Yue Tuo sent a left leader and about 300 cavalry to Shuo Tuo.
Including the more than 100 cavalrymen under Shuotuo, there were almost 500 cavalrymen.
This number is not small anymore. Unlike the Mongolians who grew up on horseback, slave thieves can be used as cavalry by any herdsman.
In the Ming Dynasty, even one general might not be able to pull out a cavalry team of 500 people.
With these more than 400 to 500 cavalrymen, Shuotuo was much more confident in stopping the pursuers.
Even if he couldn't intercept all the pursuers, he believed that the hundreds of cavalry in his hands would be enough to delay the pursuers.
A slave cavalry of several hundred people broke away from the army of the two red flags. They were immediately discovered by the sentry cavalry of the Tiger Flag, and the news was passed back to Tan Zaiwang, the center of the camp.
"Ying Zheng, leave it to me!" Chen Wu stood up and asked for a fight.
Today, Chen Wu is the deputy battalion commander of the cavalry and the captain of the first brigade. Once the cavalry division expands, the next step is likely to be the battalion commander of the cavalry division.
Tan Zaiwang turned his head and asked the guard beside him, "Go and notify the Second Cavalry Battalion. Tell them that the two red flags have sent out a slave cavalry of about 500 people. We need Liu Yingzheng's cooperation."
"Yes." The guard agreed and turned around to find the messenger to deliver the order to the Second Cavalry Battalion.
Chen Wu on the side said in confusion: "Ying Zheng, we can eat this slave cavalry ourselves, why do we need to join forces with the 2nd Cavalry Battalion?"
"What I want is to annihilate them all." Tan Zaiwang said, "Without the cooperation of the Second Cavalry Battalion, once these slave cavalry see that the situation is bad and want to run away, it will be difficult for us to annihilate them all by ourselves."
Hearing this, Chen Wu did not ask for a fight.
In a cavalry battle on the grassland, it is much more difficult to defeat than to annihilate them.
If he wanted to defeat a cavalry team of several hundred people, even slave cavalry, he would be absolutely sure. After all, the number of cavalry in his First Cavalry Team was not much less than that of this slave cavalry.
But it is not that easy to annihilate them all, unless this slave knight will fight to the death and will not run away even if defeated, which of course is impossible.
If Nuqi really could fight to the death, Huang Taiji would not retreat with the army of slave thieves and the Mongolian army that came with him.
Tan Zaiwang sent someone to contact another cavalry battalion, so he was not in a hurry to take action against Shuo Tuo, the slave cavalry.
Shuotuo didn't take action when he saw the tiger character flag, which was exactly what he wanted.
He took the hundreds of horses around him and landed six or seven miles behind the two red flags, guarding against the pursuers on the Tiger Flag.
Liu Chao's Second Cavalry Battalion was not far from Tan Zaiwang's First Cavalry Battalion.
The messenger of the 1st Cavalry Battalion quickly sent the news to the 2nd Cavalry Battalion.
The sentries sent out by Tan Zaiwang stared at this team of several hundred slave riders.
Shuotuo sent people several times to try to drive away the sentinels of the Tiger Flag, but each time they drove them away, they soon followed. They went back and forth several times, but failed to drive away the Sentinels of the Tiger Flag.
In desperation, he had to slow down again to buy more time for the two red flags and be able to go further.
And he and the hundreds of cavalry around him were getting further and further away from the two red flags.
The messenger sent by Tan Zaiwang to the Second Cavalry Battalion soon returned and brought news about Liu Chao.
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"Everyone wear armor and prepare to fight." Tan Zaiwang, who received the news from the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, ordered his cavalry to wear armor.
Most of the cavalrymen in the Tiger Banner are half-armored. Wearing it all the time will be a waste of physical strength and horsepower. When not fighting, they will basically not wear it and will only let the other horse they bring carry it.
Except for a group of sentinel riders who had already put on armor in the surrounding area, everyone else dismounted, took the armor stomach from another horse that came with them, and wore it on their bodies.
