Chapter 61: The God of War
After finishing speaking, Xing Fang spread his legs and ran towards the dozen or so carts they were carrying. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
My lord has an order, so I will wait to unpack and prepare! Do it! Under Xing Fang's beckoning, the hundred or so young students who came out from Crouching Tiger Village gathered at a very fast speed, and immediately lined up in four rows, even if they were so neat that even the other pro-soldiers could see it, they all nodded secretly, and the whole process was only less than half a cup of tea, and they were all lined up, and Xing Fang immediately gave an order.
After hearing the word "hands-on", these young students immediately dispersed with a coax, rushed to the vehicles they were responsible for, and at a rapid speed, took out the crowbars from under the cars, and pried open all the wooden boxes of these carts, revealing the contents of them.
There were curious officers and soldiers who looked at them while working, and they came from Chuzhou all the way, and they asked about what was in these wooden boxes, but these new recruits were all tight-lipped and refused to tell anyone what was inside, so some people had already made private bets and guessed what might be inside.
But today, when they opened the wooden box, revealing the contents of the box, many people were immediately disappointed, there was no gold and silver treasure, no copper coins, and not anything valuable, but some iron buckets, a long rod with a brush, iron bars, round iron bullets, and some yellow and clear copper pipes fixed on the shelves, and they could not see what these things were used for.
Only a few people recognized them at a glance, and these things seemed to be things that Gao Huaiyuan had used once when he launched a military admonition to cut off Shi Miyuan's party, and he couldn't help but be ecstatic.
In fact, everyone knows that they stay here today, waiting for them will be a swarm of Mongolian troops, they are only more than a thousand people, want to withstand the attack of a large number of Mongolian troops in such a not dangerous place, everyone can basically be said to be nine deaths, the reason why they did not escape is all because of their loyalty to Gao Huaiyuan, even if they die here, they will not leave Gao Huaiyuan, the commander they admire, they are willing to use their lives to protect Gao Huaiyuan's safety.
But this does not mean that they do not want to live, but they did not have this kind of confidence just now, until these people who know the contents of these wooden boxes see these objects, hope is rekindled, and some people immediately grab the people around them and shout: We have hope now! Don't be afraid of those Tartars anymore! Ha ha!
Those officers and soldiers who didn't know what were in the middle were confused by these individuals, and they didn't know why they were so excited when they saw the wooden box opened, but they also vaguely felt that these things were not a very sharp weapon, and this must be the last weapon that Gao Huaiyuan relied on.
As a result, the big guys also became in a better mood and worked harder.
Fan team Zheng, how far is the nearest Mongolian army from here? Gao Huaiyuan asked the scout team who had gone out to explore the way.
Lord Qiyu, they may be here in half an hour at the earliest! The Fan team replied immediately.
Gao Huaiyuan nodded, feeling a little more at ease, at this time the sky had just brightened, and the first rays of sunlight had not yet sprinkled in this mountain, so he still had a little time to prepare.
After Xing Fang opened the wooden box, they immediately began to take these things off the cart, and immediately divided into two teams, and lifted the Huang Chengcheng's copper cannon and small firecrackers that were maintained by one door off the cart, and placed them on some hardwood bases with wheels, and then pulled them apart, and arranged them on the two wings of the position according to Xing Fang's requirements.
Gao Huaiyuan nodded roughly, this time Xing Fang pulled six medium-caliber copper cannons from Crouching Tiger Village, as well as twelve small-caliber copper cannons, and at the same time filled a lot of gunpowder and projectiles in the box, and even brought ten long-barreled firearms, the firepower can be said to be quite strong and incomparable in this era, after having these things, Gao Huaiyuan is a lot more relieved, although the Mongolian Tartars are powerful, but they are also mother's flesh, in the face of such modern weapons, they will definitely give them a super big surprise.
The group of people under Xing Fang obviously carried out artillery drills for a long time, whether it was combining artillery or arranging artillery positions, they were all very proficient and very fast, and each artillery had obviously arranged its own gunners in advance, and after unpacking, they were not chaotic at all, and immediately formed a group, pushed their respective artillery into the position, and aimed the muzzle of the cannon at the front of the trench that hundreds of people were digging at the bottom of the mountain.
The medium-caliber bronze cannon was one for six people, the small-caliber gun was for four for one, and the ten-gun long-barreled gun was one for two people, and soon each of them took their positions and entered the position.
My lord! What the hell are these things? A personal soldier from the front division of the palace had never seen these things, and asked curiously.
This is the god of war! In a moment, you can see how good they are! Hehe! Gao Huaiyuan confidently explained to this pro-soldier.
