0962 Change tactics
According to the prisoner's confession, Liu Pei had already drawn a winding curve on the map. This is the direction the main force of the Qing army must advance. After careful judgment, Liu Pei decided not to entangle the Qing army's large groups of troops for the time being. Instead, he sent cavalry into the countryside and used his superior forces to strangle the scattered soldiers of the Tartars!
However, Liu Pei clearly ordered the battle to be only ten days. Once the time comes, all cavalry must retreat to the Central Army. The Central Army camp is located near Baoding Prefecture.
Liu Pei's strategy was also unanimously approved by everyone! Why not use it if you have the opportunity to bully the weak? So the central army slowly formed all the cavalry and sent them out!
Two thousand cavalrymen were divided into 20 teams. They avoided the county town and went to the countryside to intercept the small groups of Qing army troops everywhere. The Qing soldiers who went to the countryside were usually thirty or fifty people in each team. The few were even twenty or thirty people in each team. They faced more than a hundred cavalrymen, and except for a few smart ghosts who could escape, most of them were killed!
Yang Kaihua concealed his injuries and set off with 100 people! He no longer entangled with the enemy in the south, but went directly over Gu'an County to advance north. Because he felt that there should be more Qing soldiers there.
Hebei is a densely populated place, and there are countless villages here. They walked through two villages one after another without meeting the Qing army. However, these two villages had been destroyed by the Qing army. When they arrived at the third village, the village had not been discovered by the Qing army. However, the people in the village had already heard of the Qing army entering the pass and were extremely panicked!
But these villagers had no opinion. They just argued endlessly every day, but couldn't come up with any ideas. Seeing Yang Kaihua and the others coming, they frightened them. It was not until Yang Kaihua and the others revealed their identity that they calmed down.
In the end, Yang Kaihua made the decision for them and moved the whole village to the woods not far away to settle them. He told them that they would have to wait until 20 days before they could return to the village.
Afterwards, Yang Kaihua and his friends finally found the traces of the Qing army after leaving the village! They followed the map and chased a group of more than 20 Qing troops!
When they met, this group of Qing troops were in charge.
Satisfying cool on the edge of the woods. As a result, when the fire was released, he was prepared, and the other side was caught off guard, so the battle ended quickly.
It has to be said that the Qing army was powerful at that time, and their confidence was even stronger! More than 20 of them dared to charge at more than 100 people! And the first two rounds of arrows were shot fiercely and accurately! Yang Kaihua and the others finally won the more than 20 real Tartars at the cost of four deaths and five serious injuries!
After torturing a Chinese-speaking Tatars, they found out that after the Tartars had captured two villages, they handed over the captured population and property to the camp and came out to look for new prey. Unfortunately, they were blocked by Yang Kaihua!
In the following two days, Yang Kaihua and his team swam around but found no trace of the Qing army. After all, Hebei has a large territory, and more than 2,000 cavalrymen can not go much further.
However, each team actually had a lot of achievements. He was lucky enough to annihilate two or three teams of Qing army scattered soldiers, but he suffered a lot of damage. He was not lucky enough to at least eliminated one team of Qing army scattered soldiers. The results were pretty good!
By the eighth day, Yang Kaihua dared not search for the Qing army anymore! Because he found that there were signs of assembly in the Qing army! Yang Kaihua felt that either the Qing army was preparing to assemble according to time, or the Qing army found that many of its own teams were missing and had to shrink its gathering forces.
Seeing that the time for returning to the team was about to come, Yang Kaihua and the others had to pack their heads and rush back to the camp with their armor.
They walked along the path, stopped and walked. Finally, they crossed Gu'an, Wuqing line, and leaned towards Baoding Prefecture. Soon they saw the marks on the roadside and found the camp along the marks. As soon as they entered the camp, they were warmly welcomed by Liu Pei, Cao Huachun and others!
Especially Cao Huachun, after he took over the first few teams, he fell in love with this job! In fact, he was not only willing to welcome the triumphant soldiers, but his biggest purpose was to see how many heads the soldiers brought back? Whenever he saw the heads hanging on the war horse, he couldn't help but dance!
Liu Pei also stood at the gate of the camp to welcome the warriors who returned triumphantly. The expressions of these cavalrymen who returned were different from before, and they became truly experienced blood.
Warriors with fire!
Although these cavalrymen had also participated in the battle to encircle and suppress horse bandits in the past, those battles were too easy for them. They had the best logistics, the best armor, the best war horses and the number advantage. Therefore, the battle to encircle and suppress horse bandits was more like an exercise for them. This face-to-face battle with the Qing army really allowed them to grow up.
When the cavalry returned to the camp, Liu Pei prepared a grand celebration banquet for the soldiers! The soldiers who had been nervous for ten days could finally let go and have a good sleep.
The soldiers went to rest, but the officers did not get a rest. They had to count the spoils and heads, report what they saw and heard along the way and the battle process, summarize experience and write a copy in parallel, so that it is convenient for each other to learn from each other.
After counting, a total of 738 Qing army's heads were captured in this battle. Among them, 212 Han army flags were the heads of the real Tatars! And one side lost 224 cavalrymen and 73 seriously injured.
Seeing so many casualties, Liu Pei looked sad! Cao Huachun was so excited! And Cao Huachun didn't understand why Liu Pei was so sad?
In Cao Huachun's opinion, it is cost-effective to sacrifice five soldiers for the head of a Tartar soldier! Moreover, according to the combat history of the Ming army, it is probably possible that even ten people in the Ming army's death and injury may not be able to be transferred to a Tartar's head! And now the family damage ratio between the Tartars and Liu Pei has reached 3:1! This is a great victory in Cao Huachun's opinion! It shows that Liu Pei's servants are extremely elite!
But he didn't know what Liu Pei had done to these soldiers! It can be said that the most basic soldiers under Liu Pei can be competent for the job of a small Ming army flag. In other words, the sacrifice of these more than 200 people is equivalent to ruining more than 200 future officers! God knows that several generals will pop up among these people? How can Liu Pei not feel sorry for this?
Chapter completed!