With the civilians and other staff, hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the front line and did not do production. The daily consumption was astronomical. Without the support of the country, it would be impossible to fight!

However, there were more people on the Southern Song Dynasty and more consumed, while the number of people on the Northern Ming Dynasty was smaller, which was relatively low.

This is actually a very rare phenomenon.

Generally speaking, there are many people and soldiers on the attacking side, but now they are reversed. There are also many people in the Southern Song Dynasty who slander Yue Fei, saying that he is afraid of the enemy...

After all, according to common sense, the Yue family army had more than 100,000 elite soldiers and a large number of young and strong men who could serve as cannon fodder in the city. They could take the initiative, but were beaten by less than 100,000 people in the Ming army!

The Yue Family Army is the most capable unit in the Southern Song Dynasty. Such elite troops were beaten up when the number of people was at an absolute advantage. How could other Song army troops fight?

The Southern Song Dynasty court, including Song Taizu, naturally did not want to believe that the gap between the Song army and the Ming army was so big. Isn’t it said that the Song State is full of scammers?

Therefore, the Southern Song court would put the responsibility for failure to the frontline generals fearing death, and insufficient soldiers and armed forces...

In short, it is impossible to admit that the Song army was a whole era behind the Ming army in terms of military preparation!

Of course, this is also a political need. If the disadvantage of being too far from the enemy's equipment is passed on, it will cause a fatal blow to the morale of the entire Southern Song Dynasty's resistance to Ming Dynasty!

Yue Fei didn't care about politics. He only knew that he had to avoid Richard's main force now, otherwise even if everyone led the way, he would be the one who was defeated!

The war with Richard made Yue Fei deeply understand one truth--the flesh and blood body can never compare to the power of artillery!

Since we could not face the Ming army with the advantage of artillery, we could only start by cutting off the enemy's logistics.

As long as the enemy's logistics is cut off, the Ming army without ammunition supplies will soon degenerate into a cold weapon unit. No matter how bad it is, it will silence the artillery. After all, the transportation of shells is much more difficult than gun bullets.

At that time, whether it was to conduct a defensive counterattack or force the Ming army to retreat, Yue Fei could be invincible!

Therefore, whether this elite cavalry of Beiwei Army can break through the Ming cavalry blockade line becomes the key to the victory or defeat of this battle!

This is a cavalry high-speed motor-powered game. Richard did not send out an infantry company. Even if he happened to hit the Beiwei cavalry, the opponent would go around and could not fight at all...

As long as the cavalry wants to escape, the infantry will never be able to meet...

This kind of mobile warfare is boring and long. The cavalry of both sides continues to maneuver, while a few reconnaissance cavalry often collided and fought together, and the blockade line also continued to move during the maneuver between the two sides.

This time, Richard sent all the cavalry units, breastplate cavalry, lancers, dragoons and even the light cavalry among the main infantry forces were gathered and scattered around the blockade line to patrol!

Of course, Richard would not let so many cavalry and the elite cavalry of Beiwei Army spend time with each other. If the elite cavalry of Beiwei Army find that they cannot break through the blockade line and retract, Richard's arrangement will be ruined!

Therefore, Richard's brigade of cavalry began to expose some small tactical errors. For example, the "inexplicable" chest-plated cavalry soldiers plunged into the Beiwei Army's elite cavalry area, and continued to penetrate deeper without knowing it...

The battlefield is so big, and it is natural that occasionally cavalrymen go to the wrong venue. In the eyes of Fu Xuan, the commander-in-chief of the Beiwei Army's elite cavalry, this is the fat meat delivered to the door!

The blockade line composed of three brigades of Ming cavalry is difficult to break through. If the opponent's cavalry is destroyed, the probability of the elite cavalry of Beiwei Army breaking through the blockade line is not just a few times more simple!

It is no exaggeration to say that Fu Xuan is more than 90% sure to break through the Ming army blockade line, thus completely destroying the Ming army's logistics line and winning this battle that determines the future fate of the Ming and Song dynasties!

This Ming army cavalry has less than 5,000 people and is not equipped with cavalry bows and cavalry rifles. How could it be an almost omnipotent Beiwei Army's elite cavalry rival?

The elite cavalry of Beiwei Army is the best in terms of gun charge or slashing and slashing. At the same time, they also work part-time cavalry and shooting, so their kung fu is definitely one of the best.

The elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army is also the norm for elite troops in the cold weapon era. Even the Eight Banners before the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, who were buried and belittled by later generations in his previous life, were all warriors who could ride on horseback and shoot at the charge, and dismount and shoot at the hands and feet!

Otherwise, no matter how corrupt the Ming army was, it would not have been defeated with absolute military strength...

Even if it was pulled out alone, the Eight Banners at that time could beat the most elite Ming army in the same period...

However, in the late Ming Dynasty in the history of the earth, a country that was so big that it could not even train an all-round elite soldier, was indeed corrupt...

The all-round troops are the standard configuration for a military power in the cold weapon era, just like the current Beiwei Army elite cavalry is this type of troops!

As an all-round elite soldier, he naturally has a sense of arrogance, and there are no artillery followers on the opposite side. He is just a pure hand-to-hand cavalry. More than 8,000 are less than 5,000. Fu Xuan was so confident...

At the same time, this elite cavalry is also full of confidence in victory. He never thought that he would be defeated by less than 5,000 pure hand-to-hand cavalry!

So, Fu Xuan led more than 8,000 elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army to intercept the breastplate cavalry!

As soon as the two sides met, they would divide into several waves without saying a word to start the main hedging between the cavalry!

Fu chose one side with many people, so he naturally had some reserve teams. The previous ones were also a test of him. If he could use riding and shooting to eliminate the opponent, he would naturally not have to fight with excessive casualties.

The breastplate cavalry was very simple, and a full-army assault came directly!

The hedging cavalry group was so close that they could not even shoot an arrow before reaching!

In film and television dramas, the scene where cavalry shoots one arrow and then draws a sword to chop people when he is in a hedge is pure nonsense. How many meters does the range of a bow ride have?

The hedging cavalry would probably not be able to cross this distance for a second, so how can they have time to draw their swords and chop people?

However, the 3,000 elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army sent out by Fu Xuan were all posing as a bow and arrow to control the horse, and did not hold up a spear at all.

After seeing this scene, the cavalry on the opposite side did not draw out the scimitar, but took out two flintlock guns equipped by Richard for each of them in advance!

This thing was built by Richard's orders to military cavalry, which is specially equipped with melee cavalry.

This is the best thing about muskets. Even if the melee cavalry who knows nothing about cavalry and shooting is equipped with flintlock hand guns, they can immediately become pseudo cavalry and shooting!

In this way, two groups of cavalry who had no intention of riding horses and chopping were approaching!
Chapter completed!