Yi Zijia frowned and looked into the distance.
If he sends cavalry, he can catch up.
But his cavalry are pirates who can ride horses.
The other side is the cavalry.
Ten of his cavalry could not defeat even one of his opponents.
But it would be a pity to see a piece of fat slipping away right before your eyes.
We must know that the great victory of Ningyuan, which is recorded in the history books, was only avenged by the beheading of more than two hundred people.
There are 300 true barbarians in front of us. It can be said that at least 200 true barbarians can be detected.
The question is, where did the other 100 go?
Of course it drifted away.
At this time, someone next to him said: "General, if we order the infantry to give up their shields and remove their armor, with our years of training, we can catch up with the enemy's infantry within two days."
"If the enemy If you want to escape, you have to give up 200 infantry."
Yi Zijia nodded.
This should be possible.
Although if you give up the giant shield, you will definitely have to bear the losses caused by the opponent's strong bow and heavy arrows in the battle.
But at least it can guarantee that you can hit the opponent instead of watching the opponent escape.
"Okay, let's get rid of the giant shield and replace it with a small light shield. Only one layer of armor will be left for the pikemen and musketeers, and the other armor will be given to the baggage soldiers."
"Proceed. Pursue.”
If Wen Rensheng knew what happened on the battlefield, he would understand why the pikemen and musketeers in the Western battle formations at this time were not equipped with heavy armor.
Just for mobility.
Mobility is often more important than defense.
If you want to take into account defense, you must equip the infantry with horses.
This is exactly what the Jurchens did.
Their own tribe has few people, and each piece of white armor is very precious.
So 3 horses are used daily, and one horse is specially used to transport armor.
to improve mobility.
In fact, their white armor is mainly used to defeat enemies in foot combat.
Horses are used at critical times.
For example, pursuit and retreat, detours and outflanking.
On horseback, the power of their strong bows and heavy arrows cannot be fully utilized.
After making these changes, Yi Zijia sent his lieutenant, leading 1,500 people, a total of 10 light armor squads, to chase the opponent's 300 people.
The remaining people also unloaded their armor and put it on the baggage cart, relying on the robbed horses, oxen and mules to drag it.
Capturing livestock greatly improved their land mobility.
Sure enough, thanks to good food, good training, and high military pay, the walking speed of 1,500 people is obviously much faster than that of their opponents.
Actually, these 300 people are all true barbarians, and they usually have enough to eat. Especially Bai Jia, who is a professional off-duty soldier. They polish their martial arts every day and are served by special inquisitors.
However, they were only full at this time.
After all, Huang Taiji has just begun to rob the pass on a large scale.
So their marching speed is still lower than these 1,500 people.
After the two sides chased each other and retreated for 2 hours, Niu Luzhangjingwugezhen realized that something was wrong.
He hurriedly said to Melezhanggun Donagu: "Master Donagu, we are in trouble. These people are really strong soldiers. They are chasing so fast. If they continue like this, our The infantry cannot escape.”
"I can also see that there are only three options now. One is to fight with them to scare them off; the other is to have the cavalry harass them from behind and slow them down; the third is to have the infantry remove their armor and the cavalry run away, and finally How many can escape?" Donagu frowned.
"Only send cavalry. There are too many of them. We only have 100 cavalry. We can't stop much. Instead, we will easily fall into a situation of being outflanked." Wu Gezhen said carefully, "If we escape directly, it will Beheaded.”
Yes, you can retreat in front of the enemy.
Fight a battle, the enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered. Fight a battle to find out the strength of the opponent, and then retreat without support. You will only be reprimanded, not even reprimanded, but you will still get someone who dares to fight bravely. reputation.
After all, intelligence is the most important. Sacrificing a hundred people to gain valuable information about the enemy is a credit, not a defeat.
In terms of rewards and punishments in military warfare, the Jurchens were indeed too far behind the Ming army in the early days.
Although there are definitely cases of cheating and allowing one's nephews to obtain military exploits, it is not serious and one has to personally kill the enemy in battle.
