Gray cavalry, isn't this the same cavalry that my nephew reported before?
Are they officers and soldiers? Or is it the main force of the rebels who came from other places?
Today's Chuang Potian is the same as yesterday's Ding Potian. They are both confused about the identity of the enemy, because the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp is really like ordinary rebels, officers and soldiers, and it looks weird and hard to figure out. Are they officers and soldiers or thieves...
Just looking at the neat queues, uniform uniforms, standard weapons, and the elite cavalry, it is easy for people to mistake them for a certain army of officers and soldiers.
However, their gray military uniforms are completely different from those of officers and soldiers, so it makes people think that they are traitors.
Chuang Potian also couldn't figure out the identity of the other person, but soon he faced the same situation as his nephew yesterday.
His two thousand elite troops were held back by Wang Xiazi's more than one hundred cavalry.
Wang Xiazi's more than one hundred cavalry would not take the initiative to attack, and would just stay on the side, forcing Chuang Potian's troops to maintain a formation to defend themselves against the cavalry attack.
But if Chuang Potian gets the troops moving and tries to turn into a marching formation, Wang Xiazi will start to arrange the cavalry in formation, and one by one they will start to get on their horses and make a charging gesture.
This forced Chuang Po Tian to form a tight formation to prevent the cavalry from attacking.
With a tight formation, he is naturally not afraid of the opponent's cavalry attack. Even if the opponent rushes over stupidly, he Chuang Potian will be absolutely sure to take down all the more than a hundred enemy cavalry.
However, if they switch to a marching formation and no longer maintain a tight formation, the opponent's cavalry will come over in minutes.
And maintaining the battle formation makes it difficult to maneuver quickly, and we have to walk several kilometers in a few hours.
Chuang Potian also tried to send out his own group of cavalry who could ride horses to try to expel them.
But after only one attempt, the cavalry was withdrawn.
Because when those damn enemy cavalry faced their own cavalry, they didn’t engage in close combat with their own cavalry. Instead, they resorted to riding and shooting and flying kites. If the cavalry that broke through the sky wanted to catch up, they would just run away on horseback from the other side. , while running and shooting arrows at the back...
Most of the cavalrymen under Chuangpotian were not capable of bending bows and shooting arrows on high-speed horses. Facing the kite cavalry under Wang Xiazi, they could only be beaten passively. In a short time, nearly twenty cavalrymen were killed or injured. .
In the end, they were forced to retreat. What was even more disgusting was that when they retreated, Blind Wang led the cavalry and chased them back. They fired another volley and killed at least a dozen of the cavalry.
More than a hundred cavalrymen under Chuang Potian attacked and killed and wounded four of Wang Xiazi's cavalrymen, but their own losses reached more than forty cavalrymen.
The battle loss ratio reached an astonishing ten to one.
This is the result of a half-baked cavalry composed of a group of infantry who can ride horses, and a serious cavalry battle with elite cavalry and archery cavalry.
If you want to charge and fight, no one will give you a chance!
Playing horseback archery but failing to shoot at the opponent, they will naturally be massacred unilaterally in the end.
Looking at his own cavalry retreating in embarrassment, and looking at the enemy cavalry on the opposite side who were high-spirited to fight, Chuang Potian conscientiously did not send his cavalry out to attack anymore. If he let them go out to die, these half-baked cavalry might not be able to fight directly. There was a mutiny.
In desperation, we can only maintain the anti-cavalry impact formation for a long time and slow down the north side!
Yes, Chuang Potian has realized that it will be dangerous to continue going south. Now that the enemy's cavalry has appeared, can the main infantry be far behind?
So he decisively chose the north side. Even if he kept the battle formation and retreated very slowly, if he walked slowly, the situation would be greatly improved after he reunited with the four thousand ordinary bandits behind him.
However, before he had gone a few miles, the scout cavalry reported that a large group of enemies appeared in the south.
The sentry under his command reported to him that at least nearly a thousand enemies came from the south, most of them wearing gray military uniforms. They not only had a large number of armored infantry, but also artillery.
When Chuang Potian heard the news, he frowned.
Sure enough, the worry is still there!
The opponent's cavalry obviously wanted to delay their retreat so that the main force of infantry could come up.
Although the sentinel reported that the enemy only had a thousand soldiers, Chuang Potian still believed that the situation was very dangerous.
Since there are such elite cavalry on the opposite side, it is impossible for the infantry to be inferior, let alone artillery.
"Where the hell are these officers and soldiers from?"
"I have been traveling all over the country and across several surrounding provinces for many years, but I have never seen officers and soldiers wearing gray military uniforms. Could it be the frontier troops from the north?"
Until now, Chuang Potian still did not think that the enemy troops in gray military uniforms that suddenly appeared in front of him were the bandits in Funiu Mountain.
But he firmly believes that he is an officer and a soldier.
"Damn it, if I had known earlier, I would have come to Lushan County and gone to Kaifeng Mansion in the east."
Now Chuang Potian regretted it. At first, he thought that Lushan County in the south did not have the main force of officers and soldiers, so he led thousands of people south to try to attack Lushan County.
