Three miles away in the Houjin army array, Yue Tuo, who was riding on a horse, silently looked ahead, from this distance to see the battlefield, the human body was as small as ants, Yue Tuo saw that his assault troops had all been like ants in front of the Shunyi army formation. He did not send reinforcements, because of Yang Ming's scruples about the range of the iron gun, his large array was not placed at a distance of about one mile in front of the enemy as in the previous battles with the Ming army, but was far away from three miles, which made the subsequent reinforcements slow and difficult.

"His army is strong." Yue Tuo said lightly, turning his head to look at Hauge.

According to the experience of fighting against the Ming army in the past, the Houjin army rushed forward with this wave of 200 iron cavalry, and the Ming army of 1,000 people would soon collapse, and Yue Tuo was sure that the Ming army would be completely defeated with less than 20 casualties. But the situation in front of him was obviously not like this, not only did the Ming army on the opposite side not collapse, but also dared to rush out of the position and fight the Houjin army, which made Yue Tuo feel quite surprised.

"He's just relying on an iron hammer." Hauge said hatefully, "Ulai's army was also routed by his iron guns. ”

"No one told me that his iron guns could shoot in rapid bursts." Yue Tuo looked at Hauge and said.

Hauge thought for a moment and said, "Last time, the two hundred men led by Ulai were escorting more than a thousand prisoners and property, and the team was scattered, and the most people who could meet the enemy head-on at the same time were no more than twenty or thirty people, and they couldn't force him to use a rapid burst of fire, so we don't know. ”

Yue Tuo didn't continue to dwell on this issue, but said to himself, "His battle formation is also very large, I don't know what the reason is?" ”

"Ten years ago, I followed my father and ancestors to fight with the Ming army in Salhu, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the Ming army's North Road, Ma Lin, lined up in Shangjian Cliff, ten times the number of him, but the position of the knot was only slightly larger than his current position."

Speaking of this, Yue Tuo's gaze became deeper, as if he was recalling the eventful years of the past, and as if he was pondering the mystery of Yang Ming's battle formation.

The battle of Salhu ten years ago he said was a major battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty in March of the 47th year of Wanli (1619), in which the Ming Army's Fourth Route Army and the Korean and Yehe allied forces totaled more than 100,000 people, against the Later Jin Army of Nurhachi Commander More than 60,000 people, the Ming Army was finally annihilated, and the military battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty changed the offensive and defensive situation. At the time of this battle, Hauge was only a ten-year-old child, and it was obviously impossible for him to participate in the war.

"Is Yue Tobel afraid of this brute?" Hauge provoked Yue Tuo.

Yue Tuo's face changed when he heard this, and he was about to have a seizure almost immediately, but he finally endured it, after all, Haoge is the eldest son of Huang Taiji, although Yue Tuo's personality is a little impulsive and irritable, but he is not going to have a dispute with Haoge over a word.

"Ignite the fire and give the order, and the two armies of Baltai and Daisonga will attack from the left and right flanks!" Yue Tuo turned his head and ordered the leader beside him, "The whole army is in formation, ready to attack!" ”

Taking advantage of the interval between battles, Yang Ming rode a horse around the position, and at the same time cheered up the troops. The horses' hooves galloped unhurriedly, and everywhere they went, the eyes of the sergeants gathered in unison, and the crowd resounded with cheers.

Yang Ming nodded to the sergeant while observing the defense around the position, the two wings of the Shunyi army dug a trench one zhang wide, about four feet deep, the trench is an inverted triangle, this is to save earthwork, the frozen soil in winter is not so easy to dig, if dug at a right angle, it will be twice the workload. The soil dug out of the trench is piled up along the trench to form a low earthen embankment, and in some important defensive areas, the earthen embankment is close to the side of the trench with a wooden fence, because a trench wide is not enough to stop the horse's charge and jump, and the earthen embankment plus the wooden fence can suppress the horse's jump, so that it cannot jump over the trench.

Later, the Jin army lit firewood and wheat stalks on the slope, and the flames rose with thick smoke, sending an attack signal to the troops outflanking the Shunyi army.

