"Baga, are these red cavalry? There are more than 1,500 in number... Don't you mean that Jinzhou and Fuzhou are empty and unprepared? How come there are so many mounted warriors?"

When Matsukura Shigeharu asked this question, he was standing on the roof of a field hut. From a distance, he saw a large group of cavalry wearing red armor, carrying bows, arrows and carbines passing through a pontoon bridge toward the west side of Xiaohei Mountain.

Go to the Jinzhou Guard Fortress!

1,500 mounted warriors wearing red armor... They look similar to the legendary Takeda Akabi! No, they look even more powerful than Takeda Akabi! Because the horses of these Ming warriors look so big.

, much larger than the war horses ridden by the women's clothing directly under Lord Gongfang!

A horse that can ride such a big horse must be a very powerful warrior... By the way, it must be the emperor's cavalry in front of the tent of the Ming Dynasty!

Although Matsukura Shigeharu was familiar with the Koshu-ryu art of war, he actually had zero experience. He had followed Tokugawa Iemitsu to make plans over the years. The fighting in Korea was so lively that he didn’t even go around. So he never saw the Manchurian cavalry and the

How powerful was the Ming Dynasty's cavalry? Moreover, when he was nervous, he forgot about the fact that Liaodong was rich in horses.

Japan is a mountainous and narrow country and cannot afford many horses, so most samurai have no horses. Many samurai have never even ridden a horse once in their lives. Unlike in Liaodong, horses are simply production tools. Ordinary military households

Every farmer has several plowing horses at home - there are few people in Liaodong and the land is very wide. As long as a strong man is willing to farm, it is no problem to farm 100 acres, and the land rent is very low, so raising horses to farm the land is definitely profitable.

Raising horses is beneficial, and of course the more you raise, the more horses you raise.

In addition, the two states of Jin and Fu are border military regions. Under the two states, there are either thousands of residences belonging to the imperial court or imperial residences of nobles. There are no civilians here.

Moreover, Jin and Fu Erzhou do not hold imperial examinations - these two states do not pay taxes to the above, but also ask for money from above. Of course, there is no quota for candidates and Jinshi. If Jin, Fu Erzhou's military families want

Just become an official and serve in the army!

Children of noble families can also join the bodyguard corps, and children of military households can serve as young soldiers. Their future is no worse than taking the imperial examination... Therefore, almost all men in Jin and Fu states can ride horses and shoot arrows.

In this area, men have to ride big horses and carry swords and bows when going on a blind date!

Therefore, the "horse-riding samurai" who belongs to the elite of the samurai family in Japan is a rogue existence in Jin and Fuzhou. As long as he is a man, he is a "horse-mounted samurai".

As for the combat effectiveness of this group of "mounted warriors", they are actually very sparse. Except for a few strictly trained elites, most of the others are at the level of Mongolian nomadic cavalry.

But Matsukura Shigeharu didn't know. When he saw his enemy Ma Da, he thought he was seeing some extraordinary elite!

Matsukura Shigeharu gritted his teeth, stamped his feet, and loudly ordered: "Pass my order to set up two large horizontal formations behind the woods!"

"Nani?" Masuda Shiro Tokisada was shocked by Matsukura's order, "Sir, shouldn't we quickly control the east bank of the canal and then build a defensive barrier?"

"Baga!" Matsukura Shigeharu glared at Shiro Tokisada, "Didn't you see the Ming Dynasty's red cavalry? They are coming soon. We must defeat them first, and then control the east bank of the canal!"

Are they about to come? Masuda Shiro Tokisada squinted his eyes and saw, no... they were heading north, and they were running very fast.

Matsukura Shigeharu also ignored Shiro Tokisada, but loudly shouted to several messengers under the hut: "Go and deliver the order quickly!"

"Hai!"

Several messengers shouted together, and then ran towards the beach.

At this time, seven to eight thousand Japanese soldiers had landed on the beach of Qingniwa Bay. They organized themselves on the beach in units of large divisions (equivalent to regiments), divisions (equivalent to battalions), and groups (equivalent to companies).

Team up. Beside the beach is a large windbreak, and on the other side of the windbreak is a large wheat field.

