stubborn thief

Chapter 307
There is only one word difference between rout and fraudulent defeat on the surface.

Seeing that the thousand-man team operating the catapult was defeated, and their fleeing steps could not be stopped, Gu Yangfei escaped from the mobile felt tent car like flying, and unfurled the banner.

In order to prevent the brigade from being dispersed by the rout, he first led the soldiers to join the rout.

Fake defeat has always been the most difficult of all tactics, because in this era there is no instant transmission of information, as long as the army is out of the commander's line of sight, the army is equivalent to fighting on its own. Once communication fails, people can't trust the friendly army and need all Army officers at the grassroots level have a high degree of initiative.

The tribal form of the Mongols just meets the two conditions of believing in the initiative of friendly troops and grassroots officers, and they have a unique advantage in fraudulent defeat.

It was a real rout at first.

They left their luggage and yak carts and ran all the way to the northwest. Several teams in the middle turned around and tried to meet the nobles who were pursuing them, but they were defeated time and time again by nobles with spears.

The aristocratic cavalry were all mad, as if they were invincible with divine help, it seemed that they were just a group of poor herdsmen being chased.

Chasing and running out of Liu Chengzong's sight range, even the second echelon of Ah Liu, Basang and Gao Yingdeng pushed forward slowly for nearly ten miles.

The Western nobles were tired, but the Mongols slowed down.

The Mongolian cavalry gathered spontaneously during the breakup, from twos and threes to a team of hundreds, and from several teams of hundreds to a team of thousands. In one team, the cavalry stood on the saddle and waved a saber and shouted a loud overtone.

One after another, the entire valley echoed in all directions with the overtone calls of the Mongols, making one's scalp tingle.

The rout became a fraudulent defeat. .

Thousands of war horses were reined, the cavalry turned their horses back, and the herdsmen's temperament disappeared, replaced by the fierceness of the grassland robbers licking blood, and the warriors of Genghis Khan returned.

Teams from all directions responded to the call one after another, launching rounds of assaults on the exhausted Spanish nobles.

One team after another, shoot with bows in a circle, charge with flanks in a horizontal team, and dash in a column with a horizontal knife.

The noble cavalry who were chasing scattered were divided and surrounded, those in mail armor were knocked off their horses, and those in heavy armor were alone. It was difficult to attack and defend in an instant.

Many nobles have not recovered from the change of form, and they may realize that the situation has changed but their brains cannot keep up. world.

Finally, a clear-headed nobleman rode his horse and galloped among the chaotic army, shouting words to tell them to get off their horses and form a formation. Only then did they form a line and shoot at the Mongolian soldiers with their bows.

Infantry vs. mounted archery, on the combat level alone, infantry archers will never suffer.

Even with the same bow, if a person can use seven or eight parts of the force on horseback, he is already an excellent rider, but standing on the ground, he can use [-] percent of the force, which is more accurate and stable. Some riders with good horse control skills You can also use the horse as a cover to block a few arrows.

But at the battle level, everyone in the dismounted cavalry formation knew that their formation was just delaying time, and the key to their lives was whether follow-up reinforcements could arrive in time.

The Xifan nobles have never missed Liu Chengzong so much. If they are abandoned at this time, but there are less than 2000 people in the formation, but they are surrounded by thousands of troops in Khalkha, it is only a matter of time before they die or surrender.

But in the rear of the battlefield, in the eyes of Liu Chengzong, who led the cavalry and the infantry to advance steadily, the Xifan nobles ran back again.

Only 400 people came back, and were chased away by two Khalkha thousand-man teams.

Hearing the intermittent and noisy shouts of the river valley from a distance, Liu Chengzong clapped his hands on the horse's back, and said to Zhang Tianlin, "Oh, feign defeat!"

At this moment, many guesses flashed through his mind, and it seemed that the enemy only returned two thousand-man teams.

He didn't believe that the Western nobles could kill tens of thousands of Mongols, leaving only two thousand, and then escaped back; it must be that the main force of the enemy army was besieging the right camp with all their strength.

Although the Mongolian soldiers feigned defeat, it showed that he underestimated the quality of the enemy, but it also confirmed his foresight to advance steadily and keep a hand.

Zhang Tianlin stood on the horseback and looked into the distance, finally squatted down and sat back on the horseback again, and asked, "Marshal, two thousand, shall I defeat them?"

"Don't move yet." Liu Chengzong glanced back, shook his head and said: "The Mongols still have power to spare, and the horsemen are spread out in the valley. Just don't let them pass us and attack the rear. Since they want to fight, let Ah Liu and Gao You should deal with them, bide your time, and be crushed with one blow."

