Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 882
"Kieerge" means roughly equivalent to "hunting" in Mongolian. Generally speaking, it will start from two flanks. There are many subsequent changes to this tactic, and the scale can also be adjusted at will.

If you want to briefly describe it, it is probably that the Mongolian army itself surrounds the prey in a ring, gradually shrinks to the center, and gathers densely, making it difficult for the enemy to escape.

However, the Mongols did not always need a large number of troops to complete this tactic. Since their archery and mobility were almost always superior in the previous hundreds of years, they could still surround them even when they were outnumbered. enemy.

Moreover, when the Mongols used Nieerge, they didn't worry much about the problem that their encirclement circle was too weak. They sometimes extended their front for several miles before encircling the enemy.

Some people may ask, what is the point of such a weak encirclement, it will be broken in one rush?
That's right, concentrating the main force on this kind of weak encirclement is of course a breakthrough, but in the eyes of the Mongols, the distance is not a problem at all, so they will continue to try to encircle - anyway, you will not cause them much damage by rushing before. Casualties, they are fully capable of constantly surrounding you.

And if the opponent keeps choosing to break through the encirclement, then he will compete with the Mongolian cavalry for stamina...

They are Mongolians who can travel tens of thousands of miles or even hundreds of thousands of miles at a time. If they choose to fight their endurance, isn't it clear that they are looking for death?
Moreover, the scope of this Kneerge tactic can sometimes be extremely large. For example: in 1237, after the Mongols captured the city of Vladimir, they sent thousands of households to attack various towns and fortresses in the form of Kneerg, encircling them. Up to hundreds of miles and gradually tightened.

In addition, sometimes they will deliberately leave a certain gap in the pinch, just to allow the enemy to escape through the gap, but in fact this gap itself is a trap: the enemy has difficulty maintaining discipline in the process of fleeing in a hurry, and often abandons them. Weapons to escape faster.

There are also specific examples of this. The Mongols used this tactic to defeat the Hungarians in the Battle of Musi in 1241.

However, the core of Kiegerge's tactics, or in other words, the two basic points of reliance are indispensable, that is, mobility and bow riding range.

Mobility ensures that they can always make this kind of encirclement feasible in terms of speed, and the advantage of bow riding range enables them to attack opponents in constant encirclement and tightening without almost suffering damage to themselves.

This is like a battle between two swordsmen, one light and one heavy. The heavy sword swordsman can kill the light sword swordsman with one strike, but the light sword swordsman's speed is so fast that the former can't keep up. However, the sword can cut a hole in the body of the epee swordsman one by one, but this light swordsman has excellent endurance and hardly knows how tired he is.

There is nothing to say about the result. No matter how healthy this epee swordsman is, sooner or later he will be bloodletted and turned into a mummified corpse.

But now, Xin Ai suddenly discovered that they had lost their range advantage!
In other words, the light swordsman found that the sword in his hand could no longer cut through the armor of the heavy swordsman, and the heavy swordsman actually lost his heavy sword and took out a light sword longer than himself to use it. , as long as he stepped forward, he would strike him with a sword in turn.

A new thing that hadn't happened in 300 years was caught up by his Xin Ai!

Faced with this "unprecedented new experience", Xin Ai was naturally dumbfounded.

Fortunately, he became unresponsive when he was getting older, but his son Hamu Baduer was still in his prime, so he proposed to change tactics as soon as possible, replacing "Jieerge" with "Shiwuchi".

Although this Ming army behaved strangely, and the range and accuracy of the muskets in his hands were beyond Xin Ai's expectations, but his mind was focused on replenishing blood, so why would he give up?As soon as he heard his son's words, he immediately agreed and ordered loudly: "Recall the left and right armies, Shi Wuchi is ready!"

The sound of horns and drums changed immediately, and the two cavalry on the left and right immediately began to turn around, while the cavalry of the Chinese army began to group into groups, with about every 500 people as an attack wave, and began to display the Wuchi tactics.

The Mongols' Shuwuchi tactics are similar to the half-turn tactics (caracole) in European wars in the 15th and 16th centuries.The specific method of this tactic is that the Mongolian army sends multiple waves of soldiers to the enemy's line. Each wave shoots arrows while charging, and retreats before contacting the enemy, turning back to its own line.

When they fired their last arrows and retreated, they were about 40 to 50 meters away from the enemy.This distance is long enough for their arrows to pierce the armor of the enemy, but also long enough for them to avoid the enemy's blade charge.

Shi Wuchi obviously also needs to use riding and archery skills, but relatively speaking, riding skills are more important than archery skills, because this tactic itself is not used as a tactic with zero casualties on its own, it allows itself to appear certain Casualties - after all, they rushed too close.

However, because the opponent didn't know whether the Mongols were going to rush into the formation or just scatter and harass, they could only maintain a spear formation or a similar defensive formation, so as not to be collapsed and defeated by the Mongols.

But even if the opponent's main force is concentrated on spears or similar defensive formations, it cannot be completely ruled out that the long-range forces in the formation can bring certain casualties to the Mongolian cavalry.

Xin Ai was willing to exchange a certain amount of casualties for victory in this battle, which showed that... he was indeed poor and crazy, or he could not bear the current situation.

Originally, he thought that he and Tumen Khan were basically in a cooperative relationship, but who knew that because of the previous big defeat, the result now is that Tumen Khan has clearly become the dominant force, and he, as the "landlord" of Tumed, has actually become a leader. became a vassal of Tumen Khan.

Although Tumed is only one of the [-] right-wing households in name, in fact he has long been the leader of the right wing. Xin Ai himself is psychologically equal to Tumen Khan, the leader of the left wing. Tolerate?Naturally, they must look for opportunities to strengthen themselves, and by the way, they must show their prestige to revive their prestige.

People fight for breath, Buddha receives a stick of incense, Xin Ai has been tough all her life, how can she bear the feeling of being dependent on others, think about the tone of ordering subordinates when Tumen Khan sent herself out to rescue just now, Xin Ai feels that I must take down the Ming army in front of me.

Shiwuchi's 500 people are an attack wave, but they are not launched at the same point in the Longmen triple wave style, but are launched in all directions without rules.This is because the opponent can't figure out the main attack direction, and he loses his position in the hasty deployment of troops.

The first wave started from the left flank, and the five hundred Mongolian cavalry gradually increased their horse speed in a normal charging formation, galloping with thousands of hooves, bringing up decayed grass and yellow dust, and charged towards the right flank of the Ming army.

Sure enough, the Ming army wavered a bit, but Xin Ai had no time to rejoice when she saw a young Ming army general raise a knife and cut off the head of a soldier who took two steps back, and yelled loudly.

The slight vacillation of the Ming army immediately stopped, the bayonet formation still stood in front of the formation, the three rows of musketeers in the rear had already reloaded, and the first horizontal row took up their muskets under the order of the young general.

"boom!"

(End of this chapter)