Of course, the commander of the third crusade team understood that with a force of no more than 2,000 or so, he still allowed the other side to seize the initiative, and lost more than half of the casualties in the battle, and although the battle loss ratio was superior, it was only about one to three, and he also let go of most of the incoming enemy troops, which was of course a rare defeat since the expedition of the volunteer troops. It's not just the defeat itself, it's that the team is far from being able to perform decently and play to their full strength.

If you can't achieve decent success, then this battle will undoubtedly destroy your ultimate future. Not to mention, Cai Lin, the commander of the third detachment, also knew some rules in the volunteer troops, that is, he never kept his war history secret and kept his defeat and victory, and he may not be able to become a well-known example. Therefore, at this time, he also said to the remnants of more than 1,000 people who have not been seriously injured or attrition: "Although our army was not completely wiped out in this battle, there is no doubt that it suffered a heavy defeat. If it weren't for the accumulation of family members, we could only choose to defend Yibo now, would you like to act together? ”

"Yes!"

"Good! When our friendly vanguard cavalry arrives and can barely take care of the wounded, we will borrow their horses for a long run, and we must be able to destroy more enemy troops as quickly as possible, and learn from the previous lessons, and continue to fight in maneuvers to save face, you know? ”

"Got it!"

In this way, when the vanguard cavalry of the subordinate unit dozens of miles away arrived, Cai Lin quickly arranged for a horse change and prepared to launch a long-distance attack. Each expeditionary team is often followed by at least one decent main force of the revolutionary army, with more than 10,000 troops in two reorganized divisions, often at a distance of only a few tens of miles, and a cavalry and horse team of more than 10,000 people with about 2,000 people. To a large extent, this is also to be able to lure the enemy to the maximum extent possible, or to create better fighters. After all, a team assembled together with a strength of more than 10,000 troops is not only difficult to effectively keep secret, but the enemy will choose to passively avoid the battle in most cases when encountering such a team, and a team of about 2,000 people with a certain amount of baggage and armament is to a large extent an upper limit that can be more flexibly and effectively used to carry out operations on the spot.

In order to avoid too many accidents and to take care of the emotions of the core officers and soldiers, Cai Lin did not choose which heroes to accompany the people from the outer city to accompany the expedition, but only selected hundreds of relatively elite cavalry from the revolutionary army as a supplement to make up a team of about 1,000 people and equipped with 2,000 decent horses to launch an attack to the north of the Jinzhong Plain.

This time, under such a passive situation, the surprise attack of the enemy army, which was absolutely superior in strength, has not been completely wiped out, and it has also made many core officers and men of the volunteer unit understand their superiority, and their confidence has begun to recover a lot, and in this way, the pursuit operation was quickly launched.

Because of his great trust in the combat ability of the stragglers, when more than a thousand cavalry are dispersed to the maximum extent in a continuous range of several miles, the momentum is really like that of tens of thousands of infantry groups or tens of thousands of ordinary cavalry groups.

A long time ago, when the volunteer troops were fighting, the cavalry and horse teams were often their own shortcomings, especially the cavalry archery that took a long time to adapt to was the shortcoming of the shortcomings, but the two years of the expedition and the supplementary training of nearly a year after returning have made the vast majority of the elite archers of the volunteer troops no longer have shortcomings in riding combat. If there are still great shortcomings compared to those professional knights outside the territory, then compared with some elite mercenaries from Mongolia or the Hezhong region that can be invited in the Guannai in this era, they have their own strengths, and even more strengths.

Almost before the sky was fully lit, a great battle began in Fushan, not far from Binh Duong Province. At the beginning, when the rebel group of more than 30,000 people gathered saw that there were not many pursuers approaching, and there were not many heavy artillery, the previous heavy losses of combat confidence also recovered a lot. Gathering together, they launched a continuous accumulation of light artillery with a scale of more than 400 guns, which made it difficult for the horse team, which did not have much protection in the attack, to approach within the maximum threat distance of the bow and arrow within half a mile.

However, it was not the first time that the elite of the volunteer troops had faced such a situation, and soon formed a shield wall with mounted infantry carrying shields to resist the threat of shotguns at a distance of about two or three hundred paces, while the cavalry was ready to fire at any time.

In addition to the shotguns, thousands of rounds of solid bullets also posed a huge threat to the attacking team, which forced the team to stop advancing at a distance of about half a mile, but even so, the continuous projectiles with one stone and two strong bows at a distance of half a mile gradually suppressed the cavalry artillery that hastily launched fire at the front, at least the opponent's light field artillery was discounted a lot.

The threat of firepower from the attacking cavalry and horses stretched the risk of attack to several miles, and the threat of firepower was greatly reduced, enough to make the officers and men approach to a distance of about sixty or seventy paces. At this distance, even some shields could not stop the arrows thrown from the side.

Of course, there are a lot of limitations to the way of projectile strikes, even if the core of the third crusade team has an extraordinary shooting ability. In the case of a projectile strike, a team that has already made a certain amount of preparation can only kill or injure a person by shooting an average of a dozen arrows, but this "elite army" that has not been collectively trained for too long by various forces cannot be compared with the first-class troops of the 17th century in terms of its ability to withstand battle. More than 30,000 powerful heavy arrows fired by more than 1,000 people one after another killed and injured nearly 2,000 people in a short period of time, and the not very strong front finally wavered.

In the past, many people had heard that the core archers of the volunteer army were very strong, but they did not expect that they could be so strong, and only the real core battle began to face defeat in about a quarter of an hour.

It was also at this time that Cai Lin, the commander of the third detachment, finally began to understand how historical examples such as Xue Rengui and Su Dingfang could defeat tens of thousands of foreign troops with about 1,000 cavalry. It may not be entirely because of their own incredibleness, and the other party's army is not considered a strong army is also one of the important reasons.

(End of chapter)