Ma Cheng looked at the letter sent by Qi Biaojia and smiled contemptuously. But now there was no guy holding a stinky foot beside Ma Cheng. Zhang Guozhu stayed in the camp, and Wang Xian did not follow him. Ma Cheng had only three guys, Gu Yong, Tian Boguang and An Zhennan.

Gu Yong and Tian Boguang are both military Han Han, Anzhennan is an Yi people from Guizhou. They can’t understand the Han Chinese dialect, let alone the twists and turns of the Han people. So Ma Cheng laughed for a long time and no one came to ask: “Why is the Grand Marshal laughing?”

Seeing these three guys like wood, Ma Cheng sighed inwardly and said, "Gu Yong, go and tell the sergeant who delivered the letter that at the 10th day of the lunar month, there will be a decisive battle outside the town!"

Gu Yong nodded and went out to convey Ma Cheng's order. Ma Cheng then said to An Zhennan: "An Zhennan, you used to be a general of the new army. This time you are commanding the Shenji Battalion for the first time. If you fight tomorrow, don't embarrass me!"

When An Zhennan heard that he was going to fight, he said excitedly: "Please rest assured, the general will definitely win the battle!"

Tian Boguang is in charge of the cavalry under Ma Cheng. This cavalry has consumed a lot of Ma Cheng's efforts. Not to mention the horse's weapons, even the daily rations for these ten thousand horses are astronomical.

Although Ma Cheng was a rural person in his previous life, he did not know much about raising horses. Ma Cheng had raised cattle in his family before, so Ma Cheng naively believed that raising horses was similar to raising cattle. However, it only appeared when he actually formed a cavalry that war horses were not the same as sluggish horses in the farmer's family.

In order to maintain physical strength, war horses cannot feed green grass, so they can only feed soybeans, black beans and other foods. It is best to have oats. At the same time, eggs should be added to the feed to increase fatness of war horses. They also have to eat three meals a day, and they also have to get up in the middle of the night and add a midnight snack.

Is this a damn horse raising? It's better than the Shenji Camp under Ma Cheng's command. Although Ma Cheng's new army has three dry meals a day, they can't guarantee one egg each meal. Not to mention that in order to reduce the pressure on food, Ma Cheng now stipulates that potatoes and corn must be used as the staple food every day.

Originally, after the Battle of Nanjing, Ma Cheng got more than 30,000 war horses left by the Qing army. Ma Cheng thought he could form 30,000 cavalry. But the reality was that he had put all Ma Cheng into the group and five thousand cavalry.

In addition to the cost of war horses, what made Ma Cheng even more troubled was the candidates for cavalry. Cavalry was a technical group in ancient times, probably similar to tank soldiers in later generations. In addition to being able to ride horses and shoot archery, it also requires some veterinary knowledge to solve some minor problems encountered by war horses.

However, Ma Cheng is all farmers, and he is good at farming. He can still be competent after several months of training, but this cavalry is absolutely not capable without five or six years of training.

Ma Cheng had no choice but to launch the Mongols and surrendered Han military flags on a large scale. Ma Cheng, the Manchus, dared not use them, but the Mongols had no problems. Although most of the 20,000 Mongolian cavalry brought by Duoduo were the Eight Mongolian Banners, a small number of them were the mortal enemies of the Manchus, and the cavalry from the Chahar tribe.

The Chahar tribe is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. He has always regarded himself as a household in the central Mongolian region. At the same time, thirty years ago, Lin Danhan of the Chahar tribe became a mortal enemy with Huang Taiji because of his struggle for the rule of the Mongolian grasslands. The two sides fought many wars. In the summer and autumn of 1634, Lin Danhan died of smallpox in Dacaotan, Qinghai (the bad things between Mongolia and the Qing Dynasty were described in detail in another book "The Ming Dynasty", so I will not copy and paste them here. If you are interested, you can read it.

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After Lin Dankhan's death, the six tribes of Chahar surrendered to Huang Taiji, but the seeds of hatred have been planted, so how could it be so easy to resolve?

The Chahar cavalry who followed Duoduo to fight this time came to the Sunit tribe. This tribe was extraordinary. It was Qiexue next to Genghis Khan, the elite among the elites. This time he led the team with Sunit Taijisusa's youngest son Amuhe.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Chahar cavalry is no less than that of the main Korqin tribe of the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the Korqin tribe was an absolute confidant of intermarriage with Manchu nobles in the past dynasties. Therefore, the Chahar cavalry had a very low status in this southern expedition. What hard work does it take to join the Chahar cavalry? When they were eating meat, they replaced the Korqin cavalry.

Although the battle was very hard, Amu had no extra thought at the beginning, because the Qing Dynasty was too powerful at this time, and it was definitely not something that Chahar could only fight with more than 100,000 people.

Amuhe followed Duoduo from Xi'an to Nanjing. The original mobile warfare turned into positional warfare, and it was still the bloodiest siege war. If it were just a war, Amuhe was not afraid. The Mongolians were born as soldiers, and dying on the battlefield was to return to the embrace of Changshengtian. But what Amuhe couldn't stand was the climate here in Nanzhili. It was rainy in spring, stuffy and humid in summer, typhoons in autumn, and even more cold and windy in winter. Because the air in Nanzhili was humid, although the temperature in winter was not as low as that in the Mongolian prairie, the cold and humid could freeze into the bones. The unfitness of the climate, coupled with being a second-class citizen, the Chahar cavalry began to complain.

