Reborn Regent of Ming Dynasty

The three platoons of cavalry put their armor on their horses, finished their armor with the help of the auxiliary soldiers, and then finished lining up. At this time, the Caozhou soldiers on the opposite side approached amidst the increasingly fierce drumming.

But I saw a forest of knives and spears, densely packed with sharp spear points, and frost like snow.

Two rows of big drums kept beating behind the formation, which inspired the morale of the soldiers and was also a means of coordinating the pace.

In the Ming army, the Swan was used to coordinate the firing of firearms and the coordination of infantry, but it was mostly used in the northern frontier army. Of course, the more commonly used one was the sound of drums. It was passed down in ancient times, and it is still practiced today. constant.

The northern captives and the eastern captives used the sound of the conch horn as a signal to gather and attack, and the rules were different. [

In the Fushan Army, the sound of the trumpet and the signals of the waist drum and the big drum alternated. If you are not a member of the army, you don't know the meaning behind it.

At this moment, seeing the enemy infantry protruding forward and the cavalry on both wings behind, Zhu Wangli, who was also wearing heavy armor in front of the formation, raised his arm high, chopping and chopping several times in mid-air.

This is a commanding gesture, of course Hu Guerzilla, who was watching the battle, couldn't understand it, so he immediately turned his attention to Ma Yong.

Ma Yong is a pure spectator, and he feels less nervous than Hu Fei. Seeing this, he smiled and said: "This is General Zhu Shen's order to form an assault formation and go straight to the center."

"what?"

It felt incredible that a big duck egg could be stuffed into Hu Fei's mouth.At first I wanted to question it, but after thinking about it, the performance of the Fushan Army has subverted many of my previous cognitions since before and after being captured... Having been rampant in a corner like Caozhou for many years, everyone thinks they are a strong army, even Liu Zeqing himself He thinks highly of himself.If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have always thought about taking over Jinan, controlling Dongchang and the three prefectures of Jinan in Yanzhou, and becoming the commander-in-chief of Shandong Town to compete with Denglai Town.

The world is about to be in chaos, and many Caozhou generals are full of confidence in private discussions. There will be many uses for martial arts in the future. With Caozhou's elite soldiers, there will be great things to do in the future.

Who knew that I was really looking at the sky from the bottom of a well. Caozhou soldiers used to be compared with Henan soldiers and Qiu Lei's Shandong town soldiers. Compared with these two towns, they were indeed superior, but in front of such strong soldiers as Denglai Town, they could only be destroyed by others. for the sake.

Seeing that Hu Fei was silent, Ma Yong explained to him instead: "It is reasonable to say that it is not difficult to defeat the enemy when the cavalry is used to restrain the enemy from riding on the two wings, and after repelling the two wings, then insert diagonally into the infantry. But in the current situation, Our army has less than [-] cavalry to face the enemy, so we cannot disperse our strength, we can only concentrate our main force, break through the enemy's formation, break through the center, and then roll back to the left or right, and the victory is at hand."

"Even so," Hu Fei said suspiciously: "The two wings have less than a thousand cavalry, and Zhang Guozhu has a reckless personality, but this time he used his troops with caution. After all, it was an open terrain. He spread out the infantry, deep and tight, and the swordsman, archer, and spearman cooperated with each other. , Can the cavalry go straight into the formation like this?"

In terms of cavalry tactics in the past, whether it is the Huns, Turks, or Mongolia, it is the combination of light cavalry and heavy cavalry. Light cavalry is constantly harassing, throwing weapons and archery to disrupt the infantry formation, and the corresponding infantry formation does not matter No matter how strict the organization is, there will always be times of fatigue and slack. Once the opportunity arises, the heavy cavalry will break in and tear the infantry apart with oblique tactics. After the tight formation collapses, it is time to harvest the heads.

But with the heavy cavalry standing straight at the enemy's sharp edge and in the center of the thickest infantry formation, Huang Fei should have doubts, and rightly so.

Ma Yong glanced at this young enemy general with approving eyes. After being captured, he was neither humble nor overbearing. He was already a rare courage. He was able to control a certain number of subordinates in Caozhou Town to the end. Regardless of the situation of the battle, this kind of infatuation is very rare.

He didn't say anything else, just nodded slightly, and said, "Just look at it."

Both of them and the auxiliary soldiers stopped talking, and everyone looked at the heavy armored cavalry who started to move forward slowly amidst the sound of drums and horns.

The horse armor was heavy and thick. When the horse started to move forward, the heavy armor leaves and the horse armor leaves on the whole body shook together.

Amidst such a shaking sound, the 260 nine cavalry cavalry formed a dense three-row array and began to attack the middle of the enemy's infantry.

"It's... spectacular!"

At the end, Huang Fei's last words resonated with everyone, including Ma Yong, and all the auxiliary soldiers had mixed expressions of fanaticism and pride in their eyes. [

This is the Fushan heavy cavalry, the real elite cavalry. Some of the cavalry who were transferred to Huguang have not experienced this kind of charge. The strength of the cavalry, at this moment, under the command of Zhu Wangli, the heavy cavalry built by Zhang Shouren has finally shown its hideous appearance!

"kill!"

