The roar of guns and artillery resounded across the wilderness.

You don't know if you don't fight. As soon as the gunners and gunners of the two armies met, Xiang Xiyin realized that there was a big problem.

The Ming army has always been known for its firearms, and their main focus was on large numbers of rapid-fire cannons and muskets.

This kind of rapid-fire firearm configuration is very scientific, can effectively block the enemy at multiple levels, and has a strong deterrent effect against nomadic cavalry.

The most intensive range of their firearms killing range is precisely the thirty to fifty steps of the maximum range of the nomadic archers.

At this distance, the non-stop firing of Fran cannons, light destroyer Yongzhu and other small cannons, bird blunderbuss and bow and arrow three-eyed blunderbuss can all cause effective damage and huge threats.

This means that the quality of individual soldiers, the Ming army may not be much stronger than the Mongolian soldiers, but as long as they form a formation, at a distance where the Mongolian soldiers can bend their bows and shoot, they will encounter intensive firepower several times that of the Ming army.

This is also the reason why the Ming army launched a dimensionality reduction attack on the Mongolian army.

However, when this set of firepower equipment is used against the Marshal's Army, which is also good at firearms, the situation becomes awkward.

When the Fran cannon fires, although it cannot cause actual damage to the tank, it can indeed completely suppress the Marshal's army, giving the Ming army an advantage when approaching.

But when they approached a hundred steps, a problem arose.

Xiang Xiyin's artillery unit had just approached the enemy a hundred steps away when they saw a man coming out of the marshal's line, holding his bow fully drawn and throwing arrows forward at a wide angle.

Several sharp arrows with tail feathers still shaking were stuck on the ground, marking the distances of twenty to thirty steps, fifty to sixty steps, and eighty to ninety steps respectively.

The Ming army hurriedly held up their long cards to resist the horses and quickened their pace.

According to their thinking, fifty or sixty steps is the most dangerous place, and all kinds of firearms will show their power at that distance.

As a result, as soon as he accelerated and took two steps, the marshal's guns opened fire first.

Hearing the sound of gunfire in front of the formation, Xiang Xiyin felt happy at first.

This act of firing before reaching the predetermined distance, in the view of an experienced veteran like him, was completely a sign of lack of training on the part of the gunner.

But as soon as the joy rose in my heart, it was suppressed by even greater doubts.

Because they are the first to fire, there usually need to be a few sporadic gunshots before the other gunners start firing nervously.

And the sound of gunfire in front of the Marshal's military formation... was a bit more orderly.

Xiang Xiyin hurriedly looked over there and saw those chariots with long guns placed on them. The roofs of the chariots were covered by the smoke from the muskets, but the bottom of the chariots could be seen clearly.

Groups of soldiers were methodically changing guns on the car. Their guns were bigger than his!

Looking at his own military formation, Xiang Xiyin's position could not be clearly seen, but based on his feeling, he felt that he was missing a layer of infantry.

Moreover, the more than 400 cavalry troops that were detouring behind were clearly about to approach the enemy's 300 or so inferior cavalry troops. Seeing that they were about to enter the distance of a cavalry charge, they led the troops and reined in the general.

They seemed a little shaken and frightened, so they turned around and were pushed by the cavalry of the Marshal's Army who had already charged, and ran northwest of the battlefield.

This cavalry commander's name is Ma Ning, and he is from Ningxia.

No one could see what happened in the middle of the battlefield more clearly than him.

He watched helplessly as the musketeers of the Marshal's Army were suppressed behind the carriage by Franco. It was not until the Ming Army approached a hundred paces that they filed out one after another and lined up in front of the carriage barrier.

All of a sudden, the small red barbarian cannons on the two-wheeled carts, the muskets and the enlarged long guns on the carriages fired in unison.

As powerful as thunder.

The Ming army's artillery and infantry, which were still accelerating in front of the formation, fell down one level at a time like wheat.

Even the infantrymen who were covered by long-brand heavy armor were no exception. Few of the soldiers in the front row could stand after volleying their guns.

This burst of gunfire frightened Ma Ning to the point of being uneasy. What the hell kind of gunfire was this? With such range and intensity, even if he was allowed to drive the Marshal's cavalry from the battlefield, he would not dare to rush into the infantry formation.

Not to mention that the Mongolian cavalry on the other side began to charge into the Ming army's formation.

The Mongolian cavalry forcefully charged into the formation. This was something that frontier troops had seen many times. However, they often got anxious at the end of the battle before concentrating their elite troops to rush into the formation. The Mongolian cavalry that had just begun to attack the army formation with force, no one called them.

Saw it.

This is a bit of a joke!

Is it possible that he really worked for Hong Chengchou?

Even if he sacrifices his life, Hong Chengchou still has to buy it, and credit is not an option.

Xiang Xiyin on the other side was also dumbfounded. He didn't care about the firearms of the marshal's army, but only for the Mongolian cavalry with heavy armor and long poles.

Are these people crazy?

The Fran cannon had to fire two muskets. The Tatar soldiers, regardless of their fear, had only a dozen or so cavalry, scattered in various places, each hiding in their stirrups and charging with their spears. In the distance, there were even more cavalry who had not come up to attack the artillery.

Throwing arrows.

Then he rushed into the musket range, the three-eyed musket fired like slag, and the bow and crossbow flew, but it could not stop the momentum of his charge into the formation at all.

