Chapter 499: Turning defeat into victory

I can only laugh it off. Are the Later Jin cavalry fools? Are you standing there waiting for your infantry formation to approach?

Can infantry with two legs and armor be able to catch up with four legs? Unless it is in fantasy novels, Macheng has fought with the Later Jin cavalry for many years, and the Later Jin cavalry is very cunning and will not wait for your infantry

The formation is approaching, and the Later Jin cavalry has long gone, monitoring your infantry phalanx from afar. Don’t you eat or sleep? The cavalry is not a fool, but the cavalry will go around the side and rear of the infantry phalanx and strike.

Your weakness.

The tactics of Macheng are also very simple. When the fierce battle is in full swing, the ambush in the dense forests on both sides suddenly rushed out, defeating the cavalry on both wings of the Dutch army, and then rushed to the weak side of the Dutch army formation with the muskets loaded in advance.

After the gun is released, run away, and run to the range of the Dutch army. After loading it, rush up and fire the gun. At the same time, a cavalry will be sent to take down the Dutch army's artillery position. This battle will bring you a refreshing battle.

Great victory.

The Dutch army also had cavalry, with more than a thousand cavalry on the left and right wings, and hundreds of cavalry in the rear team.

On the front battlefield, the Dutch army launched another attack, and the decisive battle had reached the last moment.

The combat effectiveness of the Dutch infantry made Ma Cheng feel a little brain-wrenching, and he had to push the last reserve team and six battalions up to prevent the entire line of the front infantry from collapsing.

The decisive battle is in full swing.

Later, Ma Cheng was surprised to find that the Dutch army changed its tactics, the Dutch army dismantled the large square formation, and the Dutch army canceled the fixed organization of the large square formation, replaced it with combat companies, and signed each combat company on the front line, and

The spearmen became a formation of fifty people in front and five people in depth. On both sides of the troops deployed on the front line, there were three groups of melee gunmen, four in a row, with a total of ten rows in front and behind. In addition, they were left.

Sixty confuses were sent as foxglove firepower teams.

A combat company had exactly 500 people, which was already a standard infantry battalion, and an infantry battalion was deployed into third lines.

Ma Cheng was stunned. What did he see in the Dutch army? Did the linear large-scale deep formation?

As an officer who graduated from the military academy, Ma Cheng knew very well what this linear large-depth formation meant. This is the direction of the future change of infantry tactics. Since the large array was dismantled and deployed into many small combat formations, this way

, it is convenient to flexibly and maneuverably concentrate troops on the battlefield to deal with the strong points of the attacker, or to strike against the enemy's weaknesses.

Line-based combat deployment is difficult to always keep its formation on the front line during advancement and prevent gaps on its wings. In order to solve the battlefield maneuver problem of line-based formation, the Dutch people in later generations seemed to have adopted the training methods of Roman legions, and even

Even the commander's training command was copied and used. This made the Dutch army the first well-trained professional army in history to use linear formations.

Ma Cheng was stunned, but was ecstatic. This seemed to be a big mistake by the Dutch army. The Dutch army should have thought that the Ming army had been defeated, so they broke up the large square formation and formed a linear deep formation to facilitate pursuit.

The tactics adopted by the remaining enemies, but once they are besieged by cavalry, will inevitably be divided. The victory of the front line misled the Dutch commander. In order to facilitate pursuit, the Dutch commander dismantled the large array and turned into a linear and large-depth scattered soldier.

It was a huge mistake.

At this time, neither armies could adjust their tactics.

The Dutch army lined up in a linear queue in depth, launched a general attack with a rainbow of momentum.

The Ming army, with dozens of battalions, raised muskets one after another, looked like the last stubborn resistance. At this time, a large number of cavalrymen emerged like a tide in the dense forest fifty miles away, and a total of 6,000 cavalry ambushed.

All out, and directly penetrated the Dutch army's two soft ribs. In order to achieve the suddenness of the attack, linen was tied to the four hooves of the war horse, one was to prevent slipping and the other was to silence the sound.

