The Mongols were ready to peel off the Ming army's cavalry layer by layer, just like peeling off a cabbage.
As a result, the bow and arrow were eclipsed in front of the plate armor, and they only achieved very limited results. They still missed and hit the leg of the war horse.
These war horses are covered with seven layers of silk horse clothing. Even if the arrow hits, it won't be too deep. The arrow can be pulled out under the silk wrapper. The scrap rate of horses can be greatly reduced.
But after the three-eyed gun opened fire, the situation completely turned around.
Now it was the Jiang family's army that was knocking off the Alxa cavalry layer by layer, just like opening a cabbage. There is no need to aim at a distance of more than ten meters, and the Alxa people's cavalry is as thick as a dozen people. You can hit it with your eyes closed.
As the two sides passed each other, the Alxa cavalry left dead bodies on the ground.
But they rushed over, and the battle was not over. Two hundred meters later, Zhang Shize led three cavalry groups of 500 people, maintaining a formation of 25 people wide and 20 people thick, and collided head on.
The Mongols put their bows and arrows back into their quivers and drew out their scimitars. Shouting loudly, he rushed forward.
Zhang Shize looked down on the plate armor produced by Jingying, so he spent his own money to order a well-fitting plate armor from Xiao Niangpi's shop. It was made of aluminum alloy and weighed only one-third of normal armor.
He was carrying a long sword in his hand, and under the protection of a group of generals, he ignored the light cavalry of the Alxa people who were rushing from both sides. These light cavalry had their own left and right wings to deal with. He led the five hundred cavalry in the middle and followed Jiang Bingzhong and rushed forward.
The two battalions of 500 men on the left and right immediately ran into Alxa Qingqi, who each had more than 1,800 men left. For a moment, the horses' necks met and they began to kill each other.
The British Duke's cavalry were all selected from the border army. They were all very brave, no worse than the Alxa cavalry, and even slightly better. It’s not that the Ming Dynasty didn’t have good cavalry. The Han people are not inherently unable to defeat the nomads.
The quality of the nomadic herdsmen's levied soldiers may not be better than that of the professional soldiers of the Han people's standing army. The reason why the Ming Dynasty's army was stretched was due to internal rot.
At this time, for experienced cavalry, nothing else is important. What matters is decisiveness. Enemies rush past each other, and each has a chance to kill. You must be decisive. If you hesitate at this time, you will be hacked to death by the enemy.
The British Duke's servants have very sophisticated weapons and are very skilled in riding skills. Now equipped with plate armor, they feel even more dangerous in making moves.
Brothers Zhang Chengwen and Zhang Chengwu charged side by side, and the Mongols hit them like cannonballs. They had already run out of speed and were much faster than the Zhang brothers who were charging at a medium speed.
As a Mongolian passed by, he drew his scimitar horizontally towards Zhang Chengwu. Zhang Chengwu's Yanling Saber was handed to his left hand and slashed horizontally under his armpit.
At the same time, keep your head down.
With a clang, the Mongolian scimitar drew a series of sparks on the plate armor and beak helmet. The blade did not break through the armor, but passed through.
Zhang Chengwu held the knife backhand with his left hand. He didn't use any force at all, but maintained a fixed position and rushed past. With a stabbing sound, the opponent's leather armor was sliced open by the sharp Yan Fei Dao. A bloody arrow shot out from under the entire left rib, and the skin and flesh on the ribs were scratched open. The side of the lower abdomen under the ribs was scratched by a diagonally downward blade, and the intestines immediately flowed out. ….
Within seconds of the Mongolian rushing over, he screamed and fell off his horse, and was trampled to pieces by the Mongolian cavalry that followed.
Zhang Chengwen had a knife fight with a Mongolian.
The Mongolian scimitar and the Yanling knife wiped out sparks, and the blades of both sides had gaps.
This Mongolian was so strong that Zhang Chengwen almost lost his sword and flew out of his hand.
Zhang Chengwen's left hand held a one-foot-long short knife in his backhand. Take the opportunity to cross from the side.
The strong Mongolian man screamed and was hit. Zhang Chengwen saw from the corner of his eye that he fell on the horse after rushing over, and blood spurted out from under his left rib.
Bayar saw that when the warriors of Alxa in front of him were fighting against the Ming army on the opposite side, they did not break through the opponent's armor at all, but instead he was cut off his horse.
He quickly inserted the machete back and picked up the mace.
He swung it roundly and hit the head servant of a British government official.
With a snap, the opponent's blocked knife was broken, the broken blade flew out, and then the mace hit his shoulder hard.
Plate armor cannot withstand the blow of a mace. It directly deformed and collapsed. A blood hole with a diameter of one centimeter spurted out blood.
The hammer was equipped with a ten centimeter thick spike, which not only collapsed the plate armor shoulder, but also shattered the leader's shoulder bones. The spike even broke through the plate armor and penetrated deep into the chest cavity.
The leader of the servants was hit so hard that he flew backwards and fell to the ground, motionless like a broken sack.
As the two sides clashed, the two battalions of 500 men were reduced by one-third. The Alxa people's light cavalry suffered even greater losses, with four to five hundred casualties on each side.
As the hedge passes. The two battalions quickly moved closer to the center, forming a Zigzag formation with Zhang Shize's front army and rushing forward.
Now, Jiang Bingzhong's more than 400 men, plus Zhang Shize's remaining more than 1,200 men, formed an arrow formation and penetrated Wu Ya'er Huntaiji's heavy cavalry of the Chinese army.
There are still more than 2,800 Alxa Qingqi left in the rush. Then continue to rush backward. The reason why they suffered such heavy losses was mainly because they were light cavalry, and if their bows and arrows failed, they would suffer greatly in sword combat.
At this time, they were shocked to find that a large group of cavalry from the front was billowing menacingly with dust all over the sky.
The Mongols know their stuff, and they discovered that these are the real elites of the Ming army. These people rode horses that were one head taller than the Mongolian horses. They wore grass-green cloth without armor. The horses were also covered with grass-green horse clothes, and the horses had metal foreheads. Only the eyes are exposed.
Although these people did not wear armor, they were fierce and murderous. At a glance, you can tell that these people are veterans who have survived countless cruel and fierce battles.
Ulan Tabu Nang was feeling heartache. His light cavalry had suffered too much during the hedging attack. He also complained to Huntaiji that the light cavalry should not be used to charge at the heavy cavalry wearing plate armor. What a loss.
At this time, his eyelids jumped as he looked at the countless dense formations of ten people rushing toward them in the distance. That sense of oppression and murderous intent gave him goosebumps all over his body.
He was a vulture shooter and his eyesight was very good. It wasn't until he saw clearly that these people were not wearing armor that he felt relieved.
Qingqi versus Qingqi, no loss. Besides, the opponent's archery skills must not be as good as theirs.
"All of them are here, throw light arrows." Ulan Tabu Nang shouted loudly.
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