Chuzhou, under Duliang Mountain, in the continuous drizzle, the straight road that has been abandoned for many years is only a little hardened roadbed left in the mud.

With a loud roar and chase, the cavalry sprinting hard, brandishing swords and spears, stepped through the mud, tore through the rain curtain, and drove by, trying to chase the fleeing figures.

Suddenly, some kind of dull sound broke through the rain curtain and overpowered their voices, and then they saw that the gradually lengthening queue, like an invisible whip out of thin air, was severely whipped from the side, and many cavalrymen were thrown out of the air, gushing blood, and their limbs were shattered before falling from the air to the ground.

And in the woods on the side, there was a distinct sound of a trumpet.

In an instant, the figure in the forest stood up at once, raised his gun and continued to fire, and after the fallen branches covered it, someone pushed out several small cannons that were smoking.

With the sparks and smoke that spewed one after another, the projectiles scattered took the lives of dozens of knights in an instant, and even scattered their sprinting queue.

Some of them began to turn their horses, put down their long, narrow and thick-backed sabers, drew their short bows from their horses, and shot desperately in the direction of the figures and voices, but the dense and wet branches and foliage greatly hindered the shooting and penetration.

More projectiles crackled through the rain curtain with a crackling sound, knocking down and injuring more of the target's conspicuous mounts, along with the riders above.

"Don't stop ......"

"Rush over ......"

Someone was shouting hoarsely. It's a pity that it's over, and the chaos of the formation of each other has been caused.

Worse still, the horses, which had not heard of the bombardment, hesitated in almost terror and spun in place, refusing to turn to the enemy's direction despite the shouting of the familiar riders, and were swept away by the sound of volleys.

Soon the forest was shrouded in the emitted thick smoke, like an invisible screen. The rest of them began to jump off their frightened mounts and sprint towards the edge of the forest on foot, before they were knocked down into the mud by the fluttering guns.

Blood mixed with mud mixed with the struggles of men and horses, mixed into some kind of thick brown.

Amid the trumpets and shouts, the spearmen who had fled from the avenue also stepped on the muddy water and re-lined themselves into an irregular formation, and forced the cavalry who were still in place to retreat with their dense blades and resolute expressions of cold light.

When these cavalrymen finally thought of leaving the battlefield.

With the sound of some rapid horn, a large number of stragglers in armor and weapons rushed out of the woods and joined in the battle of sweeping the tail, forcing the cavalry surrounded by the regiments to separate them with weapons, and dragged them off their horses one by one to slash and stab them to death or take them prisoner and bind them.

Soon there were piles of stripped corpses on the ground, and strings of captives shivering in the rain wearing only thin undershirts. The arrogance and momentum of chasing the north before are completely gone.

This is what I saw when I slowly walked out of the woods on horseback under the escort of my own army, wearing a wet raincoat.

"How is your situation ,......?"

I saw the Wind Banner who was in charge of personally leading the team to deceive and lure the enemy, and strode over covered in rain.

Discounted Geometric ......

"It's alright......"

He doesn't care

"It's just that the retreat is slow, dozens of them have been stepped on, and there are more than 100 injuries......"

"But"

There was a color on his face

"After this battle, I'm afraid that the last bit of Zhongli Town's cavalry will also fold in......"

"I can only hide in Haozhou City and survive......"

"It's not in vain that I'm a wolf bèi......"

It is not surprising to defeat the battle, but it is difficult to defeat the battle, and if you can learn a lesson! The remnants of the army, regrouped, could also be an opportunity for victory.

Under the enemy's offensive, maintaining a posture of defeat with ease is a technical task that tests the general's command and emergency response.

At present, there are only the first and second battalions, and these two old base units, which have enough confidence and obedience, can barely achieve this relatively fine tactical change.

"Pass My Orders"

Thinking of this, my heart moved, and I turned my head to Yao Pingzhong, who was following me

"Be kind to these captured horsemen......"

"Light a fire and provide them with hot soup ......"

"Let Muron come up with some to review the background ......"

