The soldiers behind Chen Sheng also heard the news, although they didn't make a sound, but they all showed disdainful expressions, the Tartars were really rampant, and they actually dared to compete with the Zhao Jiajun to test the artillery, they really didn't know how to die.

"The enemy's artillery is in position and begins to bombard, no salvo fire is allowed, and only one-third of the artillery is allowed to fire at a time if the range allows." Chen Sheng pondered for a moment and handed down the military order.

The order was immediately passed to the artillery array, where there were also soldiers in charge of the flag, and the message had already begun to communicate with the standard-bearers in the appropriate direction.

Flag language contact was originally a means of sea power, but Zhao Jin introduced this into the battlefield, this kind of communication is much more convenient and faster than the transmission of the guard, but this method also has his shortcomings, once the war starts, even if there is no firearm fire caused by the smoke of gunpowder, people run horses, dust is raised, the battlefield is covered with dust, and the vision is not transparent, which can only be effective by visual observation.

However, there is an advantage on the battlefield at this time, that is, the snow, whether it is snow or stepping on hard snow, there will be no dust raised, which makes the observation and lookout of the watchtower transmit the news, which plays the greatest role.

The artillery on the Jianzhou Jurchen side and the artillery on the Zhao Jiajun's side, although the name is the same, is not a weapon at all, the Jianzhou Jurchen artillery is just a thick metal cannon body, while the Zhao Jiajun's artillery has a gun carriage and gun carriage, and the light artillery under six pounds may be nothing, but the heavy artillery above nine pounds, the Jianzhou Jurchen has to spend a few more cattle and horses than the Zhao Jiajun to drag the activity.

In the war of this era, on the battlefield of this era, artillery is the most powerful weapon, and whether or not this powerful weapon can have the same speed of maneuver as the army means whether the power of this artillery can be brought into full play to the strongest and whether the military strength can be brought into full play.

The Zhao family army can already move the army, artillery, and even cavalry and artillery, instead of waiting for each other, delaying the best time and delaying the march of the army.

This is the case on the battlefield at the moment, the artillery of the Zhao family army has been put in position, and it is deployed on the battlefield together with the provisional first division and the Fengpei regiment, while the artillery of the Jianzhou Jurchen has just left the camp.

In fact, it was already a pioneering feat to let artillery out of the camp, and in the practice of the Jianzhou Jurchen and Ming armies, this artillery was more of a weapon for defending and besieging the city, rather than a weapon for field battles.

The Jianzhou Jurchens also knew that the artillery was easy to be attacked when it came out of the camp to set up artillery, so it was necessary to arrange cavalry protection.

"The Tartars don't necessarily want to use artillery, maybe they use this artillery to lure our cavalry over to intercept and intercept, and then his brigade of cavalry will go out to counterattack, eat our cavalry, and then start the melee, for them, the best situation is to drive our cavalry to attack the main formation."

Chen Sheng calmly explained, the guards around him listened very carefully, the personal guards of the brigade and the soldiers of the Ming generals have different meanings, they are excellent non-commissioned officers selected from the Zhao family's army, and they follow the main general's side, on the one hand, they have the function of guarding, on the other hand, they follow and learn, enrich battlefield experience, and learn more command knowledge.

Everyone listened carefully, and on such an occasion, the guards were not qualified to ask questions, and they did not have the time and leisure to answer questions on the battlefield.

Just like what Chen Sheng said, with the dispatch of the Jianzhou Jurchen cannon, the Jianzhou Jurchen horse team also began to dispatch, and at this moment, the ground trembled slightly.

Just when the Jianzhou Jurchen cavalry appeared on the battlefield, the movements of the soldiers on the watchtower of the Zhao family's army position were sluggish and paused, until the officers below scolded and even picked up snow blocks and threw them, which made the lookout soldiers above wake up.

A large number of horse teams slowly poured out like mudslides, covering the battlefield, in fact, the Jianzhou cavalry that appeared in the field of vision of the watchtower soldiers was not ten thousand horses, that is, less than eight thousand in number, but the cavalry plus the height of the horses, the area occupied was far more than the infantry array.

Looking at the watchtower, such an array looked unstoppable, and anything that stood in their way would be crushed.

On the contrary, the spear soldiers and musket soldiers of each regiment were better, and because of their perspective, they could only see a wall in the distance, but they did not feel any height and oppression.

However, a soldier from Huainan muttered, "When I was a child, there was a lot of water, and I looked at the sky and suddenly there was a wall", and before he finished speaking, he was scolded by the non-commissioned officers in the same row and shut up.

The light cavalry on the battlefield is still chasing and hunting each other, stretching their bows and arrows at a distance of more than a dozen steps, I have to say that in such a battle, the fire guns of the Zhao family army are not as good as bows and arrows, but the elite cavalry of the Jianzhou Jurchens are all from the grassland, and Zhao Jin is the same, there is no difference in quantity, and they are tied with each other.

With the placement of the Jianzhou Jurchen Cavalry Brigade, the battlefield began to become quiet, but this silence was suffocating, as if before the storm.

