"The carriage! The slave thief's carriage is coming!"
With a shrill cry, the real drama of the Battle of Tuocheng finally began. Then more shrill shouts followed, followed by the sound of horns wailing, which was the warning from the soldiers on duty. All the gentry generals who were resting in the camel city were alerted and jumped up from their tents, their nests, or simply from the camels that were lying on the ground. He picked up his bow, arrows and three-eyed musket and rushed forward.
It is already the morning of the second day of the "Battle of Camel City". The "Ming Mongolian Army" led by Princess Wu Liangha and the Golden Mongolian Army led by Hauge encountered each other in the afternoon of the previous day. The Ming Mongolian army immediately set up a camel city formation under the command of Princess Wu Liangha and firmly held their position.
And Hauge was not ambiguous. He first launched an encirclement, and then began a tentative attack. The camel city tactic was not uncommon in the Western Regions, but it was rarely used on the Mongolian steppes in the east. Because it was difficult for the Ming and Jin armies to gather so many camels, and the Mongols had not fought tough battles for many years. Therefore, Hauge, who is familiar with the Art of War (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), also saw the Tuocheng Formation for the first time.
Since it was the first time to meet him, of course he had to test it out first.
So yesterday afternoon, in addition to launching a siege, Hauge asked Aobai to take two to three thousand Han soldiers under Qututaiji's men and fight for two rounds. Although they were all easily repelled by the "Ming Mongol Army" relying on Tuocheng, Hauge still figured out some truths.
Princess Wu Liangha should not have cannons at hand, but the combat effectiveness of her "Ming Mongol Army" is still very powerful!
Their equipment looks good, and everyone seems to be able to wear foam nail padded armor.
The bow in the hand is also very stiff, it does not have the seven-power or eight-power, but it basically has the power of the six-power and the five-power. Moreover, his archery skills were not bad, which caused great losses to the attacking Han warriors.
In addition to bows and arrows, these Mongols also have many three-eyed blunderbuss, and they use them quite well - they do not regard the three-eyed blunderbuss as a long-range weapon, but as a melee weapon. The cannon is not fired twenty or thirty steps away, or even ten steps away, but the cannon is fired after about five steps.
At this distance, it is almost impossible for the three-eye punch to miss, and the iron sand shot is so powerful that even if it cannot kill an armored opponent, it can still beat him until he is covered in smoke... The taste of iron sand barbecue is incredible. It feels so good!
After the three-eyed blunderbuss in their hands was fired, these "gun soldiers" turned into "hammer soldiers", with a small buckler in one hand and a "three-eyed hammer" in the other hand, and they went directly to engage in hand-to-hand combat!
In the second round of exploratory attack yesterday afternoon, how could the soldiers of the Han Dynasty, who had been weakened by the firepower of bows and arrows and three-eyed guns, resist? Immediately, he turned around and ran away crying.
The red-armored soldiers and white-armored soldiers commanded by Obai were aggressive and wanted to go up to kill and supervise the battle, but only killed a dozen of them. The remaining Mongolians, amidst shouts of "Princess, spare your life", turned to the side of Princess Ulyanha. Went... Seeing at least a thousand people surrendering to the enemy in front of the battle, Hauge's face turned green with anger, but he didn't get mad for a moment and let more than 16,000 people under his command launch a fierce attack. Instead, wait patiently for the car to be built.
After a night of busy work by the craftsmen accompanying the army, in the early morning of May 21, the third year of Chongzhen, the "Golden Mongolian" army's offensive began again!
Princess Wu Liangha, who had slept in her tent with her clothes on all night, was also awakened by the sound of military trumpets. She immediately put on her long iron armor and helmet under the service of two maids, and then left the tent. , raised his voice and gave an order loudly: "Everyone should be in their respective positions. I will be in the middle to supervise the battle. The slaves and thieves' carriages will not be able to break in! As long as we persist for a few days, Long Live Lord's cavalry in front of the tent will come to help! We are guarding so With so many arrowheads and gunpowder, I shot all the slaves and thieves, and burned the carts! Notify every thousand and hundreds of households that anyone who takes a step back will be killed!"
After giving the order, Princess Wu Liangha got on a tall horse, and called on several flag bearers to raise their handsome flags, and then began to patrol the camel city to boost the morale of the army.
