Chapter 248: Mobile Fortress

Manzhu Xili took the steel arrow and looked at it, his eyes lit up, and he exclaimed loudly: "Good arrow, it's really powerful." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 info" He handed the steel arrows to the leaders to circulate.

One of the leaders said, "Such a good arrow, there must be a strong bow, Lord Taiji!" We must not let those Ming troops escape, we must kill them all and capture their bows and arrows. ā€

"That's exactly what Bentaiji meant, come and give me armor." The Mongols had an innate love for bows and arrows, and the leaders rushed back to their yurts to put up their troops. They fantasize about being able to get good weapons from the Ming army!

The Huang family's team slowly advanced to a slightly downhill site about seven miles away from the camp of the Manzhu Xili tribe in Karaqin, and the heavy infantry got off the troop carriers and moved their hands and feet.

This is the second time that Huang Mingli has led his team to the steppe, and he does not care about the combat effectiveness of the Mongol warriors at all, because the protection of the Huang family and horses is enough to deal with them.

But Huang Mingli admired their mobility, and he was not worried at all about the Karaqin cavalry coming, but for fear that they would flee from the wind.

Finally, when he had the opportunity to fight in the field with several thousand light cavalry, Huang Mingli, who had been training landing soldiers to practice battle formations and study new tactics, had the actual combat to test the training results of himself, his family master, and the officers and men under his command.

He was in high spirits and personally inspected the array, and this time he arranged the formation, with twenty armored chariots on the left and right flanks, which was rearranged in response to the Mongols' preference for light cavalry to diffuse in circles.

The protection of the Huangjia archers is enough not to be afraid of light arrows, but the war horse is not equipped with horse armor, and it can not be eaten with arrows, this time the enemy cavalry is more than ten times that of the archers under his command, how to chase the enemy by shooting the war horse into a hedgehog?

Therefore, twenty chariots were arranged on the left and right flanks to open the firing holes on the side of the carriage to meet the enemy, and take advantage of the advantage that the flintlock rifled guns were far greater than the range of steel arrows to shoot the enemy light cavalry that came to diffuse at any time.

The equipment of these forty chariots was slightly different, and on the side of the enemy was temporarily installed to protect the horses and coachmen, and on the other side was covered with thin iron sheets and relatively light weight guard planks.

Huang Sheng is a prophet, and the armor designed is child's play, all for dealing with Jurchen arched horses, requiring light weight, easy installation, and strength as long as the bow is 30 steps and cannot be penetrated.

But in the vast prairie with these armored combat vehicles as the backing, the Huang family soldiers will not be confused by the enemy's surprise attack, all the horses and horses can surround the chariot and deal with the enemy, and even the coachman can become a combat force.

No matter how powerful the cavalry is, they can't afford to suffer casualties after going around the Huang family's chariot group for a few laps, and in the end they can only avoid it from afar, where are the hot weapons musketeers who can compete with cold weapons?

The horses of the armored chariot are advancing behind the chariot, and the two armored coachmen are driving behind, and some of the enemy's light arrows pass over the chariot and fall on the horses, and the damage caused by the horses can still bear it, and the enemy can shoot the horses of the carts I don't know how many will be killed by the musketeers.

The armour and visors of the coachmen were not afraid of the light arrows of the Tartars, nor were they afraid of the smoke of the battlefield affecting their vision, for they wore goggles as well as the musketeers.

The cost of this small piece of equipment is not worth mentioning, but everyone in the Huang family has goggles, and they are not afraid of being downwind at all when they fight in the north where the wind and sand are blowing, and the Huang family soldiers always maintain a clear view of the enemy's combat effectiveness, which will naturally add a lot of points.

Black Tiger and Han Kuan each led two general banners of the archers and cavalry to line up close to the armored chariots protecting the left and right flanks, and shot the enemy troops who entered the range with steel arrows.

The two shooters of the left and right armored combat vehicles did not worry about being blocked by the combat vehicle in front of them at all, they could open the sunroof and lean out from the roof to shoot, although it was not as convenient as the shooting hole in the car, and the advantage was that the view was wider.

