If those pine trees were cannons, Jian Chen would blush a little. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

To be precise, this is a large disposable shotgun with a range of less than sixty paces, which can also be considered a cannon.

Wood as a cannon, there are many examples in the previous life, the Ming Dynasty's Liuhe cannon is made of wood and iron hoop, the litchi cannon in the era of the agrarian revolution, and the county seat of Binxian County under the Anti-Japanese Union, many of them are using this simple cannon.

Naturally, the power cannot be eroded for tens of miles with a single shot, and at most it can affect a fan surface more than ten meters wide fifty or sixty steps away.

In the era of the agrarian revolution in Chen Jian's previous life, this kind of cannon could break up the opponent with one shot, but if it was placed during the Seven Years' War, it might be burned directly as firewood after being captured, because it was worthless.

This is the huge gap between the organizational strength of the family and the real army.

In the era of real gunpowder line soldiers, line infantry could endure the roar of artillery fire, the despair of solid bullets directly smashing their comrades and splattering their blood, and there were countless ways to make this ridiculous wooden cannon useless: cavalry charge, rapid column maneuvering, artillery shooting, and so on.

However, this kind of ridiculous wooden cannon is not ridiculous in the era in which Jian Chen lives now. Just as the German army used chlorine gas for the first time in World War I to slowly float to the position of the British and French forces, later generations felt ridiculous after reading it: Are the British and French forces stupid? When you see green, don't you just put on a gas mask?

Thinking about it this way, it is inevitable that there is some meaning of why not eat minced meat.

In this era when a cannon battle is regarded as a god descending to earth, these ridiculous disposable pine cannons are the source of Chen Jian's confidence in this battle.

Bows and arrows, spears, and chariots can kill people, but the people of Xijon have seen more and will not panic. The wooden cannon and the taure, on the other hand, are the huge impact of lightning and thunder and instant death, which will easily make them collapse.

These pine cannons are made of the finest pine wood without boils, and after the hanging wire is sawn vertically, the chamber is dug out of it, and after being combined, it is glued with copper hoops and fish bladder glue.

In order to prevent the bore from exploding, these pine cannons are disposable, and the copper hoops can be recycled and the wood is simply discarded.

There were not many quantities of gunpowder stuffed, and the shells were also made of crushed stones, and red-hot iron hooks reached into them to ignite the gunpowder and eject the broken stones.

When training in the mountains, you can bombard a fan such as sixty paces in front of you, which is extremely lethal to a dense charging formation.

If the Xijon also entered the age of gunpowder, they might or may not be able to advance the wooden cannons to a distance of sixty paces, or they may send someone to destroy the slow-moving wooden cannons from the side first.

If the Xijon people entered the era of professional soldiers, they might be able to endure the momentary casualties, ignore the roar and blood, and take advantage of the roar of the artillery to break through in one fell swoop.

But they don't know anything, because they are ignorant, so they have no fear.

The new army trained by Chen Jianjian knew the horror of this weapon, and they saw with their own eyes that the gravel shattered the straw men, like a mess in the field after harvesting.

They don't know how to aim, they don't shoot from a distance, they don't have a triangular ruler to determine the angle of elevation, all they have to do is level the wooden cannons, aim them at the military formation of the Xijon people, light the gunpowder, and then replace the wooden cannons, these are enough.

The artillerymen used oxen, horses, and men to push the gun carriage with huge shields slowly, and the grenadiers on either side clung to the heavy taurlei, forgetting the swelling and numbness of their arms when they practiced throwing, and expected their tourlei to be thrown into the densest places of the Xijon people.

Chen Jian beat the war drums, allowing the front to move forward slowly and evenly, and the captains of each squad rode at the front of the team, restraining everyone's footsteps.

The Xijon people also noticed Chen Jian's strange arrangement, and soon the Xijon people's military formation made changes, and the main force that was originally concentrated on the west side near the swamp moved towards the center.

The formation is not static, and the leader of the Xijon people sensed the weakness of Chen Jian's side, and perhaps guessed that Chen Jian's side was preparing to stabilize the middle line and outflank the two wings. There are many people in Xirong, and they can deal with it calmly, leaving only a thousand people on both sides, and the remaining two thousand people are all concentrated in the middle line, which is about the weakest point where Chen Jian is preparing to break through from the middle line.

