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Chapter 193: Riding horses to observe the enemy's formation, the general dies in front of the cannon!
Huang Degong personally led the cavalry and cruised on the north side of the battlefield.

Speaking of which, he originally had more than three thousand cavalry under his command.

In addition to more than two thousand cavalry troops, his servants are also cavalry.

But because the night attack failed last night and more than 400 people were lost, the number of cavalry became more than 700.

But he still pulled out all his cavalry.

Because in the morning, when his Qian Zongma led more than a thousand cavalry to investigate the enemy's situation, he had several encounters with the bandit army and found that the number of bandit cavalry was approximately between [-] and [-], and many of the bandit cavalry were unfamiliar with riding.

This undoubtedly shows a major weakness of the cavalry soldiers and thieves!
But when Huang Degong led two or three thousand of his men to ride back and forth on the battlefield, he suddenly cursed.

"His grandma's fault! This bandit commander is so damn clever!"

Xu Chong, the commander-in-chief of Qian soldiers next to him, was puzzled: "Why did the commander-in-chief say that?"

Huang Degong pointed at the battlefield with his mace, "Look at this battlefield. Gucheng is to the south and Ruhe River is to the north. Our camp is in the east, and the rebels have their camp in the west.

Now that the two sides started fighting, this battlefield happened to be blocked, and the great plain became so narrow that the advantage of the cavalry was completely eliminated!How bad his grandma is! "

Xu Chong was from Huang Degong's mother's family. Because he was brave in battle and very obedient, he was promoted to the rank of General Qian by Huang Degong. In fact, his talent in leading troops and commanding operations was average.

He looked at the battlefield and realized nothing at all, and said: "The main town is several miles around, enough for our cavalry to charge."

"You kid is a mallet!"

Huang Degong cursed and looked at his infantry formation again.

Although he promised Gao Douguang a small battle, he pulled out all his soldiers.

Because regardless of defeat in a small battle, the main force of infantry is needed to control the situation - if one's side wins, the infantry can follow the cavalry to pursue the rebel army; if one's side loses, the infantry formation can be used to deal with the situation where the rebel army takes advantage of the situation to pursue them.

He originally had more than [-] infantry soldiers and more than [-] auxiliary troops under his command.

It is a pity that nearly a thousand people were lost in the siege yesterday, and now there are only more than [-] people left.

But Huang Degong felt that eight thousand infantry were enough to deal with any situation.

There are also more than [-] Dubiao soldiers from Gao Douguang in the camp - if he really needs support, Gao Douguang will definitely send troops to help.

The more than [-] infantry under his command were commanded by General Tian Xiong.

Tian Xiong's headquarters has more than 2000 combat troops and 1000 auxiliary troops; guerrilla Huang Ming and guerrilla Qiu Yue each have [-] combat troops and more than [-] auxiliary troops, acting as partial divisions.

After seeing his own military formation, Huang Degong immediately ordered: "Let's go! Follow me to explore the rebel army's layout!"

After saying that, he took the lead and ran towards the formation of the Yibu rebel army.

This is not reckless, but something that many generals will do - before the spread of telescopes, the best way for generals to understand the situation of the enemy's military formation is to go to the formation and observe it in person. (The scout's report is definitely not as specific as seeing it in person.)
After all, the two sides are separated by several miles. If you don't go there, even if you build a nine-foot-high building in your own military formation, you won't be able to clearly see the enemy's military formation several miles away.

Of course, there are exceptions like Liu Sheng who have later generations of telescopes.

As for whether the "telescope" works well at this time, it depends on the multiple.

If it is the lowest four times, it will not work even if it is five or six miles away; if it is eight times, it will probably be blurry.

So you still have to take the risk to observe in front of the local formation.

On the plain terrain, it is actually not that dangerous to lead a group of cavalry to the enemy's position.

Huang Degong led seven or eight hundred horsemen and horses and ran westward along the river bank.