"Let's see if I can convert some ...... for my use"

"At least every cavalry is quite valuable to our army"

"After coming to the Huai River, it will be even more useful......"

"No......"

He finished the transcription, put my seal on it, and left......

Ever since Zheng Zhou's military merchant regiment and logistics baggage team brought me a large number of urgently needed materials such as gunpowder, accessories, gun barrels, and the corresponding animal power of the army, our unit's initiative and will to fight have almost risen rapidly......

Therefore, in the period after crossing the river, I encountered twenty or thirty battles, large and small, although most of them were low-intensity, position-propulsive active defensive battles; or follow the large army, occupy a large advantage under the pursuit of the north style of rout, but in consideration of the relatively favorable conditions, also took the initiative to fight several high-intensity hard battles, or more difficult battles.

For example, on the edge of Chaohu Lake in Luzhou, we used a large airfoil-shaped platoon to concentrate fire, coupled with the central platoon artillery bombardment, and crushed the Luzhou army guarding the county seat of Chaoxian County out of the city to meet the attack, and then Han Liangchen led the teaching team to bypass the expanding enemy formation, rushed straight to the city gate behind them, and rushed in with the flow of fleeing people.

After a desperate battle with a short saber, he captured the city gate and separated the enemy forces from the inside and outside. After the thousands of Luzhou soldiers outside the city took this portrait, the remnants of the defenders in the city had no intention of fighting again, and fled from the other gates.

In one fell swoop, it was a city in good condition.

Or at the junction of Shuzhou and Shouzhou, the blocking battle in Huoshan County,

In order to intercept the retreating Shouzhou Army and flee back to Shouchun Town, where the city is high and well-fed, the pacesetter regiment and the teaching team with mobile ability rushed hundreds of miles ahead of hundreds of horses, rushed to Huo Shan's rule with a full formation rate of seventy or eighty percent, built a position on the spot according to the danger, and then planted the flags they carried, and used all the riders to go out to cruise with great fanfare, making a posture of battlefield reconnaissance.

After the Shouzhou army, which had arrived in a hurry, did not dare to act rashly and waited for the backup to return to the city, and when they gathered enough strength to launch several tentative attacks and were repulsed, and also found out the actual reality, my other lightly armed vanguard also crossed the mountains and mountains to arrive here.

Han Liangchen took the opportunity to teach a small number of cavalry in the team to take the lead, and the supporting fresh force followed up, and condescendingly launched a counterattack, killing them in all directions, and one chased them to the assembly place of the army, burned and plundered many camp tents, and then calmly retreated.

Then the opponent almost seemed to be a gambler to use the tactics of adding fuel to the attack, increasing the intensity and scale of the attack again and again, but again and again being thwarted by the strengthened defensive line, and finally my artillery team also appeared on the battlefield in a hurry, pushed out of the pass, and fired at the bottom, they finally gave up the last effort.

Divided into several divisions, turned elsewhere and began to break away from the battlefield, but unfortunately the horse team pursued by the official army also arrived, and in the end there were less than 1,000 people who were able to escape back to Shouchun Town.

Afterwards. We had a mountain of baggage and armor left behind in their battlefields, and we had to sell and dispose of some of them on the spot before we could start again.

The advantage of firearms' long-lasting lethality and last-strike strike has also been gradually highlighted in the sharpening of the battlefield as a whetstone. Even those newly recruited and replenished soldiers of all colors gradually became accustomed to this type of combat with firearms (gunners) as the core.

People who are still flawed or don't know how to be flexible on the battlefield can't live for too long, whether it's in the face of the enemy's swords and arrows, or the resentment of friendly forces from behind, and as long as they are still alive, they will not refuse more trouble-free and more efficient fighting methods and new tactics.

The core troops, mainly the first and second battalions, were even able to use some kind of coordination, simply interspersed and divided behind enemy lines or flanks, and fought a few rather decent annihilation battles.

Even if they still can't help but complain privately about my troops, the excessively strict discipline and daily training system, especially my mandatory literacy requirements, for many people, it is a dead end. It is enough for them to only know how to fight with a knife for the rest of their lives, and they are actually forced to go to some things like "why kill" and "who are you fighting for".

