle with heavy losses. Seriously speaking, such a battle that is almost win-free is already the best result achieved by the Qing side in this re-battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties 200 years later.

"Your Excellency, Major General, why don't you let me continue to fight! Victory is clearly at hand! ”

It turned out that it was Rosovsky, who came with hundreds of Cossacks to "supervise the battle", and he felt uneasy not long after breaking up with Fu Fang, so he brought a regiment of Cossacks to supervise the battle, only to see that his "one-armed serf" had already made a mess of the battle.

"Fu, what kind of battle are you fighting! Six hundred people were lost in less than three hours...... God, what are you doing! ”

"Your Excellency, I will win soon, the defenders of the two nearby castles have been lured out by me, as long as they are gone, those two castles will be ours!"

"But...... What do I want them for? Waiting for the Chinese army to come and surround it? Fu, do you know what our mission is? It's a railway engineering team to fight the enemy, not a siege! ”

Born in the aristocracy, he was registered as a private in the Praetorian Guard at the age of 10, entered the Royal Noble Military School at the age of 12, and participated in the Greek War of Independence and the Eighth Russo-Turkish War, Rosovsky, who wanted to whip Fu Fang hard - but not now, Fu Fang is not his serf, although he is only worthy of being a serf for the rest of his life, but now he is still the general of the Mongolian king.

After teaching Fu Fang a lesson, Rosovsky did not dare to stay near the city of Darkhan for a long time, and immediately after joining up with the large army, he immediately ordered to turn south, and nearly 7,000 cavalry soon disappeared into the vast steppe.

At this time, several main generals of the Ming army on the Mongolian battlefield, Luo Junqi, Li Wenmao, Li Qiusheng, Miao Peilin, and Han Si, who was about to lead his troops to join the Mongolian battlefield, all did not know about the battle of Darhan-Flying Wolf Castle.

Constrained by the backwardness of communication technology and the vastness of the Mongolian plateau, a few of them did not even know that there was such a thing as a Russian, or that they had fallen for the Russians, until a few weeks later! For example, Li Qiusheng, the commander of Zhu Jishi's Guards Cavalry Army, his 10,000 Guards cavalry has been biting 1,500 Eight Banners - the Russian cavalry has been chasing after the buttocks, and chased all the way to the west bank of the Orkhon River before fighting with the Eight Banners abandoned by the Russian army, annihilating less than 600 Eight Banners soldiers, killing the remnants, and only through interrogating the prisoners did they know that they had been deceived.

It was not until one week later that Luo Junqi, the commander of the Mongolian Legion, received a military report from Miao Peilin and his followers, and learned about the battle of Darhan-Flying Wolf Castle. By this time, his army of 60,000 had begun to dig a long besieging trench outside the city. (To be continued......)