After learning about the 12th Corps' determination to make them surrender, the messenger of Aceh spoke to the Portuguese on the wall in Sumatra's dialect.

"God of General, the other party's queen has made a request to fight you, and compete with you through the decisive battle. She believes that hiding in a solid city is a cowardly act and will damage the reputation of the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Kingdom." The Portuguese once again told Huang Degong the envoy of Aceh.

When Huang Degong and other officers of the 12th Corps heard this, they were not surprised but happy.

Although they had built half a bastion here, they wanted to support the drilling team in the jungle and defeat the army of Aceh as soon as possible.

The Queen of Aceh’s invitation to fight was just what they meant!

"Calm down, calm down!" Huang Degong was afraid that his subordinates would make the envoys of Aceh realize their bad decisions.

"Tell their queen that we agreed to go out of the city to fight them, but they were crowded in the jungle ahead, and our army could not unfold after leaving the city. Please take five hundred steps back and let our army leave the city to form a formation and fight them in a decisive battle." Huang Degong said to the Portuguese.

The Grape Man conveyed Huang Degong's words to the envoys of Aceh.

The envoy of Aceh nodded slightly when he heard this: "I will go back and report to us the Queen."

When the envoys of Aceh returned to their camp, the officers of the 12th Corps knew how their commanders wanted to deal with the army of Aceh.

"How many batches of war horses have we shipped?"

"The number of ships is limited. Although we brought a lot of mules and horses this time, there are only 72 war horses."

"Taitani Takashimao, you have selected 30 warriors from the mercenaries who are good at fighting immediately. Most of our 12th Corps are recruits and are not skilled enough in equestrianism. Muskets can be quickly achieved, but the equestrianism is far from that." Huang Degong assigned some of the horses to Taitani Takashi.

A team of 72 part-time cavalrymen was organized and temporarily formed a cavalry squad.

"If the opponent's queen agrees to retreat, we will attack halfway. Before they set up a lineup, the cavalry team will raid and the musketeers will quickly follow. The rear-mounted rifles we use no longer need a tight queue. Each team will raid according to the predetermined attack direction, and one battle will determine the world!"

The officers of the 12th Corps could roughly observe the other party's deployment through a telescope.

They divided the forces of 1,200 people, and the cavalry squad was regarded as a commando. Behind the cavalry were warrior mercenaries using cold weapons. Their role was to expand the gap after the cavalry squad opened it.

The two wings were deployed with a large number of infantry equipped with Dresser rifles. This rifle allowed them to use straggler lines and its tactics were much more flexible.

"Will the other party's queen really go backwards and give us a clearing space?" Tadashi Tadashi asked.

If he is familiar with the Chinese military strategy, he will have almost no chance of agreeing to the other party's request.

Once an army of tens of thousands of people retreats, unless it is a disciplined force, normal retreat behavior will turn into a great defeat.

Tachimoto Tachiha remembers that the Battle of Feishui recorded in Chinese historical books is such an example.

No commander who has studied military tactics will make such a serious mistake.

However, Tadashi Tadashi Tachibana overestimated the other party's determination.

For Aceh, it is one thing to know whether the Battle of Feishui is one thing, and the actual situation is another.

The Kingdom of Aceh went south to compete for the lost land, and tens of thousands of them had to eat. In addition, the coastline of Shanghai was blocked by the Nanyang Fleet, and they could only transport grain through the original methods on land. If the 12th Corps kept huddling in the bastion and they could not conquer the bastion, then the army might collapse after the food was eaten.

Soon the messengers of the Aceh returned again and brought back their queen's reply.

"They said their queen agreed to give up a piece of vacant land for a decisive battle, hoping to have a fair fight with us," said the Portuguese.

"Let him go back and prepare for the final battle." Huang Degong said.

After the Queen of Aceh agreed to a decisive battle, the soldiers in the bastion were mobilized.

The 72 war horses were the core of this military operation. They were all issued revolvers, armor and straight swords, mainly using cavalry tactics from the Cold Weapon Age to conduct raids.

The auxiliary soldiers put light armor on these 72 war horses to increase the defense of the war horses when facing the opponent's muskets and arrows.

"If it were our four major cavalry corps in Liaodong, Mobei, Monan and Moxi here, we would definitely be able to draw a powerful cavalry to carry out this operation. Unfortunately, we are the jungle corps, and there are very few riders who are proficient in fighting on horseback. The current situation can only be done by you half-bad guys. Don't embarrass our 12th Corps and mercenaries." Before launching the offensive, Huang Degong came to inspect this temporary core force.

"Captain of the Corps, we will definitely not insult the reputation of the 12th Corps! Even if it is not as good as the four major cavalry corps, it is not far from them!" The 42 half-baked cavalry selected from the 12th Corps confidently sent their chests to guarantee that they also brought helmets modified according to the Ming cavalry system.

"Bad! You are not old, but you are very angry. The four major cavalry corps are all Han people living on the grassland outside the pass, and the elite men selected by various nomadic tribes. They have grown up on horseback and have been training the skills of fighting on horseback all year round. The gap between you and them is in the sky and the other is in the ground." Huang Degong said furiously.

"Haha!" The 42 half-baked cavalrymen laughed.

They also know the gap between themselves and regular cavalry, but it does not affect their crushing of the indigenous army in the South China Sea!

"You have vassals from the Takeda family cavalry team. This battle may be your chance to win meritorious deeds and join the pedals of the regular army of the Empire! Please sacrifice your life to prove that you were once a samurai!" Tadashi Takashi personally rode a group of war horses, wearing the modified Ming Dynasty cavalry armor, and used not samurai swords, but were made of steel with higher hardness.

Behind him are 29 warriors who can ride, and they almost all regard their heroic performance in this battle as an opportunity to join the Imperial Army, with high fighting spirit!

Other samurai who could not ride could only hold spears and follow them with Japanese swords.

"After that our musketeers slowly leave the city, giving them the illusion of us preparing to set up a formation. Once the opponent's army begins to retreat, the cavalry in the city will take the lead and defeat their army in one fell swoop." Huang Degong said.

"If they capture their queen, will there be an additional reward?" asked Tadashi Tadashi Tadashi and other cavalrymen.

"Well... If the military headquarters gets a reward, I can give him all the rewards." Huang Degong said.
Chapter completed!