At this moment.
The 7,000 people led by Yi Zijia were burning, killing and looting all over the Jurchens in Liaodong.
They sent out small teams one by one.
Sweep around.
Break Zhuangzi, burn down the farmland, snatch away the wrappings, take away all the old and young children.
At this time, Erbeile Amin, who had received the news early, had already begun to organize.
From the more than 10,000 people left behind, he gathered 2,000 cavalry.
Then, with great speed, one person and two horses rushed over to stop the opponent, and ordered the infantry to come slowly.
After receiving the news of the opponent's large-scale cavalry dispatch, Wen Rensheng's adopted sons quickly began to shrink the soldiers back.
And began to gradually retreat.
The total time for actual burning, killing, and kidnapping was a ten-day window.
But when they retreat, they now have a huge advantage, that is, they have Western artillery with the army.
Now the Jurchens have cannons, but they can only be used to defend the city. They are the cannons on the captured Ming army city. They are too heavy.
Now the Jurchens do not have this kind of artillery accompanying the army.
After gathering, they began to retreat quickly.
They retreated all the way to the bridge over the river that had been blocked before.
Then they retreated to the south of the river and burned the bridge.
The disadvantaged 300 people didn't burn the bridge, and they did.
This phenomenon made the pursuing Amin understand that the opponent was a group of novices and had no confidence.
Amin immediately ordered the cavalry to collect ships upstream and downstream, look for shallow and narrow places, try to cross the river from upstream and downstream, outflank and flank the opponent.
At the same time, he ordered the infantry behind him to speed up.
Since the opponent is a novice, there is no need to worry about the infantry moving too fast and being defeated by the opponent.
Yi Zijia found that there was indeed some trouble now.
He knew there was a place on the upper reaches of the river where he could cross the river.
If the opponent comes around from the north of the river, he can quickly catch up with his infantry.
His current location is a total of 300 miles away from the temporary seaport.
Continue to retreat to the harbor, now we can retreat 60 miles a day.
This is already the upper limit of speed for carrying a large number of artillery accompanying the army and the luggage of the population that has just been snatched.
Every day we can only make temporary camps, the simplest version.
Even so, it will take 5 days before we can retreat to the vicinity of the temporary seaport and get safety assurance.
But Amin's cavalry had already crossed the river.
Then pursued at a speed of 150 a day.
Finally, we caught up with our opponent within 150 miles of the harbor.
At this time, the two sides started a battle 150 miles away from the harbor.
This battle is obviously not what Yi Zijia wants to fight.
But he couldn't outrun the opponent and had to proceed.
Just like in Mount and Blade, without cheating, the most important thing in the early stage is to add guide skills. There is no one.
However, Amin made a huge mistake without knowing it.
Can’t blame him.
At this time, he did not know that Huang Taiji was returning thousands of miles away, preparing to capture the enemy.
His pursuit along the way pushed the opponent to the harbor...
In order to prevent the news from leaking, Huang Taiji did not notify Amin when he set off.
Otherwise, Amin would have chosen not to retreat.
Should show weakness.
Even deliberately fighting a losing battle...
Lure the enemy deep.
However, none of this became reality.
It is very simple for Huang Taiji to inform Amin.
He can use the Ming Dynasty's inn to inform.
Just go directly from Shanhaiguan and then to Jin*, just spend money.
It only takes five days to notify Amin.
As for why Amin was so proactive and wanted to win this battle.
That is because he wanted to make military exploits, while others were looting and making military exploits in the pass.
But he was defending his hometown outside the customs.
At this moment, Yi Zijia ordered the small team to start forming a large team.
A squad of 150 people can deal with a team of 300 people, but it is absolutely unable to deal with a cavalry of 1,000 people.
Ten teams of 150 people gather together to organize a large hollow square array of 1,500 people.
Place the cannon in the middle.
The spearman is in the middle, the shield bearer is in the front, and the musketeers are distributed in the 4 corners.
He used to fire the musket.
Used against cavalry.
The opponent's cavalry is actually mounted infantry.
They are going to fight with heavy armor, infantry and bow formations.
Instead of riding on a horse, play soft bow riding and shooting like the Mongols do now.
The two sides met.
The distance is three miles.
Amin looked at the opponent's formation from a distance.
He saw the other party begin to put on armor.
His eyes are very good.
The opponent's shield bearer wore triple armor, the spearman wore double armor, and the arquebusier also wore double armor.
And his soldiers and horses also began to wear armor early.
The soldiers had dismounted and began to lead the horses forward.
The coats and attendants help the white armor wear one layer of armor, and the red armor wears double armor. It is not necessarily the case. Rich red armor can also wear three layers of armor.
