My Daming New Empire

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They thought that the Ming army would bypass them, but they didn't expect that they would directly meet them.

And Zhang Xin and the others knew that this was already half of Delhi's military strength. As long as they were disabled, even if the Delhi people did not flee, their deterrence to neighboring countries would be greatly reduced.

On September [-]th, in the Monoherpur Valley, [-] miles south of Shahpur, [-] Ming soldiers stopped after occupying a small hill, facing the invisible Delhi soldiers.

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Ten thousand versus 20, Zhang Xin actually had some fear in his heart, but he just concealed it well.

As the chief generals, this situation of "weakening the enemy's masses" was deliberately done by them to attract all the enemy's troops.

At this time, he couldn't help but escape.

What's more, now they have 1 people, with [-] horses, and the opponent's cavalry will never exceed [-], and there are good and bad.Even if you can't fight, can you still not run?

Unlike Zhang Xin, Mu Xin's heart was full of excitement at this moment.

Born in Prince Mu's Mansion, as a member of Ming Dynasty's most favored family with different surnames, Mu Xin has heard many stories of her elders fighting on the battlefield since she was a child.

In his heart, he might not have the urge to go to the battlefield himself.

However, as the youngest son of the family, he was raised in the capital since he was a child, and later became a princess, so there was no chance for him to go to the battlefield.

If Zhang Xin led the team, he would never dare to fully trust the other party. If he led the team himself, he would not dare to deliberately attract troops so arrogantly, with 20 against [-].

But now all those who are in charge of military affairs are students who graduated from Habayashi Guard School, and the team is led by the first batch of graduates of the Jiazi Battalion.

They used to fight in Mobei and in Dongpu, and they always used the few to win the many, and the weak to win the strong.

With the blessing of muskets, they will not be afraid of any enemy, even if the opponent has the most troublesome elephant soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

In the past few decades, Daming has fought against Pegu, who also has elephant soldiers.

Bago people like to use people to ride elephants, and then fight against Ming soldiers.They were condescending, using stones, spears, and elephants to stampede, causing heavy casualties to Ming soldiers at the beginning.

But Ming Dynasty's heavy crossbow and fire attack can also directly cause heavy casualties to the soldiers.

But the people of Delhi are different. They don't use elephants to fight at all, but use military formations as units, and there will be 22 elephants in front of each camp.

When the battle begins, the opponent will drive the elephants to attack. Such huge elephants are indeed unstoppable when they charge in groups.

But for this point, Daming has long been prepared.

Since muskets began to equip the entire army, Daming's attack formation has changed from an army formation to a skirmish formation.

They use two teams as a unit, ten people form a small team, and a pawn of 120 five people forms a medium-sized square formation.

This phalanx does not need a strict formation, it only needs a phalanx of 120 people to be able to echo each other.

There were five other men who acted as messengers, one of whom was responsible for blowing the horn in the field of gunshots, and the others were responsible for delivering more precise orders.

Then the five soldiers formed a brigade, led by a thousand generals. When fighting in the Ming Dynasty, there were corresponding supply and logistics troops. However, in this western expedition, there were only 570 combat phalanxes of five people.

This is already the largest combat formation of the Ming army today. The original division-level combat formation has been eliminated due to the popularity of muskets, and has only become a simple management unit.

Tens of thousands of people, boundless.

The more than 1 cavalry of Ming Dynasty seem to be a lot of people, but facing the opponent's 20 troops all over the mountains and plains, they seem insignificant.

As for the two thousand guides and servants sent by the small Indian countries, it is good for them not to hold back at this time.

"Commander Chang, you are better at commanding musketeers than the two of us. This command operation is all up to you."

Chang Fuliang looked at the other two commanders and saw that they had no objection, so he said without hesitation: "The enemy soldiers are many and powerful, but in the eyes of the general, they are chickens and dogs. The only way to deal with our army The threat is the enemy's elephant soldiers, but the elephants are stupid. Once they are released, they will not obey the command. We just need to avoid their impact. Therefore, please order the commander to send two thousand cavalry to attract the opponent to drive them The elephants, in which direction the elephant soldiers will disperse, and we will determine the direction of attack."