At first, some Tatars fell off their horses, either because they were hit or because their mounts were wounded. But those who fell off their horses just got up and stabbed their horses in the butt, then galloped their horses into the formation.

I don’t feel sorry for the war horse at all. Is this still a nomadic cavalry?

In the first wave of more than ten cavalry, only three of them collided with the formation. One man resisted the horse fence and was shot in the face with a blunderbuss, and fell on his back. The remaining two cavalry collided with the formation, causing a chaos in the formation. The soldiers were busy fighting with their bones.

, slashed each other with the waist knife.

Another wave of cavalry rushed over, the leading cavalry tightened the reins, and the horse stepped into the formation with its hooves raised.

Afterwards, the cavalrymen, one by one with their spears pointed out, rammed through the gap to both sides.

Seeing that the Ming army's front line had been shaken, and two more groups of people could break the formation, Xiang Xiyin drew his sword and led his servants to rush into the gap and fight bloody battles, and then stopped the collapse. The Mongolian soldiers who followed saw that they could not break through the army formation.

Then he slowly retreated.

Xiang Xiyin breathed a serious sigh of relief. He thought to himself that the morale of the Mongolian Tatars was strong, but if they were killed for a while, they would not dare to charge.

When I turned around, I saw the servants and the soldiers dragging the corpses and horse corpses into the formation. They were making a fuss over the heads, and I couldn't help but get angry.

How did he know that the cavalry from the Mongolian Qian Headquarters in the Ranger Camp did not rush into battle because of their high morale.

It's because the cavalry charging into the formation are all from Oirat, and most of them are from the Heshuote tribe.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! A major tactical feature of the Oirat cavalry is their habit of charging into battle with spears.

The Mongolian tribes in southern and northern Mongolia, the Russians, Kazakhs, Nogai, and even the Crimean Khanate and Poland and Lithuania were all overrun by them, and each one was overturned on the battlefield.

With just a spear, in the first eighty years of the seventeenth century, they were the world's best light-armed cavalry.

Lancers can be found everywhere, and Oirat is by no means a leader in combat skills. However, the problem is that in this era, forces with more cavalry than them often use archery and cavalry rotation. Those who are more proficient in charging with spears often have fewer cavalry than them.

Much more.

The Torgut tribe who moved to the west can assemble more than two thousand light cavalry with three spears each on any battlefield at any time, and smash any opponent to pieces in a roar.

However, limited by their size, they could only do so much. The most they could do was to force the cavalry of Eastern European countries to improve their tactics in the seventeenth century and learn the essence of their tactics.

Even their new master Liu Chengzong was charged by their cavalry with spears in the past.

This is the fighting habit of Oirat.

However, it is indeed what Xiang Xiyin thought. As long as the three weapons of bow, arrow, spear, and saber cannot break the formation and cannot be charged at once, the commander of Oirat will have to think of other methods.

This is a common problem of nomadic armies. Even if they are just a little bit away from success, they must give up, because although the lower limit of the casualties and losses that the feudal nomadic nobles can bear is high, the upper limit is relatively low.

But they are no longer a nomadic army.

Just as the defeated soldiers and horses in the front were withdrawing from the range and the Ming army was reorganizing their troops, the Mongolian Qian headquarters of the Second Tourist Barracks was also reorganizing its troops in front of the formation, and General Qian Wen Lianggai was giving lectures.

Wen Lianggai was Tuba, who was born in Wulianghai. He was a Zaisang affiliated to the Liutai Jidorji of the Heshuo Special Department earlier.

The official position of Zaisang can be large or small, depending on who the master is. Lin Dan Khan's Zaisang was the prime minister of the Northern Yuan Khanate, while Guoshi Khan's Zaisang was just the minister of the Heshuo Special Department.

And Zaisang of Dorji is just a township official at best.

But this official position was the highest position that Wen Lianggai, who was already a commoner, could climb to.

Because he can only manage the small herd in his hometown, and no matter how talented he is, his background and experience will already limit him to death.

He didn't know the nobles of other tribes, and he had no human relations with Zaisang from other tribes. He knew nothing about the living environment, geography, and pastures. Xiao Taiji's little Zaisang was the end of his life.

But the Oirat expedition changed everything.

The generalissimo does not recruit people based on their bloodline.

Zaisang, who was born as a civilian, became Qianzong under the command of General Dorji of the Heshuo Special Battalion. He was injured in the siege battle against Yang Jiamo. With this meritorious service, he entered the Huben Camp and became a general in Guanzhong.

Commander Qian of the Marshal's Second Field Brigade.

The official position has not changed, he is still President Qian.

But Wen Lianggai, who was born in Zaisang, knows best. They are all Zaisangs, serving under different nobles, and their power and dignity are very different.

And he was currently serving under the most noble Khan in the world!

In the generalissimo's army, the nobles had more power than the common people, except the power to carry a flag on the battlefield.

"They can't stop them for a few times. What are you afraid of? Don't begrudge the war horses. Pull away the horses and rush in. Get the first victory. The Great Khan will match you with good horses from Tianshan Mountain!"

Soon, the cavalry from the Mongolian Thousand Headquarters gathered again in response to Wen Liang's call for reform. Flags symbolizing various ministries, families and even brigades were all rolled up, and they gathered around the perimeter of the Ming army's formation.

In fact, the cavalry that has not yet launched a collision is more fearful to the Ming army than a head-first collision.

Because it was just a break in the collision, the Ming army separated into two formations, and the infantry in the front formation was almost beaten to pieces.
To be continued...