?The Qing army's cavalry walked three or four miles away, and only heard the sound of horse hooves in front of them. In front of the horizon, countless cavalry figures appeared. "" It was obviously the Chinese army's cavalry, and in terms of the number of people, it was almost the same as the Qing army.

The Chinese Army's military regions have a cavalry unit, which the Qing army knew about. Moreover, the Chinese Army had used cavalry on the battlefield many times before, which caused considerable blows to the Qing army. However, the Chinese Army's use of cavalry is generally used during raids or pursuits, but it is rarely used in frontal battlefields. The cavalry of both sides rarely talks directly on the battlefield. Occasionally, there are one or two times, which is also a small battle between one or two thousand cavalry. There is indeed never a cavalry battle of nearly 10,000 cavalry.

This time, the Chinese army actually used cavalry to fight against the cavalry of the Qing army, which also made the two commanders of the Qing army, Ma Laxi and Haninga, and some discussions. However, Ma Laxi was originally a Mongolian red flag Gushan Ezhen, and he has always regarded himself as a skilled cavalry. Moreover, he had never fought with the Chinese army. Although he had heard of how powerful the Chinese army was and how fierce the firepower was, he had never seen it with his own eyes. Now, seeing the Chinese army dispatched cavalry to fight him, he was also a little excited while surprised.

Although Ma Laxi also knew that the cavalry of the Chinese army also used muskets to fight, according to Ma Laxi's concept, using muskets on horseback is definitely not as flexible as on the ground. Therefore, in cavalry combat, the advantage of the Chinese army in firepower must be to break it up. Therefore, on the one hand, he was eager to try and wanted to see how powerful the Chinese army was, and on the other hand, he also hoped to defeat the cavalry of the Chinese army and let them know that it was powerful. So Ma Laxi immediately ordered the entire army to attack and fight the cavalry of the Chinese army.

This cavalry unit of the Chinese army was the cavalry division of the 18th Army. Ordered by the command of the First Army, Su Jianlin, as the vanguard of the Chinese army, he arrived at the battlefield in advance. Su Jianlin's idea was actually similar to that of the Qing army, and he wanted to use cavalry to raid first and catch his opponent off guard. However, no one expected that the two cavalry would encounter unexpectedly on the battlefield.

The cavalry division of the 18th Army is Jiang Lianjun. He was forty years old. He used to be a general of the Ming army and served as a guerrilla general in Ningwu Guard. He was the one who was responsible for commanding the cavalry. In the 17th year of Chongzhen (1644), the Chinese army joined the Chinese army when they invaded Beijing. Because he was a cavalry in the Ming army, he was naturally assigned to the cavalry after joining the Chinese army. Now he was promoted to the commander of the cavalry division, which is also the highest official position that the cavalry officer of the Chinese army can be promoted. After all, the Chinese army is an army dominated by infantry firearms. The main function of the cavalry is to assist infantry.

But this does not mean that Shang Yi does not attach importance to the construction of cavalry. On the contrary, since the formation of his own army, Shang Yi established his own cavalry unit. The earliest cavalry general Yang Wucheng has now been promoted to a member of the Military Region Command.

Although the elimination of cavalry from the battlefield is a general trend in history, Shang Yi knew that this was a long-term process, and cavalry had to wait more than 200 years later. At present, cavalry is still an important force on the battlefield. Since it is in the northern part of China, the terrain is flat and there are fewer rivers, as long as it is used properly, cavalry can still play an important role in the battlefield. In another time and space, about sixty years later, under the genius Napoleon, the cavalry had a glorious experience of returning to the scene.

Now, the five military regions of the Chinese Army have built a total of three cavalry divisions and two cavalry brigades, with a total of about 35,000 cavalrymen. However, they are basically light cavalry, and there are only two to three heavy armored cavalry companies in each cavalry unit.

Of course, to establish a cavalry, war horses are naturally inseparable from war horses. Shang Yi now has no place to produce horses. The source of war horses of the Chinese army was mainly based on the captured Qing army war horses. After years of battles, the cumulative number of war horses seized by the Chinese army reached 50,000 or 60,000.

The Qing army's war horses basically belonged to the Mongolian horse system, and there were also a small number of Hequ horses and Kazakhs. The Mongolian horses were small in size, weak in strength, and not fast in speed. Their advantages were hard-working and excellent endurance. However, they were not ideal horse breeds for cavalry. Although Hequ horses and Kazakhs were of better quality than Mongolian horses, they did not achieve qualitative improvements. Moreover, even in the Qing army, the number of Hequ horses and Kazakhs was not large, and the Chinese army seized even fewer.

In addition, in the battle with the Spanish colonists, the Chinese army also seized a small number of Andalusian horses. This batch of horses was an ideal war horse, but the number was not large, with less than 300 horses in total. They were basically distributed to generals as mounts, and the rest were equipped with Shang Yi's guards. Therefore, the war horses of the Chinese army were also dominated by Mongolian horses.

