If Xiao Donglou only does the ability to rob the road in the mountains, it is too much to underestimate the Tianxiong Army.

The Tianxiong Army is a force that fights a tough battle, whether it is the Manchu Qing or the thieves, as long as the Tianxiong Army bites it, it has to peel off its skin.

Xiao Donglou placed the main force on both sides of the mountain road, and arranged the troops of the two bureaus as the foundation of the "pocket" to meet the enemy head-on. Considering that most of this invading army are horsemen, the two rounds as the basis are excellent pikemen selected from various divisions. They are not lined up in a mandarin duck formation, but only in a phalanx, which can most effectively stop the horsemen's kinetic ability.

There is a difference between cavalry and horsemen. In the camp, the only thing that can talk about cavalry is the three walls in Li Guo's camp. The other horsemen were only infantry fighting on horseback, and there was no corresponding cavalry drill. This time it was the same, the horsemen came, not the cavalry. Otherwise, using pikemen with no targeted training against cavalry will also result in very bloody.

Xiao Donglou set up a trap, and he also found an extra group of officers and soldiers on the side of the camp, and intercepted him halfway. The long-drive victory made the general Guo Yi hot-headed, and he only felt that the officers and soldiers were vulnerable to a battle, and only one charge was needed to completely defeat them. It was this kind of underestimation of the enemy that made him not stop, and ordered the army to move forward, to completely annihilate this army of officers and soldiers who met on a narrow road.

Xiao Donglou hid in a tree, holding a clairvoyant mirror, and said diligently: "I'm hooked!" It's time to take the bait! ”

Cao Ning stood under the tree, tilted his head, stomped his feet in a hurry, and said in a low voice: "Quick! Show me! ”

"You're good at both eyes, and you still use this?" Xiao Donglou was willing to give up, just said: "The thieves are in the whole team!" Quick, put medicine in my gun, let's get ready to him! ”

Except for the Firearms Bureau, firearms are rarely used in the Donggong Guard Camp. The main reasons are poor logistics and insufficient training. Firearms are powerful though. But if you don't do it well, it will hurt your morale, and the gains outweigh the losses. Xiao Donglou's musket was used as standard for colonel officers, and in addition to that, there was a treasure knife engraved with his name as a command knife.

Cao Ning hurriedly asked his own soldiers to give medicine to the bird gun and prepared to send a letter. Because of the rush of the march, even the war drums and horns in the army were saved. Again. The bandits have always had their own set of passwords, and even if there are no drums and trumpets, it will not hinder communication on the battlefield.

"Kill!"

The camp finally launched a charge, but because the general Guo Yi was too anxious, the time of the charge was too early, and the distance was a little long.

"End the gun! Diagonally up! Stab! ”

The pikemen waited for the horsemen to rush in front of them and counterattacked according to the norms of the discipline. Only this time they were not leveling their spears, but at the knights on their horses.

It turned out that horsemen who were not trained to charge quickly lost their ability to charge, and the rider could not even force the horse to charge at the gun. A large number of horses fight sideways to avoid the sharp edge of the front. Causing chaos in the formation.

There was also a slight commotion on the Lancers' side, and many were not used to large animals such as "horses" rushing so close to them. Fortunately, the riots of the enemy army calmed them down, and with the sound of the tiger in the commander, they resumed their usual training state.

Bang!

Xiao Donglou roared to the sky.

The sound of the gun was the signal of this battle, and the soldiers who had been lurking for a long time came out of the forest, and rushed to the thieves on the Xiangxia side in small teams.

"Tiger!" Cao Ning shouted loudly, as if he was the commander of this operation.

"Report: Sir, you are not a military commander, and you cannot issue direct combat orders!" The military judge on the side looked at Cao Ning with a cold face.

It is like a basin of cold water that extinguishes Cao Ning's blood. He turned his head: "I'm reminding them how to shout!" ”

The military judge knew the laughing stock of Ben Qian's headquarters, and could only barely restrain himself from this. Don't let yourself laugh out loud in such a serious setting.

The Left Army Headquarters had a full combat strength of nearly 2,000 men, and it ambushed the opponent with a superior force of four to one, and there was absolutely no reason for defeat.

The only question is how much you can get.

