The horse crashed against the shield with a roar.
These large shields are fully two meters high and one and a half meters wide. It's just that it's not flat, only the front one meter is flat, and the two sides are flanks at a 45-degree angle backwards, and the flanks are fifty centimeters wide.
Such a large shield would be impossible to move without aluminum alloy. Because human power cannot push it.
Yang Fan installed solid rubber tires on these shields, and the axles had bearings. The purpose is to reduce resistance and make pushing the vehicle more effortless. The stand is even a two-legged stand like an artillery piece. Just simplified to two steel pipes.
The shields were dug deep into the earth. When it was fixed, the soldiers dug a small hole with an engineering shovel and put the garrison hoe in it. The bipod is also supported at the back. These bipods, similar to modern cannons, were also used to facilitate the towing of mules and horses during marching.
Although these shields weigh less than 200 kilograms, it is still unrealistic to push and pull them for thousands of miles.
There is no other way for Yang Fan to use this kind of shield for the Beijing camp.
Most of the Beijing camp consisted of infantry and lacked the means to resist cavalry.
These Oirat people are not Monan Mongolians. They have already declined together with the Ming Dynasty. Desert Mongolia is in Central Asia, fighting and killing almost every day.
One after another, the horses rushed up. Trying to knock over these gray metal shields.
As long as you can knock over these shields, you can rush in. Then, there was a one-sided massacre. They are very confident in their cavalry.
For hundreds of years in Central Asia, their cavalry chopped down other peoples like melons and vegetables. No one is their opponent.
There were roars one after another. The war horses neighed miserably, and because they were blindfolded, they ran into the shield formation without hesitation.
A foot-long steel nail, as thick as a finger. Starting from the sharp nail head, it takes the form of a three-edged knife. This design mainly considers reducing weight as much as possible while ensuring strength.
Of course, the three-sided sword has blood slots on three sides, which is also helpful for bleeding enemies and war horses.
Everything! There was a deafening bang. After the shield shook violently, it still stood firm. Both the stationary hoe and the bipod suddenly moved back more than ten centimeters. But it penetrated deeper into the ground.
A large number of Oirat soldiers screamed and were thrown off their horses.
The war horse was directly driven to death by steel nails, and the man rolled down. Some people even flew out from the top of the shield. He fell heavily behind the shield.
After all, the shield was only two meters high. These people on horseback rolled into the battle line under the huge forward momentum.
The soldiers from the Beijing camp behind the shield line immediately picked up their spears and stabbed him. Under rigorous training, they can draw guns very quickly.
Stab these unlucky ones to death who have been smashed to pieces or even broken.
Some of the horses also hit the barbed wire and chains between the shields and connected with locks.
These barbed wire fences are made of steel wire. Toughness is good. The war horse collided and was directly stopped by the barbed wire fence. It bounced back first, and then bounced back again.
Stung by the iron spikes on the wire, the chest of the war horse was a bloody mess.
The war horse jumped and neighed in pain, knocking the knight off his horse. These knights who fell off their horses were trampled by the jumping horses, and their bones and tendons were broken immediately, and they were trampled to death quickly.
"Throw the gunpowder jar out. Hurry up." The flags and flags shouted one after another.
Yang Fan would not equip the Beijing camp with grenades. I had no choice but to ask where a tinplate can was produced in Xincheng. This kind of can is not food, but contains gunpowder and fuse.
Jingying only needs to use a porcelain jar to contain some gravel and iron sand. After putting this gunpowder can and sealing it, it can be used as an explosive projectile.
Yang Fan calls this modular assembly.
These jars are smaller than the ten-pound jars used on the city walls. The jar contains a pound of black powder.
The soldiers quickly took out the fire seals from their arms, blew them brightly, and grabbed a small jar. He lit the fuse and threw it out of the shield.
Now these Beijing camps are well-trained, they don’t even look at
The Oirat cavalry were running into each other one by one. Although the shield was shaking violently. They just kept lighting up. Then throw it out. I don’t even look at where it was thrown.
Such a dense enemy was packed like a can of sardines. Just throw it and it will kill a few.
At this time, what is important is the speed of throwing. Over the past year, they have fought many battles, gained rich experience, and have plenty of time to spare. I have long been accustomed to it, just like eating and drinking.
Boom boom boom! Porcelain jars exploded one after another.
Broken porcelain is excellent shrapnel. Because porcelain is hard and the broken pieces are sharp. The internal iron sand and tinplate will also produce fragments. Especially iron sand, this thing is extremely small. It can be penetrated through the gaps in the armor.
Only half of these enemies have iron armor, the others have leather armor. Leather armor can't even stop these fragments.
The power of a pound of black gunpowder is incredible. It can blow up a cavalryman and send him and his horse flying into the air, causing them to flip over and fall to the ground.
A gunpowder jar exploded and several horses flew around. The war horse neighed and whined and fell, smashing the rider underneath.
In the blink of an eye, everyone threw out a dozen gunpowder jars. The blast in front of the shield array turned the people upside down.
"Pikemen, come up, hurry up." Following the command of the general bannermen, the order was issued. A large number of pikemen, holding spears four to five meters long, emerged from the cover behind the shields and came to the area between the two shields, connected by barbed wire and chains.
He raised his spear and stabbed at the war horses and knights who were blinded by the explosion and were trying their best to keep people standing up, spinning around, or kicking in fright.
Soon, the cavalry who were not killed or injured and gathered in front of the shields were stabbed down by spears.
The cavalry behind saw the Ming army emerging from behind the big shield, and immediately bent their bows and arrows and shot at these people.
The first row of people who crashed into the shield were basically killed, including both men and horses. The rows after the second row were blown to the ground by gunpowder cans. Then the fish that slipped through the net was stabbed with a spear again.
Those in the middle fell down. The cavalry behind could see these people between the shields.
Arrows came like locusts. They fell intensively on the spearmen.
These spearmen are the lowest level of soldiers. However, their equipment is far better than that of these Oirat cavalry.
The stamped plate armor and bucket helmets they wore easily blocked these arrows.
The only disadvantage between them and servants is that these plate armors are made of steel. Thickness varies from three millimeters to one millimeter in key areas. As for Yang Fan's servants, the plate armor is made of aluminum alloy and weighs only one-third of theirs.
After a clanking sound, the arrows were spread out by the curved surface of the plate armor. These arcs act as ricochet. And the rippled surface adds extra strength.
The spearmen ignored the cavalry's bows and arrows, and continued to do whatever they were supposed to do. Along the way, they had already known that the Mongolian arrowheads made of bones and stones could not penetrate their plate armor at all. Even iron arrows are of little use.
