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Chapter 1291 Reinforcement
The loyal bodyguard yelled and asked the baron to follow him and flee to the north. Their camp was not far from the village, and there was a well-established barrier to horses and slopes, enough for them to deal with the threat of cavalry.

No one wants to fight archers and cavalry in a flat field, just as no one wants to face archers after a horse fortification.

The lord rejected this seemingly correct proposal. He pointed to the dead knight on the ground and said: "There are no gunshot wounds on his chest, only his back. The enemy is lighter than him, so he can catch up with him, but he can't beat him in a frontal battle. No... for sending us a letter, he won't die."

The lord left enough dignity for the knight after death. No one knows whether the knight died to deliver a message or to escape. In short, he died.

Perhaps only the dead knight master knew what would be waiting for him if he didn't run away. If the curved spears in this world could stab people to death, then the cracked earthen jar would be a more terrifying weapon.

Not only destroying the human body, but also destroying the human spirit before that.

The battle outside the village was still going on, and in those farmlands that hadn't had time to sow the seeds, the Beiyang cavalry with sabers and gourds chased and killed the archers and infantry who were running wildly.

Cavalry is the king of war in small-scale encounters, and the Beiyang cavalry, a general-purpose cavalry that was founded at the beginning of its establishment with the purpose of expanding the empire outward, is even more outstanding.

The ancient cavalry of the Central Plains Dynasty were usually this kind of general-purpose cavalry. The most frequently used words to describe Chinese cavalry warriors are proficient in bow and horse, able to cope with different war environments.

They can charge with their horses and guns, and can draw their sabers to rush into the enemy's line to perform harvesting when the enemy is defeated. This does not prevent them from galloping and shooting in less intense battles. Even if they lose their horses in difficult times, they Still able to enter the battlefield as a well-skilled infantryman.

The appearance of muskets has greatly reduced the training time of general-purpose cavalry. Hanging two hand guns with barrels longer than three-eyed guns on the horse's neck is enough to save them the time to learn bow and arrow riding and shooting, and their tactics are also nothing The novelty is only to apply the group assault in the heyday of the Mongol Empire to small-scale operations.

The cavalry rushes forward in two or three columns with a wide width. If they encounter enemy skirmishers on the road, they will eliminate them if they can be eliminated. If they cannot be eliminated, they will retreat to lure the enemy. No, just retreat again, wait for the friendly forces in a wider width to surround the enemy's back, and then attack from all sides.

In fact, this is a common tactic used by Beiyang cavalry scouts, which is dedicated to destroying enemy scouts and oppressing the enemy's horizon.

There is no way, Ying Ming, the commander who was born as a small flag officer of the Beiyang cavalry, this is the most proficient method in his hands.

Ask him to take something else, he won't either.

Those archers who fight with longbows and retreat arrows can hardly hurt the cavalry. It doesn’t mean that they can’t hurt the armor. It’s okay to hurt the armor. Half of the arrow is nailed through the breastplate, so don't even think about shooting it in the face. The cavalry is running too fast, and people are frightened when they hear the sound of approaching horseshoes. Few people can firmly draw the bow and release the arrow without missing it. There are very few, and it is very common to aim at the head to hit the chest, and to aim at the chest to hit the horse.

The most common occurrence is that the longbowman lost his longbow and ran away, and was taken away from behind by the cavalry.

The infantryman was even more uncomfortable. The small infantryman in the field took his long halberd and his last stubbornness and planned to fight to the death with the gorgeous and gorgeous cavalry, but the cavalry charged two steps and began to pace the horse. He took out a short musket, and the last scene he saw after the sound of the musket was the cavalry in the smoke, with their spears stuck upside down, cleaning the breech chamber and loading the musket with ammunition.

In the eyes of the unlucky infantry, the spears in the hands of the Beiyang cavalry were Trump going to India—a lie!
The English cavalry in the field were also uncomfortable. They ran fast, but they wore cheap and inferior plate armor, which made them unable to ignore the short-range muskets of the Beiyang cavalry like the big lords in the frontal charge. Thinner, the typical escape is death, hit is death.

The most irritating thing was that it was all like this. When the cavalry summoned up their courage to charge, those Ming army cavalry in gorgeous armor didn't fight them.

Under the bloody setting sun, Ying Ming reined in his horse and watched on the high slope, watching the encounter around Leitou Township end with the defeat of the Tubari army.

The dismounted Elan cavalry infantry walked on the battlefield with battle axes and sharp knives, ending the wounded and surviving enemy troops, and quickly collecting all the spoils. They have become accustomed to following the Beiyang cavalry to clean up the once seemingly invincible English army. , and even many people are eager to really rely on the Elan Legion to fight the English army.

It's just that Ying Ming never gave them such a chance.

Under the binoculars, everything that is being arranged in the village can't be hidden. They are gathering the defeated troops who fled back to the village and setting up fortifications. The road, the thatching of the roof to allow the archers to reach the high point, and the seeming intention of fortifying the mill, all pointed to their ultimate purpose - to hold.

The real advantage of telescopes is not just that people can see farther, but that it is possible to implement more strategies if they have more information in war.

Historically, only strong soldiers can use tricks, and weak soldiers using tricks are not courting death but simply unable to complete their missions.

Just like now, Ying Ming can see that the enemy army intends to defend the village and send riders to the north. If he has not seen this scene, he will not know, but if he sees it, he can extract more information from it, for example: There are enemy reinforcements.

The enemy may march with fire all night, which may give Ying Ming a chance to attack at night, and he will have an extra choice.

It's just that judging the physical condition of most of the horses and soldiers at present, Ying Ming doesn't think they are qualified for this night attack and leave calmly after the attack, but he can at least confirm that his mission has been completed, and the people who besieged Puli County The enemy did make a large military movement to the west.

At this moment, the other hundred families of Beiyang cavalry who remained in the city should have already set off to the east, and they can return to Puli County to rest and recuperate.

The Beiyang cavalry still surrounded the village until night fell, and they raised many bonfires in the distance. In the shadow of the bonfires, the assembled troops retreated from the south to the ferry southwest of Plymouth.

On the way, Ying Ming took a last look back at the still brightly lit village, and smiled at Little Leitouhan who was sitting on the soldier's horse: "We will be back, and we will be back soon."

Even Ying Ming himself didn't expect that when he looked at the port of Plymouth, hundreds of lucky boats were waving their sails, blocking the river, and people lit torches all night to welcome the foreign people who got off the boats into the city, and the new force joined Sweep away the decadence between the siege, and put a new look on the whole town.

(End of this chapter)