Cotton armor, chain armor, and iron armor, the three sets weigh 30 to 50 kilograms. It is difficult for non-strong elites to carry them on their backs, let alone in combat.
Both sides have already put on armor and formed formations.
Amin saw that his side was a little faster than the other side.
But the opponents are also elites who have been trained for a long time. At least they all have armor, which is very scary.
All 7,000 people have armor.
How rich do you have to be to do this?
Of course he didn’t understand how huge the profits from sea trade were, which far exceeded their kidnappings.
He quickly ordered a Gushan to take 1,000 people to test the enemy's position.
And his own 300 white armors and 1,700 others serve as reserve teams. He didn't even move.
The cavalry leads the horse forward.
They will not mount the attack until they are within 2 miles.
Just as these cavalrymen gradually approached, a cannon shot disrupted their rhythm.
I saw that on both sides of the hollow phalanx, artillery carts had been pushed up.
The horses were unhooked and the artillery fire had begun.
The sound of these cannons affected the rhythm of the cavalry.
They began to mount their horses quickly, and then opened up their evacuation distance.
This makes solid shells much less effective.
Hit the cavalry on the way to charge.
Many shells were empty.
But some cannonballs were lucky enough to hit some horses.
Then in Amin’s distressed eyes, dozens of cavalrymen fell.
Then they began to quickly approach a front hollow phalanx.
There were 10 6-pound guns on each side.
They started shooting one after another.
For this battle, Wen Rensheng also spent a lot of money.
A total of 60 6-pound guns were purchased and copied.
As the opponent's cavalry approached, the artillerymen began to load the cannons with shot shells and pushed them to the front of the formation.
If all 20 cannons were loaded with shotguns and fired, they would undoubtedly cause heavy casualties to the cavalry.
It is equivalent to punching the opponent directly in the heart, which is naturally very dangerous.
It was only at this time that when the cavalry approached quickly, Amin had already noticed the danger of the opponent's cannon.
He immediately asked the flag bearer to wave the flag, and asked Gushan Ezhen, who was leading the army in the front, to choose to retreat.
Their cavalry circled in front of the formation, and the 1,000 men finally left more than 20 wounded soldiers behind, and then withdrew.
They took away as many wounded soldiers as they could.
Now the opponent's cannon is still roaring. Some were loaded with shotgun shells, and some were still loading solid shells.
If they had delayed for half a minute more, they might have lost dozens more people.
The enemy's artillery fires fast and fiercely, and is accurate.
Yes, it is much more accurate than the Ming army.
And he was very courageous and did not run away when the cavalry approached.
After Amin discovered this, he did not choose to attack again.
Because he is reluctant to waste his strength.
He retreated two miles to camp.
Wait for your infantry to follow.
It is not so easy for the opponent to run away.
Back in the camp, Amin's son couldn't help but said: "Ama, we just have to charge forward, and we will definitely beat them to pieces."
Amin reprimanded after hearing this. Said: "You know how to charge hard. Do you know how much our troops will lose in this way?" And the shield.”
"The opponent's artillery fires far, fast, and accurately. I used cavalry to test and kill dozens of people. If the infantry fired in groups, hundreds of people would definitely die."
"The ones we killed are all the most elite soldiers. They are all red-haired men and two-money men. The Great Khan will chop off my head when he comes back, and then I will chop off your head first."
Amin's son immediately lowered his head.
He is Amin's youngest son. He has only been in battle for a few years and still wants to make meritorious deeds.
After hearing my father’s analysis, I realized how powerful that formation was.
The Jurchens cannot afford this kind of tactic.
If it were not a crucial battle, they would not be willing to waste human lives.
If it is a small-scale battle, they all have to consider whether they can win completely and whether they will lose money.
If they can't win completely, then they would rather not fight.
Because they cannot afford this bloodletting.
But whenever it comes to a battle that determines the fate of the entire clan, they dare to sacrifice.
They would not hesitate to kill thousands of people.
After the white armor is applied, the red armor is applied. After the red armor is applied, the old man is recruited.
We must knock down the momentum of the Ming army and maintain the psychological advantage of being victorious in every battle.
At this moment, Amin had already seen the tricky part.
The opponent has artillery that can be used in field battles.
The Ming army originally had some, but they were all small cannons with a range of no more than a hundred steps.
Not as powerful as their walking bows.
So they are not afraid.
He often blows up his body, making him his free traitor.
But now, the opponent's artillery has smashed their most powerful weapon, the infantry bow.
Now that he wants to break through the opponent's formation, he must use cavalry to charge in a dense formation.