Matsukura Shigeharu learned some skills from the Spanish military consultants at New Nagoya Castle. He knew how to deploy the Spanish phalanx and what kind of terrain it should be fortified on. For the European phalanx, facing

Forest defense is very advantageous because enemies passing through the forest will inevitably be scattered in formation and can easily be defeated by our own troops who maintain a strict Spanish phalanx.

Therefore, Matsukura Shigeharu wisely chose to set up formations on the beach facing the windbreak forest, so that his troops could not only use the forest to attack the Ming cavalry, but also receive fire support from the Shogunate Navy warships on the sea.

Under the calm command of the clever Matsukura Shigeharu, 8,000 Japanese troops (with more than 2,000 people landing one after another) soon formed a quite strict Spanish square formation behind a windbreak in the north of Qingniwa Bay.

At the same time, the shogunate navy at sea was also asked to send several light sailing warships close to the beach to provide fire support.

The plan was very good... first use the woods to disrupt the Ming army's array, then use naval guns to bombard them, and finally use the solid Spanish phalanx to completely defeat them!

There is only one question now, which is when will the "red warriors" of the Ming army come to their door for them to fight?

...

At the same time, on the Gaizhou front line, about 300 miles away from Qingniwa Bay, a majestic formation was also set up.

This is a Chinese-style hollow square formation - a square or rectangular "big formation" like a city wall surrounded by infantry. The formation is hollow, and reserves, cavalry, artillery, Chinese troops, etc. can be deployed.

Waiting.

This majestic formation is also very cleverly laid out. It is backed by the Qinghe River - which means that only a small number of troops are needed on the back; and it is backed by the beach of Bohai Bay on the right - when the beach is low tide, the Ming army can make a detour, but when the tide is long it will be very difficult.

It was difficult to pass; there was an earthen fortress on the left to protect it - this fortress was not very tall and strong, but the Ming army would not be able to attack the Qing army's left wing unless it was knocked down.

With support on the rear, left and right sides, only the front was "open" for the Ming army to attack.

However, Dorgon did not intend to let the Ming army comfortably attack his front. He had people dig a shallow trench in front of his formation, and filled the excavated soil into straw bags and piled them up.

There was a low wall to protect against artillery, and a row of anti-horse guns was placed in front of the low wall.

"Haha, they set up a turtle formation... They didn't even release the cavalry. It seems that Taisong and the eight fake Armas are really afraid of me!"

Of course it was the Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian who said this! He was taking a few soldiers, accompanied by Shi Kefa and Hei Wentao, to the field ten miles away from the Qing army's formation, using telescopes

Watch the formation.

The "turtle formation" of the Qing army was really a bit beyond his expectation... This kind of square battle formation with guards on the front, rear, left and right put the cavalry at a disadvantage because there was no cavalry. It was only deployed with the ability to use cavalry to cover the flanks.

Although the cavalry of the Qing army cannot defeat the former cavalry, they are still quite large in number. There must be at least 30,000 to 40,000 people on the Gaizhou front line, right? Why are they setting up a square formation and retracting the cavalry? What is this? Number of roads?

"Long live my lord," Shi Kefa took over the topic with a smile, "The slaves and thieves are now governed by one emperor, one queen, and eight amamas. They all support their subordinates and form their own body. They are about to fall into pieces. Of course, this emperor, one queen, and eight amamas are all under the same rule. We had to preserve our core, so we were reluctant to use the Manchu cavalry to fight, so we simply set up a turtle formation."

Zhu Youjian nodded and said with a smile: "That makes sense...otherwise they wouldn't have shrunk like this!"

"Long live my Lord," Hei Wentao, the military counselor in front of the tent (equivalent to the chief of staff of the army) suggested, "We might as well select the elite, bypass the main force of the slave thieves, and go straight to Shenyang and Liaoyang!"

Zhu Youjian waved his hand, "No, they have eight pseudo-amas. Once they are scattered, they will all occupy one place. It will be troublesome to destroy them again. It is better to destroy their elite soldiers now, and the next step will be easier." Deal with it."

Hei Wentao said: "Long live my Lord, their formation is strong, it will not be easy for us to fight!"
Chapter completed!