Chapter 487: Chaos
160,000 soldiers and horses adjusted their arrangements and moved the men and horses responsible for the attack to the front. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The sixty-nine heavy guns of the Tiger Ben Division were calmly pulled to the front of the formation. The artillerymen unloaded the cannon from the gun carriage and turned the muzzle of the gun in unison. The artillery mounter rotated the screw to adjust the gun carriage, and the breech cleaner took out a wooden rod dipped in water to clean the barrel, back and forth three times, and then cleaned it three times with a dry cotton-wrapped wooden rod.
The charger takes out packets of fixed-weight black powder from the cartridge, cuts open the package, and loads the black powder into the chamber. The medicine presser immediately walked up with a pressure rod and compacted the gunpowder. The flowering shell was carefully lifted out, and the wooden butt was loaded into the chamber face down. Again, the pressur holds the lever to compact the shell, pressing the shell's stock and propellant together.
At the same time, the deputy chief of the artillery team pulled the fire sickle of the cannon's flintlock ignition device, poured some black powder powder into the fire door, and then closed the fire sickle.
The artillery mounters continued to adjust the muzzle until they aimed the muzzle at the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp two miles away. The gunner aimed at the enemy at the light door, shouted for the artillery crew to adjust the angle a few more points, and the preparation for firing was completed.
It took only forty seconds for the sixty-nine cannons to complete the preparation of a complete set of guns.
The nine general soldiers stood behind the cannon and looked at Li Zhi's artillery, and when they saw the artillerymen complete the loading in one go, they all showed envious expressions on their faces. The artillery of Jin Guogong is too sharp, in the first battle of Jinzhou, these cannons don't know how many Tartars were killed and injured, it was really a weapon of war.
These cannons are lighter than ordinary heavy Hongyi cannons, flexible in maneuver, and have stronger firepower than ordinary heavy Hongyi cannons. These guns are well-made, the parameters are unified, the operation method is clear, and there is no problem of explosion and boring. What's even more terrifying is that these cannons can shoot flower shells, and the shells can explode once when they land.
I don't know if Jin Guogong's cannons are sold or not, if he buys a few of them, defending the city and attacking the city will get twice the result with half the effort.
However, Jin Guogong is now in a high position, and this cannon is the trump card of Jin Guogong, and before he finds out his temper, everyone does not dare to buy it casually.
The soldiers of the Beijing camp on the opposite side were still guarding the explanation of Wu Fu, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, and were guarding the suburbs with a ignorant expression. The generals looked over with binoculars and saw Huang Degong, the chief soldier of the Beijing battalion, standing in the Chinese army, constantly discussing something with several generals around him, and seemed to be a little anxious because the cannon here was pulled out.
Wang Pu put down the binoculars and asked Yang Guozhu, "Yang someone, how are these Beijing soldiers better than your Xuanfu soldiers?" ”
Yang Guozhu said that he would call himself someone Yang, and Wang Pu jokingly called him this.
Yang Guozhu stroked his beard and said: "The Beijing camp is well-equipped, with bright helmets and bright armor, which is better than a certain Xuanfu soldier. However, the sons of Xungui are a little arrogant, and they do not have the hardships and hard work of the border army. In short, it has to be said that the combat power is below the Xuanfu soldiers and above the Datong soldiers. ”
Datong soldiers are Wang Pu's soldiers and horses, Wang Pu saw Yang Guozhu take the opportunity to belittle his soldiers and horses, hey, no words.
A swan sounded through the tiger's division, and sixty-nine heavy guns fired.
With a loud boom, sixty-nine heavy guns fired flowering shells at the front. The recoil of the cannon slammed into the ground, and the nearby ground undulated like a wave, like a small earthquake. It was the first time that the horses of the nine general soldiers had left the cannon so close, and they were all frightened, and they all neighed loudly and raised their hooves to run.
The nine general soldiers were busy for a while, and finally stabilized the war horse.
