Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 272 Harassment Attack

"This is a good idea." Abner couldn't help but admire Borgo's intelligence.

The most important means of attack for the Mongols is riding and shooting. The grassland people rely far more on horses, bows and arrows than the fishing and hunting peoples like Michou.

After all, the terrain on the grassland is extremely open. Although it is undulating, it looks flatter than the Central Plains because there are no obstacles to cover it.

In this terrain, the most suitable means of attack is archery, which has both speed and power.

On the grassland, there is also the title of the eagle shooters, a pair of people with excellent archery skills.

"Anyway, the prairie cavalry are not good at melee combat. They shoot a few waves of arrows from a distance outside the city wall. This is our offensive method. Forgive that the emperor of the Central Plains can't find out our mistakes."

Abney decided to do as Borgo said.

It's a pity that they were still not very thoughtful, and Zhu Cihong couldn't find out their mistakes, because these grassland peoples are very good at archery, and they are not used to close combat.

Especially once they dismount and fight, they may only be slightly stronger than the guardsmen.

But what does this have to do with Zhu Cihong?He ordered Abnai to assist him in attacking the Manchu army in the capital, but Abnai played word games.

Zhu Cixiang won't do anything to him for the time being, but sooner or later, Zhu Cixiang will have to settle all these accounts.

It is time to understand the fights between the Central Plains, the grasslands, and Manchuria over the past few hundred years.

All of Abu Nai's troops had horses, and even the strong Han men who could not ride horses were temporarily placed on carts by him, so that they could march quickly with the army and act as grassland cavalry to stop the enemy anytime and anywhere. Consumes cannon fodder from enemy traps.

To be honest, even Zhu Cihong envied Abnai's way of marching.

It's a pity that Zhu Cilang is the emperor of the Han family, and he still can't use a large number of livestock to reduce the burden of the soldiers on the march.

Because he does not have so many Mongolian horses with excellent endurance.

Of course, even if you have it, it won’t work, because the scale of Zhu Cihong’s army is too large, with hundreds of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands, or even millions of horses, it is barely enough for modern industrial countries.

Abu Nai was only eighty miles away from the capital. After deciding to use long-range archery to harass the Qing army, they set off immediately.

With the help of a large number of horses, cattle and sheep, they arrived outside the capital the next morning in just one night.

"Light the smoke, those Mongols are coming again." After Abnai attacked the capital last time, the patrol soldiers guarding the city wall are now more vigilant.

Seeing a large number of knights from a distance, they immediately lit the beacon smoke on the city wall to warn the generals and friendly forces in the city.

They thought that the Mongols came this time to cooperate with the Ming army to attack the city wall, so they hurriedly transported stones, rolling logs, hot oil, and gold juice from the warehouse behind to the city wall, preparing to face the enemies who dared to climb the city wall. Whack.

But what they never expected was that the Mongols drove their horses to a place about 100 meters away from the city wall, and they threw arrows at the city wall one after another.

Then he turned around, made a big circle and returned to Abnai who was hundreds of meters away.

Tens of thousands of knights flew towards the city wall at the same time, then threw out the arrows in their hands, and then returned to the rear.

It was a spectacle, almost like a gigantic performance.

However, the Qing army, who hid behind the female wall, the sheep and horse wall, and the shield, and listened to the jingling of arrows shooting around him, said that this performance was not very comfortable.

Under the suppression of the fierce firepower of the grassland cavalry, the few hundred Qing troops on this section of the city wall could not even raise their heads.

Without waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the city, they would become living targets for the prairie cavalry archers if they showed up.

Fortunately, the show came and went quickly. In less than a quarter of an hour, the prairie archers came under the city wall and fired more than a dozen waves of arrows.

There were more than 1 prairie cavalry who came under the city wall every time, which meant that Abnay and the others shot nearly 20 arrows in less than a quarter of an hour.

This is an astronomical sum. Although arrows are cheap and easy to make, the steel used to make arrows is very precious to the grassland peoples like Abunai.

Because there are no iron ore or coal mines on the grassland, and there is no mature smelting system, they even need to import iron pots from Daming.

"Come here first this morning, and attack again when the sun sets." Abnai decided to withdraw his troops.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he thought of something, so he said to Borgo.

"By the way, Borgo, remember to send someone to find the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, tell him that we have consumed too much, and ask him to send us some arrows."

Now that Abnai is the prince of Daming, and he is fighting against Qing Dynasty for Daming, he feels that Zhu Cihong should provide him with supplies as a matter of course.

Otherwise, Abnai would not be able to fight the next battle even if he wanted to.

"Your Majesty is really smart, so you can get some benefits from Daming. They are people from the Central Plains who have the best face, and maybe they will give us double the supplies."

Borgo said to Abney with a smile all over his face.

It's a pity that the two of them haven't realized Zhu Cihong's killing intent towards them. These greedy grassland people are like wild wolves on the grassland.

In the afternoon of the same day, Abnai launched another harassing attack on the Qing army on the city wall.

The bows and arrows flying all over the sky flew to the city wall, and flew into the city wall. It looked very spectacular, like a black cloud that could kill the soul and drop black raindrops.

But it's a pity that these arrows are not only thrown, but also shot with a riding bow, so their power is very weak.

If it is shot at an unarmored civilian, of course, one arrow will kill one person.

But when they were shot at the fully armed Qing army dressed in helmets, cotton armor, and leggings, it was nothing more than audible noise.

Unless they were lucky enough to pass through sheep and horse walls, female walls, and shields, and hit the weak points such as the face and armpits, at most the soldiers of the Qing army would be slightly injured.

After hearing that Abnai attacked the Qing army in this way, Zhu Cihong was furious.

"What kind of game is this called? How many people can be killed by shooting 100 million arrows? Does Abnai have too many arrows to use?"

Regarding Abner's harassing attack, Zhu Cixiang was speechless.

In fact, this method is quite effective in the face of the Central Plains army, which is dominated by infantry, and is quite effective when fighting on the plains. A dozen cavalry can turn thousands of elite soldiers from the Central Plains around.

After all, they were riding horses, and the Central Plains infantry couldn't catch up with them no matter how hard they tried, so they could only stand helplessly and watch the comrades around them fall down one by one.

But now it was a siege, and the Qing army was busy training troops and building weapons in the city, so this trick was not so effective.

(End of this chapter)