Chapter 236: Standing still
The arrangement of the Karaqin people is stable and stable, and Zhuoerbi does not support it, and there is still room for it.
He did not order a surprise attack on the whole army as soon as he came up, and he arranged this way as a traditional tactic that the Mongols had used for hundreds of years.
If the times do not develop towards hot weapons, there is basically no flaw in Zhuoerbi's style of play, and if you can win, you will attack, and on the contrary, you can go back to the distance of the horse.
Huang Han just thought that the Karaqin cavalry should not have too few men and horses to attack for the first time, and tried his best to kill more enemies in the first strike of the firearms unit.
No one is a fool and can't beat the enemy, so which commander will be killed and fill it with men and horses?
This is a field battle, there is no place to defend, and there is no need to fight for an inch of land. As soon as the Tartars came up, they were deflated, and they immediately chose to flee, and the plan to lure them into dividing their troops and causing a large number of casualties would become half-hearted.
Huang Han saw that the Karaqin people had been deceived, and sent about 2,000 cavalry to try to break the formation, and he gave a loud order: "All the spear bearers must not shoot, and they can only fire after the bird gunners have fired." ”
The Chinese army immediately raised the flag, and all the officers and assistants of the command conveyed understood that the commander's whistle was a signal for the whole army to attack from a distance, which was completely different from the original plan to raise the gun and use the range to fire first.
Huang Han refused to raise his gun to fight first, because he was worried that the Tartars would be killed by the big projectiles, and he was frightened and retreated directly, although this was also a victory, but he could only kill and wound about a hundred Tartars, and it was too boring.
With such a dense cavalry charge, one hundred and twenty guns do not need to be aimed at as long as they are fired flat, and leaving about a hundred Tartars is actually the most conservative estimate.
Because a horse that enters a galloping state will die immediately if it is effectively hit by a spear, the huge inertia will not only throw the knight out, causing them to fall to death or be trampled to death by the horses.
It will also collide with other war horses, and it will also cause the galloping war horses behind to collide directly without having time to react, and then there will be a series of accidents on the battlefield like a multi-vehicle rear-end collision on the highway.
The murderous Karaqin people began to attack, and the two thousand cavalry gradually accelerated from trotting to the distance of about two or three hundred paces of the Ming army's array.
The frozen earth was shaking, and the arquebuses on the carts were shaking, and there was no need for the gunners to blow with their mouths, and the ashes of the arquebuses had fallen to reveal red points of fire.
Song Pengfei's 300 bird guns and the 224 soldiers of the four general banners did not line up in a three-stage attack formation, because they had enough 1,000 bird guns.
Zhao Kun, Wang Gensheng and other officers carefully selected 200 shooting skills among the more than 500 bird guns who had already achieved the shooting standard, and they took a kneeling position in front of the wheelbarrow to shoot.
The firing positions of the more than 200 gunners were selected, not only to quickly change guns, but also to provide good cover for the food bags on the wheelbarrows.
The helmets of the Bird Bearers and Spear Bearers are the same as the standard equipment of the cavalry warriors, and they also have iron armor.
Under this protection, the probability of being killed by a Tartar light arrow is almost non-existent, unless you are unlucky enough to be shot into the eye hole by a Tartar arrow at close range.
Song Pengfei, Zhao Kun, Liu Sihai and other officers also had at least two spare bird guns loaded and ready to go.
This means that there are more than 200 Bird Guns that can be reloaded after three consecutive shots, and at this time, the warrior who has one Bird Gun to shoot in a standing position has almost finished reloading and can continue shooting.
There is no need to worry about the Tartar cavalry penetrating the formation due to the gap in fire, the infantry archer is much faster than the bird gunner, and the armor-piercing cone is not as powerful as lead bullet, but the lethality should not be underestimated.
The 300 feathered arrows remained largely uninterrupted until the Musketeer reloaded, making it possible to maintain uninterrupted firepower.
Moreover, there were a thousand laborers in the position with ash pole spears ready to assassinate the Tartars who rushed in at any time, as well as the Red Banner Army's cold weapons, infantry, sword and shield men, and pikemen who were wrapped in steel, and watched the array closely.
The enemy cavalry was very arrogant, they didn't realize that the war that happened today would leave them with a psychological shadow, and the Tartar cavalry saw that they were within one hundred and fifty paces, and the Ming army array was still surprisingly quiet.
The Tartar was even closer, only a hundred paces away from the Ming army's array, and Huang Han coldly watched the Mongolian sword wielded by the Tartar dazzling in the sunlight without a trace of expression.
The commander did not give the order, and the "Red Banner Army" stood still.
The Tartar cavalry approached thirty paces again, and at this time they all took out their riding bows and shot diffusely, and nearly two thousand feathered arrows soared into the air, which was spectacular, and they crossed an arc in the air and fell into the Ming army array one after another, making a continuous "clanging" sound.
It was a feathered arrow that landed on the helmet of the Bird Bearer, or a crunch when it hit the light steel round shield of the Sword Shieldman.
Immediately after that, about 2,000 feather arrows flew in, although the diffuse power of light arrows was limited, but so many arrows fell into the Ming army and still caused some casualties.
The diffuse feathered arrows were attacked from top to bottom in free fall, not direct fire, and the steel helmets of the "Red Banner Army" had brims, and the soldiers put down their masks, and those who were shot in the face were basically not.
It's just that almost every one of the Bird's Hammer and the Spear Bearer received three or four feathered arrows, and even if they had two pieces of cotton armor on their bodies, it was impossible to cover everything, and some of the sharp and powerful arrows still penetrated the armor and brought damage to the warriors.
But not a single soldier of the "Red Banner Army" fell, and not a single one of them let out a miserable howl, they all managed to be slightly injured and not get out of the line of fire, and they all knew that the next moment it would be the turn of the Tartars to cry and cry for their mothers, and everyone was calm, and they didn't even have time to pull out the feather arrows nailed into the cotton armor with their free hands.
The wounded and bleeding warriors remained motionless, and the birds gritted their teeth and stared ahead, all fighting for a lead bullet to eliminate an enemy.
There are more than two hundred fourteen-year-old children in the Ming army array? Did they panic in the face of the enemy's cavalry onslaught?
The answer is no, none of these children panicked, on the contrary, they were all extremely excited, and the newborn calf was not afraid of tigers.
It is no wonder that the young soldiers recorded in history are the most loyal and brave existences, and everyone dares to blow up the enemy's tank with a blaster.
Seeing the Tartar cavalry enter within fifty paces, Huang Han's whistle let out a sharp whistle and burrowed into the chest of a Tartar ten-captain.
The Ming army's position was as if it had reached the thirtieth of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the sound of cracks and guns was like a tide of gunsmoke, many tartars were suddenly confused, and too many war horses without special training were frightened by the sound of explosions.