Despite this, there are very few things that escape or leave the team under some kind of pressure. Of course, this is also due to the sufficiency, and the fact that I have never discounted the rewards of military merit and the share of the spoils.

Even if the boss can't give it in time, or if it gets stuck for some reason, I will clearly announce the notice to divert the hatred, and then give rewards and honors out of my own pocket.

Among the officers and troops who fought in the northern and southern areas of Jiangbei, there was also a small reputation, and there was even a so-called popular joke that the left wing of the new army "can attack and defend better, and the rear should be worry-free".

The impression that the weapon is good at defending and not attacking is further enhanced, which makes people a little helpless and speechless

Although in terms of attack power output, it lacks the strength of a burst in one go, but it is also better to be durable and steady, until the end of the battle is very small, and when the enemy can't break through the line after several outbursts, the bloody bravery will be subsided by the block and quickly fall into a low tide of exhaustion, and then collapse under continuous killing.

Of course, because the rivers in the Jianghuai region are densely networked, which is really not conducive to cavalry operations, so we did not encounter large-scale cavalry battles.

Occasionally, some local cavalry assaults can be relied on to rely on numerical superiority and cooperation to suppress and expel them from a distance, or successfully cross them at a certain cost after being entangled in melee combat by foot soldiers.

Although it is known as the "Jianghuai Colosseum" as the area with the greatest intensity of conquest, although there are some wise and brave people in the Huainan Domain, or those who can fight well, they are just a slightly louder murmur under the crushing of the general trend launched by the Southern Dynasty with the power of the whole country.

In addition, as one of the great strengths of the gunners, as long as they carry enough ammunition, they can still maintain considerable combat effectiveness even after a long march, after all, the strength required to reload and shoot in line on the spot, and the physical strength required to fight hand-to-hand combat are completely different, and in the selection of soldiers' physical elements, the requirements are lower and more sources.

As a whole, after the rapid march, the shortcomings of the so-called strong crossbow were also well compensated, and the prepared barrage and firepower were enough to surprise any opponent encountered.

Therefore, with relatively sufficient material supply and maintenance, the scope and durability of operations are also much larger and better than most traditional old-fashioned armies with the same formation.

In contrast, those traditional armies dominated by cold weapons, after a long-distance march or assault march, can only carry out limited bonuses and supplements under various flexible and random conditions, including personal will, morale, personal charm and command and appeal of generals, familiar battlefield environment, wind direction and climate, and other weather factors.

Therefore, it also reflects the comprehensive adaptability of our troops, except for the lack of strength in attacking fortifications, almost all kinds of environments and conditions, can maintain the corresponding combat effectiveness.

And even if it is the problem of lack of strength in attacking fortifications, it is also for those cities that are protected by relatively tall walls, ordinary villages and towns and fortresses cannot stop our firepower at all, and if it is not possible, we can use the infantry of the auxiliary army to forcibly pile up.

Moreover, this deficiency is not impossible to solve, and it can be strengthened and supplemented by the corresponding grenadiers and artillery teams, but for some reason, we are stuck in this aspect of demand.

Of course, among the large number of troops in the Southern Dynasties, there were not those stubborn and inflexible conservatives, and the appearance of this new army was inevitably seen by some people as its achievements increased.

For example, the generals of other armies began to try to concentrate and use the guns in the scattered armies, and achieved certain results in the defense and field battles, which also somewhat raised the treatment and status of those who were originally old and weak in the army.

However, if you want to emulate my practice and military system, this is not only a systematic project of corresponding tactical and theoretical construction, but also involves a corresponding supporting preliminary merit building system, which is not so good for copycat past.

Just a unified caliber and a quantified charge is enough for them to spend time and trouble tossing for a long time. At least my weapons and ammunition as a new army were produced in small quantities and redressed one by one.

And they need to fight with those logistics bureaucrats in the rear who are difficult to repay, and with the vested interests under the two major military merit industrial systems of military weapons and generals, so that they can achieve results.