In the evening, a strange army came into the sight of both the Mongols and the Ming army at the same time. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

First of all, a small number of sentinels, because the northeast direction is the mountains and side walls, only by crossing the desert can you reach the Tumut place, so Huoluochi and other Mongolian leaders did not send sentinels there, of course, the Ming army will not send sentinels, now it is too difficult to defend the city, the Mongols are working hard to build siege equipment, although the city can not be said to be panicked, but also very nervous.

In this situation, both sides were extremely nervous when they saw this army.

After the sentry cavalry poured forward, a large number of gray-robed infantry appeared in front of people's eyes, and about five or six miles apart, the gray-robed soldiers in a column began to form a small horizontal phalanx.

More than 50 people are a small formation, three small formations form a large horizontal formation, and then the formation of more than 100 people is arranged one after another, with spearmen in the middle, soldiers with firearms in front and left and right, and a horizontal formation of more than 100 people is composed of firecrackers.

In front of the pikemen and musketeers were the sword players, few in number, consisting of the smallest array of fifty or so men.

About 1,000 people formed a large phalanx, with guns and spears like a forest, and the array was strict and neat.

Groups of auxiliaries began to move through the formation, and it was obvious that they were carrying a large amount of armor, and the soldiers at the forefront began to put on iron armor.

Then there was another phalanx, and then another phalanx, after forming three large phalanxes, the three phalanxes were in the shape of the word "pin", and when all the phalanxes were arranged, the sword soldiers had already put on iron scale armor or piercing armor, the musketeers also wore chain mail, and the pikemen were a mixture of piercing armor or chain mail.

The entire team of more than 3,000 people immediately shone with silver light!

Zhang Jiude, who was wearing a red robe to boost morale at the head of the city, was shocked: "Is this my forbidden army of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

The Mongols under the city obviously had similar questions, and they began to gather their ranks very nervously, and the horns sounded continuously, presumably to mobilize the soldiers in the south of the city to hurry back to the battlefields of the north and east cities.

Ma Chengen shook his head and said: "It's not that the Lord of the Military Gate has never stayed in the capital, how can the forbidden army have such momentum, and the forbidden army is not everyone is bound by armor, most of them are also cotton armor, only a small amount of chain mail." ”

The technology of chain mail was formed in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and later began to equip the forbidden army in batches, but due to the decline of the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, the forbidden army did not have much equipment chain mail, after Wanli, the forbidden army is estimated to not even have 30,000 in service, most of them are still old and weak, the four guard battalions of the imperial horse prison can pull out thousands of soldiers, but the armor is far worse than the three thousand people in front of them.

Chen Hongfan's mouth was open, and his saliva was connected into a line in mid-air, dripping all the time.

Wu Zhiwang and the others were also shocked, this army that had never been seen and heard of before suddenly regained everyone's cognition.

Zhang Xianzhong and other border soldiers were dumbfounded!

At this time, the rumbling drums sounded, and the army under the city was all dressed and began to move forward slowly with the neat beat of the drum.

More than 3,000 people seemed to be one person, with neat steps, and there was hardly the slightest change as the horizontal formation and the large square moved forward.

Zhang Jiude said movingly at this time: "This official believes that this is not a forbidden army, and the forbidden army will never be able to put up such a formation!" ”

Zhang Jiude was very surprised and said: "Thousands of miles apart, how did they get the news, and how did they march over?" ”

A veteran praised: "It should have come through the desert, amazing!" ”

Ma Chengen ignored these words of surprise or praise, and only stared at the phalanx outside the city, he said, "Wait, there should be auxiliary soldiers to set up a car formation." ”

Ma Chengen and Zhang Han have discussed the issue of the military system and the phalanx countless times, he didn't believe in any phalanx before this, and Ma Chengen always laughed when Zhang Han talked about it.

In the eyes of the generals of the Ming Dynasty, what formation is not as effective as the cavalry formation, whether it is the central breakthrough or the flank outflanking, or like the Mongols Rava archery, in short, the decisive victory mainly depends on the cavalry, the infantry is only a good Qi Shuai, that is also a car camp firearms to cooperate, in addition to the Qi family army is mainly to fight the Japanese Kou, in the north is also based on defense, otherwise Qi Shuai is not as good as the original Liaodong Li Shuai, Li Chengliang is a Ningyuan Earl on the body, in the entire Wanli years, The military general is only Li Shuai.

It wasn't until now that this phalanx was presented in front of Ma Chengen's eyes, and looking at the arrangement of the array, Ma Chengen realized that Zhang Han's previous idea had become a fact in front of him.

Sure enough, as Ma Chengen expected, a large number of auxiliaries appeared on both wings, they carried firearms or spears, lined up more than a hundred carts horizontally, and lined up into a large car battalion, with a card in the middle of the vehicle, one side of the carriage was obviously inlaid with iron, revealing the perforation, and thousands of soldiers lined up behind it with the cooperation of the car battalion, and it was also an array of pikemen and musketeers, but they were slightly rustier than the soldiers.

"More than nine thousand." A military general at the head of the city looked at it and calculated the approximate number.

