"Stop, fight these Cossacks!"

On the bank of the Fen River, which had been frozen, Guo Hong restrained his horse and looked at the Cossacks who were chasing in the distance, and then reached out and took off his spear and shouted. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the Cossacks did not have Don hippos to ride, their horses were actually from a chaotic source, and they were not regular cavalry at this time, Central Asian horses, Kabajin horses, and even Mongolian horses, which could be seen among the Cossacks at this time, and the result of the speed competition of the Ming army, which was all Arab horses, was left far behind by the lack of war horses, and only more than a thousand horses could really catch the Ming army.

And a cavalry battalion of the Ming army was one thousand and twenty-four people.

"Yes, line up, check the Cossacks!"

The commander of the first cavalry battalion beside Guo Hong also took off his spear and shouted.

Immediately afterwards, the Ming cavalry took off their spears and turned their horses' heads, divided into two horizontal formations with the most customary tactics, and arranged them in two horizontal formations in front and back, and then leveled the spears in their hands, and began to jog in small steps with Guo Hong's roar to meet the pursuing Cossacks. The rifle is useless in the cavalry's hedging, and the fire on the galloping horse basically can't hit any target, and the speed of the relative charge can reach tens of meters per second, and it will not give the cavalry enough time to replace the spear after firing, such a battle is the easiest way to hold the spear and hit it at the fastest speed, in fact, the modern cavalry hedge is usually forbidden to use a carbine.

At the same time, the Cossacks, who were in pursuit, were also in a wild run.

Their formation was messy.

The armed ronin, who had not undergone rigorous training all year round, could not achieve the close formation of the Ming cavalry, but they also replaced the spears in their hands, but the length was still much shorter than that of the Ming army, and it could only be regarded as a semi-spear, in fact, the Cossacks also liked to use throwing spears at this time. And they were different from the densely packed Ming army, which all held spears in both hands, because the perennial strict training had made their war horses accustomed to running close together, and they did not need additional control at all, and they could maintain the rhythm with each other, but the Cossacks could not do this, they had to hold the reins with one hand and clamp the spear under the armpit on the other side.

The torrent of two iron horses, at a speed of more than twenty meters per second, narrowed the distance in an empty wheat field in winter.

A few hundred meters away in a flash.

The Ming army, which still maintained a dense formation, smashed into the middle of the Cossacks like a heavy hammer, and instantly smashed through the thin formation in a sound of broken spears, and countless Cossacks with broken spears fell screaming under the huge force of the impact, and then were trampled into flesh by the galloping horses' hooves.

And the Ming army ......

None of them were dismissed.

In such a hedge, one inch is long and one inch is stronger.

The Cossacks who dodged the first row of spears could not dodge the spears of the second row, the length of the spears of the hollow wooden pole was close to six meters, and the spears of the second row were still nearly half the length in front of the first row of cavalry, completely forming a dense wall of spears, and the result of the collision was only death.

In such a battle, the length of the spear is the axiom.

The Ming cavalry, which had broken through the Cossacks, then turned around behind the formation and relined the formation.

"Ming cavalry, attack!"

Guo Hong pulled out his saber and roared.

"Ming cavalry, attack!"

The regrouped Ming cavalry also drew their sabers and shouted.

Or it can't be called a saber.

It's a bayone.

The Ming army was all double-swords, and the cavalry used a straight-edged stab sword against the cavalry, and the curved edge scimitar was changed when cutting the infantry.

The cavalry of the Ming army, which was still densely packed, was responsible for the front row with 300 men with spears, and those without spears followed behind in two rows, and at the same time leaned forward with swords in their hands to stretch out as much as possible, like a bright silver thorn and crashed into the Cossacks again. And the latter also regrouped and launched a charge, and in the blink of an eye the two cavalry collided again, and the result was not much different, the powerful impact brought by the dense formation was completely fatal to the scattered Cossacks, and the fierce war horses easily smashed through the Cossacks with the snapping sound of spears, like countless wild beasts trampling those Cossacks with spears under their hooves.

And next......

The Cossacks were defeated without any suspense.

"Mada, that's it!"

Guo Hong spat and said disdainfully.

However, it was at this time that the follow-up Cossacks began to arrive, but they could not concentrate on the formation at all, because of the quality of the war horses, these Cossacks were actually dragged into a very long line, looking at this situation, Guo Hong did not hesitate to give the order to attack again, but this time the Ming cavalry did not need a dense formation, but quickly divided into small teams, and the squads still took a dense formation, just like a small cavalry formation with a sword stabbing head-on into the Cossacks.

But the moment they collided, the first thing to sound was a dense burst of gunfire.

Revolver.

A sword in one hand stabs a revolver in the other.

At the same time of charging, the first round of play a round of close-range shooting, whether it hits or not, it is good to scare the opponent, and when the Cossacks are distracted by the gunfire, the sword of the Ming army is stabbed on them, the biggest difference between the straight-edged sword stab and the curved blade scimitar is that the former can play the effect of a spear, nearly a meter long sword spur plus the arm length that sticks forward, in fact, it is not shorter than the Cossack semi-spear, the only problem is that the requirements for the cavalry are relatively high, because the force of the same impact is not something that ordinary people can deal with.

