Centurion Siqin shouted, urging the soldiers not to retreat.
He clearly saw that the scimitars on his side were completely restrained by the shield soldiers. Ken couldn't cut the steel shield on the opposite side. These shields were so large that they covered the entire person. However, they could thrust their spears out of the gap in the shield's waistline.
The Mongols are battle-hardened, and it’s not for nothing. They are not stupid and they are smart. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have made it to Europe back then. It's just that now that the Han people are stronger, they are more honest.
Siqin immediately thought of a way. He watched as the people in the front row were stabbed down with spears one after another. He anxiously shouted to the people behind him to get the flail.
Flails can counter shields. The reason is simple. Look at the shape of the flail. A long stick, then a chain, and then a short stick wrapped in iron. When the flail was swung, the long stick might be blocked by the shield, but the iron-clad short stick tied with an iron chain would pass over the shield and hit the opposite Ming army on the head.
The same principle applies to maces, hammers, pickaxes, pickaxes and other odd-shaped weapons. These weird gadgets can go over shields and smash the heads of enemies.
Soon, after more than a dozen people were stabbed to death one after another, the people from behind came carrying flails.
The Mongols in front immediately retreated, allowing the strong man wielding the flail to step forward.
Jingying is not stupid either. During the training, he talked about the advantages and disadvantages of each weapon. There is no weapon in this world without natural enemies, there is always something that can defeat it. Even in later generations, there are not many weapons that are not restrained. The 14.5mm heavy machine gun is an extremely rare exception without restraint weapons.
After all, it was the first time for Jingying to go to the battlefield, so he was immediately panicked. The team was a little confused for a while.
Each of the Mongolian warriors is over 1.8 meters tall, and a few are even over 1.9 meters tall. These figures are like towers. Their arms were almost as thick as the calves of the soldiers in the Beijing camp. They rounded their arms and knocked down the flails.
The long poles of these flails slammed against the shields with a deafening bang. There are even depressions on the surface of the scutes. These shields are made of balsa wood covered with steel plates. The function of the balsa wood boards is to cushion the blow.
The soldiers in the front row subconsciously tilted their shields back and crouched as far back as possible, assuming a lunge stance. Prevent yourself from being knocked down. The attack power of these strong men is too great. If you fall backward, the consequences will be disastrous.
However, they still underestimated the power of the flail.
After the long stick hit the top of the shield, the iron chain swung forward in an arc. The short iron-clad stick crossed the shield and slammed into the person protected by the shield.
Fortunately, they took measures in advance, squatting and lunging, while retreating and tilting the shield behind.
This action protected their heads, but the flail's short stick still hit their backs. Although they were not wearing iron armor, even if they were wearing iron armor, it would be useless. The injuries would only become more serious. The flail is specifically designed to break heavy armor.
The mandarin duck war jackets they wore, and the thick cotton clothes Yang Fan handed out to protect them from the cold, played a great buffering role.
Their mandarin duck jacket is new. This kind of thing is made of two layers of thick cloth sewn together with tightly pressed cotton pieces. Inside is an iron mesh. Although it is not as good as chain mail, it still has a certain degree of protection. He was wearing thick cotton clothes and pants underneath. Greatly buffers flail damage.
Despite this, many people still had broken bones, cracks, and even vomited blood.
The shield soldiers in front fell to the ground one after another.
No one can withstand the blow of the flail. Even those knights in Europe wearing customized tin cans were smashed to pieces and fell off their horses.
Siqin watched as most of the shield soldiers in the first row were knocked down. I suddenly became happy.
But before he could laugh out loud, the next scene made him open his eyes wide.
As soon as the shield soldier fell, four spearmen stabbed him fiercely at the same time. The spears were like dragons coming out of the sea, directly piercing the Mongolian warrior holding a flail. These strong men are rare warriors. They have superior physical strength, so they are assigned to use heavy weapons.
Heavy weapons are generally not edged, such as iron whips, maces, bones, sledgehammers, etc. If you want to kill the enemy with a heavy weapon, the key is to swing it and move it with speed. Without speed, a hard weapon is just a harmless piece of scrap metal.
It is easy to swing something like a flail out, but difficult to retrieve it because the center of gravity is in the front. When swinging out, the impact force is doubled due to the leverage effect, and the strength required to pull it back also has a reverse bonus.
These strong men knocked down the shield and sword soldiers. Before they could retract their flails and continue fighting, the spear soldiers suddenly burst out and pierced them directly.
These soldiers thrust and then pulled out, all at once.
Only when they saw the flail hands falling to the ground and the spear heads dripping blood did the spearmen react. I have stabbed these flail hands to death.
When I saw the shield soldier fall down just now, I didn't even think about how to deal with it. It's all a matter of long-term training, coupled with the muscle memory gained from the instructor's baton. The body's conditioned reflex was the same and he stabbed out.
However, after they reacted, they immediately shouted the slogan in unison, took two steps forward and shot here. Once the spears are formed into an array, they are the most terrifying cold weapons.
Because it is long enough, sharp enough and strong enough.
The gun heads are provided by Yang Fan and are made of the best steel of this era. The tip of the gun has been reinforced, and it is 40 centimeters long. The sleeve is one meter long. The enemy wants to cut off the barrel of the gun, but that is wishful thinking. As far as Mongolian smelting technology is concerned, they can cut off the curling blade of the knife, but there is nothing they can do about the sleeve.
The spears that cut across the entire street were standing next to each other, shoulder to shoulder, and the densely packed spearheads shone with cold light. Blood-red red tassels floated in the air, stabbing in uniformly like a mountain.
This kind of momentum is enough to scare all enemies.
These soldiers in the Beijing camp did not have any advanced martial arts, and they were no match for the Mongols in terms of physical strength or fighting skills.
However, there is nothing about him that the other side does not have. That is iron-like discipline and strict formation. Numb muscle memory. They have been trained to vomit for three months. They forgot their fears, they forgot everything except the infantry drill.
Mechanical assassination under the command of a small flag or the whistle of a higher officer.
"One two, stab"
"One two, stab"
Their faces were red and their necks were thick, their veins were bulging, their eyes were bloodshot, and their voices were hoarse from the yelling. They are like a bunch of wild animals. Resolute, decisive and without hesitation. It seems that he has forgotten everything, just following the officer's whistle, advancing and assassinating. Go forward again and assassinate again.
They stepped over the enemy's corpses and stepped over the enemy's flags and drums that had fallen to the ground. Constant assassination.
