Holding the ground with a knife, Yang Xuan felt very embarrassed, and was thinking about how to defeat the enemy, when suddenly Niu Dayong, the personal guard next to him, shouted: "My lord, reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Yang Xuan looked up and saw that the city gate was opened, and Fan Mingshan, Yao Zhijiao and others each had a torch in their hands, and they came out in a mighty manner, and their number actually reached a thousand people.

It turned out that in the middle of the night, when they heard that the local riot barracks were secretly attacked, Fan Mingshan, the 1st Brigade of the 1st Brigade, and Yao Zhijiao, the 100th Brigade of the 4th Brigade, initially did not believe it, but now Chengdu has fallen, and the Dashun army has captured Shunqing Mansion and completely cut off the return route of the army.

Pengzhou City is a lonely city sandwiched between the Dashun Army, the Great Western Army and the local tyrants, full of rogues, where will reinforcements come?

When they came to the city gate to watch, everyone talked about it, and they thought it was the Great Western Army and the Great Shun Army?

The two sides fought for half an hour, and everyone suddenly realized that it was actually the officials and soldiers who attacked the local tyrants, and they were all happy and discussed, discussing how to go out of the city to fight.

There were only two infantry brigades defending the city, plus the yamen officials, plus the strong men who defended the city collected two days ago, there were only more than 700 people in the full fight, and even if they rushed out, it would be difficult to give a fatal blow to the local rioters.

After discussing for a long time, Fan Mingshan proposed to recruit all the people in the city, except for a small number of people who were left to defend the city, and the others were killed with a torch.

Although the old, weak, sick and disabled cannot go into battle to kill the enemy, they can at least be like the homeless people who have been coerced by the local tyrants, and they can shout and cheer on the side and strengthen their momentum.

This is also a way to do no way, everyone acted separately, and all neighborhoods quickly mobilized, so gathered more than 1,500 people, and killed them under the leadership of Li Shikai, Fan Mingshan, Yao Zhijiao and others.

The men and horses who rushed out with a torch in each hand lit up the entire sky, and it was clearly visible for miles in a radius.

Seeing that there were so many men and horses in the city, the local thugs who were stubbornly resisting did not dare to resist at all, and one by one they threw down their weapons and fled in all directions.

Li Shikai, Fan Mingshan, Yao Zhijiao and others looked at each other and smiled, and Li Shikai and Fan Mingshan led the officials, led the young men in the city and the temporarily recruited people to expel the displaced people and take care of the prisoners who were taken in, while Yao Zhijiao led the officials and troops to kill the enemy.

This is a new force, and one by one in the past few days has been particularly suffocated, and now they are looking for this opportunity, and everyone is charging forward under the leadership of Yao Zhijiao.

The local tyrants were defeated, and Huang Long, Yang San and others saw that the momentum was not right, and hurriedly lifted the siege of Yang Xuan and others.

Yang Xuan re-examined the battlefield, now the official army has an absolute advantage, and now the local tyrants have been suppressed by the official army except for the stubborn resistance of the four or five strongholds.

The plan for today is to capture the four or five small slopes where Huang Long, Yang San and others are entrenched, and there are not only many people entrenched on the top of the mountain, but also Huang Long and others, the second leader of the local tyrants.

Yang Xuan immediately adjusted his troops, ordered Fan Mingshan, Chen Huaixi, Li Shikai and others to lead the people's army to expel the displaced people and take care of the prisoners, and ordered Chen Yingzong to lead the 2nd and 6th brigades to attack other passes, and Yang Xuan personally led the personal army brigade, the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th brigades, and the cavalry brigade to besiege Huanglong and others.

Considering that Huang Long and the others were outnumbered, Yang Xuan pushed only six tiger squat cannons, which were erected on a small hillside next to them, and bombarded the local tyrants in the distance.

Tiger squat cannon is a new type of artillery improved by Qi Jiguang, this cannon is 2 feet long, 7 iron hoops are added around the body, the head of the cannon is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron trips, the total weight is 36 pounds. In order to facilitate shooting, the cannon is placed in a fixed position, much like the appearance of a tiger squatting, which is called a tiger squatting cannon.

Each launch can be loaded with 100 small lead or small stones weighing 5 money, and the top is pressed with a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 taels, and the large and small bullets fly out together when launched, the roar is like thunder, and the lethality and radiation range are very large, especially suitable for field warfare, bombardment dense combat formation, and effectively suppress its crazy offensive.

This lightweight artillery has a thin barrel and a short range (100 meters), is suitable for mountain warfare, is maneuverable, and has the same usefulness as today's mortars due to the front-loading, which can be fired at large elevation angles and equipped with a large number of grassroots troops.

The Tiger Squat Cannon is powerful, and it can blow up the enemy's city walls with 50 Tiger Squat Cannons.

The officers and soldiers had six tiger squatting cannons, lit sparks, the fire was ignited, and the burnt lead burst out from the muzzle of the cannon, flew into the air, and then fell like a parabola, and the goddess scattered flowers on the opposite hill, and the whole range was like a concentric circle of four or five meters.

After a round of shooting, several people were injured by small lead and fell in a pool of blood wailing.

