The war horse crashed against the shield with a roar.
These large shields are fully two meters high and one and a half meters wide. However, they are not flat. Only the front one meter is flat. On both sides are flanks at a 45-degree angle backwards, and the flanks are fifty centimeters wide.
If such a large shield were not made of aluminum alloy, it would be impossible to move it because it cannot be pushed by humans.
Yang Fan installed solid rubber tires on these shields, and the axles all have bearings. The purpose is to reduce resistance and make pushing the vehicle more effortless. The brackets are even two-legged like artillery. It is just simplified to two
A steel pipe.
The hoe of these shields is deeply inserted into the soil. When it is fixed, the soldiers dig out a small hole with an engineer shovel and put the hoe in. At the same time, the bipod is also supported at the back. These bipods are similar to those of modern cannons.
It was also for the convenience of being dragged by mules and horses during the march.
Although these shields weigh less than 200 kilograms, it is still unrealistic for people to push and pull them for thousands of miles.
There is no other way for Yang Fan to use this kind of shield for the Beijing camp.
Most of the Beijing camp consisted of infantry and lacked the means to resist cavalry.
These Oirat people are not Monan Mongols. They have already declined together with the Ming Dynasty. The Mongolian Mongols in Central Asia are fighting and killing almost every day.
One after another, the horses rushed up, trying to knock over these gray metal shields.
As long as they can knock over these shields, they can rush in. Then there will be a one-sided massacre. They are very confident in their cavalry.
For hundreds of years in Central Asia, their cavalry chopped down other peoples like melons and vegetables. No one was their opponent.
A roar was heard. The war horses neighed miserably. Because they were blindfolded, they ran into the shield formation without hesitation.
A one-foot-long steel nail is as thick as a finger. Starting from the sharp nail head, it takes the shape of a three-edged knife. This design is mainly to reduce the weight as much as possible while ensuring strength.
Of course, the three-sided sword has blood slots on three sides, which is also helpful for bleeding enemies and war horses.
Tongtongtong! There was a deafening loud noise. After the shield shook violently, it still stood firm. The stationary hoe and the bipod suddenly moved back more than ten centimeters, but they were inserted deeper into the ground.
A large number of Oirat soldiers screamed and were thrown off their horses.
The war horses were directly driven to death by steel nails, and the people rolled down. Some people even flew out from the top of the shield and fell heavily behind the shield.
After all, the shield was only two meters high. These people on horseback rolled into the battle line under the huge forward momentum.
The soldiers from the Beijing camp behind the shield line immediately picked up their spears and stabbed him. Under rigorous training, they were able to draw their spears very quickly.
Stabbing to death these unlucky ones who have been smashed to pieces and even broken bones.
Some of the war horses also hit the barbed wire and chains between the shields and connected with locks.
These barbed wire fences are made of steel wire and have very good toughness. When a war horse hits it, it is directly stopped by the barbed wire fence. It first bounces back, and then bounces back again.
Stung by the iron spikes on the wire, the chest of the war horse was a bloody mess.
The horses jumped and neighed in pain, knocking the knights off their horses. These knights who fell off their horses were trampled by the jumping horses, and their bones and tendons were broken immediately, and they were quickly trampled to death.
"Throw the gunpowder jar out. Hurry up." The small flags and the general flags shouted one after another.
Yang Fan would not equip the Beijing camp with grenades. He had to ask a tinplate can produced in Xincheng. This can was not food, but contained gunpowder and fuse.
The Jingying camp only needs to use a porcelain jar and fill it with some gravel and iron sand. After putting it into the gunpowder jar and sealing it, it can be used as an explosive projectile.
Yang Fan calls this modular assembly.
These jars are smaller than the ten-pound jars used on the city walls. The jars use one pound of black powder.
The soldiers quickly took out the tinderbox from their arms, blew it brightly, grabbed a small jar, lit the fuse, and threw it out of the shield.
Now these Beijing camps are well-trained, and they don't even look at the Oirat cavalry who are running into each other one by one. Although the shields are shaking violently, they just keep lighting them and throwing them out. They don't even see where they are thrown.
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The enemies are so densely packed together that they are like sardine cans. You can kill a few of them just by throwing them.
At this time, what is important is the speed of throwing. Over the past year, they have been fighting many battles, have rich experience, and have plenty of time. They have long been accustomed to it, just like eating and drinking.
Boom boom boom! The porcelain jars exploded one by one.
Broken porcelain is a very good shrapnel. Because porcelain is hard and the fragments are sharp. The iron sand and tinplate inside will also produce fragments. Especially the iron sand, which is very small and can be penetrated through the gaps in the armor.
Only half of these enemies have iron armor, while the others have leather armor. Leather armor cannot block these fragments.
The power of a pound of black powder is incredible. It can blow up a cavalryman and send him and his horse flying into the air, causing them to flip over and fall to the ground.
A gunpowder jar exploded, and several horses around him flew up. The horses neighed and whined and fell, smashing their riders underneath.
In the blink of an eye, everyone threw out more than a dozen gunpowder cans, knocking everyone in front of the shield array upside down.
"Pikemen, come up, hurry up." Following the command from the flag generals, a large number of pikemen, holding four-meter-and-five-meter long spears, stepped out from the cover behind the shields, came between the two shields, and used barbed wire and barbed wire.
The part where the chain is connected.
He raised his spear and stabbed at the war horses and knights who were blinded by the explosion and were trying their best to keep people standing up, spinning around, or kicking in fear.
Soon, the cavalry who were not killed or injured and gathered in front of the shields were stabbed down with spears.
The cavalry behind saw Ming troops emerging from behind the large shields, and immediately bent their bows and arrows and shot at these people.
Those in the first row who crashed into the shield were almost killed, including men and horses. The rows after the second row were blown to the ground by gunpowder cans. Then the fish that slipped through the net were stabbed by spears.
The people in the middle fell down. The cavalry behind could see these people between the shields.
Arrows came like locusts and landed densely on the spearmen.
These spearmen are the lowest level of soldiers. However, their equipment is far better than that of these Oirat cavalry.
The stamped plate armor and bucket helmets they wore easily blocked these arrows.
The only disadvantage compared with their servants is that these plate armors are made of steel. The thickness ranges from three millimeters to one millimeter in key areas. On the other hand, the plate armor of Yang Fan's servants is made of aluminum alloy and weighs only one-third of theirs.
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After a clanking sound, the arrows were spread out by the curved surfaces of the plate armor. These curved surfaces acted as ricochet. Moreover, the rippled surface added extra strength.
The spearmen ignored the bows and arrows of the cavalry at all, and continued to do whatever they had to do. Along the way, they had already known that the Mongolian arrows made of bones and stones could not penetrate their plate armor at all. Even iron