Most of the soldiers who invade the camp are all-rounders. Whether they are sword players or gun players, almost everyone can use a bow and arrow.
In history, when the Chuang army captured Beijing, the Ming Dynasty scholar Zhao Shijin, who was in Beijing, left many relevant records in the "Jiashen Chronicle". Zhao Shijin described that the soldiers of the Chuang army were not divided into different types of soldiers. Almost everyone was equipped with bows and arrows and felt hats.
, the shape of the arrow jacket, royal armor and shoulder bow left a deep impression on him.
When the main force of the camp invaders launched an assault on the official army formation from the front, they naturally would not forget to shoot a round of bows and arrows first to disrupt the army's formation. However, due to the shortage of equipment and materials for the camp invaders, the number of bows and arrows was very insufficient.
You can only shoot one wave before the impact.
Otherwise, using bow and arrow shooting, combined with the assault of swordsmen, Li Laiheng does not need to detour around the hillside. It is probably possible to defeat the army's spear formation without suffering too many casualties.
Liu Fangliang, who was on the hillside, saw that the main force of the camp had fired a wave of bows and arrows, and the army array was affected, causing a slight confusion. He turned to Liu Rukui and ordered: "Zao Ying, take your sword team, we
Come down the mountain now!”
Liu Rukui's face as dark as coal immediately showed a cheerful smile, and he stretched out his arms. The length was much longer than an ordinary person's arms. When opened, it really looked like an eagle's wings. Perhaps this was the reason for Liu Rukui's nickname of "Soap Eagle"
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This black eagle held the waist knife with his right arm and swung it in a big circle. He took a long breath and shouted loudly: "Brothers of the Knife Team, follow the Zaoqi!"
Li Laiheng also bit his lip. He glanced at Liu Fangliang. After getting Liu Fangliang's tacit nod, he concentrated on the flanks of the army at the foot of the hillside. The little tiger held the tiger head handle of the waist knife with one hand and greeted Hao Yaoqi with the other hand.
He and Bai Wang and others motioned for everyone to follow.
This hillside is not particularly steep, but the frost in October was melted by the sun, causing some frost water to turn the ground muddy. Li Laiheng fell down, stirring up a lot of muddy water, but he did not have any thoughts
He paid attention to these details, but tried his best to maintain the balance of his body, relying on the terrain of the hillside, and rushed down.
The one rushing at the front was Liu Rukui, the "Soap Eagle". With his arms stretched out, this dark warrior looked more like a giant than Hao Yaoqi. But his body was extremely flexible, and he ran and jumped on the hillside with a single sword in hand.
Like walking on flat ground.
Following "Zaoying" is Li Laiheng's number one general Hao Yaoqi. Hao Yaoqi's bravery is also outstanding among the generals in the camp. However, because he always violates military discipline, his status has always been low.
Now they have become the subordinates of Little Tiger who have recently joined the camp.
But Hao Yaoqi's bravery was indeed extraordinary. He only held a rather worn-out waist knife in his hand, but his momentum was no less powerful than when he was holding a big stick.
These two fierce generals were the first to charge down from the hillside and crashed into the right wing of the army's formation. At this time, the main force leading the camp attack, led by Li Zicheng, had attracted most of the attention of the army from the front. Liu Fangliang and Li Laiheng
This surprise force was completely unexpected. They suddenly rushed down the side of the hillside, which really gave the officers and soldiers a full surprise.
Li Laiheng could even see the shocked expressions on the faces of the officers and soldiers. They followed the discipline wholeheartedly and managed to maintain a strict formation after being shot by bows and arrows. The hedgehog gathered a large number of spears and constantly tried to repel the intruders who were charging deep into the battle line.
Battalion warrior.
When Liu Rukui and Hao Yaoqi rushed down the hillside on the right, these officers and soldiers were completely unprepared. Their right wing was completely exposed to the outflanking troops. Hao Yaoqi rushed into the enemy formation with the steel knife in his hand, only to
In an instant, he killed an officer and soldier with a spear who was facing him sideways.
Hao Yaoqi enjoyed the feeling of being splattered with blood. Relying on his tall and tall figure, he was condescending and slashed another officer's arm with a knife. The way he charged into the enemy formation reminded Li Laiheng of Hao Yaoqi.
To Hao Yaoqi, the way Qi usually ate a crowing rooster seemed to be no different from killing a chicken in his old camp to Hao Yaoqi.
To Hao Yaoqi, who was extremely brave and brave, perhaps those brave soldiers from the countryside were indeed as fragile as chickens.
