The Heroic Age of the Late Qing Dynasty

The cavalrymen excitedly drew their sabers and drove the enemy away.

Horse, charging forward, what is the greatest combat power of cavalry? It is his mobility.

force and impact, in the current traffic environment in China, and there is no car

The situation of mobile tools such as chariots can come and go without a trace, and the battle of cavalry

The fighting power is still very strong. As far as the impact force is concerned, the larger the number of cavalry, the stronger the impact force.

The better the hitting force.

The Beiyang cavalry battalions, each waving their sabers, shouted out their furious cries.

Roar, and rushed towards the back of the PLA. These soldiers who were pretending to escape heard

At the back, many soldiers couldn't help but look back.

At a glance, they saw more than 500 war horses lined up in several teams and charged forward.

Come over, that indomitable momentum immediately scared many soldiers, and their faces suddenly turned pale.

Their faces turned pale. They turned and ran away immediately. There were even two soldiers who

I fell to the ground because of distraction, and I struggled twice in fear, but I couldn't get up for a while.

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Liu Dagui saw the signal from the observer in the distance and knew that the cavalry troops were coming.

He immediately stopped running when he entered the ambush circle and shouted:

Team, ready to shoot.

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Hearing the battalion commander's order, all the commanders started shouting.

The fleeing PLA soldiers immediately stopped, ignoring the Beiyang cavalry who were still charging.

They immediately began to organize the team. However, there were several PLA soldiers who had just been

Overwhelmed by the momentum of the foreign cavalry, their pretended escape became a real escape, completely disrupting their

I left the queue, broke away from the queue, continued to run forward, and rushed to more than 20

There is a trench about 10 meters away. That trench is used to deal with cavalry if something unexpected happens.

A layer of insurance to be prepared for any eventuality.

Liu Dagui clearly knew that these Qing soldiers could not rush to him, but when he saw

The cavalry's charge was still very shocking. At this time, he could not care about the few

The soldiers who continued to flee shouted loudly: "Raise your guns!"

Seeing that the People's Liberation Army had lined up, the Beiyang cavalry raised their guns and prepared to attack.

Seeing them shooting, some cavalrymen immediately took out their carbines and tried to fight with the PLA.

Some cavalrymen immediately lay on their horses' backs and drove them even faster.

They knew that the only way to get into the Red Bandits' ranks as quickly as possible and kill them all was to

Only when they were surrounded by bandits could they be considered truly safe.

I can only blame my bad luck for shooting him. And it was just a battalion of red bandits,

On the other hand, a battalion of cavalry faced a battalion of infantry. Their cavalry only needed two

They can kill the Red Bandits cleanly in one go. This is the pride of their Beiyang cavalry.

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It was as if I saw the scene of slaughtering the Red Bandits, as if I saw the victory before my eyes.

The Beiyang cavalry's roars grew louder.

"shooting."

Liu Dagui gave the order to shoot without any expression. In an instant, more than 500

The rifle fired a deadly bullet. This is what concentrated fire is like, not pursuing individual

Shooting accuracy is like firing a cannon, it only depends on the angle and density of the shot.

In an instant, dozens of horses in the first row of charging horses fell down.

The Beiyang Army soldiers also fell off their horses, breaking bones and tendons immediately.

He was then trampled by the warhorse behind him and died instantly.

Liu Dagui fired the bullets in the gun chamber and saw that his comrades had also fired the bullets in the gun chamber.

He shouted, "Scatter the bullets."

All the soldiers immediately turned around and ran towards the trench more than 20 meters behind them.

How could the Qing army cavalry miss such a good opportunity?

The remaining cavalry continued to rush forward and planned to

Kill the PLA soldiers like cutting melons and vegetables, but at this moment, they suddenly appeared from all four corners.

Suddenly, four heavy machine guns shot out four deadly flames, forming a crossfire between them.

The Beiyang cavalry had no escape, and their horses and soldiers were immediately beaten into sieves.

All the cavalry were in chaos, their formation collapsed, and their momentum was also halted.

But stop.

Some people are confused. Why do we need infantry to shoot when we have heavy machine guns?

Wouldn't it be better to just use heavy machine guns to massacre? There is no problem with doing so, but

But if only heavy machine guns were involved in the battle, the infantry would not have the opportunity to exercise their

I get it. Just like those soldiers who ran straight into the trenches in one breath,

Because they had little combat experience, they saw the cavalry's indomitable spirit.

