Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 209
The two teams of cavalry slowly gathered on the north and south sides. At this time, they had Haizhou City to the east, Qiangwei River to the west, and the warehouse area in the middle.

If we talk about encirclement, they have already surrounded Yang Chao.

It's just that Yang Chao never thought of running away.

The confrontation against the nomadic army in the Central Plains has not changed for thousands of years. The solid infantry formations arranged by the agricultural people are always surrounded by the cavalry of the nomadic people. Therefore, if you win, you will not be able to wipe out the opponent. If you lose, you will die. This is the biggest disadvantage. Before the advent of mechanization, agricultural settlements were still unable to solve this disadvantage.

Yang Chao has no choice, even a military genius like Qi Jiguang can't solve it. When the cavalry is fighting, he forms a chariot battalion, but when the enemy flees, his chariot battalion can't catch up. By cavalry.

For the Ming Dynasty, it should be regarded as good, because the Ming Dynasty drove the Mongolian Yuan out of the Central Plains to win the world, so the Ministry of War has always been short of cavalry, and it firmly occupied the Great Wall, which divided the Mongols, and even there are a lot of Mongols in the army Cavalry, so the Ming Dynasty had the strongest cavalry force in the Central Plains dynasties, and it was able to counter the nomadic cavalry for a considerable period of time.

It's a pity that Yang Chao doesn't have this capital. Since Donglu committed the crime, the war horse resources of the Ming Dynasty have also been greatly weakened, especially now that most of the Mongols have taken refuge in Donglu, which has almost cut off this supply. The north is better and can still Maintain a large-scale cavalry formation, but there are few good war horses in the south, let alone the formation of cavalry.

Although Yang Chao is rich, he has never been able to buy enough quality horses for himself, and he doesn't like bad horses, so he has never formed a cavalry. Now he has no conditions to take the initiative to attack the cavalry, but even if Yang Chao has As for the cavalry, he didn't intend to take the initiative to attack either. Most of his soldiers were recruits. It was courting death to confront these captive soldiers who had been hunting, killing and looting since childhood without going through the battle formation.

So defense is good, if you can defend this time, your army will grow up.

Therefore, if the captive soldiers did not come to attack, Yang Chao would definitely not attack.

The captive soldiers seemed to have noticed this too, and suddenly a group of cavalrymen came out from the south and began to attack the barricades in the south.

This is just a small group of cavalry, about [-] people in number, and they don't attack directly, but turn their horses from a distance, draw an arc, and at the same time throw their bows and arrows. After the throw, the cavalry turned a corner and retreated. .

With the help of horsepower, the opponent's bow and arrow can reach more than 100 steps, which really shocked Yang Chao.

Yang Chao has been training archers for more than a year, and he is quite familiar with bows and arrows. Among his soldiers, no more than ten men can shoot at a hundred paces on flat ground, and even these ten men, shooting at a hundred paces is not very lethal. , but the archery of the captive soldiers at a distance of more than 120 steps still has a certain power.

Yang Chao has heard of the training methods of these vagrants. Their children practice since they were young. When they were young, they shot wooden bows and drew them two hundred times a day. Gradually increase the bow strength. When they grow up, they can draw a hard bow of a hundred catties. Can hit targets 150 paces away.

However, even Donglu, who has been trained since childhood, is not very powerful at 150 steps away. Most of them are used to harass. Those who can really shoot and kill the enemy at 150 steps away, there are not many such elites in a single banner, just like Obai. Baturu warriors.

Yang Chao was lying on the roof at this time, facing the direction of the captive soldiers. There were thirty gunners in total lying on the roof like himself. Seeing the captive soldiers shooting arrows, they slowly lay down on the roof. Sure enough, there were only a few of them. The arrow hit the tiles of the roof and made a clanging sound, but it couldn't even penetrate the tiles.

But suddenly a blunderbussman fired a shot, and the whole row of bludgeons fired at once, making a bang bang sound, but without exception, none of them hit the enemy.

150 steps is the range of the bird gun, and it is difficult to kill the enemy. The key is that it is completely out of aim.

The shooting range of the blunderbuss is only a hundred paces, and the most powerful damage can only occur at eighty paces, so Yang Chao has always stipulated that only at eighty paces can he shoot.

When shooting, the team is the first to shoot, and other soldiers can only shoot when they hear the gunshots.

But one soldier fired first under nervousness, and the others fired after hearing the gunshots, not knowing if it was the team's direction.

Yang Chao frowned slightly, but the soldier's face was flushed, and then he took another loaded blunderbuss from the soldier behind him.

He was really nervous just now, but there was a reason, the arrow hit his iron helmet just now, so he pulled the trigger.

After Yang Chao glanced at the soldier, he looked directly at the captive soldiers. As a result, the captive soldiers who had thrown a round of shots rushed over again immediately after hearing the sound of the blunderbuss, and at the same time drew their bows immediately.

Yang Chao thought in his heart what a great opportunity!
The round of gunfire from their own side just now made the soldiers think that the Ming army's blunderbusses were harassed and emptied by them. They knew from the experience of the Ming army in the north that the Ming army should be reloaded next, and the reloading time was very long. It was enough for them to rush to the front of the battle. As long as they got to the front of the battle, under the direct bow of their Eight Banners warriors at close range, the gunmen of the Ming army could only be their targets, and the other Ming troops would be defeated in an instant.

