Valley Emperor

Whether it is for infantry or cavalry, whether it is an ancient army or a modern army, unified command is crucial, otherwise the troops will fall into a situation of fighting each other, or even chaos.

Now and these Ming cavalry is obviously lack of unified command!

After the more than 1,500 cavalry rushed up in a chaotic manner, almost every cavalry unit had a different choice.

Those Ming cavalrymen who rushed up with spears or sabres thought that their comrades behind them would follow and charge with them.

And those cavalrymen who dismounted and fought on foot thought that others would also dismount, and then approached those pseudo-Tang thieves step by step.

Those cavalrymen who bowed directly on their horses thought that the other cavalrymen were as skilled in bowing as they were, and could achieve precise cavalry shooting.

As a result, the Ming cavalrymen inside each made different choices, so that some people charged directly, some people dismounted to fight on foot, and some people rode on horseback with bows and arrows.

This resulted in a rather tragic result: a small number of Ming cavalrymen who took the initiative to charge up died immediately under the spears of the 1st Infantry Battalion!

Some of the cavalry who dismounted and bowed or fought on foot were scattered by the cavalry of their comrades in the rear, and some were shot and killed by the musketeers of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

As for those cavalrymen who can play cavalry and archery, they yelled that their comrades were a bunch of useless people, and then they turned their heads and started detouring!

However, these cavalry were only the cavalry in the inner circle, and the more Ming army cavalry in the outer circle did not really approach, because the Ming army cavalry numbered more than 1,000 people, how could they all rush to the 1st Infantry Battalion.

Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, more than 1,000 cavalrymen of the Ming army have already submerged the 1st Infantry Battalion, but at this time, the cavalry of the Ming army can only be regarded as surrounding the 1st Infantry Battalion, and they are still surrounded by water. , but the two sides are separated by a distance of twenty or thirty meters.

The Ming army cavalry launched various tactical attacks at this distance. As mentioned above, some people wanted to rush up, some people dismounted and bowed their bows to shoot arrows, and some people shot arrows on horseback. Some people want to go around, in short, there are all kinds of people.

And this caused even greater confusion among the Ming cavalry!

The orders issued by various officers are not the same, and even contradict each other!

Although the Ming army cavalry in the inner circle surrounded the 1st Infantry Battalion of the Datang New Army, they rushed up, not to mention the formation of the 1st Infantry Battalion to be scattered.

On the other hand, the Ming army cavalry on the periphery began to detour. They bypassed the 1st Infantry Battalion, and then rushed to the three infantry phalanx formed by the Datang New Army Transport Regiment and other units not far away.

The phalanx formed by the troops of the baggage regiment is also a square phalanx, but the baggage troop does not have many musketeers, so it can only be passively defended by spears. There are not many musketeers who shoot, more Still rely on the archer to bend the bow to shoot the arrow.

However, even if the musketeers of the baggage regiment are less, the combat effectiveness is also weaker, but its three infantry phalanxes and the first infantry battalion cooperate together to form a super large phalanx of infantry that cooperate with each other, and the cavalry of the Ming army is in Shuttle back and forth between these squares.

Try to make a breakthrough!

But it is a pity that the spears of these square formations are enough to make any Ming cavalry fear, and the horses are also creatures. Looking at the spears in front, they will instinctively stop or detour.

Unless the knight forced the horse to rush up!

The direct melee charge did not take place, so that the Ming army could only dismount and fight on foot. Some people tried to approach with their shields raised, and some people bowed their bows and shot arrows.

Some Ming cavalrymen also bowed and shot arrows on horseback!

I have to say that these arrows of the Ming army also caused certain casualties to the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but their own casualties were even greater!

They didn't dare to rush up, but shot at a distance of 20 to 30 meters, and in such a shot, the new army of the Tang Dynasty had a great advantage.

Although the speed of fire of the new army of the Tang Dynasty is not high, it can continue to shoot, and the hit rate is extremely high at this distance. More importantly, it is extremely powerful. When a shot is fired, it can often hit the enemy and cause damage to the enemy. Fatal casualties, even if these Ming troops are wearing heavy armor.

However, at this distance, the bows and arrows of the Ming army did harm to the new army of the Tang Dynasty, but it did little harm to the backbone of the phalanx, that is, those heavily armored spearmen.

After all, these spearmen wear heavy armor, and most of the bows and arrows used by the cavalry of the Ming army are light bows. Needless to say, those cavalry skills are far inferior to the foot bows. The bow is used for archery, but most of the arrows fired are light arrows.

There are also many types of arrows, including heavy arrows for armor breaking, light arrows for range, and many other types.

As for the heavy arrow, because it is relatively heavy, if you want to have a range and power, the strength of the bow is relatively high, and a strong bow is generally required.

And strong bows have higher requirements on archers, and if physical strength is not strong enough, archers can't pull at all!

