"How?"

"The engineer battalion is only equipped with short soldiers," Chen Dedao, "There are more and more labor battalions and hard labor, and the lowly ones are afraid that one day there will be an accident, and if the bullets cannot be suppressed, they will be a rebel in the Wuthering Mountains." ”

"Hmm, you want to arm the engineer battalion?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"This is what the lowly office means." Chen Desheng was afraid that the crown prince would be suspicious, so he hurriedly explained: "The engineer battalion actually doesn't spend much time on road construction, quarrying, and transportation, even if it takes half a day to practice, it won't hinder the progress of the project too much." Moreover, there are many thugs in the hard labor camps who have been sent by bandits, and they cannot but send people to supervise them. He believed that as long as the engineer battalion was issued with rattan armor and shields, and the gavel was used as a weapon, the riot could be suppressed without causing a large number of casualties. ”

Zhu Cihong also felt that tens of thousands of people were arranged to be forced to work, and if there was not enough violent suppression, it was indeed prone to problems. It's still early, and even if someone is connected in tandem, it may not break out, and it's hard to say in the future. Moreover, when Bahana and Shi Tingzhu are resolved, the Luxi region will also have to transition from Class B to Class A in an orderly manner, and there will inevitably be more thieves, people, and inferior gentry who will be sent to the labor camp.

"Yes." Zhu Cihong nodded and said, "When this battle is over, I will divide a part of the captured weapons among you." But don't waste it, now that you have a weapon, you still have to have the drills you should have. ”

Chen De grinned: "Then please ask Your Highness to ration it to the staff officer." ”

"Well," Zhu Cihong said very generously, "the medical team will also match you." ”

Chen De was overjoyed and excitedly immediately gave a military salute.

Zhu Cihong looked to the northeast, and just as he was talking to Chen De just now, a black pillar of smoke rose up, which was the wolf smoke that called the police.

Under the mirror, the horses' hooves were raised high with dust, and the long-awaited Manchurian iron horsemen finally revealed their true faces.

The hands on the Tessie clock point steadily to four o'clock. At this time when the sun was setting in the west, the first sentinel rode to meet the light and appeared on the horizon. He stopped in front of an old tree with a crooked neck and looked at the Ming army position in front of him from a distance.

On the trunk of the old tree, thick chalk and red earth were smeared, indicating that it was the end of the effective range of the artillery: one hundred and fifty zhang. That's a mile of land.

The experienced Eastern Sentinel slowly let his horse move forward, and more cavalry emerged behind him. The cavalry spread out the untidy array, pressed forward to a distance of ninety-six zhang, and stopped their horses. This distance is exactly the traditional safe distance of two hundred paces, and no weapon other than artillery can hit that far.

Liu Shi, who arrived at the battlefield in time, took his tank division array in front of the breastwork, protecting the tiger squat guns lined up, and confronting more and more Dongyu cavalry. Above their heads is an anti-arrow shelter made of door panels and bamboo and wood to prevent the enemy's bow and arrow shooting.

Those who can enter this division are brave people. Even soldiers who were not very brave at the beginning would be infected by their comrades after entering, and they would become bold.

"Your Highness, don't you wear armor?" Min Ziruo stepped forward and asked, he himself had already changed into a newly issued mountain armor.

This set of standard mountain armor is more than 30 catties, and the herringbone armor pieces are densely connected together, which is lighter than ordinary iron scale armor and has more protective power. In Min Ziruo's chest. There is also a round copper heart guard, and a copper tiger head belly guard on the abdomen. There are arm pads on both shoulders. There are guards on the feet and iron arms on the hands, and after wearing a full set, he is a shining iron man.

Since the East Palace launched this mountain armor as a standard equipment for generals and personal guards, it is difficult for even those who prefer leather armor not to be tempted.

Zhu Cihong doesn't like to stand on the battlefield in such a uniform for no reason, it is too heavy and tired. And his safety is very guaranteed, this mountain pack is behind the position. If Dongyu was already able to endanger him, it would definitely be Xiao Mo's defeat, and he should have retreated to Texas City a long time ago.

"Shouldn't you flag yet?" You Shiwei was a little impatient.

As soon as his words fell, Xiao Mo's Chinese army sent out a signal to respond to the flag. One flag after another was raised one after another, and the entire position suddenly surged with a masculine aura.

