Darkhan Taiji, looking at the large mass of dark infantry in the distance, felt a sudden tremor in his heart for no reason.
Recently, they have been fighting very smoothly. All the garrison soldiers near Gyeonggi Province collapsed at the first touch. Almost none of them could last for three rounds. Often, as soon as the cavalry charged, the garrison soldiers began to panic. The cavalry galloped in all directions.
Throwing light arrows, these guards soldiers who were not protected by heavy armor suddenly fell into a large area.
Then they started to herd the sheep and ran away all over the mountains and plains. The officer restrained them at first and cut a few of them in an attempt to stop them. But then when they saw that it was impossible, they also ran away on horseback.
Among these guard soldiers, the young and strong ones have already run away. The rest are all old men who cannot run away even if they want to. Even when they go to other places, their physical strength is no longer enough at this age, and there is no one to hire them to work. They simply stay here.
The house is in ruins.
Their weapons were all red and full of rust. They didn't even bother to polish them. They just went to the battlefield with rusty swords and guns. They didn't have armor on them, and the inventory in the warehouse had long been destroyed.
The officer was sold. The ancestral mandarin duck war jacket he was wearing could create a gash when pulled with his hands, let alone withstand swords and guns.
Some of their clothes have even been passed down for three generations. They are already brittle and dark.
Now, these Mongolians did not take these people who came by boat from the opposite side seriously. Although it was their first time to see a steamship and they felt it was very novel, it could not scare them.
The Mongolians looked at these people, who were thin and wearing dark clothes. They thought they were the same as those mandarin duck war coats that had not been washed for decades. They just thought they were another group of guard soldiers.
But when the opponent's military formation came closer, they saw it clearly and took a breath of air.
The opponent's armor is very sophisticated. It is all made of large pieces of metal armor, but I don't know what kind of craftsmanship it is, but it does not reflect sunlight in the sun. Moreover, each of the fourteen battalion heads forms an independent square array.
Slowly move forward, pulling the people along sideways.
In the middle are the vehicle battalion and artillery, as well as the three battalions led by Qin Liangyu himself. Ma Xianglin and Zhang Fengyi each have a cavalry battalion. The remaining eight battalions, four on each side, form a diamond-shaped formation. Protect the Chinese army from both sides.
Two wings.
The head of a battalion is a hollow square array. Four hollow square arrays are about fifty meters apart from each other, forming a diamond array. The two diamond arrays on the left and right are the two wings.
The Chinese army in the middle has a vehicle camp in the front, two infantry battalions in the back, and three cavalry battalions in the back.
Qin Liangyu and the Chinese army's structures were located between the chariot camp and the two infantry battalions. The three cavalry battalions were lined up behind the Chinese army's tent.
This formation was given to Qin Liangyu by Yang Fan. They suffered a big loss in the last bloody battle at Hunhe River. Naturally, Yang Fan, a firearms expert, had to ask for advice.
Yang Fan felt that they did not have enough financial resources to build a full firearms force, so he gave them the technology of the hollow phalanx.
This formation is very useful for cavalry. Qin Liangyu purchased a thousand Japanese iron cannons and used them in the two infantry battalions behind the carriage camp. The four square formations on both wings were equipped with ratchet-strung steel crossbows. Crossbows
His hands were hidden inside the phalanx, waiting for an opportunity to fire the crossbow.
These crossbows have a much greater range than mounted bows. First of all, riding bows cannot be made too large because they are used on horseback. Generally, the range is not comparable to that of a walking bow. The pulling force of a ratchet-wound crossbow is much greater than that of a bow, because the pulling force of the bow is controlled by the person.
The physical strength of the crossbow is very high. The ratchet-type crossbow does not have this concern. The pulling force can be very large, and the range will naturally be much longer.
Fan Shoufan's five hundred riflemen placed a team of thirty people in each square formation on the two wings. The four square formations on the flanks totaled 120 riflemen. They were in the innermost part of the hollow square formation, responsible for firepower.
Support is a kind of insurance for them.
