"Get on the horse!" At the same time as Captain Wu Bei gave the order, he himself turned over on his horse.

And this is after he went north with the army to enter Jingzhou, in addition to daily training, the fourth time he rode on the back of his own war horse, and he was absolutely reluctant to ride on a war horse every day, and the first three times were because of this combat mission, and this time it was the same.

"Draw your sword!" After Qi Qi got on the horse, Captain Wu Bei gave the order again, and in fact, without saying it, the cavalry below also knew what to do.

"Slow on!"

The small cavalry unit began to advance slowly, over the trees in the woods, and when they were about to leave the woods, Captain Wu Bei ordered the troops to start picking up: "Trot forward!" ”

By this time, they had already rushed out of the woods on their horses, which had begun to trot, and the sound of horses' hooves began to sound in the sky.

The Ming cavalry hundreds of meters away also spotted them one by one at this time, and a Ming army officer led by them shouted loudly, obviously to gather the cavalry under his command to prepare for battle!

But it's too late!

For the cavalry units that had begun to speed up, and the speed was getting faster and faster, a few hundred meters was just a short moment, as Captain Wu Bei pointed diagonally at the saber in his hand, and shouted: "Rush! At that time, this cavalry force of only more than ten people was already less than 100 meters away from the Ming cavalry.

Even if these Ming cavalry moved quickly, most of them had already turned over and mounted their horses, and even began to assemble in formation to meet them, but the time left for them was simply not enough, in fact, for them, the best way to deal with it was to turn over and run away directly.

It's a pity that they didn't, they chose to fight, and some people even urged the war horses to launch a counter-charge!

In the next moment, Captain Wu Bei was already leading the fifteen cavalry under his command to run headlong into the Ming cavalry in front of him, although the scattered Ming cavalry also rose up to resist, but their scattered formation made them Although their total strength was nearly ten more people, but in fact, the cavalry under the command of Captain Wu Bei fought against the cavalry, especially at the same time with only two or three people who fought with them.

And that's where the real advantage of the wall-mounted charge tactic lies!

In fact, this tactic is not special at all, and there is only one core point, that is, to concentrate as many troops as possible to attack a small number of enemy forces, so as to achieve local superiority on the same front.

In other words, try to use two cavalry or even three or four cavalry to attack one of the enemy's cavalry, and this advantage can work even when the total strength of the enemy army is significantly larger than your own!

This battle between the cavalry was unfair from the beginning, and Captain Wubei's cavalry unit discovered the Ming cavalry first, and launched a surprise attack at the first time.

And this unfairness made the outcome of this skirmish doomed from the beginning: the Ming army suffered a crushing defeat!

And it was an extremely miserable defeat, except for a few cavalry who saw that the momentum was not right, and directly pulled out the horse's head and ran for their lives, most of the other Ming cavalry were cut off by the cavalry of Captain Wu Bei, and most of them were either dead or wounded.

After the battle, Captain Wu Bei was satisfied with the horses that originally belonged to the cavalry of the Ming army, and now these horses have been captured by them, and the swords and other weapons of the Ming army are also confiscated.

As for the prisoners, none of them were caught, because in this kind of fierce cavalry confrontation, regardless of whether they were friends or enemies, as long as they were injured, most of them were serious injuries, and serious injuries were actually no different from death in this era.

One of the cavalry under his command was killed, and there was also a seriously wounded, although the wounded looked a little serious, but after all, it was his own robe, and he couldn't directly mend the knife like the seriously wounded of the Ming army, but simply bandaged it with the alcohol carried by the army, and then carried him on horseback to prepare to take him back, as for whether he could survive, it could only depend on the will of God.

On the side of the Ming army, seven or eight people were killed on the spot, and about ten people were seriously injured, and they also directly made up for the serious wounded of the Ming army, and they couldn't save it if they didn't make up the knife anyway, they would slowly die in pain, this process may be a few minutes, or a few hours, but it is basically impossible to survive.

However, there were a lot of captured horses, there were more than ten of them, and he found that these horses were much better than the southwest horses used by his own people, as cavalry, he could recognize at a glance, these Ming cavalry horses, should be Mongolian horses in the north, most of them are one meter three meters high, almost ten centimeters taller than the southwest horses they carefully selected.

The shoulder height of most southwest horses is generally only about one meter one, and only a few excellent ones can reach one meter two, and the war horses used by the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty King Division are naturally the southwest horses after selection, and the minimum standard for shoulder height is one meter one and five, and some can reach one meter two.

