Infantry is the main force of the coalition, and artillery is the newest force of the coalition. What really makes the coalition army proud are their elite cavalry. ∷English and French have vast colonies around the world, allowing them to recruit the most elite cavalry units around the world to join the army to join the army.

The Queen of England was proud of the Guards Dragoon, and the French hunting cavalry that Napoleon loved, the brutal Sipahi cavalry of French North Africa, the Probi Sikh cavalry of British Punjab, and the "Fein" Indian cavalry regiment from British India. This war, which took place in the small town of Maculine Bridge next to the capital of the Far East, will witness the formal showdown between the best cavalry in Europe, the best cavalry in North Africa, and the South Asian cavalry and the new Eastern cavalry.

The British guards Dragoons had previously sent about 900 people to follow Major General Michiel to fight, leaving 300 cavalry to follow Grant. The number of people who remained in Tongzhou was 500, and their large troops also followed Major General Michiel to fight. The Sipahi Cavalry Regiment of the French Army was complete, with 800 people in size. When they saw that their infantry were hunted by enemy cavalry, the cavalry of the coalition launched a charge, and the remaining Dragoons, Sikh Cavalry, Indian Cavalry and Sipahi Cavalry had about 1,600 people, divided into left and right wings toward their enemy, and the Taiping Cavalry Regiment launched an attack.

This Taiping cavalry regiment is the first division of the Taiping Army's elite cavalry regiment, with about 1,700 cavalrymen. After losing dozens of cavalry in the pursuit just now, the number of people is not much different from that of the coalition cavalry, and they do not have the abnormal firepower of the Taiping Army Guards cavalry, so this should be a fair duel, a duel of willpower, discipline and courage.

Seeing the coalition cavalry rushing over on two wings, the French 800 Sipahi cavalry were on the left wing. The British guards and Sikhs and Indian cavalry were also 800 on the right wing. The commander of the Taiping cavalry regiment saw this scene and immediately made adjustments. He mobilized more than 300 cavalrymen to pounce on the French cavalry regiment on the left wing, and then concentrated the remaining 1,200 to press over the British cavalry. The intention of the Taiping cavalry commander was very obvious. He hoped that more than 300 cavalry companies could resist the French cavalry for a period of time, and on the right wing, he could concentrate his troops to form an advantage, intending to rely on the military advantage of the right wing to annihilate or defeat the British cavalry first, and then turn around to attack the French cavalry.

When the first regiment of Taiping Army and the second regiment of infantry began to counterattack, the Xiwang's Xinghuang flag slowly appeared on the top of the hill again, and Xiao Yungui sat firmly on the saddle under the Xinghuang flag. After watching the cavalry of the Taiping Army as a group of cavalry divided in this way, he nodded slightly to express his approval of the command of the cavalry commander of the first regiment: "The cavalry regiment brought by Zhang Wenxiang is worthy of being the first cavalry regiment in the army, and the British and French coalition forces are also the best cavalry unit. Let's see if that cavalry is even more powerful."

Although the Taiping cavalry was not equipped with the Guard Cavalry's continuous bead guns and revolvers, each of them was equipped with a well-loaded rifled cavalry. When more than 300 Taiping cavalry rushed towards the French army, at a distance of 200 yards, they fired the only bullet in the barrel at the French cavalry. The first row of Taiping cavalry fired volleys without much results. Only dozens of people were caught on the side of the French army, which did not cause chaos to the French cavalry, but instead aroused the anger of the fierce Sipashi cavalry. They lined up in dense linear fronts of eight people and rushed towards the Taiping army continuously.

The Sipachi cavalry inherited the discipline of French cavalry and retained the ferocity of Persian cavalry. They lined up in a row of formations to charge hand-to-hand combat. After each line attacked the enemy, they did not fall into a scattered individual melee like the ancient cavalry. Instead, they forced the enemy's shooting or killing, quickly evacuated, re-formed the formation, and repeatedly arranged in an orderly formation to charge. This collective impact method, which always relied on uniform forces, closely cooperated with each platoon and even the regiments, could easily defeat all traditional mode cavalry.

Taiping cavalry is not unfamiliar with this cavalry tactic. In the cavalry class in the Shanghai Martial Arts Hall, this tactic is the most talked about. Unfortunately, this cavalry tactic is almost unsolvable unless the other side has strong continuous firepower in cavalry confrontation. Since the emergence of Western regular cavalry in modern times, there has been no case in the world where informal cavalry tactics defeated regular cavalry in frontal charges. This is why the Qing Dynasty Mongolian cavalry was repeatedly defeated by coalition cavalry.

More than 300 Taiping cavalry also made the same tactics as the French Sipachi cavalry, but they did not arrange them into eight-person lines, but reduced them to four-person lines. In this way, the number of online lines is not much different from that of the French army, but the width of a single line array is smaller than that of the French army.

When the cavalry formations of the first row collided with each other, the Persian cavalry's scimitar and the Gurkha scimitar of the Taiping cavalry's scimitar flashed brightly in the sun. The limbs, heads and other body parts of the human body splattered everywhere with blood. The smirking of horses and the screams of soldiers' death were floating over the battlefield, and it was a bloody and cruel battle.

