Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1420 Reckless against Reckless (Part [-])
Although Ma Chengxun is young, like his third uncle and other Ma family children, he joined the army with his father at the age of thirteen or fourteen. He has rich experience in the battlefield, and his broad knowledge and keen eyesight are extraordinary.As soon as the Jianzhou Army fought against the Ming Army, he realized that he might have underestimated these Jurchen barbarians before.

The weapons and equipment of the Jianzhou Army looked a bit shabby.The sword and shield players rushing to the front even have their own weapons. The shields are wooden shields, and the shape is not uniform. The big ones are big and the small ones are small. Although they are mostly rectangular, there are also round shields; the swords are not uniform, Simple knives are the mainstream, and some have the Yanling knife commonly used in Jinghua, as well as ordinary machetes. The sharp-eyed Ma Chengxun even discovered the hooked hatchet commonly used in the Central Plains.

The armor wearing rate on them is barely passable, but according to Ma Chengxun's visual inspection, the level of these armors is not high. Basically, they are mainly cloth face armor and cotton armor, and there is no heavy armor such as Mingguang armor and Shanwen armor.Moreover, the colors and styles of these armors are also not uniform, and there are all kinds of varieties. If Gao Situ is here, he must talk about "standardization" again.

From a common point of view, the combat effectiveness of such an army is usually not much higher, at least the combat effectiveness of Ming army guards with similar equipment level is obviously not much higher.However, at this moment, Ma Chengxun knew just by looking at their "starting moves" in battle that the combat effectiveness of this Jianzhou army was by no means comparable to that of ordinary guards.

They rushed down from the forests on both sides of the valley, with swords and shields in hand, and rushed forward without any hesitation. They didn't procrastinate like the soldiers of the Ming army and guards, but rushed forward with their shields up, shouting Cheng Xun still doesn't understand Manchurian.

If it is not a strange thing to say that "barbarians are brave and brave", then what really shocked Ma Chengxun's heart was the bows and arrows of these Jianzhou Jurchens.

Bow and arrow, Ma Chengxun has seen this thing a lot, Mongolians are famous for riding and shooting, Ma Chengxun has seen the power of bow and arrow countless times since he was a child.But this time is different. The bows and arrows of the Jianzhou soldiers are completely different from those of the Mongols.

The bows used by Jianzhou soldiers are the same as those of their predecessors in the Jin Dynasty.It is characterized by large size, large bow tip and high pulling force.The length of the bow is generally longer than that of an ordinary adult man, and the smaller size can reach the height of an ordinary adult woman.

Obviously, the characteristic of this kind of bow is that it pays attention to "stability" and "accuracy", which is different from the value orientation of the bow of the Han nationality - the bow of the Han people pays more attention to the range, and the word "hundred steps through Yang" has already explained this orientation.

Ma Chengxun found that these Jianzhou soldiers who used Jianzhou bows generally shot at close range with large seesaw and heavy arrows. They did not seem to pursue range, but their armor-piercing ability was quite good.

Ma Chengxun’s cavalry is light cavalry, equipped with excellent armor, but after all, light cavalry needs to consider the load of the horse, and Mongolian horses are not known for their weight, so their armor is still far from the infantry’s heavy armor. .

As soon as the two sides fought at this time, Ma Chengxun quickly discovered that the archers of the Jianzhou soldiers could shoot and injure the cavalry under him at a distance of fifty steps.According to his past experience, once the distance is shortened to thirty steps, it may directly cause a kill.

In fact, the bows used by Jianzhou soldiers at this time were the so-called Qing bows in later generations. The structure of this kind of bow was symmetrical from the middle to both sides, which were grip, bow arm, string pad and bow tip in turn.The handle is made of wood with warm wood and shark skin on it; the inside of the bow arm is made of bamboo or elm or birch, with ox horn or goat horn on the surface, and ox tendon (some use deer tendon) on the back; the string cushion has bone Made of wood, there are also wooden ones; the tip of the bow is made of wood, with a middle angle piece.Bowstrings are divided into three categories: leather strings, silk strings and tendon strings.

Compared with the early firearms of the Ming army in the original history, the Qing bow is powerful and accurate, and it does have an advantage on the battlefield.But it is different now. The level of firearms of the Ming army has greatly exceeded the same period in history because of the relationship between the high pragmatism and Jinghua.

Although the Jianzhou archers that Ma Chengxun faced at this time remained at the historical level, the advantages of long-range weapons no longer existed. The Wanli Type II cavalry in the hands of the Ming cavalry surpassed the Jianzhou bow in terms of range and accuracy.

The only thing to worry about is the "continuous firing ability". The bursts of muskets have a long interval. Even if a cardboard fixed charge is used, it is definitely not as good as a bow that can be shot again after drawing an arrow.

