Chapter 595: Nanjing Wu Dewei captures Beijing Wu Dewei
The shield wall of the chariot was meaningless in front of such a huge arquebus......
It does stop birds.
But the bird gun used most by the Ming army was actually two-money bullets.
More than seven grams!
Eight grams of nine-millimeter Luger pistol bullets!
Moreover, the propellant is only one penny and two dollars, and the bullet fired is only three or four hundred joules, and the slightly larger three-coin bird gun is only 11 grams of bullets and 11 grams of propellant, and the power of this little thing is almost the bottom of the arquebus, and there is no penetrating power at all.
Anyone on the European battlefield who did not carry an arquebus with more than 20 grams of ammunition was embarrassed to go out.
The cavalrymen's short guns were all thirty grams of bullets.
Such a bullet is different.
Huge bullets, all of which were about to catch up with the ripening grapes, instantly pierced the shield wall, and then slammed into the soldiers who had already begun to flee with the splinters that were sprayed backwards.
The latter has plate armor.
But the half-body armor of the Liaodong infantry was used to defend against Jiannu bows and arrows.
These 15 mm plates of armor could not stop these huge bullets, even if these bullets had pierced a nearly thick iron plate and five centimeters of pine wood before, but the huge kinetic energy still allowed them to instantly penetrate the layers of plate armor again, and then hit the soldiers to the ground.
And what was originally a rout turned into a complete collapse.
In fact, these soldiers are very aware of this result, they themselves use the turtledove gun, how can they not know that their chariot can't stop this weapon at all, the chariot is the anti-Jiannu bow and arrow and the Eight Banners Korean bird guns, even Sun Yuanhua didn't think of using it to prevent the turtledove. But it is impossible for Sun Yuanhua to improve the protection of the chariot, because just these five centimeters of pine planks are already more than 100 catties, and after adding the iron plate, it has reached 200 catties.
If you continue to thicken to block the turtledove bullets, then multiply by at least three, because the turtledove can easily penetrate twenty centimeters of pine planks.
In addition, the vehicle itself had to prevent rollover and bear the weight and load of weapons......
That's got to be a thousand pounds.
Anyway, it can still be maneuverable?
Therefore, Sun Yuanhua himself did not think of using a chariot to block the musket of the Jingnan army, it was just a bullet to prevent long-distance shooting, after all, he did not think that the Jingnan army could go to seven zhang with bullets and shells.
Seven feet!
A three-coin bird gun could have broken through the shield wall.
On the battlefield of Liaodong, the turtledove is strong, the Ming army is thirty zhang and began to shoot shield cars, generally to twenty zhang when the Eight Banners of North Korea should run away, the Eight Banners Manchuria is brave, and the sky can also push the shield car to ten zhang, but who would have thought that an army that does not even have a shield can withstand cannonballs and bullets until it is almost face-to-face before firing?
Therefore, the soldiers, who knew this result, saw that the Jingnan army was aiming seven zhang away, and immediately began to rout.
But even so, they still couldn't escape the thunderous blow.
When the Jingnan army behind shouted and charged, and even those spearmen began to rush into the gap in the chariot, the soldiers of the Liaodong Army who were fleeing in the rout simply raised their hands and surrendered......
It's not a big deal.
It's not that the soldiers of the Liaodong Army don't know who they're fighting with, this is Yang Dudu's soldiers, and many of them know Yang Dudu! The core of Sun Yuanhua's department is the military household recruited by the capital, who doesn't know Yang Dudu, although he was forced by the order to go to the battlefield to be the enemy of Yang Dudu, but basically all the soldiers have calculated, and the meaning is almost on the line, and there is no need to hesitate when it is time to surrender. How did Yang Dudu treat the prisoners, this has already been tested by the last battle of Wuxi, not only will he not be guilty but will pay the passage money home, so what are you hesitating about?
has been able to fight until now, and it is already worthy of the high military salary issued by the imperial court.
It's already worthy of conscience.
So in the end, the soldiers of the Jingyan Army, who were originally shouting and rushing through the shield wall and preparing for a bloody battle, were stunned to find that there was a surrender of their hands inside......
Xu An just held the musket with the bayonet on it, and looked at the smiling faces in a daze.
"This brother, brother, I am from Wu Dewei in the capital."
Recently, an officer raised his hands and nodded.
Xu An was depressed for a moment.
"Then what are you fighting?"
He said angrily.
"This brother, we all eat the imperial court's meal, and the officials can do whatever they want, and we don't want to fight with the Duke of Yingguo, the Mansion of the Duke of Yingguo is less than a mile away from my house, and we are also villagers, but we can only listen to the military orders of the imperial court!"
The officer said cautiously.
The other soldiers, who also raised their hands, nodded.
"Hurry up and clean up the battlefield!"
Xu An shook his bayonet and said.
"Quick, brothers, hurry up, first find out the injured and bandage it, by the way, this brother is from Nanjing, I don't know if it's a military or a civilian nationality?"
