Mordo left, and Lored followed him back to Saidika, on the one hand, urging Mordo to send troops to fight, and on the other hand, Saidika was in the heart of the southeast of the Hun Empire, and had the advantage of being able to monitor all the surrounding areas. Qin Dong led his troops on the journey north early the morning after Modo and Lored left.

Moldor has a large territory, but most of it is plain, and only the southeastern part of the Black Sea is a large mountain forest, and Moldor himself is stationed in Yambor.

At this time, Yambol was not a town, and Moldor took a fancy to the lush water and grass here, suitable for hunting and grazing, and led the troops to be stationed here, and there were many herdsmen scattered around the army camp in Moldo, all of whom set up tents and lived.

Qin Dong's territory from Dirmit to Yambor's closest distance, in order to save time on the march, Qin Dong led his troops all the way east to Dirmit, it turned out that Mabro's consul Zhong Hui had been transferred to Dirmit consul more than a month ago, before Qin Dong led his troops to arrive, Zhong Hui took a large number of officials to meet at the city gate.

Qin Dong did not let the army enter the city, but rested outside the city, Zhong Hui and other officials wanted to arrange the food and lodging of the army, Qin Dong refused, the army has a military budget, logistics and other issues have long been arranged, there is no need for local provisions, and this will cause an economic burden to the local government, and the number of the army is quite large, people eat horses and chew, and there is a lot of food and hay consumed every time, and the local can bear the supply of grain and grass for a day or two, if the long-term supply is not affordable, Qin Dong can't open this opening, which will cause a burden on the local government.

After a night's rest in Dirmit, the next morning. Qin Dong went out of the city to join the army, and then led the army directly north, because it was all cavalry. The heavy cavalry was also equipped with horses, so the march was very fast, and in the evening they arrived near Zagra, which was still the territory of Qindong, but it was not far from the territory of Mordo.

In the evening, he camped in Zagra and arranged for scouts to patrol around and reconnoiter the surrounding area, and at the same time arranged a guard post, and after dinner, he rested. After a night of silence, the next morning the whole army continued to set out on the territory of Mordo.

After only two hours of marching, he left Qin Dong's territory and entered the territory of Mordo, and walked for about half an hour. A scout rider in front of him ran back quickly, and when Qin Dong saw it, he rode his horse to the side and let the soldiers behind him pass him, and the scout horse reported: "My lord, the enemy situation has been discovered fifty miles ahead." About 2,000 cavalry were coming in the direction of our army from fifty miles away. The opposing army has the wolf flag of Moldo, and it should be led by Moldor himself."

Fifty miles ahead, as it was later called, New Zagra, a small town with a mild climate, fertile land, grapes and sunflowers.

Although Moldor borders the Eastern Roman Empire, the territory of Moldor is bordered by the Black Sea to the east. The geographical location is very advantageous, and business, foreign trade and shipping are all the business of money. But Moldor himself is not good at management, so he can gather two thousand cavalry, and Qin Dong estimates that this is already the largest force he can muster.

"Got it, keep looking!"

"Yes, sir!"

Qin Dong said to the surrounding Tolong, Liu Yang, Zheli, Afald and others: "It seems that Moldor already knows the news that we are going to do something against him, the people of Modo in the north separate his territory from Enek's territory, and the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire in the south, and the sea in the east, but he has not run a navy, and now we have no place to run, but he doesn't want to sit still, so he gathered all his forces in time to fight to the death with us, and these two thousand cavalry are estimated to be the largest force he can pull, Now he must be very empty behind him, Zheli! ”

When Zheli heard Qin Dong call his name, he knew that Qin Dong wanted to assign a task to him, so he immediately saluted on horseback and agreed: "Here, my lord, please give a military order!" ”

Qin Dong said: "I ordered you to take three hundred light horsemen and two hundred archers to take a detour to Yanborr to finish off Mordo's lair, and then wait for him there, once he appears, you will immediately lead your troops to appear and catch him, no matter what, you can't let him run!" ”

"Command!" Zheli agreed and rode away with his troops.

When Zhe left the whole team, Qin Dong said again: "Tuolong, you lead 500 light cavalry and 300 archers on the right wing, Liu Yang leads 500 light cavalry and 300 archers on the right wing, Affard leads 300 heavy cavalry in front of the Chinese army, and I lead 300 light cavalry, 300 archers and 500 crossbow cavalry in the rear. The left, center, and right armies are each one mile apart, and the reconnaissance cavalry is responsible for reconnoitering the surrounding areas, and they must promptly transmit back the enemy situation for reconnaissance; once our army encounters a fierce battle with the other side, the transmission of orders must be carried out in strict accordance with the prescribed system. ”

Several generals saluted and said, "Yes, my lord!" ”

After several previous battles, after the summary of officers and generals at all levels, everyone found that it was too single to convey orders by blowing the horn, and many complex orders could not convey a clear meaning with the horn, Qin Dong himself had experienced almost every battle, so he had a deep understanding of this problem, and after consulting with officers and generals at all levels, and soliciting the opinions of many soldiers, Qin Dong abandoned the previous single way of blowing the horn in terms of conveying orders, and adopted the combination of blowing the horn and the flag.

