Erzincan.

The two sides are in formation.

This place is a leaf-like valley in the mountains, the widest point is only twenty miles, and all around it are lofty mountains, so it is difficult for the two sides to do anything else, that is, to set up a decisive battle in formation.

"Your Majesty, the enemy army will not exceed 80,000."

Zhu Neng, who got off the hot air balloon, said.

"Less than 80,000 but boasting of 500,000, the Ottomans are also very good at boasting!"

Zhu Di said with a smile.

The men around him laughed.

"King, they can't play any tricks on this terrain, they are arrayed with three armies, from the sky their left flank is more elite, the core of which is similar to our plate armor mounted cavalry, although the number is not much, but the power of the charge is not weak, but the rest is mostly infantry, and the body should be cloth armor. The Chinese army is not as good as them, the armor is also very messy, and it is actually mainly infantry, there are mounted cavalry, but for some reason they are all behind the formation, as for the right flank should be Aries Turkmen, ordinary archers and cavalry.

There are very few firearms in sight at the moment, at least very few that I can see, and it looks like the ones we used more than ten years ago.

I can't even see the Hongwu cannon. ”

Zhu Neng continued.

"The left flank should be Serbs, and their commander-in-chief is King Stefan. Lazarevich, they were made up of the king with knights and knights' retinues, and when the battle came, these knights charged into battle, and the retinues followed behind to kill. As for the Ottomans, the front should be conscripted infantry and consumed, Bayezette's Janissaries are behind, and there should be their Sipahi cavalry at the back, similar to the Serbian knights, as for firearms, they do have very few firearms, or mainly bows and arrows, and the battlefield is dominated by Sipahi cavalry. ”

The Armenian prince beside Zhu Di said.

The earliest recorded use of firearms by the Ottomans was twenty years later, although it is also said that it was used in the Kosovo campaign more than ten years ago, but it is not clearly recorded.

In short, this is in its infancy.

"So the Serbian king, who was just killed by Bayezid's father, has now become Bayezid's loyal dog?"

Zhu Di said.

"Well, how can his father be king's turn if he doesn't die?

Besides, Bayezet's own father was also killed by the Serbs, and there is no reason why the two should not like each other.

The two of them are said to have a good relationship. ”

The prince said with a smile.

Everyone laughed again.

That's true, if his father doesn't die, how can he be a king?

It seems that the two have a grudge against each other to kill their fathers, but in fact, they are benefactors who are on each other's thrones!

"Send someone to tell Bayezet that Da Ming is a kingdom, so that he doesn't feel that Da Ming is bullying him, we can each send some people to fight in front of the battle.

I will send a thousand soldiers, and he will send a thousand soldiers. ”

Zhu Di said to the prince.

The prince immediately summoned one of his men and told him to go to Bayezet.

The latter soon returned.

Bayezet agreed.

After all, Bayezid didn't know the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and he also wanted to see the strength of this unfamiliar opponent.

"Fancha, take your men into battle, and when Bayezet is captured alive, I will reward you with his concubine."

Zhu Di said with a smile.

Of course, this kind of thing can't go to the Ming army.

This is an experimental product, a guinea pig, as the strongest combat power, it is impossible to be the first to play, or Fancha These pure consumables are the best to use.

"King, can I play with his concubine in front of him then?"

Fancha said with a lewd smile.

"Well, it's shameless that you still have this hobby, so be whatever you want when the time comes!"

Zhu Di was stunned.

"Brothers, for the sake of Bayezet's concubine, follow me!"

Vancha shouted excitedly.

Immediately after that, he led his men to dismount......

Well, they still prefer to fight on foot rather than on horseback, but these guys are heavily armoured, not even more than one, in addition to the high-quality armor they originally borrowed to buy, plus all kinds of armor they have captured. Although it was spring at this time, the spring temperature in the Anatolian Plateau was just right, and the infantry who were like iron towers with all kinds of favorite cold weapons moved forward like a garbage belt in the wasteland wind, and soon stopped when they reached the first half of the formation.

Bayezid, on the other hand, sent Serbs.

I have to say that at this point, he and Zhu Di have a good heart, and everyone uses their consumables to test each other's combat effectiveness.

One hundred Serbian knights with their subordinate infantry, the knight's chain mail inside and outside the plate armor, it seems that they already have the style of plate armor knights, but they have not yet evolved to the realm of Gothic full-body armor.

