Chapter 836 Water Riding Cooperation (3)
Fifty steps away! The light cavalry was about to hit the spear formation of the Qing army in the Green Camp. Cao Bianjiao flexibly turned his horse's head, and the horse ran into a crescent-shaped arc, almost five steps away from the Qing army formation. The cavalry bow in his hand shot arrows one after another. Cao Bianjiao is worthy of being a powerful general. His cavalry and shooting skills are superb. The war horses keep bumping when they run. Whenever the war horses rise to the highest point, the arrows in Cao Bianjiao's hand shoot out from a high point, and an arrow pierces into the throat of the Qing soldiers. The war horses fall to the low point, Cao Bianjiao takes out the arrows from the quiver pot, put them on the bow, pulling the full strings, and when the war horses rise, the arrows fly out. As the war horses rise up and down, deathly arrows are shot out, and the Qing soldiers in the Green Camp keep screaming and falling down.
All the light cavalry spread out toward the wings, drawing two semicircular arcs, spreading from the wings of the Qing soldiers, and the cavalry bows in their hands shot arrows one after another.
Although not every light cavalry has the skills of Cao Bianjiao, and can use a powerful cavalry bow to shoot arrows far and accurately, these light cavalry are equivalent to enhanced versions of Mongolian cavalry. They are tall, fast, strong and have good endurance. This allows the light cavalry to be equipped with armor that can effectively prevent puncture. People and horses are immune to the arrows of the Qing army, and the long arrows they shoot can continuously take the lives of the Qing army.
"Mongolian riding and shooting! Or the Mongolian riding and shooting tactics that ride a good horse!" Tian Xiong was frightened and almost fell off the horse's back.
Originally, when he saw those tall horses, he thought they were heavy cavalry used to directly attack the formation, but he knew that these cavalry were just light cavalry! The light cavalry kept turning around the formation of the Qing army like a lantern, shooting round after round of arrows, shooting the formation of the Qing army into pieces.
The Qing army's formation was not completely defeated. While the Huai Army's light cavalry was turning around and continued to shoot arrows, a team of self-generated musket cavalry was approaching.
"Cabin! Mingdog Cavalry! Another team of Mingdog Cavalry came!" Tian Xiong's general Liu Gui shouted in horror.
On the river bank not far away, another black cavalry appeared, arranged in neat formations, slowly approaching the formation of the Qing army in the Green Camp.
What surprised Tian Xiong was that the cavalry neither rode the horses to charge nor shot arrows around the Green Camp formation like the light cavalry. Instead, after approaching the Qing army's formation, they suddenly turned over and dismounted, placed the horses behind, arranged in neat formations, and walked within thirty steps of the Qing army, and aimed the muskets in their hands at the Qing army formation in Green Camp. Behind the cavalry that dismounted the horses to fight, there was a group of cavalry holding spears (actually horse lances), staring at the Qing army formation not far away.
The Cao Bianjiao Light Cavalry, who had a tacit understanding, whistled and quickly dispersed, leaving the dragon cavalry a passage for line-up to be shot.
"Let me go!" Wang Fuchen, who was still riding on the horse, roared.
A row of earth-shaking guns sounded from the formation of the dismounted muskets, and four thousand Taixi flintlocks fired volleys, which were comparable to the red cannons! The flames flashed and formed a circle, and the thick smoke of gunfires flooded the formation of the dragon cavalry. Blood mist splattered from the dense Qing army formation, and piles of Qing soldiers in the green camp fell down.
"Recharge and prepare for the second round of shooting!" Wang Fuchen pointed forward in his hand.
The self-produced muzzles cavalry raised their muzzles one after another, took out the paper shell from the strap (bullet belt) that was slanted on their bodies and loaded the bullets, bite the tail, stuffed the bullets into the muzzles, and compacted them with a strip. Then they picked up the medicine pot from their waists, poured the medicine pot into the medicine pool, and then covered the medicine pool cover. These muzzles cavalry were very fast. In less than ten breaths, in less than ten seconds, the reloaded muzzles cavalry once again picked up the self-produced muzzles and aimed at the Qing army formation.
While the Dragoons were loading bullets, the heavy cavalry behind them had already begun to move and were slowly accelerating.
"Boom" four thousand muskets burst out with roars almost at the same time, and the loud noise was almost comparable to the roar of giant naval guns, and the power of killing was still above it!
