Chapter 959: Sharpening the Knife

Bash carried four quivers, each quiver had more than 100 arrows, these arrows were cut out by himself when he was idle, good arrows, glued tail feathers, almost every Mongolian cavalry would make their own arrows, the Mongols did not have a Ministry of Engineering and no armor weapons bureau, their armor weapons except for a few ancestral or from the Ming side, most of them were slowly made by themselves. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

The other armoured soldiers, all wearing two pieces of armor, with cotton armor on the upper body and an armored skirt on the bottom, and a few of them also wore iron mesh boots, and they squatted on the ground with Bash, sharpening their sabers on the whetstones, or sharpening the spearheads of iron spears.

Everyone's weapons are old, and the scabbards and spear handles are very old, but the armor soldiers are still very serious about polishing their weapons...... Everyone knows that weapons are equivalent to their own lives, and they must not be careless.

All around is the sound of stabbing and stabbing knife sharpening, Bash sharpened his own lancet early to sharpen, as long as the knife swept over the enemy can kill the enemy, later generations always think that the battlefield in the era of cold weapons needs to kill the enemy in order to kill, in fact, this sharp killing weapon as long as it is crossed on the person's body, it will draw a large area of deep bones of the long wound, at this time in terms of hemostasis and disinfection conditions, almost all are certain death.

Bash also has an iron spear from the hands of his grandfather, it must have taken a lot of effort to build it, that should be the situation when Tumen Khan was alive when Chahar and Tumut Altan Khan were in power, at that time the left and right wings of Mongolia were very strong, there were speed Bahai and fried flowers in the east, often led 300,000 horsemen through the river into Liaodong, several times deep into the city of Liaoyang, although there was no horse market, the left wing Mongolia has never been short of the Ming country.

The right wing is thriving under the leadership of Altan Khan, the Han people of Tumo River provided vegetables and grain for Altan Khan, built weapons and built cities, the powerful Tumut Department occupied half of the grassland, west to Qinghai and the Yellow River Hetao area, east to Zhangjiakou area, hundreds of thousands of people who controlled the string threatened half of the Ming Dynasty, I had twice attacked the city of Beijing, so that the Ming monarchs and ministers were panicked and panicked.

And now the iron spear was scarred, scratched all over it, and there was a small notch in the tip of the spear, which must have been cracked in some battle.

If there had been sufficient fine iron and blacksmiths, the iron spear would have been abandoned, smelted and recast, and re-forged, and of course there was no such thing at this time, but only to be called.

Bashi was a bit out of step with the armor soldiers around him, he was a rogue armor soldier of the Tumut tribe, who had served the Chahars on the border of the Karaqin tribe.

Together with the rest of the wandering cavalry from various departments, the main force of today's attack was the first to rush into the enemy formation, and it was these people from foreign tribes who rushed into the enemy formation.

Fortunately, the high-level of the Chahar Department also knew that it was very important to break through the defense line of the Shang Tuan Army, and this time they gathered the armor soldiers and elite shepherds of each department together for the first time, and also selected some elites with armor in their own tribes, and used them intensively, trying to find the real weak point in the defense line of the Shang Tuan Army, and then open the gap, and then increase the troops to expand the loopholes in the Shang Tuan Army's defense line, and finally enable the entire tribe to pass through.

It is difficult to build a defense line on the vast grassland, even ordinary armored soldiers like Bash feel that He Yusheng is too arrogant, hundreds of miles from north to south, and a vast place with a depth of almost two thousand miles, with these infantry-based soldiers and horses in front of him, can be blocked?

In Bashi's opinion, the strongest of the merchant army is the lancer, the heavy cavalry rides on a tall horse, rampage, the armor is well-armored, the weapons are sharp, the knights are bold and courageous, and the killing skills are skilled and sophisticated, which is worthy of being a strong iron cavalry on the grassland.

As for the infantry, Bashi didn't know much, but he felt that the garrison and defense of the merchant army really had a set, and he warned everyone that if they saw those inconspicuous enemy forts, it was best to take a detour hundreds of paces before walking, otherwise it was difficult to say whether they would be injured by the small artillery inside the enemy's platform.

There is an endless grassland landscape everywhere in front of you, with only a few rocky hills, on which the turf grows very sparsely, revealing the original color of the stones.

Looking south from this battlefield is a big river flowing Gugu, there are a few dilapidated old buildings standing on the side, although after years of invasion, the Mongols are not good at maintenance, the houses have been dilapidated, but from a distance, the building is still magnificent, after more than 200 years can still see the original construction of the effort and care.

"That's Shaheyi." Seeing a Chahar soldier looking at that side with curious eyes, Bash explained: "There is a Shahe Station over there, built by the Ming people during the Hongwu and Yongle years, to the southwest is the Shenhe Station, the two rivers are separated by thirty miles, there are two post stations connected, and then to the south is the Huangya Station, and then there is the Luanhe Station, which is the territory of the Ming people, across the river, is the farmland for farming, but they don't dare to be too careful......"

