Even ten of his cavalry could not defeat one of his opponents.
But it's such a pity to see a piece of fat slipping away right in front of your eyes.
You must know that the great victory of Ningyuan, which is recorded in the history books, only resulted in the beheading of more than two hundred people.
There are 300 true barbarians in front of us. It can be said that at least 200 true barbarians can be detected.
The question is, where did the other 100 go?
Of course it disappeared.
At this time, someone next to him said: "General, if we order the infantry to give up their shields and take off their iron armor, with our years of training, we can catch up with the enemy's infantry within two days."
"If the enemy wants to escape, he must abandon 200 infantry."
Yi Zijia nodded.
This should be OK.
Although if you give up the giant shield, you will definitely have to bear the losses caused by the opponent's strong bow and heavy arrows in the battle.
But at least it can guarantee that you can hit the opponent instead of watching the opponent escape.
"Okay, let's get rid of the giant shield and replace it with a small light shield. Only one layer of armor will be left for the pikemen and musketeers, and the rest of the armor will be given to the baggage soldiers."
"In pursuit."
If Wen Rensheng knew what happened on the battlefield, he would understand why the Western battle formations at this time did not equip pikemen and musketeers with heavy armor.
Just for mobility.
Mobility is often more important than defense.
If you want to take into account defense, you have to equip the infantry with horses.
This is exactly what the Jurchens did.
Their own tribe has few people, and each piece of white armor is very precious.
Therefore, 3 horses are used daily, and one horse is dedicated to transporting armor.
to improve mobility.
In fact, their white armor is mainly used to defeat enemies in foot combat.
Horses are used at critical times.
For example, pursuit, retreat, and outflanking.
If they are on horseback, they cannot give full play to the power of their strong bows and heavy arrows.
After making these changes, Yi Zijia sent his lieutenant, leading 1,500 men, a total of 10 light armor squads, to chase the opponent's 300 men.
The remaining people also unloaded the armor and stomach, put it on the baggage cart, and used the stolen horses, oxen and mules to drag it.
Capturing livestock greatly improved their land mobility.
Sure enough, thanks to good food, good training, and high military pay, the walking speed of 1,500 people was obviously much faster than that of their opponents.
In fact, these 300 people are all true barbarians, and they usually have enough to eat. Especially Bai Jia, who is a professional off-duty soldier. They polish their martial arts every day and are specially trained to serve them.
However, they were only full at this time.
After all, Huang Taiji has just begun to rob the pass on a large scale.
Therefore, their marching speed is still lower than these 1,500 people.
After the two sides chased each other for two hours, Niu Luzhangjingwugezhen realized that something was wrong.
He hurriedly said to Melezhanggun Donagu: "Master Donagu, we are in trouble. These people are indeed strong soldiers. They are pursuing so fast. If this continues, our infantry will not be able to escape.
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"I can also see that there are only three options now. One is to fight with them to scare them off; the other is to have the cavalry harass them from behind and slow them down; the third is to have the infantry remove their armor and the cavalry run away, and finally
How many can escape?" Donagu said with a frown.
"Only send cavalry. There are too many of them. We only have 100 cavalry. We can't stop much. Instead, we will easily fall into a situation of being outflanked." Wu Gezhen said carefully, "If you run away directly, you will be beheaded."
Yes, you can retreat in front of the enemy.
If you fight a battle, the enemy is outnumbered and you are outnumbered, if you fight a battle to find out the strength of your opponent, and then retreat without support, you will only be reprimanded, or even not reprimanded, but you will still gain a reputation as a brave fighter.
After all, intelligence is the most important thing. Sacrificing a hundred people to gain valuable information about the enemy is a credit, not a defeat.
In terms of rewards and punishments in military warfare, the Jurchens were indeed too far behind the Ming army in the early days.
Although there are definitely cases of cheating and allowing one's nephew to obtain military exploits, it is not serious and one has to personally kill the enemy in battle.
