"According to the report of the scouts sent out, a group of no less than 3,000 rogues is approaching in the direction of our military camp more than ten miles away from me." Liang Qiming said.

"There are no less than 3,000 rogues, it seems that this is a very large team of rogues, how are their equipment?" Qin Duan asked.

"These are unknown, and I've already sent a few more scouts to find out." Liang Qiming said.

"What is your plan to meet the enemy?" Qin Duan asked.

"What I mean is that the 2nd and 3rd Brigades are frontal units and face each other head-to-head with this rogue force, while the 1st and 4th Brigades are hidden in the mountains ahead, waiting for an opportunity, and the 5th Brigade is a mobile force." Liang Qiming said.

"Very good, pass on my order, and the whole army will enter the first-level combat guard." Qin Duan ordered.

"Yes."

Immediately, the heralds beside Qin Dui went down to convey the order of the legion commander.

In his own troops, Qin Duan set up three combat alert states, namely third-level combat alert, second-level combat alert, and first-level combat alert.

The third-level combat security only requires the troops participating in the battle to enter the combat state, the second-level security state refers to the fact that all military personnel need to enter the combat state, and the first-level security state refers to the fact that all personnel have entered the combat state, that is, the meaning of all personnel participating in the war, which is the highest level of security.

"Report to the commander of the legion, a hundred miles ahead, there are about 3,000 or so rogue bandits, who are rapidly attacking us, of which more than 500 are cavalry, and at the same time, the figure of the rogue scout was also found." Soon the scout in front came back on a fast horse and reported.

Damn, Lao Tzu is having a rare time to relax with his own woman. Swimming in the mountains and rivers, this rogue actually came to disturb him, Qin Duan snorted indignantly. Liang Qiming looked at the map. He said lightly: "My lord, with the speed of the Liukou marching at the moment, they should be able to drive to us in less than half an hour, it seems that we must be ready for a big battle." ”

"Probe!"

Qin Duan nodded and waved his hand, and was about to hold back the scout, when he suddenly remembered something: "Wait, what did you just say?" There are 500 cavalry in the rogue? ”

The scout nodded, "Yes." The number of cavalry is not less than five hundred, and at present our army has three lines of scouts to monitor their movements. ”

"Very well, you go down and probe again." Qin Du waved his hand to let the scout go down.

"Liu San. Take a wing of the Guards and destroy the rogues for me, lest they discover where our Second Brigade is. Qin Duan ordered Liu San beside him.

In front of the two armies, it was inevitable that the scouts would cross each other. It's just a matter of who discovers who first. In order to prevent the hiding place of the Second Brigade from being discovered by the rogue's scouts, Qin Duan decided to destroy the opponent's scouts first.

"Order!"

Liu San happily took the order, now Liu San is also an officer, and he is also keen to lead the army to fight, although he doesn't know how to set up a formation to meet the enemy or something, there is no problem in leading people to eliminate scouts.

"There's cavalry, it's troublesome."

Li Daring said with a little headache, and now the camp of the army is on flat ground. Such an empty field is a great disadvantage for the cavalry.

One more point: Yes. On his side, the infantry is basically the mainstay, and there is a congenital disadvantage against the cavalry.

Know the most crucial advantage of cavalry over infantry: it is highly mobile and can strike at any weak point of the opponent. It can make a fierce surprise attack at a critical moment, insert into the center of the enemy line, and play a great role in destruction. Cavalry is generally the main assault force, and the cavalry attacks the enemy's position from the flanks and rear, in conjunction with the attack of the main force in the front.

The cavalry has an advantage in speed and strength as well as height, and the weight and speed of the horses strengthen the impact and striking power of the cavalry, which is a very strong assault force, and the infantry is obviously inferior in this regard.

Cavalry has momentum and psychological advantages, condescending to make people feel a sense of accomplishment and superiority, on the contrary, it makes people have a sense of inferiority and crisis.

Infantry is generally on the defensive due to its disadvantage in mobility. Generally, it is impossible to take the initiative to attack and pursue, and it is difficult to achieve great results without a large amount of cavalry input in the pursuit operation.

All the cavalry in the first division could not help frowning.

Mainly in the northwest, there are few jungles and mountains, most of them are flat land and grasslands, and they are the world of cavalry, and the infantry is weaker than the cavalry.

However, on the other hand, if the infantry has an advantage in jungles, mountains, and siege and defense battles, the cavalry cannot play its advantage in a small area, such as mobility.

Therefore, in the southern part of the Great Qin Empire, where the water network is dense, it is difficult for the cavalry to make a difference, and at the same time, there are many mountains and rivers in the western part of the empire, and it is also difficult for a large number of cavalry to be useful.

