However, the Mongol cavalry was quite arrogant, and although they were surrounded by officers and troops, they were still reluctant to surrender, and some were more like negotiations. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This frightened Chen Huaixi, and he grabbed three or five iron balls from the basket one after another, lit the front lead, and then threw them into the Mongolian cavalry.

Everyone didn't care, and some even looked at Chen Huaixi strangely, and suddenly there was an explosion in front of them, thick smoke rose up, and shrapnel flew sideways within a radius of one meter.

The war horses jumped around, and the Mongolian cavalry could not control the war horses, but were surrounded by the surrounding officers and soldiers, looting and killing.

Seeing that the other party had such weapons, the Mongolian cavalry did not dare to be arrogant anymore, and some even dismounted and surrendered.

Yang Xuan was overjoyed, and when he was about to gather and annihilate these Mongolian cavalry, Chen Yingzong next to him grabbed Yang Xuan's shirt and said: "Lord Qian, Mongolians have grown up on horseback since childhood, and riding and archery are incomparable to us.

My lord, although the soldiers of our cavalry brigade are extremely strong, they are still inferior to these Mongolian Tatars, my lord, don't kill them all, leave a few good ones to be incorporated into my cavalry brigade. ”

Yang Xuan was stunned in his heart, it was still so difficult to set up an ambush in the ravine today to face such a small number of Mongolian cavalry, and in the future, Zhang Xianzhong and the Manqing Tartars would all be cavalry masters, and the difficulty could be imagined.

As the saying goes, knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, and in order to compete with the other side, it is necessary to understand the tactics of the Mongol cavalry.

Yang Xuan nodded and said loudly: "Tell these Mongolian cavalrymen to surrender their guns and not kill, as long as they agree to belong to us, I will not be responsible for the past, and I will be given priority to be included in my cavalry bureau."

If you dare to disobey, you will be killed."

Hearing that Yang Xuan was about to spare these riders, Wang Gao next to him shook his head and said: "Shaodong, don't do this, the Mongols invaded Sichuan for more than ten years at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, they burned, killed and looted, and did all kinds of evil, if they were forgiven like this, I am afraid that the people would not accept it?" ”

Chen Yingzong glared at Wang Gao, shook his head and said, "What do you know about military affairs?" To defeat the Tartars, to build a cavalry corps, the only way to do this was with the help of the Mongol cavalry.

You see, the mountain road is so rugged, and the other party still moves quickly and comes and goes freely.

Although we have a round of cavalry, but horsemanship, cavalry and archery can be far inferior to the opponent. ”

Wang Gao didn't dare to say more, so he cowered and retreated.

Yang Xuan's heart is full of flavors, this Mongolian cavalry is far more elite than the horse tide, not to mention anything else, more than 30 of these more than 100 horsemen are wearing horse armor, and they are not afraid of long-distance attacks with bows and crossbows on the battlefield.

In addition, the tactics are quite distinctive, these cavalrymen in horse armor and heavy armor charge in front of the battle, while some riders in the back wear helmets and fire arrows in the back.

After pondering for a while, he said to Wang Gao, who was next to Hou: "You go and tell them that in the late Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongolian cavalry entered Sichuan to burn, kill and loot, and did all kinds of evil, and the Sichuan people hated the Mongolian cavalry quite much.

It is okay for them to surrender to our army, but one by one they will shave their heads, and they will not be allowed to wear Mongol hairstyles or Mongol clothes, otherwise they will clash with the squire, and I will not accept it. ”

These Mongolian cavalry were originally soldiers and horses of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, because the identity of the Mongolian cavalry was discriminated against in the past, and now when they heard that they were going to change their hair and clothing, although a small number refused to obey, most of them still raised their hands and surrendered.

In addition to the surrender of more than 20 people, the total annihilation of more than 100 Mongolian cavalry can be said to be a hearty victory, and its results can far exceed the annihilation of more than 1,000 local tyrants.

After the battle, the casualties of the officers and soldiers were also quite staggering, more than 15 people were killed in the battle alone, and nearly 50 people were wounded, really killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 themselves.

Yang Xuan mixed the Mongolian cavalry with Ma Chao's cavalry bureau to form a cavalry squadron, which was under his own command.

Although Yang Xuan coped with this battle well, and also made full use of the terrain characteristics and new weapons such as birds, the casualties of the officers and soldiers were also quite huge

More than 30 officers and soldiers were killed in the battle, and more than 100 were wounded, and this was the result of the absolute superiority of the officers and soldiers.

In addition to these gains, the bigger harvest is the iron iron ball, which was first thought to be Chen Huaixi's unique secret weapon, but after careful questioning, it turned out to be the earth-shattering thunder recorded in the history books.

In the battle against the Jin State in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Great Song army used earth-shaking thunder.

