There is no technical content in cavalry hedging at all, the only competition is courage. It depends on who is brave and who does not give way during the hedging, then whoever wins.
But what is very strange is that although cavalry confrontation is a common situation on the battlefield, it is quite rare for the two armies to actually collide. Generally, when one party is charging menacingly, the other party has already retreated out of fear, and in order to avoid it, it is very rare.
The formation was dispersed. Because everyone knows that as long as there is a collision, it will basically be lifeless.
The history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a history of this kind of desperate collision. Nurhachi was on the run like this, and finally conquered and integrated the Jurchen tribes and formed the Eight Banners. Then the Eight Banners also relied on such fierce tactics to repeatedly attack the grasslands with a small number of people.
He won many victories, conquered the tribes in Eastern Mongolia, and established the Manchu-Mongolian coalition.
Later, this desperate hedging was used to defeat the Ming army in Liaodong in repeated battles. In the end, even the Guan Ning cavalry did not dare to leave the city and fight with the Qing army in the field. Therefore, in any war throughout the ages, the courage of soldiers has always been ranked first.
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But Dorgon never expected that today's Qing army would encounter such a Ming army that dared to confront each other. Facing the rows of cavalry in front of them who were constantly dying, Tan Tu and Ji Lang'a's troops immediately collapsed.
After all, this army was composed of Mongolian Eight Banners and Mongolian tribal herdsmen. At this time, the Mongolian army had degenerated quite significantly, and there was no trace of the style of Genghis Khan's Mongolian army. Besides, the intensity of the fighting on the grasslands was actually quite low.
In a battle on the grassland, although both sides may use tens of thousands of cavalry, which looks huge, but often both sides charge into battle at once and scatter the other side's elites. The war is over, and the enemy troops will surrender and become their own.
troops. Because on the grassland, scattered herdsmen simply cannot survive without relying on tribes.
Therefore, in a war on the grassland, the losing side will not fight to the death, and the winning side will not kill everyone. And the fighting will of the Mongolian soldiers trained in such a war atmosphere can be imagined.
This was the case for Tan Tu and Ji Lang'a's troops. The first few rows were all Mengba Banners who had received rigorous training from the Qing army, so their fighting will was still tenacious. But the Mongolian herdsmen following them could not hold on. They
They entered the pass to plunder, not to die, so when they saw the Runing Army charging at each other one by one, they became frightened and immediately dispersed their formations to both sides to let the Runing Army's cavalry pass.
Once the front row gave way, the back row would definitely not fight tooth and nail, so just like an adjective - a hot knife cuts butter, and the entire formation of the Qing army was cut open.
Although there were many cavalrymen in the Qing army, they all moved to the left and right to avoid them. Even if there were a few blind ones, they would never be able to stop the Runing army's group charge. They were instantly submerged under the iron hooves. So at the beginning
After a fierce collision, the cavalry of the Runing Army suddenly lost their resistance and ran for a while. They actually passed through the formation.
Suddenly penetrated the formation. The cavalry of the Runing Army were also stunned. They also slowed down their horses at the signal of Commander Wang of the Cavalry Regiment. At this time, these cavalry had two choices: one continued to attack Dole.
The Qing army's main formation where Gun was located; the other was to once again kill the Qing army's formation and fight back to their own troops.
Commander Wang made his choice without hesitation. He straightened his lance and shouted: "Brothers, are you interested in doing it again?"
"Okay!" All the cavalry were very excited and shouted in unison.
Commander Wang still remembered what Zug told him before he set off, that he wanted his cavalry regiment to delay the Qing army from charging into the formation. He was not asked to attack the Qing army's main formation, so Commander Wang had to attack Tantu again, Ji
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"Tan Tu and Ji Lang'a, these two losers, why don't they want to die?" Dorgon, who was watching the battle, was furious.
Not only Dorgon was angry, Tan Tu and Ji Lang'a who were crossed into the formation, as well as Mazali and Quangui who were reorganizing their team, were all angered by this arrogant Runing Army cavalry, and they all mobilized one after another.
My own Bai La Ya soldiers rushed to the front line and were about to destroy this Runing Army cavalry.
After Commander Wang gave the order to "turn the whole army around," he led several of his own soldiers to drive their horses to the last row, leveled their spears, and blew the long whistle for charging into the formation.
But this time the charge did not go so smoothly. Although there was no Qing cavalry blocking the formation of the Runing Army, the horses that had already charged once did not get a rest at all, so they could no longer increase their speed. So
The Qing army swarmed in, and they rushed in and killed each other on both sides of the formation. As a result, the number of cavalry in each row of the Runing army became less and less. In the end, only more than a hundred cavalry were left who passed through the formation again.
However, this charge can be regarded as completing its mission. After all, it delayed the time for the Qing army to attack the Runing army's main formation. Taking advantage of this opportunity created, Li Sanhe's troops gradually moved closer to the center.
So the Qing army focused its attention on Li Sanhe's tribe again, but Li Sanhe's movement went surprisingly smoothly.
Because the Qing army was penetrated by Commander Wang's cavalry regiment twice in a row and had no time to reorganize, it was unable to form a continuous charge against Li Sanhe's troops.
Li Sanhe's two infantry regiments suffered no losses from their artillery and muskets. During the movement, they continued to use firearms to shoot at the Qing troops charging into the formation, and then resolutely launched a counterattack with the cavalry escorting the infantry regiments.
.As a result, the Qing army returned without success again and again, and did not stop the pace of the two infantry regiments.
As Li Sanhe's troops moved to the left step by step, the Qing army was somewhat helpless against this army. They were about to block the main force of the Runing army.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Runing Army also stepped up to set up artillery arrays in front of the two phalanxes, gathered more than 700 soldiers who had fled back, formed a temporary phalanx, and arranged it behind the middle phalanx.
Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was about to stabilize, Wu Shigong also breathed a sigh of relief. He was prepared to withdraw the entire army as soon as the battle situation stabilized, and he had to withdraw from the range of the Qing army's artillery no matter what.
When Dorgon saw that the deadlock could not be broken, he frowned and was constantly afraid of being slapped in the thigh. He was extremely unwilling to do so. He knew that after the Ming army on the opposite side suffered this loss, it would never happen again.
I will not be fooled, nor will I take the initiative to walk into the range of the general's artillery.
But at this moment, "Boom!", a muffled thunder suddenly came from the sky above the battlefield. Wu Shigong was surprised, and Dorgon was pleasantly surprised. Both of them looked at the sky at the same time, and saw only one drop in the sky, and two drops.
Drops..., then continued, and finally it started to rain heavily.