Jiumen River Defense Line.

Tong Tulai, dressed in fine blue armor, patrolled along the Jiumen River, and from time to time shouted at the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery battalion behind the earthen wall: "Everyone cheer up, hurry up and build bunkers to prevent the Ming barbarians from firing artillery!" ”

Tong Tulai is forty years old, with a triangular face, a collapsed nose, and a large shelf, and he feels obviously not the same person as when he pretended to be a grandson in front of Dolgon before.

In addition to the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery battalion in the middle section of the Jiumen River, there is also a North Korean Zhengbai Flag, Dongying inlaid with red flags, two Han Army Zhenglan Banners and two Jiala, a total of 20,000 people, jointly guarding the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery array.

As Mao Yuanyi expected, Dolgon set up three lines of defense on the Liaoxi Corridor of more than 100 miles from Shanhaiguan to Guangning Qiantunwei, relying on the terrain.

These three lines of defense are basically composed of cannon fodder flags, not Manmeng cores, so Dolgon feels that he can afford this cost.

Strictly speaking, Dolgon didn't really fight the Tianwu Army, so he was very confident that his two yellow flags could completely beat the Tianwu Army.

In Chongzhen's twelve-year war, the Eight Banners Army went south, only Dolgon retreated, and secretly Chen Cang went to the city of Beijing, and sold Babu Hai to successfully withdraw from the Guanwai, which led to him thinking that he was ahead of Zhu Cihong in IQ.

Later, in the Liaodong War, Dolgon watched the whole play, and sat and watched Huang Taiji's wings being stripped off by the Tianwu army, and the only time he shot was to quickly take Yizhou and kill the Ming general Jin Guofeng.

All of this is the capital of Dolgon's self-confidence.

Wuzhen Hachao's artillery battalion followed the Jiumen River defense line, arranged some Hongyi cannons and Franc machine guns in some favorable terrain, and built earthen walls and trenches in front of the gun emplacements to restrain the artillery of the Ming army.

The dress of the sergeants of the Dongying Banner and the Korean Flag was no different from that of the Han Army, and they all wore cloth armor, and the cotton armor at this time had not yet been popularized on a large scale, and only the elite of the Manchurian soldiers could afford to wear it. (Until the reform of the Qianlong period, the army's standard armor was basically unified into cotton armor)

Several Manchurian Jialazhangjing in the artillery array, the shelf is larger than Tong Tulai, and the sense of superiority is very strong, and a thin Jialazhangjing patrols along the artillery array, shouting and kicking the surrounding Han army and Dongying army from time to time.

This Jialazhangjing, who had a few scars on his face, was named Ehui, who was a native of the Manchurian Yellow Banner, and when Dolgon changed the two yellow flags to two white flags, he turned around and became a positive white flag.

Fortunately, his old boss Ao worshiped his acquaintance, and when Emperor Shenxing seized the throne, he took refuge in time and depended on it, and afterwards he became the owner of the white flag on his merits.

Whether it is the Manchurian Yellow Flag or the White Flag, they are all genuine Tartars, and the beaten Han army and Dongying soldiers dare not speak out, so they have to curse secretly.

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old Han Army Qiqi Ding was kicked, resentful in his heart, and after retreating swaggeringly leaving, he said in a low voice: "Dog Tartar! ”

E Fei turned his head sharply, looked at him for a moment, with a hint of curiosity on his face, and pointed at him: "You kid looks familiar, what's your name?" ”

The young flag Ding said without changing his face: "The villain Cui Xiang, I have met the adults in Fushun Laozhai a few times......"

This young man is Cui Xiang, who picked ginseng at the beginning, during the Liaodong War, Huang Taiji levied strong men all over the country, and all men over the age of 14 enlisted in the army, and he was only 12 years old at the time, and he was forcibly dragged away by the retreat.

At that time, E Fei killed his mother and threatened to kill his father Cui Yingtai, Cui Xiang could only go with them, the hatred of killing his mother was not shared, and in the past five years, Cui Xiang has not been able to forget the face of the enemy.

There were too many people who had been killed by Ehui, and there were even more Han army bannermen who were forcibly recruited, he looked at it again and again, and he really couldn't remember what intersection the young man in front of him had with him.

E Fei suddenly said with a gloomy face: "What did you just say?" ”

Cui Xiang hurriedly put on a smiling face, nodded and said, "Adult, the villain was just greeting the adult, and he said that the adult is good." ”

"Oh?" E Wei was a little suspicious, he touched his beard, and suddenly asked: "Before joining Wuzhen Chaoha, were you the Shenyang defender of the Ming Kingdom?" ”

Cui Xiang hurriedly knelt down, with a sad and indignant look on his face: "My lord, during the Battle of the Hunhe River, the villain was captured by the Ming army, and after three years of labor reform, he was incorporated into the Liaodong Army to garrison Shenyang, fortunately, the Qing Emperor of the Holy Ming Dynasty recovered Shenyang, and the villain was able to gain freedom, return to the Eight Banners, and become a glorious artilleryman in the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery battalion......"

