Chapter 565: Entanglement
There were no artillery or firearms on either side of the battle, and the scene was relatively quiet in comparison, only the shouts of killing at the scene were relatively ear-piercing.
If there are cannons and firearms on both sides, the rumbling sound will cause even more noise.
The Black and White Sheep dynasties had always been nomadic tribes before that, and they were attached to Timur one after another, so they did not know how to make firearms at all, and they did not have artillery.
Later, they were rewarded with fiefs, and only then did they have a fixed territory, and even then, they never carried firearms in field battles, and only in the capital or some important cities would have artillery.
Of course, the Ming army knew about these situations, so they did not bring artillery in this battle.
On the field, it was as if we had gone back to a time when there was no artillery hundreds of years ago, with the two sides staggering, colliding, and then fighting.
The Ming army had few soldiers, but it was well organized, the formation was tight, and the coalition army had many soldiers, but it was divided into two roads and attacked the Ming army.
Jia Weiguo stood behind the infantry battalion and followed the bow battalion to shoot in front.
This is equivalent to constantly consuming the enemy's army, but the other party did not notice this, and the opponent's infantry battalion violently attacked the middle infantry battalion of the Ming army, and wanted to defeat the Ming army in one go.
He felt that the Ming army was indeed insidious in fighting, and if it fought like this for a long time, as long as the archers had the physical strength, they could shoot and wound tens of thousands of people.
But there are many changes on the battlefield, and not everything is as expected by the Ming army.
The infantry battalions of both sides were fighting, and the cavalry was also fighting.
The Ming army is still the same old-fashioned, learning Mengyuan to ride and shoot, swimming while shooting, but the opposite side is also good at this, and the two sides are more riding than archery.
After all, there were many cavalry on the opposite side, and after forty or fifty thousand cavalry rushed up, the rear team went around the Ming army from the side and rear, wanting to surround the Ming cavalry.
The Ming army pulled back, trying to get rid of the other side's encirclement, but the opposing cavalry immediately rushed to the waists on both sides of the Ming army's infantry camp.
In order to ensure that the Ming infantry battalion was not attacked by the opposite cavalry, the Ming cavalry could only come back.
Sixty or seventy thousand cavalry on both sides ran around the mountains and fields, pulling back and forth.
In less than half an hour, the cavalry on the opposite side finally wrapped the Ming cavalry on the battlefield.
There is no way, if the Ming cavalry does not want to be surrounded, they can give up protecting the infantry battalion.
The war horses galloped at the scene, and there were scuffles everywhere, and many cavalry on both sides dismounted and fought on foot after fighting.
There was no way, there were too many horses on the scene, the space was limited, and the formations of the two sides were dense, so many of the cavalry behind couldn't come up.
Because there were no artillery on both sides, and the infantry bows were concentrated in the infantry camp, the formation of the group was quite dense.
South Wing Jahan. Sha commanded a group of elite cavalry to rush forward, this group of elite cavalry had more than 20,000 people, mighty, overwhelming, from a distance, like a huge dark cloud.
On the opposite side is the cavalry of the Ming army, which also has tens of thousands, and it is also like a dark cloud.
However, the battle lines of both sides were not long enough, because the number of cavalry was not large enough, and the battle line was too long and easy to penetrate.
From east to west, it's about two or three miles.
And more than 20,000 cavalry were distributed on a horizontal line of two or three miles, and there were at least hundreds of columns.
This means that the cavalry in front and the Ming army fought, and the cavalry in the back could not come up, so they could only go around to the Ming army from the side and rear.
Jahan. Sha's henchman is called Du Mengli, the eldest man is tall and strong, almost a copy of the young Zhu Gaoxu, and he is also quite famous in Central and Western Asia.
With 2,000 elite horsemen as the vanguard, Du Monli took the lead in rushing to the left flank (south) of the Ming army.
The elite cavalry of the Ming army also came out to meet the battle, and the two sides began to shoot at each other in dozens of steps, and then they seemed to have a tacit understanding to shoot on both sides.
While fighting, Du Mengli watched the tactics of the Ming army.
He was quite brave, rushing at the front, and in the most recent time, when he swept westward, he was less than forty paces ahead of the Ming army.
Jingle, jingle, he heard a rain of arrows from his side falling on the Ming army, making a clanging sound.
"Damn." Dumont's eyes fell out.
The Ming army was too rich, and the cavalry was wrapped in iron armor, which was a heavy cavalry.
It is no wonder that the Ming army has not accelerated before, nor has it taken the initiative to attack forward, let alone run away.
This is waiting for them to attack.
The Ming army not only had iron armor, but also heavy arrows.
The arrows of the Ming army were quite heavy, and they fell into their formation with a buzz, and Du Mengli's subordinates screamed and fell to the ground countless times.
Dumontri himself was shot three times in an instant.
Fortunately, he himself is wrapped in iron armor, and there is chain mail and leather armor inside.
The three-layer armor was on the body, and it was also shot and screamed in pain.
