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Chapter 813 Breaking the Liaodong Iron Cavalry

Two battalions of cavalry confronted two battalions of infantry on the plain, and it was obvious that the cavalry took the initiative.

Na Zukuan and Li Chongzhen originally thought that the rebel army would retreat after encountering cavalry like the previous few times.

As a result, when they led the cavalry to the front of the formation, they encountered rebels waiting in full battle.

Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen felt a little uneasy when they saw the well-formed infantry, with spears like forests, mixed with musketeers, archers, and axemen among them.

However, years of combat experience reminded them that this was just another one-sided massacre.

It's so easy to meet thieves and want to fight head-to-head with the Liaodong iron cavalry. This is the opportunity to eliminate the thieves in one fell swoop.

Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen couldn't bear the desire to kill and make meritorious deeds, they couldn't help but looked at each other, and then nodded confidently.

Immediately, the iron cavalry under their command split out into small groups, and then launched an attack on the well-organized rebel army.

Due to the rise of firearms, the weapons used by the frontier cavalry in the late Ming Dynasty were mostly bows and arrows and waist knives.In addition to the famous three-eyed blunderbuss and fast gun, the basic equipment configuration is: soft bow, long arrow, fast horse, and light knife.

In addition to the traditional roaming and harassment, the tactics are based on the whistle when charging, and a dense formation is used to charge repeatedly.

Zhang Shun sits in the central army, Wukong, Wang Jinyi, Gao Guiying and Niu Jinxing are on the left and right.He calmly watched the provocative cavalry, and played tricks of hiding people in front of the rebel formation and galloping left and right.

Fortunately, Zhang Shun has taken so many wives, he has seen a lot and is not moved in the slightest.Then Ma Yingniang and Hong Niangzi are also quite familiar with this technique, and even better, what's the fuss?
It's just a pity that the righteous brothers Chen Changzhu and Xiao Qinhu were not in front of him, otherwise he would be shot down with an arrow, which would have hit the arrogance of the officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers provoked for a long time, and seeing that the rebels were unmoved, they sent a few sentry cavalry to gallop over. Two or three things happened outside the rebel formation, and immediately the rebels were shot down several people.

Not to be outdone, the rebels fought back with bows, arrows and firecrackers, also shooting down several cavalrymen.

After probing back and forth five or six times, Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen saw that they could not gain any advantage, hesitated for a while, and simply sent more cavalry to conduct a tentative charge and harass the design.

He Renlong and Bai Guangen are both powerful generals, and their subordinates are also somewhat capable. Now that Zhang Shun is in charge of the Chinese army, stealing and cheating are not a big deal.

The two had to bite the bullet and deal with the Liaodong cavalry of the officers and soldiers.

The bow, arrow, and cannon held in the hand cannot be fired lightly.Once lured out by officers, soldiers and cavalry, they will be attacked by the opponent taking advantage of the gap of firepower.

They had no choice but to command the spearmen and sword and shield players to stand up, and let several teams of archers and gunmen shoot each other.

Under the pressure of death, the spirits of the soldiers were tense all the time, their physical strength was drained rapidly, and some even began to feel hungry.

"Crazy He" couldn't hold it anymore, so he couldn't help but sent soldiers to ask Zhang Shun: "The king of Shun wants to fight, and we all die; if the king of Shun wants to leave, we all defend him. Why don't we advance or retreat? The officers, soldiers and cavalry confronted each other for a long time?"

After hearing this, Zhang Shun turned his head and asked, "Has Bai Guangen's messenger arrived yet?"

"To King Shun, a letter has just been delivered!" Niu Jinxing came out to respond.

"It seems that the limit has been reached. Let the two wait for an opportunity to switch teams, and the rear team will switch to the front team. Half of the archers and musketeers are allowed to cover fire, and no artillery is allowed!" Zhang Shun ordered after hearing this.

"King Shun?" Niu Jinxing was taken aback, and quickly reminded.

For combat in the era of cold weapons, front-line rotation and front-line retreat are very dangerous things.

Even more dangerous than this was the rotation and retreat in the face of enemy cavalry.

Previously, the rebel army retreated from the Liaodong iron cavalry of Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen many times. Thanks to the cover of the cavalry, no major mistakes were made.

Now that Zhang Shun planned to fight a war of annihilation, the cavalry, as his "surprise soldiers", could not move lightly.

In this way, the rebel army will have to carry out dangerous tactical actions when facing the threat of cavalry, and the risk is even greater!

"Needless to say, I can trust them!" Zhang Shun reached out to stop Niu Jinxing.

Can you trust them?This is just Zhang Shun's political terminology.

Especially how long has it been since He Renlong's "grinding foreign workers", did Zhang Shun suffer from amnesia?

In fact, the soldiers under He Renlong and Bai Guangen's original combat effectiveness and organization were not significantly higher than that of the Ming army's elite.

But after Zhang Shun's careful investigation in the past few days, in fact, their servants and personal guards are absolutely good.

And it is different from Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao uncle and nephew who were attracted by Zhang Shun.

As the "defeated generals" He Renlong and Bai Guangen, the middle and lower ranks under their command were all re-employed after passing the strict training and assessment of Ma Yingniang Military Academy. They are fully capable of these relatively complex and high-end tactical actions.

After the officers, soldiers and cavalry tried to harass again, just turned around and retreated, the rebel soldiers here started to move.

The spearmen of the rear team leveled their spears, and walked to the front row through the gap between the soldiers.

After the two sides stood side by side, the original spearman started to make way for the swordsman behind him.

At this time, no matter how stupid Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen were, they could see what the rebels were going to do.

"Change before the battle?" Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen laughed out of breath, "Who are you looking down on?"

"The whole army is attacking?" Zu Kuan glanced at Li Chongzhen.

"The whole army is attacking!" Li Chongzhen also nodded.

Originally, Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen wanted to spend a while longer, but if they were successfully changed by the rebels, then those who could not exhaust their opponents would be replaced by officers and soldiers.

It turned out that Gao Guiying's idea to Zhang Shun was to take advantage of the long-distance raids of the officers and soldiers to actively consume the physical strength and endurance of the officers and soldiers' mounts.

Although a carefully selected war horse is an excellent mount, in fact, it is a relatively delicate creature when it comes to seriousness.

Before every battle, they must be fed black beans and other concentrated feeds, and they must not lose weight.

For example, nomads who do not have enough concentrated feed can only wait until autumn when the horses are fattened before they can invade the south.

Moreover, when people are traveling in a hurry or marching for a long time, it will cause a large number of deaths of war horses.

At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conscripted [-] war horses and launched the Battle of Mobei.

In the end, although they won a big victory, they lost about [-] horses at a time.

No matter Zhang Shun or Niu Jinxing, although they are full of wit and tricks, they don't know the habits of war horses very well. On the contrary, they are not as good as Gao Guiying, who has lived in the border area all year round, can come up with countermeasures.

Gao Guiying's "defensive tactic" to deal with Fu Zonglong's maneuver is very simple. Aren't you good at maneuvering, then I will abolish your mount and see how you can carry out this tactic!
Zu Kuan and Li Chongzhen were also careless. It wasn't until the officers and soldiers were in rotation that they suddenly realized that the mounts of their cavalry were very tired. If they couldn't fight quickly, the battle would be dangerous.

This is the fundamental reason why these two people suddenly decided to attack with the whole army when they saw the change of formation of the rebel army!

(End of this chapter)