However, the pursuit of the cavalry of the Runing Army was still not deep. After covering up Wuli, the Runing army stopped pursuing. Therefore, King Xing Yan and Piri Needle, who fled for more than ten miles, could once again rein in the rout. In any case, it is still haode to have more soldiers, at least it can make King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle have a higher status in the peasant rebel army.

But when they began to gather the rout, the Runing army came again. Or the cavalry lined up to cover the wall and advance, and the peasant rebel army broke up again. And King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle really want to cry without tears, are the officers and soldiers on the other side playing with us?

However, the cavalry of the Runing army still only pursued for about five miles and then stopped pursuing. Now that you have a glimmer of life, you have to try to catch it! So they retracted again, but as soon as they retracted, the cavalry of the Runing army came up again......

After a few times, King Xing Yan and Piri Needle became numb. Because it was late at this time, the officers and troops on the opposite side would not pursue it again in the dark night. King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle decided that as long as they collected some more remnants, they were ready to rush back to Qingshui Bend overnight, and then flee with their families and baggage.

Sure enough, after nightfall, the Runing army stopped pursuing. But when King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle had just gathered the rout, there was bad news from the rear, Qingshui Bend was broken by the official army, and his family and baggage all fell into the hands of the official army.

At this moment, King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle reacted, the officers and troops on the opposite side were not unable to pursue from a distance, the reason why they chased and stopped like this was to attract themselves, and then completely surround and annihilate themselves by flanking them back and forth!

However, after being able to survive in the troubled times for so long, King Xing Yan and Pili Needle have long been trained to have a heart of stone. They immediately fled with their elites, and they couldn't care about any baggage, family members, and other routs. As a result, the entire camp of the peasant rebels was immediately leaderless, and immediately became in chaos.

The Runing Army heard the chaotic sound of the peasant rebel camp, but did not do anything at all during the night. In the dark. Although the pursuit of the enemy army has gained a lot, it may also suffer a lot of losses, so the Runing army simply did not move, and everything was waited until dawn.

After dawn, the Runing army saw that the large camp on the opposite side was in disarray. Some of the peasant rebels ran around like headless flies, and some of them threw themselves into the net and ran to Qingshui Bend. Some of them remained in the camp like chickens.

So on the one hand, the Runing army sent cavalry and symbolically pursued in the direction where King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle had fled, while the main force first occupied the camp of the peasant rebel army, and then still formed a battle formation. Towards the Clear Water Bend.

On December 18, Xue Yongli's main force smoothly converged with Zhang Biao's blocking force. In this battle, Xue Yongli's main force did not kill a single person, but wounded more than a dozen people, and all of them were slightly injured. There was no life-threatening situation.

Zhang Biao's troops suffered greater casualties, when attacking Qingshui Bend. The resistance of the remaining peasant rebels was fierce. Although there was a huge disparity in strength, it still caused more than 80 casualties in the Runing Army. Therefore, the total number of casualties in the Runing army was less than 100.

In total, the Runing Army collected more than 2,200 heads of the peasant rebels and captured more than 12,000 prisoners. It can be described as a brilliant result. In addition, all the baggage left by King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle in Qingshui Bend was captured by the Runing army. In addition to the property worth more than 20,000 taels of silver, more than 5,000 stone of grain was also seized.

This operation. The Runing Army has fully achieved its operational objectives. So, after counting the belongings and resting for a day, the Runing army began to retreat on December 20 with the captured and captured property.

And King Xing Yan and Pi Li Needle fled with the remnants of the soldiers towards Zhang Xianzhong's camp closest to them. In the darkness, King Xing Yan mysteriously disappeared and his whereabouts have been unknown ever since. Until early in the morning. Piri Needle entered Zhang Xianzhong's camp with more than 1,000 remnants.

After questioning Piri, the news of the encounter with a mysterious and formidable officer army on the left side immediately spread throughout the peasant rebel army. Therefore, the peasant rebel army immediately stopped its unscrupulous attack, and they sent a large number of spies in the direction of the Runing army to accurately estimate the strength and dynamics of the Runing army.

However, the Runing Army didn't care that the peasant rebels knew their movements at all, except for sending some cavalry to drive away and strangle some peasant rebel spies who were too close to the Runing Army, they were like lions that broke into the antelope herd, holding their prey, and under the gaze of a group of antelopes, they retreated in the direction of Nanyang unhurriedly.

The contemptuous attitude of the Runing Army immediately aroused the anger of the peasant rebels. However, the peasant rebel army was also very careful, Zhang Xianzhong, who was closest to the Runing army, immediately sent 2,000 cavalry led by Li Dingguo to follow and harass the Runing army, and Zhang Xianzhong personally led his whole army of more than 70,000 horses and horses, and pressed in the direction of the Runing army.

There was no way for the peasant rebels to do so. When they crossed the Yellow River, their personnel were greatly expanded, so that until now, the whole peasant rebel army had not been fully deployed.

At present, the peasant rebels did not know that around them, there were no other officers and troops approaching, except for the Runing Army.

Therefore, the peasant rebel army was afraid that the Runing army would be sent from the east, Hong Chengchou would send troops from Shaanxi from the west, and Huguang would send a strong army from the south to surround the peasant rebel army again on three sides. Then they will again be encircled. This situation will be the same as before the crossing of the Yellow River. It was nothing more than that the location of the siege was changed from the north of the Yellow River to the south of the Yellow River. And all the leaders of the peasant rebels could no longer believe that the luck of crossing the Yellow River by deception would happen again.

Therefore, the peasant rebels must defeat the Runing army, at least to push the Runing army back far enough so that the peasant rebels can have enough space to move.

