Meng Chong softened, the problem of coal was finally solved, and the coal pig iron was smelted out, Wang Xuan had already made a lot of semi-finished products of the thunder and fire dragon chariots, and as soon as the pig iron came out, the samples of the thunder and the fire dragon chariot were quickly formed.

A few fire dragon chariots and hundreds of thunderbolts are not enough to deal with tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry, but it is enough to practice the formation and try the actual combat effect.

Meng Chong seemed to be very unconvinced, and always wanted to send someone to ride a fast horse to the capital to complain, but the person he secretly planted had already been targeted by Yang Cong, as long as he dared to send a fast horse to the capital to report the news, he was designated to be stopped and beaten violently, and the horse was confiscated for him.

At this time, Yang Cong didn't have time to care about this dead eunuch, he just wanted to quickly train the elite of Xuanfu Town and the soldiers of the 3,000 battalion to deal with the next attack of the Tartars.

Early in the morning, before the dawn, he hurried to the newly built school ground, ready to observe the elite of Xuanfu Town and the drills of the soldiers of the 3,000 battalions.

At this time, thousands of soldiers had already gathered in the school field, and there were several brand-new fire dragon chariots in the middle, Zhu Xizhong, Qi Jingtong, Tang Kekuan, Yun Mao and other generals were all around the fire dragon chariot, listening to Tang Shunzhi and Zhao Shichun's explanations, looking happy and convinced.

Seeing this, Yang Cong couldn't help but smile knowingly, it seemed that he was right to branch Li Fengming, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, if the old man was there, it was estimated that he would not be so honest.

After all, Li Fengming is a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and it is strange that Tang Shunzhi and Zhao Shichun, who have never been on the battlefield, can listen to him honestly.

Yang Cong smiled and stepped forward to say hello to the generals, and then stared at the fire dragon chariot with interest.

This fire dragon chariot is really majestic, the height is about a zhang, people riding on war horses are not as tall as it, in front of it is a thorn shield composed of several iron plates, which is covered with spikes of about a foot, which looks like a hairy heart, and behind it is a box like a carriage, and the arrows can't hurt the people in the car at all.

If this guy is pushed up in rows, the Tartar cavalry will probably vomit blood, and there will be dense spikes in front of him, even if the impact of the war horse is strong, it is useless, and he must be killed if he collides with it.

He looked at it carefully for a while, then nodded with satisfaction: "Well, yes, let's start practicing." ”

When Zhu Xizhong heard this, he hurriedly ordered Qi Jingtong to prepare behind the chariot, and then ordered Tang Kekuan to take a horse to the opposite side of the school field to lead his cavalry to act as a Tartar iron cavalry.

Soon, Qi Jingtong commanded twenty-five soldiers to come behind the five fire dragon chariots, the weapons of these twenty-five soldiers were very simple, that is, four spears, one musket, the four pikemen all stuck their spears behind them, and each two of them held on to the handlebars, and the musketeer climbed into the chariot, half-squatting and stretched out the barrel of the gun through the hole in the front of the chariot.

This side had just been prepared, and more than 100 horsemen had already rushed over, and the rumbling hooves were like a dense drumbeat, and the whole earth trembled slightly.

Qi Jingtong raised his hand without hesitation and said, "Form a shield wall and charge." ”

When the twenty pikemen heard this, they shouted in unison, "Kill! ”

Immediately, the five fire dragon chariots were pushed into a row and rushed forward in a neat manner.

In a blink of an eye, the distance between the two sides was close to about three hundred steps, and Qi Jingtong shouted without hesitation: "Musketeer, ignite, shoot." ”

With a flickering burst of fire, a puff of light smoke rose from all five chariots.

Faint to death, what a shot!

Before Yang Cong could say anything, a few gunshots rang out, and there was really fire here.

Strangely, there were no casualties among the cavalry rushing from the opposite side, and they all untied their longbows from their shoulders one by one, bent their bows and arrows, and "swished" was a shot.

Seeing this, Qi Jingtong ordered unhurriedly: "Stop, dodge." ”

"Puff puff", the brackets under the handlebars were inserted into the earth, and the twenty pikemen all crowded into the back of the car with a bang, and stood in a row close to the wheels.

At this time, a rain of arrows just came down, but there were still no casualties, and all the arrows were basically blocked by the fire dragon chariot, and they couldn't shoot the pikemen behind them at all.

Qi Jingtong then ordered: "Musketeers, get out of the car, throw thunder, pikemen, get in the car, and take out the spear." ”

The musketeers in front of them hurriedly jumped out of the car, took out a thunderbolt, lit it with a fire breaker, and threw it neatly, while the pikemen in the back jumped on the chariot and stretched their spears out of the hole in the front of the chariot.

Now, there are more spikes in front of the chariot, not only about a foot of iron spikes, but also about two feet of spears, which are telescopic and contractile, so that they are not scary.

Seeing this, Yang Cong couldn't help but be dumbfounded, is there any mistake, really throw the thunder, the musket fires at a distance of more than two hundred steps, as long as it doesn't hit the vital point, it may not kill people, this thunder is an indiscriminate attack, "boom" explodes, the iron needle will fly everywhere, what if it pierces someone's eye or throat or something?

He was worried about casualties, "boom, boom, boom", a few thunderbolts that were thrown out really exploded in the air!

However, the strange thing is that the cavalry that rushed over still did not suffer any casualties.

Immediately afterwards, the cavalry rushed to the fire dragon chariot, and they pretended to slow down and slashed in front of the fire dragon chariot for a while, and Zhu Xizhong raised his hand and shouted: "Stop, count the casualties." ”

As he gave the order, the two sides stopped shouting and killing.

Qi Jingtong immediately stepped forward to roughly inspect it, and then reported loudly: "Report, there are no casualties on the defending side." ”

Tang Kekuan ordered all the cavalry to dismount, carefully searched the body and the war horse for a while, and reported again, and then he ran over on his horse and reported: "Report, the attacker has roughly suffered eighteen minor wounds, three seriously wounded, and about six horses. ”

This guy, Yang Cong looked at the red mark on his body, and roughly understood, maybe the thunder was not filled with iron needles at all, but with some red powder, otherwise, this guy would probably be hanging the lottery.

He stepped forward and asked again, only to find out that the gunpowder in the musket was not very sufficient, and about 200 steps was not lethal at all, but the bullet was also wrapped with a layer of red powder to count the casualties.

However, this casualty seems to be a bit insufficient, a hundred cavalry rushed over, only more than 20 people were injured, and it was difficult for 10,000 elites to block 40,000 or 50,000 Tartar cavalry in the field.

Sure enough, Tang Shunyi on the side heard the result, and immediately shook his head and sighed: "No, this casualty is too small, once the Tartars open a few gaps in the car formation, we will definitely lose a lot." ”

This is indeed a problem, there is no artillery, the number of muskets is not enough, even if there is a fire dragon chariot, it will not be able to stop four or five times the Tartar cavalry!

What to do?

Yang Cong's brows couldn't help frowning, this effect, even if the elite of 10,000 Xuanfu Town is equipped with the Thunder and Fire Dragon Chariot, the Tartars are coming, they will still be defeated, and there are too few long-range attack means on their side.

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