Chen Jian's Chinese army had less than 400 men, and the Echeng army on the left flank had 800 men, which could fully withstand the thousand men of Xirong on the opposite side; There were also six hundred Xia Cheng soldiers on the right flank, and even if they couldn't break through from the right flank, it was more than enough to hold the safety of the flank.

After adjusting the formation, the Xirong people were also moving forward slowly, and there were still two thousand reserves left on the right flank, as if they were waiting for Chen Jian to make the final changes in the formation.

When the two sides were less than two miles closer, the Xijon people knew that it was too late to change at this time, so the two sides of the right flank also moved to the center, preparing to break through in the center.

When the drums stopped again to signal that the soldiers were in line, Eyue sent a rider to Chen Jian's side and said, "Ji Xia, the leader of Eyue said that the Xirong people put the soldiers from the five directions in the center, and the people on Ji Xia's side are a little small, we can divide a hundred people to the center." ”

Eyue is indeed very worried, he does not face many enemies, but the battlefield is not Echeng's own battlefield, once Chen Jian's Chinese army is broken through by the Xirong people, and his right flank is wrapped, the soldiers have no intention of fighting again, it will become a rout.

He guessed that Chen Jian's intention was to prepare for the Xijon people to concentrate their forces in the center, and even guessed that those chariots and cavalry would be strengthened to his side, Chen Jian resisted the main force of the Xijon people, and let himself use the chariots to defeat the right wing of the Xijon people, after all, the right flank of the Xijon people was only a thousand people.

But with only 400 people, can he really hold out until he breaks through the right wing of the Xijon people? There were also soldiers from the five sides of the Xirong people in the center, and he felt that Chen Jian was a little overconfident and a little worried about the victory or defeat this time, so he sent a messenger to inquire.

However, the messenger soon returned, and told Eyue, "The leader of Ji Xia said that we only need to hold his right flank, but we must divide a hundred men to approach the center, and once the center breaks through, our men must follow. ”

E Yue was afraid that the envoy would not hear clearly, so she asked urgently: "Are you sure that he said that he was just holding and that he was ready to break through from the center?" ”

"yes, that's what I said."

E Yue shook her head, completely unable to understand how Chen Jian was going to fight, looking at the military formation of the Xirong people from afar, knowing that it was impossible to change even if she wanted to change at this time, she calmed down and divided a hundred people to approach the right flank.

For the sake of caution, he was sure that he was enough to block the troops of the Xirong people, so he asked his clan to bring an extra hundred and fifty people to the left, and instructed them to rush up immediately to help resist the ...... At the very least, the main forces that have been dragged to their side withdraw from the battlefield.

In the center of the battle line, Chen Jian visually measured the distance between the two sides, and at this time they were only five hundred paces apart, and they were still outside the range of bows and arrows.

The sound of the trumpets of the Sijon people also stopped for a while, and they were also regrouping, and there was an eerie silence on the battlefield.

Without the obstruction of hills and mountains, both sides can see each other's layout clearly, and even guess the other party's possible tactics.

The Xijon people's thoughts are also similar to Eyue's, thinking that Chen Jian is preparing to break through on the right flank, even if they guess, the Xijon people still think Chen Jian is stupid. They felt that these people would not fight, and even if they were going to break through on the flanks, they should place the least number of men on the left flank instead of in the center, forming a diagonal line instead of a thick formation on both sides and thin in the middle.

The Xijon people also did not understand the gun carriages with shields in Chen Jian's new army, and guessed that it might be a baffle to block the shooting of bows and arrows, so that the infantry could get closer?

All kinds of speculations are difficult to confirm, and the Xirong people began to slowly advance towards this Chen Jian according to the established method.

The soldiers of the nine directions, there was one side in the first row, facing Chen Jian's position.

Thirty paces apart, there were three soldiers, trying to lean against the center, probably to prevent Chen Jian's two flanks from supporting when the center broke through.

A hundred paces away from the first row, there was the five-party army of the Xirong people, which widened the front, almost the same as the front of the coalition army in Xia Cheng'e City.

The entire formation resembled a triangle, and the sharpest angles concentrated the soldiers of the five sides, ready to attack Chen Jian's Chinese army with all their might.