The cavalry of Zhang Tianlin's headquarters was blocked by the rain curtain, and quietly spread out in the valley one mile away behind the Sixth Army's formation, forming small cone formations one by one.

The [-] Khalkha horse team pursued the fleeing nobles and came within Ah Liu's shooting range. Seeing that Ah Liu was sticking to his formation, he took out a few hundred teams to try to attack from the front in turn.

The first team can't rush, the second team can't rush, the second team can't rush, the third team can't rush, can't rush.

Impact and collision are two concepts, impact is to rush to the vicinity, pay attention to momentum, and the purpose is to make the enemy's formation disorder; collision is heavy cavalry collision.

As for Ah Liu's army, there are two hundred veterans on each side. They are all old rebels from the Tianqi era. It is true that they can't keep up in terms of physical strength alone, but they are very courageous and insightful. They were in Chengdu ten years ago. The mansion fought dozens of battles with Qin Liangyu, Zhang Yanfang, Xu Chengming, Huang Yunqing and other officers and troops with cannons on their hands. Are you afraid of such a little drizzle?
Each of them wore a large shield and spear, and urged the light soldiers around them to shoot arrows at the Mongolian soldiers.

The tactics of the chieftain soldiers are very simple. They either fight with scattered soldiers, or form a large formation with spears. It has been like this for hundreds of years. Without friendly troops, it is easy to be surrounded and withdraw from the formation.

But if you expect to break the formation, the Mongols have no firearms, and only infantry can break the infantry formation.

Ah Liu was determined that the Mongols who lacked heavy cavalry like their ancestors did not dare to charge, but the people in Basang were already frightened into schizophrenia.

Although their mission in this battle was to serve as auxiliary soldiers, the morale of most of the soldiers was very low, and their will to fight was extremely weak, not for anything else... just because it was raining, and when it rained, they couldn't see the Generalissimo The Gunnery Squad.

With the commander-in-chief's guns by their side, the nobles who have oppressed them all their lives will be beaten to death, but this time there will be no guns, and only the six hundred horsemen of Gao Yingdeng's two-winged formation can't arouse their fighting spirit.

Although Basang told the soldiers that they had cannons and they were in the tents where the positions were supported, the soldiers didn't believe it: it was raining, against common sense, liar!

But there are two types of people who are exceptions, partly because Bu Chi is talking positively in the army formation, and it will be like a chicken blood, and he will line up outside the square formation and shoot.

There are about two or three hundred people in the other group, who support eight tent-covered rain sheds for the artillerymen mixed in the formation. Physical belief bonus, very calm.

Ah Liu's middle army battalion was attacked twice by the Khalkha horse team. During this process, Gao Yingdeng responded to the defeated army, drove the horses into Ah Liu's army formation, dismounted from the outside and marched around.

Although Gao Yingdeng is a high-level fan of fighting fiercely in the enemy's formation, in the current situation, the enemy army only has two thousand-man troops, and it is obvious that the large army behind is held back by the Western nobles. His six hundred horsemen rushed over That is to say, it is better to get off the horse and shoot at foot.

The rest of the Khalkha teams also took advantage of the opportunity of two frontal attacks to close the formation of hundreds of horses enveloping the crowd, encircling Ah Liu's Chinese army camp in a crescent shape. All surrounded by rangers.

Then several loud arrows shot into the sky, rushing on three sides.

The plan was three sides, but in fact there were only two sides, the kidnappers and horses on the left and right flanks. Because the cavalry attacking the front ran to the right flank of the army formation, Ah Liu was frightened and almost called the artillery to fire. He wondered what kind of tactical maneuver this was?
Actually no tactics.

It's just that the Mongolian captain, who was in charge of the front impact, ran out of use after two consecutive impacts, and bumped into a crooked crossbow arrow with his face while running.

The captain didn't know what was going on. The boots and stirrups on his feet were very tight. After falling off the horse, he was dragged by the horse and swung around in the mud. Not even a gun could pull him away.

At this moment, out of nowhere, a clever man with a hook and sickle gun came out. He was very handsome in riding. He stepped on the saddle and threw the hook and sickle gun, jumped on the captain's horse, and rode away.

Can other entrepreneurs from Mobei see this?

Everyone raised their guns and chased after them. The horse soldiers behind thought that something was going on ahead, and they didn't have time to think about it on the way to the charge. The whole team was led away.

On the other hand, the remaining two sides charged well. The right wing shot a rain of arrows at a distance of twenty paces to turn the horse's head. The Mongolian horse team on the left wing discovered the real weakness of the formation. In the next few steps, he slammed his head in the oblique stab.

