Chapter 348 New Army Cavalry
The Great Western Army invaded Chencang City. The Qing army, who was pacified by the King of Xi, resisted a few times in a costume, then evacuated Chencang and evacuated in a mess towards Qinghai.
Wu Sangui was defeated in Western costumes. He neither dragged the Daxi Army in Chencang nor retreated towards Xi'an, but opened the entire Shaanxi gateway. At this point, the road to Xi'an was unobstructed.
Li Dingguo of the West Road captured Chen Cang and opened the road from Sichuan to Shaanxi; the 100,000 troops of Zhongzhen Camp in the Middle Road went north and approached the Luoyang line of Kaifeng; Gao Jie of the East Road, Huang Degong led an army of 80,000 to the north, crossed the Yellow River, and met with the Ming army in southern Shandong and Jiaodong, preparing to cooperate with the Ming army landing in Dagukou to give a fatal blow to the heart of the Qing Dynasty.
Good news came from Shanxi: Jiang Guan, who was named Shanxi Admiral by the Daqing Dynasty, also wrote to Daming through the secret spy of the Jinyiwei, saying that he would be ready to be in Datong anyway.
Just as the three armies on the land went north, Wu Sangui and Jiang Guan were preparing one after another, the 30,000 new army of the Ming army landed in Dagukou and climbed to the Dagukou Fortress and gathered and prepared.
Zhao Peng stood on the platform, looked around, holding an iron horn and shouted loudly: "Brothers, as the saying goes, "Sir, it is said that raising soldiers for a thousand days, and using soldiers for a while! You have been trained for more than three years, and you have been raising you with delicious food and drink every day, and spend a lot of ammunition to train you every month. Many of them have been here in three years and fought with Jiannu! All of this is for today! Brothers, prepare well tonight and set off tomorrow morning!"
After saying that, Zhao Peng ordered the disbandment and walked off the platform.
The sky gradually darkened, and bonfires were lit everywhere in the Ming army camp, making the camp lights brightly. The soldiers who were about to go to the battle tomorrow morning were enjoying a sumptuous dinner. The soldiers were about to go to the battle tomorrow. After the battle, the soldiers would feed on dry food. Therefore, on the day before the battle, Zhao Peng would let the soldiers have a sumptuous dinner.
There are no such many tables and chairs in the Dagukou Barracks for the soldiers to eat, so most of the soldiers sat on the ground or on stones after they had eaten.
Every new soldier held a mouthful of iron lunch box in his hand. The lunch box was filled with mixed grains and rice. The lid of the lunch box was opened and placed aside. The lid was placed with braised pork, fried cabbage, and dried tofu tofu soup. On the ground next to it was also a small wooden bowl, and the wooden bowl was filled with tofu egg soup. Today, the soldiers' food was open to eat. After the rice was eaten, they could add rice at will. When the soup was full, they could add soup at will. If there was not enough vegetables, they could add it again.
The soldiers let go of their stomachs and feasted, and then they cleaned up their lunch boxes and soup bowls. They washed the lunch boxes, soup bowls, chopsticks and spoons in the sink in the barracks, and took them back into their backpacks.
After using up the dinner, the soldiers began to check their weapons and equipment.
Chen Yong is a cavalry of the new army. There are two types of cavalry of the new army. One is the reconnaissance light cavalry adapted from the Jinyiwei scout cavalry, and the other is the heavy cavalry that was just formed not long ago. Chen Yong is a heavy cavalry soldier.
The heavy cavalry of the new army was covered with plate armor, which could withstand the Qing army's bows and arrows shooting. Even war horses had horses on their bodies. There was also a canvas curtain hanging in front of the horse's neck, which could block the enemy's arrows shooting at their own war horses. The war horses used by the heavy cavalry were Wuzhumuqin horses, Hequ horses, Arabian Wen-blooded horses and even various good horses. In addition to the war horses that charge, the heavy cavalry was also equipped with a Mongolian horse that they usually rode.
