Zhang Bingzhong is direct, and Xin Ai is even more direct.
In just a few months, he went from wearing shoes to being barefoot. At this time, when he encountered the weak Ming army in the wild, how could Xin Ai be polite? Not to mention being polite, I won't let you go at all.
Xin Ai has fought with the Xuanda Border Army for most of his life, and he knows the situation of the Border Army very well. Although the Border Army as a whole can be described as poor, poverty also has to be divided into levels.
Taking Datong Town alone as an example, there are fifteen guards in Datong. If you want to talk about Shuozhou Guard, Yuzhou Guard, Andong Zhongtun Guard, etc., they are indeed poor. They are really so poor that they don’t have to earn some gray income. To the point of starvation.
However, the four guards of Datong, namely the front, rear, left and right guards of Datong, must be the generals among the dwarves, and they can live a full life.
why? Because these four guards are not only the core guards of Datong Town, but also now control important horse market places such as Desheng Fort and Shahukou Fort. In other words, their treatment was good originally, and now they can get certain benefits from the horse market, so naturally they cannot be compared with ordinary health clinics.
As for Zhang Bingzhong's troops, the main force was the Datong left guard, and the rest were his own three to four hundred servants, all of whom were relatively wealthy among the border troops.
Of course Xin Ai could see the flag of the left guard of Datong at a glance and knew that this was a promising opponent and that the army must have a lot of baggage. Even without mentioning the baggage, the various attire they had on them was still a big fortune.
What else is there to say? Naturally, we should hurry up and get ready to grab it!
As for combat effectiveness, Xin Ai and the Datong left-back have fought against each other before, but the situation was different from today. At that time, the Datong left-back was defending in the city. Xin Ai did not choose to attack because he did not want to bear heavy casualties. , so they are actually in a situation where they have had many nominal battles, but not many actual battles.
However, even if they have not fought head-on, Xin Ai has a great psychological advantage. Firstly, the cavalry itself is not afraid of the infantry, especially the Mongolian cavalry with the nature of archers, and they don't have to worry too much about how the infantry can defeat them. They were also on the offensive side in the past, generally suppressing the Ming army. This was naturally the easiest situation to develop a psychological advantage.
In fact, even when there was no tribute issue more than ten years ago, the only people under Xin Ai's Xin Ai's control of Xuan Da Shanxi were those under Ma Fang.
Therefore, Xin Ai did not hesitate at this moment and immediately ordered two forces to be divided. Two thousand cavalry on each side began to prepare to harass and shoot. He himself led the main force of the Chinese army to stay still for the time being and observe the opponent's movements first.
This style of play is very common in the Mongolian army. It is to first see if the opponent will panic when faced with the Mongolian cavalry attacking the camp with fast horses. If the formation is chaotic or even collapses due to panic, then it is obviously a weak force.
In this case, Xin Ai can either continue to harass and grind, or simply lead the main force into the battle. It just depends on whether Xin Ai is in a hurry.
If the opponent is relatively calm and accepts the battle calmly, that's okay. The Mongolian cavalry is not afraid of endurance battles, as long as they continue to send troops to harass round after round.
Based on their hundreds of years of war experience, if they keep procrastinating in this way, even if they cannot defeat the enemy, they will be able to defeat the enemy sooner or later.
After all, the cavalry are not afraid of being bitten by the infantry. As long as they circle and shoot from a distance, they can continue to cause damage to the opponent while ensuring their own safety. Although this kind of long-distance shooting is not very powerful, it may not really be able to kill many people. , but continuous harassment can still seriously damage the opponent's morale. If there is enough time, the opponent's collapse will only be a matter of time.
After all, if you were beaten but couldn't fight back, no matter who it was, there would be times when you couldn't stand it.
The cavalry moved, but the infantry barely moved.
This is not surprising. It is impossible for infantry to compete with cavalry in mobility, and the usual response is relatively passive. But Xin Ai frowned because the Datong Left Guard Ming Army on the opposite side did not adopt the most common circular formation.
The circular formation is the most common defensive formation for infantry, especially when facing cavalry. When Ming infantry encountered Mongolian cavalry in the wild, it was simply a conditioned reflex to defend the enemy with a circular formation.
But there was an exception today. The infantry of the Datong Ming Army formed a square formation that looked very thin. This formation was so thin that there were only a few rows of soldiers on each side of the four sides. It looked like it could be destroyed by just charging into the formation, and then Take the central army directly and capture the opponent's general.
Xin Ai was a little confused. Could it be that the opponent's general was a fool and brought thousands of horses to the grassland to reward Huang Taiji?
But although there is only one Ma Fang in Xuanda Shanxi who has really been afraid of him, it does not mean that they really have no strong generals. In fact, the overall strength of the three towns in Xuanda Shanxi is very strong, otherwise they would not be able to withstand it. I mean decades of ravage, right?
Xin Ai didn't quite believe that the general who could lead 6,000 elite troops out of the three towns in Xuanda Shanxi was really a fool. He decided to observe it for a while before making a decision.
The first thing the opponent did made Xin Ai scratch his head. Their formation was already very weak. Now as the cavalry dispatched by him were dispatched in two directions, the first row of soldiers in the Ming army formation in Datong was far away from Xin Ai. Under the watchful eyes, not only did they not start loading powder and ammunition in preparation for shooting, but they all put a "long dagger" on the muzzle of the gun. Well, it seems to be a "thin short knife".