The doubts on E's face gradually receded, and he turned to a look of relief, he nodded, and said: "You are very good, work hard to kill the Ming army, and perform well in this chapter to carry the flag for you, and accept you as a coat!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" Cui Xiang kowtowed again and again, his voice full of excitement.

E Hui laughed, touched his little beard, and then walked away and continued to inspect the artillery array.

Cui Xiang, who was kneeling on the ground and burying his head, suddenly condensed his eyes, his eyes were full of ferocity that he had never seen before, and when he got up, a smile appeared on his face again......

"Woo! Woo! Woo! ”

The trumpets sounded, and a tide of men and horses poured out of the Ming camp, all of them wearing orange cloth armor, which looked very dazzling from a distance.

Zhu Youneng and Zhou Xingyao led 6,000 Ming Zheng Yellow Banner warriors to attack the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery array of the Qing army in Jiumen River in two ways.

Zhu Youneng rode his horse and raised his sword to charge forward, and shouted in his mouth: "Brothers, kill the Tartars!" ”

In the earth-shattering call, thousands of Manchurian soldiers did not feel anything wrong at all, and shouted one by one, they took firm steps and pressed towards the Qing army's Wuzhenchaoha artillery array, and everyone competed to be Baturu.

Seeing that the warriors of the Jurchen tribe were so heroic, a tidal wave of cheering erupted in the Ming army: "them!" You guys are the best! ”

On Weiyuan City, Zhu Cihong looked at the yellow flags that were swarming up, looked at the time on his pocket watch, and said to Wei Wu Bo Wan Junjie: "Let the Shenwu Army blast battalion move forward, and directly destroy the Tartars." ”

Wan Junjie's face was filled with joy, His Majesty was finally going to use the artifact of the Shenwu Army!

He nodded heavily, solemnly clenched his fist at Zhu Cihong, flicked the scarlet cloak behind him, turned around and strode away.

Zhu Cihong looked at the rest of the generals again, and said slowly: "Let's go and prepare, after the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery battalion is finished, let go of the fight!" ”

The iron armor was slammed, and all the generals shouted in unison: "The last general will take the order!" ”

The demolition battalion in the Shenwu Army uses flowering bombs, also called grenades, that produce explosions.

Flowering bombs first appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, and flowering bombs were also used in the Ming army, but the flowering bombs and the flowering bombs seen in later generations are two different things.

The flowering bombs used in later generations, the projectile explosion produces fragments and shock waves that can blow up the little brother, at this time, most of the flowering bombs used by the Ming army are mainly poison bombs, which are filled with wolf venom, asphalt, arsenic and other substances, and they explode to produce poisonous smoke.

Historically, the Qing Dynasty inherited the flowering bullet technology of the Ming Dynasty, and when the Kangxi Dynasty pacified Zhungeer, the Eight Banners Army used the flowering bullet to deal with Galdan's camel formation, and hit Ge Erdan.

However, this kind of flowering projectile is very difficult to operate, and the fuze technology is immature, which is very dangerous, and it is not possible to self-detonate, and ordinary artillery does not dare to play at all.

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Europeans also learned to make flowering bombs, and their fuse technology was not mature, so they did not dare to play, and in the eighteenth century, flowering bombs were disliked by the whole world because of their immature technology and high cost, and basically no one used them.

Until the Napoleonic Wars, the most equipped was still solid shells, accounting for about seventy to eighty percent of the total ammunition ration and use of each team, followed by shotguns, which together accounted for more than ninety percent of the ammunition ration and total amount, which shows how unpopular the flowering bullets are.

But this problem, under the guidance of the great Emperor Tianwu, the Ming Military Industry Research Institute quickly solved it, and created a spontaneous combustion fuse, which does not need to be manually ignited by the fuse, and is ignited directly when the cannon is ejected.

This technique is not difficult, and all the things of the new fuze are also very ordinary, that is, a woodpipe, after Zhu Cihong popularized physical science, but anyone who has a little study of friction, drag and other mechanics, the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau who manufacture artillery shells have no problem understanding it.

The artillery that fires flowering shells in the Shenwu army is not the Hongyi cannon, but a large-caliber mortar cannon, which can fire both solid and flowering shells.

To deal with the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery formation behind the trenches, the Hongyi cannon has limited effect, and it cannot open the flower shell, so it can only use mortar guns (mortars) with large firing angles, low muzzle velocity, and high arc ballistics.

Because the firing range of the mortar cannon was only two or three miles, in order to avoid being destroyed by the fire of the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery battalion during the arrangement, Zhu Cihong ordered Zhu Youneng to take the Zhenghuang flag to fill it up to attract firepower.