Sun Yao stared nervously at the artillery crew, three artillery groups of six people each, a gun commander at the rank of team officer, two bomb movers, one igniter, one loader, one ripper, every two artillery groups are commanded by a flag captain, every four guns is an artillery bureau, and every eight guns is an artillery division, which is commanded by the commander-in-chief.

At present, there are only these four artillery guns, and the right flank concentrates a few cannons and the second general's gate, and a temporary artillery group is also formed, but it is under the direct command of the infantry division and does not belong to the artillery establishment.

There is only one bureau of artillery now, and the general manager of the bureau is also Sun Yao's old acquaintance, Tang Wangzong, who came out of the mine iron yard together.

Tang Wangzong is clever and smart, willing to use his brain in case of trouble, being a dart master to practice martial arts is not a piece of material, not as good as Sun Yao, but he is very active in learning, and his mastery level of mathematics and geometry is much higher than that of ordinary people, Sun Yao originally wanted to transfer him to the General Staff Department as his deputy, but later established the Artillery Bureau, he felt that Tang Wangzong was a good material for the artillery commander, and he still recommended it painfully, and as a result, Tang Wangzong's performance on the training ground lived up to expectations and his performance was exceptionally good.

It's just that the performance on the training ground can't be regarded as on the battlefield, and Sun Yao still can't help but be nervous for Tang Wangzong.

At least for now, the performance of the artillery crew is very normal, Tang Wangzong and several artillery commanders are calculating the distance and adjusting the muzzle, the bomb mover has already swung away the solid bullets unloaded from the front car, Sun Yao can't help but look at these iron balls, the black iron balls weigh more than three catties each, according to the standard of the Portuguese gunsmith Joao, this is a typical four-pounder gun.

Europe is now also dominated by four-pounder guns, then six-pounder guns, nine-pounder guns, twelve-pounder guns, the situation varies from country to country, but within a hundred years, these caliber guns are the mainstream, and the first to be eliminated on the battlefield is four-pounder guns, and by the Napoleonic era, six-pounder guns are also rare, the main force on the battlefield is nine-pounder guns and twelve-pounder guns, and the artillery company is a collection of cannons and flowering howitzer groups that play solid shells.

The loader punctured all the ammo packs in front of him with iron bars, and the paper packets contained granular gunpowder.

In terms of gunpowder technology, the manufacture and use of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty did not lag behind, and particle gunpowder was proposed by Qi Jiguang, and there were many methods for purification and use, and it did not lag behind Europe.

At this time, the northern captives were already galloping closer and closer, and the earth seemed to be filled with those northern captives on horseback, and all the archers shouted at this moment, and the shouts of the northern captives came and went, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be the sound of the soldiers shouting, and even the sound of trumpets and drums was suppressed.

Su Nang and Bu Nang were both startled by the shouts of the archers, they had also seen the battalion soldiers of the Ming army, and at this moment they could both be sure that the opposite side was definitely not an ordinary battalion soldier.

"Damn." Bu Nang shouted: "What idiot general has allocated so much armor to his family and the main barracks, but not to the war horses!" ”

"We've already rushed up, we may not have a chance!" Su Nang also knew that the Ming army general Jia Ding was powerful, and he could only comfort himself like this at this moment.

Soon the two sides collided!

The war horses galloped high, the cavalry was high, the speed was very fast, and when I saw the infantry array, I couldn't help but have a kind of psychological excellence, but the rows of flickering cold iron armor in front of the Ming army, and the forest-like spears in the array offset this advantage, plus most of the people who rushed over were ordinary herdsmen, they did have excellent riding and archery skills, but they did not go through strict training, and they did not often participate in the war. Many herders have begun to panic.

Along the open space in front of the battlefield, the herdsmen of the brigade took off their riding bows, mounted their arrows, and prepared to start throwing them when they were within the farthest range.

In the process of projectile, they will constantly rotate the horses, gallop back and forth on the horses, and use the momentum and arrow rain created by the horses to disrupt the infantry array and suppress the confidence of the infantry.

If the other side is a Ming army battalion without the support of elite cavalry, it is easy to collapse under such a momentum. In the history of the war between the Ming and Mongolia for more than 200 years, there were the elite cavalry in the early Ming Dynasty who smashed into the depths of the grassland and reached the glory of the fishing sea, and there were also more than 300,000 Ming Central Forbidden Army who were constantly harassed and suppressed by the Mongolian cavalry, and finally completely collapsed the civil fort that was completely annihilated. After Tumubao, the war between the Ming and the Mongols was almost a war mode between the elite cavalry of the border towns and the Mongolian cavalry, because of the ban on iron and the degeneration of the Mongolian martial spirit, the balance of the war was more and more inclined to the Ming side, at least now, in the face of the Ming army armed to the teeth, these Mongols did not have much confidence.

"Shoot the arrows!"

A Mongol nobleman was the first to give the order and shot an arrow from his own bow.

There were still nearly a hundred paces away, and after the first man shot the arrow, more herdsmen and armor soldiers shot the arrows from their own riding bows.

All the arrows numbered in the thousands, almost instantly obscuring the sky, and the bowstring was pulled with a constant crumbling sound, almost terrifying, and it was in the midst of this crumbling sound that the Mongols slaughtered countless nations, destroyed countless civilizations, and killed countless living beings more than three hundred years ago.