Cavalry due to the high requirements for terrain conditions, in many areas can not play its combat effectiveness, and the front of the infantry has a strong combat capability, but in its side and back is very weak, make a simple model, if our army has 10,000 infantry, then if we have 200 people in the front of the side only 50 people, so if in the open area, the cavalry is the nemesis of the infantry.

Of course, if some kind of strategic or tactical means were used to make the cavalry attack the front of our well-organized infantry phalanx, then the infantry would have a huge tactical defensive advantage.

"Commander Liang, do you have a way to deal with the five hundred cavalry of the Liukou?"

Qin Duan thought for a while and asked, Qin Duan also had a headache for these cavalry, you must know that the speed advantage of the cavalry is very strong, if you can't effectively snipe the cavalry of the Liukou, once they rush into the military formation, relying on these training recruits who have not been trained for a few days, they will definitely not be able to deal with the cavalry of more than 500 cavalry, once the follow-up troops of the Liukou come up, their own team will be in danger, even if they finally drive out these Liukou, the casualties on their side will be very heavy.

"My lord, the best way to deal with cavalry is heavy infantry and archers, but these are the most scarce in our army now, now the two branches of our army add up to only more than 200 people, cavalry, we are even more in short supply, that is, a team of 50 people, these arms, we have no way to establish a wing in a short period of time, now our army is basically infantry, against cavalry, it is really ......" said this, Liang Qiming also had a headache.

"What about you, what can be done to deal with the cavalry of the rogues?" Qin Duan asked several other officers.

……

Everyone lowered their heads, not daring to look at the corps commander, they really had no face, there were so many of them, they couldn't think of a way to deal with the cavalry.

"Since you don't have a good way, then listen to me," Qin Duan said after thinking for a moment, his eyes lit up.

"My lord, do you have a solution?" Liang Qiming asked in surprise.

"There's no good way, just a stupid way." Qin Du said.

"Tell us, sir." Li Daring asked anxiously.

"Okay, now that the time to get here is running out, let's hurry up after all."

Qin Duan said and pointed ahead and continued, "From the direction of the opponent's cavalry attack, it will definitely charge at us from directly in front of us. If we dig a small pit in front of us and cover it with a lawn, so that the rogue cavalry can not see clearly from a distance, and when the rogue cavalry quickly sprints to these areas, as long as there is a horse foot on the pit, the horse will rush forward because of inertia, and soon twist the horse's leg and fall, and the cavalry will be thrown out, so that the cavalry behind will directly hit the horse in front because of the speed, and so on and again, and again, the whole cavalry will be finished, even if some horsemen do not step on the pit and rush over, We have enough archers to deal with them, not to mention that we have so many infantry. ”

"My lord, you have a bad idea." Li boldly looked at Qin Duan with admiration and said.

The eyes of the other officers who looked at Qin Du changed, who said that this regiment commander didn't know how to fight, just this idea of dealing with cavalry, those who had been so many officers couldn't think of it.

I can't complain that people are already four-grade officials at a young age, they are the commanders of the legions, and they are the top bosses of their own people.

"What are you all looking at me doing, hurry up, time is running out." Qin Du saw that everyone was looking at him stupidly, so he hurriedly said.

"Yes."

All the officers were ordered to go, after all, everyone knew that the time left for the rogues was really running out for their people.

"Deputy Commander Liang, Deputy Commander Zhu." Qin Duan said to the two officers beside him.

"The subordinates are here."

"Except for the 1st Brigade ambushed on both sides, all personnel, including the logistics firehead army, went out to dig pits, and be sure to dig enough pits in a stick of incense." Qin Du said.

"Yes,"

The two immediately arranged for personnel to give orders.

……

"Big brother, are we really going to attack that army?" The second master of Liukou's side immediately asked with some concern.

"Second brother, what's wrong, are you scared?" Ding Shanyan, the leader of this tributary group, laughed loudly.

"Big brother, it's not that I'm afraid, it's just that the number of people in this army is at least 5,000, and our troops of less than 4,000 are a little difficult to keep up with them." The second master immediately said.

"Second brother, don't let others be angry and destroy your prestige, it's true that there are 5,000 people in this army, but the spies I sent out in the past few days have reported that there are no less than 1,000 women, children, and old people in it, what are we afraid of such an army." A rogue leader said.

"However, those armies are regular armies after all." Ma Feng still said with some concern.

"Regular hair, I have found out, most of them are newly recruited recruits, we soldiers are all experienced in a hundred battles, and I am afraid that they will not succeed, second brother, there are more than a thousand young women there, I heard the spies say, there are many beautiful ones, aren't you impressed?" One of the leaders of the Liukou said with a smile. (To be continued......)