The Eight Banners disciples in the capital have no other skills, but they are very talkative. Even if they don't look conspicuous, they are full of hooks!
The imperial court doesn't update equipment. This guy is obviously scolding the Ministry of War, but in fact it's you, Guiziliu!
Who in the capital doesn't know that your Xishan camp is a bottomless pit that swallows money. Millions of silver go into it every year, so you have your foreign guns and cannons. But what about the other camp heads?
Even the soldiers are owed their military pay, and they haven't even been provided with it, let alone updated equipment!
Doesn’t the court know that foreign guns are better than swords? All fools know this, but what should I do if I don’t have money? Foreign guns and bullets all cost money!
This deputy leader nominally passed the responsibility to the court, but in fact he passed it on to you, Guiziliu. The subtext is very clear!
"You have spent a large part of the imperial military budget. If you don't fight now, who will fight? Are you going to let us die?"
Yi Xin's fingers started to tremble in anger, but now was not the time to let go of his anger with a little subordinate. The Chinese soldiers in the distance were covering each other and retreating in waves, and they were about to exit Dongjiaomin Alley!
At this moment, a burst of intensive horse hoofbeats suddenly came from the north, rushing towards the south like thunder!
The cavalry of the Nine Admirals has arrived. There are only more than 500 cavalry that Yixuan can use in the inner city. Today, he has pledged all his capital.
In fact, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty to the end, there was no shortage of war horses. The Mongolian prairie was the back garden of the Qing Dynasty. The cost of purchasing war horses was very low. Even the Mongolian princes paid tribute to the capital with a batch of the best war horses every year.
But the inner city is where the nobles live after all, and the emperor is not willing to put too many cavalry in the inner city for safety, so a large number of cavalry are stationed in military camps outside the city.
Those who are lucky enough to fight on horseback in the inner city are all outstanding children of families within the Eight Banners. They may not be as good as the brothers who serve as guards in the palace, but they are still much nobler than those other Eight Banners children who walk on two legs.
More than the top, less than the bottom, this group of Eight Banners disciples are actually more motivated, because they are in the middle class, they can see what it is like for the people above to enjoy happiness, and they can also see how pathetic the poor bannermen below are!
Only by comparing them can they have a goal to strive for. This group of cavalry should be regarded as the ones who have not lost their blood in the Eight Banners!
"The enemy is in the Dongjiao Min Lane! Speed up and rush over! Disrupt their camp to clear the way for the friendly troops from the Xishan Camp behind!"
"The war horse has its eyes covered...and the lance is like a forest!"
Five hundred fine cavalry trampled the long street, making a rumbling sound. People in the houses on the left and right felt this slight earthquake!
Even the people in the embassy area forgot to hide. The soldiers and military attachés hiding on the shelves behind the wall stood up and looked at the rare spectacle in front of them!
Yi Xin slapped her thigh on the horse and cursed, "Asshole foreign devils! Assholes... So you guys have been here to watch the fun! Didn't you want to care about us from the beginning?"
"Sitting on a mountain and watching the tiger head, you are so despicable!"
How could the foreigners care about Yi Xin's scolding? The British military attache Major Delaney's eyes shone brightly, "It's so spectacular! Although I know that the cavalry is already a branch of arms that has lagged behind the times!"
"But the scene when the real cavalry regiment charges is equally shocking. This is something that is imprinted in the memory of the human soul and will never be erased!"
"At the time of Bali Bridge, we British and French relied on artillery, bayonet walls and sandbags to hold off Senggelinqin's cavalry regiment!"
"And today this group of Chinese have nothing, no cannons, no bayonet wall, and no sandbags... How on earth are they supposed to resist?"
"Record this scene, make it into a copper engraving, and mail it back to China!"
The cavalry of the Nine Admirals rushed up, and the infantrymen who had just been killed finally breathed a sigh of relief. Another seventy or eighty lives were lost in this charge, and the defenders of Daqing Gate and Zhengyang Gate died in the battle just that night. Little two hundred people.
The peaceful days have been too long. Who has seen so many people die in one breath? They are all the bannermen who are usually pampered and pampered. Now they are thinking of digging into rat holes.
Coupled with the fact that a large number of junior officers were shot and killed by snipers, the morale of the soldiers has dropped to the bottom and no one can inspire them!
They stopped, got out of the way of the cavalry charge, and looked at the bloody battle in front of them like zombies!
It's like a dream, everything is so unreal!
When Ye Qiu and the others saw that the infantry had stopped chasing them, they naturally didn't bother to care about them. Faced with the charge of these cavalry, everyone looked a little more serious.
Those who know how to cover the eyes of charging horses are veterans. No matter whether they have experienced many bloody battles, at least the old tradition has not been lost!
After all, war horses are beasts, and they will flinch and dodge in the face of danger, so spurs are needed to stimulate the war horse, and use pain to make the war horse forget its fear!
Another method is more effective, which is to put blindfolds on the war horses. This is generally a trick only used by armored cavalry, and it happens that these cavalry are the most traditional armored cavalry!
The horses and soldiers were all covered in leather armor inlaid with iron, and they made a clanging sound when they sprinted!
"Speed up, speed up, speed up... rush into the enemy formation, hold them back... buy time for the soldiers of Xishan Battalion!"
"As long as we hold them off for five or six minutes, we will definitely win..."
Before the officer leading the charge had finished speaking... suddenly a blood arrow spurted out from his neck, followed by a popping sound as if something had broken.
"Be careful... there is a steel wire to rein in the horse..." The cavalry behind could not avoid it and bumped into the dead cavalry, and the screams of the war horses were heard.
"Don't worry about anything...keep accelerating...rush over!"
Bounce...bounce...bounce... The sound of bow strings snapping was heard continuously on the street, and the war horses were overturned to the ground!
Delaney, the military attache in the distance, was shocked, "No...this tactic is not very effective against armored cavalry...the defense is too strong...and the armor of the men and horses is too heavy!"
The trick of using wires to set up an ambush caused the Tsarist Russian cavalry to suffer a lot when they were in Vladivostok, but there were prerequisites!
Tsarist Russian cavalry are all light cavalry armed with muskets. What they pursue is speed and endurance, and what they want is the ability to make strategic detours!
As for the inner city cavalry like the Nine Admirals, to be honest, they are usually honor guards. Many of these armors were made during the Yongzheng and Qianlong years!
There are iron pieces on the tanned leather pieces. This kind of armor is light and has good defense. Unless the steel wire is directly strangled in the throat, it will not kill anyone at all.
Moreover, the weight of both men and horses wearing armor is not light. A single charge can break a steel wire. In Vladivostok, the steel wire often strangled four or five cavalry before breaking!
The power of heavy cavalry is not something you can just brag about!
Bang bang bang... The shotgun is not very effective either. The dense iron sand cannot penetrate the armor at all!
The only thing that works is the sniper's rifle. This kind of fixed-loaded ammunition has very good penetration and kills one life with one shot. However, the cavalry is too fast and the killing speed cannot keep up with the enemy's charging speed!
