After testing the reliability of the firearms and coming to the conclusion that it was a pile of garbage, Gao Shipra, who had been completely disappointed in the firearms of the Northern Army, decided to find a few more reasons to add bargaining chips to his involvement in the military industry, so he began to test the shooting accuracy in front of Wang Chonggu and Ma Fang.

Since this time it was not necessary to hit the bore, Gao pragmatic ordered each three-eyed gun to shoot only two shots, ten people in a row, and twenty groups, and then record the results to calculate the overall target rate.

Because the three-eyed gun has three guns, the meaning of two shots is actually to shoot six projectiles, but this doesn't matter, the important thing is that this thing has never been mixed up by accuracy, so it is reasonable that the results are a mess.

After the accuracy test, Gao pragmatic still refused to let go, and began to test the effective range and maximum range again. Sure enough, the results of this test were no exception, and the range of the three-eyed guns stored in the library was less than 30 paces - the average calculation was only 27.1 steps.

Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but sigh, no wonder the Northern Sergeant directly used it as an iron rod, just this point of killing distance, the opposite side is the Mongolian cavalry, really fighting, it is estimated that if the opposite side charges, it will be in front of his own house in the blink of an eye, so what else to shoot, it is obviously better to smash it directly with a stick.

However, Gao Pragmatic obviously deviated from the tactics of the Mongolian cavalry, in fact, the Mongols have hardly made any progress from the Yuan Dynasty to the present, and their favorite tactics are still the tactics of Genghis Khan - Mangu.

It is said that Genghis Khan's summed up this set of mangu tactics is called the "Sabbath archery method" by Westerners, in fact, to put it bluntly, the cavalry archers shoot arrows at the enemy in the rear while fleeing. At the heart of this tactic is to feign a rout and induce the enemy to pursue, and the essence of this tactic is speed and suddenness.

The essence of this tactic lies in three points, one is to attack the enemy from a long distance, the second is to continuously attack the enemy, and the third is not to give the enemy a chance to fight back.

Under such an attack, no matter how strong the enemy's spirit and armor were, in theory, a complete collapse was only a matter of time. At that time, most European knights were equipped with heavy armor, and although they were very powerful in close combat, their mobility was not comparable to that of the Mongol cavalry. If you encounter a Mongolian cavalry archer, not only can you not catch up, but you can't even escape, you can only use it as a target.

Moreover, the Mongol cavalry did not rely entirely on strong attacks like the European knights, and they only engaged the enemy in close quarters when they had first killed most of the enemy with their bows and arrows. In April 1241, the Mongol cavalry relied on this method of warfare to defeat the most elite Hungarian army in Europe (led by King Béla IV) on the Danube, killing more than 70,000 enemies in a battle, playing a song of "bloody Danube" with bows and arrows, and almost completely wiped out the European resistance.

This tactic has been used by the Mongols to this day, but due to the long-term war between the Han and the Mongols, they gradually found a way to deal with this tactic, that is, strong formations and firearms.

However, the countermeasure is only a response after all, and it is still very difficult to break through, if the Mongols insist on leaving, the Han army is far inferior to the other side in terms of mobility, so there is no good way. This is also why the Northern Army always plays some ugly results in numbers - when people come, you can only form a formation to meet the enemy, and if people want to leave, you can only follow behind and eat fart, so even if Qi Jiguang fights the Japanese and is completely annihilated at every turn, after arriving in the northern Xinjiang, most of them can only "break", "force the captives to retreat", etc., and the beheading can be hundreds of great results.

Fortunately, the Mongols did not always have only one set of tactics, and they would also have the so-called "iron cavalry attack". At this time, the Mongols generally formed five rows in battle. The heavy cavalry formed the first two rows, wielding spears, tomahawks and maces as the main striking force, and of course carrying strong bows. The back three rows of light cavalry, dressed in light armor or unarmoured, were mainly armed with short swords and throwing spears, and of course strong bows.

When the two armies are engaged, the other light cavalry units will first disperse to engage in skirmishes with their opponents, then turn to the flanks in favor of the main forces in front of each other.

When this step was completed, the light cavalry in the rear three rows of the main force passed through the heavy cavalry array and fired arrows and spears at the enemy to cause confusion in the enemy array. If this does not cause confusion among the enemy, the light cavalry will use the mangus tactic of turning and shooting arrows while retreating, luring the opponent into pursuit and causing confusion in their formation.

As soon as the enemy camp was in disarray, the light cavalry moved to the flanks, leaving an open passage for the heavy cavalry to deliver a decisive blow.

If the light cavalry did not achieve their goal, the leader of the troops would usually order the light cavalry on one wing to attack the enemy's flank from the flank to attract the enemy's attention, while the heavy cavalry outflanked the flank and launched a deadly attack from the rear.

In view of this situation, as soon as Qi Jiguang's southern army arrived in Jizhen, they were all equipped with war horses and became "mounted infantry", and the musketeers in his army also became a bit like the so-called "dragoons" in Europe.

Ma Fang is another style, he was caught by the Mongols for many years when he was a teenager, and even made a big name there, and after returning to the Ming Dynasty, he has always been a model of riding and riding, that is, using the Mongols' tactics to deal with the Mongols. However, because this method of warfare requires proficiency in bows and horses, the number of Ma Fang's descendant cavalry troops has not been able to rise, and there are many Mongols among them.

However, although Gao Pragmatic thought about it for a while, he actually understood the tactics of the Mongols, and even he knew that the British lobster soldiers relied on the hollow phalanx to break the deeds of the monk Grimqin Manchurian cavalry, so he deliberately tested the effective range of the three-eyed gun - of course, the effective range of this thing is not as good as the bows and arrows of the Mongols, even if the hollow phalanx is put out, it is a waste of time to give the opponent.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but admire Qi Jiguang, Ma Fang and even Li Chengliang and others, they could still win often without the blessing of the hollow phalanx, they were really capable. Anyway, he felt that if he changed himself, without a large number of birds with strict military discipline to form a hollow phalanx, he was bound to lose......

However, this also strengthened his determination to get involved in the military industry, especially the production of muskets, because whether it is Qi Jiguang, Ma Fang, or even Li Chengliang, this kind of military talent is irreproducible in the late Ming Dynasty.

Not only Mongolia, but also wild boar skins, and even in the distant future, it will be difficult to fight against the tsar's sharp knife - the Cossack cavalry.