The two sides fought for a while, Liu Tang couldn't take advantage of it, and the team came back, and Tiefutu also went back, so the strategy of the night attack did not succeed.

Liu Tang came back and said: "Brother, I didn't sneak attack, they also wanted to come over for a night attack, but they encountered it on the road, and after a scuffle, they were worried that they wouldn't be able to take advantage, so they came back." ”

"Well, let's think about it again. All our cavalry are light cavalry, and we are weak in the frontal assault, and we are trying to form a heavy cavalry. But we don't have horses, the horses in the grasslands here belong to the breed of Mongolian horses, they are shorter, have strong endurance, and have poor load-bearing capacity, so they are the most suitable for light cavalry, and they have to be carefully selected if they are heavy cavalry, but the horses of the thousand cavalry in Black Dragon City are different, and the high-headed horses should be the Western Xia horse breed. Chao Gai said.

As soon as Chao Gai said this, everyone was in trouble, and Liu Tang said: "It seems that my brother's meaning is not only to defeat them, but also not to hurt their horses, and any hooks, sickles, tripping horses and ropes or anything else can't be used." ”

Lu Fang sighed: "I thought just now, let's use the wine jar to fill it with gunpowder and iron sand like last time, it seems that it won't work." ”

Yuan Lang proposed: "Let's prepare more hooks to pull the heavy cavalry off their horses." ”

"This is a must, but there are not so many hooks, it must be too late to build now, there are few blacksmiths with the army, let the big guy go to the woods tomorrow to cut some branches with hooks to make up the number." Chao Gai said.

For three days in a row, the Jeju regiment practiced avoiding without fighting, and it was impossible for the Black Dragon City Army to attack the city, and the more than 100 cannons on the city wall were not vegetarians.

On the fourth day, the Jeju regiment prepared breakfast early in the training army, and the soldiers found that today's breakfast was very rich, with both mutton and horse meat, and white flour steamed buns were delicious. Experienced veterans know that today is going to be a war, and how can soldiers fight without food.

The drums of the Chinese army's three-way war sounded, Chao Gai sat in the center, and said: "Although we have occupied the fierce cattle grassland, but it has not yet been consolidated, and now we urgently need to consolidate and develop the rear, and we need Zhennanbao as our bridgehead, so we must defeat the Black Dragon City Army today, so that the main force can retreat, do you have confidence." ”

"Yes." The generals said.

Chao Gai began to order: "Yuye led the artillery and pikemen to defend the city, and Lu Fang led a thousand cavalry to stay behind to guard the camp and serve as a reserve army.

I led my own soldier Liu Tang and his direct 1,000 cavalry as the central army, with 1,000 cavalry of Yuan Lang on the right flank and 1,000 cavalry of Guo Sheng on the left flank. Three thousand light cavalry were to fight the Iron Float. ”

"No." The congregation will listen to the commandment.

Chao Gai took the map and began to talk about the details of the operation, originally everyone thought that Chao Gai couldn't wait, and he was going to touch it hard, and the three thousand light horsemen would touch the 1,000 Iron Floating Tu, even if it was a victory, it would be a miserable victory. But after listening to Chao Gai's strategy, everyone laughed heartily, it turned out that it was still outwitted, and each army took a pair of weapons and set off. War drums are beating, trumpets are whining, and flags are flying. Lancers, cavalry archers, mace cavalry, cavalry knife cavalry, one by one, rushed out of the barracks. Three thousand cavalry scattered joy on the grassland, people and horses exploded, Chao Gai gave an order, the cavalry team stopped, and set up a position on the grassland. Don't look at it as three thousand light cavalry, but everyone has iron armor and helmets, but the coverage of iron armor is smaller, and the biggest gap is that the war horse has no vest.

There is no need to send someone to call the battle, the horn in the military camp of Black Dragon City roared, the camp gate opened, and a thousand Iron Floats came out, with infantry on both sides, it seems that the infantry is just playing the role of soy sauce, and the real match of Iron Float should be light cavalry.

Luo Yun rushed over as soon as he urged the horse, and shouted: "In the past few days, we have prepared weapons hooks and sickles, and you dare to fight to the death." As he spoke, Luo Yun shook the hook and sickle in his hand.

The other party laughed: "Good, good, I can't ask for it." Let's see if our Iron Float is great or your hook and sickle is great. ”

"Alright, let's get ready for war." Saying that, Luo Yun went back. ”

Chao Gai waved the flag, and Liu Tang of the Chinese army led a thousand cavalry to pounce. The heavy cavalry on the opposite side also began to accelerate, and it would not be long before they collided together, and the Iron Floating Cavalry was so happy that soon their ironclad heavy cavalry would crush the light cavalry, and this pleasure was heart-pounding.

Getting closer and closer, Liu Tang ordered the cavalry: "Prepare to ignite." ”

The cavalry personally took out a bamboo tube, took the fire rope to light the fuse on the bamboo tube, and the bamboo tube was not thrown, just throw it directly to the ground, Liu Tang took a thousand light cavalry people to turn a corner and came back, Tiefutu was charging, the commander saw that he threw a lot of bamboo tubes on the ground, although he didn't know what it was, but he was worried about fraud and wanted to order the withdrawal of the army, but it was not so easy, the vision of the war horse and the cavalry was limited, and the turn was not so flexible, so he could only rush forward. The bamboo tube on the ground suddenly erupted a thick smoke, and the smoke was full of spicy flavor and pungent taste.