There are three weapons for heavy cavalry, one is a cavalry spear. When riding a horse, the heavy cavalry rushed towards the enemy formation with a cavalry spear. After hitting the enemy, they immediately threw away the cavalry spear. The second weapon is a saber. After throwing the cavalry spear, they draw out the cavalry saber to kill the enemy; the third weapon is two double-barrel short guns, two-barrel short guns or rifled self-generated short guns, with rifled lines engraved in the barrel, with an effective range of fifty steps. This weapon is mainly used when dealing with the opponent's cavalry. After all, in terms of cavalry, the cavalry of the new army is not as good as the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry. Compared with hedge and sabre, eating is the strength of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry. Therefore, Zhao Peng equipped his cavalry with a killing weapon such as a self-generated musket.
The new cavalry had a total of 5,000 people, of which 1,000 light cavalry were responsible for reconnaissance and harassment of the enemy. Each light cavalry was equipped with two Mongolian horses, with only one sleeveless cotton armor or leather armor on his body, with poor protection. However, the weapons of the light cavalry were very well-deserved, including three hundred light cavalry, each carrying a firing front-mounted rifled gun with a scope; the remaining seven hundred were reconnaissance light cavalry, each carrying two revolvers and a sabre.
Although the light cavalry's war horses and protective power are poor, their weapons are definitely the most excellent. The effective range of the rifled rifle can reach a thousand steps, while the revolver can shoot quickly and accurately within fifty steps.
The heavy cavalry is a formation cavalry used to attack enemy cavalry and infantry. It is equipped with thick armor and the best war horses. After training this heavy cavalry of 4,000 people, Zhao Peng discovered that the heavy cavalry is also a very expensive army. The expensive war horses used by heavy cavalry are not only expensive to purchase, but also the daily consumption of food is also a terrible number.
Whether it is the Uzhumuqin horse, the Hequ horse, the Arab warm-blooded horse, or the Don hippo introduced by the Rakshasa Kingdom, they are much more delicate than Mongolian horses. Mongolian horses only need to eat grass on weekdays, but those expensive tall and big horses, in addition to eating grass, also have to feed them various feeds.
Precious war horses need to be fed foods such as beans and bean cakes, otherwise they will lose weight. Once the war horses lose weight, they will not be able to run fast, and war horses that lose their impact will be useless.
Since Zhao Peng seized Jeju Island, he has built a horse farm on that island. He has raised excellent stallions and mares introduced from all over the world for a high price on Jeju Island, and specialized people have taken care of the war horses. After three generations of breeding, the Ming army has now had more than 7,000 precious war horses and more than 10,000 Mongolian horses.
Building an excellent cavalry is not at all cost to the navy. However, in this era, cavalry is a well-deserved king of the battlefield. Without cavalry, it is almost impossible to wipe out the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Army with a large number of cavalry in one battle.
In order to deal with the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia, Zhao Peng's secret weapon was the Flowering Rocket.
When the two sides were fighting, the Ming army would first use the flowering rockets to shoot at the Qing army's Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Cavalry. The rockets fell into the formation of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Cavalry, which would cause a commotion of the opponent's war horses or even shock the group, and then the formation would be in chaos. At this time, the Ming army's light and heavy cavalry could defeat the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Cavalry in one fell swoop, and then follow behind to cover up and kill.
The flowering rocket is actually the Kangriff rocket launcher. In the Battle of Bali Bridge in time and space, the British and French Allied Forces used Kangriff rocket launchers, cannons, howitzers, Minnie rifles and breastplate cavalry to defeat Senggelinch's Eight Banners Cavalry. The British and French Allied Forces first used Kangriff rockets to shoot with Kangriff rockets. Although Kangriff rockets were single-shot rockets, they had a fast loading speed and could continue to shoot; although the lethality was not large, the war horses caused the Qing army to completely disintegrate, and the British and French cavalry attacked again, resulting in the Qing army's defeat.
Chapter completed!