Qiming 1158

Chapter 764 The Official Battle

The crusade launched by Su Yonglin was in full swing, and the countermeasures of the Kelie Department and Qiyan Department were also in full swing.

They do not plan to hide their strength, do not plan to avoid the edge of the Ming army, they have full confidence in themselves.

Where did the Ming army come from, and where they were going, the two sides lined up to fight with real swords and guns, so that these people in the Central Plains knew who the home field of the grasslands was!

On October 500th of the second year of Hongwu, 500 vanguard cavalry of the Ming Army and [-] vanguard cavalry of the Kelie tribe met on a prairie with lush water and grass at the southern edge of the Kelie tribe's territory.

The two sides tested each other very cautiously for a while, using cavalry arrays to test each other, shooting with bows and crossbows, and then both exited the battlefield and reported to their respective main teams.

As for the Ming army, Han Jinggui, Xin Qiji, Zhang Qiaonian and Wu Ge immediately made corresponding arrangements after learning the news.

Xin Qiji, the most senior staff officer, consulted Wu Ge, and after learning about the combat habits of the grassland cavalry, especially the Klie Department, he set some combat strategies that he thought were very effective.

Most of the cavalry of Kelie's troops were light cavalry, good at cavalry and shooting, and the tactics of the Central Plains infantry were similar to that of the Ming army's cavalry against the Song army's infantry, and they were quite proficient.

Their archery skills are good, and they also have strong melee combat capabilities. Their main weapons are steel knives, which can be purchased or made by themselves. The overall quality is acceptable.

In terms of long weapons, they are relatively scarce, mainly steel knives and crossbows, and lancers and heavy cavalry are scarce.

In terms of armor, they mainly use leather armor, iron armor is scarce, there are almost no armored cavalry, and the so-called heavy cavalry is only equipped with leather armor.

The Ming army far surpassed the cavalry of the Kelie Department in terms of weapon performance.

The advantages of the Kled cavalry lie in their proficient riding and archery, as well as their adaptability to the grassland ecological environment.

In addition, Wu Ge also pointed out that the large grassland tribes often kept a large number of war horses.

Ordinary Kled cavalry usually have two or three horses. Elite cavalry who need to go on expedition often have four or even five horses. Mature riders can even complete long-distance raids with only raw horse milk, and their maneuvering speed is quite terrifying.

Of course, the number of such cavalry is relatively small, which requires not only training of people, but also strict training of horses, so the cost is very high.

When I first heard about the mobility of the elite cavalry in the grasslands, the senior commanders of the Ming army, such as Xin Qiji and Han Jinggui, all looked bad. It was only when they heard that such cavalry needed excellent training, and they felt that things were not too bad.

Despite this, Xin Qiji also had a strong sense of vigilance and hostility towards the major tribes in the grasslands.

Being able to train such a strong and highly mobile elite cavalry shows that there are barbarians everywhere with a strong desire to expand and loot. They have no political wisdom and pursuit. What they pursue is looting, destruction and aggression.

For such a group of people, the Ming Kingdom, which focuses on development, must find a way to restrict them or simply eliminate them completely, otherwise there will be no peace.

With a strong sense of vigilance, Xin Qiji decided to collect information on the grassland cavalry from now on, especially the tactics and tactics. After the battle was over, he would immediately report to Su Yonglin and immediately intervene in the grassland governance. They could not be allowed to grow independently.

The grassland tribes must be effectively ruled and restrained by means of the Jin State or even beyond the Jin State, so that they cannot develop and grow.

In particular, they must not be allowed to unify!

Right now, they have a deep hatred for each other, and a lot of power is used for internal friction, and there is not enough power to threaten the Central Plains, and if they are unified one day and have a unified command, they will inevitably explode with huge destructive power.

That would be horrible.

So on October [-], after Han Jinggui and Xin Qiji confirmed, they issued an order to advance further.

Han Jinggui personally led the main cavalry with 3 cavalry, with his subordinate Shenjie Army General Zhong Xuemin leading [-] cavalry as the left flank, and his Wei Lie Army Zheng General Yuan Han leading [-] cavalry as the right flank, and formed a formation.

