Chapter 404: Outside the City of Shunde

After this person shouted, everyone in the field became confused, and Yunzhong Wei Qianhu, who was not far behind the prefect of Shunde, shouted at the soldiers under his command, "What are you panicking, hurry up and close the city gate, and also, order the soldiers to go to the city to defend the city, Lord Prefect, Lord Prefect, don't stand at the gate of this city, what if you shoot arrows with Tartars?" ”

This thousand households pulled a handful of flutes to the prefect of Yu, and found that this person who had been shouting that Mount Tai collapsed and did not change his previous color, standing at the gate of this city at this time, looking at the cavalry running in the distance, he was so frightened that his legs were weak, and he was pulled like this, and he collapsed on the ground. Huoran? Wen??? ???. ranen`net

At this time, Lin Qianhu, this situation is urgent, where can he still take care of supporting the prefect, and directly lifted the prefect Yu, who was soft to the ground, on his shoulder, and ran towards the back, "Come on, hurry up and hold on to the prefect, that Master Yu, you hurry up and let the prefect's yamen recruit Zhengzhong Minzhuang to maintain order,"

Lin Qianhu finished shouting, but saw that the city gate behind him had not been closed because of the people pouring in outside the city, and he suddenly jumped up urgently, "Soldiers at the door, what are you doing with it?" Close the door, close the door! No matter what the door, we all have to die in this Shunde Mansion City! ”

The soldiers at the city gate pushed the city gate hard to close the city gate, and the galloping cavalry in the distance had already rushed to the gate of Shunde Mansion! And the people who were crowded at the city gate rushed towards the city in a panic, and at this time, the soldiers who closed the city gate could not close the city gate.

However, to the surprise of everyone present, the group of knights who could have rushed into the city on horseback stopped at this time. Some sharp-eyed people have already seen a big clear word on the banner that the pair of cavalry is currently waving, which is extremely conspicuous.

"Don't panic, don't panic, this is our Ming cavalry!" The soldiers at the gate shouted at the people below them, and the people also looked out of the city.

I saw that the cavalry had stopped at the gate, and from this team, a soldier rode towards the city gate, and after reaching the city gate, he stopped his horse and shouted at the soldiers in the city, "Annoying the brothers in the city, I will make a statement on my behalf, and Yang Quan, the envoy of the Tuntian Division, will return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and he will come to visit the prefect and the forest thousand households in the city."

The voice of the soldier in Tuntian Division was quite high, and when he shouted like this, many officials who were originally panicked also quieted down at this time. This is the prefect of Yu who has just been slapped by Master Yu, and I saw the prefect Yu at this time, covering one side of his cheek, and asked tremblingly at the soldiers in the city, "Can you see clearly, is it really our Ming cavalry?"

After receiving a positive reply from the soldiers on the city wall, Yu Zhifu breathed a sigh of relief, "Then this is the Guanning Iron Cavalry?" ”

The soldiers on the city wall looked at it for a long time, but shook their heads, "It's not like the Guanning Iron Cavalry, this cavalry is not equipped with cotton armor, but it looks like the border army on the Xuanda side."

This time, the prefect Yu was annoyed, and shouted at the soldier, "Can you see clearly? In addition to the Guanning cavalry, where can we make up a decent cavalry? It's just that there are not many people who can ride horses."

The soldier was scolded by the prefect, and his heart was also on fire, if he really wanted to talk about it, these guards were under the jurisdiction of the command and envoy, and the prefect of Shunde Mansion reprimanded them on weekdays, but when it came to personnel appointments and dismissals, they couldn't control these soldiers! But if the soldier really wanted to lose his temper at the prefect, it would not be realistic, so the soldier had to stand on the city wall angrily, not looking at the prefect.

However, among the officials of Shunde Mansion, there are still people who understand, such as Lin Qianzong at this time, has come to the city wall, he looked at the neat cavalry team outside the city, his pupils did not shrink, Lin Qianzong is different from other hereditary generals of the guard, he is really through the war, but later he offended some people because of war injuries, so he was arranged to be a thousand in the city of Shunde Mansion, with Lin Qianzong's not rich practical experience, the horse team outside the city, so neatly arranged, is obviously well-trained, The cavalry on the horse is full of energy, one by one on horseback as steady as Mount Tai, obviously these soldiers are not fledgling novices, they are also good at galloping on horseback on weekdays, among the soldiers, many of them are on their backs with this bow and arrow, which shows that there are a lot of archers in this army, you know, among the Han people, although the proportion of archers is not low, but under the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the overall quality of the archers is very worrying, this situation, in the Ming Dynasty Jiajing year has begun to appear.

For example, when the Japanese invaded the coastal cities, the arrows shot by the soldiers defending the city at that time could not penetrate the body when they hit those Japanese invaders.

The reason is that in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the overall quality of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty declined greatly, and the heavy arrows equipped in the army, many people have not said that they have hit the bull's-eye, that is, they can pull the bow and arrows, and they can shoot the arrows out of the arrows, but every year they have to send people down to check, and the soldiers who have long been out of the army to do business have been reduced to the situation that the bow can not be opened, and the knife dance is not moving. But the bow and arrow on the top, but they can't be tricky, so these officers came up with a method, replacing heavy arrows with hollow arrows, and bows with light bows.

As a result, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army at that time was extremely low, and it was even inferior to the local people who temporarily established themselves, so it led to the reason why the Japanese were rampant in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. This is just a microcosm of the Ming army, but if it is replaced by the army of the Ming Dynasty today, such a thing is still happening, and now the Ming Dynasty is running elite soldiers, a general eats empty salaries in the army, and then uses these empty salaries to raise a group of personal soldiers who are loyal to the generals. As for the archers who burn money, the rule of the Ming generals is to pull out and shoot arrows. As for whether this arrow can be shot or not, whether it can be shot, then we can only pray to God.

And a soldier who is proficient or really good at archery, from the posture of the bow, and even the spirit of this person, in the eyes of those who know it, can definitely see the difference. This is like those archers in the cavalry outside the city now, in the eyes of Lin Qianzong, no matter which one of these people is taken out, they are not mediocre archery masters.

However, the composition of this army is also quite interesting, in addition to this large number of archers, in this team, there are also a large number of crossbowmen, firecrackers, it seems that this general with the army, is really an interesting person.

(To be continued.) )