Chapter Seventy-Four: The Drums of War Beat
Seeing this, Yang Miaozhen couldn't understand it at all, she turned her head and asked Lei Jiaotou, what are those people doing.
Lei Jiaotou explained: "They are firing muskets, and the things in the hands of these people are called muskets, and the tubes are filled with gunpowder, and they put in lead, and when they poke it with a fire rope, they can ignite the gunpowder, and if the gunpowder is burning, they can spray out the lead and kill people." ”
"Listening to the details, the lead spewed out by this musket can hit thirty steps, but the power is not great, and it can't even penetrate the bamboo board, but the sound is terrifying."
The Song Dynasty already had gunpowder, but the formula was not very scientific, the power was not great, and most of the time it was only used as an incendiary agent, so gunpowder could not make the Lei Jiaotou make a fuss.
In order to confuse the opponent, Chen Xian asked the soldiers to practice musket shooting into two types, one is to practice in peacetime, only one-third of the medicine is loaded, which is for everyone to see, and the other is secret practice, which is to clear the field before practice, and when practicing secretly, it will be filled with all medicine.
After the separate exercises, Chen Xian gathered the two teams together and conducted some tactical drills, such as offensive drills, defensive drills, and defensive counterattack drills......
Two hours passed quickly, Chen Xian disbanded the team, the canteen in Zhuangzili also opened, and the teenagers went back to change their armor, carried their wooden rice bowls, and walked into the canteen in twos and threes......
Knowing that there would be no more training in the afternoon, Yang Miaozhen took everyone and spared a big circle in the woods, away from Xiao Zhuangzi, before leaving the woods and returning to East Zhuangzi.
After returning to Zhuangzi, Yang Miaozhen changed into armor, went to the Yang family military village to summon the Yang family Zhuangding, and went straight to the north gate of Zhuangzi.
Outside the north gate, Yang Miaozhen immediately announced that he would break up and reorganize the five hundred minions and Yang Jiazhuang Ding, and several of the leaders of the minions heard that the position was not guaranteed, and they showed their dissatisfaction, so they were taken down by Yang Miaozhen without hesitation, and killed on the spot, and made their heads into Yang Miaozhen's tools to deter minions.
This time, Yang Miaozhen had to move seriously.
After the reorganization, Yang Miaozhen talked to Yang Yuanwai in detail again, knowing that Yang Miaozhen was going to use his own family funds, coupled with the threat of leaving if he didn't agree, and the guarantee of returning it when he ran out, Yang Yuanwai had to open the Yang family's arsenal and let Yang Miaozhen choose.
Rummaging through the Yang family's arsenal, Yang Miaozhen put together more than 40 sets of iron armor for his own Zhuang Ding, and the Zhuang Ding of the Yang family in Yidu originally only had a long time, and Wu Chang could wear armor.
With the iron armor, Yang Miaozhen transferred the backbone of his own Zhuang Ding, matched it with the iron armor, and inserted it into the five hundred minions to serve as the skeleton.
After almost emptying Yang Yuanwai's arsenal, Yang Miaozhen replaced most of the minions with better weapons, and asked Yang Yuanwai to make many rudimentary shields and equip them.
A few days later, when the Bai family's reinforcements came, the minions that had been beaten and reorganized were already under the control of Yang Jiazhuang Ding, and they already had a bit of appearance.
Through the Huo family, the Bai family spent a lot of money to invite Peng Yibin, one of the generals under the command of Liu Erzu, a giant of Mengshan.
Peng Yibin brought a team of fifty armored horses, two hundred elite soldiers, and five hundred minions, which was much stronger than the strength of the Yang family.
However, after seeing the soldiers of the Yang family, Peng Yibin was startled, thinking that the Yang family had sent six hundred elite soldiers, and later he was relieved when he heard that it was the minions who changed their clothes and reorganized.
Yang Miaozhen wrote a booklet of what she had heard and seen in the past few days and sent someone to Peng Yibin.