"Brethren, the Tartars will soon be attacking from all sides!" Yang Ming raised the loudspeaker and shouted, "How many of them come, how many of us kill, do you have confidence?!" ”

"Yes!" The soldiers roared in unison, and the forward assault team of the Houjin army was completely annihilated in the first engagement just now, and the morale of the Shunyi army was booming at this time, and the previous fear of the Tartar soldiers had been swept away.

"Wan Sheng!" Yang Ming roared again, turned the horse's head, and returned to the Chinese army in the neat and majestic roar of the soldiers.

The main force of the Houjin army, which was full of swords and guns, slowly advanced in front of the Shunyi army, and they were not in a hurry to charge, but were waiting for a breakthrough on both flanks.

Two miles away from the two flanks of the Shunyi army's position, the cavalry and chariot teams of the Houjin army appeared, and these cavalry and chariots lined up in a cross formation, rolling towards the Shunyi army's position without hurry.

"They were going to fill the trenches with heavy infantry and then charge." Yang Ming smiled at Yun Qiu and said lightly.

Yun Qiu snorted, she knew that this was the traditional way of fighting of the Houjin army, in the battle of Salhu, Nurhachi faced the three heavy trenches of Marin, that is, he first sent 500 heavy infantry to fill the trenches and destroy the wall, and then used cavalry to charge and kill.

"The grenadiers are all assigned to the flanks and the rear, ready for battle!"

Yang Ming gave an order on the walkie-talkie, and then took out a pair of oakey goggles and put them on, the yellow-red lenses reflected colorful light and shadow in the sun, this goggles can not only protect against wind and sun, but also against gunpowder residue when shooting.

"You're really armed to the eye." Looking at Yang Ming's handsome appearance, Yun Qiu couldn't help but praise it.

"No, according to later generations, it is called armed to the teeth." Yang Ming smiled, took off the goggles and put them on Yunqiu's face.

"Yunqiu, you can wear it too, it's more comfortable to wear it and shoot your eyes."

Yun Qiu looked up and looked around behind the self-tinting lenses, the soft visual effect of wearing glasses made her feel very novel.

"Yunqiu, you're so beautiful!" Yang Ming praised from the bottom of his heart, "In my previous era, you could be a supermodel with your figure and appearance." ”

"The old era? Supermodel? Yun Qiu raised his head and looked at Yang Ming in confusion, the yellow and red lenses on his face reflected the clouds in the sky.

"This ......, hehe......" Yang Ming took out another pair of goggles and put them on himself, reached out and pinched Yunqiu's buttocks, "Do we look like Mr. and Mrs. Smith?" ”

Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the masters of gunplay in the American blockbuster movie of the same name, Yun Qiu naturally couldn't understand, and without waiting for Yun Qiu to ask again, Yang Ming stepped over to the shooting table, moved the 249 machine gun in a different direction, and began to shoot accurately at the Houjin Army attacking from the right flank.

The cavalry of the Later Jin Army stopped, and the caravan continued to advance, and at the front of these carts stood several inches thick wooden carts covered with cowhide and iron sheets, which were a kind of earthen tanks in this era, and an important weapon for the Later Jin Army to defeat the enemy.

In the battle of Nurhachi to capture Shenyang, the Houjin army not only used chariots in the siege of the city, but also used a large number of chariots in the field battles with Chen Cesuo, the Ming army who came to support Shenyang. According to the records of the "Manchurian Record", the Ming army under Chen Ce was dressed in cotton armor lined with iron armor, armed with spears, broadswords, and sharp swords, and was also equipped with a large number of firearms. In the face of such a well-armed Ming army, Nurhachi immediately ordered Yougushan to transfer the chariot and heavy armor to the front line. However, the Red Swing Tooth Lama under the command of Nurhachi was anxious to fight, and fought with the Ming army without waiting for the arrival of the chariot and heavy armor soldiers, and suffered heavy losses. After the arrival of the chariot and heavy armor soldiers, the Houjin army turned defeat into victory and eliminated Chen Ce's Ming army.