Such means of firing were allowed only in the presence of our armored fighting vehicles in front, and were not allowed to be used as the first row of vehicles to engage the enemy.

Because doing so will make the shooter lose the protection of the armored fighting vehicle and directly expose his upper body to the enemy, which will increase the casualty rate in vain.

Shooters shooting from the roof of a car must also follow the principle of striking sideways and not hitting in a straight line, even if you are already shooting at the level of a sniper.

Of course, this is the rule of Lord Huang who is cautious, the chariot in motion is bumpy, and the possibility of shooting along the straight line and killing the shooter who is also leaning out of the chariot in front of him is too great, so it must be guarded against.

Whether we can effectively destroy the enemy and let it go first, let's first rule out the possibility of accidentally injuring our own people.

Huang Sheng, as the Chinese army, still led 90 chariots to spread out into a column, and still adopted the method of using flintlock pistols to meet the enemy's charging cavalry.

Heavy infantry were arranged around the chariots, ready to charge and assassinate enemy cavalry who had lost their horses.

Qinggeltai took his men, troop carriers, coachmen, and medical vehicles to attack in the rear of the Chinese army while the enemy army collapsed.

The Huang family's troop carriers are also supply vehicles, there are as many as one hundred and forty vehicles, and due to the cold climate, all the carriages are installed, and now they are arranged in a compact row next to each other, just blocking the rear of the army, but there is no long-range strike ability.

The armored combat vehicle is advanced by four war horses, and the personnel carrier is pulled forward by two horses, and the Huang family's combat vehicle and personnel carrier are skillfully coordinated, which is equivalent to the rapid assembly of the modules of a small fortress into a large mobile fortress that can move forward, and the horses and soldiers are in a rectangular large array with the carriage as a cover.

This movable fortress was not strong enough to deal with artillery fire and shield wagons, but it was more than enough to deal with light cavalry assaults.

The question is what kind of artillery fire is there from the poor and backward Tartars and Jiannu, and when they organize enough heavy shield carts to push them slowly, won't the Huang family horses run?

As long as the Huang family's mobile fortress runs for an hour, the shield car attack force will have to prepare for a day, where can the Huang family's horses be beaten?

At present, the field artillery of the Scorpion Island Arsenal is still under development, and in the future, the six-pounder gun with a gun body of no more than 500 catties and a total weight of 800 catties, and the artillery with a cannon body of about 800 catties and a total weight of 1,400 catties similar to Napoleon's 12-pounder cannon are all within the range of the Huang family's cannon.

The ass of the Huang family's team has no attack power, it doesn't matter, the enemy doesn't know, besides, they bypass the main formation to attack the rear of our army, there is no need to worry, the light cavalry can't rush in on horseback.

Half of the musketeers in front of the line could have used the troop carriers as cover to shoot at the invading enemy, and the musketeers who were shooting on the roof of the car turned around and fired again.

The Huangjia archers could have shot a large number of Karaqin light cavalry who dared to approach behind the personnel carrier, because the range of the steel pulley bow with spring steel as the bow back was much higher than that of the Tartar cavalry.

The number of Ming troops is indeed only about 2,000, and the cavalry is about 300, and the difference between the commonplace Ming army is that there are many carriages, and they have caught up with the cavalry.

Manzhu Xili was confident, and he thought that the more carriages of the Ming army had, the more good things they carried, which meant that they would get a lot of captures if they were defeated.

He was neatly dressed and led more than 3,500 cavalry out of the camp, and the strength of the full bead ritual was not only this, but there were also many tribes who did not come to the camp, and when the people came, they should be able to gather six or seven thousand people who could fight on horseback.

But there will be many old people and children, as well as fighters from Nekharkha and other ethnic groups who have just been forced to join.

He saw that there were not many Ming troops, and this time he did not bring those troops who were not very reassuring and forced to join the new army, but searched for their weapons, armor, and horses to take care of them separately.

In the winter of the vast steppe, if you want to escape without horses and weapons, you are looking for death, as long as the horses are managed centrally, the Mongol captives do not need to be locked up at all, they also know the proportions, and they will not choose to escape at this time.

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