Chapter 332

The vast and flat central plains, with few rivers and serious deforestation, has been a paradise for cavalry since ancient times.

Coupled with years of drought, Cao Bianjiao with 8000 cavalry is like a fish in water. Where the cavalry pass, the smoke and dust splashes out to block out the sun.

Eight thousand cavalry just ran out of an overwhelming momentum, which moved hundreds of thousands of troops more than ten miles away.

Although Niu Er's troops and horses were also prepared according to the original Chinese army, which was higher than Luo Rucai's mob, their actual combat effectiveness was far lower than that of the original Chinese army.

Although 100000 people are young and strong, only half have real knives and guns. Because Kaifeng house has been raided, not to mention war horses, there are few mules and horses.

There was only a cavalry camp composed of more than a thousand female soldiers riding mules and horses. Obviously, Niu Er stole a lot of King Qin's skills.

However, these female soldiers of Niu Er are not the same as those of the Chinese army. Let alone chasing the enemy, they are even reluctant to do rescue work.

Niu Er's idea is good. He also wants these female soldiers to be the pursuit and rescue work, but in the end, he sleeps with the male soldiers. What he does to 1000 female soldiers is either broken cans or walking corpses, which has completely become a cumbersome and unstable factor.

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"Mr. Song, what do you think we should do?"

"Don't worry, your majesty. As long as our army doesn't mess up, the cavalry of the Chinese army can't help us. They will never dare to rush up."

"Of course I know, but since we were entangled by cavalry, we have hardly moved in place these two days. At this speed, I'm afraid we may not be able to get to the bottom of Ruyang city in a month."

After Niu Er finished, his eyebrows were also wrinkled into Sichuan characters. He didn't believe that Luo Ru could last for a month, so he wanted to retreat.

"This..."

Facing the cavalry, song xiance became helpless.

No way, the terrain is too open. If 100000 people and horses can be orderly, they can push 20 or 30 miles every day, but the fact is that Niu Er has no ability to effectively command 100000 people and horses.

If there were not many villages nearby for shelter, it was estimated that there would be corpses everywhere when the cavalry came the day before yesterday.

"Your Majesty, for today's plan, we can only divide our troops."

After a long hesitation, song xiance said again. After all, as a top counselor, no matter what situation he faces, he must have a way.

"It is absolutely impossible to divide troops."

Niu Er immediately shook his head like a wave drum, holding 100000 troops together, all trembling. Where dare he divide troops again?

Moreover, less points can't work, and more points are easy to be broken by each.

"Then you can only give up going south." Song xiance also knew that it was a bad idea to divide the troops, so he nodded.

"But didn't sir say that his lips are dead and his teeth are cold? If I don't go to the rescue, it's probably our turn when Luo Ru is finished. "

Niu Er frowned. Obviously, he still had some insight. He knew that if the two families worked together, there was still a chance. If they went up one by one, they would die.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid Kaifeng is a long-standing place. For today's plan, our army can only take the opportunity to attack Xuzhou and think it's a way back. If the Chinese Army invades at that time, we can also go back to Xuzhou by water. There are dense Jianghuai waterways and swamps everywhere, and the cavalry will have no advantage."

Song xiance looked at the cavalry in the distance, touched his beard and said slowly. Until now, he finally understood why every time Tartars entered the customs, they were like a deserted land, and the Ming army could only nest in the city.

He also saw the power of the cavalry, so he knew that no one could beat the Chinese army in the Central Plains and stop the front of the Chinese Army except the Tartars.

"Well, I can't blame my old ox for not upholding justice. It's really that the cavalry is so hateful. Didn't brother Qin still get burned by the cavalry on the North Bank of Junzhou?"

As soon as Niu Er patted his forehead, he ordered the army to turn around and return to Kaifeng. Fortunately, the army only walked a hundred miles.

Cao Bianjiao saw that the other party turned around and returned along the road. After a little hesitation, he decided to leave a thousand cavalry to continue monitoring, and then led other cavalry south.

After all, the goal has been achieved. It doesn't make much sense to catch up with and entangle the other party. At most, it can add some blocking to the other party.

Niu Er thought that the Central Plains was too open, and 100000 troops were driven back by 8000 cavalry. Liu Zongmin was complaining that there was not even a palm sized open space in his place, which made his 100000 troops completely useless.

Twenty miles east of Shangnan County, near Angou, the war has lasted for three days. After Liu Zongmin came here with his army, his way was blocked.

What stopped them was only two battalions in the fourth Town, with more than 6000 people, but only a small number of more than 6000 people, but they lost nearly 10000 people to 100000 troops and could not move forward any further.

As the name suggests, Angou is a narrow gully with high mountains on both sides. The bottom of the gully is only one mile wide. The official road passes through the bottom of the gully. It has been the only way from Nanyang to Shaanxi since ancient times.

In such a terrain, the maximum number of troops invested at one time is seven or eight thousand, so Liu Zongmin's troops are stationed under Shangnan city and can only attack in turn.

Of course, Liu Zongmin also sent several small units of thousands of people to sneak attacks across mountains, but all of them were killed by local militias and fled home with heavy losses.

Faced with this situation, Liu Zongmin also regretted taking the path. They don't know how many times they have walked this path in the past ten years.

When there are more than 100000 people, there are thousands and hundreds of people when there are few people, but who ever thought that this time he was blocked here, that is, he can't enter.

Although he deliberately took more than 10000 elite soldiers around the ditch to sneak attack, he dared not take risks after all.

"Brother Liu, it's not a matter to spend so much time here!"

"Yes, people eat horses these days. If we delay any longer, the king of Chuang will break our food and grass, but..."

The other two leaders looked at Liu Zongmin with worried faces. This time, the king sent only three of them, which was obviously crowding them out.

Liu Zongmin naturally knew this, so he urged to fight Nanyang and wanted to work alone. After all, Niu Er was only one of the eight kings at the beginning. Now he dares to be the king. Why can't he?

So he waved his hand: "don't worry about it. Big brother won't do such a thing."

"But I'm afraid that the old men of Liu He will deceive the public in front of big brother!"

"Yes, those old people hide their evil intentions and think about the flowers to deal with us all day. Now this situation is really worrying!"

"So what? Is it difficult to go back? Where will I put my face? How can I lift my head in front of my brothers in the future? "

Liu Zongmin's face was gloomy. He knew that if he went back, the old people might have an excuse to punish him. At least he had to cut his troops in half.