Although Ma Chengxun is young, like his third uncle and even other children of the Ma family, he joined the army with his father at the age of thirteen or fourteen. He has rich battlefield experience, and his breadth of knowledge and keenness are extraordinary. The Jianzhou Army and the Ming Dynasty
As soon as the army fought, he realized that he might have underestimated these Jurchen Yi people before.
The weapons and equipment of the Jianzhou Army looked a bit shabby. The swordsmen and shieldmen rushing at the front even prepared their own weapons. The shields were wooden shields, and their shapes were not uniform. The big ones were big and the small ones were small. Although they were mostly rectangular.
, but there are also round shields; the knives are not uniform, with the plain knife being the mainstream. There are also Yanling knives commonly used in Beijing and ordinary machetes. The sharp-eyed Ma Chengxun even discovered the hooked hatchet commonly used in the Central Plains area.
The armor coverage on their bodies is barely passable, but according to Ma Chengxun's visual inspection, the level of these armors is not high. They are basically cloth armors and cotton armors, and there are no heavy armors such as light armor and mountain armor.
Moreover, the colors and styles of these armors are also not uniform, and come in all kinds of shapes. If Gao Situ were here, he would definitely have to talk about "standardization".
From an ordinary point of view, the combat effectiveness of such an army is usually not that high. At least the combat effectiveness of Ming army guardsmen with similar equipment levels is obviously not that high. However, at this time, Ma Chengxun just watched them fight.
You can tell from the "starting gesture" that the combat effectiveness of this Jianzhou army is by no means comparable to that of ordinary guardsmen.
They rushed down from the mountains and forests on both sides of the valley. The swordsmen and shieldmen rushed forward without hesitation. They did not push and give way like the Ming army guards did. Instead, they rushed forward with their shields in hand, shouting "Ma".
The Manchu dialect that Chengxun still doesn’t understand.
If it is not strange to say that "barbarians are brave", then what really makes Ma Chengxun's heart tremble is the bows and arrows of these Jianzhou Jurchens.
Bows and arrows, Ma Chengxun has seen this thing a lot. The Mongols are famous for their mounted archery. Ma Chengxun has seen the power of bows and arrows countless times since childhood. But this time it was different. The bows and arrows of the Jianzhou soldiers were completely different from the Mongolians.
The bows used by the Jianzhou soldiers are the same as those of their predecessors, the Jin Dynasty. They are characterized by large size, large bow tip, and large pulling force. When lowered, the length of the bow body is generally longer than that of an ordinary adult man, and smaller ones can also reach the length of an ordinary adult man.
The height of an adult woman.
Obviously, the characteristic of this kind of bow is that it pays attention to "stability" and "accuracy", which is different from the value orientation of Han Chinese bows - Han Chinese bows pay more attention to range. The phrase "a hundred steps can penetrate a poplar" has already explained this orientation.
Ma Chengxun found that these Jianzhou soldiers who used Jianzhou bows usually shot heavy arrows at close range. They did not seem to pursue range, but their armor-breaking ability was quite good.
Ma Chengxun's cavalry is a light cavalry, and the armor they are equipped with is of excellent quality. However, after all, the light cavalry needs to consider the load of the horse. Mongolian horses are not known for their load-bearing, so their armor is still far inferior to the heavy armor of the infantry.
Compare.
As soon as the two sides fought, Ma Chengxun quickly discovered that the archers of the Jianzhou soldiers could shoot and injure his own cavalry at a distance of fifty steps. Based on his past experience, he speculated that once the distance was shortened to thirty steps
, then I'm afraid it can directly cause a kill.
In fact, the bows used by the Jianzhou soldiers at this time were what later generations called Qing bows. The structure of this bow was symmetrical from the middle to both sides, including the grip, bow arm, string pad and bow tip. The grip was made of wood with warm wood and
Shark skin; the bow arms are made of bamboo or elm or birch wood, with horns or sheep's horns on the front and beef tendon (some use deer tendon) on the back; the string pads are made of bone or wood;
The bow tip is made of wood, and the middle angle piece is used. Bow strings are divided into three categories: leather strings, silk strings and tendon strings.
Compared with the early firearms of the Ming Army in the original history, the Qing Bow was more powerful and more accurate, and indeed had advantages on the battlefield. But it is different now. The level of firearms of the Ming Army has greatly exceeded that of the Ming Army due to its high pragmatism and the relationship with Beijing.
The same period in history.
Although the Jianzhou archers that Ma Chengxun faced at this time remained at the historical level, the advantage of long-range weapons no longer existed. The Wanli II lance in the hands of the Ming army cavalry exceeded the Jianzhou bow in terms of range and accuracy.
The only thing to worry about is the "continuous firing capability". The continuous firing of a musket has a long interval. Even if it uses a paper shell fixed charge, it is definitely not as good as a bow that can be fired again after drawing the arrow.
