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As the main force of the Mongol army led by Tumen Khan withdrew, the Pingshan Village, which had just been shouting at the horses, fell into silence.

The two Mongol thousand-man teams were left behind, and they were also a little frightened by the strange attack of the Ming army just now, and they did not rush to the city to snatch the corpses of their compatriots. Moreover, the whole army was arrayed more than 300 meters away from the city wall, some of them rode on horses to keep guard, and some of them dismounted and rested on the spot.

"It's no wonder that Temujin was able to sweep the world back then, and the iron horse traveled all over the Eurasian continent! Just this kind of simple and convenient logistics, I can't do it! Li Rusong stood on the watchtower, observed with a telescope for a while, shook his head and sighed.

In the era of Genghis Khan, the reason why the Mongolian cavalry was invincible was that its simple and fast logistics played a crucial role.

Soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass current, this sentence can reflect the importance of logistics in ancient military tasks, soldiers have always attached great importance to logistics, the most famous is the Three Kingdoms Cao Cao's official crossing, Sui and Tang dynasties used to be millet-based, every time the army was used, there were people to transport grain, when Qin Shi Huang conquered Baiyue in the south, he sent Tu Ju to mobilize 500,000 troops, the consumption of grain and grass was huge, every stone of grain and grass was sent, 80 stone was consumed on the road, even Tu Ju was killed, and later in order to conquer Baiyue, Qin Shi Huang ordered to repair the spirit canal, waterway transport, fast, safe, The most Lu was able to conquer Baiyue later.

When the Han people fought wars, under normal circumstances, the number of civilians and soldiers in the baggage troops was several times that of the front-line combat troops, and their consumption was extremely huge. There are often cases of frontal battles won but forced to retreat because of logistical difficulties.

But Genghis Khan solved this problem very skillfully, and the military rations of the Mongol cavalry were generally cheese and yogurt, both of which could be stored for a long time and were high in calories and easy to carry. Moreover, the Mongols generally went out with three horses or two horses, one horse for battle, one mare for milking, when there was no food, for food, and in peacetime they could also carry armor and weapons.

In this way, the Mongolian iron cavalry hardly needs any logistics, and is good at fighting sports warfare, directly mobilizing the opponent back and forth in the movement, so that it will either be defeated by showing flaws or being dragged to death.

The same is true of the iron cavalry under the command of Tumen Khan in front of him, one by one still using the military rations of Genghis Khan's period, and it is estimated that it will take seven or eight days to drag this group of guys to retreat on their own initiative.

"Our gunpowder and bows and arrows can only support three days of defense at most. Even if we play with all our might, we can kill and injure up to 8,000 Mongolian iron cavalry in the front, and we estimate that we will pay 6,000 losses by then, and there is no way to defeat the Mongolian iron cavalry in a head-on battle" Li Chengliang, who was temporarily in charge of logistics, was worried about this, Tumen Khan was a man who had been in battle for a long time and was good at using troops, and it was difficult to defeat him with ordinary strategies.

With his son in charge here, Li Chengliang is still quite relieved, and at the same time, in order to experience Li Rusong more, Li Chengliang took the initiative to retreat to the second line. is in charge of the logistics of the 10,000 Ming troops in Pingshanzhai, and according to today's consumption, he easily calculated how long the logistics of the Ming army can be consumed.

So after the Mongols withdrew, Li Rusong and Yang Yuntong returned to the big tent to discuss the next plan with their father, and Li Chengliang accurately said the biggest trouble for the Ming army at present.

"Well, it seems that there is no way to fight a war of attrition. The arrows used by the Mongols today for their attacks could be collected for defense. But my Ming army is currently a bit overly dependent on firearms, and the number of archery troops is seriously insufficient," Yang Yuntong frowned tightly, pacing back and forth and said.

At present, Pingshanzhai has a total of 150 bows with a range of 200 meters, and Yang Yuntong also has 300 archers. But these people are not comparable to the Mongolian iron cavalry who are good at riding and shooting, at most they stand on the city wall and shoot blindly.

Although the Liaodong Iron Cavalry is skilled in kung fu and strong arm strength, but only does not know how to shoot arrows, Li Rusong also had an overly trusting attitude towards firearms when he was training the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, ignoring the practice of bows and arrows, so that none of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry will use bows and arrows.

"Looks like we need some information about the Mongolian Tatars outside the city! Changchun, you choose fifty shrewd and capable people from the night harvest under your command, bring all the grain, grass and gunpowder for eight days, and prepare to go out of the city! After thinking for a long time, Li Rusong called Liu Changchun and asked him to personally lead his subordinates out of the city to investigate at night, while he personally led two thousand Liaodong iron horsemen to open the way for Liu Changchun.

"Kill!" With a roar like thunder, Li Rusong led two thousand Liaodong iron horsemen, like a running black dragon, to kill the two Mongolian thousand-man teams not far away.

"Apu! Apu! As soon as he saw the Ming army coming, the two Mongolian commanders who took the lead immediately issued an order to retreat, and all the Mongolian iron horsemen immediately turned over their horses one by one, turned around and ran.

What Li Rusong didn't expect was that the Mongols actually stopped and stopped, constantly shooting arrows from behind while running, fortunately, the armor and mask of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry were specially designed to block the arrows of the Mongols, otherwise the Liaodong Iron Cavalry would lose at least hundreds of soldiers.

Just chased one after the other, and the two armies circled around the vicinity of Pingshanzhai for several large circles, and suddenly the Mongols stopped running.

"Oops! The whole army retreats! Just when the Liaodong Iron Cavalry thought that the enemy couldn't run, and they were ready to rush up and slash and kill, Li Rusong's face suddenly changed greatly, and he loudly ordered the whole army to retreat.

Li Rusong is a god-like existence in the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, not to mention that every Liaodong Iron Knights have developed a good habit of military orders in ordinary training. Therefore, despite some reluctance, all the Liaodong Iron Knights still turned their horses and left without hesitation.

Just after the Liaodong Iron Cavalry retreated less than half of the incense, Liu Changchun led his subordinates to rush back to converge.

"Brother! It was too dangerous just now, and Tumen Khan's old miscellaneous hair was really cunning. Just now he led 10,000 iron cavalry to ambush nearby, as long as you just exchanged fire with those two Mongol armies, in less than half a time of incense, Tumen Khan's army will surround you" Wiping the beads of sweat from his forehead, Liu Changchun said with palpitations.

"Cut! Sure enough, he is old and not dead as a thief! Let your subordinates take the master around in circles, he has already been ambushed, waiting for me to take the bait! Li Rusong also had an idea just now, and felt that something was wrong, so he directly ordered the troops to retreat, but he didn't expect that the enemy really had an ambush, and he was also scared.

The two brothers joined forces and quickly retreated to Pingshanzhai, and the Mongolian iron cavalry followed, seeing that the Ming army had all pushed into Pingshanzhai, and did not attack, and continued to leave two thousand-man teams to monitor, and the army withdrew.

"Hmm, the Mongols are trying to trap our army and block all our army's reconnaissance information!" Back in the city, Li Rusong sat alone in the tent and muttered to himself.

This is a big challenge!