Seeing the intensive shooting of bows and arrows, the crowd was a little panicked and the formation was a little unstable.
"Don't panic, the stomach can prevent the arrow from missing." Old Zhong shouted loudly.
After all, these people are just militiamen who have been trained three to five days a month. They have never actually been on the battlefield. At most, they have received actual combat training in the recent city defense battle.
In the dark night, they saw a large number of cavalry appearing in front of them, and dense bows and arrows were fired at them. The feeling of arrows like locusts made them tremble from the bottom of their hearts.
They dodge subconsciously. But this is of no use.
Soon, they were struck by arrows. The dense clusters of arrows still hit their plate armor one after another.
There was a chopping sound.
They felt a shock, because the outer facades of the plate armor were curved or round, which made them very easy to bounce, and the hard aluminum alloy was much harder than the Mongolian arrows.
Mongolian arrowheads have very little metal, and most of them are made of ground bone or stone.
They were smashed into pieces after hitting the aluminum alloy. Except for some stone powder splattered, the armor was not damaged in any way.
Moreover, plate armor is made of large pieces of metal, and the force will be transmitted to the entire piece of metal, diluting the impact force. It will not cause blunt trauma to the human body.
Yang Fan's armor is designed as an overall stress-bearing structure, and even has a metal exoskeleton design.
The curved nail surface does not fit the human body, and the force transmission does not directly act on the body, so no one feels anything except that they feel slightly moved by the shock.
They quickly calmed down from their panic, and then were ecstatic. This armor was so good. With such a treasured armor, there was no need to be afraid of the cavalry.
In the distance, the two thousand cavalry assembled were also wearing armor and stomach under their leather robes. This was Buno's secret.
This time he came and brought 2,000 of Ordos' 5,000 cavalry. This is the hidden power of the Ordos people.
Buno did not tell anyone that they had heavy cavalry.
At this time, the camp was surrounded in the middle of the night, and the enemies broke through from all sides. In a short period of time, raging fires were everywhere, and the enemies on the outer perimeter had been killed and completely routed.
At this time, the Nakels immediately gathered the cavalry stationed in the center of the camp, preparing to protect Taiji and rush out. If something happens to Taiji, Jinong will definitely be furious.
In order to protect his younger brother, Jinong allocated two thousand heavy armored cavalry.
These heavy armored cavalry are so valuable in Mongolia.
Because Mongolia lacks iron, they cannot even guarantee iron arrow clusters. Full body armor plus horse breastplate is very rare.
It is precisely because of these five thousand heavy cavalry that Ordos Jinong was able to maintain considerable strength despite continuous defeats under the siege of the Chahar people last year.
"This star really wants to retire"
As history developed towards the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols were really ashamed compared to their ancestors.
There was no shortage of armored stomachs in the Mongolian era. They occupied Shanxi, which was rich in armored stomachs. The Western Expedition also took control of the production center of Central Asia's Agastria. All kinds of stomachs and weapons are available.
When the Golden Family was rampant in the world, the equipment of the Mongolian army was very luxurious. Sixty percent of the Mongolian cavalry were equipped with equipment such as ring armor. By the Yuan Dynasty, the number of armored stomachs seized from the Southern Song Dynasty alone amounted to hundreds of thousands.
During the heyday of the Mongols, they used plundered slaves to make armor and weapons, but they did not seize the opportunity to learn.
Everything was done by slaves. There are slaves, and the old Mongolian men are too lazy to learn.
After they exited the Central Plains in embarrassment, they were suddenly knocked back to their original shape. After leaving sheep herding, I learned nothing, and occupied so many technologically advanced areas for nothing.
By the beginning of 1600, with the wear and tear of the inventory caused by the defeat, the amount of armor stock owned by the Mongols dropped sharply, and the proportion was less than one-tenth of that of their ancestors.
In the early 17th century, the weapons trade on the grassland was such that a complete set of armor could be exchanged for ninety livestock.
What kind of concept is this? Just a pair of armor can be exchanged for half of the wealth of a middle-class Mongolian family.
The Oirat Alliance (Mongols in the Desert, Mongolians in the Junggar) stipulates that every 40 households must raise funds to build two pieces of armor every year.
The entire Oirat Alliance, with tens of thousands of Mongolian families, spent several years collecting equipment and could only barely scrape together 10,000 pairs of armor.
The equipment of the Eight Banners Army far exceeded that of the Mongols at the same time.
According to the records in the "Qing Dynasty Huidian", the total number of armors of the Eight Banners Army before entering the Pass was more than 40,000.
Much more than the Oirat Alliance. This is also the reason why Lin Dan Khan could not beat the Eight Banners. The actual strength of the Eight Banners soldiers was only 50,000 to 60,000. The armor coverage rate is extremely high.
However, compared with the Tang Dynasty and Tubo in history, the Eight Banners' armors were all rubbish in terms of quality and quantity.
In fact, the late Ming Dynasty was a worse era. The peak of the feudal period was the Tang Dynasty.
The Tibetan armor was of excellent quality and was exported to the Arab Empire in large quantities. people
In Tubo's armored stomach, both men and horses are covered with chainmail, with only their eyes exposed. It's not that a strong bow or a powerful crossbow can't hurt him at all.
And the number was huge. The "Book of Tang" records that Tubo attacked the Tang Dynasty and dispatched 100,000 heavy armored cavalry at one time. There are many records.
After Wei Gao defeated the Tibetan army in Yazhou, he not only captured the Tibetan prime minister Lun Mangre, but also beheaded tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers.
150,000 pieces of Tubo armor were also seized. The number of Tubo armors seized at one time was nearly four times the total number of armors of the Eight Banners Army.
No matter where you look at it, this period of history in the late Ming Dynasty is the last sunset of China's glorious history. From then on, every year was worse than the previous year, unable to recover, and completely plunged into darkness.
Now, Yang Fan has established a steel industry base in Zunhua, with tens of thousands of sets of armors and only a month's output.
Now it is even so luxurious that the militiamen are equipped with aluminum alloy armor. Iron armor, that's a crappy thing. It's heavy, rotten, and has extremely poor protection. Yang Fan doesn't even like steel armor now.
Captain Han Zhong saw that the Mongolians had finished shooting arrows and were about to rush over. He hurriedly ordered, and according to the infantry drill code, ten wedge-shaped arrays were immediately formed.
Other nearby brigades also quickly changed their formations. The tips of more than a dozen wedge-shaped formations faced the Mongolian cavalry, and they walked towards the enemy in uniform steps.
Buono felt a little panicked when he saw that the previous bow and arrow attack was completely ineffective. In the dark night, he could only look at the firelight and saw groups of men in black in front of him. They were quickly arranging and forming a wedge-shaped array, and then they actually rushed towards the cavalry.
He was a little dumbfounded. Are these infantry crazy? Instead of quickly forming a spear formation, they rushed forward to die. Then he sneered, well, since they want to die, he will help them.
His somewhat narrow eyes narrowed. Said: "All of them, rush over and chop these damn fools to death."
Following his order, two thousand cavalry launched into action and rushed in the direction of Xingfu Society. The Mongols took this as a breakout direction.
In the middle of the night, there were too many enemies coming, and there were shouts of killing from all directions. At this time, the only way to break out was to use elite cavalry to attack the weak enemies.
If you hesitate any longer, you will be in danger of your entire army being destroyed when you are surrounded on all sides.
The cavalry ran very fast, and Buono could see these infantry wedge formations clearly. There was a gap of about five meters between each two formations, which was enough distance to rush out.