Some of the Sijon archers, clad in a simple coat of animal skins, broke away from the troops and ran to the front of the line in light attire, ready to cause chaos by scattering at will.

These Sijon archers numbered about two hundred, in groups of three or two, scattered across the entire front of the battlefield.

"Wolfskin, you take the riders and drive back those archers in front of Echeng. The new army archers took five steps forward, ready to shoot back. ”

The herald quickly passed the order, and the wolf skin, with fifty riders who had been trained for some days, ignored the cruising archers in front of Chen Jian, and launched an assault on the left.

Relying on the rapid maneuver and impact of the cavalry, the archers in front of the Echeng army were quickly routed and hurriedly withdrew to the Xijon military formation.

The riders made a circle, quickly rushed from the inclined plane to the front of the Xijon array, threw the javelins and quickly turned back.

The archers in the Sijon army returned fire, the four horsemen were shot, and the rest quickly broke away, but the Sijon army formation slowed down after the harassment.

The leader of the Xijon was even more convinced that Chen Jian was preparing to break through from the right flank, and it was obvious that these riders were trying to harass and slow down the march of their left flank and distance them from the central formation.

"Let the sons and daughters at the front keep moving forward, and those behind keep their distance to keep up. Let them attack the center of the enemy first, and if the two sides go to support, the sons on both sides will charge. If the enemy does not move on either side, then our flanks continue to be slow, and we will rush out with all our strength in the middle. ”

After the leader's order was given, the soldiers at the front of the Xijon gradually increased their speed, and opened a distance of fifty paces from the troops of the second row and three parties, which was the best distance for the follow-up attack, so that the people behind could launch a non-stop attack like a tide.

The leader of Xirong carefully watched the movement on Chen Jian's side, hoping that the oppression of his clan's central breakthrough would make Chen Jian panic and mobilize the support of the troops on both wings.

When a big war is about to break out, if you mobilize soldiers, it is easy to cause chaos.

However, after watching it for a long time, I found that Jian Chen had no intention of moving left and right at all.

Chen Jian visually measured the distance of the Xijon people on the opposite side, beat the war drums, and the archers on the entire front all moved forward, lining up to throw to delay the advance speed of the Xijon people.

The archers of the Xijon people also began to shoot back, and the feathered arrows flew all over the sky at such a distance, but it was more of a visual shock, and there were not many people who were hit by the arrows.

The artillerymen pushed the pine cannons behind the archers, and the trained recruits hurriedly set aside the braziers, making sure that the iron hooks inside were burned red. The three men in the back carried pine logs, ready to replace them at any time.

Chen Jian has tested that the most effective killing distance of these pine cannons is fifty or sixty paces, and it will form a fan of about thirty degrees.

There were five pine gun mounts, with a range of thirty degrees and sixty paces, and a single salvo could cover a wide area of about 100 paces, leaving a gap of fifteen paces between each pine cannon, through which the shock arms who had been promised to fight bravely would gain land and national status.

The armies on both sides of the Chinese army kept sending people to ask if they needed support, but Chen Jian refused, and they had already reached the maximum range of bows and arrows, and it was too late to make adjustments at this time.

E Yue and the others could only restrain their soldiers, not allowed to move, and only let the archers shoot back to ensure suppression.

After three rounds of long-range firing at each other, the distance between the two sides had been reduced to a hundred paces, and the archers of the tripartite army formation on the second line of the Xijon people could already shoot.

The archers of the new army listened to the sound of the drums, fired one last round, quickly retreated back into the formation, and fired a projectile from behind, revealing the black hole of pine cannons.

The shock soldiers composed of the subordinate farmers were assigned by Chen Jian to the gap of the wooden cannons, and the linen regiment that had already been sent down blocked their ears, and the neighbors told them before blocking their ears that they would charge desperately when they saw Wufeng swinging down, and they didn't need to listen to any orders, and they could become wild people by killing one enemy, and if they could become a countryman by killing eleven people, they could become a military commander and distribute land and booty slaves.

