After more than a dozen rounds of arrow rain, these ejecting riders all retreated.
The officers in each military formation had just breathed a sigh of relief and were about to reorganize their queues and carry out the wounded. If there was any vacancy, the rear team would fill in the front team. Then they saw the black Mongolian heavy armored cavalry in the distance, carrying long spears.
, came up slowly.
The Mongols generally have light cavalry as the main force, but this does not mean that they do not have heavy cavalry.
The Mongolian tradition is to use light cavalry to seduce, harass, and provoke the enemy's heavy cavalry. Then they pretend to retreat. When the enemy's heavy cavalry comes after them and breaks away from the infantry, the Mongolian heavy cavalry attacks head-on. The retreating light cavalry on both wings
The cavalry surrounded them on both sides.
The Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom also played this way. The combination of their heavy cavalry and light cavalry was called the Tiefu Tu plus the Kaizi Horse. The Tiefu Tu was the heavy cavalry with human and horse equipment, and the Kaizi Horse was the light cavalry.
During the attack, Tiefutu attacked from the front and the Kaizi horses flanked it.
Hei Yunlong looked at it and saw that these heavy cavalry men and horses were all wearing armor. The knights were wearing Mongolian quill armor and ring armor. The chest and forehead of the war horses were plate armor, and the torso was covered with chain mail.
Su Buti did not have many heavy cavalry, about 3,000. This number was made up of the entire Mongolian banner. Su Buti himself only had 1,500 heavy cavalry.
Behind these three thousand people were thirty thousand Mongolian soldiers who were dismounted and fighting on foot. They all held round shields and spears in the other hand. These spears were all cavalry rifles four and a half meters long.
Behind these 30,000 infantrymen were 20,000 Mongolian archers.
The cavalry bows used by the Mongols were relatively small. Bows that were too big were inconvenient to use on horseback. Only perverts like Jiannu used large bows on horses. In order to be able to pull out bows from their bow quivers on galloping and bumpy horses, they even
Changed the mounting method of the waist knife.
These Mongolian archers, each with a large infantry bow almost as tall as a human, followed behind. Once they entered 150 meters, they began to throw light arrows.
For long-distance projectiles, you can only use a combination of a large bow and light arrows. Heavy arrows cannot fly too far. Heavy arrows are used for direct shooting at close range. They are mainly used to break armor at close range. Light arrows are fully effective against armor.
The effect of the infantry is limited. The light arrows thrown have poor armor-piercing effect.
It's pretty powerful against chain armor, but it's a bit weak against fish scale armor and pierced armor. As for Yang Fan's plate armor, it's directly immune. Even Jiannu's big bow can't penetrate the frog mouth helmet with a direct shot in the face.
It's a pity that at this time, the Ming army would be very happy if they could issue a new mandarin duck war coat. How can one of them be expected to wear heavy armor? Moreover, everyone knows the virtues of the gentlemen in the Ministry of War and Ministry of Industry.
The bleaching is less than 30% first. The craftsmen still have to take advantage of the opportunity to steal materials and cut corners. Otherwise, they will starve to death in the Chongzhen Dynasty where wages were not paid.
The Yuanyang War Jacket consists of two layers of cotton armor inside and outside, with a layer of iron mesh in the middle. It is a barbed wire mesh, not chain mail. It is somewhat resistant to cuts with knives. It can poke a big hole with a spear. Bows and arrows can even be penetrated by arrows.
This thing has a certain degree of defense against fire portal guns at long distances, but is basically useless against matchlock guns. However, cotton armor is warm to wear in winter and is much more comfortable than iron armor.
After these people were singled out and reorganized, they were only issued new mandarin duck war jackets. The armor was something that only existed in dreams. The meaning of Li Banghua, Minister of the Ministry of War, can be expressed in Rumsfeld's famous saying. You can only get the existing equipment.
It is impossible to obtain imaginary equipment.
Only small flags have chainmail armor, and only general flags have pierced armor. Only adults from a hundred households will be issued a set of fish scale armor. Only adults from a thousand households will have high-end products such as mountain armor. It has good protection, is relatively light in weight, and is also
There is a lot of flexibility.
"Let the Franco machine and the three general cannons fire, and at the same time prepare the squatting tiger cannon and the three-eyed gun." Heiyunlong said.
