The gorgeous sunset appears in the western sky, but here there is only a round sun setting in the desert, far away from the Yellow River!
It is impossible to have a solitary smoke. The solitary smoke represents peace on the beacon tower.
But there is the Arunhun River, with sparkling waves. The setting sun turns into dots of red beans on the water, gathering and dispersing.
The clouds in other places looked very dark, as if they had lost their color.
Li Wenzhong was organizing people to cook. He was going to cross the river at night and wanted to eat first.
'Boom, boom, boom...' The sound of many horses' hooves hitting the ground at the same time spread far.
The Ming army soldiers who were about to eat looked blankly at the other side and came back again? Aren’t you tired of lying back and forth like this?
Yuan Bing was indeed back, but he couldn't do it without coming back. The team led by Manzi ran back, chasing and escaping, and his number was rapidly decreasing.
Not everyone would choose to surrender. Some people shouted, turned around and charged, only to be shot down by the crackling of flintlock guns.
The horses of the Blue Jade Belt team rested for a long time, but the horses of the Manzi team ran over there and hadn't even eaten a few mouthfuls of grass! Just have to run again.
The horses on both sides are essentially the same, except that the horse Lan Yu rides is obviously better than the average person's.
It's like a person has just finished a marathon, no, half marathon, no, 10,000 meters.
He would definitely not be able to rest for two hours and then run again with the same runners who had not run before.
At this time, Barbarian didn't even dare to run in other directions. He had to find Ha Ci Zhang, otherwise the entire army would be annihilated.
The enemies behind are too tight, the key is to fire once they catch up.
Before, he thought that by bleeding his horse while running, he would be able to hold on longer.
The other party is also riding alone! I don’t know what’s going on. As I was running, the other party started to change horses. Where did they get so many horses?
Running on an empty horse and running on a manned horse are absolutely different.
Fu Youde came after him with 10,000 people and 50,000 horses. He asked his team members to change horses frequently to close the distance with Lan Yu.
After catching up with Lan Yu, some people were assigned to guard the captives. As a result, Lan Yu's side became one man and two riders.
Manzi knew that if he ran in other directions, Lan Yu would chase him to death.
By the time he saw Ha Cizhang, only 10,000 of his more than 20,000 people were left.
Most of the others were killed or surrendered, there was nothing they could do about it.
It was impossible for Ha Jizhang to go up to them. He needed to form a team, so he also ran towards the river.
When they reached the river, Lan Yu stopped chasing them, adjusted their formation, raised the flag, and put up Fu Youde's flag as well.
Li Wenzhong, who was confused, laughed, Lan Yu and Fu Youde, are both here?
So now Manzi and Ha Cizhang are not fighting against the odds, there is me on the other side of the water!
The three parties immediately dispatched scouts, and Li Wenzhong's scouts wanted to cross the river on horseback to ask for news.
Manzi, Ha Cizhang and the scouts wanted to stop Li Wenzhong's scouts, while Lan Yu's scouts went to kill their scouts and also wanted to cross the river.
"Don't eat now. Pretend to cross the river while ten thousand people enter the water."
Li Wenzhong decided to add fuel to the fire and see what you do.
Sure enough, when his team formed a formation and started to go down the river, the Yuan soldiers on the opposite side were in chaos again. This was a flanking attack.
Moreover, other people's weapons have a long range, and it is impossible for me to hit them halfway.
"Fly the flag and talk to General Lan." Han Zheng shouted and ordered to go down.
The flag ordered the soldiers to rush to the river, where they were lifted up and the flag message was issued there.
The scout on Lan Yu's side saw it by the river and reported back. He ordered: "Come back, we have 20,000 fusiliers, 10,000 horse archers, and 10,000 musketeers. The enemy's army is less than 40,000."
The flag bearer on his side also went to the river under the cover of the team and began to fly the flag.
The scouts of Manzi and Ha Cizhang were constantly shot down. The scouts of the Ming Dynasty were armed with flintlock guns and telescopes, and were protected by horse archers.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty were not afraid of the cavalry of the Beiyuan Grassland. Both sides were the same. It all depended on their performance in battle.
Then the flintlock gun is disgusting. It has a long range and fires in advance. The Yuan soldiers chase, and the Ming army's archers and cavalry cover and run.
Don’t be afraid of being overtaken. The fusiliers dismount and load ammunition, and the archers and cavalry protect the opponent. Wait for the fusiliers to be loaded with ammunition...
Then I watched a group of people run away. It seemed that the Yuan soldiers were powerful and they chased them.
Then Lan Yu continued to send people to help, and he brought 20,000 fusiliers and 10,000 musketry soldiers.
Lan Yu's scouts ran across the river, and Li Wenzhong's scouts ran to Lan Yu's side, and the two sides continued to pass news.
The egg-yolk-like sun sets, and the color of the sky is irritating, but it's not completely dark yet.
Lan Yu retreated, leaving some distance, and looked for hay to put a torch on the spot.
Li Wenzhong also started eating, taking turns to eat. Everyone only ate half full and did not dare to eat more.
Manzi and Ha Cizhang's team took out fried rice and noodles and swallowed them with the river water.
The gunshots kept ringing, and the scouts from both sides were still fighting.
The Ming army does not want the soldiers to die, but it does not mean that the soldiers are afraid of death. Since your Yuan soldiers have been letting the scouts go, then the scouts will fight.
The scouts of the Ming army carried three flintlock guns and a bow. They were not one-on-one, but a team of at least fifty people.
The same is true for Manzi and Ha Cizhang's team of scouts. There are too few people.
Then the Ming army's scouts fired their guns. For a fifty-person scout team, if one shot from the opponent was shot down, it would be a success.
After they finish firing their three rounds, they can pick up their bows and arrows and run away, killing three of them, which is a good deal.
The other party pursues you desperately? Let's run as fast as we can, run far away, either because we're afraid of you, or because we don't want to communicate with you.
An hour passed and it was completely dark. Lan Yu lit the torch and stuck it on the ground, and the team retreated.
In fact, the fusiliers lay down about a hundred paces away from the torch, aiming ahead, and fired when they saw an enemy arrow falling next to the torch.
When the bow and arrow have a short range and can hit the torch, the flintlock can hit the opponent at this position.
These are tactics developed by Xu Da, Lan Yu, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde and others.
With good weapons, they spend their days wondering how to make them work better.
As for why the enemy shoots torches? Do you still need to ask? Of course it’s to knock off the lighting on the road!
"Kill! Kill! Kill! Charge~~~" Li Wenzhong's team on the other side of the river shouted, and at the same time they fired several shots.
The troops of Manzi and Ha Cizhang did not even think about resting, and they despised the Ming army's tiredness strategy.
In fact, Li Wenzhong's people are heading upstream with the pontoon bridge they made to cross the river there. They are just teasing the Yuan soldiers.
The combined strength of Manzi and Ha Cizhang is less than 40,000, Lan Yu's side has 40,000, and Li Wenzhong's own has 50,000.
As long as you think about it, you can eat it by force.
This is what he did in history, he fought hard and both sides suffered heavy losses, but in the end he won and kept chasing, only to get lost...
Now he doesn't want to. He wants to leave some people on the shore and place explosives and fuses.
The other part sneaked over and joined forces with Lan Yu and Fu Youde to fight Yuan Bing.
The two sides negotiated with the scouts crossing the river through semaphores, and there was no problem, otherwise Lan Yu would not have retreated.
Everyone knows tactics, after all, they have fought their way up over the years.
(End of chapter)
