Chapter Twenty-Three: Someone Gives a Gift
In the past few days, everyone has been resting at sunrise and sunset, and Huang Sheng did not dare to camp near the official road, leaving only two or three people on duty at the ambush point. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
I would rather take my family to walk an hour's rugged mountain road back to the camp every night to rest, and then walk back early the next day to start work.
This is actually beneficial, when I retreated with the team, everyone walked this road more than 20 times, and I was very familiar with it, and the escape efficiency was much higher.
On the tenth day, early in the morning, the general Ma Shihu passed through the ambush point and went east as promised.
Huang Sheng could see clearly in the telescope, the murderous appearance of more than two hundred cavalry, looking very powerful, they didn't notice that Huang Sheng was hiding under their noses with more than 20 people.
Huang Sheng gave cold weapons to the newcomers, and each of them was given cotton armor, not to attack Jiannu, but to give them the ability to protect themselves.
Huang Sheng left Quan Yong and four people to stay in the camp, where all the provisions of this small team were not allowed to be sloppy.
Liu Liangcai took two people to take care of the horses, Guan Zhicheng took two people to follow Huang Mingli and them, helping them when they were wearing armor, and when the explosion sounded, he went to the place where the horses were hidden and brought the black tiger and Huang Mingli their war horses.
The war horses were all hidden in the forest behind the hill, about a mile away from here, one was afraid that the horses would neigh and expose the target, and the other was afraid that the huge explosion would startle their war horses.
Two newcomers volunteered to participate in the battle against Jiannu, and the two were still a little bit of a rival.
They are Hu Jianfeng and Cao Hucheng, and Li Dagang has been in contact with them for more than half a month and affirmed their combat skills.
Both of them have some brute strength, they can shoot hard bows, and their archery accuracy is not as good as that of the black tiger, but their strength is stronger than him.
Huang Sheng agreed to their request and equipped them with three layers of armor, but asked the two to follow behind Huang Mingli and use their bows to carry out long-range attacks.
The chief Ma Shihu took the two majestic Ming cavalry of the hundred generals and ran all the way to the official road in the southeast near Jinzhou, only to find three Jiannu sentry horses.
This kid is not a vegetarian, knowing that he came suddenly, Jiannu is not an immortal, and he can't know his reality and reality, and it is impossible to have time to arrange an ambush.
He personally jumped his horse and whipped to pursue the three Jiannu sentry horses, and the family members under his command saw that it was a rare opportunity for more people to bully less, so they all rushed up and prepared to fight in groups.
There are three sets of Jiannu sentry horses, a total of ten people, the first group of three people were found by a large group of Ming cavalry, they saw that the fiery Ming army came to a large area and did not dare to fight, and ran away from the horses.
The two groups of Jiannu sentry horses that responded behind saw that the Ming army was menacing, and the number was dozens of times that of them, and they also fled together.
Ma Shihu chased for twenty miles with his men and horses, and felt that he should have completed the task of showing his face to the letter, and was ready to stop and rest for a while, and then run back with him to show off his might here.
Who knew that he had a lot of luck today, and he saw one of the escaped Jiannu sentry horses stumble and fall.
It can be seen that horseback riding is very dangerous, and even a skilled probe horse with a bow will have a safety accident.
The Ming army has seen it, and there are still people who give gifts? I was so excited that I rushed over at once, and finally the Ming army got the head of the Jiannu sentry horse, but I don't know if he was killed by the Ming army or fell to his death.
Ma Shihu smiled from ear to ear, came out to show off his muscles and got a lottery, picked up the head of a Jiannu vest in vain, and hurried back to the division.
He was happy, the guards of Jiannu here were mad, Niu Lu Ezhen Tun Blue took his Niu Lu to defend here, and there had been no such strange thing in a year or two.
It has always been the Houjin cavalry that went to rob the Ming Dynasty, when was it the turn of the Ming army to harass themselves? He also killed a vest under his command!
It's too hateful, we must take revenge, kill that hateful Ming cavalry team, and we must not lose the prestige of our Houjin army.
While he immediately arranged for messengers to quickly report to his immediate superiors, Jialaezhen and Luogashan, the military situation of the Ming army's provocation, he also asked his sentry to go around to find out where these Ming troops came from.
Tunburu's Niu Lu is considered medium in Houjin, with 20 bayalas, more than 100 people in armor, and more than 70 people without armor.
At once, he sent five Bayalas with thirty vests and infantry armor to track down the Ming army that dared to provoke.
asked them to find out the situation and come back as soon as possible to report, and asked Jiala Ezhen to send troops to assist, and went with everyone to the nest of the Ming army.
Tunburu thought that there were a cavalry team of more than 30 people, and there were five Bayala companions, as long as they did not venture into the Ming army and were surrounded by the Ming army, they should not be able to suffer the loss of the Ming army.
Huang Sheng waited patiently at the ambush point, he knew that there would be no battle today, so he didn't arrange an ambush at all, just tried to let the family members lurk to see if Ma Shihu and they could find out their whereabouts.
The final arrangement will not begin to be planted until Ma Shihu lures the enemy troops back from here, such as the six bombs.
The Ming army, who had been luring the enemy until evening, laughed loudly all the way, and everyone was elated, passing by here and going back, Huang Sheng looked at them in the telescope with a happy expression.
Huang Sheng couldn't know that Ma Shihu had killed the head of Jiannu's vest, he saw that it was getting late, and knew that there would be no Jiannu here today, and if he did, it should be noon tomorrow.
