It was nearly noon on June 26, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

In the vast wilderness south of the Qinghe Estuary in Gaizhou, soldiers covered the field and flags covered the sky. Twenty thousand-man battalions under the five Ming Army infantry regiments formed two large horizontal lines, facing the Qing army at the Qinghe Estuary.

The big formation moves slowly.

The so-called large horizontal formation is actually made up of several or more thousands-man-square formations. The usual combination is to have two rows in front and back, with enough space between the two rows to allow the two rows to be large.

The thousand-man square camps in the horizontal team can be replaced with each other. This allows the officers and soldiers of each camp to take turns to rest and fight.

In addition, since the offensive and defensive capabilities of the thousand-man phalanx that make up the large horizontal team are quite good, this kind of thousand-man phalanx can also move alone on the battlefield without the team.

If the cavalry covering the square formations is more advantageous, these square formations can even form columns for rapid movement - columns are very easy to move, just follow one after the other. If the infantry has enough physical strength or their load is light, they can even run

action!

Compared with this formation of small square formations forming a large horizontal formation, the hollow formation currently deployed by the Qing army is a formation that is difficult to move.

The hollow formation has four sides, and there are a lot of miscellaneous troops inside. If you want to move, you have to cooperate and move together. You must have a very high level of training to move in an orderly manner, otherwise they will disperse as soon as they move, and they will disperse if they disperse.

over.

Therefore, on the wild battlefield, it is really difficult for infantry without cavalry cover to maneuver.

And mobility is combat effectiveness!

Don't think that only cavalry pays attention to mobility, and infantry can just stay in formation... In fact, the mobility of infantry is as important as cavalry, because infantry who cannot maneuver can easily be trapped to death by the enemy's cavalry.

Starve to death, thirst to death...

In addition, when the two sides are fighting in formation, the mobility of the infantry is also very important.

Because when the cavalry attacks a large infantry formation, they often use wheel fighting to attack one point. The attacking side attacks in waves, without allowing the beaten infantry to rest, nor allowing other enemy infantry teams to come forward and rotate, until these infantry units are beaten.

Tired and defeated, he defeated it in one fell swoop.

Therefore, in the era when heavy armored infantry and cavalry are rampant on the battlefield, the heavy armored cavalry's wheel attack will most likely defeat the heavy armored infantry fighting in formation!

Because heavy armored infantry is really a physical job. Strong men in later generations who have participated in full-armor combat all know that a full-armor battle only lasts a few minutes, and only ten or twenty battles a day. No matter how much they fight, they will not be able to bear it.

!

And those guys who play with full armor are all tough guys! Just grab a few people on the street and put on dozens of kilograms of armor. Not to mention beating them, they can't even walk without breathing!

In fact, fully armored infantry was the hardest-working unit in the cold weapon era, much harder than armored heavy cavalry. Because heavy cavalry can borrow horse power, and the cavalry charges into the battle in one wave, it does not require endurance.

Extremely high.

The stories about riding on horseback and performing Guandao are all fake, no one has that strength.

The heavy armored infantry has no way to make tricks, so they have to use real strength and endurance. When their strength is exhausted, their lives are at stake. And no matter how strong a person is and how good his endurance is, he cannot cope with the waves of wheel battles.

.

Therefore, the odds of winning between heavy armored cavalry and heavy armored infantry are actually very high.

As for the dismounted heavy armored infantry played by Batulu in Manchuria, they were at the pinnacle of the cold weapon era, much more advanced than mounted archery and battle formation - mounted archery was highly praised by later generations, but in fact it cannot be pulled on horseback.

The bow is too long and too stiff, so the arrows shot are not very powerful, and the accuracy of the arrows is poor when shooting on a bumpy horseback. Moreover, the target of the cavalry is so big, the enemy can shoot people and horses!

The heavy cavalry charge into the formation is often a fatal blow launched after the enemy formation is scattered. If the enemy formation is strong and not chaotic, the attack will often not be effective.

And to withstand the impact of heavy cavalry, you don’t need fully armored infantry. Only those who can hold up a spear and form a square formation, and face the impact of cavalry without collapsing, can generally withstand several rounds of heavy cavalry impact...

The strategy of approaching the enemy formation on horseback while wearing heavy armor, then dismounting and shooting arrows, and finally getting close to engage in hand-to-hand combat to disrupt the enemy formation and allow other cavalry to attack was the most difficult strategy in the cold weapon era.

