Chapter 495: Mangui's frustrated plan (ask for subscriptions, recommendations, collections)
On the galloping war horse, seeing that the Ming army and the white flag light cavalry were completely out of contact, Man Gui immediately issued an order as fast as possible.
"Ride out, go, keep an eye on all the Tartars at once."
Seeing a team of scouts hurrying away, Man Gui continued to command with peace of mind: "Change direction." Fast, change direction immediately. We're going to rush over at once. ”
To rush over means to immediately rush to the rendezvous point with the Ming army on the other road.
In order to give full play to the power of cavalry and shooting, in the face of the charge of the white flag light horse, Man Gui adopted the strategy of getting out of the way and flying with both wings.
Moving out of the middle would allow the Ming army to avoid the sharpest cone of the white flag attacks. The two wings flying together can not only give full play to the advantages of the large number of Ming soldiers, but also effectively pull the striking surface of the Ming army's bow and crossbow (attack on both sides at the same time).
The two wings flew together, and before the two armies disengaged, the Ming army could drop as many crossbow arrows as possible into the white flag array.
However, although the two wings flew together with such and such advantages, after giving way to the middle road, the Ming army was actually divided into two areas by the white flag light cavalry. Once the white flag light cavalry took advantage of the situation and pursued behind any Ming army, the Ming army was in danger of being broken by each one.
couldn't wait to send out the scouts, and Man Gui was trying to find out the next move of the white flag light cavalry as soon as possible. And he was in a hurry to turn around, in order to get in touch and cooperate with another Ming army as soon as possible.
In Man Gui's plan, as long as the two Ming armies can control the distance between each other, then no matter which Ming army is pursued by the white flag light cavalry, the other Ming army can attack from behind the Tartars, so that the Tartars are always in the middle of being attacked from both sides.
As long as the two Ming armies can cooperate well with each other, the white flag light cavalry, which is already not strong in horsepower, will never be able to make a real breakthrough.
The Ming army only needs to grind one or two back and forth, and when the horsepower of the white flag light cavalry is obviously insufficient, it will be time for the Ming army to gather and annihilate them.
This was the real plan of Man Gui to defeat the White Flag Light Cavalry.
The scouts galloped away, and the Ming army also hurriedly turned to the meeting place. But the white flag light horse, which Man Gui had expected to immediately turn back to chase and kill, slowed down, but continued to go straight without looking back.
For a time, in the wilderness, the distance between the Ming army and the white flag light cavalry quickly changed from small to large, and it became larger and larger.
"What? The Tartars did not look back at all? ”
After echoing with another Ming army, he listened to the reports sent back by the two armies one after another, and Man Gui's face was full of surprise.
This is not like the Tartar elite banner in his impression.
In Man Gui's impression, the Tartar elite never took the Ming army in their eyes, and they never feared any enemy. In order to win, the Tartar elite will even leak their own flaws to lure the enemy to attack, or rush into it knowing that there is danger ahead.
The Tartar elite under the command of the old slave is so bullish and arrogant!
Now how did these tartars suddenly turn sex? Is it because the old slave died?
Looking at the report, Man Gui really felt a little crying and laughing.
What can I do? If the Tartar does not turn back, then all his plans will be in vain.
Turn around and take the initiative to attack the Tartars?
No way!
As soon as the thought moved, Man Gui hurriedly extinguished the tempting idea of attacking the Tartars immediately.
Mounted archery tactics need to be supported by plenty of horsepower. The Ming army attacked the camp at night, and the horsepower had lost a lot. Now the Ming army has a slight advantage over the Tartars, except for the large number of people, it is just that the war horses have rested more than the Tartars for a while.
Once they turned back to pursue the Tartars, the Ming army became a multi-loss party. At that time, the horsepower of both sides returned to a horizontal line.