Hearing the earth-shaking sound of horse hooves, the fear of death immediately overwhelmed everyone.

If there are too many soldiers like this, it will easily lead to the collapse of the battle.

In order to give soldiers the opportunity to fight in actual combat and feel the atmosphere of the battlefield, they must

Many of them went to the battlefield.

Once the cavalry loses its mobility and is surrounded in a small area, its

Unless the cavalry is transformed into infantry and then leads the infantry to charge

Otherwise, the remaining cavalry would be unable to escape and would have no other way to escape.

Therefore, the cavalry's momentum disappeared and the PLA's shooting stopped immediately.

Liu Dagui took a look at the tragic scene on the Beiyang side, squinted his eyes and said

Dao: "Persuade to surrender."

"Yes."

The prepared shouting staff immediately shouted loudly to the Beiyang cavalry

He started to speak: "Brothers of the Beiyang Army in front, you have been surrounded. We know

You were ordered by the Qing court to attack us, and we had no choice, so we

I will not blame you. If you surrender immediately, the People's Liberation Army will treat prisoners well and will protect you.

Think about your family, you have lost

It is not shameful to surrender, and we are all Chinese. We Chinese do not fight

Chinese people, Chinese people don't cheat Chinese people...

After hearing what the PLA said, the scene immediately quieted down.

The scene was filled with corpses of people and horses, and it suddenly looked a bit funny.

All that was left were the weak groans of the wounded lying on the ground, the neighing of horses, and the occasional

The whistling sound of the cold wind.

The cavalry battalion commander was lucky enough to be alive at this time. He looked at the corpses and wounded on the ground.

He felt like he was dreaming, but he knew it was all real.

The sea rumbled, and finally turned into one sentence: How is this possible?

Yes, how is it possible? - How could a cavalry battalion be so

He was directly destroyed. This was something he had never heard of before.

Don't say you've seen it before. When he heard the PLA shouting for them to surrender, he looked up numbly and looked to the side.

The surviving cavalrymen on the side looked over and saw that everyone was looking at him.

"Brothers, don't listen to the nonsense of the Red Bandits, Yuan Gongbao and Wang Tongzhi

Treat us well, think about our families and the people who guarantee us, today I

We died here

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The Beiyang New Army recruited soldiers under a strict age limit of 20-25 years old.

They recruited only good family members. That was not all, they had to have a clan leader.

Recommended by local security guards.

Those with good habits and bad habits such as stealing and cheating are not allowed to do so; therefore, the court

The family situations of the new army soldiers are all clear, and it is risky for the new army soldiers to surrender.

If you are not careful, it will bring disaster to your family.

The most important point is that the Beiyang New Army's salary is shockingly high.

The salary of the team leader was increased to 5.5 taels, the deputy leader to 5 taels, and the regular soldier to 4.5 taels.

liang, deputy soldiers 4 liang, cooks 3.5 liang, and chief servants 3 liang.

The salary of technical soldiers is higher than that of infantry, reaching 6 taels per month.

The salary of the officers increased sharply. The battalion commander alone received 30 or 40 taels of silver per month.

In addition, there are more than 100 taels of public funds, which is equivalent to the amount of money exchanged in the early 20th century.

If you calculate it, it’s 200,000 to 300,000 yuan per year, which is quite high for military pay.

In order to prevent soldiers from developing bad habits and wasting money, a deduction of one tael and five cents per month was made.

Money, regular soldiers deduct one tael per month, and so on, every six months a group of people are sent to give money to

Soldiers' families; With the supervision of their families, the Beiyang Army worked even harder.

This stopped officers from deducting soldiers' wages. Yuan Datou also stipulated that officers were not allowed to interfere.

The pay was packed up in advance by the pay bureau and distributed according to the list.

There are many other benefits of the new army, such as local officials can take care of the families of new army soldiers.

They must be properly protected and must not be allowed to be bullied by local tyrants and hooligans. Military families must file lawsuits.

Local officials should be treated with favor; each soldier should be exempted from 30 mu of corvee as a token of respect.

Soldiers are entitled to three months of paid leave after serving in the camp for three years.

The injured will be treated and given medicine by the medical department, and will be rewarded according to their level, and their wages will continue to be paid as usual.

Soldiers were given 10 taels of silver for burial, and two years of salary for those killed in battle. In addition, there were

Pensions to family members.

Military uniforms, winter and summer uniforms, military caps, leather shoes, gloves, raincoats, raincoats,