Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 124
Because those who dare not charge have already lost in terms of momentum, so why are they talking about winning the next victory?

It's a pity that only spirit and fighting spirit can't win. Although Mite Qing is in his main force, Eight Banners Xiaoqi put in a lot of effort and spent a lot of resources.

But their equipment is still not as good as Zhu Cihuang's cavalry. After all, Liaodong's handicraft industry is not good enough to be compared with Han.

That is to say, the government system in the late Ming Dynasty was extremely corrupt, and a large number of craftsmen fled. Otherwise, the huge advantage of the Ming army in equipment would be enough to make the Ming Dynasty drink away.

And if Mite Qing didn't rely on the cruel laws and strict management system, they would kill people at every turn to gain prestige. Otherwise, the equipment made by their craftsmen would at most be at the level of the Han people.

Tong Mengchun and the Eight Banners Xiaoqi around him were all wearing a layer of chain mail, a cotton armor on the outside, and a red-tasseled gun helmet on their heads. Not counting weapons or anything, these things alone weighed forty catties.

Ordinary swords and slashes hardly caused any obvious damage to their bodies. Only blunt weapons, spears, or extremely sharp swords could break through the defense of the two layers of armor.

But even so, it was still a bit worse than Zhu Cihong's western European armored knights.

Zhu Cihong's one hundred and one plate armor knights were all wearing full body plate armor, chain mail inside, and a burqa to show their identity on the outside.

Wearing plate armor boots and wearing plate armor gloves, it can be said that there are almost no weaknesses in the whole body except ankles, knees, and armpits.

They were like human tanks, inserted into the formation of the Eight Banners Valiant Cavalry as Zhu Cihong's spearhead.

The ten-foot-long cavalry directly flew the Eight Banners Xiaoqi who rushed to the front. Although the cotton armor and chain mail had strong defenses, after all, both sides were charging at a speed of tens of kilometers per hour.

At this speed, even if a wooden stick is placed in front of it, it can stab someone to the core.

After the knight in plate armor stabbed the Eight Banners Xiaoqi with his lance, he threw down the lance immediately without hesitation. Instead, he pulled out an English sword from his back and continued to slash and kill among the enemy troops.

Because it is difficult to pull out the lance in a short time after stabbing the human body, and it is difficult to use in a crowd, just like it is difficult to use a spear in a crowded place.

In the first confrontation, Tong Mengchun's Eight Banners Knights were no match against Zhu Cihong's Western European plate armor knights. No matter how those Eight Banners Knights slashed with their sabers, the plate armor knights did not suffer any damage.

After all, they can be said to be armed everywhere on their bodies. As long as they don't stick out their necks and wait for you to chop them, you can't hack them to death with a knife.

Eqina is an ordinary vest in Zhenghongqi, Manchuria. He has been around for many years. Because he has no connections and cannot flatter others, plus he is not very skilled in martial arts, he is still a vest in his thirties now.

Seeing that the comrades in front of them were knocked away by the cavalry who were covered in steel, or stabbed to death with horse-cutting swords, but their sabers could not leave a trace on the bodies of those iron men.

Echina swore it was the scariest scene he had ever seen in his life.

Many ants can kill elephants, but with so many fighters, they have no choice but to watch them kill them.

Although the Eight Banners warriors are not afraid of death, let alone fighting powerful enemies, no one would want to participate in a hopeless battle.

Since Chengding, Echina has come to Han with the banner owner many times to plunder. The Han, Mongols, Sheng Jurchen, and Korean Bangzi can be said to have experienced many battles, and they have fought against troops with some combat effectiveness in East Asia.

But they have never encountered cavalry with such a terrible defense, almost invulnerable.

However, the firearms troops were all among the infantry of the Han Army Banner. They were mostly Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry, so they did not have weapons that could break through these plate armors.

Watching the Eight Banners Knights standing in front of him fall down one by one, and the Rakshasa ghost-like faces of the plate armor knights became more and more clear, Echina realized that he would soon fight the plate armor knights.

If there is no accident, he will be like his fellow robes, causing no harm to the plate armor knights, and will be ruthlessly cut down to the ground in the end.

As soon as Ezina realized that he couldn't just lose his life in vain, no matter what the final result was, he just wanted to survive on this battlefield.

But if you run away alone, you are a deserter, and if you run away together, you will be blamed.

So Eqina took off his cotton armor, raised his arms and shouted, "Brothers, the iron men of the Han army are too powerful. We cannot die in vain. Let's take off our cotton armor and leave together."

His words touched the hearts of everyone present. Facing these invulnerable plate armored cavalry, no one had the courage to fight against them.

Although everyone knows that their physical strength is limited, and they will be too tired to move if they can't kill many people, but no one knows when they will run out of strength, and no one wants to be a living target that consumes the enemy's strength.

The Eight Banners soldiers are also human beings, with one shoulder against one head.

"Let's stay out of the way for now, and it won't be too late to come back after a while and kill all these Han people." An Eight Banners soldier who had the same idea as Echina also said.

Most of the Front Banners soldiers also had the idea of ​​fleeing when they heard what they said, but they didn't dare to act without authorization until they saw Echina fleeing back with a few familiar friends.

Most of the Eight Banners soldiers who had the idea of ​​fleeing then turned their horses and retreated north or west.

As for the small number of Eight Banners soldiers who didn't want to retreat and wanted to fight to the death to kill those Han cavalry, it was up to them to do anything at this time.

In a crowded army, no matter what most people do, the rest of them can only follow suit, because the large army can easily engulf a small number of people.

Seeing the scene of Eight Banners soldiers scrambling to escape, Tong Mengchun never dreamed that such a day would come.

"You are not allowed to retreat. You are the wolves outside the Great Wall, and they are the sheep inside the pass. As long as you are more vicious, you can eat them up to the bone and dross."

Tong Mengchun roared at the retreating Eight Banners Knights.

It's a pity that the defeat of the Eight Banners soldiers has become a foregone conclusion, and Zhu Cihong seized this great opportunity and pressed on step by step. Every minute and every second, [-] battalions of cavalry and Zhu Cihong's imperial guards and fire blunderbuss cavalry defeated the Eight Banners soldiers with fire blunderbusses. Cotton armor on the back.

Under the threat of death, no matter what you say, it will not work. Even if Tong Mengchun moves a golden mountain, no one may stop.

(End of this chapter)