Seeing that the fourth wave of cavalry withdrew unharmed, Xin Ai Huang Taiji did not lead the entire army to retreat at the first time, although the wave of attacks just now was a bit of a loss, but it did not let him lead the army to retreat.

After all, for an army of 5,000, 200 casualties is nothing, and just now he chose to let the fourth wave of cavalry cancel the attack and retreat, just because he found that it was not possible to fight like this.

Although their own cavalry attack also caused some casualties to the other side, they also caused a lot of casualties to themselves, and the casualties of both sides remained at one to one, and this battle loss ratio was unacceptable to Xin Ai Huang Taiji.

He changed his tactics and changed the damn situation.

When Xin Ai Huang Taiji chose to suspend the attack, Liu Mengyang showed a smile, he was very satisfied with the defensive battle just now!

It is a lot of money to exchange two hundred infantry for two hundred cavalry, and if he has the opportunity today, he would rather exchange a whole baggage regiment under his command for two or three thousand cavalry on the opposite side!

Because no matter from that point of view, fighting with the other party, and it is a one-to-one exchange, is a big advantage for the Datang Army.

It's a pity that the Tatars on the opposite side will not give him such a chance.

"Continue to maintain the defensive formation and take in the wounded!" Liu Mengyang knew that the Tatars on the opposite side were estimated to not attack for a while, but his own side could not relax.

The defensive formation still needs to be maintained, otherwise, it will be too late for the cavalry on the opposite side to rush over and change the formation.

When they were treating the wounded, they also collected some of the horses left behind by the Tatars, not many, only a dozen or so, although there were many dead and wounded Tatar cavalry, but most of the horses ran away, or simply were killed and wounded.

On the battlefield, the guns of the Tang Army do not distinguish between people and horses, but take covering shots, and theoretically speaking, the probability of damage to horses is much higher than that of the cavalry itself.

After treating the wounded, Liu Mengyang asked Cao Guangtao to send someone to help carry the wounded to the four-wheeled carriage that transported the baggage, so that the military doctors could directly treat them on the spot.

But no matter how you say it, there are only some lightly injured people who can be saved, and those who are seriously injured are basically powerless with the current medical conditions, and they can only rely on their hard pits, and they can survive if they can carry it, and if they can't resist, they can only become one of the dead.

Unlike Liu Mengyang, who was basically indifferent to the dead and wounded, and even thought that he would continue to fight if he had the opportunity, Cao Guangtao watched the wounded being carried back one after another, but he sighed a little in his heart.

In the few minutes of fighting just now, more than 200 people were killed and wounded, and among the more than 200 people, many of them were killed by arrows on the spot, some were seriously injured, and the remaining 100 or so were injured in non-fatal parts such as limbs.

But even those soldiers who are slightly injured are not easy to survive, because if they are not careful, the wound will become infected, and once it is infected, the amputation or something will be light, and the heavy one will die.

Why is it possible to get infected just from an arrow wound?

Because the arrows on the arrows are not smooth and clean, there are a lot of rusty arrows, some arrows even have barbs, and the arrows are often soaked in feces and urine, and no matter how bad they are, they will insert the arrows into the soil before the battle, in order to infect the enemy after hitting them.

Of course, the arrow wound is small compared to the bullet wound, the lead bullet wound is quite scary, the lead bullet is easy to roll after hitting the human body, causing a cavity effect, and the lead bullet is relatively soft, easy to shatter, so after hitting the human body, the lead bullet is often broken into many pieces, and at the same time, after the lead bullet hits the human body, it will also bring the fabric on the clothes into the body together.

Therefore, it is very troublesome to clean the wound of lead bullet, not to mention the medical conditions of the 16th century, even in modern medicine, cleaning the wound of lead bullet is also a troublesome thing.

That's why the lethality rate of lead bullet is so high!

Some of the more than 200 Tatar cavalry that were directly hit by lead bullets did not survive if nothing else.

Comparatively speaking, the wounded soldiers of Datang are much luckier, but they are only limited.

War, how can there be immortals!

Cao Guangtao knew this very well, and when he really saw hundreds of casualties being carried back, and kept wailing, he still couldn't help but sigh, these are all imperial people, army soldiers!

However, although he sighed, he didn't have any thoughts about why he wanted to fight, whether he could not fight, and so on.

As a middle-level officer in the Tang Army, from the first day he was admitted to the martial arts academy, he was educated every day to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and to fight bravely against the enemy.

It's just that he doesn't have Liu Mengyang, who can watch the casualties of the soldiers and be indifferent, and only treat the soldiers as cold numbers.

And this, in fact, is why they are about the same age, and they are also the same period as the martial arts academy, but he is only a major, and Liu Mengyang is already a lieutenant colonel.

A general who has compassion and is too worried is not destined to be a good general, because war is a numbers game, and if you have to regard numbers as a living life, then this battle will not be fought.

