The area of scattered bullets is large, boom, one shot passes, the opposite cavalry is allowed to fall off the horse, even if it does not die, it is injured.

"Use this to get on the enemy before you make contact with the enemy, and then switch to a bow and arrow to continue fighting. If the forces are equal, just this round of attacks will collapse the enemy. Chao Gai said.

Sun An said: "It's true, if it is the same thousand-person team, one contact will cause at least 30 percent casualties, and the average army will begin to collapse if the casualties exceed 30%. ”

Chao Gai said: "However, this kind of gun cannot be equipped on a large scale for the time being, and it is not mass-produced, so fifty will be allocated to your battalion for the use of sentry sentries." All soldiers were immediately reequipped with the new Vulcan rifles. Train with Luo Yun to form a rapid reaction musketeer of 3,000 men. ”

Sun An said: "Guarantee to complete the task." ”

Sun An led the deputy general down and conducted run-in training with Luo Yunbu. Musketeer combat is actually a very silly process, reload ammunition, fire, retreat to the last row, reload ammunition, and then it's your turn to fire, and then go back to the end, and the cycle repeats, the soldier shoots not for precision, but for uniformity, forming a network of anti-personnel bullets.

Sun An left, Chao Gai, Wu Song, Li Kui, and a few other personal soldiers came to the shooting training ground, and ten hands raised cannons lined up.

It was more of a large gun than a cannon, with a barrel of one and a half meters long, relatively slender, and supported by an iron frame. The tail of the gun fired at the rear was a rectangular iron trough with twenty centimeters empty in the middle, and a thick iron cover with a card on it.

"Let's see what the characteristics of this cannon are." Chao Gai laughed.

Everyone squatted down to take a closer look, and Li Kui laughed and said: "This little cannon is stupid, I didn't find where to add ammunition, could it be added to this slot?" ”

Wu Song also shook his head, indicating that he couldn't understand.

Chao Gai smiled: "This circular slot is for ammunition, but it is ammunition equipped with iron pipes. ”

Chao Gai waved his hand, and twenty artillerymen came, with a box of ammunition next to each gun. Two people with a cannon, put in a twenty-centimeter-long iron pipe, cover the baffle, and jam the wrench. Ignition, boom, boom, boom.

The gunner then pulls the wrench, takes out the iron cartridge, and quickly inserts the new cartridge. Boom, boom, boom.

The whole process is very fast, that is, in a few seconds intervals.

Li Kui didn't feel it like a big man, but Wu Song and Fan Rui gasped. Fan Rui exclaimed: "With this artifact, even if the enemy is a light cavalry, he can't rush up." ”

Wu Song also said: "Although the power of the red-clothed cannon is great, the interval between the cannons is relatively long, and the rate of fire of this small cannon is quite dense, I don't know how far it can hit?" ”

"Solid bullets can hit 300 meters, and 150 meters can break armor. Scattered bullets can injure people within 100 meters. Chao Gai said.

Li Kuiyi grinned and said: "This is better than flying axes and flying guns, and it is also better than the red-clothed cannon gun, and it is not a problem for this little guy to cross mountains and mountains, he can go anywhere." ”

"That's why our gun factory is now improving its technology and producing at a rapid pace. It's just a matter of waving your hand to destroy Tian Hu, but the impact of these weapons is too great, and I don't plan to equip a lot of them for the time being. Each battalion was equipped with 100 guns to find out the defects in actual combat. In addition, from tomorrow, Zhu Wu will be the military division, Wu Song, Yang Zhi, and Luan Tingyu will open Taiyuan. Chao Gai said.

The next day, the military order was issued, and Yang Zhi was still the vanguard, and 1,500 cavalry made a surprise attack first, waiting for the army fifty miles away from Taiyuan. Five days later, Zhu Wu led more than 10,000 soldiers to arrive, and in addition to the soldiers, there were 3,000 engineers.

The two flanks were protected by cavalry, and the infantry and engineers formed the camp. Zhu Wu has no characteristics in fighting, and he doesn't like to take dangerous roads. Work seriously, the camp is built solid, there are drainage ditches inside and outside the fence, trapping horse pits, and rejecting horses. The tents in the camp are neatly arranged, according to the nine palace gossip, the layout is reasonable, the gap between the tents and the tents is very large, and the cars and horses can be driven and walked, avoiding the fire and messing around. The grain and grass baggage is near the Chinese army, and in addition to heavy defense, it is also equipped with a lot of fire extinguishing equipment.

In the evening, the camp cannon rang out, and the Chinese army gathered generals.

Zhu Wudao: "Before our intention came, the governor had already said that we would clean up the communication between the surrounding counties and Taiyuan Fucheng, and prepare for the attack of the army." So the first step is the task of the cavalry, the surrounding wanderers dozens of rangers of the Tianhu Army. Battalion Commander Yang, tell me about your plans. ”

Yang Zhidao: "These rangers are the scouts and communication soldiers of the Tianhu Army, responsible for the connection between the main city and the surrounding strongholds. After several small battles, it was found that most of this group of people were horse bandits who had accumulated years of experience, and they were skilled in arches and horses, which was several grades higher than the combat effectiveness of the main cavalry of the Tian Hu Army. And when there are fewer people in this group, there are more than a dozen people, and when there are many people, there are two or three hundred. Familiar with the terrain, my plan was for me and Battalion Commander Luan to act separately, with 1,500 men each, to exterminate the enemy's rangers with absolute superiority in strength. ”

Zhu Wu nodded: "There are masters in Tian Hu's army, this is a fly tactic, turning around in front of your eyes, and you can't beat him." When there were more soldiers, he ran away, and when there were fewer soldiers, he pounced again. Therefore, everyone must not underestimate the enemy, use bows and arrows and crossbow arrows as the main weapons to annihilate the enemy, and try to maintain their strength. ”

"Okay, tomorrow the two of us will get up early and go out of the camp to exterminate them around the camp first." Luan Tingyu said.

The rangers of the Tian Tiger Army did not take advantage of the lightly armored cavalry archers. If you want to harass the camp, you can't even get close to the perimeter. There are more artillery and less bows and arrows.

After a night of silence, Yang Zhi and Luan Tingyu each led their generals out of the camp to clear the prisoners' rangers.

Wu Song said: "The cavalry is out of battle, how to arrange our infantry." ”

Zhu Wu said with a smile: "Battalion commander Wu don't worry, the key to the bandit war lies in the people's will." This is the base camp of Tian Hu, and in the eyes of the surrounding people, our Jeju army is the executioner of the suppression of the rebel army and the eagle dog of the imperial court, so the first step is to win the hearts of the people. Let's first repair roads, clean up water sources, provide free clinics, open porridge sheds, etc., to compete for the hearts and minds of the people. ”

Wu Song deeply believed that the common people were very bitter during the war years.

There were many displaced people who couldn't eat, but the army began to build porridge sheds, and no one came, which was embarrassing. However, Zhu Wu was not in a hurry, and the soldiers repaired roads, cleaned rivers, dug wells and bridges. The soldiers did not commit any crimes in the autumn, and they did not harass the people at all, and the people gradually became less afraid, it turned out that the Jeju Army did not kill people without blinking as advertised by the Tian Hu Army.

In a porridge shed, Wu Song ordered the soldiers to boil fragrant millet porridge and prepare good pickles. Dozens of children in tattered clothes in the distance looked at them and didn't dare to come over to eat.

There were young soldiers in Wu Song's army, and Wu Song said: "You go over, tell them, let them come and eat." ”