"According to the scouts sent out in front, there were bandits with a number of no less than 3,000 people approaching our military camp, more than ten miles away from me." Liang Qiming said.

"The bandits with no less than three thousand people seem to be a very large bandit team. How are their equipment?" Qin Mu asked.

"These are unknown, and I have sent several more scouts to find out the situation." Liang Qiming said.

"What are your plans to face the enemy?" Qin Mu asked.

"I mean let the Second Brigade and the Third Brigade be the frontal force, and the bandits confront each other head-on. The First Brigade and the Fourth Brigade hide in the mountains ahead and wait for an opportunity to move, while the Fifth Brigade is the mobile force." Liang Qiming said.

"Very good, I'll pass on my order, and the entire army will enter the first-level combat security." Qin Mu ordered.

"yes."

Immediately, the messenger beside Qin Mu went down to convey the orders of the Legion Commander.

Qin Mu set up three combat security states in his own troops, namely third-level combat security, second-level combat security, and first-level combat security.

Level 3 combat security only requires the troops participating in the battle to enter the combat state. Level 2 security mode means that all military personnel need to enter the combat state. Level 1 security mode means that all personnel enter the combat state, which means that all personnel participate in the war, which is the highest level of security.

"Report to the commander of the army, there were about 3,000 bandits a hundred miles ahead, and they were attacking us quickly, with more than 500 of them being cavalry. At the same time, the figures of bandit scouts were also found." The scouts ahead soon came back on a fast horse and reported.

Damn, I'm having a rare time to relax with my own woman. When I swam in the mountains and rivers, the bandit actually came to disturb me. Qin Mu snorted angrily. Liang Qiming looked at the map and said lightly: "Sir, with the bandits' march speed at this moment, they should be able to drive to us in less than half an hour. It seems that we must be ready for a big battle."

"Take it again!"

Qin Mu nodded and waved his hand, and was about to take the scout back, he suddenly thought of something: "Wait, what did you say just now? There are five hundred cavalrymen among the bandits?"

The scout nodded and said, "Yes. The number of cavalrymen is no less than five hundred. At present, three scouts in our army are monitoring their abnormal movements."

"Very good, you go down and explore again." Qin Mu waved his hand and asked the scout to go down.

"Liu San. Take a personal guard corps and destroy the bandit scouts to prevent them from discovering the current location of our Second Brigade." Qin Mu ordered Liu San beside him.

In front of the two armies, it is inevitable that the scouts crossed each other. It depends on who discovers who first. In order to avoid the hidden ground of the Second Brigade being discovered by the bandits' scouts, Qin Mu decided to destroy the other side's scouts first.

"Get orders!"

Liu San happily took the order. Now Liu San is an officer after all, and he is also keen on leading the army to fight. Although he doesn't know how to set up a formation to meet the enemy, there is no problem with leading people to eliminate the scouts.

"It's a lot of trouble if there are cavalry."

Li Dadan said with some headaches. Now the army's camp is pinned on the flat ground. Such an empty field is a disadvantage to the cavalry.

Another point is that the ones on my side are basically infantry, and they have innate disadvantages against cavalry.

You should know the most critical advantage of cavalry against infantry: strong mobility and can strike any weakness of the opponent. You can make a fierce raid at critical moments and insert it into the center of the enemy's formation to greatly damage it. Cavalry is generally the main assault force, and cavalry attack the enemy's formation from the side and back, and cooperate with the attack of the main force on the front.

Cavalry has the advantages of speed, strength and height. The weight and speed of the horse strengthen the impact and strike force of the cavalry, which is a very powerful assault force. Infantry has obvious disadvantages in this regard.

.Cavals have momentum and psychological advantages. Looking at people from a high position gives people a sense of accomplishment and superiority, while on the contrary gives people a sense of inferiority and crisis.

Due to the disadvantage of maneuvering, infantry generally is in a defensive position. They are generally unable to take the initiative to attack and pursue. If there is no large number of cavalry invested in the pursuit operation, it is difficult to achieve great results.

When all the officers in the First Division heard that there were many cavalrymen with 500 cavalry among the bandits, they couldn't help but frown.

Mainly in the northwest, there are fewer jungles and mountains and rivers, most of which are flat land and grasslands, and they are the world of cavalry, and infantry is weaker than cavalry.

However, if it is in the jungle, mountains, rivers, and siege and defending the city, infantry has an advantage, and cavalry cannot exert their advantages in a narrow area, such as maneuvering.

