These Tartars were so skilled in archery that they were able to shoot arrows quickly and with great accuracy, even on galloping horses. As long as the Ming army on the city showed its head slightly, their feather arrows would follow one after another, and soon there were many dead and wounded on the city.

On the other hand, on the side of the Ming Dynasty, the morale of the soldiers was not strong, and the archery skills were not good, so it was difficult to inflict casualties on the Tartar soldiers riding fast horses, so they could only rely on a wide range of feather arrows to cover them.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Houzhao's heart was naturally uncomfortable, and at the same time, he was also thinking about how to deal with this situation, and soon Zhu Houzhao thought of a possibility, that is, a crossbow array. Defending the city with a crossbow array was very effective, but thinking of the time and money it would take, Zhu Houzhao decisively gave up.

Unless you can get flexible steel to make a steel crossbow, the gains outweigh the losses, and the Tartars outside the city are becoming more and more arrogant at this time.

Zhu Houzhao listened to the shrill laughter and scolding of the Tartars, the expression on his face became serious, and he walked down from Duokou, Zhu Houzhao ordered: "Let everyone prepare, bring my armor!" ”

Although Zhu Houzhao was also wearing armor, this was not the armor of Zhu Houzhao when he was fighting, the armor he used when he was fighting was made of another one, it was a set of plate armor. Originally, Zhu Houzhao thought about waiting until his steel mill was established, and then he came up with a water conservancy press to manufacture plate armor, knowing that under the same weight, the defense of plate armor was better than that of fish scale armor and piercing armor.

In later generations, many people argued about this, but Zhu Houzhao wanted to say that talking about defense without mentioning weight is a hooligan.

When Zhu Houzhao's plate armor was built into an iron furnace, Zhu Houzhao found that those masters still had this craft, so he told them about the plate armor. took out the best steel, forged it repeatedly, and finally took more than four months to create Zhu Houzhao's set of plate armor, and I liked it very much when I saw Zhu Houzhao at that time.

During the drill in Xiyuan, Zhu Houzhao also wore this set of plate armor, so he naturally knew what Zhu Houzhao was talking about, so someone quickly went to take Zhu Houzhao's plate armor.

There are many benefits of plate armor, in the era of cold weapons, this is definitely a very good existence, the protection of plate armor and the flexibility brought to soldiers under the same weight are beyond the reach of other iron armor, and it also provides more convenient conditions for cold and hot processing. Whether it is chain mail, scale armor, or armor, because its constituent elements (small iron rings, armor plates, etc.) are too small, the processing is extremely cumbersome, which not only consumes manpower, but also makes it difficult to process and strengthen.

The decline of plate armor came to the appearance of large arquebuses, which made the resistance of plate armor insufficient for the first time. In the face of bullets, well-made plate armor can indeed effectively resist the frontal penetration, but the huge impact force often causes the guard plate to sink inward and cause damage, and the vibration that occurs when the bullet and plate armor collide will also bring serious damage to the human body, which makes the heavy plate armor more and more powerless in actual combat.

In Zhu Houzhao's view, plate armor is the most suitable thing for the Ming Dynasty, with strong protection, with water conservancy stamping machines and new steel mills, forging is also easy, can be produced and equipped in large quantities.

The main enemies of the Ming Dynasty are the grassland peoples, and the large arquebuses have nothing to do with them, and with plate armor, it is not too difficult for the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty to gain an advantage over the grassland. The forging technology of the new steelmaking plant and hydraulic stamping is definitely not something that the grassland people can learn casually, and even if they do, they will not be able to make tens of thousands of sets and hundreds of thousands of sets on a large scale like the Ming Dynasty.

When they learn the technology, it will be too late, Zhu Houzhao believes that sooner or later he will be able to take the Ming Dynasty's iron cavalry across the grassland, and that day will start from today's battle.

Zhu Houzhao's set of plates is a complete set, starting from the cuirass to the leg armor below, the helmet and visor, and even the gloves. Zhu Houzhao still remembers his shocked appearance when he saw this armor, and he couldn't help but ask in his heart, can the skilled craftsmen of this era actually achieve this point?

In order to make this set of armor look more powerful and domineering, they even carved patterns on it, such as the tiger head on the chest, and the entire armor was gilded in many places, and also gave a very bullish name, called tiger head soap gold armor, or Zhu Houzhao asked them to take all these bells and whistles.

In addition to looking beautiful, the set of tiger head soap gold armor is useless, and if it is worn on the battlefield, it is estimated that it will be used as a target.

The set that Zhu Houzhao is wearing now, black, has been rubbed with tung oil in many places, and after wearing it, it gives people a strong sense of oppression.

"Get on the horse!" Although Zhu Houzhao grabbed the reins of the horse and turned over on the horse, Zhu Houzhao said to the soldiers behind him: "Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, you are not short to follow the side of the palace. A Tartar has a head of forty taels, this money is out of the palace, he counts his words, and he makes money to buy land and marry a concubine! ”

Zhu Houzhao's words are very uncivilized, but who are the soldiers of this era? They are all poor people.