Considering that the cavalry will be more than 200 years old, and the current battle with the Qing army also requires a cavalry unit, it is also an important event to try to improve the quality of the Chinese army's war horses. However, the internal potential is not very effective, Shang Yi chose to introduce foreign aid. After Shang Yi took over Zhejiang and started overseas trade, he has been vigorously introducing high-quality horse breeds from abroad, and formulated rules that can reduce and exempt some customs taxes from merchant ships from various countries to China. When merchants from European countries saw profitable, they also transported various good horses to China.

In recent years, the Chinese army has successively introduced nearly 5,000 good horses from all over the world, including Arab horses, Andalusian horses, Akha Takmas, Fredericksburg horses, etc., almost all the excellent horse breeds of this era have been included. At the same time, Shang Yi also hired a group of excellent horse breeders from Europe to make them responsible for breeding high-quality foreign horses with Chinese horses and cultivate a new batch of high-quality war horses in China.

Now this work has also achieved some results, and the first batch of new horses cultivated have begun to serve in the Chinese army. Although this batch of war horses still cannot reach the level of high-quality war horses from foreign countries, it has indeed improved greatly compared with the Mongolian horses in the past.

Currently, in the Chinese army, there are about 6,000 foreign war horses and new war horses, mainly distributed to the three military regions of Huguang, Huainan, Shandong, and Nanjing Military Regions. The large-scale introduction of high-quality war horses naturally greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the cavalry. Therefore, after the war in the Central Plains began, the cavalry had performed well. However, it was indeed the first time to engage in large-scale battles with the cavalry of the Qing army.

However, at this time, the Chinese army was in the morale and morale. At the same time, the division commander Jiang Lianjun was indeed eager to fight the cavalry of the Qing army. In the past, when Jiang Lianjun was still the Ming army, he fought with the cavalry of the Qing army several times, but almost every time ended in a crushing defeat. However, after joining the Chinese army, Shang Yi trained the cavalry more strictly and equipped the cavalry with sharp muskets and high-quality war horses. Therefore, Jiang Lianjun also increased his confidence and believed that the current strength of the cavalry of the Chinese army could be fully comparable to the cavalry of the Qing army. So after learning that the Qing army was dispatching the cavalry to attack, he immediately ordered to arrange an offensive formation and face the cavalry of the Qing army.

The Cavalry Division of the 18th Army had about 1,700 foreign war horses and new war horses, and two cavalry battalions were assembled. The Cavalry Division took these two cavalry battalions as arrows and launched an attack on the Qing army without showing any weakness.

The Qing army had 10,000 cavalry, and the Chinese army had more than 8,000 cavalry divisions, which were not very different. At this time, both sides were scattered an arrow shape, running opposite to the Mercedes, nearly 100,000 horse hooves quickly rose and landed and stepped on the ground, making dull and dense sounds. Although it was not as earth-shaking as artillery bombardment, it also had another shocking power.

The distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, and the knights all increased the speed of their war horses to the highest point, bringing out an invincible and amazing momentum. However, at this time, the Qing cavalry rushing in the front row found that the size of the war horses they were riding was obviously larger than that of them, and some even more than one. Therefore, many Qing soldiers also fought a storm in the hearts of the Chinese army, so many horses came from the Chinese army.

However, although I thought so in my heart, the attack has been launched and I can't stop. Moreover, the cavalry of the Qing army did not want to stop. After all, war horses were not the main factor in determining the outcome. They were still very confident in defeating the cavalry of the Chinese army, so they were still prepared for the battle.

The knights rushing in the front row took off the bent bows on the horse's back, pulled out the feather arrows, and put them on the bowstring. Then, the armour force of the arms pulled open the bowstring, pointing the arrow tip to the enemy that is constantly approaching. In this series of processes, the knights only rely on their legs to control the war horses under their seats, maintaining their bodies balanced, and also showed superb riding skills. Behind them, other cavalrymen could not use the bows and arrows, and drew their own sabers, waved in the air, drawing out a series of cold lights like training.

At the same time, the cavalry of the Chinese Army also completed the preparation movements. Although the movements were not as complicated as the cavalry of the Qing Army, the cavalry in the front row also used their legs to control the war horses and balance their bodies. This was also the result of years of hard training. With both hands one by one, they held muskets flat, and the muzzle was also pointed at the opponent. The riders in the back row waved the saber with one hand, while the other held a short gun. Both sides were waiting to enter their range and take the action.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than a hundred steps, almost shortening the distance between a few breaths. Looking down from the air, the arrows of the two giants were almost about to linger together.

The Chinese army's cavalry pulled the trigger. Suddenly, the "bang bang bang bang" gunshots sounded like a bean explosion.

The Qing army's cavalry loosened the bowstrings. For a moment, "swoosh swish swish swish swish swish", and the sound of arrows breaking through the air was endless.

The cavalry of both sides chose to take action almost at the same time.

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