The key to cavalry battles is speed. If the Qing cavalry crosses the river, the heavy armored cavalry wearing heavy armor will lose a lot of horsepower when crossing the cold river. After getting ashore, the Ming cavalry will take advantage of the opportunity that the Qing cavalry has not yet gained a foothold and cannot increase its speed. The Qing cavalry will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

If the Qing army had crossed the river with infantry, the infantry could not form a formation during the process of crossing the river, in order to avoid drowning, they would have to remove their armor to cross the river. Otherwise, the three-foot-deep river water would be enough to drown people, because they were wearing heavy armor and could not get up as long as they fell down, and then they would drown alive in water that was only waist-deep. What's more, when the infantry crossed the river, bird guns, bows and arrows could not be used. As long as the cavalry on the other side dismounted and shot arrows, they could shoot the infantry without armor in the river like shooting a live target.

Therefore, if the Qing army forcibly crossed the river and attacked, no matter ten times more people, it would not be enough to give it to you. Yue Tuo was a wise general in the Qing Dynasty, but his son Luo Luohong did not get much of his inheritance, not to mention that this was the first time Luo Luohong invaded the Ming Dynasty and had no combat experience.

"Uncle Du Du, how should our army attack?" Luo Luohong asked.

"Let Bao cut down wood, build a floating bridge and cross the river again." Du Du replied.

"It's still Uncle Du Du's wise!" Luo Luohong exclaimed.

"My nephew, learn more and go to war in the future to make meritorious contributions to the Qing Dynasty!"

On the other side of the Zhongchuan River, Li Guodong picked up his monocular lens and looked into the woods on the other side. He saw a group of Baoyi Aha cutting wood.

"Zhengrong Li, how about lending your treasure to me?" Hu Dawei walked up.

Li Guodong handed him the telescope: "Zheng Rong, use it for use, you can see clearly what Jiannu on the opposite side is doing."

Hu Dawei picked up the telescope and looked at the mountains and forests on the other side. He saw groups of Baoyi Aha cutting wood. So he said, "It seems that Jiannu is planning to build a floating bridge."

"Li's judgment is the same!"

"Hmph! When Jiannu goes to the river to build a floating bridge, we will add up the cannons and bang him for a while, to see if they can get through it!"

Li Guodong smiled: "Tiger General Rong is still too kind and ruthless! According to Li's idea, it should be that Jiannu should ask Jiannu to repair the floating bridge. When some people cross the river, we will bombard the floating bridge and break the floating bridge. Then can we leave all Jiannu who cross the river here?"

"A clever plan!" Hu Dawei laughed.

Li Guodong turned his head and shouted "I will take Ye Bu and sprinkle it out on both wings, so as not to cross the river from the upper or lower reaches!"

"promise!"

Ye Bucheng went out. Because they looked across the river, the Ming army had a great advantage. The Qing army's scouts and mail cavalry were seen dead by Li Guodong's Ye Bucheng's Ye Bucheng cavalry and could not cross the river. The mail cavalry could not pass, and even any conspiracy to build a plank road and secretly cross Chen Cang could not be used. The Qing army's movements were under the surveillance of the Ming army's Ye Bucheng cavalry.

The Qing army could not secretly cross Chen Cang, but Li Guodong instead had a secretly cross Chen Cang. He left Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei cavalry on the other side, and personally led 2,600 elite cavalry from upstream forty miles to cross the Zhongchuan River and walked around the back of the Qing army.

It was not that the Qing army's scouts and cavalry were incompetent, but that Li Guodong attracted the attention of the Qing army's scouts and cavalry for not stopping the whistle at night. He brought his elite cavalry to cross the river at night and detoured behind the Qing army.

"Du Du and Luo Luohong were handed over to the two generals of Xuanfu. Li also left two hundred artillery soldiers to help the battle. Jiannu could not think of crossing the river. We should be quick to attack Yuetuo. Yuetuo's main force was staring at Xiaogu Mountain. There were not many soldiers left in his own central army camp, and at most more than 10,000 people. We could catch him off guard!" Li Guodong sent an order to continue.

After the Ming army crossed the river, it was already dawn. To attack Yuetuo camp, it had to wait until dark. Li Guodong took his 2,600 cavalry to rest and wait for darkness in the Wohu Mountain area.