If it weren't for this, with the previous habits of the peasant rebel army, they would have encountered a strong army like the Runing Army, they would have advanced and retreated a long time ago, and they were not willing to fight hard with the Runing Army to lose their strength.

And the performance of the Runing Army also reassured the peasant rebels. The retreat of the Runing army was quite slow, but along the way, everything that could be looted was loaded, and all those who could see it were arrested. And with so many pots and pots, how could the speed of the Runing army's retreat be faster.

However, he saw that the Runing army had more than 3,000 horsemen, and after the trial attack, he felt that the Runing army was sharp. Therefore, Li Dingguo only dared to hang far behind the Runing Army, and did not dare to get particularly close to the Runing Army.

And three days later, on December 24, Zhang Xianzhong's army also arrived, accompanied by more than 10,000 people who came to support Luo Rucai.

As soon as he saw Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai smiled "hehe" and said: "Eight kings, is the official dog on the opposite side good to bite?" Has this kid Li Dingguo fought with them? ”

Zhang Xianzhong also knew Luo Rucai's straightforwardness, and replied with a smile: "I have been up a few times, and I have suffered a lot of losses." It's a strong army. But what makes people can't touch their heads is that they don't know what the commander of this official army thinks in his head. Their attitude is simply to ignore us. Either they think we're vulnerable, or they're getting into the money. Under the oppression of our army, they were able to grab people and things without hurrying. You know, there are only about 8,000 of them, and our two battalions combined are nearly 100,000. Don't they really care? ”

"No matter how strong you are, can you beat our Shaanxi soldiers?" The number of Luo Rucai's troops, although it has never been large among the peasant rebels. But they are basically rebel trilateral soldiers. Especially his army is dominated by Shaanxi soldiers, so Luo Rucai's combat effectiveness has always been the strongest among the peasant rebels, "I will meet them tomorrow, it will be a little difficult to eat them completely, but there should be no problem in holding them back." After I hold them back, your seventy or eighty thousand men will be pressed again. I don't believe it, they are still cast of iron, can they resist so many people? ”

But the next day, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai lined up. Something happened that made them stumble. The Runing Army did not pay any attention to the formation of the peasant rebels. They lined up in a phalanx of four thousand men behind, and the rest of the troops retreated with their prisoners and goods. What's even more strange is that the cavalry of the Runing Army also participated in the escort team, and it seems that they didn't want to participate in today's battle at all.

Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were furious after being surprised, this is too underestimated. Could it be that the officers and troops on the opposite side are vainly trying to block their 100,000 army with 4,000 men? It's unbearable!

So Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai immediately ordered the whole army to prepare, and Luo Rucai ordered his thirteenth Taibao to lead his own 3,000 cavalry to immediately disperse and defeat the four thousand people in front of him.

However, in the face of a well-defended phalanx, with cavalry, the losses must be quite large, and it may not be able to rush away, so Luo Rucai's cavalry used a new cavalry tactic.

And this cavalry tactic was invented by the nomads of the steppes, and it was carried forward in the hands of Genghis Khan. So what is this cavalry tactic? In fact, we have used this tactic all the way to modern times, and the most widely used in modern times is our vast number of online game enthusiasts.

To put it simply, this kind of cavalry tactic is: pull hatred, attract monsters, and group beating, these trilogy.

First of all, the cavalry will be about a hundred paces away from the infantry phalanx, dismount and shoot arrows with longbows, pulling up the hatred of the enemy. If the enemy's formation becomes disorganized, then, of course, immediately get on the horse and rush into battle. But if the enemy is patient, then of course continue to shoot arrows to increase the aggro value.

If the enemy can't resist the blow, after the covering enemy cavalry rushes out, the archery soldiers immediately get on their horses and run away, forming a lure. And in the process of attracting monsters, the cavalry skilled in cavalry archery will also turn back to shoot arrows, not how accurate the arrows are, the main reason is to ensure that the hatred value is full. This is where mounted archery really comes in.

However, this behavior is boasted of in modern times, as if the nomads' mounted archery was a hundred shots, in fact, these people did not know that the mounted archery was used to attract monsters.

Of course, everyone understands the meaning of Zuihou's group fight. When the enemy cavalry is drawn out of a certain distance, immediately concentrate the superior forces and eat the enemy cavalry that is chasing out.

And speaking of which, we can see that the Spanish phalanx weishenme could not help the cavalry equipped with cold weapons. Because the range of the cavalry longbow exceeds the range of the firebolt, the cavalry can continuously use the bow and arrow to strike the soldiers in the opponent's array beyond the range of the firearm.

Moreover, because the Spanish phalanx did not move fast, the cavalry could move flexibly. Therefore, the cavalry did not need to get close to the Spanish phalanx, and could surround the Spanish phalanx and eat all the soldiers in the phalanx one by one. Of course, if the soldiers in the phalanx can't help but rush out or the formation breaks up, then they will immediately face a massacre of cavalry.

So it can be said that in many modern time-traveling novels, as long as the time-traveler trains the Spanish phalanx, he can push the cavalry group of the steppe people, which is completely a dream. At most, when they come up, because they are not familiar with your phalanx, the enemy's cavalry suffers a little.

It was not until King Gustav III of Sweden trained an army of infantry and cavalry to prevent the enemy cavalry from using this tactic under the cover of cavalry, that this shortcoming of the Spanish phalanx was fully compensated.

However, by now, the once invincible Mongolian iron cavalry has long disappeared, and it is the Shaanxi soldiers in the Later Jin Army and the Ming Army who inherited this cavalry tactic.

However, the Runing army did not know this, and they would face the new tactics of Luo Rucai's cavalry for the first time. (To be continued......)