Seeing that his subordinates were being bombarded, Zhu Sijiu, the commander of the Guards Infantry Division, was also shocked, and opened his mouth for a long time. His Guards Infantry Division was placed in the field, with no villages to rely on, and no high watchtowers to spot the Mongol artillery carriages in advance, so to speak, a sudden blow.

The momentum of hundreds of small cannons firing together is really huge, because the quality of the H medicine provided to Mongolia in the Southern Song Dynasty is not good, and when the cannon goes out, it is a lot of smoke, and hundreds of cannons are bombarded together, this smoke is returned? The front of the Guards Infantry Division was suddenly filled with gunsmoke, and the battlefield was filled with choking smoke and poisonous fog.

Moreover, most of the crossbowmen of the Guards Infantry Division who were bombarded were new recruits, and it was already chaotic to see the Mongols rushing over with hundreds of artillery carts, some of them fled in panic, and some of them lay down to avoid the artillery. As soon as the cannon rang out, it almost collapsed. If it weren't for the chaos of the Han people Ding Zhuang who was charging into battle, the crossbowmen of the Guards Infantry Division would have been wiped out by the opponent's group.

"Mingjin, let the crossbowmen take down and straighten out!"

Zhu Sijiu was furious and ordered: "The four bow and crossbow battalions are all bigger than once!" The battalions, companies, and platoon commanders, and the righteous instructors of each battalion were demoted to the first rank (they are all sergeants, and they will be gone if they are lowered to the first rank)! Instructor Lu, do you have any objections? ”

"This official has no objection!" Lu Zhengtong, the righteous instructor of the Guards Infantry Division, was a graduate of the first phase of the military academy with the battalion, and he was already furious when he saw the collapse of the crossbowmen, and he responded loudly, so he turned around and shouted: "Inspector, follow Lao Tzu!" ”

Under the divisional volunteers, there is a "military police" called the "inspection team." In addition to supervising the war, the task is to supervise military discipline and enforce military law. There were only thirty people in the team, but all of them were veterans with the status of sergeants. He also deliberately selected soldiers who had been in battle for a long time and looked fierce. There is no one in the middle and lower ranks of the army who is not afraid of them.

As for the patrol team that dispatched the battle, most of them will see some blood, and wait until the four crossbow battalions are gathered down. It must be to pick a few unlucky guys who have lost their bows and crossbows and have no scars on their bodies......

"Good! Well played! Saidianchi. Gan Siding, you are my minister of humerus, and I now make you the head of the artillery army! ”

Kublai Khan saw more than 100 artillery carriages behind the battle and bombarded the Ming army's crossbowmen. He was the head of an artillery army, and then looked at the left and right triumphantly.

"Guys, do you see? Our great Mongolian cannon can be beaten against the head of the rat. Now it is only a hundred small cannons that have such a record, and if there are thousands or thousands of guns in the future, thousands of cannons will be fired in unison on the battlefield. What kind of enemy is still undefeated? ”

An enemy like Da Ming may not be defeated! However, Kublai Khan's words are not entirely wrong, if his Mongol army is equipped with enough copper cannons, heavenly thunder arrows, and really learns to use H medicine weapons in the war with the Ming army, then the West and the Indian group of uninformed turtle army leaders will definitely not be able to defeat him.

And several Mongolian heavyweights had a pity on their faces at this time, when there was chaos in the center of the Ming thief, if there were thousands of iron horsemen taking advantage of the situation to rush into battle, they might have collapsed on all sides of the Ming thief now. But the battlefield was full of overturned sand shield carts, and the horse couldn't rush up. Could it be that in the future, when there is a war, it will really be a gun truck and infantry?

"Tell Tachar's men to retreat behind the overturned sand shield carts first, and hold on there."

At this time, Kublai Khan pointed to the "sand shield pile" on the battlefield that could barely be stretched into a curve and said: "Tell Tachar to drive the Han Ding Zhuang up again." Dig a mound of earth to connect the sand shield wagons together, leaving a passage in the middle for the gun wagons to enter and exit. Let's build an earthen wall in the middle of the battlefield and use it as a base to repeatedly attack the center of the thief line with artillery carts and foot soldiers! ”

Kublai Khan's order. Tens of thousands of Han Chinese Ding Zhuang were driven to the battlefield, but they were luckier than Liu Minzhong. No need to rush into battle, just dig up the dirt and pile it around the overturned sand shield trucks to build a zigzag breastwork - hands, of course! Kublai Khan would not be stupid enough to hand over a shovel and shovel that could kill people to these Han people, Ding Zhuang. This is a battlefield, and there are tens of thousands of Han elites on the opposite side who will rush over at any time......

Countless Han men with numb expressions, as if they had forgotten their pain and fear, and could only resign themselves to their fate, were under the supervision of the whips and scimitars of those warriors under Tacha'er. In desperation, he dug the soil with his hands, and little by little he built a breastwork wall for the sworn enemies of the Han people to resist artillery fire.

