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Chapter 348 Don't Be A Stupid

The horse's hooves trampled over, and the ground shook.

The training horse battalion completed the change of formation during the fast trotting of the horses. Three thousand cavalry teams were deployed in a horizontal line. The left commander of each department was in front and the right commander was behind. The officer reached the front of the formation.

And in the process, the three left generals and the left one hundred cavalry led straight to the front, changing the horses from fast walking to cantering, forming the first collision army formation with 360 cavalry.

Each cavalry soldier is separated by four steps to the left and right, spread out four miles wide to cover the valley, and under the leadership of three hundred generals, they rushed towards the enemy cavalry.

Afterwards, most of them still did not stop walking quickly, and the large army formation did not lose touch with the small army formation. They just launched the second, third, fourth, and fifth collision army formations in sequence.

This scene made the general Zhang Hongye who was intercepted by the officers and troops panicked: too fast!

Zhang Hongye is a general in Yansui Town. He has been in the army for ten years and has experienced countless battles. However, the overall reaction of the cavalry in front of him is too fast.

The official army had two cavalry in front of the formation and two guerrilla generals. They launched an attack at a distance of [-] steps from the enemy. move.

When the enemy cavalry at [-] paces began to yell and swear, Zhang Hongye only felt sneering. It can be said that the most elite standard battalion in Ningxia was wiped out, and the old soldiers in Guyuan were all dispersed, but who can say that the frontier army in Yansui is not the frontier army?
Due to the changes in the movements of the enemy cavalry, the galloping speed of the official army cavalry is also slowing down. This is a very formal operation. When the distance is far away, it will advance at full speed, and slowly slow down as the distance approaches. Slow down to half your top speed for distance.

This is the best speed for charging. The spear still has absolute lethality. At the same time, after stabbing the enemy, there is enough reaction time to pull it out backwards, and the saber can hit the opponent.

The most important thing is that if the enemy's situation is unfavorable or the enemy's formation cannot be rushed, the last fifteen steps can still leave the cavalry with a chance to bypass and try again.

Zhang Hongye believed that not only his cavalry trained in this way, but also the opponent's cavalry trained in this way.

He is not afraid of head-to-head confrontation. The Ming army has an astonishingly high winning rate in small-scale wild wave battles with less than 3000 people, and he is never afraid of any opponent.

What alarmed Zhang Hongye was that the enemy cavalry started to move late, but their speed seemed to be just right, waiting for them to slow down, and then spread out and swarmed up, without giving him time to change his order.

At the moment when he panicked, he could only hear two kinds of horseshoes, and the sound of his own horseshoes changed from the initial 'da, da', 'da, da' to three, and then to four.

However, the horseshoes belonging to the enemy are changing from four to two. The enemy is speeding up and they are slowing down.

Zhang Hongye's eyes were tearing apart, and he had no time to shake his banner. He reined in his horse and shouted heartbreakingly: "Li Fuming! Tang Tong! They won't turn back!"

All officers and soldiers knew that the horsemen in front of them would not look back.

They didn't know how Liu Chengzong trained these fools who only knew how to charge forward, but the cavalrymen on the front line of the officers and soldiers reined in their horses and turned around one after another, which made the horsemen of the Marshal's Palace more determined, and continued to charge forward at a fixed pace.

Wars are never won by courage alone, otherwise the winner of Saarhu should be a juniper that can be divided into four parts and can be beaten for a day.

Above courage, tactics, situations, and skills determine the soldier's mentality when he develops courage.

Every cavalryman in the training horse battalion can be an officer. Everyone knows what kind of mentality the enemy will have in the face of their collision, and what they will do.

Because the three-year study time is too long, they first learned the tactics of the Ming army cavalry, and then learned the tactics against the Ming army cavalry.

Yang Yao laughed loudly in front of the battle: "They are scared!"

The real impact only occurred on the left flank of the horsemen in the Marshal's Mansion.

Opposite them is Dong Xueli, the former general of the guerrilla general Tang Tong.

There was no way to avoid it, so he could only use the same four-step interval to bite the bullet and collide with the horsemen of the Marshal's Mansion.

At the moment of staggering, countless spears pierced through the armor like thin paper, and each body fell heavily off the horse, like broken sacks.

Feng Dakui, the left-wing chief of the horse soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion, was born as a horseman. He first joined the peasant army of Shangtianhou, and later became a top student in Zhuantianmao. When he arrived in Xining, he was already the chief hundred of Yuziying.

When the choice between Xining Weibaihu and the training horse battalion sergeant was in front of him, he thought he was not capable enough and chose the latter.

Because he knew how to write, he was promoted to be chief; he brought out a group of hard-trained soldiers and was promoted to be a team leader; he caught up with Liu Chengzong's southern expedition and lacked officers in the battalion, so he finally returned to his position as chief executive .

