On March 27, two armies were standing against each other on the plain ten miles south of Shouyang City.

On the wilderness in spring, after a cruel weed in a severe winter, it kept growing wildly under the nourishment of sufficient rain. In some low-lying water, grass grows even with people. But all this was just a scene ten days ago. Since the White Horse Brigade of the Tianzhu Army came to Shouyang City and fought with Han Qing and the army, this field has been trampled by hundreds of horses and thousands of troops, and even the grass roots are exposed. The soft mud, which was originally moist, was also stepped on by thousands of feet to be extremely solid. After this battle, I believe that decent flowers and plants will not grow in several years.

The first battle between the two armies occurred seven days ago. The main generals of both sides acted as a tentative attitude, and each sent a battalion of troops to fight on a small scale. The battle was not long, and about two hours later, the soldiers on both sides who were confronting each other, dragging their exhausted bodies and dozens of injured companions, each withdrew to their base camp.

Three days later, the two armies began to formally fight on a large scale. Among Han Qinghe's two thousand combat soldiers, except for nearly 500 cavalry not dispatched, all 1,500 infantrymen were on the battlefield. The White Horse Brigade also took out all its assets, and the three camps came out together.

The strength of the White Horse Brigade really scared Han Qinghe. The neatly lined up sword and card soldiers I had seen a few days ago were fine. The heavy armored spear consisting of infantry armor, which was sturdy and strong enough to withstand close-range swords and axes, and was difficult to penetrate by bows and arrows. It was not only the nemesis of the cavalry, but also the nightmare of infantry. In Han Qinghe's impression, only Lou Shi, silver skills, the Hezha guards of several generals, Pili Su and Tu Heshu, have such excellent equipment.

The moment he saw the heavy armored spearmen, Han Qinghe and his soldiers' foreheads were hot. Five hundred pairs of heavy armor! If they could defeat this army and confiscate all of these armors, except for most of them, the army could leave at least two hundred pairs of them for their own use. Han Qinghe nodded secretly. It seemed that the news from the Eastern Route Army was at least correct. This Taihang bandit, known as the "Tianzhu Army", was indeed well-equipped. Judging from the standards of the military armor and weapons, it was mostly stolen from the Song army. It could force its own vanguard army to retreat and confront a battalion of our army without losing the disadvantage. With such combat power, it was fully equipped with the strength to strip the armor from the Song army.

Perhaps the equipment of the heavy armored spearmen was too tempting, or perhaps Han Qinghe was used to discount the combat effectiveness of the "bandit army" and directly suppressed all 1,500 infantrymen. Han Qinghe originally intended to crush the enemy with the momentum and fighting will of the regular army. Unexpectedly, the two armies had not yet joined the battle. Our army was hit by a storm of arrows. The strength of the "bandit army" bow and crossbow gave Han Qinghe a lot of shock.

Although the Jin army quickly counterattacked, and the density of arrows was not inferior to that of the enemy, the protection of its own soldiers was obviously not as good as that of the enemy. As a result, the casualties were twice as high as those of the opponent. After the battle, these bandits not only did not collapse, but instead assassinated half of the battalion of the army with a thorny spear formation. If two hundred cavalry had not been sent to threaten from the flanks in time and forced the bandits to retreat, the casualties would be even more severe.

In the second battle, Han Qinghe's army suffered 300 losses. Although he eventually forced the enemy to retreat with cavalry, he was at a slight disadvantage.

Despite the considerable losses, Han Qinghe was not depressed. He felt that he had forced his opponent's trump card, and he still had one card but failed to play five hundred cavalry. At any time, five hundred cavalry were a powerful force in a medium-sized battle between thousands of people and could determine the balance of victory or defeat.

Today is the third battle, and Han Qinghe is full of confidence. He decided to play out the ace in his hand today.

There are not many tricks in the battles of this era. Before the war, you can plan, play various strategies, and draw out one military strategy after another. Once you go to the battlefield, you still have to speak honestly and practically, make fewer mistakes, and make fewer tricks. If there are cavalry and infantry, then the infantry will face the enemy head-on and look for opportunities on the flanks of the cavalry; if there are only infantry, then you have to prepare more crossbows and strive for long-distance killing; if all are cavalry, there is nothing to say, beat people if you want to, and leave people if you want to...

In the early Jin army fought, there were many horses and few people, but now it is a scale of hundreds of thousands, which means there are too many people and fewer horses. The Jurchens are different from the Mongols. The Mongols are standard nomadic peoples, while the Jurchens are fishing and hunting peoples. The horse reserves cannot be compared with the Mongols.

