Chapter 199 Cavalry Harassment Infantry Attack
Wang Quan and his friends bypassed the Qing army's infantry formation and rushed towards the Qing army's auxiliary soldiers who were logging. In a blink of an eye, the seventeen cavalry rushed to the Qing army's auxiliary soldiers like a whirlwind. The cavalrymen raised their swords and fell with their hands, and cut over a large area of Qing army's auxiliary soldiers like melons and vegetables. When the Qing army's infantry formation gathered and pressed towards him, the seventeen cavalry had already left.
When the Qing army's formation was concentrated, Wang Quan and his sixteen comrades dismounted, took off their arches, and shot light arrows at the auxiliary soldiers in the middle of the Qing army's formation from afar, shooting arrows one after another.
The range of light arrows with arch bows can reach 200 steps, usually about 150 steps. Wang Quan and these nights have the strength of an elite Eight Banners soldier. After they rode on horses, they were light cavalry, and after dismounting, they were the most sophisticated archers.
In the blink of an eye, each Ye Busus shot two light arrows, while Wang Quan shot three arrows in a row. Thirty-five arrows broke through the air with a whistling sound, plunged into the group of Qing army auxiliary soldiers, and shot down more than a dozen Qing army auxiliary soldiers in an instant.
When the Qing army infantry archers, under the cover of the sword player and the spearmen, came to Wang Quan and the others with their bows and arrows, Wang Quan and the others quickly stepped onto the war horse, and quickly evacuated.
The Qing army soldiers of the Green Camp strengthened the protection of the logging auxiliary soldiers, but Wang Quan focused on the Qing army auxiliary soldiers who were digging trenches outside the Qing army barracks. Because most of the Qing army soldiers were attracted to protect their logging auxiliary soldiers, the protective power around the camp was reduced, and the auxiliary soldiers who were digging trenches almost lost their protection.
Wang Quan led the sixteen cavalry, like lightning and like a storm, and rushed to the periphery of the Qing army camp. The soldiers took out their cavalry bows one after another, covering them with arrows, shooting over countless auxiliary soldiers who were digging trenches. When a large group of Qing army infantry arrived, Wang Quan and the others left again, looking for the Qing army's logistics and supplies convoy to harass them.
Worried that the food and grass would be burned, General Qian of the Qing army had to mobilize infantry to protect. As a result, the food and grass were protected regardless of their butts. The auxiliary soldiers responsible for building fortifications drove to protect again, and were shot and killed by the cavalry of Ye Bu Shuo.
If a mere seventeen cavalry faces the powerful Eight Banners Army, it is obviously not enough to see it, and even if it is facing the main cavalry of the Green Camp, it is not enough to see it. However, when dealing with local green camps such as Jining and Yanzhou, they can make the Qing army go around.
Therefore, in the era of cold weapons, cavalry is the king of the battlefield. Infantry lacking cavalry has to deal with cavalry, and there are too many loopholes: the weakness of the formation, the loopholes in the confrontation between infantry and cavalry, the safety of auxiliary soldiers and camps, and the most deadly logistics supply line. As long as the cavalry finds the opponent's loophole, they can attack at any time. When the infantry arrives, the cavalry can run away, and the infantry can only stare at the cavalry's butt.
Once there is a major loophole in the infantry formation, if the cavalry defeats it with one blow, it will be a disaster for the infantry. The cavalry can follow the enemy infantry and kill them all the way, but the infantry cannot escape at all. Waiting for the infantry's fate is to be completely wiped out. During the battle between the two sides, even if the cavalry is defeated, the cavalry can run away at any time, but the infantry cannot catch up with the cavalry at all. In short, it is impossible for the infantry to wipe out the cavalry at all.
While Wang Quan and his friends were dragging the Qing army's auxiliary troops to set up camp, Zhao Peng led the Jinyiwei and the people to speed up the construction of fortification camps. From noon, before it was dark, a circle of trenches appeared outside the trenches. Then Zhao Peng commanded the people and inserted wooden fences behind the trenches.
The two rows of wooden fences are long outside and short inside. Wooden boards are laid between the two rows of wooden fences. The defenders can walk on the wooden boards, thus building a wooden wall.