Without the advantage in horsepower, even if the Ming army still has an advantage in numbers, Man Gui does not think that his light cavalry, which has only recently become an army, can eat this tartar.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the Ming army can eat this tartar, how much will the Ming army pay?
is still the same sentence, Man Gui doesn't want to beat the light horse that he finally pulled up, and beat him up.
"Damn, these dog Tartars, why are they all of a sudden."
Several waves of scouts were dispatched one after another, confirming that the white flag light cavalry had been moving forward slowly, and there was no sign of turning back at all. Man Gui had no choice but to give up his original plan.
"Go, cut off all those Tartar heads for Lao Tzu."
Seeing that the opportunity had passed, Man Gui shouted indignantly. Immediately, Man Gui's voice became low again: "The bodies of your brothers, bring back everything you can find!" Withdraw! ”
Until the retreat, Man Gui did not know, and what caused the white flag light cavalry to give up pursuing them was the stray bullet fired by the prison guards at random.
In fact, Man Gui really didn't take the 20 flintlock pistols of the prison guards to heart.
Although the prison guards have been performing well during the drill, the flintlock pistol is indeed very powerful. But Man Gui, who has been in battle for a long time, knows that no matter how good his performance in the drill is, the drill is only a drill.
In actual combat, the huge pressure caused by the high-speed charge of the cavalry is completely different from that during the exercise. In the face of cavalry charges, there are not many musketeers who can hold on and not run, and can fire the muskets in their hands smoothly, even in the Liaodong Ming army. Otherwise, the Ming army would not have been able to defend the city.
It was not yet under the cover of the city wall that the Ming musketeers could stand firm in front of the Tartars and successfully fire the muskets in their hands.
The Overseer Guard? Man Gui is really not optimistic about them.
To tell the truth, if it weren't for Liu Yingkun, the prison guard, who said that the prison guards were coming by holy order, they would have to shoot directly at the Tartars; If it weren't for the fact that Liu Yingkun, who got along well, he had to give some face; If it weren't for Liu Yingkun's repeated promise that he would never pursue the results of the guards' deaths and injuries; Man Gui would never arrange the prison guards to the middle of the Ming army.
In that dangerous place, the Prison Guards ran a little slower, and there was a possibility that the whole army would be destroyed.
Man Gui guessed. As the cavalry charged at high speed got closer and closer, and the blood of the Chinese arrow companions bloomed around them with screams, the prison guards really couldn't hold on and turned around and fled.
Man Gui also didn't guess it. Due to the ease of handling of the flintlock pistol, all the muskets of the Overseer Guards were fired smoothly before escaping (except for the one that died). Relying on the long range of the flintlock pistol, the Overseer Guard also achieved the fortunate result of wounding Cherg and knocking down several horsemen with white flags.
However, it was precisely because of this lucky result that Cherg changed his combat habits, and in the end, Man Gui's beautiful plan fell to naught.
Of course, all this mistake was by no means what Man Gui could have imagined when he arbitrarily arranged the prison guards in the middle lane for the sake of face.
Although the beautiful battle plan fell short, Man Gui was not completely disappointed.
In the battle with the white flag light cavalry, from taking the initiative to get out of the way, to attacking the Tartars with bows and arrows through the two wings, and finally getting rid of the Tartars, the newly built Ming light cavalry did it calmly. The white flag light cavalry never got any chance to defeat the Ming army.
Being able to deal with the assault of the elite light cavalry with the white flag head-on, the Ming army can always maintain the formation and formation, which shows that Mangui has carefully drilled and this team of light cavalry based on cavalry and archery has now truly possessed combat effectiveness.
Looking up at the rising sun in the east that had just jumped out of the horizon, Man Gui turned his head to look in the direction of Ningyuan.
The night attack on the camp with the white flag and the assault against the elite light cavalry with the white flag head-on can be regarded as the actual combat training organized by Mangui.
The rising sun put a layer of glow on Man Gui, who was staring at Ning Yuan. Man Gui muttered: My steel knife has been quenched.
Jurchen Tartars, Huang Taiji, have your necks been washed?