Puzzled, these people covered their ears with sackcloth, clenched their short swords, reminisced about the life of the previous year, and gritted their teeth and thought: "If you continue to be slaves, what is the difference between living and dying?" Why don't you give it a go! ”

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The Xijon people looked at those strange wooden cannons a little strangely, they thought that the archers on Chen Jian's side would continue to shoot at close range, and they could feel that these archers were trained in the previous shooting, at least they shot farther and more accurately than the archers on their side, and they thought that the threat of these archers would be greater after closing the distance, but they didn't expect them to retreat.

Although it was strange, the situation on the battlefield was fleeting, the leader of Xirong decisively let people blow the horn, and the soldiers on the front side began to charge towards Chen Jian's Chinese army, and the front line also quickened its pace.

E Yue on the right looked at the Xirong people who rushed towards Chen Jianzhong's army under black pressure, and he was worried. The enemy on his side was still more than 200 steps away from his own line, and he had not yet engaged in battle.

But at this time, his people can no longer change at will, even if they have the heart to support Chen Jian's Chinese army, a distance of two hundred paces, once there is chaos in the movement on their side, the Xirong people can be pressed over in an instant, causing the collapse of the whole line.

What made E Yue even more puzzled was that Xia Cheng's new army archers were originally the biggest reliance, their fifty-step salvo accuracy was very good, if they were lucky, two rounds of arrows could hit dozens of Xirong people, but Chen Jian actually made these archers retreat, revealing those black holes of wood.

"What the hell is Ji Xia going to do?"

He looked anxiously, seeing that the Xirong people at the front had rushed to a place a hundred steps away from Chen Jian's army, and the whistling and shouting were endless, like the tide of a raging river, about to completely submerge Chen Jian's side.

There were not many 500 men on the first side, but after they were sixty paces there were three Xijon soldiers, and once the engagement began, the 1,500 soldiers of these three sides would continue to charge, opening up the situation from the left and right flanks and the seam of the central army.

Seeing that these Xijon people were about to rush closer, E Yue found that Chen Jian had only let the shock soldiers composed of wild people and subordinate farmers concentrate in the gap between the wood.

"Is it just these more than 100 subordinate peasants who can defeat 500 Xijon people? Even if these five hundred people are defeated, how can the latter resist? ”

Eighty steps, seventy steps...... The first batch of Xirong people who rushed to within seventy paces had already rushed to within seventy steps, and E Yue patted his thigh hatefully and said, "How did Ji Xia fight his previous victories?" At seventy paces, if the Sijon men charge again, you should also charge. I thought you wanted to rely on the sharpness of those subordinate farmers, but you didn't charge, where did this sharpness come from? ”

He understood that thirty or forty steps was the best distance to charge, at that time the speed was the fastest and the impact was the most sufficient, but since the Xirong people also attacked, they couldn't stick to those thoughts, half of seventy was exactly thirty steps, but now Chen Jian's side still didn't move.

Just when E Yue thought that Chen Jian was crazy, the next scene made E Yue unforgettable.

He saw Chen Jian raise a flag and drop it vigorously, and the soldiers next to the pine took out iron hooks from the brazier and stretched them into the pine, and then the front end of the pine wood emitted a thunderbolt-like flash in unison, and the flash was followed by a muffled thunderous sound.

The moment the flash appeared, she saw a white mist rising up near the woods, like a dream.

But the dream was full of blood, and the people of Xijon who had rushed to the front suddenly fell in large pieces, and the screams were followed by a few muffled thunders.

Eyue was there, the clansmen around her were stunned, and even the Xijon people who were charging were also stunned.

With a salvo, the Xijon people in the front row of the hundred-meter-wide front were scattered almost instantly, and dozens of people lay on the ground, wailing, and those huge rubbles shattered their bones.

Not many people died, perhaps only thirty or forty, but nearly a hundred were injured by the rubble. In a battle with thousands of people, a hundred dead and wounded is not a big casualty, but if this casualty appears in an instant, it is extremely terrible.

The first fifth of the people instantly lost their combat effectiveness, and in this day and age it is already possible to announce their collapse. And the sound of lightning and thunder made those Xijon people who were attacked by wooden cannons completely lose the courage to fight, and they forgot to flee until they were awakened by the shouts of those tribesmen who were lying on the ground and had broken their hands and feet.

