Father can be an enemy to the country

But the soldiers of the two armies in the battle did not find it ridiculous, only cruel.

Waves of arrows rained down from the sky. If you were unlucky enough to hit one, you wouldn't even have time to hide, and you would be shot straight into a hedgehog.

At this time, it’s a matter of competition over whose armor is thicker...

The Yuan army obviously couldn't compare with the well-armored Ming army. They couldn't even wear full leather armor, and their horses were unprotected. Basically, they would be knocked over if hit by an arrow.

Looking at the Ming army again, their bodies were pricked like hedgehogs, but they could still continue to shoot bows and arrows.

Moreover, not only were they unable to defend, their attack was also inferior to that of the Ming army. The Ming army's shooting speed was obviously much faster than them. Basically, when the Yuan army shot two arrows, the Ming army could shoot three... It was almost the same as the situation in Qingzhou.

Therefore, this is not an isolated situation, but reflects the general gap in combat power between the Yuan army and the Ming army in this era.

The average riding and shooting level of the people on horseback is indeed higher than that of the farming people, but they are just skilled. History has proven countless times that as long as the Han people have horses, are properly trained, and are not owed wages, they can beat any nomadic people.

Some people say that Boss Zhu's victory in conquering the world was due to the corruption of the Yuan Dynasty and the weakness of the Yuan army. It cannot be used as an example that the Han cavalry is stronger than the Mongolian cavalry.

Let’s take another example from the heyday of the Mongolian cavalry. After Meng Ge died, Kublai Khan returned from the front line and competed with his brother Alibaba for the throne, relying on Han cavalry.

He only had tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry, and Ali Buge was the Great Khan officially elected by the Mongolian nobles. He had all the Mongolian cavalry and tribal support in Mobei, but he was defeated by Kublai Khan's Han army. , I was captured alive.

In fact, before the Song Dynasty, Han cavalry had always been far stronger than nomadic cavalry. Otherwise, how could the Huns and Turks disappear?

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Under the strict training and strong protection of Boss Zhu, the Ming Dynasty's cavalry has already surpassed the level of the Mongolian cavalry. Not to mention organization, discipline, and tactics, which are the strengths of the Han people, this is also true for individual riding and shooting.

Even the arrows used by the two armies are very different. The Yuan army used ordinary iron arrowheads. Even because of the lack of iron, they generally only had two or three iron arrowheads, and the rest were made of bone. This kind of killing is okay, but armor-breaking is powerless, and it lacks lethality against war horses.

The Ming army used special four-button horse arrows. The bowstring at the end of the shaft of this arrow is two crescents crossing into a cross, which is convenient for cavalry to shoot quickly.

Moreover, the arrow is in the shape of a flat cone. Once it hits, the wound will be extremely deep and large, causing great damage to the war horse.

A war horse can withstand beatings better than a human. If it is hit by one or two arrows in a short period of time, it is basically not a big problem. However, if it is hit by one of these four-button horse arrows, the pain will be unbearable and the knight will be thrown off the horse to the ground.

A cavalryman without a horse is no better than a dog. Even if he doesn't fall to death, he has no combat effectiveness.

Therefore, although the troops were twice as strong as the Ming army, the first ones who could not withstand it were the Mongolian soldiers.

Seeing that more and more of his comrades were shot and killed by arrows, but the damage he had done to the Ming army was very limited, anxiety began to spread among the Yuan army.

They may have involuntarily approached the Ming army, hoping to kill the Ming army at close range. Or retreat quietly and get out of the range of the Ming army...

Azashili saw that his troops were starting to get into chaos, so he simply ordered the Ming army to approach and shoot, hoping to take advantage of their superior strength and cause greater damage.

This way at least no one will dare to retreat secretly.

Of course the Ming army would not let them succeed. Seeing the Yuan army advancing, the Ming army's forward troops on the left and right moved towards the left and right wings while shooting, leaving the center to the Chinese army behind them.

The officers and men of the Chinese army had already been waiting tens of feet away from the front line.

Amidst the sound of trumpets, the Yuan army continued to move forward under increasingly dense rain of arrows. The officers and soldiers of the Ming army, like the front army, moved to the two wings while throwing arrows at the Yuan army until they withdrew. The main battlefield.

Now it's the rearguard's turn to face the enemy...

Since the beginning of the war, Azashili has watched one or two thousand of his subordinates die under the arrows of the Ming army. His eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Let's see who can hold the line for you!"

As a result, the Ming army's rearguard troops still retreated while fighting, withdrawing from the battlefield from both wings. And behind them, a large group of Ming troops were waiting for them, holding down the formation for them with bows and arrows...

Those were the forward troops that had previously retreated to the two wings. They had taken advantage of this time to retreat and reorganize their formations.

Not surprisingly, the previously withdrawn Chinese troops also regrouped behind the forward troops.

The vast and boundless snowfield is the most suitable battlefield for cavalry to take advantage of roundabouts. If the Mongols continue to approach at a tortoise speed, the Ming army can cycle like this forever.

But no one can stand such slow and continuous bloodletting. After this wave of circulation, nearly three thousand Mongolian cavalry have been killed by arrows...

Without waiting for Azashili's order, the hasty-tempered Tolu Huchaer ordered the front troops of the Uliangha tribe to launch an assault.

Facing Tuolu Huchaer was Wang Bi, a general known for his unparalleled ferocity. At this time, he was not in a hurry to engage the enemy, but ordered his troops to retreat!

A sharp whistle sounded, and the nearly 10,000 cavalrymen on the left, following the eye-catching flags of their respective families, turned their horses and strode back.

For highly organized professional soldiers like the cavalry, retreat is nothing to fear, it is just a common tactical move.

In a cavalry battle, one side's cavalry group will attack, and the other side will retreat backwards, rendezvous with the reserve team, and then turn their horses to launch an attack to repel the enemy. There are rarely fierce scenes of cavalry confrontation like the Battle of Gyeongju Castle.

In fact, during the Battle of Gyeongju, as soon as the Ming cavalry rushed in front of them, the Mongolian cavalry retreated, and there was almost no close combat.

The scene where the two armies of cavalry rush towards each other and fight face to face only exists in people's imagination... For the flexible cavalry, that is tantamount to abandoning their strengths and weaknesses.

Although the Ming army wore full armor, they were unwilling to fight the enemy hand-to-hand unless they had to.

Under the leadership of their respective Qianhu, they accelerated their retreat in all directions.

When he saw that no Yuan troops were catching up, he stopped and waited for them to come forward or actively looked for a group of Yuan troops to let them pursue him.

Under the provocation of the Ming army, the furious Uuliangha cavalry, some chasing this group and some chasing that group, the formation instantly became a mess.

But no matter which group they chased, the Ming army did not simply escape. Instead, they retreated and fired arrows at the Yuan army when they turned around.

Naturally, the cavalry of the Yuan army were not to be outdone, and they fired their bows and arrows at the Ming army. But when they were chasing, they were shooting against the wind, while when the Ming army was retreating, they were shooting with the wind. As time goes by, the range of the two sides is quite different.