Zhang Bingzhong is direct, and Xin Ai is even more direct.

In just a few months, he changed from wearing shoes to being barefoot, at this time when he met the weak Ming army in the field, how could Xin Ai be polite? Don't say polite, it's not to be let go at all.

Xin Ai has fought with the Xuanda Border Army for most of his life, and he knows the situation of the border army well.

In Datong Town alone, there are a total of fifteen guards in Datong, and if you want to say Shuozhou Wei, Ulzhou Wei, Andong Zhongtun Wei, etc., it is indeed poor, really poor to the point that if you don't have some gray income, you will starve to death.

However, the four guards of Datong, that is, the four guards in front of Datong, the back, the left and the right, must be the generals among the dwarfs, and they can live a good life.

Why? Because these four guards are not only the core guards of Datong Town, but also now control important places such as Desheng Fort and Hukou Fort. In other words, they were originally treated well, and now they can get some benefits from the horse market, so naturally they are not comparable to ordinary health centers.

As for Zhang Bingzhong's department, its main force is the men and horses of the Datong Left Guard, and the rest are his own three or four hundred families, all of which are relatively wealthy in the border army.

Of course, Xin Ai can see the banner of Datong Zuowei at a glance, knowing that this is an opponent with oil and water, and there must be a lot of baggage with the army, even if they don't mention the baggage, the various lines on their bodies alone are a lot of wealth.

Then what else is there to say, naturally hurry up and prepare to grab it!

As for combat effectiveness, Xin Ai and Datong Left Guard have fought each other, but the original situation is not the same as today, at that time Datong Left Guard was defending in the city, Xin Ai did not choose to attack because he did not want to bear heavy casualties, so they were actually in a situation where they had fought many times in name, but the actual battle was not much.

However, even if he has not fought hard, Xin Ai's psychological advantage is very great, firstly, because the cavalry itself is not afraid of the infantry, especially the Mongolian cavalry of the nature of this kind of archer, and there is no need to worry too much about how the infantry can treat them.

In fact, even when there was no tribute more than ten years ago, Xuanda Shanxi could make Xin Ai really feel troublesome, and only Ma Fang's department was the department.

Therefore, Xin Ai did not hesitate at this moment, and immediately ordered two forces to be divided, with two thousand cavalry on the left and right to begin to prepare to attack and shoot, while he himself led the main force of the Chinese army to temporarily stay still and observe the opponent's movements first.

This style of play is very common in the Mongolian army, that is, to see if the opponent will panic when facing the Mongolian cavalry that is attacking around the camp with fast horses, if the formation is chaotic or even collapsed because of the panic, it is obviously a weak brigade.

In this case, Xin Ai will either continue to attack and grind, or simply lead the main force to charge the battle, which only depends on whether Xin Ai is in a hurry or not.

In case the other party is more calm and calm, then it will be fine, the Mongolian cavalry is not afraid of endurance warfare, as long as they continue to send troops to attack and harass round after round.

According to their hundreds of years of experience in warfare, they have been dragging their feet like this, and even if they can't defeat the enemy, they will be able to drag the enemy down sooner or later.

After all, the cavalry is not afraid of being bitten by the infantry, as long as they shoot in circles from afar, while ensuring their own safety, they can continue to cause damage to the other party, although this kind of long-distance shooting is not very powerful, and may not be able to shoot many people, but continuous attacks can still seriously hit the morale of the opponent, if there is enough time, the collapse of the opponent is only a matter of time.

After all, if you are only beaten but you can't fight back, whoever comes will not be able to stand it up.

The cavalry moved, but the infantry barely moved.

This is not surprising, infantry versus cavalry cannot compare mobility with man, and the usual response is relatively passive. But Xin Ai frowned, because the Datong Left Guard Ming Army on the opposite side did not put out the most common circle formation.

The circle formation is the most common defensive formation of the infantry, especially when facing the cavalry, the Ming infantry encountered the Mongolian cavalry in the field, and the circle formation was simply a conditioned reflex.

But today there was an exception, the infantry of the Datong Ming Army put out a thin quadrangle formation, this formation was so thin that there were only a few columns of soldiers on each side of the four aspects, and it seemed that a random rush formation could be broken, and then directly take the Chinese army and take down the opponent's main general.

Xin Ai was a little confused, could it be that the other party's master general turned out to be a fool, and he came to the grassland with thousands of people to reward Ben Huang Taiji?

But although there is only one Ma Fang in Xuanda Shanxi, it doesn't mean that they really don't have strong generals, in fact, the overall strength of the three towns in Xuanda Shanxi is very strong, otherwise they can't withstand the ravages of me for decades, right?

A general who could lead 6,000 elite soldiers out of the three towns of Xuanda Shanxi, Xin Ai didn't believe that the other party was really a fool, so he decided to observe a little before making a decision.

The first thing the other party did made Xin Ai scratch his head a little, their formation was already very thin, and now with the cavalry sent by themselves to dispatch in two ways, the first row of soldiers in the Datong Ming military formation, under Xin Ai's gaze from afar, not only did not start to charge and prepare to shoot, but instead put a "long BS" on the fire mouth, well, it seems that it can also be said to be a "thin short knife".

Xin Ai is a little inexplicable, what is the Ming Army doing, can your fire N still beat BS out as a flying knife?