Several of her soldiers shouted at the top of their lungs: "Those who retreat will be killed, and those who make meritorious deeds will be rewarded... Those who win the first level will be rewarded with 20 taels of silver; those who win the second level will be given 30 acres of land; those who win the third level will be given 30 acres of land; Those who want to be promoted will be promoted to a higher level!"
Now Zhu Youjian's confidant army has begun to implement a new merit reward system. This system combines three reward methods: silver rewards, land grants, and promotions. Although it is not as good as the "future career" of slaves and thieves, But it can still play a role in motivating soldiers - there is no need to deny that the rewards of the Ming Dynasty are in no way comparable to those of Hou Jin. Because the society of the post-Jin Dynasty was "profitable", but the Ming Dynasty was not!
While Princess Ulyanha was trying to inspire the soldiers to fight, seven or eight thousand Mongolian bannermen and Baoyi who had joined the Eight Banners Mongolian system were already pushing hundreds of newly built carriages, beating the thunderous drums. In the middle of the sound, he screamed and rushed forward.
What greeted them was arrowheads falling like raindrops!
The defensive function of Camel City and the Mongolians' good shooting are perfectly combined. If Princess Wu Liangha did not build a camel city, but used a spear formation as the "city", then at least 4,000 of the 10,000 people would have to line up with spears, and at least 1,000 people would have to hold shields for cover, and they could use bows and arrows to meet the enemy. The maximum number is only 5,000 people.
But now in Camel City, everyone can hold a bow and shoot arrows!
Of course, not everyone in the ordinary Ming army infantry is good at shooting. But the Mongolians under Princess Ulyanha are all good at archery... Their archery skills are the same as riding horses, they are all "boy skills"! However, because the productivity on the Mongolian grasslands is really not worth mentioning, coupled with the blockade of the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult for Mongolian warriors to have a good bow, a good bundle of arrows, let alone a good armor.
But now the Mongols who followed Princess Wu Liangha not only had good bows, arrows and armor, but also camel city formations and three-eyed guns. Although the military pay is still very low compared to the new Ming army such as the Qian Army, Yanshan Army, and Daning Army, the rewards are quite adequate and are still enough to inspire a strong fighting spirit.
However, their opponents, the soldiers of the Eight Banners and the Two Yellow Banners of Mongolia, who were also Mongolians, seemed to be drunk today, screaming and charging up!
Because this group of ordinary Mongolian herdsmen who are neither Taiji nor Tabunang finally have a way to rise through meritorious service, and there is only one way to get ahead - this is just a cover at the beginning, and their advancement depends entirely on killing people!
Now at the forefront of the "Golden Mongolia" army's front line, wearing leather armor (too thin to protect against arrows) and a round shield on his head, pushing a cart with his head covered, he was also covered by the two yellow Mongolian flags.
Although the arrowheads falling like raindrops had killed many of their companions, the remaining people still moved forward with their heads covered.
They...are not afraid of death! Because they haven't really lived!
Only by rushing into Camel City can they truly survive!
The soldiers of the Ming Mongolia continued to shoot arrows, and the coats and bannermen of the Jin Mongolia fell down in rows. However, more Jin Mongolia still moved forward regardless of casualties, and at a glance they pushed a cart to the horse gun. in front of the formation, and then overturned all these horse-repelling guns to the ground. However, most of the carts were also stuck by the fallen horse guns, and they were unable to move for a while.
The Ming Mongolian warriors still insisted on shooting arrows, but everyone from Qianhu to the soldiers could not help but be a little frightened. No one thought that their Mongolian compatriots could explode with such fighting power after entering the Houjin Eight Banners system.
"Three-eyed gun, move forward!"
Following Princess Wu Liangha's roar, the camel soldiers holding three-eyed guns who had been waiting in formation in the camel city immediately came out and climbed over the "city wall" composed of camels. With a three-eyed gun and a lit match rope in his other hand, he screamed and rushed forward... Of course he wouldn't fire the gun at the carriage, he had to look for the Mongolians who emerged from behind the carriage. The soldiers with two yellow flags opened fire, and they had to get closer and fire!
The crackling sound of explosive gunpowder suddenly resounded throughout the battlefield!
