To be honest, Ying Ming was taken aback.

The same fright was experienced during the war in the Kingdom of Alan, and the Ming army's offensive in Ireland has always been very smooth, but there are times when it is embarrassed locally, for example, on the eve of the attack on Dublin, there were knights who rode monsters to the battlefield.

The men and horses were covered by heavy armor, carrying a tin can like no pack, and it was indeed not fast to run, but under the cover of the armor, there was nothing else to hurt it except the bird, and it could tear a gap in the infantry line with a rumbling ox like a bull.

Fortunately, the number is small and the running is slow, except for a stalemate in a stalemate battle, it doesn't matter if it is a stalemate or the Beiyang cavalry, they are unwilling to fight these things.

In addition to the native cavalry of the Alan Kingdom, even the kind of cavalry without stirrups, they still have to collide with others, even if they can poke other people's horses to death with spears? Horse corpses can still squash you even with men and horses.

After a short trip to the city, Ying Ming, who was using a telescope, found that there were also such big horses in the siege camp, and immediately decided not to go out of the city from the north gate to attack the camp.

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

The Beiyang Banner Army was deeply valued by the emperor and Chen Mu, and the cavalry was the most important of them, and they also regarded themselves very highly, and as the commander of the cavalry, Ying Ming thought that if a Beiyang cavalry could not fight the three knights or heavy cavalry on the opposite side in a battle, then the Beiyang cavalry would sacrifice blood.

The rational facts are very cruel, when Ying Ming grew from an ordinary small cavalry to a guard commander of the Ailan Kingdom in a few years, he gradually understood that the soldiers in the battle often represented a number, just to say that the cavalry he commanded was fifty Beiyang cavalry at the earliest, and later fifty were transferred from other hundred households by Shangguan Han Jinhuan.

Now he marked 200 cavalry, the original veteran only 24 cavalry, later transferred more, also lost eight cavalry, the rest of the cavalry is mainly from the brother unit after the commander died to supplement the reorganization, and more than 20 cavalry is from the Ailan Fu ** meritorious soldiers for training, the same batch of training in Tailongwei There are also some Ailan cavalry, but it may be that the language is not good, the training subjects are not in place, and there are few cavalry that can make Ying Ming look at it.

He was accustomed to seeing his comrades killed, and he had commanded several battles in Alan, and when the army was suffering from the plague under Dublin and chose to retreat, his troops were also chosen to be the army of the rear, facing the pursuit of the enemy.

And the new battlefield of Puli County is a blank sheet of paper in Ying Ming's eyes, which can be waved at will.

This is indeed a blank sheet of paper, the few loyal lieutenants who occupied Puli City, although they have self-appointed military positions, but in the end they are still ordinary people and merchants, and they are too tender in Ying Ming's opinion - their military understanding is stuck to the level of map coloring, as if they have stationed all their troops in Puli City, and this city really belongs to them.

"It is obviously a place that extends in all directions, surrounded by rivers and seas, but it is trapped into a dead place, you stay in the city, the enemy troops from all directions will rush to support, and a large area of the village is left for the enemy army to protect, collect, and requisition, they use this grain to store more soldiers, build larger siege ordnance, and when people are ready, they will capture your city in one fell swoop."

In the wilderness of the town across the Taima River in Puli County, Ying Ming sat on the trunk of a dead tree, carefully sharpened his wrist-unwielding knife, raised his head and said to Wang Jinzhong: "They have four or five thousand troops in the besieging camp in the north of the city, and there must be a caravan of grain for people to eat and chew horses. ”

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

Wang Jinzhong listened to Ying Ming's instructions and nodded one after another, in fact, he also thought of these later, but it was a little late when he thought of it, and he responded: "What the general said is that we will know next time, I thought that it was dangerous outside the city, and I was afraid that the enemy would fight him, but ......"

Wang Jinzhong laughed as he spoke, now they are outside the city, the enemy army is gathered in the north of the city, and the south of the city is very safe.

On the Taima River behind him, several Beiyang cavalry were driving hundreds of Mongolian horses with unloaded harnesses to swim across the river, they were carrying their manes on their horses and were carried back to the other side of the river, and there were two of their boats on the river, carrying the cavalry and harness and armor over, Ying Ming stretched out his arm and pointed at their backs and said: "There are too many enemy troops outside the city, we have to find a way to separate them." ”

In fact, this should have been done by the four lieutenants in the city, they had ships and sailors, and it was only fitting to do this kind of thing along the coast, because if there were too many enemy troops, they should find a way to separate them, and if there were more separations, they would find a way to separate them until they were many times more than them, and then carry out a battle of annihilation.

But in fact, even if Ying Ming has fought a lot of battles with the army in recent years, he is still only learning war in the war, after all, he is not like those generals in Beiyang who have teaching materials in the martial arts hall and have Changsheng generals as professors.

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

"We will go as far west as possible, walk thirty or forty miles or more to ambush the enemy, and if we are unlucky enough not to meet the enemy, we will turn around and loot all the surrounding villages and towns, so that the enemy army will not be able to replenish, and induce the besieging enemy army to divide their forces to the west, and when they divide their forces to the west, the cavalry that remains in the city will attack to the east, without compassion."

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

This is Ying Ming's personal experience of fighting in Ireland, which was already in chaos, because the war lasted much longer than expected, bandits, local rebels, plague and hunger were spreading, and only when the war subsided could this chaos be relieved.

As far as the people are concerned, there is nothing better in the world than not to fight, even if poverty is better than war.

There are so many ways to change your fate, and going to war and turning your life into a number is the worst of them.

Unless you're lucky enough.

Ying Ming was one of the lucky ones, he said that he got up and put the whetstone back into the horse's hip sac, inserted the short knife back into the waist, and said to Wu Ben: "Give the order, let's set off to the west to get a good omen." ”

He didn't know when the other reinforcements would arrive in Puli County, and for him, the military order he accepted was to relieve Puli County of the crisis, and it was impractical for him to use 200 cavalry to charge the enemy's 5,000 battalions, and the only way to do it was to separate the enemy army and make them tired a little, at least he knew that the army gathered by the nobles was not as much as Tama.

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

My Ma Duo, 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.