The remaining 260 people stayed in the Chinese Army and were responsible for supporting the car camp that was under the greatest pressure.
Darkhan pointed with his horsewhip at the stone pillar formation that had stopped five hundred meters away. He turned around and said to everyone: "Look, the things Qi Jiguang left behind back then are all light sidecars. They look like wooden boards.
It’s one finger thick and can be used to push a ball. Hahaha.”
The Mongolians laughed wildly. It is true that those sidecars were very weak. At least Qi Jiguang's sidecar also had hardwood boards four fingers thick. With one finger thick board, the Mongols approached on horseback and used an axe.
It can be chopped to pieces directly.
Spears can also pierce. If the cavalry rushes over and throws hooks and ropes, they can even pull these broken vehicles down. Because the wooden boards used are too thin and the weight of the entire vehicle is too low.
Taiji and Tabu Nang laughed for a while and then asked for a fight.
They didn't look down on this unit, especially when they saw that there were female generals behind the Chinese army's defense line. This made them look down on these people even more.
These people are thin and small, only a little over 1.5 meters tall. They are incomparable to the tall Mongolians. They are simply unsightly. Their weight is estimated to be just over 100 kilograms. The contrast with the strong Mongolian man who weighs more than 200 kilograms is simply incredible.
too big.
However, the long spears in their hands are quite scary. These long spears are all unpainted white wax poles. They are more than four and a half meters long. The spearheads are not very big and are estimated to be only about two taels. (The spearheads of big guns are generally light.
Small. Because of the torque problem, the spear head is too heavy to lift. People who can use halberds and Ma Shuo have amazing arm strength. The longer the pole, the heavier the spear head, and the higher the arm strength requirements.)
Wu Keshan looked at it for a while and said: "It's so strange that they actually put up this kind of formation with two scattered wings. I have never seen it before. Our cavalry rushed in as soon as they charged. What can four independent small square formations do?
use."
Seleng smiled and said: "My warriors rushed in, and they were divided and surrounded and defeated each one."
At this time, Darkhan had regained his pride, and his intuition made him uncomfortable, so he quickly passed it. "Everyone, there are not many enemies, only seven or eight thousand people. We have 20,000 people. Who is willing to take the lead and annihilate us?"
These people can get an extra share of the food on board."
Seleng immediately shouted: "I'm going, no one wants to fight with me."
Wu Keshan also shouted: "How can your seven hundred men be enough? My one thousand cavalry is not enough."
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen Taiji and Tabu Nang, with their cavalry ranging from four to five hundred to as many as a thousand cavalry, rushed towards the two wings in a chaotic manner. Their subordinate relationship was very weak in the first place, so naturally there were
When they see the benefits, they immediately rush forward. If they lose the battle, they turn around and run away.
Darkhan led the army towards the Chinese army. In his opinion, these people were most likely cavalry soldiers coming from the Grand Canal. He was not worried about the cavalry soldiers. He still knew something about the Ming Dynasty.
The Cao soldiers are responsible for maintaining the canal and supervising the security along the canal from Hangzhou to the imperial capital. Their combat effectiveness is probably as good as that of the guards.
"Xiang Lin, you go to the left wing. Fengyi, you go to the right wing. Guard both wings. Horqin's cavalry is the best in Eastern Mongolia. They have been fighting against Lin Dan Khan for so many years. I think they have some real skills. You two, supervise the two wings.
Keep it tight for me for four hours."
Ma Xianglin and Zhang Fengyi clasped their fists and received the order. Then they led their cavalry battalions to the two wings. The remaining four battalions of the Chinese army immediately shrank, and the car camp became a circular formation. Two iron artillery battalions hid behind the car, and one battalion
The infantrymen raised their steel crossbows.
Fan Shoufan led 260 militiamen carrying old sleeve-type rifles and waited in the center. They planned to attack if the front was breached.
The old slide has a five-round magazine, and the bolt-action rifle can fire seven or eight rounds a minute without any problems. It is enough to plug any loopholes.
