The shield car, the Eastern Capture was defeated one after another, and finally stopped being arrogant.

The shield cart, which was previously the most effective defense against artillery and muskets, has once again reappeared.

This old fox is still much more stable than the young man.

Like other banner owners, such as Duoduo Yuetuo and others, when they confronted the Ming army, they now disdain to use shield chariots at all.

In the end, they all died under their own arrogance.

Although the chariots captured in the East were inspired by the Ming army, their combat ideas and chariot designs were completely different from those of the Ming army.

It can be said that the Eastern Capture Chariot was invented for purpose, used to restrain the Ming army's firearms and firearms tactics.

When Nurhachi set up eight banners against the Ming Dynasty, there was a lack of firearms in the eastern captivity.

In the face of the Ming army's firearms, whose range and power exceeded that of bows and arrows, the Eastern Capture was at a disadvantage.

How to get the Eastern Cavalry to approach the Ming army to shoot bows and arrows became a difficult problem for Nurhachi to solve, so the shield chariot came into being.

For the chariots captured in the east, the Ming Army Department has this description:

"The card is very thick, a layer of cowhide, a layer of iron, the small masonry does not move, the big masonry rolls down, and the firewood is not burned."

The design of the Eastern Capture Chariot was simpler than that of the Ming army, and the main structure was a huge wooden plaque erected on a two-wheeled vehicle.

One cart can move and shelter twenty people. The wooden plate uses a 25-inch thick wooden plank, and pastes iron sheet and cowhide on the wooden board to form a three-layer composite structure, which can be said to be a kind of composite armor.

The Ming chariots only had to defend against bows and arrows, and the wooden planks they assembled were very thin, usually only 1 inch thick planks.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the light car designed by Ye Mengxiong was even only 6 minutes thick in order to reduce weight.

From such a stark contrast, it can be seen that the Eastern Capture Chariot is more focused on defensive functions.

The 1617th-century heavy arquebus could penetrate 4 mm iron plates, but was powerless against the shield chariot of this level of defense.

It is obvious that neither the bird guns nor the three-eyed guns used by the Ming army could penetrate the chariots of the Eastern Captivity.

Secondly, as the opponent of the Eastern Captivity, the Ming army often faced a dense charge of the Mongol cavalry.

Therefore, the Ming army preferred to use light artillery with a fast rate of fire in the use of artillery, such as light artillery such as the Furlong machine and the Tiger Squat Cannon.

And the Ming army often used shotguns that spread over a wide area and could hit a single enemy.

Qi Jiguang even referred to the breech-loading smoothbore cannon of the Furlong machine, and transformed the original general gun of the Ming army to make an "invincible general cannon", which can shoot 500 lead shots with one shot.

The Ming army often did not use large artillery to fire at a distance, but instead hid the cannons that fired shotguns in the formation.

The Mongol cavalry did not fire until it was close to a very close distance, in order to pursue the effect of "striking twenty zhang horizontally" with one cannon.

Unfortunately, the shotgun could not break through the chariot.

With chariots that could effectively resist the firearms of the Ming army, the Eastern Capture could rely on the chariots to advance to the Ming army's battle formation.

Archers, infantry, and cavalry could hide behind chariots, and when approaching the Ming army, archers could hide behind the chariot and shoot at the Ming army.

The infantry could take the opportunity to rush out and rush into the Ming camp to knock down obstacles such as Ming chariots and antlers, and the cavalry rushed out from behind to disrupt the Ming formation.

The battle of the use of chariots in the Eastern Capture is most typical of the Battle of the Daling River, which occurred in the fourth year of Chongzhen.

At that time, Zhang Chun, the supervising army, rescued the Daling River, and this Ming army car battalion had a field battle with the Eight Banners.

According to the records of the Eight Banners on the month, the infantry battalion of the Ming army "dug trenches in a phalanx, and stood with guns and guns", and the Ming army used cars as camps, digging trenches and cubes, and platoning guns and firearms to resist the Qing army.

So Huang Taiji ordered the Eight Banners Battalion to line up in front of the battle, and the Swing Tooth and the Mongolian cavalry lined up behind the formation, and the battalion pushed the chariots forward, followed by the horse infantry.