In the eyes of the Jurchens, Han Qinghe's Khitan soldiers were just second-rate troops. Of course, they could not have too many horses, so that his Khitan ten thousand people's team, Temu Bojin, had only one thousand cavalry and only five thousand warriors, and the rest were auxiliary soldiers. The main force in the battle was still infantry. This is also why Han Qinghe was so jealous of the five hundred deputy infantry armor.

Han Qinghe's three-way battle was normal, with infantry constraining the enemy head-on, first consuming arrows, then entangling the heavy armored spearmen with heavy cards, and finally inserting four hundred cavalry from both wings.

Han Qinghe's tactic is very simple and straightforward, but it's so simple and straightforward, but the enemy has nothing to do with it. The reason is very simple and straightforward. You have no strength, and you can't understand it.

When fighting the second battle a few days ago, Han Qinghe used the same tactics. At that time, the White Horse Brigade had the upper hand and withdrew troops in time to avoid the trouble of flanking. But this time, Han Qinghe believed that it would not be so easy for the other party to withdraw troops, because he would definitely give way to the infantry to bite him.

Under the scorching sun, the killing sounds of two armies shook the sky and the earth and collided, and then a strong smell of blood filled the vast field...

Han Qinghe stroked a few long white beards mixed with his chin, staring at the battlefield in the distance without a moment, silently calculating the best time for the cavalry to attack. About half an hour later, Han Qinghe, who keenly felt the pace of both sides of the battle, finally nodded and signaled to the trumpeter beside him: Cavalry to attack!

Four hundred light cavalry, circling left and right, holding a yellow flag and the other holding a green flag, rolling up a large trunk of yellow dust, like two earth dragons, stumbled and headed straight for the wings of the white horse brigade.

"Han Qinghe's cavalry finally moved."

On a hillside about five miles behind the White Horse Tour Camp, Liang Xing excitedly held the box-like dual-purpose optical telescope of the Anpvs 10 day and night, and ran down the lookout point. He respectfully gave the magical "Thousand Mile Mile Mile" in his hand to Di Lie who was sitting leisurely on the lawn to rest.

Di Lie took it casually, looked at the hunting soldiers who were ready to go behind him, and nodded to Liang Xing: "Take two hundred cavalry to fight, attack only one side, as long as you defeat any wing of cavalry, the other wing will definitely retreat with anger."

Liang Xing stretched out his fist and knocked heavily to his left chest, ran quickly towards the war horse more than ten steps away, turned over, clamped his legs, and pointed the mount forward. Two hundred hunters followed behind him, rode their horses down the slope of the back mountain, walked around the ridge, and rushed towards the battlefield where they were fighting and fighting.

At this time, Zhao Yan, who had been following Di Lie, couldn't help but speak, "Military Master. We still have 200 hunting soldiers. Why don't we send them together and just pack up the Jin cavalry on the other wing. Han Qing and only have more than fifty cavalry guards left by Han Qing and maybe they can even beat rabbits..." The young prime minister was finally allowed to enter the teaching camp to study with his outstanding performance in the Battle of Wumashan. After graduation, in terms of whether to choose to become a team leader or a squad leader in the hunting camp, the young prime minister resolutely chose the latter. He then became a loyal follower of Di Lie.

Di Lie smiled, and his arms were resting behind his head with no image, lying on the soft grass on his back, and said lazily: "If I really want to annihilate Han Qing and these thousands of horses, I will not let the White Horse Brigade take the lead, and I will not let Zhang Rui take half of the troops in the hunting camp and cover the passage from Shouyang to Taiyuan. You are the prince, have you ever read the strategy of military strategy? There is a 'shelf-handed and shelter' in the thirty-six strategies..."

Zhao Yan wanted to learn from Di Lie, but jumped up after hearing this: "The army leader wants to mobilize the Taiyuan defenders through Han Qinghe?!"

With Zhao Yan's current military position, he was not qualified to listen to the strategic deployment of the Tianzhu Army. However, he guessed the goals of the first phase of the Taiyuan Campaign with just one note from Di Lie and the changes in the current battle situation. He was also a bit strategic.

Di Lie looked at the cheap brother-in-law with approval and smiled: "I'm quite smart. If you polish it for a few more years, you can work in the General Staff."

"I don't go to the General Staff. I either record or make pictures all day long. I'm tired and boring. Ling Ziyou always complains that he doesn't have the chance to direct the war..."

"Ziyou complained? Why didn't I know?" Di Lie was surprised.

"Sister Wanting said..." Zhao Yan suddenly realized that he had missed his mouth and quickly grabbed the scope at Di Lie's feet. "Our hunting soldiers seem to be fighting with the enemy, I'll go and see..."

