Like a swept wave, just as the Mongolian cavalry of the Qing army was retreating, the dragoon team of the 2nd Field Brigade of the Manchurian cavalry of the Qing army, which came around from the other direction to chase the fleeing Qing Manchurian cavalry, intercepted the Mongolian cavalry from the flank.

Instead of crashing directly into it and solving the problem with sabers, they ran parallel to the scattered ranks of the Mongol cavalry and fired a salvo at the thousand Mongol cavalry fleeing on the flanks with a special short-barreled arquebus on their backs.

Then nearly 200 Mongolian cavalry fell off their horses, and the Mongolian cavalry that followed behind was in great confusion, and at this time, the dragoon team of the 2nd Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army had rushed into a distance of thirty or forty meters that was enough to fire with a short firearm.

The Mongols did not show weakness, they bent their bows and arrows, and shot a wave of arrows at the dragoons, but they did not gain much, and on the bumpy horses, the bows and arrows could hit the enemy very little, and only caused damage to the dragoons thirty or fifty people, and then the dragoons' two rounds of short fire shots were completed, and the dragoons threw away the short fire guns in their hands, and pulled out a short fire gun again and began to shoot.

After two rounds of firing, there was not much left of the Mongol cavalry on this flank.

Throwing away the short firearm in his hand, there was no time to insert it into the hanging bag of the saddle, and the remaining chasers drew their sabers and rushed forward, crashing headlong into the fleeing Mongol cavalry in the other direction, cutting off the Mongol cavalry from it.

There are only more than 80 chasers left around Feng Wuyu, after all, they are attacking 3,000 Mongolian cavalry, and the more than 100 cavalry in front have suffered heavy casualties, only a few of them are lucky to escape, and they are rushing on the flank, circling towards their own formation, and the dragoons coming from the flank just pass behind them, intercepting the Mongolian cavalry brigade that fled to the other side, they only need to pursue the Mongolian cavalry fleeing in front.

In the distance, there were horns and horns, and the field brigade, which had been out of battle, was forming a group, and then catching up in battle formation, and a group of two hundred cavalry was rushing back, guarding the baggage and sappers behind them, as well as the wounded and militiamen.

The artillery had lined up and slowly retreated into the center of the formation, a solid defensive formation was forming, and although the enemy had already run, the battle was not completed, and they were still on guard.

The two sides pursued one and fled the other, and encountered a large force of Qing infantry marching five miles away.

The Mongol cavalry passed through the large army of the Qing army, and Feng Wuyu had to retreat with the cavalry.

The dragoons were chasing the fleeing Mongol cavalry all over the hills, and the Manchurian cavalry had retreated into the enemy's large force.

"Woo woo woo-" As Feng Wuyu retreated, a low horn sounded, and the dragoons who were chasing rushed to the place where Feng Wuyu was, and then met with his troops, slowly retreating, while retreating, while picking up the corpses and wounded of his comrades on the ground, pulling directly on the horse's back, and then leading to the rear.

"Across, across, across," the infantry and musketeers in the distance also arrived, and when they heard the sound of the trumpet, they divided their troops and horses to clean up the wounded and corpses on the ground, and then began to withdraw to their own positions.

Everything is so orderly, advance and retreat freely.

Man Dahai hung one arm, his face covered in blood, and while reprimanding Fan Shaozu and Ma Bao, he whipped two Manchu generals with leather whips, and the whole army stopped five miles away.

This gave Feng Wuyu time to pack up the wounded and war horses and gather the troops.

Half an hour later, the whole team retreated into the hastily driven out fortifications, and a large battalion was taking shape.

A large battalion of wagons and spearmen's spears took shape in such a hasty manner, and encompassed the whole army.

Outside, a small group of cavalry troops who had just been guarding the large camp wandered within two miles of the main camp.

And there is always a cavalry battalion in the big camp of thousands of troops guarding, and did not follow the attack, because this era is the era of cavalry, although the cavalry battalion of the field brigade is divided into two teams before and after the field brigade to escort the field brigade on the march, and the guard cavalry battalion directly under the field brigade also attacked, but this cavalry battalion of a thousand households did not attack except after fighting with the Manchurian cavalry at the beginning, because there is also a strategy in this world called the plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, Feng Wuyu is afraid that the enemy will transfer his cavalry out, Therefore, the main cavalry Qianhu battalion was not allowed to attack.

He only used the cavalry battalion in his hands and the personal guards directly under his jurisdiction to alert the cavalry battalion to attack.

Let's put it this way, a field brigade has about 1,800 cavalry, divided into guard cavalry, about 200 people, the alert cavalry battalion, that is, the dragoons, and the cavalry battalion, which is the ordinary cold weapon cavalry battalion, and the cavalry equipment of other Ming and Qing armies, the difference is that there is also a short fire gun, but it is only a general arquebus short fire gun, not equipped with sabers and arquebuses, short fire guns and other sharp weapons like the dragoon battalion, and there is also a cavalry battalion of 800 to 1,000 people, The leader of the army was the Chiho of the rank of the head of the thousand households, which was the main force of the cavalry operation, they did not attack, their task was to protect the militia and sappers of the large battalion, the baggage soldiers.

