Chapter 369: Advantage

If it is said that it is familiar with the battle mode of the Ming army, in addition to the Ming army itself, the foreign tribe is probably the first to say that it is probably well-deserved.

From the time of Chengzu Zhu Di's Northern Expedition and Jingnan, the cavalry of the Duoyan Mongols fought side by side with the Ming army, and the understanding of the tactics of the Ming Dynasty was naturally rich and abnormal, and the Duoyan Mongols had been living well in various Mongolian tribes by trading with the Ming Dynasty, and the weapons and equipment were also very good.

So in the middle and late stages, Duoyan's strength was already faintly at the head of the various tribes in Mongolia, of course, that was the history that Jiang Feng had not crossed.

The understanding of the Ming army also made Ding Zhuang of Duoyan Mongolia know all kinds of exquisiteness in infantry combat, such as the infantry phalanx facing the cavalry impact, it must be thick, and the column must be more than ten people, otherwise, the soldiers with long weapons in the front row will not be able to face the cavalry rushing at all. Soldiers at the edge of the phalanx must be armed with large shields, which are used to defend against arrows fired from a distance by dismounted cavalry, or weapons thrown when approaching.

However, the army in front of him was only about six rows, and although the number of people in the horizontal row was quite large, except for the spearmen who did not make up the majority in the column, the others were all holding short weapons, and there were no large shields, and these short weapons looked like they should be fire guns or something.

Duoyan Mongolia has seen a lot of firearms from the Ming Kingdom, and the so-called three-eyed guns, poisonous muskets and other things held by those foot soldiers are of no use to the enemy ten steps away, not so much to hurt people with iron sand or something, but to smoke people with poisonous smoke.

The Duoyan officers who led the brigade to rescue the cavalry quickly judged the situation clearly, and the infantry standing in front of them would not pose any threat to themselves at all.

The Mongols on the steppe only traded with the merchants of Beizhili and Shanxi on weekdays, and they did not know much about Jiangfeng, which was dominant on the sea, and no one would care about the guerrilla attacks in the coastal provinces of the Ming Dynasty. As for Guanwai, the reclamation manor outside Guanwai that the Mongolians know now still does not include Huifeng Manor, because Huifeng Manor is mainly a homesteader farmer, and his materials are purchased from other manors, which is considered closed.

It was a very unfamiliar formation, not a powerful team, and the Duoyan Mongols, who were already red-eyed, immediately made such a judgment.

"Kill them all!" Everyone's mind is thinking like this, and those Han cavalry who can't resist are now scattered and running away, unable to concentrate on the pursuit at all, kill these foot soldiers in front of them first, and let them know a lesson.

The cavalry of the Duoyan Mongols began to control their horse steps, and the advantages of the Duoyan tribe in having professional soldiers gradually appeared, and the thousands of cavalry in addition to the 1,000 cavalry to protect the flanks, the rest of the people changed their formations and gradually adjusted to completely face each other in front of these foot soldiers of unknown origin.

After all, the opponent still has a spear in his hand, and if he rushes to charge directly with the horse, I am afraid that there will be casualties, so it is better to get close to the distance of thirty paces, and then disrupt their formation with a horned bow on the horse's back, and then let it be slaughtered.

Harden, who was the leader, whistled a few times, and waved the long knife in his hand, which was no different from the flag language in the Ming army, and the various Mongolian officers who immediately paid attention to Harden's dynamics gave the order, and the cavalry speed of the brigade was adjusted from the beginning of the rush to the medium speed.

The knights at the front put their sabers and wooden spears on the side of the saddle and took out their horn bows, the so-called cavalry shooting accuracy is very poor, and the requirements for knightly skills are very high, and over the years, Genghis Khan's unparalleled strong soldiers at that time have been greatly degenerated.

Therefore, the speed of the horses should be slowed down, and many knights had to adjust the position of the horses in the team, so that those who could shoot arrows would change to the front.

The speed of the large number of horses on the opposite side slowed down, and the array of foot soldiers under the banner of Jiang Zi was not panicked, and there were six people in each row who were responsible for giving orders, and under their orders, the spearmen's spears were slowly flattened, pointing diagonally forward. There, the arquebusiers hung burning arquebuses on the live hooks of their arquebuses. The arquebusiers of the Jiang family army always loaded the ammunition of a shot in it after cleaning the chamber, which was an extremely strict military rule that everyone must abide by.

Sixty steps, fifty steps, when it reached forty steps, the archers of the horse team of Duoyan Mongolia opened their bows and arrows one after another, in fact, the effective range of this bow is about fifty steps, and the bumps on the horse should be closer.

