Under the premise that the weapons and equipment are roughly the same, the combat effectiveness of soldiers depends on three factors.
The most important thing is the number of people. The greater the difference in the number of people, the greater the disparity in strength.
Except for critical battles, where there is already mental calculation and unintentional calculations, most battlefields cannot make up for the gap caused by the number of people.
Second is morale, and last is experience!
This experience does not refer to the command experience of the commander, but the experience of the soldiers in close combat. Those with rich experience are commonly known as "veterans."
All things being equal, there is often a crushing gap between veterans and new recruits.
Soldiers and servants are indeed brave, but they may not be good at fighting.
The vast majority of servants have no chance to go to the battlefield. Because of this, there is a serious lack of actual combat experience. In addition, servants cannot scale up. Therefore, in small and medium-sized conflicts, servants can often occupy a certain advantage. Once the battlefield expands, , this advantage will be immediately wiped out and overtaken.
The fifty men on the other side originally had a certain amount of combat effectiveness, but unfortunately they lacked actual combat experience and blindly followed the "combat configuration."
To dare to divide the troops with such a small number of people is obviously seeking death.
Qin Feng didn't send many people, including Wu Tang and Anwu Guard, there would never be more than fifty people.
But they are all archers. The difference is that they are horse bows and foot bows.
Pure arms, against small elite troops with complete combat configurations, it seems that they will be beaten to death, but the actual situation is completely opposite.
On the battlefield, there is never a one-size-fits-all tactic, only the right tactics for the situation!
The fifty servants who were waiting in full formation felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy when they saw the thirty cavalry rushing towards them.
"Heavy armored infantry, step forward!"
The leader of the team was a steward. He recalled the explanations in the military book and quickly arranged for the heavy infantry to move to the front to resist Wu and Tang's attack.
Thirty-five heavy infantrymen, each holding a spear, formed a copper wall that was difficult to break through.
When the two sides were less than fifty steps apart, Wu Tang directly raised his horse bow and fired an arrow at the heavily armored servant in the front row.
The horse archers beside him also followed suit and shot arrows.
Facing the horse archers equipped with targeted armor-piercing arrows, the heavily armored servants in the front row were instantly defeated. More than half of them were injured, and one unlucky guy was hit by an arrow in the face and died suddenly on the spot.
Under the leadership of Wu Tang, thirty cavalry rushed down the official road and moved towards the right wing.
The steward quickly shouted: "Cavalry pursuit!"
Fifteen servants and cavalry quickly chased Wu Tang.
Wu Tang was not willing to fight, and ran forward with his troops. After running for more than a hundred steps, the Anwu guards lurking around stood up one after another and shot at the servants and cavalry indiscriminately.
The servant cavalry equipped with light armor suffered heavy casualties in an instant when faced with the alien arrows of the dark guards.
There was an extremely fierce servant who led three of his men and rushed towards the Anwu Guard.
As a result, when he was still half way away, he was intercepted by Wu Tang who arrived in time and was shot to death by random arrows on the spot.
Seeing that the fifteen cavalrymen under his command were killed in the blink of an eye, the steward was horrified.
"This...isn't this different from what is said in the military book?!"
"The enemy troops are all archers, why are they so powerful?!"
The housekeeper felt that his three views had been completely subverted, and the nightmare was far more than that. With the cavalry being killed, the remaining heavy-armored servants became complete targets.
The light cavalry and dark armed guards led by Wu Tang came from all directions, surrounded the heavily armored servants, and fired indiscriminately.
Watching his subordinates fall one after another.
The housekeeper's face was ashen. From the beginning to the end, there was no contact between the two sides, but his side was already defeated.
"The enemy's bows and arrows are very sharp, retreat quickly!"
The butler waved his hand and fled in panic with the dozen or so remaining servants.
It's a pity, how can two legs outrun four legs? In addition, they were wearing heavy armor and could not run fast at all. Soon they were caught up by Wu Tang, who shot and killed them one by one at a short distance.
The battle lasted only briefly, when Wu Tang and his men rushed back to the convoy.
Qin Feng, who was about to take the opportunity to take a nap, was woken up before he fell asleep.
"Master Marquis, all the dogs that were blocking the way have been killed and no one is left alive!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the female relatives in the carriage all showed surprised looks.
Although they knew that Qin Feng was good at leading troops in battle, but all fifty of the opponent's elite servants were killed just after taking a nap. This... was too outrageous.
Shen Qingci, who witnessed Qin Feng fighting for the first time, looked stunned.
"Is this really my inconspicuous brother?"
"Human life is really like a piece of grass in front of him..."
Qin Feng stretched and ordered the convoy to move forward while casually asking Wu Tang through the window.
"Am I injured?"
Wu Tang held his head high and looked high-spirited: "Go back to the Marquis, there are no casualties on our side."
"Follow your instructions and swamp them with arrows without giving them any chance of close combat."
After hearing the answer, Qin Feng nodded with satisfaction.
"That's right. Even if you can fight, you can't go up and fight hard."
"If you can do it for free, do it for free."
"Have you picked up all the arrows?"
Wu Tang looked at Qin Feng with admiration in his eyes. Although he had been in Tianji Camp for some time, this was his first time fighting with Qin Feng.
Everyone's blood boiled.
If Ning Hu were in charge, he would have given the order to rush forward with superior force and confront the opponent head-on.
Although this move is passionate and demonstrates the bloody nature of the soldiers, there will inevitably be losses.
In contrast, Qin Feng strives for perfection and is more interested in "complete victory".
"Master Marquis, except for the broken arrows, everything that needs to be recovered has been recovered."
"What to do with those armors?"
Whether it is light armor or heavy armor, the cost is extremely high, so it would be a pity to just throw it away.
But Qin Feng's team had to go into battle lightly, and it was really inconvenient to travel with a bunch of heavy armor.
Qin Feng had no choice but to endure his heartache and sighed: "Throw it away. If you give it up, you will get something."
"Our trip is a long one, and there will definitely be many diehards who will come to attack us. Please be alert and make sure nothing goes wrong."
"Ye Owl's side, there are Jin Yiwei watching over there, so don't worry for now."
"Wu Tang, the safety of me and my family depends on you."
Upon hearing this, Wu Tang hurriedly raised his fists and said loudly and forcefully: "Please don't worry, Lord Marquis. Anyone who wants to hurt the Marquis and the female family members must first step on the corpse of the general."
Qin Feng waved his hand and signaled Wu Tang to step back, while he lay back comfortably on Xiao Xiangxiang's legs and stretched hard.
As a result, he found that the eyes of the five female relatives looking at him had undergone subtle changes.
"Why are you looking at me like that?"
