Chapter 702: Yan Yun (25)
Thousands of miles of clouds are dense, and broken jade curtains are floating in the air. That night, it snowed in the sky.
Geng Shouzhong felt very complacent, and he made the right choice, otherwise he didn't know that his soldiers would be killed by this heavy snow.
Three days later, the snow stopped. Yelu Yujian led troops and Wanyan Puluhu back to the division, and the number of Jin troops reached as many as 10,000, together with Geng Shouzhong's remnant army, and the Khitan army of Yelu Yujian's army, the total strength reached 15,000 people.
Wanyan Puluhu did not immediately rush to the city of Datong Mansion, and everyone shrank under Baishan Mountain safely. After two days, Geng Shouzhong heard the news that the Qi army under the city of Datongfu had retreated, and Bai Dengshan had contacted the city, and Wanyan Puluhu was very excited. The army then took action, and the remnants of Geng's army were also wrapped up in the army, approaching the city of Datongfu.
Converged with the Wanyan slanting in the city, the total strength of the Jin army is more than 40,000 people, and the horse army alone has tens of thousands.
didn't know that on the banks of the Sanggan River, Yang Zhi's army had been waiting for them for a long time.
The blue-faced beast confronted the Jin army in Huairen for many days, and finally got the news of Nanjing Province that Qijin had started a war. Emperor Lu had already defeated the main force of the Jin army led by Agu Daqin in the east of Yanjing City, so he immediately raised troops to kill Datong.
But helplessly, the weather was cold, and Wan Yan Xian also fought and retreated, letting go of many strategic places outside the city, and concentrating the Jin army in the city of Datongfu, so that Yang Zhi had the heart to attack the city, and he did not want to bear the casualties that were destined to be light. In this way, there was really no fierce fighting in the city of Datongfu.
Until the banks of the Sangan River.
Yang Zhitun soldiers under the city of Datongfu, after he was unwilling to raise troops to storm the city, Liu Fa and the seed master had already put forward a complete strategy.
- Lead the troops to retreat, lure the enemy deep, and fight a decisive battle in the plains.
And the battlefield was chosen on the Sanggan River.
In this way, when Wan Yan Xian also led more than 30,000 Jin troops to chase along the retreat route of the Qi army to the bank of the Sanggan River, when he saw the neatly lined army in the plains, and the barracks not far from the army, he immediately had a bad thought in his heart.
It's a pity that at this time, the Jin army is about to retreat, and it is too late.
They chased after them all the way, can they still run all the way back to Datong Mansion? Qi Jun has been waiting for a long time.
"Woo woo woo ......" horn sounded, no matter how ugly Wan Yan's face was, it was time for the Wu Jin army to put on a fighting array.
At that time, on the Qi army array, the drums sounded, and a large number of infantry soldiers lined up in formation, stepping on the drums, and they were already pressing towards the Jin army.
The roars of the Jin army sounded one after another, the wildness in the blood was stimulated, and the cowardice in the heart was reduced little by little. Slowly, the morale of the Jin army also boiled.
They were also the 'superior' side before. chased all the way, and was also high-spirited.
The Jin army was fierce, and all the people in front of it were rolling heads. Behind him were knights in heavy armor mounted on horses. The latter's hideous and bloodthirsty expression was clearly seen by the generals of the Qi army through the clairglass mirror, and it was also clear that they were pressing the formation, and there was only a tsunami-like howl between heaven and earth.
Directly in front of the Qi army, there were neatly arranged cannons. The commander was one of Ling Zhen's deputies, and he didn't need to reveal his name at this moment, just know that he was a veteran.
When should the artillery be fired, the command of the battle, Yang Zhiji delegated all to him.
The entire artillery battalion also had a total of 20 three-pound guns and 30 tiger squat guns. All the artillerymen were nervously waiting for the order of the commander. The Jin army came with great power, which made the faces of many gunners change color. Because they only have simple cotton armor on their bodies, and they are only equipped with a single knife around their waists, if one is not good, a group of golden soldiers will rush to the front, but they can only wait for death.
The artillery commander was desperately clenching his fists and did not give the order to open fire. The rangefinder beside him nervously reported to him the distance between the two armies: "Five hundred steps! ”
"Four hundred and fifty steps!"
"Four hundred steps!"
"Three hundred steps!"
"Two hundred and fifty steps!"
"Fire!"
There was a whistling of cannonballs, and Geng Shouzhong, who was screaming and leading the troops to rush towards the Qi army, saw a dazzling flash of fire on the Qi army in front of him, followed by a stream of white smoke, and then saw a fist-sized iron ball spinning and smashing towards him.
The cannonballs fired by the three-catty cannon are about the same size as the fists of ordinary adults, whether they hit a person or a horse, the high-speed iron ball will easily tear a huge blood hole on its upper body, and there is no reason to live. What's even more terrifying is that the rapid cannonballs are jumping and rolling on the hard ground in the cold winter, and the force is also terrifying. Anyone who is hit once, even if he does not die, his injuries will be terrible.
Twenty iron balls split the face, and the infantry formation of the front army of the Jin Army was also dense, and there was no reason to fail.
A cannonball directly broke a general's waist, and the two layers of heavy armor he wore were like tissue paper, and the corpse that was broken into two pieces shot out like a fountain of blood, scaring a large group of people around him. The only fortunate thing is that this guy doesn't have to live for a moment like the prisoner who was beheaded.
