"Hold on!...Hold on!" Ding Shusong, the company commander of the 6th Marine Corps, shouted loudly while waving his saber, while his eyes were fixed on the more than a hundred cavalry rushing forward.

As the horses' hooves rumbled, the ground shook even more violently. The cavalry on the opposite side raised their sabers and shouted as they were about to run into the bayonet formation composed of soldiers from the 6th Marine Corps.

The soldiers standing in the front row had turned pale, clenched their teeth, and the muskets they held in both hands were shaking inadvertently. Although there were only more than a hundred cavalry on the opposite side, the horses galloped towards them, as if there were thousands of them.

It feels like a military force. But after long-term rigorous training, although I am extremely scared in my heart, my body does not dare to move at all.

Erjitu was riding on his horse, looking at the thin military formation on the opposite side. He felt that his blood suddenly began to swell again. He couldn't help but hold the saber tightly in his hand, preparing to cut down the opposite side with the sword when taking over the formation.

Soldier's head.

"Point!" Fu Jinbiao, the leading cavalry commander, saw that he was only thirty or forty meters away from the Marines' formation. He shouted loudly, then turned his horse's head to the right and ran towards the left side of the Marines.

Erjitu was awakened by Fu Jinbiao's loud shout, and immediately shouted: "Bonus!" He tightened the reins with his left hand and led the horse to the left.

The thundering cavalry was more than 20 meters in front of the Marines' formation. They were able to separate the troops and ran past both sides of the team. The smoke and dust they brought up made more than a hundred Marines soldiers look gray and gray.

"Bah!" Ding Shusong spat. He was about to yell at the cavalry for not following "martial ethics" and actually separated the troops at such a close distance in front of the Marines. But as soon as he opened his mouth, smoke and dirt suddenly fell into his mouth.

It made him turn his head and spit continuously.

On the other side, the men of the cavalry team had stopped, sitting on their horses, looking at the Marine officers and soldiers with smokey faces over there in a joking manner.

However, as the only army of the Daqi Kingdom, the cavalry is a very embarrassing existence. In previous wars, they have almost never been on the battlefield. A few years ago, when the Spanish invaded the Hanzhou mainland, they only served as scouts and harassment

Strength, playing a supporting role in war.

As for the three-year war with the East India Company, they did not get any chance to participate. Almost all the strongholds occupied by the Dutch in the East Indies were on the seaside, and the nearby terrain was mainly tidal flats, dense forests, or valleys.

Naturally, there is no need for cavalry to be dispatched. And their cavalry team basically only undertakes the function of inland exploration of Hanzhou natives, and occasionally bullies the Hanzhou natives scattered in the interior during the exploration process.

Compared with the crude fighting weapons of the Hanzhou natives, the cavalry was armed to the teeth with muskets, sabers, and armor. The huge equipment gap seemed to prevent them from feeling any joy in fighting.

In the military of the Daqi Kingdom, there is an invisible chain of contempt. The naval warship officers and soldiers look down on the Marine Corps, the Marine Corps looks down on the local soldiers from all over the country, and some local soldiers look down on the cavalry.

What, our cavalry team is an economic army of Da Qi Kingdom after all. Why do you, a country soldier, look down on us?

However, even rural soldiers have been on the battlefield, fought in battles, and seen blood. Not to mention the bloody battles between Xinsheng Island (now Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam) and the Annamites, and the bloody battles between Zhenhai Fort (now Dili City in East Timor) and the Dutch.

Even the local soldiers of Hanzhou have seen battles with the Spaniards in a few battles. Apart from fighting with the monkey-like natives of Hanzhou, have your cavalry ever experienced any battles?

In recent months, the Cavalry has been assigned a new task by the military government's staff. It serves as a training partner for the Marines, allowing the other side to practice riding confrontations. Two captured real Tatars were also thrown to the Cavalry to help them train.

Real cavalry combat modes and combat skills.

Fu Jinbiao was extremely dissatisfied with this. Among the various units under the military government, the cavalry seemed to have always been on the edge. They were either helping the Immigration Department explore inland settlements, or escorting prospectors from the Ministry of Works deep into barren lands.

Now they have to be used as a training partner to familiarize the Marines with cavalry combat and charge modes, and to practice cavalry and infantry confrontations. The cavalry will always be a supporting role in the army.

