The Zhenjiang of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty was not the Zhenjiang of Jiangsu in later generations. Here is a small military fort at the junction of the Ming court and North Korea, not even a city, and the place is a very remote mountain. It is separated from North Korea by the Yalu River, with mountain roads leading to Kwandian and Hetuara in the north, and Dandong and even Fuzhou in the southwest.

Because of its remote mountainous terrain, there were no wide fields outside the city to accommodate a large number of troops, only uneven slopes, hills and depressions. It was quite difficult for Zhou Qingfeng to line up three infantry phalanxes in the field outside the city, and the Korean army of more than 10,000 people on the opposite side was even more stuffed with pits and valleys, and there was no formation.

Seeing the other party huddled together in such a mess, Zhou Qingfeng felt that the tactical theories he had learned in the past half a year were all wrong-Lao Tzu pondered all day and night what formation, firepower allocation, road access, logistics management, and military geography were so painful that his brain hurt. For Mao, these people don't care at all?

Is it true that the enemy commander draws a frame with a mouse and attacks at a casual point?

Looking at the enemy who was pressing forward from a few hundred meters away and firing indiscriminately from time to time, all the officers and men of the Guards felt absurd -- the commander said every day that he was not allowed to fire less than 50 meters during military training. It is necessary to have a strict formation to ensure the output of firepower, and to have a firm will to die rather than escape. Once there is a mistake in the formation, it will suffer huge losses and even painful defeats.

Now it seems that ......, we seem to be 'flattering for the blind to see', and we have such a beautiful formation without encountering the corresponding opponent.

The enemy is really strong, so strong that he is not afraid of death at all!

The sound of suona is transmitting orders, and the officers are stabilizing the mood of the soldiers. Two cavalry guns, located on the small ground on the left flank of the Guards, were ready and were asking for fire - the flag replied: No shooting, wait until the enemy has closed to two hundred meters.

The platoon commander couldn't help but unscrew his water bottle and pour water into his throat, and at the same time poured some on the barrel of the cavalry artillery beside him, hoping to cool down quickly. On the battlefield, even a second faster can give people great psychological comfort.

When the Guards formed the cavalry artillery unit, the unit commander was instilled with the idea that you are the magic weapon to defeat the enemy on the battlefield, and you need to be present at the enemy's vital position at any time. That is why your enemies will hate you to the core. You must be careful in battle, and you must also pay attention to maneuvering while using your firepower to avoid falling into a desperate situation.

To put it bluntly, the troops who play with mounted artillery are all thin-skinned and specially hated. If you are not careful, it is easy to provoke the strong attack of the enemy general, so you must be clever for your own life - this cavalry artillery platoon in front of you is the first time to go into battle, and the whole platoon has two small cannons with a very close range, and you can see the enemy who occupies a numerical advantage on the opposite side. The more than 20 men in the platoon were all worried.

"Platoon commander, the enemy has entered our effective range of 300 meters." The squad leader of the artillery squad gave a thumbs up, closed his eyes alternately, and turned around to report a number.

The military personnel of the 'Revolutionary Army' made a monocular made of crystal, and each cadre at the company level has a one. The artillery is special, the platoon commanders have it. Let them know everything about the surrounding area within a few kilometers. The cavalry artillery platoon commander looked at the direction of the main formation where the marshal was again, shook his head and said: "The marshal ordered another shot within two hundred meters, the order has not been changed, we can't fire." ”

The Type 1617 cavalry gun, with a caliber caliber of only fifty millimeters, could be held with one hand for a projectile. The design of the mounted artillery emphasized weight reduction, requiring that it could be disassembled and transported during the march. When fighting, you can quickly retreat with all the guns mounted on a horse - there is no time to break down when you fight, you must fight and run quickly. If you slow down, you may be gone.

Because of excessive weight reduction, the total weight of this gun was less than eighty kilograms. The wrought iron forged barrel was very thin, and not much gunpowder was used, resulting in an effective firing range of only 300 meters. However, in order to carry out rapid fire in a short time, this cannon was the first thermal weapon of the 'revolutionary army' to use fixed ammunition.

Its shells, together with the charge, were wrapped in silk and waterproof with a tarpaulin. When loading, the tarpaulin was torn off and the silk cloth was stuffed into the chamber along with the shell. The silk was burned directly during the shelling, leaving not much residue. The shells are wrapped in greased sheepskin and stuck in the chamber to improve airtightness.

This artillery, which is still in an experimental state, met the North Korean army in the first real battle. The cavalry platoon commander who commanded these two guns led a detour and occupied a wooded high ground outside Zhenjiang City, overlooking the Korean gunners who were surging in chaos on the opposite side. When the enemy came within two hundred meters, a near-perfect queue appeared in front of him.

After entering the era of hot weapons, oblique firepower is a must for every commander to arrange his troops. Your own forces must not be fired from the enemy's sideways by oblique fire, but your own firepower must be poured on the enemy's flanks as much as possible. Because in the queue, there are only a few rows of people in front of the personnel, and there may be dozens or even dozens of rows on the side.

"Ask the marshal to open fire." The cavalry platoon commander shouted to the signal soldier holding the signal flag.

