Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 881
Zhang Bingzhong is direct, and Xin Ai is even more direct.

In just a few months, he changed from wearing shoes to being barefoot. How could Xin Ai be polite when he met the weak Ming army in the field?Not to mention being polite, it is absolutely not to be let go.

Xin Ai has fought with the Xuanda Bianjun for most of her life, and she knows the situation of the Bianjun very well. Although the Bianjun as a whole is a poor word, but poor also has to be graded.

Taking Datong Town as an example, there are fifteen guards in Datong. If you want to talk about Shuozhou Guard, Weizhou Guard, and Andong Zhongtun Guard, they are indeed poor. It's starving to death.

However, the four guards of Datong—that is, the front, back, left, and right of Datong—are definitely the generals among the dwarves, and they can live a good life.

why?Because these four guards are not only the core guards of Datong Town, but also now hold important places in the horse market such as Desheng Fort and Shahukou Fort.In other words, they were treated well in the past, and now they can get some benefits from the horse market, so naturally they are not comparable to ordinary guards.

As for Zhang Bingzhong's troops, the main force was the Datong Zuowei troops, and the rest were three or four hundred members of his own family, all of whom were relatively wealthy among the frontier troops.

Of course, Xin Ai could tell the flag of Datong Zuowei at a glance. He knew that this was a lucrative opponent, and there must be a lot of luggage accompanying the army.

Then what else is there to say, naturally, hurry up and prepare to grab it!

As for combat effectiveness, Xin Ai and Datong left back had fought before, but the situation back then was different from today. At that time, Datong left back was defending in the city. Since Xin Ai didn't want to suffer heavy casualties, she didn't choose to attack by force. , so they are actually in a situation where they have fought many times in name, but the actual fight is not too many.

However, even though she had never fought head-to-head, Xin Ai had a great psychological advantage. Firstly, it was because cavalrymen themselves were not afraid of infantry, especially Mongolian cavalry with the nature of horse archers. In the past, they were also on the offensive side, and they were generally fighting against the Ming army. This is naturally the easiest situation to cultivate a psychological advantage.

In fact, even when there was no tribute issue more than ten years ago, only Ma Fang was the only one in Xuanda Shanxi that Xin Ai found troublesome.

So at this moment, Xin Ai did not hesitate, and immediately ordered two troops to be divided, two thousand cavalry on the left and right, and began to prepare to harass and shoot.

This style of play is very common in the Mongolian army. It is to see if the opponent will panic when facing the Mongolian cavalry who are harassing the camp with fast horses. If the formation is chaotic or even collapsed due to panic, it is obviously an underdog.

In this case, Xin Ai will either continue to harass her for a while, or simply lead the main force to charge, it just depends on whether Xin Ai is in a hurry.

In case the opponent is calmer and takes the fight calmly, that's fine. What the Mongolian cavalry are most afraid of is endurance battles, as long as they continue to send troops to harass them round after round.

According to their hundreds of years of war experience, if they keep procrastinating like this, even if they can't defeat the enemy, they will be able to defeat the enemy sooner or later.

After all, cavalrymen are not afraid of being bitten by infantry. As long as they shoot in circles from a distance, while ensuring their own safety, they can continue to cause damage to the opponent. Although this kind of long-distance shooting is not powerful, it may not be able to kill many people. , but continuous harassment can seriously damage the morale of the opponent. If time is enough, the collapse of the opponent is only a matter of time.

After all, if you are only beaten but can't fight back, whoever it is will have times when you can't stand it.

The cavalry moved, but the infantry hardly moved.

This is not surprising. Infantry fighting cavalry cannot compete with humans in mobility, and their usual responses are relatively passive.But Xin Ai frowned, because the Datong Zuowei Ming army on the opposite side did not form the most common circular formation.

The circular formation is the most common defensive formation for infantry, especially when facing cavalry. The infantry of the Ming army encountered Mongolian cavalry in the wild, and it was a conditioned reflex to defend the enemy with a circular formation.

But there was an exception today. The Datong Ming army infantry formed a square formation that looked very thin. This formation was so thin that each of the four sides had only a few rows of soldiers. Go straight to the Chinese army and take down the opponent's general.

Xin Ai was a little puzzled, could it be that the opponent's general was an idiot who brought thousands of people from the Malay Grassland to reward Ben Huang Taiji?
But although there is only one Ma Fang in Xuanda Shanxi who really made him afraid, it does not mean that they really have no strong generals. In fact, the overall strength of the three towns in Xuanda Shanxi is very strong, otherwise they would not be able to handle it. I answer decades of ravages, isn't it?

Xin Ai didn't really believe that the general who was able to lead [-] elite troops out of the fortress in the three western towns of Xuanda Shan was really a fool, so he decided to observe for a while before making a decision.

The first thing the other party did made Xin Ai scratch her head. Their formation was already very thin. Now, with the cavalry he sent out in two directions, the first row of soldiers of the Datong Ming Army phalanx was far away from Xin Ai. Under the watchful eyes of the gunmen, not only did they not start loading the powder and ammunition to prepare for shooting, but they put a "long dagger" on the muzzle of the musket, um... It seems to be called a "short knife".

Xin Ai is a bit puzzled, what is the Ming army doing? Could it be that your muskets can shoot out daggers and use them as flying knives?
But then he understood it, because after the Ming army loaded the bayonet, they suddenly took a small step forward and squatted down, with the butt of the gun facing down, the "dagger" facing up, and the butt of the gun standing on the ground, "dagger" "The tip of the knife leaned forward, and everyone in the first row did so and remained still.