But unexpectedly, they were intercepted by the main force of officers and soldiers before they reached Lushan County.
If he had known this, he would have led his army eastward to Kaifeng Mansion. Although there were many officers and soldiers there, there were also many colleagues there who were also holding back the main force of officers and soldiers. If you were lucky, you could also get fat.
But now, regret is of no use.
This was all entangled by the main force of officers and soldiers.
what to do?
It was impossible to retreat with a large army. The opponent's more than one hundred cavalry were pestering him like candy. He could not retreat at a fast pace, and it would not take long for him to be overtaken by the opponent's infantry.
It would be okay to simply abandon the army and run away with only the cavalry, but these two thousand old thieves are his capital, and he is not willing to give up until he has to.
beat?
There is not much chance of winning. Since the officers and soldiers dare to catch up, they are naturally confident. If they really want to go head-to-head with these officers and soldiers, Chuang Potian feels that there is a high probability that they will not be able to defeat them.
After much deliberation, Chuang Potian felt that he could only sit tight and wait for help.
Just wait and wait for his four thousand troops to catch up, then maybe the situation will change. At the same time, he also sent people north to Ruzhou City, and asked his colleagues under Ruzhou City to go south to rescue him.
He thought that it would not be a problem to rely on the army's food reserves to defend on the spot for ten days and a half.
And the friendly forces on the other side of Ruzhou City should not sit back and watch their destruction in Lushan County. After all, after these officers and soldiers kill themselves, the next step may be to go north to Ruzhou City.
At that time, the friendly forces under Ruzhou City will be in a situation of being attacked from both sides.
Therefore, there is still a slight chance that the friendly forces in Ruzhou City will go south for rescue.
After making the decision to stand firm and wait for help, Chuang Potian simply stopped running and directly ordered the construction of a defensive camp, using various carriages, horses, etc. brought with the army to build the camp.
When he saw that the two thousand people in Chuang Po Tian stopped running and started building a camp, Blind Wang smiled on his face.
The other party is seeking death!
If the opponent is ruthless and directly forms a formation to fight with the main force of the Chinese army, then they may still be able to win a chance of survival by relying on their superior strength.
Or you can just disperse and escape. Although his cavalry sentry can pursue some of them, his cavalry is small after all, and there are more than a hundred half-baked cavalry on horseback on the opposite side to contain him.
If the other party directly ordered a sudden and rapid retreat, I dare not say too much, but running away hundreds of people would not be a problem.
But standing still and waiting for help is simply courting death!
As long as you wait for your own general to arrive with the main force of infantry and artillery, relying on the range advantage of your own artillery, the opponent can only gradually collapse under the bombardment.
Around noon, Luo Zhixue also successfully led the infantry and artillery units to arrive here.
After arriving at the place, Luo Zhixue first listened to Wang Xiazi's report, and then learned from the scouts that there was a larger bandit group more than 20 miles to the north.
Luo Zhixue did not intend to wait any longer and directly asked the troops to prepare for the attack.
Anyway, the so-called camp set up on the opposite side is just an obstacle created by some carriages, horses and nearby felled trees.
There is no way to stop our own artillery!
The next attack followed the old rules, Zhang Malin's artillery sentry came on first!
Two 600-pound artillery pieces moved forward directly to a distance of about 300 meters and began bombarding.
Ten light cannons of 200 kilograms and 100 kilograms came out to a distance of more than 100 meters and started bombarding.
As the rumble of cannons sounded, Chuang Potian realized that he had made the wrong choice...
When those strange gray officers and soldiers on the opposite side were shelling, he lacked the corresponding counterattack means.
Because they don't have artillery...
Not to mention the artillery that can fire hundreds of meters, not even the light artillery that weighs one or two hundred kilograms.
There are some bows and arrows, but the range is too close to reach them.
After the other side started shelling, they could only drag themselves on wooden planks or even lie down on temporary mounds of earth to hide, mostly suffering the shelling and resulting in casualties.
What happens next is simple and no surprises!
After the Baoxiang camp suppressed the opponent with artillery, archers and musketeers stepped forward one after another to continue suppressing fire.
The opponent was unable to raise his head after the beating. Chuang Potian once tried to counterattack and sent his half-hearted cavalry to try to rush out and attack the artillery position of Baoxiang Camp.
As a result, not long after they came out, they were first harvested by the archers and musketeers from the Baoxiang Camp.
The remaining half-baked cavalry managed to get close to the artillery position, but the Baoxiang Battalion's artillery sprayed out a large amount of shrapnel...
Finally, the cavalry led by Wang Xiazi rushed over from the flank, shot a wave on the horseback, and then killed them with their sabers.
After cutting melons and vegetables all the way, only twenty or thirty of the half-baked cavalry under Chuang Potian's command fled in embarrassment.
Before they attacked, there were about a hundred and fifty riders...
There is no way to fight this battle.
Looking at the remnants of his own cavalry retreating in embarrassment in front of him, and then looking at the frightened subordinates around him and the large number of injured and wailing wounded soldiers, Chuang Potian revealed a deep sense of despair!
This is different from what he expected when he led his army south!
