Chapter 446: It's all invulnerable! (Ask for a commuter pass)
Jialazhang Jing Muchen, who led a Niu Lu to supervise the battle of the Blue Banner in the back, was stunned by the scene in front of him.
How is this possible?
How could the shield array of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers be pierced by Nikan's spear? Could it be that these pikemen are all white-pole soldiers under the old lady Qin in Sichuan?
This Mu Chen is an elderly veteran who participated in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River more than 20 years ago! This was called "the first bloody battle since Liaozuo used troops" by the Qing people. Although the result was still won by the Eight Banners, the danger of the process, the fierceness of the battle, and the heavy losses all made the Eight Banners soldiers who participated in this fierce battle unforgettable for life.
After the Battle of the Hunhe River, Nurhachi also personally presided over the Great Sacrifice of the Dead to comfort the soldiers of the Eight Banners.
And Niu Lu, where Mu Chen himself was, fought many rounds with the Shizhu Tusi Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness in the Ming Army, that is, the White Pole Army, and suffered heavy losses! The war horse that Mu Chen was riding was also stabbed to death by a white-pole military spear. If it weren't for his comrades desperately saving each other, he would have been a handful of loess a long time ago.
So as soon as he saw that his two Niu Lu were broken through by the spear array of the Ming army, he immediately thought of the battle of the Hunhe River and the white pole soldiers......
"Jiala Zhangjing, give the order quickly!"
Mu Chen's ears suddenly remembered the loud shout of Niu Lu Zhang Jingert who was following him, and then he suddenly woke up from the shock.
"Ert, take your men up there!" Mu Chen shouted loudly, "Three shots!" ”
He gave two orders! The first is to let Ert lead a cow record left as a reserve to fill in the hole - it is impossible to let the "white pole soldiers" of the Ming army completely achieve a breakthrough!
The second is to use the trumpet cannon to order the other two Niu Lu to encircle the two "white pole phalanxes" of the Ming army from both wings!
Mu Chen is Jia Lazhangjing, and there are five Niu Lu under his hands, and just now he took out four of them and set up a shield array, and one was reserved for the reserve.
His opponent Tian Qingyi only had two battalions at hand, each with 240 pikemen, for a total of 480 pikemen (if there were no casualties in the previous exchange of bows and arrows), which was not enough to storm the four Eight Banners Niu Lu at the same time. So he chose the two Niu Lu in the middle as the breakthrough point - because they happened to be in the way of the road, and it was easier to impact.
The remaining two Eight Banners Soldier Shield Array arranged on the left and right, but there were no pikemen with strong impact to rush at them, and only a small number of sword soldiers were in front of them. Of course, it was impossible to repel the two Niu Lu of the Eight Banners with a small number of sword soldiers, and the pikemen who rushed into the formation repelled the two Niu Lu in the middle of the Eight Banners Formation.
Therefore, if you look down from a high place, you can find that the formation of the Eight Banners has been beaten into a "U" shape, with two wings protruding and a depression in the middle.
At this time, if the Eight Banners can hold the middle of the depression and press the two wings at the same time, they can wrap Tian Qingyi's two battalions into dumplings!
With the sound of three horns, the situation on the battlefield changed abruptly! Seeing that the middle of the Qing army, which was about to be completely broken through, fell into a stalemate because of the addition of a Niu Lu - this is also because the impact kinetic energy of the Ming army's pikemen has been exhausted, and the pikemen who have lost their impact power can only rely on stabbing and vigorous slapping to fight. These two tricks can't deal with the Eight Banners who are good at hand-to-hand combat!
On the two wings, the Niu Lu performance of the two Qing army Zhenglan Banner was also brave enough. Hearing the trumpet, they immediately launched a pounce, slashing with the shield, forcing their Ming saber soldiers who were not in a hurry to retreat!
Tian Qingyi saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly sent the reserves at hand, that is, the archers who had retreated, to resist in two groups. Cao Riling was also sent, he put away the Kaiyuan bow, drew his waist sword, and fought with thirty or forty ironclad archers who also wore slatted iron armor and rushed up to fight the Manchurian soldiers with swords and shields. Because he only has a sword and no shield, and his knife skills are also ordinary, he loses the upper hand as soon as he fights.