These Mongolian horses, which were used by the Ming army as war horses, can reach a height of one meter three at the shoulder, although this height is still very short for riding war horses, but it is also relatively rare in East Asia.

However, Captain Wu Bei didn't know that when he led his cavalry platoon to defeat a Ming cavalry and even captured more than a dozen horses, in fact, more Ming scouts entered one after another, and it was impossible for the peripheral cavalry of the Tang army to completely intercept these Ming scouts.

In the same way, just as the cavalry units of the Ming army could not all intercept the reconnaissance of the Tang Dynasty's division, the existence of these reconnaissance cavalry made both sides more aware of each other.

When the Ming army returning to Jingzhou from Xingquan Mansion began to detour to the north, Chen Keqiao did not move at first, but soon when he learned that the Ming army in Jingzhou City was also out of the city, and was also heading north.

He immediately made a decision and directly ordered the troops to pull out and go directly to the north!

He had already seen that these Ming armies wanted to avoid him and then converge, so that the plan he had planned to wait for work would naturally not be realized.

Now he wants to grab time with these Ming troops, and defeat the Ming army from Jingzhou City before the Ming army converges!

And in this regard, he is full of confidence!

He brought most of the main force of the Third Infantry Brigade over, and there were a large number of auxiliary troops, with a total strength of more than 7,000 troops.

In the field, he had great confidence to defeat this Ming army, which was only 10,000 people, and it would not take too long to find them, and then defeat them, and the entire battle time was estimated to take less than a day.

But if you want to defeat them in the field, it's not that you can't beat them in the early stage, but whether you can find them first, and find and defeat them before the two of them meet.

Therefore, in the follow-up operations, the role of cavalry is still irreplaceable, Chen Keqiao sent almost all the reconnaissance cavalry in the infantry unit, and then he still felt that the reconnaissance cavalry was not enough, and even the second cavalry battalion, which was originally used as a peripheral realm task, also transferred a part of the cavalry out to act as a reconnaissance cavalry.

In the Tang Dynasty, although the scout cavalry also belongs to the cavalry, the scout cavalry team directly under the infantry regiment and the cavalry in the cavalry battalion are actually completely different types of troops.

The cavalry in the cavalry battalion is not actually reconnaissance, but for regular engagement, and the emphasis of the two sides is different, and the subjects of daily training are also different.

Of course, when necessary, the scout cavalry can also be pulled up and used as a regular cavalry, and the regular cavalry can also be pulled out as a scout cavalry, but the effect is not so good.

After all, the time for the Tang Dynasty to form an army is relatively short, and the training of cavalry takes too long, so it is impossible for each cavalry to have a variety of combat skills at the same time, so it can only focus on developing one of them and forming combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

In general, the cavalry of both sides continued to fight, and this kind of cavalry engagement was mainly small-scale engagement, basically one side wanted to break through the blockade to intercept and reconnoitre, and the other side just wanted to stop them.

Overall, the casualties on both sides were not large, and the results were relatively even.

Because in the small-scale battle, the competition is who has better horses, better equipment, and better riding skills on both sides, and this point, in fact, the Ming army occupies an obvious advantage, and the dominant aspect of the Tang cavalry is a large-scale cavalry engagement, so although the small-scale cavalry of their own side suffered relatively large losses, but through the blockade and sweep of the second cavalry battalion, the cavalry units of the Ming army were annihilated several times in a row.

This leveled the results of the battle between the two sides!

Chen Keqiao was a little dissatisfied with this, because the number of cavalry in the Tang Dynasty was small, and the Fourth Army only had two hundred regular cavalry, and there were only about seventy reconnaissance cavalry.

The cavalry troops, which were less than 300 people, had lost more than 30 people in the cavalry battles in the past few days, which made Chen Keqiao a little worried.

So later, I simply changed the reconnaissance mode, don't one, two cavalry went out to investigate, so that after being caught by the enemy, it is better to go out to reconnoiter on the scale of the platoon, so that when encountering the reconnaissance cavalry of the Ming army and the small-scale interception cavalry, it can also have the power to fight.

This is also the reason why Chen Keqiao subsequently sent the Second Cavalry Battalion to act as a reconnaissance force.

In this way, the losses of the cavalry were much smaller, but the relative results were expanded a lot, and the change in this situation also made the generals of the Ming army on the opposite side heartbroken and worried.