In the famous Battle of the Daling River, the Houjin army relied on the chariot to approach the Ming army's car camp, and fired guns and arrows at the Ming army at close range to defeat the Ming army. Prior to this, the Houjin army's long-range artillery bombardment, cavalry assault and cavalry attack on the Ming army failed to defeat this Ming army.

Because of the pivotal position of the chariot, Nurhachi even set a military order that "if the enemy does not have a chariot, do not go to war", and he once punished his generals for not carrying a chariot in battle. The chariot played an important role in the battle between the Later Jin and the Ming army, and was the secret weapon to resist the firearms of the Ming army.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, in order to make "the country perpetuated", for reasons of secrecy, a large number of downplayed the role of the chariot in the historical books, and declared that cavalry and archery were "the foundation of Manchuria, the priority of the banner people", and described the Qing army as an army that relied on heavy cavalry and elite infantry to fight, and it was by "skillful archers and horses" and "brave in battle, not afraid of death" that won the victory over the Ming army.

Dozens of chariots lined up in a row to roll forward towards the flank of the Shunyi army, each chariot was followed by more than a dozen heavy infantry, half of the infantry carried dirt bags on their shoulders, they had to advance to the trench of the Shunyi army under the protection of the chariot, fill the trench with soil bags, and then break into the position to fight, if necessary, these chariots can also be pushed directly into the trench, as a trench filling equipment.

As the 3XAG triple lens behind the red dot lens in P4 pulls up, the target image in the lens instantly zooms in, and the red dot moves up and down the target image to stabilize, and then gently pulls the trigger.

The queue of the Houjin army began to twist, and the bodies of the heavy infantry who fell to the ground physically and psychologically affected the advance of the chariots, and their marching speed was uneven, and the battle line that had been advancing parallel became curved. As more infantry armor fell, Hou Jin Bing understood Yang Ming's firing position through the direction of gunfire and bullets, and the infantry queue that was originally hiding behind the chariot in a vertical direction began to line up diagonally, and the direction of the diagonal line was facing Yang Ming's shooting table. In this way, from Yang Ming's line of sight, these infantry were completely hidden behind the planks of the chariot, but in the eyes of the sergeants defending on both flanks of the Shunyi army's position, these Houjin infantry armor and chariots were lined up in a ridiculous oblique formation, coming towards them like herringbone geese.

"Damn, this formation, think you're a wild goose." On the walkie-talkie, Duan Side, deputy company commander of the Chinese Army Company, scolded, causing a burst of laughter from the officers.

Yang Ming also laughed, he brought the machine gun to the left side of the shooting table, and concocted the queue of the rear golden car attacked by the left flank of the position, and after a burst of aim, the rear golden car queue on the left flank also became a wild goose shape.

"Yunqiu, you go and shoot on the left flank."

Yun Qiu nodded, rushed out of dozens of meters horizontally with a HK416 rifle, and ran to the earthen embankment behind the left wing trench, her Oakey goggles changed in color in the sun, and the body armor was densely surrounded by rows of magazines, and the ES7 cold-proof suit could not cover the graceful waist and slender and well-proportioned thighs, so heroic and high-spirited.

The sound of clattering gunfire rang out, Yun Qiu also opened the triple mirror, and shot while moving on the earthen embankment, and the Houjin Bujia 400 meters away fell one after another, and the sergeants in the Shunyi army's position let out thunderous cheers.

Dozens of corpses fell one after another along the two wings' Houjin chariot queues, but these fierce Houjin soldiers still risked their lives to push forward, the chariots got closer and closer, and the winding front line advanced to a distance of about a hundred paces in front of the trench, at this time the Houjin soldiers accelerated their advance speed and began to charge.

Yang Ming adjusted the 249 machine gun to the continuous fire mode, and fired rapidly at the front of the rear golden car, with a dense clicking sound, the bullets hit the thick wooden board wrapped with cowhide and iron sheet in front of the car like raindrops, this thick wooden board that could withstand the Ming army's bird gun and the Franc machine suddenly became like a sieve, and the 855A1 bullet penetrated the thick wooden board and hit the ironclad infantry behind the car, and continued to easily break through their heavy iron armor, stirring up the muscles and internal organs, and then tearing through the large wound on the back.

