Now the artillerymen have a stronghold to defend, with 600 musketeers and 600 heavy infantry to assist in defense. If the enemy attacks with thousands of troops, they will be beaten to a pulp.
If you want to attack a strong fortress with fourteen artillery pieces, and if you want to attack the artillery that fires a hundred cannonballs, a cavalry assault will have no effect.
We can only build chariots, rush chariots, etc., organize the troops to dismount, hold leather shields, and carry iron shields to fight on foot and slowly consume them.
It is absolutely impossible for a cavalry raid to bring any bulky equipment, so Huang Yi does not worry about his camp being raided and can boldly raid the enemy.
Zhaisalmu reached a consensus with Subudi, Seleng, Wandanweizheng and other large and small Taiji, and were ready to give a severe blow to the Xuanda and Ujimqin coalition forces that drove straight in.
Their preset battlefield was thirty miles away from the winter camp in Subudi.
Who would have thought that they waited until the flowers withered, but the Xuanda coalition forces never showed up.
What the hell is going on?
Zhaisalmu, who had been waiting for three days and expected the enemy to arrive long ago, was furious and asked what he was doing in Subudi.
Why do we know nothing about the enemy's actions?
Subudi was also very angry. He sent many sentinels, but none of them came back within ten miles of the Xuanda coalition.
The sentinels who returned just saw the Xuanda coalition forces rounding up other sentries from a distance and ran back quickly. Even so, half of them were intercepted and killed.
Before the war officially started, Subudi lost more than a hundred of his main troops. Of course, he was so angry that he cursed his mother.
It's definitely not possible if we don't know the location and number of enemy troops. There is no good way but to adopt the stupid method of increasing the number of sentries and scouts.
Huang Yi likes to use his knives to kill chickens. People's scout wars are just trivial, but he uses the main force to take advantage.
Often a dozen Karaqin scouts were surrounded by hundreds or thousands of base cavalry.
The results were very good. Facing ten or a hundred times the enemy, few of Haraqin's scouts would rather die than surrender, and most of them dismounted and knelt down to beg for surrender.
Facing the Tatars who were fleeing in panic, everyone in the base cavalry fought bravely to be the first, hoping to capture the prisoners with their own hands and be credited with a great service.
Huang Yi never thought that it was better to bully more than to win with less force. He often warned Zhi, Yong, Shuang, Quan, Zhang Dong, Hu Xiaochuan, etc. that they would rather fight a lion than a rabbit.
The purpose is to get the soldiers and horses moving. Instead of monotonous training, why not have a dozen real enemy cavalry for hundreds of warriors to chase?
yes! How good is actual combat training? Anyone who dares to slack off may die!
First practice defeating the few with more, then develop excellent tactics and combat skills, and then you can defeat the many with less.
The key is to engage in a battle of annihilation with more to win from the beginning, which will be more conducive to boosting the recruits' self-confidence, letting them feel the blood, and stimulating their bloody nature.
The enemy is not stupid either. He will certainly make changes if he discovers that the scouting horse and the sentinel horse cannot come back.
When Huang Yi, Bi Daxi, Hu Xiaochuan and others used telescopes to observe that the Karaqin people also dispatched thousands of cavalry, they decisively gave up shielding the battlefield in order to avoid a large-scale encounter.
Deliberately allow the enemy to approach until they discover your completed camp.
hey-hey! Just because I come to fight you does not mean that I have to storm your camp and fight decisively on the battlefield where you have assembled.
Why can't I make you feel uncomfortable and have to attack my camp?
Is it a decisive battle? Where are you planning to fight? It depends on Huang Yi's mood.
Anyway, Huang Yi couldn't turn the encounter into a decisive battle. It would be too uncontrollable and not his usual style. The decisive battle can only happen at the time and place he set.
The prepared Huang Yi was not afraid of the camp being breached, so he relaxed and concentrated all his cavalry to the east and north to attack continuously. The Haraqin tribe suffered disaster every day.
More than half of the four thousand or several hundred cavalry were armored cavalry. Even if all the men and horses that Karaqin and Jiannu could assemble were pressed against them, they would not be able to form a siege. Of course, they could stay or leave as they pleased.
Facing the Xuanda and Ujimqin coalition forces, Zhaisalmu, Subudi, etc. who did not rush to fight decisively, but continued to devour small and medium-sized tribes, their heads were as big as a fight.
They did not dare to divide their troops. When they finally detected the enemy's camp, they had to press forward with their entire army. They planned to attack it and save it. If the enemy did not save it, they would directly break the enemy's camp.
The Taijis in Haraqin were all wondering why Xuan Dajun was suddenly so powerful. They looked much more sinister than the arrogant Guan Ning cavalry.
Why does the Ujimqin Hedanbaat'er tribe have more than 2,000 cavalry? If you have this strength, why do you want everyone to serve in the army?
This is the asymmetry of intelligence. Harqin and Jiannu knew nothing about the base area, but Huang Yi had been planning to completely destroy Haraqin, not only collecting intelligence, but also often interrogating prisoners in person.
The war room in the base area has a sand table of the entire Bashang Prairie. The mountains, rivers, highlands, basins, population distribution, and the traditional territories of each tribe are all marked.
We fought many scout battles, and the cavalry in the base area captured the enemy cavalry. No one was ever left behind or missing.
Therefore, the enemy did not capture prisoners and could not learn the specific conditions of the base area through interrogation.
In fact, the cavalry of the Mongolian tribes outside the base area were not clear about the strength of the base area, they just felt that it was very powerful.
Only regular soldiers can provide valuable intelligence, but how easy is it to capture Huang Yi's regular soldiers alive?
The plan for the year lies in spring, and spring is so important. Huang Yi's thousands of men and horses set up camp in the hinterland of the Haraqin Tartars, which of course made the thirty-six families of Haraqin like a thorn in their backs.
Oh no! Today, there are no longer thirty-six families in Haraqin. It should be that at least half of the large and medium-sized tribes that can be ranked among the thirty-six families have disappeared.
No matter how many are left, the Karaqin Tatars feel uncomfortable anyway. Unless the Xuanda and Ujimqin coalition forces are driven away, their herdsmen will not be able to produce with peace of mind.
The excessive fright caused by the iron hooves not only makes Haraqin women prone to dystocia, but also scares back the milk, ewes cannot give birth to lambs, and cows cannot give birth to calves.
So the Karaqin Tartars swooped in and brought with them all the young and middle-aged people who could be mobilized.
More than 10,000 Haraqin slave-building coalition forces are approaching, and the bloody massacre is about to begin. However, the base camp is still in good order.
There are no rules. The camp is clean, with stoves and wells in good order. Even more than 100 toilets have been dug.
It is important to feed war with war, so Huang Yi did not carry much food and grass when he led his troops on the expedition.
However, after defeating more than 20 small and medium-sized tribes, the grain, cattle and sheep seized were enough for at least five months, and they were not afraid of enemy siege at all.
Moreover, the number of enemy troops is as high as 12,000, and the horses exceed 15,000. The consumption of horse chews is huge!
If the battle cannot be resolved quickly, the grain, cattle and sheep in the hands of the Haraqin Tatars who have suffered huge losses will simply not be able to withstand the consumption.
When the enemy could not and could not afford to wait, Huang Yi of course chose to fight steadily without being arrogant or impatient.
