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The warm morning light of winter shines the golden light of the Lancang River.

On the bank of the Lancang River, outside the city of Dingbian, there is also a large piece of golden light, which is the Luchuan army with copper helmets and bronze armor, holding copper shields, in the majestic and rhythmic elephant foot drums, all over the mountains and fields.

Their destination was the low, fixed-border earthen city.

There was a slaughter on the earth city, and the soldiers of the Ming army looked at the enemy soldiers who were getting closer and closer in silence.

Although the enemy is outnumbered, and the low city walls cannot make people feel at ease, the soldiers of the Ming army are not nervous, and their quietness is just a high degree of concentration cultivated by years of battlefield confrontation. Because in the dangerous battlefield, mind wandering will kill you, and only soldiers who stay focused can survive.

The Luchuan army approached the city without hindrance, and saw a deep trench under the city blocking their way.

The trench had already been filled in by Peng Mailang's army. However, after Hu Quan arrived, he took advantage of the ten days that the enemy troops had temporarily retreated, and not only re-emptied the trench, but also dug deeper and wider.

The Luchuan army was also prepared, and those soldiers who held shields in their right hands carried sacks of sand and soil on their left shoulders.

The first row of soldiers marched to the edge of the trench, threw down the sandbags from their shoulders, and prepared to move to the flanks to make room for the tin soldiers behind them to fill the pit.

However, at this moment, a chirping arrow suddenly shot out from the top of the city, and the long arrow with a sharp whistled and hit the thigh of a front-row Luchuan soldier......

The tin soldier screamed and fell into the pit.

But the main effect of that chirp is a signal - the archer shoots!

"Shoot at the legs!" The officers let go of their bowstrings and shouted a reminder to their sergeants.

In fact, there is no need to remind that the sergeants have already had a charter. For so long now, they were not in a daze, but carefully observing the enemy army, and they had already found that the brass round shield held by the Luchuan soldiers was the size of a pot lid, and it was a wok for small stir-frying, not the kind used for making big pot rice.

Therefore, the shield of the Luchuan soldiers, if you block the upper body, you can't block the lower body, and if you block the lower body, you can't block the upper body...... Of course, in real combat, no soldier will protect his lower body with only a shield, regardless of his torso and head. Even if you are wearing a half-length armor.

Just like when people are beaten, they will habitually protect their heads first, which is the so-called "caring for the head". But this is a human instinct that is difficult to overcome unless it is specially trained.

So the feather arrows shot by the Ming army at the head of the city, as if they had eyes, they all bit fiercely at the thighs of the enemy soldiers on the edge of the trench!

Boss Zhu may be the emperor who pays the most attention to military training in history, and he not only formulated the two major assessment requirements for infantry archery, which can be reached far and near can be hit, but also conducts strict assessments every year.

Because on the battlefield, there are two main ways for the shooters of the formed army to strike at the enemy, one is to shoot in a covered manner without aiming, and this is the purpose of assessing the 'far reach'.

The other is precision strikes, which are aimed at the enemy and can be effectively fired, which is 'close to the middle'.

According to the standard set by Boss Zhu, "far away" requires officers to have a range of 160 paces and soldiers to 120 paces; And the requirement of 'close to hit' is fifty steps, that is, it must hit within fifty steps.

Moreover, this is only Boss Zhu's basic requirements for officers and soldiers, all officers and soldiers must meet the standards, otherwise they will be fined and demoted in the first year, and in the second year, they will be directly dismissed from their posts and assigned to serve as soldiers in the most difficult frontiers.

Therefore, the officers and men of the Ming army, especially the officers and soldiers of the forbidden army, were generally higher than the minimum standard in archery. These standing armies of the Yunnan Metropolitan Division, formerly known as Boss Zhu's Forbidden Army of the Son of Heaven, not to mention that they all wore Yang in a hundred steps, but like now, it is still easy to shoot through the thighs of the enemy army from fifty or sixty steps away......

I saw that the feather arrows at the head of the city shot down like flying locusts, and the Luchuan soldiers under the city fell into the trench screaming like dumplings.

A look of fear appeared on the faces of the Luchuan soldiers, they did not expect that these Han Chinese were actually more accurate in archery than the Mongols......

But so did they were

The invincible army of glory will not collapse easily. What's more, there is also the swordman and his overseer team behind him.

So the soldiers in front of them fell down in patches like cutting wheat, but the soldiers behind still held the bows and arrows of the Ming army, and continued to fill the pit one after another.

On the opposite hillside, seeing that the pit filling troops had suffered great losses but were not progressing well, the sword man ordered in a deep voice: "Javelin preparation!"

He wanted to use his killer weapon to suppress the Ming army at the head of the city and cover his subordinates to fill the pit.

When he attacked Yongchang City and Jizhai before, he suddenly used it, and the effect was immediate.

The herald then used the Dai people's musical instrument '筚" to blow the agreed signal.

His javelinmen had been lying in ambush behind the leading pit fillers, and when they heard the penetrating sound, they raised their javelins that had been clasped in their hands long ago.

The javelin used by the Luchuan soldiers is only two feet long, and it resembles an arrow without feathers. The body is slender, and the end of the arrow is particularly thin, and it is difficult for those who are not proficient in this way to use it effectively. This allows them not to worry about the tragic scene of throwing a javelin and being thrown back by the enemy.

However, once mastered with this javelin, it can throw far more than ordinary javelins, and it is extremely capable of armor-piercing.

At the beginning of the Battle of Yongchang, Wang Zhen and his officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses under this kind of javelin intensive projection, suffered heavy casualties, and were directly defeated......

When thousands of Luchuan soldiers threw javelins at the same time, the sharp sound of breaking through the air instantly covered the sound of archery shooting by the defenders at the head of the city.

"It's a javelin!" Hu Quan, who had been vigilantly watching the enemy army, saw a large number of enemy troops suddenly raise their javelins at the first time, and immediately shouted a warning warning, and shouted an order: "Stand up!"

When the soldiers of the Ming army at the head of the city heard the order, they immediately erected huge shields without thinking.

These large shields, called stands, were five feet high and three feet wide on each side, made of hardwood and covered with a double layer of raw cowhide. In the Song Dynasty, it was mainly used to defend against enemy slings.

Hu Quan used them to defend against javelins, which was really a bit of a knife to kill chickens.

But the effect was good—I listened to the sound of sharp weapons entering the wood, and javelins were inserted into the wooden plaques that stood abruptly at the head of the city.

In the blink of an eye, the big wooden signs were shot into hedgehogs, but none of the javelins could penetrate them.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who hid behind the plaque were naturally basically unharmed.

And those standing cards were equipped with a crossbar behind them, on which a rotating shaft was attached, and at the bottom was a three-foot-long wooden stick, which could be propped up on the city wall.

The soldiers of the Ming army could continue to shoot at the city under the cover of the standing sign to prevent the Luchuan army from filling the pit.

This time, it was changed to a covering shot at the enemy javelinmen's camp, using the 'far reach' kung fu.

P.S. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.,As soon as the rhythm is disrupted.,It really takes a few days to recover.,First one more.,Later send the next two more.。 I'll recover as soon as possible.

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