As for later generations, there are always people who say that firing a strong bow can easily lead to loss of power, and usually the bow can only be fired a few times. This statement is actually a bit of a misunderstanding. If the strong bow is fired in the style of archery competitions in later generations, then it may be true that one person can only fire the bow a few times.
You can shoot a few arrows before you lose strength.
The reason is very simple. During archery competitions, the aiming time is generally too long because of the need to ensure competition results. In other words, the archer draws the full bow and holds it for too long, which requires a lot of extra effort and at the same time keeps the muscles high.
The intensity is tight, forming a general muscle training mode of "anaerobic exercise".
Anyone who has practiced fitness knows that the requirements for anaerobic exercise are "heavy weight-bearing and low repetitions." Usually, fatigue will occur after a group of exercises does not exceed twenty times.
But in fact, fighting is not anaerobic exercise. It is impossible to use your maximum strength to draw a bow. At most, you can shoot a bow that requires 70 to 80% of your own strength. You will never maintain the aiming posture for a long time after shooting the bow.
Aim quickly, shoot quickly, and prepare the next arrow quickly.
As for accuracy, it is part of the "battlefield experience". When a person is accustomed to this way of archery, although his accuracy may not be as high as in later generations of archery competitions, it will not be very low and is sufficient to meet the needs of the battlefield.
To put it simply, the battlefield considers overall efficiency, and any approach that may lower the overall efficiency will be abandoned.
Now Ma Chengxun has seen that the reason why the Jianzhou soldiers rushed so fast may be that "the barbarians are not afraid of death", and secondly it is because the Jianzhou swordsmen and shieldmen had to do this to create shooting opportunities for the archers.
But as a result, Ma Chengxun was a little troubled and a little annoyed by the terrain of the river valley.
The long and narrow river valley greatly restricted the deployment of cavalry. Roundabout attacks, side attacks, etc. were almost a dream. Especially since Ma Chengxun's troops came from Datong, their long-term combat targets were the Mongols, and the battlefield environment has always been
They were all very open, and in an area with narrow river valleys and mountains and forests on both sides, he felt awkward that he had nowhere to use his strength.
The only way to play has become very stupid, which is to attack directly forward. No matter whether your Jianzhou Army wants to outflank, intercept or have other purposes, I will kill them all the way. As long as you kill them, the river valley is narrow but it is flat ground after all.
, can your infantry still catch up?
As long as we can't catch up, the battle will even be considered won - Ma Chengxun visually estimated that there are at least 5,000 Jianzhou soldiers in the river valley now, and the Jianzhou left guard's strength is only 10,000, and they still need
To deal with the other three armies (Ma Chengxun did not expect that Nurhaci would dare to ignore the south and east roads), so Hetuala is probably an empty city at this moment.
Although the cavalry is not good at attacking cities, it is not difficult to capture an empty city, right? What's more, when he appears under the city of Hetuala, since the founding army in front of him has no time to turn around, who knows whether Hetuala will think they are
Has the entire army been wiped out? Once Hetuala thinks so, it is not possible to surrender directly to the city. After all, the Jurchen population is limited, and the casualties they can bear are always very limited.
These situations are a long story, but they were actually sorted out quickly in Ma Chengxun's mind. He drew his sword and shouted: "Front Arrow Formation! The troops are forward, the whole army is tight, and follow the general to kill them!"
The Ma family has always been famous for its Dabing. In the past ten years, the Ma family has gained the reputation of being highly pragmatic. They followed Jinghua in Shanxi and participated in border trade. Their financial resources are far greater than at the same time in history. Therefore, the number of Dabing is much larger than in the original history.
In the original history, although the Ma family had successively produced a number of generals, deputy chiefs, and generals, the total number of soldiers was less than 20,000 at most, and they still belonged to various generals in the family.
For example, Ma Gui, the actual head of the Ma family in the middle and late Wanli period, never had more than 8,000 soldiers, and usually hovered around 6,000.
However, the Ma family in this life has become really prosperous because of its high pragmatism. Ma Chengxun, a general alone, has 1,500 troops in Kaiyuan, and they are all equipped with two horses.
After he left five hundred troops in Kaiyuan to serve as Dinghai Shenzhen, he brought out a thousand more to fight.
The impact of a thousand cavalrymen is naturally astonishing, but due to the river valley, no more than 300 can be deployed in the front. These 300 people are the arrows of the frontal formation. Everyone has their rifles loaded and takes the lead during the charge.
One shot caused about a hundred casualties to the Jianzhou soldiers in the front, and stopped the Jianzhou soldiers rushing down from both sides.
However, the Jianzhou soldiers of this era were indeed brave and brave. They were really fighting for their lives. More than a hundred people in front had just fallen, and many of them were still rolling on the ground and wailing. The Jianzhou soldiers behind them came up with red eyes.
Following the loud shouts of E Yidu and An Feiyanggu, the Jianzhou soldiers bravely faced the Da soldiers who had just inserted bayonets on their lances.
