On the floating bridge of Linhuai Pass.

"Lord, it seems that this tactic alone cannot defeat the cavalry."

Li Zicheng said carefully.

The Mongolian cavalry's orbiting attack was useless. First, there was a mudflat swamp next to Li Jin, and second, a battalion of cavalry was enough to protect the flanks. Although the cavalry had not attacked so far, in fact, they would not attack without defeating the enemy. These cavalry might not be able to defeat the Mongolian cavalry if they really wanted the cavalry. On the contrary, they had to rely on the musketeers in the middle to provide cover.

At the same time, he used a short gun to shoot at the Mongolian cavalry.

but……

They are cavalrymen.

And they are cavalry forming formations, arranged as densely as infantry.

The Mongolian cavalry could not rush them.

The Mongolian cavalry who tried to attack them had to shoot with six rounds of a mezzanine, and then had to face their short guns. Even if they rushed in front of them, there was little left. At most, they added a few results to their spears, and they had to be careful of the attacks on the flanks, because the musketeers hiding behind the spear phalanx were always firing at them.

As for the one that hits the spear phalanx, that is meaningless.

At this time, even the Mongolian cavalry had given up the spear impact and used bows and arrows to shoot.

However, the two musketeers in the main formation also resumed six rounds of shooting. The arrows of the Mongolian cavalry had no lethality on the spearman's half-body armor, but their turtledove gun bullets hit the latter's chain armor just like playing.

The precise killing distance of this thing is only about 30 meters.

But it doesn't mean it can hit thirty meters.

In fact, the Spanish heavy melee gun has the farthest killing range of more than 200 meters. There is a legend that the farthest record is 400 yards and a horse killed.

Cavalry bow and it shoot?

That's funny!

However, this tactic cannot win the cavalry alone with infantry...

The Swedes relied on cavalry to protect the flanks. Gu Erye reformed not only the infantry, but also the Swedish cavalry. Before the reform, the cavalry was defeated every time, and then the bird hairs were destroyed. It was not until Gu Erye's reform that Yang Xin's cavalry now had musket formations that the Swedish cavalry withstood the impact of the bird hair and was no longer beaten to flee by the latter. The bird hairs that also could not rush the cavalry could not rush the Swedish infantry.

But without the cavalry's inverted T formation, it is almost impossible to withstand the cavalry's attack alone.

It is not as good as the Spanish phalanx in this regard.

The latter's exaggerated thickness and solid formation in all directions could not be destroyed by the cavalry before they were consumed until they collapsed. Therefore, at the end of the Battle of Roclui, a Spanish phalanx in desperate situation still made it extremely difficult for the Great Kong Dai to chew.

The Swedes must have cavalry to ensure that they are not washed away by bird feathers.

but……

"This is OK!"

Yang Xin pointed to the distance and said.

There……

There are four battalion-level columns that are advancing.

The Huai River crossing point is not just a floating bridge. The Huai River is in the area of ​​Linhuai Pass. The floating bridge is at the tip of the V character. Both sides are transported by ships, whether upstream or downstream. The militias and ferries collected from Fengyang, Shouxian and other places have already transported the guard brigades across the river, but the artillery and cavalry have not yet passed.

But it is enough for just four battalions of infantry.

Four infantry battalions joined the battlefield with standard lobster battalion-level columns, and re-divided the ten sentries in the front with grenadier sentries. Nearly a hundred soldiers lined up in three rows, one of them was tall, carrying flintlock rifles on their shoulders, lightning guns and grenades on their backs, and even equipped with fighting sabers.

However, the lightning gun is not used in field operations.

Even with the flintlock rifle, the firing success rate cannot be achieved by 100%.

You can imagine a lit grenade in the barrel and then there is no consequence of being shot out. This thing is just used for attacking the key points.

The infantry sentry lined up behind the grenadiers, and there were three horizontal lines, one by one, and one by one, and one by one, were arranged backwards in sequence. The fifth and sixth two sentries were the battalion commanders and their subordinate officers. The distance between each sentry was only more than one meter away. The whistle commander and drummer and flag bearer were still in front of each of them, and the deputy whistle commander and instructor were on both sides.

Finally, there is the strait whistle.

The four battalion-level columns began to march towards the flanks of the Mongolian cavalry with the sound of drums.

The latter immediately split a third...

Obviously they were careless.

After all, for them, this infantry without spears and plate armor, and even the threat is not as great as Li Jin's army. The latter's spear is terrible. These Mongolian cavalry are afraid of spears than muskets. After all, the firing rate of muskets is limited. The actual firing rate of the combs is almost no less than one round per minute. Even for various reasons on the battlefield, two or three minutes per round per round is not an exaggeration. Of course, the new style of the Jingnan Army is faster, but basically it is about one minute.

This is really not as terrible as the jungle of those spears for cavalry.

But these have no spears.

Just as the battalion-level column was in the middle of the battalion level, the battalion commanders issued orders to change the formation.

One by one, one horizontal lineup was quickly mobilized, taking one side in two groups, and a battalion-level hollow square formation was completed in a blink of an eye.

