Long-distance attack and surprise victory are the guiding ideology of Lin Yi's battle.

Because Lin Yi has too few men and horses, facing a hundredfold enemy, Lin Yi must pay attention to strategy and tactics.

Guanning Tieqi has been attacking for a long time, and there have been examples of battles, but it was in the era of Yuan Chonghuan, when the iron hooves of the Tartars bypassed the strong Guanning defense line and detoured through Mongolia to the south to attack the land of Gyeonggi, which was similar to the situation in front of him. Yuan Chonghuan led the Guanning Iron Cavalry to make a long-distance attack from outside the Guan, relieving the danger of the Beijing Division.

In this regard, Lin Yi's teacher Lu Xiangsheng led the Tianxiong Army, and there were successful examples, and more than once. This has been recorded in the book that Lu Xiangsheng gave to Lin Yi, so this time Lin Yi dared to make a bold attempt.

Lin Yi's camp in the mountains and wilderness is more than 400 miles away from the Ming Jingshi. This was definitely a long distance in the era of cold weapons more than 300 years ago. And at that time, it was not a smooth asphalt road, but mostly a rugged road, and even the slightly wider official road was also rugged.

The fastest means of transportation is the war horse, but the speed of the war horse is forty or fifty miles an hour on average, and it cannot be continuously and vigorously exercised, otherwise the war horse will vomit blood and die.

But Lin Yi is confident in this aspect, and he is definitely not a brute force with a hot brain. The combat power of the Guanning Iron Cavalry is undoubted, and in the past few months, Lin Yi has asked Zu Keyong to train and prepare for war every day for more than 1,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry, and Lin Yi has also integrated the strategies and tactics of the training of special fighters in later generations, such as training their endurance and perseverance, and training their individual combat ability.

In addition, this time, Lin Yi prepared two war horses for each soldier, which were mainly the goods that intercepted the Jin merchants and got a lot of horses. The horses of the head of the eight Jin merchants are not inferior in quality to war horses, and they can be used when pulled over or unloaded from the car.

The two war horses took turns running, changing horses every few dozen miles, and after several short breaks in between, they ate dry food, drank water, and drank horses. Then continue to run, which can be described as wearing the stars and the moon, day and night.

After a day and night of rapid marching, the next day, when it was dark, Lin Yi's more than 1,000 horses suddenly appeared in the mountains and forests more than 30 miles away from Huang Taiji and their team.

Running 400 miles in a day and night has broken the record of rapid marching in that era, don't listen to those nonsense that you have traveled thousands of miles a day and 800 miles a night.

The ancients had a saying that 800 miles was urgent, that is, riding a horse could run up to 800 miles in a day and night. But it was 30 miles to change horses, and there were generally post stations for changing horses, and there was one every twenty or thirty miles away, and the Marches did not stop, running day and night, but it was impossible to have such a speed in the march of thousands of troops and horses.

A war horse can run up to a hundred miles in a row, and in this case, the average speed will not exceed 50 miles, and then it must be fed, drunk, and washed, and it will take at least two hours for it to recover its strength and continue running.

In this way, theoretically, people do not sleep day and night, and horses do not sleep, which is what 500 miles of land looks like.

Now Lin Yi and the others used double war horses to run 400 miles in one day and night, which is already a miracle.

However, Lin Yi and the others were indeed tired. People can't stand it, and horses can't stand it. During this time, dozens of horses were exhausted to death.

It just so happens that they can't go any further now, and if they are too close to be easily discovered by the Tartar spies, then they will lose all their efforts.

In the face of hundreds of thousands of elite Eight Banners, the tired division who came from a long distance, if you don't rest, don't say that you win more with less, it is one-on-one, and rushing over at this time is also fatal. What's more, the opponents are still Huang Taiji and Dolgon?

Of course Lin Yi wouldn't be so stupid, using more than a thousand tired soldiers to fight hard with hundreds of thousands of Eight Banner elites, which is tantamount to hitting an egg against a stone.

Lin Yi decided to take a good rest in this area and recover his combat strength before fighting this battle.

It is more than 30 miles away from the enemy, and it is not far away, and it is not close to it. There are more than 1,000 horses, and the target is not small, only relying on the cover of nightfall, it is not safe, and of course the Eight Banners army also has spies. Huang Taiji used soldiers, and there was also Dol Roll, Lin Yi certainly didn't dare to take these two people lightly.

A watchful force was sent around, and then they dismounted, loosened the saddle, and let the horses, sweat, roll around, drink some water, and gnaw some grass on the spot.

When the war horses rest, people must also seize the time to rest. But you have to eat first, and with nutrition, you can quickly recover your strength.

Now their throats are smoking, and the dry food is hard to swallow. Taking out the water bag, Lin Yi and the others first poured a few mouthfuls of water, and then began to gnaw on the dry food, and after eating eighty percent full, they then poured another breath of water, so that they felt much more comfortable when they had something in their stomachs.

Because each person eats differently, they bring more of the limited dry food and water they bring, and some of them have less leftover, so they exchange dry food and water bags with each other.

Lin Yi decided to have a good night's rest tonight and launch a surprise attack on the Tartars tomorrow.

