Thinking of Salhu, Zhang Yunyi looked up at King Xin again.

This time, he didn't care about being rude, and he stared at His Royal Highness King Shin.

However, he really didn't find a trace of sarcasm or disdain on King Shin's face. King Shin's face was only a strong desire for knowledge and some incomprehensible confusion.

Settle your mind and recall the details of the battle of Sarhu.

"It's been 5 years?" Zhang Yunyi muttered. Under the watchful eye of King Shin, he finally regained his former courage. He decided to pick out this pustule in his heart himself.

As if knowing his decision, Zhang Yunyi seemed to see that King Xin's eyes also had a taste of encouragement.

Zhang Yunyi sorted out his thoughts and slowly spoke.

Under the description of Zhang Yunyi, who personally participated in the Battle of Sarhu, Zhu Youzhen had a real understanding of the great war that changed the situation in the late Ming Dynasty, and also had a preliminary understanding of the war of this era.

The brutal war is not at all what it was described in the previous life.

First of all, the battle of Sarhu was not a battle of ambushes in which fewer won more.

Zhang Yunyi was in the Northern Route Army of the Ming Dynasty at that time.

Of course, he was just a small banner at the grassroots level, and he knew nothing about the strategy of the whole campaign.

In Zhang Yunyi's mouth, he did not know the movements and battle conditions of the other Ming armies. At that time, their Northern Route Army fought a positional battle with Houjin, not an ambush.

At the beginning of the Battle of Sarhu, Zhang Yunyi originally belonged to the troops of Ma Lin, the general soldier of Liaodong, and was naturally incorporated into the Northern Route Army.

Zhang Yunyi only remembered that everyone had waited in the camp for more than 10 days, saying that they wanted to join the reinforcements. But they did not wait for reinforcements, and the troops set off in a hurry.

They set out from Sancha'er Fort and searched all the way, and the march was not fast.

On April 14, the 47th year of Wanli, the Northern Route Army encountered the Houjin soldiers at Shangjian Cliff.

The Northern Route Army took up a position under the command of Marin and faced Houjin head-on.

This was the first time Zhang Yunyi had fought with the regular army of the Later Jin. He was deeply impressed by the bravery of the Houjin army.

On that day, the Ming army discharged a standard field formation: at the front were dense with various obstacles; Behind the obstacle were dense columns of musketeers.

Zhang Yunyi's small flag is a hand-to-hand combat weapon, and more than a dozen people are holding hand-to-hand weapons such as knives and guns.

At the beginning of the war, the enemy was still far away, and there was no need for Zhang Yunyi's small flag to step forward for the time being.

When the sun passed over the treetops, Houjin attacked first.

In the face of the Ming army's solemn formation, the Houjin army did not use cavalry to charge directly, but the infantry took the lead in the charge.

A large group of Houjin heavy infantry slowly walked towards the Ming front.

The Houjin heavy infantry were each wearing heavy armor and holding shields, and they were densely arranged to form a tight defensive line. Houjin's archers hid behind the hoplites and slowly approached the Ming army.

About 200 paces away from the Ming army's front, the Houjin archers began to shoot upwards into the sky. At this distance, the arrow is only a nuisance.

A chaotic rain of arrows fell, and although the musketeers of the Ming army on the North Road lacked armor, few of them were injured.

After a rain of arrows, the Houjin soldiers continued to advance. At a distance of 150 paces, the archers of the Houjin soldiers fired on their backs again.

This time, the rain of arrows falling from the sky had a certain accuracy, and the injuries of the Ming musketeers began to increase. The musketeers were a little out of their breath, and a few musketeers couldn't help but start firing back, but the effect was extremely poor and completely ineffective. The grassroots generals of the Ming army began to shout loudly, boosting morale and maintaining formation discipline.

After two rounds of arrow rain, Houjin continued to approach.

When the two sides were 100 paces apart, the Houjin archers released their arrows with all their might, and three consecutive waves of arrow rain brought a large number of casualties to the Ming army.