The officer said as he instructed his men to clear the battlefield.
"I'm from Nanjing Wu Dewei."
Xu An said gloomily.
Well, both of them are Wu Dewei's.
It's just that the officer was Wu Dewei who followed Yongle to guard Beijing, and he was Wu Dewei who stayed in Nanjing, and two hundred years ago, the ancestors of the two were still on the battlefield together.
In fact, it's not just them, the Second Army of the Jingnan Army, which is dominated by the Nanjing military household, and the Liaodong infantry with the Beijing military household as the core, many people have already had the same embarrassment at this moment. When Yongle moved the capital, in addition to the pro-army guards taken from Nanjing, the remaining dozens of guards were basically either divided into half or most of them, and then a guard with the same name was formed in the south.
Now the descendants of these military families who separated two hundred years ago are gathering in this awkward way on this battlefield.
However, even more embarrassing is Sun Yuanhua.
He was standing on the top of Dajian Mountain with Mao Yuanyi at the moment, holding a telescope and watching this scene in amazement......
"This, these things!"
Governor Sun's lips trembled and he squeezed out a sentence.
At this moment, two hundred miles away, Wu Xiang was also holding a telescope and saying the same thing to him......
"This, these things!"
Wu Zongbing's lips trembled and said.
At this moment, he is leading his cavalry army to rush to Guzhen at full speed, this small town that is still only a town is the only way for Yang Xin to go north, because Yang Xin also needs water transportation and supplies, and Guzhen is the key point of water transportation on the Huhe River.
But what drove him crazy was that from the moment he left Suzhou, a group of guys like maggots with bones appeared next to him......
Cavalry of the Jingnan Army.
Or Yang Xin's dragoons.
The two cavalry brigades had been wandering on both sides since they left Suzhou, stopping from time to time to harass them.
"Governor, we can't catch up with them, these dogs don't wear armor at all, and they don't even bring spears and shovels or anything like that, they're very light!"
His subordinate said.
In the distance, the cavalry of the Yasukuni Army, which had just finished attacking, was withdrawing.
These cavalrymen, who had no armor and even had green uniforms, were simply not worthy of being called cavalrymen, they were like a group of horse thieves, relying on almost no extra load, plus the horses were carefully selected, and they simply came and went like the wind and kept rushing to their side. Then they stopped and fired at them on horseback, and instead of short guns, the cavalrymen used flintlock muskets, which were only slightly shorter than the infantry pikes, and they still shot with good accuracy at a distance of twenty feet.
Wu Xiang's subordinates are all capable of conquest and are well-equipped.
But they carry a lot of weight!
Half-body armor is the minimum, spears, knives, and some like to bring iron maces, two short spears, and three handles, these add up to dozens of catties, even if the war horse is the same level, those with dozens of catties will definitely not be able to chase with a musket and a knife.
If the latter musket has a longer range, it will be more playful.
"Here we go again!"
Suddenly there was a shout from behind.
Wu Xiang hurriedly turned his head, and then saw a piece of dust rising in the distance, and he immediately waved his hand.
The general immediately greeted him, and hundreds of horsemen followed him.
But the green-clothed cavalry who had already appeared in their field of vision stopped on the spot without hesitation, quickly lined up in a line, and raised their guns on horseback one by one, and when the cavalry rushed to about twenty zhang, everyone over there pulled the trigger. A few horsemen fell from their horses, and then everyone on the other side turned around and rushed back as fast as they could to the dust they had stirred up, and a few of them, who were obviously too hateful, turned around and whistled mockingly at the back.
And the Liaodong iron cavalry here, because of the speed of the war horse, couldn't catch up with them at all, so they could only chase them out for a while like venting their anger, and then turn around and return, lifting the dead and wounded companions on the ground and putting them on horseback.
"They don't want us to go to Guzhen first."
The general said.
"Order, go forward at full speed, don't care if there is any more attack, they don't dare to approach left and right, as long as we go to Guzhen first, they will be helpless!"
Wu Xiang said.
His order was given immediately.
The more than 8,000 horsemen who were marching along the main road immediately increased their speed.
"Brigadier, what should I do?"
On the high slope in the distance, Ai Nengqi, the commander of the first brigade and the first battalion of the Jingnan Army, who was overlooking them, turned his head and asked the brigade commander who was holding a telescope beside him.
"What else can I do, go to Guzhen, and prepare to guard there until the army arrives!"
The brigade commander said without hesitation.
This is the main use of the dragoon, this pure mounted infantry, the role is to rely on the advantage of mobility, interspersed in the battle to seize the key points, and then stick to wait for the follow-up main force, as for the attack along the way is also one of the uses, but the real cavalry engagement is definitely not good, if it is cavalry against cavalry, these light cavalry who have just been trained for half a year are simply the goods of the Liaodong iron cavalry.
"Let's go, go to Guzhen!"
Enengi immediately turned back and shouted behind him.
Then he turned around and rushed down, and behind this mound, the torrent of three thousand dragoons immediately began to rush south......
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