The ancient city of Shunyi was originally set up in the early years of Tang Tianbao, and its city wall was an earthen city at the beginning, which was repaired many times in the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties, and was covered with bricks during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. One hundred and ten steps and four feet in the city on Saturday, the city is about three zhang high, and there are four gates of east, south, west and north, which are respectively named Chaoxu Gate, Fucai Gate, Qingcheng Gate, Rucui Gate, and there are urn cities outside the four gates.

From a distance, Shunyi City is in front.

The morning sun shone on the gray city walls, revealing a majesty with a desolate hue. At the base of the city walls, there were countless shacks, which were the shelters of the captives. The Houjin army would not let the captives enter the city, but only let them build shacks outside the city to temporarily shelter and wait for batches to be transported north. A small number of soldiers patrolled and the system of security between prisoners ensured that no one dared to escape.

And now, the captives outside the Rucui Gate have been driven into the distance, and the army of the Houjin Army, out of the Rucui Gate, waving flags, is lined up here to meet the enemy.

It seems that the rout soldiers who fled back yesterday and the sentry cavalry who probed all the way today have reported the incredible combat effectiveness of Yang Ming's team to Haogebeile who stayed in Shunyi City, otherwise, with only these more than 1,000 prisoners, it is not worth the Houjin soldiers to go out to the city.

Yang Ming stopped the car two or three miles away from Shunyi City, and took out his binoculars to observe the formation of the Houjin army on the opposite side.

The front of the Houjin soldiers is composed of dozens of chariots to attack the troops, behind the chariots are the infantry soldiers with bows and arrows, after the infantry soldiers, there are white tooth cavalry, they are all dressed in bright iron armor, helmets with high red tassels, and the fire flag on the back is waving in the wind.

Each of these Houjin soldiers is a battle-hardened predator, thousands of warriors are arranged in a strict battle formation, forming a steel-like strong and sharp whole, and the sun is shining on the layers of iron armor, like a mountain made of steel, like a sea of sharp edges.

It is worthy of being the hegemon of East Asian land warfare in this era! Yang Ming, who was two or three miles away, also felt the powerful and suppressive combat effectiveness of the Houjin army, and at present, in the entire Ming Dynasty, there was no army that was their opponent.

The team behind the car also stopped, and the sergeants and Ding Zhuang looked at the battle formation of the Houjin Army in the distance, all of them were like ashes, if it weren't for Yang Ming's strong admonition to them before, it is estimated that most of them would have scattered and fled like birds and beasts.

Even so, escape was inevitable, with some running out of the middle of the line and fleeing into the fields on either side, while many more hesitated, hesitating to make their last decision.

"Get the escapees back!" Ding Yousan's face turned red and roared angrily.

The sergeants chased the fugitives with their knives.

There was a brief agitation in the array of Houjin soldiers on the opposite side, like a gust of wind blowing across the water surface in the sun, and the phosphorescent light on the iron armor shone for a while, but then stabilized again.

It seems that they don't want to take advantage of the chaos of Yang Ming's team to attack, which may be a lesson learned from yesterday's Wulai team's failed charge. Judging from the arrangement of the chariot in front and the iron cavalry in the rear, this time the Houjin army wants to form a tough village and fight a tough battle, and they will not change the established battle tactics because of a small confusion on the other side.

Compared with the situation on his side, Yang Ming couldn't help but glance at the quality of his opponents again, and also added some pity to them.

Those who escaped were caught. Yang Ming knew that this was to save them, and if they were allowed to escape, it was estimated that these escaped people would not survive tomorrow.

"Array, meet the enemy!" Yang Ming held the loudspeaker and gave the order.

According to the prior deployment, the sergeants and Ding Zhuang lined up in a row of fifty people. Half of the fifty people in the first row are sergeants - this is also all the sergeants in Yang Ming's team, and the remaining half is filled by the strongest Ding Zhuang, these fifty people are all wearing armor, some are still heavy iron armor, and the weapons in their hands are also the sharpest spears.