An iron ball seemed to be lit up with the talent of 'lying on the ground', and it harvested seven or eight broken legs along the way before it lost its remaining strength.
And the iron bullet that was inserted from the upper body and could break a person in two straight ways was changed to a huge blood hole in the body, which was not easy. Then, like the cannonball that had cut off seven or eight legs, the cannonball continued to be inserted backwards, all the way to flesh and blood, until the remaining strength was exhausted.
What's more, there was a group of cavalry that crossed the dense infantry group in front of the front and entered the rear team, and directly punched a huge blood hole in the body of a slow-moving war horse, and the war horse neighed, and a horse stumbled in front of the horse, directly throwing the cavalry on its back several meters away. Before the man could stand up, he was hit by a frightened horse behind him, and then trampled into a pulp by the horse's hooves.
In the battle in the east of Yanjing City, the Jin army's war horses made such a mistake, and now the Jin army cavalry in Xijing Road will naturally fall in the same pothole and make the same mistake.
By the time this chaos subsided, the cavalry of the Jin Army had become quite embarrassed, the war horses trembled in the sound of explosions, and the masters on horseback, everyone raised their vigilance to the highest, lest one of them pay attention to it, and the war horses would be frightened again. In the panic just now, several horses had already gone crazy, not only throwing off the cavalry on horseback, but also crashing straight into the infantry group in front.
In an emergency, these cavalrymen hurriedly cut off their felt robes to plug the ears of the horses, but the effect was not great, and the horses' sense of hearing was extremely keen.
There were also people who looked at the flying iron ball, which seemed to be very slow to the naked eye, and the lightning speed of the hand passed, and the iron ball seemed to have hit him, but in fact it directly cut off half of his shoulder. As soon as the man breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he was shocked to find that his right side was empty, and he looked at the empty right shoulder, looked at the blood that was constantly gushing, and the heart-rending pain made his eyes dark, and he fainted.
Only the artillery commander watched the results of the shelling, and the gunner, who operated the artillery, after the first round of fire, was still there, and immediately nervously operated the tow bar, cleaned the chamber, and refilled the prepared shells with gunpowder. With the commander's mouth constantly shouting orders, he commanded twenty three-pound guns to adjust the elevation range.
In this era, it is impossible for the wooden gun carriage to use the lifting device to adjust the elevation angle of the cannon, and the three-pound cannon adjusts the elevation angle with wooden sleepers of different thicknesses.
Another shout: "Fire!" ”
The standard-bearer slammed downward, and with a loud bang, the frame of each cannon involuntarily jumped backwards, and a large stream of fire and smoke rose again, and twenty shells whistled again into the Jin army.
Yang Zhi stood on the two-zhang high looking car, watching the twenty iron balls roar away from his own army formation, smashing into the group of golden soldiers, a piece of flesh and blood flying, and people or horses constantly fell to the ground, and people called horses neighing, causing a lot of chaos. That's a secret nod, these gunners have been practicing day after day, and their accuracy is much stronger, and the time for battle is much faster. And these artillery salvos bombarded it, and it was really powerful.
It's not huge. Liu Fa and the seed master were shocked.
Both of them are veterans of the Western Army, and their martial arts cannot be compared with the old and strong Wang Huan, but they are also good. Riding horses, heavy armor, and dancing broadswords. Ordinary soldiers, twenty or thirty people, and they can't stop them.
But looking at it now, which of those Jin Army officers and soldiers who were killed and wounded by artillery was not strong and wearing heavy armor? I heard that this artillery was in the battle in the east of Yanjing City, and it killed the eldest son of the Jin chieftain with one shot. In this way, it is like replacing them and being hit, which is just as fatal.
That is to say, no matter how strong you are in martial arts, you are invincible in the world, as long as it is a flesh and blood body, under the cannonballs, you will be a puddle of flesh and mud.
"I heard Yang Wen say that there is also a firearm used by individual soldiers in Liangshanbo, a very small iron cannon, a distance of 100 steps, which can pierce through heavy armor. And the operation is also simple, it is an ordinary farmer, and it can be learned in three or five days. ”
"If it's true, this has been a long time, and in the military, where is there still a place for brave men?" Liu Fa remembered that when he was a child, he kept working day and night, practicing Sanjiu in winter and Sanfu in summer. After a few years, it is very likely that he will not be able to block the blow of a farmer after three or five days of practice, and his heart is both shocked and sad.
Shocked by the Central Plains financial broadcast, the population is large, if there is really such a sharp weapon, there is no need to worry about the rise of the few people in the north. With his mind, he easily figured out what would be better for that side after this firearm replaced the cold weapon.
The sad thing is that in this new Korean army, in a few decades, there may no longer be a hundred brave generals who bravely champion the three armies.
Those who know little about firearms do not understand what kind of difficult process the firearms in the official history is. Even at the beginning of the 19th century, musketeers were truly capable of fighting and speaking with bayonets. Otherwise, how could the old man be so stubborn?
Not to mention the treatment of muskets in the early days.
The most tin can openers are qualified, and can be used as long-range strike weapons, compared to bows and crossbows, muskets are really bad.
It's just that in this era, China and its main enemy, the Shaomin of the North, have thick and strong armor on both sides, and the heavy armor is mainly blunt, which is really similar to the Western knight class in the late Middle Ages.
However, as Liu Fa and others thought, it is not so simple to equip the army with muskets on a large scale and comprehensively replace the status of cold weapons. (https:)
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