The arrows converged into the air and made a buzzing sound.

The first rain of arrows fell quickly, and there were still a dozen or twenty paces away from the archers, and the arrows were so dense that each one was stuck in the soft earth, and it seemed that patches of wheat appeared before the archers' eyes.

"Don't panic, it's just a bow and arrow!" Flag captain Li Shouxin roared loudly in front of his own flag team.

"The Tartar's bow is only thirty pounds strong, and it is really a child's toy." Zhang Chunniu, the deputy commander of the team, raised his arms and shouted, pointing to the iron armor on everyone's body and shouting: "With this chain mail, the arrows can't penetrate it at all." ”

"If you don't shoot in the neck or in the face, it's not fatal, if you're unlucky enough to be shot, so many people have nothing to do, and you can be killed by the beams when you walk."

"Don't panic, don't disobey military discipline, otherwise you will end up more miserable than being shot to death, and there are still many people in the world starving to death!"

"Before you get scared, think about the honor and status of our archers, as well as the silver of the plain collar!"

In such a battlefield, the role of middle and low-level officers is very important, the shouts of the archers on the battlefield have been non-stop, their faces are firm, their will is as unwavering as a mountain, those who can serve as officers among the archers are either experienced veterans, or they are also excellent on the battlefield, like Zhang Chunniu only cut the head in the rear when he did the first war, and later came to the mountain war when he repeatedly made meritorious achievements and performed well, which can be promoted to deputy officer, in this system created by Zhang Han, It is impossible to imagine that the Ming army became an officer based on his relationship or family background, or by pat the horse.

Lingqiu and Tianchengwei's merchant group archers were placed in the back more formation, their training was also strict, and there were many experienced officers, but they were not professional archers after all, and the training time was not long enough, in recent times, Zhang Han has increased the subsidy for the merchant group, and many merchant group archers have also started full-time, but after all, the start time is not very long, and the combat effectiveness is still slightly worse than Li Zhuang's first and second divisions.

Li Shouxin's flag team is still a pure firearms flag team, nearly 40 people are all holding bird guns, all the medicine has been loaded, the tinder tank is blown up, and everyone's bird guns have been inspected and are in very good condition.

This round is a salvo of all the bird guns, and nearly 800 people from the five divisions and twenty bird gun flag teams all fire a salvo together, to cause the maximum damage in the first round!

Everyone stared at the enemy cavalry that was getting closer and closer, and Li Shouxin's breathing became very heavy, and he kept looking at the bureau hundred general flag on the left side of the team, before the flag was ordered, he, the flag captain, was not qualified to give the order to be released.

All the Bird Guns were also panting, and they held them diagonally in front of their chests, constantly aiming at the enemies rushing in front of them.

In fact, it is a bird gun made by Li Zhuang, and it is also very difficult to aim accurately, this kind of aiming is more of a display of posture, and has nothing to do with the actual effect.

Lu Dafu also became the deputy flag officer, in the last conflict between the Lingqiu business group and Lian Yong, Lu Dafu rushed to the front, and performed well, and afterwards Li Zhiye's impression of this archer was also very good, and then Lu Dafu asked to be transferred back to the Lingqiu business group, and the internal communication between the business group and the archers of the inspection department was very easy, after all, each business group needs experienced veterans, and Lu Dafu's application report was approved as soon as it was typed.

When he arrived at the Lingqiu Iron Field Division, Lu Dafu was immediately appointed as the deputy team officer because he was a veteran, and then he was the team officer, the deputy flag captain, and now he was only half a level behind his old boss Li Shouxin, and two levels higher than Zhang Chunniu.

However, these old comrades-in-arms didn't have time to reminisce at all, the two divisions of Lingqiu only rushed to Li Zhuang a few days ago, and then under the arrangement of Wang Changfu and other senior officers, they used the battle plan drawn up by the staff department to carry out joint exercises, everyone was extremely busy every day, and they couldn't get out of their own camp at all, at this time on the battlefield, Lu Dafu's flag team was on Li Shouxin's right hand side, the flag captain was holding a spear with a small flag in his hand, and his posture was also leaning in front of the array, Lu Dafu saw Li Shouxin's figure at a glance, and he looked around again, looking for Zhang Chunniu's whereabouts, However, they were not found, and all of them were dressed in gray short-robed military uniforms, covered with silver chain mail, and wore iron helmets with large brims, and it was almost impossible to make out who was among so many people, not even acquaintances.

"Old team officers, old guys, this time let's see who has made more achievements." Lu Dafu could only glance at Li Shouxin a few times, and then focused on his own flag team, the deputy flag team officer is the preparation of the command sequence, their position is slightly back, and the flag captain is not in the same array, Lu Dafu also holds a bird gun, only when the flag captain dies or leaves the battlefield, the flag gun will be handed over to the deputy flag captain, who will take the command.

Lu Dafu is ambitious, although there are many recruits around him who are afraid, and the scene of thousands of horses suddenly arriving and thousands of arrows flying together is still very shocking, but he has never felt that his side will fail, on the contrary, he wants to gain more military merits, so that he will have the opportunity to go further.