As for later generations, some people always say that drawing a strong bow is easy to cause loss of strength, and usually only a few times can be used. This statement is actually a bit of a surreptitious concept.If it is to open a strong bow in the style of archery competitions in the future, it may indeed be true that a person can only shoot a few arrows before losing strength.

The reason is very simple, that is, due to the need to ensure the competition results during archery competitions, the aiming time is generally too long.That is to say, the shooter draws the full bow and keeps it for too long, which requires a lot of extra effort, and at the same time keeps the muscles tight and high-intensity, forming a general muscle training mode of "anaerobic exercise".

Anyone who has been involved in fitness knows that the requirement of anaerobic exercise is "heavy load, low frequency", and usually no more than [-] exercises in a group will cause loss of strength.

But in fact, fighting is not anaerobic exercise. It is impossible to use your maximum strength to open a bow. At most, you can open a bow that requires [-]% to [-]% of your strength.After drawing the bow, it will never maintain the aiming posture for a long time, but aim quickly, shoot quickly, and prepare for the next arrow quickly.

As for accuracy, that is part of the "battlefield experience". When a person gets used to this archery method, although his accuracy may not be as high as in later archery competitions, it will not be low enough to meet the needs of the battlefield.

To put it simply, the battlefield considers the overall efficiency, and any practice that may lower the overall efficiency will be discarded.

Now Ma Chengxun has seen that the reason why the Jianzhou soldiers charged so fast was, firstly, that "the barbarians are not afraid of death", and secondly, the Jianzhou sword and shield fighters had to do it in order to create shooting opportunities for the archers.But in this way, Ma Chengxun was a little tricky, and he was a little annoyed by the terrain of the river valley.

The long and narrow river valley greatly restricted the deployment of the cavalry, and it was almost a dream to attack around and attack the side.In particular, Ma Chengxun's troops came from Datong, and he had been fighting against the Mongols for a long time. The battlefield environment has always been open. In this kind of area where there are mountains and forests on both sides except for narrow river valleys, he feels embarrassed that he has nowhere to use his energy.

The only way to fight becomes very stupid, which is to attack directly forward. No matter whether your Jianzhou army wants to outflank, intercept or other purposes, I will just kill all the way and finish the job.As long as you kill them, even though the river valley is narrow, it is flat land after all, can your infantry still catch up?
As long as they can't catch up, the battle will even be considered a victory - Ma Chengxun visually estimates that there are at least [-] Jianzhou soldiers in the valley today, and the strength of Jianzhou Zuowei is only [-]. They still need To deal with the other three-way army (Ma Chengxun did not expect that Nurhachi would dare to ignore the South and East Roads), so Hetuala at this moment may already be an empty city.

Although cavalry are not good at attacking cities, it is not difficult to take an empty city, right?What's more, when he appears under the city of Hetuala, since the Jianzhou army in front of him has no time to turn around, who knows whether Hetuala will think that their army has been wiped out?Once Hetuala thinks this way, it is possible to directly open the city and surrender. After all, the Jurchens have a limited population, and the casualties they can bear are always very limited.

It's a long story, but in Ma Chengxun's mind, he sorted it out very quickly. He drew his knife and shouted: "Front arrow array! The soldiers come forward, the whole army is tight, and I will kill you!"

The Ma family has always been famous for its soldiers, and in the past ten years or so, the Ma family has been honored with high pragmatism. They followed Jinghua in Shanxi to participate in the border trade, and their financial resources were far superior to those of the same period in history. Therefore, the number of soldiers was much larger than in the original history.

In the original history, although the Ma family successively produced a series of chief soldiers, deputy chief soldiers, and a large number of generals, the total number of soldiers was less than [-] at most, and they still belonged to the generals in the family. .For example, Ma Gui, the actual head of the Ma family in the middle and late Wanli period, never had more than [-] soldiers in his hands, usually around [-].

However, the Ma family in this life is really developed because of their high-practical thighs.Ma Chengxun alone had [-] soldiers in Kaiyuan, and all of them were equipped with two horses.This time he left five hundred soldiers in Kaiyuan as Dinghai Shenzhen, and brought out a thousand soldiers to fight.

The impact of a thousand cavalrymen is naturally astonishing, but due to the relationship between the river and the valley, no more than three hundred can be deployed on the front.These 300 people are the arrows of the front arrow array. All of them loaded their guns and fired a shot first during the charge, causing more than 100 casualties to the Jianzhou soldiers in the front. The Jianzhou soldiers rushing down from both sides were stunned .

However, the Jianzhou soldiers of this era were really brave, and they really went forward one after another. Just after more than 100 people fell in the front, many of them were still rolling and crying on the ground, and the Jianzhou soldiers behind them came up with red eyes.

Following E Yidu and An Feiyanggu's loud shouts, the Jianzhou soldiers bravely met the Da soldiers who had just inserted bayonets into their lances.

