The gold-armored soldiers who did not wear armor dismounted one after another, and the pock-faced Tak Tan put on the chain mail with the help of Zhang Zhongqi, took off a step bow from the horse, and hung two bags of arrows on his body, one bag of light arrows and one bag of heavy arrows, and finally carried the big knife on his shoulder.

Their blue banner is on the right flank of the front, facing the left flank of the Ming army, and on the right flank is the Horqin Mongol Division, in the middle is the Mongolian Right Banner, and the left flank is the Mongolian Left Banner and Ao Han and other small tribes.

He was in a very relaxed mood, the Ming troops who came to the pass were all vulnerable, and he believed that the same was true under the city of Gu'an, the three hundred people of their Jiala were here, and there were more than fifty white-armored soldiers from other banners, in the eyes of Taktan, only more than three hundred of them were enough to defeat the thousands of Ming troops in front of them.

Uncle Ilantai in front of him was also calmly putting on the armor, and Taktan hurriedly went up to help him sort out the silver-white Bayala armor, he was very envious of Uncle Ilantai's armor, which was shining silver and very strong, and he believed that nothing could penetrate it.

Elantai smiled, the terrifying knife mark in his left ear was squeezed even more terrifying, "Taktan, there must be more good things in this city than Zunhua." ”

"Why?"

Ilantai said in a low voice: "The Jingshi of this Ming Kingdom is too rich, most of those who have silver have gone to the city, and there are definitely a lot of silver women in this city." When this Ming army is killed and you are allowed to go to the city first, I will talk to Niu Lu Ezhen and leave you a few minions. ”

Taktan hurriedly thanked him, and he asked Ilantai, "Uncle Ilantai, should we rush over directly." ”

Ilantai shook his head and said: "I'm afraid this Ming army is stronger, Lord Jiala has his own arrangements, killing them all is not a problem, at most it will take a little more effort." As soon as this Ming army goes, the city wall behind it can stop something. ”

Taktan said: "If you go to the city, then I won't take my big sword." ”

"You are light armor, mainly with bows and arrows, you don't need to take a big knife, the armor soldiers in front are all spears and big knives, after they are scattered, you can kill with them, and the knife is enough."

Taktan hurriedly put the big knife back in the pocket and explained to Zhang Zhongqi: "You are optimistic about the horse, hurry up after breaking the city, and follow into the city to get things." ”

Zhang Zhongqi agreed with a dazzling smile.

Taktan ignored him, took out his antler wrench, put it on the thumb of his right hand, and gently pulled the bowstring to adjust the position of the wrench. There was the sound of horses' hooves on the left, and he looked in the direction of the general officer of the central army, where several Taiji of Korqin and Ao Han were leaving the middle army position, running in front of the front line, and heading straight for the two wings.

After a while, there was a rumbling sound from the two wings, and each rushed out more than a hundred Mongolian tribal cavalry, rushed to the opposite side, and entered a hundred steps, but there was still no reaction on the opposite side, the cavalry slowly increased its speed and continued to advance, just ran into sixty steps, several cavalry suddenly fell, the horses slipped under their feet, and the men and horses fell out of the distance, and a few horses rushed fast, and they rolled a few times on the ground. The cavalry behind turned their horses and ran past on both sides, but some of the horses still fell. The cavalry that followed slowed down and stopped at sixty paces.

The front row of muskets of the Ming army still did not shoot, Taktan showed some strange looks, the Ming troops he had seen in the past were all shooting and firing from afar, very lively, and when they rushed to the front, they had no ammunition, this Ming army was indeed a little different.

Some archers flashed out behind the gap in the opponent's breastwork, and began to fire arrows at the stopped cavalry, the killer team of the Wendeng battalion did not need an order, as long as the enemy entered fifty paces, the killer team who could shoot arrows could return fire, the infantry bow had an absolute advantage over the cavalry bow at fifty paces, and the opponent was a stopped cavalry, and the target was very large.

Soon seven or eight horsemen were shot, most of them had no armor, and the arrows were a great threat to them, and several of the horses that were shot were in pain and jumped and galloped wildly, throwing the riders off their horses, and the cavalry of Horqin was in a mess, and they quickly rode their horses and ran away, divided into several teams.

They ran slowly through the icy section, and into fifty paces, and galloped horizontally in the front, and they were in groups of several people, and shuttled thirty paces away in the front, and the Mongols, who had grown up on horseback, skillfully threw them diagonally with their riding bows, and the arrows floated high with the speed of their horses, and hundreds of light arrows crossed a parabola in the air and fell down on the position of the Wenden camp. There was a sound of hitting the armor, interspersed with a few screams.

The Horqin cavalry is also uncomfortable, there are several archers in each gap of the Ming army, shooting at the cavalry who ran in front of the formation, the arrows shuttle back and forth on the battle array, and the horses continue to fall to the ground, the power of the foot bow is far better than the riding bow, those Horqin people have been at a disadvantage, although they shoot many arrows, but the iron armor of the Ming army is basically ineffective.

