Less than fifty miles away from Caozhou, the resistance of the He Jiajun gradually began to become stronger, which made the advance speed of Liu Zongmin's vanguard army drop sharply.

"This should be the combat effectiveness of the He family's army!"

As a pioneer general, Liu Zongmin was not angry about this, but rejoiced, and calmly sat on horseback and looked directly at the front line of the battle ahead.

As the first person in Dashun to be the first military general in the name of Dashun, Liu Zongmin thinks that he has made great achievements in martial arts, but because of Li Zicheng's care for him, he has always been pressed by He Sanjiang in terms of military exploits, and he only participated in many important battles, although he ensured the main strength of the army under his command, but soon made his military achievements a little unjustifiable.

Therefore, now He Sanjiang's rebellion, in Liu Zongmin's view, is an excellent opportunity for the officials of the Dashun Kingdom to take a look, and he, Liu Zongmin, is actually not inferior to He Sanjiang, a former colleague with great military achievements.

The large-scale counterattack came so quickly that the He Jiajun, who had been retreating step by step, suddenly launched a fierce offensive against Liu Zongmin's vanguard army dozens of miles outside Caozhou City.

"Let Liao Juncheng press up, the front line must not retreat a step!"

Liu Zongmin's decades-long military career is not in vain, He Sanjiang and the others retreated step by step, and did not let him lose his most critical vigilance, and even after the pursuit, all the scouts in his overtime dog hands were scattered, just to prevent He Sanjiang from showing weakness to the enemy.

Now that the He family's army is counterattacking in the overall situation, Liu Zongmin reacted at the first time, and the reserves that had been prepared long ago were sent up at the first time, and before the vanguard army collapsed, it suppressed the position for the main army.

"It's pretty decent!"

On the other side, the general of the He family army who commanded the battle at this time was not He Sanjiang, but Bai Yushan, who was more familiar with the terrain of Caozhou, was commanding 50,000 soldiers of the He family army with ease at this time, taking advantage of the terrain and environment, and attacking the 100,000 Dashun forward army wave after wave.

Although Bai Yushan had 50,000 soldiers in his hands at this time, the actual strength of the He family army was less than 20,000, but the strength displayed had already made the opposite Dashun army use more than 50,000 troops to fight against him, but it was also within Bai Yushan's expectations.

If the He family army did not have such combat effectiveness, then how could they believe in repelling the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Dashun army.

Liu Zongmin's temporary response plan, in Bai Yushan's opinion, can only be regarded as so-so, in fact, since he Liu Zongmin threw off the main army for two days, he has already made a major mistake, a choice that can make his forward army fall apart.

When Liu Zongmin wanted to fight with He Sanjiang and prove his strength, he abandoned the slow-moving main force in the rear, and when the light division advanced into the Caozhou territory, in fact, He Sanjiang and the others could already attack with the whole army and encircle and annihilate it.

It's just that first, He Sanjiang's headquarters is less than 100,000, and if he wants to eat Liu Zongmin's 100,000 army in one fell swoop, although He Jiajun has full confidence, it will also lose a lot, and then it will be more difficult to deal with the main force of Dashun led by Li Zicheng in the rear; Second, although Li Zicheng's main army has been two days away from Liu Zongmin's vanguard army, He Jiajun is confident that he can deal with the Dashun vanguard army during these times, but the risk is not small, and all kinds of unpredictable situations have a great impact on the war.

Bai Yushan commanded the army near Caozhou to launch an offensive plan against Liu Zongmin's department, but at the same time, He Sanjiang was not idle, with the most elite team of the He family's army, 5,000 light cavalry lightly armed, harassing and intercepting the main army of the Dashun Dynasty behind.

The exciting advantage of cavalry is a very unsolvable thing in field warfare in this era, like Henan, Shandong, such as the plains and hilly areas around Henan, an infantry needs a two-day journey, but in the eyes of the cavalry is a journey of less than a day, and in addition to the damage to the horses under the command of the cavalry, the cavalry soldiers themselves maintain complete combat effectiveness, compared with the tired soldiers on the opposite side, the advantage is immediately obvious.

Even in the Dashun Dynasty, since He Sanjiang's rebellion, the number of cavalry under Li Zicheng's command is probably less than 20,000, distributed among Li Zicheng's troops and the rest of the confidant generals.

Among them, many cavalry horses used are short Mongolian horses, although they are extremely patient, but they may not be the most suitable choice for charging in real combat, so they are often suspected of indiscriminate filling.

Although there are only 5,000 cavalry under He Sanjiang, most of its cavalry are local horse bandits and nomads recruited by them when Ningxia and Gansu were developing, and the war horses are also carefully selected Hetao war horses.

Therefore, don't look at the fact that there are only 5,000 soldiers in their group, but they are calculating and unintentional, and they give full play to their strong mobility ability, which poses a great threat to Li Zicheng's main army of hundreds of thousands.

He Sanjiang would not touch the stone with an egg, knowing that his cavalry would be like stones and sand into the sea in front of the huge enemy army, and he would not be able to cause too much damage to it, so he would harass the target of the attack, and from the very beginning, he aimed at the vast auxiliary team behind the main force of Dashun, and continued to attack it, destroying the road and so on.

Attack after attack, so that the Great Shun Dynasty of the army of the army to lose a lot, the Great Shun Dynasty is not a year old, itself is the peasant rebel army started with the Great Shun Dynasty in power, in this chaos want to restore the people's livelihood to the state, but it is far more difficult than when they did the destruction.

Today, the stockpiled grain, grass and lotus funds of the Dashun Dynasty are still the reserves obtained by Li Zicheng and their siege of the city and land over the years, as well as the reserves obtained by the local aristocracy and gentry, but its foundation is still insufficient.

Although not every harassment and attack can be successful, its successful or unsuccessful attacks and harassment make the logistics detachment of the Great Shun Dynasty always lose more or less the materials it escorts.

And when the He Jiajun took the initiative to withdraw the army, it was playing a clear phalanx of strong walls and clear fields, so even if Dashun occupied a lot of territory, he could not get too much supply because of this, and the longer the supply line, the more consumption and more flaws would be brought to the Dashun army.

And what they hated the most was that even if He Sanjiang and his team succeeded in attacking the auxiliary team, in order not to drag down the mobility of the cavalry, in addition to the necessary ration supplies, the rest of the materials that could not be taken away were all burned by He Sanjiang and them with a fire, and there was no room for recovery at all.

(End of chapter)