But if you run away immediately when you see the enemy, and the ones left behind are Eight Banners soldiers, you will definitely not be able to escape if you behead them.
But if you disguise it, it'll be fine.
But at this time, the Eight Banners was still on the rise, relatively simple and not slippery enough, so it was not possible to lie about the military situation.
What's more, the 30 white armors are all pieced together. If you can't buy them all, they will definitely go back and be questioned by their respective masters.
So there is only one option, fight as hard as possible, find out and then retreat.
So after two waves of men and horses chased him, Donagu stopped on a slope.
The infantry formed a formation, and the cavalry was on both sides.
The one with white armor is at the front and begins to put on three layers of armor with the help of the wrapper and red-armored flag ding.
The slope here is relatively gentle.
But if the infantry wants to rush forward, it will take a lot of effort.
On the left is a bush, which is not easy to detour, and on the right is a mountain forest in the distance.
There is grass in front.
All in all, it is a somewhat favorable terrain.
But both sides can accept it.
Both sides saw where the fighter planes were.
This is the basis of the battle.
Either both sides can see the opportunity to win, or one side has to choose to fight under a disadvantage, such as running out of food, being surrounded, or being ordered to do so by the emperor...
Being forced to choose to fight is obviously very tragic.
One side has a large number of people and is well-trained, but the other side has been battle-hardened for a long time. The minimum number of soldiers has been on the battlefield at least ten times. This is of course a small number of coatings removed.
For Donagu and others, the key is that the opponent's artillery did not follow.
The artillery is still slow.
If the opponent's artillery can still run as fast as the infantry, they will definitely abandon the infantry and escape with the cavalry.
As for the infantry, if they throw off their helmets and armour, take only bows and arrows, scatter into the mountains and forests, and then regroup, most of them can escape.
Because then there is no way to fight.
They were well aware of the advantages of artillery.
They will die just as the Ming army died back then. There is no need to try, they are not stupid.
But now that the opponent doesn't have artillery, you can give it a try.
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There are 1,500 people on one side and 300 people on the other side.
The forward deputy general of the Fast Army began to pass the order to form the formation.
The 10 teams began to form formations.
The pikemen, shield soldiers, and matchlock soldiers quickly began to form a horizontal formation from the marching column.
There are 150 people in one team and 30 people in one horizontal line, forming 5 horizontal lines.
The team formed quickly.
At this time, the two sides were still three miles away.
With such a long distance, even if the Jurchen cavalry ran over, they would still face an already organized formation.
So the Jurchen cavalry simply didn't come.
Instead, dismount and leave the horse behind.
30 white armors were sitting on the ground waiting.
The reason is simple, they want to conserve their physical strength, attack and test, and then escape.
So it can't consume horsepower.
The same goes for the 70 cavalrymen, who all dismounted and led him.
They have to wait for their opponent to take the initiative to attack.
The deputy general of Kuaijun will naturally launch an attack.
He ordered three squads to attack head-on.
Two squads outflank from the left wing, and two squads outflank from the right wing.
Only in this way can we expand our military strength.
When the time comes to fight, it will be a V-shaped attack from three sides.
Try to take full advantage of the musket.
There are a total of 10 teams in his hands. In this case, 3 are left as reserve teams.
Always support an aspect that may be broken.
After 3 miles, the teams, which had been formed, began to move forward.
The shield bearer was walking in front. He only had one layer of armor now and felt very dangerous.
The enemy's white-armored soldiers in the distance, their long bows, and their shining heavy shovel-shaped arrows are terrifying.
It is completely conceivable that as long as the opponent shoots an arrow, one of them will fall down.
They did not know the power of Manchu bows and arrows. If they knew, they would be even more afraid.
At this time, bows and arrows had a farther range than matchlock guns.
At this time, Jurchens generally use bows with 7 to 8 power. The heavy arrows they shoot can penetrate iron armor within 50 meters, chain armor and cotton armor at 70 meters, and leather armor at 110 meters.
