New Shun 1730

After the Dashun Left Wing Column received the report from the scouts, the response was very simple, and even somewhat mechanical, following the combat rules.

If it was a field battle, and the infantry attacked, the skirmishers would disperse in front of the private company and fire freely.

If the cavalry attacked, the skirmishers would disperse in a circular formation to cover the cavalry artillery and 6-jin artillery, advance quickly, and distance themselves from the subsequent infantry company. The professional recruiting company would follow the artillery and skirmishers in a company column.

The skirmishers would shoot within a range of 400 steps, using the corpses of horses to slow down the attack speed of the enemy cavalry. When the enemy cavalry advanced to 50 steps, the artillery would fire shotgun shells.

If the enemy turned and wanted to flank, they could continue to fire freely, and the light artillery would adjust the angle to reflect the shrapnel.

If the enemy cavalry did not turn and continued to attack, the skirmishers and artillery would retreat to the gap between the infantry companies that were covering them.

Generally speaking, local cavalry would not destroy the artillery in such a chaotic situation, nor would they be able to destroy the artillery. After all, cannons are made of copper and iron. It is difficult to block the fire door without professional hammers and nails.

The way that Dashun's drill manual deals with cavalry to a certain extent is to use the regular cavalry trained by Dashun itself as the imaginary enemy.

The regular cavalry of Dashun...actually, the distance of the rapid charge is only 40 steps. To be more precise, it is actually only 30 steps.

Only when it reaches 30 steps, it is allowed to increase the horse speed to the maximum and poke in. Because if it is increased to the maximum speed far in advance, the horsepower may not be a problem, but the formation will be scattered after running.

Dashun's infantry can now move forward in a horizontal column at a speed of about 60 to 70 steps per minute, without the need to reorganize in the middle.

But the final charge of the cavalry can only play the last 30 to 50 steps of full-speed sprint.

Of course, this is not bad, basically in the top three in the world. At this time in this world, there is no cavalry that can play a full charge of 50 meters and the formation is still neat when it starts to poke the infantry. Everyone is just the difference between 30 steps of full-speed charge and 20 steps of full-speed charge.

In training rather than actual combat, excellent regular cavalry can actually run a record of 200 steps at full speed.

But the difference between training and actual combat is too big. In real combat, everyone can only run the last few dozen steps at full speed.

Infantrymen are afraid of death, and cavalrymen are actually afraid of death.

Many of Liu Yu's ideas for training soldiers are the core of Dashun's military reforms. He described the cavalry charge like this: When the last call to the enemy finally rushed, the cavalry should be so scared that they stuffed their noses into the horse's mane, shouting loudly so that their ears were filled with their own voices to avoid hearing gunshots and cannons, and their eyes were so scared that they dared not look forward and only dared to look at the ground a dozen steps ahead. It was like thousands of drunkards who were unconscious and rushed into the crowd like crazy horses. This was considered to be the training of cavalry that could charge densely.

Of course, those who can actually do this should be considered strong cavalry within a hundred years.

The corresponding tactics of Dashun were also dealt with according to this set of plans.

However, the feudal warrior cavalry of the Bengalis is different from the cavalry that captured refugees and peasants after the Dashun Army was reformed and practiced decomposition movements and collective formations.

However, there has been no opportunity for actual combat testing, and the current attempt can be regarded as a verification.

On the opposite side, the first wave of Jafar's cavalry has begun.

This time, from the perspective of tactical conception, Clive's conception has basically been realized for the time being.

All the offensive troops of the British and Indian coalition forces are concentrated here. And the remaining weak Bengal infantry built a camp after advancing not far, preparing to mobilize Dashun to change the line, relying on distance to ensure that the Bengal infantry collapses later.

Behind Jafar's cavalry, followed by the main force of the British East India Company and the Bengal camp.

The task of the cavalry is to tear open the infantry defense of Dashun and disperse them before the infantry of Dashun has deployed a square formation.

And if the speed of Dashun is fast enough to deploy a square formation, the cavalry will wedge in. The British troops behind destroyed the Dashun infantry in a horizontal formation.

This tactic was not a sneak attack, and there was no chance of a sneak attack.

It was just a time difference made use of the morning mist.

Theoretically, as long as the Dashun central army column could not effectively rescue before its left wing infantry was dispersed, the British-Indian coalition would have a chance to catch their breath, and even prevent the Dashun from crawling forward to the Diamond Bay fork to build a fort.

But when Jafar's cavalry had begun to move and run forward, Clive found that something was wrong.

The response strategy of the Dashun side was something he had never seen before.

When the opposing cavalry began to jog, the Dashun side's skirmishers and cavalry artillery were still maneuvering, and at a very fast speed, forming a flank arc to cover the infantry behind.

