?The war horses were wailing, screaming, and the sound of falling to the ground was heard continuously. "" After the first round of attack, dozens of people on both sides were hit by the horses. Some knights fell from the horses and were quickly swallowed by the torrent of horse hooves swarming up from behind; some war horses were shot and arrows, fell to the ground, and tripped over the companions behind. Overall, the losses of both sides were roughly equivalent.

After shooting out the arrows, the Qing army's knights quickly leaned down on the horse's back. On the one hand, they put away their bows and arrows and prepared to fight in close combat. On the other hand, they also gave up the opportunity to shoot arrows for their companions behind them.

The Chinese army's knights also bent on the back of the horse, but they all pulled out short muskets hanging in front of the saddle and continued to fire at the Qing army in a hunch. Therefore, this time the firepower of the Chinese army was much greater than that of the Qing army. As a result, more people and horses were hit and fell to the ground in the Qing army formation. Of course, overall, the casualties on both sides were far from the level of injury.

After two rounds of long-range attacks, the sharpest parts of the two arrows finally collided, and the cavalry of both sides also sat on the horse's back, waving their sabers, preparing to launch a fatal blow to the enemy when they passed by. At least that was what the Qing army's cavalry thought.

However, the cavalry of the Chinese Army is different because the cavalry of the Chinese Army has entered the age of firearms. Each cavalry of the Chinese Army is equipped with a long-barreled rear-bucket-filled musket. Compared with one to two short-barreled front-bucket-filled muskets, there are a few middle and lower-level officers who even assemble three to four. Compared with bows and arrows, another advantage is that muskets can be fired with one hand, because they are short-barrels used by cavalry, and bows and arrows must be made with both hands. Therefore, when fighting in close combat, the cavalry of the Chinese Army holds short-barrels in one hand and sabers in the other. When the two sides are about to meet, they first shoot with muskets, and then use sabers to chop with sabers.

Because the distance between the two sides was very close at this time, the Chinese army's cavalry shot almost every shot, but within this distance, the saber was still a little worse. There were also many cavalry shooting at the Qing soldiers' war horses. Of course, the effect was the same, that is, the knight fell down and the war horse fell to the ground.

As a result, when the cavalry of both sides passed by, most of the ones that fell from the horse were Qing soldiers. This had nothing to do with the riding skills, tactics, and combat capabilities of both sides, and was completely technical advantages.

After shooting out all the muskets, the Chinese army's knights could only rely on their hard-trained cavalry skills to fight against the Qing army. In this regard, the Chinese army's cavalry was still a certain distance from the Qing army.

Of course, some Chinese cavalry used their guns to scare the Qing soldiers. After all, most Qing soldiers instinctively shrank and dodge when they saw the gun pointing at them, and often showed a fatal gap. After the Qing soldiers understood, it was too late. The snow-white sabre had already been cut in front of them. Some Chinese cavalry relied on the tall horses they sat down with strong impact and had a condescending advantage to seize the enemy. Because of the two heavy armored cavalry companies, they were completely unreasonable and collided with the Qing army. However, a heavy armored cavalry of the Chinese army, with horses and iron armor, the total weight could reach more than 600 kilograms, while the Qing army's cavalry was only more than 400 kilograms at most. The two sides were not opponents at the same level at all, and the result of the collision was also imagined.

However, most of the Chinese cavalry were still honestly fighting against the Qing army with swords, so in the late stage of the charge, the Chinese cavalry suffered a lot of casualties.

After both sides penetrated each other's formation, the distance was widened, and more than a thousand people and horses were left on the ground where they had fought. Many war horses that had not yet died made a cry of wail. The injured soldiers also fought to leave the battlefield. There were dozens of war horses that had lost their knights and fled in all directions on the battlefield.

After the separation, the cavalry immediately stopped their horses before running for a distance, turned their heads and re-arranged the formation. The soldiers of the Chinese Army took advantage of this gap and quickly refilled the bullets for the muskets and prepared for the next round of charge.

At this time, the two main generals of the Qing army were a little Ma Laxi, and Haninga Zhen was shocked. Unexpectedly, the Chinese cavalry could really use muskets so freely on horseback. Although there was no time to count casualties now, both of them could feel that in the round of competition just now, the Qing army suffered a greater loss than the Chinese army. At the same time, the confidence of the two began to shake. But at this time, they could not retreat, and they could only fight to the end, so they immediately reorganized the team.

The cavalry of both sides quickly launched an attack on each other.