The 855A1 bullet is the latest bullet fully adopted by the U.S. military in 2018, the purchase price of this bullet is $036 per bullet, and it has amazing penetration and lethality, compared with the previous 855 bullet, the steel penetrating body of 855A1 is exposed, the head is sharper, and the weight of the penetrating body is almost twice that of the 855. Even firing with the 145-inch barrel of a carbine, the 855A1 bullet can penetrate 350 cm thick hardened steel plates and 1 meter thick pine planks at a distance of 1 meter.

The penetration force of the 855A1 can even exceed that of the 76280 ordinary bullet with greater kinetic energy, and the test has shown that the 855A1 can easily penetrate the AR500III bulletproof insert plate at close range, while the 80 can only leave a white mark. Because of the incredible penetrating power of the 855A1, the Army even banned the use of the 855A1 on the indoor range in 2015 because the bullet could penetrate the protective wall of the existing range and cause accidental injury.

Yun Qiu's rifle was also switched to burst fire, and the rain of bullets hit the plank in front of the truck at a distance of 200 meters, knocking out the ironclad infantry behind in pieces.

After losing a third of their chariots and personnel, they finally rushed to a distance of 50 paces in front of the trench, and the hoplites behind the chariots began to spread out laterally, raising their sentry bows and preparing to launch an arrow attack on the Shunyi position.

"Grenadier, up!" Yang Ming raised the loudspeaker and roared angrily.

The grenadiers who had been prepared for a long time held 67 grenades, and a platoon of seven or eight people rushed up to the earthen embankment at a distance of 20 meters, and threw the grenades outward with the momentum, and the apple-shaped grenades crossed a long arc in the air and fell into the cars and crowds of the Houjin army, and huge explosions sounded in pieces, each 67 grenade charge has a charge equivalent of 270 grams of TNT, which is equivalent to the power of six Type 86 all-plastic stemless grenades, and the powerful shock wave and steel fragments overturned the car and human stumps in the air, Even the Houjin ironclad infantry, who was twenty meters away from the grenade's landing point, were staggered by the power of the explosion.

Looking at the corpses all over the ground and the bombed carts in front of them, the fierce and tenacious Houjin soldiers finally succumbed to the power of modern "face killing" weapons, and the remaining Houjin ironclad infantry turned around and fled backwards with crooked steps. Behind them, the short bursts of HK416 and 249 knocked down the fleeing Houjin soldiers one by one like a dense urging sound.

On the horseback, Yue Tuo's face turned pale, and the hand holding the reins couldn't help but tremble. The attack on both flanks was defeated on all fronts before they could even approach the trenches of the opponent's position, leaving only the corpses all the way, which he had never seen in many years of battle, and the shock in his heart could be imagined. Reason told him that it was time to admit defeat and retreat, but Yue Tuo was unwilling, he couldn't imagine how to face the majesty of Huang Taiji if he retreated in such a defeat. A month ago, Haoge returned from a defeat under Shunyi City, and the scene when Huang Taiji wanted to push him out and behead Yue Tuo still remembers it vividly, at that time, Yue Tuo's group of people secretly gloated, and Mingli sneered at Haoge behind his back, but now the same situation is going to be his turn, thinking of Huang Taiji's indifferent and cold gaze, Yue Tuo can't help but shudder.

No, you must not go back like this, Yue Tuo decided to gamble on the last one, before setting off, Huang Taiji had promised him that no matter how much price he paid, as long as he could win, as long as he could capture or kill Yang Ming alive, even if it was a great achievement, now it was time to make a decision.

"Blow the trumpet, the whole army attack!" Yue Tuo gritted his teeth and ordered.

The opportunity that Yang Ming had been waiting for finally appeared. Previously, when the main force of the Houjin army appeared within visual range, he could use mortars to attack it, but Yang Ming did not do this, the reason was that on the one hand, he wanted the Shunyi army to fight against the Houjin army to exercise, and on the other hand, he was worried that the main force of Houjin would flee after being attacked by artillery.