Chen Jian looked at the severed arm and stump fifty steps away with satisfaction, and waved Wufeng to point forward, although those Li Nong blocked their ears, they were still shocked when they saw the scene in front of them, until Chen Jian's Wufeng swung out, then he shouted and held the short sword and pounced on those Xirong people who were instantly frightened stupid.

Brandishing daggers, they didn't think about their own protection at all, thinking only about cutting off the heads of their enemies.

Passing over the corpses of the gravel at the front, like wolves pouring into the sheepfold, they viciously vented their anger at the enemies who had been slaves for a year, cut off their heads and tied them with ropes, and continued to pounce on the other man, all covered in blood and with heads hanging from them, like demons.

The Xijon people on the front side had completely dispersed, and after being instantly destroyed by the artillery, they encountered such a group of people who were completely deadly, dragging their weapons and running back.

Jian Chen didn't beat the drum and charge all, this time he only frightened the Xijon people and broke their soldiers, and the rest of the Xijon people may be frightened, but it is not yet time to collapse.

The artillerymen threw away the pine cannons from the gun carriage, and the people behind brought the newly loaded wooden cannons and began to fix them.

They were slow, and they could shoot once in a minute, but the Sijon people didn't know it.

When the Sijon people at the front were defeated backwards, the leader of Sijon witnessed all this, and while shocked, he still made a judgment very quickly.

Although he didn't understand what those strange pieces of wood were, he knew that his people could be afraid of lightning and thunder, but he couldn't, and vaguely felt that he had fallen into a trap.

He didn't know the loading time of the wooden cannon, but he could see that the wooden cannon only had a killing distance of fifty-six steps, and he felt that these wooden cannons were the biggest reliance of those people on the other side!

So he told the people to go and stabilize them at once, and ordered them to stop advancing and stand still, and the archers came forward to hold steady.

The soldiers on the front side had collapsed, and the battle could no longer be put into the battlefield, and it might even cause panic on the entire front, so he had no choice but to give up.

While the Xijon people stopped and used their archers to stabilize the ranks, Jian Chen also sent people to pacify the allies on both flanks, and they might also be in a panic, because they didn't know about the existence of these things before.

Then Chen Jian beat the drum and signaled the whole team to march, except for those subordinate farmers who were still fighting for their own hopes, the rest of the people quickly reorganized the team, and the archers moved forward and slowly advanced.

It was impossible for the artillery to keep up with the team, and Jian Chen motioned for them to continue reloading in the back, and these wooden cannons only served as a deterrent, temporarily disrupting the deployment of the Xijon people.

Soon, there was a horn sound from the Xijon army on the opposite side, and the panicked Xijon troops of the three sides began to retreat, and it seemed that the Xijon people were ready to stabilize the formation and withdraw the people from the three sides.

Jian Chen turned around and ordered: "Let the wolf skin stick to the cavalry, don't allow them to retreat so easily, don't impact, get close to harass, and create chaos for them!" If they break up, pursue them immediately. If the formation slowly retreats, it is not allowed to pursue. ”

"The grenadiers stepped forward, the commander checked the arquebus, the chariots were ready, and the new army was ready to attack. Beat the drums, and the whole army will move forward! ”

At the same time as this series of orders was issued, the Xijon side also quickly made adjustments, and the center, which had originally concentrated nearly 2,000 people, began to divide its troops to the two sides, and the leader of the Xijon people left only a team of 500 people in the center of the last line, strengthening the two wings.

It seems that these wooden cannons have given them a great deterrent, and the Xijon people are preparing to withdraw the soldiers of the three parties in front, stabilize the center, and constantly retreat out of the attack range of the wooden cannons, relying on the two wings to destroy the coalition forces of Xia Cheng'e City.

The originally wide triangle is now the same as the coalition army in Xia Cheng'e City, which has become the shape of a dumbbell, and the Xijon people can see that the wooden cannon is moving slowly, and they want to exchange space for time, and the center is disengaged, allowing the two wings to attack, after all, there are no wooden cannons on the two wings.

Jian Chen clenched his fists on the chariot, which was exactly what he wanted: he wanted to rely on the chariot in his hand that the Xijon people had never seen before and those gunpowder bombs to break through from the center and directly kill the leader of the Xijon people. (To be continued.) )