Chapter 369 Advantages
If you are familiar with the combat mode of the Ming army, besides the Ming army itself, it is probably well deserved that Duoyan and Mongolia are the number one among the foreign tribes.
Since the Northern Expedition of Chengzu Zhu Di and the Jingnan Dynasty, the cavalry of Duoyan Mongolia fought side by side with the Ming army. His understanding of the Ming tactics was naturally extremely rich. Duoyan Mongolia has been living well in various Mongolian tribes through trade with the Ming Dynasty, and its weapons and equipment are also very outstanding.
So in the middle and late stages, Duoyan's strength was already faintly among the heads of various Mongolian tribes, of course it was a history that Jiang Feng had not traveled through time.
The understanding of the Ming army also made Duoyan Mongolian Ding Zhuang know the various precautions of infantry combat. For example, the infantry phalanx facing the impact of cavalry must be thick, and the column must be more than ten people. Otherwise, the soldiers holding long weapons in the front row could not face the rushing cavalry. The soldiers on the edge of the phalanx must hold large shields, which are to resist the arrows shot from the distance by the cavalry dismounted, or the weapons thrown after getting close.
However, the army in front of them was only about six rows, and although there were quite a few people in the horizontal row, except for the spearmen who did not account for the majority in the row, everyone else was holding short weapons and had no big shields. These short weapons should look like muskets or something.
Duoyan Mongolia has seen many firearms from the Ming Dynasty. The so-called three-eyed guns, poisonous muskets and other things held by infantrymen are of no use to enemies ten steps away. It is better to say that poisonous smoke can smoke people than to hurt people with iron sand.
The officers Duoyan, who led a brigade to rescue the cavalry, quickly judged the situation clearly. The infantry standing in front of them would not pose any threat to them at all. Judging from this posture, maybe some border troops in Hebei came out to hunt grass valleys according to the usual rules.
The Mongols on the grassland only traded with merchants from Northern Zhili and Shanxi, and Jiang Feng, who was dominant on the sea, had no idea about it. Besides, no one would care about the guerrillas in the coastal provinces of the Ming Dynasty. As for the outside of the pass, the reclaimed manors outside the pass that the Mongols know now do not include Huifeng Manor, because Huifeng Manor is mainly self-cultivated farmers, and his supplies are purchased from other manors, which is considered closed.
The very unfamiliar formation was not a powerful team. The Mongols, who were now red-eyed, immediately made such a judgment.
"Kill them all!" Everyone was thinking this way, and the Han cavalry who could not resist had run away now and could not concentrate on chasing. First kill the infantry in front of them and let them know a lesson.
The Duoyan Mongolian cavalry all began to control their horse stance. The advantage of the Duoyan tribe as professional soldiers gradually emerged. In addition to splitting a thousand cavalry to protect the flanks, the rest of the people changed their formations and gradually adjusted to face these infantrymen of unknown origin.
After all, the opponent still has a spear in his hand. If the horse team rashly charges directly, there will be casualties. It is better to get close to thirty steps and shoot them with a horn bow on the horse's back and then let them slaughter them.
Harden, the leader, suddenly whistled a few times, waving a long sword in his hand, which was no different from the flag verbs in the Ming army. The Mongolian officers who immediately followed Harden's dynamics issued the orders, and the speed of the cavalry of the brigade adjusted from the initial rush to the medium speed.
The knights at the front all put the sabers and wooden guns on one side of the saddle and took out their horn bows. The so-called accuracy of riding and shooting was very poor, and they had high requirements for knight skills. Moreover, over the years, Genghis Khan's unparalleled strong soldiers at that time had already undergone a significant degeneration.
Therefore, the speed of horses should slow down, and many knights should adjust the position of horses in the team so that those who can shoot archers can change to the front. This approach obviously does not take the formation in front of them, and thinks that it is just a rush. So now Duoyan's team is starting to do their own things, focusing on me.
The speed of a large number of horses on the opposite side slowed down, and the infantry array under the Jiangzida banner was not panicked. Six people were responsible for issuing orders in each row. Under their orders, the spearmen's spears slowly lay flat and pointed diagonally forward. The mezzanines were there to hang the burning fuse on the live hook of the mezzanine. The mezzanines of the Jiang family army always loaded a firing ammunition in it after cleaning the chamber. This was an extremely strict military rule that everyone must abide by.
When they were sixty steps, fifty steps, and when they were about forty steps, the Duoyan Mongolian horse slashers took their bows and arrows one after another. In fact, the effective range of this bow was about fifty steps, and the bumps on the horse were even closer.