The Mongol tribes came to rob, and their will to fight was not strong, and after the shooting was unfavorable, they retreated farther and farther, and in a short time they had already retreated more than fifty paces.

Unag's Chinese army roared gold, and Korqin's cavalry finally freed themselves and hurriedly ran back to the two wings, and the gap in the low wall of the Ming army also quieted down. Only some of the Horqin Mongol soldiers who were shot were left in the middle of the battlefield, the seriously wounded were howling on the ground, the lightly injured hands and feet were used together, desperately fleeing back to their own line, a Mongolian horse was shot by three arrows, stood up after struggling on the ground a few times, walked two steps with difficulty, knelt on the ground with the front legs and fell to the ground, and wailed under the gaze of thousands of people.

Unag looked at the horse with a gloomy face, the first round of testing did not lead to see the reality of the Ming army, and the losses on his side were greater, he waited for a few Mongolian Taiji to report, and said to the Jiala Erzhen next to him: "There is some ice on the ground about fifty steps. These Ming soldiers poured water on that section of the ground, but it was not too wide, perhaps because they did not have enough firewood. ”

"We should have marched in yesterday so much that they don't have time for these tricks. But there is no need to be afraid of him, let's shoot at seventy or eighty paces, lure his musket to fire, and then shoot at nearly forty or fifty paces. After that, the armor soldiers rushed through the gap. ”

"This Ming army is calm, I'm afraid it won't be released at will."

Jia La'e really said disdainfully: "So what, as long as you rush to the side, the fire gun has a fart, they dare to provoke my Dajin like this, this officer will take the head of the enemy general, and the rest of the sergeants will not be left." ”

Although Najiala felt that the army on the opposite side was stronger than the average Ming army, his contempt for the Ming army had been deeply ingrained in him after years of light victories. He never thought that the Ming army could withstand the hand-to-hand combat impact of the Houjin warriors.

Unag thought for a long time, he actually wanted to make a shield car, but there were no large trees around, and it was time-consuming to make it, and he himself was not too afraid of the Ming army's bird guns, which were often blown up, and it was very troublesome to load, even if it was fired, it could not penetrate the iron armor of the Houjin soldiers.

He finally nodded and made up his mind, "Leave two hundred armor soldiers on each wing, and the rest press up to charge the formation......"

"You don't have to stay, rush it all."

"Lord Jiala's Ezhen, it's best to leave two hundred people, in case the attack is not overcome, the two wings can stop the Ming army from pursuing."

Jia La'e really seemed to have heard the funniest joke, and laughed for a while before saying, "When did the Ming army chase my Dajin warriors." Attacking with all his strength and breaking the formation in one fell swoop, the people on the city wall must be frightened, and maybe they will surrender without attacking the city. ”

Unag was quite insistent on this matter, he gave in slightly, leaving a hundred soldiers of the Jiannu headquarters on each flank, and then sent a few heralds to give orders to the various armies.

Jiala Ezhen also left the Chinese army, returned to the position of Benjiala on the right flank, and gathered a few Niu Lu Ezhen to arrange the battle formation.

After the Ilantai and their Niu Lu Ezhen returned to their Niu Lu, they gave instructions to Pashku and the soldiers, and these battle-hardened veterans listened calmly, and Niu Lu Ezhen also spoke very simply, nothing more than stopping and shooting arrows at eighty paces, and then shooting again at forty or fifty steps away from ice, and finally retreating with light armor when rushing into battle, etc. Niu Lu Ezhen finally talked about the icy area. It's not too wide, just a little slower when they get through guò.

After Niu Lu Ezhen finished speaking, Ilantai patted Taktan encouragingly, picked up his big knife and returned to his horse, and retreated to the position of Bayala in the back.

Taktan followed the other lightly armored archers to the front, he was in the second column of the lightly armored archers, then several layers of armor soldiers, and finally the Bayala soldiers, in addition to the more than 30 Ba Yala, who were five Niu Lu of Ben Jiala, there were more than 50 people transferred from other banners, a total of more than 80 people, all of them on horseback, led by Jiala Ezhen himself, and would enter the battle at the most important moment, and give the enemy a fatal blow.

The drums sounded, and Taktan held the Heli Bow in his left hand, and walked forward with his partner, and after they walked out of a section, the armor soldiers in the back row began to advance, and the clanging sound of iron armor and armor colliding with each other sounded. The heads of the people on the front line were swaying, and the dense armor and helmets reflected countless points of light in the early morning sun.

Some scattered Houjin soldiers with three-eyed guns and bird guns in their hands rushed to fifty or sixty paces to the opposite side to fire, running around in the middle to lure the Ming army to shoot, but the Ming army front was quiet, and no one shot.

After the Jin Soldier Front slowly advanced to a hundred steps, the opposite Ming army sounded a loud slogan, a row of black muskets on the chest wall, the muzzle of the black hole was aimed at this side, still no one fired, those Ming soldiers only showed their heads wearing Ming helmets, Tak Tan saw a piece of red tassels fluttering on the opposite wall in the cracks, and inexplicably felt a palpitation.

