"Nie'erge" means roughly "hunting" in Mongolian. Generally speaking, it will start from two sides. This tactic has many subsequent changes, and the scale can be adjusted and changed at will. ,
If you want to describe it simply, it is probably that the Mongolian army surrounds its prey in a ring, gradually shrinking towards the center, and gathering densely, making it difficult for the enemy to escape.
But the Mongols did not always need a large number of troops to complete this tactic. Since their archery and mobility had almost always been at an advantage for hundreds of years, they could still encircle them even when they were outnumbered. enemy.
Moreover, when the Mongols used Nerge, they did not worry much about the problem that their encirclement was too weak. They sometimes extended their front lines for several miles before surrounding the enemy.
Some people may ask, what is the point of such a weak encirclement? It can be broken in one rush?
Yes, if you concentrate the main force to attack such a weak encirclement, of course you can break it in one rush. But in the eyes of the Mongols, distance is not a problem at all, so they will continue to try to encircle them. Anyway, your previous charge will not cause them many casualties. They are perfectly capable of constantly surrounding you.
And if the opponent keeps choosing to break through the encirclement, it will be a battle of endurance with the Mongolian cavalry.
The Mongols are capable of expeditions of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of miles at a time. If you choose to compete with them for endurance, isn't it obvious that you are looking for death?
Moreover, the scope of this Nerge tactic can sometimes be extremely large. For example: after the Mongols captured the city of Vladimir in 2017, they sent tens of thousands of households to attack various towns and fortresses in the form of Nerge, encircling the city. It's hundreds of miles long and gradually tightens.
In addition, sometimes they will deliberately leave a certain gap in the grid in order to allow the enemy to escape through the gap, but in fact this gap itself is a trap: the enemy has difficulty maintaining discipline in the process of escaping in a hurry, and often abandons them. Weapons to escape faster. ,
There are also specific examples of this. The Mongols used this tactic to defeat the Hungarians in the Battle of Muhi in 1241.
However, the core of Nerge tactics, or the two points that it basically relies on, are indispensable, that is, mobility and the range of the mounted bow.
Their mobility ensures that they can make this kind of encirclement always feasible in terms of speed, and the advantage of the range of the mounted bow allows them to attack their opponents in the constant encirclement and tightening without almost suffering any damage to themselves.
This is like a battle between two swordsmen, one light and one heavy. The heavy sword swordsman can obviously kill the light sword swordsman with one sword, but the light sword swordsman is so fast that the former cannot keep up, and his light sword swordsman can't keep up with him. The sword was able to cut a gash in the body of the heavy sword swordsman with one sword strike after another. However, this light sword swordsman also had extremely good endurance and hardly knew how tired he was.
What is there to say about the result? Even if this epee swordsman is in good health, sooner or later he will be bled out and mummified.
But now, Xin Ai suddenly discovered that they had lost their range advantage!
In other words, the light sword swordsman found that the sword in his hand could no longer cut through the heavy sword swordsman's armor, but the heavy sword swordsman actually lost his heavy sword and took out a longer light sword to use it. , as long as you step forward, you will be struck by his sword in turn.
Something new that hadn't happened in three hundred years was actually caught up by his Xin Ai!
Faced with this "new and unprecedented experience", Xin Ai was naturally confused.
Fortunately, he was slow to react in his old age, but his son Hamu Badu'er was still in his prime, so he proposed to change the tactics quickly, replacing "Nie'erge" with "Shiwuchi".
Although this Ming army behaved strangely, and the range and accuracy of the guns in their hands were beyond Xin Ai's expectations, but his mind was focused on replenishing blood, so how could he give up? As soon as he heard his son's words, he immediately agreed and loudly ordered: "Recall the left and right armies, and prepare to lose Wuchi!"
The sound of horns and drums immediately changed, and the two cavalry groups on the left and right immediately began to turn around, while the Chinese cavalry began to group into groups, with an attack wave of approximately every 500 people, and began to use the Wuchi tactics.
The Mongols' losing-chi tactics are similar to the half-turn tactics used in European wars in the 15th and 16th centuries. The specific method of this tactic is that the Mongolian army sends multiple waves of warriors towards the enemy's position. Each wave shoots arrows while charging, and then retreats and turns back to its own line before contacting the enemy.
When they fired their last arrows and retreated, they were about 40 to 50 meters away from the enemy. This distance is enough for their arrows to penetrate the enemy's armor, and it is also enough for them to avoid the enemy's hand-to-hand counterattack.
Shiwuchi obviously also needs to use riding and archery abilities, but relatively speaking, riding skills are more important than archery skills, because this tactic itself is not used as a zero-casualty tactic, it allows itself to appear to a certain extent. After all, the casualties were too close.
However, because the opponent did not know whether the Mongols were going to charge or just scatter and harass, they could only maintain a long n formation or a similar defensive formation to avoid the Mongols rushing into the formation, causing the formation to collapse and lose thousands of miles.
But even if the opponent's main force is concentrated on the Long N or similar defensive lineup, it cannot be completely ruled out that the long-range power in its formation can cause certain casualties to the Mongolian cavalry.
Xin Ai was willing to take certain casualties in exchange for victory in this battle, which showed that he was indeed poor and crazy, or that he could not bear the current situation.
Originally, he thought that he and Tumen Khan still had a cooperative relationship. Who knew that because of the previous defeat, the result now was that Tumen Khan had clearly become the dominant force, and as the "landlord" of Tumut, he had become the dominant force. became a vassal of Tumen Khan.
Although Tumut's nominal status is only one of the 30,000 households on the right wing, he has actually been the leader of the right wing for a long time. Xin Ai is psychologically on an equal footing with Tumen Khan, the leader of the left wing. How can he be mixed up like this now? Tolerate? Naturally, we need to look for opportunities to strengthen ourselves, and at the same time, we need to show our prestige to regain our reputation.
Everyone fights for a breath, and a Buddha receives a stick of incense. Xin Ai has been tough all his life. How can he bear the feeling of being dependent on others? Thinking about Tumen Khan's tone of ordering his subordinates when he sent himself out for rescue just now, Xin Ai felt He must take down the Ming army in front of him.
Wuchi's five hundred people attacked in one wave, but it was not launched at the same point like a dragon gate triple wave, but launched in all directions without rules. This is because the opponent can't figure out the direction of the main attack, and he gets confused in the hasty deployment of troops and generals.
The first wave was launched from the left wing. The five hundred Mongolian cavalry gradually increased their horse speed in a normal charging formation. Thousands of hooves flew, bringing up the decaying grass and yellow dust, and rushed towards the right wing of the Ming army.
Sure enough, the Ming army was a little shaken, but before Xin Ai had time to rejoice, he saw a young Ming army general raising his sword and cutting off the head of a soldier who took two steps back, and shouted loudly.
The slight wavering of the Ming army stopped immediately. The bayonet formation still stood in front of the formation. The three columns of fire rifles at the rear had already been loaded. The first column raised their guns under the order of the young general.
"Bang!" 11
