As the horses moved away, a thousand cavalry from the already arrived surged through the line and rushed towards the Qing soldiers.

As a heavy army in the era of cold weapons, the important surname of cavalry is naturally self-evident, but cultivating an elite cavalry is not such a simple thing, especially when cavalry marches and fights in the field, the daily consumption is an astronomical amount.

It is necessary for a horse to eat three meals a day, which is not counted, and it has to be a horse feed cake made of good beans, and a horse needs at least four catties of horse feed and seven or eight catties of grass a day. When resting, it is also necessary to use salted water to fry noodles, otherwise the horses will lose fat, which will affect the speed of the horses today, and it will be difficult for the horses to recover their strength quickly. For example, among the 1,000 cavalry brought by Pang Gang this time, according to one horse and two horses, the entire cavalry team must have 2,000 war horses, not to mention, and more than 400 mules and horses will be equipped to carry rations and forage for the cavalry team. Some people may ask, isn't there a special baggage soldier in the team, and their carts have grain and grass on them, so why do they use cavalry to bring them themselves? But in fact, it is not like that, the speed of the cavalry is very fast, especially when they are fighting, it is common to fight for hundreds of miles a day, if they only rely on some slow baggage teams to supply food and grass, the cavalry will not fight.

It took Pang Gang more than a year to build a cavalry team of more than 3,000 people, and the expenses of these more than 3,000 cavalry alone were worth more than half of the other more than 20,000 foot soldiers. This shows how laborious it is to assemble a cavalry team.

However, the role of cavalry is also obvious, when more than a thousand cavalry brandished sabers to attack the Qing soldiers, the faces of the Qing generals who were still hesitating to launch another attack finally changed.

Although the two teams of men and horses were almost wiped out, although his heart was like a knife, it was not to the point of breaking his muscles and bones for him, but now that the cavalry of the Ming army has also arrived here, this is not so simple as a loss, once this cavalry comes into contact with them, they will be in danger of being wiped out.

This Jia Lazhangjing looked at the cavalry of the Ming army brigade that was roaring towards him, and grabbed the reins of his horse with both hands, he very much wanted to meet all the remaining troops. Tell those Ming troops on the other side that the warriors of the Red Banner of the Great Qing Dynasty are not easy to mess with! However, reason told him that if he met the enemy with less than 300 remaining troops, the final result would be the annihilation of the entire army.

And the Qing soldiers behind him also stared blankly ahead, they could see the scene clearly just now, those charging warriors fell one by one, but they never approached a hundred steps to the bridge, and the distance of a hundred steps seemed to be a forbidden area for life. The Ming army bird over there is like the voice of death, every piece of fire flashes, every smoke dances, and they are ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the warriors in the flag. But now, the cavalry of the Ming people also rushed over, could they withstand the charge of cavalry three or four times their number?

Looking at the large puffs of smoke and dust rising in front of him and the dense sound of iron hooves, this Jia Lazhangjing's face was blue and red, and his heart struggled, out of the pride of the Qing warriors, he should lead the remaining warriors to bravely meet and fight to the death with the cavalry of the Ming army.

But when he looked back at the soldiers behind him, he found that the faces of these fierce warriors showed panic, obviously they no longer had the slightest fighting spirit, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Withdraw the troops, withdraw to Tongzhou immediately!" ”

After speaking, this Jia Lazhangjing took the reins of his horse and took the lead in running towards the way he came. With the departure of this Jialazhangjing, the remaining hundreds of Qing soldiers also jumped on horseback and fled wildly. Even the slower auxiliaries didn't have time to pay attention, and the bodies and wounded soldiers of their fallen comrades didn't have time to pay attention.

Compared with the clear and powerful banner when they came, the Qing soldiers at this time were like lost dogs, the banner was crooked, and the prestige was lost.

It stands to reason that the Qing soldiers retreated, and the Ming army should accept it when it saw a good situation, but the Qing soldiers who led the team did not stop, but led the cavalry to continue to chase after them.

"My lord, are we not going to let Hei Qianhu stop pursuing, after all, the enemy situation is unknown, and it would not be good if he was ambushed by the Tartars." Looking at the cavalry of the brigade that was vigorously pursuing the Qing soldiers, Da Zhuang made his own suggestions to Pang Gang with some worry. After all, it is not easy to form a cavalry, every cavalry has to go through strict training and selection, if the loss is too great, let alone Pang Gang, even Da Zhuang feels distressed.

