The chief of the loyal guard shouted and asked the baron to flee north with his escort, their camp not far from the village, where there were enough horses and slopes to keep them at bay for the cavalry.

No one wants to fight a cavalry battle with archers in a flat field, just as no one wants to face an archer after a horse rejection.

The lord rejected this seemingly correct proposal, and he pointed to the dead knight on the ground and said, "There are no musket bullet marks on his chest, only his back, and the enemy is lighter than him, and can catch up with him, but he can't be defeated in a head-on battle, if not...... In order to send us a letter, he will not die. ”

The lord kept enough dignity for the knight after his death, and no one knew whether the knight died to deliver a message or to escape, but he died.

Perhaps only the dead knight knew what awaited him if he didn't run, and if the crooked spear of the world could pierce people to death, the cracked crockpot would be an even more terrible weapon.

Not only can the physical body be destroyed, but the spirit can be destroyed before that.

The battle continued outside the village, and in the fields where the seeds had not had time to be sown, the Beiyang cavalry, armed with sabers and gourds, pursued the archers and infantry who were rushing for the road.

Cavalry is the king of war in skirmishes, and the Beiyang Cavalry, a general-purpose cavalry that was founded for the purpose of the empire's outward expansion, is the best among them.

The ancient cavalry of the Central Plains Dynasty was usually this kind of general-purpose cavalry, and the most common word to describe Chinese cavalry warriors was that they were skilled in archers and horses, and could cope with different war environments.

Their ability to charge with their horses and guns, and their ability to draw their sabers and charge into enemy lines when the enemy is in a rout, does not prevent them from galloping in less intense battles, and even if they lose their horses in difficult times, they can still go into battle as a skilled infantryman.

The advent of muskets greatly reduced the training time of general-purpose cavalry, and the horses' necks were hung with two handguns with longer barrels than three-eyed guns, which were enough to save them the time of learning to bow and arrow, and their tactics were nothing new, except to apply the cluster assault of the heyday of the Mongol Empire to small-scale combat.

The cavalry team galloped in two or three columns of large width, and if they encountered the enemy stragglers on the road, they would destroy them, and if they could not be destroyed, they would retreat to lure the enemy, and when the friendly troops on the left and right sides advanced to their flanks, they would then strike in three directions, and if they could not do so, they would retreat again, and wait for the friendly troops with a wider width to be surrounded by 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 eliminating enemy scouts and suppressing the enemy's horizon.

No way, as the commander of the Beiyang Cavalry, Ying Ming, who was born as a small flag officer, this is the most proficient tactic in his hands.

Let him take anything else, and he won't.

It is difficult for those archers who rely on longbows and fight and retreat arrows to hurt the cavalry, not that they can't hurt the armor, but it is still okay to hurt the armor, some of the arrows that hit the body were cut open, and some of the arrows that shot to the body penetrated the cuirass and nailed half an arrow, as for shooting in the face, don't think about it, the cavalry ran too fast, and people were stupid when they heard the sound of the approaching horses' hooves, and there were very few people who could firmly pull the bow and release the arrows without missing the shots, and it was very common to aim at the head and the chest, and to aim at the chest and hit the horse.

Most often, longbowmen lose their longbows and run away, being carried away from behind by cavalry.

The infantry was even more uncomfortable, the small infantry in the field with a halberd and his last stubbornness planned to fight to the death with the cavalry who were very scarlet and gorgeous, but when he saw the cavalry charging two steps and began to pace, he leaned over and took out a short musket from his horse, and the last scene he saw under the sound of a gun was that the cavalry stuck their spears upside down in the smoke of gunfire, so that they could clean the chamber and reload the musket with ammunition.

In the eyes of the hapless infantryman, the spear in the hands of the Beiyang cavalry is Trump's trip to India - a lie!

The English cavalry in the field was also uncomfortable, they ran fast, but they wore cheap and inferior plate armor, which made them unable to ignore the shorter-range muskets of the Beiyang cavalry in a frontal charge, as the great lords did, and the armor on their backs was thinner.

The most annoying thing is that when the cavalry plucked up the courage to charge, those gorgeously armored Ming cavalry did not fight them, took them in circles, and then were knocked off their horses by bullets that came from nowhere.

Under the bloody sun, Ying Ming, who was watching from the high slope, watched the encounter around Leitou Township and ended with the defeat of the Tuyi army.

Dismounted, the Ellan cavalry infantry roamed the battlefield with tomahawks and sharp knives, ending the wounded and undead enemy troops, quickly gathering all the spoils, they had become accustomed to following the Beiyang cavalry to clean up the once seemingly invincible English army, and many were even eager to really rely on the Ellan army to fight the English troops.

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

Under the telescope, there was nothing to be done in the village, and they were gathering the routs that had fled back to the village and setting up fortifications, demolishing a few houses, blocking the narrow roads with spears and timber, laying thatched roofs with planks to allow the archers to climb the heights, and looking to reinforce the mill, all directed towards their ultimate goal, which was to hold on.

The real strength of telescopes is not only that they can see farther, but that they have more information in the war, so that they can carry out more strategies.

Historically, only strong soldiers can use tricks, and weak soldiers use tricks not to find death but to be unable to complete their mission at all.

Just like now, Ying Ming could see that the enemy army was going to hold on to the village and send riders to the north, if he hadn't seen this scene, he wouldn't have known, but if he saw it, he could extract more information from it, for example: there were enemy reinforcements in the north.

The enemy may march with fire all night, which may send a chance of a night attack to Ying Ming, and he will have one more choice.

It's just that judging the current physical state of most of the horses and soldiers, Ying Ming doesn't think that they are capable of this night attack and calmly leave after the attack, but he can at least confirm that his mission has been completed, and the enemy forces besieging Puli County have indeed made a large-scale military movement to the west.

At this moment, the other hundred Beiyang cavalry families who remained in the city should have also set off to the east, and they could swagger back to Puli County to rest.

The Beiyang cavalry remained around the village until nightfall, when they raised many bonfires in the distance, and in the shadow of the bonfires, they rallied their forces to retreat from the south to the ferry port southwest of Plymouth.

On the way, Ying Ming took one last look back at the village that was still brightly lit, and smiled at Xiao Lei Touhan, who was sitting on the back of his own soldiers: "We will come 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 ships waved their sails, blocking the river, and people lit torches all night to welcome the exotic people who got off the ships into the city, and the addition of new troops swept away the decadence of the siege and gave the whole town a new look.