Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 170 Isn't it about who is richer in war? (fourth more)
"alert."

Gao Yigong hurriedly stood up and roared loudly.

The urgent whistle came from the valley.

"Get on the horse and prepare for battle!"

The sound of the whistle indicated that the officers and soldiers were found, and there were quite a few of them.

Gao Yigong ordered loudly, and the soldiers under his command began to check the weapons, and drove the other horse aside, and some comrades gathered the horse.

"Rush over and block them in the valley."

The sound of beeping whistles rose and fell.

The official army must not be allowed to occupy the entire Han Xinling.

Ten of the cavalry in the valley entered, and only one of the cavalry with arrows ran out.

It has to be said that the Mongols are experts in riding and shooting, even the later Jin Tartars can't compare.

Gao Yigong, who saw this scene, knew that he had encountered a tough problem.

The officers and soldiers in the field are already a powerful force.

The dog officers and soldiers in Shanxi don't know the prestige of the hammer bandits like us.

The first battle between the two sides was so hasty.

"This is the first battle between my Hammer bandits and the Shanxi Gouguan army, and they are terrified that they vowed to fight!"

"Kill with me!"

Gao Yigong led the first squadron to block the exit of Han Xinling, while the rest were on guard, forming the second and third waves of offensive.

Although they were all new cavalrymen, they were also taught by He Zan, an authentic cavalryman of the Ming army. They trained every day for nearly nine months, and they were not the same as the usual cavalry infantry of the rebel army.

However, most of the official cavalry formations they faced were Mongols who took the lead.

These people have not been in hand-to-hand combat, but they shoot arrows one by one, fast and accurate.

Gao Yigong held a small round shield and tried his best to cover his face.

In one face-to-face meeting, several people have been shot down conveniently, and there are not a few people who have been shot by arrows.

Even if it's just cotton armor, as long as it doesn't hit a vital point, it can block it. Most people charge with arrows.

Doodle.

Arrows pierced the cavalry's buckler.

Or fly to the back of oneself, the arrow feathers searched and passed.

Gao Yigong heard the sound of the arrow gown falling in his ears, his eyes were fixed on the Ming army in front of him, with a beard all over his face, it was he who was shooting arrows at him repeatedly.

He tried in vain to shoot himself, the leader, down.

You wait for me, thirty steps!

Da da da.

There were more and more hoofbeats in the valley.

"cast!"

Gao Yigong shouted loudly and threw the short spear in his hand!
buzzing.

Immediately afterwards, there was a scream.

During the period, there were curses that Gao Yigong couldn't understand.

The power of the short spear, regardless of that, directly stabs people and horses to death.

The valley was originally rushed out with the density of three or four war horses, very dense.

Baihu wanted to catch this gang of thieves by surprise.

But when the enemy threw a short spear, he quickly put down his riding bow, picked up the long spear, and tried his best to push the short spear away.

But the guards around him were not so lucky, they were all stabbed by short spears.

The arrows and short spears of both sides have already been shot, and the next step is a hand-to-hand combat.

The two horses are facing each other, and the ultimate move is only in the staggered moment.

Gao Yigong and Baihu stabbed each other with guns. After all, Gao Yigong suffered a loss due to his lack of experience in the battlefield.

He could only abandon the long spear in his hand, draw out his saber and quickly slash and block.

Baihu fought bravely from the bottom to become a guerrilla general step by step.

On weekdays, the heads of Mongolian Tartars were often beheaded for military merit.

But this time he found that the peasant army was not the same as the Mongolian Tartars at the border.

Because the armor on them is the Ming military system, not the poor ghosts like the Mongol Tartars.

Since Yongle, some Mongols have been beaten into cavalry and archery light cavalry by the Ming army.

Many people don't have armor, especially after the Yuan Dynasty lost Shanxi, Hebei and other places, they became more and more poor.

Since the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, there have been only two rich men in Mongolian tribes
One is the Wacha people, who continue to use troops in Xinjiang and Central Asia.

Having won successive victories against the Chagatai Khanate and the Kazakhs, he has mastered the trade routes between the grasslands and the Western Regions, and he does not lack Central Asian-style armor.

Therefore, Oirat cavalry generally wear full-body armor on the outside, chain mail and cloth armor on the inside.

Some Oirat heavy cavalry also have plate-style leg armor, arm armor and greaves, and the horses of the Oirat cavalry are also covered with Turkic-style metal armor.

After the Tumubao battle, he had more armor in his hand.

The second one is Al Da. He always kidnaps many craftsmen in the border military fortress and places them in Banda City. Only with the craftsmen and Bailian teaching people to lead the way to fetch iron can he have the strength to challenge the Ming army.

Today's Ming army wears less than one-third of the armor. After the Battle of Songjin, Huang Taiji sent people to count the Ming army's corpses and found that the armor-wearing rate was about one-third.

Just these people were the elite soldiers dispatched by Daming from all over the country.

During the Jiajing period, Qi Jiguang explained that the armor of the army was terrible, and now that a hundred years have passed, the financial difficulties of the Ming Dynasty have become more and more difficult.

Civil officials and scholar-bureaucrats look down on craftsmen, have no funds and skills, and the old armor in the warehouse cannot be maintained and maintained.

Moreover, the procedures required for applying for the manufacture of weapons and equipment are complicated, and most of the Ming army are "running naked without armor".

It is said that during the Battle of Sarhu, the knives in the hands of the Ming army could not break the armor of the Houjin Tartars, which shows that the weapons are of such inferior quality.

But Baihu knew that the Mongols were poorer.

Since the end of Wanli, the Mongols wanted to exchange for a very good armor, and it has reached the point where 90 sheep can be exchanged for a good armor.

The rate of Mongolian cavalry wearing armor has further declined. The Oirat Alliance (including the genuine Golden Family) stipulates that 40 families must raise funds for two pieces of armor every year.

A family needs to produce four or five sheep.

Nurhachi, who started with 13 sets of armor, robbed a large number of Han craftsmen in Liaodong, and created the Eight Banners armor that is as blue as blue.

Xu Guangqi said: "The armor, masks, arms and hands worn by bandit soldiers are all made of fine iron, and the horses are like that, but there is nothing they can do about it, because their armor is strong.

The armor of our soldiers is nothing like the Helian family's system, but it is made in the army, and it is all waste iron.

Beyond the shoulders, there are fellow disciples. The thief shoots at the face within five steps. Every shot will kill him. Who can resist the enemy?
He asked the imperial court to build the same armor as the Eight Banners Army, and Xu Guangqi even quoted 12 taels of silver for each armor.

At that time, the cost of each pair of cloth face armor equipped by the Ming Army was about four or five taels of silver, while the cost of armor for the Eight Banners Army had reached eight taels of silver.

Xu Guangqi asked to build the same equipment as the Tartars, but he still had to pay extra for kickbacks!

This is the officialdom atmosphere in the late Ming Dynasty.

Regardless of whether Xu Guangqi took the kickback to study cannons or to do other things, in short, the quotation should be raised first.

In the end, the court disliked his offer for being too high and rejected his offer and plan.

The technology of the armor of the Eight Banners Army was born out of the Ming Army, and its quality obviously surpassed that of the Ming Army, and far surpassed that of the Mongols.

Armor is the most important equipment in the era of cold weapons. It cannot win a battle with it alone, but the consequences of lacking it are very serious.

Good equipment can at least make up for the lack of actual combat before the battle, as well as the morale of the soldiers on both sides during the battle.

That is, the enemy can't kill you, but you can kill the enemy!

Brother, I can't break the armor!

May I ask what will happen to the morale of the soldiers on both sides of the war?

(End of this chapter)