And now the main force of Houjin in front of the position has begun to charge, and the troops of 2,000 horsemen are surging like a sea of steel, and the Jin Ge iron horse is densely spread all over the ground. If Yang Ming didn't have mortars, Yue Tuo's judgment was right, the intensive charge of the two thousand ironclad cavalry, under the blow of machine guns and grenades, although it would suffer heavy losses, but there would still be more than half of the troops breaking into the battle formation of the Shunyi army, and once the iron cavalry broke into the battle array, the opponent's machine guns and grenades could not be used, then there was only one result, that is, the Houjin Iron Cavalry launched a ruthless massacre of the Shunyi army, and in a short period of time, it was possible to completely defeat and annihilate this thousand-strong Shunyi army.

However, with mortars, the situation is completely different, the rated rate of fire of the Type 252 81 mm mortar is 30 rounds per minute, and a skilled master can even hit forty or fifty rounds per minute, and the 81 mm caliber high-explosive shell weighs about 45 kilograms, and is loaded with 400 to 680 grams of high explosives, and within a radius of 35 meters belongs to its lethal killing radius. In addition, even if the target is not hit, an 81-mm mortar shell can completely suppress the target if it falls within 30 meters of the target; When falling within 75 meters of the target, there is still a 50% chance that the target will be suppressed; If the landing point exceeds the target by 125 meters, the suppression effect will be lost. Such firepower, against the cold-armed cavalry units that charge intensively, is simply a massacre. Yang Ming didn't use mortars before, but he was worried that the Houjin army would be frightened and flee after a few shots, so that it would not have a large-scale killing effect. And once the Houjin army starts to charge, and then attack with mortars, it will not be easy for them to turn and escape, not to mention anything else, just crowding and trampling each other between the front and back will kill a lot of people.

"Grenadier, hold the flanks and the rear!" Yang Ming gave the order loudly in the loudspeaker, and now he felt the blood in his whole body, and his voice trembled a little with excitement.

"Yunqiu, you go to the wings and the rear to flow support, and the enemy in front is handed over to me!"

Several pro-soldiers lined up in the right rear of the 252 mortar, both hands passed the 821A2 high-explosive shell to Yang Ming, 821A2 is an improved version of the 821 mortar shell, the killing radius is larger than the ordinary 81 mm mortar shell, up to 38 meters, Yang Ming prepared all the shells this time use X773 electronic fuse, this fuse can be set up air bombing, near-ground bombing, triggering, delay and other detonation methods, for air bombing, X773 fuse has three types of explosion height can be selected for the living force is 7 meters high, for the vehicleThe equipment is 3 meters high, and the height for smoke bombs is 75 meters, and now these fuses have all been set to detonate at a height of 7 meters, in order to achieve the maximum anti-personnel effect.

Yang Ming took the 821A2 shell with both hands, leaned into the mouth of the 252 mortar and put it gently, and then quickly leaned down and squatted, the shell fell into the barrel under the action of gravity, the bottom fire was excited by the firing pin in the barrel, and white smoke came out of the muzzle with a bang, and the shell flew into the sky under the stability of the tail.

The first shell should correct the trajectory, Yang Ming looked up to observe the landing point of the shell, took out the 32 portable ballistic calculator in his pocket and entered the data accurately, the 32 portable ballistic calculator is a PDA wrapped in a rubber protective case, graphical interface, it can input ballistic calculation information gun position, ammunition type, shooting mission, meteorological information, etc.), calculate the elevation angle and direction of the shelling, and can also receive GPS data, wired and wireless receive digital SMS commands, real-time view ammunition inventory, etc., of course, None of these latter features are available now.

The iron cavalry of the Houjin army had rushed to within a mile of the front of the position, the iron flow was rolling, and the iron hooves were clanging, as if they were going to impact and destroy all obstacles in the way of advancement, but in the face of the power of modern weapons, these invincible Houjin iron cavalry soon tasted pain. An 821A2 mortar shell fell to the iron cavalry team with a sharp whistling sound, the shell exploded above the head of the Houjin cavalry, accompanied by a deafening explosion, a strong shock wave and dense ductile iron shrapnel rain rushed to the face, the Houjin cavalry suddenly turned on their backs, dead and wounded, and the horse corpse that fell to the ground tripped over the follow-up cavalry, causing a chain reaction, and more Houjin cavalry and their horses tumbled and rolled down together.