With overdrawn and poor morale, can such an army win a battle? So when Ma Cheng launched a decisive battle, the cavalry of the Chahar tribe did not hesitate at all, and all surrendered to Ma Cheng with Amuhe.

Amuhe brought a total of 10,000 Chahar cavalry from Mongolia. After several battles, there were more than 7,000 left. After the climate baptism in Southern Zhili, only more than 3,000 survived.

Although these people are not large, they must be elites who survived through previous battles. Ma Cheng was organizing cavalry at this time. He happened to learn that Amuhe and the Qing Dynasty were mortal enemies, so he immediately lured Amuhe to lead his subordinates to join his cavalry battalion.

With the addition of the Mongols, and some selected prisoners of war from the Han flag, and Ma Cheng selected grassroots officers who could ride horses, they formed a cavalry unit. In addition to equipped with cold weapons such as bows, arrows, armor, etc., this cavalry was equipped with a large number of hot weapons such as three-eyed guns. If the number of people was not counted, it was probably the most powerful cavalry in East Asia.

The commander of this cavalry unit is Ma Bao's nephew, Ma Cheng's confidant, General Tian Boguang. He originally thought that he was the absolute main force and would definitely use himself in this battle, but unexpectedly, Ma Cheng chose the Shenji Camp led by An Zhennan. Tian Boguang quickly stood up and asked: "Master General An and the others are infantry, and the last general is cavalry. This time..."

Before Tian Boguang finished speaking, Ma Cheng interrupted him and said, "Your mission this time is to protect the flanks of the Shenji Battalion. I see that there is also a cavalry on the opposite side. They are from your cavalry battalion!"

When Tian Boguang heard Ma Cheng say this, he didn't dare to fight, so he had to hold his fists and answer the order.

On the tenth day of April, Ma Cheng got up before dawn and began to lead the soldiers out of the camp after eating. Today, Ma Cheng arranged a standard musket queue. The five thousand Shenji camp was divided into five square arrays, each square

The formation is ten horizontal lines, each with one hundred households. The artillery troops are arranged behind the Shenji Battalion to provide firepower support. The Cavalry Battalion is standing on the left side of the Shenji Battalion to guard against the sneak attacks of the Luwang Army cavalry units.

Ma Cheng finished preparations, and the gate of the Lu Wang military camp opposite opened, and 30,000 soldiers came out in a row. Qi Biaojia's central army had 50,000, but these 50,000 were counted as civilians, and the real combat troops were only a little over 30,000. At the same time, due to poor command and communication in ancient China, the commander could actually command about 30,000 troops. No matter how many commanders were, they would be in a hurry. There were not many generals like Han Xin.

Qi Biaojia's formation in this aspect is a diagonal formation. This formation has one advantage, that is, the tails can echo each other, from the head to the tail, from the tail to the head to the middle, from the head to the middle, from the head to the tail to the middle, from the head to the tail to the middle, and from the head to the tail to the middle, and is considered a classic formation with the number of people to deal with the fewer people.

Qi Biaojia took advantage of the entire team and glanced at the Ma Cheng army on the opposite side. This surprised Qi Biaojia because he had never seen the straight line formation of Ma Cheng army before.

Although Qi Biaojia is a civil servant, he has read several military books. It said that the combat formations include square formations, circular formations, sparse formations, number formations, conical formations, goose formations, etc., but what formations are Ma Cheng lined up in one line?

Qi Biaojia asked the officer behind him: "Do you know what formation Ma Cheng is using?"

A general thought he had read several military books. When he heard the Governor ask, he quickly said: "Sir, Ma Cheng should use the one-character long snake formation! This formation is like a giant python attacking, with a sharp attack!"

Although Qi Biaojia had read military books, she had only a few understandings. She had heard of the formation of Yizi Long Snake. When the general told the magic, she quickly asked, "How can such a formation be broken?"

"Sir, the maneuverability of the two-winged cavalry in the long snake formation is the most important, so the best way to break the long snake formation is to limit the maneuverability of the two-winged wings so that their tails cannot be taken care of each other."

"So, the best way is to pull it, clamp its tail, and cut its waist! The detailed method is to set traps in our infantry formation group, use two infantry phalanxes to cooperate to prevent the opponent's cavalry from moving on both wings, so that they cannot wield their maneuvering and flexible abilities, and then use strong heavy cavalry as the main force to strike the infantry on its snake belly, making its formation scattered and disorderly! Defeat the infantry phalanx in one fell swoop, and cut the long snake formation into three pieces. In this way, the long snake formation will fight on its own and cannot fight with three parties, and the formation will be destroyed without attacking!"

Qi Biaojia heard the general talk very well and asked happily: "What's your name?"

The general heard the Governor ask him about him and quickly said, "My Lord Hui, the last general is Chen Zhen, who has inherited the thousand households of Zhapu, and is now the general of Pinghu!"

After hearing Chen Zhen's words, Qi Biaojia nodded repeatedly: "So it's the back of the general! General Chen, how do you think of this battle?"

"Sir, it's very simple! There are infantry on the opposite side, and there is no shield guard, so you can use cavalry to disperse them. The cavalry on the left can send heavy infantry to restrain them, and then we will destroy them in turn after our cavalry wins!"

"Okay, today's war, the governor appointed you as commander, and now you are promoted to the admiral of Jiaxing, do your best!"
Chapter completed!