Thousands of bamboo tubes smoked together, and the entire team of Tiefutu was filled in an instant, and the war horses were frightened in the smoke, and the cavalry naturally restrained the war horses, and they were in a mess, trampling each other before and after. Not only were the tears of the people flowing, but even the war horses were choked and coughed constantly.

This guy is called a fierce one, and the war horse has a lot of lung capacity when he charges, and he inhales a lot of toxic gases, and he coughs badly. The trampling on each other was also violent, colliding front and back, and at least hundreds of riders were trampled into flesh by their own people.

The infantry of Black Dragon City were dumbfounded, and wanted to come over to save Ying, Chao Gai waved the flag, Yuan Lang's Pegasus went straight to the infantry of Black Dragon City, the infantry of Black Dragon City was dumbfounded, they had suffered the loss of cavalry, and it was impossible to defeat the light cavalry in the field, the bow and arrow of the light cavalry and the cavalry knife were the infantry amulet, and in a fierce battle, the infantry of Black Dragon City were killed and wounded.

At this time, the white smoke of the Tiefutu has dissipated, Chao Gai led the whole army to assault, more than 2,000 cavalry pounced on it, most of the ordinary cavalry took the hook, and when they saw the Tiefutu, they hooked down, if it was usually that it would have died early, the combat effectiveness of the Tiefutu was very strong, and it was not so easy to hook, but now it was different, the people and horses were choked by the smoke and died, there was no combat power at all, it was a completely one-sided battle, and the effort pulled the Tiefutu off the horse in an instant, and the cavalry who got off the horse was nothing, and the armor was too heavy, I can't walk easily. Liu Tang Guo Sheng let the cavalry tie up one by one, and the scene was spectacular.

Yuan Lang drove away the infantry of Black Dragon City, and also came over to clean up the Tiefutu together, but after an hour's effort, the Tiefutu, who was still showing off his might just now, became a prisoner strung with a rope.

The results of the battle soon came out, and more than a dozen of the 1,000 Iron Floating Slaughter team ran away, and all the others were solved, of which more than 200 people were trampled and killed in battle, and 700 people were captured.

"How is the war horse's war horse, how much damage." Chao Gai asked with concern.

Liu Tang sighed and said: "The self-trampling is too serious, and there are at least two hundred horses damaged, and there are seven hundred and fifty horses that can be used again." "This war horse is ten centimeters taller than an ordinary Mongolian horse, and it weighs at least more than 100 catties, you must know that an ordinary Mongolian horse is only 700 catties.

"That's good, that's good. Collect the troops and return to the camp. Chao Gai gave an order.

The soldiers beat war drums and whistled horns and dragged the captives back to the camp.

It turned out that the Jeju regiment had been thinking of a way to train for three days without fighting, while ordering people to make hook and sickle guns, cut down hooks, and create illusions. While trying to figure out a way, Chao Gai took into account that the cannon in the wine jar last time was too powerful, so he decided to improve it this time, mixing the cannon powder with chili noodles, burning violently and emitting thick smoke, the taste was very choking, and it could make people cough violently. After several experiments, there was a bamboo tube smoke cartridge. Let Liu Tang lead his troops to pretend to charge, drop the smoke bomb and come back, Tiefutu really hit the plan, and the tears choked by the smoke bomb coughed constantly, in this case, it is difficult to win.

The remnants of the Black Dragon City army saw that the general trend had gone, and retreated overnight, and Chao Gai did not rush to kill them all, so let them go.

Seven hundred Iron Float prisoners, and hundreds of infantry prisoners, a total of thousands of prisoners.

The handling of the captives is a problem, killing them all hurts Tianhe, and if it is not Chao Gai's mercy, if this group of people is as cruel as the black wolf bandits, they will be killed. Keep it to take care of the food every day, and now that Heilong Island has just begun to develop, there are no factories and mines that use them.

"It's really a troublesome thing for them to build bridges and roads, and they're worried that they'll run away, and it's also expensive to keep food." Liu Tang sighed.

Yuan Lang said: "Didn't my brother want the war horses of the heavy cavalry, I think there will be some in this Black Dragon City, why don't you exchange some prisoners." ”

Chao Gai nodded: "That makes sense, let's go, let's go see the captive." ”

The captives, especially the prisoners of Tiefutu, were unconvinced one by one, and when they saw Chao Gai coming, they scolded: "Despicable and shameless, plotting against us, we are not convinced to die." ”

Chao Gai said: "You are not despicable and shameless, we don't have heavy cavalry, all light cavalry, why don't you use light cavalry to fight us, war is war, defeat is defeat, what can you do if you are not convinced, do you still want to fight again?" ”

"You let us go, and we'll start all over again." One of the captives said.

Chao Gai said, "Okay, I'm going to let you go." ”

The captives were frightened, and said that there must be no good thing, but unfortunately they deliberately let the captives run on the grassland, and the cavalry used them as live targets to shoot.

Chao Gai continued: "You can't be put in vain, we have spent a long time trying to catch you, you need to pay compensation, I want to exchange you for war horses, not more, two war horses for one person, two cows." If your lord is not willing to do so, I will send you to the mountains to work as miners. ”

The captives looked at each other, they could still do this, it seemed that there was hope for survival, the heavy cavalry was not easy to train, and a soldier was definitely worth two horses and two oxen. The grasslands of Heilong Island are vast, and cattle and horses are not a big deal.

Immediately he sent the centurion of the two captives, gave them horses, and told them to go back and discuss the news.

He came back two days later, and this time it was not two people, but a thousand iron floats and two thousand light cavalry. It seems that Black Dragon City has taken out all the family resources, and I don't know whether it is planning to die or negotiate.

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