But if you run away directly when you see the enemy, and the ones left behind are Eight Banners soldiers, you will definitely not be able to escape if you behead them.
But if you disguise it, it will be fine.
But at this time, the Eight Banners was still on the rise, relatively simple and not slippery enough, so it was not possible to lie about the military situation.
What's more, the 30 white armors are all pieced together. If you can't buy them all, they will definitely go back and be questioned by their respective masters.
So there is only one choice, try to fight, find out and then retreat.
After two waves of men and horses chased him, Donagu stopped on a slope.
The infantry formed a formation and the cavalry were on both sides.
The white armor is at the front and begins to put on three layers of armor with the help of the wrapper and the red armor flag ding.
The slope here is relatively gentle.
But if the infantry wants to rush forward, it will take a lot of effort.
On the left is a bush, which is not easy to detour, and on the right is a mountain forest in the distance.
There is grass in front.
In short, it is a somewhat favorable terrain.
But both sides can accept it.
Both sides saw where the fighter planes were.
This is the basis of the battle.
Both sides can either see the opportunity to win, or one side has to choose to fight under a disadvantage, such as running out of food, being surrounded, or being ordered by the emperor...
Forced to choose to fight Yes, it's obviously very tragic.
One side has a large number of people and is well-trained, but the other side has been battle-hardened for a long time. The minimum number of soldiers has been on the battlefield at least ten times. This is of course a small number of coatings removed.
For Donagu and others, the key is that the opponent's artillery did not follow.
The artillery is still slow.
If the opponent's artillery can still run as fast as the infantry, they will definitely abandon the infantry and escape with the cavalry.
As for the infantry, if they throw off their helmets and armor, and only carry bows and arrows, they scatter into the mountains and forests, and then regroup, most of them can escape.
Because then there is no way to fight.
They are well aware of the advantages of artillery.
They will die just as the Ming army died back then. No need to try, they are not stupid.
But now that the opponent has no artillery, we can give it a try.
A big war begins.
There are 1,500 people on one side and 300 people on the other side.
The Kuaishou forward deputy general began to pass the order to form the formation.
The 10 teams began to form formations.
Pikemen, shield soldiers, and arquebusiers quickly began to expand from marching columns into horizontal formations.
There are 150 people in one team and 30 people in one horizontal line, forming 5 horizontal lines.
The team formed quickly.
At this time, the two sides were still three miles away.
With such a long distance, even if the Jurchen cavalry ran over, they would still face an array that had already been formed.
So the Jurchen cavalry simply didn’t come over.
Instead dismount, leaving the horse behind.
30 white armors were sitting on the ground waiting.
The reason is simple, they want to conserve their physical strength, attack and test, and then escape.
So it cannot consume horsepower.
The same goes for the 70 cavalrymen, who all dismounted and led them.
They have to wait for their opponent to take the initiative to attack.
The deputy general of Kuaijun will naturally launch an attack.
He ordered three squads to attack head-on.
Two squads are outflanking from the left wing, and two squads are outflanking them from the right wing.
Only in this way can we deploy our troops.
When the time comes to fight, there will be a V-shaped attack on three sides.
Try to take full advantage of the musket.
And he has a total of 10 teams in his hands. In this case, 3 are left as reserve teams.
Support any aspect that may be broken at any time.
After 3 miles, the teams that had finished forming began to move forward.
The shield bearer walked in the front. He only had one layer of armor now and felt very dangerous.
The enemy's white-armored soldiers in the distance, their long bows, and their shining heavy shovel-shaped arrows are terrifying.
It is completely conceivable that as long as the opponent shoots an arrow, one of them will fall down.
They did not know the power of Manchu bows and arrows. If they knew, they would be even more afraid.
The bows and arrows at this time had a farther range than the matchlocks.
At this time, Jurchens generally use bows with 7 to 8 power. The heavy arrows they shoot can penetrate iron armor within 50 meters, chain armor and cotton armor at 70 meters, and can shoot at 110 meters. Wear leather armor. The power range of their matchlock guns is only 50-60 meters.