After the last round of battle, the Chinese army's cavalry significantly strengthened their confidence, and their hands holding guns were more stable, and their shooting was more resolute, decisive and accurate. Even when they were slashing with the Qing soldiers, they were also not ruthless. In contrast, the morale of the Qing army had obviously dropped a lot. Although they were all cavalry and had few opportunities to fight with the Chinese army, they knew how powerful the Chinese army was using muskets. They thought that muskets could not play much role in cavalry warfare. Who knew that the Chinese army's cavalry could play new tricks. The cavalry fired more beautifully than the Qing army's riding horses and archery, so they naturally had doubts in their hearts. Can we still win this battle?

As a result, the second round of battle between the two sides was completely one-sided, and anyone could feel that the casualties of the Qing army were far greater than those of the Chinese army. However, at this time, Ma Laxi saw a little trick and decisively changed the tactics and no longer hedged one round with the Chinese army. This would only leave enough spare time for the Chinese army to fill the bullets, and simply fight with the Chinese army. In this way, the Chinese army would have no time to fill the bullets again. After the ammunition was fired, it was the Qing army's turn to show its power. Because after two rounds of hedging, Ma Laxi could basically conclude that in terms of real cavalry combat capabilities, the Qing army was indeed stronger than the Chinese army.

But after all the Chinese army fired muskets, Ma Laxi was not sure how many people could be left in the Qing army and whether he could defeat the Chinese army, but he could only bet. Otherwise, the Qing army would definitely be defeated in such rounds of hedging.

Sure enough, when the two sides were in the third round of hedging, the Qing army did not choose to penetrate the Chinese army formation, and they entangled the Chinese army and engaged in a melee. However, each Chinese army cavalry had two to three muskets. Once they had a melee, they would not shoot easily. They all strive to be steady and accurate. Each shot should hit the target as much as possible, whether it was a man or a horse. At the same time, they would cover each other in the battle. The Qing soldiers tried their best to entangle the Chinese army soldiers in close combat, so that they would not have the opportunity to get a gun and shoot. As soon as they found that the Chinese army soldiers after the shooting, they rushed up to fight without hesitation.

As a result, the two cavalry units were entangled like infantry and started fighting.

However, this melee did not go on for too long, because the infantry of both sides also arrived at the battlefield. The cavalry and cavalry had a melee until it was nothing, but if the cavalry and infantry were fighting, it would be a waste of time. Therefore, the cavalry of both sides withdrew from the battle group, lined up to watch the battle, and gave the battlefield to the infantry.

As a result, the losses were counted by both sides. The Qing cavalry was killed in battle, 2,281 people, 457 people were injured, and 1,673 horse casualties were killed in battle. The Chinese army's cavalry was killed in battle, 1,727 people were injured, 569 people were injured, and 855 horse casualties were killed. Although there were no losses on the battlefield, in terms of results, the Chinese army obviously had the upper hand, and the actual strength of the Qing army was slightly more than that of the Chinese army.

After the cavalry left the battlefield, the infantry of both sides immediately fought together. Unlike the cavalry, the infantry of the Chinese Army was never afraid of field battles or melee with the Qing army. In this regard, the infantry of the Chinese Army had sufficient combat experience and tactics. On the battlefield, they scattered speed into small combat groups in companies. Generally, two platoons were responsible for conducting hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army; one platoon was responsible for taking turns shooting at the back; and the other platoon was responsible for throwing grenades, each in his position, and his own responsibility was performed without any confusion.

Although the Qing army also had 8,000 musket soldiers, in the melee, the musket soldiers were actually no different from long spears. They all held muskets with bayonets, searched for Chinese soldiers and conducted hand-to-hand combat. Although some of the Qing army's musket soldiers found gaps to fill in bullets and fired guns in the melee, they did not form a systematic team-cooperation combat. In fact, when training the new army, the instructors also taught the Qing army, carried out group cooperation and team-fighting training. However, firstly, the training of this kind of team-fighting training took the most time. Most of the Qing soldiers were not proficient, and they were just beginners and lacked practical experience. Secondly, the weapons used by the Qing army did not meet the requirements. Without string grenades, the power of this team-fighting was reduced by nearly half, and most of the Qing army used a collaps.

Therefore, although the Qing army also set up a small team to fight at the beginning, the team quickly collapsed after the battle, and the Qing soldiers fell into a situation of fighting on their own. As a result, in the infantry battle, the Qing army was obviously not an opponent of the Chinese army. At this time, the cavalry of both sides restrained each other and could not assist in the war. The Qing army was beaten to retreat continuously and quickly retreated to the previous position.

Fortunately, the Qing army crossed another group of troops at this time, so they immediately rushed to support. The Chinese army's goal was not to drive the Qing army across the Huai River, but to block the Qing army's expansion route on the south bank of the Huai River. Now that they have reached the position of the Qing army, their goal has been reached. Seeing that the Qing army had reinforcements, they did not continue to pursue, but stopped and formed a position on the spot. The Qing army took advantage of this gap and retreated back to the position to defend.

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