He is a veteran of war and is very familiar with the Mongols. He is methodical in how to deal with them.
The heavy cavalry on the opposite side began to speed up. The horses were already trotting. The 30,000 infantrymen also started trotting to follow. The 20,000 large archers had already begun to draw their bows and nock arrows. They were ready to shoot at any time.
Hei Yunlong's heart was heavy. Fifty thousand Mongolian soldiers were attacking him head-on. There were only thirty thousand men in front of him. The situation was not optimistic.
The heavy cavalry on the opposite side rushed to a hundred meters and began to charge from running. The knight clamped his legs and stimulated the horse with spurs. The horse felt pain and immediately increased its speed and started running wildly.
At the same time, the big archer fired his arrow.
There was a loud buzzing sound, the big bow was launched, and the vibration of the bowstring was much greater than that of a riding bow. Almost everyone felt the echo in their ears. Pieces of arrows fell from the sky, and once again crackled into the Ming army's array.
Another batch of unlucky guys were shot down. There was a wailing sound.
At this moment, more than a hundred Franco machine guns and three general cannons on the front opened fire.
Boom boom boom! A burst of smoke filled the air, and the solid spherical bullets roared towards the heavy cavalry a hundred meters away. Because of the field march, heavy artillery was not allowed, and they were all small artillery. Therefore, in order to ensure the power, they were shot at about a hundred meters away. This
In terms of distance, the shot will basically not miss, and the shells will go in a straight line.
The cavalry on the opposite side and the infantry behind are all in dense formation. At this time, the Mongolian heavy cavalry has begun to widen the distance between the horizontal rows. Because the spears are very long, the attacking infantry array must be placed flat. It is easy to accidentally injure the front and rear. Therefore.
After 10 meters, the first group should speed up especially, and the second group should slow down appropriately and keep distance.
That is to say, starting from 100 meters, row by row, they increase to the maximum speed. There are ten meters in front and back. Row by row, they rush towards the infantry array.
The Mongolian heavy cavalry's spears were flattened and impacting at maximum speed. The cannonballs hit them all over the head and face.
Although these are small cannons, they are not as powerful as a large-caliber matchlock gun. A one-pound lead ball was hit and had no use in piercing plate armor. It was flattened directly.
The heavy cavalry in the first row suddenly fell on their backs. More than a hundred cavalry fell.
However, these heavy cavalry were all well-trained and selected veterans who had experienced many battles. They quickly arranged their formation, stepped over the fallen people and continued to move forward.
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Boom boom boom, the Fran cannon continued to fire. But the firepower intensity dropped significantly.
Again, more than thirty heavy cavalry fell off their horses. Then, there was another round of artillery bombardment. More than thirty Mongolians fell again. By this time, the heavy cavalry had reached thirty meters away.
The gunners immediately threw down the artillery and turned around and ran back. They got into the shield array like their buttocks were on fire. Then the gunners of the second batch of Crouching Tiger Cannons lit the fuses of the Crouching Tiger Cannons and immediately ran back.
. Got behind the shield array.
At this time, there was a howling sound among the cavalry. Suddenly, the lance was leveled and pointed downwards at the shield array. It was ready to charge the shield array with the lance.
Just in the midst of the calcium carbide fire, the Tiger Crouching Cannon went off.
The entire frontal position was more than 300 meters wide. There were more than 70 squatting tiger cannons placed on the ground. They were lined up like squatting toads with their mouths open, aiming at the heavy cavalry.
These tiger crouching cannons are loaded with a large amount of gunpowder, and the outside is full of gravel, which is equivalent to shotgun shells.
Boom, boom, boom, the entire front was filled with fire and smoke. The fire flashed and dense stones hit the cavalry head and face.
The firing area of these squatting tiger cannons is a thirty-degree fan shape, and within thirty meters is their best killing area.
The intensive attack of shotgun shells far exceeded the previous Franco machine cannon. Several layers were cut off from the front of the entire heavy cavalry. Corpses of men and horses were stacked on top of each other, and the armor silk ribbons were broken, and pieces of armor were scattered and scattered.
.The human body was penetrated by gravel, and there were holes everywhere.
Suddenly, the entire group of cavalry felt as if they had been hit hard by a hammer, and the impact was temporarily stagnant.