Xiao Donglou knew that he had taken a big advantage, and he became more and more determined to earn a beautiful result. He spotted the general Guo Yi who was invading the army, who was dressed in iron armor and riding on a horse, which was particularly eye-catching.

"Catch him!" Xiao Donglou pointed a gun at the enemy general. shouted loudly: "The person who catches him will be remembered for a personal merit!" ”

The East Palace does not count merit by the head, the generals are based on the results of the battle, and the soldiers are based on their performance. Generally speaking, only collective merit is possible, and only those who perform exceptionally have individual merit, which is also the reaction of Zhu Cihong's emphasis on the collective consciousness of team combat. Until now. There are many outstanding collectives that have emerged, but there are really few fighters who have won individual merits.

The black-skinned eyes were quick, and rushed over with the killer bureau under his command.

"Kill the!" Blackskin roared, dodged behind a rattan player, pushed hard, and roared, "I'm afraid!" Rush up! Hit him and kill him! ”

The rattan player was stimulated, screamed and rushed towards the enemy general, the generous rattan card waved, and the huge arm force swept away the two thieves in front of him, and just a charge tore open the enemy general's protective circle.

"Thieves don't need to be beaten! Kill! Seeing this, the black skin jumped out, drew his long knife and fought hard, and stabbed a fallen thief with a force.

The hot blood shot out, splashing the black skin on his face, and exuding a trace of heat.

This is what Heipi wants, so he wiped it with his hand, smeared it into a big flower face, and roared: "Follow Lao Tzu to kill the enemy and be rewarded!" He turned and rushed forward.

The two flag teams wrapped the black skin in the middle, and it was very safe.

In front of him is a thief with a frightened face.

……

"Didn't the black skin who was stabbed and didn't shout tiger again?" Cao Ning gritted his back molars and asked Xiao Donglou.

Xiao Donglou was holding a bird's hand, but his teeth were in pain. He twisted his foot when he jumped off a tree and became one of the wounded. The most tragic thing is that he didn't even see a single face of the enemy! Although Donggong does not count the merits by head, and as the commander of the first general, there is no need for him to kill him personally. But this colonel, who was born in the army, really couldn't accept the fact that after a fierce battle, his war knife failed to drink blood.

"Hurry up, how many horses are there!" Xiao Donglou shouted.

There are fewer horses in the East Palace, and even fewer horses can go to the battlefield, not to mention cavalry, and even horsemen are insufficient.

Cao Ning had no choice but to count the spoils first, and at the same time sent two bureaus to the north to pursue the fleeing thieves. Set up a cordon.

Heipi caught the enemy general, he was in a good mood, and he wanted to ask for personal merit, but seeing that the face of his big boss was not good, he finally shut up very knowingly. However, he was afraid that Xiao Donglou would forget who caught him and kick the thief to the ground. He cursed in his mouth: "Let you be a thief!" Your black grandfather hates thieves the most! In the hands of your Maohei grandfather, I don't have your good! Your grandpa Maohei......"

"Stop! Stop it! Xiao Donglou was upset when he heard this, and stopped Heipi and said, "What should you do, why should you go!" Don't be an eyesore here! ”

"Yes! Thousand! "Heipi Zheng'er made a military salute, which made Cao Ning and Xiao Donglou a little unaccustomed." I'm black, what should I do, what are I going to do! I'm not an eyesore! ”

"Come on, go! Just go! I remember your name was Mao Hei! Xiao Donglou waved his hand heavily.

Only then did Heipi happily leave the Chinese army with people and participate in the ranks of collecting prisoners and counting casualties.

"Mr. I've known you for four or five years, and I only know that your tuba is called Mao Hei." An old man from the Tianxiong Army stepped forward and quipped.

"Hush. Mao Hei is a nickname that people call out when they see that I look black. Brother, I'm a big Maoshi! It's still a showman who gave it to me! The black skin said triumphantly.

"Yo, that's amazing." The guys around laughed and said: "Then just now you said 'Mao Hei', the big boss won't really press Mao Hei's report, right?" ”

The black skin foot paused: "Insert ...... Lao Tzu just shouted 'Mao Hei'? ”

"yes, yes." Everyone gloated and looked at the black skin.