It has been two years now.

Feng Dakui charged forward, holding spears in both arms to pierce the officers and soldiers passing by on the left side, pushing his right arm forward and retracting his left arm, and pulling out the riding spear from the enemy's body backwards, the spears handed out by the second row had already To his eyes, he poked it away with the end of his spear.

At the same time, he held the spear upside down and smashed it on the head of No.2 cavalry with his tail grip.

With a bang, the sharp spear tail pierced through the helmet. He may not have killed the enemy because the tail pulled the helmet off, but it was enough to provide the soldiers behind with an opportunity to kill.

He said to himself in his heart, second!

In the Cavalry Commander-in-Chief's Drill Code in the Marshal's Mansion, the commander-in-chief was required to kill three people when he charged into the enemy's cavalry, and the entire squadron of the Hundred Commander killed three people.

Because they often say in training that when two hundred cavalry confront each other, only six can decide the outcome.

Out of a hundred cavalrymen, only three were heroes who could disregard defense and focus on taking the enemy's head during the charge, and the remaining seven were just followers who only cared about protecting their lives and blocking.

As for the remaining ninety people, they were all idiots without guts or brains, and they relied on the courage and cowardice of others to decide their own lives and deaths.

When others rushed to kill bravely, they stabbed two knives at the corpses as well, and they were honored;

So Yang Yao's theory is that he only needs to kill three opponents who dare to fight to win the cavalry battle.

This logic of not being an idiot has been instilled for a long time, and has become the consensus of the training horse battalion, and the enemy's left wing and central army all retreated, which further strengthened the cognition of the horse battalion sergeants.

When Feng Dakui broke through the two layers of cavalry with his spear belt, he suddenly saw that the enemy cavalry's backup troops had turned to escape.

He slowly galloped out for more than [-] steps, retracted his spear and straightened it up, gave the order to the sergeant in the headquarters to regroup, turned his horse's head and looked towards the middle of the battlefield.

A few ownerless war horses neighed mournfully beside the dead body, and a few horses who had no attachment to their old masters fled around, and even a few stupid horses did not lose their masters at all, and regrouped with the enemy.

Feng Dakui didn't count the sergeants again, but just glanced at them roughly. The width of his own formation has not narrowed too much. The enemy cavalry has more troops than them, but the width is much narrower.

The drills are not deceiving, no matter the enemy or us, there are not so many brave men who are not afraid of death, more people only focus on pushing away the enemy's spears in the confrontation, but there are obviously more heroes in the Marshal's Mansion.

This greatly strengthened Feng Dakui's belief, and at the same time made more soldiers brave: Although they are outnumbered, they have more useless idiots.

He laughed loudly: "It seems that the heroes of the enemy army are all on our side. They are timid, and they line up in two rows and continue to attack!"

There was almost no change in the horizontal line, only two cavalry soldiers whose long poles were broken in the collision retreated to the second row four steps apart, holding waist knives and preparing to charge.

Although Dong Xueli pushed aside the opponent's spear in the confrontation, he was far less determined than Feng Dakui, because his cavalry suffered a small number of casualties and fell into the dilemma of being flanked by front and back.

Behind him is Feng Dakui's reorganized cavalry, and in front of him is the second batch of Bai Zong under Yang Yao's command who continue to run.

And his backup troops have all turned their horses back, but the cowardly returned to the army and fled, and the brave who were forced to have no choice but to sink deep into the enemy's line had only one way out.

It was too late to regroup and count the casualties. Dong Xueli hurriedly turned his horse back, not daring to go further into the enemy's formation, and ordered to charge back to the main formation amidst the painful roar of his subordinates' dislocation.

Even if only Feng Dakui was in front of them, they were still beaten to pieces. People hung their spears on their arms in panic, and few of them drew out their waist knives. They chose to take out their bows and arrows in unison.

They no longer dared to collide with the stunned Qingjie in front of them, nearly Baiqi turned to the left, trying to bypass Feng Dakui and escape from the flank.

But they cannot escape.

Although the soldiers frantically urged the horses, the horses were unable to recover their original speed after hundreds of steps. Instead of returning to the main formation during the siege and interception, they were getting farther and farther away from the infantry formation to the east.

Yang Yao was still pressing down on the army and walking quickly. The horse battalion army was unhurriedly pressing down on the enemy who turned around and fled to the main formation. They were scrambling to flee to the infantry formation. In the formation, several gaps were opened again.

General Zhang Hongye's Chinese army ran back the fastest and was the most organized. The entire army formation was divided into several groups and entered the formation in an orderly manner, with almost no casualties.

