Raza was riding a war horse beside Ye An. He didn't even dare to move in the slightest while being surrounded by personal soldiers.
The defenders of Barsi Khan City have already taken action, but the cavalry sent earlier were defeated early by the cavalry battalion led by Di Qing. The heavy armored cavalry is powerful on the battlefield, but Di Qing uses light armor to "fly a kite"
tactics.
It is not a wise choice to hedge against heavy armored cavalry. Di Qing learned the "art of war" from the Tatars on the grassland. The Tatars call it deft maneuvers.
When foreigners were doing business with Hexi, it was inevitable that news from all over the world would flow in. As long as it was sorted out a little, it would become useful information, and even many valuable things could be obtained from it.
Almost every Tatar will proudly describe their battlefields, and military news will be collected by Liu Yong's Security Department and sent to Ye An, who will then filter the evolution into the military school teaching materials.
This is the case with the current Hexi Expeditionary Force. Under the leadership of Di Qing, the soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Battalion are constantly surrounding and attacking the Black Khans. In terms of weapons and equipment, the soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Battalion wear strong and flexible breastplates, and their legs and hands are just
Covering the front with a thin layer of iron sheet greatly reduces the weight of the armor.
In this way, the speed and endurance of the war horses are improved. When dealing with the iron-hearted Black Khan heavy-armored cavalry, all they have to do is to keep their distance and keep the distance between the two sides to the greatest extent inconvenient, whether they are retreating or
When attacking, you should "splash" the long-range weapons in your hands on the enemy as much as possible.
Then a strange scene appeared on the battlefield. When the Black Khan cavalry was chasing, Di Qing led the soldiers of the cavalry battalion and began to run backwards. While running, he turned back and fired with the ratchet crossbow in his hand. The sharp arrows did not need to have a very far range.
, you only need to calculate the ejection in advance, and the sprinting heavy armored cavalry will hit it by itself.
This kind of pursuit was ineffective. People were killed while chasing. Barsi Khan's heavy armored cavalry soon couldn't withstand such consumption, and their speed became slower and slower. Finally, they planned to turn around and leave.
It's just that it's easy to get out but difficult to get back. After Di Qing discovered that the enemy's speed had slowed down, he blew the bronze whistle in his mouth. The speed of the cavalry battalion soldiers gradually slowed down amidst the sound of the bronze whistle, but the crossbow arrows in his hands showed no intention of stopping.
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The slower you move, the easier it is to become a target for the ratchet crossbow. When he found that the Black Khan Cavalry began to retreat, Di Qing blew the bronze whistle again, but this time the whistle was short and rapid.
Inserting the ratchet crossbow in his hand into his horse pocket and taking out the musket on his back, the cavalry battalion soldier instantly transformed into a hunter on the battlefield. The accuracy of the Hexi musket had exceeded that of the crossbow. He raised his hand to aim and fired with one shot.
The dense Barsi Khan cavalry became a living target for the cavalry battalion.
You only need to aim a little to hit someone. Even if you can't hit where you point, you can still make sure the gun doesn't miss the target.
Raza was dumbfounded by the maneuvering tactics of the cavalry battalion. It was not that he had never seen the fighting style of the Hexi Army, but compared to the original city defense battle, this field battle gave him a subversive understanding of cavalry tactics.
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He was dazzled by these flexible battlefield tactics such as wing detours, side flanking, turning around and shooting, tail pursuit, etc.
A cavalry team of less than a thousand people was able to beat the heavy armored cavalry regiment that Barsi Khan was proud of and fled in panic. This is like Allah sleeping!
Ye An looked at the dull Raza on the horse and smiled slightly: "Don't be so surprised, this is the wisdom we learned from the horseback civilization on the grassland. Cavalry tactics have been developed for thousands of years, and what you see now is incredible.
It’s just a gap in technical equipment.”
"Maybe you can defeat Barsi Khan's heavy armored cavalry, but you can't capture Barsi Khan's fortified city with just a few people!"