It will not be launched until thirty steps, but when they just set off their bows and arrows, they heard someone on the opposite infantry array had already fired.
According to their usual perception, the launch of this distance is of no use, so no one is afraid, and everyone is preparing to accelerate.
Three hundred melee guns fired together, and the distance of more than 40 steps was enough for the melee gun. With enough initial speed, the lead ball could exert the maximum lethality. The Duoyan Mongols who rushed in the front all fell directly from the horse. On the horse, the cavalry's area and probability of the cavalry's ammunition were much larger than that of the horse.
There was no more illusory thing about the corpse that fell to the ground. The Mongolian horse team, who were already full of confidence, immediately exploded the camp. They were not warriors who were ready to die. The Duoyan tribe had a better life, so their soldiers were not as poor as those of the other tribes who could only plunder desperately. These people still wanted to save their lives and some soldiers began to turn their horses away.
However, the impact of thousands of horses and such a large momentum cannot be changed by a few people if they want to reverse it, and this can only bring about chaos in formation.
Harden looked something wrong in the middle, shouting loudly at the top of his voice:
"Storm up, the muskets in the hands of the Nanman can't be shot out, so rush up, rush up."
However, it was not the horse team that started the action. The square formation of the Jiang-like flag was pushed forward one step further. The second row of the mesh gunmen had already changed to the first row. After a few orders, nearly two hundred muskets fired at the same time. There were several war drums under the Jiang-like flag.
There, the pounding dong dong hits at a fixed rhythm, and the phalanx infighters are constantly rotating according to this step point. The shooting of the six-row grenade guns can form a round shot.
When the horse team was still more than 40 steps away from the insurgent formation, the combshot began to fire. Now the distance between the two sides has been more than 40 steps to thirty steps, but this is not the horse team's advancement, but the insurgent formation of the Jiang family army is constantly moving forward, and the combshots are shooting continuously, knocking down the Mongolian cavalry in front of them.
In the past, when facing nomadic cavalry, the Jiang family army's tactic was to hold on the spot. Anyway, the range of the mesh gun was farther than that of the bow and arrow, so they were not worried about the other party's launching shells from afar. Even if someone could break through the firing of the musket, there was a spearman there to solve the problem.
This time, it took the initiative for the first time, and the effect was very good. Now the Duoyan Mongolian brigade has begun to disperse from slow to fast, and its speed is getting faster and faster. Everyone understands that if they rushed over in front of such a dense formation, the consequences will be to be killed by a cope gun.
Nearly a thousand people have fallen down now, some have died, and some have shouted loudly on the ground. They will die slowly, and the result will be even more miserable.
The distance between thirty steps is actually possible to shoot arrows, but the fighting will of the Mongols is no longer as if Mu Huali had taken the cavalry to attack the Jin army formation hundreds of years ago, and he was in a hurry. What many people can think of now is to escape.
As a general of Duoyan Mongolian, Harden drew his sword and slashed the few people around him, but he did not stop his momentum. He had to gather his confidants and soldiers, slowly retreated, and prepared to follow Duoyan's leader Wuert to leave here first. However, Harden felt a little desperate because he saw such a powerful Han man. The reason why the Mongolians were unwilling to be attached to him on weekdays was that even a tribe as close to him as Duoyan, he only settled outside the Great Wall.
Just because they were not at ease with the strength of the Ming people in the south, they felt that their military power was much stronger than that of the Ming people, and even the chiefs and tribes of the three guards of the Duoyan who were awarded and titled by the Ming Dynasty were not without the ambition to enter the Central Plains.
But now all this was beaten to disappear. The array of infantry in the Jiang family army slowly changed under the command of the commander of the leader. The formation trapped in the enemy formation slowly changed from a large line to four four hundred squares and two hundred people in the center. Then the five squares turned into a large square, with spears extending obliquely around the square. The current square seemed to be a moving castle. The cavalry around him could not do anything to him, but the castle was still pouring out the firepower of killing people.
The movement speed of the square formation is not fast. Although most of the cavalry have collapsed, there are still some older Mongolian knights. To be more precise, the herdsmen are entangling in the square formation, making their speed not that fast.
"These herders should be abandoned children. They know they will die. They are entangled in my brigade here so that the rest can escape with more supplies."
On the nearby hills, Jiang Feng was covered in armor and surrounded by the knights around him, looking coldly at the battle below.
Chapter completed!