The refugees were getting closer and closer to the top of the mountain, and a dozen bald Tartars rushed out of the ranks of the estuary, followed closely behind, catching up with them and shooting arrows with rhythmic bows. With each salvo, two or three refugees fell.

Lu Jiu's cavalry was still flanking around, but the last three of the refugees were still desperately rushing forward, seeing that the Tartars behind were drawing arrows again, this round of volleys went down, I am afraid that no one would be able to reach the top of the mountain pack alive. After just a moment of hesitation, more than a dozen feathered arrows were thrown down, and another person fell to the ground.

Perhaps frightened, the person who ran at the front fell to the ground on his heels, and his thin body rolled down the undulating hillside, while the man behind him stopped and reached out to help him. Roll out five steps away before stopping, but this delay makes the Tartar soldiers closer, and I am afraid it will be difficult to run again.

But seeing that they put the riding bow back into the bow bag on their backs, they drew out their cold and shining waist knives, and chased after them with the strength under their feet.

Seeing that the last two people were about to be hacked to death by the Tartar knife, Li Xin couldn't stand it anymore, pulled out the Yanling knife at his waist, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and rushed out after urging the horse. Zhang Shi on his side was stunned for a moment, and then he also pulled out the Yanling knife and urged the horse to follow. The stragglers who led the two up the mountain saw that the main general had rushed out, and he no longer had any reason to hide behind and pretend to be cowardly, so he gritted his teeth and followed the horse.

The three men and three horses suddenly appeared from the side of the three bags and galloped down, startling the dozen or so Tartar soldiers who were carrying knives up the mountain to chase the refugees, they never expected that there were still people here who dared to fight against them. Instead of retreating, he shouted and rushed up at an accelerated pace. When they saw that there were only three people and three horsemen, they were even more relieved to boldly chase and kill.

Of course, Li Xin would not be stupid enough to attack a dozen Tartar soldiers alone, and the purpose of his rushing down was only to save the two dying refugees. In just a moment, the war horse under the crotch rushed to the front of the two, Li Xin bent down and stretched out his left hand, grabbed the relatively thin body, and lifted it to the horse with his wrist, and placed it horizontally on the saddle. At the same time, he urged the war horse, but saw that the war horse immediately drew a long arc on the hillside and rushed south, and returned to the hillside after getting out of the land of a stone's throw.

Zhang Shishi, who was following behind Li Xin, also did the same, rescued the rather sturdy man and drew an arc to the south before returning to the top of the slope. As for the loose rider, he just galloped around behind the two of them, which also scared him into sweating.

More than a dozen Tartars saw that the prey was rescued by three people and three horsemen, and drew their bows and arrows to shoot from a distance, the earth suddenly trembled, and before they could react to what happened, they saw hundreds of cavalry suddenly appear on the top of the mountain bag, and then rushed down, and the horse's hooves knocked on the ground so loudly that the people were terrified.

This group of cavalry was Lu Jiu's left battalion, according to common sense, 300 cavalry could not reach this momentum anyway, but the suddenness of their appearance gave the dozen or so Tartars an incomparable shock.

After a while, more than a dozen people stayed on the spot and barely had the strength to fight back, allowing the powerful ultimate force to knock them away, breaking their bones and tendons.

It was only at this time that the Qing army at the mouth of the river realized that they had encountered the Ming cavalry, and hundreds of armor soldiers immediately formed a battle formation.

The people who came from the raid were tied one by one by hemp rope like a string, and as long as one person moved, several people in the chain had to move together, and it was even more difficult to run. Seeing someone intercepting the Qing army, excitement and joy were secretly brewing in the crowd.

Lu Jiu naturally did not let his cavalry left battalion attack the Tartar armor soldiers who came from the formation, but returned to the top of the mountain bag after making a circle, and inserted diagonally into the left flank of the right battalion, which had already lined up in three horizontal columns.

All 600 men and horses were ambushed on the anticline of the mountain bag, and the Qing army under the hillside looked up and could not see a single Ming soldier, cautiously advancing forward, but did not shoot a single feather arrow.

Zhang Shi's face was guarded, staring at the top of the hillside.

"Teach Xi, we are exposed, what should we do, to fight or not to fight?"

Since Li Xin chose to take the initiative to expose, there is no reason to escape, not only to fight, but also to let the Tartar know that it hurts.

"Naturally, you want to fight, just wait for the Tartars to rush down and then fire!"

"Once the fight starts, the Iron Lantern Inspection Division is afraid that it will not be able to sneak attack......

Li Xin said with a smile: "Shi, you really should take a good look at what is in the long Qing army, isn't it exactly the cotton clothes and food we need?" Why bother looking for the near and far! ”

After discovering that this Qing army team was escorting people, animals and goods, Li Xin had the idea of taking advantage of the fire to rob, and now the only uncertainty is how many people and horses the Qing army escorted, the geometry of infantry, and the geometry of cavalry.

He knew that as long as he dangled Lu Jiu's cavalry on the opposite hillside, the Qing army would inevitably pursue him, wipe them out and then hurry up, otherwise how could he ensure that the long escort road was safe and sound?

