The Ming Dynasty has just been exiled and the Luzon system has awakened.

Xun Ha, who thought he was sure of victory, did not send out all his troops. He only took more than 2000 cavalry and headed towards the Ming Army infantry brigade.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the Ming and Qing armies encountered each other not far east of Min'an City.

Seeing the Qing cavalry suddenly appearing in the distance, You Bowen, commander of the First Brigade of the Ming Royal Army, immediately shouted an order.

"Take the regiment as a unit! Quickly form a hollow square array! Place the mortars in the array, and the field artillery on top of the front line!"

因为第一旅是明军首支登陆的部队，所以为了加强其火力除了原有配属的36门82毫米迫击炮外还额外补充了一个装备有12门90式6磅野战炮的炮兵营。

But if it were just like this, facing 2000 Qing cavalry with extremely strong mobility, it would still be quite overwhelming.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu Da launched the hollow phalanx early.

You must know that before machine guns were equipped on a large scale, smoothbore cannon + musket + hollow square formation was the most effective tactic for infantry to deal with cavalry.

In the later Battle of Baliqiao, the British and French forces used this combination to defeat 8000 Qing troops with 3 troops.

At present, the equipment of the Ming army is not much different from that of the British and French coalition forces of later generations, or even better!

What they faced was only 2000 Qing cavalry.

The battle has not even begun, and its final outcome seems to have been determined.

After receiving You Bowen's order, the soldiers of each regiment quickly changed their formations and formed three 4-layer hollow square formations.

At the same time, in the Qing army camp in the distance, Xun Ha looked at the Ming army in a strange formation with confusion on his face.

"What new tricks is the Ming army doing?"

Naturally, Xun Ha had never seen such a formation.

Even in Europe, the hollow phalanx only appeared after the large-scale use of bayonets.

At this time, the European nouveau riche have just come up with the bayonet bayonet.

However, although Xun Ha was confused, he still did not take the Ming army seriously.

"Jian Sheng, take your men and horses and break through the Ming army's formation for me!" Xun Ha ordered loudly.

"Minions take orders!"

"Warriors of the Qing Dynasty, pick up your steel swords, hold on to the reins of your horses, and let these remnants of the Ming Dynasty see the power of my Qing cavalry!"

"Rush up and kill them all!"

"Kill!"

In an instant, the horses galloped and roared loudly.

The charge of more than a thousand cavalry from the Qing Army's Zhongzi Battalion made the earth tremble, and the rising smoke quickly approached the Ming Army's formation like a sandstorm.

Opposite them, facing the Qing cavalry charging straight at them, the Ming officers and soldiers were also a little nervous.

Different from the street battles with the Qing cavalry in Taiwan, the speed and impact of the Qing cavalry in the open terrain were far superior to the former.

Moreover, this battle was also the first battle between the hollow formation and the cavalry. The soldiers were also unsure whether it could work.

"Attention all artillery crews! Fire freely! Don't be stingy with ammunition!" the Ming army artillery officers ordered loudly.

As soon as he finished speaking, two types of artillery pieces of the Ming army began to spit out tongues of fire.

"Bang bang bang..."

"Boom boom boom..."

The mortar shells pulled out a high parabolic trajectory and hit the Qing cavalry. The sudden explosion of the shells knocked a large number of Qing cavalry off their backs.

The 6-pound solid iron ball fired by the field gun penetrated into the Qing cavalry team at extremely fast speeds, smashing everyone in its path.

"Spread out! Spread out! Attack the Ming army on the left!"

"Outflank Zuo Xun on the left! The rest of the troops will follow me to harass the enemy head-on!" Jian Sheng, the general of the Zhongzi Battalion, shouted.

In fact, when the Qing cavalry faced off against the infantry, they rarely directly engaged in large-scale frontal "Cold Steel Charge" collisions.

More often than not, they circle around and surround themselves within the shooting distance of bows and arrows or muskets, shooting from a long distance.

After the enemy's formation was in chaos, the Qing army then charged forward en masse and broke into the enemy's formation.

Such tactics have not changed in the decades since the Jian-Slave Rebellion began.

Even if Emperor Zhu Da had not appeared, the Qing army would have continued to use this tactic until they were beaten by bandits more than 100 years later.

A few decades ago, this tactic would have been invincible when dealing with the poorly equipped and disorganized border troops of the late Ming Dynasty.

But what they encountered today was the Ming Dynasty Royal Army, a new army equipped with a large number of new rifles and new artillery.

As a result, the Qing cavalry suffered a tragedy.

Under the attack of artillery fire, the Qing cavalry, which suffered heavy casualties, wanted to get close to the Ming army's formation and throw arrows.

But seeing the distance getting closer and closer, the Ming army cannon that originally fired solid projectiles suddenly started firing iron projectiles.

"Puff puff……"

Amidst the thick collision of flesh and blood, many Qing cavalrymen and their horses fell to the ground.

Even though the Qing army had dispersed its formation as much as possible, there were still casualties after every artillery attack.

To make matters worse, the Ming army's firecrackers also started attacking, and the firecrackers were so powerful and had such a long range.

Every time the flames flew and the white smoke filled the air, a large number of Qing cavalry died under the gun.

In the face of the extremely powerful Mini rifle, the cloth armor worn by the Qing cavalry was useless. (Comprehensive replacement of cotton armor during the Qianlong period)

The tapered Mini bullets easily penetrated the cloth armor worn by the Qing cavalry.

And because of the obstruction of this layer of armor, the soft lead bullets immediately deformed and shattered after entering the human body.

As a result, as long as Qing soldiers were hit by bullets in the torso, their bodies would be torn to pieces by the broken bullets at the moment they were hit.

These people died without even a groan.

Jian Sheng's eyelids jumped when he saw the ferocious firepower of the Ming army on a galloping war horse and the heavy losses of his subordinates.

He really didn't expect that the cavalry fighting the infantry would end up like this. They were dead all over the place, but the Ming army on the opposite side didn't even break away from their formation. They didn't even touch the corners of the opponent's clothes. .

"Blow the trumpet! Withdraw the troops!" Jian Sheng said in fear.

"Woo~"

The long horn sound sounded, and the embarrassed Qing cavalry left the corpses on the ground and retreated hurriedly.

From behind, Xun Ha looked gloomy as he looked at the Zhongzi Camp which was retreating in embarrassment with heavy casualties.

The infantry of the Ming army, who originally thought they could be easily destroyed with more than a thousand cavalry, now gave him a loud earring.

However, he had no intention of retreating at this time, because he had noticed that this Ming army seemed to be full of firecrackers and not equipped with long guns.

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