Seeing Zhao Yan running away hurriedly, Di Lie shook his head and smiled: Ling Ziyou, Zhu Wanting, these two people have a story...

After Liang Xing rushed out of the valley, the two hundred hunting soldiers were not making any choice and headed straight for the nearest right-wing enemy cavalry. At this time, the enemy cavalry on both wings were bent their bows and arrows, preparing to strike the White Horse Brigade first, and wait for an opportunity to intersperse. The emergence of the hunting cavalry made the enemy cavalry on both wings stop and guard back to defense.

Fu Xuan and Wang Zhongzhi, whose heart was about to reach their throat, were relieved at this time. Although they had known that the army leader personally commanded the hunting battalion to hide nearby, in order to confuse the enemy, even the White Horse Brigade did not know where the surprise soldier was hidden, and only knew that it was floating like a charm, and it could not even touch its whereabouts, let alone the enemy.

It was precisely because of this that the sudden attack of the cavalry made Han Qinghe and his left and right wing cavalry team frightened. However, after seeing that the other side had only two hundred cavalry, he felt relieved. After observing for a while, after seeing the performance of this cavalry's military-controlled horse cavalry, Han Qinghe finally put his heart back in his stomach, smiled, and ordered the drum to fight.

The two hundred enemy cavalry on the right wing who received the order put away their bows and arrows, drew their swords and spears, shaking their wrists and lifting their reins, and slowly set off a tight cavalry formation to slowly face the hunting cavalry. The enemy cavalry on the left wing temporarily gave up attacking the infantry sideways and circled a large circle to the right, preparing to threaten the hunting cavalry from the back. In the eyes of the cavalry, only the same cavalry has the most value of fighting. As long as the cavalry suddenly emerges, it is not a problem to turn back and clean up the infantry.

I have to say that Han Qinghe has a very poisonous eyes. Hunter is the elite of the Tianzhu Army, but not the elite of the cavalry. In terms of cavalry skills, horse warfare and cavalry formation warfare, it is even worse than Yang Zaixing, Yang Zhechong and Fang Hong’s three cavalry regiments expanded from the old cavalry back battalion. To put it bluntly, hunting soldiers are just to be equipped with double horses to be able to fight maneuver and high-speed. Their own cavalry skills are good in the Tianzhu Army, but they are not enough to see in front of Han Qinghe’s professional cavalry.

Han Qing, who can only sit firmly on the horse's back and can barely let go of his arms, was as confident as his cavalry team to win.

Liang Xing and his hunters were also full of confidence. Of course, they were not blindly arrogant. The duel between the hunter cavalry and the real cavalry, in the past two months, they have practiced at least twenty times, and their opponents are three major cavalry regiments. During repeated practice, in addition to the difficulty of simulated Jin army's knelt horse tactics and causing certain losses, the general frontal rush has a great chance of winning. Now, the enemy cavalry is hedging with their own side.

On the wilderness, two infantrymen fought and two earth dragons collided. At the moment when they were about to collided, it seemed that even the infantrymen had a brief stagnation. Thousands of eyes focused on the two cavalry that were getting closer and closer.

Fifty steps. This is the effective killing distance of the cavalry. The reason why the Jin cavalry abandoned the bow and used a knife was because the showdown between cavalry was different from the cavalry suppressing infantry. Both sides were approaching at high speed, fifty steps. Only a few breaths were at such a short distance, and there was no time to draw out the weapon after shooting an arrow, let alone adjust the cavalry posture and prepare for the blade battle.

Therefore, the Jin cavalry had to give up the mid-range attack and intended to dismount the opponent with cavalry tactics that were more than one step ahead of the opponent.

However, the Jin army did not have medium-range attack methods, but it does not mean that the hunters did not have it... Liang Xing stretched out his arm from the saddle and started with a five-foot javelin as thick as an egg. Almost at the same time, two hundred hunters also had the same javelin. In the spring sunshine, the cross-star lights of the gun tip shone, like a cluster of guns...

"Damn it!" Han Qinghe almost bit his tongue. This group of cavalry was equipped with javelins, which was really a miscalculation. His cavalry team was equipped with javelins in the past, but they had not been reissued after they were used up. In addition, they had not encountered the cavalry of Song for a long time, and they had enough bows and arrows to deal with infantry, so they relaxed. Unexpectedly, they encountered an opponent using javelins today...

After two teams of cavalry rushed to thirty steps, with a whistle, two hundred javelins were thrown out of the air, as if there was a rain of arrows. The Jin cavalry instantly turned over, some were nailed to the horse's back, and some were inserted with javelins constantly rolling, the gun bars were broken, and blood stained with loess...