The effective range is only 50-60 meters, and the lead bullet is too floating and too light.
Why a musket with a range of 50 meters can replace a bow with a range of 150-200 meters is still a matter of cost.
Human life is worthless these days.
Equipment and food are valuable.
It trains quickly, goes to the battlefield quickly, dies quickly, equipment can be recycled, and food can be saved.
If you can kill one of the enemy's archers, it's worth killing ten musketeers.
In a flesh and blood factory, a healthy worker can only live for three years. What is this worth?
And now the opponent has 300 people, and they have 1,500 people. If 1,000 people die, and 300 people are killed, it is still profitable.
The question is how to ensure that these 1,000 people are willing to exchange their money?
Westerners rely on whips and military sticks, play Stockholm tactics, and beat soldiers into fools and idiots. Anyway, practicing firing a gun for a month can become a conditioned reflex, and all steps are fixed.
Before, I wore a giant shield and iron armor. I was tired, but I felt at ease when walking.
Now we are walking very slowly.
The deputy general quickly realized this problem, but he could only order the military judge of the team and the supervising team of the last row to urge forward.
He felt at risk of failure.
Because the opponent's bows and arrows have a long range and are powerful.
And his people, judging from their slow steps, have not been trained and beaten into idiots by Western military law.
Now we can only hope that the matchlock soldiers inside can have enough output.
The deputy general’s palms were sweaty.
If he was given a hope at this time, he hoped that his artillery would be dragged up quickly.
When I was marching, I disliked others for being slow, but when I was using it, I regretted not carrying it with me.
Wait until the team reaches 150 meters.
“Stop!”
The deputy general saw through the telescope that the other side’s soldiers began to draw their bows.
Although the bow and arrow have a range of 200 meters, that is the limit, and the arrows shot are too wasteful.
And although they are powerful, they can only shoot seven to eight times at most.
So you have to deal the maximum damage in the shortest time, so that the enemy's morale can be quickly broken, and then you can charge and harvest.
This move has been tried and tested against ordinary Ming army camp leaders.
This is also the reason why the Jurchens won the previous battles involving hundreds of thousands of people.
At this time, the deputy general's staff reminded in a low voice: "Morale can be boosted but not depleted. Stopping at this time will make the soldiers have a chance to escape."
"No problem, order the left and right wings to send out a small team each to start detouring through the mountains and bushes." The deputy general thought of a way.
That is to take advantage of the large number of people and try to reduce the density of the opponent's arrows at one time.
If the enemy wants not to be surrounded, he must allocate some people to monitor and intercept the roundabout opponents.
Otherwise, when the roundabout is successful, three sides will be surrounded and fire at the same time, and the enemy will not be able to escape.
The deputy general also understood that the opponent would retreat sooner or later, so it was impossible to allow his own retreat to be cut off.
Once the retreat was cut off, the most precious white-armored cavalry could not escape.
In this way, the density of enemy arrows can be reduced to at least half or even one-third of the original.
Sure enough, in the face of his forced detour, the other party also started to take action.
The way of action, however, was not to divide the troops to intercept as he imagined, but to concentrate all the troops and pounce directly!
This reflects the strength and courage of the Jurchen soldiers!
If it were an ordinary Ming army, they would probably send troops to intercept: No, they should have left the infantry and cavalry in embarrassment early in the morning and ran away. There would be no such battle to test combat strength intelligence!
“You’re careless!” The deputy general clapped his hands. He still didn’t have enough combat experience.
More experience to kill some thieves.
Wen Rensheng also wanted to recruit some experienced generals, but that could easily be suspected of treason.
This deputy general used to be a Qianhu, a Qianhu who fled. His business was cheated by civil servants and he became so poor that he ran away in debt.
He has fought many battles, but has no experience fighting against strong enemies.
He still doesn’t understand his opponent’s psychology.
At this moment, he realized his gaffe and quickly ordered: "Every unit is ready to fight! You are free to choose the time to fight!"
