In the blink of an eye, all thirty arrows from an arrow pot were shot out.
These rain of arrows caused heavy casualties to the three cavalry regiments. Although many people had been shot to death and injured, the plan prepared by Yan Yingyuan in advance still played a huge role.
He knew clearly that these people could only ride on horses and were not considered cavalry at all. Most of them did not have the ability to fight hand-to-hand with the Mongols.
Therefore, before the battle, an order was issued for all cavalry to tie their legs tightly to their horses with ropes. This way, no matter how fierce the fight was, they would not fall off their horses.
He also ordered that a long spear should be tied to the left and right sides of the horse at an angle of 30 degrees.
In this way, these cavalrymen transformed into a formation similar to a chain of horses.
Every five horses were chained together with ropes, and each team was used as a unit to violently attack Mongolia.
This is because their cavalry fighting and equestrian skills are not good, and they are not well trained, and they cannot form wall-mounting tactics. There is no other way.
Since it is impossible for these people to form a group of eleven people like Yang Fan's servants, they can use a dense formation and unit width to increase the troop density to offset the Mongolian fighting ability.
Simply tie the five cavalrymen together horizontally.
Those who attack in the front form a chain of horses to break up the enemy's formation. A group of five people in the back forms a wall of ropes. This creates a local advantage and allows the enemy to be defeated with more.
Mongolians usually carry three arrow pots, two light arrows and one heavy arrow. Each pot contains thirty arrows.
After shooting the light arrows, the Mongols immediately launched a charge without looking at the results.
In cavalry fighting, the horses must be allowed to run. If you stand here and are hit by the enemy's running horses, it is an act of seeking death.
The Taijis shouted loudly and urged their men to charge.
The two armies faced each other at the mouth of the valley, which was only three to five miles wide.
Yan Yingyuan's personal soldiers and retainers' baggage cavalry battalion were very fast, and in the blink of an eye they were thirty meters away from the Mongolian cavalry.
Ma Ning shouted, "Fire four rounds from the gun! Fire!"
The cavalrymen quickly pulled out a double-barreled flintlock musket with their left and right hands from the holster in front of the saddle. They immediately pulled the trigger and fired.
Under the charge of the cavalry from both sides, the distance of thirty meters disappeared in an instant. There could be no hesitation at this time.
Bang bang bang bang!
Dense smoke rose and was blown away by the strong wind.
At this time, the cavalry, which had transformed from a wedge formation into a wild goose formation, opened fire collectively.
Yan Yingyuan and his two hundred cavalry were protected at the back of the middle position of the wild goose formation.
The dense bullets were shot out, and there was no need to aim at this time. Because there were people on the opposite side, even if they could not hit the first row, they could still hit the second row. There were also the third row and the fourth row...
The enemy troops charging against Jia Ding's camp felt as if they had been hit by a hammer. The entire charge paused, and then everyone fell on their backs.
These handguns have short barrels and an effective range of only thirty meters. However, the flintlock gun has a high rate of fire and a very fast firing speed. As long as the trigger is pulled, it can fire immediately.
When the trigger is pulled for the first time, the left hammer will fire the left barrel. If you continue to pull the trigger to the end, the right hammer will fire the right barrel. This kind of handgun has one trigger, which uses different strokes to fire two guns.
Send ammunition.
Thirty meters away, the two sides collide at high speed, which means they will collide in six or seven seconds.
However, this time is enough for each hand to activate a handgun. He also inserts the empty handgun back into his holster. He casually draws his saber and slashes at the enemy who has not been shot down and dismounted.
In order to block the entrance of the valley, Dabulai also underestimated the enemy. There was a big problem with his formation. The main reason was that the depth was too thin.
Five hundred people from the Jia Ding camp formed a wild goose formation with double rows at the front and rear. Each side was 125 meters wide, which meant one meter per horse position.
This is a very dense cavalry formation. Among the entire team of more than 30,000 people, only the servant cavalry sent by Yang Fan can form such a battle formation.
Almost in the blink of an eye, half of the Mongols' depth was cut through. Immediately, the two sides collided violently. Soldiers from both sides wielded their scimitars and sabers, and started slashing and killing at the moment they passed by.
Because the formation of the Jia Ding camp was dense, and the Mongolians on the sides were killing each other, and the Mongols on the front could not pass through the gaps, so they collided head to head.
Jia Dingying likes to hit them because their horses are good, tall, heavy, and faster. Mongolian horses can't hit them at all.
They also thoughtfully installed a foot-long steel nail on the horse's forehead iron, making the horses look like unicorns.
Under a violent collision, the Mongolians and horses on the opposite side were knocked away and knocked down. Under such a fierce collision, anyone who fell to the ground would be trampled to death by random horses. There was no chance.
The hand cannon sliced off one layer, the war horse knocked down another layer, and the rest were fighting hand-to-hand in the blink of an eye.
At this time, the members of the Jiading Group were already proficient in modern saber fighting techniques. Their fighting and equestrian skills had surpassed those of the herdsmen's conscripts.
The Mongols at this time were no longer in the era of Genghis Khan. They basically had no standing army.
The 126 Qianhu Cavalry Corps, those Qie Xue troops who were off-duty and specialized in fighting and plundering supplies during battles, have long since disappeared in the dust of history.
Nowadays, the herdsmen on the grassland are recruiting soldiers. They graze their animals in peacetime and gather during war. It is similar to the system of the Eight Banners. However, the system of the Eight Banners has a lot of time for military training during the slack time. The Mongolians do not
, their training was entirely given to mounted shooting during hunting and grazing.
At this time, hand-to-hand combat began, and these Mongols were immediately at a disadvantage when they faced off against professional cavalry soldiers, especially cavalry trained in modern equestrian skills, sword skills, tactics, and sabers.
Their horses were too short, which made them suffer greatly when they were slashing. Many of them did not even have leather armor, and their leather robes could not stop the slashing swords of modern cavalry.
Their scimitars are far less useful than modern cavalry sabers in terms of material and ergonomics.
In the blink of an eye, the Jia Ding camp penetrated the enemy's formation and rushed over.
As the Jia Ding regiment protected the general, they rushed through the enemy's formation and cut the enemy into two pieces. This greatly boosted morale. The three cavalry regiments behind them let out deafening shouts and then collided with the Mongols.
The cavalry regiment in the middle rushed through as the gap widened. The cavalry regiments on both wings collided with the Mongols.
Their first row of horse formations, a group of five horses, carried knights with their legs tied, and fired nine spears. They immediately scattered the Mongolian cavalry on the opposite side.
In this formation, even if the Mongolian cavalry wanted to push up, the Mongolian horses would not be willing. These gray war horses barked and automatically got out of the chain of horse formations and ran past the side. Even if the Mongolian soldiers whipped them desperately, they would not
use.
The chain of horses completely broke up their formation.