Ai Xinguo's avoidance of Qingshanzui to open up a second battlefield is what the coalition command is most worried about, and it has also been repeatedly discussed by the General Staff. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tactically speaking, the coalition forces were far fewer in number than the Patriotic Nation. Once the new country opens the front, the coalition forces can only be forced to fortify everywhere, and a situation will be formed that is practically equivalent to no defense everywhere.

Strategically speaking, the country is accustomed to using the strategy of "cutting down big trees".

"Cutting down the big tree" is the name of Nurhachi, and the name that Sun Yi is familiar with is "burning, robbing, and killing".

Because of Aixinguo's ferocious field warfare ability, Aixinguo's opponents tried to avoid fighting them in the wilderness. But there is a fatal loophole in doing so, that is, it can only abandon the common people.

For the Ming Dynasty, this is called "saving the soldiers but not saving the people": the new country of love is coming, shrinking the troops in the strong walled city, and the people outside the city can only resign themselves to fate.

For the nomadic tribes, this is called "drawing arrows": when the new country of love is coming, the young and strong who can shoot arrows are gathered into a horse team to avoid the battle first and then patiently look for fighters, and the old and weak women and children can only dodge separately.

The countermeasure of loving the new country is to attack these people. Nurhachi's theory is that a stout tree cannot be broken at once, and must be patiently axed and sharpened; It is impossible for a great power to be annihilated in one fell swoop, and it is necessary to patiently cut off its periphery and leave only its backbone. Once there are no slaves, the master will naturally not be able to make a living.

Therefore, for the opponent who cannot be defeated for a while, the patriotic country must burn down the opponent's undefended cottages and rob the opponent's livestock and grain, and the people left by the opponent will be flexibly dealt with in line with the principle of maximizing damage: plunder, kill, or kill the young and strong men and women, leaving only the old and weak.

In order to deal with the bottomless tactics of the patriotic country to abandon the main force of the opponent and turn to the "three lights" people, the countermeasure of the coalition forces is to take the initiative to transfer the old and weak in advance at the strategic level; At the tactical level...... No way.

The coalition forces are too small in numbers. Once Aixinguo shifted its attention from the main battlefield to find another breakthrough, and went deep into the hinterland of the Wolf Mountains and Rivers to burn and loot, the coalition forces could hardly stop it.

In other words, once such a situation arises, the coalition forces can only start the plan for a major retreat. This is also the reason why Yang Liulang, who stayed in the woods, asked for battle several times, was delayed by the headquarters for three days on the left and three days on the right several times, and kept a radio station in the rear of the woods.

In other words, the only chance for the coalition is to prevent this from happening.

This morning, the observation post on the top of the green hill reported that a group of men and horses who love the new country first retreated westward, and then turned north after leaving the Yellow River for a distance of ten miles.

The intended goal of the coalition forces is to try to find a fighter plane to take the initiative to attack and disrupt the deployment of the patriotic country; If there is no suitable fighter, kill Duo'er Hong immediately and start a great retreat.

To be honest, when the General Staff formulated this plan, there was no confidence from top to bottom, and it was just for the sake of the plan. But when the coalition forces defeated Ai Xinguo at Qingshanzui, the general staff began to recognize the initiative.

According to the experience of Sun Dingliao, chief of staff, the field tactics used by the Eight Banners of Aixin were very simple: the front row was a heavy-armored foot soldier or shield cart, and the second row was a short-armored foot archer. When the two armies approached with heavy armor and heavy arrows, they concentrated on one point and threw a large amount of vests or infantry armor to chisel the opponent's formation, and the men and horses swarmed up to completely defeat the opponent.

The facts of the Battle of Qingshanzui proved that the tactics of the Eight Banners were still the same.

The biggest reason why this simple tactic of the Eight Banners could always win in the past was that the soldiers of the Eight Banners fought bravely once they started the battle. Most of their courage comes from the mythical record of the invincibility of the new country, and now that the new country is newly defeated, the second staff department is pretending to be a god again, and the staff department estimates that there should already be eight banner disciples who doubt whether they are fighting in the same army with the help of gods.

The second reason why the simple tactics of the Eight Banners were always able to win in the past was that the soldiers of the Eight Banners wore armor on a large scale and were equipped with Manchurian bows on a large scale, and they were not allowed to advance and retreat together in a dense formation.

However, the battle record of Qingshanzui shows that the old tactics of the Eight Banners are no longer working.

This time, the dense formation of the Aixin Kingdom became a complete pile of people to death in front of the artillery shotguns and three-eyed guns of the coalition army.

The large-scale armor of the soldiers of the Eight Banners can realistically have a certain protection ability against the Three-Eyed Gun of the Coalition Army, but the price of the armor is the loss of mobility, and when fighting against the light Three-Eyed Gun of the Coalition Army, it is only a matter of being beaten and suffering from heat stroke.

The only thing the coalition forces feared was the Great Bow of the Eight Banners.

If the coalition forces desperately threw a few smoke grenades into the Eight Banners formation to make the archers lose their aiming, the Great Bow of the Eight Banners would be powerless.

Sun Dingliao decided that Aixinguo would not change its tactics in a short period of time. The secret of the Eight Banners' victory is to fight and rush, and the command and coordination in actual combat is actually very rough. Eight Banners are used to this way of fighting, and most of their last defeat will be blamed on the terrain, and even Eight Banners may not know other tactics.

On the other hand, morale on the side of the coalition forces is booming.

The second battalion, which will be tasked with the sortie this time, from the deputy battalion commander Batel to the nomads of Hesheng Township who have just joined the battalion, are all screaming and screaming, others are fighting, and they patrol every day in addition to training, and at most help the sailors tow rafts. The Liaodong veteran wanderers of the third battalion laughed at them as slender men on horseback, where could the people in the second battalion stand this?

Originally, Sun Yi thought that Yang Liulang's riding skills were already very exquisite, but now he found that compared with the new camp and the nomads in Shengxiang, Yang Liulang's riding skills were just getting started.

These nomads, who grew up on horseback, rarely used reins to control their horses, and rode horses almost entirely by the center of gravity of their legs and body, so they could doze off their horses when they were sleepy, and play the mangu tactics of archery while riding horses.

They brought with them their own mounts, and they treated their horses like brothers.

In their words, horses eat grass and are naturally timid, especially susceptible to fright, and instinctively run when frightened. In addition to being physically strong, a good mount should be trained from an early age to make the horse slowly bolder, and the most important thing is to cultivate the horse's trust in the rider little by little. No matter how good a horse is, suddenly changing riders can become timid and restless.

They evaluated the horses on the other side, and the horses of the Eight Banners were not mounts at all, so the Eight Banners were infantry riding cattle. The horses of the Eight Banners Protector and the Mongolian soldiers are good, and the relationship with the owner is good, but unfortunately after a month's trek on a hot day, the horse lost weight very badly, and the horse's spirit is not good. In this case, if the owner does not care for the horse, the war horse is likely to be scrapped into an ordinary horse.

The second battalion organized these natural riders into a team as the main force, and the other riders into the left and right wings, and the training content of these days was to get the horses used to smoke bombs and three-eyed guns.

Now the second battalion is finally about to attack.

The General Staff drew equipment from the 1st and 3rd Battalions to ensure that each of the 2nd Battalion had composite chest guards and helmets, and concentrated a large number of electric three-eyed guns and almost all of the smoke grenades of the coalition forces. At the same time, the General Staff also transferred personnel from the 1st and 3rd Battalions to strengthen the 2nd Battalion as auxiliary personnel.

The deputy commander of the 2nd Battalion, Battle, felt the pressure.