But then he understood, because after the Ming army had put on the bayonets, they suddenly took a small step forward and squatted down, N Tuo facing down, "BS" facing up, N Tuo standing on the ground, "BS" leaning forward with the tip of the knife, and everyone in the first row did so and remained motionless.

Xin Ai first froze for a moment, and then sneered.

Seeing this, his fourth son, Hamu Sho'er, asked, "Why is Abu laughing?" ”

Xin Ai nodded in the direction of the Ming army and said, "The Ming general on the opposite side is a dumbfounder, and he wants to stop the Mongolian iron cavalry even with his thin columns?" ”

Hamu said: "The firearms of the Ming army have been much more powerful than before in recent years, and the other party may think that the power of these firearms is enough to make us retreat." ”

Xin Ai sneered: "Knowing the difficulty and retreating? I can't go back now! ”

Hamu twitched the corners of Du'er's mouth, but he couldn't say anything.

Xin Ai said again: "Besides, what is there to retreat from, even if the Ming army's firearms are more powerful than before, but as long as they launch a charge, how many guns can they put at a distance of a few hundred steps?" As long as you rush in front of their formation, can you block the charging formation with such a thin array? When the time comes, it will be nothing more than a collapse. ”

Hamu looked at Du'er and hesitated: "But the soldiers in their first row"

"I saw it, but so what, that thing hasn't grown n long when it is added together, not to mention that there is only one column, can it stop the charge?"

Hamu thought about it, it seems that it is not wrong, although the long N formation can restrain the cavalry from charging into the formation, but the long N of the long N formation is much longer than the Ming army's "gunmouth knife", and the long N array cannot only be placed in the first row, the Ming army wants to rely on a row of "gunmouth knife" to block the rushing formation, isn't this a dream?

Thinking about it like this, he was relieved, nodded and said, "Maybe the commander of the Ming army will be a hereditary commander, and he won't fight at all." ”

Just when Xin Ai's father and son felt that the formation of the Ming army was really sending food to the Mongolian cavalry, the two cavalry sent earlier had already begun to gather fire and attack, but unexpectedly, their actions ran into great trouble.

The Mongol cavalry suddenly discovered that the range of the Mongol compound bow, which they were so proud of, was actually at a disadvantage in the face of the current Ming army!

How is this possible? Since the conquest of the world by the Mongol Empire, the Mongol cavalry has never suffered in the key factor of range! The range of the English longbow was actually longer, but there are two things to be aware of: the Mongols rode the bow and the England rode the bow, and the Mongols did not fight the English.

The basic armament of the Mongolian archers was a hyperbolic composite bow, which behaved differently with different arrows, with an astonishing penetration when using heavy armor-piercing arrows and an exaggerated range when using light arrows, which had a range of more than 300 meters.

In fact, it should be expressed in "step", but how long a step is is a controversial matter, and rice is simply used here, and this data comes from Mei Tianmu, professor and vice president of the University of North Georgia in the United States, a world-class authoritative scholar in the history of the Mongolian Empire and military history, and has monographs on Mongolian war art, Mongolian culture and customs, etc.

However, due to the lack of power of light arrows, especially in the face of the Ming army with strong defensive capabilities, the effectiveness is greatly reduced, so the current Mongolian cavalry usually shoots armor-piercing arrows at a short distance, generally within 150 meters.

This habitual firing distance pitted the two cavalrymen, because the Ming army on the opposite side opened fire about 200 meters away from them, and killed more than 20 Mongol soldiers in a single volley, and also hit at least 30 horses, throwing the cavalry on the horse to the grass and life was uncertain.

Judging from the formation of the Ming army, in addition to the soldiers in the first row of bayonet formations, there were only more than 1,200 people who could shoot in one direction, and these 1,200 people were divided into three columns, and only the first column opened N just now.

A salvo of more than 400 people hit about fifty targets, which may be a bit bad if it comes out of the rifled N era, but in the current smoothbore N era, it is already very shocking.

Although the cavalry is large, the target is obvious, and in the process of the attack, the Ming army only needs to drive forward N, and the damned unlucky ones on the other side will naturally hit the bullet, but the previous smoothbore n is open to the front, and the bullet may also float up or down, and the accuracy is very worrying.

And this time, there are very few ups and downs of Wanli's flint smoothbore N, although it is not accurate, but it is much stronger than in the past.

Because Wanli is actually a "pseudo-rifled N", according to the requirements of high pragmatism, there are four symmetrical thin and shallow rifling wires inside the N body of this N.

Rifling is rifling, why do you say pseudo-rifling? Because in the highly pragmatic concept, the rifling should be the spiral appearance of the later generations, the effect of this early rifling is relatively limited, and due to the limitation of metallurgical level, considering the problem of metal stress, these four rifling wires are drawn very slightly, so as not to affect the strength of the N body and cause explosion.

In Gao Shishi's opinion, this thing really can't reach the level of "rifling" in his mind.

But it turns out that there are no four lines, the impact is still very great, and the shooting accuracy of Wanli one style far exceeds that of Jinghua's previous generation of main products, Longqing two style! At the very least, its bullets don't fly around.

With a salvo, the Mongolian cavalry was stunned, and Xin Ai's father and son, who were watching the battle from a distance, were also stunned.

Hamu turned Du'er's face pale, swallowed his saliva, and said, "Abu, the pinch Erge tactic has failed, why don't you try to change it to Wuchi?" ”

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