Chen Huaixi was born in Wusheng, and he usually likes to study these, and used to use things like earth-shaking thunder.

When you go out to fight, if the other party is outnumbered, it is another kind of earth-shattering thunder, the thin iron ball is filled with flour, and gunpowder is put in the innermost, and when you see the pursuing crowd, you will ignite it and throw it over, and after the explosion, the powder will be produced to block the opponent's view, so as to escape the pursuit of the enemy. (As seen in many martial arts movies)

Like today's battlefield use, it is completely different, in order to kill and injure the opponent, not only the iron ball is very thick, but there is a pound of gunpowder in it, and after throwing it over, it explodes, and the iron ball is blown into iron pieces, killing and injuring the surrounding characters.

Isn't this a grenade from a past life? Not only did the prototype of this grenade appear in the late Northern Song Dynasty in China, but also in the 17th century in the West, grenadiers also appeared, throwing such grenades in the face of the rushing crowd.

Although grenades were once abandoned, with the prevalence of positional warfare in World War I, grenades became the favorite of soldiers, and in the Korean War, the Chinese army's favorite weapon was grenades.

He made two straw men, put on a layer of cotton armor and chain mail, and threw a sky-shattering thunderbolt, which broke through the armor and injured the straw men.

Seeing that the effect of the sky-shaking thunder in this era is so great (much more powerful than the tiger squat cannon launching, the tiger squat cannon fires scattered bombs, completely relying on inertia, while the sky-shaking thunder is different, and it explodes at the landing site), Yang Xuan of the traversal clan will of course promote the sky-shaking thunder on a large scale and establish grenadiers in various squadrons.

Of course, this is a later story, which requires systematic engineering, and at the post-war summary meeting organized immediately, everyone seriously summed up the gains and losses of this war.

Everyone was not suitable at first, and with Yang Xuan's repeated encouragement, they couldn't go through the motions, and began to summarize one by one.

On the battlefield, the Mongolian cavalry's riding skills, cavalry archery, and the use of the three-eyed gun were impressive, and their combat effectiveness was far above that of the official cavalry.

In addition to these objective reasons, there are also many problems in the tactics of the officers and soldiers:

The first is that the speed of firing is too slow, because it is too cumbersome, you can shoot at least five arrows with one firing of the gun. Due to the lack of training, many soldiers even reached 7 or 8 times, and often made mistakes.

Secondly, some soldiers are equipped with pedal crossbows, but the pedal crossbows are not only too physically demanding to wind, but also the firing speed is quite slow, and many crossbowmen fire several rounds before going into battle to fight, and their physical strength is greatly reduced.

Again, there was the tactics of the Mongol cavalry.

In the past, it has always been thought that the Mongolian cavalry tactics are single, but after hundreds of years of conquest, the Mongolian cavalry tactics are quite distinctive, such as about thirty percent of the heavy cavalry, the horses are covered with horse armor, and the soldiers are responsible for charging with thick armor, and behind them are some light cavalry, except for wearing helmets, there is no slightest defense, these light cavalry often hide behind to suppress the opponent through the rain of arrows, providing fire cover for the charging heavy cavalry.

Again, there is no courage to fight in close quarters, if you face the iron flow of cavalry, if there is no cover in front, you can only put the opponent once and rush to the front.

If you face the flow of infantry, you can only fire twice, and then there will be a brutal white-knuckle battle.

However, the Ming army relied heavily on shooting weapons, such as bird guns and crossbow shots, and was quite exclusive to hand-to-hand combat.

Even in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression 300 years later, bayonet fighting was an important indicator of an army's will, determination, and tactics.

It is very regrettable that at the end of the Ming Dynasty 300 years ago, due to the large number of firearms quoted, everyone was completely infected with the theory of alternative firearms, just trying to take advantage of the battlefield, but did not have the courage, determination and tactics to fight with the other side.

If it weren't for the desperate resistance of some of the soldiers, if it weren't for Yang Xuan's command of other bureaus to besiege with all their might, the Mongolian cavalry might have already escaped.

Finally, there is the lack of cooperation within the small flags, between the small flags, and between the general flags.

Yang Xuan listed the existing problems one by one, and then slowly solved them in his daily training.

For example, in response to the characteristics of everyone's excessive reliance on bird guns, Yang Xuan put forward a slogan, that is, bird guns and arrows are stupid, bayonets and broadswords are heroes, and all officers and soldiers must have the courage to fight bayonets and big knives with each other.

The five or six soldiers who abandoned their weapons and fled were all tied up and beheaded for public display.

Seeing the head hanging outside, everyone was terrified in their hearts, just as Niu Wazi secretly said, in the face of the Mongolian cavalry that rushed over, he once retreated.

Some people have commented that without these three basic tactical requirements, it will be much more difficult to expel the Tatars and restore China in the future.