Chapter 141: Change of Mindset (I)
"Let's line up!"
Ye Qiu gave an order, the war drums rang out, and groups of Ning Yuan soldiers walked out of the camp.
Since Ye Qiu led the army, Ning Yuanjun has never been afraid of fighting with the Jurchens.
The infantry came to the front of the battle formation, lined up in a long horizontal line, sixteen people in depth, there was a large gap between the soldiers and the soldiers, the spears more than three meters long were usually held by the soldiers at a position of one meter five or six from the end of the handle, the spearheads of the four to six rows of soldiers at the head of the phalanx were aimed at the front, and the posture of the soldiers in the back rows holding the spears was somewhat oblique, and some were perpendicular to the ground, which was different.
Because the first three and last one of each column belong to the key positions, Victor deliberately chose soldiers with strong courage and psychological quality.
And between the huge gaps of the phalanx soldiers, there were scattered sword and shield soldiers, who were there to deal with those Jurchen short soldiers who broke into the spear array.
The biggest improvement made by Victor is that the front of the phalanx is not a straight line, but a trapezoidal shape at an angle of about 30 degrees on both sides, with the concave facing inward and the oblique facing outward. (Actually, this kind of battle formation Macedonian phalanx has been used for a long time, but this is a virtual reality world, you know, so it is the first of its kind now.) )
In the exercise, this formation is very difficult to deal with, first wrapping the opponent like a dumpling, and then killing the enemy like a lawnmower.
Because it is diagonally facing the enemy, the spear is stabbed diagonally, and it is extremely difficult to defend.
The muffled thunder drew closer and closer, and then it was deafening, and then it stopped abruptly.
Ye Qiu, who was riding on a horse, looked at the Jurchen banner in front of him, there were at least fifteen Niu Lu, and it should be Mang Gurtai and Dai Shan who came together.
"You guessed it. Feng Hu on the side was surprised.
Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai were also looking at the array of the Ming army, and Mang Gurtai had a strange expression, "Boss, have you ever seen this formation?"
"I haven't seen it, what kind of mess is this?" Dai Shan shook his head, with a puzzled look on his face.
"Whatever, I don't believe that these infantry can withstand the onslaught of my Jurchen iron cavalry. Mang Gurtai said nonchalantly.
"Don't be careless, have you forgotten the spear formation of the Ning Yuan army last year? I see that the infantry in this army formation are all armed with spears, and they may also be a variant of a certain spear formation. Dai Shan stared ahead and said cautiously.
"Boss, what do you say?
Dai Shan glanced at him, and said in his heart: Pretending to be really like, don't you just want to watch it? But I don't want to give this order, so as not to be caught by the fourth child. Take Lao Tzu as a shield?
This younger brother is typical of those who are honest in face and treacherous in their belly, and who are deceived by his appearance are dead.
"Then attack!" Dai Shan said lightly.
"Huh?" Mang Gurtai's face changed, and seeing that Dai Shan didn't look like a pretext, he couldn't help it, "Boss, do you really want to attack? The fourth is not a good person!"
"So what, he's a khan, shouldn't we listen to him?" Dai Shan immediately threw the question back.
"This treacherous fellow. Mang Gurtai was speechless, and scolded secretly in his heart.
"Then attack! I'll send a thousand men. Mang Gurtai gritted his teeth, thinking in his heart that if these thousand people were defeated, Lao Tzu would withdraw his army.
"Okay, then I'll send a thousand people too. Dai Shan also said.
The two of them each gave orders.
Suddenly, groups of cavalry lined up in a neat queue, slowly walked out of the Jurchen army formation, and marched forward with small steps.
"Only two thousand horsemen?" Ye Qiu frowned, and then looked behind the Jurchens, "What are Mang Gurtai and Dai Shan thinking?"
"Feng Hu, you lead 3,000 cavalry to meet the attack. ”
He decided not to use the step formation for the time being, and first saw what the Jurchens planned to do next.
"Order!" Feng Hu took the order and left.
As soon as the cavalry of the Ningyuan army was dispatched, the Jurchens also discovered them at the first time.
"Boss, this Ming army dares to use cavalry to collide with us! Hehe, the courage is not small. Mang Gurtai said, but his eyes were staring at the battlefield with extreme caution, and he didn't underestimate Ning Yuan's cavalry as he said.
Dai Shan didn't speak, he knew that the cavalry of the old four and two yellow flags had lost a lot, and according to the soldiers who fled back, they were all defeated head-on by the cavalry of Ning Yuan's army.
Even if it is more than the victory, it shows that the combat effectiveness of Ning Yuan's cavalry is not weak.
The two cavalrymen began to accelerate almost simultaneously, and began to hedge a hundred paces away.
Then they slammed into each other hard.
In the infantry formation, Ye Yi trembled all over, and he didn't know whether he was excited or afraid.
He looked at the scene in front of him with a dry mouth, and the hand holding the knife tightened and tightened, as if he was about to pull the handle out of the water.
"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, Lao Tzu doesn't want to be ridiculed by that kid from Madman Feng. ”
He kept cheering himself up.
Feng Hu and the Jurchen cavalry generals invariably chose the left side of the other party for an inclined impact.
"Boom!"
It was as if two torrents of torrents poured down against each other, and the human body was knocked into the air, and then fell heavily to the ground, and the fallen knight had no chance to stand up, and below was the cold ground, but above his head were countless angry hooves that kept falling.
The weapon slashed into the iron armor, making a staggering sound, and one feather arrow after another shot out...... There was only a blood mist in the sky, but no one let out a scream, and everyone was fighting with their heads in a sullen manner.
The iron spear in Feng Hu's hand broke through six iron armors in a row, and the blade of the spear was already full of gaps and curled, unusable.
He let out a long roar, threw away the iron spear, pulled out a thick-backed long knife on his horse, and slammed it on the chest of a Jurchen cavalryman: "Kill, kill, sprint!"
The soldier's chest was visibly sunken, and he spat out a mouthful of black blood, and swayed on his horse, running out for about ten paces before he collapsed.
The two armies were only one staggered, and each paid the price of two or three hundred men, like peeling an onion, and the soldiers and horses on both sides were stripped of a layer. It can be said that no one has been pleased.
On the battlefield, there are ownerless war horses running and neighing everywhere. As time went on, more tragic casualties continued.
"U-turn, U-turn, rush, rush!" Feng Hu shouted with a thick-backed long knife.
The two cavalry turned around in an arc at the same time, and once again charged face to face.
Cavalry battles are about who can hold out to the end until one side can no longer bear the collapse.
In the Jurchen army in the rear, Mang Gurtai and Dai Shan looked at this tragic battlefield blankly, and their hearts were in a trance. Such a battle, they have not experienced for many years.
When Father Khan was alive, the Ming army at that time also had such a will to fight and combat effectiveness, but after several defeats, the spirit of the Ming army seemed to be gone, and their Jurchen warriors never encountered such a strong resistance again.
But now, they found that it seemed that the spirit of the Ming army had returned...... It's because of that kid.
The eyes of both of them involuntarily fell to Ye Qiu's handsome flag, and their eyes showed deep jealousy.
"This Ye Qiu, as well as this Ming army, can't stay. Dai Shan said suddenly.
Mang Gurtai nodded heavily.
At this moment, the mentality of both of them changed, from preserving their strength to definitely destroying Ning Yuanjun.