Zhang Xin looked a little nervous, looked at the endless enemy army, and asked, "Don't you need to feed the soldiers and dig trenches first?"

Chang Fuliang was the first Habayashi Guard to follow Zhu Zhanji. At that time, the Habayashi Guard School was also called Youjun, and he was the third person after Chen Li and Zhang Fengshan.

Chen Li was now promoted to the commander of the Habayashi Guard, Zhang Fengshan became the deputy head of the Habayashi Guard, and Chang Fuliang was also assigned to the Shenji Battalion as the commander.

From the ninth year of Yongle, this year is already the 19th year of Yongle. He has received the influence of the latest war for ten years, and has educated more than 2000 soldiers of Habayashi Guards.

With such background, even though he was facing Zhang Xin, he was still not timid at all. "My lord, although the enemy army is numerous, it is the defending side. Although our army is small, it is the attacking side. Because of this, we must attack flexibly and seize the initiative.

If we passively stick here, become the target of the enemy, and lose our mobility, then even if we have muskets, we will not be able to reach the enemies all over the mountains and plains.

As for eating, when sending 2000 people to attract the attention of the other party, you can arrange for each army to eat first. "

"Okay, order Jingyuanwei and Mengshanwei to have two thousand commanders, each leading an army, from east to west, all the way from west to east, forming a fan shape to attract the enemy's dispatch."

Jingyuanwei and Mengshanwei were all recruited from Mobei.They have fought against the Mongolian people for a long time, and they are the most proficient in riding skills, which is the most suitable for attracting the enemy.

With the beating of military drums, the banner was erected, and Zhang Xin's order was conveyed to all armies.

When Jingyuanwei and Mengshanwei were dispatched, the other soldiers took out their dry food bags one by one.

The dry food bag contains packs of oily noodle cakes, which are fried with flour, sheep oil, and seasonings.After frying, use a pack of straw paper dipped in hot sheep oil for every half a catty, as long as it is placed in a dry place, it can be kept for half a year.

After the sheep oil is cooled, it can also be semi-set when immersed in the oil surface.

When eating, you can eat it dry, then drink water, or add hot water for brewing when conditions permit.

But at this time, of course, there is no such condition. Everyone eats a few mouthfuls of oily noodles, and then drinks a few mouthfuls of water from the cowhide water bag.

Most people are full after eating half of it.

The Ming soldiers eat a lot because of the lack of oil and water.But this kind of oily noodles is not short of oil, so half a catty of oily noodles will usually get greasy if you can't finish it.

Mengshanwei went from west to east, and Jingyuanwei went from east to west. The two long dragons were like swimming snakes, and they did not start to attack in a straight line.

The people in Delhi obviously didn't expect that as soon as Daming's soldiers appeared, they started attacking before they formed their formations.

They originally wanted to take advantage of the unsteady footing of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty to test it first, but now they don't have to worry about it at all.

In the eyes of most of them, no matter how powerful the Ming people's weapons were, with only [-] cavalry, it was impossible to beat them.

When they heard that Daming only sent [-] cavalry to attack them, they couldn't help feeling amused.

100 years ago, the Mongols sent 2 cavalry from the Chahatai Khanate to attack Delhi, but the entire army was wiped out. 8000 people were directly killed, and the remaining [-] people were all gathered and trampled to death with elephants.

And their heads were used to build Derry City.

This time, the city walls of Derry City can be strengthened again.

Seeing the cavalry rushing forward, they released 88 elephants from the four camps.Under the guidance and command of their trainers, these elephants dash forward.

But this obviously couldn't hurt the Ming army. Seeing the direction in which the elephant soldiers were attacking, the cavalry immediately adjusted their direction to avoid the impact.