Chapter 228: The Train is the City

The army rested for a day and continued to follow the trail of the Watts to the west.

In Yang and Weidong, meet the main force of the tile spur.

At this moment, the Tile Thorn army is besieging Yang Hewei.

Yanghewei and Tianchengwei are both guards in the northeast of Datong. If these two guards are pulled out, there is no need to be afraid of some other small forts.

In addition to Yunchuanwei in the southwest of Datong, the fence near Datong was mourned.

The tile spurs may not necessarily attack Datong, but it is not difficult to put on a strong attack posture at all.

Moreover, compared to the Tiancheng Acropolis, outside the cities of Yang and the Acropolis, Datong City must be preserved by the imperial court. It is also the bottom line in Meng Ying's heart.

Without him, with the ability of the tile spur, if they don't break through Datong, they will be untenable in Xuanda, but once they break through Datong City, they can't say, the tile spur army will not leave this winter.

Therefore, the attack of the tile spur army on Datong is both virtual and real, if there is really no one to take care of Datong, it is impossible to say that it is necessary to touch the city defense of Datong first.

But now that Meng Ying is here, she naturally has other thoughts first.

And Meng Ying began to approach the first army all the way, but it was offensive and defensive, called attack, but in fact it was defense.

Of course, the arrangement of both sides will change according to the changes of the other.

It seems that at this moment, he also sent someone to send a letter and a woman's clothes to Meng Ying.

What was written in the letter, Meng Ying didn't look at it at all, and tore it directly, as for the woman's clothes, she threw them directly into the brazier, and the messenger of the tile thorn didn't see it, and still came at her own pace.

The army regarded the outer tile army as nothing, and went towards the sun and the city step by step.

However, the external confrontation between the two sides is becoming more and more intense day by day.

A large number of tile spur cavalry did not hesitate to press, and the Ming cavalry also gathered in a group, mixed in the brigade of infantry, and did not dare to fight alone.

Baoding Hou Mengying's expedition, an ancient brain recruited the entire gallop system.

Because although there were many chariots among the infantry of the Ming army, in general, the Ming army had the cover of cavalry, and the chariots played a small role, and could only be used as a means of transport.

But now the cavalry advantage of the Ming army can not be brought into play, so Baoding Hou Mengying has a lot of needs for the battlefield in order to protect the needs, but where are there so many chariots for a time.

Only the Chi Road system has developed well in recent years, Mercedes-Benz in Beijing to Xuanfu, from Xuanfu to Datong, from Beijing to Datong these three lines of carriages have never been less, and in order to increase capacity, the carriages of Chi Road are double horses. The load was very large, so the army could eat three months' worth of food, which was loaded on the wagons and supplied to the army.

If it weren't for the existence of a large number of carriages, Meng Ying would not dare to march like this. From a distance, except for the elite armor soldiers, the Ming soldiers and subordinates did not walk except in key places, and most of them were on horse-drawn carriages.

On one or two carriages, spears, firearms, bows and arrows were fixed, and there were five or six soldiers on a carriage, and it seemed that the carriage had become the most basic combat unit of the Ming army. There is even a series of carriages with cannons on them, although they are not large, but they can still be scattered within a few dozen paces, and they can still hit a large area.

Between the teams of carriages, there are gaps, and some gaps are blocked by armor. These armorers are all wearing heavy armor, spears and swords, and before the armor, they are naturally firearms.

These notches are also staggered. That is, in order to get in, the horse team must make several turns.

This is the rule set by Emperor Taizong, and the Shenji camp is in front.

The so-called Shenji Battalion certainly refers to the Shenji Battalion among the three major battalions, and also refers to the firearms soldiers in each unit.

And such a formation, of course, has the credit of Meng Ying, and even has the Daming Divine Machine Battalion as the team, but it can't be created.

After all, the various firearms and guns on the carriage are only survived by the Shenji Battalion, and only the Shenji Battalion has such a large number of operators.

Meng Ying just moved the Shenji Battalion to the car.