A strong man who can use this kind of tactics is basically the king of soldiers in the cold weapon era!

However, these Manchurian kings, like other Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry, are now restrained by Zhu Youjian's "foreign horse soldiers", "straw horse soldiers" and "turtle dove gun soldiers", and simply retracted into their own hollows.

The phalanx cannot come out.

The cavalry of the Qing Dynasty had all become cowards, so the initiative on the battlefield at Qinghekou was completely in the hands of Zhu Youjian.

They saw twenty square formations forming two large horizontal columns. Under the cover of more than 10,000 cavalry on both wings, they slowly approached. They did not stop advancing until they were 3 miles away from the Qing army's formation.

After the Ming army's brigade stopped advancing, the 12 artillery batteries (belonging to four field artillery battalions) that originally followed the two large horizontal columns did not stop advancing, but divided into two parts. One part headed towards the right wing of the Ming army.

Movement, part of which moved to the left wing of the Ming army.

Nine of these 12 artillery companies are all light artillery companies, and each company is equipped with six 3-pound cannons. The remaining three companies are equipped with 6-pound cannons, 12-pound cannons and 24 black pot cannons respectively.

They are all 6 doors in a row.

Now 6 of the 9 light artillery batteries were quickly moved to the left wing of the Ming army and pushed in front of the Ming army's frontline large horizontal formation (there is a large void between the battalion squares that make up the large horizontal formation, which can allow artillery vehicles to pass)

, and then began to fire on the right wing of the Qing army!

Thirty-six 3-pound cannons were lined up two and a half miles away in front of the Qing army's formation, and then they began to fire fiercely. Soon, the effect was that the earth was shaking, the mountains were shaking, and the smoke was filling.

However, because Dorgon had previously ordered people to build an earthen wall in front of his own formation, and after the Ming army fired artillery, he ordered the infantry under bombardment to squat down to avoid the artillery fire, so the Ming army attacked the Qing army's right wing.

The effect of the bombardment was not very good. Not many Qing troops were overthrown, but their morale was a little low and their formation was a little chaotic...

At the same time, the other three light artillery batteries, a 6-pound artillery battery, and a 12-pound artillery battery of the Ming Army were already in place - their destination was to cover the right flanks of the two large horizontal formations of the Ming Army.

In the front of the 4th regiment of cavalry, the muzzles of 18 3-pound cannons were aimed at the gap between the Qing army's formation and the Qing army's left-wing earthen fort, and did not fire.

Six 6-pound cannons with a relatively long range began to bombard the left wing of the Qing army, and six 12-pound cannons aimed at the earthen fortress on the left wing of the Qing army and fired fiercely.

For a moment, the battlefield was filled with smoke and flames!

The left and right wings of the Qing army, as well as the earthen forts covering the left wing, were all bombarded.

"This is going to..."

Standing in the center of the Qing army's formation, behind a barrier built with sandbags, Dorgon saw smoke rising from both wings of the Ming army, and immediately knew that his wings were being bombarded!

"Brother Fourteen, they want to flank us on three sides!" Duduo, who was following him, immediately knew what was going on. "Although we have many people, our front is relatively narrow. Although there are few Southern soldiers, they are

Because the horizontal line is relatively thin, it can be stretched very long, and it can sandwich us from three sides..."

"The earthen fort on our left wing was also bombarded!" Daishan's son Shuotuo was more courageous than the Dorgon brothers. He was not afraid of being hit by the Ming army's black artillery. He did not dismount, and even stood up in the stirrups.

, so from a distance, I saw that the earthen fort on my left wing was being bombarded.

"Uncle Fourteenth, the Ming army must want to capture this earthen fort!" Dai Shan looked in the direction of his son Yue Tuo's finger and said, "If this earthen fort is lost... will the Ming army try to cross the river to capture it?"

Our way out?"

"No, they have fewer people. If they divide their troops, it will be easier to defeat them." Dorgon gritted his teeth, "And they can't be lost... The people guarding the fortress are Sun Degong's Han troops! And they also ambushed behind the fortress.

The elite troops with yellow flags led by Ao Bai!"

"Then let's..." Hauge took the question and looked at Dorgon.
Chapter completed!