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Huang Degong personally led the cavalry and cruised on the north side of the battlefield.

Speaking of which, he originally had more than three thousand cavalry under his command.

In addition to more than two thousand cavalry troops, his servants are also cavalry.

But because the night attack failed last night and more than 400 people were lost, the number of cavalry became more than 2,700.

But he still pulled out all his cavalry.

Because in the morning, when his Qian Zongma led more than a thousand cavalry to investigate the enemy's situation, he had several battles with the bandit army and found that the number of bandit cavalry was approximately between 1,500 and 2,000, and many of the bandit cavalry were unfamiliar with riding.

This undoubtedly shows a major weakness of the cavalry soldiers and thieves!

But when Huang Degong led two or three thousand of his men to ride back and forth on the battlefield, he suddenly cursed.

"His grandma's fault! This bandit commander is so damn clever!"

Xu Chong, the commander-in-chief of Qian soldiers next to him, was puzzled: "Why did the commander-in-chief say that?"

Huang Degong pointed at the battlefield with his mace, "Look at this battlefield. Gucheng is to the south and Ruhe River is to the north. Our camp is in the east, and the rebels have their camp in the west.

Now that the two sides started fighting, this battlefield happened to be blocked, and the great plain became so narrow that the advantage of the cavalry was completely eliminated! How bad his grandma is! "

Xu Chong was from Huang Degong's mother's family. Because he was brave in battle and very obedient, he was promoted to the rank of General Qian by Huang Degong. In fact, his talent in leading troops and commanding operations was average.

He looked at the battlefield and realized nothing at all, and said: "The main town is several miles around, enough for our cavalry to charge."

"You're a stick boy!"

Huang Degong cursed and looked at his infantry formation again.

Although he promised Gao Douguang a small battle, he pulled out all his soldiers.

Because no matter whether a small battle is defeated or not, the main force of infantry is needed to control the situation - if one's side wins, the infantry can follow the cavalry to pursue the rebel army; if one's side loses, the infantry formation can be used to deal with the situation where the rebel army takes advantage of the situation to pursue them.

He originally had more than 4,000 infantry soldiers and more than 5,000 auxiliary troops under his command.

It is a pity that nearly a thousand people were lost in the siege yesterday, and now there are only more than 8,000 people left.

But Huang Degong felt that eight thousand infantry were enough to deal with any situation.

There are also more than 5,000 Dubiao soldiers from Gao Douguang in the camp - if he really needs support, Gao Douguang will definitely send troops to help.

The more than 8,000 infantry under his command were commanded by General Tian Xiong.

Tian Xiong's headquarters has more than 2,000 combat troops and 2,000 auxiliary troops; guerrilla Huang Ming and guerrilla Qiu Yue each have 500 combat troops and more than 1,000 auxiliary troops, acting as partial divisions.

After seeing his own military formation, Huang Degong immediately ordered: "Let's go! Follow me to explore the rebel army's layout!"

After saying that, he took the lead and ran towards the formation of the Yibu rebel army.

This is not reckless, but something that many generals would do - before telescopes spread, the best way for generals to understand the situation of the enemy's military formation was to go to the formation and observe it in person. (The scout's report is definitely not as specific as seeing it in person.)

After all, the two sides are separated by several miles. If you don't go there, even if you build a nine-foot-high building in your own military formation, you won't be able to clearly see the enemy's military formation several miles away.

Of course, there are exceptions like Liu Sheng who have later generations of telescopes.

As for whether the "telescope" works well at this time, it depends on the multiple.

If it is the lowest four times, it will not work even if it is five or six miles away; if it is eight times, it will probably be blurry.

So you still have to take the risk to observe in front of the local formation.

On the plain terrain, it is actually not that dangerous to lead a group of cavalry to the enemy's position.

Huang Degong led seven or eight hundred horsemen and horses and ran westward along the river bank.

Two thousand cavalrymen, Ma Degong and Zhang Jie, followed one mile behind with two thousand cavalrymen.

Huang Degong controlled the speed of his horse and ran neither too fast nor too slow. He loudly said to Xu Chong, Weng Zhiqi and other riding generals who were following him: "We will continue to follow the old rules for a while. If the enemy horsemen dare to attack us, they will bite us hard." !”

"understand!"

The cavalry general loudly set up camp.

This is one of Huang Degong's tactics.

In two steps.

The first step is for Huang Degong to lead his own cavalry to the enemy's formation to observe. If he finds an opportunity, he will rush in and kill him.

In the second step, if the enemy also has cavalry troops and they see that they are few in number and come to attack, they will bite the enemy's cavalry tightly.

In this way, the large cavalry force following one mile behind can catch up and eat up the enemy cavalry.

Ever since Huang Degong was transferred from the Beijing camp to suppress bandits and bandits, this routine has been tried and tested.

And most of the time, only the first step of the routine is carried out. The rebel army can be defeated by riding alone, and the large cavalry troops behind can follow and kill, and the second step is not needed at all.

Because Huang Degong failed to attack Gucheng yesterday and last night, he took a high look at the Yibu rebels, so he specifically ordered the second step.

When he arrived at the Ruhe River, less than two miles away from the nearest formation of the Yibu rebels, Huang Degong began to run south with his own horse, neither fast nor slow, because he wanted to observe the enemy's position.

After watching it for a while, Huang Degong relaxed and laughed.

"I saw that Thief Liu was very cunning in choosing the location for his camp, and I thought he was someone who knew how to fight, but I didn't expect that he turned out to be a stick!

You see, at first glance, the formations of the rebel army are square and well-organized, but in reality they are full of flaws!

If it hadn't been for the loss of more than 400 horsemen last night, we would have rushed in now and crushed them! "

Xu Chong, Weng Zhiqi and other generals on horseback didn't actually see any obvious flaws, but they knew how to praise him, so they all started laughing.

"The headmaster is right, the bandit army is indeed just a show-off."

"I saw it during yesterday's siege. This Runing Liu thief doesn't have much fighting experience at all."

"Headquarters, why don't we turn around most of the cavalry behind us and just go over and attack them? Maybe we can directly defeat the rebel army and flee."

"···"

After hearing the words of these cavalry generals, Huang Degong actually considered the possibility of all the cavalry charging into the formation - there was a reason why he was called Huang Chuangzi!

But soon, he changed his mind.

Because while they were walking, sizing up, and joking, the Kueibe Rebel Army launched artillery pieces one after another!

At this time, Huang Degong was less than two miles away from the rebel formation, and he could probably see the shape of those artillery pieces.

The cannon that was pushed out was long and thick. Although it was silver-grey, its appearance was very similar to the Hongyi cannon he had seen in western Liaoning and the capital.

What shocked Huang Degong even more was that the bandit army launched at least fifty of these "Hongyi cannons" at once within the range that he could see! !

The rebel army actually has more than fifty Hongyi cannons?

Are they all transported to the wilds to fight?

Was he in a coma last night and still dreaming? !

For a moment, Huang Degong's brain shut down and he couldn't react.

Fortunately, relatives and generals such as Xu Chong and Weng Zhiqi had long eyes and saw the many artillery launched by the Yibu rebels.

Seeing Huang Degong's horse riding slower and slower, Xu Chong, a nervous man, spoke up first: "Headquarters, why are there so many Hongyi cannons in the rebel army?"

Weng Zhiqi said: "Headquarters, the bandits are going to bombard us with artillery. What should we do?"