Two thousand cavalrymen, Ma Degong and Zhang Jie, followed one mile behind with two thousand cavalrymen.

Huang Degong controlled the speed of his horse and ran neither too fast nor too slow. He loudly said to Xu Chong, Weng Zhiqi and other riding generals who were following him: "We will continue to follow the old rules for a while. If the enemy horsemen dare to attack us, they will bite us hard." !”

"understand!"

The cavalry general loudly set up camp.

This is one of Huang Degong's tactics.

In two steps.

The first step is for Huang Degong to lead his own cavalry to the enemy's formation to observe. If he finds an opportunity, he will rush in and kill him.

In the second step, if the enemy also has cavalry troops and they see that they are few in number and come to attack, they will bite the enemy's cavalry tightly.

In this way, the large cavalry force following one mile behind can catch up and eat up the enemy cavalry.

Ever since Huang Degong was transferred from the Beijing camp to suppress bandits and bandits, this routine has been tried and tested.

And in many cases, only the first step of the routine is carried out. The rebel army can be defeated by riding alone, and the large cavalry force behind can follow and kill, and the second step is not needed at all.

Because Huang Degong failed to attack Gucheng yesterday and last night, he took a high look at the Yibu rebels, so he specifically ordered the second step.

When he arrived at the Ruhe River, less than two miles away from the nearest formation of the Yibu rebels, Huang Degong began to run south with his own horse, neither fast nor slow, because he wanted to observe the enemy's position.

After watching it for a while, Huang Degong relaxed and laughed.

"I saw that Thief Liu was very cunning in choosing the location for his camp, and I thought he was someone who knew how to fight, but I didn't expect that he turned out to be a stick!

You see, at first glance, the formations of the rebel army are square and well-organized, but in reality they are full of flaws!
If it hadn't been for the loss of more than 400 horsemen last night, we would have rushed in now and crushed them! "

Xu Chong, Weng Zhiqi and other generals on horseback didn't actually see any obvious flaws, but they knew how to praise him, so they all started laughing.

"The headmaster is right, the bandit army is indeed just a show-off."

"I saw it during the siege yesterday. This Runing Liu thief doesn't have much fighting experience at all." "Headquarters, why don't we turn around most of the cavalry behind us and just go over and do it? Maybe we can just kill him right away?" The bandit army has fled."

"···"

After hearing the words of these cavalry generals, Huang Degong actually considered the possibility of all the cavalry charging into the formation - there was a reason why he was called Huang Chuangzi!
But soon, he changed his mind.

Because while they were walking, sizing up, and joking, the Kueibe Rebel Army launched artillery pieces one after another!

At this time, Huang Degong was less than two miles away from the rebel formation, and he could probably see the shape of those artillery pieces.

The cannon that was pushed out was long and thick. Although it was silver-grey, its appearance was very similar to the Hongyi cannon he had seen in western Liaoning and the capital.

What shocked Huang Degong even more was that the bandit army launched at least fifty of these "Hongyi cannons" at once within the range that he could see! !

The rebel army actually has more than fifty Hongyi cannons?

Are they all transported to the wilds to fight?
Was he in a coma last night and still dreaming? !
For a moment, Huang Degong's brain shut down and he couldn't react.

Fortunately, relatives and generals such as Xu Chong and Weng Zhiqi had long eyes and saw the many artillery launched by the Yibu rebels.

Seeing Huang Degong's horse riding slower and slower, Xu Chong, a nervous man, spoke up first: "Headquarters, why are there so many Hongyi cannons in the rebel army?"

Weng Zhiqi said: "Headquarters, the bandits are going to bombard us with artillery. What should we do?"

Hearing this, Huang Degong woke up.

As a member of the Liaodong Army and having served in the Guanning Army and the Beijing Camp, he was very aware of the terror of the Hongyi Cannon.

He also knew that he faced two choices at this time.