After the second round of shooting, the formation of the Qing army in the Green Camp completely collapsed, and Tian Xiong could no longer control the chaotic Green Camp soldiers.
"Kill slave!" Han Dashan pointed forward with the mountain-opening axe in his hand, and the three thousand impact heavy cavalry, whose speed had increased, crushed the chaotic formation of the Qing army in the Green Camp, and looked like a metal torrent, crushing the Qing army in the Green Camp.
The already completely chaotic infantry could not resist the impact of heavy cavalry. Li Guodong imitated the horse-slinging cavalry of the Tang Dynasty. He was not only the nemesis of the cavalry, but also the infantry that had already broken into battle.
The reason why the Tang Dynasty's Xuan Armored Iron Cavalry was lost was that the slaughtering court was too weak, lacking good horses, and could not afford elite cavalry. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang directly used firearms and did not develop expensive horse-slinging cavalry. In fact, in a few decades, the impact cavalry in Europe will gradually become the mainstream of lancers, with cavalry longer than infantry spears. Lancers can break through the spear formation before the infantry spears stabbed themselves, and of course their own losses were inevitable.
Li Guodong was unwilling to exchange the expensive Xuan Armored Iron Cavalry for the Qing army infantry in the Green Camp. Even if one of them changed to ten, he felt that he had lost money, so he first used light cavalry and dragon cavalry to disrupt the Qing army formation, and then let the Xuan Armored Iron Cavalry launch an attack.
The Xuan-armored Iron Cavalry arranged in an impenetrable formation rushed into the Qing army formation. The row of Qing soldiers in the green camp in front was directly strung into a string of human candied haws. The Qing soldiers who were more dependent on the back were knocked away by the intensively charged war horses.
The cavalry's horse spears were chained up with Qing soldiers. Under the powerful impact force, the horse spears bent into circles. The cavalry shook hard. The bodies of the Qing soldiers in the Green Camp flew out. The spears that popped out hit the Qing soldiers behind them, directly defeating the Qing soldiers. Wherever the three thousand mysterious iron cavalry passed, the people and horses fell to the ground, and the horse's hooves trampled past the corpses of the horses, leaving rotten meat on the ground.
Tian Xiong was originally a powerful general under Huang Degong's command, with great martial arts skills. All the more than 200 servants around him were extremely brave. However, when facing the charge of the Black Armored Iron Cavalry, any personal force was floating clouds. The weapons in Tian Xiong's hand were not enough to reach the horse spear, so he was stabbed upside down by a cavalry and then trampled into meat paste by the war horse. The more than 200 servants around him were all knocked away by heavy cavalry and stepped into a pile of rotten meat.
"Wan Victory! Wan Victory!" The Xuan-armored Iron Cavalry, who crushed the Qing army's formation, let out a shocking roar.
The Qing army of the Green Camp had already dispersed. The Qing soldiers of the Green Camp who fled in all directions and avoided the attack of the Black Armored Iron Cavalry were running around on the grass.
"Chasing!" Cao Bianjiao pointed his spear in the direction where the Qing army escaped.
The light cavalry spread out four hooves and chased after the Qing army. How could the two legs of the Qing soldiers in the green camp run past the hippo? They were soon caught up one by one. As long as they did not kneel down and surrender, they either had their heads cut off by the light cavalry, or were knocked away by the war horses, and were trampled to death by the horse's hooves.
Cao Bianjiao, who came back from victory, laughed happily: "It's so satisfying to kill! Our army only injured more than 20 people, and more than 10,000 fake Tartars were wiped out!"
Compared with Cao Bianjiao, Wang Fuchen's dragon cavalry had no casualties. However, Han Dashan's own black armored iron cavalry had eight people killed, seriously injured eleven people, and more than fifty people were slightly injured. After all, they were attacking cavalry head-on and could not achieve zero casualties. More than 10,000 Tian Xiong's Green Camp soldiers were killed, and more than 4,000 people were killed, and the rest were all captured.
Although he won a great victory, Han Dashan still felt sorry for the eight dead cavalry. These heavy cavalry could defeat the elite of the Eight Banners heavy cavalry of the Qing army. When dealing with the Green Camp, they also lost eight people, which made Han Dashan feel very distressed.
Chapter completed!