On April 19, Ye Xinbu plundered Lijia Village, killing more than 40 people including Lizheng, plundering more than 3,000 people, 23 ploughing cattle, and more than 100 donkeys and horses. The next day, the Bailiyan Pioneer Battalion encountered a large number of nearly 100,000 people of the Black Turban Army near Magaopo in the northwest of Lijia Village, and the momentum was extremely huge.

"Report ...... Report to General Wei, ten miles ahead, I found nearly 100,000 people in the rebel baggage battalion, marching from south to north! The scout's tongue raced.

"So much!" Bai Liyan (Wei Xian) was taken aback when she heard the news, and then asked, "How many guards are there?" ”

"About four or five thousand people were seen, the exact number is unknown."

"Probe!"

"No!"

The scout turned away, and Bai Liyan and Xu Jin said:

"General Xu, there's a big fish ahead."

"General Wei, did you inform Governor Ye?"

"Well, I have this intention in Xia, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for our army to completely annihilate them with only 10,000 people. Let's go, go to Governor Ye. ”

The more people in the baggage camp, the less dense the guards, the people have the ability to defend themselves, and 100,000 people are very elite against thousands of miscellaneous soldiers, as long as the escort officer commands well, he can still annihilate the enemy.

Therefore, there will be no more than 10,000 people with 100,000 people's guards. The cavalry of more than 10,000 people alone may not be able to defeat it, and there is even the possibility of being bitten back.

Urging Ma to meet with Ye Xin, the scouts of his department also discovered this situation and were thinking about how to deal with it.

"Governor Ye, there are not many enemy guards, our army should attack with all its strength and capture all its 100,000 people." Baili Yan Road.

"100,000 men is not small, the scouts have come to report, there are a large number of crossbowmen hidden among the men, if they can't be defeated with one blow, they may be in danger of falling into a heavy siege. In my opinion, it's better to hit its tail and follow the attack. ”

Ye Xin's news was more comprehensive, and no less than 10,000 men with bows and arrows were found among the 100,000 people, if they couldn't break down the baggage camp at the first time when the Black Turban Army organized a defense, they might become the target of archers in the blink of an eye.

After a little thought, Bai Liyan said:

"Governor Ye, the three divisions of our army can cut off their heads and cut off their tails, and then divide them into two in the middle, and divide the black turban baggage battalion into three, so that their heads and tails cannot be rescued, and the generals cannot be dispatched, and then they are repeatedly swept back, and then divided and conquered."

"Split into three? Well, that's a great idea. According to General Wei's words. Ye Xin agreed: "The two generals Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu were ordered to attack its southern section, and Pontus supervised the attack on its middle road, and General Wei led the vanguard battalion and General Xu Jin to attack its northern section, and the three armies attacked together to attack its belly and back." ”

"No, the last general will take the order!"

Bailiyan got the order, so he rushed back to the headquarters with Xu Jin. The Sikong Nanbao Tao battalion was transferred to the first formation, Lu Gaolong's martial arts battalion was behind, and Baili Yan led the Xiao cavalry battalion and Xu Jin's 4,000 people to press the formation.

"General Xu Jin, my vanguard battalion will attack later, and the general's headquarters must maintain the battle line with my cavalry battalion, and we must not scatter the formation and mess up the formation."

"General Wei, please rest assured, Xu must be careful."

"Okay, you and I will immediately lead the army around the northern section and intercept the way of the Black Turban Army."

Xu Jin is a capable general sent by Ye Xin to learn from experience, and he is also one of the few young Zhuang factions who served as the governor in his early thirties. The cavalry under his command is also carefully selected, and compared with other departments, the cavalry under Xu Jin is still a bit of a cavalry.

In the previous battles, Xu Jin's department played quite normally, but the tactics were too rigid and conservative, compared with the traditional cavalry, there was no tactical change, and when encountering different situations, which flexible tactics should be used, lacking tactical principles and basic judgments.

It was found that most of the targets were still mainly group charges, rather than flexibly using the mobility of cavalry to mobilize enemy forces. As a result, after the cavalry under Ye Xin attacked, the enemy army ran all over the battlefield, and the cavalry was partially piled up, and two or three of the five prisoners had to be captured.

100,000 men marched from south to north, and Ye Xin's department attacked from east to west, directly attacking the horizontal defense line of the Black Turban Army, even if all 30,000 people were deployed in one line, it was impossible to cover all 100,000 people, and there was even the possibility of being bitten back.

Bailiyan divided his headquarters into three and launched staggered attacks from the east and north. The Sikong Nan Leopard Tao Battalion took the lead first, approaching at a constant speed to resist the enemy's one mile, and the two thousand people of the whole battalion lined up in a dense formation, and the Lu Gao Long Wu Battalion was two hundred steps behind Sikong Nan, and they also spread out in one line, waiting for Sikong Nan to attack.

At this time, Bailiyan made a detour from the right side, and led the Xiao cavalry battalion and Xu Jin's 4,000 men and horses to detour to the front of the baggage team to cut off the way. I think the Black Turban Army has noticed it and taken precautions. After discovering the Xian army in the east and north, they immediately responded, organized their baggage vehicles on the spot, and armed people mobilized their guards to prepare for formation.

However, the disadvantages of fewer people and fewer people, the advantage of more people and more people, but more people are not necessarily benefits.

The march of the baggage battalion is all longitudinal, without the cover of the left and right flanks, and it is located in the rear of a few hundred miles, where would you have thought that the Xian army could kill hundreds of miles in one go.

