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Chapter 1409: Raid

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Yue Xiaolin was really unwilling to give up. When she returned to Wu Zheng, she said she had no chance to fight and had no hope of military achievements!

He desperately hoped that the enemy would attack again. He vowed to seize the opportunity this time, and retreat if he killed 180, and lead the enemy to the south.

The truth is the care of the miserable child.

God seemed to hear the prayer in Yue Xiaolin's heart, and the opportunity finally came.

Yue Xiaolin received a report from the scout at the last moment, and a team of cavalry came from Gu Ting.

This news made Yue Xiaolin feel excited and hurriedly ordered the suspension of retreat, let the defenders go back to the wall, and at the same time sent multiple scouts to continue inquiring.

The final news was that a cavalry of about 3,000 people was coming to Huling City, more than 30 miles away.

Yue Xiaolin was overjoyed. He was worried that the enemy troops would have too many troops and he could not eat it in one bite.

Three thousand cavalry... can they attack the city? If the horses step on the city wall, aren't they afraid of spraining their horse's hooves?

Isn’t this a gift from God?

Yue Xiaolin immediately ordered to be on guard and continued to order the scouts to search back.

....

For more than thirty miles, this is the time for a cavalry.

Yue Xiaolin probably never expected that this cavalry was not an ordinary cavalry. Although it was just a light armored cavalry, it was the only pure muslan cavalry in this era (more than a hundred years ago in the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry had a pure muslan cavalry, which used a three-eyed gun with a range of very close, with a distance of about thirty steps, and could not perform secondary loading, that is, a one-time shooting. After that, he held the barrel and lifted it backwards as an iron hammer, and was invincible at that time).

This cavalry was naturally Shen Zhiyuan's spear, but in fact, it should be said that it was the first mixed cavalry between him and Qian Qiaogong.

Yue Xiaolin met a strong enemy now, which was equivalent to kicking the iron plate.

Logically speaking, cavalry is indeed not good at siegeing cities, not equipped with cloud ladders, and war horses cannot jump onto the city walls. At most, they are harassing and difficult to occupy.

But the problem is that from the moment the Ranger was born, the Rangers could use flying shooting to suppress and kill the defenders on the city walls. Not to mention the Xiaoxiaohuling City, even the three or four feet tall giant city could not defend against the Rangers' arrows.

Because the ranger is equipped with a short bow, the range is relatively close, forty or fifty steps, but no matter how high the city wall is, it is not as high as forty or fifty steps, right?

The ranger quickly passed through the city wall, parallel to the city wall, and shot arrows on the city wall sideways. Once a volley is formed, the defenders will only be beaten, because no matter how good the sharpshooter is, he cannot aim at the moving target quickly.

Yue Xiaolin originally thought he was an ordinary cavalry. As long as the defenders shoot behind battlements and suppress them with the help of tiger squatting cannons, they can kill without any casualties.

In fact, this gun indeed looks the same as the ordinary cavalry of the Qing army, but there were two more gun bags on both sides of the saddle.

So Yue Xiaolin made a big mistake.

In half an hour, Yue Xiaolin, who used oil-added tactics to continuously add more than 2,000 defenders to the city walls, discovered that the guards' muskets and artillery could not suppress the cavalry flying under the city, and the enemy cavalry could use muskets to kill and damage the defenders on the city, finally realized that he was afraid he had made a big mistake.

But by this time, it was too late.

Yue Xiaolin's biggest mistake was that he should withdraw his troops as soon as he discovered that the enemy was a lancer, because the cavalry could not break through the city gate for a while, Yue Xiaolin had plenty of time to retreat, but unfortunately he missed this opportunity.

He had another chance, that is, even if he did not retreat, he should inform Pei County on the south as soon as possible, but he did not. It was not until half an hour later that there were more than 800 casualties on the city wall, almost 40% of the defenders' forces that Yue Xiaolin realized that it was impossible for him to defeat this cavalry, so he sent someone to report to Pei County and ask for help.

But it's too late.

Chen Zhiyuan has been familiar with military books since he was a child and has been with Wu Zheng for two years. He knows the truth that "the only way to speed in the world is to be able to break the martial arts skills." In fact, there were only 600 cavalry fighting the defenders under Huling City, and the enemy cavalry was interspersed back and forth at the Beimen City, forming a situation where a large number of cavalry attacks. In fact, Chen Zhiyuan had led his main force to bypass Huling City and head south.

In other words, when Yue Xiaolin was still adding troops to the city wall, Chen Zhiyuan had already led his main troops to the city of Pei County.

The Lu Domain was caught off guard, and his approach to challenge was exactly the same as Yue Xiaolin.

In fact, the Northern Expedition Army has never fought against the Lancers, because when ordinary rangers attacked the defenders on the city, they need to bend their bows and arrows on the running horses. At the beginning, they are full of energy and have a good sight. They can last for a period of time and the pressure on the defenders will gradually be reduced.

But this lancer is different. Qian Qiaogong inadvertently unveiled a new type of tactic of lancers, that is, when two teams of cavalry are speeding past, they fire alternately with muskets from the gun bags on both sides. Each team of cavalry can attack back and forth twice, which is enough for the other two teams of cavalry to load.

In other words, theoretically, the sustainability of the offense is infinite and can be attacked almost continuously.

This caused the defenders to suffer.

Fortunately, Pei County is not far from Xuzhou, and the Lu area did not make Yue Xiaolin's mistake. He immediately led the general information to Xuzhou City.

....

Chen Zhiyuan's tactics are obviously very ruthless.

In fact, there is a Northern Expedition Army between Huling City and Pei County, two or thirty miles outside the south gate of Huling City.

It was originally used to support Yue Xiaolin's troops during the first Huling Blocking War. At that time, Qian Qiaogong's "horse-riding infantry" was there.

But because of the great victory in Huling City, Yue Xiaolin accompanied Qian Qiaogong back to Xuzhou to report his duties. The horse-riding infantry became a transportation team and returned to Xuzhou together, leaving behind the 3,000-man support force.

Regardless of the position of the enemy and us, Chen Zhiyuan dared to use more than 2,000 cavalry to bypass Huling City and this support force and blitz into Pei County. His tactics are indeed remarkable.

This not only requires one's ruthlessness towards one's hostility, but also the will to win.

....

"This is forcing me!" Wu Zheng "bang" and took the military newspaper sent by the Luzhiyuan fast horse on the table, "Leave him a way to regret, but he just walked all the way to the dark... What can you do?"

Song An picked up the newspaper in silence, looked at it, handed it to Qian Qiaogong, who looked solemn, and then said to him: "Military information is urgent, General Lu's three thousand people will definitely not be able to withstand it... Young Master, order reinforcements quickly!"

Qian Qiaogong looked at the battle report and stopped him and said, "No!"

Wu Zheng and Song Anqi looked at Qian Qiaogong together.

Qian Qiaogong hurriedly explained: "Chen Zhiyuan came prepared, and his 30,000 new troops were stored around Guting... Prince, no one knew that I knew the combat power of this cavalry, and ordinary cavalry could not compete with it at all. Just imagine, when Chen Zhiyuan led 1,600 people to reinforce the enemy Prince Ajige's rebellion in the mourn, he shot and killed all the main forces of the 3,000 Mongolian cavalry that Ajige could not do for ten months... After returning, with Dorgon's strong support, I integrated the second unit with him, and this lancer was created today."
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