Naturally, these Ming cavalrymen could not be strong archers. In fact, they were not even professional archers. They were cavalry or mounted infantry, and archery was not their strong point.

For these cavalry, in fact, dismounting and fighting on foot is their strength!

But it is a pity, if you dismount and fight on foot, if you want to rush up, facing such a dense spear forest, you are basically courting death.

When the two sides were at such a stalemate, the casualties also increased rapidly. The casualties of the new Tang army were not small, and the cavalry of the Ming army was also not much better.

Soon, the two sides fell one after another in front of the formation!

Most of the casualties on the Datang New Army's side were caused by arrows, while the Ming army's cavalry were mostly killed by gunshots and artillery.

However, the most important casualties were actually caused by the artillery of the Datang New Army!

About ten battalion artillery and ten heavy artillery are aimed at these Ming cavalry!

Every round of artillery bombardment will bring down a large number of Ming cavalry!

On the side of the 1st Infantry Battalion, the spearmen in the formation were still motionless, and many people did not even look straight ahead to see the Ming cavalry. Their only task was to hold the spears in their hands, and then stay motionless. , to prevent the cavalry of the Ming army from directly rushing up to melee.

The rest basically has nothing to do with them!

As for the musketeers, they are very busy. At this moment, the officers of the musketeers have already ordered free shooting. Although free shooting cannot form a salvo with great threat, it is to improve the shooting as much as possible. speed.

After all, the shooting speed of soldiers is not uniform. Some veterans reload extremely fast, while some recruits are much slower. In the same time, veterans can shoot three shots, but recruits can only shoot two.

The musketeers were busy loading and then firing, mechanical and rigid. When someone of them was hit by a bow and fell down, the musketeers in the back row would step up to fill the empty space with a blank expression, and then continue to load and shoot. Action until he was hit and fell down, just like his comrades who were already lying at his feet at this time and had been silent!

As the musketeers continued to shoot, the Ming army cavalry on the opposite side also suffered more and more casualties, and more importantly, now they were not only facing the shooting of the 1st Infantry Battalion, the baggage regiment was The three infantry phalanxes at the core were also fighting against the Ming cavalry.

More importantly, the artillery at the rear has never stopped firing!

In this case, the casualties of the Ming cavalry increased rapidly, from dozens of cavalry casualties at the beginning to a hundred, and then more than two hundred.

At this time, their casualty rate has exceeded ten percent, and this casualty rate has almost reached the limit that an ordinary army can bear.

Without anyone taking the lead, without the orders of the officers above, the Ming cavalry on the front line began to involuntarily distance themselves.

But the distance from twenty to thirty meters to fifty or sixty meters is actually useless. The powerful power of the musket can penetrate their armor!

What's more, the distance between the four infantry phalanxes of the new army of the Tang Dynasty and the cavalry of the Ming army is only a few dozen meters to a hundred meters. It means that it will be attacked from both sides, and there is no way to retreat, either turn around and return, or bite the bullet and continue to rush out.

No matter which option it is, they are unable to avoid the attack from the new army of the Tang Dynasty in a short period of time!

At this time, it fully reflects the huge defensive ability of the four-cornered phalanx of the Datang New Army in the face of cavalry attacks.

But a four-cornered phalanx is nothing, but if there are three or even four such phalanxes combined~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Then in the case of mutual cooperation and combat support, those who dare to rush between the army phalanxes The cavalry of the air raids were basically attacked from multiple sides, and they suffered heavy casualties in the end.

And the end point of the development of this four-cornered phalanx is actually pure musketeers, and it is also a hollow phalanx composed of flintlock musketeers, and a hollow phalanx is a great weapon to restrain cavalry!

This is the first time that the new army of the Tang Dynasty used this kind of square phalanx to defend against cavalry charges. Although the effect shown is not as good as a pure hollow phalanx, it is not bad, at least the cavalry they got have no temper. .

Nowadays, these Ming Army cavalrymen have a feeling of embarrassment when they face the four-cornered formation of the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

This wanted to rush up, but the spear forest knew that it was not easy to mess with, and wanted to detour behind and come to a scattered siege, but the phalanx of the pseudo-Tang bandit army was different from those traditional infantry phalanxes. It's not simply targeting one side, but facing the enemy on all sides. More importantly, these four square formations can also cooperate with each other to fight. The cavalry passing through the middle of the square formation will be attacked by two or even three sides. How bad.

In this case, staying here will have no effect at all other than increasing casualties!

At this time, not only those ordinary cavalrymen wanted to retreat quietly, but even those cavalry generals saw something wrong and began to shrink their troops and then retreated with them.

As soon as the friendly troops withdrew, the other Ming cavalry units would naturally not stay in place and wait to die, and naturally followed the retreat quickly.

As a result, these Ming cavalrymen came with great momentum, and they also left with great momentum!

Except for leaving a large area of ​​the dead and wounded on the ground where the two sides were fighting, nothing even changed, everything returned to the way they were before their charge!