Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 280 Fighting Daling River Again 3
The wind blew all night and didn't stop until the early hours of the morning.

The next day, the Ming army, who was terribly cold, woke up early and began to eat.

Today's breakfast was still dry rice. In addition to salted fish, everyone was given a spoonful of soft boiled broad beans and a piece of braised pork that weighed one or two pounds. The food was surprisingly good.Of course, the broad beans and braised pork were sponsored by Tianxiong Army. After a meal, they ate more than 2000 boxes of the [-] boxes of canned food.In addition, everyone also received a catty of fragrant rice mixed with gravy and minced meat. The rice was kneaded into a ball, wrapped in oiled paper and distributed to everyone. This is their battle meal for today— ——The devil knows whether there will be a chance to light a fire and cook after the fight, so it's better to make some preparations first.On the Tianxiong Army side, each corporal leader received a box of canned food, which was the food of the entire corps today, and they were responsible for keeping it.

After the Golden Whistle rode on horseback, they noticed the change of the Ming army. The Conch blew continuously, and the Jinbu Cavalry in the brigade quickly assembled and prepared to fight—they predicted that the Ming army would be dispatched before the snow fell.

After eating, the Tianxiong army began to assemble, put on helmets and armor.Desolate horns and majestic drums resounded through the camp, and while the fiery red battle flags were flying, the seven thousand heavenly army quickly marched out from each camp, stepping on the drums and marching towards the village ten miles away, only a river away from them. Go to Dalinghe City.The Guan Ning army left two thousand cavalry troops and a large number of soldiers and civilians to guard the camp, and four thousand cavalry guarded a large amount of supplies, followed behind the Tianxiong army, and marched out in a mighty manner.According to Lu Xiangsheng's arrangement, the Tianxiong Army will take the lead today. Two thousand Guan Ning Cavalry and Hussar Battalion who have experienced the Ningyuan Great Victory and the Ningjin Great Victory will wait for his dispatch, and the remaining 2000 people will protect the grain trucks and do not have to go forward to fight.Such an arrangement is of course beneficial to the Guan Ning Army. They don't have to bear the most severe impact of Houjin, but Zu Dale is not happy. When will the Guan Ning Army be reduced to the point where a group of infantry from inside the pass will need to take the lead? the point!
Cao Bianjiao and Zu Kuan, like the two generals Heng Ha, followed the hussar battalion with their respective subordinates.The experience they have summed up is "find Qian Yu for everything", Qian Yu rushes, they follow, Qian Yu retreats, they follow, there will be no danger.It is worth mentioning that in order to organize a wall charge like the hussar battalion, they have also racked their brains these days, trying to find a group of horses to equip their group of cavalry.However, this kind of effort is doomed to failure. The horse lance is always a noble weapon. It is difficult to prepare and expensive. The Ming Dynasty did not produce much. It is not easy to get one even for a general. To a few hundred, that is idiot talking in sleep.However, Yang Menglong generously sold them a substitute: a riding spear with a length of four or five meters.This thing is made of apple wood, which is relatively brittle. It will break after stabbing a high-speed moving target with the speed of a galloping horse, so as not to knock the rider off the horse. To put it bluntly, it is a one-time equipment.But if it is used well, the lethality is very terrifying. It is not a problem to use it to attack the infantry array, and it is not a problem to pierce three or four infantry into a string with one spear!Zu Kuan and Cao Bianjiao felt like they had found a treasure, and each bought hundreds of them with their own money.Seeing the Houjin cavalry slowly approaching from a distance, Cao Bianjiao's hands were itchy, and he wanted to rush up immediately, put a few on them with riding spears, and try to see if the power of these riding spears was really as amazing as Yang Menglong said, but Now the mission of the cavalry is to protect the two wings. If the Jin cavalry don't move, they can't move either. He can only stare blankly.

The soldiers of the Houjin army shouted and neighed, and flags of different colors merged into a terrifying wave, rushing towards the heavenly army.Zu Kuan kept counting their cavalry, but within 3 minutes his eyes were blurred, and he drooled and said, "There are so many cavalry...It must be fun to wear them with a spear!"

Qian Yu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and said, "General Zu Shen, don't get too hot-headed. Now the slave-building queue is awe-inspiring, and there is no time to find it. If you rush forward rashly, we will die in an ugly way!"

Zu Kuan said: "Of course I know this. I won't make my own decisions. General Qian Shen, you just let me go and direct. You let me go east, and I will never go west!"

Qian Yu said, "Then I can rest assured!"

The distance between the two armies is getting closer and closer, and the murderous aura bursting out from Hou Jin's army is getting stronger and stronger, which makes the world pale.Only the devil would know how many elite bannermen had come to Houjin. Looking around, there were a large number of surging banners, a large number of bright armor lights.Lu Xiangsheng looked at the rear golden cavalry and said sincerely: "The angry horse and the strong bow come and go like the wind. It is indeed a powerful army!" Falling, turning from motion to stillness, condensing like a mountain!

Huang Taiji could see it clearly, and nodded slightly: "It's as immovable as a mountain, but as plundering as a fire, this is the real elite teacher!"

Mang Gurtai rubbed his palms and laughed loudly: "This kind of opponent is good enough to fight!"

Yue Tuo looked at the cavalry deployed on the left and right flanks and behind, and felt very puzzled: "Is Lu Xiangsheng crazy? He actually put the cavalry behind and let the infantry lead the vanguard!"

Huang Taiji said: "It's not crazy, it's self-confidence! He is confident that he can withstand the impact of the big golden iron cavalry with infantry!"