After reading the booklet, Peng Yibin also went to investigate it himself, and after he came back, he also forced Bai Yuanwai to open the arsenal and change the equipment for his subordinates like Yang Miaozhen.
By the time the two of them had finished training the team that had changed their clothes, it was already half a month later.
After the training team, Yang Miaozhen and Peng Yibin made an appointment and led the team to the new Zhuangzi.
The gate of the new Zhuangzi is open on the south side, but the gate with the wooden fence outside is open on the west side, with the back to the Beigou River.
The new Zhuangzi did not install a gate at the opening of the bar, but sealed the door with two rows of rejecting horses.
Yang Miaozhen and Peng Yibin agreed that Peng Yibin would attack the gate of the Zhuangzi first, and the Yang family army would press the south of Zhuangzi, and wait until Peng Yibin attracted the defenders of Zhuangzi to the past, and then the Yang family suddenly launched an attack on the south of Zhuangzi, destroying and uprooting the Deletion Column as quickly as possible, and going straight to the gate of Zhuangzi, it is best to seize the gate before the other party reacts.
When the two armies arrived to the south and west of the new Zhuangzi at about the same time according to the appointed time, they were surprised to find that the defenders of the Zhuangzi had poured out.
The rejection horse in the gate on the west side of the fence was quickly removed, and a team of soldiers ran out of the fence gate, and the strange phalanx that Yang Miaozhen had seen when he was scouting quickly appeared outside the fence gate.
On both sides of the gate, on the inside of the bar, forty or fifty half-grown children, holding what was called a musket, were lying on the ridge below the bar.
On the south side of the deletion column, there are also more than 30 half-grown children with muskets, lying in the deletion column, only leaking out of the top of their heads.
Seeing this scene, Yang Miaozhen's first thought was that the people in this Zhuangzi were crazy.
After this period of continuous investigation, it is no secret how many people there are in the Zhuangzi, and these people in front of them are already the entire strength of the Zhuangzi, that is to say, the Zhuangzi is empty now!
Could it be that this Chen Xian is actually a lucky madman? The impregnable Zhuangzi did not defend it, but pulled the team out to fight a field battle with an enemy ten times his size? What do you mean?
But soon, Yang Miaozhen threw away her guesses, now was not the time to guess the riddle, there was only one thought left in her mind, "Opportunity, this is a great opportunity!" "As long as you can break up this strange military formation, this Zhuangzi will be taken!"
Yang Miaozhen didn't say a word, threw the infantry to the deputy, leaving only one sentence, "As soon as the military formation in front of the gate of Huizhai is dispersed, you will lead people to rush up, tear down the railing, and go straight to the gate of Zhuangzi...... Be sure to take the gate of Zhuangzi. ”
After that, Yang Miaozhen took his cavalry generals across the Beigou River and rushed towards Peng Yibin's team.
Watching Yang Miaozhen leave in a hurry, Yang Yuanwai, who insisted on coming to watch the battle, couldn't help but be inexplicable and dumbfounded.
Peng Yibin, who was in formation to the west of Zhuangzi, also began to react, and the cavalry that was originally hiding behind the infantry suddenly bypassed the infantry formation and formed in front of the infantry formation.
Seeing the Yang family's cavalry rushing over, Peng Yibin's team was a little commotion, and he quickly scolded and pressed down.
Yang Miaozhen stopped the cavalry thirty meters away from Peng Yibin's cavalry, and ran towards Peng Yibin alone, and Peng Yibin also crossed the formation and greeted him.
In fact, when Yang Miaozhen saw Peng Yibin suddenly line up the cavalry in front of the infantry formation, and Peng Yibin saw Yang Miaozhen leading the cavalry to run in a hurry, both sides already knew that the other party had the same idea as themselves, and they both felt that this was an opportunity to break the village in one fell swoop.
After the meeting between the two sides, Yang Miaozhen's first sentence asked: "Could it be a trap?" ”