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Russell, who was leading the dragoons along a wide avenue, received a new order for teleportation last night, and the Chinese were clearly engaged in the civil war between North and South Annam, and many had already witnessed the Chinese's huge spaceship landing on the side of the Northern Army and staying for a long time. Although it is not known how much the Chinese have invested in the Yankees, it is conceivable that even if they only provide food to the Yankees, it can give them a full morale boost, not to mention that they may directly provide weapons to the Yankees.

He was ordered to catch up with the tail of the Northern Army as quickly as possible, entangle them and force the Northern Army to engage in a battle with the Southern Army, first, to understand the current state of the Northern Army's weapons and equipment, and second, to disrupt the Chinese's plans, even if the Chinese provided the most advanced weapons to the Northern Army, to ensure that they did not have enough time to train to improve their combat effectiveness.

Russell scoffed at this point of view, he had seen the Northern Army many times, even if he was stabbed in the waist by the Northern Army in Jiezhen, it did not mean that the Yankees were strong in combat, it was just a war of attrition to drag his army from the flank. Later, he also learned that the Yankees had crossed the Boundary River from the lower reaches of the river a few days earlier, and that the extremely unstable political situation in South Annan caused the information to be delayed and not given warning, which caused his dragoon and musket battalions to suffer an unspeakable defeat. Now that Russell had not only a new army newly drawn from the various maritime cities of Meydernor, but also a powerful new musket, he was confident that his dragoons would gallop across the battlefield in front of the stunned faces of hundreds of Yankees.

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"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Russell yelled loudly at the lieutenant beside him, "We must catch up with the Yankees before today, the longer they delay, the worse it will be for us!" ”

"Yes! Checkmate! The adjutant hurriedly replied loudly, while shouting orders to the heralds beside him who were riding at the same speed, "Everyone! Speed up your march and catch up with the Yankees today! ”

"Yes!" One by one, the heralds received orders, and hurriedly galloped in the direction they were going, kicking up a new cloud of dust that was not inconspicuous in the already billowing dust.

"Report!" As someone in front of him was holding a small flag and galloping in the direction of Russell, Russell couldn't help but be stunned, "What's the matter?" ”

It was the scout cavalry of the dragoons, since the last crushing defeat in Boundary Town, Russell had expanded the size of the dragoons, and the dragoons now had two battalions with a total size of about 1,000 men. Not only did it have fast cavalry that could be used to break through the array, but it also tripled the size of the scout cavalry with a few people to a hundred. The scouts rode horses known as Maxima horses and were armed with muskets with shortened barrels. Despite the fact that these barrels have been shortened, but because the rifling is drawn out of the barrel and equipped with a conical bottom edge expansion bullet that has been sent from Yaning not long ago, not only has the range increased by more than three to four times compared with the previous long-barreled muskets, but the power has also increased exponentially. In addition to the carbines, which could be quickly loaded, they were also armed with cavalry knives, which were copied by the Yanings based on the command knives of the Senate officers handed over by Shu Da, which not only increased their lethality, but also weighed much lighter than the previous spears.

The scouts fanned out in the direction of the dragoons, one in each mile, and once they spotted the enemy, their first task was to return to report the situation first, and then launch a surprise attack on the enemy, causing confusion among them.

"General Russell!" The scout came up to Russell and saluted, "The team of Yankees has been spotted about five miles ahead, and we are waiting for the order to attack." ”

Russell glanced at the cavalryman, his face was covered with dust as he was speeding down the road, and sweat ran down his cheeks, washing out furrows. The soldier wore a pot helmet on his head, which was tightly tied around his neck with a belt, and on top of the pot helmet was a spear tip, which was swung lightly with the breeze and the movement of the horses. The cavalryman's upper body was covered with a piece of steel armor, which was not heavy and only half armor, but only protected the vital points of the upper body, such as the heart and lungs, and the abdomen leaked out. The main purpose of such armor is to prevent direct stabbing to death when the two sides are fighting, and the dragoons, because they often need large-scale maneuvers and take care of the bearing capacity of the horses, cannot use too heavy armor, so they can only use ordinary thin steel plates to be repeatedly forged to make steel armor. To be honest, the aesthetics of this steel armor actually exceeded its own defensive capabilities, and in the case of the enemy's use of firearms, this armor basically could not exert much defensive effect.

Russell nodded and commanded loudly, "Give me an immediate attack and hold off these enemies!" "His purpose is very simple, the army of the Yankees has been in a state of retreat since the battle of the valley, the only difference is whether they flee quickly or not, whether they are reckless in their escape. Now that the scout cavalry has discovered the northern Yankees, then it is better to attack directly, and the northern Yankees have only two options, either the strong man breaks his wrist and sacrifices the troops left behind to drag the dragoons. Such a choice was not unusual, and it was not too troublesome for Russell, as long as the broken troops were annihilated, his dragoons could still catch up with the defeated enemy with their fast horses, who had just lost the troops behind the palace, and would only run back more and more frantically, so that they could quickly achieve defeat; Another option for them is to concentrate their forces for a decisive battle with the pursuing dragoons without adequate preparation, you must know that Russell has just passed several infantry battalions on the march, these infantry battalions are only about half an hour's distance behind them at the moment, if the main force of the Northern Army stops and is forced to fight with itself without adequate preparation, then the infantry battalion will be put into battle soon after the battle begins, and their joining will not only achieve an overwhelming advantage in combat power, More capable of supporting their own dragoons to rush into the rear of the enemy array, creating an opportunity for a complete encirclement of the enemy, if it goes well, it may be possible to completely annihilate this defeated Northern Army today, and once and for all the Northern Army forces south of the Boundary River.