It would not fire until thirty paces, but just as they were drawing their bows and arrows, they heard someone in the opposing infantry array already giving the order to fire.

According to their usual cognition, the launch at this distance was not of the slightest use, so no one was afraid, and everyone was ready to sit and accelerate.

Three hundred arquebuses fired in unison, the distance of more than forty steps is enough for the arquebus, there is enough muzzle velocity, the lead shot can exert the maximum lethality, the Duoyan Mongols who rushed to the front are directly planted from the horse, the cavalry is on the horse, the cavalry's bullet area and the probability of hitting the bullet are much larger than the horse.

There is no more illustrative thing about the corpses that fell to the ground, the Mongolian horse team, which was still full of confidence, suddenly blew up the camp, they are not warriors who regard death as home, and the life of the Duoyan Department is better, so their warriors are not like those warriors of other tribes, they can only plunder desperately, these people still want to save their lives, and some soldiers begin to turn their horses and leave.

But the impact of thousands of horses, such a large momentum is not at all something that a few people can change if they want to reverse, which can only bring chaos to the formation.

Harden, who was in the middle, looked a little wrong, and shouted loudly there:

"Rush up, those Nanban can't beat the fire guns in their hands, rush up, rush up."

However, it was not the horse team that started to act, the phalanx of Jiangzi Daqi advanced one step forward, and the arquebusiers in the second row had already been replaced by the first row, and after a few shouts, nearly two hundred muskets fired at the same time. There are several war drums under the Jiangzi banner.

There, according to a fixed rhythm of knocking, the foot soldiers of the phalanx follow this kind of step, constantly rotate, and the fire of the six rows of arquebuses can form a round of fire.

When the horse team was still more than forty steps away from the infantry formation, the arquebus began to fire, and now the distance between the two sides has been more than forty steps closer to thirty steps, but this is not the advance of the horse team, but the Jiang army's infantry is constantly moving forward, and the arquebusiers are constantly firing, knocking down the Mongolian cavalry in front of them.

In the past, when facing the nomadic cavalry, the tactics of the Jiang family army were to stick to the spot, anyway, the range of the arquebus was longer than that of the bow and arrow, and they did not worry about the other party's distant projectiles, even if someone could break through the firing of the firearm, there were spearmen there to solve the problem.

This time it was an unprecedented initiative, and the effect was very good, and now the Duoyan Mongolian brigade has begun to disperse from slow to fast, and the speed is getting faster and faster, everyone understands that if you rush over with such a dense formation, the consequence is only to be killed by the arquebus.

Nearly a thousand people have fallen now, some have died, some are screaming on the ground, they will die slowly, and the result is even more tragic.

The distance of thirty steps is actually enough to shoot a bow and arrow, but the current Mongolian people's will to fight is no longer like Mu Huali who led his cavalry to attack the Jin Soldier Formation hundreds of years ago.

As the general of Duoyan Mongolia, Harden pulled out his knife and slashed several people around him, but he did not stop the momentum, so he had to gather his cronies and clan soldiers, slowly retreated, and prepared to follow Duoyan's leader Wult to leave here first, but in Harden's heart, there was a faint despair, because he felt a little desperate because he saw such a powerful Han people, the reason why the Mongolians were reluctant to annex on weekdays, even if a tribe like Duoyan was pro-Ming, they only settled outside the Great Wall.

Because they were not at ease with the strength of the Ming people in the south, they felt that their military strength was much stronger than that of the Ming people, and even the chiefs and clansmen of Duoyan Sanwei, who had been rewarded and knighted by the Ming Dynasty, did not have the ambition to enter the Central Plains in their hearts.

But now all this is beaten and gone, the array of Jiang Jiajun's foot soldiers slowly changed under the order of the column commander, and the formation that fell into the enemy formation slowly changed from a large horizontal column to a square of four hundred people and a mobile of two hundred people in the center, and then these five squares became a large phalanx, and the square array was surrounded by spears stretched out diagonally, and the current phalanx seemed to be a moving castle, and the surrounding cavalry could not help him, but the castle was still pouring murderous firepower.

The movement speed of the phalanx is not fast, although most of the cavalry has been dispersed, but there are still some older Mongolian knights, more precisely, herdsmen are pestering the phalanx, so that their speed is not so fast.

"These herdsmen are supposed to be outcasts, they know they are going to die, and they are pestering my brigade here so that the rest of them can escape with more supplies."

On the nearby hills, Jiang Feng was surrounded by the knights around him in armor, and looked coldly at the battle below.