Ten round targets were erected on the training ground, and the diameter of the targets was about as wide as an adult's shoulder.

Ten soldiers of the First Army, crouching a hundred paces in front of the target, motionless, with a bullet already loaded in the flintlock pistol.

"Three shots each, fire!" Yuan Chonghuan commanded softly.

There was a chaotic "bang" sound, and the target shook violently.

The audience was silent, except for the gray-white smoke rising from the ground, and the training ground was as silent as a desert.

Sun Chengzong nodded slowly: "The speed is slightly slower than Jiannu's bow and arrow, but the range exceeds Jiannu's bow and arrow." He turned back to the soldiers behind him and said, "Check the target!" ”

The voice of the soldier quickly came from the arrow target: "My lord, there are a total of nineteen bullet holes on the ten arrow targets. ”

"Nineteen?" The soldiers fired a total of thirty bullets, and the hit rate was already more than sixty percent, and Ma Shilong's eyes showed a glint of envy: "General Yuan, can all the soldiers reach this level?" ”

"Chief Ma, these ten soldiers were just selected at random." Yuan Chonghuan was not shocked.

"General Yuan, after my soldiers are reorganized, can they also use this kind of firearm?" Ma Shilong looked at the flintlock pistol in the soldier's hand, "General Yuan, can you lend me a flintlock pistol?" ”

Yuan Chonghuan smiled faintly: "General Ma can't use it now, what's the use of a flintlock pistol?" Back in Jingshi, this flintlock pistol has. ”

"General Yuan, I want to familiarize myself with the flintlock pistol first, and then go back so that I can teach the soldiers to use it." Ma Shilong's gaze never left the soldier's hand.

Yuan Chonghuan was pouting, and a soldier handed the flintlock pistol in his hand to Ma Shilong, and also briefly introduced the use of the flintlock pistol.

Ma Shilong took the flintlock pistol and, with the help of the soldiers, loaded a bullet.

"Bang."

The bullet flew away without a trace - off target.

He smiled wryly: "I'll go and see on the target!" ”

Seeing that everyone ignored him, he said to Sun Chengzong: "My lord, since General Yuan has arrived at Shanhaiguan, then his subordinates will return to Beijing as soon as possible in accordance with His Majesty's instructions. ”

"Oh, then you go and prepare!" Sun Chengzong was also immersed in the anticipation of the flintlock pistol.

Ma Shilong hurriedly left the training ground, went back to pack his bags, and prepared to leave Shanhaiguan and return to Beijing as soon as possible.

"My lord, how is the situation of Jiannu?" Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong left the training ground side by side, he had just arrived at Shanhaiguan and did not know much about the current situation of Jiannu.

"Hey! Every day, Jiannu would send 100 cattle to come to Qiantun to plunder. Sun Chengzong sighed, and his thoughts returned to the front of Shanhaiguan, "But they can't afford to consume it, so they generally don't attack, shoot a few arrows casually, scare and scare the soldiers in Qiantun, and then swagger away." ”

"Then we ......" Yuan Chonghuan knew that Sun Chengzong was good at defense, and when the words came to his mouth, he swallowed them again.

Sun Chengzong had a calm face: "Jiannu provoked in Qiantun so frequently, but we couldn't go out of the city to meet the enemy, so we had to acquiesce to Jiannu's martial arts here." ”

"My lord, my subordinates have asked to take over Qiantun." Since he came to Shanhaiguan, Yuan Chonghuan planned to use Jiannu to train soldiers, the sooner the better.

Sun Chengzong stared at Yuan Chonghuan's eyes: "Chonghuan, Qiantun is the gate of Shanhaiguan, and its strategic value is extremely important, you must not lose it, are you sure?" ”

"Your Excellency, rest assured, before coming, His Majesty has repeatedly asked his subordinates not to take risks, his subordinates will not go out of the city to meet the enemy lightly, and Qiantun will never be lost."

"Hmm." Sun Chengzong promised that Yuan Chonghuan's new army, the combat effectiveness must be tested through the Liaodong battlefield, "But you have just arrived at Shanhaiguan, rest for a few days first!" My soldiers can withstand it. ”

There are a total of 300,000 troops on the Jiliao front, of which 100,000 are stationed in Jizhou's rear defense and 200,000 are stationed in the Shanhaiguan front. Among the 200,000 troops in Shanhaiguan, the total soldier Ma Shilong has 100,000 troops, and Sun Chengzong himself commands 100,000 troops.

