Dragon Sea Empire

Countless refugees rushed through the Chinese military cordon at Sanshilipu, and dense crowds of people crossed the road and headed towards Jinzhou.

While the brothers in the cavalry battalion were in a hurry, the sound of gunfire came from the direction of Bohai Pulandian Bay in the west, and a shadow of sail appeared on the surface of the Bohai Sea. The report said: "Battalion Commander Lu, it's the navy fleet, they are here,"

In Pulandian Bay on the Bohai Sea, more than 20 cruisers and gunboats of the Navy's First Fleet were docking on the coast, and they put down hundreds of centipede boats and rushed towards the beach quickly.

Lu Xiaoyi, the battalion commander of the Cavalry Battalion of the Second Division, immediately stood by the beach and ordered his soldiers loudly: "Hurry up, hurry up, help the common people get on the boat,"

A navy officer in a blue and white uniform came to the beach, with a stripe and three stars on his shoulders. The navy captain passed through the crowd of refugees and found Lu Xiaoyi. He saluted with his left hand and chest: "Lin Wu, the supervisor of the Third Squadron of the First Fleet, came here under the order of the President, and obeyed the command of Battalion Commander Lu of the Cavalry Battalion of the Second Division,"

Lu Xiaoyi hurriedly replied: "Captain Lin, it's good that you are here, and transfer the refugees quickly."

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Lu Xiaotian, the brigade commander of the cavalry brigade, rode on a tall Andalusian horse, standing on the side of the road with a sullen face, watching the heavy cavalry battalion under him rushing northward.

Mai Yangtian, the cavalry brigade supervisor officer, was wearing a red uniform and stood behind him, while several battalion-level officers were discussing around: "This is the first time, let us cavalry be the vanguard and fight the first battle."

"I'll give you an order from the President. I didn't sleep a wink all night. This is a chance for our Shandong thieves to get ahead,"

"Don't be so wordy, what are you doing when you have nothing to do?" Lu Xiaotian said dissatisfiedly: "The army has to speed up. The Eight Banners soldiers have already moved south from Fuzhou, and the striker has only been to Sanlipu in these two days. We must Get there before tonight,"

All the officers saluted together and hurried back to their own troops.

The heavy cavalry in the Chinese army was once regarded as weak. The infantry has always been the center of the whole army. The cavalry is only an auxiliary arm. In the battle of the capital two years ago, the cavalry of the Chinese army defeated the official army in a single charge in the battle of the eastern suburbs. On the left wing, he finally felt elated. Then, during the Battle of Hexiwu by the canal, the cavalry attacked the officer's and army's chariot battalion, but failed repeatedly. The officer felt that the cavalry had lost face in this battle and was very frustrated. Therefore, in the past two years, Lu Xiaotian and others stepped up hard training of cavalry tactics in Jeju Island, southern Liaoning and other places. With the support of Yin Feng, they equipped a ten light cavalry cannon The cavalry battalion is also equipped with a thunderbolt rocket cavalry battalion. All cavalry are equipped with two horses. Everyone is issued a double-barreled flintlock pistol and a yellow phosphorus self-fire grenade. , has more than 6000 horses, of which 15000 are the best Arabian war horses, Andalusian war horses, and the rest are Hexi horses, Mongolian horses, etc. All the war horses are horse breeders hired from Arabia, Western, and Mongolia The horses bred by breeding are by no means comparable to the inferior horses of the Ming army that are only suitable for farm work. The technical gap between the Chinese and Westerners in horse breeding and optimal breeding has been filled by Yin Feng's support.

Lu Xiaotian led his horse up a high slope on the side of the main road, and saw the German mercenary Rod Ebel, the deputy commander of the cavalry brigade, and the Dutch mercenary Andre, the commander of the heavy cavalry battalion. The only two Western officers were desperadoes and mercenaries who didn't care about anything other than fighting.

This 40-year-old Germanic man was captured by the Chinese army in the Spanish counterattack to Manila ten years ago, and then became the cavalry instructor of the Chinese military academy. He joined the army at the age of 15 and fought for 20 years for various princes and nobles in Europe. From the suppression of the Netherlands uprising in Spain to the war between Poland and Russia, he traveled almost all over Europe. In Taiwan, he found his true destination: training a heavy cavalry in the far east.

He rushed over from the north in a hurry, and said in hard Chinese: "Lieutenant Colonel Lu, the refugees are blocking the road and seriously hindering my heavy cavalry marching. You must solve this problem."

Lu Xiaotian frowned: "I'll handle this matter, you take the troops down the main road, march quickly through the wilderness, and rest at Shisanlipu,"

"The heavy cavalry marching away from the main road now will lose horsepower, and then they will not be able to go into battle immediately. I don't agree with this," Colonel Rod Ebert said bluntly.

Lu Xiaotian nodded in embarrassment, thinking to himself: This Western big-nosed instructor has such a bad temper. Bring the guards to open the way for you, don't worry, we should not encounter the enemy before dark today, "

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The guards led by Li Xiao encountered the forward of the Eighth Golden Banner Army and the Blue Banner Cavalry in Pulandian, a complete record of 300 armored cavalry.

Li Xiao was taken aback: "These Jurchen savages came so fast," he turned his head and said to his guard captain, "You go back to Shisanlipu immediately, and launch a signal rocket every mile along the way to warn the surroundings. The army catches new hands, "

Li Xiao ordered his 100 guards to stand in two rows on horseback on the dusty road, facing the Eight Banners cavalry in the north.