Facing the two Jiannu slaves thrown over, the cavalry team had no good looks. How could the barbarians, who were defeated and captured by the Tatars in the Liaodong battle, dare to teach our cavalry how to fight? Because there are more than a hundred cavalry teams.

An officer and soldier who used fire for a long time

With guns, we are dealing with Hanzhou natives who have no fighting ability. Therefore, we are a little indifferent to the rumored unparalleled cavalry and archery of Jiannu. No matter how good you are on horseback and how accurate your arrows are, you will not be able to meet the people of my Daqi Kingdom.

He fired his gun, but he was still knocked to the ground.

According to the original combat style and tactics of the Cavalry, we practiced several times with the Marines, which immediately aroused the anger of the Marine Corps commander Niu Hu. Damn it, do you, the Cavalry, think that our Marines are those stupid natives of Hanzhou?

Waving their sabers and shouting, they went directly to the Marine formation in twos and threes.

Come forward! If the Jiannu cavalry were like this, how could the elite soldiers and generals of the Ming Dynasty be defeated by them one after another? With Jiannu's novice combat skills, how could they break through the Ming pass four times in a row and invade Hebei?

, Shandong, Shanxi and other places, defeated hundreds of thousands of Ming troops and plundered countless people, cattle and horses.

After being severely reprimanded by Niuhu, Fu Jinbiao had to calm down and start taking cavalry training seriously. The two Jiannu were also appointed as cavalry instructors to simulate the cavalry combat mode of Jiannu.

After all, he was a veteran "horse thief" on horseback. If he were to fight purely on horseback and use cold weapons, the seven or eight cavalrymen of the Daqi Kingdom would not be a match for the two slave-building instructors. Moreover, they are said to have good skills.

Archery skills. However, Hanzhou does not produce bows and arrows locally, so the two heroes from the white mountains and black waters cannot show it.

As the time spent training together increased, the relationship between the officers and soldiers of the cavalry team and the two Jiannu instructors gradually became more harmonious. The entire cavalry team also benefited from Erjitu and Tong Yanghui’s superb equestrianism and riding combat skills.

Skills, no longer contemptuously called them "Jiannu" or "Tatar", but began to respectfully call them instructors.

The two Qing warriors who were captured and traveled thousands of miles to the mainland of Hanzhou also accepted their fate as cavalry instructors for the Qi Kingdom and began to gradually adapt to the environment that was completely different from that of Liaodong.

Training together with the cavalry and serving as sparring opponents for the Marines, the two former Qing warriors were surprised to find that the Daqi Kingdom actually had more firearms. Not to mention that the musket equipment rate they owned was almost 100%, and the artillery equipment was almost 100%.

The number is also frightening. On the top of the city of Jianye City, just by counting, there are thirty or forty artillery pieces, large and small.

In the Montenegro military camp, Erjitu and Tong Yanghui were even more shocked after observing several Marine Corps artillery drills. The artillery of the Daqi Kingdom was actually extremely light, and a pack horse could easily attach it to the cannon.

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Even a few soldiers can transport and move the artillery cart over a short distance. Although the artillery is light, its power is not bad at all. It is almost the same as the Hongyi cannon at the top of the city of Shengjing (now Shenyang) in the Qing Dynasty.

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I thought that the number of such lightweight artillery must be small, but when two former Qing warriors said that the three or five artillery pieces of the artillery squadron could only block the vests of two to three hundred people charging into the formation, if there were more, the artillery might not be able to stop them.

Delaying the cavalry attack. Upon hearing this, the artillery commander immediately ordered the soldiers to place ten more artillery pieces in front of the formation, and then asked Erjitu and Tong Yanghui how many cavalry charges could be blocked with this artillery density.

Watching the artillery squadron practicing simulated artillery attacks, artillery of different calibers, starting from two miles away and ending 100 meters in front of the formation, using solid bullets, exploding bullets (experimental), and grape bullets, endlessly venting firepower, made the two former commanders

The Qing warriors were stunned and dumbfounded

Chicken. Although we, the warriors of the Qing Dynasty, are brave and good at fighting and skilled in swords and horses, how can we withstand such ferocious firepower and flesh and blood? Besides, there are so many muskets in the military formation of the Qi Kingdom, and their power is comparable.

The Ming Dynasty's blunderbuss is much stronger.
Chapter completed!