"Chitose! Chitose! When all the soldiers of the Ming army heard Zhu Ao's words, they were even more excited, and one by one they shouted loudly as if they were in heat, hoping that every enemy soldier who would commit in the future would be torn to pieces.

A few miles away from Zhu Ao, the king of Hami Nahuli ordered to set up camp, he is also a battle-hardened person, just looking at the momentum of the Ming army, I feel that they are not ordinary, although the number is not large, but the king of Hami does not dare to have a trace of contempt.

Seeing her father's troubled face, Di Linaza knew that he was hesitant, so she immediately said: "Father, we have no way to retreat, the king of the sandbank, Aluge, will not be able to stop for long, we must catch Zhu Ao as soon as possible and end the battle." ”

Hami King Nahuli nodded thoughtfully, the expression on his face became resolute, and his eyes also revealed a fierce gaze, and said in an unquestionable tone: "Warriors, we are now fighting with the Ming army for time, we must use the fastest speed to defeat this Ming army and capture Zhu Ao alive!" ”

"Defeat the Ming army and capture Zhu Ao alive!" "Serve Your Majesty, serve Her Royal Highness the Princess!" The fighting spirit of the Hami army was also ignited in an instant.

King Nahuli of Hami stopped talking nonsense, and ordered his younger brother Anke Timur: "Anke, this king has ordered you to be the vanguard and attack Zhu Hao from the front!" ”

Ankh Timur was thinking about making a great contribution and improving his prestige, and he was very excited when he heard the order, and immediately clenched his fists on his horse and said: "Brother Wang, don't worry, Zhu Ao's head is mine!" He then led 15,000 elites to attack Zhu Hao's front. Among them was the nearly 10,000 cavalry he had brought with him.

King Hami sent two generals to lead the men and horses of his headquarters and the leaders of several small tribes attached to him to attack Zhu Hao's two wings, and he himself led his son and daughter to press the formation behind, preparing to see Zhu Hao's formation first, and then give him a head-on blow.

As for Zhu Ao's back road, King Hami did not send a single soldier to guard it at all, because he knew that it was impossible for Zhu Ao to escape in this situation, as long as he left the small hillside, the formation would be chaotic, and then the Wanming army would become a lamb to be slaughtered.

The Hami army sounded the horn of attack, this battle was not a siege war, so the Hami army changed its tactics and directly dispatched nearly 10,000 cavalry to attack the hillside, wanting to rely on the strong impact of the cavalry to break down Zhu Hao's formation at once, and then divide and annihilate them.

Ten thousand horses galloped in front of him, whistling in an instant, if it weren't for the battlefield of fighting for his life, this scene would still be a good landscape.

The outermost part of Zhu Ao's formation was the charioteers, who were responsible for blocking the onslaught of the cavalry, and the sword and shield men, who worked closely with the charioteers, were responsible for blocking the arrows fired by the enemy. In order to boost morale, the sword and shield soldiers began to slap the shield with their knives in unison, shouting as they patted back: "Kill! Kill! ”

Later generations of Zhu Ao have read many Ming Piercing novels, in which the protagonist is either the development of musketeers or the development of spearmen, and often only attack but not defend when fighting, relying on hand speed to win, as if this is the secret of winning a hundred battles. Zhu Ao has always been skeptical of this style of play, you must know that the firearms of the Ming Dynasty have not yet developed to the point of completely hanging cold weapons. The rate of fire of the musket is very low, and three shots in two minutes are very good, and even with the legendary three-stage shot, it is not a hundred battles.

Because, neither the Mongols nor the Jurchens are stupid, they will not use their flesh and blood to resist the firearms of the Ming army, they have armor, shields, and chariots covered with cowhides, which can effectively reduce the lethality of muskets.

Besides, they will not fight blindly, after advancing to a certain distance, they will immediately return fire with arrows, bows and arrows are much faster than muskets, if you have no defenses, a few rows of arrows will fall, your people will fall, the morale of the army will collapse, and what kind of battle will be fought.

The war of the Ming Dynasty was characterized by the combination of hot and cold weapons, and it was difficult for firearms to stand alone, and it was difficult to understand the war of the Ming Dynasty without recognizing this.

Therefore, Zhu Ao thinks that those people look down on the sword and shield soldiers are wrong, and the sword and shield soldiers are the armor of the entire army, providing basic protection for the army, just like a tank in the glory of kings. How can a team without meat still play a group with people?

On the basis of long-term actual combat, Zhu Yuanzhang has coordinated the multi-arms cooperation of the Ming army to the most perfect ratio, that is: sword and shield soldiers (tanks) 20, pikemen (warriors) 40, archers (ADC) 30, and fire guns (also ADC) 10. Zhu Yuanzhang's troops still used hand-to-hand combat as the main method of warfare, and firearms only played an auxiliary role.

And Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition to defeat the Yuan army did not rely on cavalry, but powerful infantry, according to the "Ming Shilu", "Hongyoulu", "Huangming Tongji" records, at that time Zhu Yuanzhang's main force was still infantry, after all, he started in the south of the Yangtze River, and he couldn't get a large number of horses in a short time.

But then again, cavalry is not necessarily able to defeat the infantry, during the Qin Dynasty, Meng Tian attacked the Xiongnu in the north, so that "the Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses, and the soldiers did not dare to bend the bow and revenge", relying on the infantry that the Great Qin swept forward. When Zhuge Liang governed the Shu Kingdom, he relied on infantry to fight, and Cao Wei's cavalry did not dare to fight.

The main threat to cavalry is its impact, but the infantry can rely on shield arrays and chariots to effectively resist, and you put the iron shield and chariot in front of you, and then point a row of spears at him to see how he can charge?

Although he admires Qi Jiguang very much, he has not read the "New Book of Ji Xiao" and "Practical Record of Military Training" written by him, and there is no way to rely on Qi Jiguang's methods to train an army that wins all battles like the protagonists of other novels.

But fortunately, he has a good father, Lao Zhu conquered the world, and his ability to train soldiers is naturally not covered, and a complete training system has long been established, according to the record of "Ming Shilu", which is excerpted as follows:

Lao Zhu thought that the world had been decided, and he was afraid that his soldiers would waste their martial arts, so he ordered Zhongshu Province to formulate training regulations with the Dadu Governor's Office, the Imperial Historical Observatory, and the officials of the six ministries.

The regulations stipulate that every soldier of the guard should train hard in martial arts. Cavalrymen must be skilled in horsemanship, good at archery and spear. Infantry had to make good use of bows and guns.

The assessment criteria for archery are: no one sends 12 arrows, as long as 6 arrows reach the distance or hit a close target, it is considered qualified. The so-called distance means that the general should shoot 160 paces away, and the soldier should shoot 120 paces away (whether he hits or not, he can shoot it); The so-called close range refers to shooting at a target fifty paces away.

The assessment standard for crossbow shooting is: 12 arrows are also issued to each person, and as long as 5 arrows reach the standard, they are qualified.