Grenadiers are out there.

These specially selected burly men stood outside the side facing the cavalry, forming a single line of horizontal lines, one person with two grenades, with burning fuses wrapped around their wrists, looking at the surging cavalry on their opposite side, and the infantry lined up behind them. The scattered soldiers were surrounded by a square formation, and their mission was to provide mobile reinforcements, and the sentry-level officers also stood behind their own sentry with weapons.

And in the middle is the battalion-level officer.

Including artillery.

The brigade's field artillery is indeed crossing the river, but the infantry battalion has its own artillery...

"This is a Mongolian cavalry. Our ancestors attacked the Mongolian cavalry. Now we also want to attack the Mongolian cavalry!

Brothers, don’t embarrass the ancestors!”

The commander of the first battalion's grenadier, Chen Sheng, originally a military clerk in Xiaoling Guard in Nanjing, shouted.

"Bloody battle to the end!"

There was a roar on his right side.

Just in the square formation behind them at the same time, the nine-jin howitzers of the six camps sprayed out flames.

This new type of artillery that also has a gun mount but is more like a mortar cannon is currently available only in the Guard Brigade and two direct cavalry brigades, because they also fire expensive flowering bullets, and actually the more suitable one is the grenade shotgun, but unfortunately it exceeds Yang Xin's current technical level. It can indeed be made, but the reliability is tragic, because wood-pipe fuses are difficult to provide a truly accurate detonation time. It is best to use a medicine plate fuze, which requires technology. Therefore, the flowering bullet of wood-pipe fuse is the most suitable. If it is not facing cavalry, this kind of artillery can also use shotguns to bombard infantry.

But solid bullets are very garbage and have almost no penetration.

The flowering bullet immediately exploded among the Mongolian cavalry.

But they cannot stop them, at most they will cause some interference.

Grenadiers, composed of all the guards and military households in Nanjing, were grenades in one hand, just like their ancestors more than two hundred years ago, quietly watching the Mongolian cavalry getting closer and closer. The latter also clamped their spears under their ribs like their ancestors more than two hundred years ago, constantly urging their war horses to accelerate...

Time and space seem to have retreated for more than two hundred years.

"Prepare!"

Chen Sheng shouted.

All soldiers raised their left arms and blew the fuse.

The Mongolian cavalry's vanguard gradually became clear...

"Light the fuse and drop the bomb!"

Chen Sheng's roar sounded again.

All the soldiers ignited the right-hand grenade fuse on the fuse as fast as possible, then aimed at the torrent of the cavalry and threw it out with all their might, and then took the left-hand grenade without hesitation to ignite it in the same way. After completing all this, they did not even look at the consequences of their own. They took off their flintlock rifles on their backs at full speed and ran backwards, then stopped in front of the line and turned around and lie down, raising their guns to aim in front.

As the explosions were heard, fire and smoke exploded in the torrent of the cavalry.

Even with training, such intensive explosions and smoke still left the Mongolian cavalry in chaos.

However, most of the cavalry rushed out of the smoke.

but……

"Open fire!"

A roar sounded behind the line of the square array.

Along with the lying grenades, the kneeling first row and the standing second row of soldiers pulled the trigger at the same time.

The volley of thirty meters was instantly caused the cavalry to fall down.

The width of the battle line of a square formation and one surface is only a few dozen meters. Two hundred infantry are divided into three rows and crowded in three rows, and how wide can they be? The number of cavalry can accommodate such a width is also limited. The width required for cavalry charge is not comparable to infantry, and a cavalry must occupy two meters wide when charging. What's more, the Mongolian cavalry is not a fence, but a loose cavalry offensive formation. This width is very crowded if it can have thirty cavalry, and it was blown up a lot by grenades before. At this moment, a cavalry even had to face the shooting of nearly ten flintlock rifles, and almost all the cavalry's vanguards fell down.

There was chaos behind.

The cavalry, which was already disturbed by the grenade explosion, had to bypass or jump over because of the fallen cavalry in front.

The rhythm of charge, which was originally full of morale, was completely disrupted.

But there were still cavalry rushing by...

The standing second row of soldiers silently exchanged muskets with the third row of soldiers standing behind him, but the latter did not fire. This is why the British later changed to two rows of hollow square formations, because the third row often did not have enough shooting range, but they could act as loading hands.

The soldiers standing in the second row aimed at the twelve cavalrymen in front of them and opened fire.

More than sixty flintlock rifles shot at the thirty-meter volley of the twelve cavalry.

A lonely cavalry rushed through this round of shooting as if his ancestors were blessed. He didn't even know that there was no one behind him, but at the same time, Chen Sheng in front of him jumped up and the axe gun in his hand as the whistle-headed sign fell into the air. A foot-long axe blade was slashing at the horse's neck, and the huge force instantly cut off the neck bone of the war horse. Although the horse's head did not land, it also fell down strangely at the angle.

At the same time, the war horse suddenly fell to his front legs.

The cavalry on the horse's back screamed and flew out, and then more than a dozen bayonets were stabbed upwards at the same time at the landing point.
Chapter completed!