Wang Zhongsi Baihu's body was trembling slightly. This was the first time in his life that he saw the charge of the Mongolian cavalry army. The smoke and dust were billowing, and the sound of hoofbeats came from the ground, like a flood coming over the bank.
He belongs to a hereditary family. During the Taizu Dynasty, his grandfather followed the fourth prince to Peiping and settled in the capital. His family has continued to flourish to this day.
At this time, his mouth was dry and his palms were sweaty. He looked at the galloping Mongolian army and was very scared. But he knew, but he couldn't show fear. If he was anxious, the entire hundred households would be
Then became anxious.
Because he is very clear about the principle that when a soldier is raging, a general is raging in a den. He comes from a military family, and his grandfather told him since he was a child that a general is the courage of a soldier, and a soldier is the power of a general.
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Wang Zhongsi rode on his horse and led eleven cavalrymen behind to supervise the battle. If anyone ran away, the people directly under the Baihusuo were all cavalry and were responsible for hacking them to death.
If his hundreds of households were defeated, he would also be beheaded by military law.
The first array is the first general flag of each hundred households. A certain distance apart is an array of second general flags. The second array is arranged in a staggered manner just opposite to the gap of the first array.
He was riding a horse, looking at the momentum of the cavalry rushing towards him. The ground was shaken by the horses' hooves, shaking slightly up and down. The feeling was really heartbreaking.
The entire Beijing Camp has not fought a war for almost a hundred years. From top to bottom, everyone is very nervous.
This is not like fighting a few isolated castles before, but fighting the enemy face to face, or using infantry to deal with cavalry.
Wang Zhongsi forced himself to calm down, took a few deep breaths, and went through the training content in his mind. The courses their officers took were all related to actual combat, and they had learned most situations on the battlefield. Don't panic at this time.
If you calm down, you can deal with it calmly. If you get anxious and forget everything, you will be doomed.
It's not a joke for the commander to chop off your head. If he says he'll chop off your head, he'll do it.
In the blink of an eye, the Mongolian cavalry had reached a distance of 150 meters in front of the formation.
With a buzzing sound, a black dot flew out from the Mongolian cavalry array, and then flew into the sky. Then, with the sound of Xiu Xiu Xiu, it swooped down from high altitude.
A burst of arrows fell on the military formation. There was a crackling sound.
The arrows falling from the sky were light arrows thrown by Tumut cavalry on galloping horses.
Most of these lost arrows were made of stone and bone, with very few metal arrowheads. This was because they were extremely short of iron. The iron was used to make scimitars.
The soldiers in the Beijing Camp lowered their heads one after another. They wore plate armor that reached to their knees, and greaves were stuck on the front of their calves. They were not afraid of bows and arrows. Only the eye viewing slits of the beak helmets needed to be careful, so as long as they lowered their heads,
Just make the arrows falling from the sky misaligned.
After a burst of bows and arrows, the cloaks of the officers and soldiers in the Beijing camp were filled with arrows. The cloaks swayed in the wind, and the ground seemed to grow grass, with many arrows sprouting out.
Immediately afterwards, there were several rounds of shooting. After all, the time for the war horse to rush over was enough to miss three rounds of arrows.
Soon, the Mongols showed disappointment, and the results were very limited.
There was no chaos in the formation of the soldiers in the Beijing camp, which was completely different from how they fought with other Mongolian tribes. With more than 10,000 people shooting arrows together, in a few rounds, the enemy on the opposite side might reach the lower third.
, the formation was also completely chaotic.
At this time, the enemy's military formation was loose, which was a good opportunity for them to rush in.
But now, there is not even a single person who has fallen down, and there is not even a little bit of confusion. Everyone is just standing there numbly. The cloak filled with missing arrows is fluttering in the wind. It is full of weird scenes.
Because of this situation, the Beijing camp had already trained. Everyone wore armor and formed a formation. Then thousands of archers covered them and fired. Anyone who panicked or moved would be picked out and beaten with military clubs. They faced these dense rains of arrows falling from the sky.
He just lowered his head numbly, or used his arms to block the observation slit in front of him.
Wuyarhuntaiji and Daza stood on the archery tower at the south gate to watch the battle. The eight thousand Alxa cavalry he brought with him were arranged as a reserve team.
"Jinong, charge forward. This time it is strange. The Ming army did not use firearms and crossbows to shoot first, but just let our cavalry charge forward." He frowned and said.
Dasha's gray-yellow eyes were full of worry. He was defeated miserably in the Battle of Duolun last year. He couldn't even defeat An Sanxi, let alone his master. He never thought that Yang Fan would lose his head.
Yes, we set up formations haphazardly.
Visible to the naked eye, the cavalry rushed across a distance of one kilometer and quickly met the enemy. They didn't know whether the Ming army had firearms, so the faster they met the enemy, the better. At this time, there were already cavalry in front rushing through the gap in the small array of the Ming army.
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The best tactic of the Mongols is to break through the infantry defense line. After opening a breakthrough, they then circle, intersperse, separate, and surround. Finally, they chase and defeat the defeated troops and win a complete victory.
Because the military formations in front were all composed of flags. Fifty people formed a pentagonal array, with their shields facing the outside. Naturally, the Mongolian cavalry did not adopt the previous fighting method.
In the past, the Ming army used to defend in horizontal lines, and the Mongols rushed forward and broke through the line. This time, since the distance between the army formations was about six meters, they simply rushed in.
Since there is a ready-made passage, only a fool would hit the shield. Didn't you see those long spears sticking out? Even if the Mongols control the horses and force them to hit it, the horses will automatically run into the passage. The horses are afraid of the spears.
Lin Huzi was the general flagman. When no enemy hit the sharp corners of the pentagonal formation, he immediately shouted loudly.
"Trip the horse rope, pull it up. Quickly."
The enemy's cavalry had already reached its maximum speed at this time and almost passed by in a flash. The stumbling rope must be pulled up in advance.
A short steel pipe has been nailed to the ground. At this time, the two sword and shield hands immediately pulled up the trip rope and stuck it on the short steel pipe.
The speed of the galloping horse is too fast. If you use human power to pull the horse rope, your arm will be broken. How can a human arm hold a galloping horse?
With a roar, the mounts of the seven or eight cavalrymen who rushed in first were tripped by the steel ropes and fell forward to grab the ground. The horse's legs made a kacha sound, and the leg bones were broken directly. The war horses let out a tragic cry, and their backs
The knight on top was thrown off.
At such a high speed, if you fall down, you will definitely suffer fractures. The Mongolians are in mourning all over the country.
Lin Beard immediately shouted, "Assassination by spearmen!"
More than a dozen spears stabbed out like poisonous snakes, stabbing the knights who fell to the ground to death. Then they quickly retracted.
Although the men and horses in front fell, the cavalry behind could not control their speed at all, so they could only bite the bullet and continue to rush forward. Suddenly, a large area fell down in front, and the ones behind were pressing on the ones in front.
The passage was blocked, and the remaining cavalry directly ran into the shield.
The garrison hoe had been put down, and the shield was shaking violently, but except for the horses being knocked over, the shield did not fall down.