"Okay! This guy has at least fifty riders!" Zhao Jian, who was observing with a scope, clenched his fists and shouted excitedly.

Di Lie, who was lying on the lawn, bent down and sat up, shouting at the back of the cheap brother-in-law: "No need to see, the Hunting Barracks have practiced so many times, and nothing goes wrong. Now, it's time for us to show up."

Each saddle of the hunting cavalry has at least three javelins in their saddle, but they only have one chance to use them within a distance of thirty steps. When the javelin is taken, the hunters will also carry out the weapons in their hands, including the cavalry, the bark and the flail... At the same time, they also have more eagle-mouth guns than their opponents.

As the deputy commander Liang Xing had two eagle-mouth guns. He rushed in front with two guns in his hand. When the enemy chariot that was waving the mace and rushing forward ten steps away came, Liang Xing controlled the horse with both legs, and the left gun was on his right forearm, so he almost didn't aim and pulled the plate machine.

Bang! The orange flame flashed, and the big hairy face of the Jin soldier leader was immediately blurred with blood and flesh. His thick body shook on the horse's back, and the amplitude became larger and larger. Finally, he fell off the horse and was crushed into meat paste by the subsequent horse's hooves.

Bang! The second shot was fired, and another horse was shot. Liang Xingxun inserted his two guns into the bed, lifted out a seven-foot sword, ready to fight.

There were endless bangs on the battlefield, and the enemy cavalry that rushed over like a sea of ​​rushing towards Liang Xing were mostly shot and killed by hunters who kept emerging behind them before they had time to rush to Liang Xing. Every time an enemy cavalry fell, it would always cause interference to the cavalry behind them, and even trip up friendly forces. The explosion, fire, and pungent smoke caused great stimulation to the untrained Jin army's horses. Many war horses, regardless of their master's control, stopped or ran away, causing chaos to become more and more chaotic.

The effective range of the Hawk-Bee Gun is only 20 or 30 steps, while the hunters fired almost ten steps, with a very high hit rate. The right-wing cavalry of the Jin army suffered heavy blows in just one moment and suffered shocking losses.

The tactics of the hunting cavalry are like two warriors holding samurai swords confronting each other and then launching an attack at the same time. Just as they were about to fight, one of them suddenly threw a flying knife, the other party could only scream "despicable", and then fell down unwillingly...

The Jin cavalry had fallen, but they were not calling out "despicable", but yelling. The right-wing cavalry of two hundred cavalry first had a javelin and then a scattered gun, and the battle losses were as high as 60%. Not to mention second-rate troops, even first-rate troops were about to collapse.

The right-wing cavalry of the Jin army collapsed, and the two hundred cavalry on the left wing who had just walked around halfway suddenly collided with an invisible wall, causing trouble and hesitation.

"Mustgun! This is the mustgun that the third prince (Zong Fu) repeatedly warned to be careful in the battle report!" Han Qinghe took a breath. This thing was indeed powerful, stronger than the crossbow. At least he had never seen a crossbow that could penetrate the strong armor at close range. However, if that was all, it would not be impossible to break. At least the Taiyuan Prefecture Commander Wanyan Tuhe quickly Hezha Guards, using the tactic of the crutch horse, could annihilate them from the distance.

At this moment, a roar came from afar, pointing his arm diagonally to the southwest, and reported out of breath: "Deputy Chief, the enemy's commander's flag appears, and there are still hundreds of cavalry accompanying him." Han Qinghe was now wearing the title of Deputy Chief of Zhongdu Road (Yanjing) so he has this name.

Han Qing and his hands were set up a shed and stared at the southwest. Sure enough, a group of people turned out from behind a hillside in the distance. As the people got closer, the flying flag of the "Di" character "天" was clearly visible...

"It turns out to be the personal guard of the thief leader, no wonder he is so powerful." Han Qinghe suddenly laughed loudly, "Okay, okay, the thief army in Tianshu City came out in full swing. I was not unjust to defeat this battle! I sent an order to withdraw my troops and return to the city. The secretary immediately drafted the military newspaper and sent four horses to report to Taiyuan. He was waiting for this moment, for a long time..."

Under the flag of the Lieliu, Zhao Yan looked at the messy battlefield excitedly, looked at Di Lie sideways, and said with confidence: "Military Master, Han Qing and this old man finally bit the bait?"

Di Lie shrugged: "I have taken myself out as bait. I hope Han Qinghe and the Dragon and Tiger King don't let me down."
Chapter completed!