The 50,000-strong 'Tianyou' military camp filled the narrow area north of Shanhaiguan. Within a few kilometers there are earthen walls of the camp. Gao Hongzhong only brought sixteen breech long-barreled cannons with him in this attack, but such a long defense line could not be taken into account by relying on more than a dozen guns, and the entire position had to be defended by a large number of manpower.

In the past few days in Gao Hong's neutral camp, the tall bull stationed at Shanhaiguan has been staring at him for a few days. Although the 'Heavenly Blessing' army was trained by the Taixi officers, only the low-level soldiers were trained, and the senior officers were not trained much. This is like a giant with strong limbs and a simple mind, and Gao Hongzhong himself is the brain of this 'giant'. This 'head' hasn't grown much.

After the 'Tianyou' army set up camp, they fired indiscriminately under the command of Gao Hongzhong, which is a typical Ming army's fighting style, and firearms are not used to cause casualties at all, but to scare people. After several days of fighting, Gao Daniu already knew all about the gun emplacements in his camp.

"There are so many enemies." The tall bull led the attack, and in the binoculars you saw a continuous stream of enemy camps. Flags are displayed in the camp, and each flag represents a general of more than 1,000 generals.

Camp construction is a science, for example, now that Zhou Qingfeng has reorganized the National Defense Force to regularize and train officers, he has to learn how to build fortifications. For example, the purpose of the bastion is to leave no dead spots for fire, which involves knowledge of geometry - because the terrain is complex and varied, the bastion cannot be as perfect as a textbook. In order to adapt to the terrain, it is necessary for officers to have enough knowledge to play.

The soldiers of the 'Heavenly Blessing' army on the opposite side were well trained by the method of Taixi, and the officers who camped had obviously learned some of the concepts of building advanced camps in the West. When the 'Heavenly Blessed' army built the camp, the tall bull was shocked. Because the camp on the opposite side is also similar to a fortress, relying on more than a dozen protruding artillery batteries to form a crossfire, with the fire gun, it can perfectly resist the attack of the 'revolutionary army'.

"These bastards don't know where they learned? Thankfully, they didn't make it home. ”

Gao Da Niu was repeatedly trained by Zhou Qingfeng, and it was not until he came out of the cave that he got full learning opportunities. He was still young, but he deliberately grew a beard on his chin, and he looked more mature and steady with stubble - through continuous reconnaissance and mapping, he soon found that the construction of the camp opposite was completely dogmatic. In order to conform to the dogma, the undulations of the terrain are ignored.

"All to the left, the artillery occupies the commanding heights to the west to build positions." Gao Daniu and his staff officers spent two or three days working the attack plan, and they soon found that they could use the terrain to find the dead end of the enemy's firepower - to put it bluntly, they were bullying the other side without culture, and they would only follow the rules and follow the rules and follow the cat's example.

In charge of the western defense of the 'Tianyou' army was Tan Feng, the general of the Ming army who had worked under Zhou Qingfeng, who also surrendered to the Dajin Kingdom in a series of defeats. Under repeated blows, he became much more realistic, followed by a large number of former Ming army generals. As for the past, he didn't think about it anymore.

Huang Taiji engaged in the Han military banner, not only appointed people like Gao Hongzhong, but also promoted low-level generals like Tan Feng. Tan Feng is also a little capable, he married the woman of the Jurchen minister, was promoted all the way to become a general, and was also trained by a group of high-nosed and deep-eyed Taixi Dutchmen.

People like Gao Hongzhong would rather kneel to the new master than learn new things, but younger people like Tan Feng have a stronger desire for knowledge. However, in the training, the words of both parties must be conveyed by interpretation, and what they learn is sometimes the same as the duck. In addition, Tan Feng was originally half illiterate. Does this training work......

"This method of Tessie's creation is really powerful." Tan Feng was still very confident in the camp he had built with his own hands, and when he first came into contact with the idea of the fortress, he was suddenly pleasantly surprised. This method of building crossfire to block the enemy's path is simply ingenious, like a miracle.

The Ming army was originally prevalent in formations, and Tan Feng regarded the construction of this fortress as a secret skill of the military state, and a magic weapon that could defeat the enemy on the battlefield. He thinks that he has put a lot of effort into learning and has achieved something, and this time he has a rare opportunity to show it, and he has worked hard to show it - he is the one who has exhausted the most soldiers in building a defense line in the winter.

"Let the 'revolutionary army' attack, see who is stronger between me and Zhou Qingfeng?" Tan Feng was not convinced after all, and the sullenness that was driven away by Zhou Qingfeng has continued to this day. He felt that now that he also had this cannon and fire, and he had learned this Tessie magic technique, he was naturally even more powerful. When Gao Da Niu led a brigade of soldiers out of the city to fight, he was even very excited.

At this moment, the camp of the 'Tianyou' army was bombarded by more than 300 rockets, and most of the area east of the camp near the sea was caught in fire and covered in thick smoke. However, the camp in the west where Tan Feng was located had little impact, and he was also powerless about the situation in the east, so he only stared at the tall Niu Department. Seeing that the tall bull men and horses had turned to the west, he actually rushed to a fort to operate the cannon himself.

"Aim for me." Tan Feng is better than the average Ming army general, and now he is a top-notch figure in the 'Tianyou' army. If he can win a few more battles, he will definitely get more promotions.