But fortunately, this is the most elite cavalry of the Ming army.

A thousand cavalry fiercely slammed into the sparse Cossacks, and then swept by like a mountain torrent crashing into a flock of sheep, leaving only a spreading corpse, and the Cossacks who had been destroyed of their courage scattered and fled, but they didn't notice that they were on the other side, the first cavalry brigade and three battalions that had entered the Jinzhong Basin had completed the whole team, and a thousand terrifying Zhangba spears stretched out in front of the cavalry formation like a wall, the spear blade reflected a cold light, and the decorative small pennant hunted behind the spear blade.

Then their commander pressed his hand.

Kill!

At this moment, at the end of the Juyongguan Railway, hundreds of kilometers away, Gao Huai, who had come to observe in person, nodded, and an officer next to him also pressed his hand down and shouted: "Fire!" ”

Not far from them, the eighty-pound cannon as thick as a bucket pointed obliquely at the sky, on the platform behind the barrel, the main gunner pulled the gun rope fiercely, and the flame sprayed by the firing tube instantly ignited the latest launch yao, followed by an earth-shattering loud bang, the muzzle of the muzzle more than five zhang long erupted out, and the huge cannonball rotated and whistled out at more than the speed of sound, but unlike the previous cannon, this time the gunpowder smoke from the muzzle was obviously much lighter, of course, it was not nothing, in fact, the gunpowder smoke was still very spectacular, But it doesn't fit the horrific identity of this artillery.

"The new ****** is really good, it's not big, but it's powerful enough!"

The commander of the heavy artillery brigade next to Gao Huai said.

Gao Huai didn't speak, holding a telescope and staring at the distance, there was a circular battery, the front line of the Qing army, in fact, the two sides were bounded by a Great Wall, the border of the Ming army's controlled area was Juyong Pass, and the boundary of the Qing army's controlled area was Badaling, and the middle was used as a buffer zone. But the Great Wall was not enough to provide protection for the Qing army, which they knew very well, in fact, the old city walls were no longer able to stop the Ming army, especially the bombardment of white phosphorus shells was very deadly on the unsheltered city wall, so the Qing army built a number of new semi-enclosed batteries in Badaling as the core, and the target of this test was these batteries.

Suddenly, the fire on the right side of the fort flashed, and the smoke of the explosion rose.

It was clear that this shot was missed.

But this is also normal, how can a target seven miles away be hit all at once.

At this moment, behind the cannon that had been manually reset, the cannon door was opened by the soldier door, and at the same time the gun gate was lifted, and then two soldiers carried the huge cannonball into the supply slot, and then it was immediately pushed into the chamber, and the loader began to put it in the medicine bag again......

Well, it's a modern ******.

In fact, nitrocellulose is also filled, including shells.

Yang Feng has begun small-scale production of nitric acid, although in addition to the giant saltpeter mine in Shanshan, there are not many saltpeters in China, but there are still some, saltpeter and concentrated sulfuric acid heated steam into the water to dissolve is nitric acid. This is also the most important method of production of nitric acid before the twentieth century, cotton gunpowder, bitter suan, nitrated gan oil, nitric acid in the era of antimony enti invention were all obtained in this way, and Chilean saltpeter was favored because of this, until ammonia technology kicked it aside. But now he still has to use this method, of course, this method is costly, in fact, it cannot be regarded as real industrial production, but this can not be helped, synthetic ammonia is still too exaggerated for him.

And saltpeter and sulfuric acid plus absorbent cotton is nitrocellulose, which is also the simplest one.

Of course, this is just the principle, in fact, there are a lot of things that need to be used to really practical products, such as solving the instability of nitrocellulose and the like, but fortunately, this is not worth mentioning to Yang Feng, and others need to solve the problem with countless experiments and even lives, he only needs to take it directly. Not only nitrocellulose, but even Nobel's Dana explosives have begun to be produced on a small scale, which is nothing more than nitrified gan oil and diatomaceous earth actually have to add nitrocellulose, and there is also Taiwan's specialty camphor, but this is also not worth mentioning to Yang Feng.

The train gun, which was quickly reloaded, was readjusted according to the results of the first shot, and when the adjustment was completed, a blazing flame erupted as the main gunner pulled the gun rope.

Including Gao Huai, everyone stared intently at the distant target, almost a full twenty seconds later, the fire of the explosion shone again, and this time it directly swallowed the fort, through the telescope can even see that in the smoke that rose to the sky, countless blown up rubble scattered in all directions, when the smoke dispersed, it could be clearly seen that the fort was like a steamed bun that had been bitten off, and there was a shocking gap.

Obviously, the power of twelve catties of cotton gunpowder is ferocious enough.

"Yes, go ahead and run out all the shells."

Gao Huai said with satisfaction. (To be continued.) )