After the first round of charge and slashing, both sides quickly evacuated and re-arranged the formation. It turned out that the casualties of both sides were almost equal. Lieutenant Colonel Leon, the commander of the Sipachi cavalry of the French army, was secretly surprised that the enemy was less than half of their number, and each Taiping cavalry had to bear the strike of two Persian scimitars, but in this case, the enemy could still exchange the lives of the French cavalry in a one-to-one ratio.

The commander of the Taiping Army cavalry detachment was even more worried. More than 100 casualties were killed or killed in one encounter, which was something that had never happened before when fighting against the Qing cavalry or infantry. It seems that the Western King is right that the British and French coalition forces are indeed one of the most powerful armies in the world today.

"Change tactics! After the charge later, you don't need to withdraw and reorganize the formation, form a formation with your nearest teammates, continue to pursue the enemy, and do not give them the chance to re-arrange them. Fight with them. Even if they are seriously injured and die, they must still ring the glory bomb and die together with the enemy. There is no need to be afraid of hurting your own people by chance. The number of enemies is more than us, and if they are injured, they will be even more injured!" The commander of the Taiping Army immediately decided to change the tactics, and conveyed the orders according to word of mouth, and then the Taiping Army launched a charge again.

"Brothers, rush up and let these aliens know how powerful we are! Goodbye to our heaven!" The commander of the Taiping Cavalry Detachment raised his saber and shouted loudly and launched a tragic charge with his own cavalry.

The Sipashi cavalry did not know that the opponent was here to fight for his own life this time. Lieutenant Colonel Leon optimistically pointed the scimitar and shouted loudly: "There are not many people left in the enemy. If you charge twice, you can kill them all! Sparks! Take a rush!"

On the way to charge, Lieutenant Colonel Leon even thought of the tactics behind him. After destroying the enemy soldiers on the opposite side, he should have about 500 people left. Then they will quickly detour around the right wing to help the British defeat the enemy cavalry on the right wing.

Lieutenant Colonel Leon's line array was located in the middle and rear of the entire French cavalry. When Lieutenant Colonel Leon's line array rushed into the enemy's formation, he found that the only one who rushed towards him was an enemy's lonely cavalry. A huge hole was cut open on his face. The bones were visible, and blood was dripping. His right arm was hanging alone on the military uniform. This arm had been cut off, and he could barely hang it on it with his military uniform. However, he still rushed towards his line array with his left arm on his waist. He could not see any weapons on his hand.

"What do he want to do?" This was the last thought in Lieutenant Colonel Leon's mind. When a Sipahi cavalry beside him cut off the head of the Taiping cavalry. Lieutenant Colonel Leon felt a huge fire flashing in front of him, and a huge shock wave flew over his body with shrapnel. He fell down and died on the spot.

The Taiping Cavalry's charge this time was completely suicide. When the Sipashi Cavalry were about to withdraw and reorganize the queue, the Taiping Cavalry did not let them go. They still rushed forward, either chasing and slashing, or pulling the grenades on their waists and dying with the enemy. For a moment, the French Sipashi Cavalry was in chaos. They were hit hard by the enemy.

On the right wing one mile away, the Taiping cavalry relied on the advantage of numbers and the nearly one-to-one exchange ratio. They defeated the Indian and Sikh cavalry first, leaving only the British Dragoons struggling to support them. However, as the enemy attacked more and more sabers, the elite Dragoons could not withstand this impact. After the three-wheeled charge, the only cavalry that the Dragoons could barely lined up were left, while the Indian and Sikh cavalry left more than 300 bodies and then retreated from the battlefield.

Finally, before the fourth round of charge began, the British army blew the trumpet of retreat. The dragon cavalry turned around and retreated in the rear like an amnesty. The Taiping Army did not pursue them, but quickly surrounded the left wing.

The poor French cavalry was entangled by the desperate Taiping cavalry, and then surrounded by the cavalry of the right wing of the Taiping army surrounded by the right wing. The courage was finally defeated by the fear of death. The Sipashi cavalry began to flee, but were intercepted by the Taiping cavalry on the right wing. In the end, more than 800 Sipashi cavalry fled back only dozens of people.

After a tragic cavalry battle, the British and French cavalry units suffered heavy losses, the British Dragoons lost more than 100 people, and less than 200 people were left to fight. The Sikh and Indian Cavalry Regiments had left a total of more than 200 cavalrymen fled back intact, while the French Sipashi cavalry were almost wiped out by the enemy.

On the Taiping cavalry side, the last company of more than 300 cavalrymen on the left wing was only 39 survived, while the troops on the right wing lost more than 400, the Taiping army lost more than 700 people in total, and the coalition cavalry suffered more than 900 casualties, which seemed that the Taiping army had a slight advantage.

Seeing this scene, Montauban, an officer who was a cavalry commander, cursed the timidity of the Indian cavalry and Sikh cavalry. If they could hold on for a while, the French cavalry would not be completely wiped out by the enemy, and they might even turn around to help them. But Montauban cannot demand too much. After all, the Indian cavalry collapsed after losing more than half of its manpower. It is already a very elite force.

After driving away the enemy's cavalry, the Taiping cavalry did not continue to pursue. They were called back by the Western King of the Taiping Army and took a short rest. The infantry regiment that had already arranged the formation pressed forward.

Seeing this scene, Grant sighed and said to Montauban: "We should retreat, tell the left-behind troops in Tongzhou that we must throw away all unnecessary things immediately and retreat immediately..." (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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