He and the Ming army shot a few rounds, and finally saw that the Ming cavalry was divided into two parts, one was heavy cavalry and the other was light cavalry.
The heavy cavalry fought at them on the perimeter, and Dumont's soldiers and horses suffered a lot of losses.
Whenever they swept and turned around, the Ming light cavalry rushed out from behind, chased them behind the butt drum and shot a round, and when they wanted to turn back and fight the Ming light cavalry, the Ming light cavalry immediately retreated into the middle of the formation, and the heavy cavalry came forward.
"Yossimo." Dumonri roared angrily and told his soldiers to go to Yusimo.
Soon a general came to him.
The general also had multiple armor on his body, and four arrows were inserted in the armor, and he was hit by two arrows at once, but fortunately it was stuck in the saddle, and it should not have hurt the horse, or the injury was not serious.
Yusimo hurried to him, cursing and swearing, not knowing what he was talking about, and then with a force, Kacha, he smashed all four arrows on his body.
"The Ming army was cunning and very insidious, using heavy cavalry to consume us in front." Du Mengli said quickly: "They are also very skilled in riding and shooting, and they can't always shoot against them, so they can't tell the winner for three days." ”
"In a moment, you will lead the team to rush up, and I will follow behind and fight them hand-to-hand."
"Call Borg to lead the team, behind us, and throw the light cavalry in the rear of the Ming army."
Du Monri ordered one after another, and Yusimo kept nodding.
Du Mengli finally said, we have a lot of soldiers, even if we fight for attrition, we have to kill the Ming army.
As long as the Ming cavalry is destroyed, those barracks are not to worry.
A roar soon sounded at the scene, and a large number of coalition elite horsemen gathered on one side.
Many people threw away their bows and drew their long knives.
But it's easy to say, and it's not easy to rush up, because the Ming army has always refused to let them get close to them and swim around.
Dumonri now decided to rush forward, because he saw that the horsepower of the Ming heavy cavalry was not enough.
Until now, the horses of the heavy cavalry will definitely not be able to run fast.
He thought that the arrangement was unaware, but the Ming army was expected to have a telescope, and someone was watching the battlefield intuitively, and soon the Ming army found that the coalition troops here were throwing bows and arrows and gathering.
This is obviously the appearance of rushing up to hand-to-hand combat.
"Call the Bow Battalion to come and support." The commander of the Ming army immediately gave the order.
Jia Weiguo's side received the order not long after, and the leading staff members were immediately divided into half, about 1,500 people.
"Assemble, prepare, turn left."
In an uproar, Jia Weiguo followed the team, a group turned around, and everyone faced south.
"Go ahead, get the arrows."
With the order, they leaned south to the Ming cavalry.
At this time, Yu Ximo had already gathered his soldiers and horses, and with an order, boom, thousands of cavalry rushed towards the heavy cavalry of the Ming army with swords.
This time, they were determined to stick to Mingqi and no longer shoot at each other.
The Ming army also retreated, shooting as they retreated.
But the horsepower of the heavy cavalry of the Ming army was not enough, and the two sides were getting closer and closer.
When the Ming army was about to retreat to the large array, Yusimo's men had already rushed forward.
According to the previous tactics of the Ming army, they usually swept away on both sides, continued to pull away, and kept cavalry, but this would make them relatively close to the main infantry formation, and the heavy cavalry carriages were weak, and the Ming generals gave orders one after another.
"Ready for battle."
"Rush." The heavy cavalry of the Ming army will also be afraid of the opposite cavalry charge, of course, to meet it.
The Ming soldiers threw away their bows one after another, drew their swords and stood.
When the opposite side caught up before, the Ming army retreated, in order to keep a distance from the large array behind and not be entangled outside the large array.
Now rushing up, the same is true, the main thing is to block in front of the infantry formation.
Normally cavalry needs to swim to show their strength, but now both sides don't need to swim, what is needed is a head-on hedge.
The heavy cavalry of the Ming army went up, and the light cavalry also followed behind, and then behind, Jia Weiguo and their infantry archers approached layer by layer, closely following behind the light cavalry.
The cavalry of the two sides collided in front, the Ming army was heavily armored, devastated, and the allied cavalry was scattered.
But there were too many cavalry in the coalition army, and the follow-up continued to rush up, seemingly endlessly, and after a while, the two sides fell into a dog-tooth situation.
The heavy cavalry of the Ming army failed to penetrate their formation, because there were too many, but the other party could not completely disperse the heavy cavalry of the Ming army, because the heavy cavalry condensed into a ball was very oppressive.
At this time, if you use a telescope to see the scene from a high place, it is obvious that only the heavy cavalry of the Ming army rushed up, and the regiment surrounded the heavy cavalry.
The heavy cavalry on both wings of the Ming army rushed left and right, like two fists, moving around in the coalition formation.
The coalition army tried to intercept them with more people, but it was difficult to intercept them, and the two heavy cavalry of the Ming army were too powerful.
But the coalition army is also very experienced, as long as the Ming army is not allowed to rush out, these heavy cavalry horses will be useless for a while.
