Ma Dong and Ma Chengen each led more than 1,000 cavalry (each with a number of Gao family horsemen under their hands) to undertake the task of mobile attack and harassment, scattering and rushing back and forth in the bay of several words, the purpose was to make it impossible for Fried Flower Taiji to quickly and effectively concentrate his troops, and he continued to be "bled out" in the process.

Originally, Gao Pragmatic only planned to let the two of them rush along the landing line once when the Mongolian army had just landed seven or eight thousand, so as to cooperate with the Jinghua fleet to completely cut off the front and middle parts of the Mongolian army and make it disjointed, and then they could temporarily withdraw their troops and wait for the infantry to carry out the task of sweeping the tail after the three battles of artillery coverage, gun platoon, and bayonet formation.

But Ma Fang felt that it was not possible - in fact, it was not called no, but Ma Fang felt that Gao Pragmatic was too cautious in the use of cavalry, as if this group of cavalry could not lose anything at all, if it wasn't for the outspokenness, he even wanted to say that Gao Pragmatic's use of cavalry seemed a bit tied.

Ma Fang is the number one cavalry general in the Ming Dynasty, don't look at Li Chengliang's 40,000 iron cavalry under his hands, which is more powerful than Ma Fang back then, but the Ming Dynasty is recognized - and even the Mongolians are recognized - the number one cavalry general of the Ming Dynasty is still firmly counted on the head of the "Ma Taishi".

In Ma Fang's view, the biggest difference between cavalry and infantry lies in the speed of its attack and withdrawal.

If the attack is fast, the opponent will not have time to make any adjustments and deployments, and will be stunned by it at every turn; If the evacuation is fast, the opponent has finally adjusted and prepared for a counterattack, and his own cavalry has already withdrawn, and is even preparing for the next wave of offensive.

The continuous sudden attack, even if each wave of attack is just a blow and go, is like stabbing someone with a knife, even if it will not die at that time, but it is constantly losing blood, and when the blood loss reaches a certain level, it will definitely be in a trance and weaken in strength.

At this time, your own cavalry can change the "speed type" to the "impact type", launch the final formation breaking charge, crush the enemy in one fell swoop, and lay the foundation for victory.

Therefore, Ma Fang has a lot of opinions about Gao Pragmatic's use of cavalry as an auxiliary unit, and strongly recommends changing the combat method - that is, the current way of playing.

Gao pragmatic and obedient - he has such self-knowledge, because of the infantry problem, he used to read books and play games will have some understanding, especially in this era, in fact, there is no particularly advanced knowledge, that is, the three elements: strict discipline, intensive firepower, and frontal attack.

Yes, there is no need for any surprise attacks, and there is no need for any tricks, it is to train a strong army to be tough - the reason why the Ming army in the original history had no solution to the Jianzhou Tartar in the later period was that in the final analysis, it lost in one thing: it could not be defeated in the field.

Let you have all kinds of clever plans and thousands of tricks, and as soon as you arrive in the field, you will be directly crushed by the Tartars, so what a fart?

"Sun Tzu's Art of War: Momentum": "All those who fight, with the right combination, with the odd victory." Therefore, those who are good and surprising are as infinite as heaven and earth, and inexhaustible as rivers and seas. It seems that he is emphasizing more "Qi", but he does not know that his premise is "Zheng", only if "Zheng" is not weaker than others, then "Qi" can have a decisive effect, if you can't "fit" this "Zheng", what else do you talk about "Qi"?

It's like a three-year-old child sneaking up on a 30-year-old man and punching the man coldly, which is naturally "strange", but what's the point? There is no strength, no meaning, and people will slap you back and fly you.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatism's thinking in the infantry has always been very clear, first, discipline must be strict, whether it is to improve the treatment or increase the punishment, it is to go to the strict discipline; Second, the firepower must be strong, whether it is the development of new rifles and artillery, or the development of military industry and private industry, all of which are aimed at strengthening the firepower of the Ming army and reducing the failure rate of weapons.

