The flag flies and dazzles.

The drum horn is thick and deafening.

In the field of vision, countless thieves spread all over the mountains, surging like mercury pouring into the ground.

was just a moment of shock, and Cao Wenzhao had already come back to his senses and regained his composure.

In the battle of Nanyuan in the past, the thieves hid the elite, only with more than 1,000 cavalry to meet the battle, and when he led the troops into the Nanyuan, the ambush army rose up, and tens of thousands of thieves surrounded him.

But the final result was the defeat of the thieves, and the zombies on the southern plains covered the wilderness, and the corpses were ambushed.

Five years have passed since the third year of Chongzhen, but the number of these thieves has increased, but there has not been much progress.

A thief is always a thief, and no matter how many people there are, they are a rabble.

The thieves' foot soldiers are not very warlike, and they often throw rat traps in the face of the enemy who form a military formation, and do not dare and will not directly attack the tight military formation, but only make noise and intimidate on the periphery, or attack from a distance with long soldiers, or shoot at a distance with bows and crossbows.

Only under the drive of the horse team and the strict orders of the leaders of the teams will they attack, they are not real soldiers after all, and most of them are forced to become thieves because they want to survive.

The thieves' infantry team only has a few veterans and elites, and they will definitely not be able to break through the military formation, so they don't need to care.

However, the thieves' horse teams are all veterans who can fight well, and many of them were formerly the border armies of the Nine Sides and the recruiting guards in various places, and they rose up because of arrears of wages and natural disasters.

They are also soldiers, and in the face of familiar military formations, how could they not know how to break the formation.

A group of foot soldiers on the official road also began an orderly retreat under the commanders and commanders of various divisions and departments.

Surrounded by tens of thousands of troops, it is false to say that they are not afraid, but it is because of fear that they do not flee.

They are all veterans, and they know very well that only by maintaining the military formation and slowly retreating will the thieves' infantry team not dare to step forward, and the thieves' horse team will also throw rat traps.

Once the army collapses, the thieves surrounding the perimeter will pounce like tigers, tearing them all to pieces.

"Woo————"

The sound of the horn successfully focused everyone's attention on Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao didn't have words, there were deafening shouts and killings all around, and it was undoubtedly difficult for the generals to hear it, he just raised the horse lance in his hand.

Glancing at the thieves around him who were dense like ants, like mountains and seas, Cao Wenzhao looked back, and his sharp gaze swept over the faces of the family members behind him.

The whole cavalry was silent, and everyone had regained their composure.

The horse lance vibrated lightly, cutting through the sky, bringing a burst of Qingyue's clanging sound, which passed through countless chaotic sounds and entered everyone's ears.

Cao Wenzhao kicked the horse's belly with his legs, and the horse wearing the half-body horse armor under the seat shook its head slightly, and then opened its four hooves and ran away in small steps ahead.

The war horses were churning on all fours, the dust was flying, and the headwind was coming, and all the cavalry were equally saddled and prancing horses, following behind Cao Wenzhao.

The detachment, the closure, and the formation were completed almost in an instant, and they knew these things by heart.

With the reins of the knight on the horse, one after another the horses buried their heads, and followed in unison, and began to run in small steps.

Hundreds of cavalry, six people in a platoon, a total of nineteen platoons.

In the first four rows, except for the front row with spears, the remaining three rows are all holding the reins in their left hand and a knife in their right hand, and the back of the knife is resting on the right shoulder.

Then the family members were all armed with bows and arrows, and the line was slightly scattered.

The border army of the Ming Dynasty has developed so far, mainly with soft bows and long arrows, fast horses and light knives, and the cavalry with guns and spears only accounts for a very small number in the army.

Most of the border troops of the Ming Dynasty used Kaiyuan bows, and the so-called "soft bows" were actually relative to the heavy bows used by the infantry.

The use of a soft bow can ensure that even if the horse is affected on the horse, the bow can be fully opened to ensure that the power is guaranteed.

Long arrows, as the name suggests, are elongated arrows, and the use of long arrows can effectively avoid overfilling the bow and causing the drawing distance to exceed the length of the arrow.

If the arrow is pulled through the bow, there is a danger that the bow will be destroyed and the hand will be injured.

The combination of fast horses and light knives was with each other, and the border army of the Ming Dynasty basically did not have any heavy cavalry, even if it was equipped with horse armor, it was only a light half armor, mainly to win with speed.

This was not a regression, but a change in demand, since the main opponent of the Ming army had always been the Mongol cavalry, which had little armor at all.

Lightweight knives do have a unique advantage on horses, relying on wrist strength for flexible one-handed swings, and can perform some complex movements on horseback.

In cavalry battles, victory and defeat are only in the blink of an eye, and whoever can use the weapon faster has a better chance of winning.

Although the cavalry spear was longer, it was also possible to gain an advantage in cavalry combat, and the cavalry in the front line mostly used long soldiers, but more people still chose light swords.

Chen Wang did not pull out his saber, but took out the Kaiyuan bow hanging from his waist, because of his superb archery skills, his position has always been arranged in the middle of the cavalry formation.

When Cao Wenzhao rode out of the army, he had already retreated back to his own team, and there were regulations for marching and fighting.

He has regained his composure, he has changed a lot of things, they have not fallen headlong into the encirclement of the thieves, the terrain here is gentle and suitable for the cavalry action, and it is still unknown who will kill the deer!

The hooves struck on the dark yellow earth, and the deep and firm sound of horses' hooves slowly sounded on the official road.

The horse lance is obliquely fingered, and it is ridden forward.

Cao Wenzhao was alone, at the forefront of the cavalry formation.

The headwind hit him, blowing up the fiery red robe that draped over his armor.

The three fiery red helmets on the high-topped helmet also continued to jump in the headwind.

Behind him, hundreds of family members followed, no one flinched, no one fled.

As family members, they had already put their lives in the hands of Cao Wenzhao.

And although the enemy was outnumbered, they did not think that this battle would be lost.

"Woo————"

Different from the previous low, an extremely high riding horn suddenly sounded in the riding formation.

And when the trumpet sounded, the speed of the cavalry increased by a few points again.

Cao Wenzhao didn't care about the four rounds of infantry as the front army, the first two rounds of infantry were attacked by tiger squatting artillery and arrow rain, and then surrounded by rogue infantry, and now they have already fallen into a heavy encirclement, and the results speak for themselves.

The infantry of the other two rounds fought and retreated, and as long as they converged with the Chinese army, they could hold on to the military formation.

The battlefield was chaotic, but Cao Wenzhao's thoughts were very clear.

This battle is different from the Battle of Nanyuan, there are no friendly troops around to help the battle, there is no possibility of turning defeat into victory, and all that can be done is to save as many soldiers and soldiers as possible.

It was imperative to block the enemy's offensive and give enough time for the retreat and formation of the infantry on the official road.

The Battle of Nanyuan, "History of the Ming Dynasty, Biography of the Ming Dynasty, Volume One Hundred and Fifty-Six":

"Wen Zhao went to the rescue. The thieves hid the elite, fought against the enemy with thousands of horses, lured to the southern plains, and rose up. The people in the city said that General Cao had died. ”

"Wen Zhao holds a spear and bursts left and right, and the horse lingers in the crowd."

"The armies saw it, flanked it, the thieves were defeated, the zombies covered the wilderness, and the rest walked the Tongchuan Bridge."