Chapter 169: United
The escape distance of more than 100 miles from Yongping to Luanzhou is always felt by today's Houjin army.
Tired, hungry, scorching, and exposed to the sun again, many Jiannu were inevitably drowsy, and many people had hallucinations, and their minds came to the Liaodong Snow Field, thinking of their wives and children at home, and many former executioners had burst into tears.
Every time the hardy Jiannu launched a large-scale war, it was in the cold winter.
Because fighting at this time, wearing cotton armor and iron armor plus sheepskin cotton jacket, the protection is the best, and as long as the feather arrow is not fired directly within thirty steps, there is basically no damage effect.
There is also a huge advantage of fighting in winter, in case the possibility of wound infection is also very small, as long as the treatment is timely, there is no fear of life.
Jiannu, who likes to go out to plunder in the ice and snow, hates fighting in summer the most, because he can't wear cotton armor, and the hot taste of iron armor after being exposed to the sun is so unbearable.
If the injury is more troublesome, the likelihood of infection is extremely high, and the wounded who die of a high fever often end up in agony.
Hundreds of defeated soldiers of the Houjin army bypassed Yongping City and ran north, and a few seriously injured Jiannu couldn't hold it anymore and fell off their horses, causing a burst of exclamations.
No one cared about the wounded soldiers who fell from their horses, because the Houjin army had been experienced in battle for a long time, and knew that those who could not hold on to their horses at this time had no chance of survival.
The Houjin army, which was already at the end of its rope, didn't know that it would take another pass in the north of Yongping City to really escape.
Huang Yizhou brought less than 600 people to line up at the foot of the mountain to face the direction of the official road, of which Song Pengfei's firearms unit had a small 300 men and horses, and they had 92 bird guns, 15 guns, and 56 wheelbarrows.
Originally, Xiao Song's men and horses only had 77 bird guns, but just yesterday afternoon, Huang Yong sent people to send the latest 15 bird guns, which undoubtedly increased the strike capability of the firearms unit.
At present, there are 112 people, that is, 30 people who are full of guns, and 82 people have bird guns, among which Zhao Kun, Wang Gensheng and other seven people with shooting talents are two bird guns.
Song Pengfei is a senior officer above 100 households, not in the quota, he is even more polite, with three loaded birds.
At this time, fifty-six wheelbarrows, including the gun-carrying loader, were all equipped with three poles of ash and spears, pointing diagonally forward, and these wheelbarrows were surrounded on three sides, and the frontal width was forty paces.
Because it was a formation with a mountain back, the infantry formation had no depth, only twenty paces wide, which meant that the cavalry crashed into the infantry position in vain, and the horses could not run at all.
As soon as the cavalry lost speed, the infantry could stab the cavalry to death or stab the horses to death with a one-foot-and-two-foot ash pole spear.
Now this small military formation is united, the guns and bird guns have been loaded, even the miscellaneous servants have put up their spears on guard, and each of the hundred young soldiers has a Ming army bird gun used for training in their hands, and at this time the gun is stuffed into the mouth of the gun.
Huang Han had not yet formed his own industrial system, and even a workshop-style arsenal had not been established, so it was a hassle to even get gunpowder for training.
In the absence of its own mass production of bird guns, it can only be trained by the trainees using inferior products that will explode if they are not guaranteed.
Of course, the practice of loading is the mainstay, and the standard amount of gunpowder cannot be fixed when firing live ammunition, and the safety of loading half of it is still not a problem, but the range cannot reach 80 steps, so the targets used in training are about 30 steps.
In the future, the bird gun will design a bayonet, and now the teenagers also have a bayonet, but there is no position for the bayonet installed on the Ming army's bird gun, so they can only temporarily choose to stuff it into the gun tube and press it tightly.
In addition to the bayonets, the young cadets were also issued with a decapitator, which, as the name suggests, is the most convenient for cutting off the head.
The 100 junior soldiers did not equip them with miscellaneous servants, and the 20 wheelbarrows they owned were all on a rotational cart system.
Implement the consciousness of the young cadets to do their own and have enough food and clothing, put an end to the old man's style, let them start by learning to push a wheelbarrow, then learn the formation, learn the culture, and other quality of the bird gun equipment troops, these teenagers should also be able to go into battle to kill the enemy.
Today, these ignorant teenagers appeared on the battlefield for the first time, not to let them fight, but to let them see the cruelty of war, and finally when the battlefield was cleaned up, they would harvest and reap the harvest.
These surviving orphans who were massacred by the Houjin army participated in beheading, received nationalist education, learned culture, and learned how to kill people efficiently from an early age.
I think that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took the orphans in the army and the descendants of the generals and officials into one army, called the Tiger Ben Army, I am afraid it is no more so.
The newborn calf is not afraid of tigers, and in the face of the upcoming battle, no one among the teenagers is afraid, everyone is so excited that their faces are red and sweating profusely, but some of the infantry who have no experience in killing the enemy face-to-face are a little nervous.
Obviously knew that burying 30 catties of gunpowder and detonating it in a pile of rocks would blow up the Jin soldiers on their backs, but Song Pengfei, who had experience in playing bombs, did not set up explosive points on the official road.
That's because there are two reasons, one is that there is really not enough gunpowder, and the other is that because the enemy does not know when the enemy will arrive at the explosion point, the burning time of the arquebus is not easy to control.
The gunpowder he got from Liu Zhilun in Zunhua was only about 200 catties in stock due to the number of live ammunition shots that strengthened the bird gunners and gunners during this period, so that Huang Han did not use the gunpowder blasting mode to seize Yongping Mansion City.
The main reason is that Huang Han knew that as long as the Ming army began to attack the city, Amin would flee nine times out of ten, and the secondary reason was that in order to save gunpowder, it was necessary to ensure the use of guns and birds.
Black powder used to blast a city must not be less than 200 catties once, and the amount of gunpowder is enough to fire a gun three or four thousand times.
Moreover, gunpowder blasting Yongpingfu City needs to blow up at least two city gates of the outer city and Weng City, which means that at least two blows up, if the city gate hole is blocked, I am afraid that two times may not be enough.
In order to reduce the dependence of the "Red Banner Army" on blasting and capturing the city, and also because the gunpowder in their hands was not enough to seize the city of Yongpingfu, there was also a consideration to reduce the damage as much as possible, and they could not risk blowing up the gate building of Yongpingfu to attack the city that the enemy knew was about to abandon.
The "Red Banner Army" adopted the traditional mode of the Ming army to attack the city of Yongpingfu, and the effect was better than expected.
Now the bird-bearers and gun-bearers who participated in the firepower covering the city were reloading on the way to Jiannu's northward escape, and dozens of these people had experienced several actual battles, and they were no longer rookies, and everyone was full of confidence in the upcoming ambush battle.