From then on, blowing the horn only represents the two most obvious instructions of attack and retreat, once the horn is blown, the herald responsible for observation should pay attention to observe the commander's order flag, the command flag is composed of two parts, the signal flag and the pennant, the dancing signal flag means that the order is going to be issued, the departments should immediately respond with the signal flag after seeing the signal flag, indicating that they have received, and then the superior uses the pennant to wave the flag to convey the flag, and the other party waves the signal flag after receiving it, indicating that it understands. The meaning expressed by the flag language is much more clear, and this is the case during the day.

If you are fighting at night, after the horn is blown, the next step is to use the light or fire as a signal, because the situation at night is special, it is obviously not feasible to use the command flag to convey the order, so you can only use the light or fire to convey the order.

The whole army is divided into three parts, namely the left, middle and right parts, of which the middle part has the most troops, and the whole army is marching because the surrounding terrain is an endless grassland, there is no road restriction, so the marching army of the entire army is in a "T" shape, and each part is about a mile apart, which can be dispersed at any time and gathered at any time.

After half an hour of marching, the two armies finally encountered, in this open field, the endless steppe, there is no place to hide the army, and the scouts on both sides are very powerful characters, it is impossible to sneak attack, and a conspiracy and trick cannot be implemented, so this battle can only be a real hard-hitting, regular and decent head-to-head confrontation, both Qin Dong and Moldo know this, when Qin Dong's scout cavalry found Moldo's army, Moldo's scout cavalry also found Qin Dong's army, However, the detectives on both sides had gone through many fierce confrontations before they found out the specific situation of the other party.

The armies of the two sides slowly approached face to face, gradually reducing from five li to four, three, and two li, and finally the two sides stopped continuing to advance at a distance of two li, and each began to reorganize its formation, preparing for the final preparations and mobilization for the next decisive battle.

The military formation on the side of Qindong is arranged according to the formation of the Mongolian army in later generations, the first three rows of the Chinese army are heavy cavalry, the back four rows are archers, and then the back is light cavalry and crossbow cavalry, Qindong's position is between the archers and light cavalry, this position can view the situation of the entire battlefield, which is convenient for calmly dispatching and commanding, and the layout of the left and right wings is basically the same, but because the number of heavy cavalry is not enough to equip the entire army, the left and right wings are lined up in the first three rows of light cavalry, and the back is the archers.

Moldo's army formation is completely different from Qin Dong's army formation, Moldo's army formation does not have a neat formation, the whole army formation is very loose, and because the number is smaller than Qin Dong's army, so the cavalry in each row is much less than Qin Dong's side, and his cavalry does not distinguish between cavalry types, all of them are light cavalry carrying bows and arrows, and the weapons other than bows and arrows are scimitars, but they are much worse than Qin Dong's army in terms of equipment.

After the two sides sorted out their formations, they didn't move, and they confronted each other for half an hour, and finally Mordo couldn't hold it anymore, he drew his scimitar and shouted and led his troops to charge.

Not to be outdone, Qin Dong waved his hand to the herald next to him: "Order everyone to attack!"

The herald immediately asked the trumpeter to blow the trumpet, and all the divisions raised the signal flag and waved it in a special way, and the pennant bearer next to him immediately began to convey the order to attack.

In an instant, moving forward from Qin Dong, the entire military formation began to move, and it began to move forward as a whole at a speed visible to the naked eye, the earth began to rumble, the momentum and scene of thousands of horses galloping broke out instantly, and smoke and dust began to rise on the battlefield, and the soldiers and officers on both sides waved their blades, howling loudly and rushing towards each other with hideous faces.

Qin Dong has been paying full attention to the situation on the battlefield, and when he found that the distance between the two sides was only about five hundred meters, he immediately said to the herald: "Immediately send the order, the heavy cavalry troops of the Chinese army will charge, and kill into the enemy formation with an indomitable momentum, it is best to make a counterpart, the archers behind will shoot two rounds of arrows to ensure that they do not accidentally injure their own heavy cavalry soldiers in front of them and retreat, and the light cavalry troops behind will quickly go up to engage the enemy, while the left and right flanks will continue to move forward, no matter how the other side responds, Their mission was to outflank the left and right flanks, and immediately after the outflanking was completed, they launched an attack on the enemy's left and right flanks and rear. ”

"Yes, sir!"

Qin Dong is to learn the tactics of the Mongols to deal with Mordo, this is not only a study exercise, but also a practical combat tactical practice, this is how the Mongols in later generations dealt with the enemy army without a strong defensive formation, if the enemy has a very dense defensive formation, the Mongolian army will choose the Chinese army to retreat to lure the enemy, once the enemy pursues will inevitably lose a tight military formation, at that time, the Mongolian army will turn back and kill back, at this time the enemy has lost a dense defensive formation, simply can not resist the Mongolian heavy cavalry charge. (To be continued......)