For example, the Ninth Army went north to fight, even if it went smoothly, but it is estimated that there will be thousands of casualties, if you can't bear these casualties, then how can you go north? How else to recover the Loop? How else to lay the foundation for the strategic security of the northern part of the empire?

Cao Guangtai sighed behind, and Liu Mengyang picked up a telescope to observe the Tatar cavalry in front, although they suspended the attack, but did not choose to retreat completely.

However, Liu Mengyang can't control so much, since they don't attack, no matter what conspiracy they have in the future, he plans to continue to implement his strategy, that is, to continue to move forward.

So after a quarter of an hour of staring at the Tatars on the spot, Liu Mengyang once again ordered the troops to continue marching on the premise of maintaining a defensive formation!

Anyway, it is very convenient for them to march, they transport the baggage are four-wheeled carriages, no manpower to push anything, in order to maintain the defense of the cavalry, this time Liu Mengyang did not let the infantry march on the periphery of the carriage, but chose to let the carriage on the periphery, and the infantry was on the inside of the carriage, and at the same time, the carriages were connected end to end, and the interval between them was very small, and then there were multiple carriages in parallel.

At the same time, in order to ensure flexibility, the 500 carriages are also very different from the front and rear, each with more than 200 taels of carriages, which are connected end to end to form a narrow rectangular hollow car array.

This formation, to some extent, was a replica of the hollow phalanx of the infantry, with horse-drawn carriages acting as a peripheral barrier, and at the same time the queue was a little larger.

This is also a tactic that the Tang Army has studied for many years, using horse-drawn carriages to resist cavalry and ensure the safety of transport troops.

At the same time, it is also better than simply using infantry to defend and fight on the perimeter.

Most of the artillery in the army was also dragged directly on the march, and some shotguns were mounted on the roof of the four-wheeled carriage, most of these guns were loaded with ammunition in advance, as long as the Tatar cavalry wanted to attack, then they could fire immediately, and those shotguns did not even need to stop to fire, they could fire directly on the roof of the carriage.

The heavy four-wheeled carriage of the Tang Army, the carrying capacity can reach more than a ton of behemoths, and the recoil used to resist the field artillery is barely enough, but it is still possible to resist the recoil of two catties and three catties of shotguns, but it will also fall apart if it is fought too much.

Liu Mengyang let the troops continue to advance, and Xin Ai Huang Taiji in the north saw this scene and was a little hesitant!

If you continue to rush forward to attack, it won't work, but you can't let them go!

What to do?

After seeing Liu Mengyang's troops start marching, Xin Ai Huang Taiji thought for a long time before he said, "Let's go, go around to the front!" ”

"Go on a detour to the front to attack?" A subordinate said.

Xin Ai Huang Taiji looked at it with idiotic eyes, and he was too lazy to answer!

What an idiot would ask to run to the front and attack!

The car formation of those Tang barbarians is a moving castle, attacking a fart.

These people are all cavalry, and they are not the same as the Tang Army, they have many artillery, and even the arquebus is only a hundred rods, and they don't have many bullets, so they take the initiative to attack to find death.

At this time, Xin Ai Huang Taiji said: "Let's move forward quickly, set up obstacles in front and wait for them to come, this time, we want them to attack!" ”

It is not possible to storm the enemy's car formation, but the enemy's car formation also has one of the biggest flaws, that is, the formation is too large and the requirements for the terrain are too high.

Although this is a vast grassland, not all places can accommodate hundreds of horse-drawn carriages passing through at the same time.

He only needs to choose a place with more suitable terrain in front of him, and directly arrange obstacles, so that these carriages can't pass, and when the time comes, these Tang barbarians can only break through or take a detour.

If it's a detour, it's a big deal for him to block it again in other places, anyway, his own cavalry, running fast, can always run ahead of them, although the grassland is vast, but it's not something they can bypass if they want to.

If it's a hard break, then it's also in his hands!

I don't want to attack the car formation myself, are you afraid that they won't be able to attack!

Xin Ai Huang Taiji has been fighting in the north and south for decades, so naturally he is not a person who only knows how to do things, and he doesn't mind using some small strategies.

Therefore, it didn't take long for him to take a few thousand cavalry to a place about five kilometers in front of the Tang transport troops, which was not a dangerous terrain, but there was just a small hill on the left and right sides, which was not high, and a charge on horseback could go up, and the distance between the two hills was about a little more than three kilometers.

They stopped, and then they got busy!

What are they busy with?

They dismounted and began to move the stones, and then carried them directly to the open road in the middle!

Xin Ai Huang Taiji looked at the pile-up chaotic stone wall, and showed his first smile today: "Although the pseudo-Tang car formation is sharp, but to break its car formation, a pile of chaotic stones is enough!"