The power range of their matchlock guns is only 50-60 meters.
The effective range is only 50-60 meters, and the lead bullet is too floaty and too light.
Why a musket with a range of 50 meters can replace a bow with a range of 150-200 meters is still a matter of cost.
Human life is worthless these days.
Equipment and food are valuable.
It trains quickly, goes to the battlefield quickly, dies quickly, equipment can be recycled, and food can be saved.
If you can kill one of the enemy's archers, it's worth killing ten musketeers.
Entering a flesh and blood factory, a healthy worker can only live for three years. What is this worth?
But now the opponent has 300 people, and they have 1,500 people. If 1,000 people die, and 300 people are killed, it will still be profitable.
The question is how to ensure that these 1,000 people are willing to exchange their money?
The Westerners relied on whips and military sticks, played Stockholm tactics, and beat the soldiers into fools and idiots. Anyway, practicing firing a gun for a month can become a conditioned reflex, and all steps are fixed.
Before, I wore a giant shield and iron armor. I was tired, but I felt at ease when walking.
Now it's walking very slowly.
The deputy general quickly realized this problem, but he could only order the military judge of the small team and the last row of the supervising team to urge the advance.
He felt at risk of failure.
Because the opponent's bows and arrows have a long range and strong power.
And his people, judging from their slow steps, have not been trained and beaten into idiots by Western military law.
Now we can only hope that the matchlock soldiers inside can have enough output.
The deputy general's palms were sweaty.
If he was given a hope at this time, he hoped that his artillery would be dragged up quickly.
When I was marching, I disliked the slowness of others, but when I used it, I regretted not carrying it with me.
Wait until the team reaches 150 meters.
"Stop!"
The deputy general saw through the telescope that the other side's soldiers began to draw their bows.
Although the range of the bow and arrow is 200 meters, that is the limit, and the arrows shot are too wasteful.
And although they are powerful, they can only shoot seven to eight times at most.
Therefore, it is necessary to inflict maximum damage in the shortest time, so that the enemy's morale can be quickly destroyed, and then a round of charge can be harvested.
This move has been tried and tested against ordinary Ming army camp leaders.
This is also the root cause of the Jurchens' victory in previous large-scale battles involving hundreds of thousands of people.
At this time, the deputy general's staff reminded in a low voice: "Morale can be boosted but not depleted. Stopping at this time will make the soldiers have a chance to escape."
"No problem, order the left and right wings to send out a small team each to start detouring through the mountains and bushes." The deputy general thought of a way.
That is to take advantage of the large number of people and try to reduce the density of the opponent's arrows at one time.
If the enemy wants to avoid being surrounded, he must allocate some people to monitor and intercept the roundabout opponent.
Otherwise, when the detour is successful, the three sides will be surrounded and fire at the same time, and the enemy will not be able to escape.
The deputy general also understood that the opponent would retreat sooner or later, so it was impossible to allow his own retreat to be cut off.
Once the retreat was cut off, the most precious white-armored cavalry could not escape.
In this way, the density of enemy arrows can be reduced to at least half or even one-third of the original.
Sure enough, in the face of his forced detour, the other party also started to take action.
However, the method of action was not as he imagined, dividing the troops to intercept, but concentrating all the troops and pounced directly!
This reflects the strength and courage of the Jurchen soldiers!
If it were an ordinary Ming army, they would probably send troops to intercept them: No, they should have left the infantry and cavalry in embarrassment early in the morning and ran away. There would be no such battle to test combat strength intelligence!
"You're careless!" the deputy general clapped his hands. He still didn't have enough combat experience.
More experience to kill some thieves.
Wen Rensheng also wanted to recruit some experienced generals, but that could easily be suspected of treason.
This deputy general was once a Qianhu, a Qianhu who fled. His business was cheated by civil servants and he became so poor that he ran away in debt.
I have fought many battles, but I have no experience fighting against strong enemies.
He still doesn't understand his opponent's psychology.
