"It is the cavalry of the Khalkha Mongols, according to the confession of the captives, they are the vanguard of the Khalkha Mongol army from the Taihang Mountain, who arrived in Baoding five days ago, taking advantage of the lack of troops on our front line and the inability to form a tight defensive line to quickly intersperse and bypass Yi County, and attacked our transport team south of Zhuozhou, causing more than a dozen soldiers to be killed and wounded, because the captain of the transport team detonated the ammunition on the car and shocked their horses, otherwise our transport team would be wiped out. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

In the headquarters of the Third Army of the Ming Army in the inner city of Beijing, Fang Bin, chief of staff of the Third Army, briefed Army Commander Gao Huai on the situation.

"It looks like the Tartars have added a new person."

Gao Huai said with a sneer.

"General, the east of Bazhou was attacked by a large group of Mongolian cavalry, and the cavalry patrol of the Eighth Brigade was all killed, and when the first and second battalions of the cavalry arrived, the enemy suddenly turned to the west, and many villages along the way were attacked, more than 200 villagers were killed and wounded, and the second cavalry battalion was in pursuit."

At this time a staff officer reported.

Fang Bin looked up at Gao Huai, and a trace of solemnity appeared in the eyes of the two of them at the same time.

Obviously, they are really in trouble, if the attack in Zhuozhou can be regarded as an isolated incident, but with this attack, it is a premeditated tactical action, the current Ming army is not the past, at that time they had no baggage on their backs to fight how they wanted, now they are the maintainers of order here, they must protect the people, if the Tartars continue to attack like this, the Ming army, which is dominated by infantry, will not be able to fight with these nomadic cavalry anyway, In the end, he could only be led by the nose and exhausted to extinguish the fire.

"Order Yixian, Dingxing to Bazhou along the line of the people to advance to the city, the first cavalry brigade is dispatched to patrol and guard along this line with battalions as units, and all places north of this line, including Beijing, immediately organize militia regiments to divide all the Tartar weapons in our stockpile."

Gao Huai said.

That's all he can do now.

"General, the warrant of the prince!"

As soon as he finished speaking, another officer ran in with a document and saluted.

Gao Huai and Fang Bin looked at him suspiciously.

"It was not sent from the sea by mail ship, but directly from Nanking by hot air balloon, because the wind direction deviation fell on me, in order to find a suitable air current, floating in the sky for two whole days, the messenger was almost half dead from freezing, I happened to bring it along the way."

The battalion commander of the Anji garrison explained.

Gao Huai took the official document stamped with the big seal of Yang and opened it, took a look, and then handed it to Fang Bin, and said expressionlessly: "Withdraw all the soldiers and civilians in Yixian, Dingxing, Laishui, Xincheng, and Zhuozhou, retreat to the front line of Fangshan, Gu'an, and Bazhou, and tell those people that the prince is heading north, and everything will be fine when the prince arrives." ”

Fang Bin didn't say much after reading it, and immediately went to arrange the retreat.

This is the most reasonable way for them to cope.

The Ming army is not afraid of fighting, but it is afraid that the supply will not be available in the later period, Yixian and other places are in the southernmost, and the current Yishui cannot support shipping, so it can only travel nearly two hundred miles by land to transport materials there, and the people have to be transported by land after retreating into the city wall. If 100,000 Mongol cavalry arrived, and quickly interspersed on a large scale to avoid the city to attack the transportation line, then the defenders in these places would be trapped to death, and the Qing army only needed to let the cannon fodder continue to attack the city and consume the ammunition of the Ming army, and when the Ming army ran out of ammunition, they could easily reap a huge victory that they had never had.

Abandoning these places and retreating as much as possible can minimize the distance of material land transportation, and the Ming army with the canal behind it is almost invincible, and Bazhou can barely be navigable because of the Daqing River, and there is no need to care too much about transportation, after all, it is the barrier of Tianjin and cannot be abandoned.

And at this time, the second battalion of the 1st Cavalry Brigade also caught up with the attacking cavalry west of Bazhou, who killed people and set fire to them along the way, destroying everything they encountered like a rogue, completely copying the set of things of their ancestors, and there was no rest left in the place where they passed, and the same cruel combat method also angered the Ming army, and a thousand Ming cavalry did not hesitate to form two dense horizontal columns after discovering the target, and then stretched out a spear.

"Barbarians can also play cavalry?"

The Dzungar Taigit Mur looked at the Ming cavalry with disdain, and the arrogance of the Golden Family made him disdain these miraculous spear formations that had been passed down by the Qing army.

"My lord, the barbarian cavalry is just a showmanship, rush over, and scatter as soon as you rush!"

An officer next to him said impatiently.

