Hong Chengchou and Feng Quan, who were ready to use the Qing army's Maginot Line to contain the Huaxia army, were still discussing fiercely, and the more they discussed, the more excited they became.

Although Ao Bai is a relative of the Qing army, he is only a general, and Hong Chengchou, a person who strategizes and commands the battle, he is on the front line in person, and now he is still fleeing for his life.

I thought that I had escaped the battle of the Huaxia army, and fled for 50 miles on the first day, and 70 miles on the second day, but the Huaxia army found them in the middle of the night, and the scouts pursued, and knew that they had really fled for their lives in the early morning, so they began to discuss, and began to pursue in the afternoon.

The Huaxia Army has a scout battalion, and any brigade can make a scout battalion with about 1,000 people.

The scout battalion, of course, is those who have been on the battlefield for more than ten years, five or six years of old oil, tracking the enemy is not bad at all, the enemy's army of forty or fifty thousand people cannot completely hide the traces, and Ao Bai has no mind and time to hide the traces, and the scout camp is hung far away, no matter how to shake it off.

The same scouts were sent to expel often in vain, divided into dozens of units, a scout squadron of 100 people per share, facing the enemy's bow and arrow, shooting with a gold 1 arquebus from a distance, they had long been familiar with this way of fighting, and the Qing army was arrogant, and did not know this way of fighting for scouts, and often suffered a lot, the enemy's scout cavalry suddenly stopped, and then, in a row, the formation that charged at them was a row of guns.

Although the war horse is not as stable as standing on land, the accuracy of shooting is quite high, and the scouts are the elite of the elite.

At will, they hit quite accurately, at sixty or seventy meters away, when the enemy was just about to draw the bow, a row of guns hit over, the whole team did not stop, turned around and left, the Qing army suddenly seemed to be hit by a heavy hammer, more than 100 cavalry team, at once fell thirty or forty teammates, frightened quickly pulled the war horse to run to both sides, one scout is so, two scouts are so, dozens of shares, then the Qing cavalry will suffer a big loss.

On the first day of the Aobai count, it was found that about seven or eight hundred cavalrymen were either killed or wounded, and many cavalrymen refused to go out to expel these Chinese army scouts.

Aobai wanted to expel these scouts, and the fleeing troops had to slow down, and on the third day, they only walked thirty miles, and they were slowed down by twenty miles, and at this time, the Huaxia army that found them fleeing was under the leadership of Xiao Fei, and under the pursuit of the vanguard cavalry of Zhu Ge and Merlinyu, the two sides had only gathered for seventy miles.

It's not that the cavalry of the Huaxia Army, as a cavalry, can't use the speed of cavalry to move fast, but they are worried about ambushes and plans, so they must be cautious to investigate, send more than a dozen cavalry and scouts to cooperate, and do carpet reconnaissance together in a radius of 50 miles, and at the same time wait for the infantry units in the rear to catch up.

After all, the enemy still has more than 40,000 troops, the Huaxia Army after the previous battle, its own strength is also 60,000, but it has lost more than 10,000 people, and it has to be adjusted, their original 60,000 troops include Wang Yuqun and Tong Dawei's troops, and the battlefield is fought with Ao Bai is the militia unit plus the garrison force, plus the cavalry of the Guards Brigade, the main combat strength is still 20,000 arquebuses and artillery, these need to be supplemented and adjusted, because this is the heaviest loss of the Huaxia Army since its formation, and it was almost wiped out a second-class field brigade at once, It was the semi-cold weapon and half-arquebus field brigade of the Huaxia Army when it was first formed, which was also a loss to the Huaxia Army.

That is to say, when the Huaxia Army pursued on the first day, it also walked 50 miles, still cavalry, infantry and baggage, and the militia only walked 20 miles, which is equivalent to the distance from just leaving one county town to the next county seat.

When Xiao Fei led the Chinese army to catch up, the Huaxia army launched a new pursuit, and on this day it walked more than 30 miles, slowly speeding up, while the cavalry walked 50 miles, and the Qing army narrowed the distance.

