On the east bank of the Lanjiang River, a thousand households of the Ming army watched the front troops on the other side of the river being persuaded to advance, and even the chains of crossing the river were cut, and the mood was like being uproared by dogs.

Where did these pseudo-Tang thieves come from?

Didn't you just say that the scout cavalry of the puppet Tang thief army had just arrived, why did more than a thousand puppet Tang thief troops emerge in a while?

At this time, he didn't have to guess at all, because the facts were already in front of him, and those pseudo-Tang thief troops must have arrived at the Lanjiang ferry early, and they were waiting for them to send someone over to die.

More than a hundred people, they all collapsed before they could hold on for a moment, and they didn't even wait for the reinforcements they sent to cross the river.

What now?

What else can I do, wait, anyway, continuing to cross the river is to send him to death, he naturally will not let the soldiers under him do indifferent deaths, but the more than 100 people who lost in front of him have to find a good excuse so as not to drag themselves down.

turned around and said to Shang Feng that it was the deputy Qianhu of the team leader who was advancing lightly, and he could just send a few people over to investigate, but the fool didn't find that the puppet Tang thief army was ambushed on the side and insisted on continuing to cross the river and venture forward, so that he was ambushed by the puppet Tang thief army, and even if he tried his best to rescue, he couldn't save it.

It's just that it's easy to shirk responsibility, but it's difficult to fight next.

The opposite side of the Lanjiang ferry has been seized by the puppet Tang thief army, and the chains have also been cut off, and if the follow-up brigade personnel want to cross the river, they can only make a raft on the spot and then forcibly cross the river.

And I don't know how many people will die when crossing the river like this, not to mention anything else, thousands of people from the pseudo-Tang thief army stand in a row by the river, and then shoot at the side that crosses the river, which will cause heavy casualties.

However, maybe the two bowl-mouth guns that the main force moved from Fucheng should be able to give the puppet Tang thief army a heavy blow, so as to reverse the crisis, the bowl-mouth guns of their own army are the real fire-fighting guns, and when they hit the past, it is simply a collapse of the heavens and the earth, and the momentum can be called a great change in the world, how can the small handcuffs of the puppet Tang thief army be compared.

It should be noted here that during this period, the firearm in the mouth of the Ming army was a general name, and all metal tubular shooting firearms could be called that, so regardless of whether it was a gun or a musket, in the mouth of the Ming army in this period, it was a firearm.

Specifically, the Ming army called medium and large-caliber firearms bowl-mouth guns, bowl-mouth guns, etc., and small-caliber firearms used by individual soldiers were called handguns.

So don't think that at this time, this Ming army Qianhu said that the guns of the puppet Tang thief army are handguns, and they think that this is a fool, thinking that the puppet Tang thief army is equipped with pistols, but people know that the guns of the puppet Tang thief army are not the kind of short-barreled pistols.

It's just a difference in title!

However, this difference in titles does not exist in the Datang New Army, there is no such name as a fire gun in the Datang New Army, only the names of muskets and artillery, and even the relevant types of troops are called musketeers and artillery, with some obvious distinctions.

This habit of title is naturally brought by Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages, as a modern person, you can't always play retro, you have to turn your familiar musket into a firecracker.

As for whether other people will get used to it, 99% of the Tang Dynasty are illiterate, and when they are not tall enough to pay attention to what habits they have, they will call Li Xuan whatever he wants.

At this time, Li Xuan didn't know that the main force of the Ming army also brought two bowl cannons, if he knew, it is estimated that before he came, he would have pulled out the artillery that was still in Huangzhu Mountain and was still being tested and manufactured to compete with the Ming army.

However, take a serious look at whether the artillery of the Ming army is as powerful as recorded in the history books, and a single cannon can erode the enemy camp for dozens of miles, killing and injuring countless people.

If this is the case, then he turned around and cut down all the craftsmen who studied and made cannons in Huangzhushan, and Nima has been engaged in it for a year and a half, and has made several sample cannons, and the first cannon will be blown up twice, not to mention the first shot, and after the effective firing range reaches 500 meters, it will not be able to go up alive or dead.

It's okay to have a longer range, but the accuracy is basically gone, and the shells will fall there in the end, so you can only rely on Meng!

You might be able to fly out into the skies!

In short, up to now, those craftsmen in Huangzhushan have not been able to come up with an artillery with an effective firing range of more than 500 meters, as for increasing the elevation angle to pursue the maximum firing range, that thing has no actual combat meaning, and Li Xuan has never liked these flashy data.

What's more, the gun that can shoot an effective range of 500 meters is too heavy, because the cannon manufacturing process is too poor, in order to avoid exploding, the barrel is very thick, in order to increase the accuracy and facilitate aiming to increase the effective range, the gun carriage is heavier.

In this way, a cannon weighing almost 1,000 catties was produced, and if this weight had been placed during World War II, it would have been possible to produce a 75-millimeter gun with an effective firing range of more than seven or eight kilometers.

Even if the age and technical factors are not considered, such an artillery is still too heavy for the Datang New Army, and it is not as good as the Franc machine imitated by the Ming Army.

What Li Xuan wants is not this kind of heavy artillery, as a battalion-level support artillery, the weight should only be a few hundred catties, and it is best to control it below five hundred catties, and then the effective firing range is naturally as large as possible.

Because the current scope of activities of the Datang New Army is in Zhengtai County or, if you enlarge it, it is Xingquan Mansion, and if you take 10,000 steps back, even if one day the Datang New Army makes a big deal and wins most of China, their scope of activity is still in the southern region with complex terrain and many mountains.

Therefore, for the battalion-level infantry support artillery envisioned by Li Xuan, the weight is a big threshold, and it is difficult to accept more than five hundred catties.

As for the heavier and longer-range artillery, wait until there are tens of thousands of people in the new army of the Tang Dynasty that day.

Now, there's no need!

And the artillery infantry of the Ming army did not make Li Xuan wait too long, and in the evening, with the arrival of the main force of the follow-up Ming army, Li Xuan finally saw the artillery brought by the Ming army!

"This is artillery?" Li Xuan looked at the big iron bump carried by the Ming army on the other side of the river, it didn't look like the artillery under his influence.

How to say it, this thing is like a tube, well, it still belongs to the kind of tube that is relatively thick and short, if it wasn't for someone else to prompt Li Xuan, Li Xuan is so far away, he may not be able to find and see that this thing is artillery.

At the first glance of this artillery, Li Xuan's first feeling was that this cannon was too LO, and calling it a cannon was simply an insult to the words 'God of War'.

Or the trial artillery made by himself in Huangzhu Mountain looks handsome!

But since the Ming army has taken out the artillery, if he doesn't take out an artillery, wouldn't it look petty?

Immediately, he waved his hand and said, "Immediately send someone back to Huangzhu Mountain and pull my big Italian cannon over!" ”