Behind them, five hundred Dzungar cavalry were eager to wield scimitars, since they entered the area controlled by the Qing army as saviors, they can be said to have been touted, along the way they can say that they have done all kinds of evil, robbery, forcible jian, murder, no matter what they do, none of the local officials dare to ask, on the contrary, they must serve them with the best wine and meat, thousands of miles down like this, they have long been crazy one by one, although in the previous skirmish there were also almost thirty casualties, But they still killed the ten Ming patrolling light cavalry after all.

Now they clearly didn't think that this cavalry could stop them.

"Kill!"

Temur nodded with satisfaction, looked at the Ming cavalry who had begun to jog in small steps on the opposite side, and pointed the scimitar in his hand forward and shouted.

Five hundred Dzungar cavalry screamed and urged the war horse under the crotch, and quickly formed a sharp arrow with him as the tip, and crashed straight into the middle of the Ming army's formation.

The level of cavalry and archery of these people is not the same level as that of the Qing army at all, and their hard bows and the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners are estimated to be unable to pull away from the previous generation, the arrows are whizzing out, and there are constantly Ming soldiers and war horses being shot, but most of them are bounced off by the solid cuirass, even if they are shot, they endure the pain and continue to advance, and even the horses that were shot could not leave the team because of the dense formation of the two columns close together, and they were still moving forward.

The two cavalry that were hedging at full speed, closing closer at a speed of nearly twenty meters per second, saw that they were colliding together, but at this moment......

The charging Mongolian cavalry suddenly separated from the middle, turned at a very fast speed, and on the way to turn, everyone pulled out the hard bow again, relying on the riding skills they had practiced since they were children on horseback, and steadily aimed at the densely arranged Ming cavalry behind them, and then a sharp arrow whizzed out, like a hail in the middle of the Ming army.

Temur is not stupid, just their spears and scimitars, which are about one zhang long, are not looking for death when they hit that dense forest-like spear! It's not that the old ancestor didn't leave a trick to deal with this thing.

"Mah, what a disappointment!"

Guo Hong, commander of the second battalion of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Ming Army, looked at the sharp arrow flying in front of his chest speechlessly, and then pulled out his pistol without hesitation, and pulled the trigger on a Tartar cavalryman who was turning back and drawing his bow in a chic manner ten zhang away. At the same time, the deceived Ming cavalry also put down their Zhangba spears, and then pulled out their pistols one by one, and then dense flames erupted, and lead projectiles continued to hit the Junggar cavalry.

Temur, who was far away from the Ming army, looked at the warriors who kept falling off his horse beside him in amazement, and it was obvious that he hadn't reacted yet, why didn't Genghis Khan's tactics work?

Well, his ancestors didn't have rifled guns in Europe back then.

The unlucky Junggar cavalry fell to the ground in an instant, and they were retreating with the advantage of light cavalry speed and horsemanship, preparing to use bows and arrows to destroy the Ming army's formation with a second charge, and then they were rushed up by the heavy cavalry to ravage Lin Zhi, they never thought that they were better at playing long-range weapons than them! After firing pistol bullets one after another, the Ming soldiers raised their horse pistols one after another, and then there was a dense burst of gunfire, and after this round of gunfire, less than half of the Dzungar warriors who were still on their horses remained.

Temur stared at the little triangular eye in horror, and stopped about fifty feet away from the Ming army, looking at the remnants of his men.

"Kill! They emptied their muskets. ”

Lord Taiji gritted his teeth and shouted.

The savage subordinates beside him were also aroused by this humiliating fiasco at this time, and one by one they turned their horses' heads and launched a charge again.

"Again?"

Guo Hong, who was loading the pistol, said speechlessly.

"Outflanking the wings, I see what tricks they are going to play this time!"

Then he commanded.

The herald beside him waved his flag, and while the two teams in the middle were charging forward, the left and right teams suddenly opened their fronts away from the impact of the Dzungar cavalry, and at the same time those cavalry quickly completed their reloading.

The Dzungar cavalry, whose number was far less than that of the Ming army, could only choose to attack the front, but before they could re-apply their old tricks and pull out their bows, the outflanked Ming troops on both sides had already raised their guns and opened fire, and the hit rate of the side shots was naturally far greater than the front, and after this round of gunfire, there were less than 100 people left around Temur.

Knowing that he was at a dead end, he held a spear in his right hand and a shield in his left hand to protect him, and his remnants of his subordinates roared loudly, and finally collided with the spear formation of the Ming army, although he successfully aimed his shield at a Ming spear, and at the same time yelled and stabbed his spear at the opponent, but the difference in length of nearly one zhang still made his efforts go to waste. The steel blade pierced the wooden shield with the force of the impact, and then struck him in the chest accurately, and the moment the spear shaft broke, the tremendous force also made him fly off the horse's back.

Lord Taiji, who did not die immediately, watched a young Ming soldier jump off his horse, then took out a small knife, and under his gaze, stabbed him into the neck with an expressionless face, and while staring at him, he found the gap in his cervical vertebrae, and cut it indifferently like cutting an animal. (To be continued.) )