On the fourth day, the Qing army only walked thirty-five miles, and Aobai's urging did not get rid of the frenzied approach attack of the scout cavalry, delaying their march.

On the fifth day, the Qing army traveled forty miles, because the Chinese scout cavalry also suffered losses. High-intensity pursuit operations, they also have casualties, the Qing army is not stupid, after a few times to adapt to their way of fighting, after all, the Qing army is a veteran of decades of fighting, that will be so stupid, and it is not the Ming army, when they heard the Qing army, they were scared and weak, and they ran faster than rabbits.

The Qing army used two cavalry scouts to approach the Huaxia army scouts, and after a round of shooting, the Huaxia army scouts could not immediately reload the ammunition, and the gold changed to 1 arquebus, which was very slow to load on land, very difficult, and required more than 20 processes, which required more than 40 processes than the arquebuses that the Portuguese had just sold to the Ming army, and it took three to five minutes to complete a loading, and the good hand also needed nearly two and a half minutes to complete a reload to simplify more than 20 processes, but for the rapid offensive and defensive conversion between the cavalry, it only took more than ten seconds. The time is still too long, so the Huaxia Army scout team can only fight one round, and then they have to draw their knives or escape.

The scout team, and not a real cavalry charge, the scout's first priority is to complete the reconnaissance mission, there is no need to fight the enemy, therefore, the Qing army's drive played a role, they had to get farther and farther away from the Qing army's large army, and the Qing army's scout team and cavalry, and the Qing army's cavalry did not eat that, their purpose was to eliminate these pesky flies.

Therefore, when the scouts attracted the Huaxia army scouts, they rushed over from another place and launched an attack on the Huaxia army scouts, and the Huaxia army scouts, some of them ran away smartly, and some were caught off guard and were caught, so they could only face the battle, and the loss was inevitable.

They are not equipped with short firearms, because for the scouts of the Qing army, this is just looking for death, because the world can shoot a bow at a distance of sixty or seventy meters, and after a round of chic shooting, rush to you to kill you, the short firearms are only effective at a distance of thirty meters, and it can be said that there is a possibility of a sudden attack against the infantry, and the cavalry of the frontal charge can also exchange their lives for the enemy's losses, but against the scouts, it is faster to draw a knife than to change a gun and draw a knife, they are not desperate.

Keeping a distance of sixty meters and escaping from the enemy's bow and arrow, this is what they have to do, and it is their task to go back alive and send the news back, there is no need to fight the enemy to the death.

Based on the above reasons, Ao Bai quickly got rid of the influence of the scouts of the Huaxia army and increased the speed of the march.

On the seventh day, the large army of the Huaxia army was still 200 miles away from the Qing army, and the cavalry of the Huaxia army was already less than 70 miles away from the troops of Aobai, they set off overnight and approached 70 miles before resting, and the scouts sent back waves of wounded, and they were getting farther and farther away from the enemy.

On the eighth day, the Huaxia Army finally straightened out the regulations, reorganized the army, and restored its combat effectiveness.

And the cavalry finally came again a surprise attack, only ten miles away from the enemy's large army, it was considered to have caught up with the enemy, the cavalry plus the scouts of the fight, finally the enemy's cavalry plus scouts interception, fast after all, the enemy, the two sides in the mountains, rivers and plains of the lake and the wide fighting, the thousand-person scale of the cavalry caught each other, the battle became more and more intense.

The speed of Aobai's march was greatly delayed.

On the ninth day, Aobai only walked ten miles, and the infantry and militia units of the Huaxia Army drove eighty miles, and then rested in the rear for half the night, and continued to chase directly, but they were still thrown away from the distance of seventy miles.

In terms of marching and fighting in the field, the speed of the Chinese army with infantry arquebusiers could not be compared with the Qing army.

The Huaxia Army's dependence on baggage is very high.

(End of chapter)