Chapter 355: I Like Cannons

"Fight over the Great Wall!"

After learning that the 1st Cavalry Brigade had violated the order and ventured into the Jinzhong Basin, Emperor Yang immediately issued an order. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

It is clear that his subordinates are no longer satisfied with his style, or that the generals' desire to make achievements is too strong and a little out of control, but this is not a bad thing, at least it proves that the wildness of this army is also developing in the direction he expects, and Emperor Yang likes an army full of wild or arguably aggressive.

Of course, when Guo Hong comes back, he will still whip this guy.

And you have to whip this guy yourself and whip him until his skin is broken.

But before that, he still has to follow the rhythm of this guy, the large-scale attack on the southern front is definitely not something that Yinchu can resist, Taiyuan will be recovered soon, there is no suspense about this, and Yinchu is also impossible to stay in Taiyuan and wait for death, so he is most likely to retreat north to Datong to continue to survive, or there is really no way to continue to flee north from Datong to the steppe or simply run to Kulen, or even run to the western shore of Lake Baikal to find his godfather.

But this time Emperor Yang was not ready to let him run.

Because his value has been squeezed clean.

His historical mission is to attract Russian immigrants from the north, and then facilitate Emperor Yang to catch them all, so as not to find lice in the vast land of millions of square kilometers and pull them out little by little, which he did very well, more than 20,000 Russian mercenaries, more than 10,000 accompanying family members, adding up to more than 30,000 and nearly 40,000 Russians mixed under his hands!

How many Russians are there in the whole east of Lake Baikal?

Until the First World War, the population of the Russian Far East was only 1.5 million, thanks to the explosion of immigrants after the completion of the railway, but now it is estimated that there are not even 100,000 at this time, as for the original major cities such as Vladivostok, Boli, Shuangchengzi, Chita and so on, the real city is actually only Yakutsk, and even Ulan-Ude is only a settlement of the Cossacks, but now the Cossacks there have been invited to live in Taiyuan!

After all, the real human world is more attractive than those ancient wildernesses.

Now in the entire east of Lake Baikal, only the Yakutsk Governor's Office is still a little populated, but everything that can be drawn has been pulled by Yinchu, and it is said that even the Russian Far Eastern Governor's Office is preparing to move south to the city of Yaksa, and the ghost place of Yakutsk is not at all people.

In that case, what are you keeping him for?

"Fight over the Great Wall, and then sweep the Mongol tribes!"

Yang Feng said.

"Your Honor!"

Gao Huai hurriedly saluted and said.

They have been waiting for this day for a long time.

"But then the troops will be a little insufficient."

Then he added.

"It's okay, pick out the cavalry brigades of the second and sixth armies, just expand a cavalry corps, and turn around and transfer all of them to the north."

Yang Feng said.

The second and sixth armies in the south, basically do not need cavalry, just pick out as the backbone, and then draw a group of cavalry from the northern garrisons, and then recruit a group of reserves, basically a cavalry army will come out soon.

"Also, pull our new weapons to the front line to test them."

Then he added.

Ten minutes later, Fengtai.

In the Fengtai camp of the original Qing army, the whistle sounded in front of a newly built warehouse, and a steam locomotive slowly drove along the railroad tracks, dragging a terrifying steel giant beast out of the warehouse, which was all made of steel, and was dark and heavy with a kind of evil mechanical beauty, just like those war machines in the Soviet Union in later generations, of course, this is also a war machine, because on its body, the most striking part is a barrel as thick as a bucket, like a dormant black dragon stretching out to the back.

"Big, really big!"

Gao Huai said with heartfelt emotion.

"I just like cannons!"

Then he added.

Well, it's a train cannon!

In fact, it is the navy's latest eighty-pound naval gun, but like this kind of terrifying monster that even battleships dare not mount, it is certainly not something that the army can drag on land with a war horse, so it is simply loaded on the train and turned into a train gun, it should be said that this weapon is more like a strategic deterrent in this era, because there is no target worthy of its bombardment, and there is basically no fortress on land that can withstand the huge eighty-pound shell.

But who made Emperor Yang and his men love cannons!

Immediately afterwards, the beta version of the eighty-pound train gun was dragged by the steam locomotive and rumbled along the railway towards Juyong Pass.

And the same train full of infantry also ran on this railway, and then they would do what their emperor said, fight over the Great Wall, sweep the entire grassland, and plant the banner of the Ming Dynasty in Monan Mongolia, in the Xilin Gol steppe, in the ******** steppe, in the distant Kulun, in Uriya Sutai, and in every piece of land under the sun.

And at this time, Guo Hong of Zihongkou also waited for his own reinforcements.

After handing over the defense here to the newly arrived 3rd Battalion of the 17th Infantry Brigade, he led the remaining two cavalry battalions to kill Zihongkou at once, but soon after he went out, he ran head-on into the counterattacking Qing army.