A sound of gold sounded, Niu Lu really shouted, Tak Tan and the others stopped at the same time, here is about seventy steps away from the low wall, according to the experience of the Houjin army, this distance on the Ming army's firearms is not lethal.

Taktan stepped back a little, skillfully picked up a sharp-headed light arrow, clamped the tail of the arrow at the position of the tiger's mouth, the thumb of the right hand buckled the bowstring with the wrench, the index finger and middle finger pressed on the thumb (Note 1), the left hand was raised, the arrow pointed obliquely into the air, the right hand began to slowly pull the bowstring, and the other light armor archers around him also took the same posture, and the bamboo tire of the composite bow body made a continuous creaking sound.

With a desolate conch, the Jiannu battle line sounded with countless cotton-like bowstring vibrations, like a huge swarm of bees flying by, and dense arrows rose into the sky at the same time.

Taktan's thumb was released suddenly, the bowstring was drawn along the smooth surface of the wrench, the energy accumulated on the bamboo tire was instantly released at the tail of the arrow, the light arrow flew out rapidly in the buzzing of the bowstring, the birch arrow shaft twisted in the air because of the huge force, twisting like a snake body, after it flew through the first section, the birch rod slowly stopped twisting, the arrow body became stable under the balance of the tail feathers, it and thousands of other light arrows cut through the air, merging into a sound like the wind blowing the woods.

When it flew past the highest point and began to dive towards the position of the Ming army, the Ming army below sounded a swan sound. The two hundred pace-long frontal breastwork was connected with firelight, accompanied by a loud explosion of heavy white smoke, from the air, as if a white smoke dragon had been conjured out of thin air, more than 150 combined machine guns were fired at the same time, and the lead bullet with a diameter of 19 mm instantly flew over a distance of 70 steps, easily tearing the cotton armor and chain mail of the archers, deforming and disintegrating in their bodies, forming a cavity effect, and the blood of the wounded spurted out of the body along those holes, turning into a stream of blood arrows.

In front of Taktan, a soldier with Niu Lu was hit, and the expensive chain mail could not stop the cheap lead bullet in the slightest, and he struggled desperately on the ground with his stomach in his hands, letting out an inhuman scream, and the intestines inside were stirred by the lead bullet, and the blood and feces that flowed out were the color of the feces.

Tak Tan, who encountered a strong enemy for the first time, listened to the howls around him, his hands shook slightly, and his lower body couldn't help but have a burst of urine, after the person in front of him fell to the ground, Tak Tan faced the low wall, he never thought that the fire gun would be so powerful, he was now afraid of standing so stupidly, afraid that white smoke and fire would suddenly come out from behind the wall, because he couldn't see the bullet at all, and a strong fear of the unknown hit his heart.

The Houjin army fell nearly 50 people in this round, which was far lower than the training results of the Wendeng battalion, but it still shocked the entire Houjin army, and it was no longer the orderly and calm at the beginning. One of the Pashku shouted behind him for the soldiers to fire quickly, and Taktan withdrew his gaze, holding back the tension in his heart, and was about to draw his bow when another round of guns was fired behind the breastwork opposite.

More screams rang out from the Houjin Front, and there was a bang in front of the side of Taktan, and an archer chest goggle was pierced by a lead bullet, and he shook like an electric shock, and fell straight to the ground without moving, and a large stream of blood flowed out from under his body.

The second round of light arrows was fired, and the opposite side also sounded a scream, obviously also suffered losses, and when he shot ten arrows, the opposite side fired back two rounds, the Ming army's two rounds of shooting this time were not as neat as the first and second rounds, he was still lucky not to be hit, but the archers in the front row of the Houjin army suffered heavy losses in four rounds of volleys, and more than 170 people were killed and wounded. The Houjin army also shot nearly 10,000 light arrows, and even the low wall was full of arrows, like hedgehogs.

On the command platform of the Wendeng battalion with a few light arrows, Chen Xin gently pushed away a few covering long players, and the Wendeng battalion used the front two rows of firearms to fight back, and the back two rows have not fired, Chen Xin will leave them to the most critical moment.

Looking at the wounded soldiers who fell and struggling on the Houjin Front, the mood was more relaxed than at the beginning, Jiannu's bow and arrows were nothing more than that, this kind of light and fluttering light arrows were basically ineffective against armor, the killer team deployed in the column was covered by shields and iron armor, and did not suffer any losses, and the firearms team was covered by a chest wall, but the throwing path was high, and there were still dozens of casualties, most of which were not fatal injuries.

Such an exchange of counter-shooting is unbearable compared to Houjin, and their manpower is far from being comparable to that of the Ming Dynasty.

Soon, the Chinese army of the Houjin army beat the big drum, the light armored archers retreated, the heavy armored soldiers began to appear in front, the first row was a dense shield player, Jiannu stepped on the drum and began to advance, the shield line pressed straight like a wall.

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Note 1: The East Asian compound bows all use the Mongolian archery method, with the thumb to pull the string, see the relevant pictures of the work for details.