Lin Yi's decision, Zu Keyong and Wang Jian both expressed their opposition, and even Xiaoying was a little puzzled, their reason was: What should the Tartars do if they want to attack the city overnight, if the city is broken, won't we come in vain? Since it was a sneak attack, of course, the sooner the better, and it was taken by surprise. In addition, of course, the evening is better than the day, and tonight is the best time to rest until the third watch? ”

Lin Yi shook his head and said: "Now it is less than two hours before the third watch, we have been traveling for a long time for a day and night, we don't eat well, we don't sleep well, we belong to the tired division." In just two hours, even if the brothers could rest well, the war horses would not rest well. In other words, if we launch an attack on the third watch tonight, it is impossible for us to give full play to our combat strength. The hundreds of thousands of Tartars are all elites, do you know who Huang Taiji and Dolgon are? It's definitely an uphill battle that you can't imagine. For us, it's a bet, a bet that we can only win and not lose, and we can't afford to fight uncertainties. ”

Lin Yi's words, Zu Keyong and Wang Jian both felt reasonable. Xiao Ying is still worried, "Brother Lin is right, but what if the Tartars take Shangjing overnight, saving soldiers is like fighting fire?" ”

Lin Yi said: "Impossible."

"Brother Lin, why are you so sure?"

Lin Yi laughed in his heart, I can't explain this matter to you clearly, I can't say that I am a person who has traveled through time, and I have hundreds of years of foresight and wisdom than you, so there will be more problems, and I can't tell you clearly when it comes to dawn.

But where have the Tartars been? Although the Tartar is powerful, it has never broken through the Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty, and the Jingshi who broke through the Ming Dynasty is Li Zicheng's masterpiece 7 years later.

Therefore, Lin Yi said to Xiao Ying and the others: "The Jingshi who broke through the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, the Tartars don't have this strength at all now, don't look at them every time they come with their teeth and claws, after all, they are a small clan in the border field, and they can only grab something to kill a few people and put a few fires to show off their might." If you think about it, they have come a lot in recent years, which one is not like this? ”

"My lord's yes, that's true."

Lin Yi persuaded them, a gust of night wind blew, and then they felt the coldness of the armor, their rapid march along the way, sweat soaked the armor, the wind blew it dry, the sweat soaked again, and then dried, I don't know how many times.

Just like last time, Zhang Hua and Erhu set up a simple tent for Lin Yi, Dongsheng found some hay, and Xiaoying spread it, this is their bed tonight.

Before resting, Lin Yi still led a few guards to inspect the police equipment, and told them to rest in shifts, take turns to police equipment, and not be careless tonight.

Seeing that there was nothing abnormal, Lin Yi and Xiaoying returned to the simple tent to rest, Zhang Hua, Erhu, He Tao, Wang Qi, Dongsheng, Gan Bao, Jiang Xingyuan and others took turns patrolling outside Lin Yi's tent to ensure the safety of Lin Yi and Xiaoying.

The tent was narrow, and I didn't know if Xiao Ying was intentional or unintentional, so she drilled straight into Lin Yi's arms. The girl's fragrance and his soft and elastic body made Lin Yi almost unable to suppress his impulse.

Thinking of tomorrow's war, thinking of a few guys standing guard outside the tent, it is a little inconvenient to do things for men and women here, Xiaoying will be her own woman sooner or later, so keep it first.

Lin Yi thought about it and hugged her like this, also because he was too tired this day, and soon fell asleep......

This sleep was too relieving, Lin Yi had a feeling of being beaten to death, he didn't know anything after falling asleep, he didn't feel like he couldn't sleep or dream, and when he woke up again, the sky was already bright, and the chirping birdsong and the wisps of early morning sunlight that came in, as well as the fresh air, all made Lin Yi feel refreshed.

Lin Yi rubbed his eyes, got out of the tent, stretched his waist, and moved his muscles and bones casually, and immediately became more energetic, and the fatigue of the night was swept away.

Xiaoying handed her dry food and water, and Lin Yi took it and said, "Do you still have these brothers?"

"It's okay."

"Okay, let the brothers be sure to eat all the dry food, drink all the water, no matter what way you think, you must fill your stomach, you don't know when you can eat the next meal, today is a tough battle, this thing is a burden to carry on your body, you must travel lightly."

Xiao Xiaoying sent the order, Wang Jianlai told him about the situation of the war horse, after a night's rest last night, the war horse also rested for a night, this morning the commander gave these cattle some forage, after this night's rest and drink, more than 2,000 war horses have also recovered their vitality.

After everything was ready, in terms of the hours of later generations, that is, at about 8 o'clock in the morning, Lin Yi's men and horses set off, and Lin Yi led his guards to lead more than 1,000 Guan Ning iron horsemen, out of the forest and along the official road, and went to Shangjing at a gallop.

At this time, the spies sent in advance had already figured out the distribution of the Tartars' forces, and Lin Yi did not plan to attack the left flank of the Tartars, nor did he plan to attack his right flank, but decided to concentrate on directly attacking Huang Taiji's Chinese army, and it would take seven inches to fight the snake.

Therefore, Lin Yi, a thousand people and horses, galloped straight to the direction of Dongzhimen in Shangjing of the Ming Dynasty, where Huang Taiji's Chinese army was located.

A distance of more than 30 miles, for a cavalry, is a blink of an eye......