As for a frontal attack, this is a matter of tactical command, and Gao Pragmatic will not directly intervene in principle, but will only be responsible for checking the gates, and before planning an operation, he will first select a predetermined battlefield so that it will be conducive to his own firepower.

As for the cavalry, he really scratched his head.

In fact, compared with infantry commanders, cavalry commanders have been more "talented" since ancient times, because cavalry is actually more in line with the saying "impermanence of soldiers and impermanence of water", its characteristics change faster, and many times require generals to make decisions on the spot - just like Ma Fang's plan just now.

When to attack, when to turn into a broken formation, there are no clear rules for this thing, everything needs to depend on the timing of the general, just like two people in a competition, the other party shows a flaw, you have to judge in an instant whether the other party's flaw is a real flaw, or lure you to be fooled, and seize the real flaw, resolutely and decisively launch a killing blow.

In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to teach Huo Qubing the art of war, but Huo Qubing said confidently: Gu Fangzhi is like an ear, and he will not learn the ancient art of war.

There are at least four or five interpretations of this sentence in later generations, but after careful analysis, we know that Huo Qubing may not have completely ignored the book of soldiers, he just criticized it, because his later famous tactics are not found in the "Book of Ancient Soldiers".

The highest level in military science, Sun Tzu called it "Battle Dao", and Sun Bin directly called it "Dao". Knowing the way of war or the way is the highest level of using soldiers. But how? Sun Tzu didn't say it, Sun Bin didn't say it, and the other soldiers didn't say it either.

In fact, there may not be a specific and effective way at all, as Sun Tzu said: "The victory of this soldier cannot be passed on first." The key is to rely on the commander's personal understanding in practice, and perhaps even on talent.

People like Huo Quzhi and Ma Fang are obviously this kind of talented players, and this type of genius generals are almost all cavalry generals in history - infantry generals may of course have many people with extremely high talents, but the speed of the infantry itself is too slow, and it is obviously more difficult than cavalry to seize a flaw in the battle and immediately win the game.

Now, Ma Fang has given Gao Pragmatism a little inspiration, and to some extent, it can be regarded as imparting a little experience: "If you want to say when it is appropriate to turn the attack into a rushing formation, there is no rule, but roughly speaking, it can be seen from the performance of the other party in dealing with the attack." ”

Ma Fang explained: "When the first attack began, the enemy still had the strength to deal with it actively, and its dispatch was usually effective, but after a few raids, the enemy army would most likely gradually become sluggish...... Once you find that by the time you launch the next wave of harassment, the enemy has not even been able to deploy the previous one, this is usually the time to launch a general attack. ”

This is really listening to your words, better than reading a book for ten years!

With the experience he has gained through decades of actual combat, he is highly pragmatic and cannot learn even if he reads more military books!

Ma Dong and Ma Chengen were both preparing to accept military orders from Gao Pragmatic at that time, and they also listened to Ma Fang's teachings, as front-line generals, they must have gained more understanding than Gao Pragmatic, the rear command.

And at this time, in the battle with the fried flower department, the two also constantly observed the response of the fried flower.

At the beginning, when the fried flower department found out that they were ambushed, the reaction was very strong, and the fried flower Taiji personally lit up the people around him, and directly "counter-assaulted" the hard top back against Ma Dong, who was the first to kill the attack.

Although Ma Dong wanted to have a hard time with him, he kept reminding himself to listen to his father's teachings, and endured the desire to make a great contribution to repay Gao Bingxian's trustworthiness, and took the cavalry of his headquarters to cross an arc, so that his subordinates "rode guns to scatter freely", and then quickly evacuated.

At this time, the fried flower department was still a new force, and it directly returned fire with cavalry shooting, and the losses of both sides were almost one-to-one, and Ma Dong did not take any advantage.

However, Fried Flower Taiji had no chance to expand the results, because Ma Dong's side had just gone around in an arc, and Ma Chengen in the other direction had arrived again, forcing Fried Flower Taiji to stop the pursuit and catch up with Ma Chengen again.

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