At about 6 o'clock in the afternoon of October 25, 1848, it was just before it was dark.

Southwest of Huaxian County.

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief! "In the southwest of the battlefield, there was a huge shout like a tsunami, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves that shook the ground!

The most tragic scene of the Battle of Huaxian was finally staged - the 38,000 Eight Banners Horse Corps commanded by Seng Lingqin, divided into six clusters, launched a decisive attack on the right flank of the Taiping army in turn. Unlike the "semi-modernized" Eight Banners New Army Infantry Team, the Eight Banners New Army Horse Team did not receive Western training. In the eyes of these people in Seng Lingqin, the power of foreigners is foreign guns and foreign cannons, and when they buy foreign guns and foreign cannons, they naturally invite foreigners to teach how to use them.

But immediately, their Mongols and Manchurians are invincible in the world! The "Eldest Son's Expedition to the West" is a clear proof that a horse team of tens of thousands of people swept all the way to Central Europe, if it weren't for the death of the Great Khan of Ogedei, they Europa people would have to be slaves to the Mongols, where is there such a show of power now?

Therefore, no one in the Manchu Qing Dynasty was willing to study the combat methods of Western-style cavalry, and no one would make such a ridiculous suggestion as learning cavalry from Europeans. Therefore, the 38,000 horses of Seng Lingqin could not beat the strict wall charge of modern European cavalry. However, the momentum of the roaring of the six or seven thousand horses was still like a landslide and the ground cracked, and it scared people half to death.

"God forbid! Kill the demons! Go to heaven! ”

The more than 10,000 warriors of the right army of the Taiping Army's East Hall were not afraid at all, but shouted in unison. Behind the countless huge wooden shields, bamboo spears and wooden spears with cold light shone with the tips of the spears stretched out. All the spears are pointed at an angle of about 45 degrees, and they stand still like mountains. However, the mountain composed of the warriors of the right army of the East Temple is not one. Rather, there were five - each of the five divisions formed a spear formation. They are all eight horizontal columns. The first row is a wooden shield hand, and the last seven rows are all bamboo spears or wooden spears. It was like a wall, but there were no empty spears between them, but shotspearmen.

Some of the shotguns of the Taiping army were bought from Zhu Ming, and some were made in Xiangyang and Luoyang, but the quality was extremely reliable, and there was no danger of exploding. The shotgunners of the Taiping Army were also rigorously trained. Most of the poor peasants who participated in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Hunan, although their faith in God was not as firm as that of their old brothers in Guangxi, they were still much braver than the "new brothers" in Hubei and the Central Plains. In the face of the horse team that poured like mercury, there was not much panic. Of course, firing at 30 paces is not possible, and their firing distance is 70 paces.

"100 steps, 90 steps, 80 steps......" The Taiping Army officer commanding the shotgunners was loudly announcing the number, and all the shotguns were already squared, just waiting for the number "70 steps" to exit.

"70 Steps...... Bang Bang Bang! ”

White smoke erupted, projectiles flew, and the vest of the White Flag of the Eight Banners New Army was a stagnant. The cavalry horses at the front always fell to the ground with hundreds of bullets. The injury was not too big, but it blocked the impact path of the rear team. It caused a lot of confusion, and the impact of the entire horse team slowed down.

However, even if there were no shotguns to fire, the vests of the Eight Banners would not be stunned to rush at the spear formation of the Taiping Army. The Eight Banners claim to rely on the bow and horse skillfully to win the world, the horse team impact is just bluffing, if the opponent's formation is scattered, it will naturally trample all the way to the past, such a good thing in the late Ming Dynasty is that the ancestors of the Eight Banners New Army have encountered. However, the current opponent is the Taiping army who "believes in God and is not afraid of death", and he can't be frightened by intimidation, so he has to shoot arrows. It's just that the Eight Banners have bows and arrows, and the Taiping Army has shotguns, and you come and go and fight lively. However, the casualties were not large - although the vests of the white flag were all Mongols, after all, they were not the Mongol barbarians of Genghis Khan's time.

Moreover, the spear array of the Taiping army was covered by a large shield in front of it, and it could only be shot by hanging, but the spearmen of Yang Xiuqing's Dongdian Army were armored, and it was not steel armor, it was the cheapest rattan armor. The backbone of the Taiping Army are all from Guangxi, and they know how to make rattan armor. When I was in Xiangfan, I purchased rattan and made some shoddy (high-quality rattan armor needs to be processed repeatedly, and the Taiping army does not have so much time) rattan armor, which is good for protecting bows and arrows.

