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Chapter 1281 General
To be honest, Ying Ming was taken aback.

The same fright was experienced during the war in the Kingdom of Alan. The Ming army's offensive in Ireland has always been very smooth, but there were some embarrassing occasions. For example, on the eve of the attack on Dublin, there were knights riding monsters on the battlefield.

Those people and horses are all covered by heavy armor, carrying an iron can on their heads like they don’t have a load on them. It’s really slow to run, but under the cover of the armor, nothing can hurt it except for the bird’s gun. It’s rumbling like a cow. The same impact on the infantry line can tear a gap.

Fortunately, the number is small and the running is slow. Except for being attacked by it in a stalemate battle, at other times, neither the National Restoration Army nor the Beiyang Cavalry are willing to confront these things head-on.

Except for the local cavalry of the Kingdom of Alan, the cavalry without stirrups insisted on colliding with others, even if they could stab their horses to death with a spear, so what?Horse corpses can still crush you, both human and horse.

After a brief ascent to the city, Ying Ming, who used a telescope, found that there were also those kind of horses in the besieged camp, so he immediately decided not to go out from the north gate to attack the camp.

It's not that I'm afraid, it's mainly a loss.

The Beiyang Banner Army is deeply valued by the emperor and Chen Mu, and the cavalry is the most important among them. They also think highly of themselves, and as the commander of the cavalry, Ying Ming believes that if a Beiyang cavalry cannot be defeated in a battle There are three knights or heavy cavalry on the opposite side, so the Beiyang cavalry will lose blood if they sacrifice.

The rational facts are very cruel. When Yingming grew from an ordinary cavalry soldier to a commander of the Alan Kingdom's guard in a few years, he also gradually understood that soldiers in battles often represent numbers. The cavalry he commanded was originally fifty Beiyang cavalry, and later Shangguan Han Jinhuan transferred fifty cavalry from other hundred households.

Now he has ordered 24 cavalry. The original veterans only had 20 cavalry. Later, more cavalry were transferred, and eight cavalry were lost. The other cavalry mainly came from brothers. The Alan Restoration Army recruited meritorious soldiers to train them. The same group also trained some Alan cavalry in Tailongwei. However, it may be because of their poor command of language and poor learning of training subjects. Few of them could catch Ying Ming's eyes. cavalry.

He is used to seeing his comrades die in battle, and he has also commanded several battles in Alan. When the army suffered from the plague and chose to retreat under the city of Dublin, his troops were also chosen as the rear army, facing the enemy's pursuit directly, and the military orders were like mountains every day. Individuals in that situation have no choice but to settle for the next best thing—if they must die, it is better to die worthwhile than worthless.

In Ying Ming's eyes, the new battlefield in Puli County was just a blank sheet of paper, which he could use as he wished.

This is indeed a blank sheet of paper. Although the several lieutenants Zhongxian occupying Puli City call themselves military positions, they are still civilians and businessmen. In Ying Ming's opinion, they are too immature—their knowledge of the military is still at the low level. The map is colored to such an extent that it is as if they have put all their troops in Puli City, and the city really belongs to them.

"It is obviously a place extending in all directions, surrounded by rivers and seas, but it is trapped into a dead place. If you stay in the city, enemy troops from all directions will come to support you. A large area of ​​the village is left for the enemy to protect, collect, and requisition. They use these grains to gather more soldiers and build larger siege weapons, and when they are ready, they will capture your city in one fell swoop."

In the wilderness of a small town across the Taima River from Puli County, Ying Ming sat on a fallen tree trunk, sharpened his wrist-relief knife, and said faithfully to Wang Jin, "The troops stationed in the besieged camp in the north of the city There are 5000 people. People eat horse chews and consume a lot. There must be grain caravans. We went to the west to stop the grain transporters and burn them on the spot. The gold and silver transporters robbed and took them away. If they encounter their reinforcements, the small group of troops annihilated will be annihilated with superior force."

"Even if they encounter a large army, they can't keep up."

Wang Jinzhong listened to Ying Ming's instruction and nodded one after another. In fact, he thought about it later, but it was a little late. He responded: "What the general said is that we will know next time. I thought it was dangerous outside the city. The enemy army beat him but..."

Wang Jinzhong laughed when he said that, now they are outside the city, the enemy troops are gathered in the north of the city, and the south of the city is very safe.

On the Taima River behind him, several Beiyang cavalrymen were driving hundreds of unharnessed Mongolian horses to swim across the river. Ying Ming stretched out his arms and pointed at their backs and said, "There are too many enemy troops outside the city, so we have to find a way to separate them."

In fact, this matter should have been done by the four lieutenants Zhongxian in the city long ago. They have ships and sailors, and it is very suitable to do this kind of thing along the coast. Then find a way to separate them until you are many times more than them, and then carry out the annihilation operation.

But in fact, even if Ying Ming fought a lot of battles with the army in the past few years, he still only learned about war in the war. After all, he is not like those generals in Beiyang who have teaching materials and veteran generals who are often victorious as professors in the lecture hall.

"As long as they are separated, they will not dare to attack the city."

"We try to go west as far as possible, and go thirty or forty miles or more to ambush the enemy army. If we are unlucky and don't meet the enemy, we will turn around and loot all the surrounding villages and towns, so that the enemy army cannot supply and lure the besieging enemy army Divide the troops to the west, and when they divide their troops to the west, the cavalry that stays in the city will attack the east, without mercy."

Ying Ming looked up at Wang Jinzhong when he said this, and said: "The sooner this battle is over, the sooner the common people can live a comfortable life; the longer it drags on, the more chaotic the place will be."

This is Ying Ming’s personal experience of fighting in Ireland. The situation there is already very chaotic. Because the war lasted much longer than expected, bandits and robbers, local chaos, plague and hunger are spreading. Only when the war subsides can the country be saved kind of chaos.

For the common people, the best thing in the world is not to fight, even poverty is better than war.

There are too many ways to change destiny in the world, and joining the war to turn one's life into a number is the worst one among them.

Unless you're lucky enough.

Ying Ming was one of the lucky ones, he stood up and put the whetstone back into the pouch of the horse's hip, inserted the short knife back into the back of his waist, and said to Wu Bian, "Let's send the order, let's set off westward to get a good omen."

He didn't know when the other reinforcements would be able to arrive in Puli County. For him, the military order he accepted was the crisis in Puli County. The best way is to separate the enemy army and make them tired, at least he knows that the army gathered by the nobles does not have as many troops as Tamma.

What's the use of being fast, big, and strong?

I have more horses, I can run faster than you, save time and effort than you, and can be used as mobile dry food when I run out of food.

He also wanted to see if he could be counted as a qualified general.

(End of this chapter)