The Mongol cavalry, which rushed up from both sides, did not slow down as the enemy stopped, but twitched their horses even more desperately. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Squad after squad of Mongol cavalry roared and slaughtered, each with red eyes, and each raised his saber in his hand.

How could the golden eagle soaring proudly on the grassland allow its prey to bring such insults to itself. Therefore, in the hearts of these Mongolian cavalrymen, only by killing all these damn southern barbarians can they continue to stand up on the grassland in the future.

Huo Liang lifted the horse lance in his hand, and just wanted to pump the war horse to meet the Mongolian cavalry that was getting closer and closer, when suddenly there was a piercing roar behind him. All the Ming cavalry looked back in surprise, and several fiery red streamers rushed towards the Mongolian cavalry against the strong wind, and a moment later, the earth-shattering explosion overturned the first few Mongolian cavalry.

The flames were soaring, and perhaps there was no shortage of raging fires on this night, but the bright flames still illuminated the faces of the Ming soldiers and Mongolian cavalry in front. Before the Mongol cavalry could react, countless beams of light had already split the entire night and the silent sand dunes, the explosions rose and fell one after another, and the sound of horses' hooves stomping the earth was shocking.

On the sand dunes behind the Ming cavalry, a cavalryman jumped out at once, and under the light of the fire and the moonlight, he could clearly see the banner raised in the hand of the cavalryman.

The red banner of the Ming Dynasty danced in the light, and the golden dragon on it seemed to be blessed by the divine power in the moonlight, so it roared into the air in the light, circling and circling, and the flamboyant dragon claws had the courage to tear the heavens and the earth apart.

After this cavalry, more black figures continued to leap out, and the cart carrying a hundred tigers and arrows also quickly moved forward from the middle of the two sand dunes, and the soldiers on the car continued to light the lead, under the powerful thrust of the second stage rocket, the light continued to illuminate the sky, and also illuminate the enemy in front.

Standing on the sand dunes, Gundam slowly put on his iron helmet and drew his sword. The moonlight sprinkled on the sword body with the firelight, and the sword was like autumn water.

"Kill!" The sixty-year-old veteran tightened the reins of his horse, and pointed his sword straight at the Mongol cavalry, which was already in confusion in front of him.

"Kill!" Zhang Jue mentioned his horse lance and took the lead.

"Kill!" Countless cavalry of the Tianxiong Army roared and caught up with their commander.

"Kill!" All over the mountains, the Ming soldiers of the brigade ran forward, like a rolling black wave, and all the enemies in front of them would be ruthlessly devoured!

Huo Liang had originally mentioned that the big stone in his throat had finally fallen, he didn't know if he had been protected by Heaven and the prayer of His Majesty the Supreme Emperor, but he knew very well that the dramatic turn that Wang Jin had encountered in Xingxing Gorge before was repeating itself in front of him.

The Shence Army had been waiting for reinforcements for many days, constantly revealing their bodies behind the dunes.

Red flags fluttered in the wind, and before they knew it, they had replaced the low, undulating sand dunes into a new skyline.

It was the first time that the cavalry of the Tianxiong Army participated in a real actual battle, after all, the Tianxiong Army had fought in Sichuan and Shu before, and the cavalry was more tasked with being a sentry, and there were only a few hundred people in the army. And not to mention the Tianxiong Army, the rest of the main army of the Ming Dynasty actually has a small number of cavalry, and most of these war horses are from the war capture and the compensation of the Mongolian Tartars. Even the Praetorian Guard of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the absolute first-class main force of the Ming Dynasty, was actually only five hundred cavalry at that time, so that it had to be named "Hundred Battles" instead of "Army", not to mention the main army below.