The first is to take your own cavalry and most of the cavalry and immediately retreat to the southeast. As long as the cavalry disperses enough, even if the rebel army's "Red Barbarian Cannon" can fire off one or two rounds, it will not cause many casualties to the cavalry.

The second method is to rush into the enemy's formation while being less than two miles away from the enemy's formation!

At such a short distance, the bandits' "Hongyi Cannon" could fire at most one round, and the cavalry would not suffer many casualties either.

As long as he can lead his own cavalry to break through the rebel army, most of the cavalry can follow up and defeat the rebel army in one fell swoop.

At that time, not only can this battle be won, but also many "Red Barbarian cannons" can be captured!
Which choice to make?

Huang Degong did not hesitate or hesitate.

Because there is only the second option in his eyes!

Not only because he is bold and not afraid of death, but also because he knows that if he cannot win this time, the rebel army has so many "Red Barbarian Cannons", and in the future, no city in the Ming Dynasty will be able to block the attack of this rebel army.

Therefore, he can only make the second choice, and he can only win!
With his mind spinning, Huang Degong shouted loudly: "Soldiers! This is a good opportunity to defeat the bandit army! Follow me and charge into the formation!"

After roaring, he rushed towards a rebel formation in the southwest!
"kill!"

The horsemen did not hesitate, shouted loudly to kill, and rushed with Huang Degong!

At this time, hundreds of army guns mounted on new gun trucks had just arrived at the preset gun positions.

The Ming cavalry, which was originally conducting a reconnaissance, suddenly charged, which was a bit unexpected by the rebel soldiers.

The artillerymen were indeed nervous when they saw it, but they did not panic because they were all trained to face cavalry charges.

Seeing the commander's flag waved down, the gunners calmly fired.

Subsequently, the gunners from each military formation came forward one by one with the tiger crouching cannon, set it up, and were ready to fire at any time.

This is the combat routine of the Yibu Rebel Army - facing the enemy's charge, the Tiger Crouching Artillerymen of each unit must fire at least one round of Tiger Crouching Artillery first!

The horse's maximum charging speed can reach 1000 meters per minute!

However, before that, Huang Degong and other Ming cavalry were trotting in front of the rebel formation. The horses were carrying riders, and these riders were all Huang Degong's servants. They were all wearing two layers of armor. Although they were not as good as heavy cavalry, they were not light in weight. It would be good if the top speed can reach 500 meters per minute.

So, when Huang Degong led his cavalry to charge for more than a mile, the rebel army artillery fired.

All used explosive shells, and the impact points of the shells were between one mile and two miles.

Huang Degong and his fellow riders were basically fine, but most of the riders, including Ma Degong and Qiu Yue, who were following them a mile away, were feeling uncomfortable.

Not many riders were directly knocked down, killed or injured.

However, Huang Degong's troops had basically been suppressing bandits in the mainland before, and most of the horses had not received artillery adaptability training. This was their first encounter with explosive bombs. Suddenly, many horses were frightened and panicked and lost control.

Some rushed forward crazily, some wanted to run diagonally, and some wanted to stop, causing the two thousand Mingqi to be confused.

On the other side, Huang Degong had led his cavalry to the rebel formation. He thought he was about to defeat the enemy, but instead he saw hundreds of squatting cannons with fuses already lit!

Finished!

This thought first flashed through Huang Degong's mind, and then he roared:
"Concentrate! Break the formation with someone!"

After saying that, he rode his horse and rushed forward as if he was dead!
boom boom boom

A series of crisp cannon shots sounded.

Huang Degong then saw what seemed to be a large net covering him, and as the fireworks filled the air, he seemed to be swallowed by a giant pyrotechnic beast. His forehead hurt, and he instantly lost consciousness.

　Regarding Huang Degong's death method: He was a die-hard loyalist to the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen, and he was bound to die. Historically, he was the one who cursed Liu Liangzuo in a boat and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty on the shore. He was shot in the throat with an arrow and died. It was quite aggrieved.

　　Let's arrange something heroic here.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)