The bandit leader of Ohnozawa had a good relationship with Wang Ying, and he was very happy to see him vowing to make contributions to the village. Anyway, he brought a lot of people this time, so it would not be a bad idea to let him lead a partial division to collect food in other places.
So, Wang Ying took Bao Xu and Shi Qian, led a force of 2,000 people, including 500 horse troops, and roared towards Qingyang County.
The three of them thought that in the small Qingyang County, even if there was a Qingyang battalion, there would only be a few hundred coward soldiers at most. They wouldn't be able to defeat this kind of garbage army too much, they could defeat it in one encounter!
As for the temporarily recruited civilian warriors, they were not taken seriously by the three thieves at all. Maybe if they took people to stop in front of the county town, all the rural warriors guarding the city would be scared away!
Of course, the three thieves are not stupid. If they can avoid attacking the city, they will try not to attack the city. They plan to attack Qingyang County with lightning speed, taking advantage of the opponent's lack of time to react, and rush in without waiting for the city gate to be closed!
Unexpectedly, just halfway through, I encountered a group of scouts.
Not only did their scouts fail to fight, they also suffered a loss.
What made the three thieves even more depressed was that their own scouts failed to stop the other side's scouts, and the army was discovered!
What a surprise attack!
But it doesn't matter. There are only four to five hundred people in a Qingyang camp at most. Even if it is more elite than the average imperial army, its combat effectiveness is limited. It cannot be the opponent of its two thousand troops!
However, when the two armies actually met, the three thieves were dumbfounded.
Didn't I say that there is only one Qingyang Camp in Qingyang County? Why are there so many troops?
Are most of them Xiangyong?
No, there is no country warrior with such good equipment, who is more regular than the regular army of the imperial court!
The two thousand people Yun Chao led were almost the best equipped.
A thousand horse troops and a thousand infantry troops.
Whether they were cavalry or infantry, almost all were armed to the teeth.
What is the concept of an army all in armor?
I have never encountered any bandits in Ohnozawa.
In their opinion, perhaps only the Imperial Imperial Guards who defended Bianliang in Tokyo could have such good equipment.
Could it be that the imperial court knew that Ohnozawa was going to attack Dongping Mansion and specially sent a forbidden army?
In fact, the thousand-horse army under Yun Chao was not a thousand cavalry.
Although Yun Chao now has more than a thousand horses, he cannot gather a thousand cavalry. There is not enough training time, and the cavalry is not so easy to train.
A considerable part of the thousand-horse army led by Yun Chao were infantry who could ride horses.
It's okay to let them ride on horses, but let them fight on horses, forget it, maybe they will fall to death more than the enemies they kill.
After all, there are only about 500 cavalrymen who can really fight on horseback.
Yun Chao was not willing to let them charge on horseback, so he lined up on both sides of the formation. First, he asked them to protect the two wings, and second, he waited for the opponent to be defeated and pursue them.
While Wang Ying and Bao Xu were still surprised, Yun Chao had already begun to arrange his troops.
The opponent only has 2,000 people, so Yun Chao plans to train his troops first to gain experience so that he can deal with them calmly after all the bandits in Onozawa come.
That's why Yun Chao didn't take advantage of the opponent's unsteady footing to kill him as soon as he came.
Well, the real reason is that Yun Chao himself has no idea.
After traveling through time, I haven't had any duel with the high-end power in this world. If I rush over rashly, that's not courageous, it's just speculation.
The most taboo thing in war is speculation.
If you speculate once, you may get lucky.
You may win even if you speculate twice.
However, if you want to always rely on luck to win, according to probability, it is almost impossible. Sooner or later, you will be unlucky!
Yun Chao's current strength is still very weak, and his error tolerance rate is very low. He will not gamble with the fate of the entire force.
Anyway, it’s not like I have no chance of winning. Instead of taking risks, I might as well advance steadily step by step!
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"Set up the formation! Hurry up and set up the formation!"
As expected of a bandit from Onozawa, arranging troops and forming formations is a no-brainer.
If they were ordinary bandits, let alone setting up formations, they would probably have never even heard of formations.
This is related to the fact that many of the bandits in Ohnozawa were from the regular army of the imperial court.
If you don't even know how to form a formation, how can you compete with the imperial army?
Such a huge momentum, without the fighting power to match it, would have been wiped out by the imperial court long ago.
Yun Chao was not in a hurry. He was not very proficient in battle tactics. He also wanted to see how Onozawa's bandits arranged their formations. This was called learning in battle.
What happened to the time traveler?
Do time travelers know how to fight?
Even if you have heard some theories in your previous life, it is not easy to combine theory with practice.
If you are not careful, you will make the mistake of talking on paper.
Who can guarantee that all the theories Yun Chao has read in his previous life are correct?
This formation and that formation are blowing up one by one. They are probably just the lust of a group of otaku creatures. If they are actually put on the battlefield, they may stop eating in a minute!
Therefore, Yun Chao is observing and seeing clearly the reality and reality of the opponent before deciding what to do.
Soon, Yun Chao's heart dropped halfway.
The opponent's formation was similar to his.
The crossbowmen were also in front, followed closely by the sword and shield bearers, then the spearmen, and also the cavalry guarding the two wings.
However, compared with his own formation, there was an extra force behind Onozawa's bandits. Yun Chao probably guessed what they were for, but he was not sure.
"Guiying, is that the supervisory team of the Onozawa bandits?"
Just ask if you don't understand, this has always been Yun Chao's virtue.
Even if he asked about a woman, Yun Chao would have no psychological burden.
In this regard, Yun Chao is very different from the men of this era. He doesn't think there is any shame in asking a woman.
This is one of the reasons why Pan Guiying is devoted to Yun Chao.
Yun Chao's actions made her feel respected.
Respecting a woman was almost impossible in the Dawu Dynasty, unless the woman was of particularly noble status.
Pan Guiying was a daughter of a military attache, and her status was not considered noble at all. Even her father's subordinates were only polite on the surface for her father's sake, and there was no real respect at all.
"Yun... County Lieutenant, yes, that is the supervisory team to prevent anyone from escaping. Don't we also have an supervisory team? Why don't you send an inspector to supervise the battle behind?"
Yun Chao smiled and shook his head, pointing to the high slope next to him: "Guiying, look, what are those people doing?"
Pan Guiying has been busy training cavalry recently and has hardly participated in the meetings held by Yun Chao. He doesn't know much about Yun Chao's battle plan.
Following the direction of Yun Chao's finger, Pan Guiying immediately saw the inspectors on the high slope next to them.
"Lieutenant Yunxian, can they see the specific situation on the battlefield from so far away? Hey, why do they have that thing?"