Opposite him was an old Tartar in his forties with a full face, holding a rattan shield in his left hand and a "Kanto broom" in his right hand, which was a fierce slash at Cao Riling. Cao Riling had to hold the knife in both hands, block left and right, and protect his head and face. But he can protect his head and face, but he can't protect his whole body, and he will be stabbed twice in just a while! A knife next to the belly slashed the blade of the "Kanto broom". A knife was stabbed on the waist and was slashed by the blade!
It scared him out of white hair!
That's right, it's scared of sweat...... Not dead yet, not hurt. The stomach is not broken, and the two waists are still there!
Of course, there is a reason why you can still not die or be injured after being slashed. It's not that he has practiced the golden bell jar, but that his slatted iron armor that he bought for nine taels and nine dollars is expensive, but it is worth the money! The "Kanto broom" of the Tartars can't even be cut!
The old tartar who cut him was also sweating. His name is Bayan, known as the eighth master, his old surname is Yehenara, and now he worships Niu Lu Zhangjing. That's a martial arts, skilled in bows and horses, skilled in swords and guns, can also play with firearms, and can also wrestle in Mongolia, and has the honorary title of Baturu. In the more than 20 years since he joined the army, Nikan has been hacked to death and injured no less than 100 and not less than 80, but Nikan, who can't be hacked to death after chopping around, is the first time he has encountered it, and the blades have been cut so that they are all out of sparks, and it is estimated that they are all curled! This Nikan is still alive and kicking like a nobody!
What's the matter with the armor on him? Why is it so reliable? The average family member in the Ming army doesn't have such a good armor, is this Nikan a general? But looking at his sword skills are so messy, he doesn't look like a general?
The Tartar who feels depressed today is not the only one who is Baturu, and now the Tartar who is cutting people, eight out of ten are panting, and they have not yet hacked their opponents to death.
Because all the Ming soldiers they meet today have armor that can't be cut through by a knife - in fact, this is just the normal level of armor in the seventeenth century! In these years, iron sheets are not very expensive, and there are good iron smelting industries in Foshan, Guangdong, and Fujian, especially Foshan Iron Industry is sold in East and Southeast Asia. As long as the silver is used in a real place, the armor made will certainly not be cut.
Now not only can the armor of the new army not be cut, but the waist knives they use are also very strong, and they don't look very heavy, but the "Kanto Broom" sweeps it hard, and it will collapse a small gap, and it will not break at all. However, the "big broom" in the hands of the Eight Banners may collapse into a bigger opening!
This group of Ming soldiers can be described as stubborn and stubborn!
Of course, now it is not only difficult for the Tartars to cut down the Ming army, but also the Ming army on the side of the Tartars who can't cut the Tartars. Because the armor worn by the Eight Banners True Manchurian is also very strong! At the very least, it was a thick cotton armor lined with iron sheets, and some people wore it with chain mail.
Of course, sprinting with a big gun can pierce it, and the big gun coupled with the inertia of human running is enough to pierce solid armor. Hitting lead bullets with turtledoves is also worn as soon as it is done, and the projectiles of one or two or five dollars are not a joke! If you use a bird, you'll have to close the distance and fire.
And use the waist knife to cut, and use the arrow to shoot...... Then you have to coincidentally hit the parts that are not protected by armor.
In fact, both sides "took the wrong blade"! The sword has limited lethality against such an armored opponent, and it must be struck with a blunt weapon or mace, or slashed with a nail-head axe. However, neither of the warring sides had such armor-piercing weapons.
The Eight Banners fought with the Ming Army and the Dashun Army, which had no good armor, so they naturally did not bring heavy armor-piercing weapons into battle, only some of them brought a flying axe, and threw it out to put down some Ming troops, but there were not many of them.
On the other hand, the New Army is a "superstitious firearm", with large-scale killing weapons such as "flying cannons" and turtledove-foot guns, and of course they do not pay attention to hammers and axes.
So judging from the scene, although the Qing army has the advantage, pressing the Ming army to cut, there is a tendency to surround the Ming army. However, the casualties were still slightly larger than those of the Qing army, which had been struck by spears.
Because the more than 2,000 people who were slashing each other were wearing good armor, and none of them had any good weapons to break the armor, which was equivalent to two groups of invulnerable guys cutting each other. There are also those who are cut unfortunately, and they just hit the gap in the armor or the face and wrists.
But most of them slashed back and forth, slashing so much that their hands were sore, and they didn't cut their opponents down. It's just jingling, and it sounds very lively......