The second row to the tenth row are all Ding Zhuang, these people are basically not wearing armor, and the weapons in their hands are also varied, including spears, broadswords, and axes.

After that, there was the procession of women, who carried hoes, sickles, sticks, and other utensils, and even some of them were empty-handed.

No matter what the standard is, Yang Ming's team is a complete rabble, and Yang Ming knows this, and he doesn't want to use them to participate in the battle at all.

On the city wall, Haoge, who was dressed in silver armor and silver armor, looked at the front condescendingly, and the red tassels on the helmet fluttered in the cold wind, revealing a heroic aura that reigned over the world. He is the eldest son of Emperor Taiji of Tiancong Khan, and he is only twenty years old this year. When Haoge was very young, he followed Huang Taiji to conquer the Mongolian Dongkui, Chahar, Ordos and other departments, and won many military exploits. In the 11th year of the Mandate of Heaven (1626), the seventeen-year-old Haoge followed the Great Bel Daishan and others to conquer the Mongol Zalut Division, and performed prominently in the battle, personally beheading the Bel Ezhai Tu of the Zalut Division.

In the first year of Tiancong (the seventh year of Ming Qi, 1627), Huang Taiji ascended the throne as the Great Khan of Later Jin and launched the Battle of Ningjin, Haoge defeated the Ming army in Jinzhou, and led the army to maintain the grain transportation in Tashan. In the second year of Tiancong (the first year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, 1628), Haoge and Belezirharang conquered the Mongol Gut Tabu Nang, defeated it, and then killed it, and collected all of its troops.

This time, Huang Taiji led a large army to invade Beijing, and Hao Ge led his troops and horses to defeat the Ming army outside the Guangqu Gate, and attacked the Beijing moat. Later, he surrounded Yongping and Kexiang River with Beile Yuezhi and Sakhalian, and conquered the city all the way, which won the praise of Huang Taiji, and even faintly had the intention of supporting it. Haoge was a young man, naturally he was high-spirited and full of ambition.

"This is what you call the big iron car?"

For the rabble in front of the formation, Hauge didn't bother to take a look. These improvised prisoners, Hauge was sure that he would be able to completely defeat them by sending fifty cavalry into battle. At this moment, Hauge's attention was all focused on Yang Ming's heavy trucks, jeeps and cannons.

A Houjin soldier hurriedly knelt down, clenched his fists and replied to Haoge: "Qiqi Belle Ye, exactly." But the most powerful thing is the small iron car in the back, and the iron gun on the car can hurt people two miles away......"

This Houjin soldier was one of the two sentry riders that Yang Ming met on the road, he and his companions peeked at Yang Ming's team in an absolutely safe position two miles away, but they didn't expect their companions to be killed by the iron gun from a long distance, fortunately they ran fast, otherwise I am afraid that they would not be able to return to this Shunyi City today. Until now, he still has lingering fears about Yang Ming's iron gun.

"Kharzi, was Urai shot by this iron gun yesterday?"

A Pashku in leather armor quickly knelt down and said, "Back to Lord Belle, according to what the minions have seen, no. ”

"The minions were at the back of the escort team yesterday, and I saw with my own eyes that the enemy general was rushing over with a short gun, not the long gun on this iron car."

This Khalqi fled back to Shunyi yesterday and reported to Haoge that the prisoner team had been robbed by Yang Ming, and dozens of people including Wulai had been killed in battle. The plot described is too unbelievable, and if Hauge is willing to believe it, he will be killed on the spot. But after asking carefully, more than 100 people said so, although the details of what they said were a little different, but the general situation was absolutely not wrong, so Kharzi was spared. Early this morning, Hauge sent a few sentry riders to investigate the truth, but when the sentry riders came back, they all said in unison about Yang Ming's big iron car, and one sentry was shot and killed during the investigation, so Hauge couldn't help but believe it. Therefore, Haoge only sent all his troops today, preparing to fight Yang Ming to the death under the city, and he wanted to see for himself who Yang Ming was sacred.

