The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 125 The Three Waves of the Sea Tide
When the second day arrived, the gates of Erlong Valley opened wide, the suspension bridge was lowered, and five thousand cavalry rumbled out of the valley, forming three phalanxes on the wilderness outside the valley entrance, like three dark pine forests.

The [-] cavalry of the Qing army had already formed a large square formation outside the book, and all the cavalry of the Qing army were wearing composite cotton armor of various colors, obviously not from the same banner.All kinds of flags are fluttering in the wind, the horses are neighing, and the voices of people are buzzing. It can be seen that the people are strong and the horses are strong.

Behind the formation of the two armies, there is a cloud chariot each, on which are commanded by the generals of the two armies and the flag bearers.

Under the cloud cart, there is a row of cowhide drums and more than a dozen horn players holding horns and trombones.

Duoduo stood above the cloud chariot, looked at the Jiangjia army cavalry phalanx opposite, nodded slightly, quite appreciative, and admired Jiang Chuan for being able to train such an iron cavalry, but it also aroused his eagerness to win The heart and the idea of ​​​​taking this team under his command.

Jiang Chuan was also looking at the Qing cavalry phalanx on the cloud cart, and after a while, a confident smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The school captains of the anxious battalions discussed all night yesterday, and finally worked out the tactics for today's match, as well as various precautions to prevent the Qing army from taking the opportunity to seize the city if the match is unfavorable.

When Jiang Chuan watched the formation of the Qing army just now, he indeed only put out [-] cavalry, and the rest of the troops were on guard one or two miles away. It seemed that he was full of confidence in this battle, which further proved Duoduo's arrogance.

In this battle, Jiang Chuan was not afraid of losing at all, and to be honest, he could afford to lose.

In terms of general situation, even if he loses all the five thousand cavalry here, he can make up for it in a short period of time, because he is backed by the golden thigh of the fortress base.

But the Qing army can't do it. Their own population is small. Before and after the conquest of Jiang's army, they have lost less than 1 horses. Although most of them are Mongolian and Han troops, if the loss of Manchurian troops is too large this time, then Their deterrent and oppressive power against the internal Han and Mongolian races will be much reduced.

It would not be so easy to add another five thousand elites capable of recruiting and fighting.If those recruits had to wait until ten years later to join the army, the situation would have been turned upside down long ago.

In the battle of the cold weapon era, most of the soldiers who died in battle were not killed during the confrontation, but were chased and killed when the team fled after being defeated.

The combat effectiveness of an army, in addition to equipment, the quality of soldiers is very important.This quality includes not only physical fitness, combat skills, but more importantly, battlefield psychological quality.

In battle, once the main formation is defeated by the enemy, the morale of the soldiers who have lost effective command will soon plummet. No matter how good the equipment is, no matter how powerful the fighting skills are, they will lose their effect. A group of soldiers who have lost their fighting courage It's not much different from a group of farmers.

But this is an army composed of ordinary people, and this problem does not exist for the Jiang family army, which is almost entirely composed of fortress soldiers.

Even if they lose effective command, they will fight the enemy to the end until they are all killed. It is absolutely impossible for them to flee or surrender.

This is beyond the imagination of Duo Duo.Because in all kinds of battles in the past, whether it was the Mongols, the Ming army, or the Korean army, they would disperse and flee in all directions after a big defeat, and then they would become lambs waiting to be slaughtered by Manchurian soldiers.

It's just that after he has a taste of the frontal combat power of this bandit army in his eyes today, I'm afraid he will change his mind.At that time, it is not certain who will be defeated and flee and be hunted down in embarrassment.

So from these two aspects, Jiang Chuan is already invincible.Not to mention whether he will lose, but he is not afraid of losing at all.

But the Qing army also felt that they would not lose, and they couldn't afford to lose.

It can be said that, to some extent, the outcome of this battle was doomed before it even started.

A general of the cavalry of the Qing army flew out in front of the formation, wearing a cotton armor with a yellow flag, and the high helmet flag was fluttering in the wind. It was Oboi.