But even so, they were already strong, and the Ottomans' arrows in the Battle of Kosovo could barely hurt them, but the latter's infantry brought them down.

As for the subordinates, they are basically cloth armor or armed clothes.

Both sides did not attack immediately, but looked at each other curiously, but this scene was still very strange.

Eight Banners Manchurian Heavy Infantry vs. Serbian Knights......

It's weird indeed.

Immediately after that, the Serbian archers were the first to shoot arrows, but Vanza and his men did not return fire, they were all covered with heavy armor, and as long as these bows and arrows were not at close range, such a casual shot would not break the defense at all. In the rain of arrows shot by the Serbs, the ancestors of my Qing Dynasty calmly held their shields, although they did not break the defense, they still had to symbolize protection, in case it fell on the face. And at the same time the infantry on the opposite side began to move forward, they were all spears and tomahawks, in fact, as a branch of the Slavs, this thing was still very common.

The ancestors of our Great Qing Dynasty quickly entered a state of imminent battle, with the archers in front preparing their curved bows and heavy arrows, and the back one by one carrying their flail sticks and waiting quietly.

The Serbian infantry began to shout and run.

Our ancestors drew their bows, and the Serbs on the opposite side continued to gallop, and the archers shot their arrows quickly ten paces away.

Precise arrows plunged into the Serb's body one by one.

The latter instinctively raised his shield and slammed forward like a stretch of wall.

The archers quickly retreated, and at the same time the flailmen picked up their flails, and in the impact of the Serbs, one by one, the flails fell, and the three-edged nails wrapped in iron and wooden rods around the shields were ferociously struck at the Serbs behind the shields. At the latter's screams, shields fell to the ground, and the archers behind the flail drew their bows, and the arrows from close range pierced into the Serbs' faces, but the Serbs also picked up their tomahawks and spears to attack. But the heavily armored soldiers of the Zhao Saint Army ignored these attacks and continued to blow their flails continuously, this thing required strength, but the effect was excellent, a long wooden handle with a short iron-clad rod with three-edged nails, because it was connected by iron chains, so it ignored the shield.

This is because Western Asia, the Middle East, and even Eastern Europe like to use shields, so they specialize in training hand-to-hand combat.

The Zhaosheng Army is a truly professional army.

This is the Knights.

All of them are proficient in all kinds of warfare, they can be cavalry on horseback, infantry can be infantry when they dismount, and they are brave enough to fight wild beasts in the bitter cold of minus 30 degrees, like a group of wandering wild wolves tearing at everything they can eat.

Their world is all about killing, killing others or being killed by others.

They regard the lives of others as if they were a mustard, and they also regard their own lives as a mustard.

They are very good at self-hypnosis, and they regard death in battle as the beginning of a happy life in the next life.

However, the Serbs are not weak chickens, these are actually Kosovo mountain people, and the two sides entered a bloody fight in this way, the flail of the Zhaosheng Army smashed the heads of the Serbs, and the latter's battle axe also cut on the body of the Zhaosheng Army soldiers, and the Serbian soldiers continued to fall down in the accurate shooting of sharp arrows, and their armor-piercing swords continued to pierce the gaps in the armor of the Zhaosheng Army soldiers in the chaos.

This thing was the one who stabbed Bayezet's father to death.

And at this moment, a hundred knights who had not moved behind them began to move forward.

"The King?"

Kun Timur looked at Zhu Di.

Zhu Di waved his hand.

In this case, Kun Timur did not care.

Although he is the commander of the Zhaosheng Army, he is here to make a fortune and then go back to spend all day drinking, so there is no need to care about the casualties of his subordinates.

The Zhao Shengjun is indeed an outlaw, but he is not an outlaw, he is a serious marquis, a hereditary Hanhai commander.

The main reason why Vancha is so desperate is that he wants to succeed him.

At this time, Fancha on the battlefield was also ready, and all the archers were replaced with special armor-piercing arrows.

With the sound of horns, the Serbian infantry in the melee retreated as fast as they could, and at the same time, the attacking knights began to accelerate, spears on horseback were raised, and the soldiers of the Zhaosheng Army, who had not had time to rearrange the formation in front of them, did not hesitate to retreat, and quickly retreated behind the archers who had been maintaining their formation. Immediately afterwards, one of the archers fired their heavy arrows at the knights, and the slender armor-piercing arrows like flat-mouthed screwdrivers fell on the knights with a sound of breaking through the air. The heat-treated arrows of high-quality forged steel instantly penetrate the mild steel or wrought iron plate of the latter......

