But as soon as the battle began, Yue Le felt that things were not simple, and saw from a distance that the other party was completely relying on the surrounding hillside fortifications, and everyone hid behind the fortifications, not confronting the Tartars at all, but using Franc machine guns, tiger squat cannons, flintlock guns, and rocket attacks to inflict great casualties on the Tartars from afar.

Yue Le led the soldiers and horses to kill the past, trying to create an opportunity for Ilde, Han Dai and others to escape, but the volunteers just hid in the formation to counterattack, and did not fight out of the position at all, and gave people the feeling that the defense of the position was very weak, as long as they were willing to pay the price, the Tartars could rush over.

Yue Le was pondering what was going on, when Han Dai on the left flank came with news that he had just rushed through a small pass and was about to rest, when he suddenly killed 2,000 volunteer cavalry from the oblique stab, and they rushed over, first with a burst of cavalry guns, and then into the formation.

Although the Qing army was good at riding and shooting, it was now the height of summer, and there were many injuries and illnesses in each battalion, and in addition, everyone had been running all night, and the weather was very humid and hot, so everyone was sleepy and lacking horses, so it was not good for the battle.

The Volunteers, on the other hand, were generally armed with rifles about 90 cm long, and they galloped back and forth on their horses before firing at close range.

The cavalry gun mostly adopts a flintlock design, and the effective range is hidden within 30 meters, although it is difficult to fire continuously on the war horse, but its range and stability are far above the bow and crossbow.

Since the invention of the horse lantern saddle, the Mongols have relied on long-range shooting by archers and close-range assaults by heavy cavalry to become the undisputed kings of land warfare in Eurasia.

Faced with the attack of cavalry from the north, Europe responded with a hollow phalanx of infantry, and invented the short cavalry gun, and later the revolver, and finally the cavalry nemesis (machine gun).

And China also invented a variety of formations, as well as short-weapon firearms three-eyed guns, different from traditional firearms, three-eyed guns belong to short-range shotguns, on horseback need to ignite the fire door on the spark respectively, can continuously fire the gunpowder of the three barrels in front of the three-eyed gun.

In the eyes of modern people, although these three-eyed guns can be fired continuously, they are less stable when using artificial ignition.

But even so, in the past, facing the Mongols (the other side was of course a rabble, and it is difficult to compare with today's Tatar cavalry), in the past it was tyrannized by a large number of Liaodong cavalry equipped with the three-eyed gun Li Chengliang.

Of course, now the Manchurian and Mongolian Tartar cavalry has been in battle for a long time, and its combat power is far above that of the past.

Li Chengliang's Liaodong cavalry and Manchurian Tatar cavalry horsemanship were also far above the volunteer cavalry, but now in the face of a large number of volunteer cavalry equipped with flintlock cavalry, although the Manchu and Mongolian Tatar cavalry had an advantage in horsemanship and firepower strike durability, they were inferior in terms of effective range and stability.

Suddenly, they were attacked by the cavalry of the Volunteers, and just as everyone was about to bend their bows and shoot arrows, they were fired by a round of cavalry guns, and everyone panicked and dodged.

At this time, the cavalry of the Volunteers had already rushed closer, brandishing lances and swords of spurs, or swords back and forth.

Unexpectedly, the cavalry of the Loyal Army was so powerful, which shocked Ilde, and also made those Tartars who were ready to teach the cavalry of the Loyal Army a lesson sighed, now that the sun was empty, the sun was roasting on their bodies, and they were sweating so much that they could not fight at all, and everyone shouted loudly and fled to the north.

Ilde was carried by the crowd and fled northward, looking at the two thousand loyal cavalry in pursuit, feeling a burst of shame, Manmeng started with cavalry shooting, and he did not expect to be forced to do so by the loyal cavalry today.

In addition to scolding the unlucky God, I am worried that the mount under me can't stand it, yesterday a day of hard fighting, last night escaped, the war horse did not have any rest, if the war horse at this time heat stroke or something, then what awaits him is the fate of being killed.

The Tartar cavalry was sleepy and lacking horses, and after a fight, they were defeated by the volunteer cavalry and fled in embarrassment.

The volunteers are different, most of the cavalry are peasant children, in the annual natural disasters that are not the day of hoeing, now although the sun is big, but it feels particularly cool to run on a war horse.

In addition, because the previous war horses had already been rested, although the cavalry was far inferior to the Tartar cavalry, at this time everyone was not inferior to the Tartar cavalry. Everyone first shot with their riding guns, shooting the opponent on their backs, and then shook the riding guns and sprinted to kill them.

The Tartars were caught off guard, especially when those injured and sick fell directly off their horses at the first contact, and seeing this increased the confidence of the cavalry of the Loyal Army.

Along the way, he was constantly intercepted by the loyal army and killed, which increased everyone's fear, and when the number of people was counted in the evening, Ilde found that in the battle during the day, more than 200 horsemen were killed and missing.