Half of this cavalry unit is lancers, that is, lancers with waist knives and impact spears in their hands, this is what Zhang Qiang and horseback slash learn in this game, full-lance lancers, their impact is undoubtedly very lethal in this cavalry era, this is a trump card, can not be used, generally when fighting head-on, impact the enemy's cavalry and the main force.

After the violent collision between the two sides, they watched each other from a distance, and then gathered their teams and prepared for another decisive battle.

At this time, the sun has just risen, and the sun is not very hot.

Short and intense, this is the evaluation of the first meeting between the two sides on the battle just now.

According to the figures reported by the General Staff Headquarters, which counted casualties, we made a rough estimate that in this battle, the combat units to which the engineers and baggage soldiers who walked in the middle of the ranks, the archers and crossbow soldiers suffered many casualties, probably more than half of them were disabled, and the casualties of the spear battalion rushing to the front line were not small, about half of them, that is, the 1,000-strong troop battalion, was disabled in order to buy time for the large troops.

The cavalry battalion was also disabled, half of them were killed in battle, and a small half were seriously wounded. This is equivalent to more than half of the casualties.

The Guards also suffered more than half of the casualties, leaving more than 60 people.

In this sudden attack, the two hundred men of the personal guard, except for the cavalry sent out to deliver the message, the rest of the more than one hundred and sixty people died more than a hundred people.

The dragoons killed more than thirty people, wounded more than sixty, and more than five hundred went to a fifth.

In this battle, the 2nd Field Brigade, which had more than 9,000 people, suffered more than 1,000 casualties, one-eighth.

It hasn't reached the point where it hurts its muscles and bones.

As for the enemy, Feng Wuyu estimated that the 5,000 cavalry suffered at least 3,000 casualties, and more than two-thirds of the casualties.

Three to one, this result is still very fortunate to be able to achieve such a result in the case of a surprise attack.

Now the infantry army behind the enemy arrived, and from a distance, the mist had dissipated, and there were about 20,000 people.

"My lord, what now?" A thousand households asked him.

"Fight a battle, and then see the opportunity to retreat, I think this is just the enemy's forward, this time we were careless, actually let the enemy touch the side, without waiting for the will of the adults, we can only retreat to the capital of Raozhou first, wait for a while, the infantry protect the militia and the people, and the artillery battalion will go first, and the other soldiers will fight bravely, see the opportunity to slip." Feng Wuyu Road.

"My lord, maybe Lord Huang's cavalry brigade is nearby, maybe it's hidden nearby."

Sennodo Road.

Feng Wuyu looked at the chief of staff, a promoted garrison Qianhu, "In such a situation, do you have a way to deal with it?" ”

The garrison said: "When you were fighting just now, we deduced it, and felt that we should take advantage of the transfer now, but the enemy has an army of 20,000, if we move, we will be very passive, we can only fight a battle, and then let the cavalry brigade come to help, otherwise when the enemy's large army comes, we will be surrounded by the enemy in the wilderness, we are a team that relies heavily on supplies, and we may not be able to fight for a long time." ”

Feng Wuyu thought for a while, "No, we still have to fight, we can't outrun the enemy, there are too many wounded, I'm afraid there are hundreds of people, and they are all seriously wounded, if there is no carriage, they will definitely die halfway, we can only fight a battle, and after repelling the enemy, we can retreat." So it was decided. ”

Five miles away, Mandahai is also hesitating, is it to fight or retreat?

Thinking about the time when he was not Hong Chengchou's foresight, he hesitated and was dissatisfied, but when he saw the strength of the Huaxia army, his heart was trembling, it was really terrible just now, when did the Ming army have this kind of troops who dared to fight with the Qing army head-on, this feeling was only available to the original Guanning Iron Cavalry, the Guanning Iron Cavalry in its heyday was very powerful, daring to sprint head-on with the Qing Army, and did not fall behind.

Then there is Li Zicheng's iron-clad cavalry dead soldier army, ironclad army, the Qing army has fought ten times, and nine times it will be defeated, if it is not for the surprise attack and the numerical victory over that army, the Qing army basically does not dare to fight with that army head-on.

After a while, he finally spoke, "Someone, go and send a letter to Hong Chengchou, let him bring the army to help, and I will drag the Ming army here." ”

Fan Shaozu and Ma Bao listened, glanced at each other, their faces were as gray as ashes, and at the same time read impatience in each other's eyes, and read the common voice, "Don't fight, retreat." ”

But Man Dahai didn't give them a chance, but ordered, "General Fan, you take the Han army flag to attack from the front, Adjutant General Ma, you bring the green battalion soldiers as the vanguard, and attack the enemy's flank first." ”

Then he said to the Manchurian general who was in charge of monitoring before: "You are responsible for supervising the battle, and if you don't hear Mingjin and retreat, you will be killed." ”

Suddenly, the war drums thundered, and the horn of battle was sounded again.

Behind the hills in the distance, several cavalrymen half-hid in the trees observed the battlefield with binoculars.

Behind the hills, groups of cavalry lined up to attack.

Farther away, Hong Chengchou kept urging the troops to advance, but they were helpless, the distance they pulled down was too far, and the 50,000 Qing troops were desperately on the way, and they couldn't go any faster.

They are still more than twenty kilometers from the battlefield.

This is almost a day's journey for a soldier in this era.

The musketeers suffered minimal casualties, with only a dozen or so killed,

(End of chapter)