Tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry charged in the same direction. The momentum not only made the elites of the Ming Dynasty's frontier troops, who were supposed to be marching forward, uneasy, but even Zhu Su, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, could feel the hair on his back standing on end.
I feel tightness at the back of my head and numbness at the base of my ears.
In fact, the Mongolian cavalry seldom charge in groups like this. Most of them are horse archers, and their best tactic is "riding and shooting to harass", that is, they can run wildly on horseback while shooting arrows from horseback.
This tactic is extremely difficult to deal with. When the Mongolian and Yuan cavalry traveled across the east of the world in the past, similar battles often occurred: a certain army should have had an advantage in fighting the Mongols, but it pursued them to expand the results. It turned out that they were defeated by the Mongolian cavalry.
As he ran and shot, he kept shooting, and his attack and defense gradually changed, and the Mongols turned around and chased him.
In later generations, there was a word that was particularly appropriate to describe the Mongolians' fighting method, and its name was: "Kite Flying."
When outflanking the Ming army of Guo Xing's tribe in front, the Mongolian cavalry adopted a method of harassment by riding and shooting. They did not engage in close combat with the Ming army head-on. Instead, they kept using bows and arrows, slowly killing the Ming army's flesh and blood.
But when facing Zhu Su, perhaps because Zhu Su's army did not have many soldiers and horses, the commanders of the cavalry had a mentality of underestimating the enemy; perhaps the two erected "King of Wu" and "King of Yan" stood up high.
Flag, is it too tempting? In short, after a round of ejection, that part of the cavalry did not choose to use the mounted shooting tactics that the Mongolian cavalry is best at, but instead tried to make a quick decision, determined to use their numerical advantage to directly defeat Zhu
Su Na's "The Lost Lamb Who Stumbled into the Battlefield".
And that also gave Zhu Su a chance!
"Firegun, fire!"
Following Zhu Su's hoarse roar, the first row of King Wu's guards, who had been waiting on the hillside with firecrackers, directly released the firecrackers that had been aimed at them for a long time. In an instant, the sound of "bang bang bang" was even heard.
Overshadowing the momentum of tens of thousands of horsemen galloping together, a burst of choking smoke rose from the Ming army's formation.
"Ah!" The Mongolian cavalry in the first row fell off their horses in unison as if they had suffered a heavy blow. In the cavalry formation, a sudden wave of people fell on their backs. The charging momentum of the entire cavalry team could not help but stagnate.
"It's such a long shooting range, what kind of fire cannon is it?" The leader of that cavalry team was named Tabin Timur. Seeing that the warriors in the front row were hit one after another, he reined in his horse and was a little stunned for a moment.
As a tribal leader in the Yuan Dynasty, Tabin Timur was not unfamiliar with firearms. At this time, the Ming army also had a fair number of firearms troops, although they were not as specialized as the "Shenji Camp" that was not in the Yongle period.
However, the Yuan army had already seen the power of Hongwu's firecrackers when they raided the north in Chang Yuchun, Xu Da.
However, the range of the Hongwu Fire Gun is very short, and the number of shots it shoots is "gun arrows". Therefore, a special arrow for the Yi Zhiwan Gun can be placed in the mouth of the gun and the power of gunpowder is used to push it out.
Can you tell me that the Ming army's fire blunderbuss not only had a shooting distance of an astonishing more than 200 steps, but also shot out not blunderbuss and arrows, but frighteningly powerful lead pellets.
And unlike ordinary lead pellets, the force of the lead pellets shot by those fire guns was extremely terrifying! Tabin Timur saw with his own eyes that the skulls of several war horses were smashed because they were hit by lead pellets.
's shattered!
Not to mention those flesh and blood bodies wearing leather armor!
"Don't stop! The fire gun can shoot once in a short time! Warriors! We are all blessed by the Immortal Heaven!"
Although he was surprised, it was too late to think about the battle formation. Seeing that the cavalry's charge was blocked, Tabin Timur, the general, quickly raised his arms and shouted.
After being reminded by him, the cavalrymen reacted. Fireguns have been used on the battlefield since the Song Dynasty. As soldiers of Yuanting, they all know the biggest drawback of the Central Plains weapons of Zhitonglihushao.
What: That’s no, the rate of fire is too slow, and you often only have time to shoot once in a battle.
Just now, although they were momentarily panicked by the powerful new fire gun, so what? I just hope that the rate of fire of the Zhiwan gun does not change much. With their Kuodong war horses, they can rush there very quickly.
In front of that Ming army.
"Come on! The Immortal Heaven will protect them!" That long series of psychological changes actually only lasted for a moment in reality. The Mongolian cavalry hesitated for a moment, and then quickly reacted. They
He stepped over the corpses of his fallen comrades in the front row and continued to charge towards the smoke-filled Ming army formation.
"Bang bang bang!"
However, contrary to everyone's expectations, in the smoke that had not yet dissipated from the Ming army's formation, there appeared again the words of the alliance, the stunned men, the stunned men, the stunned curtains, and then a row of lead bullets swept in.
The cavalrymen who were in the front row just now fell to the ground again.
"What..." Tabin Timur was shocked!
How could it be possible? The Ming army could actually fire a second shot so quickly?
What he didn't expect was very far behind. The second wave of smoke had not yet dissipated, and the sound of gunfire just now seemed to be reverberating in the eardrums. It was followed by the sound of the third wave of gunfire, then the fourth wave, and the fifth wave.
…
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang..."
As if there were no gaps at all, the sound of frying beans continued to explode in that place. The Mongolian cavalry who kept advancing seemed to have become shallots in the legs of the cook.
China), was peeled off layer by layer, layer by layer, by those weird and roaring fire guns in the legs of the Ming army.
"Then...how can you be cocoa! How can you be cocoa!"
Tabin Timur was already standing there blankly.
…
"Ahem, cough, the first team from the East is in front! Hurry!" In the Ming army formation, Zhu Su personally commanded the Fire Gun Legs. Behind him, the Fire Gun Legs standing on the slope of the earth kept moving non-stop, finishing a shot in the front row.
After that, they immediately lowered themselves back. The people in the east row who were prepared immediately pressed forward, raised their legs and fired their guns.
Several rows of Ming troops, like the tracks of a machine operating in an orderly manner, kept pouring lead shot at the cavalry in front and back of the slope.
That's right, is Zhu Su wrong about the fire gun tactics mentioned by Zhu Di before? In addition to the Mandarin Duck Formation, Wu Wangwei had another killer move that he had trained for several years. He should have invented Mu Ying's musket shooting technique: three stages.
hit!
It is not appropriate to say that the three-stage attack is not accurate, because it cannot guarantee the continuous and intensive firepower. Zhu Su arranged the Ming troops into six rows. Despite this, Zhu Su still felt a little frightened when he looked at the approaching Mongolian cavalry.
"Hey, firepower, firepower! Firepower is so powerful!" Zhu Su, with beads of sweat hanging on his forehead, felt like he was a patient suffering from firepower phobia.