The wagons were like moving ramparts, and if the spurs wanted to rush to the middle, they would have to break through the three-carriage convoy. As long as the tile spur cavalry dared to enter the gap in the carriage convoy, not to mention the casualties, the Ming cavalry dared to fight reflexively. Under the fire from both sides, and in the narrow passage that was forced by the carriage, the numerical superiority was brought into play, and it was besieged from several sides, and there was no chance of victory at all.

But Meng Ying's arrangement is not without problems.

The biggest problem is horses.

Although Meng Ying brought the galloping system in one go, as for the pack horses in other aspects, they all brought over. The horses of Meng Ying's entire army, plus the war horses of tens of thousands of cavalry, have exceeded 100,000.

These pack horses are not war horses.

Although Meng Ying made a lot of preparations, such as stabbing the horse's ears and putting a blindfold on the horse, there was still no complete guarantee that during the battle, there would be no mess because of the problem of these pack horses.

Therefore, once the cavalry of the tile spur brigade appeared, the first order of the Ming army was to stop, place the pack horses, and not allow them to move.

However, in the face of this situation, the Tile Thorn army has long been prepared.

Their preparation is nothing but fire.

The brigade of Tile Spur cavalry roared past dozens of paces away from the chariot, one rocket after another shot at the carriage, and there was a piece of stone stained with fire oil or flammable material that was hung by the Tile Spur soldiers with a long rope, and after igniting, they shook it away, and then let go, and this fireball fell on the carriage or under the carriage over a space of dozens of steps.

Whether it fell on the carriage or under the carriage, it was enough to pose a threat to the Ming army.

Whether it is for transportation or ballast the warehouse, so as not to let the carriage be easily pushed down, the carriage on the periphery is heavy-loaded, and there is more grain on it.

It's just that the Ming army used firearms a lot, and the amount of gunpowder in the army was also quite large.

Neither food nor gunpowder are flammable, and even if they don't fall on the wagon, if they fall on the horses, the situation is not much better.

These pack horses are not war horses, they don't have the ability to endure complicated situations, and once they are burned by fire, even war horses are very sensible and listen to orders.

After all, no matter how smart a horse is, it is still a beast. It's hard to resist an instinctive reaction.

Not to mention, the Tile Thorn cavalry cleverly chose to attack upwind, as long as they lit a carriage, the carriage flames would burn inside.

Although there is a gap between the carriages, if there is a strong wind, it will not have the effect of burning the company's camp.

However, it is not easy to do this.

In the most confrontational shooting, it was the Tile Spur cavalry that suffered more losses.

Compared with the sharpness of the Ming army's firearms, you may not be able to feel it from a distance, but dozens of steps before the formation are within the range of fire, not to mention that among the Ming army, firearms are not prevalent.

Even if Zhu Qizhen has built a lot of firearms, the whole Shenji Battalion doesn't like it.

It's not that the quality is bad, it's relatively produced by Shaofu, not only Zhu Qizhen is staring, Liu Ding is in charge, and the quality has never been a problem. The problem is that the Shenji Battalion feels that the power of the fire gun is too small.

The Ming army likes to use cannons, the kind of small cannons that can be carried away. There are also rockets that can be beaten one by one, like a swarm of bees, and white tigers are running together.

This line of thinking is the experience gained from the time of shooting at the nomads in this way. In the West, the musketeers pursued to shoot farther, and the Ming army preferred small cannons that shot wider. It is in this situation that the artillery can exert the greater power of the firearm.

Of course, the Ming army later had such a trend, also because the quality of the Ming army's weapons and equipment became worse and worse.

The quality of the firebolt is much worse than that of the Tiger Squat Cannon, after all, the Firebolt needs to be a little more fine, but the casting requirements of a small cannon like the Tiger Squat Cannon are much lower than that of the Firebolt.

In terms of quality, it is easier to blow up the gun, but the gun is not used, after all, the gun is too heavy to be lifted, and this kind of small cannon is placed on the ground, and the weight is not so sensitive.

Therefore, the excellent fire guns that Zhu Qizhen ordered Shaofu to fight were useless at all.

The two sides exchanged fire for two hours, and there were many casualties. The Ming army looked much more miserable, several wagons caught fire, and several pack horses were frightened, but they were killed immediately and did not cause any greater problems.