This fort was also built according to the method of Tessie, with earth filling to raise the height of the gun emplacement, and a breast wall was built to protect the gun emplacement. More than a dozen gunners were well-fed and sturdy, and it took a lot of effort to fire the guns. The general came up in person, and the gunners naturally wanted to show themselves.

The main gunner measures the muzzle angle with a gun gauge and adjusts the lugs and turret to achieve the best muzzle alignment. The next step was to load the propellant and stuff more than a dozen pounds of shells into the barrel. The last shout gave 'fire', and the cannon slammed into its seat. More than a dozen gunners hurriedly pushed the guns back into position......

After a whole set of processes, five or six minutes passed.

"Speed, speed!" Tan Feng stood on the fort and rubbed his hands again and again, praising the artillerymen's ability and praising them non-stop. This earth-shattering bombardment made him feel extremely excited every time, it was a cannon that surpassed the top spells, and the power was incomparably great.

Look at where this shot is going?

It was also the first time that Tan Feng had commanded such an artillery battle, and he was really excited. He stood on the turret and looked out, wondering how many people had been killed. It's just that except for the phalanx of the 'revolutionary army' that is still approaching in the distance, the shells have long been unknown. After a careful search, he didn't see any movement, so he could only turn around and shout: "One more shot." ”

At this time, the two-ton artillery has not been reset. A dozen stout artillerymen were pushing the big wheel of the gun carriage hard, but it was not easy to get it into the gun position accurately. It took a while for the muzzle to be re-aimed at the marching procession about a kilometre away.

Clearing the chamber, re-aiming, reloading, and a few more minutes passed. For the first time, Tan Feng felt that this artillery was not firing a little slowly. Because of such a long time, the opposite team seemed to have walked into a depression, and it was in such a position that the gun position could not be targeted, "Ignore it, try to shoot it." ”

Another shell was fired, and this time Tan Feng deliberately paid attention to the trajectory of the projectile's flight. I saw that the projectile flew out of a long distance, but flew over the heads of the enemy troops. He immediately scolded: "The muzzle of the cannon is lowered a little, and the fight is too high." ”

It was a reset and a blind toss, and every minute and second during this period made Tan Feng sit on pins and needles. He hated that the artillery he commanded could be as easy as spitting, spraying non-stop in one breath. Finally, after the reloading was completed, the cannon was fired again, but this time the shell made a beautiful ricochet on the ground - it bounced for several hundred meters and stopped on the ground.

"I asked you to lower the muzzle of your guns, not to let you blast into the mud. Turn me up a little more. Tan Feng was already full of impatience.

After aiming again, the main gunner said in frustration: "My lord, the group of soldiers outside has already crossed our shooting range, and we can't hit them." ”

The function of the fortress is to eliminate the dead end of firepower, to ensure that one cannon cannot hit, and the other cannon can still hit. Although the camp built by Tan Feng was not a fortress, the location of several forts was arranged according to the fortress. Now he poked his head out of the battery, and found that the infantry of the 'revolutionary army' had indeed run further west, and the battery he was on had been missed.

"Hell yes." Tan Feng ran to another fort in a hurry and gave the order to open fire. But when they arrived at the fort, they found that the situation was even worse, and there was a 'huge' dirt slope between the two forts, which at first glance was only two or three meters high, and it was inconspicuous, but it firmly blocked the artillery firing boundary. The troops of the 'revolutionary army' were approaching the depression behind the dirt slope......

"It's weird! How can it not be beaten? Tan Feng felt that his arrangement was not wrong, and he even let go of the Tessie cheats he was carrying, which contained the notes he had made when he was studying the fortress. He pondered for a long time and still felt that he was not wrong at all, but why couldn't he fight?

The more anxious Tan Feng was, the more he urged the gunners to keep bombarding. He ran back and forth on several gun emplacements, standing higher and even able to see his opponent trimming up behind the dirt slope that he had neglected. The enemy was so close that a few guns couldn't overcome that small dirt slope - if Instructor Tessie had been there, he would have said 'field survey of the battlefield is important'.

"How so?"

Perfect crossfire, stunned to miss. The more anxious Tan Feng became, the more angry he became, and the more angry he became, the more anxious he became. When the gunners said that the artillery was too hot to fight anymore, he still couldn't find a way to break the battle.

What to do?

Tan Feng's head was full of sweat, he thought for a long time that he could only give up the method of shelling, and as soon as he gritted his teeth, he shouted: "The enemy is less than a mile away from me, transfer a few large formations over, and we will push them over." ”

There are a lot of firearms in Jiannu's hands now, whether they are made by craftsmen from the Ming Court, or the Dutch take secret routes to transport, in short, Tan Feng has several spear formations equipped with firearms in his hands. He is also quite attentive to the infantry drill on weekdays, and feels that the large array he commands is fierce and sharp, and he is invincible. Since artillery fire is useless, then launch a surprise attack with a fire gun and a spear.

The tall bull, who had already maneuvered in place, poked his head out slightly behind the dirt slope, held up the telescope and looked at it a few times, and then said, "Is the guy with the troops on the other side stupid?" Not only did he not understand ballistics, but he was too bold. Don't you know that my handsome family started with spears and firearms? It's all left over from our play. ”