Chapter 821: Taking the Initiative???
After witnessing the loss of more than a dozen warriors in the explosion, Ao Bai, with a solemn and heartbroken face, knew that at this moment, he had to face a very difficult choice......
In the case of a tripping horse in front of you and a tiger and leopard army overhead, retreat immediately, although the losses can be minimized. However, the more than 100 warriors who had already lost in front of him died in vain......
Keep going forward...... Let's not talk about the huge losses that tripping horses can bring to themselves. As for the flowering bullets that keep falling above his head, he can't afford it......
At that time, even if he can still enter the position of the Haw Par Army, he will inflict heavy damage on the Haw Par Army in front of him. The price paid by oneself will far exceed the losses of the Haw Par Army, and it will definitely be a loss-making sneak attack battle.
After a very short analysis, Ao Bai had already decided from the bottom of his heart to withdraw immediately.
However, as the first fierce general of Houjin, he couldn't say anything at once when he faced the hot and eager eyes of his subordinates around him.
Because, the fanaticism on the faces of his subordinates was all instigated by himself.
In their opinion, following themselves, this raid battle will definitely be won.
Once he gave the order to withdraw his troops, it meant that he was wrong about all their agitation and judgment of the war situation.
In this way, these subordinates who do not belong to themselves in the first place will still believe in themselves, trust themselves, and listen to their own orders without reservation because they are the first fierce generals of Houjin, just like just now......
Therefore, in the face of all kinds of disadvantages that may arise after the retreat, the order to retreat from Ao Bai has just come to the lips. I swallowed it back again, and I fell into a difficult choice.
And at this moment, the third round of flowering shells had already fallen into the middle of the dense cavalry and exploded.
At the same time. An exclamation also sounded among the cavalry in front of him......
"General, the Haw Par Army has begun to counterattack......"
Under Ao Bai's gaze, the Haw Par Army musketeers, who had recovered from the chaos, had already formed a musket formation in a company.
Not only that, but these musket formations did not stand still and wait for themselves to attack, but carried muskets. Step by step, he pressed towards his position.
It is certain that as soon as these musket arrays are pushed within range, they will shoot deadly lead bullets at themselves......
Then. In Ao Bai's head, a threatening voice immediately sounded: "If you don't retreat, there will be more Haw Par troops to react." When the time comes, it is just to retreat. I can't retreat. ”
This voice in my head has not yet fallen. Ao Bai saw that less than thirty paces away from the musket array in front of him, two more musket arrays rushed out of the camp and quickly pressed towards his two wings.
At this time, no one needs to remind Ao Bai to know that if he doesn't retreat immediately, he really won't be able to leave.
So, when the first round of gunfire rang out from the Haw Par Musket array in front of him. Ao Bai couldn't care about the possible consequences after retreating, and gave the order to retreat without hesitation......
Ultimately. The cavalry, which came with great momentum, withdrew from the battlefield in great confusion after losing more than 50 men and horses again.
It was not until this moment that Wang Feng, the commander of the First Army of the Chinese Army, received the news that the camp had been attacked by the Houjin Iron Cavalry.
Just as Wang Feng hurriedly walked out of the tent, preparing to rush to the camp that had been attacked by a sneak attack.
The news of the victory of the soldiers under his command who successfully repelled the sneak attack of the Houjin Tartars had reached Wang Feng's ears......
"Without losing a single soldier, just by relying on some tripping horse nails and flowering bullets, more than 150 elite cavalry of the Tartars were eaten, and this anti-sneak attack battle was really well fought...... It seems that tomorrow all the soldiers will be able to take advantage of this victory to eat a steaming meal of horse meat...... On my order, the horses that were killed and wounded were sent two from each battalion and stewed for tomorrow...... In addition, inform a few division commanders that they will come to me early tomorrow morning, and I have a task for them......"
The 30,000 soldiers of the Haw Par Army were eating steaming horse meat in the cold wind to replenish the energy they needed for a day's march.
The four division commanders under the First Army were gathering in the tent where Wang Feng was located to discuss the sneak attack last night......
After the chief of staff informed everyone of the entire battle process, Wang Feng, who looked pensive, said directly: "From the corpses dropped by the Tartars on the battlefield, it is certain that the two most elite Tartar banners of Zhenghuang and Yellow attacked us. From this, I can be sure that the Houjin Huang Taiji has reacted to our attack, and there must be a large Houjin Iron Cavalry active around us, and as for the purpose of this cavalry, it is to constantly sneak up on us, kill us, weaken us, and force us to retreat......"
"It's just that the Tartars who are active around us didn't expect that we were prepared for a possible sneak attack from them......"
"Not only did we not get any benefits, but we lost more than 100 elites in vain, and we added a good horse meat feast to our 30,000 soldiers......
"That's the situation, what do you think about this cavalry that is moving around us......"
"Eat it...... Army commander, this task will be handed over to my cavalry division......" Luo Jingshan, commander of the First Cavalry Division, said arrogantly without thinking about it.
After Luo Jingshan finished speaking, the other three division commanders did not speak.
Because they knew that if the army commander really planned to attack and eat this Houjin cavalry, only the cavalry division could complete this task.
Although all three musketeers were trained on war horses and equipped with war horses.
However, even if they are on war horses, they are infantry and cannot fight on war horses, let alone fight with the elite Houjin Iron Cavalry in the pursuit of you......
Of course, if a frontal field charge is carried out, the three division commanders are not afraid.
However, will the Tartars, who have suffered many losses in the hands of the Tiger and Leopard Army, give up the mobility advantage of the war horse and fight a field battle with themselves?
The answer is obvious, just to sneak attack his own Houjin Iron Cavalry, he will definitely not be so stupid and take the initiative to send him to death......
After seeing the expressions of several people, Wang Feng directly vetoed Luo Jingshan: "Take the initiative to attack, it is absolutely impossible to eat them......"
"Let's not say we don't know the size of this Houjin Iron Rider, and even if we do, we can't find them and force them to fight us in a decisive battle. After all, this is the land of Houjin, and they are more familiar with it than we are, and if they want to avoid us, no matter how hard we try, we won't be able to find them......"
"Not only that, but our attacking troops will also fall into a situation of passive beating under their constant attacks......
"So, this path will definitely not work...... and then consider other options......" (to be continued......