The first battle of the line cavalry was in Wushen Banner, although the enemy cavalry was scattered by artillery fire in that battle, but still carried out the final resistance, in front of the neatly advancing line musket cavalry, the enemy cavalry was not vulnerable at all, and that battle also gave the soldiers of the volunteer battalion enough confidence. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The structure of the Volunteer Battalion is different from that of the Ming Army and all the armies in the world, with four people in the first army plus one commander, and two Wu Zuo in total, a total of seven people; in the second army, 14 people in the second army plus one chief, and two people in Shi Zuo, a total of 17 people; a team of five tithes and 85 people in one team plus a team leading two teams with a total of 88 people; and an officer of one banner plus a standard-bearer and 20 replacement soldiers, a whole 200 people, forming a basic unit, which is equivalent to the establishment of two hundred households in the Ming army.

The Volunteer Battalion is trained in peacetime, and the two flags are listed side by side as a basic front of the military formation. Chang Wei also selected 80 soldiers with strong martial arts and excellent marksmanship as the commando team to snipe and kill the enemy's fierce soldiers and commanders, as well as to protect his own officers. These 500 men were led by a hundred households and served as the basic combat unit.

It can be seen from this that Chang Wei's volunteer battalion has a very large number of officers, especially many junior officers, a total of seven people in one army, three junior officers, and four soldiers. This not only ensures that orders are effectively conveyed and military discipline is perfectly enforced, but also ensures high morale, and there will be no situation in which an officer loses his command when he dies in battle, still less will he be defeated.

The 3,000 cavalry were lined up in three rows, each row of five flags and 1,000 men lined up in a wide front of two miles, with a twenty-step herald and retreat passage in the middle. Immediately, the knights were shoulder to shoulder, and the heads of the war horses under their crotches were lined up in dense horizontal lines.

Such a formation is very strange, no, it should be said that it is extremely weird. Those who knew a little about cavalry knowledge would immediately despise the cavalry formation of the Volunteers, and then laugh heartily, and if the enemy saw it, they would immediately attack, and vow to defeat them.

As we all know, the large-scale cavalry in China was first created by the cavalry of the Warring States Zhao Wuling King Hufu and was established in imitation of the cavalry of the Huns.

Later Turkic, Liao, Jin, Western Xia, Mongol, and Later Jin were typical light cavalry, like the Huns. These nomadic peoples on the Asian steppes grew up on horseback since childhood, were good at riding and archery, and were very flexible in wearing only light leather armor and cloth robes.

This characteristic determines that the cavalry is a flexible and mobile force, good at skirmishers, and can "defeat the army, cut off the grain road, and attack the enemy". The greatest power of cavalry is precisely its mobility and flexibility, and the so-called ability to defeat the enemy is inadequate! It is precisely because of the mobility given by coming and going that the cavalry can fight freely in both the relatively narrow terrain and the vast plains.

Compared with the infantry, which is easy to train and can be recruited on a large scale, cavalry officers must have superb riding skills, superior personal martial arts, and extraordinary courage. This was particularly difficult for the Han people, who were an agrarian nation, requiring long-term training and a huge cost to cultivate, and because of this, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's northern expedition to the Xiongnu almost exhausted the vitality of the Han Empire at its peak.

Chang Wei's cavalry formation completely violated the use of cavalry as people knew, and completely violated the greatest advantage of cavalry's combat mobility and flexibility.

The dense and narrow cavalry formation was assembled in only two minutes, and He Wenlie gave an order, the light and melodious musketeer march was played, and the small flag in the center of the first flag at the forefront of the cavalry formation began to give the order to advance.

"Let's go!" the command was conveyed steadily.

"Let's go!" the officers relayed the order.

The 200 cavalrymen of the First Banner walked side by side according to the usual training rules, horse to horse, and rode the war horse forward, one step, two steps, three steps...... Move forward slowly.

The officers twenty and forty paces away followed and gave the order "Let's go!" and the three thousand horses moved slowly forward in a neat horizontal column, not at all like a cavalry formation, but like an infantry formation.

He Wenlie ordered again: "The whole battalion attacks!"

As soon as the flag changed, the music immediately became more urgent, and dozens of heralds galloped back and forth along the reserved passage in the middle, and once again conveyed the order orally, which was the three insurances, because the battle array shouted and killed for days, and the situation was complicated, in case you could not hear the music and could not see the flag, you could also use the herald to remedy.

In an instant, the cavalry formation composed of three thousand knights operated in a tense and orderly manner.

"Ten steps!" After marching ten steps, the first row of the first team, Zuo Shichang, announced the number in a loud voice.

"Ten steps!" replied at the left end of the team.

"Ten steps!" the first team of the first row of the right chief reported the number at the same time.

"Ten steps!" replied to Shizo at the right end of the line.

This shows that this group of cavalry walked very neatly.

"Twenty steps!" "Thirty steps!"

Thirty paces later, the first row of a thousand cavalry on the march was still in good formation.

While the first row was marching forward to report the number and align the formation, the shouts of the second row and the third row sounded in turn.

"Small steps!" He Wenlie's second order began to be given.

The thousand cavalrymen of the first row began to urge the horses to speed up.

The 5,000 horses of the Volunteer Battalion are all Hetao horses from the Ningxia grassland, and according to the ultra-high requirements of the line array, the horses in the same formation and the same column are all the same.

The Hetao war horse began to run happily with small steps, the pace of the war horse was somewhat inconsistent at first, and after running five steps, it gradually found a sync, and when it was ten steps, it began to be neat, and when it was twenty steps, the sound of the horse's hooves sounded.

"Twenty steps!" "Fifty steps!" "One hundred steps!"

The distance of a hundred paces was quickly completed in the rag trot of the first row of horses. At this time, the second row, twenty paces away, had just begun to accelerate in small steps, and the third row had not yet waited for the order to trot.

The heralds of the small banner formation had to wait until the flag of the cavalry formation in front of them changed before conveying the signal of action to the main formation. In this way, you can clearly know the process of action of the front cavalry formation, so as to efficiently command the actions of the formation, so that the entire camp can act quickly and effectively.

After the herald delivers the order, he must continue to observe the completion of the tactical actions of the formation, and then use another flag and flag to transmit the situation of the formation back to the Chinese army, so that the commander can clearly grasp the situation of each formation and flag, so as to achieve the effect of commanding the fingers.

"Stride!" After a hundred steps, He Wenlie gave the order to stride loudly.

With the order, the cavalrymen of the first platoon began to gallop on their horses.

Generally speaking, the tactical movements of cavalry attacks are divided into four phases: small stride, big stride, gallop, and sprint.

The stride of the war horses is already the limit of the dense line formation of the volunteer battalion, and no matter how fast the formation is, it will be chaotic, and the volunteer battalion can only do it to this extent at this stage.

Therefore, the seemingly slow line cavalry formation is already equivalent to the "sprint" stage of the light cavalry.

One hundred paces, two hundred steps, three hundred steps, the cavalry array sprinted in the stride of the war horse, and at a distance of seventy paces from the enemy formation, He Wenlie ordered in turn: "Raise the gun - shoot!" (to be continued. )