Watching the detective who had ordered the order turn his horse and rush forward, he hurriedly shouted at the several officers around him, "Speed up!" Pursue, don't let the monkeys of the north escape! One by one, the cavalry was immediately interested, and they quickly pursued them forward.

Of course, the reconnaissance cavalry in front received the order to attack immediately in the shortest possible time, and the cavalry first lined up in three rows in the distance, and then began to accelerate towards the northern army that was running in a panic in the distance.

The scouts galloped across a wide meadow, and in the distance was a sparse line of the Northern Army leaning on the woods at the edge of the meadow, and the soldiers nervously clutched sharpened wooden spears and bamboo spears in their hands, staring at the thirty or forty scouts rushing in the distance. It was evident from their pale faces that everyone was very nervous, and most of the soldiers were a little weak, but the officers were running back and forth at the back of the array, shouting at them, "You must hold on!" "There's nothing unusual about them, there are hundreds of us!" "It's nothing more than a horse! Don't be afraid! We have spears, they don't dare to come close! ”

However, the scouts did not feel nervous at all because of the difference in numbers, but rushed towards the array at full speed, and a commotion broke out in the array of the Northern Army, and some people began to push back, and several officers brandished long knives and shouted loudly, driving them back.

When they reached a distance of about 100 meters, they turned their horses and ran away in parallel directions with the Northern Army's array, and at the same time they were not idle, but began to fire their carbines directly at the sparse crowd. With a crackling explosion, a puff of smoke rose from the horses, and dozens of lead bullets flew out of the muzzle and shot at the crowd, but because the distance between the two sides was still far away, and the array of the Northern Army was not dense, there was no substantial damage except for six or seven unlucky soldiers who were hit and fell to the ground.

The scouts did not continue to charge, they turned their horses again and ran back in the opposite direction, the dragoons were nervously reloading their bullets on the beating horses, although they were cavalry, but they were not heavy cavalry used to break through the enemy's lines, and the way they used to inflict casualties on the enemy was mainly through the muskets in their hands.

"They're going to shoot again! Fast! Archer! An officer shouted behind him, and the archers hidden in the woods behind him hurriedly fired a rain of arrows. But the consequences of this rain of arrows were very bad, because the distance between the two sides was still more than 100 meters, and the arrows flew out of the air at most fifty or sixty meters before falling on the grass, and the arrows poked horizontally and vertically on the soft grass, as if a layer of wheat stalks had suddenly grown on the ground.

"Haha!" "These Yankees are scared!" "It didn't hurt us!" The dragoons laughed and talked to each other, but the loading work in their hands did not stop at all.

"Turn left! Get ready! Turn! At the sound of a high command, the leading officer raised the cavalry knife in his hand and pointed to the left, and the dragoons finished their loading work and began to turn to the left in the direction of their advance.

"They're back! Archery! Archery! The officer of the Northern Army, visibly enraged by the actions of the returning dragoons, shouted orders at the archers behind them, who hurriedly drew their bows and arrows, and fired them with all their hands.

"Whoosh-" With the whistling sound of the arrow piercing the air, the arrow still only flew fifty or sixty meters, and then plunged head-on into the soft grass, doubling the number of "wheat stalks" that had just poked into the ground.

"Steady! Steady! The dragoon officer also couldn't laugh, and loudly issued an order, although the carbine in his hand could kill a living target at a distance of one hundred and fifty or sixty meters, but the hit rate was still too low for the infantry formation in the distance. Therefore, the best way is to close the distance as much as possible, and they have also seen the long-range projection ability of the opposing archers just now. Therefore, the officer decided to shorten the impact distance to about 80 meters before firing.

"Hurry, hurry! Archery! "The archers of the Northern Army also began to get busy, hurriedly putting their arrows on their hands, and then filling them up, and without waiting for the officers to give orders, they shot them one after another. The arrows in the air with a whistling sound cut through the distance between the two sides, and landed straight in the attacking reconnaissance formation.

"Oops!" "Damn it!" The dragoons suddenly let out a panicked cry, and the officer who led the team knew that the other party's previous two shots were just to set themselves up, making them think that the range of bows and arrows was only so close, so they rushed forward boldly and confidently rushed into the range of the archers of the Northern Army. With this rain of arrows, sixteen or seventeen dragoons were shot, some rolled over and fell off their horses and were trampled to death and injured by the hooves of the horses behind, and many more fell to the ground with their carbines in the shock of being shot.

"Shoot, shoot!" The officer was also hit by an arrow in his left shoulder, and could not hold the carbine with his left hand, so he could only wave the gun with his right hand and shoot at the array of the Northern Army at random, and then roared and led the team to turn around. The uninjured soldiers behind them also fired bullets at the Northern Army array in the distance in a panic, and most of the bullets failed to hit the target because they were too late to aim.

Seeing the cavalry of the Southern Army turning around and fleeing into the distance in embarrassment, the soldiers of the Northern Army cheered loudly one by one, "Come on! Come again! "Kill you!" "That's all you guys! No matter how much we come, we are not afraid! ”

The officer of the reconnaissance cavalry looked at the Northern Army in the distance with some annoyance, and he couldn't help but feel very annoyed by his carelessness, but now there were less than fifteen cavalry at hand, and it was unrealistic to launch an attack in the face of the more than 1,000 people of the Northern Army.

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"Sir! What to do? The dragoons beside him were naturally also angry, and the officer pulled out the arrow on his shoulder and pressed it the numb shoulder, stimulating his brain with pain. His mind suddenly cleared up a lot, and after looking around, he said to the soldiers, "We'll shoot at a distance, drag them, and wait for our main force to arrive." "The soldiers received the order and turned over and dismounted, took more ammunition from their horses' bags, and began to reload.

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