Tang Tong didn't run too slowly. Although two hundred leaders were left outside, the other teams under his command didn't suffer too many casualties.

Only the guerrilla general Li Fuming did not have the determination to charge forward, nor did he have the decisiveness to run away. As a result, most of them were hit by several hundred generals of the Ma Ying in turn during the retreat.

The army formation was knocked to pieces, and even he was stabbed with a spear and became the spoils of Yang Chengzu's Qian headquarters.

Seeing that the enemy's cavalry was being driven back to the main formation with such force, Yang Yao reined in the horse with great ambition, and stopped his subordinates from wanting to continue to attack the formation to expand the results of the battle.

The horse army can attack the horse army, but for the time being, it cannot attack the formations and car camps, and the enemy's will needs to be further attacked.

Three horns were heard from the horse battalion, ordering to return to the army, and the right generals of the three thousand headquarters of our own side led the troops to move to the left.

The left commander's headquarters did not retreat immediately. Only the six hundred headquarters that had fought the enemy earlier regrouped and stood at the end of the former right commander's headquarters.

The remaining nine hundred generals had a clear division of labor, and the six hundred generals led their troops to quickly clean up the battlefield, bringing back wounded soldiers from both sides, enemy corpses and trophies.

It only takes three hundred soldiers to wait quietly with their spears in hand, and they can strangle the four-mile-wide river valley. When the enemy's first attack is frustrated, the cavalry dare not come out again.

When they returned to the team, there was a sound of drums from Hexi Fort behind them, followed by a second high-angle shelling from the artillery.

This kind of high-angle bombardment is not like a flat shot within [-] paces. It cannot be said to be accurate. It can kill a person or two.

But it has a great impact on the morale of the officers and soldiers.

At the moment when the infantry of the army is most suitable for shelling the cavalry, they cannot fire because the cavalry of their own side blocks the shooting range. Most of them are already standing a mile away.

When the shells fell into the infantry formation, they heard the laughter of the enemy cavalry in the distance like a mountain roaring and a tsunami.

Watching the cavalry of one's own side fled under the impact of the enemy's uniform horizontal formation, colliding together in a panic, those who fought bravely were sent away by the fleeing allies, those who hesitated to fight were killed because they were isolated and helpless, those who fled at the first time could He hid back in the formation safe and sound, and even dragged himself to be laughed at by others.

Which officer would not want to stand opposite him at this time?

Which enemy army will not raise the pride of our army being invincible in the world?
The pride of the officers and soldiers of the three towns who moved to fight against the Pingkou in northern Shaanxi disappeared in the ridicule echoing in the river valley in the training horse camp.

Seeing the cavalry of one's own side choosing to avoid the collision one after another, and then being attacked by the enemy's cavalry one after another during the avoidance, You Shilu, who had already become a sick child, cursed angrily on the dirt mountain, and asked his nephew to help him go down the dirt mountain, and found the way back. Zhang Hongye, who knelt down to report, kicked him in the head.

"Marshal, it's not that the last general is incompetent, they are staring at us and fighting!"

"Fucking fart!" Before You Shilu could speak, He Huchen scolded, "He's fighting with us, isn't he watching us?"

General Zhang Hongye didn't dare to retort, he only dared to say that our general from Yulin kicked me and let it go, you Ningxia commander-in-chief, what are you talking about, why don't you let Ningxia's cavalry soldiers go first?

The cavalry soldiers in Yansui Town are going to retreat if they die, but believe it or not, the cavalry soldiers in Ningxia can be reduced by half in exchange for you?

He didn't care about He Huchen, he just clasped his fists at You Shilu and said, "Commander, what this subordinate means is that they calculate the speed of our cavalry, and gallop at the slowest time. They know the tactics of warfare, and they did it on purpose!"

You Shilu was angry, he knew how much the first setback would affect the morale of the army, he frowned and said: "Report to the whole army, Zhang Hongye retreated without authorization, first withdraw from the position of general, and take the crime and make meritorious service ... If you dare to retreat again, I will kill you to sacrifice the flag!"

He whispered a few words with He Huchen and Yang Qi, and the three of them agreed to withdraw from the shelling range first, regroup the army and move forward again.

The commanders of the three towns were at a loss. They didn't know Yang Yao's three-person theory. They were only curious about how Liu Chengzong turned the entire horse army into fools who dared to charge head-on.

But they all realized from the ability shown by the training camp that the war against Xining might be much more difficult than they had imagined. Maybe He Huchen's worries were not superfluous, but the situation was more complicated than he worried about.

The unfavorable initial battle cast a layer of gloom on the minds of the three people. They dare not count on all the sick people in Gansu Town on the North Road. They can only hope for the Lintao Army on the South Road. They hope that there will be some good news that can boost the morale of the army. .

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)