The yin and yang on the black skin's face changed, and he also remembered that he was too excited just now and shouted baldly. He looked at the brothers who had been rotten in their hearts, pretended to be calm, and suddenly pointed at the wounded beside him and shouted: "Die, you guys! Don't go to the stretcher yet! ”

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Xiao Donglou led the troops back, and his heart was full of warm wind. In this battle, the 1000 headquarters of the left army of the East Palace completely defeated the invading enemy with superior strength and geographical advantages. Capture one of the pseudo-Guoyi generals. There were three captains below the general, and three hundred and seventy-two thieves. One hundred and fifty-six levels were slashed, and in the end, only a dozen people escaped.

What's more, this group of thieves brought 300 war horses, and more than 200 other pack horses, donkeys, and mules, which can be described as abundant for the East Palace, which lacks horses.

The Qin soldiers are the elite of the world, and Yan Sui is the elite of the Qin soldiers. Many of the rout soldiers collected in the East Palace this time were Yansui border soldiers. In addition to a large number of night retreats, there are also many cavalrymen who are excellent in horsemanship, but have no mounts. These people have been fighting against Mongolian horsemen for generations, and if they can be matched with war horses, the East Palace will also have the basis for training cavalry.

The cavalry was able to continue the era of the Second Shijie War. It can be seen that there is no such thing as aircraft and tanks, and no one can compete with this branch of the armed forces. The reason why the Xionghan and Tang Dynasty were able to raise the prestige of the country thousands of miles away was because of a powerful cavalry force. On the contrary, if the cavalry cannot be formed, the principle of "the speed of the soldiers" cannot be brought into play strategically; At the tactical level, it is also faced with the dilemma of not being able to catch up if you win, and not being able to run away if you lose - just like Song Yichao.

Of course, the Song Dynasty was congenitally deficient, and it was not easy to last for so many years. Carefully calculated, the Song Dynasty had a higher victory rate in foreign wars than the Tang Dynasty. If it is fairer, China's most excellent war horse areas are Liaodong, Hetao, Longyou three places, when the Song Dynasty opened the country, these three areas have been occupied by strong enemies, it is difficult to recover, the congenital deficiency can be seen.

However, after the Mongols occupied China, they did a huge project, which was almost comparable to the canal opened by Emperor Yang of Sui. Everywhere the Mongols went, they destroyed cities and land, returned farmland to grassland, and built pastures everywhere to raise horses.

The horses must come from the herd, otherwise they will be difficult to charge without the desire to win. The horses live in the alpine land, and they must have abundant water and grass, enough food to develop, and enough space to gallop. Thanks to the Xiaoice River period, which began to fall at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the "steppe" jihua of the Mongols was implemented. Even the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River has been opened up into a horse farm...... If this is in the hands of the Han people, no matter how frustrated the emperor is, it is impossible to give it up.

Emperor Taizu Gao of the Dynasty drove out the Tartars, restored China, and took over the rivers and mountains that had made great strides backwards, as well as the horse farms. Therefore, there are many streets named after horses in Nanjing, such as "Mud Horse Lane" and "Shenma Road".

Today, as the peak of the Xiaoice Age, Shandong, located north of the Huai River, has a low-temperature environment suitable for horse herds. Also because of the war and abandonment, there is enough land to be converted into a horse farm. As long as there is scientific management of the horse farm, the establishment of horse pedigrees, the optimization of horse breeds, and the strengthening of drills for the dense formation of cavalry, even if there is a cavalry duel with the Manchurians in the future, it may not be lost.

Zhu Cihong was very happy after receiving the battle report, not only did he achieve a lot of results, but even the battle losses of our army were controlled to less than 10 to 1, of which the lightly wounded and wounded accounted for a large proportion.

"But these horses are still weaker." After seeing the captured war horse with his own eyes, Zhu Cihong was not without disappointment. At first glance, this kind of horse does not look high at the shoulders, and it does not have the momentum of a tall horse at all. Even if Zhu Cihong didn't understand horses, he knew that Li Chuang definitely hadn't put any effort into the choice of cavalry horses.

However, as a junior government that has just started as herders, of course, it cannot be expected that they will be able to herd horses. (To be continued......)