At this time, there were no skirmishers in the infantry of the British East India Company. And of course there were no cavalry artillery. Naturally, there was absolutely no ability to quickly change formations and maneuver at the battalion and company level set by the Dashun side's military reform direction.

Therefore, Clive and other British officers did not quite understand.

However, they still commanded the infantry to follow the cavalry and march forward.

The distance between the two sides at this time is about 800 meters. Under training, the cavalry of Dashun can complete this distance in two and a half minutes. But this requires the officers' orders to be very in place to ensure that the horsepower is not consumed in advance.

Generally speaking, this may take about three minutes in actual combat.

This period of time is enough for the infantry of Dashun to complete two changes of formation. And for those light cavalry guns, it is also enough to complete the deployment and loading.

When Jafar's cavalry began to jog, the artillery on the side of Dashun had already started to shoot shrapnel over their heads.

When the Bengal cavalry was still four or five hundred steps away from the skirmishers and cavalry guns, the skirmishers on the side of Dashun finally waited for the order to shoot freely.

It took these skirmishers about half a year to get familiar with the use of this easy-to-load rifled gun. Because the trajectory of this gun is completely different from the previous smoothbore gun.

They used smoothbore guns to shoot people and hunt accurately before. In fact, they were not used to it after being organized as skirmishers and changing to rifled guns.

After more than half a year of training, they finally mastered this gun.

At the beginning, they complained and disliked this broken thing for being inaccurate; but now they can't let it go, and they sneer at the infantrymen who are still using smoothbore rifles.

The skirmishers who had already loaded their rifles were not panicked at all, but slowly raised their rifles and aimed at the Bengal cavalry who had begun to speed up.

The wooden butt was pushed by gunpowder, and the tail of the bullet on the top swelled up, and it rotated rapidly under the drive of the rifling.

The fired bullet flew out with a straighter trajectory that was completely different from the smoothbore rifle.

The Bengal cavalry in the front fell off their horses one after another. Fortunately, they did not charge in a dense formation, but maintained the Central Asian style of charging, bypassing the horses that were hit, and continued to charge forward with scimitars.

The sound of the skirmishers' shooting continued, and when they rushed to a distance of about 100 steps, the skirmishers made a final round of shooting.

They began to retreat.

The light artillery that had been deployed was loaded with heavy shotgun shells. The infantrymen in the horizontal formation also raised their muskets, forming a line of defense that was not a square formation on the wings and gaps of the artillery.

When the scattered soldiers retreated to the artillery and reloaded, the artillerymen who had been preparing for a long time also ignited the gunpowder.

"Fire!"

The infantry officers behind shouted in unison, raising their guns but not forming a square formation. Instead, they used five companies in a staggered configuration of three or two lines. The recruiting camp of the Java Military Town, which had been in actual combat many times in Southeast Asia, opened fire together with the artillery loaded with buckshot.

In an instant, gunpowder smoke covered the battlefield, as if the Dashun position was on fire, and white smoke filled the eyes of everyone.

The buckshot from 18 cannons and the volleys of 300 infantrymen out of 500 people instantly overturned the first wave of the Bengal cavalry's attack.

There were almost no survivors.

A large number of war horses fell to the ground, their hooves constantly struggling, blocking the direction of the cavalry attacking from behind. More Bengal cavalry were shot by muskets or had their bodies shattered by shotguns.

Occasionally, a few horses rushed into the artillery position, but the skirmishers pulled the reins, held the horses' heads tightly, and stabbed the cavalry on top with daggers or bayonets.

The Bengal cavalry behind definitely did not receive the order to run to the two wings, but after the first wave of impact was completely crushed, they subconsciously turned their horses' heads and went around the flanks of this position.

They did not want to attack around the flanks, but wanted to avoid this place and rush inside.

Inside, those soldiers who had not experienced actual combat had already formed a staggered square formation according to the deployment of the battalion and company.

They might be able to withstand the impact of the cavalry without forming a formation at all, just like the privates of the Java military town in front.

They might also be able to remain calm in the face of danger, like those skirmishers.

Maybe they might even be able to maintain morale in that disgusting slope battle, like those expensive combat engineers.

However, the officers of Dashun did not dare to try.

They did not even expect them to be able to complete the rapid maneuvering and flanking attack on the battlefield of the column, but just let them form a staggered square formation according to the daily training method.

People crowded together and next to each other, so that these conscripted soldiers would not be afraid.

The skirmishers, cavalry artillery and private soldiers in front were like a boulder in a rushing stream, forcing the manic water to separate and slowing down their impact.

The Bengal cavalry, which could no longer form a straight charge, plunged into the range of the conscripted soldiers who had completed the square formation.

The continuous sound of gunfire began to rise and fall.