Li Xiao's guard captain ordered a few words behind him, and several messengers with feathered helmets galloped south. The guard captain led his horse to Li Xiao's side and drew his saber.

Li Xiao frowned: "I ordered you to report the letter,"

The captain of the guard replied: "Brother Li, my duty is to be by your side at all times,"

This captain of the guard has been Li Xiao's personal soldier for ten years. He has been Li Xiao's personal soldier since Li Xiao was a small and medium-sized household in the Ming army. The members of Li Xiao's guard are basically from Liaodong, and most of them follow him. An old brother who left Liaodong after the mutiny.

Li Xiao smiled and pointed to the front: "Don't worry, it's just a small number of troops. We are not the cavalry of the official army, but the cavalry of the Chinese army," he said, and he drew two flintlock pistols from the saddle , The 100 soldiers of the guard also held guns in their hands.

The outpost cavalry of the Xianglan Banner skimmed the ruins of the former officer and soldier fortress in Pulandian, and saw a hundred black-clothed knights on the plain in front of them, they didn't stop at all, and rushed straight over. The small group of cavalry looked at them, and regarded these black-clothed cavalry on top-quality Arabian horses as the same as the mounted infantry of the Ming army.

In the Battle of Sarhu in the 37th year of Wanli and the Battle of Liaoshen in the 38th year of Wanli, the cavalry of the Ming army never fought against the cavalry of the Eight Banners. , The weapons are also lack of maintenance, and they can only be regarded as mounted infantry before the battle. They usually dismount and fight. A small number of Liaodong cavalry elites are the generals of the Ming army, such as commanders and deputy generals. Although they dare to fight and can fight, they often follow the generals. They fled, and there was no chance to fight a good battle. Therefore, the Eight Banners cavalry looked down on the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts. , Niu Luerzhen (Zuo Ling in Chinese) Araki rushed over with the team without even thinking about it.

Li Xiao ordered loudly: "Start charging at a distance of 100 steps from the enemy, fire at a distance of [-] steps, and then finish them with a saber. Do you understand, don't embarrass us Liaodong men?"

His bodyguards were loading their two flintlock muskets, and at the same time shouted: "Design,"

The banner with the blue flag was only 150 steps away from Li Xiao's guards.

Li Xiao adjusted his helmet, patted the plate armor on the front and back of his chest, and tightly held the gun in his hand.

When the two teams were 100 paces apart, Li Xiaodang rushed out first, followed by the soldiers of the deputy brigade commander of the Chinese Army Cavalry Brigade, forming a small triangular array of arrows.

Niulu Erzhen Alazzi, who was wearing a blue flag, blinked under his helmet, and was surprised to find that the Han cavalry in front of him actually rushed towards them.

It was just a surprise, the Eight Banners soldiers did not slow down at all, and rushed straight towards the opponent in a dense formation.

Twenty steps away, the black-clothed knights raised their hands one after another. In the next second, bursts of gunpowder smoke rose from their hands, and a series of bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah , Niu Luezhen Araqi's eyes widened, feeling that he was flying into the air, looking down, his horse had been hit by the opponent's mysterious firearm, and fell to the ground, Araqi felt that he had been flying in the air for a long time For a while, when he fell to the ground, Alazzi was on his back. Before he could catch his breath, a pair of thick horseshoes stepped on his chest, and he died as soon as his eyes were darkened.

The two hundred flintlock bullets immediately overturned more than 150 cavalry with blue flags at a distance of almost firing from the forehead.

After Li Xiao and his guards finished shooting, they immediately drew out their sabers, laid them across the horse's head, and charged forward. They didn't need to make any extra moves, they only needed to hold the sabers firmly, and the power of the horseback charge could complete the next step. For the work of beheading, the cavalry team of more than [-] people with the Xianglan Banner deployed three rows and charged in a dense formation. The team was very thin. Before the cavalry had time to react, the sabers of the black knights of the Chinese army were already close to their necks.

In fact, the Eight Banners soldiers were too arrogant and underestimated the enemy. If they shot Li Xiao’s guards with bows and arrows first, although the cavalry of the Chinese Army had excellent breastplates and helmets, most of them would be injured. At this point, they all thought that a single charge could easily eliminate the hundreds of people in front of them. As a result, the inlaid blue flag cavalry was pierced by the Chinese cavalry, and nearly 200 people were killed or injured in one round.

Li Xiao led the team back on their horses, turned around and rushed towards the Eight Banners soldiers who were in chaos.

However, the bravery and bravery of this group of cavalry with the blue flag was beyond Li Xiao's expectations. Of the more than 150 cavalry with the blue flag who were still alive, no matter whether they were fallen or mounted, injured or not, none of them turned their heads and ran away. , howled and rushed towards Li Xiao and the others.

Then Li Xiao and others had a chaotic fight with the Eight Banners soldiers. After Li Xiao led his men out of the Eight Banners camp for the second time, he injured his right foot. There were only 80 people around him, most of whom were also injured. .

On the opposite side, there are more than 100 cavalry with blue banners. Those who lost their horses, those who were injured, etc. are busy getting on their horses, and they are preparing to fight again under the command of a generation. person as his deputy)