What is the righteousness of the family and the country, they rarely understand, only those who read can talk about this, the soldier's attention is to be a soldier and eat food, in the big one, it is to fight for a future, in order to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield. These people are all old men of Tengxiang Siwei, so they naturally know what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince means, and after saying that, after training for so long, they have long held their breath.

Everyone knows that this is an opportunity to perform in front of the prince, and if it enters the eyes of His Royal Highness the prince, it must be promising.

"Open the gates!" Zhu Houzhao did not hesitate at all, turned to the soldiers at the city gate and said, after saying this, Zhu Houzhao raised his hand and put down his face armor.

With Zhu Houzhao's words, the gate of Guyuan was creaked open, and then the suspension bridge was also put down, and the Tartar soldiers outside were stunned when they saw this scene, but they knew that this was the Ming army going out of the city. But at this time, did the Ming army dare to go out of the city? What is going on in Guyuan City, they don't know it?

In their shocked eyes, a group of cavalry rushed out of Guyuan City, led by a cavalry whose whole body was shining in an iron can.

Zhu Houzhao looked at the Tatar soldiers who couldn't get in love, just now these people were shooting arrows towards the city, Zhu Houzhao raised his horse chopping knife and pointed at those people, and then said: "Strangle them!" ”

With Zhu Houzhao's order, a team of cavalry rushed towards them, the speed of the cavalry's horses was very fast, this is the commando team set up by Zhu Houzhao, their horses are carefully selected, and it is not good to run long distances, but the short-distance sprints are all good hands, and the knights of these commandos are all the best archery people.

Bows and arrows with pulleys allow them to fire faster and at a longer range, the same as the scouts' bows and arrows.

The Tartar soldiers were still preparing to shoot with bows and arrows, but the cavalry on this side suddenly divided into three columns, outflanked the left and right and charged head-on, and rushed forward directly with these Tartar soldiers. The bow and arrow in his hand shot at the Tartar soldiers, a longer range, plus a more accurate aiming system, yes, Zhu Houzhao added sights to these bows and arrows.

Although it is a very rudimentary physical sight, the principle is also simple that light travels in a straight line, and the eye, the standard instrument, and the target are on a line, which is commonly known as the three-point line.

However, these people were the best archers, and with the equipment, their accuracy and rate of fire improved greatly.

Soon the Tartars were late, and these people surrounded them, and they entered, and these people retreated, and they retreated, and these people chased, and what never stopped was the sound of these bowstrings. A single feathered arrow can knock a Tartar soldier to the ground, and the entire battlefield is filled with the screams of the Tartar soldiers, and killing becomes the main theme.

Zhu Houzhao sat on his war horse, looking at the Tartar soldiers in the distance, these Tartar soldiers who had been cleared were only a few hundred people, and there was a large group of people over there.

Obviously, these Tartar soldiers didn't expect that there would be cavalry in Guyuan City, and they thought that it was infantry who went out of the city, so these hundreds of people didn't run, and now they can't run if they want to.

"Enter!" Zhu Houzhao waved his sword, the cavalry began to move forward, the sound of trampling horses' hooves sounded, and the Tartar soldiers who were cleared were completely panicked, and began to turn around and run back towards the main formation, they knew that if they didn't run, they would definitely die, and Zhu Houzhao saw that the Tartar soldiers also began to speed up.

Obviously, the general of this Tartar soldier was not convinced, and after he saw that the number of people on Zhu Houzhao's side was half of his own, he was even more unconvinced.

In addition, he thinks that he can win, he is 10,000 against 5,000, can't he win against the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty? The cavalry of the Ming Dynasty is also called cavalry? If he turned around and retreated at this time, the Tartar generals also knew that they would definitely be chased by the cavalry of the Ming army, which was unacceptable, and if they wanted to retreat, they had to defeat these Ming troops head-on.

The cavalry on both sides began to speed up, and the sound of the war horses running rumbled on the ground, Zhu Houzhao put the horse chopping knife away, stretched the bow and arrows, this special longbow is Zhu Houzhao's treasure.

The range is long, because he has great strength and very high accuracy, Zhu Houzhao aimed at the Tartar general who rushed in front.

Sou!

Zhu Houzhao's war horse did not slow down at all, and the feather arrows flew directly towards the opponent's military formation with a blast of wind, and then Zhu Houzhao shot two arrows in a row, and then Zhu Houzhao put away the bow and arrow, the speed of the war horse has been raised, and the two sides are about to fight hand-to-hand, and the bow and arrow are out of play. At this time, the rain of Tartar's arrows also arrived, Zhu Houzhao simply ignored it, he tried, such a feather arrow could not penetrate his plate armor at all.

The only weakness of the plate armor is the Hammer, which can be protected even by a normal sword Hammer, unless the wearer's luck is too bad. However, Zhu Houzhao sat on a horse and had a saddle in front of him, so this weakness was negligible.

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