Yi Zijia frowned and looked into the distance.

If he sends cavalry, he can catch up.

But his cavalry are pirates who can ride horses.

The other side is the cavalry.

Even ten of his cavalry could not defeat one of his opponents.

But it's such a pity to see a piece of fat slipping away right in front of your eyes.

You must know that the great victory of Ningyuan, which is recorded in the history books, only resulted in the beheading of more than two hundred people.

There are 300 true barbarians in front of us. It can be said that at least 200 true barbarians can be detected.

The question is, where did the other 100 go?

Of course it disappeared.

At this time, someone next to him said: "General, if we order the infantry to give up their shields and take off their iron armor, with our years of training, we can catch up with the enemy's infantry within two days."

"If the enemy wants to escape, he must abandon 200 infantry."

Yi Zijia nodded.

This should be OK.

Although if you give up the giant shield, you will definitely have to bear the losses caused by the opponent's strong bow and heavy arrows in the battle.

But at least it can guarantee that you can hit the opponent instead of watching the opponent escape.

"Okay, let's get rid of the giant shield and replace it with a small light shield. Only one layer of armor will be left for the pikemen and musketeers, and the rest of the armor will be given to the baggage soldiers."

"In pursuit."

If Wen Rensheng knew what happened on the battlefield, he would understand why the Western battle formations at this time did not equip pikemen and musketeers with heavy armor.

Just for mobility.

Mobility is often more important than defense.

If you want to take into account defense, you have to equip the infantry with horses.

This is exactly what the Jurchens did.

Their own tribe has few people, and each piece of white armor is very precious.

Therefore, 3 horses are used daily, and one horse is dedicated to transporting armor.

to improve mobility.

In fact, their white armor is mainly used to defeat enemies in foot combat.

Horses are used at critical times.

For example, pursuit, retreat, and outflanking.

If they are on horseback, they cannot give full play to the power of their strong bows and heavy arrows.

After making these changes, Yi Zijia sent his lieutenant, leading 1,500 men, a total of 10 light armor squads, to chase the opponent's 300 men.

The remaining people also unloaded the armor and stomach, put it on the baggage cart, and used the stolen horses, oxen and mules to drag it.

Capturing livestock greatly improved their land mobility.

Sure enough, thanks to good food, good training, and high military pay, the walking speed of 1,500 people was obviously much faster than that of their opponents.

In fact, these 300 people are all true barbarians, and they usually have enough to eat. Especially Bai Jia, who is a professional off-duty soldier. They polish their martial arts every day and are specially trained to serve them.

However, they were only full at this time.

After all, Huang Taiji has just begun to rob the pass on a large scale.

Therefore, their marching speed is still lower than these 1,500 people.

After the two sides chased each other for two hours, Niu Luzhangjingwugezhen realized that something was wrong.

He hurriedly said to Melezhanggun Donagu: "Master Donagu, we are in trouble. These people are indeed strong soldiers. They are pursuing so fast. If this continues, our infantry will not be able to escape.

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"I can also see that there are only three options now. One is to fight with them to scare them off; the other is to have the cavalry harass them from behind and slow them down; the third is to have the infantry remove their armor and the cavalry run away, and finally

How many can escape?" Donagu said with a frown.

"Only send cavalry. There are too many of them. We only have 100 cavalry. We can't stop much. Instead, we will easily fall into a situation of being outflanked." Wu Gezhen said carefully, "If you run away directly, you will be beheaded."

Yes, you can retreat in front of the enemy.

If you fight a battle, the enemy is outnumbered and you are outnumbered, if you fight a battle to find out the strength of your opponent, and then retreat without support, you will only be reprimanded, or even not reprimanded, but you will still gain a reputation as a brave fighter.

After all, intelligence is the most important thing. Sacrificing a hundred people to gain valuable information about the enemy is a credit, not a defeat.

In terms of rewards and punishments in military warfare, the Jurchens were indeed too far behind the Ming army in the early days.

Although there are definitely cases of cheating and allowing one's nephew to obtain military exploits, it is not serious and one has to personally kill the enemy in battle.

But if you run away immediately when you see the enemy, and the ones left behind are Eight Banners soldiers, you will definitely not be able to escape if you behead them.

But if you disguise it, it'll be fine.

But at this time, the Eight Banners was still on the rise, relatively simple and not slippery enough, so it was not possible to lie about the military situation.

What's more, the 30 white armors are all pieced together. If you can't buy them all, they will definitely go back and be questioned by their respective masters.

So there is only one option, fight as hard as possible, find out and then retreat.

So after two waves of men and horses chased him, Donagu stopped on a slope.

The infantry formed a formation, and the cavalry was on both sides.

The one with white armor is at the front and begins to put on three layers of armor with the help of the wrapper and red-armored flag ding.

The slope here is relatively gentle.

But if the infantry wants to rush forward, it will take a lot of effort.

On the left is a bush, which is not easy to detour, and on the right is a mountain forest in the distance.

There is grass in front.

All in all, it is a somewhat favorable terrain.

But both sides can accept it.

Both sides saw where the fighter planes were.

This is the basis of the battle.

Either both sides can see the opportunity to win, or one side has to choose to fight under a disadvantage, such as running out of food, being surrounded, or being ordered to do so by the emperor...

Being forced to choose to fight is obviously very tragic.

One side has a large number of people and is well-trained, but the other side has been battle-hardened for a long time. The minimum number of soldiers has been on the battlefield at least ten times. This is of course a small number of coatings removed.

For Donagu and others, the key is that the opponent's artillery did not follow.

The artillery is still slow.

If the opponent's artillery can still run as fast as the infantry, they will definitely abandon the infantry and escape with the cavalry.

As for the infantry, if they throw off their helmets and armour, take only bows and arrows, scatter into the mountains and forests, and then regroup, most of them can escape.

Because then there is no way to fight.

They were well aware of the advantages of artillery.

They will die just as the Ming army died back then. There is no need to try, they are not stupid.

But now that the opponent doesn't have artillery, you can give it a try.

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There are 1,500 people on one side and 300 people on the other side.

The forward deputy general of the Fast Army began to pass the order to form the formation.

The 10 teams began to form formations.

The pikemen, shield soldiers, and matchlock soldiers quickly began to form a horizontal formation from the marching column.

There are 150 people in one team and 30 people in one horizontal line, forming 5 horizontal lines.

The team formed quickly.

At this time, the two sides were still three miles away.

With such a long distance, even if the Jurchen cavalry ran over, they would still face an already organized formation.

So the Jurchen cavalry simply didn't come.

Instead, dismount and leave the horse behind.

30 white armors were sitting on the ground waiting.
To be continued...