1040 Mongolian herdsmen
Moreover, the opponent's array was very fast, and each soldier seemed to know that he should be there after leaving the camp. This obviously shows that he was a trained elite soldier.
After carefully reading, I found that the Mongols had already started to be fast. This time, the Mongols Dorgon brought with me were all following Dorgon to make money and get Mongolian herders. There were about 10,000 people. These people did not belong to the Eight Banners, so they could only fight with the army and rob the common people.
So they couldn't even get into the camp. Dorgon ignored them as tentative cannon fodder. Moreover, they stayed outside the camp and were very convenient to move. After receiving the order, a large group of Mongolians rode their horses to the opposite formation.
Liu Pei stared at these Mongolians with a telescope on the wall of the village. He found that these Mongolians were really poor enough! Not to mention that they had no armor on their bodies, they had to wear shabby leather robes in the summer! Perhaps the only valuable things on them were scimitars and bows. But the horses under their crotch were really good! They were still majestic when they ran over from Mongolia for a long distance.
Liu Pei was looking at the formation of these Mongolians, but there was no formation at all! He ran over in a swarm. With such an enemy, Liu Pei really couldn't be interested. So he ordered: "Tell me, there will be no artillery to support them and let them play freely."
The distance between the two sides continued to shorten with the Mongolian cavalry running. The Mongolian herders had already taken out their bows and arrows and prepared to give the Ming army a rain of arrows! But they forgot that the other party's muskets could also kill people!
Moreover, these Mongolian cavalrymen don’t know anything about their bows and arrows and arrows are different from those of the Jurchens!
Since the Jurchens' lifestyle is fishing and hunting, this means that they often hunt large prey, so they require the bow they use is harder, so the range is relatively long.
The Mongols lived a nomadic life and dealt with small prey. Therefore, the rate of fire is very important. This leads to the Mongols' bows and arrows being generally soft and have a relatively close range. So when they had not entered the range of the bow and arrow, they had already trapped themselves within the range of the musket!
Liu Pei's subordinates used muskets to deal with the cavalry
They are very experienced. They don’t need to be too accurate in dealing with cavalry. They only need to form barrage shooting. The heavy lead bullet hits the war horses and will fall and jump immediately! No matter what, they will pull the cavalry off their backs! At that time, the horses that rush to the horses will deal with the fallen soldiers for the soldiers.
Just as the Mongolian herders had just entered the range of the muskets, the two square arrays sounded the sound of gunfire shooting almost at the same time! More than twenty Mongolian herders running in the front immediately rolled into a ball with people and horses on the ground!
At this time, we can see the level of riding skills of the Mongolian herders! If they were Qing cavalry, they would probably be in a group with their companions in front! If it were Liu Pei's cavalry, the consequences would be even more tragic! However, these Mongolian herders had reached the stage of riding skills on horseback that had grown from birth!
They controlled the war horse and easily passed the corpse in front of them. A Mongolian herder even controlled the war horse to complete the extremely difficult two consecutive jumps! The price was only reduced in speed!
This made Liu Pei very envious! If Liu Pei had not had the fence-mounted tactics as the treasure at the bottom of the box, his cavalry could be considered as infantry who could ride horses at most. If he followed the traditional cavalry battle method, Liu Pei's cavalry would be dead end whether it was against Mongolian cavalry or Qing cavalry!
However, Liu Pei was not worried, and even a little proud! Because his wife had begun to take the Ming Dynasty on the road of science! On this road, barbarism can never defeat civilization! And as the I-machine security moves, the gap between the two sides will continue to widen! And the Han people have always won by relying on their brains, which is even more advantageous!
At this time, in Liu Pei's square formation, the sword and shield soldiers had already raised the shield wall, and the spearmen also extended the spears outside the square formation. However, the commander believed that these Mongolian herders would not come to rush to the formation. They were more tempting. So he relaxed and continued to arrange the wheel shooting of the muskets.
The Mongolian herders performed very well! They gathered and scattered around the outer edge of the defense array, constantly shooting bows and arrows into the array! Unfortunately, the quality of their feather arrows was too poor! They would not cause any damage to the citizens at all.
You know, the Jurchens are right
The Mongols have never really felt at ease. They fought and pulled the Mongols more and never gave enough weapons and supplies to the Mongols. What's more, in terms of iron, even the Qing Dynasty is not enough, so it's even more impossible to give it to the Mongols!
Therefore, the bow and arrows used by the Mongolian herders around the square formation are the most common arrows. Some even use wolf-tooth arrows! These ordinary feather arrows fell on the soldiers' armor. In addition to causing scratches, there were also a few lucky few shots in the face, and there were basically no damage.
On the other hand, no matter how exquisite these Mongolian herders were, they were shot off the horse from time to time! However, these Mongolian herders couldn't get entangled and slew around two square formations to test the direction of the attack from all directions. Although each test would leave a few or even a dozen lives, these Mongolian herders never stopped.
Liu Pei looked at the watch and the two sides had been entangled for almost half an hour! Liu Pei was very surprised how these herdsmen could be so tough? It is said that the herdsmen who had not received training would retreat if they were killed or injured, but the herdsmen in front of him were entangled as if they were taking drugs!
Liu Pei thought that if something is abnormal, there will be monsters! So he began to think about why these Mongolian herders did this one by one. After thinking for a while, Liu Pei slapped the city wall and said: "Hurry up and send orders to the front, so that they can reduce the frequency of the design and put the enemy closer and beat them!"
The guard immediately ran outside after receiving the order. However, before he could run to the front of the formation, the shooting speed of the two square formations decreased at the same time.
Liu Pei on the village wall saw it and nodded with satisfaction and said, "These two little guys are doing well! You can put on a little more burden in the future!"
The officer next to him who thought it through made a sound of envy and admiration. The officer who didn't think it through made a sound of intimacy asked the people around him in a low voice.
Chapter completed!