Abatai stood on the wall of Yichang County and looked out the city. Outside the wall, there was a wilderness of hundreds of steps wide, and on the edge of the wilderness, there were rolling mountains, and although it was somewhat withered due to winter.
, but it is still very dense. Of course, for the Qing army now, mountains and forests are almost synonymous with death. In the past few days, I don’t know how many companions have fallen in the mountains and forests.
It has been two days since the Qing army entered Yichang County. With the protection of the city wall, the attacks of the merchant army were indeed broken and detached. The Qing army, which was full of the pain of the sneak attack, finally got some chance to breathe. But now, the Qing army has been fully responsible for the pain of the sneak attack.
The Qing army only dared to hide in the city and did not dare to step out of the city. Even Abatai kept silent at this time and did not mention the plan to attack Laizhou. At that time, the Ming army was beaten by the Qing army so hard that they dared to retreat.
Defending in the city, he dared not fight, and it was the turn of the Qing army to pay for the smell of a turtle that was shrunk.
Thinking of this, Abatai couldn't help but smile bitterly. Is it because of all this because a Shang Yi suddenly appeared in the Ming Dynasty?
At this moment, I saw birds flapping their wings in the woods in the distance, and dust flew, and a dull sound of horse hooves stomping on the earth. Abatai is familiar with this sound. Only when thousands of war horses gallop at the same time can they make it.
Such a sound comes, but now...
But soon Abatai found the answer, because thousands of cavalry suddenly emerged from the jungle, and formed a formation five or six hundred steps away from Yichang County. Judging from the banner, it was still the merchant army.
It was also a little strange that the Ming army was planning to do. If they wanted to attack the city, they would not dispatch cavalry; if they wanted to lure the enemy, the number seemed to be a little higher, and I had never heard of the merchant army having cavalry troops before.
At this time, a war horse was racing out from the cavalry formation of the Shangjia Army and heading straight for the city walls of Yichang County. The knight on the horse was holding a big flag and flew and danced in the air as the war horses ran.
Because the other party had only one man and one horse, and he was holding a big banner, he was obviously an envoy before the war, so the Qing army did not shoot arrows to see what he was going to do. When the knight came to a place that was only forty or fifty steps away from the city wall,
The horse stopped and inserted the flag hard on the ground. Most of the Qing army in Chengye saw it clearly. The flag had two big words written on it: Battle.
The knight pointed at the big flag and pointed at the city, and shouted: "Listen to the Tartars in the city, our merchant army has always heard that you boast about your unparalleled cavalry skills and invincible field battles. Today I will let you
See the great cavalry war in the merchant army. We both sides will use a thousand cavalry to decide the outcome before the pass. A fair fight. If you dare to fight, you will come out of the pass and die quickly. If you don’t dare to fight, then
He was given the first to surrender."
As he said that, his hand pointing to the city clenched into a fist and stretched out his thumb, but then his wrist turned into a position of a thumb finger. Then he pulled the horse's head and returned to his main formation. The main of the merchant army
In the formation, the cavalry raised their spears and made a noise of booing.
Although Abatai didn't know the specific meaning of the gesture and boo, he also understood that it was definitely not asking whether he had eaten. And the youngest son Yue Le, who was beside him, had been furious for a long time and immediately said: "Ama
, let the child lead his troops out of the city and fight to the death with the merchant army."
There were several other Jiala, and Niu Lu also asked for orders and said, "Master Beile, let us fight with Beizi."
Although the Qing army suffered a lot from the merchant army now, every flag soldier was somewhat dissatisfied, thinking that the merchant army was just relying on the sharp firearms and won't win. If both sides
The Merchant Army is definitely not his opponent when fighting with real swords and guns. Now the Merchant Army actually challenged the cavalry war that the Qing army was best at, and it was designated to fight each with a thousand cavalry, which naturally angered many soldiers.
You must know that even the most elite Guanning Iron Cavalry in the Ming army did not dare to compete with the Eight Banners Powers.
However, Abatai was a little more serious. Although he was also angry, he had to keep a little more careful, because judging from the few times he fought with Shang Yi, this person would never do anything meaningless or sure.
This time, it would never be a decision that would be a hot-headed decision. I think he had a few chances of winning. Once the cavalry duel, which the Qing army was most proud of, lost, then
In the future, the Qing army would have no excuses and would always be worried about the merchant army in their hearts. Or this is what Yan Yi really intended.
But if you don’t even dare to fight, the harm to the Qing army will be equally huge. It’s so difficult to say that you are so scared by the merchant army that you don’t even dare to try it? So Abatai bit his teeth and said, “Yue”
Le, you immediately leave the city and take back the battle flag of the merchant army. Junta, E Mengqi, you immediately draw elite troops and prepare to go out of the city to fight."
After hearing this, Yue Le immediately shouted loudly, "Get orders, Ahma." As he said that, he immediately ran down the city wall, rode his own horse, ordered the soldiers to open the battle gate, gallop out, and headed straight to the place where the battle flag was erected.
And go.
The war horse ran at full speed from the beginning, so in a blink of an eye, he came to the place where the battle flag was erected. Yue Le did not hold the horse in his foot, but instead took a slightly stiff rope. The war horse quickly made a beautiful circling move around the battle flag.
Turning around, Yue Le grabbed the flagpole with one hand, pulled the flag up from the ground, held it under his armpit, and rushed towards the city. This series of exquisite riding skills also caused the Qing army on the city wall to yell.