Xin Ai is a little confused. What is the Ming army doing? Could it be that your Huo N can shoot out the boss and use it as a flying knife?
But he understood next, because after the Ming army put on their bayonets, they suddenly took a small step forward and squatted down, with the n support facing down, the "bs" facing up, the n support standing on the ground, and the "bs" "The tip of the knife was tilted forward, and everyone in the first row did so and remained still.
Xin Ai was stunned for a moment, then sneered.
His fourth son, Hamu, saw this and asked, "Why is Abu laughing?"
Xin Ai pursed her lips in the direction of the Ming army and said: "The Ming general on the opposite side is a fool. How can he try to stop the Mongolian cavalry with just a few lines of his?"
Hamu said: "The firearms of the Ming army have become much more powerful in recent years than before. The other party may think that the power of these rows of firecrackers is enough to make us retreat."
Xin Ai sneered: "Retreating when faced with difficulties? I have no way to retreat now!"
Hamu twitched the corner of Du'er's mouth, but couldn't say anything.
Xin Ai added: "Besides, what's there to retreat from? Even if the Ming army's weapons are more powerful than before, as long as they launch a charge, how many guns can they fire from a few hundred steps away? As long as they charge in front of their formation, they can Can such a thin array be able to block the charge? Then it will be nothing more than a collapse."
Hamu looked at Du'er and said hesitantly: "But the soldiers in their first row"
"I saw it, but so what, those things are not even long when put together. What's more, there is only one column, can it stop the charge?"
Hamu thought about it all, and it seemed right. Although the long n formation can restrain the cavalry from charging, the long n of the long n formation is much longer than the Ming army's "gun mouth and knife", and the long n formation is not Maybe only the first row was placed. The Ming army wanted to rely on a row of "guns and knives" to block the charge. Isn't this a dream?
After thinking this, he felt relieved and nodded: "Maybe the leader of the Ming army is a hereditary commander and doesn't know how to fight at all."
Just when Xin Ai and his son felt that the Ming army's formation was really providing food to the Mongolian cavalry, the two cavalry sent earlier had already begun to attack and harass, but unexpectedly, their actions ran into big trouble.
The Mongolian cavalry suddenly discovered that the range of the Mongolian compound bows they were proud of was actually at a disadvantage when facing the current Ming army!
How can this be? Since the Mongol Empire conquered the world, the Mongolian cavalry has never suffered a loss in the key factor of range! The English longbow actually has a longer range, but there are two points to note: the Mongols use mounted bows while the English use foot bows. The Mongols have never fought against the English.
The basic equipment of the Mongolian cavalry archers is the hyperbolic compound bow, which has different performances with different arrows. When using heavy armor-piercing arrows, it can have amazing penetrating power, and when using light arrows, it can have exaggerated range. It is light when used. When shooting arrows, its range exceeds 300 meters.
In fact, it should be expressed as "step", but how long one step is is a controversial matter. Here we simply use rice. This data comes from Mei Tianmu, professor and associate dean of the University of North Georgia in the United States, history and military of the Mongolian Empire. A world-class authoritative scholar of history, he has written monographs on Mongolian war art, Mongolian culture and customs, etc.
However, due to the insufficient power of light arrows, especially when facing the Ming army with strong defensive capabilities, their effectiveness is greatly reduced. Therefore, the current Mongolian cavalry usually shoots armor-piercing arrows at a shorter distance, usually within 150 meters.
This habitual shooting distance gave these two cavalrymen a hard time, because the Ming army on the opposite side opened fire about 200 meters away from them, and killed more than twenty Mongolian soldiers in one salvo, and also hit at least Thirty war horses threw the cavalrymen to the grass, where their lives were uncertain.
Judging from the formation of the Ming army, apart from the soldiers in the first row of bayonet formations, there are only more than 1,200 people who can shoot in one direction, and these 1,200 people are divided into three rows. Just now, only the first row of soldiers can shoot. List n.
A salvo of more than 400 people hit about fifty targets. This data might be a bit bad if it were in the rifled N era, but in the current smoothbore N era, it is already shocking.
Although the cavalry is large in size and has an obvious target, and during the attack, the Ming army only needs to fire forward, and the unlucky opponents will naturally hit the bullets. But in the past, if the smoothbore gun was fired facing the front, the bullets could also be fired. Floating or falling, the accuracy is very worrying.
And this time, the Wanli Type 1 flintlock smoothbore n has very little ups and downs. Although it is not accurate, it is much better than in the past.
Because the Wanli Type 1 is actually a "pseudo-rifled n", according to high pragmatic requirements, there are four symmetrical thin and shallow straight rifling lines inside the n body of this n.
Rifling is rifling, why do we say pseudo rifling? Because in a highly pragmatic concept, the rifling should be the spiral shape of later generations. The effect of this early straight rifling was relatively limited, and due to metallurgical limitations and considering metal stress issues, these four riflings were stretched very slightly. So as not to affect the strength of the n-body and cause the chamber to explode.
From Gao Pragmatic's point of view, this thing really can't reach the level of "rifling" in his mind.
But it turns out that whether or not these four wires are present has a huge impact. The shooting accuracy of the Wanli Type 1 far exceeds that of Jinghua's previous generation main product, the Longqing Type 2! At least its bullets won't fly around.
One volley fired, and the Mongolian cavalry was stunned. Xin Ai and his son who were watching the battle from a distance were also stunned.
Hamu'er's face turned pale, he swallowed and said, "Abu, Nerge's tactics have failed. Why don't you try it instead with Wuchi?"
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