The bold rushed over to inspect the wound, some of the lead had already penetrated into the body, the whole wound was bloody and blurred, and the wound was bleeding black blood.

In this era, bird guns and tiger squat cannons are not like in previous lives, which explode a second time after being shot into the opponent's body, killing and injuring the opponent, and in this era, lead bullets or cannonballs mainly kill and injure the opponent through their own inertia.

But the main material of lead is lead, which is harmful to the human body, and the lead cuts through the other party's body, because of lead poisoning, what flows out is black blood.

Seeing that the officials and soldiers actually had such a big killing weapon, the local thugs on the hillside panicked, some looked at the opposite bank of the hill in a panic, and some thought about how to escape.

Huang Long glared at Yang San of the second post sadly, and complained: "Yang Xuan is not an easy person, now that the official army has this kind of artifact, we will probably die." ”

Yang San pointed to the opposite mountain peak and said, "Although the official artillery is fierce, it is still inferior to the overwhelming rain of arrows.

Also, the opposing artillery, although very ferocious, fires very slowly. ”

Huang Long said angrily: "This, what's the difference between this, besides, the other party has a cannon in his hand, and we are guarding these few broken slopes, isn't that passively beaten?" ”

Second Sentry Yang San shook his head and said: "Second master, don't be so pessimistic, we all hide behind the big trees one by one, behind the stone rocks, so the other party's lethality is still quite limited." ”

Huang Long said angrily: "This is not the same, the other party first bombarded us with cannons, and then rushed up, so we are bound to be defeated."

Although we have more than 1,500 men, there are more than 3,000 officers and soldiers, and the enemy is strong and we are weak, and we cannot fight.

Thirty-six plans, go for the upper plan, for the sake of the plan for the present or to fight out of the encirclement first, escape is important. ”

The second sentinel Yang was shocked, grabbed Huang Long's arm and said: "The second leader, now the official army is in full swing, not to mention escaping the Jialing River, even if it is even more difficult to escape from the encirclement of the official army." ”

Huang Long shook off Yang San's arm and said, "Heng Zhi is a death, early death and early rebirth."

I've made up my mind, fight my way out of the encirclement first, so maybe there is still a chance of survival. ”

The two of them are arguing, it is difficult to make a decision for a moment and a half, just as Huang Long said, the official army tiger squat cannon is extremely powerful, the shells fall two meters below the circle are lead, projectiles flying sideways, if the other party puts more than 100 sounds, then the army will inevitably collapse without a fight.

Since this is the case, then it is better to follow what Yang San said, it is best if you can kill the other party, if you can't kill the other party, it is not too late for everyone to retreat.

The second sentinel Yang San originally wanted to persuade the whole army to fight back together, but Huang Long, the king of heaven, pushed three and blocked four, and the second sentinel Yang San must rush forward, and if something big can be done, he will lead the army to kill again.

Yang San, the second sentinel, had no choice but to lead more than four or five hundred troops in his headquarters to charge.

Standing on the opposite hill, Yang Xuan observed the firing process of the Tiger Squat Cannon, and pondered how to improve the Tiger Squat Cannon.

It is not so much that the tiger squat cannon is powerful, but that the tiger squat cannon is powerful, and after the lead and stones leave the muzzle, they fall in front like raindrops, but they only fall down with inherent inertia, and injure the opponent with inherent inertia.

The Tiger Squat Cannon is not like a modern shell, and it is not like an ancient flowering shell that kills the enemy group by exploding through the shell when the shell lands, but kills the opponent by inertia.

Hitting the flesh like this, there is always a small rumbling, and some are more likely to kill the bones and tendons, so most of the deaths are too many wounds that are difficult to treat, or the rescue is not timely.

But if the opponent wears armor or something, it is difficult for the tiger squat cannon lead to penetrate the armor and inflict heavy damage on the opponent.

In addition, after half a day of observation, Yang Xuan found that there was a problem during the firing of the Tiger Squat Cannon, and the ancient Chinese cannon was not mounted on a gun carriage and fired like in the West, but was transported by a horse-drawn cart and then placed on a cart or placed on the ground for firing.

The tiger squat cannon is the use of this very primitive firing method, in peacetime through the wheelbarrow push, when firing, the 36 pounds of tiger squat cannon on the ground, through the front of the two claws to stand up, just like the use of grenadiers during the Anti-Japanese War, the lead shot out of the air and then fall down overwhelmingly to kill and injure the enemy.

However, because of the recoil, the Tiger Squat Cannon deviated from its original position seriously after each launch, and needed to be re-aimed and re-fired.

Looking at each launch, the soldiers were in a hurry, and in their previous lives, it seemed that they had restored the firing position with the help of a gun carriage, and ensured the success of aiming with the help of a sight.

It seems that in the future, it will be necessary to build a small gun mount for each Tiger Squat gun, so as not to move it around every time it is fired, which is particularly inconvenient. (In World War II, the Japanese soldiers' grenadiers were more than ten pounds, often operated by four people, and compared with the grenadiers, the Tiger Squat Cannon was much heavier and more difficult to aim.) )