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"How did these Mongols build walls on the battlefield?" Chen Dexing, who was watching the battle from the top of the Gaojialou watchtower, put down the binoculars, rubbed his eyes vigorously, then looked at it again, and shook his head and said: "This Kublai Khan really thought that he actually repaired fortifications on the battlefield and fought positional warfare!" ”

Chen Qianyi looked at Ding Zhuang, a Han man who was driven like an ant in the distance, and sighed and said, "Kublai Khan, this thief, is taking the lives of our Han people...... This is the most hateful thing about the Mongols! If you don't have the courage to fight with us face to face with gongs and drums, you know that the people who are bullying us will know. Big brother, it's better to let the brothers rush and save some people. ”

"Not now, Kublai Khan has many more men and horses than us, and he is not weak in hand-to-hand combat." Chen Dexing said, "Isn't it just to build a breastwork?" It's not like we can't! The order went down, and the Fourth Division, the Guards Division, and the Silver Armor Division were also called to repair the breastwork, and the big deal was to have the chest wall to the chest wall, the trench to the trench, and the cannon to the small cannon...... Our cannons are much more powerful than the Mongols' cannons! ”

"Big brother, little brother is not useless when he looks at the small cannon of the Mongols, at least it is light and flexible." Chen Qianyi frowned and said, "And these small cannons are definitely just the beginning...... The Mongols are now paying more and more attention to firearms. The younger brother is worried that sooner or later they will get a glimpse of the secret of granule H medicine! ”

It's a matter of time or time, and it won't be long. With the national strength of the Great Mongolia, if we go all out to explore and study the secrets of H medicine, sooner or later we will come up with granule H medicine. Perhaps a small H medicine soaking accident can allow the Mongolians to get granular H medicine.

"So what?" Chen Dexing laughed and said, "H medicine, copper cannons, and steel armor are all worth a lot of money, how much money does Kublai Khan have?" What to fight with the Lone King? ”

Chen Qianyi glanced at Chen Dexing with some doubts, he was not a martial artist. Before joining the Chen family, he had been teaching at the military academy and also served in the military affairs department, so he was very familiar with the logistics and financial situation.

At present, although the financial income of the Northern Ming Dynasty is a lot, it has not reached the point where it can crush Mongolia, and it is only more than one-eighth compared to the Great Song Dynasty - the annual income is only 12 or 3 million yuan, mainly collected from the protection fee at sea. In the past, when there were only 80,000 troops in the Northern Ming Dynasty, these revenues were enough to spend. But now the Ming army is getting bigger and bigger, and it will be more than 200,000. The cost of military pay and food alone will cost millions a year. Moreover, with the occupation of Yanyun and most of Hebei by the Northern Ming Dynasty, various expenditures on civil affairs and people's livelihood will inevitably increase significantly.

After all, the land of Yanyun and Hebei was the main battlefield of this great war, and Kublai Khan's Mongol army was sabotaging everywhere, and its vitality was already greatly damaged, and it could not be relieved at all without three or five years of recuperation. There are really a lot of places to spend money, how much financial resources can Beiming have to fight with Kublai Khan and the Great Song Dynasty? Do you want to make money from the sea trade again? This sea trade is not a cornucopia that can make money without limits, and now the burden of maritime merchants is not light, if you intensify the looting, I am afraid that the extremes of things will be reversed, and the sea trade will shrink as a whole, but the gains outweigh the losses.

"Twenty-second brother, money is not a problem, as long as you firmly control the sea, gold and silver will come like a tide......" Chen Dexing's words were not finished, and suddenly there was a rumbling explosion on the battlefield.

The sound of this explosion was much louder than the previous small cannon roar, and it shook the earth and made it extraordinary.

Chen Dexing raised his telescope and looked at the place where the explosion sounded, and it was the Mongols who were firing thunder arrows, and they were not aimed directly, but projectiles. It turned out that the Mongols had put the three-bow bed crossbow behind the overturned sand shield cart, and used the sand shield cart as a cover to throw the heavenly thunder arrows at the Ming army's position - the main bombardment direction was still the center of the Northern Ming army.

Obviously, Kublai Khan is ready to fight an offensive with a central breakthrough!

The Heavenly Thunder Arrow was originally a relatively accurate long-range weapon, although the range was not as good as that of the 3-inch cannon of the Northern Ming Dynasty (if it was not to launch the Heavenly Thunder Arrow, but to fire a large arrow without H medicine warhead, it would have a range no less than that of a bronze cannon), but it was still very powerful. However, the aim of the Heavenly Thunder Arrow is in the case of direct fire, and when it is projectile, it is not accurate at all.

Moreover, after the first round of thunder and arrow bombardment by the Mongols began, Zhu Sijiu ordered the troops to retreat a few dozen steps and completely avoided the blow. Therefore, the Mongols' heavenly thunder arrows only created a large amount of gunpowder smoke in front of the Ming army, and the vision on the battlefield suddenly became blurred.

"Big brother, are the Mongols wasting heavenly thunder arrows?" Chen Qianyi's voice was full of doubt. Although the Song Kingdom provided H medicine to Kublai Khan, the quantity was limited after all, how could it be wasted?

"It's not a waste, Kublai Khan is making smoke!" Chen Dexing secretly took a breath, and sincerely admired Kublai Khan's speed of adapting to the era of H medicine. actually thought of the method of using gunsmoke to cover up repetition - in fact, Li Pu came up with it, and then it was learned by Kublai Khan. Now the three kingdoms of Tang, Yuan, and Ming are all revolving around war, and all kinds of advanced weapons and advanced tactics are naturally emerging one after another.

Chen Dexing turned to Chen Qianyi: "Twenty-second brother, the lonely king is going to the front line!" ”

Obviously, at this point, King Chen Daming can't sit still a little and is going to the front line.

Chen Qianyi: "Okay, the little brother will take someone to protect you." ”

Chen Dexing nodded and said, "Let the heavy cavalry division also go with you, although you can't rush up, you can still let them dismount and fight!" (To be continued......)