At this moment, he realized his gaffe and quickly ordered: "Every unit is ready to fight! You are free to choose the time to fight!"
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This is when the help of daily training shows.
"Pikemen resist the impact and prepare to defend against arrows!"
"Shield Guards!"
"Arquebusiers start preparing!"
Facing the squad leader's roar and the military judge's stick, the soldiers began to move quickly.
Although his legs were weak and his hands were shaking, the tactical movements were still completed quickly.
At this time, 30 white armors, more than 200 flag soldiers, and more than 100 infantrymen, 70 of whom were already close to a hundred meters away, began to take out light arrows and immediately launched them.
First throw three rounds to see if the enemy is shaken.
Then they used heavy arrows to get closer to 70 meters and shoot again. This range was the musket range that they had tried their best to find out.
Within this range, Ming army shooting was often ineffective.
However, they can easily break through armor with heavy arrows and shoot the enemy until they collapse.
At this time, 300 light arrows were thrown into the sky.
"Lance against arrows!"
The pikemen quickly formed a forest of spears.
A single spear is definitely useless. The general in the movie shakes off the arrow and knocks it away, which does not exist at all.
In reality, they are all shot into hedgehogs.
It's all about three layers of armor to save your life.
If you are unlucky, you will be shot in the head and the person will be dead.
But the gun forest still has some effects.
At least it's better than a gun that does nothing.
Soon the light arrow fell.
About a third of them were shot down with spears.
But two thirds still fall into the array!
In fact, if you are more well-trained, you can evacuate in advance and then wait for the shooting before regrouping.
But that's too much to ask, and it can easily lead to confusion.
In addition, it will allow the opponent to find opportunities to rush into the formation.
It is easy for soldiers to evacuate, but it is difficult to gather them together.
After all, Wen Rensheng couldn’t arm them with super-era ideas.
"ah!"
"Ah! My arm!"
"my eyes!"
In the first team of 150 people, more than 20 people were injured in one moment!
This is because the stations are not very dense.
Mainly in the middle of the five front and rear rows, each row has a distance of 3 meters to facilitate replacement. Each matchlock soldier also has a distance of more than one meter to prevent each other from burning each other's gunpowder bags.
This shows that the opponent's archery skills are very strong. Even if he throws the arrow, he can hit it relatively accurately.
Then came two more rounds of projectiles.
In the end, 70 people were injured!
The second team facing each other head-on is about to collapse!
Fortunately, at this time, the two teams on the left and right had already taken the opportunity to quickly approach, and then started firing muskets.
At this time, we were on the verge of battle, and the deputy general had just delegated command.
Because he couldn't control it at this time.
All he can do is mobilize reserves, order a general retreat, and replace certain squads.
As for how the specific team chooses the time to attack, he cannot give orders one by one.
Because there is not enough time.
Using semaphores or riding horses to inform them is a waste of opportunity.
Just like now, if he orders an attack from left to right, it will take precious 30 seconds to notify the other party.
At this time, it was enough for the opponent to launch three or four rounds of attacks.
The musketeers from the two teams on the left and right, while the team in the middle acted as a target to attract fire, had quickly approached 60 meters away, and then opened fire!
It's not something a human can do like someone like John, who gets close to 20 meters or even 15 meters away and shoots.
It tests the will of the soldiers so much that they have to be trained into puppets to be able to line up and shoot.
"No!" the red-haired officer shouted loudly.
A burst of white gunpowder smoke suddenly rose!
Then there was a crackling sound!
At this distance, the armor-breaking ability of the musket is not very strong.
Of the 30 white-armored men, only two were unlucky, and the flying projectiles hit them in the face.
They were so painful that they covered their faces and fell down.
But those bannermen who were shooting arrows were in bad luck.
Of the 200 people, thirty-four fell at once!
This is the mastery of fighter opportunities.
If the frontline officers and soldiers do not have the spirit to dare to fight, they will not be able to seize the opportunity even if they are right in front of them.
