At the beginning, when Mao Wenlong's troops were stationed in Zhubao, Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, and Shang Kexi led their troops to attack respectively, and they were still invincible in the mountainous and hilly areas, and cleaned up the hundreds of miles west of Zhubao, but after arriving in the plains, they finally discovered their shortcomings and fought hard with the other party, and the casualties were too great, because these proud soldiers rarely suffered too much damage in the history of fighting.

The first to suffer losses was Shang Kexi's troops, Shang Kexi with his 3,000 cavalry found a Cossack cavalry force of nearly 1,000 people, and began to pursue, intending to wipe them out, which is a big credit, so the Cossack cavalry company is really not too much, usually a few hundred people is good. After the reconnaissance soldiers in the vanguard found out, Shang Kexi quickly made a combat deployment, surrounded the middle assault on three sides, and strived to kill a large number of casualties when the enemy retreated, such a tactic was very effective, his own soldiers' casualties were relatively small, coupled with the numerical superiority, even if the enemy was completely annihilated, he would not cause many casualties to himself.

Shang Kexi's plan was not wrong, but he didn't expect that at this time he had run to the plain, in this unobstructed plain, lost the suddenness of the attack, his soldiers' combat ability is very strong, but the role of horses is greater, the purpose of the rapid division and encirclement he expected was not realized, the enemy's war horse speed is faster than his troop war horse, and this bandit army did not fight with them at the beginning, just desperately retreated, and waited until Shang Kexi's middle troops stood out from the front line of battle, When the two sides were not yet encircled, the opposing troops suddenly changed the direction of their advance, leaving some of the soldiers to dismount and begin to establish a blocking position, and the other part began to charge up against the encircled flank troops, and when the distance was half a mile, they also began to dismount and quickly establish a blocking position.

The sudden change made Shang Kexi's forward assault fighters feel bad, but their adaptability was still good, and they turned their horse's head slightly to leave the opponent's blocking position, because they had used this infantry tactic to block cavalry, in the face of dense bullets, even if the speed of the horses was fast, they would suffer great casualties, and only by leaving the frontal shooting in time and attacking from the side so that the opponent could not form dense firepower. Although the soldiers in the back did not see what was happening in front of them, the rapid change of direction of the team still followed closely, narrowly avoiding the trap, and only a few soldiers who were on the outside encountered danger.

The troops who were surrounded on the flanks were not so lucky, because the opponents met them face to face, and in a very short time they kept their horses in front, and the Cossack dragoons quickly set up their positions by taking advantage of the obstruction of sight caused by the charge of the horses. This front-line commander was very decisive and had a lot of combat experience, and he decisively abandoned his horses and took the lead on the battlefield.

The sudden change is difficult to judge in a very short period of time, and the roundabout soldier has no experience as a soldier in the middle of the assault, so he rushes up directly, but when he finds that the opponent is charging up only the war horse, he has already disrupted the formation, because there is no war horse controlled by a warrior who can judge the danger on his own, which is the nature of an animal, and this animal instinct was flexibly applied by the Cossack battlefield commander once.

After the cavalry battle assault, they will turn their horses' heads and hedge again, but the Ming soldiers are facing unmanned war horses this time, and after hedging, they find that they have been in front of the enemy's infantry position, and the cavalry that has slowed down their speed can only become the target of the design in the face of dense bullets, and the war horse is the biggest shooting target if it loses its speed. By the time the tactics of the Cossack bandits were understood, the troops had already lost the initiative in combat.

The Cossack soldiers used flintlock muskets, compared to the rifles of the Ming army, the rate of fire was still relatively slow, but the defense method of segmented shooting made up for this shortcoming, causing nearly 100 casualties in a short period of time, in desperation, these soldiers had to turn their horses' heads and move closer to the soldiers who assaulted in the middle, and the Cossack soldiers behind quickly rode on the spare horses and the soldiers in the middle of the round after the Ming soldiers left the shooting range, and quickly broke away from the battle before the Ming army did not find their attempts, The Ming army suffered a small loss, losing nearly 200 people.

The short battle was over, Shang Kexi's face was extremely ugly, since the expedition, he had not received such a blow, but this time he suffered heavy losses in the battle of more against less, he didn't know how to report to Mao Wenlong, so he had to watch the enemy escape.

