Chapter 314: The Charge of Guan Ning's Iron Cavalry
Wu Sangui led the front cavalry of the Liaodong Army forward. After they had walked thirty or forty steps, the entire Liaodong Army also began to press forward. However, they walked in a very rhythmic manner. After taking more than ten steps, they paused and stopped.
After the queue is neatly arranged, move forward.
The reason for such a pause is simply that the Ming Dynasty's military formation training was not strict. After more than ten steps, the formation may become a little chaotic and need to be arranged in order again.
But this kind of pause seems to be a small problem, but if there is such a pause in a fierce battle, it will be infinitely magnified and even lead to failure.
However, this is not a big problem for the Liaodong Army. It is not as good as the previous one, but more than the lower one. The Liaodong Army has to take more than ten steps before it needs to form a neat formation. This is already the performance of the first-class strong army among the Ming army.
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"Huh?" The rebel military attache was immediately surprised when he saw the Ming army on the left taking the initiative to move forward. Because the Liaodong Army's movements were obviously about to take the initiative to attack.
In the wars of the Ming Dynasty, the two sides usually formed formations three or four miles apart. However, a battle did not necessarily occur after the formations were completed. If the leaders of both sides were not sure, they would even stand against each other for a day and then go their separate ways.
Return to camp.
When a battle is about to occur, the two sides will approach to a place about a mile away and formally fight. The party that approaches proactively is often the first to attack at the beginning of the battle.
"Are the officers and soldiers on the left wing out of their minds? How dare they attack our Liaodong Army with just over 5,000 people?" Li Yingyuan couldn't help but raise the question in his mind.
"Who cares what they think? We just have to do our own thing." Kong Youde scolded. At this time, there cannot be any unexpected factors that shake the morale of the military.
In fact, Kong Youde was also a little confused. Not to mention the origin of the army on the left, Kong Youde also couldn't understand the actions of this army.
The official army only has more than 5,000 people. Even if the official army with the right wing has less than 13,000 people, it still wants to take the initiative to attack its own army of more than 18,000 people. Is this considered ignorance?
Are you fearless? In a war, the number of soldiers on both sides is a very important criterion for measuring the strength of both sides!
Also, in Kong Youde's view, since the artillery of the army on the left wing played a great role, then those artillery should be fired up, transported across the Shahe River, and played the role of artillery in the battle? But the army on the left wing did not
It seemed that they had forgotten that they still had artillery. As soon as they crossed the river, they formed a formation and approached before the artillery could be fired.
In addition, even if the army on the right wants to attack, it should wait for the officers and soldiers on the right to get closer and form a formation and attack together? Could it be that the officers and soldiers on the left have taken the wrong medicine and want to fight alone with their own army?
Fight?
Moreover, there is also a problem with the formation of the officers and soldiers on the left wing. They actually use the cavalry as the front team. Don't they know that they should first use bows and arrows and muskets to disrupt the enemy's formation, and then use the infantry square formation to consume the combat effectiveness and strength of the enemy's formation?
In terms of physical strength, the cavalry is used to charge in the end? You know, the cavalry faces a tightly defended infantry formation. It is a complete loss. It is a stupid behavior that wastes the strength of the cavalry in vain? Do they think they are Guan Ning's cavalry?
ah?
Kong Youde didn't know that what he was facing on the left wing was indeed Guan Ning's cavalry. But at this time, Kong Youde didn't think that the officer army was Guan Ning's cavalry. This was because the officers and soldiers made too many moves that violated military common sense.
However, Kong Youde also admitted that the Ming army on the left should be a strong army, which can be seen from the speed of the Ming army crossing the river.
Therefore, Kong Youde loudly ordered: "Let the left wing prepare. Why is it still so chaotic? If we don't arrange it well, military law will be used."
The rebels' 18,000 troops had already formed a formation, but because they were tilting now, they were not completely arranged. And because the rebels thought that the Ming army would not launch an attack so soon, their movements were a bit awkward.
They were dragging their feet, and Kong Youde's order was to hurry up.
Kong Youde believed that the most likely possibility was that the head coach of the left-wing Ming army was a novice on the battlefield who was good at training troops and eager to make contributions. With the momentum of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, he wanted to take advantage of the chaos of changing formations to fish in troubled waters.
Bundle.
Then let this novice on the battlefield take a look at the performance of the Liao Army in Dongjiang Town. We must teach him a lesson and let him know that the battlefield and the battlefield are not the same routine. When Kong Youde saw that his army quickly
After arranging the formation, his mind was completely settled.
Not to mention Kong Youde, the military attaches of the coalition forces were also surprised by the advance of the Liaodong Army. At this time, the coalition forces had not yet reached their positions. Their formation had not been fully deployed, and they had changed from a marching state to a combat state.
"Stop quickly and get into formation first!" Liu Zeqing ordered. His order was completely a subconscious order for the Liaodong Army's independent action. After hearing the order, the coalition forces immediately began to form a battle formation.