Therefore, in the southern area of ​​the Great Qin Empire, it was difficult for cavalry to make a difference. At the same time, there were many mountains and rivers in the western part of the empire, and a large number of cavalry could also be used.

Because of the high requirements for terrain conditions, cavalry cannot exert their combat effectiveness in many areas. The front of infantry has strong combat capabilities, but it is very weak on the sides and behind. To make a simple model, if our army has 10,000 infantry, then if our front has 200 people, there will be only 50 people on the sides. So if we are in an open area, the cavalry is the nemesis of infantry.

Of course, if some strategic or tactical means are used to make the cavalry attack the front of the infantry phalanx, then the infantry will have a huge advantage in tactical defense.

"Captain Liang Army, do you have a way to deal with the 500 cavalrymen of the bandits?"

Qin Mu thought about it and asked, Qin Mu was also worried about these cavalry. You must know that the cavalry has a strong speed advantage. If they cannot effectively snipe the bandits' cavalry, once they rush into the army, these recruits who have been trained for a few days will definitely not be able to deal with more than 500 cavalry cavalry. Once the bandits' follow-up troops come up, their team will be in danger. Even if these bandits are driven away in the end, their casualties will be severe.

"Sir, the best thing to deal with cavalry is heavy infantry and archers, but these are the most scarce in our army now. Now our army has only more than 200 people in total. Cavalry, we are even more scarce, that is, a team of fifty people. We have no way to establish a regiment for these military branches in a short time. Now our army is basically infantry, and it is really..." Liang Qiming also had a headache when he said this.

"What about you, what can you do to deal with the bandits' cavalry?" Qin Mu asked several other officers.

...

Everyone lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at the commander of the legion. They really had no face. They had so many people that they couldn't think of a way to deal with the cavalry.

"Since you have no good idea, then listen to me," Qin Mu thought for a moment, his eyes lit up and said.

"Sir, do you have a way?" Liang Qiming asked in surprise.

"There is no good idea, there is only a stupid idea." Qin Mu said.

"Sir, tell us quickly." Li Dada asked anxiously.

"Okay, there is not much time left for the bandits here now, so let's act quickly after all."

Qin Mu said, pointing ahead and continued, "From the direction of the opponent's cavalry's attack, we will definitely sprint towards us from the front. If we dig small pits in front of us and cover the lawns, the bandits' cavalry will not see clearly from a distance. When the bandits' cavalry quickly sprint to these areas, as long as a horse's foot stepped on the pit, the horse would rush forward due to inertia, and soon twisted the horse's legs and fell down, and would throw the cavalry out. In this way, the cavalry behind directly hit the horse in front due to speed. After that, the cavalry again and again, the entire cavalry will be finished. Even if some horses did not rush over the pit, we had enough archers to deal with them, not to mention that we still had so many infantry."

"Sir, your idea is amazing." Li said boldly looking at Qin Mu in admiration.

The other officers' eyes changed when they looked at Qin Mu. Who said that this corps commander didn't know how to fight? This is the idea of ​​dealing with cavalry. No one who has become so many officers would have thought of it.

I can't blame him for being a fourth-rank official at a young age, he is the commander of the army, and his immediate superior to others. If he has the ability, he can't accept it.

"What are you watching me? Take action quickly. There is not much time left." Qin Mu looked at everyone looking at him stupidly, and said quickly.

"yes."

All the officers were ordered to go there, after all, everyone knew that the bandits really didn't have much time left for them.

"Deputy Commander Liang and Deputy Commander Zhu." Qin Mu said to the two officers beside him.

"Subordinate is here."

"Except for the First Brigade ambushing on both sides, all personnel, including the fire-tou army in the logistics, went out to dig holes, and they must dig enough holes within one stick of incense." Qin Mu said.

"yes,"

The two immediately arranged personnel to issue orders.

...

"Brother, are we really going to attack that army?" The second head of the bandits asked immediately, Feng, with some concern.

"Second, what's wrong? Are you afraid?" Ding Shanyan, the leader of the bandit, laughed loudly.

"Brother, it's not that I'm afraid, but the number of people in this army is at least 5,000. It's a bit difficult for our troops of less than 4,000 to face them." The second head of state immediately said.

"Second brother, don't be ambitious and destroy your own might. It's true that there are 5,000 people in this army, but the spy I sent out these days said that there are no less than 1,000 women, children, and elderly people. What are we afraid of in such an army?" said a bandit leader.

"But, those other people's troops are regular troops after all." Shi Feng said with some concern.
Chapter completed!