In fact, Ma Chengxun didn't know that the Jianzhou soldiers that the Da soldiers encountered now were not ordinary soldiers. They were not ordinary soldiers in Niulu, but "Baya La".
Before Nurhaci sent troops to Hada last year, he organized the "Baya La" as a garrison. The Baya La means "guard army" and constituted his personal guard.
There is also this organization in the original history. "Manchu Old Documents" records that "each oxen is recorded with a hundred people, divided into three teams: white baga, red baga, and black camp." They are all elite cavalry. Nurhaci himself
There are more than 5,000 horsemen and soldiers, and other flag owners also have bagaras of varying numbers. These bagaras play an important role on the battlefield.
However, these Bagalas are not cavalry at the moment (historically, Nurhaci only began to have a large-scale cavalry establishment after conquering Yehe), but infantry with relatively sophisticated weapons and equipment and relatively stronger personal force.
As for the number of people, of course there are not five thousand. In fact, there are only one thousand in total. They are divided into two Baya La Niulu, one red and one white, but the organization is larger. Each Niulu has 500 people, which is unique in Jianzhou. The leader
The two generals of Bagala, red and white, are Eyidu and Anfeiyanggu.
The Ma family's elite soldiers numbered one thousand, and the red and white Bagara also numbered one thousand. The elite soldiers of both sides collided with each other.
Now that they have engaged the enemy hand-to-hand, the soldiers have already installed bayonets, but this weapon is still useful in horse battles, but it is not particularly useful against horses - the only part that can be held is the butt of the gun, which can be used to perform moves.
Basically, it can only be based on thorns.
As we all know, the most common melee weapon of the prairie cavalry is the scimitar. Its advantage is that it can easily use the kinetic energy of the horse to kill the enemy effortlessly. Although the Central Plains cavalry uses long spears and horse spears, it is actually mainly equipped against enemies who are also Central Plains cavalry, because the Central Plains cavalry
Cavalry armor is usually stronger.
Although the nomadic cavalry sometimes faced the Central Plains cavalry, due to the popularity of Mangujie and other tactics, they did not often engage in hedging with the Central Plains cavalry. They were more often used to rob ordinary people, and did not have the requirement to break armor.
high.
Jianzhou Bajala also has armored soldiers. It stands to reason that the bayonets and lances of the Majiada soldiers happened to come in handy. However, Ma Chengxun soon discovered a big problem: although the current shields of the Jianzhou soldiers could not block musket projectiles, they
There are huge limitations on the performance of the lance and bayonet!
The shields of these people are not simply held in hand, but held in hand with a strapped arm. It can be seen as the left forearm is put in a ring on the left side of the inner side of the shield, and the left hand grabs another ring on the right side of the inner side, so that the shield is almost invisible
Might get rid of it.
At the same time, when the bayonet is thrust out, it will usually be blocked by the shield. Since these shields are made of hardwood from the old forests of Changbai Mountain, it is difficult to pull out the bayonet after it is inserted. At this time, the Jianzhou soldier casually slashed with his right hand, and the Da soldiers
Either let go and let go of the bayonet, or else your hand is likely to be cut off with a knife. When the battle broke out at the front, the number of soldiers injured by this move quickly exceeded thirty.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Ma Chengxun reacted very quickly, yelling for the soldiers to be careful not to stab the enemy's shield, but on the battlefield, there are critical situations, and many times it is
Acting based on instinct and experience, how can there be too much change in a short time?
Although there are many masters with superb military skills and tactics who can find the opponent's flaw in the lightning and flint, and stab Jianzhou Bagala in the back through the shield, but there are also many people who are still stopped by the bayonet and either give up their lances or have their right hands struck.
Hit.
In just a short collision, the casualties on both sides exceeded a hundred.
Be it Ma Chengxun, the other party's forehead, or Anfei Yanggu, all of them suddenly became red-eyed.
"Fuck his grandma!" Ma Chengxun was furious. He pinched the horse's belly and stepped forward. This is the tradition of the Ma family. Going into battle in person can arouse the morale of the army, and he thinks that the armor he wears is better and stronger.
, and are not afraid of the other party's cold arrows.
Although Eryidu and Anfeiyanggu were not as angry as Ma Chengxun, they were more worried about Nurhachi's anger. When they saw this, they all roared and rode out - of course they had horses.
Ma Chengxun leaped forward on his horse, using the long knife he was good at instead of the bayonet and lance, and slashed three bagaras one after another with his flexible knife skills.
Ma Chengxun was in full swing and was about to shout, "Follow me to defeat the enemy." Two cavalrymen rushed out from the left and right sides in front of Leng Buding. The cavalryman on the left remained silent, only charging forward with his sword, while the cavalryman on the right did not respond.
He shouted: "Ma Chengxun should not be so arrogant, the time has come for you to be crowned!"
Ma Chengxun's eyes flashed with sternness, he put the knife in front of his chest, and snorted coldly: "How dare you dare to speak so loudly!"
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