Zhu Ping'an took in everything that happened in front of him through the clairglass, and couldn't help but nod. The new army went into battle for the first time, although there are still such and such shortcomings, but in comparison, it is definitely an elite division in the Ming official army. The strength of the 1st Brigade is less than 5,000 people, and it has firmly dragged 10,000 enemy troops without using artillery, and has faintly shown the upper hand.

Mayin Hull ran into Zhu Ping'an's command post out of breath, and the students of the martial arts hall raised their hands and saluted. Mayinhull also served as an artillery tactics instructor in the martial arts hall, and although he was a foreigner, his open-ended teaching style that encouraged students to think creatively was highly respected by the students.

Mayin Hull didn't care about returning the salute to the students, ran behind Zhu Ping'an, and immediately shouted, "My lord, there is a problem with your tactics!" ”

Zhu Ping'an was startled by his loud voice, turned around and saw that it was Meinhull, but he was not angry, but said with a smile: "My artillery commander, Mr. Goethe, the chief instructor of the new army, has not yet attacked me, why did you fire at me first!" ”

Mayinhull took off his military hat angrily, wearing a Spanish army lieutenant colonel uniform very straight, the only thing that made people feel incongruous was that his military pants were too tight, and his crotch was bulging and spitting out, which had made a group of civil officials in Dengzhou, including Zhao Guangluan and Yang Tinglin, react to Zhu Ping'an many times, thinking that it was indeed immoral.

But Zhu Ping'an knew that the European army uniform in this period was indeed like this, although it was also euphemistically built yì Meinhull to modify it, but this straight-tempered Spanish officer did not adopt it at all, and said that Governor Sun Yuanhua recognized this back then, and the military uniform was a sign of a soldier, and he could not change the appearance of the military uniform because of other people's misinterpretation of aesthetics.

"My lord! Why don't we use advanced artillery at the beginning of the battle, at least a tenth of the invading enemy can be destroyed. Don't underestimate this tithe, so that our soldiers can avoid needless sacrifices. It seems to me extremely unwise that you fought the infantry against the enemy's collective charge at the beginning of the battle! ”

Zhu Ping'an laughed, "Your Excellency Mayinhull, you may have misinterpreted what I meant. The Dengzhou New Army had just been established, and it was the first time it had faced such a big battle. As you may know, a soldier who has not experienced artillery fire and life and death can never become a real soldier, and my arrangement is to let the soldiers experience a pure hand-to-hand combat. And another purpose is to firmly drag the main force of the Shandong Army, and next, it is the performance of you and the rocket troops directly under you! ”

Although Mayinhull is stubborn, he is not an unreasonable person, thinking about Zhu Ping'an's words carefully, he immediately bowed his head to Zhu Ping'an, "Although I can't accept your explanation for the time being, as your subordinate, I will resolutely carry out your orders, please rest assured, the artillery unit will crush the enemy's fighting spirit!" ”

Mayin Hull came and went quickly, and with him left, there were also Zhu Ping'an's heralds.

Shen Ke hurriedly ran back, and Zhu Ping'an turned around, "Has anyone found it?" ”

Shen Ke cried with a sad face, pointing to the front position, "It's all there, Zhang Yao said first, there is no way to find someone now, wait until after the war, he will bear all the blame!" ”

Zhu Ping'an laughed angrily, "Okay, all of them are quite bullish!" The blind man gave me a military commander, Zhang Jizu, and none of the three of them wanted to run. After the end of the war, each of them was given fifty military sticks and was locked up for ten days! ”

"Still in confinement?" Shen Ke suddenly laughed, he also understood that Zhu Ping'an was distressed about a few good seedlings, but he was not really angry. "Confinement was a regular occurrence for those three guys. Zhang Jizu is the leader of them; Xiao Yuanteng, don't look at the person who is full of mouths, in fact, he has a bad stomach; Wu Ziniu has well-developed limbs, a simple mind, and a dozen hands. There are more than a dozen students under them to follow them, and these three guys have to be confined for more than 50 days a year, so they have long been used to it! ”

As he spoke, Meinhull had hurried back to the artillery position. Today's Dengzhou New Army artillery unit has a total of more than 200 large and small caliber artillery pieces, which is not a large number. The key point is that the four brigades formed today have artillery battalions directly under them. This time, however, all the old guys were not pulled out, and the grenadiers and the artillery battalion were temporarily placed under Goethe's command. The artillery units were a little better, and the grenadiers were not given orders to go into the field at all. Therefore, there are only 80 artillery pieces on the field today.

Although the Shandong army also has artillery, it is all old antiques for many years, and military salaries, grain and grass have become a problem in recent years, and military attachés at all levels only care about equipping their own families, who still has the kung fu to have the ability to invest money in artillery. The artillery in the Shandong army is more than 1,000 catties of Franc machine guns, fixed on the city wall, and it is even more difficult to move.

Mayinhull personally received Zhu Ping'an's order, and immediately ordered the artillery to be prepared, and the artillerymen were immediately busy, the shells and primers that had been prepared were moved to the front, and the non-commissioned officers who cleaned the barrels were also prepared.

