Chapter 340: There Are Cannons

"Zhang Lianzheng, adjust your artillery company to the front of the queue now!" Chen Ming put down the binoculars and said to Zhang Yang.

"Okay, just watch our artillery company put on a show for you!" Zhang Yang excitedly beat the horse and left. From the Battle of Gu'an to the present, the artillery of the Dengzhou Army has played a huge role, and the current artillery company is the treasure of the Dengzhou Army.

Two quarters of an hour later, the front team of the Dengzhou Army began to enter the Songmu Dam. They marched in orderly order, marching unhurriedly, as if they were completely unaware of the imminent ambush.

"Master, Ming Gouzi is here! Can you strike? Niu Lu Zhang Jing Sheli Le asked. He had just been scolded by Tubak for being a coward, so now he came out to make up for his image.

"Stupid! How many of them came in? Behind is the brigade. Wait until you have completely walked into the center of the dam. "Tubak was very angry with the brainless rough man around him.

However, Tubak did not notice that although the Ming army was entering Songmu Dam, some of them had stopped, and they began to nervously tinker on a rocky beach.

"Quick! , the action is sharp! "Cannons! Cannons! The officers of the artillery company began to roar in a low voice.

"Order the front team, stop moving forward, and face north to set up!" After estimating the location of the Songmu Dam, Chen Ming decisively gave the order.

After all, giving up the advantage of artillery and one's own artillery to engage in a frontal charge with Manchu is not the best tactic for the immature cavalry of the Dengzhou Army for the time being.

Even when facing the enemy in the field, Chen Ming and Long Duanju still adopted almost the same tactics: first bombarded with artillery fire to break up the enemy's formation, and then charged with cavalry. And as far as possible, they were out of range of the enemy's bow and arrow, and they were the first to start shooting.

A quarter of an hour later, the Dengzhou army quickly laid out its formation at the eastern third of Songmuba. The rear team also began to move closer to the formation.

"Why didn't this shareholder thief leave?" "Did you find out that we were ambushed here?" Many of the captives were puzzled.

"They're in formation?" "What are we going to do now?" The captives around Tubak began to talk about it.

"It seems that these Ming people still don't remember for long! Anytime you want to hide in a turtle shell. Tubak contemptuously stopped the discussion.

"Blow the trumpet! Rush to Lao Tzu, take advantage of the unstable foothold of these bright dogs, and drive them all into the river! Tubak pulled out his waist knife and said viciously.

"Woo, woo, woo......" The horns of the captives sounded, and groups of recuperated cavalry began to rush out of the pine forest.

"Da, da, da!" "Da, da, da!" "The Manchu squad that rushed out of the pine forest was like a stream of small streams, and soon under the command of their respective leaders, they quickly converged.

The Manchus like to boast about their cavalry and cavalry, but in fact, there is still a big difference between the Manchurian cavalry and the Mongols.

Under normal circumstances, after entering a distance of sixty or seventy years against the enemy, the cavalry of the captives would dismount and shoot on foot. Of course, this part of the people is extremely skilled in archery.

After disrupting the enemy's formation with a bow and arrow, they will charge with a heavily armored warrior. After completely defeating the opponent, the cavalry will launch a charge in pursuit.

The experienced Tubak is using their traditional tactics today. Therefore, the cavalry charge full of captives is completely different from what later generations saw from movies and television, and it is not the kind of dusty appearance that covers a wide area.

The cavalry battle of the captives is also very particular about the formation of the queue.

At a distance of more than five miles, the war horses ran very fast, and in less than half an hour, the front team of the captives had already entered the range of the Dengzhou mortars.

"Zhang Lianzheng, can you fire?" Looking at the dense crowd rushing over, Chen Ming was a little nervous. After all, this was the first time he had commanded a large army to fight independently with a Manchu army of several thousand, and it would really be a lie to say that he was not nervous.

"Don't worry, let them rush closer. Our rate of fire is fast! There was no chance of rushing closer. Zhang Yang said confidently.

Now for the artillery bombardment of the charging Manchu cavalry, Zhang Yang has played very smoothly. He already had a very clear idea of the speed of the enemy's cavalry, and the rate of fire of his own artillery.

"Rush, kill the dog!" "Rush, avenge your clansmen!" As the captives got closer and closer, some of the leaders began to take the lead in shouting in an attempt to boost the morale of the soldiers.

"Yo hehe!" "Hey, hey, hey......" The Tartars screamed and let out all kinds of strange screams.

A lot of times, their weird screams are quite effective. Especially for the Ming army troops at the end of the Shang Dynasty, this strange cry can greatly affect the mood of the Ming soldiers.

"Clear! , the sun and the moon shine together! "The Han army is mighty! Chen Ming first shouted loudly the slogan of the usual training to calm his own army's morale.

With the sound of the haitidal wave of calls, some of the newly rotated Dengzhou troops began to calm down their originally panicked mood. They forgot their fear in an instant, they only felt that they were in a group of great power, and they were invincible!

Four, three, two, one and ......a half miles, the cavalry of the captives rushed closer and closer, and the trembling of the horses' hooves against the ground became more and more violent. Zhang Yang quietly held the telescope and watched, estimating in his heart the distance from the front team to his own formation.

Finally, he put down the telescope in his hand. He suddenly pulled out the sword on his waist and yelled: "Fire!" ”

The trumpeter beside him, who was already waiting with the horn to his mouth, immediately blew the order violently: "Toot, toot......"

"Chirp, tweet, tweet!" The gunners who received the order immediately put the shells in their hands into the barrels, and one mortar shell after another began to rush towards the full queue with a piercing scream, like a dense crowd of birds.

"Damn, this shareholder thief actually has a cannon!" Many of the captives were taken aback, staring up at the flying cannonballs and preparing to dodge.

In their impression, most of the artillery of the Ming army was used to defend the city. The small cannons occasionally used in field battles also have a very close range, and they are far away, and they can't hit them at all.

Moreover, most of these cannons are solid bullets, and they often miss, even if they kill a few people, they will not have much effect on the balance of forces between the two sides. Then, by the time they were loaded, the cavalry was already in front of them.

Therefore, the Manchu who has experience in fighting against the artillery of the Ming army is completely unsightly. In their opinion, it also scares the new recruits who have just entered the battle and gives them courage. It's like a useless cannon.

However, this time, they also misestimated like other captives of the Shangdengzhou army.

After the shells fell into the charging queue, the shrapnel and shock wave of the explosion immediately turned the full formation upside down. The screams and screams of the soldiers and horses who were killed and wounded by the explosion suddenly rang out.

Nima, is this still a Dongjiang thief?

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