"There are 100,000 people in the north." Wu Zhiwang said: "I think it's good for them to set up camp first to defend." ”

Zhang Jiude turned to Ma Chengen and the others, and said very seriously: "No matter where the soldiers and horses outside the city come from, it seems that they are always enemies with the northern captives, and the generals can prepare in advance, and this part of the men and horses will attack the northern captives back and forth, and the city will turn from dangerous to safe, just look at this battle." ”

Adjutant General Wang Wei said: "Look at their array is very presentable, and the armor and weapons are also very good, even if they don't fight well, they can attract the attention of the northern captives. ”

"Yes." Zhang Jiude praised: "After this battle, I will ask the Governor for credit for you." ”

Ma Chengen still stared at the array outside the city, and after a short while, he pointed to the outside of the city and said, "The artillery team is here." ”

Everyone didn't understand what he meant, there were more than a dozen small sample Franc machines in the city, weighing about one hundred and fifty pounds, and the guns could reach about three or four hundred steps, and the lethality was not bad, stronger than the Zhankou cannon and the Tiger Squat cannon, but it was worse than the general cannon, far less than the large Franc machine, but the large Franc machine was difficult to cast, and it consumed a lot of copper, and the Ministry of Industry did not make much, only Jingshi and Jizhen, Liaozhen had some, speaking of this, you can see the gap between the northwest military town and the eastern military town, Liaodong alone has more than 1,000 various Franc machines in Liaoyang City, until the fall of Liaoyang is in the city, Yansui here, there are no 30 cannons, people are more than people, angry people.

When he saw the artillery team in front of the zigzag formation, the head of Yansui City was sluggish again.

Two wheels pushed the cannons, each followed by seven or eight men, and then it seemed as if a horse-drawn cart was following behind the cannon...... Everyone paid attention to the details of the artillery, the barrel was shorter than the Hongyi cannon, but longer than the ordinary Ming artillery, the two wheels of the cannon were very large, much higher than the cannon body, the cannon did not seem to be too heavy, seven or eight soldiers pushed and flew away, and the cart followed......

"Twenty-four cannons." After watching for a long time, the artillerymen continued to move forward with the infantry team, and it seemed that they had not stopped planning to build artillery positions, and someone finally calculated the number of artillery pieces.

"This kind of cannon seems to be smaller than the Hongyi cannon, but it is much thicker than the barrel of the general and the second general's cannon."

"If you don't have a gun mount, you just put it on wheels?"

"It's convenient, it can be used in field battles, it's much more convenient."

"Thirty years ago, the last general once followed the old master Ma to fight the Japanese invaders, Wang Shi mostly used the cannon of the general and the second general, each gun weighed 1,500 catties to more than 2,000 catties, it was difficult to push, and the meritorious service when attacking Pyongyang first was not small, and then it was difficult to play a role, North Korea is mountainous and watery, and it is difficult for the artillery team to be transported, if these artillery pieces are in front of him, it will be much more convenient, and I am afraid that the casualties will be much smaller."

Talking is a sixty-year-old veteran, when he was young, he should have followed Ma Chengen's uncle Ma Gui to conquer the Japanese, participated in the battle to aid Korea to pacify the Renchen War, the Ming army's performance on the Korean battlefield was very sharp in the early days, and later after the Battle of Biho Pavilion, Li Rusong was saddened by the loss of the family general Neiding, and was no longer willing to go to the Korean battlefield, so the imperial court sent Ma Gui of East Li Xima to the Korean battlefield, and the soldiers of the Qin Army in the northwest, so many people went to the battlefield with Ma Gui, defeated the main force of the Japanese army many times, and crossed the Han River, Crushing the Japanese army on the coast of Korea.

The best performance of the Ming army was cavalry and artillery, both of which were lacking in the Japanese army, and defeat was inevitable.

The Mongols were apparently aware of the presence of the artillery corps, and there was a commotion in the ranks, with large groups of cavalry galloping back and forth.

"It seems that the northern captives are going to attack this support first." Zhang Jiude turned to Ma Chengen and said, "Ma Zongbing, this is He Yusheng's soldier, right?" ”

"Lord Junmen's discernment," Ma Chengen said: "It is indeed He Yusheng's soldiers and horses." ”

"Ugh." Zhang Jiude said: "From the march, the array, the appearance of the artillery team, the car battalion, all of them are the best in the best, this army is piled up with silver, except for the rumored rich and invincible He Yusheng, the official can't think of any military town that can have such a strong army under Yulin City." ”

Zhang Jiude's eyes became very solemn, and he said: "It seems that He Yusheng's strength is far beyond everyone's imagination. ”

Chen Hongfan, Wang Wei, Wu Zhiwang and others all had solemn faces, Chen Hongfan still had a fluke mentality in his heart, and he hoped that this army would not be as strong as it seemed.

The position of the chief soldier of Yulin, Chen Hongfan has also coveted it for a long time, and he is qualified to be the chief soldier with his qualifications, if he catches Ma Chengen's sore foot this time, even if it is the strong potential strength of "Xima" in the northwest, Ma Chengen still has to give way, and then Chen Hongfan's opportunity will come.

At this time, on the wilderness a few miles away, there were bursts of horns and whimpering, and Chen Hongfan perked up and said, "It seems that the northern captives are about to rush into battle." ”