Seeing the intensive shooting of bows and arrows, the crowd was a little panicked and the formation was a little unstable.
"Don't panic, the stomach can prevent the arrow from missing." Old Zhong shouted loudly.
After all, these people are just militiamen who have been trained three to five days a month. They have never actually been on the battlefield. At most, they have received actual combat training in the recent city defense battle.
In the dark night, they saw a large number of cavalry appearing in front of them, and dense bows and arrows were fired at them. The feeling of arrows like locusts made them tremble from the bottom of their hearts.
They subconsciously dodge, but it's of no use.
Soon, they were hit by arrows. The dense arrow clusters hit their plate armor one after another.
There was a chopping sound.
They felt a shock, because the outer facades of the plate armor were curved or round, which made them very easy to bounce, and the hard aluminum alloy was much harder than the Mongolian arrows.
Mongolian arrowheads have very little metal, and most of them are made of ground bone or stone.
They were smashed into pieces after hitting the aluminum alloy. Except for some stone powder splashing out, the armor was not damaged in any way.
Moreover, plate armor is made of large pieces of metal, and the force will be transmitted to the entire piece of metal, diluting the impact force. It will not cause blunt injuries to the human body.
Yang Fan's armor is designed as an overall stress-bearing structure, and even has a metal exoskeleton design.
The curved nail surface does not fit the human body, and the force transmission does not directly act on the body, so no one feels anything except that they feel slightly moved by the shock.
They quickly calmed down from their panic, and then became ecstatic. This armor was so good. With such a treasured armor, what kind of cavalry could they be afraid of?
In the distance, the two thousand cavalry gathered together also wore armor and stomach under their leather robes. This was Buno's secret.
This time he came and brought 2,000 of the 5,000 Ordos cavalry. This was the hidden strength of the Ordos people.
Buno did not tell anyone that they had heavy armored cavalry.
At this time, the camp was surrounded in the middle of the night, and the enemy broke through from all sides. In a short period of time, raging fires were everywhere, and the outer perimeter was completely defeated by the enemy.
At this time, the Nak'er people immediately gathered the cavalry stationed in the center of the camp, preparing to protect Taiji and rush out. If something happened to Taiji, Jinong would definitely be furious.
In order to protect his younger brother, Jinong allocated two thousand heavy armored cavalry.
These heavy armored cavalry are so valuable in Mongolia.
Because Mongolia lacks iron, they cannot even guarantee iron arrow clusters. Full body armor plus horse breastplate is very rare.
It is precisely because of these five thousand heavy cavalry that Ordos Jinong was able to maintain considerable strength despite continuous defeats under the siege of the Chahar people last year.
As history developed towards the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols were truly ashamed compared to their ancestors.
There was no shortage of armored stomachs in the Mongolian era. They occupied Shanxi, which was rich in armored stomachs. The Western Expedition also controlled the production center of armored stomachs in Central Asia. They had all kinds of armored stomachs and weapons they wanted.
When the Golden Family was rampant across the world, the equipment of the Mongolian army was very luxurious. Sixty percent of the Mongolian cavalry were equipped with equipment such as ring armor. By the Yuan Dynasty, the armor stomachs captured from the Southern Song Dynasty alone amounted to hundreds of thousands.
During the heyday of the Mongols, they used plundered slaves to make armor and weapons, but they did not seize the opportunity to learn.
Everything was done by slaves. As long as there were slaves, the old Mongolian men were too lazy to learn.
After they exited the Central Plains in embarrassment, they were suddenly knocked back to their original shape. They learned nothing after starting to herd sheep, and they occupied so many technologically advanced areas in vain.
By the beginning of 1600, with the wear and tear of the inventory caused by the defeat, the amount of armor stock owned by the Mongols dropped sharply, and the ratio was less than one-tenth of that of their ancestors.
In the early 17th century, the market for arms trading on the grasslands was that a complete set of armor could be exchanged for ninety livestock.
What kind of concept is this? Just a pair of armor can be exchanged for half of the wealth of a middle-class Mongolian family.
The Oirat Alliance (Mongolian people in the desert, Mongol people in Junggar) stipulates that every 40 households must raise funds to build two pieces of armor every year.
The entire Oirat Alliance, with tens of thousands of Mongolian households, spent several years collecting equipment and could only barely scrape together 10,000 pairs of armor.
The equipment of the Eight Banners Army far exceeded that of the Mongols at the same time.
According to the records in the "Qing Dynasty Huidian", the total number of armors of the Eight Banners Army before entering the Pass was more than 40,000.
Much more than the Oirat Alliance. This is why Lin Dan Khan could not defeat the Eight Banners. The actual strength of the Eight Banners soldiers was only 50,000 to 60,000. The armor coverage rate was extremely high.
However, compared with the Tang Dynasty and Tubo in history, the armor of the Eight Banners was all rubbish in terms of quality and quantity.
In fact, the late Ming Dynasty was a relatively poor era. The peak of the feudal period was the Tang Dynasty.
The quality of Tibetan armor was excellent and was exported to the Arab Empire in large quantities.
Tubo Armor and Stomach, the men and horses were all covered with chainmail, only their eyes were exposed. Not a strong bow or a powerful crossbow could cause any damage at all.
And the number was huge. The "Book of Tang" records that Tubo attacked the Tang Dynasty and dispatched 100,000 heavy armored cavalry at one time. There are many records.
After Wei Gao defeated the Tibetan army in Yazhou, he not only captured the Tibetan Prime Minister Lun Mangre, but also beheaded tens of thousands of Tibetan soldiers.
150,000 pieces of Tubo armor were also seized. The number of Tubo armors seized at one time was nearly four times the total number of armors of the Eight Banners Army.
No matter where you look at it, this period of history in the late Ming Dynasty is the last sunset of China's glorious history. From then on, every year was worse than the previous year, unable to recover, and completely plunged into darkness.
Now, Yang Fan has established a steel industry base in Zunhua, with tens of thousands of sets of armor, and the output is only one month.
Nowadays, it is even so luxurious that the militiamen are equipped with aluminum alloy armor. Iron armor is a crappy thing. It is heavy, rotten, and has extremely poor protection. Yang Fan doesn't even like steel armor now.
Captain Han Zhong saw that the Mongols had finished shooting their arrows and were about to rush over. He hurriedly ordered that according to the infantry drill code, ten wedge-shaped arrays were immediately formed.
Other nearby brigades also quickly changed their formations. The tips of a dozen wedge-shaped formations faced the Mongolian cavalry, and they walked towards the enemy with uniform steps.
Buono saw that the previous bow and arrow attack was completely ineffective, and he became a little panicked. In the dark night, he could only rely on the firelight, and saw groups of men in black in front of him, arranging and combining quickly, and finally formed one by one.
Wedge-shaped array, and then actually rushed towards the cavalry.
He was a little dumbfounded. Are these infantry crazy? Instead of quickly forming a spear formation, they rushed forward to die. Then he sneered, well, since they wanted to die, he would help them.
He narrowed his narrow eyes and said, "All of them are here, rush over and chop these damn fools to death."
Following his order, two thousand cavalry launched into action and rushed in the direction of Xingfushe. The Mongols took this as the direction to break out of the encirclement.
In the middle of the night, there were too many enemies coming, and there were shouts of killing from all directions. At this time, the only way to break out was to use elite cavalry to attack the weak enemies.
If you hesitate any longer, you will be in danger of your entire army being destroyed when you are surrounded on all sides.
The cavalry ran very fast, and Buono could see these infantry wedge formations clearly. There was a gap of about five meters between each two formations, which was enough distance to rush out.
This chapter has been completed!