"Stop the pursuit?" Pang Gang looked at Da Zhuang with a resolute expression and shook his head and said, "Why stop, cavalry is born to attack, otherwise why should we form cavalry?" ”

"But"

"Nothing!" Pang Gang waved his arm and said in a tone that could not be placed: "That's it, it's good to order the cavalry to chase after you for a long time, otherwise the Tartars really regard our Daming as their own garden, and they can come and leave as soon as they want!" At this point, Pang Gang's eyes were full of anger

The cavalry commander who pursued these Qing soldiers was Black Iron, Black Iron was originally a hundred households under Hao Dayong, and when Pang Gang was an official to a hundred households, he was taught a hard lesson by Pang Gang because of the conflict with Pang Gang because of the merit robbery, but since Pang Gang became the commander of Qingzhou and settled in Qingzhou, the realm of vision can no longer be as before, as the so-called sea is tolerant of all rivers, as long as the other party can be loyal to himself, the previous small contradictions naturally can't be taken too seriously, Otherwise, a narrow-minded boss will also make his subordinates chill.

Therefore, Pang Gang used Black Iron again, in view of Black Iron's riding skills and command cavalry skills are not bad, Pang Gang, who lacks cavalry command talents, promoted him to be the commander of the cavalry. Heitie was also very grateful to Pang Gang, who promoted him regardless of his previous suspicions, and trained the cavalry under his command in less than a year.

Black Iron urged the horses to chase forward like the wind, and behind him more than a thousand cavalrymen wearing stainless steel fish scale armor and red cloaks were trying to catch up with the horses.

The fleeing Qing soldiers saw that the Ming army was in hot pursuit, and they clamped the horse's belly hard, and the horsewhip in their hands whipped the horse's buttocks hard, trying to make the horses under their crotch run faster.

Out of the sparse woods, in front of an open plain, but the original large area of fertile land has become a wasteland because of the arrival of the Qing soldiers, the Qing soldiers waved their whips hard, they believe that as long as they rush out of this woods, with their riding skills will definitely be able to escape every day, but will things really go so smoothly?

Just when the Qing soldiers just ran out of the woods, suddenly a dull gunshot rang out from the flank, and a Qing soldier who was running for his life fell off his horse like a dumpling, and at the same time, dozens of Ming soldiers wearing red cotton armor appeared near them at night, they were either holding handcuffs in their hands, or holding bows and arrows, and dense projectiles and arrows were flying towards the Qing soldiers.

In an instant, more than a dozen Qing soldiers were shot down and dismounted, although the number of people who did not collect at night was small, only dozens of horses, but the swarming Qing soldiers did not dare to stop and fight with night without collecting at all, because they knew that as long as they stopped for even a short time, they would definitely be caught up by the cavalry of the cavalry that was in hot pursuit.

Although Ye Bu Hui has no ability to stop those Qing soldiers, it is still possible to stop their speed, and under the blocking of Ye Bu Hui's handcuffs and bows and arrows, the speed of Qing soldiers inevitably slows down.

In this way, the black iron that has been rushing to the front finally caught up with a Qing soldier who fell behind, as soon as the two horses approached, the saber in his hand drew an arc in mid-air, a blood splash, the Qing soldier's back appeared a deep wound that could be seen to the bone, and then fell off the horse very simply, Hei Tie did not pay attention to the Qing soldier who fell off the horse, but took out a handgun and pulled the trigger on the nearest Qing soldier in front.

"Bang", with a crisp sound, another Qing soldier fell off his horse.

Inserting the handcuff back into his waist that had run out of ammunition, Hei Tie took out a corner bow from his back and shot it at the Qing soldiers in front of him who were running away with their heads down.

"Whoosh"

Not to be outdone, the Ming army that caught up behind drew their bows and arrows and shot them at the front, and the Qing soldiers in front were also shot off their horses. In the pursuit battle, the pursuing side naturally took advantage of it, and after pursuing it for a while, Heitie saw that his war horse was already tired, lest he encounter a large group of Qing soldiers again, and he would suffer a loss, so he quickly blew the whistle on his neck, ordered the cavalry to stop the pursuit, and returned to the woods to start cleaning the battlefield.

In this round of pursuit, the Qing army left more than 100 corpses, and more than a dozen wounded and prisoners. The cavalry returned to the woods, searching for the Qing soldiers who had slipped through the net, while chasing and collecting the horses left behind by the frightened Qing soldiers.

For cleaning the battlefield, the Qingzhou Army has a complete set of regulations, and soon, they have nearly 100 more war horses, and there are many armor and equipment stripped from the Qing soldiers on the back of the war horses, and naturally there are many bloody heads.

At this time, dozens of Ye Bu came from not far away, led by an ordinary-looking officer, and Hei Tie also knew him.

Hei Tie still admired the elite of the Qingzhou army at night, and he smiled and said, "Brother Gu Chen, fortunately, you stopped those Tartars for us in front, otherwise this time it would have been in vain." ”

"You're welcome, if you don't have you chasing after you, the three of us don't dare to take advantage of this." Gu Chen smiled politely, "Lord Hei, let's go back, the huge people must be in a hurry." ”

"Let's go!"

Satisfied, Black Iron took the lead on the horse and galloped the way it came

(To be continued)