The Imperial Guards have been expanded today. One army has 30,000 to 40,000 troops, and one brigade has reached more than 6,000 people. In addition to the auxiliary troops, Jiao Lian's third cavalry brigade also has more than 6,000 main forces.

Among these more than 6,000 grassroots officers were basically students of the third and fourth phases of the Royal Military Academy. Most of them participated in the bloody battle against the Khalkha tribe and the Korchin tribe. Many of them had fought against the Cossack cavalry, with rich practical experience. In addition, more than a year of high-intensity training, many cavalry and cavalry have naturally reached the level of transformation. Many people's horse skills are not much inferior to those of Jiannu's Batulu.

Even Jiao Lian, a fierce general in the late Ming Dynasty who had only started to shine during the Yongli period of the Southern Ming Dynasty, had already possessed the ability to be his peak at this time. In addition, after returning to the Royal Military Academy, he was afraid he was more brave and good at fighting than in history.

Jiao Lian knew what the concept of the enemy he was going to face. The Eight Banners Brigade in Yigushan showed that there were as many as six or seven thousand armored soldiers alone. For example, the coated slaves who served him armored soldiers were probably 20,000, which means that the total force was almost three times that of him.

Moreover, if the Jiannu Eight Banners soldiers of this size had probably already made the entire Ming army system frightened by it a few years ago, and the entire nine sides would be alarmed frequently and everyone would be in a panic.

Even now, for many soldiers who have been lower-level officers in the Beijing camp or border troops and have now become high-level officers of the Imperial Guards, they have seen the power of the Eight Banners soldiers who can immediately pull out their big bow and pierce several layers of iron armor, and have also seen their fearlessness with their own eyes.

Fortunately, most officers have also fought against the Eight Banners soldiers, so when they are about to face the larger Eight Banners brigade, they are not completely panic.

Jiao Lian raised his monocular lens and looked at the direction of the Iron Horse Fort ahead. Seeing that he could clearly see the rolling wolf smoke, he also knew that he was not far from the Iron Horse Fort and could still see the wolf smoke, which means that the Eight Banners Brigade had not yet broken through the Iron Horse Fort. Perhaps it was deliberately not breaking through the Iron Horse Fort, and was waiting for his main force to go, so as to achieve the goal of attracting the main force of the Iron Guards here.

Jiao Lian, who had learned the entire war situation through Lu Xiangsheng's messenger, guessed the intention of the Eight Banners Power Brigade in front of him. His current mission is to attack directly and must defeat the Eight Banners Power Brigade, making him mistakenly think that the main force on his side has arrived.

Therefore, when Jiao Lian saw that he had entered the territory of Tiema Fort, he immediately issued an order to accelerate his advance to achieve the goal of directly breaking through the enemy with lightning speed.

Here, the person who led this Eight Banners brigade was Duoduo, who followed Huang Taiji to the capital. Duoduo is now hating the Ming Dynasty and is eager to avenge his previous shame. So when he learned from the whistle cavalry that there was a Ming army rushing towards him, he not only did not have any fear, but was even more excited to order the elite troops in his troops to immediately give up attacking the Iron Horse Fort and charge directly towards Jiao Lian's Third Cavalry Brigade.

These Eight Banners are indeed skillful in tactics. Although they are running fast on horses and are very bumpy, they can still easily pull out their big bows. As long as they enter the range, they can shoot the rain of arrows all over the sky, directly penetrate the armor and cause casualties.

However, on the side of the Imperial Guard, Jiao Lian decisively issued an order to advance the cavalry field artillery and attack from both wings when he saw the enemy entering the range of the cavalry field artillery.

Suddenly, the sound of cannons was loud, and the dense shells rushed directly towards the Tartars charging forward like a celestial girl scattering flowers.

In an instant, a large number of Eight Banner Armored Soldiers who were trying to pull the bow and shoot were blown up!

It turned out that with the recommendation of the Ming Dynasty steam industry, steel smelting and machine tool processing have been rapidly improved, which has also improved the artillery casting skills a lot, and even the cavalry has its own mobile artillery power.

The field cannons used by cavalry are operated on horseback by cavalry, so they are small in size and lighter, so they are also smaller in diameter.

However, as the trump card of the Imperial Guard system and a brigade-level system, the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guard has two team-level cavalry artillery units, with a total of 300 cavalry field artillery bombarding these Eight Banners soldiers. Even if they are really brave and fearless, they will be bombed to pieces.

A shell exploded directly among several white-armored soldiers. These white-armored soldiers who had the ability to fight dozens of warriors in the past were blown to the point of being so shattered. Some rolled down from the horse and were stepped into meat paste, while others fell to the ground with people and horses, and blood flowed all over the ground.

These Eight Banners soldiers did not expect that the cavalry and artillery in front of them would fall because they were a little too hard to defend, but they were still charging. They wanted to rush over to break through the Imperial Guard camp of the Third Brigade, especially those artillery that could move quickly.

However, at this time, the cavalry of the two battalions of the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guards had rushed over from the left wing. Many of them were armed with rifled cavalry rifles, and the soldiers also had new cavalry rifles with a long range. They opened fire before these Eight Banners soldiers could use bows and arrows to suppress them.

Cracking, like fried beans, as countless white smoke came out, many Eight Banner soldiers also hung from the horses on the ground.

Seeing this, Duoduo was so angry that he immediately shouted his orders and rushed forward to fight. However, the battalions of the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guards immediately retreated and scattered from several teams, constantly raiding and shooting, like a pack of wolves, causing the Eight Banners soldiers to suffer a lot.

After a fierce battle, the Eight Banners soldiers on Duoduo had reduced by more than a thousand, but they were not as close to the Third Brigade of the Imperial Guards, and there was a rare opportunity for zero casualties on the Imperial Guards.

However, Jiao Lian did not give this main force of the Eight Banners. His mission was to defeat the main force of the Eight Banners and completely defeat it, making him mistakenly think that he was the main force, so he ordered his cavalry to continue attacking without hesitation.

The artillery continued to fire shells, and the cavalry battalion continued to attack from both sides.

If these cavalry were not moving too fast and the place was an empty place, Jiao Lian really wanted to use poison gas bombs to solve the problem at one time, but it was precisely because there was no poison gas bomb numbing the enemy's nerves that Duoduo could quickly avoid it after seeing that he had lost more than 2,000 people.

Jiao Lian was still chasing him relentlessly, and personally led two cavalry battalions to the back of the Eight Banners brigade as fast as possible to intercept the Eight Banners brigade.

Other battalions also surrounded Duoduo, the Eight Banners soldier who was trying to fight and retreat.

Seeing this, Duoduo immediately fired his Eight Banners soldiers directly. Since the two armies are very close to each other, the feather arrows of these Eight Banners soldiers also caused great casualties to the Imperial Guards. However, the cavalry firearms of the Imperial Guards fire faster, so they can always fall down four or five Eight Banners soldiers at the same time when a warrior of the Imperial Guards falls.

After intercepting this Eight Banners soldier, Jiao Lian would not have to foolishly fight in the range of the Eight Banners soldiers' bows and arrows, but instead retreated to a safe distance while shooting, and then fired with a firearm.

This will always cause greater losses to the Duoduo Eight Banners soldiers.
Chapter completed!