The decisive battle was in full swing, and the Dutch army was advancing step by step, and the Ming army could only shoot desperately.

Despite the careful arrangement, Ma Cheng was still shocked by the Dutch army's advance step by step and the battle to break the defense line head-on. The chest wall muskets and artillery were not perfect tactics. There is no perfect tactics in this world, everything is

Depend on the quality, courage and even marksmanship of the soldiers. The new Taiwanese army should have learned a lot from this battle. This is the first time since the establishment of the Taiwanese army, it has been defeated.

However, chest wall muskets and cannons are the most perfect tactics that Macheng can design.

The transformation of tactics requires the transformation of guns and cannons. In the era of the match rope gun, this set of tactics has been very perfect. More advanced tactics require a large amount of flintlock rifle equipment.

While pondering, the front line was in the battle, and the Ming army seemed to be defeated.

The Dutch soldiers with a strong momentum advanced to eighty steps, fifty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps, and volleys at a distance of twenty or thirty steps. The morale of the Ming soldiers was sluggish, making Ma Cheng sweat

, ordered the personal soldiers to dismount and fight in the field, ready to wear the battle at any time, and the front battlefield could not collapse, but the final reserve team finally resisted, because some of the broken battalions organized to support them, let Ming

The defense of the frontal positions of the army gradually became thicker.

A volley of guns stopped the Dutch offensive, and Ma Cheng felt a cry in his heart, as if he saw the Taiwanese army reborn in blood.

At this time, the Ming army ambushed finally arrived and joined the battlefield.

Teams of light cavalry flocked to the mountains and rushed towards the Dutch army in the attack.

The man shouted and the horse neighed. The Dutch cavalry, with less than two thousand people on both wings, was instantly dispersed by the Ming cavalry three times that of them. They could only hold the horse's neck and flee in a mess. The nearly collapsed central infantry position of the Ming army was

At this time, I heard the sound of horse hooves. Six thousand Ming army light cavalry rushed out of the dense forest, rushed towards the Dutch army like a wolf, rushed up and approached, dismounted and picked up the musket and fired. Many people were holding hands

The gun rushed into the Dutch army fiercely and pointed it at the Dutch army's head with a shot. Soon, the organized battle no longer existed.

Some of the stuffy Ming army light cavalry broke into the Dutch army's ranks, some turned over and got off the horse and lined up to siege the guns, and some tried to divide and surround the Dutch army and eat them one by one. The city of horses was already dull, and the best general,

Excellent troops also face loss of control on the battlefield.

War is not a game that will inevitably lead to losing control. As the commander of the three armies, he can only try his best to make up for the consequences of the chaos. He gave a wooden command, and his personal soldiers and cavalry camps turned over and took the cannons from the Dutch army's rear team.

Three hundred cavalrymen rolled over and went around in a circle, and the lances, covered in cavalry armor, pounced on the Dutch artillery position. Some Ming cavalry who were still awake along the way joined one after another, and were actually in the chaotic battlefield.

More than a thousand cavalry gathered in the middle. More than a thousand cavalry were guided by heavy armored cavalry to attack the Dutch artillery positions.

The Dutch army was in a panic and sent a cavalry to intercept it, which was also a lanceser wearing full cavalry armor.

Behind the battlefield, Horse City squinted its eyes. The Dutch Lancer regiment, with a population of about three or four hundred cavalry, the famous Dutch Guard Lancers and the famous red Lancers. Napoleon's earliest impression of Lancers was that he came from the Netherlands.

Not Poland, and falling in love at first sight, regained the army that had fallen in Napoleon's era.

Like the Dutch Flanker Infantry, the Dutch Guards Lancers are better at raids and circling, but they are obviously defeated in the duel with the more ferocious Cossack Cavalry. In the end, the remaining troops were incorporated into the Second Polish Guards Lancers. The most interesting ones are
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