The second to suffer losses was Geng Zhongming, whose 3,000 men broke into a small town. It is said that it is a small town, but it is actually a small castle, it doesn't look big, there won't be many people in it, in fact, there are still a lot of people in this town, there are three or four thousand Cossacks, merchants, prisoner of war soldiers, explorer soldiers, wandering soldiers, etc., this is a medium-sized population town, and it can be regarded as a supply town.

Seeing a large number of Ming soldiers coming from outside the castle, the prefect of the town immediately ordered the gate of the castle to be closed, Geng Zhongming did not bring mortars, infantry guns and other artillery, they were just reconnaissance tasks, and they didn't think about capturing this castle, but the Russians didn't know? After a period of panic, the governor of the city calmed down. After calming down, he summoned all the officers in the city to think of a way, and after some deliberation, they really came up with a brilliant note, and this method really caused a lot of casualties to the Ming army.

Geng Zhongming originally planned to find an opportunity to fight in the field, but he did not plan to attack the city, but he found that the soldiers of this small castle were all cowering into the castle and did not dare to fight. So the soldiers were gathered on the south side of the castle, ready to test the defense of the castle at the south gate, and gain a little experience for the future capture of the castle, this problem has been encountered by everyone, but what kind of defense situation is the castle in the plain area, the various troops have not encountered it, because just like Mao Fort and Bingzhong Fort, these fortresses are in the mountains or hilly areas, Tomsco is in the plains, but he was captured by Sun Chuanting, and the battle of the attack is not too difficult.

Just when Geng Zhongming arranged his troops in the south of the city, sent a team of soldiers to the city, and aimed the light mortars he carried at the gate of the castle, intending to carry out a tentative bombardment, the south gate of the castle opened, and a large number of soldiers came out of the city. Geng Zhongming thought that the enemy was going out to fight, so he hurriedly moved the soldiers behind him forward, and the mortars in front retreated backwards, and the formation was a little chaotic for a while.

Unexpectedly, when the Ming army changed its formation, four or five hundred cavalry had poured out of the gate of the castle, but behind the cavalry were hundreds of pale yellow, red, and black long-haired wolves, and the Cossack soldiers in front flashed to both sides, and the wolves were like Ming soldiers pounced, and at the same time, the artillery on the castle also began to sound, although it was still a big iron ball, but it also needed to dodge, otherwise it would be a terrible casualty if it hit the body.

Geng Zhongming had never seen such a way of fighting, and when he saw a large group of wolves being commanded by Cossack soldiers and rushing over, and the other party's shells were also coming, he was horrified in his heart, and he didn't understand what kind of tactic this was. The speed of the wolves is very fast, fortunately, most of these soldiers under Mao Wenlong are selected from the hunters, and they are not too afraid to see the packs of wolves rushing out of the castle, but the shooting speed of the rifle is a little slow, so they have to retreat while shooting.

Just when the Ming army resisted the attack of the wolves, a large number of Cossack cavalry rushed out of the castle, they followed the wolves and kept shooting, coupled with the artillery in the castle kept firing large iron bullets, and gradually the casualties of the Ming army increased, seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, Geng Zhongming immediately ordered to establish machine gun positions on both sides, so that the machine guns could cover the soldiers and quickly retreat. Fortunately, these soldiers under Geng Zhongming were well-trained, the formation was maintained very well, the wolf pack under the suppression of the machine gun did not suffer large losses, and the speed of the Cossack soldiers could not run, so that the Ming army gradually detached from the battlefield, but this battle still caused nearly 500 casualties to Geng Zhongming's subordinates.

Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming both suffered a big loss, and naturally did not dare to hide it after returning to the station, but immediately reported the tactics of the Russians to Mao Wenlong, and then studied how to crack this tactic of the enemy, but everyone couldn't think of a too suitable method for a while. The speed of fire from the rifle is a little slow, the movement speed of the machine gun is a little slow, the wolf pack in front of the attack is very fast, and the slightest mistake will be rushed into the team, these guys are not dead, they don't want the soldiers to surrender, they can escape, and the battle is only over if they are all killed.