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The Mongols' first tentative attack ended in a crushing defeat, and the morale of the Qin soldiers was greatly boosted. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info took advantage of the enemy's defeat and the Qin soldiers to seize the time to clean up the battlefield, Li Dingguo and Jiesheng gathered officers at all levels of the two regiments and held a brief experience summary meeting.

This is also one of the rules set by Zhu Youzhen for Qin Bing: You can't fight stupidly in a war, you must hold a preparatory meeting before the battle, and a summary meeting must be held after the battle. If you have any experience and lessons, you can summarize them immediately, and the next time you fight, you will pay special attention to them, make use of your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, and achieve better results.

After this actual battle, everyone fully realized the defensive capability of the car formation. It turns out that some people still don't believe that infantry can compete with cavalry in field battles, and now seeing is believing. Xie Sheng concluded: "The advantage of cavalry is that it is mobile and flexible, but the disadvantage is that it is not good at attacking cities. Our chariot formation is to avoid the enemy's superiority and force him to fight in a way that he is not good at, that is, to turn the field battle into a defensive battle. Therefore, in our next operations, we must still base ourselves on the word 'defending', and we must try by all means to attract the enemy and let them attack us, so that we can give full play to the power of the vehicle formation and firearms. ”

When everyone nodded in agreement, Li Dingguo added: "I heard His Highness say that the fighting power of the Mongols is not as good as that of the Jurchens. In addition to the quality of individual soldiers, the Jurchens were also very experienced in siege. They were all pioneers who made the Han soldiers take the lead and consume the ammunition of the defenders; Then he fired at the defenders, took the opportunity to fill the moat with soil, and set up ladders to storm the city walls. Our chariot formation is just a simple city, and if the Mongols use these tricks to attack us, the battle will be very difficult. Who will say, how to fight in such a situation? ”

The commander of the first battalion of the Second Regiment, Dou Mingming, is somewhat similar to Li Dingguo, and he is also a young man with a quiet personality and likes to use his brains. He pondered for a moment and then spoke: "Your Highness also once said that fighting a war does not necessarily have to fight with the enemy face to face and drum desperately, as long as the enemy's tactical intentions are destroyed. To put it bluntly, he wants to fight like that, and we don't want him to fight like that. Isn't the enemy trying to drain our ammunition? Let's use sparingly, and try not to shoot within less than thirty steps; Didn't he want to shoot at us, cover people to fill the ditch? Let's suppress them with long-range guns and artillery. ”

"Well said, just hit like this!" Li Dingguo said approvingly, "Also, don't forget, our combat purpose is to attract the enemy and consume them as much as possible, so that the pressure on the third stage will be less." The Mongols may attack a few more rounds, but if the casualties are too large, they may cringe, and then we will have to take the initiative to attack, and we can't hide in the car formation all the time. ”

As they spoke, the Mongols launched a second attack. So the officers of all levels immediately returned to their positions and commanded their soldiers to be ready for battle.

Let's talk about the Mongols. The failure of the first wave of attacks was expected by Timur, the "Qingshan Khan", and he asked the Etok Banner to attack, which originally meant throwing stones to ask for directions. But he didn't expect that the Ming army on the opposite side was so strong in combat and the number of birds was so large that it lost more than 300 cavalry at once. In the past, when the Mongols fought with the Ming army, it was often the Ming army that suffered thousands of casualties, and the Mongols died only a few dozen.

suffered such heavy casualties, even the owner of the Etok Banner was killed in battle, and was also shown to the public by the Ming army, which could not help but make the Mongols, especially the soldiers of the Etok Banner, complain about Timur. Timur also felt very angry, and made up his mind that he must kill all the Ming troops left, so as to relieve the hatred in his heart and make up for his heavy losses.

After the battle just now, Timur also saw that the Ming army had powerful firearms and a trench on the side of the car formation that was difficult to cross. However, it seemed that their bird guns could not shoot too far, so they did not start shooting until their own cavalry rushed to the edge of the trench. Timur immediately ordered: "Each banner will send 300 cavalry, rush to the Han people 80 paces, stop and release arrows, and shoot them all to death!" ”

At the sound of an order, nearly 2,000 Mongol cavalry once again launched a charge towards the chariot formation. At first, it was as smooth as the first time, but the Mongols knew the strength of the Ming army's birds, and when they reached eighty paces away from the chariot formation, they hurriedly reined in their horses, and they all opened their bows and arrows, and shot at the chariot formation.

At that time, the reason why Genghis Khan's iron cavalry was able to gallop across the Eurasian continent and see who killed whom was mainly because of the excellent cavalry and archery tactics of the Mongols. Although hundreds of years have passed, and the Mongolian tribes have become scattered again, and they have lost their former glory, the Mongolian archery has not regressed. They all use short bows, but they can shoot at a distance of more than 80 paces, and the strong ones can even reach about 100 paces. This distance is indeed the limit of the range of the bird's gun, and if you use the bird's gun to shoot at the Mongols, it will definitely not be too cheap.

Therefore, all the company, platoon, and squad leaders of the Qin soldiers repeatedly warned the bird gunners not to return fire, and to use chariots and shields to cover themselves. For a time the arrows were like flying locusts, and the dense array of sharp arrows rained down on the side walls of the chariot, and the trenches were full of arrow shafts. Some of the arrows flew over the chariot in a parabola and fell into the Qin army.

Fortunately, the Qin soldiers had made full preparations, and those who were close to the chariot leaned on the chariot, while the rest used shields and spears to build temporary bunkers to take refuge. Therefore, despite the lively fighting of the Mongols, the casualties caused to the Qin soldiers were extremely limited. On the contrary, some of the Mongols who were imprisoned in the yurts were shot through the roof of the tent by sharp arrows, and let out a terrible scream.

Seeing that the Ming army seemed to be shot so that he couldn't raise his head, Timur finally breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he could take down these hateful Han Chinese. In order to end the battle as soon as possible, he sent another thousand cavalry in an attempt to drown his opponent directly with a rain of arrows.

But what the Qin soldiers were waiting for was the moment when the Mongols were in a dense formation. Suddenly, six rapid-fire cannons roared in unison, and the shells with a sharp whistling sound smashed into the ranks of the Mongol cavalry in an instant.

The formation of the Mongolian army was in chaos, and then Timur remembered that the Ming army not only had birds, but also artillery! This time it was impossible to shoot at each other, because the artillery of the Ming army was hidden in the car formation, and the distance was not only a hundred steps. No matter how far the bow and arrow fired, it could not reach the place where the artillery fired. It seems that they didn't fire the cannon just now, not because they were suppressed at all, but just to make their cavalry more dense and cause more damage!

At the same time, the long-dormant gunfire rang out. But this time it's not a bird's gun, it's a flint reckless gun that has already shown its skills last night. Several snipers selected those burly cavalrymen with long archery shoots, and almost missed a shot, and in a short time they overturned more than a dozen Mongol men.

Timur hated this extremely long-range "bird's gun" and was helpless! Seeing his fighters fall one by one, his psychological endurance had reached its limit, and he finally shouted angrily: "Withdraw!" Evacuate! ”

When the Mongol army landed, it was defeated like a mountain, and retreated like a tide. Qin Bing immediately stopped shooting, but deliberately blew the suona with unique Shaanxi characteristics as if it were angry. The high-pitched and cheerful music completely drowned out the rumbling hooves of the Mongols!