It was not until later that the Ming Dynasty recovered Hexi and obtained a large number of high-quality Hexi horses, and the Han men in the north continued to join the army, and the main forces had enough capital to start forming their own cavalry. Ye Yingwu naturally supported this very much, and deliberately transferred a lot of veterans from the Praetorian Guard who followed him all the way to the south and the north to serve as the backbone of various armies, so that the cavalry of the main army could get rid of the embarrassment of "foot cavalry" as much as possible, and become the main cavalry that could really fight across horses and even compete with the Mongolian Tatar cavalry.

After all, the Western Regions and the grasslands are still the world of cavalry in the final analysis, and the Han Dynasty thousands of years ago and the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years ago were able to conquer the Western Regions and the grasslands, and they also relied on a strong cavalry team, and even the Han Iron Cavalry under the command of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing at that time had already defeated the Hun cavalry that dominated the grassland, so that they could have an advantage in every major war.

Even if the Ming Dynasty has not long since the founding of the country, it has not been long to obtain horse breeding places such as Guanzhong, Shandong and Hexi, but the Ming Dynasty has never paid much attention to cavalry. It can be said that the Ming cavalry has been fighting with the Mongolian Tatars since the day of its birth, and Ye Yingwu's guards can be said to have participated in every bloody battle of Ye Yingwu from the rise to the founding of the country.

Because compared with the Mongolian cavalry, the Ming cavalry also has a very significant advantage, that is, more sophisticated equipment and a more systematic and united combat mode. The economic background of the Ming Dynasty was inherited from the former Song Dynasty, and at this time, even if you look at the whole world, it is an absolutely wealthy country, so it naturally does not have the slightest stinginess in weapons and equipment. Especially with the advancement of the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty, the merchants who were already well-off also saw the benefits of the Ming army's strong army, so the money and grain paid to the household and the military department every year for various reasons was actually enough for the consumption of the Ming cavalry for a year, and what these merchants wanted was actually the priority to enter the land newly recovered or occupied by the Ming Dynasty, which was the same as what the businessmen who sent caravans to help the Ming army transport grain and grass equipment.

When the army gets benefits, in fact, the businessmen get benefits. The stronger the army becomes, it will naturally ensure the safety of the merchants. And Ye Yingwu carefully manipulated the balance and connection between the two, to avoid the army from completely becoming a self-defense weapon for merchants, and also to prevent merchants from becoming the army's bookkeepers, and to avoid the two from uniting to threaten the stability or even existence of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the military department was not stingy with the cavalry, coupled with the large amount of "protection fees" paid by the merchants, the cavalry of the Ming army has far surpassed the Mongolian cavalry in terms of equipment. The main source of the Mongolian cavalry is still the Mongols on the steppe, they are more accustomed to carrying their own armor and swords and bows to join the army, but most of their armor is still based on leather armor, which makes the Mongolian cavalry have high mobility at the same time, but also makes its protective ability far less than the Ming cavalry wearing armor and even light armor.

And the cavalry of the Ming army is equipped with individual soldiers, mainly horse lances, this kind of horse blades invented by the Han people, not only a symbol of the noble status of cavalry soldiers, but also in thousands of years of vicissitudes of wind and rain, billowing wolf smoke in the proof of their own value, long pole horse lance can kill and injure the enemy at a long distance, and at the same time under the spearhead forged by fine iron, there are barbs or wolf teeth, so that the cavalry can directly use the whip to block the enemy's blade or directly pull people off the horse when they encounter the enemy close. The sabre mainly used by the Mongolian cavalry is naturally better in lightness, but the length is far from enough, and the Mongolian cavalry wants to kill and injure the Ming cavalry, and must bypass the spearhead stabbing in front of the opponent's horse lance, but even then they must continue to face the danger of being swept by the horse lance or hung by the barb.

What's more, in addition to being equipped with horse lances, the cavalry of the Ming army will also be equipped with short blades according to personal preferences, generally knives or swords, of course, there are some people with infinite strength who like to use double hammers, iron whips or iron maces, and rush into the crowd with horses, and the whip is smashed indiscriminately, which is also a huge threat to the light Mongolian cavalry. And this is only the weaponry when the two sides clash, in the long range, the Ming army and the Mongolian cavalry are equipped with bows and crossbows, but there is also a gap in this bow and crossbow.

