Chapter 19: Eight Banners Cavalry
"My lord, the yellow flag has moved, the yellow flag has moved!"
As soon as the Jiannu cavalry on the slope moved, the sharp-eyed Huang An shouted, and from the other party's flag, he recognized at a glance that it was Jiannu's inlaid yellow flag.
The positive yellow flag and the inlaid yellow flag are the two flags of the Later Jin Khan Emperor Taiji, which belong to the Imperial Forest Army in the Eight Banners, and its combat power is better than the other six flags.
Shi Dayong didn't dare to take it lightly, provocation was enough, contempt was enough, and the spirit of the Songshan army had been fanned to the limit by his almost crazy actions.
Now, it is the real decisive battle, and it will also be the baptism of the Matsuyama Army to become a strong army.
defeated, there is no corpse; Victory, I have a strong army.
"Array!"
Shi Dayong quickly ordered, Huang An, Shao Wu, Ma Zhong, Shi Hai and other officers were busy reorganizing the team, and in a moment, the defense line was laid out again.
The dozens of corpses of Jiannu in front of the battle made the people up and down Songshan feel like they had been beaten with blood, and the fact that they did not suffer any casualties made the soldiers more confident.
The soldiers were no longer as fearful as before, and in their hearts, there was a firm idea at this moment - it turned out that Jiannu was not invincible!
After witnessing the Yellow Banner suddenly attacking the two wings of Songshan in two ways, Shi Dayong yelled at Huang An: "Huang An, all the Tartars are up, whether our Songshan Army can win or not depends on yours!" β
Huang An thrust the big knife into the ground with force, and said without replying: "Don't worry, my lord, but with my Huang An, my martial arts camp will not collapse!" β
Shi Dayong shouted again: "Yongzi battalion, abandon the gun, give me a big knife to cut the neck of Jiannu!" β
Hearing this order, Shao Wu, the commander of the Yongzi Battalion, was stunned for a moment, and the three generals were also stunned, but soon ordered the soldiers to immediately throw away the fire gun and change it to a long knife in each person's hand
The long knife, the standard equipment of the Ming army, is more than three feet long, the blade is extremely sharp, and the head is as neat as cutting a melon.
The knife is the king of weapons, the first choice for killing enemies on the battlefield, and the best combat tool in the era of cold weapons.
However, the 300 long knives in the hands of the Yongzi Battalion were all the belongings of the Songshan Army, and except for the officers, the whole army could not find a single one. Even the cavalry battalion did not have long knives, but a three-eyed firearm with one hand.
In order to let the Yongzi battalion have a long knife, Shi Dayong sacrificed the Wuzi battalion, and the Wuzi battalion only had a dagger to cut off people's heads in addition to the long wood and the card.
If the Wuzi battalion can't resist the Eight Banners cavalry, they will be engulfed by the cavalry in an instant, and they won't even have the ability to fight back.
This arrangement of depriving 300 soldiers of the ability to fight back was obviously top-heavy, but Shi Dayong was helpless because he did not have enough weapons to provide his soldiers.
Qiu Hejia was able to provide 600 cotton armor and 300 cards, but he could not provide the long knife and spear that Shi Dayong wanted, because this required the consent of Sun Chengzong, the Liaodong Governor.
In the entire Liaodong, the long knife is a sought-after weapon, and the elite of Liaodong has not yet been fully equipped, not to mention the men and horses from Songshan.
In fact, Daming had enough iron tools and enough craftsmen to build weapons for the front line, but I don't know where Lu Dao began, and the weapons of the Ministry of Industry and Nanzhen Fusi were actually focused on firearms. The dignitaries of the imperial court would rather spend a lot of money on red-coated cannons and build thousands of firearms that can only be used once, rather than follow the advice of the generals and make sharp broadswords for them.
Perhaps, there are traversers among those adults, otherwise why would they be so fond of firearms. Sometimes, Shi Dayong has this sense of self-deprecation.
Of course, it is right to build firearms, and the outstanding achievements of the three major expeditions of Wanli show that firearms are indeed the enemy ahead of the times, but the damned craftsman system has made firearms into burning sticks, and they have become "explosive sticks" that soldiers dare not even aim at when they shoot.