There are as many as 100,000 people in the entire baggage battalion, and the transmission and distribution stretches for 20 or 30 miles, and it is impossible to complete it in a quarter or two minutes from the command level to the end of the execution, and it is difficult to ensure that military orders can be smoothly and effectively issued to each terminal in a short period of time.

At this time, the test is whether the generals at all levels can effectively respond to emergencies with their own adaptability and courage.

When Baili Yan led the army to appear, the Black Turban Army hurriedly organized tens of thousands of people to defend, and they couldn't wait to show their hands and feet, and the Leopard Tao battalion on the east side had already taken the lead in charging.

The momentum of 2,000 people was like a rainbow, and there were 2,000 empty horses, 4,000 war horses, and 2,000 cavalry behind them.

The black turban baggage battalion, which had no depth of defense at all, was difficult to parry under a blow, and the northern section of the defense line was directly torn open by the huge gap in the Sikong Nanbao Tao battalion, and the two thousand air war horses that followed rushed wildly, further tearing the defense line and expanding the gap. When the battle line was chaotic, Sikong Nan concentrated his forces to attack westward, completely breaking through the defense line that the Black Turban Army had just organized.

At the same time, Lu Gao's 2,000 men and horses and 2,000 air war horses were ready to go, and when Sikong Nan completely broke through the defense line of the Black Turban Army, Lu Gao gave an order, and the Longwu battalion was divided into two to attack with all its might, Lu Gao led 1,000 men to attack the gap on the south side, and another 1,000 men and horses to attack the north side of the gap, so as to further expand the gap.

The Black Turban Army was in chaos under a wave of impact, and the Leopard Tao Battalion did not love to fight after rushing through the defense line, but went straight to the west, so that the Black Turban Army could not be entangled, and a few arrows were placed in a messy manner, and just about to gain a firm foothold, Lu Gao's second wave of impact followed.

The gap in the middle of the northern section of the Black Turban Army was torn open, and it was necessary to send people to plug the gap so as not to be divided and surrounded, so that the forces in the north and south of the gap moved towards the gap, resulting in the dynamic movement of the forces in the north and south becoming relatively weak and unorganized.

Without waiting for them to gain a firm foothold and readjust their deployment, Lu Gao's 2,000 cavalry came from the north and south, and once again rushed through the gap filled by the generals, and there was a burst of crossbows and arrows in the chaotic army, even if there was no accuracy, but it also made the already chaotic black turban army worse.

Unlike most cavalry, the Bailiyan Pioneer Battalion never loved to fight, and Lu Gao continued to move westward after charging all the way and broke away from the battle. This made the Black Turban Army, who planned to continue to fight with the cavalry of the Xian Army, very annoyed.

The current principle of cavalry tactics is to charge in a dense formation and then annihilate the enemy. As a result, after the cavalry had broken through the enemy lines, it was necessary to slow down and fight with the enemy on the spot, taking advantage of the height of the horses and the superiority of the infantry to kill and wound the infantry.

In this way, the cavalry can only exert its speed and physical advantages in the sprint stage by using the speed and physical advantages brought about by the mobile ramming and maneuvering to mobilize the enemy's own life, and after breaking through the defense line to meet the enemy, it will become entangled with the enemy soldiers, and the advantage of ramming and mobilizing the enemy will be greatly weakened, and the mobility will also be greatly reduced

This tactic is suitable for the cavalry of large regiments to flank and kill, disrupting the enemy's flank or behind, but it is not suitable for dealing with the baggage battalion, although it can also achieve the goal, melee hand-to-hand combat will only increase their own casualties.

The purpose of looting baggage is to destroy the enemy's supplies, and the destruction of the enemy's living force is the second goal, and blindly entangled in the destruction of the enemy's living force will not only increase your own casualties, but also increase the difficulty of completing the main objective. The second goal is secondary until the first goal is reached.

Moreover, there are many methods and measures to eliminate living forces, and lethality is not the main means. It is entirely possible to achieve the main goal by all means before trying to accomplish the secondary goal.

At the same time that Lu Gao broke through the gap in the northern section of the Black Turban Army, the Sikong Nanbao Tao Battalion had regrouped one mile to the west, and Lu Gao's two groups of men and horses circled from north to south to the back of Sikong South, and at the same time, Bailiyan and Xu Jin's two troops of 5,000 men and horses were divided into two waves, and launched a second round of attacks on the Black Turban Army that had been scattered from the front.

This time, the two waves were 100 paces apart and launched an attack at the same time, 5,000 people and 10,000 war horses charged at the same time, and the cavalry wrapped the vacant war horses all the way to the Black Turban Army.

At this time, the thousands of people and guards who were barely in the northern section saw that they were already unable to form an army behind them, and in the face of the huge and wide front in the north, they had no fighting spirit at all, and they began to collapse backwards, and the originally organized defense line collapsed at the touch of a touch under the impact of the Baili Yan army, without any will to resist.

Rushing all the way from north to south, after the gap between Sikong Nan and Lu Gao was opened, the Black Turban Army in the northern section marching from east to west quickly broke up and spread in all directions, and encountered a blow from 5,000 cavalry face-to-face.

When they reached the southern end, the 20,000 or 30,000 Black Turban Army in the northern section were overwhelmed, the wounded everywhere were wailing endlessly, and tens of thousands of defeated soldiers were scattered like birds and beasts and fled for their lives. Originally, I wanted to go from south to north, from west to east, and then kill again, but seeing such a scene, there was no need to continue to fight again.