Although the Mongol crossbows were uniformly rationed, the cavalry still preferred to bring crossbows from their own homes, more precisely, only bows without crossbows. This also means that although the Mongolian cavalry's cavalry is strong, and even swept across Europe and Asia with this, but in fact, because the bows in the hands of the soldiers are different, the distance of the arrows shot is also very different, and the drawbacks may not be seen through the way of riding and shooting, but when the Mongolian cavalry was under the city of Dunhuang before, the concentrated shooting of the Mongolian cavalry at the head of the city had a lot of problems, which is why Tang Zhen and Liang Yanwu did not go all out to deal with the cavalry back and forth under the city, because they could only say that they were interfering with the city. It is far from the point where it has not reached the point of suppressing and occupying an all-round advantage. Otherwise, the artillerymen and crossbowmen of the Ming army would not advance and retreat freely, and they would even be able to concentrate their fire on the Mongol ladder carts.

The bow and crossbow of the Ming cavalry is actually inherited from the cavalry hand crossbow used at that time in the Hundred Battles, this kind of crossbow is improved from the divine arm crossbow, the divine arm crossbow is the most powerful bow and crossbow that the former Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty can handle, and it can even be regarded as the peak of the bow and crossbow of the unprecedented and unprecedented, unprecedented, unprecedented, and unprecedented, as a single soldier carrying the divine arm crossbow and the three-bow bed crossbow controlled by many people to guard the camp or city, one small and one large, supporting the once crumbling sky of the Southern Song Dynasty, so that the famous golden vulture has heard of the color, And then it accompanied the soldiers of the Ming army to glory and victory. However, the Divine Arm Crossbow is a typical pedal crossbow, and even if you don't use a pedal, you have to use your knees to wind it, so it is not suitable for cavalry at all. Therefore, on the basis of the divine arm crossbow, the Ministry of Industry redesigned and produced the cavalry hand crossbow with reference to the former Song Dynasty, and only then did the crossbow now equipped with the cavalry of the Ming army appear.

This kind of crossbow has a shorter range than the Divine Arm Crossbow, after all, if you want to wind it with your hand, you must have much less power, but the carefully produced arrows have stronger piercing and bloodletting capabilities, so that they can make up for the lack of range to a certain extent. Moreover, this kind of bow and crossbow specially designed for cavalry, is smaller in size, the materials used are more fine, and it is easy to carry, which can be said to be the peak of the Ming Dynasty Ministry of Industry in the cold weapon, which was greatly appreciated by the Ministry of War at that time, and soon equipped the main forces.

Relying on the superiority of equipment, the Ming cavalry can already occupy an invincible position in the face of the Mongolian cavalry. As long as the fighter plane is properly grasped, it can easily achieve the goal of defeating the enemy, such as the great battle that is now being staged on the Gobi.

The sudden appearance of the cavalry of the Tianxiong Army was just right, coupled with the fact that the hundred tigers rushed together to show their might, and the original generosity of the Mongolian cavalry had disappeared unconsciously, after all, the earth-shattering explosion and the light of the people turning over their horses everywhere they passed were particularly impressive in this dark night. Coupled with the Ming army cavalry that was killed all over the mountains, it made all this look like a perfect trap that had been arranged a long time ago, and the two thousand Ming army cavalry were just bait, and the main purpose was to invite you into the urn.

The Mongol cavalry was in disarray, and the cavalry of the Tianxiong Army was even more confident, one after another red flags fluttered, and the cavalry took the lead in rushing into the enemy's formation, followed by a large number of foot soldiers slapping on the reef like a wave. It's just that instead of the tide turning into droplets and spreading out in all directions and then rewinding back helplessly, the reef in front of it was completely shattered in the earth-shaking killing sound.