The current type of field artillery is today's Dengzhou-made field artillery, which was first proposed by Zhu Ping'an, and then invented under the joint research of Sun Yuanhua and his cadres, Western craftsmen and Ming craftsmen. The original idea was based on the front-loading smoothbore guns of the 18th century known as the "Napoleonic Cannon" of the French Army. The caliber is 122 millimeters, the length is 2.29 meters, the weight is 880 kilograms, the weight of the shell is 12 pounds, which is converted into catties, about 11 catties, and the firing range reaches 1,000 paces away. Coupled with a gun mount, it can fully meet the field use of the infantry of the new army.

Zhu Ping'an originally planned to start carving rifling in the barrel, but with the current industrial level of the Ming Dynasty, it was really a little difficult, so he had no choice but to give up.

On the other side, the herald conveyed the order to He Changshui, the temporary commander of the rocket force directly under him. To say that this is also a helpless move, the rocket force is currently a high-tech unit, and it is really not easy for ordinary officers to become experts, so He Changshui can only act as an agent temporarily.

Zhu Ping'an's order was that Mayinhel's artillery units concentrate on bombarding the rear of Liu Zeqing's attacking troops in the three mansions, while He Changshui's rocket vehicles bombarded Liu Zeqing's Chinese army. Zhou Yanru had already spoken, Shandong was the territory that Zhu Ping'an must get his hands on, and since Liu Zeqing crashed in, he didn't want to go back alive.

After carefully observing the scale of Liu Zeqing's Chinese army, He Changshui sighed and ordered the ten rocket vehicles at the front to carry out the bombardment mission.

The cannon roared, and Mayinhull's troops began to bombard first, and it was also the time when Liu Zeqing sent his team to join the battle group. Round shells howled and fell into the back half of the army, and a single cannonball could make a path of flesh and blood in just a moment of impact on the ground, not to mention the shrapnel that exploded with it. Casualties immediately rose sharply. The formation of the attacking army suddenly began to be a little confused.

At the same time, ten rocket vehicles in full gear lit the fuse. Each rocket vehicle is equipped with six rockets, each weighing 16 kilograms, and the rocket vehicle is firmly fixed to the level of land. After lighting the fuse, a group of soldiers and craftsmen immediately hid more than ten zhang away. The experienced veteran also covered his ears.

"Boom", after a sharp sound that could almost pierce the eardrum, a rocket erupted from the pipe on the shelf with a strong flame, soared into the air, and rushed towards Liu Zeqing's Chinese army, and then flames came out one after another from the rocket car, and a string of rockets made an earth-shattering strange sound, drawing a white trajectory in the sky, flying towards Liu Zeqing's Chinese army at a clearly visible speed.

Seeing this scene, Zhu Ping'an put down the clairvoyant mirror in his hand, "The big thing is decided!" Order the second brigade and cavalry troops, let's go into battle, we must intercept the return of Liu Zeqing's army, those supplies are worthless, the key is people! ”

Sixty rockets leaped up from Zhu Ping'an's position and streaked across the sky, causing the soldiers on the battlefield to look up.

Liu Zhicun, Liu Zeqing and others of the Chinese army all changed their faces in unison, and at this time, even fools could see that these UFOs in the sky were coming in the direction of the Chinese army.

Liu Zhicun didn't care about asking for instructions, and reached out to grab Liu Zeqing's horse reins, "Father, retreat quickly!" ”

The Chinese army was in a chaotic uproar, and the generals and non-commissioned officers who were supposed to guard the commander like stars and moons suddenly became a burden to retreat, and Liu Zeqing and his son had just turned their horses' heads, and the rockets were already whistling.

The battle on the battlefield temporarily fell into a state of stop, and everyone ignored the swords and guns in front of them, and turned around and looked blankly at the Chinese army in the distance. Time seemed to have stopped, and I could only watch as the fiery snakes soaring in the sky swallowed flames and plunged into the ranks of the Chinese army, one after another, as if they were heavenly fires from the sky, and in an instant the entire Chinese army was shrouded in flames and smoke, and then the earth trembled like waves. The dust kicked up scattered in all directions and spread throughout the battlefield.

The morale of the non-commissioned officers of the 1st Brigade was greatly boosted, and the frequency of the officers' verbal orders was suddenly accelerated. The Second Brigade also joined the battle group at this time, outflanked from both sides, and the gun array suddenly doubled in size, forming a semicircle and slowly surrounding the Shandong army.

Jiading's cavalry had just arrived on the battlefield, and the Chinese army had also seen the changes, and was about to return to the horse to rescue in shock, but Zhang Dingbian's cavalry came out of the battlefield and hugged them tightly.

Before it got close, the three-eyed guns of the Dengzhou cavalry had begun to exert their might, after a round of cavalry shooting, followed by a round of crossbow arrows, the Jiading cavalry was dizzy and unable to resist, and they had to face the impact of the wolf-like Dengzhou cavalry. Coupled with the tsunami-like shouts of the Dengzhou army's guns, "Liu Zeqing is dead", the entire Shandong army began to walk towards the brink of uncontrollable collapse. R1152