After discovering that the Loyal and Righteous Army was treacherous, Yue Le led his troops through these dozens of small hills regardless of casualties, but in the end, the Loyal and Righteous Army actually launched more than 20 two-wheeled vehicles, deployed at a pass, and escaped from the pass after a hard fight.

Despite this, the inventory of casualties revealed that there were many casualties among the units.

In the middle of the night, he met with Yild and Han Dai, and looked at the increasingly thin war horses, Yue Le immediately sent people to collect grain from the surrounding wealthy families.

At that time, the news of the defeat of the Manqing had already spread all over the country, and everyone hated the Manqing to the bone, and some clan elders and local squires even called on everyone to cut off the tail of money counting and keep the head of suffering.

Some clan elders and squires even called on the young people in the village to attack the Qing army, how could they provide them with food and grass at this time.

A Jiala was sent out, but during the period, he was attacked by the local squires and landlords, and five or six people died before they could collect less than 10 loads of grain, which was not enough for the men and horses to eat.

When everyone was asleep in a daze, suddenly there was a burst of shouting and killing from the south, Yue Le was startled, turned over and got up, only to see thousands of people pushing two-wheeled carts, knife carts killed over, they seemed to be quite familiar with the situation of the Tartars, and they rushed straight to the Tartar stables as soon as they came up.

This can make Yue Le break out in a cold sweat, if you lose your horse, the Tatar cavalry is no different from the ordinary Ming soldiers, in order to avoid the tragedy of Haoge, last night fortunately, there was an arrangement, everyone slept around the stable, it can be said that the people and horses are not separated.

Nevertheless, after a day's rapid march, everyone was sleepy, and many of them who were sick and suffering from heat stroke could not get up at all, and these people were either killed or fled in all directions in fright.

Seeing that there were many people on the other side, everyone pushed two-wheeled carts and knife carts to form a military formation, and constantly rushed towards the Tartar cavalry, due to the unknown enemy situation, Yue Le led his troops to flee north after less than half an hour of fighting.

Less than 10 miles to the north, I suddenly saw more than 1,000 people guarding a pass, using two-wheeled vehicles and knife carts to block the way, just rushed in, 5 or 6 tiger squatting cannons on the mountain rang out non-stop, and two or three hundred people appeared on the peaks on both sides, and they kept shooting with flintlock pistols.

As soon as they approached, there was a thunderstorm burst, and the loyal army hid behind the three-way car formation and continued to counterattack, and was attacked by dense firepower on the mountain, on the mountainside, and at the foot of the mountain, and the Tartars suffered heavy losses.

In the back few miles, looking at a fire dragon, Guo Chonglie led more than thousands of soldiers and horses to kill, they pushed two-wheeled carts, knife carts, to see which posture had the taste of not giving up if the Tartars were not annihilated.

Seeing that there was a blockade in front and a chasing army in the aftermath, Yue Le immediately summoned Gushan Ezhen Yild and Han Dai to discuss the retreat and said: "Everyone, since our army withdrew from the pavilion and separated from Shi Tingzhu, Cai Shiying and others, they parted ways and returned north, but I didn't expect that Yang Xuan had already taken precautions, and constantly sent heavy troops to intercept it, and also sent heavy troops to pursue, in less than two days, we lost more than 1,000 people, so we didn't wait for us to rush to Xiangfan, probably our cavalry will also be wiped out by the loyal army." ”

Yild also shook his head and said: "Lord An, this Xiangfan is not as good as Wuchang, the road is quite uneven, I heard that Yang Xuan ordered the 8th town of Hezhen and the cavalry of Ma Chao, and Wang Fuchen's naval army from Hanzhong is besieging Shuotuobeizi."

Although Xiangfan is good, if He Zhen blocks the way, then there are even more chasing soldiers after the interception, so I am afraid that there will be no place to be buried."

Han Dai shook his head and said: "Although what Ildegushan said is reasonable, retreating to Xiangfan is the order of my uncle's regent, if we suddenly change the order, I am afraid that it will provoke criticism."

Ilde laughed, "Han Dai, why are you so pedantic? Now that my uncle, the regent, is sick with smallpox, how can he deal with such a thing? The plan now is to keep the army in order."

Yue Le pressed the handle of the knife with his hand and glanced at the crowd: "The fifteenth uncle has smallpox, and his body is weak. Yang Xuan is one step ahead, leading everywhere, and now he has deployed heavy troops along the direction of Anlu and Xiangfan, plus He Zhen is leading soldiers and horses to besiege Xiangyang.

As Commander Yild said, it was still time to protect the army for the sake of the future, and the whole army made a detour to Wuchang overnight to escape from the encirclement of the loyal army.

At this time, Guo Chonglie Town, the capital and the Gui Cavalry Association were already very close, Yue Le knew that he could not slack off, and immediately jumped on the war horse and led his troops to the east.