Amid the surprised gaze of the crowd, Ma Dai led his troops out of the city.
"General, you can't do that!" Qiu Yue reminded hurriedly.
Huang Fei immediately agreed, "Yes, General, our army only has two thousand cavalrymen. Whether we win or lose, the disadvantages will outweigh the advantages!"
Huang Fei was right. Even if Huang Degong's cavalry could defeat the Jiannu cavalry, it would be a loss for them.
Because the number of Jiannu cavalry was five or six times, or even seven or eight times, theirs.
If the amount of losses is the same, it will be a bigger blow to them.
Huang Degong held the Clairvoyance in his hand and shook his head solemnly, saying, "First of all, the battle between the two armies is a test of morale. If our army retreats, we will lose 30% of morale before the battle begins, which will be disadvantageous to our army."
"Secondly..." Huang Degong turned around and looked at everyone: "The Jiannu don't know the strength of our army, and our army doesn't know the Jiannu's tactics! When we were fighting in Liaodong, our Ming border army would send a small-scale force to test the Jiannu before each battle. This is a tacit rule between the two sides."
"As for the 500 infantrymen accompanying me, I have other uses for them."
Under the gaze of the crowd, one thousand cavalrymen and five hundred infantrymen left the city.
The 1,000 cavalrymen were all from the Yongwei Battalion, the elite among the elite. They wore brand new cotton armor, bright helmets, and led their horses slowly towards the Eight Banners Cavalry.
no way.
Their war horses had been short of food for a long time. Although they had been given a lot of food recently, they were still inferior to the Eight Banners horses in terms of speed or endurance. In order to save the horses' energy as much as possible, they had no choice but to do this.
(If you only feed a warhorse grass, it will lose weight. The standard is to feed it grass and beans together.)
After leaving the city, the five hundred infantrymen walked forward with the cavalry. When they reached a mile away from the city wall, they stood in place and began to form a battle formation.
They carried no chevaux de frise and no chariots; their battle formation consisted entirely of a human wall.
Five hundred Ming soldiers stood in three rows, forming a classic three-section attack formation.
After walking another hundred steps, Ma Dai ordered, "Everyone get on the horses."
After all the cavalrymen had mounted their horses, Ma Dai took out a telescope from his bag and looked at the Eight Banners cavalrymen in the distance.
One is to look at the number of opponents, and the other is to look at their equipment.
Different equipment means different tactics.
First of all, cavalry can be divided into light cavalry and heavy cavalry. Light cavalry wears cotton armor or dark armor, and war horses have no armor or half armor (the half armor here means that the face and chest of the war horse are covered with cotton armor, and the Liaodong Iron Cavalry during Li Chengliang's period were basically equipped with this equipment).
If the enemy is carrying firearms, then this group of people is definitely not traditional cavalry, but firearms cavalry. They shoot with bird guns at a long distance, then mount horses and shoot with bows, and engage in close combat.
Some people also use three-barreled guns, which they fire at close range and then swing as weapons.
Without firearms, tactics tended to be traditional.
During battle, the cavalry would charge at each other or draw a shape of eight and chase each other.
The Jiannu cavalry tactics were between the Mongolian cavalry and the Ming border cavalry, with both traditional cavalry and firearms cavalry.
After seeing the equipment of the Eight Banners soldiers, Ma Dai felt relieved. These Eight Banners cavalrymen wore cotton armor, their horses were covered with half armor, and they had no firearms.
In this situation, the two sides compete in combat effectiveness and tactics.
While Ma Dai was observing Ebilun, Ebilun was also observing Ma Dai.
The one thousand Ming cavalrymen were wearing distinctive armor, with a bow hanging in the bow bag on the left and two quivers and a saber on the right.
Although the war horses have no armor, the combat effectiveness of these cavalrymen is definitely not low.
The cavalry who dare to confront them are definitely not good people.
Thinking of this, Ebilun jumped on his horse and said, "Get on the horse and meet the enemy! We will win this battle!"
“We will win!”
“We will win!”
These Eight Banners soldiers held their heads high and chests puffed out, shouting loudly and proudly.
Since the first entry into the Pass in the second year of Chongzhen, the Eight Banners Army has rarely suffered defeat, and even if it did, it was at the hands of the Guanning Army.
The Ming Dynasty's soldiers inside the Great Wall, especially the cavalry, were always unable to cope with the Eight Banners cavalry.
Although I met Huang Degong today, and even though he has the aura of the Yongwei Battalion, the Yongwei Battalion is not the Guanning Army.
The Guanning Army couldn't even stop the Eight Banners Army, so what virtue and ability did the Yongwei Camp have?
So, they will definitely win today.
One thousand soldiers of the Plain Yellow Banner and the Eight Banners slowly urged their horses and began to gather in the direction of the Ming army.
Ma Dai held the bow in his left hand, and with his right hand on the quiver, he said in a high voice: "When we meet the Tartars today, we must draw our swords and show our authority!"
"Fifty steps, draw your bow and release your arrows. Twenty steps, draw your sword and charge in for hand-to-hand combat!"
"This battle is a battle to establish our prestige!"
"The Ming army is mighty!"
Everyone was slightly stunned. Although they had doubts in their hearts, they could only suppress their doubts in the face of a powerful enemy and shouted at the same time: "The Ming army is mighty! The Ming army is mighty!"
Small-scale cavalry engagements basically follow the same routine, which is to charge first and use your momentum to scare the enemy.
When the two sides are about to collide, they either turn in the same direction at the same time or ride in opposite directions.
At this time, the two sides will be in a relatively parallel state, with a distance of more than ten steps or as little as five or six steps.
The cavalrymen drew their bows and arrows and shot freely.
Because of the armor, even if he could hit the opponent, he would not cause fatal damage.
So most cavalry will use the face-to-face arrows mentioned earlier!
This was a tactic that Ma Dai had studied all night. When it came to riding and shooting, he knew that his soldiers were not as good as the Eight Banners soldiers.
Both sides are at war.
But...the opponent is different!
The Jiannu's opponent was the Guanning Army, and the Yongwei Camp's opponent was Zhang Xianzhong.
As the saying goes, the worse you play chess with a bad chess player, the worse you get. The same is true in war.
The former can train riding skills, archery skills and tactics. Although the latter can also allow the Yongwei Battalion to learn experience through combat, the experience gained in riding and archery is limited.
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