At this time, the captains of each team responded in time according to the training subjects and respond.
At this time, the help of daily training is shown.
"Pike soldiers resist the impact and prepare to defend against arrows!"
"Shield soldiers guard!"
"Arquebus soldiers start preparing!"
To the roar of the team leader, There was also the military judge's stick, and the soldiers began to act quickly.
Although his legs were weak and his hands were shaking, the tactical actions were still completed quickly.
At this time, 30 white-armored soldiers, more than 200 flag soldiers, and more than 100 infantrymen, 70 of them were already close to 100 meters away. They began to take out light arrows and immediately launched them.
First throw three rounds to see if the enemy is shaken.
Then they used heavy arrows to get closer to 70 meters and shoot again. This range was tested by them with their lives, and it was the musket range.
In this range, Ming army shooting is often ineffective.
However, they can easily break armor with heavy arrows and shoot the enemy until they collapse.
At this time, 300 light arrows were thrown into the sky.
"Lances guard against arrows!"
The pikemen quickly formed a forest of spears.
A single spear is definitely useless. The general in the movie shook off the arrow and knocked it away, which does not exist at all.
In reality, they are all shot into hedgehogs.
It's all about three layers of armor to save your life.
If you are unlucky, you will be shot in the head and the person will be dead.
But the forest of guns still has some effect.
At least better than a gun that does nothing.
Soon the light arrow fell.
About a third of them were shot down with spears.
But two thirds still fall into the array!
In fact, if you are more well-trained, you can evacuate in advance, and then wait for the shooting before regrouping.
But that’s too much to ask and can easily lead to confusion.
In addition, it will allow the opponent to find opportunities to rush into the formation.
It is easy for soldiers to evacuate, but it is difficult to gather them together.
After all, Wen Rensheng cannot arm them with super-era ideas.
“Ah!”
“Ah! My arms!”
“My eyes!”
In the first team of 150 people, more than 20 people were injured in one moment!
This is because the stations are not very dense.
Mainly in the middle of the five front and rear rows, each row has a distance of 3 meters to facilitate replacement. Each matchlock soldier also has a distance of more than one meter to prevent each other from burning each other's gunpowder packets.
This shows that the opponent's archery skills are very strong. Even if he throws the arrow, he can hit it relatively accurately.
Two more rounds of projectiles followed.
In the end, 70 people were injured!
The second team facing each other head-on is about to collapse!
Fortunately, at this time, the two teams on the left and right had taken the opportunity to quickly approach, and then started firing muskets.
At this time, we are on the verge of battle, and the deputy general has just delegated command authority.
Because he can't command it at this time.
All he can do is mobilize reserves, order a general retreat, and replace a certain team.
As for how the specific team chooses the time to attack, he cannot give orders one by one.
Because there is not enough time.
Using semaphores or riding horses to inform them is a waste of opportunity.
Just like now, if he orders an attack from left to right, it will take precious 30 seconds to notify the other party.
At this time, it was enough for the opponent to launch three or four rounds of attacks.
The musketeers from the two teams on the left and right, while the team in the middle acted as a target to attract fire, quickly approached 60 meters away, and then opened fire!
It is not something that humans can do, like John, who gets close to 20 meters or even 15 meters and shoots.
It is such a test of the will of the soldiers. They have to be trained into puppets to be able to line up and shoot.
"No!" the red-haired officer shouted.
A burst of white gunpowder smoke suddenly rose!
Then there was a crackling sound!
At this distance, the armor-breaking ability of the musket is not very strong.
Of the 30 people in white armor, only two unlucky ones were unlucky, and the flying projectiles hit them in the face.
The pain was so painful that they covered their faces and fell down.
As for the bannermen who were shooting arrows, they were unlucky.
200 people, thirty-four fell at once!
This is the grasp of fighter opportunities.
If the frontline officers and soldiers do not have the spirit to dare to fight, the fighter opportunity will be right in front of them and they will not be able to seize it.