However, Sun Chengzong was the governor of Jiliao, and the army of these thirty people was under his control.

"What do you say?" Yuan Chonghuan almost kowtowed, "The subordinate army is also the army of adults, and the subordinate hopes to take over Qiantun tomorrow." ”

"Tomorrow? Your soldiers have just arrived, so let's rest for a few days and familiarize ourselves with the situation at Shanhaiguan! ”

How many days off? The second army, and even the third army, are coming, and it is uncertain who will defend Qiantun at that time.

Yuan Chonghuan was anxious: "My lord, my soldiers all have war horses, and they can't go hard along the way, after today's rest, their bodies will definitely recover, besides, guarding Qiantun, three thousand people are enough, and don't move the whole army." ”

"That'...... All right! "Sun Chengzong knows Yuan Chonghuan's character, and he won't let him go to Qiantun, I'm afraid that he won't sleep well, so what else can he talk about?" Chonghuan be careful, Jiannu's combat effectiveness, you have seen it. ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates will be careful." Yuan Chonghuan really didn't dare to take risks now, not because of Zhu Youzhen and Sun Chengzong's warnings.

Bi's flintlock pistol is the first time on the battlefield, no one knows its true power, it must be tested on the battlefield to know, in case the flintlock pistol is not good on the battlefield, and the soldiers have no armor protection, then the loss can be great.

On the second day, Yuan Chonghuan led more than 3,000 soldiers from Li Xing's First Brigade to Qiantun early, and the original defenders of Qiantun withdrew to Shanhaiguan.

Outside the Shanhai Pass, there are lofty mountains on the left, and there is the remnant vein of the Great Wall of Liaodong, there is no road to go at all, and the right side is the Bohai Sea, only a narrow passage in the middle.

Qiantun was guarded on this passage, blocking Jiannu from the pass.

If we talk about the difficulty of the terrain and the importance of the strategic location, Qiantun is even more than Shanhaiguan, and it is a well-deserved north gate of Shanhaiguan, but Qiantun is too narrow to deploy a large number of troops.

Jiannu didn't expect to capture Shanhaiguan, so he didn't attack on a large scale, and mostly harassed with small troops, trying to exhaust the Ming army.

Sun Chengzong was an advocate of the "active defense" policy, he organized death squads, and when the number of Jiannu was small, he often went out to Qiantun to sneak attack, although the results were not large, but it also made Jiannu overwhelmed.

After Jiannu suffered several losses, he no longer harassed the Ming army with a small army, but used the entire Niulu to provoke Qiantun, almost once or twice a day.

The number of Jiannu increased, and the combat effectiveness was very strong, and the Ming army could not fight against Jiannu in the field, so Sun Chengzong had to close the passage out of the customs and rely on the advantage of the city wall to hold the Qiantun.

After noon, a team of more than 100 Jiannu rushed to Qiantun.

There are only 100 people, and they dare to come to show off their might! Yuan Chonghuan was furious, he now had a flintlock pistol, and his confidence hardened.

"I personally command a thousand soldiers to shoot at the head of the city, Li Xing, you order five hundred soldiers, prepare the best horses, and when Jiannu retreats, go out of the city to pursue the remnants of the enemy, and be sure to destroy them all."

"Military seat, the head of the city is not safe......" Li Xing felt that Yuan Chonghuan personally commanded at the head of the city, which was too dangerous, and they all said that Jiannu's bow and arrows were powerful, even if he shot arrows from the city, he could often shoot the Ming army at the head of the city.

"Don't talk nonsense, you go out of the city to chase the enemy, it's more dangerous, it's better to protect yourself!" Yuan Chonghuan waved at Li Xing and asked him to go down.

"Yes, Throne." Li Xing went to select soldiers and horses.

The flintlock pistol could not be aimed on the horse, and if you wanted to go out of the city to destroy the enemy, you still had to rely on sabers and horses.