By the Xiaogushan River, the Qing army had already repaired the pontoon bridge. The sword players and sprite soldiers composed of Baoyi Aha arranged a long column and stepped onto the pontoon bridge and rushed towards the opposite shore. The formation of this long column was definitely not dared to rush forward. The cavalry had few troops, so they rushed forward. One cavalry replaced several sprite soldiers. The cavalry was damaged, and the Qing cavalry rushed over and there was no way to stop it.

However, what surprised the Qing army was that Baoyi Aha rushed across the floating bridge, and when he was dispersing the columns, re-arranged and ready to line up in a horizontal line, that is, when the infantry formation was most fragile, the Ming cavalry did not launch a charge.

"Minggou was frightened to death, so scared that he could not fight!" A Han army flag Niulu Zhangjing who had crossed the river laughed.

Before he finished speaking, he saw the neatly arranged Ming cavalry in front suddenly scattering to both sides, revealing the black muzzles!

"The Minggou Cavalry actually has cannons!" Baoyi Aha who was lined up was shocked.

With the sound of eight cannons, the eight three-pound cannons sprayed out flames, and the shotguns were spread into Baoyi Aha's formation like rain. Nearly a thousand shotguns shot out by the eight three-pound cannons swept over Baoyi Aha's formation like a whirlwind, sweeping over a large area of ​​Aha, who had just changed from a column to a horizontal line.

Then there were two deafening sounds of cannons. The twelve-pound cannons spewed out flames, and two solid shells aimed at the floating bridge and flew over. The bridge deck was just a crowded Qing army crowd, swept by two shells, and two flesh-and-blood alleys were pulled out on the bridge. The Qing soldiers who were rushing across the floating bridge screamed and fell down a large area. Many people fell into the river and dyed a large area of ​​river water red. After the twelve-pound cannon shells penetrated the crowd, they landed on the bridge deck and smashed two holes on the bridge deck.

Twelve-pound field cannons, twelve-pound howitzers and six-pound field cannons fired shells one after another, aiming at the pontoon bridges, and soon broke the pontoon bridges filled with corpses. More than a thousand Baoyi Aha and more than 500 Han army flag musketeers who had crossed the river were cut off from retreat, becoming turtles in a jar.

The three-pound cannon was loaded, and another row of fire flashed, and the shotgun plunged into the Qing army. The Qing army that crossed the river to form a formation was bombarded.

"Kill!" Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei pulled out their swords and pointed toward the river.

More than a thousand Xuanda cavalry shouted and rushed towards the Qing army that could not be advanced or retreated by the river.

The Qing army, which was first bombarded by cannons, broke the formation, and was then broken by the floating bridge, had no fighting spirit. Many people threw down their weapons, ran into the river in panic, and fled to the other side. Many people were crowded and fell into the river. After being soaked in the water, the cotton armor on their bodies became extremely heavy. They sat in the river and could no longer stand up and were drowned by the river water that was only three feet deep.

Xuanda cavalry broke into the scattered Qing soldiers, and their horses hit and slashed with sabers. Infants without formation were lambs slaughtered in front of the cavalry and were killed in a mess. Except for a few people who were lucky enough to flee back to the other side, all the Qing soldiers were killed.

"I didn't expect that the Minggou cavalry actually carried cannons! If it were a small cannon, it wouldn't be fine, it actually carried the Red Barbarian cannons! I really don't know how they arrived in Jinan with such a heavy Red Barbarian cannons?" Luo Luohong felt that it was simply incredible, it was simply outrageous.

Even Du Du, who had rich combat experience, could not understand how the Ming cavalry could have carried heavy artillery and sent it away, and completed two hundred miles in two days. They did not expect that the bearings invented by Li Guodong, the Eucommia glue covered with the wheels, could also keep up with the pace of the cavalry.

"Our army can no longer cross the river and destroy this group of bright dogs!" Luo Luohong said disappointedly.

There were cannons on the opposite side, and there was no way to cross the river in the front. However, if you detour from the side, the Ming army on the other side would not watch it tightly and would have no chance at all.

Du Du said: "We are here staring at Minggou. We can't cross the river, so Minggou can't come over! As long as we support for another two days, Prince Rui's army will arrive and all these Minggou will be killed!"
Chapter completed!