Yang Ming entered the ballistic landing deviation data into the 32 portable ballistic calculator, and according to the correction data given by the calculator, he quickly rotated the high and low machine and the direction machine, adjusted the elevation angle and firing direction of the mortar, and then used a group of three rounds to fire in rapid succession.

In 5 seconds, three shells were fired, and Yang Ming adjusted the shooting position again and fired a second three-shot burst.

A single 821A2 mortar shell can clean an area of 4,500 square meters of the site, in addition to the 15,000 square meters of the periphery of the site can be partially suppressed, the 2,000 iron cavalry charge queue of the Houjin Army covers an area of no more than tens of thousands of square meters, theoretically only 4 shells can be killed and effectively suppressed, but in fact, in dense crowds, the killing range of artillery shells will be significantly reduced, because the human body will absorb and block a large number of shrapnel and energy, so Yang Ming used ten times the theoretical value of ammunition, In the space of a minute and a half, he fired forty 821A2 shells in a pattern of adjusting the firing position every three rounds.

The continuous explosions sounded everywhere in the Houjin cavalry ranks, the dead and wounded cavalry and war horses spread all over the ground, and the cavalry who were suppressed by the explosion outside the killing range tried their best to stabilize the posture of the war horses and their crumbling bodies, but in an instant, they were knocked to the ground by the war horses that rushed up, and the entire Houjin cavalry charge queue was in a mess.

"Thunder - cannon! Barbarians have cannons! Hauge, who was watching the battle on horseback on the dirt slope, turned pale and shouted hysterically. According to the information confirmed by the Houjin Army's previous repeated reconnaissance, Yang Ming definitely did not carry a big iron cannon on this expedition, but that was the 777 howitzer, and Haoge did not expect that the 252 mortar, a small cannon that can be carried by one person, has such power.

"Yue Tuo, hurry up, the whole army retreats!" Hauge yelled at Yue Tuo on the side, turned his horse's head, and galloped away with his relatives. This time he and Yue Tuo brought together the three thousand iron cavalry are Yue Tuo's red flag team, Haoge's own troops have been lost under the city of Shunyi, in addition to Yang Ming put him back with more than 20 people, the remnants of the city were defeated by howitzers and ran back dozens of people one after another, so this time Yue Tuo only took this team of about 100 people, these people have personally experienced the terrifying power of Yang Ming's cannon, at this time the mortar sounded, it was already cold, Haoge shouted a quick walk, for them is undoubtedly like amnesty, Immediately, they turned their horses' heads and left in a panic with Hauge.

The muscles on Yue Tuo's face kept trembling, the tragic scene in front of him was beyond the limit of his imagination, his hundred battle elite soldiers were completely vulnerable in front of Yang Ming's mortars, and the iron armor that the cavalry wore weighing more than sixty catties was like a layer of tissue paper under the shock wave of the shell explosion and the rain of shrapnel, without any protective power. Yue Tuo saw that the cavalry charging in the front row fell one by one, the wounded horses and cavalry rolled and struggled on the ground, and the follow-up cavalry queue couldn't help but continue to rush forward, the horse's hooves stepped on the body of the horse and the body of the horse lying on the ground, trampling those who were not yet dead and the horse was trampled to death, a large number of follow-up cavalry were tripped, and the cavalry who fell to the ground was repeated by the follow-up charging queue The previous stampede process. The cavalry on either side of the charge were already beginning to flee, they deflected their horses' heads in groups and galloped away from the battlefield, while the more cavalry in the array had no way to escape, they reined in their horses and turned around, their spears in their hands did not hesitate to assassinate any comrades who charged and hindered them, trying to fight their way to escape.

"It is better to keep the work that has not been done. Lord Belle, collect your troops! The leader behind him admonished in a trembling voice.

The landing point of the mortar shell had extended to the tail of the cavalry charging queue, and another rumbling explosion came, and the shock wave in the air faintly swept Yue Tuo's pale face, he felt a chill all over his body, and just wanted to speak, his throat suddenly became slightly sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.