The opponent's artillery can hit three miles.
At the beginning, the cavalry can advance in a sparse formation to avoid damage from artillery fire.
But after reaching 500 steps, we must gather.
Otherwise, there would be no time to assemble the team.
It takes about 30 seconds to rush in front of the opponent in 500 steps.
The opponent should only be able to shoot one round.
But one round is also 20 rounds.
One cannonball blasts out an alley of flesh and blood, killing and wounding 10 people.
20 people means 200 people.
This is terrible.
Besides, it's useless to rush to the front of the formation. The opponent also has heavy shields and armor.
There are also muskets inside.
Both sides shot at each other, but still suffered a loss.
The cavalry wanted to charge hard, but the opponent had a spear.
Using precious cavalry against spears will definitely result in a loss.
But if 10 cavalry are sacrificed, the opponent's formation will be loosened, the formation will collapse, and then the pursuit will begin.
At that time, the death of 10 cavalrymen could allow other cavalrymen to kill thousands of opponents, which was a profit.
This is why we can still see cavalry risking their lives to attack the spear array.
As long as a gap is cleared and other cavalry rush in and the killing collapses, the rest will be easy to kill.
What I am afraid of is that the opponent will not collapse and will continue to confront the cavalry.
That would be a big problem.
Even if you dismount and shoot with heavy arrows, you must shoot flatly within a range of 30 meters to penetrate shields and heavy armor.
However, at this distance, the musket also has the function of breaking armor.
Amin, who wants to understand this, will naturally find it very difficult.
The opponent has cannons for long-distance combat, and heavy shields for melee combat.
It can be said that Wen Rensheng designed this tactic from the beginning to ensure that he could gain a foothold in passive defense.
This is what is called invincible.
No matter how strong the opponent's cavalry is, the heavy arrows cannot break the giant shield, the cavalry cannot break the spears, and they have to accept the baptism of matchlock guns, so they will inevitably collapse.
Although Amin decided to fight at first, when he found out that the opponent was a turtle.
Immediately began to use cavalry professionally.
No longer rushing into battle, but entangled and harassed.
Use a small team of 10 cavalry to attack and harass the opponent with this number.
Dismount and shoot ten heavy arrows before running away, exciting and effective.
This forces the opponent's formation to be unable to disperse, the giant shield to be unable to mount the vehicle, and the armor to be unable to leave the body.
If this continues, soldiers will tire quickly.
And he also asked his infantry to speed up.
He thought that at least 5,000 infantry could come.
In this case, 5,000 infantry + 2,000 cavalry can charge into the formation.
Yi Zijia immediately felt uncomfortable.
I want to fire cannons, but I can’t hit them accurately.
I wanted to send cavalry to drive them away, but they couldn’t defeat them.
If you want to send a small team to drive out and outflank, you don't have enough mobility, and you have to worry about being gathered by the opponent's cavalry and encircling and destroying them.
The other party has a large number of people and can support each other. This is not the time when there were 300 people before.
When the scale is large, many tactics are completely different.
Yi Zijia felt very sad.
But soon the red-haired people came up with a solution...
They sent some outstanding officers to act as skirmishers to drive away these scattered and harassing cavalry.
They carried expensive muzzle-loading rifled guns, using small hammers to pound lead into the barrels.
Then he lay down in front of the formation and shot at the cavalry horses.
If the opponent dismounts a hundred steps away, they will be their target.
They can shoot accurately up to 200 steps away.
Horses have much bigger goals than people.
The earliest rifled gun appeared in Augsburg, Hans in 1498.
The rifling process was very complex for the processing technology at the time, and the high price made it impossible for military use.
It is now after 16XX.
Rifling has become a must-have firearm for many officers for hunting, and is also a weapon used by skirmishers.
At this time, those scattered 10-man teams were out of luck.
They were killed one by one by precise bullets.
They had to stay 400 steps away.
And this distance is enough for the infantry of the phalanx to remove their armor and shields and put them on the car.
If they want to gather together and rush into battle, gathering is very time-consuming, and they will have time to re-wear their armor.
In this way, Yi Zijia was finally able to slowly hit the road again.
Retreating in square formation along the way.
The cavalry followed closely behind.
But the opponent's square formation was not in chaos, and occasionally skirmishers would shoot at them.
This made the cavalry very uncomfortable.
If the Ming army was followed by the Jurchens like this on their way back, they would have been defeated long ago.
Because they knew that if they did not escape first, they would serve as cannon fodder and shields for the general's servants to block the Jurchen cavalry.
So they must have scrambled to escape, and most of them were killed in the end.