It is difficult for the elite war horses of Houjin to infiltrate without swaggering without the wind, but for some reason, after the middle-aged lieutenant general of Houjin secretly entered the customs, at least hundreds of good horses of the Ming army cavalry family level have been prepared, of course, these horses cannot be compared with those mounts that the vest guards are already very familiar with their masters outside the pass, but they can also be regarded as horses with excellent obedience and obedience, and have also undergone special firearms adaptation training.

Hundreds of cavalry archers dressed in battle armor put on folk fur hats to cover their coiled heads again, and dispersed from behind at the fastest speed, forming a very loose encirclement in the periphery of about four or five miles, that is, this road will be almost six or seven zhang before there is a man and horse, and the seemingly loose encirclement makes a total of seven groups of about two thousand horse bandits and bandits who rushed out of the valley from the ditch that has already been dug understand that this battle may not be easy to break away, and can only fight to the death.

Under the personal guidance of the elite cavalry of the Houjin Battalion, the ambush site was chosen quite cleverly, and when the teams attacked, it was not at night or during the day when they took a short rest during the march. It was not long after a whole night of correction that the army of about 2,500 men and horses led by Xiao Xuan began to march in multiple columns. Moreover, it was not an aimless attack on various positions, but a concentrated attack from both sides under the arrangement and command of the elite cavalry of the Houjin, which seemed to be the middle of the command center of the entire team. If it succeeds, on the one hand, it can divide the opponent, and on the other hand, there is a high probability that the real goal of this battle can be achieved. Encircling and annihilating the entire Guards army of several thousand people is not the goal, it is just a strategy decided according to the situation, and "decapitation" is the core.

On a line of about 150 paces on both flanks of the marching army, about 2,000 auxiliaries formed a continuous line of more than ten platoons from two directions to launch a concentrated attack, with five platoons each of the cavalry in front and the infantry in the rear.

Cavalry can attack at the fastest speed from a long distance, and the middle-aged lieutenant general of Houjin had heard of the legendary use of firearms and fortifications by the Guards, so he decided to fight fast, first using fast cavalry to surround the opponent's formation. If this opponent has relatively strong combat effectiveness, then the attacking team must have lost a lot of horses. After these bandits and heroes were all turned into infantry as the main force, it was also convenient for them to supervise the battle. As for the concealment of the cavalry ambush, there was a problem? The team of about two or three thousand troops has not been in force for a long time, and I am afraid that the biggest shortcoming is the ability to detect and guard on the march.

Indeed, as the middle-aged lieutenant general Jin expected, the cavalry that launched the assault rushed out of the ravine at close range of less than a mile or so, and approached the limit of the bow and arrow in about half a minute. At this time, the team led by Xiao Xuan only set up two very thin horizontal formations and set up shields in a hurry, and it was too late to gather to form a phalanx.

The Guards used the guns that had already been filled with gunpowder to fire one after another, and the 800 or so Guards officers and men in the direction of the assault fired hundreds of loaded firearms one after another, only knocking down about 20 people who were rushing relatively forward, so that the entire approaching horse team was stunned and seemed to be more dense. This makes people realize that this young new army around the Son of Heaven is by no means a soft persimmon. However, it was only that, the thin two-wing defense line hastily formed during the march seemed to be doomed at the beginning of the ambush, and was quickly rushed to a distance of about 100 meters by the superior horse team.

In the past month or two, the standard training of outstanding units in modern times, as well as the strict selection of soldiers, have still played a role. At least in the face of such a critical situation, at least more than half of the teenagers did not seriously discount their combat effectiveness because of the fear of the battle, although few of them achieved the same standard as on the training ground under the nervousness, but the more than 200 selected archers in the direction of the assault still shot arrows one after another at the fastest speed.

The hunting bows of about five buckets were not fully drawn, which made the accuracy of the arrows fall greatly compared to the standard on the training ground. Most of the teenagers were nervous when they first faced the enemy, and they couldn't remember how to use the sights on the bow to accurately release the arrows, but just hastily shot the arrows in the direction of the enemy's horse team. There are also many bows and arrows that fall out of their hands due to nervousness.

This kind of combat performance is not too bad in terms of the ambush in the first battle. However, most of the Houjin Elite Cavalry who watched the battle from a distance were settled. This army of the Son of Heaven does have some doorways, and it is better than the battle performance of most battalion leaders of the Liaodong Army, but it is still within the scope of the word mediocrity, in this situation, I am afraid that it will not be able to create any miracles at all, especially looking at the strength of those bows and arrows, even if the horse bandits in this winter look thick and solid like leather armor clothes, it will not be much actual lethality, and there are no horses in Mongolia, I am afraid it is difficult to immediately cause effective killing effects.

However, just as more than a thousand cavalry approached the line formed by the teenagers with a crushing force, many officers and soldiers of the Guards began to retreat in the direction of the center without hesitation. One horse after another suddenly fell to the ground inexplicably, and the moans and screams of the personnel suddenly shuddered at the horse thieves who were about to break through the thin line.

The groans of two hundred horses and nearly a hundred horse thieves suddenly falling to the ground at a close distance not only greatly restored the morale of the young officers and soldiers who were on the verge of collapse, but also made the many ambush soldiers behind them, who were not elite, begin to cower and not know what was happening.

When the boy once again rained down with arrows like locusts, and when the men and horses were occasionally hit by arrows, many people realized what had happened: "The arrows are poisonous!" ”

"That's not right! What kind of poison is this? Why is it so powerful? It is impossible for a crossbow made of southern dart poison wood to be effective so quickly! "The deputy general of the Houjin Horse Team, who commanded the Houjin officers and soldiers to suppress the formation, still knows a thing or two about the practice of feeding poison on weapons. In ancient times, poisonous arrows and poisonous crossbows mostly used Sichuan aconitum as raw materials. The venom of some very powerful poisonous insects and poisonous snakes is not easy to preserve and prepare at all, that is, it is used to kill and injure the opponent after steaming arrows and swords, and it is often difficult to achieve results within an hour, increasing the certainty of some wound festering. When the arrow penetrates the opponent's clothes and armor, the toxicity will also be greatly reduced, and it is because feeding poisoned arrows has not been popular in mainstream warfare since ancient times. But these poisonous arrows, which are more powerful than the legendary seven-step down, have shocked many people, and I don't know how to achieve such an effect.

"The courage of these horse thieves and bandits has been lost, if you don't suppress the formation, I'm afraid this will be over! Command each team to supervise the formation! ”

"Yes!"

In this way, with the continuous transmission of signals of the arrows, the elite horse team from outside the gate began to supervise the battle from behind against the seven groups of men and horses who were already a little cowering.