After the fortifications were completed, Zhao Peng immediately led 700 Jinyiwei to attack and prepare to attack the Yanzhou Green Camp, leaving 300 Jinyiwei to guard the home and protect the people and vehicles in the camp.
Zhao Peng made arrangements for 700 Jinyiwei, of which 100 Jinyiwei, with the highest military power, acted as sword cards, each carrying an embroidered spring sword and a wooden card, 500 Jinyiwei served as spearmen, and the last 100 Jinyiwei served as archers. The sword cards also served as grenades, and each sword player carried four thunderstorms.
The seven hundred Jinyiwei set out towards the Qing army camp ten miles away. Wang Quan and his Ye Bushu had already been recruited. They acted as the task of the light cavalry. Before the Jinyiwei started to attack, the brigade of infantry will be arranged, and the cavalry will arrange the infantry wings to be responsible for protecting the infantry and harassing the opponent's infantry.
Looking at the Jinyiwei lined up in a long line to head towards the Qing army formation, Zhao Peng sighed: "It would be great if we had so many horses from the Eight Banners Army of Jiannu, and we could form a powerful horse-riding infantry like Jiannu."
Gu Yan
The horse-riding infantry of the Eight Banners of Manchuria was indeed the most elite infantry of this era. It’s a pity that Zhao Peng did not have so many horses, otherwise he would also want to build such a horse-riding infantry.
Less than three miles away from the Qing army camp in Yanzhou, Zhao Peng, who was riding on the horse, stopped his horse, took out a single-tube thousand-mile mirror from his arms, and looked at the Qing army formation in the distance. He saw that the Qing army camp had not been completed yet. He knew that all this was the credit of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the cavalry of the
"Everyone is in the array!" Zhao Peng gave the order, "After arranging the array, move forward steadily!"
More than 700 Jinyiwei were quickly arranged into a square formation. At the front were one hundred sword players, behind were five hundred spearmen, and at the end were one hundred archers. The Jinyiwei was arranged in neat formations and pushed forward step by step towards the Qing army camp more than two miles away.
"The horse thief is here!" A dead soldier from the Qing army reported to President Qian.
The Qiang General of the Green Camp in Yanzhou climbed up to look at it, and after a while, he was shocked by the marching formation of this "thieves": "What thief? He is so powerful? He is even more elite than an ordinary elite army!"
"Why did you say this?" asked a Qing army general next to Mr. Qian.
Mr. Qian replied: "Whenever the army advances in an array, they can move forward thirty steps to maintain the formation, they are elite, but this thief army can actually walk 300 steps in a array, and still maintain the formation is not chaotic. This shows that this thief is not an ordinary thief army, but must be an elite force!"
Zhang asked incredibly: "Elite? In addition to the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty, which elite army is there?"
Mr. Qian said smartly: "The thief! It's probably the thief! It must be the thief who jealously, pretended to be a bandit and horse thief, sneaked into Qufu, hurt the whole family of Yan Shenggong, and then robbed the silver from the Yan Shenggong family."
"Sir, wise! The thief army ahead must be a thief!" Several generals brag and criticized each other.
Mr. Qian sneered: "Although the bandit army is elite, our army is waiting for it. As long as my family maintains the formation and meets the enemy, the enemy troops coming from afar will definitely not be able to maintain the formation for a long time and will soon collapse."
The seven hundred Jinyiwei arranged a neat formation, and pushed forward step by step steadily. From one mile away to about a hundred steps, the formation was always neat, without any chaos at all. As soon as it approached the Yanzhou Green Camp Army, the Jinyiwei's formation remained unchanged. The steps of more than seven hundred people were neatly like one person, advancing step by step with the sound of drums.
Seeing the neat formations of the "thief army" in front of them pressing up step by step, the Qing army formation, which was waiting for work, was a little messy. Before the order was made by the Qiang General of the Qing army, the Qing army's archers and bird gunners were nervous to shoot in advance.
"Bang bang bang" Qing army's bird gun made a roar, but at about a hundred steps away, the bird gun had no pig's head at all. The Jinyiwei only heard a sound, and no casualties were found on its own. At this distance, the bird gun bullets had long been unknown where they flew. A few bullets lucky enough to hit the Jinyiwei formation, but because the distance was too far and the kinetic energy loss was too great, it could not penetrate the shield of the Jinyiwei's sword player.
Chapter completed!