I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

The battle of Qian Su's club was only part of the battle on the left wing, and the other part was from Dong Tianbao's club. They also encountered attacks of similar intensity.

However, their situation is slightly better. After one round of contact, they lost more than 500 people.

The Qing army lost nearly 900 people and was defeated.

If it weren't for the integrity of the army, he would have ordered the soldiers to pursue them. As long as he took the opportunity to hunt down at that time, he would be able to kill hundreds of enemy troops.

Before the change, he had done this long ago, and this was a good opportunity to take credit.

But now, he has to obey Wu Changqing's orders and must serve the entire army.

If he rushes to pursue, causing the rush to be surrounded by the enemy, the entire left flank will be in danger, which will affect the entire decisive battle.

He can't afford this responsibility, and the way Wu's army calculates credit is very different from the previous army.

In the previous army, the credit of a general was calculated mainly by how many enemies he killed.

But now, Wu Changqing's calculation method is to see how well you complete the task.

Wu Changqing asked him to guard this small highland, and as long as he guarded it, the mission was completed. Even if he didn't kill a single enemy, it was his ability to scare the enemy away, and he would still reward him.

Conversely, if he rushed forward and killed two thousand enemy troops, but lost the high ground, he still failed to complete the task and would be punished.

For the integrity of the decisive battle, the high ground he defended was much more important than killing 2,000 enemy troops.

If this high ground is lost, the Qing army can pour in through this gap and directly attack Qian Sule's side, as well as the side of the Chinese army.

The fact that he killed thousands of enemy troops could not affect the overall situation. The real decision to win or lose depends on whether the Chinese army can destroy the Qing army's cavalry. This is the core of this battle.

If it wasn't for the elimination of those cavalry, they wouldn't have to go out to the city for a decisive battle.

Using flintlock pistols on the city wall to defend the attack of the cold weapon troops can definitely hit the enemy to cry. This Liu Liangzuo has experienced it, and Dong Tianbao has also experienced it himself.

In the middle army, Boluo saw the defeat of the left wing through the telescope, and he didn't know what to scold.

The failure of the Chinese Firearms Army can be said to be inferior to the Ming Army in weapons. But both sides of the left wing are cold weapons. At most, the enemy has one more grenade, and they can't take it, which is really annoying.

"We underestimated the toughness of Wu Jun. This is by no means an army that only relies on weapons. The toughness of their soldiers is really terrible. Liu Liangzuo misunderstood me."

Hong Chengchou stomped his feet angrily. In the previous battle report of Liu Liangzuo, it was all about Wu Jun's sharp firearms, sharp firearms, and sharp anger, but there was no mention of Wu Jun soldiers' tenacity and will to fight.

This caused Hong Chengchou to ignore this aspect, but now that he saw the battle between the two sides with his own eyes, he realized that the elite soldiers of the Wu army had the same fighting spirit as the Eight Banners soldiers, or even better.

No wonder he has been able to win many battles before, this army is really too elite, this Wu Changqing is really a genius of training.

Hong Chengchou was a little anxious. In the current situation, they had suffered a big loss, but they had not gained anything.

Next, we can only see the impact of the cavalry.

Azige had already rectified 10,000 cavalry, ready to break up the Wu army's central army from the front, and then the 10,000 cavalry at the back would catch up with the harvest.

As long as the formation of the infantry was dispersed, they were equal to winning the battle.

The heavy losses of the fire gun soldiers retreated, and the cavalry began to slowly advance towards the Wu army.

It's walking, not rushing.

It's impossible to start charging across thousands of meters in movies and TV dramas, and that kind of high-speed charging horses can't last long.

Therefore, the general situation is to walk slowly first, then trot, and the cavalry does not start sprinting until the distance is almost 200 meters or even closer.

This gradual increase in speed is very rhythmic and imposing.

It is normal for an ordinary infantry phalanx to pee their pants while watching tens of thousands of tall horses rushing towards them.

In the face of the cavalry charge, being able to stand still and holding the spear steady is an elite. Ninety percent of the military can't do that.

"Change the formation, change the hollow square."

Even though the cavalry were still separated by thousands of meters, it would only take less than a minute when the cavalry rushed up.

Li Shaobin used binoculars to observe the main force of the enemy's cavalry all the time. When he saw that the enemy was in a charge position, he immediately knew that the enemy was coming for real.

After countless trainings, the Fire Gun Army quickly completed the evolution.

The troops of more than 15,000 people were divided into nearly a hundred small square formations, leaving a lot of blank space between the formations.

This formation will suffer against infantry, but it is very useful against cavalry.

Formation was far more important than the bravery of soldiers in ancient warfare.

What kind of fish scale array, gossip array, one-word long snake array, these are not made to look good, under certain circumstances, different formations can play a miraculous effect.

"Hey, Governor Hong, look at their formation, what does this mean?"

Bo Luo handed the telescope to Hong Chengchou, because he saw an incredible scene, the formation of the Ming army turned into a loose formation on the initiative, isn't this courting death?

The best formation for infantry to deal with cavalry is a dense formation. Everyone gathers together. If the cavalry really dares to rush up, they will lose space at most if they rush a few steps, and finally they have to stop.

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This confrontation will be very tragic and requires very high courage of the infantry. But once the soldiers hold on and do not collapse, it is the cavalry who will cry.

The biggest weapon of cavalry is speed, without the threat of speed, it will be greatly reduced.

And this kind of forced charge, although the infantry will die more, but the cavalry losses will not be small. But it takes one or two months to train an infantryman, and it takes at least one or two years to train a cavalryman, or even longer.

The value of a cavalryman is about five infantrymen, plus the horses, one cavalryman is equal to ten infantrymen, using cavalry to forcibly attack a dense phalanx is definitely a cavalry general's brain water.

In such a situation, the cavalry generally avoided it, chose to pass by the side, and then shot arrows into the infantry phalanx. Take advantage of the poor mobility of the infantry phalanx to bully as much as you want.

If the infantry phalanx does not have a large number of shields, it will be miserable. If there is, the cavalry will not be able to start.

Basically, the battle between the ancient infantry and the cavalry is this mode. The cavalry occupies the absolute initiative, but it is not invincible.

However, when infantry meets cavalry, it is common sense to form a dense phalanx, which is absolute.

But now, Wu Changqing's army has done the opposite, turning the originally densely lined phalanxes into small phalanxes.

In this way, wouldn't the cavalry be unimpeded?

Bo Luo couldn't figure out why Wu Changqing did this. He didn't suspect that Wu Changqing was in the water, but this kind of behavior was too strange for him to understand.