In fact, Ma Chengxun didn't know that the Jianzhou soldiers encountered by the soldiers were not ordinary soldiers. They were not ordinary soldiers in Niulu, but "Ba Yala".

Before sending troops to Hada last year, Nurhachi organized "Ba Yala" as a garrison.Bayala means "army guard" and constitutes his personal guard.

In the original history, there was also this establishment. "Manchu Old Archives" stated that "every cow records a hundred soldiers, divided into three teams of Baibayala, Hongbayala, and Black Battalion", all of which are elite cavalry.Nurhaci himself had more than [-] cavalry, and other banner owners also had Bayalas of varying numbers. These Bayalas played an important role on the battlefield.

However, these Bajala are not cavalry (in history, Nurhachi began to have a large-scale cavalry establishment after he conquered Yehe), but infantry with relatively sophisticated weapons and equipment and relatively stronger personal force.

As for the number of people, of course there are not 500. In fact, there are only [-] in total. They are divided into two Baya La Niu Lu, one red and one white, but the organization is larger, with [-] people in each Niu Lu, which is unique in Jianzhou.The generals leading the Red and White Ba Yala are Eyidu and An Feiyangu.

Ma Jiada had a thousand soldiers, and Red and White Baya La also had a thousand soldiers. The elite soldiers of the two sides collided abruptly like this.

Now that the soldiers have already met the enemy with swords, the soldiers have already installed bayonets, but this weapon is still easy to use in horse battles, but it is not particularly good for horse-to-foot battles-the only part in the hand is the butt of the gun, and the moves that can be performed Basically, it can only be based on thorns.

As we all know, the most common melee weapon of the prairie cavalry is the machete. The advantage is that it is convenient to use the kinetic energy of the horse to kill the enemy effortlessly.Although the Central Plains cavalry used long spears and horses, they were mainly equipped against enemies who belonged to the Central Plains cavalry, because the armor of the Central Plains cavalry was usually stronger.

Although the nomadic cavalry sometimes faced the Central Plains cavalry, but because of the popularity of tactics such as Mangu, they did not often engage in hedging with the Central Plains cavalry, and more often they were used to loot ordinary people, etc. high.

Bayala in Jianzhou also had armored soldiers. It stands to reason that the bayonet cavalry guns of Ma Jiada soldiers happened to come in handy. However, Ma Chengxun soon discovered a big problem: although the current Jianzhou soldiers' shields cannot block musket bullets, There are huge restrictions on the performance of the spear and bayonet!
The shields of these people are not simply hand-held, but hand-held with bound arms.It can be seen as the forearm of the left hand is placed in a ring on the left side of the shield, and the left hand grabs another ring on the right side of the inner face, so that it is almost impossible to get rid of the shield.

At the same time, when the bayonet stabs out, it is generally blocked by the shield.Since these shields are made of hardwood from the old forests of Changbai Mountain, it is difficult to pull out the bayonet after being pierced.As soon as there was a battle ahead, the number of soldiers injured by this move quickly exceeded [-].

Ma Chengxun reacted quickly, yelling to remind the soldiers to be careful not to stab the enemy's shield, but on the battlefield, most of the time, it is based on instinct and experience, how can there be too much in a moment? Variety?

Although there are quite a few soldiers with excellent skills and tactics, who can find the opponent's flaws between the lightning and flint, and jump over the shield to stab Jianzhou Baya on the back, but there are also many people who are still stopped by the bayonet, or give up riding the gun, or their right hand is shot. hit.

It was just a short attack on each other, and the casualties of both sides exceeded a hundred in an instant.

Whether it's Ma Chengxun, the other party's E Yidu or An Fei Yanggu, they all turn red-eyed all of a sudden.

"Fuck his grandma!" Ma Chengxun was furious, he clamped his horse's belly and stood up.This is the tradition of the Ma family. Going into battle in person can better arouse the morale of the army, and he thinks that the armor on his body is more sophisticated and sturdy, and he is not afraid of the opponent's cold arrows.

Although E Yidu and An Feiyanggu were not as angry as Ma Chengxun, they were more worried about Nurhachi's anger. When they saw this, they all roared and rode out - of course they had horses.

Ma Chengxun jumped forward, relying on the long knife he was good at instead of the bayonet and the spear in his hand, he chopped and wounded three Ba ​​Yala one after another with his flexible knife skills.

Ma Chengxun was in full swing, and was about to shout "Da Bing follow me to defeat the enemy", when suddenly two cavalry rushed out from the left and right sides in front of him, the left cavalry kept silent, just charged forward with a knife, while the right cavalry rushed forward. He shouted: "Ma Chengxun is going crazy, it's time for you to confer the head!"

A sharp light flashed in Ma Chengxun's eyes, he put the knife on his chest, and snorted coldly: "Where can you jump the beam, dare to speak out!"
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