Mang Gurtai spat, and said angrily: "Father, this civil servant is quite proud!" In this battle, the blue flag was the main force, and he unceremoniously began to dispatch troops: "Two thousand The archers stepped forward, first shot down their musketeers and pikemen with their bows and arrows, and then charged with their heavy horses, killing them and laying their corpses all over the field, let's see if they are still arrogant!"

The flag was waved, and the ten Niulu archers held strong bows and quiver bags on their backs, and walked forward slowly under the leadership of their respective Niulu flags.Behind these archers are dead soldiers in heavy armor and holding tiger spears. When the archers shot the Ming army into chaos, they immediately pressed forward, split a bloody alley in the middle of the Ming army, and cooperated with the iron cavalry distributed on both wings. , Completely smashed the Tianxiong Army.The experience of Xibo Flying Cavalry a few days ago has proved that for the Tianxiong Army who don't know what fear is, the riding and shooting farts they are proud of are useless. If they want to defeat the Tianxiong Army, they have to show their housekeeping skills Come.

Hou Jin's housekeeping skills are not riding and shooting, which is boasted as a god, but arraying and shooting and wearing heavy armor and holding long soldiers repeatedly charging into the formation!Jurchen is a fishing and hunting people, not a nomadic people. When they first started, they didn't have so many horse archers and cavalry, and they didn't have so many horses. Therefore, their main force was not cavalry, but mounted infantry—the infantry rode horses Arrived at the battlefield, dismounted to fight, and after defeating the Ming army in one fell swoop, they mounted their horses and chased them down. Few people charged directly on horseback.The reason why they were able to rise so quickly was, of course, that the Jurchen athletes were extremely ferocious. The harsh environment and inhuman training from childhood to adulthood turned these Jurchen fighters into terrifying killing machines. Proficient, if you give a strong bow, you can hit a hundred shots within [-] steps, if you give a heavy armor with a long knife, you can act as a heavy infantry, and if you give a horse, they will immediately become elite cavalry, chasing and killing the fleeing enemy. Like maggots attached to the bones, in this era, they are the most powerful force in Asia, bar none!But their rapid rise is also related to the financial bankruptcy of the Ming Dynasty. The quality of the Ming army's equipment is getting worse and worse. The Ming army's muskets are not as lethal as their bows and arrows. , They have never shot through the armor of their dead soldiers, but their armor-piercing heavy arrows can easily shoot through the armor of the Ming army. Often, the Ming army collapsed after a few rounds of arrow rain.Now that a large number of post-golden elites have dismounted to fight, they can be regarded as very respectful of the Tianxiong Army.

Seeing the densely packed archers approaching in several rows, Zu Dabi and Zu Dale gasped: "So many archers!" Thinking of the terrifying scene of these archers firing thousands of arrows, even Zu Dale Such a warrior had no reason to tremble.

Lu Xiangsheng turned his head to Lei Shisheng and said, "The musketeers go out and destroy their archers!"

Lei Shisheng promised: "Follow the general!" He jumped off the horse and shouted: "The [-]th Corps, the [-]th Corps, follow me, and shoot Jiannu into a sieve!"

With a swipe of two thousand musketeers, they put their muskets on their shoulders. Two thousand generals, four generals, and twenty hundred generals drew their horizontal knives, rolled up a beautiful saber flower, and pointed at the big step with a false chop. The approaching rear golden archers yelled in unison: "Forward!" They kicked forward and strode forward.The waist drummers in the queue beat brisk drumbeats, and the two thousand musketeers lined up in three horizontal rows, with their heads held high and their eyes straight, kicked towards the rear golden arrow formation all the way.

Zu Dale cried out: "This...isn't this going to die? Their armor can't stop Jiannu's sharp arrow at all!"

Zu Dabi said repeatedly: "There is no one who fights like this, there is no one who fights like this!"

Lu Xiangsheng turned his head and said to the two: "Two generals, be careful and don't be impatient. Control the cavalry, so as not to be taken advantage of by Jiannu. Our Tianxiong army is enough to defeat the enemy in the face!"

Seeing that he was so confident, Zu Dale and Zu Dabi couldn't talk anymore.Anyway, it was the Tianxiong Army who died, and Lu Xiangsheng didn't feel bad about it, so what did they feel bad about?
The musketeers took the initiative to push forward, not only out of the expectation of the soldiers of the Ming army, but also greatly out of the expectations of the soldiers of the later Jin Dynasty.According to common sense, these musketeers should hide in the army formation and shoot under the cover of the pikemen, and take the initiative to meet them. Isn't this a death sentence?Huang Taiji frowned. Obviously, this abnormal tactic of the Ming army confused him, which he had never seen before.

Mang Gurtai didn't think so much, but just sneered: "Are you coming up to die? I will fulfill you!" With an order, the two thousand archers stopped, stood their ground, raised several flags high, and waved again and again. After falling, the archer in the front row took out an arrow tied with a red string from the quiver, put it on the string and pulled it. The strong bow was drawn to eighth full, and the arrow pointed obliquely at the Ming army. Fleeing, hundreds of sharp arrows shot up in the air, and then fell like raindrops. They were inserted obliquely fifty steps away, and hundreds of red ropes danced in the wind, which was very conspicuous.They used this row of arrows to mark the best shooting range. For the Ming army, the red rope tied to the end of the feather arrow was the noose in the hands of Black and White Wuchang. If they stepped on this line, the death scythe immediately It will be cut down severely, and life will be harvested!
(End of this chapter)