The Chahar soldiers asked curiously, "Why?" ”

The muscles on Bash's face twitched, and he said, "There are many places over there that are outside their side walls, and there is no danger to defend. ”

Another Chahar soldier laughed and said, "These southern barbarians, I'm afraid that we will rob them." ”

Bash nodded and said: "To the east is the place where we are going to fight, the old Kaiping Zuotunwei of the Ming Kingdom, to the south is the side wall and monolithic fort, here there are Shahe Shen River, Baihe Luanhe, there are many rivers, and there are mountain peaks intertwined, which is an obstacle for us to go south." ”

In fact, the place where Bashi and others were established was originally under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and Kaiping Wei was established in the Hongwu period, and a radius of more than 300 miles here was the Kaiping Defense Area of the year. From Kaiping Wei to the east is to rely on the Ming Dynasty of the Duoyan Sanwei, at that time these three guards were attached to the guard, the early Ming Dynasty attached to the Mongols who returned to Shun were still very loyal, the Tatar official family and the Ming Dynasty were also quite a lot, from the Duoyan Sanwei defense area in the past is the Liaoxi Corridor and the Liaohe Hetao area, that is, the left-wing Mongolian territory.

With the addition of the Liao King and the Ning King of Liaodong, plus the Yan King who was called Beiping at that time, and the acting king of Datong, the entire defense line from Datong in Shanxi to Liaoyang against Beiyu and Jurchen was formed.

At the same time, in order to reward the Wuliangha Mongols who helped him go south to fight for the world, the Duoyan Sanwei was changed from internal attachment to independence, Kaipingwei gave up, and the defense line moved more than 300 miles, plus Duoyan Sanwei became self-reliant, Liaoxi directly changed from the inner town to the area bordering the enemy area, and the Jingshi also changed from the important town of the prince's inner town to the front line.

The sky was blue, the ground was endless green, at this time a general of the Chahar people was mobilizing on the battlefield, the Mongols were clumsy in words, not to say agitation, even scolding words were not new, after the general had spoken for a while, all the soldiers and herdsmen let out a burst of shouts, and then the horn sounded, and a team of more than 3,000 horsemen rushed forward.

Bashi gently sandwiched the horse's belly with his legs, his body rose and fell with the ups and downs of the horse's body, the wind speed gradually increased, and all around him were companions shouting in Mongolian.

Yesterday, the battlefield here had been sentry, dozens of sentry cavalry went deep into the road of nearly ten miles, and found that there were more than 150 merchant troops stationed near the old city of Kaiping Zuotunwei, only a simple wooden fence wall, and no large artillery, the fortifications were simple, the firepower was weak, and it was simply the best place to break through.

Today's more than 3,000 horsemen came to break the formation is just the beginning, if it goes well, you can roll all the way to the north, the fixed defense line is like this, one break is broken everywhere!

"Kill, kill all the dogs!"

The Mongols screamed, people waved their weapons or rode bows, the horses accelerated and raced, Bash felt that the blood in his whole body was boiling, he had followed Achengtaiji to attack Jining Fort, after more than half a year of siege, he felt exhausted, and he pondered how to enter the fort all day long, and then the Great Khan died, Achengtaiji also died, and the Tak bag who fought with them became the murderer of the Great Khan and Achengtaiji, and disappeared into the vast grassland. During that time, Bash felt that the sky was gray and everything was meaningless, until now, when the re-galloping war horse brandished the iron spear left by his grandfather, a unique sense of pride of the Mongols surged into his heart, yes, charge, ride a horse, wave the iron spear, kill the Ming Han dog, this is what the Mongol man should do!

A large abrupt gray appeared on the horizon in front of him, and Bashi's eyes suddenly froze, many people were like him, not that there were only more than one hundred and fifty merchant regiments, but how could there be more than a thousand people in front of him?

At this time, the speed of the horse has been mentioned as the fastest, and many people want to turn around too late, only the people on both sides subconsciously began to control the reins to dodge left and right, but at this time they have run within a hundred steps, and Bashi, who is familiar with the range of the merchant army, is already desperate, he saw that the first two columns of the merchant army in front of him have squatted down, and the fire guns with bayonets emit a star-like flashing light, and the fire guns of the last column are held flat, and the mouth of the black hole seems to have been magnified countless times under the bayonet.

"Crackling ......"

The sound of the gun seemed to be very abrupt.

Bash seemed to see many of his companions stretching out their bows and trying to return fire with bows and arrows, he fell down in pain and shouted: "Don't shoot back, there is still a long way to go, it is useless to ride a bow, lie on the horse, try to dodge ......"

However, few people on the chaotic battlefield heard his shouts, and the Chahar people were actually quite willing to learn a lesson and study more of the tactics of the merchant army recently, but it was only limited to a small number of people at the top, and most of the northern captives were savages in a completely barbaric state, and their usual communication circles were limited to their own families and the herdsmen's families in the neighboring pastures, and only when they had large-scale gatherings would they come into contact with more people and circles, and it was very easy to be bewitched by advanced religions in this closed information state. So it is more difficult to accept new knowledge, in the herdsmen and farmers two different populations, the herdsmen on the grassland are limited to the area is too large and the national cultural inheritance, the knowledge of herding horses and sheep is very limited, and there is not much desire to learn, relatively speaking, the circle of farmers is also semi-closed, but the Chinese tradition is to learn and respect the scholars, in comparison, the herdsmen are more backward and stupid......

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Master Huang Yi shattered the void yesterday, which is deplorable, he is a genius, a leader, to be honest, now ninety percent of us who write online articles have not departed from the category of the genre founded by Huang Yi, to say that many online writers admit it, everyone is holding the rice bowl given by Huang Zushi......

Nonsense, remembering the excitement when I saw Qin Ji back then, and waiting for physical books in bookstores to update Datang Shuanglong, these experiences will never be there again.