As for the shotspearmen of the Taiping army, they were not protected by rattan armor, but these descendants of Genghis Khan did not have the courage to shoot at each other. By the way, the horse bows used by these Mongol cavalrymen were all light bows with three buckets and four buckets, and the range was not as far as that of a shotgun. There are very few people in the entire Eight Banners New Army who can use that kind of hard bow of eight buckets, and as for the hard bow of more than one stone, even Monk Greenqin himself can't pull it, let alone these ordinary Mongolian nomadic cavalry.

After shooting a few arrows, the task of the white flag vest was completed, and they turned their horses' heads and retreated, and the thousands of horses with the blue flag charged to bluff people......

"That's it?"

Yang Xiuqing stood on a temporary high platform and witnessed the first wave of attacks of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry with a telescope, and looked left and right with a look of surprise.

"Rush and shoot a few arrows...... This is the invincible Eight Banners Iron Cavalry? ”

The staff of the East Hall on the left and right all laughed. Some of them have read military books such as "Li Weigong's Art of War" and "Minutes of Military Training", and know the method of cavalry combat, and explained to Yang Xiuqing with a smile: "His Royal Highness the King of the East, this way of playing cavalry and archery is like this, they have no way to take a strict step formation, and the horse and step contest in ancient times often lasted a whole day to decide the winner." ”

Yang Xiuqing smiled coldly, unspeakably proud: "All day? In another half an hour, Monk Greenqin's infantry team will be gone!

The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry is only worthy of being defeated by our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! ”

"Kill the demons! Go to heaven! Rush ah......"

At this moment, the sound of a landslide and a crack came from the front of the battlefield again. This is the second white-knuckle charge of the Taiping Army's foreign rifle team! Previously, they had already defeated the first large horizontal formation of the Eight Banners New Army, which was composed of the 6 Xieyang Gun Corps with a white flag, a blue flag, and a white flag. And now, with the same three-round close-range platoon of guns, the 6 Xieyang gun team with red flags, red flags, and blue flags has been collapsed again! More than 10,000 remnants of the defeated generals fled backwards under the white-edged charge of the Taiping army!

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"It's over! Finished! The ancestors are going to be lost, and they are going to be lost......"

At the head of Huaxian County, the commander of all the Eight Banners Infantry of the Qing Dynasty Military Department was the title of Shangshu, the Eight Banners New Army was inlaid with blue flags, and the Kaifeng Battalion Counselor Aixin Jueluo. Yishan's eyes saw that it was already a tragic state of defeat. On the wide battlefield, the Taiping army, whose heads were wrapped in cloths, once again formed a strict horizontal formation, pressing towards the rearmost line of defense of the Qing army's foreign spear team like a mountain. Behind them and at their feet, the corpses of the white, blue, and red new officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners filled the entire battlefield! The 12 foreign gun teams were completely defeated, and the casualties were difficult to count. Six infantry associations with a mix of hot and cold weapons have formed the most rear-end front under the city of Huaxian County, ready to put up a desperate resistance. As soon as they fall, the infantry team of the 6 banners of the Eight Banners New Army will be completely defeated by the Taiping Army!

And Seng Lingqin's horse team is still attacking the right flank of the Taiping army with the style of wheel warfare, and this momentum will not be finished in a while.

"A few masters, retreat quickly, I can't stand it, the Cantonese bandits have demon methods, and they are invulnerable!"

"Master, no, the foreign gun team has collapsed, how can you stop it with a big blade and a shotgun? If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave! ”

"A few masters, the horse is ready, let's go, go to Kaifeng, King Hui still has a large army in his hands, and the armies of King Qin of all provinces are going to Kaifeng, and the Qing Dynasty will not die!"

A vote of Goshha cried and shouted and went up to the city wall, and pulled a few stunned capitals to go down the city. The fast horses have been prepared, and when the first foreign spear team was crushed by the Taiping army just now, these Goshha were already preparing a retreat for their masters.

"No, you can't return! 150,000 Eight Banners New Army, can't they all be left in Huaxian County...... "I don't know if it was the master who pushed away Goshha beside him.

"Cantonese bandits' reinforcements! Reinforcements from the Cantonese bandits have arrived! At this moment, someone suddenly shouted at the top of the city, and all of them looked to the west at the same time, and saw countless red, blue, black and white horses faintly appearing on the horizon in the distance! (To be continued......)