Therefore, as long as they can rush to the Ming army and shoot arrows, the battle will be won, and the next thing to do is to follow and kill them and collect the fruits of victory.

It can be said that this trick of the Eight Banners Soldiers has been very slippery.

Even their predecessors, the Mongolian cavalry, were once in use.It is recorded in Qi Jiguang's book of war that Marshal Qi's way of dealing with this kind of projectile to attract the Ming army's blunderbuss to fight back is to strictly prohibit soldiers from shooting by themselves, and only after hearing that the team is firing can they shoot. Yang Chao borrowed Marshal Qi's method. The thought of being spoiled by a nervous soldier.

But it may not be a bad thing, because his soldiers are not the northern frontier army. Yang Chao's soldiers have undergone strict training, and insist on training in a fixed pattern, insisting on the operation of the array, just like machines.

Yang Chao's musketeers are not like the ones in the north, they are only used to fire a shot, and then prepare for a hand-to-hand army.

Yang Chao has been insisting on training the continuous strike method of the bird gun.

Therefore, he insisted on rehearsing the three-fold formation shooting method in the Ming army. The first row is dedicated to aiming and shooting, the second row is dedicated to passing, and the third row is dedicated to loading. In addition to the preparations for the beginning, in fact, each soldier has three loaded birds behind him. The blunderbuss allows them to quickly rotate three shots. After the third shot, the loader may have loaded another shot, so they can actually fire four shots in a row.

With the experience of the first person, the soldiers are much more stable this time.

Even though the captive soldiers had begun to speed up their horses, no one shot. They lay quietly on the roof, waiting for the enemy to approach.

The captive soldiers rode on the horses, and their bodies rose and fell with the horses. They also lowered their bodies and clinged to the horses' backs. This is a long-standing experience. This can reduce the area of ​​attack, but can it be avoided?
One hundred steps, eighty steps, let go!

I saw the captive soldiers enter eighty steps, and at the same time loosen the tensed bowstring.

At the same time, on Yang Chao's side, after the team was the first to shoot, the other soldiers fired immediately.
In response, a group of people turned their backs on their backs.

Yang Chao snorted coldly, thinking that if he lay on his back, he wouldn't be able to hit him right away?
I hit a horse!

There were three shooting teams in total. Yang Chao was on this roof, on the other side of the roof, and behind the low wall on the street between the houses on both sides. Three teams of bird gunners fired thirty rounds.

However, because of the charge, the captive soldiers let go of the bowstring eighty steps away, and the speed still kept going, and they began to gather together and rushed straight to the street.

Apparently, what the captive soldiers intended was to rush up and fight immediately after suppressing them with bows and arrows.

A charge opened up the experience of the Ming army's formation, and they went deep into the bone marrow without any doubts.

But what they encountered was not the Ming army they had encountered before, and the army formation they arranged was not the infantry formation of the Ming army in the north.

The most important thing is that a wave of [-]-step birdcrack shooting obviously stunned them, as if hitting a wall, three horses were killed immediately, and seven or eight others were injured. their formation.

The captive soldiers maintained their charging speed, and after a bit of confusion, they spread out and lost their speed, which gave the gunners a chance to continue shooting.

The sound of a neat row of guns continued to ring out. After the captive soldiers separated and bypassed a few dead horses, the distance had been reduced to forty steps.

At this time, they were still greeted by a volley of guns.

And their team seemed to be singled out cannon fodder, insisting on attacking Yang Chao's army formation.

From Yang Chao's side, he could hear the lead shooter constantly urging the loader behind him.

"hurry up!"

Then the team was shouting: "Shoot the horse, shoot the horse!"

Then there was a volley of gunfire.

Thirty steps, twenty steps, for the distance of twenty steps, the captive soldiers paid the price of ten people.

But at this time they finally couldn't stand it anymore, they had stopped completely, and one by one they beat their horses and yelled and walked back.

This made the captive soldiers show their sides.

The Ming army was given another chance to shoot.

Marshal Qi trains blunderbuss players, and only one hundred steps, three hits and two are qualified. Yang Chao's blunderbuss players have spent a month of extravagant live ammunition training in Huai'an, and their level is not lower than that of Marshal Qi's blunderbuss players. It was only thirty steps away from them, and it was a hundred shots. Even if one shot missed the target, it would be a pity for so many gunpowder and lead bullets to be dispatched by Shi Kefa in Huai'an City.

As a result, the three teams of bird gunners only shot one round each, and then all the captive soldiers who had just exposed their sides fell down.

Without a single exception, the first wave of captive soldiers who came to test were all wiped out!
And most of the dead were horses, but a few people were lying on the ground and howling, rolling from side to side.

These men were shot, dropped, or even thrown because of their horses.

Yang Chao could see the nearest captive soldier who was thrown out, only ten steps away from his army formation, shouting loudly on the ground, but he couldn't even turn over, maybe he was thrown from the horse's back at high speed, he His spine was broken.

I saw someone shooting arrows at the wounded person. It was the archers in the street. Because of the shooting range, the archers were only in the back of the formation. In this electric battle, they didn't even have a chance, but the gunmen shot each other. After about five rounds, the battle was resolved, which made the archers feel very depressed.

So take the injury to relieve boredom.

Yang Chao immediately ordered to stop, and let the captive soldier howl on the ground, while his companion could only watch secretly from a distance.

Yang Chao felt that it was impossible not to affect the fighting will of the captive soldiers.

(End of this chapter)