This area is a hill and a flat land that is not empty, and a lake and a mountain forest, and the road is an empty hilly field, the closer you get to it, the narrower it becomes, before it is a hill of more than ten miles, then a small piece of flat hills and flatlands that are divided, and then some small lakes, as the terrain narrows, the terrain rises slightly, high in the west and low in the east.

When he arrived at the place where Tian Xian had laid out in front, it was less than five miles wide, and on both sides were stretches of higher hills, the steeper and more difficult it was to go up, and there was no road, and it might be possible to pass by the cavalry, but it was absolutely impossible to pass smoothly in the case of enemy harassment, maybe the infantry could fight through, but the cavalry was certainly not as flexible as the infantry on the mountain road, and the rocks, trees, shrubs, thorns, and various faults on the hills would greatly hinder the passage of the cavalry, As long as people with a normal brain will not give up, the relatively flat terrain will take a detour here.

And as the terrain rises, the hills turn into canyons and peaks, and perhaps these peaks are not too high, but they are not more than a hundred meters, but this is definitely not the terrain that cavalry should walk.

So there were three paths in the middle, and the hilly plain area of the four miles wide of one official road became the terrain that had to be passed, and it was the same on both sides, stretching for a hundred li, maybe some places might be wider, and there were about twenty miles of relatively flat places, but the narrowest part here was only one li, just behind the place where Tian Xian had fought with the Mongol cavalry.

Originally, the place of battle was four miles wide, three miles wide in front, and five or six miles wide in front.

So Tian Xian ordered these men and even some soldiers to set some traps at the beginning of the five or six miles wide, trap the horse pits, ambush a small number of crossbowmen and musketeers, dig trenches and cut the avenues, and arrange a seemingly loose defensive line here, so that the Mongol cavalry could only advance along a winding road, and if they did not want to advance along the winding road, they had to pass through small lakes, woods, or jump up mountains, which greatly reduced the speed of the enemy's impact, and the strength of the impact.

Here the Mongol cavalry was divided into a large force along the main road, and a trickle of five or six small troops, which withstood the blows of the broken Tian Bin army in ambush on the wide surface of five or six miles.

Retreat a mile, here it is narrower, only four miles wide, and here it will be dug with potholes, so that the cavalry cannot rush up, and then it will be attacked by the musketeers and crossbowmen of the rear army of the heavenly soldiers with only shallow trenches.

There are three main relatively high hills, the hills are thirty meters high, and the hills are surrounded by some southern dwarf trees, dominated by thorns and orange trees. There are small woods less than thirty meters wide at the bottom of the hills, and the depth is only fifty or sixty meters, and in front of these fifty or sixty meters of woods, there is a sloping flat land of three or four hundred meters between the two hills, and the musketeers and crossbowmen only need to guard the woods below these three hills and between the woods.

However, this place seems too wide, and Yi Tian Xian's troops can't take care of it at all, so it can only be said that it can withstand it for a while.

Tian Xian's purpose is to put all the troops on the first line, and then after fighting for a while, quickly withdraw the troops and defend the second line, which is here.

Grind time with the enemy here, put in troops and deal with the enemy here.

Of course, they can't lose their troops, because they can't afford to lose them, but the remaining main force of 1,600, as well as the 1,000 cavalry mobilized by Wang Dong for him, and the people are about 2,000 people, even if the people in the surrounding countryside are added, the total strength is only 8,000 people, and in fact, the combat strength will not exceed 3,000 people, so he feels that he will not be able to hold this place for long, and he may lose a lot of troops.

Tian Xian has a headache.

At this time, Tian Bin led two new armies reorganized from the Huaxia military system, as well as baggage and cavalry, with a total strength of 28,000 people, and slowly approached the main force of Duolong.

Since the loss of 5,000 cavalry, Duolong was very frightened of the combat effectiveness of Tian Bin's troops, and couldn't help but be very suspicious, and continuously sent 2,000 cavalry to surround Tian Bin's main force divided into 20 units for reconnaissance and surveillance.

In order to defeat the enemy as soon as possible and get rid of the pursuit behind, Tian Bin's vanguard army and the attacking Qing army and Mongolian cavalry only stayed for an hour on the battlefield, and advanced quickly, the Chinese army threw off the baggage and let Wang Dong's troops take care of it, Wang Dong entrusted the baggage to Tian Xian, and led the soldiers to follow them five miles behind, the two armies approached quickly, Tian Bin's army was faster, and it took half a day to rush twenty miles, and the two sides finally stopped at a wide lake of about ten miles, The two sides faced off across the road on the side of the lake, and the two armies were about five miles apart.

The cavalry on both sides quickly attacked, collided and fought, generally speaking, there were few cavalry on Tian Bin's side, but there were only more than 1,000 cavalry, it was difficult to resist the opponent's thousands of cavalry, and the killed were defeated and retreated, and they could not detect the situation in the rear of the other party.

These cavalry are relatively tired, drove thousands of miles, fought countless times with the Mongolian cavalry, physically and mentally exhausted, and fled thousands of miles in the name of the rebels, those intelligence officers are okay, everyone knows that they are from the Huaxia Army, and they also know that the Huaxia Army will send someone to respond, and the prestige and achievements of the Huaxia Army make them proud, knowing that this is a return, going home, everyone is more excited, and their morale is like a rainbow, but many of the cavalry are Han people from the North, and some even abandon their homes and follow Tian Bin's army south, and they can't help themselves, and they are getting farther and farther away from home, and they, as small soldiers, can't decide their own fate, so they can't help but be sad and their morale is not high.

Therefore, although they were chasers, the dragoons were a little different from each other, and the armies that were more advanced than the other party's army were not high in morale and could not fight in prestige and combat effectiveness, so they were completely suppressed.

However, Tian Bin didn't think so much, he arranged for the soldiers to set up a position.

The cannon was pulled to the high hills on both sides, and naturally there were artillery sappers and civilians who followed to dig the ground flat, dig out the place for the cannon to be placed, put down the cannon, and fix the cannon on the ground with a wooden wedge, and then the commander of the artillery was positioned and measured.

The other soldiers guarding the cannon set up a formation on both sides of the cannon to protect the cannon, and there were not many cavalrymen protecting the artillery, cruising dozens of meters behind the cannon, slowly warming up, and after the enemy cavalry rushed over, they suddenly rushed up from the rear to deal with the cavalry and live infantry of the enemy's attack artillery.

The cannon was mounted on the high ground, the firing range was increased, and the cannon was one mile away from the army, about three miles away from the enemy, and nearly four miles away, which was the best range reflected in the power of this thousands of pounds of artillery.

After the military formation was arranged, Tian Bin slowly ordered the Chinese army to start advancing, and the new army after the reorganization of the new army town led by the two Chinese armies advanced to the distance of about 100 meters in the middle of the rear of the artillery, and no longer advanced and waited for the military order.

(End of chapter)