Chapter 121: Trapped Beast
The javelin is an ancient weapon.
This weapon, which was also born out of hunting activities, is rarely seen on the battlefield today, and it has no advantage over the crossbow in terms of accuracy and range.
However, in the southwestern and south-central mountainous areas of the Ming Dynasty, it is still preserved in the home of every Miao warrior with the advantages of great power, simple manufacturing and reuse, and can be used to deal with those beasts that hurt people, eat livestock and destroy seedlings at any time.
Sometimes it is not only the beasts that do these things, Jiajing 31 years of the invasion of the Japanese invaders, Huguang, Yongshun, Baojing and other places of Tumiao Township soldiers were recruited by the imperial court to go to the southeast to fight in their hometowns, after the end of the war, thousands of corpse bearers went out of the mountains to bring back the corpses of strong men who died in other places, and this habit has continued since then.
Now Miao Bing has taught a group of apprentices in Makino, and they also use their methods to fight the enemy.
This projectile weapon was so old that Earl Charles didn't even realize that there were throwing spears for throwing in the spears of the three camps of Makino, and by the time he realized it was too late.
The cavalrymen swept the outer edge of the line with various pistols, and with the advantage of the height of their horses, they crossed the Miao Dadun and killed the Makino warriors behind them, and then they were shot by more flying spears, and no amount of skillful martial arts could stop them from falling off their horses.
Some people were able to protect themselves with shields, but one of them could not lift two spears with a shield on them, even if they had great strength, and they were immediately struck by a third spear. Some of the spears were struck on the horses, and the faces of the iron horses were smashed in the face by hammers, and the painful war horses stood up to reveal their soft abdomen, and were immediately disemboweled.
The Fran cannons in front of the battalion were still bombarding the enemy infantry charging in front of them, and the merchant musketeers protecting the flanks also fired rounds from the flanks at the cavalry preparing to charge from the flanks.
Their main defensive direction was in the front, so the support firepower was insufficient, but the distance was close and the rate of fire was fast, and ten men could fire a salvo of thirty muskets at a short distance.
Faced with the unimaginable projectile weapons, the pistol cavalry was almost reimbursed by the spear throwing, many of them were not killed, reality forced them to change their tactics, and followed the knights and heavy cavalry into the enemy formation, and the few cavalry who were blinded by the spear throwing charged the artillery position, and were severely beaten by the three-eyed gun and retreated, continuing to attack the infantry without firearms.
The two sides fought for their lives.
Close to each other, the lack of armor of the right battalion of Makino was trampled by the four hooves of the heavy cavalry, the formation was inevitably scattered, throughout the ages the infantry can withstand the heavy cavalry charge buried in the head to cut the horse's legs are only a few troops, the rest are scattered in a rush, this is the common situation.
However, the armor guards of the right battalion of Makino did not break back, most of them ran towards the artillery position in front, or rather towards the middle camp of Makino, and in the process of being scattered, there were also people who were knocked down and waved their knives around to cut off their horses' legs.
Their protective armor is very poor, but the weapons are particularly sharp, the Miao people still use the ancient forging method to strike iron, which is extremely time-consuming and laborious, but the forging is a good knife, in the past, due to the lack of iron in the tribe, the children were born with a piece of iron, and these iron were put together to be forged once a year, and the edge was forged at the age of sixteen.
There are not a few knives in the tribe throughout the year, so the knife is only a day for children to become adults, and they want to congratulate and use a new knife to cut off the head of the cow, try its sharpness and test the strength of the tribe's new warriors.
This habit was changed in Muye, and there was suddenly no shortage of iron ore, and Yang Zhaolong's Miao knife smith was so busy that he still couldn't make so many knives, so he had to accept many apprentices to fight knives together, and new knives were made every day, and they didn't have so many cattle to try, and there were not so many children who had a coming-of-age ceremony, and the congratulations were all waived.
The explosion of productivity has made ancient customs lose their original meaning.
The right battalion regrouped in front of the artillery position, and the cavalry and merchant musketeers of the lower horse were lined up in two fronts, facing the threat of cavalry trampling, and half of the artillery of the right battalion was silent, but even if only six Fran machine guns were still bombarding, they still beat the enemy infantry in front of them to the point of disarray, unable to open their bows.
The enemy who had confronted them had already rushed into the range of the most lethal of the Fran guns, leaving only a wailing wounded in the open space fifty paces away with each charge, and the left flank and the two battalions of Makino armor had even rushed towards the enemy under the general leadership.
There was no cavalry threat, and the left battalion, which was supported by artillery, even took the lead in breaking several enemy formations with the corpses and chased after the besieging camp.
The Chinese general is not so brave, he scares the enemy away, this wilted guy used to learn the English vernacular in Alan, and always paid attention to the situation of the cavalry of the right battalion on the battlefield, and saw that the enemy cavalry was shot with spears and then the battle was stale, and he led his troops to open his mouth in the process of bloody battle with the enemy at the front of the battle line.
"The Count is dead! The Count is dead! ”
The knights who were fighting with Alan's dismounted cavalry on the opposite side were all stunned, it was very difficult for everyone to fight on the front line, and if their own knights and knights met, they had to pick up their big swords and fight twice, and then separate to find other enemies.
Sometimes, I will encounter enemy knights wearing their own heraldic burqas, and they can pick up two sentences when they come up, and as soon as they turn around, they will slash the back of their heads with an axe, and then turn their heads and continue to fight.
Especially when I saw the two plate armor monsters crashing into each other and fighting, I didn't know which one to carry the weapon to.
The two sides could not speak each other, and some of the enemy troops were wearing their own armor, and suddenly someone shouted such a sentence in their own language in front of the battle, and the knight in plate armor took his battle axe and ran to his own camp, calling the earl dead, the baron dead, and the noble lord dead as he ran.
Anyway, they don't know what the enemy commander is called, and in the understanding of these people, this is the same as shouting that the general is dead on the battlefield.
If there was a radio, the Count would be able to shout on the radio in the next second: "Fuck your fart."
But no, the entire Makino Middle Battalion was driven by the enemy's rout and slashing, and the lightly armed Makino soldiers burst out with the greatest combat ability at this moment.
They have sharp knives, dart guns, crossbowmen and other long-range projection capabilities, and they are extremely efficient in chasing and killing enemy troops, and they often run past the afterglow and turn their heads: Yo, this is another one.
Raise his hand and shoot a crossbow arrow, and continue to chase with a knife.
Ying Ming, who was in charge of the Chinese army, was also greatly excited when he saw the battle situation, and scattered all the fifty cavalry under his command, not to let them participate in the pursuit, but to let them gather various troops near the enemy's camp, and this battle victory could solve the most important problem in his heart.
The problem of armor equipment.
The great victory of the two battalions on the left and center affected the enemy forces on the right flank, and they were met with increasing resistance in desperate fighting, and the right battalion of Makino killed most of their horses at the cost of their lives, turning them all into dismounted heavy infantry, and after more than thirty armor-clad Elan infantry joined the battle, they no longer had such a big advantage.
At this juncture, the Beiyang cavalry cavalry team sent by Ying Ming earlier also killed to the flank, and the friendly forces were routed on all fronts, making them a battle of trapped beasts, and the only thing they could do in the end was to surrender.