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Fortunately, the training of the coalition forces for more than three months was not in vain, and they quickly formed a formation. The infantry of the coalition forces were arranged two in front and three in back, five infantry squares of one thousand people. And on the left wing of the infantry
, more than 700 cavalry were lined up.
Wu Shigong's personal troops and the 500 soldiers from the original mobile infantry battalion, plus Liu Zeqing's more than 300 personal soldiers, a total of 1,000 people, serve as the reserve team at the end, guarding Wu Shigong, Liu Zeqing and other coalition military attachés. As for the artillery
, because there is no time to prepare at all, it seems that it will be of little use in this battle.
After the coalition forces formed their formation, Liu Zeqing strangely didn't know what to do. This was also a major weakness of Liu Zeqing, the leader of the coalition forces. After all, Liu Zeqing did not come from a family of military generals. If he had a plan like the previous battle to block the river,
Liu Zeqing can behave lawfully if he fights in a disciplined manner, but if he is asked to make changes to the battlefield, he will be at a loss.
So Liu Zeqing asked Wu Shigong: "Brother Chang Jing, should we move forward with the Liaodong Army, or should we stay put?"
Wu Shigong was also accustomed to his role as a staff officer. He replied: "It's definitely not possible to stay where we are, and we can't explain it to the Liaodong Army after the war. But the gap between us and the Liaodong Army is also a bit big, and there is a big gap between us and the Liaodong Army."
We can't take care of you. Let's move closer to the Liaodong Army horizontally first, and then move forward together with the Liaodong Army."
In the Ming Dynasty, if the army walked straight, it might mess up the formation. But now if they walk diagonally and rush to get closer to the Liaodong Army, they will have to perform a trot at a 45-degree angle to follow. And this high
Just don’t play the difficult queue exercises.
Moreover, Wu Shigong still has a little thought in his heart. A right-angled distance is always greater than a diagonal distance. In this way, the coalition forces can legitimately lag behind the Liaodong Army. It can put the Liaodong Army on the front line of the battle.
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This is the flexible application of the sum of two sides of a triangle being greater than the third side! For Wu Shigong, regardless of his junior high school diploma in his previous life or his reputation as a scholar in this life, he has become the most educated person in the entire battlefield. This knowledge
It just needs to be transformed into power.
After Liu Zeqing thought about it, he also discovered the beauty of Wu Shigong's proposal, so he immediately ordered it to be implemented in accordance with Wu Shigong's order.
The Liaodong Army was not moving very fast, just a walking pace. Therefore, it only took less than half an hour to reach a place about a mile away from the rebels.
As for the coalition forces, no matter how much they delay, they cannot fall too far behind. Therefore, they also accelerated their pace and were about 150 steps behind the Liaodong Army.
Today, both rebel military attaches like Kong Youde and Wu Shigong, allied military attaches, are a little confused about the Liaodong Army's unconventional practices. But all the military attaches don't know that this is just Guan Ning's cavalry showing contempt for other Ming soldiers.
It's just an expression of the military.
You don’t want to say that the main battlefield of the Liaodong Army should be outside the Pass in Liaodong. But they behave like a worm outside the Pass, but they behave like a dragon inside the Pass. I don’t know that Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the court know
After this situation, should I cry? Or should I laugh?
About a mile away from the rebels, the Liaodong Army paused for a little longer, but after arranging their formation, they immediately moved forward again. This once again aroused the surprise of the rebel military attache.
"Are they really going to attack?" Li Yingyuan exclaimed, "Do they really think they can defeat us with more than 5,000 people?"
"The soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it with the soil." Kong Youde was very calm.
Although the artillery brought by the rebels could not be used due to lack of time, the rebels from Dongjiang Town had rich experience in defending against cavalry charges against infantry square formations.
Although the front row of the left wing are soldiers newly recruited in Denglai, after so many battles, Kong Youde is still very confident in their combat effectiveness. Now Kong Youde is calmly waiting for the Ming army to rebel.
The military's long-range muskets, bows and arrows, and short-range spears were all butted against each other in front of a flower formation, and blood flowed.
The allied military attachés behind the Liaodong Army also stretched their necks. Especially Wu Shigong, he wanted to take a look at what the world-famous Guan Ning Cavalry was like.
At the sound of sharp whistles, Wu Sangui's front row of cavalry began to walk quickly, followed closely behind them were more than 2,000 Liaodong cavalry. Behind them were the infantry of the Liaodong Army.
The high-speed charge of the cavalry is also the same as the old routine. They line up in rows, first walk slowly to line up, then walk quickly to adjust the rhythm, and finally charge at high speed. This is exactly what Wu Shigong and the others did before the Farewell Charge.
The performance is the same. So I won’t repeat it again in the future.
When the cavalry of the Liaodong Army approached the rebels 250 steps away, Wu Sangui blew the final charge whistle. All the horses began to accelerate together, and the Guan Ning Cavalry took out their long-hidden, Guan Ning Cavalry's iconic
The weapon - the three-eyed fire gun. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
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I broke my promise to ask for leave in the morning.