"What's behind the iron cart? Is it a cannon? ”

"Back to Baylor, this iron cannon has been dragging behind the big iron cart, and the minions really don't know what it is, and they haven't seen this iron cannon used." Several people glanced at each other, bowed their heads and replied truthfully.

"The big iron cannon has moved—" Suddenly, a Niu Lu Zhangjing shouted as he pointed into the distance.

The standard time for the M777 howitzer to start fighting from the march is 47 seconds, but that is when the 5 artillery crew members are complete, and now Yang Ming deploys the howitzer alone, the speed is naturally slower, and the last shovel is cultivated on the plow hoe of the cannon foot, Yang Ming threw away the sapper shovel, tired and sweaty.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, Yang Ming took out two M795 grenades from the back of the jeep, each weighing 46.5 kilograms, with a matte conical shell, standing on a wooden board. Yang Ming ripped off the metal protective belt at the tail of the shell, revealing the annular belt on the projectile body, and the belt of the M795 shell was made of copper, slightly higher than the surface of the shell, which was used to match the rifling in the barrel when firing, so that the shell rotated.

Immediately afterward, he unscrewed the ring on the top of the shell and began to install the fuse on the shell.

This time, Yang Ming used a laser air bomb fuse. This fuse is different from ordinary trigger fuses in that it uses laser ranging and detonates when the shell falls to a height of 15 meters above the target to maximize the lethality and radius of non-armored soft targets.

A normal 155 grenade has a radius of around 150 meters, which can be greatly increased by using an air-blasted fuse.

During World War II, a German infantry battalion was hit by a 152 grenade when it was assembled, and more than 800 people in the battalion were killed and wounded; During the Korean War, a regiment of infantry was fired into a salvo of three 155 grenades while it was massing, and almost all of the regiment was wiped out. And that's again with the use of World War II-era ammunition and ordinary fuses.

The design and charge of the grenade warhead in the 21st century, coupled with the assistance of the air explosion fuse, its lethality is not comparable to the 152 or 155 grenades of World War II. For the soft target of the dense formation of the Houjin soldiers, Yang Ming was confident that one shell would solve the battle. The heavy armor that shines in the sun cannot be called a hard target in the face of modern weapons, and a hard target in the sense of modern warfare refers to something like the M1 Abrams tank.

Yang Ming put the shell into the guide rail of the M777 - a semicircular metal groove, and pushed the bomb bar forward with a hockey stick, the shell slid into the gun chamber, and there was a slight paragraph damping sensation from the top rod, and the shell belt was embedded in the rifling, and then stuffed the round cake-shaped propellant into the tail of the gun breech and closed the gun latch.

Taking out the ballistic ruler, Yang Ming used the laser sight on the side of the gun body to observe the position of the Houjin Soldier Array, and quickly obtained the required dense position data, shook the runner, and the gun barrel was raised high, pointing to the sky at a high angle of more than 70 degrees.

※ Tight position refers to the angle at which a firearm or artillery is aimed, and generally a circumference is divided into 6400 tight positions.

"All marching together!" Yang Ming gave the order with a loudspeaker.

Ding Yousan stood at the front of the line, spear in both hands, the muscles of his face writhing. There is no doubt that going up like this is completely giving people their heads, but after the previous experience of fighting against the Houjin Sentinel Cavalry, he did not dare to disobey Yang Ming's orders, and in his heart, he felt that Yang Ming should have some way to win, and he would never let these people go up and die in vain.

After some inner struggle, Ding You's three hearts and one side yelled: "Follow Lao Tzu!" "The first step forward.

The queue behind followed.

Continuing forward, the footsteps of more than a thousand people made a thunderous sound on the yellow earth, and slowly walked towards the Houjin army.

"Woo-" The trumpeter of the Houjin Army blew the horn, the sea of steel rolled up the wavy line, and the car in the front row began to start.