The direction of their impact was from the left wing of the army formation to the front, because people thought that the cavalry in front of the formation also collided, but the entrepreneurs in front of the formation all ran away.

The left and right wings that had just turned around saw the rear collision, and the captain immediately ordered to regroup to prepare for the collision. Even the front cavalry, who had run far away, elected a new captain after a short hesitation, and joined the right wing collision team under his leadership. .

At this moment, there was a continuous sound of cannons outside the formation of the Sixth Army.

Liu Chengzong frowned. Without the command of Cao Yao and Huang Shengxiao, the artillery fired this time completely spontaneously. From the first sound of the cannon, at least fourteen of the 24 lynxes on the inner wing rang out in a short time.

Some cannons fired early, some fired late, and some cannons were likely to be soaked in water and not lit, or the artillery was not ready, so the damage was extremely lacking.

Originally, the cannon was small, and it fired loosely. The range was very short, and it couldn't hit the horsemen who were wandering far away. Only those Mongolian horsemen who rushed to the front would be injured by the artillery.

Gunpowder smoke rose from the small sheds on all sides of the army formation, and the flames burst into iron bullets, knocking down several enemy cavalry on the left flank.

In addition to the great momentum, there is little merit.

Liu Chengzong saw it clearly from the back of the formation. The moment the gunpowder smoke came out, he even wondered if those who fired were his soldiers... Is this the level of my artillery?

He thought to himself, when he returned to Juerwan this time, he must practice artillery for another half a year. Cao Yao hadn't learned anything at all!
But at the next moment, the artillerymen of the Lion Army led the Kangning light soldiers to jump out of the column in the gunpowder smoke, or shot head-on with a big bow, or stabbed with a spear, or held a hob with a shield, and grabbed the corpse of the shot. What's more, there is also a cavalry team that was blocked by the shells and slashed for a while.

They are not obsessed with fighting, nor are they obsessed with killing. They can kill those who can kill, and those who can be injured. After killing three or five steps, they quickly retreat to the formation.

Liu Chengzong's brows stretched, it was his Lion Soldier, that's right, this group of people led a small team of several people, and in terms of close combat, it was much more handsome than the bullshit cannon just now.

A short fight frightened the Mongolian cavalry that had been blocked from charging.

They didn't think about the cannons here, those small sheds covered with tents, people have seen similar ones in the monks in Mobei, a few slaves carried a small sedan chair, and the monks from Uzang sat on the mountain and watched the grassland Tribal strife.

They thought it was the Spanish nobles sheltering from the wind and rain.

He died unjustly, who would have thought that a cannon and two tall and strong burly men were stuffed into that thing!
Within the entire tribute area, there is indeed a certain height difference between different regions, but the difference caused by the region is not big, but the height difference caused by the nutritional level is very huge.

Mobei Mongolia has not had a good life in recent decades. Relatively speaking, most people look like Mongolian horses, short and strong.

Northern Shaanxi has not had a good time in recent years, but the lion soldier's body was basically in the Wanli period when supplies were abundant, and his stature was not low. He was indeed thinner before, but in recent years when the environment was the most difficult, everyone's lives Relying on the horse meat sponsored by the government and the army, each one was as strong as a calf.

This is after the march from south to north made them lose seven or eight catties per capita.

From the perspective of the Mongolian soldiers of each team, tall helmet guns rushed out of the gunpowder smoke, and the killing efficiency was higher than that of the cannon. A man-eating monster.

Not to mention that Ah Liu's veterans and Gao Yingdeng's horsemen on foot also took the opportunity to intercept the Mongolian cavalry. Seeing Liu Chengzong's palms itch, he wished he could draw his sword and bow to fight.

However, he held back and looked at Zhang Tianlin, who was ready to go in the distance, raised his hand and pushed forward. The horse team that had been waiting for a long time rushed out, sounding the death knell to defeat the enemy again.

The cavalrymen chased the front line for more than a hundred steps and regrouped. The Chinese army camp moved forward steadily again, heading towards the chaotic river valley.

Liu Chengzong had expected that this battle would be repeated between defeat and false defeat, but now he has completely dispelled his worries about this battle, and is convinced that he can win even without firearms.

Because the rainy weather not only weakened him, but also affected the information transmission of the Mongolian army during the offensive. They collapsed when they retreated, and collapsed when they attacked.

On the contrary, because Basang's people are cowardly enough on his side, when the transmission of information is blocked, the veterans can control the situation.

This kind of battle will continue a few more times, but this is just right, leaving enough time for Lao Qijia to occupy the mountain pass and complete the encirclement, creating a brilliant victory!
　Good morning!

　　
　
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