Li Laiheng felt that he seemed to have a deeper understanding of Hao Yaoqi. In the past, he only thought that Hao Yaoqi was a simple-minded man who liked to steal food. But now it seems that Hao Yaoqi is better than Li Laiheng expected.
Much of his cruelty lies in the fact that, in his eyes, there is no difference between killing people and killing chickens, they are just like playing.
This kind of mentality even made Li Laiheng shudder to a certain extent. He knew that Zuo Liangyu's Chu army liked to kill people, and even impaled babies on spears for fun. Hao Yaoqi treated killing as a game.
If it is not controlled, it may develop into the situation of the beast army under Zuo Liangyu.
No wonder Hao Yaoqi in later history would become the confidant of He Tengjiao, the governor of the Ming army...
Li Laiheng cursed in his heart as he also rushed into the enemy formation. His bravery could not be compared with Liu Rukui and Hao Yaoqi. But at this time, the officers and soldiers were unprepared for the right wing, and most of them were facing them.
After discovering that the right wing was under attack, they tried to turn the direction of the spear array to the right, but this made the main attack on the front more smoothly. As a result, the officers and soldiers fell into chaos, and they did not even engage in a full-scale battle.
, many people dropped their spears and began to flee.
Li Laiheng slashed down the officers and soldiers in front of him who had no time to turn around. Behind him, the other soldiers under Bai Wang's command swarmed up. Through the gap in the battle line torn apart by Liu Rukui and Hao Yaoqi, they rushed into the army's spear formation.
Internally, this made it difficult for the pikemen to assemble and attack.
In fact, the Jangjing Pure Team is a tactic with many problems. It is too rigid, lacks flexibility, and has extremely poor adaptability to terrain. In addition to the circuitous hillside route that Li Laiheng thought of, if the camp invasion can lure the officers and soldiers of the Jangjung Pure Team,
Entering more complex and rugged terrain and dividing their formations can also easily annihilate officers and soldiers.
Originally, the tactics of a pure unit with spears must be used together with a powerful firearms unit to be more effective in combat. Moreover, this type of firearms unit also needs to be a firearms unit that carries short weapons and has the function of a sword player.
Ai Guobin was in vain to be the commander-in-chief of the Ming Army. He was born as a general, but he didn't understand these military techniques. Apparently, he didn't even read military books like Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Jixiao". Otherwise, he wouldn't have been trained by Li Laiheng in Mizhi.
What kind of treasure do you think this long spearman is?
Li Laiheng trained a pure spear unit at that time, but based on the conditions of Mizhi Xiangyong, the spear soldiers were cheaper in equipment, the training was relatively simple, and they could be formed quickly. The little tiger himself also knew that a simple pure spear unit did not work.
It cannot adapt to the ever-changing complex battlefield. Even if the spear formation is paired with powerful firearms troops, like the Spanish, a hollow square formation still needs to be paired with a certain number of swordsmen and cavalry to have practical significance.
A simple spear formation or a large hollow square formation has very low battlefield adaptability.
Just like at this time, the pure spear troops of the official army were attacked by the flanks of the camp. They immediately fell into chaos, the formation was in chaos, and the speed of their collapse was even faster than that of the even worse-trained local bandits.
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Ai Guobin was really stupid and incompetent. Dusi, who had been serving as generals for generations, were so ignorant of military strategy. Li Laiheng no longer had any doubts about the rapid collapse and disintegration of the Ming Dynasty in later history.
Of course, it is not that the Ming Dynasty did not have people who truly understood military affairs, nor did these people have the opportunity to occupy important positions. But at this time, the system of the Ming Dynasty, even if it allowed those talented people to occupy important and high positions, it would only allow more people to occupy important positions.
Too much carrion and silt dragged them into the water, and they either sank together, or they could only be dragged down by the silt and headed for destruction.
"Hold on! Hold on! Reinforcements are coming!"
The officers and soldiers were not completely dull and did not fight back. Li Siquan, Ai Guobin's personal soldier, was shouting and screaming in the army formation. He and several other generals were trying their best to mobilize the troops in the rear.
Troops came forward to try to block the flank attack that broke into the camp.
Some of these reinforcements were Ai Guobin's servants, and some were the troops that Zheng Guodong's army had defeated before. At this time, they were improvised by Ai Guobin and Li Siquan, and they were put on the front line. These troops were not pure troops with spears, equipment, organization and array.
They were all in chaos, so they had no choice but to bite the bullet first. What Ai Guobin was thinking about might be how long these people could resist him. If they could resist him until he could escape back to Longju Village, that would be great.