Xin Ai was startled for a moment, then sneered.

Seeing this, his fourth son, Hamu Badu'er, asked, "Why is Abu laughing?"

Xin Ai pouted in the direction of the Ming army, and said: "The Ming general on the opposite side is an idiot, and he wants to stop the Mongolian iron cavalry even with a few rows of troops like him?"

Hamu Baduer said: "The firearms of the Ming army are much more powerful than before. The opponent may think that the power of these few rows of firecrackers is enough to make us retreat in spite of difficulties."

Xin Ai sneered: "Retire in the face of difficulties? I have no way to retreat now!"

Hamu twitched the corner of Du'er's mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Xin Ai said again: "Besides, what is there to retreat? The firearms of the Ming army are even more powerful than before, but as long as they launch a charge, how many guns can they fire from a distance of several hundred steps? As long as they rush to the front of their formation, they can use Can such a thin array block the charge? At that time, it will be nothing more than a thousand miles away."

Hamu looked at Du'er, hesitantly said: "But the soldiers in their first row..."

"I saw it, but so what, that thing added together is not as long as a spear, not to mention there is only one row, can it stop the charge?"

Hamu thought about it, and it seems to be right. Although the long spear formation can restrain the cavalry from rushing into the formation, the long spears of the long spear formation are much longer than the Ming army's "gun muzzle knife", and it is impossible for the long spear formation to only place the first cavalry. In the first row, the Ming army wanted to rely on a row of "gun muzzles" to block the charge. Isn't this a dream?

Thinking of this, he felt relieved, nodded and said: "Maybe the chief general of the Ming army is a certain hereditary commander, and he doesn't know how to fight at all."

Just when Xin Ai and his son felt that the formation of the Ming army was really delivering food to the Mongolian cavalry, the two cavalry sent earlier had already started shooting and harassing them, but unexpectedly, their actions encountered a lot of trouble.

The Mongolian cavalry suddenly discovered that the range of the Mongolian composite bow they were proud of was actually at a disadvantage when facing the current Ming army!
how can that be?Since the Mongolian Empire conquered the world, the Mongolian cavalry has never suffered from the key factor of range! (The range of the English longbow is actually longer, but there are two points to note: the Mongols are riding bows and the English are footbows; the Mongols have not fought against the English.)
The basic equipment of the Mongolian cavalry archers is the hyperbolic compound bow, which has different performances with different arrows. It can have amazing penetration when using heavy armor-piercing arrows, and it can have an exaggerated range when using light arrows. When shot, it has a range of more than 300 meters.

(In fact, it should be expressed in "step", but how long a step is is a controversial matter, here we simply use meters, and this data comes from Mei Tianmu [Timothy May], professor and associate dean of the School of Arts, University of North Georgia, USA Chang, a world-class authoritative scholar on the history of the Mongolian Empire and military history, has monographs such as "Mongol Art of War" and "Mongol Culture and Customs".)
However, due to the lack of power of light arrows, especially when facing the Ming army with strong defensive capabilities, the effectiveness is greatly reduced. Therefore, the current Mongolian cavalry usually shoots armor-piercing arrows at a shorter distance, usually within 150 meters.

This habitual shooting distance pitted the two cavalry, because the Ming army on the opposite side opened fire about 200 meters away from them, and a round of salvo killed more than [-] Mongolian soldiers, and hit at least Thirty war horses threw the cavalry on the grass and their lives were uncertain.

Judging from the formation of the Ming army, in addition to the soldiers in the first row of bayonet formations, there are only more than 1000 two hundred people who can shoot in one direction, and these 1000 two hundred people are divided into three rows. Just now, only the first row opened fire. gun.

A volley of more than 400 people hit about [-] targets. If this data came from the era of rifled guns, it might be a bit bad, but in the current era of smoothbore guns, it is already shocking.

Although the cavalry is large and the target is obvious, and during the raid, the Ming army only needs to shoot forward, and those damned unlucky ones on the other side will naturally hit the bullets, but... the previous muskets fired at the front, and the bullets It may also float up or down, and the accuracy rate is very worrying.

But this time, the Wanli Type [-] flintlock musket had very little ups and downs. Although it was not accurate, it was much better than before.

Because the Wanli Type I is actually a "pseudo-rifled gun"-according to the high pragmatic requirements, there are four symmetrical thin and shallow straight rifling lines inside the gun body.

Rifling is rifling, why do you say pseudo rifling?Because in a highly pragmatic concept, the rifling should be in the spiral shape of later generations. The effect of this early straight rifling is relatively limited, and due to the limitation of metallurgy level, considering the metal stress problem, these four riflings are pulled very slightly. So as not to affect the strength of the gun body and cause the chamber to explode.

From Gao Pragmatic's point of view, this thing really can't reach the level of "rifling" in his mind.

But the facts have proved that the presence or absence of these four wires has a great impact. The shooting accuracy of the Wanli Type [-] far exceeds that of Jinghua's previous generation main product, the Longqing Type [-]!At least its bullets will not fly around.

After a round of salvo, the Mongolian cavalry were stunned, as were Xin Ai and his son who were watching the battle from a distance.

Hamu's face turned pale, he swallowed, and said, "Abu, the 'Nie'erge' tactic failed, why don't you... try 'Shiwuchi'?"
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