Ye An chuckled and said: "Barsi Khan is the barrier of the Eight Thorns Sagon. If you capture Barsi Khan, you can control Issyk-Kul Lake... Oh, you call this the mother lake. Just a few hundred miles to the west.
It’s the Eight Thorns Sagon, or Broken Leaf City.”
"You should think about how to capture this fortified city with an army of less than 10,000 people? I heard that there is an allusion to the peach blossom stone. How can I say it... I'm just talking nonsense!"
Ye An treated Raza's taunts with a gentle attitude, smiled and said nothing. However, Raza was off guard by his attitude and cursed loudly beside him.
Tieniu wanted to tear his mouth open, but Ye An smiled and waved his hand: "No need for this, do you believe that I can completely silence him with just one gesture?"
"Do not believe!"
So the moment Ye An waved his hand, a bright red flare shot up into the sky, which was extremely dazzling even in the dawn sky, not to mention it also had a sharp whistle.
Just when Raza looked up in confusion, deafening muffled thunder boomed from behind the military formation. The ground seemed to be shaking, and he could clearly see the stones bouncing up from the ground.
An unprecedented sense of fear swept through his body in an instant. Before he could react, a sharp sound roared through the air. He had never heard such a figure before. The air seemed to be torn brocade, and his ears were ripped apart.
The sting hurts.
However, he no longer had time to feel the harsh pain, because he remembered the shattering sound of Barsi Khan City. It was the sound of stones being hit by a hammer, but now it was amplified countless times.
The tall and solid stone city wall actually began to fall apart in just a few breaths, collapsing with the defending soldiers above, as if it had suffered a huge earthquake.
Yellow smoke filled the air and formed a dark cloud. It was extremely quiet around the battlefield. Even the Hexi Army's military formation was silent. The dust slowly fell. At this time, Ye An drew out the Hengdao on his waist.
He shouted in the direction of Barsi Khan: "Blow the drums and march!"
The rumbling drums sounded, and the Hexi Army marched towards the smoke-filled Barsi Khan with neat steps and shouts of killing.
When what everyone thought was the strongest support was suddenly easily torn apart by the other side, both Raza and Barsi Khan's defenders in the Hexi Army felt like they were mourning for their heirs.
The huge psychological gap made it difficult for them to accept it. However, the Hexi army was in neat formation and advanced and retreated in an orderly manner. At this time, any Black Khan who dared to resist would encounter a ruthless blow.
At the same time, there were interpreters in the military formation who were proficient in Turkic language and shouted loudly to persuade them to surrender, "Surrender your weapons and you must not be killed."
The war is almost over when it reaches this level. The Hexi Army overwhelms the enemy in terms of momentum, surpasses the enemy in weapons and equipment, and is restrained and strict in military regulations and disciplines.
Anyone who dared to resist the Hexi Army would receive a fatal blow, so the resistance in the city of Barsi Khan ended in just half a day. The Black Khan people had never seen such a terrifying firearm. An iron pipe embedded in wood.
Can easily harvest a samurai's life.
No sophisticated armor can withstand the projectiles fired from the iron pipe. Hexi's new muskets are very armor-breaking at close range, mainly because ordinary iron armor is no longer enough to withstand weapons with such powerful kinetic energy.
The soldiers in Hexi cooperated to eliminate the resistance forces in the city in an orderly manner, while the translator who had prepared the manuscript long ago posted notices full of Turkic characters and loudly announced in Turkic language.
The Hexi Army promised not to massacre innocent people and would reward whistleblowers. However, if there was resistance and neighbors did not report, they would be punished with the same crime. They also solemnly announced that from now on, Barsi Khan City will become a part of Hexi, and will soon be
Merchants from Hexi came with loads of goods and food, and also provided opportunities for the people here to work and make money.
The word "pacifying the people" seems easy, but in fact it is a very troublesome matter. Before the start of the Western Expedition, Ye An had discussed it carefully with Qin Mumu and prepared many plans.