At this time, Yinchu was also about to go crazy, the Ming cavalry rampaged unscrupulously in the Jinzhong Basin, not only cut off the supply of the southern front, but also made the people everywhere ready to move, and the people of Pingyao took the initiative to rebel before the Ming army was beaten, and a Niu Lu Qing army stationed there persisted for less than half an hour under the siege of tens of thousands of people, and the whole army was annihilated, and even the county order he appointed was hung on the city gate by the people.

It's only the first day, and I don't know what will happen if we continue!

He immediately sent 10,000 Manchu and Mongolian troops stationed in Taiyuan to the south, and after colliding with the defeated Cossacks, they went south together, and rushed directly to Zihongkou to try to destroy this Ming army.

"The first battalion will follow me, and the second battalion will go north!"

Guo Hong roared.

Nearly 14,000 cavalry is not something that his two battalions can fight hard, and if they can't fight hard, there is another way to deal with it.

The two battalions of Ming cavalry, whose horses were faster, immediately separated.

The Qing army that rushed like angry waves on the opposite side was also divided into three, more than 3,000 Cossacks chased Guo Hong, and the other 3,000 Mongolian cavalry chased the second battalion of cavalry, and the remaining banner army attacked Zihongkou, and soon at the same time that the cavalry chased and ran away, the 7,000 banner army crashed into the artillery range of the defenders of Zihongkou, and then the artillery team of the artillery battalion and infantry battalion of the first cavalry brigade was added up, and twenty seven-and-a-half-pound rifled guns immediately sprayed flames, and the dense shells exploded in the Qing army, and those Eight Banners elite soldiers who charged at full speed were blown to the flesh and blood.

However, this could not stop them, and the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, who were full of bitter hatred for the Ming army, went forward one after another, and 7,000 war horses charged wildly with the sound of horses' hooves shaking on the ground.

But immediately after that, the sound of Ming army rifle fire also sounded.

Those lying in the trenches of the Ming infantry kept repeating the action of pulling the bolt and loading the bullet and pulling the trigger, the dense bullets continued to roar and crash into the Qing army at a speed of more than ten rounds per minute, and the charging Qing cavalry fell one by one, and then stepped on the meat under the hooves of the companions behind them, but the violent firepower of the Ming army still could not stop the Qing army, and the short Mongolian horses restored the kind of brave Eight Banners elite soldiers like their ancestors, shouting and waving the saber in their hands waiting for the moment of revenge.

It's closer, it's closer, the defense line of the Ming army is getting closer and closer!

The dense sound of explosions suddenly sounded under their feet, and the Qing army forwards who were charging down as if they had fallen into a trap instantly collapsed in a large area.

Well, it's a mine.

But the mines couldn't stop the Qing army, and the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners behind were still rushing forward.

It has been seven years since Yang Feng started his army, and in the past seven years, his hands and the Ming army have been stained with the blood of the banner people, the poor former ruler has been reduced to a lost dog, countless Eight Banner elite soldiers have been destroyed, their brothers have been beheaded by the Ming army, their parents have been trampled into mud, their wives and sisters have been reduced to 10,000 horses, hatred, humiliation has burned in their hearts all the time, and now it is finally time for revenge, although their feet are covered with the dead bodies of their companions, although the shells around them are constantly exploding, and the bullets are constantly whistling, But none of them flinched.

Everybody's rushing, non-stop, rushing at full speed!

Well, it's a pity they didn't rush over.

The barbed wire fence is in front of it!

After the tenacious will hits the flexible barbed wire, it is still useless after all.

Those galloping war horses had to stop and struggle to get rid of those vicious iron thorns under the restriction of barbed wire, but they were more and more entangled, and the tighter and tighter they were, and the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners on horseback waved their sabers desperately, leaning down and constantly cutting the flexible barbed wire, but to no avail, cutting one and one more, as if endless, and the charging Eight Banners elite soldiers behind them were still constantly colliding with each other, and it seemed that there was no obstacle on the winter field like an invisible dam, Hold back the torrent of Iron Riders.

And then the shells did not stop exploding among them.

Bullets constantly pass through their bodies.

Opposite them, in the trench just over 20 zhang away, those Ming soldiers were still completing mechanical movements, pulling the bolt, pushing the bullet, aiming, pulling the trigger, pulling the bolt, pushing the bullet, aiming, pulling the trigger......

The lives of the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners continued to fade away.

Seven thousand cavalry, unable to break through a line of less than two thousand infantry and artillery.

This is the gap in technology, the commander's mind and the soldier's will have lost their role here, once the technology forms a generation gap, basically the war becomes a one-sided turi, the Qing army with the weapon of 1700 can only appear after 150 years, and the defensive tactics that can only appear after 200 years, can only do with their own lives to continue the undefeated glory for the Ming army. (To be continued.) )