The Ming army could not stand it anymore and began to shoot back. But at this distance, the Ming army's muskets were too powerful, and they were direct fire, that is, they could not cause effective damage to the heavy infantry of Houjin, and they could not hurt the archers behind the heavy infantry. The Ming army could only rely on a small number of archers in the formation to inflict a small amount of damage on the Houjin archers. The damage exchange is a big loss than the Ming army.

Houjin continued to approach forward.

At 70 steps, both sides fired from ranged attacks, the accuracy of muskets and bows increased, and both sides began to show a lot of damage.

The Ming army had no armor, the protection was too poor, and the losses were much higher than those of the Houjin soldiers. One of Zhang Yunyi's brothers was injured by a stray arrow at this time.

The Houjin soldiers relied on heavy armor to rush to within 50 steps and began to dismantle the obstacles laid by the Ming army. Although the Ming army concentrated fire, the armor-piercing ability of the Ming army's muskets was too small to effectively penetrate the opponent's heavy armor.

Although many of the Houjin's heavy infantry were wounded, they were still able to hold on to the battle.

In fact, up to this point, the death toll on both sides was not too high.

In the counterfire to dismantle the obstacles, the Ming army gradually could not hold on, and the casualties became more and more large.

Zhang Yunyi's hand-to-hand combat banner was transferred to the forefront of the front at this time, ready for hand-to-hand combat.

The obstacle was quickly removed, and the Houjin hoplites launched a decisive charge.

At this point, Zhang Yunyi knew in his heart that something was wrong with the Ming army.

Later, the Jin heavy infantry crashed headlong into the Ming line.

As soon as the two sides fought, Zhang Yunyi felt bad. The armor of the Houjin infantry was too thick, and Zhang Yunyi's knife could not cut through the opponent's armor at all. His brothers were killed or wounded, and he was unable to actually kill a single Houjin soldier.

Although Zhang Yunyi was brave, with the desperate help of other brothers, he was able to kill a Houjin soldier, which was of no use to the overall situation.

At this time, the Ming army was almost unable to maintain the formation, and the chief soldier Ma Lin was forced to release the final winner: the most elite family in his hands.

Marin personally took the lead in the attack, and a large number of family members followed. The investment of this elite force temporarily stabilized the front of the Ming army.

In Zhang Yunyi's eyes, the elite family who was usually invincible also met his opponent this time.

The heavy infantry of Houjin, like crazy, ignored the casualties and entangled the chief soldiers.

Houjin's marksmen took the opportunity to focus on attacking the chief soldiers, and a large number of them were killed. Even Marin was hit by two arrows, and several of his personal guards who protected him were killed in battle.

Obviously, this is a tactic specially formulated by Hou Jin, specifically killing and injuring the elite family members and officers at all levels of the Ming army.

The large number of casualties among officers at all levels and elite families led to the complete collapse of the Ming army's formation.

Zhang Yunyi found in the confusion that the cavalry of Houjin also began to attack, and the Ming army was defeated.

A battle of tens of thousands of people ended with the collapse of the Ming army just after noon.

After the Ming army's formation collapsed and the army was completely disorganized, Zhang Yunyi relied on his superior physical fitness to escape from the defeated army.

This battle left a big psychological shadow on Zhang Yunyi. Houjin is too strong, and in Zhang Yunyi's eyes, there is no suspense that the Ming army will lose.

Long-range attack is not as good as the opponent, melee combat is not as good as the opponent, defense is not as good as the opponent, the strength seems to be less than the opponent, and the morale is even worse than the opponent, this is probably a miracle if you don't lose.

This conversation with Zhang Yunyi shocked Zhu Youzhen a lot, and some of his thoughts in his previous life were too taken for granted. The Ming army's repeated defeats in Liaodong have its own laws of war in it, which is not as simple as summarized in books.

"The things in books are really just words on paper, and there is really a big gap between them and reality. My view of the war, maybe only with Wang Huazhen, is it a level? Zhu Youzhen silently judged himself.