The Ming army in front formed a strange formation. From front to back, there are countless small but dense wedge-shaped formations.
The smallest unit is composed of small flags. Each small flag formation is composed of ten people. Three shields stand in front in a Z-shaped shape.
Behind the shield are three sword and shield soldiers holding Miao knives. In the gap between the three shields are two spearmen waiting in full formation.
There is a pikeman hiding behind the shield on each side. Finally, there is the general flag holding a three-eyed gun and two steel crossbowmen.
The small arrays of five small flags form a general flag array according to the pentagon. Each flag shield is at one corner of the pentagon.
The entire flag team defended on all sides with no blind spots. Five three-eyed blunderbuss, crossbows, and twenty spears were all protected inside.
Two general flag formations were arranged one behind the other, ending with twelve people from the headquarters of the Baihu Post. The Ming army had a total quota of 100 households, which was exactly 112 people.
In this way, the front of a battalion is the front and rear formation of five hundred households. A regiment is six battalion-level arrays.
Six battalion-level arrays were arranged side by side. Yang Fan's Chinese army commanded three regiments, that is, eighteen battalion-level arrays.
The infantry formations of this era were all linear and dense formations, because if the formations were not thick enough, they would not be able to resist cavalry assaults.
In the era of cold weapons in ancient China, the purpose of formations was to provide full cooperation and support between different arms and troops.
Because the firepower covers each other and the combination of long and short soldiers can make the enemy pay a greater price when attacking in front of a military formation with no blind spots.
The Song Dynasty was the most important era in Chinese history that focused on the power of military formations. The reason why the Song Dynasty developed such unprecedented military formations was because the Song Dynasty lacked war horses.
If you want infantry to fight against cavalry, the only way is to form a strict military formation. In this regard, the Northern Song Dynasty was undoubtedly successful.
Under the premise that there are famous generals, such as Di Qing and others. The Northern Song Dynasty's method of controlling riding by foot achieved great success. The Northern Song Dynasty also regained Qinghai and defeated the nomads.
When the Northern Cavalry faced off against the Song Army, based on historical experience, there was also a saying that the formation would not fight. In other words, facing the Song army who had set up a military formation, they were unwilling to rush into the formation, otherwise they would have to pay an extremely heavy price.
Therefore, when the cavalry attacks the infantry, the key to success lies in not giving the opponent a chance to form a formation.
Defeat the infantry on the march with minimal cost. Once they team up, it becomes very tricky.
The densely packed spears will stop the war horses from moving forward. At this time, we can only think of a way to use assault troops to disperse them first.
Break through the dense formation, cut through the opponent's formation, make the formation scattered, and then launch the main attack.
Once the infantry of this era is attacked and their formation is disrupted, big problems will occur. Generally speaking, if you want to break through a heavy infantry formation, the cavalry is best equipped with heavy armor.
That is to say, both humans and horses are equipped with armor. Just like the six thousand iron pagoda cavalry of Jin Wushu in history.
Only in this way can we fight against the dense array of spears. However, the Mongols are all lightly armored. These people are recruited by herdsmen, and they are all dressed in leather robes. Only captains of ten have leather armor, and only centurions have chain mail.
Only captains and higher officers and nobles had armor. The reason why Yang Fan dared to set up the formation like this was because he used the wheeled bulletproof shield concept produced by Xincheng Arsenal and introduced the modern concept of wheeled shields, which he made himself.
This shield is made of three millimeter steel plates riveted together. In addition to the front, there are two side wings sloping back.
There is an observation slit in the middle, which can be used to observe the enemy's situation, and can also be used to perforate and shoot three-eyed muskets, steel crossbows, shotguns, flintlock guns, etc.
This kind of shield has a large protective area and has a stationary hoe. After it is put down, there is no fear of cavalry collision. There are three wheels under the shield, one in the middle and one at the ends of the swept-back side panels.
When attacking, soldiers can push forward. When defending, you can insert the station hoe into the soil and firmly fix it on the ground.
The space that can only be seen by two hundred households is five or six meters wide. This is the passage left for the enemy's cavalry to rush in.
Between the two shields, there is a trip rope made of three strands of barbed No. 8 wire. The trip rope is only more than a foot high from the ground and cannot be seen in the grass of the prairie.
The engineers drove piles and buried many scaffolding steel pipes at the rear exit of the first military formation. These steel pipes are two meters deep in the soil and four meters high above the soil.
These steel pipes are very strong because they are erected and buried as deep as telephone poles. At the level of the cavalryman's neck, a thin wire was stretched.
Because of its small size, the cavalry could not see it at all on horseback. These arrangements are used to kill and injure the cavalry rushing past.
"Everyone, look, behind this strange military formation, the Ming army has erected a lot of pipes, which look like they are made of steel. If we defeat them, all the steel will be ours." Ullu Taiji was excited. said.
There is a shortage of iron on the grassland, otherwise the iron pot would not have become the surname of the Golden Family. Although I don’t know what the Ming army used these iron pillars for, they are real steel.
This time you can make a lot of money. Daza nodded and said: "This time, we must eliminate these arrogant Han people. They have brought to the grassland more steel than what we have obtained in hundreds of years combined. This is the Juan Gu of the Changshengtian. , if we don’t take it, Changshengtian will be angry.”
"Fellow Taiji, let's start the attack. I'll be preparing wine in the tower, waiting for your triumphant return." Daza said.
"Blessed by the eternal God, we take this victory as a gift to congratulate Jinong." The Taiji said, stroking their chests.
"Go, 30,000 warriors versus 18,000 infantry. I'm waiting for news of your victory." Yang Fan stood behind the two armies with a regiment of 3,600 servants.
Behind is the steel plate city wall fortification of the bridgehead. This time, it was a test and an exam after the reorganization and training of the Beijing camp.
Sooner or later they have to go solo. Face the enemy independently. Yang Fan looked to the west and saw that Zhang Shize and a thousand servants were also holding the formation behind him. He was in charge of the left wing.
Jiang Bingzhong led five hundred cavalrymen to press the formation on the east side. He was in charge of the right wing. Obviously, the Jiang family's strength was incomparable to that of the British government. His family only gave him five hundred cavalry.
Smoke and dust billowed in the distance, and a large number of Mongolian cavalry began to accelerate towards this side. Yang Fan looked through his binoculars and saw a total of twelve cavalrymen, pushing across in a horizontal formation.
Yang Fan knew that there were a total of twelve Taijis in Tumut who had independent territories. These were the so-called twelve tribes of Tumut.
Yang Fan couldn't help but curl his lips, they were all defeated generals. They were all old acquaintances who had been killed once in Toronto last year.
A defeated general can speak out bravely.
