Chapter Eighty-Three: The Formation Is Broken
The upward shot is effective, but it is too close at a hundred paces, and the Ming army is also moving slowly, if you shoot from the back, you can only fall on the sand behind the Ming army, so you can only give up,
At fifty steps, the Mongolian athletes gathered their bows, drew their sabers and began to lean down and shout and run wildly, fifty steps to sprint to achieve the maximum impact effect, the Mongolian cavalry began to scream and rush towards the Ming army, Shi Biao looked disdainful, he deliberately made this expression to others, in fact, he was already a little nervous in his heart, but if such a nervousness was seen by his subordinates, the army's heart would collapse, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Shoot the arrows." Shi Biao received that the reason why he did not order the Mongolian soldiers to shoot back when the Mongols were still one hundred and fifty steps away from the Ming army was that the Han people's arm strength was weak and few people could shoot so far.
A hundred steps is a good distance, the front of the enemy has just stepped into the firing range, if the arrow is fired at this time, two batches of arrow rain can be fired before the enemy rushes into battle, but Shi Biao still did not order the arrow, because although the distance can be reached, but for the Han people it is still a little difficult, the accuracy and strength are not enough, followed by can only kill and injure the enemy's front army, and those close to the outside of the arrow rain can dodge, and others can reduce casualties by protecting their bodies with wooden shields,
Now there are only fifty steps left, the enemy is sprinting with all his might, this is the best time, at this moment the enemy has no time to take out the wooden shield to resist, and it is not good to turn the horse to change direction under the full speed sprint, the front team sprints and the rear team follows closely, and now it is the middle of the enemy army that suffers from the rain of arrows, they have people in front and behind, and there are people in front and behind, avoiding the inevitable can achieve the maximum killing, and at the same time, this effectively blocks the continuous offensive of the enemy army, forming a broken stubble, reducing the pressure on their own big shields and spearmen, which can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone, Although you may only be able to shoot one round, and the second round may be more reluctant, the sudden effect must be much better than shooting two rounds calmly.
Meng He stood at Gao Gangsheng, nodded slightly, quite appreciating the Ming army's approach, and muttered, "It's a little interesting." Sure enough, just as Shi Biao thought, the cavalry in the middle section could not dodge the wild gallop in order to maintain the overall speed and had no time to raise the shield, and were hit seriously, and they were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, only a few people with superb riding skills hung under the belly of the horse to escape, and the huge cavalry corps broke in an instant, and the Mongolian knights behind saw that the clansmen fell to the ground, without the slightest mercy, and stepped on their horses, just let out an angry roar from their mouths,
Shi Biao ordered: "The spearman is steady, and the big shield hand is tilting the shield." The spears stood firmly diagonally, and the spearmen at the moment were not necessarily firm, but they brought a rare sense of security to the big shield in front of them and the musketeers and archers behind them.
The head of the Mongolian horse was pierced by the spear, some of the horses jumped up but were pierced into the belly of the horse by the spear, and even the people and horses fell to the ground, although the spear still stood there to assassinate the Mongols, but could not stand the large number of the Mongolian army, and the Ming army met the enemy only one side and the other four sides were evenly divided, so the number was small, many spears have been strung on the enemy's corpse or the opponent's horses, and there is no possibility of assassination, a veteran of the Ming army said to Shi Biao: "General, transfer the people on three sides, I'm afraid I can't hold it." ”
Shi Biao shook his head, he didn't have time to explain to the veteran, he just pointed to the right, and many birds hovered in the sky on the right side but didn't dare to land, indicating that there must be something under there, what else would there be besides the ambush,
This time there was no need for Shi Biao to order, the musketeers spontaneously fired, although the fragments shot in a row but fought separately, and finally eliminated the enemy under the muzzle, at this time the archers once again came to a big back shot, shot and killed the last cavalry still in the outer Mongolia, the spearmen and shield bearers took off the men or horses on the spears and scattered wreckage, and met the last wave of shock men and horses, and the Mongolian cavalry behind was menacing, and before the spearmen raised their spears, they broke through the big shield and rushed into the formation, The archers haven't had time to bend their bows and arrows, and the firecrackers are also filled with gunpowder iron pellets, all of which have no combat effectiveness at all.
The Mongolian cavalry is like a tiger into a flock of sheep, fighting to vent the hatred in their hearts, they just watched their people fall to the ground, and they are secretly scolding the Han people in their hearts for only daring to cower in the formation, not daring to come out to fight, and now they are not slaughtered in the formation.
Shi Biao is what kind of person, when the capital was besieged by the Wara army, he carried a tomahawk into the Wara army, led the cavalry to kill the enemy hard, and then his uncle Shi Heng would make peace, chase the Wara army and drive them out of dozens of miles, such a brave general because of the problem of the troops, it is good to be able to calmly not take the initiative to attack, how to expect him to be able to watch his soldiers fall to the ground,
If he doesn't attack after this humiliation, then Shi Biao is not Shi Biao, his fierce and reckless character can be seen from his military operation, how can he tolerate this group of Tartars to be presumptuous in front of him, kill, kill all the Tartars,
Now this is not a charge, it is a fight in the formation, the battle axe can not be used, too long a weapon can not be played, Shi Pu is superb and does not use the reins of the horse, only his legs can control the war horse, he holds a knife in one hand and a sword in the other hand to lead his cavalry to meet the first, and the Mongols are in a group,
Because it was a battle in the array, the soldiers on the periphery were like a forest of ironclad spears and stepped outward, leaving enough space for the cavalry in the formation to fight each other, at this moment the 30,000 Mongolian cavalry who rushed out earlier had already suffered four or five thousand casualties, and the rest all entered the Ming army's formation, and the people who were deployed on the outside line of the Ming army were originally limited, plus so many people squeezed into the formation, for a time the spearmen in the outer circle defense were heavily loosely and sparsely,
The spearmen and the big shield soldiers are still facing outward, not daring to have the slightest slack, even if the opponent is behind them and fighting with their comrades, they have not looked back, this psychological quality shows that this army is indeed a well-trained iron army, in the formation, only the archers and musketeers put iron sand and arrows towards the Mongolian soldiers who rushed into the formation, Meng He ordered at this time, and the Mongolian ambushes on both sides were killed, rushing to the periphery of the Ming army that was not ready,
After a period of scuffle, there were finally soldiers who couldn't hold on and turned around and fled, but found that there were already 10,000 cavalry blocking the retreating back road, and the soldiers were defeated like a mountain, no matter how well the soldiers were trained, they couldn't withstand the impact of the Mongolian iron cavalry with more than their own numbers, of course, because of Shi Biao's wisdom, and did not withdraw the peripheral troops and horses on the left and right and back roads at the most rare time, so although the Mongolian cavalry defeated the Ming army, they also paid a huge price in their lives,
For a while, there were sounds of fighting and scolding in various Mongolian and Chinese languages, accompanied by endless screams and wails.