Wipe the bore! Xing Fang majestically stroked the hilt of the Liuyun scimitar at his waist and shouted to the soldiers under him.
Each artillery piece had a gun commander, and these gun commanders immediately repeated Xing Fang's command: Wipe the barrel of the cannon!
So a gunner with a long rod immediately strode to the muzzle, inserted a long rod wrapped in cotton cloth at one end into the barrel, wiped it back and forth vigorously a few times, wiped the grease from the barrel, and then immediately turned back to his position.
Open the medicine box, take the medicine bag, and fill the medicine! After Xing Fang saw that everyone had completed the action according to his request, he immediately ordered again.
The gun commanders of the charge immediately conveyed his order, and the iron boxes that were moved to the back of the gun mount were immediately pried open, and a bag of medicine bags wrapped in advance was taken out of it, and the loader held it to the muzzle of the gun and stretched out his hand to put it into the gun chamber.
One of the gunners stepped forward, pierced the fire door with an iron cone, and inserted a hollow feather tube filled with gunpowder into the fire door, just in time to insert the feather tube into the medicine bag in the medicine room.
Solid Bullet Reloading! Xing Fang then ordered loudly.
One by one, the gunners immediately took out round iron projectiles from the wooden box, then wrapped them in cotton cloth, and sent them to the bell mouth of the gun, and the loader stepped forward again, and smashed these iron pellets wrapped in cotton cloth into the cannon chamber with a long rod, and pressed the iron pellets tightly against the medicine bag in the medicine room.
500 steps ahead! Xing Fang gave the order again.
The gunners immediately coordinated and began to adjust the elevation angle of the gun, and the aiming hand lay behind the gun body to aim at the target from the lookout hill and the light gate.
Complete! Complete! The commander of the cannon soon began to shout, reporting to Xing Fang that they had finished aiming.
Gao Huaiyuan and many others were watching the actions of Xing Fang and others, many people were confused by them and didn't know what they were doing, but Gao Huaiyuan knew better than anyone how Xing Fang and them were doing.
After so many years of painstaking training, these Gao Huaiyuan's seed artillerymen can be said to have practiced the artillery perfectly, the movements are neat and tidy without a little chaos, and the speed makes Gao Huaiyuan secretly praise, under his training, these artillerymen have already mastered the operation of artillery, and the operation process of artillery has been fixed, and far beyond the limit of firearms in this era, although it is not as good as modern artillery in later generations, but at least it can reach the quality of artillery in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, especially in terms of loading, even beyond the level of the Ming Dynasty, the only thing that made him a little regretful was that these artillery guns had to be placed on a small four-wheel gun mount because they wanted to be hidden, rather than a serious field gun mount, which was more suitable for city defense, and not very conducive to rapid mobile field use, which somewhat affected the play of artillery, and his latest rear-loading Furlong machine gun was not cast in Daye County for various reasons, so it was not transported here, let him test it in actual combat.
But even so, these guys are enough to make the Mongolian Tartars drink a pot, and as the latest weapon is put into battle for the first time, he believes that it will give the Mongolian Tartars a great deterrent.
Just after Xing Fang had just finished loading and placing the artillery, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and a group of Mongolian cavalry appeared on the mountain road, and quickly came to the foot of the mountain.
The Song army, which was still nervously building fortifications, immediately began to retreat towards the mountain, and under the dispatch of the command banner, they quickly formed a military formation, and the two sides began to confront.
Nahai frowned and looked at the Song army opposite, examining the Song army in front of him, observing the strength and morale of the Song army, yesterday they received a report from the scout agent in Jiangli County, saying that another Song army came out from Qifang Pass, and it was marching in the direction of Jiangli County, with few troops, only about 1,000 people.
Even if he ordered Nahai, led a group of soldiers and horses, and immediately left Jiangli County overnight and rushed to Qifang Pass to kill the Song army that came to help, I heard that this Song army was only about 1,000 people, Nahai was full of confidence this time, and he was determined that he could no longer be like Hailasu, and was beaten by the Song army, so after he ordered 3,000 soldiers and horses, he rushed over in the direction where the Song army appeared overnight.
Along the way, they killed a lot of Song refugees along the way, and they slowed down a little, but this also made his soldiers and generals too addicted to killing, and robbed a lot of Song people's property, if they didn't want to hurry, I am afraid they could also grab a lot of beautiful women, but unfortunately they couldn't carry these women, so they had to kill them together, and now the advance team of soldiers under his command arrived under the neck of the horse, basically hanging a different number of bloody heads, for them, This is a kind of show of their strength, and it is also a proof of their military exploits.
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