The artillery of the Zhao family army also set up a high platform, although the news on the watchtower is fast enough, but it is still the most accurate that he has seen with his own eyes, with the artillery position on behalf of the battalion is constantly giving orders, one by one artillery is preparing quickly.

"The artillery on the Tartar side must be fired before the cavalry starts, otherwise, with their artillery skills, it will definitely cause accidental damage."

Among the various brigades and regiments of the Zhao Army, the proudest is the artillery, the artillery of the Zhao Army thinks that they are unparalleled in the world, and this unparalleled in the world is not only compared with the Ming Army and the Jurchens, but even those European countries, the foreigners working in the Zhao Army system admit that the artillery here is stronger than the most advanced in Europe.

Compared with the artillery of the Zhao family, the artillery on the Jianzhou side was captured from the hands of the Ming army, strictly speaking, it is not too bad, it is all caused by Spanish and Portuguese technology, but the artillery that those missionaries and merchants taught the Ming to make or sold to them is a castrated version, lacking key technology, and it is bulky and abnormal.

Because there is no reliable material, there is no refined copper and iron like Zhao Jiajun, and there is no meticulous casting technology like Zhao Jiajun, so the reliability of the artillery is very poor, in order to ensure the balance of the gun body, it is often thickened and thickened, resulting in the same caliber artillery, the artillery of the Jianzhou Jurchen and Ming army is fifty percent or even twice as heavy as the artillery of Zhao Jiajun.

They lacked the means to move their artillery on the battlefield, and they did not have gun carriages and gun carriages, so when firing, they had to set up turrets and fix the guns with wooden boxes, earth, ropes, and nails.

Since it is fixed in this way, it is natural that there is no talk of the angle and direction of fire, and when the battle is approaching, it will take a lot of effort to adjust the direction and range of artillery fire.

In addition to these, the cannons in the hands of the Jianzhou Jurchens and cannonballs and artillery could not be used, and the quality of gunpowder was uneven, resulting in a constant charge, which was not accurate on the battlefield.

But even if such a firearm, in the eyes of the Ming army, is a militaristic weapon, an artifact that can erode dozens of miles with one shot, killing and injuring tens of millions of people, in the eyes of the Jianzhou Jurchens, it is also a creation that cannot be done by manpower.

Therefore, the rumors described the destruction of the Zhao family's artillery, but the Jianzhou Jurchen generals did not believe it, in their opinion, at best, it was the power of the artillery they had seen, which was already the ultimate imaginable.

The artillery of the Jianzhou Jurchens has been put in place, and the cavalry covering them began to disperse, and the artillery of the Han army began to set up batteries either willingly or unwillingly.

"The nine-pounder cannon is in position, five hundred paces away, the first round of shooting, four guns are fired!"

The artillery camp was beginning to give orders, and the artillery of the Zhao family army began to prepare quickly, and someone muttered to the gun commander: "I see that there are twenty or thirty cannons on the Tartar side, let's fire four cannons, what if someone comes back?" ”

"Are you missing eyes? As long as we fire, what else can the Tartars do? He scolded here, turned his head and shouted again: "After the preparation is completed, fire a salvo!" ”

The battlefield was indeed very quiet, but no matter how quiet it was for nearly 10,000 horsemen and tens of thousands of people, it was still noisy, so when the four nine-pounder guns fired, not too many people noticed.

Even if Zhao Jiajun's artillery technology is far ahead of the Jianzhou Jurchen artillery, it is still a firearm of this era, and it is impossible to be too precise and can hit the target if it can't see it.

However, there is still an approximate accuracy, the cannonballs are whistling and flying, and the soldiers of the Jianzhou Jurchen artillery team are more vigilant than the cavalry and foot soldiers, as artillerymen, they know what this whistling sound represents.

When the artillery roared on the side of the Zhao family's army, the artillery of the Jianzhou Jurchen began to get nervous, and as soon as they heard this whistling, they immediately dispersed in a hurry, and the cavalry escorting them didn't even react to what was going on.

The four shells all missed, even the ricochet did not cause damage to the artillery team, the Jianzhou Jurchen side knew that the artillery gunpowder was very dangerous, it was easy to explode, and most of the cavalry horses were very uncomfortable with the roar of the cannonball, so everyone dodged as much as possible, this area was empty, and the ricochet did not hurt others.

Because the artillery team is all Ming officers and soldiers who surrendered, so the Jianzhou cavalry who escorted the artillery team actually had the duty of escort, and before they could react to what was going on, they saw these people scatter in a hurry, and when the shells landed, they were also startled.

When he realized that he was not injured, the staff leader who led the escort was immediately furious, thinking to himself what kind of courage this was, can't even hear the sound of artillery on the battlefield?

"Do you have the guts to be eaten by dogs? Do you know that Dajin's military law is powerful, hurry up and get back to Lao Tzu and shoot the cannon, don't be stunned, ride over to circle people, and then run the fuck, cut it directly! ”

Under the angry roar here, another cavalry drew their swords and threatened, and the soldiers of the Jianzhou Jurchen artillery team regathered.