Oboi's flying horse ran past the front of the Qing army's formation, shouting angrily as he galloped: "Manchurians, today is the time for you to make contributions, show your bravery, and cut off the heads of those bandits on the opposite side, let them Know what a warrior of the Eight Banners is and what it means to be invincible!"

The cavalry of the Qing army shouted in unison: "Warriors of the Eight Banners, invincible in the world! Warriors of the Eight Banners, invincible in the world!" The voices of 5000 people joined together and rumbled to the surroundings, which was indeed extraordinary.

Satisfied, Aobai laughed long and loudly in front of the formation, looking at the opposite Jiang family army formation with contemptuous eyes.

On the other hand, the Jiang family army's phalanx, the three black phalanxes, were clean and silent, and everyone's facial expressions showed only pairs of eyes full of fighting spirit from under the visor.

Jiang Chuan looked at the mighty formation of the Qing army on the opposite side, and was unmoved. He told a general beside him: "General Baishan, I will leave this battle to you to command."

"No!" Bai Shan replied in a deep voice.

This Baishan was one of the first three knights recruited by Jiang Chuan along with Ran Wu. According to the attributes of the system, all the knights were not only the bravest fighters themselves, but they also had cavalry command skills.

So after Ran Wu took the [-] archers out, the remaining [-] cavalry and light cavalry were served by Bai Shan as the captain of the light cavalry, and the [-] heavy cavalry were served by another knight Shanjia as the captain of the heavy cavalry battalion .

This time, in order to strengthen the combat power of the Qingqi battalion and make the command more smooth, Jiang Chuan separated 400 people from the heavy cavalry battalion to join the Qingqi battalion. The captain and the captain are all served by knights.

The remaining [-] heavy cavalry, led by Shanjia himself, joined the [-] cavalry and became the core team.

Aobai galloped back to the front of the Qing army on a flying horse. After a burst of orders, he held up his sword and shouted: "Call up, kill—" Suddenly, dozens of horned trombones blared, and the first wave of Qing army cavalry shouted. Charged like a hurricane.

The cavalry of the Qing army originally formed a square formation about one mile wide, and the five thousand cavalry were divided into three echelons: 1000 in the front army, 2000 in the middle army, and 2000 in the rear army.

This charge formation is a battle method honed by the Qing army in many years of battles with Mongolian cavalry. It is called "three waves of waves" in Manchuria: the first wave, the front army has a thousand spear knights, and each of them is about ten feet long. A light sharp wooden spear, and a war knife at his waist.The main weapon of the Mongolian cavalry is the scimitar, so it is often easy to be confused by this kind of spear cavalry.

And the real intention of this first wave of spear attack is precisely to disrupt the formation of the enemy's cavalry and create favorable conditions for the main force of the Chinese army to kill the enemy.

The spear cavalry of the Qing army tried and tested repeatedly in the process of conquering the Mongols, so today they still put it out and plan to teach the bandit cavalry in front of them a lesson.

The second wave, sword cavalry, is the main force, all composed of warriors with superb riding skills and excellent sword skills, each of them has a spare sword on their waist, dedicated to fighting and killing.

The third wave, short sword knights, are light cavalry chasing the fleeing enemy. The horses sitting on them are particularly outstanding.

Seeing the cavalry of the Qing army rushing over like a tsunami, Jiang Chuan took a step back and gave up the command position to the cavalry school lieutenant Bai Shan.

Bai Shan cupped his hands, and stood firmly in front of the cloud cart, quietly watching the stormy Qing cavalry, and gave orders to the standard bearer next to him.

Soon, the flag on the Jiang family army's cloud car drew a huge arc, and then the ten cowhide drums rumbled,
The two black phalanxes on the left and right launched first, inserting from the two wings towards the intermittent positions of the Qing army's front army and the middle army, while the three thousand cavalry in the central phalanx spread out into a huge fan shape, facing the Qing army's spear forwards. go up.

(End of this chapter)