The great hero of the Silk Road, starting from a farm farmer

Seeing that it was impossible to break through the Yungu Army's defense line, and further attacks would only increase casualties, Chizheli wisely stopped the attack.

The Mimeng people never say that they are tough when fighting. They are particularly good at using battlefield space. All major detours, major outflanks, major transfers, and major campaigns were carried out with great proficiency.

Seeing the Mi Meng army retreating, Song Xueliang, the former enemy commander of the Yungu Army, responded to the situation and ordered the entire army to switch from defense to offense and quickly launched a counterattack.

No matter what the situation, the Yungu Army must fight back during combat. This is the tactical principle that Song Yingkui set when he founded the army.

When you counterattack, you may be outflanked by the enemy, especially when facing enemies that move fast and whose main force is cavalry, this possibility is very high.

Therefore, when the Dazheng army faced the grassland armed forces, it was difficult to make up its determination to fight back. Once bitten by a snake, it would be afraid of well ropes for ten years, and it would suffer too much in this regard.

But because they are afraid of being outflanked, they give up counterattack, and the army will only become more and more cowardly. Defense without counterattack means defense. If you win, you will not win completely, and if you lose, you will die. This will make the enemy more careless when organizing an attack.

In Song Yingkui's view, it is easy to be outflanked during the counterattack. The core problem lies in the organization of the army. As long as the organization is properly organized and the basic commanders have a clear mind, the enemy's probability of successful counter-outflanking is not high. If they were really powerful, they wouldn't be beaten back!
  The Chinese army lured the enemy deep into the enemy's territory, and the two wings detoured from the flanks. This tactic has probably been around for more than a thousand years, and every general knows it.

The problem is not how clever this tactic is, but how well the army executes it. The opponent is not capable enough, but his own army has strong execution ability, and the anti-outflanking tactics are very clever. But if the opponent reacts quickly and has strong assault capabilities, the result is likely to be that they penetrate the bottom of the Chinese army and use the center to bloom, so that one of the anti-outflanking flanks, or both flanks, are surrounded.

The Yungu Army is naturally well prepared for the enemy's counter-encirclement. If they dare to use this tactic, the Yungu Army will dare to use the center-blooming tactic, cutting off part of the enemy force depending on the situation of the fighter planes, and making a dumpling with their backhand!
  After the counterattack began, Wei Dadao, deputy commander of the first brigade and commander of the cavalry regiment, led the entire regiment in pursuit.

They rushed all the way and chased the Mi Meng main force for nearly forty miles. During the pursuit, they heard the sound of Mi Meng arrows everywhere on the battlefield. Obviously this is the enemy's military information conveyed through the sound of arrows! At the same time, he also saw that some Mi Meng troops deliberately avoided Yungu's pursuing troops and took a detour behind him.

"Grandma's legs, these gang thieves want to outflank me! You have noisy arrows, and I have noisy cannons! The messenger, fire off the cannons to ask the front army to stop the pursuit and switch to defense on the spot. In addition, use the cannons to contact the rear. Jun, let’s try making a dumpling!”

If the Mimeng people retreated with all their strength, they would be able to easily break away from the Yungu army due to the advantage of most of them being cavalry. The cavalry of the Yungu Army did not have the ability to pursue the enemy over long distances.

However, the Mimeng army, accustomed to counter-encirclement operations, did not want to miss the opportunity to draw the Yungu army out of the formation. Seeing that Yungu's army had the courage to pursue them, the Mimeng generals, including Chi Zheli, almost instinctively launched anti-outflanking tactics.

In other words, it was not until the war progressed to this point that the decisive battle in which both sides showed their special skills began.

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Standing on a hillside, Chi Zheli looked at the Yungu Army signal bombs that exploded one after another in the sky, and felt an inexplicable coldness in his heart. Obviously the Yungu Army on the opposite side is conveying some message in this way. Can firearms be used in this way? This is a method worth learning.

But there was no time to think about this matter now. The cavalry Yun Gujun was chasing at the front stopped. They should have realized that the defiant army was about to outflank them.

The enemy stopped at a slightly shorter distance, and the distance between them and the infantry behind them should not be too large. The distance is less than thirty miles. If the infantry advances smoothly, they should be able to contact their cavalry in more than two hours, which is a bit hasty.

But there seems to be enough time. According to past combat experience, the Mi Meng cavalry will resolve the battle within an hour. However, the Yungu army has extremely powerful weapons. If they retreat with all their strength, their own soldiers may not be able to stop them.

To fight or not to fight? Chi Zheli hesitated.

"General, the Yungu Army has an army of about [-] people. They are fighting in the direction of their cavalry. The distance between the two enemy armies is less than ten miles!" Just as Chizheli was hesitating, the messenger came on horseback to report the latest news. Military intelligence.

"What? Their rear army is so fast. Could it be that the Yungu army still has a group of cavalry?" When the entire army retreated, Chi Zheli was running while collecting military information. The military information received at that time said that Yungu army The troops pursuing the army only had nearly two thousand cavalry, and they were followed by infantry. Why did another group of troops appear now that moved no slower than the cavalry?

"The Yungu Central Army that is about to catch up are not cavalry. They are a strange army. They look like infantry, but they ride on a strange two-wheeled vehicle. They move very fast and can even keep up with the speed of the cavalry. ." The messenger was actually very confused. How could the Mi Meng soldiers who had lived in Mobei all year round have seen what a bicycle was?

You can run like a cavalry on two wheels. What is this? Wait, Chi Zheli suddenly had an idea. He seemed to have seen this thing before.

When he captured Yinzhou City a few days ago, while raiding the home of a Xiang Jun noble, he saw a strange vehicle with only two wheels. He heard from the Xiang noble that this thing was quite valuable and could be used when riding in the city. It's equal to the speed of a horse. Could it be that Yun Gujun used this thing in the army?
  Now is not the time to think about it, the most important thing is to make a decision. Now, Yungu's army seems to be divided into three parts, and the distance between the three troops and horses is not too far, which is very troublesome. However, their total strength is not too large. The total number of the front, middle and rear groups is only [-] at most.

On our side, we can mobilize about [-] soldiers and horses, which is five times that of the enemy. It is also a field battle. It seems that this battle can be fought?

"Command the whole army to counterattack with all their strength, control the troops of each group of Xiang Jun's surrender troops, drive the surrender troops forward with all their strength, take a step back, and kill them without mercy. I will draw four hundred households troops from my own army, and follow If the surrender troops encounter a defeat, they will attack immediately." Chizheli made up his mind as he threw the braid on his head.

No matter how sharp the Yungu Army's firearms are, they cannot be used without restraint. When they are used up, even if they sacrifice [-] troops to surrender, as long as they bite off this hard bone, it will be cost-effective.

Firearms are such precious weapons. The Yungu Army only has five or six thousand soldiers and horses at most. This should be the strongest combat force they can use. As long as these soldiers and horses are destroyed, there will be no resistance for the army to move south. . Didn't all Zheng people's military books say that it would be five times more powerful than the enemy's attack?
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