The cavalry in the distance was quite surprised. Jia Lazhangjing, who led the team, was even more surprised. He himself is a battle-hardened Dongyu warrior, from the Daling River to the present pass, he has never seen the Ming army who dares to line up outside the city. Looking at it more closely, the equipment and lineup of this Ming army are also very different from the previous Ming army, and there are artillery placed in front of the formation.

"Master, these Ming troops are a little different!" The guards of Jialazhangjing came back on horseback: "They built a wall, and they couldn't see how many people were behind the wall. However, there were more than a dozen artillery pieces exposed. ”

Jia Lazhangjing frowned and said, "The front are all infantry, and I don't see where their horsemen are." Spread the team and test it first. ”

"Huh!" The guards rode up to give orders.

The cavalry quickly spread out to the left and right flanks, and there were about fifty horsemen, as if they were going to encircle the Texas position.

Rumble!

A flash of fire erupted from the ground, and the twenty or so horsemen on the left flank of the East Captives were scattered as they landed. The detonated mines ejected a large amount of dirt, stones, nails, and armor...... Under the push of a large amount of gunpowder, it took the lives of the surrounding cavalry in a circular shape.

At such a close distance, the armor of the Dongyu horse armor could not stop these sharp projectiles at all, and only one reaped the lives of six cavalrymen.

With the difference in the length of the lead and the speed of burning, three or five more mines were detonated, which immediately made the cavalry on the left flank retreat one after another, for fear of stepping on something again.

Jia Lazhangjing saw his men and horses fall to the ground, and he was quite painful. He spat out: "Cowardly brute! Let's go up and scare them. ”

The guard beside him licked his lips and smiled evilly, "The minions let them open their eyes." ”

A team of more than ten horsemen lined up in a row, urging the war horses and rushing towards the front of the Ming army. Steadily stopped at eighty paces, and took their bows and shot diffusely. Generally, the Ming army will release the gun at this time, but in fact, it is difficult for the bird gun to penetrate the iron armor of the armor at eighty paces.

The lethality of the diffuse light arrows was not high, and it was partially blocked by the anti-arrow shed, and the other part was stopped by the iron armor even if it fell into the formation. If it was a collective diffuse of a large group of people and horses, it might still cause dozens of casualties, but it was only more than ten horses, which was really meaningless.

These cavalry quickly rushed into a distance of fifty paces, which was the effective killing range of the Ming army's firearms. They knew very well that at this distance, the iron armor on their bodies could not protect them. But they knew better that the Ming army's guns were not accurate, and they might not be able to hit their cavalry who were evacuating their positions.

There were two bold cavalrymen, who simply turned over and dismounted, changed their foot bows, and opened their bows to shoot flat.

The Ming army still did not let go.

"They can't be without guns, right?" Jia Lazhangjing was puzzled. He was about to give the order for those guards to come back, when he suddenly heard a burst of daxiao erupt from the Ming army's array.

In the midst of laughter, one of the Eastern Armored soldiers fell from his horse and fell to the ground, motionless.

It was the sharpshooters in the Ming army who were shooting.

From the Daling River to the present, no Ming army has dared to provoke the Manchurian soldiers in this way!

A wave of anger rose in Jialazhangjing's heart, and he shouted in Manchu: "Charge on the right flank!" ”

The cavalry of the Dongyu brigade rushed to the right, but it did not occur that the right side was also mineed. This time, the Dongyu did not retreat, and the contempt and insult made them bent on killing the Ming army in front of them. They braved one mine after another, and after paying more than a dozen horsemen for dead and wounded, they rushed into the area of eighty paces of horse bow dispersion.

Without waiting for them to shoot their bows and arrows, the Type 17 battalion artillery that had adjusted the firing angle finally sent out a powerful round of fire.

A cannonball just pierced through the cavalry ranks, tore more than a dozen people and then fell to the ground, and then jumped up and smashed into the chest of a war horse, obviously seeing that its ribs were sinking deep and letting out a neigh. The horse fell to the ground, his leg already crushed.

Xiao Mo looked at this bloody scene in the clairglass mirror, and there was no wave. After experiencing the fierce battle to survive, he has a very light view of life and death. What made him anxious now was whether the 2,000th headquarters had moved to the blocking position. Without enough mobile cavalry, it is easy to let these Eastern Frontiers escape, and if they can't block their retreat, rashly engaging in melee combat is just a waste of combat effectiveness. (To be continued......)

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