Zhu Wangli raised his spear obliquely, and roared, beside and behind him, all the cavalry roared in the same way!

Amidst the sound of killing, nearly three hundred cavalry in three semicircular arrays raised their lances obliquely and began to control their horses to accelerate.

"It is indeed an elite..."

After the cavalry on the opposite side appeared, Zhang Guozhu and the generals around him showed mixed feelings of envy, surprise and anger. The envy was naturally because of the top lineup displayed by the other side... The horses were all in armor, and the cavalry was wrapped in heavy armor. Among the iron armor, this kind of equipment was the first time many Caozhou generals had seen it.

Even the few who have experienced the battle of Dengzhou have only seen some iron armors among the reinforcements from Liaodong, and seen Shanwen armor and cold-forged wart armor on generals. In Shandong, even Sun Yuanhua When training troops in Denglai, they only paid attention to firearms and not hand-to-hand combat. They were slack in training swordsmen and spearmen, let alone equipped with much iron armor. Only the Liao soldiers did have a lot of iron armor. They were very elite. The Caozhou soldiers at that time swallowed wildly.

However, the iron armor in Liaodong is only a double-breasted cotton armor. Sometimes it is a layer of cloth armor with copper nails. The cotton armor is inlaid with iron leaves, which is considered the mainstream. This kind of armor uses less iron, but it is very heavy. , is also very rare.

The iron scale armor made of iron leaves interlocking and interlocking is very rare. Each pair of such armor is worth more than a hundred taels, plus the helmet, shoulders, belly guards, shin guards and iron gloves, etc. The cost of armor is really a lot.

On the other hand, the array of cavalry on the opposite side is full of iron armor that has never been seen before. The armor is shining brightly in the sun, and they are blinding their eyes. When they saw that the horses were covered with armor, all the soldiers of Caozhou let out a cry of surprise. , This kind of sound merged into a sound wave, almost like a shout during a sprint.

"This is the armored cavalry!"

"Since the Tang Dynasty, I have never heard of such a thing in any dynasty."

"No wonder they dared to use three hundred cavalry as my four thousand cavalry. It turned out to be Jia cavalry!"

The praise paintings sent by Liu Zeqing were born as scholars after all, and at least they had a reputation as a scholar. Compared with pure old men, they certainly have certain advantages. At least when Zhang Guozhu and others were amazed, these praise paintings had already said a lot.

Armored cavalry was at its peak during the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties in China. Many documents and pictures handed down from generation to generation can clearly see the development of Chinese heavy cavalry from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties. At that time, China’s heavy cavalry reached a peak period. Whether it is tactical tactics or equipment, they were all at the top of the world at that time, and there was no one comparable to them.

The well-known Luo Yi mastered thousands of armored cavalry to guard the northern border of the Sui Dynasty, and the Turkic tribes were incapable of being sharp.

This time was also the most glorious era of Chinese heavy cavalry, after which, it gradually came to an end.

Generally speaking, the highest level of China's cold weapon warfare began to decline in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Song Dynasty became crippled. The heavy armored infantry was very sharp and could confront the Liao cavalry on the plains, but the consequence of the lack of land for raising horses was that they could not raise horses at all. Since they don't have cavalry, they can only pay attention to infantry and crossbows, which are inherently insufficient.

In the Ming Dynasty, one leg of mud legs raised troops, and gradually defeated the Mongolian iron cavalry that once ran rampant in the world, but the Mongols at that time were far from comparable to those at their peak, and Ming's force value dropped too fast, don't say The heavy cavalry never recovered, and even the military level of the Song people was far from reaching it. Therefore, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, a small tribe with more than one million soldiers was beaten all over the ground by a small tribe of tens of thousands, even though this small tribe was named Jin After the human Jurchen, in fact, compared with the real Jurchen of the Jin Dynasty, I am afraid that the Tungus tribe will be beaten all over the place.

"What are you talking about!"

Looking at the armor cavalry that covered the sky and the sun, Zhang Guozhu was not afraid, but showed a red face.

He looked at the generals and said with a smile: "This is a big gift from others, do you want to accept it or not?"

"There's no reason not to accept it!"

A boss who has always been favored, said very arrogantly: "We'll take all the hundreds of armors, I'm afraid the commander-in-chief will be jealous!"

"Looking at Vice General Bai, I'm so envious!"

"Who told him to be late? Haha, we deserve to make a fortune by taking advantage of the cheap."

"Of course the commander-in-chief will get half of it." According to Ming's military system rules, the captured battlefields are always privately owned by the generals and their subordinates. Looking at the hundreds of high-quality horses and armors in front of him, Zhang Guozhu didn't intend to take it all by himself, and planned to hand over half to them. Liu Zeqing, then he can safely equip his subordinates.

Once his straight collar is equipped with these iron armors, his combat power will naturally rise several levels, and then Zhang Guozhu will become the most important lieutenant general of Caozhou Town and future Shandong Town.

"They're coming straight to our center!"

Amidst the discussion, the iron cavalry on the opposite side suddenly accelerated, and the distance between the two sides was now half a mile and two to three hundred steps, while the cavalry on the opposite side began to accelerate significantly, and the four hooves of the war horse began to hop from small hops to big hops, and after a while In time, it will change from a big jump to a sprint pace.