According to the calculation of the time when Ma Shihu went for a whole day and came back, the distance from here in the Jiannu station should be more than half a day for the war horse.
If nothing else, there should be a war with Jiannu tomorrow, Huang Sheng left Huang Dongshan and Gu Shan Haidao here to observe the enemy situation with binoculars, and took everyone back to the camp to rest early and recuperate.
The next day, the weather was good, Huang Sheng was very leisurely dangling until three poles above the sun before arriving at the ambush point, and there were many fewer things in the camp, leaving only two people to guard.
Obviously, the war is about to break out, but Huang Sheng deliberately acts like he doesn't care, looking like he is a sassy bag.
Huang Mingli They don't care about Huang Sheng's attitude now, but those newcomers are different, they look at Lord Huang Sheng's calm and breezy appearance, and their nervousness has eased a lot.
The army of this era is all illiterate, they have no knowledge, and most of them are following the crowd, that is, following the trend.
Therefore, the army has a camp roar, in ancient China, the camp rules were strict, and the barracks were an authentic place of slaughter, even shouting loudly, fast walking and running were forbidden, and there was no need to spread rumors and tell nonsense, and there was a danger to life.
Especially before the war, everyone's life and death were uncertain, and they didn't know when they would return to the west, and the spirit of the soldiers at this time was simply on the verge of collapse.
The so-called camp roar is that the soldiers are suddenly frightened at night, they all scream and slash and kill, and before they can meet the enemy, they beat themselves and then collapse.
It may just be a soldier's nightmare screaming, so everyone is infected with this hysterical and crazy atmosphere, completely getting rid of the shackles of military discipline and venting frantically.
Why doesn't the modern army have a battalion? Modern soldiers are literate and thoughtful, and they will not hear a ghost screaming at night, and they will follow along.
In the Ming Dynasty, the calm and calm general is the spiritual pillar of these soldiers, they will have a sense of security, and if they are not nervous, there will be no camp roar.
Huang Sheng is doing this now, which is also to reassure everyone, don't panic, lest he be too nervous and expose himself too early during the ambush, and ruin the ambush plan this time.
As soon as Huang Sheng arrived at the ambush point, Huang Dongshan, who stayed behind to observe the enemy's situation, informed Huang Sheng that everything was normal and that Jiannu had not been found for the time being. Huang Sheng arranged for them to sleep, get up at noon to eat, and let the others start planting bombs according to the steps of the multiple drills.
In the end, Huang Sheng carefully checked the positions of the six bombs before letting everyone start the ambush according to the plan, and personally used a telescope to observe the movements of Jiannu.
Huang Sheng was concentrating on observing the movements on the official road, and the fixed Galilean telescope he used could theoretically achieve a magnification of 32 times.
That is, to see an object at a distance of 300 meters, as clearly as it is to see it at a distance of 10 meters. Because of the telescope, Huang Sheng is more confident and has a sense of security.
If Jiannu appears ten miles away, he will find that when he comes to seven or eight miles, he can even see the expressions on their faces clearly. These barbarians, who are not yet fully civilized, will know that they are constantly being watched by themselves.
At this time, Huang Dongshan's voice came from his ears: "My lord, you don't have to work so hard to stare at it yourself, let the little one come, you can rest assured that as soon as you see the small one of Jiannu, let the adult come to see." ”
Huang Sheng said: "Huang Dongshan, didn't you let you sleep?" How? Too nervous to sleep? ”
Huang Dongshan said: "Back to the adults, the little ones are not afraid to follow the adults, and the little ones took turns sleeping with Gu Shanhai last night, and they are not tired." ”
Huang Sheng likes this literate Ding Ding Huang Dongshan very much, this kid is clever and learns everything very quickly, and now he is his right-hand man, specializing in helping to teach the family to read.
Although Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao can also read and write, it is a pity that they don't like to read at all, and they practice military skills with other family members every day.
What they crave most in their hearts is to stab the three-edged army of the 'armor-piercing spear' into Jiannu's body, and the deep hatred of the twenty members of the Huang family wants to let Jiannu repay it with blood.
Huang Sheng was still more assured that Huang Dongshan was doing things, so he asked him to observe the enemy situation and check the flintlock rifling gun again.
When Huang Sheng was a child, he used to use lead wire, bicycle chains, and rubber bands to make pistols that could be fired.
At that time, it was not easy to obtain gunpowder, that is, to use a small knife to collect the little bit of gunpowder on the heads of each match.
Huang Sheng came to Daming to make a flintlock rifling gun by hand, which is a gunpowder pellet used to make a primer by pulling the bolt, and the bolt rubs the flint to stimulate a spark to ignite the primer and then ignite the gunpowder in the barrel.
Daming's method of pouring a little bit of primer gunpowder into the pot of fire powder is too unscientific, and it may not be poured into it if there is a strong wind.
Huang Sheng took the method of making the bottom gunpowder into particles as big as soybeans, putting them in a half-foot-long copper tube, and pouring one grain directly into the powder pot when used.
The most important thing is the quality of the bolt spring, for which Huang Sheng has tested many times, and finally met the minimum requirements.
But then the springs, bolts and flints used for friction became wearing parts, and the flints had to be replaced after dozens of effective excitations, and the springs and bolts had to be replaced after firing one or two hundred times.
When to replace it completely depends on one's own feel, so Huang Sheng believes that it is simply impossible for such a gun to be mass-produced and used to equip large troops.
It is somewhat unrealistic to let those peasants who have just put down their hoes play with such guns, and the guns are estimated to break down in three days when they reach them, and they can use them until the rifling is smoothed out.