When Obai saw the cavalry wearing thick yellow cotton armor forming a team about 1,000 steps away from him, he felt an indescribable pain in his heart!
Because he knows that these former Manchurian powerhouses are now completely behind!
Their armor is too heavy, plus the weight of the knights and the weight of the bits and pieces of equipment, it is definitely 200 kilograms! And the war horse under his crotch is not strong enough, and it can't carry 200 kilograms at all.
If the cavalry cannot charge forward, its power will be greatly reduced.
Therefore, Manchu knights have rarely carried out mounted attacks. Mounted shooting, infantry shooting and dismounted melee combat are their most commonly used tactics.
A mounted charge is often the final blow to an enemy infantry formation that has been disrupted.
Such tactics were very effective when dealing with those Ming troops who could neither fight hand-to-hand, form a strong battle formation, nor have reliable firearms to use.
But now the Ming army is no longer what it used to be, and the muskets in their hands are no longer fire sticks! And there are artillery that can maneuver in front of the formation!
Using dismounted cavalry, mounted archery, or infantry archery to deal with them will simply lead to death!
Dorgon had realized this after the "Battle of Bloody Creek", so he started a series of reforms.
However, most of the old Manchus did not agree with Dorgon's military reforms. How could they put aside their hard-earned skills to learn new things that seemed unreliable?
And...there are benefits in this!
If the skill of hand-to-hand combat with bows and horses is no longer the foundation of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, but is changed to a military system based on muskets, spear formations and cannons, supplemented by forward battalion cavalry, then what will happen to the interests of the Eight Banners and Old Manchuria?
So Dorgon worked on it for several years, and the real success of the reform was in the area outside the customs that Duduo was in charge of. There were not so many old Manchus outside the customs, and there were not so many rules and regulations.
And the current civil war in the Qing Dynasty is, to a certain extent, "New Manchuria" fighting "Old Manchuria". I hope that the first battle can wake up those old Manchuria who are stuck in their own way... Otherwise, the Qing Dynasty will be destroyed. But it won’t last long!
Thinking of this, Obai raised his carbine and shouted: "Erkechuhur!"
A Sauron cavalryman following him immediately raised a spear with a striking black triangular flag.
The black pennant is the flag that leads Sauron's cavalry to attack!
At this time, the 2,000 Sauron cavalry had formed a team of 100 cavalry into 20 hundred-cavalry charge formations - the charge formations of 500 cavalry and 1,000 cavalry were difficult to maintain and required a long period of rigorous training to achieve. . So Duduo and Obai chose small formations for the Sauron cavalry, which were charge formations of 50 or 100 cavalry.
Now the 20 cavalry charge formations were divided into two waves, front and back, and began to move forward quickly - this is an old tactic of the Qing army, with dead soldiers in the front and sharp soldiers in the rear. The sharp soldiers pressed down on the dead soldiers, and everyone rushed forward together!
In fact, these charging formations are not too strict and cannot be square. They are just groups of lancers charging with their heads covered.
Amidst the rumble of hoofbeats, 2,000 Sauron cavalry kicked up dust all over the sky and rushed out with a momentum that shook the earth and the mountains!
When the cavalry soldiers of Yild and Suohun saw Obai rushing here, they immediately launched an attack!
The conflict between the old and new Manchurian cavalry has begun!
Ild and Sauron's cavalry soldiers adopted a combination of frontal assault and guerrilla tactics, and sent out a group of warriors who were particularly skilled in archers and horses to attack both sides of Sauron's cavalry, trying to disrupt their formation and attract them with mounted fire. Come to fight.
The remaining cavalry rushed towards Obai's headquarters in two waves!
But these old Manchu cavalry are all armored. The armor is too heavy, so the impact speed is slow. Moreover, they are a little half-hearted when attacking, thinking about shooting arrows or fighting hand-to-hand, so they do not have the courage to rush forward. , plus the horses are a little worse, and I haven’t practiced group charges much... so the momentum is quite lacking.
In the blink of an eye, two groups of cavalry have collided with each other. This is a collision of two to three thousand cavalry! The battlefield was suddenly full of people. I don’t know how many people were knocked off their horses. I don’t know how many people collided with the enemy and both fell off their horses. I don’t know how many people’s chests were pierced by the enemy’s spears!