This is the beginning of the fifteenth century.

High-quality plate armor has not yet been cheapened.

These ordinary knights don't have any top-notch high-quality plate armor!

But these guys of the Zhao Shengjun are the limit of the ancient compound bow, plus the real forged steel arrow cluster......

Neither side is on the same level of hardness.

As the knights continued to fall, the archers who had completed the first round of archery did not have time to shoot the second round, and the flail men behind them, who had picked up spears from the ground, set up a spear on their shoulders as fast as they could, and pointed the spear directly at the rushing knights.

While the latter knocked down these Zhaosheng soldiers, he was constantly stabbed with spears and then knocked off his horse.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the Zhao Holy Army rushed to the knight on the ground with an armor-piercing cone.

Of the last hundred knights, less than twenty fled back, although the Zhaosheng Army suffered more casualties than them, but such a battle was won by two for one.

Who are the Zhao Shengjun?

Rotten life.

Even the armor was bought with a loan.

Of course, they are not prepared to repay the loan, and as long as they do not go back, they will never have to repay the loan.

Even when Yang Feng lent them a loan, he didn't prepare them to repay the loan, compared with the cost of sending 20,000 additional troops to the Western Regions, the armor and war horses of the 25,000 Zhao Holy Army were really not worth mentioning.

But these knights are all small lords.

"King, this is the words of the Tessie Knight, our five guards are already invincible when they come to them, these armors may be able to block three-eyed bullets or shotguns, but even the close-range shots of short guns, they can't stop them, if they are gods, it is estimated that they can penetrate a hundred steps away, and they have no ability to break through our camel city at all." However, they need to be guarded against throwing their bows and arrows, which shoot far longer than our bows, and can easily injure the horses in the camel city. ”

Looking at the Zhao Shengjun who was picking up knights' armor and snatching knights' horses on the battlefield, Zhu Neng said with a smile.

It was Zhu Di's principle to continue westward, and now they finally had the opportunity to see the real Taixi army, but the result was relieved.

Just like that, the army doesn't have to care at all.

"We still have to solve the siege problem, we really don't have to be afraid of them in the camel city field battle, but the siege can't count on those field guns after all."

Zhu Di said.

"But with siege artillery, it's hard for us to move quickly."

Zhu Neng said.

"Your Highness, you can go by sea, as long as you take Trabzon, all the ports on the Black Sea coast can go."

Said the Armenian prince.

"Well, aren't they your cousins?"

Zhu Neng said in amazement.

"So does the general know who destroyed our Armenian kingdom back then? It was the emperor of Constantinople, yes, our country was not perished by the infidels, but by our co-religionists, from which our centuries of suffering began, and now His Highness and the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty have re-given us our own country. ”

The prince said.

"It's good for you to think like this, if I really hit these countries, then you are the imperial merchants, the Ming imperial merchants, all the business will be handed over to you, go, and then let people tell Bayezet, I will send another thousand people, and he will send another thousand people, we will continue."

Zhu Di said to the Armenian prince.

The latter hurried to send someone again.

"King, do you want them to collapse on their own?"

Zhu Neng said.

Zhu Di handed him the high-powered mirror in his hand......

"You look at how their left flanks, including their center troops, reacted to the defeat of the Serbs, and they are laughing.

The rabble.

It's all a rabble.

Yang Feng is right, except for our Ming Dynasty, there is no country in this world that has truly established a system that is loyal to only one emperor, all countries are all patchwork, and all countries are just rabble.

The rabble. ”

Zhu Di sneered.

Well, in the high-powered mirror that Zhu Neng raised, there was indeed a joy.

Isn't it normal to see the Serbs unlucky, and the Ottomans happy? Ten years ago they were still fighting in the mountains and forests of Kosovo, and if the Ottomans were unlucky, I believe that the Serbs were just as happy, and even if the Ottomans were unlucky, their other minions would also be happy, such an army simply could not afford defeat, and if they saw the doomed defeat, they would collapse on their own, so let them despair! Anyway, their true strength has been tested.

(End of chapter)