When everyone put on their breastplates and helmets, they all mounted their horses again and began to check the muskets in their hands.
The cavalry gun is fully loaded with medicine and guns. Once engaged, the gun can be fired directly to attack the enemy.
The effective range of the cavalry gun is slightly worse than that of the infantry gun. You need to get closer to shoot.
It is stronger than some throwing short spears and short guns.
"Using the first battalion as an arrow, the second and third battalions are on the left and right behind the first battalion. Do you understand?" Tan Zaiwang looked at the several cavalry captains under him.
"clear."
Chen Wu and the other two captains responded in unison.
"attack!"
Tan Zaiwang waved his hand and ordered his cavalry to attack the slave cavalry led by Shuo Tuo.
The first to move was Chen Wu's first brigade.
Several hundred cavalrymen charged towards the slave cavalry in front, while the second and third cavalry brigades followed the first brigades, like the two corners under a triangle, cooperating with the charge of the first brigades at the same speed.
The movement of the cavalry battalion of over a thousand people immediately aroused Shuo Tuo's vigilance.
When Shuotuo saw the number of cavalry on the side of the Tiger Flag, his first reaction was not to meet the enemy immediately, but to lead his cavalry in pursuit in the direction where the two red flags left.
It was obvious that he was unwilling to stay and fight the cavalry of the Tiger Flag.
There was a distance between the two sides.
Shuotuo directly chose to flee towards the two red flags. The Tiger Banner cavalry battalion chasing behind him shortened the distance from Shuotuo at the beginning. When Shuotuo escaped, the distance between the two sides not only did not shorten, Instead, there is a tendency to pull apart.
Tan Zaiwang did not give up, and did not even save his horse power. He just kept asking his cavalry to gallop the horses, and it seemed that he would not give up until he caught up with the slave cavalry in front.
On the Tiger Flag side, one person rides two horses, while on Shuo Tuo's side, each person only has one horse. As long as Tan Zaiwang keeps chasing, he will catch up sooner or later.
However, the two red flags were just over a dozen miles away, and it would be no problem for a Mongolian horse to run dozens of miles at a stretch.
Therefore, even if there is only one horse, Shuotuo and other slave riders are enough to join the two red flags before Tan Zaiwang catches up.
Once Shuotuo and the Two Red Banners reunited, the two red flags' army of 10,000 to 20,000 people and Tan Zaiwang's cavalry battalion of more than 1,000 people would be unable to do anything to the two red flags' army.
If you want to eat the slave knight in front of you, you can only dare to kill it before it meets the two red flags.
Tan Zaiwang understands this, and Shuotuo also understands this.
If Hauge was the leader of this slave cavalry, he might have stayed and fought with the chasing Tiger Banner Cavalry Battalion, but it was a pity that Shuo Tuo was more concerned about his life.
Originally, he was forced by Daishan to accept the role of the two red flags to intercept the pursuers. When he saw that the pursuers were stronger and obviously difficult to deal with, the first thing he thought of was to protect himself.
As for whether the two red flags will continue to be pursued and entangled, he doesn't care. Even if Daishan is killed by the people of the Tiger Flag, he will raise his hands to support it.
The two people had long lost the relationship between father and son through repeated frictions. Even if Daishan died, he would not be heartbroken at all.
[To be honest, I have been using @@ recently to read and catch up on updates, change sources, and read aloud with more sounds.
One chase and the other escape, the two cavalry teams staged this scene on the grassland.
At this time, Shuotuo was not worried at all that he would be overtaken by the pursuers from behind. At least before he returned to the two red flags, the pursuers would not be able to catch up with him.
He didn't care about the possibility of being punished by Daishan after returning. As long as Yue Tuo was there, even if he was punished, it wouldn't be too serious. At worst, it wouldn't be more dangerous than staying and fighting the Tiger Flag's pursuers.
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