Jiannu slowed down their horses and slowly paced forward, they were used to the Ming army cowering within the city walls, as long as they did not enter the range of the Ming army's bows and arrows and fire# guns, they were safe.

Yuan Chonghuan hid most of the soldiers behind the daughter wall, and only one hundred and ten soldiers secretly showed their faces from the battlements, exactly the same as the previous Ming army.

If Jiannu had observed carefully enough, they would have noticed that the soldiers who appeared at the head of the city today were not wearing bright light armor with a metallic luster, but were dressed in dark gray cloth.

The Ming army loaded the flintlock pistols with the first bullets.

Jiannu's banner has clearly fallen in Yuan Chonghuan's eyes.

The five-pointed square flag, blood red in the middle, white around the perimeter, the yellow dragon head in the middle of the flag is facing backwards, but the tail is pointing in the direction of the city wall.

"It turned out to be a red flag, Yue Tuo's subordinates." Yuan Chonghuan fought in Liaodong for many years, and he was clear about the banner and banner owner of Jiannu.

"Military seat, Jiannu has already entered one hundred and fifty steps."

"Don't worry, let's get closer." The closer Jiannu is, the higher the hit rate of the flintlock gun will be, and with the thick city wall as a guarantee, Yuan Chonghuan does not have to worry that Jiannu will break the city.

"Military seat, Jiannu enters a hundred steps, and it is already the range of a flintlock pistol."

"Be prepared, don't fire without my orders."

Yuan Chonghuan was surrounded by soldiers from Li Xing's First Brigade, all of whom were old men from the Fenwu Battalion, who had experienced the extermination of the Japanese in Shandong and the suppression of bandits in Shaanxi.

There is no fear in their eyes, only anticipation.

"Throne, Jiannu has entered sixty steps, and is about to enter the range of bows and arrows."

Yuan Chonghuan secretly looked at the city from the battlement, and the Jiannu drew arrows from behind them, and some had already begun to put them on their bows.

"Shoot, shoot the leader first."

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

……

The thousand flintlock muskets were divided into three batches, and the first soldiers fired four hundred rounds, then crouched down and began to reload.

The second group of three hundred men began to shoot, and after the shooting, they also quickly squatted down and gave up the battlements to the third group of soldiers.

A thousand flintlock muskets completed only one round of shooting, and did not wait for the second round.

Most of the more than 100 Jiannu soldiers have fallen from their horses, and only a dozen Jiannu are left on horseback.

Jiannu on the horse was dumbfounded, not knowing why his comrades-in-arms jumped off the horse one by one, could it be that Niu Lu Ezhen gave some orders, and they didn't hear it?

Perhaps the gunfire just now masked the order given by Ezhen, the Ming army's fire# guns were very annoying, with a range of only thirty or forty paces, and there was no threat to them, but the loud sound affected the communication between them.

Two Jiannu soldiers were about to jump off their horses and ask what was going on.

But they didn't find their own forehead. After the first batch of 400 Ming soldiers shot, their foreheads fell early, and they were hit by more than ten bullets.

One round of shooting, only one minute to go.

The Jiannu soldiers, who were not dead on the ground, began to roll all over the ground, and behind them dragged a red blood line, like a long tail on the back of their heads, and the blood line was ravaged by the rolling soldiers' leather armor.

At this moment, the wounded soldiers let out a desperate scream, the cry, like a tiger's roar, like an ape's cry, like a wolf's roar, the Jurchens are rough, and even the screams are not as poignant as the Han people.

Horses are not the focus of the gunners' shooting, but there are still many horses injured, the seriously injured war horses have been lying on the ground, stretching their necks to the sky and neighing, the terrible sound, almost covering all the screams of the Jurchen soldiers, the lightly injured war horses, can barely stand, the red blood line from the wound to the ground, they are shaking the muscles near the wound one by one, maybe the muscles are spasming.

The few remaining Jiannu soldiers on horseback seemed to understand what was happening, but their Ezhen did not send a signal to retreat, and they began to fire arrows at the head of the city.

At the head of the city, the first batch of 400 soldiers to shoot had already been loaded with ammunition.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

……

Four hundred rounds of ammunition poured out, and there were no more Jiannu soldiers on horseback.

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