The Mongol cavalry was retreating, one might even say collapse. It's just that the cavalry of the Tianxiong Army obviously didn't intend to give them this opportunity, and the cavalry of the Ming army surrounded on both sides could almost be said to have copied the tactics of the Mongols just now, and the cavalry on the two roads was like open crab claws, and then they were heavily buckled in the desperate eyes of the Mongols.

I don't know who shouted first, and the chaotic Mongolian cavalry gathered again and concentrated all their strength to break through in the direction of Dunhuang. It's just that the Ming army obviously expected them to do this, as early as when the cavalry was surrounded, the brigade of foot soldiers had already pressed up, and once the Mongolian cavalry turned their horses, it meant that they left their backs to the Ming army foot soldiers.

Rows of spearmen leveled their spears at the same time in the sound of neat slogans, and the pace under their feet unconsciously accelerated, as if the waves of steel were constantly swaying in the wind, but those swords and spears shining with moonlight and fire only had blood and death everywhere they went.

However, the Mongol cavalry also reacted quickly, and a group of cavalry immediately stayed behind and directly met the enemy's spears. The rest of the cavalry continued to attack the front with all their might. Obviously, the Ming army was also taken aback by this style of play, because it also meant that the remaining Mongol cavalry had only one way to die. But the Mongol cavalry did not hesitate at all, unlike those who guarded the camp, they were blue wolves on the steppe and golden eagles in the desert, even if they fell into the encirclement, they had to prove to their opponents that the wounded blue wolf still had fangs, and the golden eagle with folded wings could still neigh.

Gundam slowly rode his horse to Huo Liang's side. The veteran, who was over sixty years old, had a slight redness on his face from the large movement. When they were young and active, the north was still the invincible land of the Mongolian Tatar cavalry, and the south was still Wang Jian and Yu Jue, two legendary figures supporting the sky.

For these two old generals, the Ming army naturally has great respect, and their personal guards and subordinate generals have been given death orders, and the safety of the two old generals must be guaranteed. So just now Gundam just rushed down the hillside, he was dragged by his own guards, and the old general also knew that his physical strength was not as good as those young people who rushed by him, so he was not embarrassed by the guards, slowly stopped, and kept commanding from behind, and now that the overall situation has been decided, he can finally take a breath.

Huo Liang saw Gundam coming over, and hurriedly bowed his hand: "Huo Liang, the commander of the first division of the Shence Army, see General Gao." The old general is extraordinary, and he is a model for us and other backwards. ”

Gundam waved his hand and smiled: "Master Huo is polite!" The old man is just following the fun, chatting about juvenile madness, leading the team to charge, and when he is older, he is so frivolous once, and it is estimated that he will really not be able to do it next time! ”

After a pause, Gundam narrowed his eyes: "At least the old man will go down in the future, and he will have the capital to brag about those guys." ”

Huo Liang was slightly stunned, and immediately understood that Gundam was talking about the pillars of the former Song Dynasty who fought against the Mongols one step ahead of him. Thinking of the unyielding figures of those predecessors, Huo Liang's nose was a little sour. Because many of them are not really jealous of talents, but because they were persecuted by Jia Yidao, they were not allowed to be reused, and they died depressed. Unconsciously, only two of the current Gundam and Ma Kan were left in that generation.

Gundam glanced at Huo Liang, seemed to understand what Huo Liang was thinking, and said with a smile: "Now that there is a successor, the old man can also explain to them." ”

Huo Liang was silent for a moment and nodded solemnly. Gundam's attention was obviously attracted by the stubborn resistance of the Mongol Tatar cavalry and even the slightest fearless sacrifice, and he couldn't help but murmur with emotion: "There are still some Mongolian Tatars who are not afraid of death after all, and the men on the steppe are bloody, this is true." ”

"It's just a pity that there are fewer and fewer such soldiers in the Mongolian Tatars." Zhang Jue grabbed the reins of the horse beside Gundam, but there was no joy in his voice. (To be continued.) )

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