Helpless, very helpless.
Shi Dayong can only hope for changes in the future, and now, he must do so.
Concentrate all your strength to deliver a fatal blow.
The order to let the Yongzi battalion throw away the fire gun and use the broadsword to meet the enemy instead, Shi Dayong thought it was correct. Instead of letting those soldiers rush to fill the gunpowder, it is better to rush up and chop horses and then cut people when the Eight Banners soldiers fall into the Wuzi battalion commander's wood.
The effect is definitely better than only injuring more than ten Eight Banner soldiers in one round of firearms, Shi Dayong said with such a heart.
Whether it can really be as he thinks, it can be verified immediately, because the Manchurian soldiers with yellow and red flags have already rushed up.
A bloody battle is about to break out.
Jiang Wanli after the battle had already sent two groups of people to ask Shi Dayong's cavalry battalion when to attack, but Shi Dayong's reply was only one word, "wait".
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The red flags on the front also rushed up, and after completing the acceleration, their forward was less than fifty paces away from the Wuzi battalion.
The tidal wave of shouts and killings was as strong as a burst, and the momentum was far stronger than before.
The Songshan army condensed up and down, and didn't move.
Shi Dayong exhaled a long breath, and the long knife in his hand trembled slightly.
After settling for a moment, he raised his feet and walked to the front, walked straight to the martial arts camp, and then stood there fearlessly.
Behind him, Guo Yi took the pro-soldier team to protect him nervously.
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The yellow flag is menacing, and it is more powerful than the red flag, Shi Dayong thought that the other party would rush up directly, and cooperate with the red flag on the front to crush the Songshan army on three sides.
"Ready!"
At Huang An's suggestion, the two teams of Wuzi Battalion B and C waved their right hands to Guo Er and Shi Hai, preparing to order their soldiers to stage a good show of Fang Cai Team A erecting sticks to resist the enemy.
"Woo! Woo! β
Within a distance of less than fifty paces, the cavalry with yellow flags on both wings suddenly let out strange screams, and the whole Songshan army, including Shi Dayong, was ready to see them skewered into meat skewers, but the other party suddenly drew a longbow from behind at a distance of more than thirty paces, stretched out his bow and set up arrows, and shot at the Songshan army without aiming.
"Ahh
A soldier of Team C was hit by an arrow in the door, and he didn't even scream, but fell to the ground.
The Eight Banners did not show any signs before they shot the arrows, and Shi Dayong always thought that they were rushing directly from their horses, so they did not prepare in advance at all.
Fortunately, there are not many yellow flag soldiers on the two wings, and they have already equipped the soldiers with cotton armor, so in addition to being shot directly, most of the soldiers who are hit by the arrow are on the shoulder.
But Jiannu's arrows were full of power, and as soon as the arrow went down, the whole arrow was gone.
Almost in the blink of an eye, more than thirty soldiers on the left and right flanks fell to the ground with arrows, and their painful shoulders could no longer support the long wood.
"Raise your shield, raise your shield!"
The officers kept shouting, and soon, one by one, the signs were raised, covering the sky overhead. But occasionally, two or three arrows that seemed to have eyes fell from the gap, slandering the Matsuyama soldiers.
After the first round of shooting, the cavalrymen with yellow flags slowed down their horses very skillfully, and except for those in front, those behind jumped off their horses. They did nothing but shoot the arrows in their hands at the Matsuyama army.
One after another, the cards were densely connected, and soon one feather arrow after another was pierced.
With the protection of bows and arrows, the second team of the Wuzi Battalion B and C on both flanks gradually stabilized their position after paying about 50 casualties.
After Shi Dayong dodged two sharp arrows left and right, he raised his eyes and looked at it, his heart was slightly settled, the Eight Banners with yellow flags did not seem to have any signs of rushing up immediately, if he released arrows like this, it would not pose a fatal threat to the Songshan Army.
However, he soon realized that he had thought wrongly, and his face turned white when countless screams came from behind himβthe Manchurian soldiers with yellow flags gave up attacking the Wuzi battalion with shield protection, and instead fired arrows at the Yongzi battalion and the baggage battalion and the people in the chariot formation without any protection.