Even Abatai nodded repeatedly when he saw it, and was quite relieved. Although his youngest son was not old, he had also practiced a good riding skill. In time, he was also a powerful general in the Qing Dynasty.
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Shang Yi also saw this process clearly in the formation in the distance, and he had to admire him. Although the cavalry of the Shang army had been undergoing strict training, he was with these nations who grew up on horseback.
Compared with it, there is still a distance. However, this was long ago as Shang Yi expected, because in the era of cold weapons, advanced civilizations could never defeat nomadic peoples in terms of barbarism and courage. This is not only a problem encountered by China, but also by Europe.
It has also faced it. But now the world has entered the era of hot weapons, and war has begun to be dominated by technology, and victory can be achieved through brute force and ruthlessness.
This time, Shang Yi was going to withdraw the Qing army in the field that the Qing army was best at, and he still relied on the power of technology.
At this time, the gate of Yichang County opened, and a team of Qing army cavalry also came out of the city. Shang Yi saw it very clearly with a telescope. The Qing army was all standard Eight Banners soldiers, including one hundred and five white armored soldiers.
More than ten people, and even some soldiers were occupied by Niu Lu Zhangjing.
The white armored soldiers are the elite among the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army. Generally speaking, there are no more than twenty white armored soldiers in one Niulu, and some Niulu even have only a few people. So many are concentrated in this thousand cavalry.
The white-armored soldiers show that Abatai has also invested a lot in this battle.
At this time, Yang Wucheng, the commander of the cavalry brigade who was stationed beside Shang Yi, said: "Military gate, it seems that the Tartars have already responded to the battle, and we have also begun to dispatch."
Shang Yi nodded and said, "Brigit Commander Yang, go, I'll see you this time. Be careful."
Yang Wucheng said, waved his hand behind him and shouted, "Brothers, let's go." As he said that, he squeezed his legs and rushed out of the array. Behind him, the merchant army also carefully selected it.
The thousand cavalry also urged the war horses and jumped out of the formation.
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Abatai watched on the city wall, the Qing army's cavalry lined up on the left outside the city, while the Shang army's cavalry lined up on the right, and the two sides were about 150 steps apart. But suddenly Abatai's face was
The big change pointed to the array of merchants and said, "Look, what is that?"
The personal soldiers around Abatai also looked in the direction he pointed, and all of them changed color. Their original confidence in their cavalry could not help but shaken.
In fact, they didn't see anything strange, they were still cavalry. However, this team of cavalry was quite unique, and everyone was wearing armor that was covered with tightly covered by war horses, and even their faces were covered with iron.
He held a spear that was more than two meters long, and was full of a tall horse, which was almost half a position higher than the other cavalry around him. Although he had not yet fought, he seemed extremely powerful.
Although the number of cavalry in this team is not large, and it is estimated that it is only 150 people, Zuoshi, but Abatai is a man who has been through the battlefield for a long time. Judging from this pose, he knows that this team of cavalry is definitely not easy to mess with.
At the same time, I was wondering, where are there so many such huge war horses in the merchant army?
This cavalry is actually a new soldier established by the Merchant Army: the Foreign Heavy Armored Cavalry Regiment. Of course, it is under the jurisdiction of the Cavalry Brigade. It is also the only foreign non-mercenary regiment in the Merchant Army. However, although it is known as the Corps, it is actually only available at present.
There were three rows, a total of 156 people.
Although Shang Yi attaches great importance to cavalry construction, he has always been not very cold to heavy armored cavalry, because in Shang Yi's opinion, this thing is flashy and unreal. In the age of firearms, it was almost full of weaknesses. It not only cost money, but also has a poor cost performance, so it has never been
The heavy armored cavalry was formed. But Yang Wucheng, the commander of the Cavalry Brigade, did not think so. He fought three times in a row and requested to establish a heavy armored cavalry. In the last time, somehow, he actually pulled Alisandra, not only helped Yang Wucheng improve it.
The report also personally advised Shang Yi to set up the heavy armored cavalry.
After all, Shang Yi is not a stubborn person. After reading Yang Wucheng's report and listening carefully to the explanations of Yang Wucheng and Yalisandra, he also felt that in this era, a small-scale heavy armored cavalry was still on the battlefield.
This suggestion was approved by a considerable role.
Since we want to form heavy armored cavalry, with Shang Yi's style, we must do the best thing to complain about. The first thing is to war horses, of course, the Andalusian horses were chosen. Moreover, after the merchant army captured Keelung and defeated the second Spanish fleet,
Another batch of Andalusian horses can be built, and three platoons can be built. Shang Yi also decided to accept the suggestion of Alisandra, and the first batch of heavy armored cavalry were selected from the Spanish mercenaries. First of all, they were familiar with it.
Andalusian horses, secondly, in terms of absolute power, the Spanish are of course stronger than the Chinese of this era. You should know that heavy cavalry has very high requirements for strength, and they are even skilled.
Yang Wucheng had no objection to this. Anyway, the heavy armored cavalry regiment has been formed and is under the jurisdiction of the cavalry brigade, which is very good. As for the personnel, it is not a big problem for Chinese or foreigners. And he also knew that this was from foreign countries.
The soldiers under the wife were selected, and without the help of this foreign lady, this heavy armored cavalry regiment could not be formed.