But immediately they were dumbfounded, every time the Ming army rushed through an area, a large number of coalition cavalry would always fall off their horses.
Many Ming soldiers would immediately jump off their horses and change to a coalition war horse on the spot.
"The Ming army rode up." At this moment, someone shouted behind Dumontri.
He was commanding the soldiers and horses to surround the heavy cavalry of the Ming army, preparing to encircle and annihilate this wave of heavy cavalry, and at this moment, the Ming light cavalry came up again.
The Ming army rode up very slowly, as if waiting for something, and did not speed up.
But a moment later, Dumonri was adjusting his troops and horses to deal with it, suddenly.
Hum, there was a buzz in the air, and a wave of arrows rained down on the black pressure.
The bow battalion in the Ming army's infantry formation came.
Du Mengli's face changed a few times, but he did not hesitate, and immediately ordered: "Rush up, scatter the light cavalry of the Ming army, and cut the bow camp of the Ming army." ”
"Boom" had a large coalition of troops converging from the east and west, trying to storm the Ming light cavalry.
So far, the two sides have been fighting for nearly an hour, and any tactical intentions are useless.
The Ming army also had no tactics, that is, cavalry against cavalry, infantry battalion against infantry battalion, 50,000 against 150,000.
This is in Jahan. In the eyes of the sand, the Ming army was quite arrogant, and they didn't take their coalition forces in their eyes at all.
Jahan. Sha didn't accept it, and when he was fighting for an hour and a half, he kept transferring troops and sending generals, and the heavy army surrounded the Ming army, but he couldn't break through the attack repeatedly, and there were heavy casualties everywhere, and he couldn't resist the trend.
The heavy cavalry of the Ming army rushed left and right, and after knocking their men off their horses, they immediately changed horses and tried to maintain their horsepower.
Start Jahan. Sha thinks, you can change your horse when you are tired, what should you do when you are tired?
It turned out that the Ming army could still be replaced.
The Ming army will rush to the west for a while, and it will be all the Ming army in the west fighting, and after the battle, suddenly the whole army will turn around and rush to the east again, and then the Ming army on the east side will be fighting.
Start Jahan. Sha didn't understand why the Ming army moved left and right in the encirclement, and rushed left and right.
Later, I found out that the Ming army didn't want to penetrate them at all, just to save physical strength.
When rushing to the west, the Ming army in the east was all resting, and when rushing to the east, the Ming army in the west followed behind and paddled the water.
The infantry battalions of the two sides fought first, and then about half an hour before the cavalry began to engage in large-scale battles, at this time the cavalry fought for nearly an hour, and the heavy armored cavalry could still hold on to the field, in addition to the good physical strength of the Ming army, it was still related to their well-trained and disciplined discipline.
Jia Weiguo followed the general manager at this time, a total of more than 500 people, and they were far away from the infantry camp.
They followed the hussars, the hussars were guarding them, and they were also supporting the hussars.
Dozens of steps ahead, the light cavalry of the two sides was cruising, staggering, chasing back and forth, Jia Weiguo and they were instructed to shoot whichever side they wanted.
At this time, the general signaled them to move forward, and there were more than two dozen unmanned war horses gathered in front of them.
Most of them were coalition horses, and a large number of corpses and wounded were on the ground.
More than 500 of them came to Genma, and there were horses scattered all around.
At the sound of the commander's order, everyone scattered in all directions, collecting war horses, and in a short time they received hundreds of war horses and gathered around them.
Then someone began to draw knives and dispose of the wounded on the ground one by one.
"It's coming, it's coming." Suddenly, someone screamed.
A coalition army in front on the right saw a group of archers and immediately gathered two or three hundred horsemen to rush this way.
But halfway through the charge, a stream of Ming light cavalry came from the west to engage them.
The two sides fought for a while, and then several hundred cavalry troops came from the left.
Another Ming army stepped forward to intercept.
Jia Weiguo stepped on the saddle, stood on a high place and looked at it a few times, but he didn't see it very clearly, because it was not high enough.
But I can vaguely see that there is no big formation on both sides now, you have me, I have you, and I have you, and they are completely fighting to see who can hold on.
However, the Ming army was strictly disciplined, and basically maintained one always like this, and hundreds of people gathered together.
And the coalition forces are usually chaotic, some may have thousands of horsemen in a group, some may only have hundreds.
In general, because this side is close to the Ming army's infantry formation, most of the Ming cavalry is still nearby.
Boom, at this moment, a coalition army broke through the Ming army's defense line in front, and hundreds of elite cavalry rushed towards them.
"Come behind the horse." Put the general began to order, and everyone came behind the horse in a hurry.
"Queue, prepare."
"Shoot."
Whizzing, arrows rained down on the scene, and they shot at the cavalry that rushed up.
The cavalry fell one after another, but they also got closer and closer.
"The first three rows, abandon the bow and draw the sword." Call the total again.
"Meet the enemy." In the blink of an eye, the other party rushed to the bow camp.
But on the other side, it was found that the Ming army was full of horses in front of them.
(End of chapter)