However, Obai was unscathed and did not collide with anyone. The cavalry group he was in charged very well and broke through the oncoming enemy cavalry group in one fell swoop. He also knocked over or knocked down seventeen or eighteen riders!
But Obai didn't dare to fight. His men were all unarmored cavalry. Once they got into hand-to-hand combat, they would be dead! Therefore, you must always keep running while avoiding the entanglement of enemy archers. The greater danger comes from the opponent's "sharp" team, because the cavalry group that has rushed through the first formation is already in a state of "exhaustion" and must break away and re-form, and let the horses charge up before they can charge again.
So Obai completed the turn while running, not backward, but to the right, passing through the enemy's sharp soldiers in front, leaving the battlefield to his own rear formation (also sharp soldiers).
The reaction of the old Manchu vest, who had just been rushed by Obai's Sauron cavalry, was not so fast. Many people were still looking for the lone Sauron cavalry on the battlefield to pick up the missing ones, while some were busy helping their comrades. .
At this moment, the rear of Sauron's cavalry rushed up like a landslide and tsunami! Then the old Manchurian vests who did not evacuate in time suffered first, and were immediately overwhelmed by Sauron's cavalry.
Then the elite rear troops of the old Manchu cavalry and the elite troops of the Sauron cavalry clashed and collided again, resulting in heavy casualties...
After the two waves of confrontation, the 5,000 horse-armed soldiers of Ild and Suohun were in a mess, scattered on the right battlefield of the Dodo army, and suffered considerable losses.
And the Sauron cavalry that made them so embarrassed only numbered 2,000!
However, for the old vests of Ild and Sohun, the disaster is far from over, because behind Obai's Solon cavalry, there are also 2,000 Dodo soldiers led by Zhenglan Banner Baya Lahu Zhangjing Kerkun. The vest soldiers of old Manchuria...
When the cavalry battle between old and new Manchuria had already decided the winner, the infantry of both sides in the frontal battle also decided the winner!
After investing 5 fresh infantry battalions, Duduo's "Eastern Army" launched a fierce charge on the north and south lines of Shihe Village at the same time. Not only did they drive the remnants of Fulehe out of Shihe Village, but they also completely defeated more than 20,000 people of Geng Zhongming and Kong Tingxun.
Seeing that his cavalry and infantry were easily defeated by Duduo, Azig was still unwilling to give up - he felt that he still had good ground to rely on. So they dispatched the cavalry soldiers on hand to launch a small counterattack, temporarily blocking Duduo's infantry, and wanted to gather the remaining troops to retreat to Jieshan Ridge and Tuofeng Ridge.
At the same time, he also sent his son Fulehe who had just returned from Shihe Village on Pegasus to Jianling to see Jierhalang and begged him to immediately send troops to attack Duduo's flank.
When Fulehe arrived at Jianling, the sun had just passed overhead, almost noon. Inside the city wall of Jianling, smoke is curling up, and it’s time to eat!
What we ate was mutton soup with gnocchi. The aroma of mutton soup was everywhere in Jianling. He had been busy since early in the morning and had not even eaten breakfast. He couldn't help but drool when he smelled the smell. ...but he still gritted his teeth and drove away the greedy insect, and walked quickly towards the sacrificial hall.
In the sacrificial hall, there is also mutton dumpling soup, and it is very fragrant - there is a lot of mutton in this pot! And it also adds a lot of seasonings, it smells good!
Jierharang was sitting around with his son Jidu, minister Sony, King Pingnan Shang Kexi, and Shang Kexi's younger brother Shang Kexi, and they were eating steaming meals!
Ji'erharang also saw Fulehe, and greeted him with a smile: "Come here, come here, let's eat something together... Haha, the mutton soup just cooked was made from Jieshi Mountain The fat sheep produced here are delicious!"
Fu Lehe was already anxious, "Prince Zheng, you, you and I came to Jieshi Mountain to drink mutton soup?"
Jierhalang smiled and shook his head: "Of course not. After drinking the mutton soup, there are still other things to do!"