Sixty-nine flowering bullets were like sixty-nine meteors, shooting straight at the soldiers of the Beijing camp two miles away. With a bang, a cannonball smashed into the crowd in the front row, and suddenly a piece of flesh and blood flew sideways, smashing sixty-nine flesh alleys in the queue.
After the flowering bullet penetrated several layers of the human body, it stayed in the middle of the soldiers in the back row. Huang Degong's soldiers had never seen this kind of flowering bomb before, and they looked at the smoking flowering bullet fuse in a daze.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Explosions rang out in the crowd, and it was not known how many soldiers were killed. Not to mention the soldiers who were killed near the shell, they broke their arms and legs, and fell to the ground covered in blood. The soldiers who were not killed by the bombing fled in a panic, but Huang Degong's entire formation was disrupted.
It's terrible to be bombed by shells on the spot, let alone flowering shells? The panic of the soldiers was like an irrepressible mountain fire, tearing the formation of the 10,000-strong Beijing camp into disarray.
Huang Degong didn't expect that the 160,000 border troops would dare to attack the Beijing camp, and he was stunned. He whipped the soldiers who were commotioning nearby, trying to stabilize the situation. But in the face of the terrifying intimidation of the flowering bomb, Huang Degong's move was meaningless.
Fifty seconds later, there was another loud bang, and another sixty-nine flowering catapults were fired at Huang Degong's soldiers and horses, and the rumbling explosion sounded again in the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp.
This time, the soldiers of the Beijing camp knew that the shell would explode, and they panicked to dodge the stopped shell. As soon as the shell landed in one place, the nearby soldiers fled like frightened deer. Sometimes there were no shells nearby, but the soldiers, shrouded in fear, fled and became a mess.
10,000 Huang Degong's soldiers and horses became a pot of porridge.
Cao Bianjiao roared: "It's now!" ”
The herald behind him sounded the Conch. Six thousand Jizhen iron horsemen rushed out across their war horses and rushed towards the soldiers of the Beijing camp two miles away.
Zu Dashou was not to be left behind, and with a scream, he also jumped out on his horse. Behind him, the eight thousand Jinzhou cavalry galloped towards the target in front of him like a galloping dense forest.
Fourteen thousand cavalry galloped out from both sides of the Chinese army, rolling away with iron hooves, the sound of hooves exploding on the ground like a dull thunderclap. More than 10,000 chariot-like cavalry overwhelmingly pressed towards the 10,000 soldiers of the Beijing camp, and they were about to crash into the chaotic Beijing camp formation.
160,000 people surrounded 10,000 people to fight, as long as the border army dared to move, the Beijing camp had no chance of winning, and this quantitative comparison made the morale of the soldiers in the Beijing camp very low. Moreover, the soldiers of the Beijing camp have been blown up by artillery, and the result will be very tragic to use such an infantry cluster to meet the impact of more than 10,000 iron cavalry. The cavalry rushed over, and where did the soldiers of the Beijing camp, who had been blown up by the artillery, still have fighting spirit? The soldiers turned around and ran away one by one.
Before Cao Bianjiao and Zu Dashou's cavalry rushed closer, the 10,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion had already turned into routs and fled in a panic on the field.
Huang Degong, the chief soldier of the Beijing camp, did not dare to fight, and fled to the capital on horseback.
As soon as he saw the rout of the Beijing camp, Cao Bianjiao's 6,000 cavalry slowly stopped their horses and stopped pursuing. Zu Dashou was stunned when he saw those deserters, but he didn't know whether he should go up to chase and kill.
Li Zhi looked at the battle situation in the distance and said, "We are not here to rebel, so we will not chase the deserters from the Beijing camp who killed the Son of Heaven." Mingjin retreats! ”
When Zu Dashou heard the golden sound of the Chinese army, he restrained his murderous spirit and stopped his soldiers and horses.
Almost bloodlessly, the border army that asked for his life defeated 10,000 Beijing battalions.