However, the scale of the Qing army's armor soldiers who came in array was not large, but there were about 300 people, and they were not very nervous. What he is worried about is how to deal with the large number of Qing troops after these 300 people? If you are surrounded and annihilated by the other party, won't the gain outweigh the loss?

Li Xin's judgment is just the opposite of Zhang Shi, whether it is known in the historical materials in his previous life, or according to his observation, the Qing army usually has two ways to escort people, animals and goods, one is to rely on the army to follow closely, so although it is safe, it will slow down the advance of the army. The second is to send only a small number of elites to be responsible for escorting, so that they will not be hindered by the large army, and can act independently.

On the premise that there was no large-scale Ming army within the Qing army's control, the Qing army would usually choose the second option. If that were the case, there would be no more than 1,000 real combat troops in this seemingly large contingent.

It is precisely because Li Xin understands this that he will take the first action.

The Qing army on the other side of the mountain pack was also full of confidence, and did not take the possible ambush of the Ming army into account. Since breaking the pass into the block, almost a hundred battles have been won, the Ming army is like a chicken and a dog in front of them, and over time a natural self-confidence arises spontaneously, to this here and now, any assistant leader with hundreds of people will dare to chase thousands, tens of thousands of Ming army troops run all over the ground.

The Qing army seemed to be climbing much slower than expected, and Zhang Shi was puzzled as to why Li Xin had set up the right camp on the anticline.

"Wouldn't it be better to teach and practice and put the horizontal line on the top of the slope and be condescending?"

Li Xin smiled, this method of formation was not his first creation, Wellington, who led LinkedIn to victory over Napoleon, often placed the British line infantry on the anticline of the hillside when fighting against the French column.

Using this tactic does not expose one's own team to the enemy's field of vision, making it difficult for the enemy to find out their own details before making contact, so as to achieve tactical suddenness. Second, it can avoid the range of the enemy's artillery, so as to minimize the casualties caused by the cannon to the soldiers of the horizontal team, which can be applied to the moment to avoid the bow and arrow throws of the Qing army as much as possible. The last point is that the horizontal team is arranged on the anticline plane, and it can also calmly deal with the impact of the opponent's stragglers, in the ancient cold weapon war, there is no concept of stragglers, and it is negligible.

But as long as there are the first two points, it gives Li Xin enough objective conditions to win.

Suddenly, the scouts gave warnings, and a hurried whistle came from the right flank, and it was actually a cavalry raiding from the right flank of their own column, which was small in size and numbered in a hundred. The Qing army was elite in a hundred battles, of course, it would not just send a team of infantry to sit back and watch their own battlefield win, and a sneak attack on the enemy's flank could not only hit the opponent's morale, but also cause considerable confusion to the opponent's battle formation at a certain distance. In this way, the frontal advancing cloth army armor soldiers will run over like a torrent, and they can win the battle.

However, the Qing army commander in charge of the command obviously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Ming army on the other side of the hill, or the command ability of the commander of the Ming army.

Li Xin was not alarmed by this, ordered the soldiers to wave the command flag, instructed Lu Jiu's left battalion to move closer to the right flank of his own horizontal column from the front of the horizontal team, and stopped the cavalry of the Qing army, and at the same time ordered the three columns of the right battalion to retreat ten steps back.

As soon as the military order was given, the infantry cavalry horses of the two armies immediately moved. But the right battalion immediately exposed their inadequacies in training during the exercise. The three columns were familiar with the turning of the position, standing up and lying down, but once they moved, the formation immediately became out of shape, and the three columns suddenly mixed into a chaotic column, until the whole battalion stopped advancing, and the three columns appeared in a decent manner again.

And if you want to train a qualified horizontal team, you can maneuver on the battlefield without losing your formation, you have to train hard for more than half a year, Gao Yang Minzhuang has only carried out a short period of intensive training for more than a month, and it is not easy to be able to line up the queue.

Li Xin ordered to retreat at this time, firstly, considering the sudden appearance of the Tartar cavalry, if he stood still, he would inevitably become the target of the opponent's cavalry. On the contrary, when the cavalry of the own side swept in front of the formation, the horizontal team suddenly retreated to a distance of ten paces, which would cause great trouble to the route of the Tartar cavalry, and under the extremely fast impact speed, it would be easy to turn again, but the threat posed to it by the cavalry of the left battalion could not be ignored, so that the attack route would deviate, and the threat to the horizontal team would be greatly weakened, and eventually a dilemma would be formed.

And the cavalry swept in front of the formation, which could also block the loopholes and gaps that appeared due to the confusion when the horizontal team retreated. Even if the Tartar infantry suddenly appears on the top of the mountain, the retreating horizontal team will have enough cover and support.

The Tartar cavalry really turned halfway, and instead of engaging Lu Jiu's left cavalry, they crossed an arc towards the outside of the right flank of the horizontal team, and galloped south like a dragonfly.

The cavalry of both sides canceled each other out, and only the infantry of both sides was left who could really decide the outcome of the battlefield.

At the orders of the sentinels, the three columns raised their guns and aimed at the front, waiting for the Tartars to appear, and after the captain gave the order, they fired hundreds of vengeful buckshots into the Tartar army.