Although the Ming army "fired cannons like hail and arrows rained down", under the cover of the chariots, the eastern captivity army approached the Ming army, and the horse infantry rushed into the Ming infantry phalanx, and the Ming army was finally defeated.

It can be seen that the use of chariots in the Ming and Qing dynasties has its own characteristics, and they are all targeted weapons and tactics created and invented in a specific period based on their own conditions and the enemy they face.

With the introduction of Western military technology, the military technology of both sides has made great progress.

Combat vehicles, a unique tactical weapon, are also gradually being phased out.

Especially when the Eastern Capture possessed the latest firearms of the Ming Dynasty brought by the rebel general Kong Youde, the Hongyi artillery, and the corresponding firearms tactics.

The Eastern Capture no longer needed chariots to cover the Ming army's firearms in front of the formation, because the Eastern Capture could also bombard the Ming army with artillery.

The Ming army could also use the Hongyi cannon with a longer range and higher accuracy to launch a strike on the Eastern Capture camp.

So in the battle of Songjin in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the Ming and Qing dynasties each took out dozens of cannons in Rufeng Mountain and fought a vigorous artillery battle.

The day after the war, the Ming army cleaned up the battlefield and picked up more than 400 shells of only seven or eight catties.

Later, as the Ming army became weaker and weaker, the Eastern Capture gradually disdained to use the shield car as a defensive equipment.

Dai Shan still doesn't know that his second son Shuotuo was killed by the Ming army again.

He rode on a tall horse, and his other two sons, Mandahai and Hakdahu, were at his side.

Dai Shan slowly drew out the scimitar and ordered:

The shield cart stepped forward to consume the Ming Dog cannonballs, and the siege ladder advanced behind, and once it got close to the city wall, the siege immediately began.

"Chirp"

The herald agreed, and immediately passed on the siege order.

After receiving the siege order of Prince Li Daishan, the shield chariots captured from the east began to advance towards the city wall of Liaoyang.

At the same time, the siege ladder of the eastern captivity was also introduced, and this siege ladder was not a simple cloud ladder.

The siege ladder is by no means the simple wooden and bamboo ladder that we often see in film and television works, that is, the director is fooling people

Attacking a city with that kind of wooden ladder not only suffered heavy casualties, but also made it difficult to succeed.

There were also high-ranking people in the military camp of the Eastern Exile, and in order to deal with the city walls of the Ming army, they began to dig out their minds and modify and upgrade the old-fashioned ladder trucks in the past.

First of all, to the top of the ladder, add two sharper iron hooks, once this kind of big iron hook hooks hooked the city wall of the Ming army, the hook tip can be deeply hooked into the wall crack of the city head.

Not to mention that the Ming army in the city was difficult to pry, even if it was to withdraw the ladder after the battle, it would take a lot of effort.

Next, guardrails were added on both sides of the ladder, and on top of the guardrails, raw cowhide was covered to protect against enemy arrows and artillery.

After this kind of ladder was designed, it was called a tube ladder.

The cylinder ladder was used in several siege battles against the Ming army in the Eastern Captivity, and it really exerted great power.

The Ming army once used fire to attack and burned many of the barrel ladders captured in the east.

But it takes at least a quarter of an hour to burn down a ladder that has been splashed with water.

And from the tube ladder to the head of the city, to the east to step on the tube ladder to kill the Ming army's city wall, one minute is enough.

The reason why this powerful ladder withdrew from the battlefield was not because it was afraid of fire during the siege and was repeatedly burned.

But there is a more important reason, that is, the supply of cowhide is not available.

You must know that to make a ladder that can be used by several people in parallel during the siege of the city, at least hundreds of high-quality cowhides are required.

In order to prevent arrows, stones and imitation fire, the cowhide must be superimposed in several layers, according to the capture of a city of the Ming army in the east, calculated by the loss of thirty ladders.

The fall of a city was equivalent to the loss of 3,000 ploughing cattle, which were precious even in the east.

This chapter is a bit watery, mainly to let you understand the situation at that time, the Eastern Capture did not blindly rely on cavalry to rush.