As for the Wang Gu cavalry, at the suggestion of Xin Qiji, Han Jinggui used Wu Ge and the five thousand Wang Gu cavalry as the reserve team, and used them at critical moments—

In fact, Xin Qiji did not trust those Wang Gu cavalrymen who were not very high morale, and felt that they could not cooperate well with the tactics of the Ming army, so it was better to stay behind to avoid getting in the way.

For this, Wu Ge is of course satisfied, and he does not want to fight at the forefront. Who knows what the Ming army will treat him as?
Now the Ming army is in front of him, and he is regarded as a strategic reserve, which makes him have a great impression of the Ming army.

What's the matter with the inexplicable feeling of being covered by the boss and being protected by the boss?

In the end, the two sides still lack the minimum strategic mutual trust, but it is no wonder who made them cooperate for the first time.

As it approached noon on October [-], the cavalry of Kled's troops also set up their formations and attacked the Ming army, facing each other head-on, without retreating, obviously very confident in their own strength.

Klie's Khan Tuoli thinks he has a certain understanding of the Ming army. Through the previous outpost battle, he learned that the Ming army's cavalry also has a certain ability to mount and shoot, and the riding skills are not bad. Not simple mounted infantry.

But how can this be?

Riding is a steppe herdsman's skill, no matter how you can fight, can you surpass the steppe herdsman in riding?

What Terry thought and thought was not meaningless, but the enemy he faced was no longer an ordinary enemy.

October [-]th was a cloudy day. Even at noon, there was no sun in the sky. There was no comparison between the light of the sun and the sun. The army slowly approached.

Xin Qiji went to the front line and watched the cavalry formations of Kelie's army with clairvoyance, and found that they really lacked iron armor and necessary armor as Wuge said. Most of them were light cavalry, equipped with steel knives and bows and arrows. Speed ​​and archery make up for deficiencies in defense.

In contrast, although the armor of the Ming cavalry is not as heavy as heavy armor, it also has a considerable defensive ability. Moreover, the Ming cavalry generally wears armor, and the defensive power is not on the same level as the cavalry of the Klie Department.

Seeing such a scene, Xin Qiji became somewhat confident, and he began to understand what it meant when a Han became a five-hu or a ten-hu in the Han and Tang Dynasties - the Han army surpassed them too much in terms of weapon performance and armor performance, as long as If you can fight meleely, you can make such a scene reproduce.

Xin Qiji looked at the history books and saw that the Tang army at its peak could have a casualty ratio of [-] to [-] or even [-] against the nomadic cavalry, and there were even records that they could hit a casualty ratio of [-] to [-].

At that time, Xin Qiji felt shocked and incomprehensible, and wondered if Tang Jun had any special tactics, but now that he looked at it again, he found that all this did not seem incomprehensible.

If it used to be possible, why not now?
Well, the answer is obvious.

The imperial court has decayed, the finances have collapsed, the army is not trained, and the weapons and equipment are not superior enough, so the glory that once belonged to the cavalry of the Central Plains Dynasty is gone forever.

This trip is 400 years.

"Commander Han, I think it's time to go to war. Since the Kled people desperately want to confront us, the outcome of the battle between the Daming army and them is at this very moment."

Xin Qiji suggested that Han Jinggui officially start the war.

The specific method of warfare is to find ways to fight close to the body, use the superior performance of weapons and armor to fight face-to-face with the Kled cavalry, and defeat them with head-to-head hand-to-hand combat.

As long as it can enter the state of frontal hand-to-hand combat, the Kled cavalry must not be the opponent of the Ming army.

Han Jinggui had fought with Su Yonglin in a bloody battle. He had experienced life and death several times, and he was already familiar with the chill of the battlefield. At this moment, what he harbored in his heart was not fear and worry, but tension and excitement.

He was thinking that if he could win this battle, he would be the first Han general to establish a feat of defeating the enemy in the grasslands after a lapse of hundreds of years.

He will inherit the achievements of the Tang Dynasty, reproduce the glory of the Tang Dynasty, and let the order of the Central Plains dominate the order of the grasslands.

With such awareness, Han Jinggui gave the order to attack.

(End of this chapter)