Flags are waved, and information is transmitted within a radius of several hundred meters. The signal soldier of the cavalry artillery platoon seemed to accept a long sentence, "The commander said that you are mobile firepower, and on the basis of conforming to the general principles, the fighter plane can be controlled by yourself, and there is no need to ask for instructions repeatedly." Later, this article was recorded in the drill code of the mounted artillery unit. ”

The cavalry platoon commander was stunned for a second when he heard this, and then shouted loudly: "Fire!" ”

...... boom, two small-caliber cavalry guns roared in unison, and the gun body quickly recoiled, gliding several meters on the ground. The gunners of the two gun squads hurriedly reset the guns, and the loaders only stabbed the barrels of the guns with their gun brushes a few times, and immediately stuffed another fixed solid bullet into it.

The gunner opened the closed spring and the lid of the pit on the barrel, and poked a spike into the ignition hole. Puncture the silk-wrapped charge stuffed in the barrel, pour some priming powder over the pool, and close the lid of the pool - yes, this light gun now does not need an ignition rod. With the help of the wreckage of the 'Road Rage', the Guards finally used flintlock to ignite the fire.

This light gun takes only ten seconds to reload and can fire a detonation rate of six rounds a minute. Mounted artillery units were required to rain as many shells as possible in the shortest possible time during training. After fighting for three minutes, he immediately turned around and fled, not giving the enemy a chance to counterattack. Zhou Qingfeng gave this tactic a name - 'three minutes, real man'.

The platoon artillery platoon opened fire, and the two guns bombarded one by one. The cannon roared incessantly, dense and bursting. The makeshift artillery positions were quickly covered in white smoke, and they soon couldn't even see the target clearly, but they still poured shells in the general direction.

All the gunners practiced this 'three-minute rapid fire' weekdays, that is, they stuck their watches and fired a total of 18 shells. Every gunner must have enough explosiveness to be as strong and majestic as a real man for these three minutes.

A squad of 12 people kept resetting, loading, and firing. Everyone is busy. Waiting for the platoon commander of the artillery platoon to count the number of shots, he shouted to stop. After three minutes of bravery, they immediately raised their hot guns like frightened rabbits and quickly set up the best horses in the platoon.

The whole platoon quickly withered at this point, and fled along the retreat route that had been arranged long ago.

I don't look back......

After about a quarter of an hour, the scout of this artillery platoon cautiously emerged from another selected observation point. He looked first across a wooded field at the artillery position where he had just fought—where most of the white smoke had cleared and everything was quiet. There didn't seem to be any angry enemy generals attacking them furiously.

Oops, it's very likely that the artillery platoon's shelling didn't do much damage at all. The enemy may not feel the pain at all, so they don't bother to take care of this small team of people roaming the battlefield.

"Platoon commander, no one is chasing us." The Scout does not yet see the battlefield, and he can only report whether his side is being pursued by the enemy. Because the cavalry loaded with artillery could not run fast in the mountains and wilderness at all, the people in the cavalry platoon were all brainwashed by Zhou Qingfeng to instill a point of view - on the battlefield, their situation was very dangerous.

Can ...... now

"Nobody pays attention to us?" The young platoon commander who first entered the battlefield also secretly screamed, "Could it be that the smoke from the shelling just now was too big, causing all the shells we fired later to miss, and they didn't hit anyone at all?" ”

There are more than 20 brothers in the platoon, and after the formation of the unit, they practiced hard every day for three minutes. If you don't hit the target in these three minutes, you will really be ashamed of the big fish and meat you have eaten every day for the past six months. When I went back, I was laughed to death by my comrades, and even brought huge trouble to my comrades.

Thinking that maybe because he didn't play well to affect the battle situation, the brothers in the artillery platoon suddenly felt heavy. The platoon commander took the initiative to crawl out from behind the woodland where he was hiding, regardless of the danger, and poked his head out of a patch of grass. Behind him, the deputy platoon commander and the squad leader and deputy squad of the artillery squad all followed, swishing out one by one and looking around.

"What about people? And what about the people of the North Korean army? ”

"I saw thousands of people huddled together just now, why don't you even have a ghost in the blink of an eye."

"Could it be that we really didn't fight anything, and were beaten by those guys to the back of the main formation?"

The cavalry platoon commander was in a hurry, and simply got up from the hidden grass and ran out. He wanted to go back to the shelling position just now and see what was going on? As soon as he moved, the whole platoon ran out, hulala wanted to go to a high place to see the situation. By the time they returned to their original shelling positions, they were already running out of breath with their hands on their knees.

But when the cavalry platoon returned to their original positions, they looked out along the firing range of the shelling that had just been shelled—the original swarm of North Korean musketeers had passed in a horizontal row in front of them, and now they were gone. There were ravines on the ground left by ricocheting attacks. In total, more than 30 shells were fired, and the ground was plowed by shells at a distance of two or three hundred meters.

And in the ravines where the mud waves rolled, there were one broken corpse after another and the wounded howling miserably. At first glance, the entire ground is a blood-red color. If you look closely, you can see that a large number of stumps and broken arms are mixed with mud, and the condition of belly and intestine flow can be seen everywhere. Many of the North Korean wounded are not dead, but they can only roll back and forth in the shelled area, or cry bitterly for death.

"Oh my God, how many people have to die here?"

"Is this what we did?"

"These guys were defeated by us, right?"

In the face of the dense enemy flank, the cavalry artillery unit of the 'Revolutionary Army' Guards, which fought for the first time, made a good start. They poured out their sudden firepower and bombarded the enemy with a roundabout attack, and the thousand-man squad suffered many casualties, directly killing and wounding nearly 100 people.

Tactically, the attack of the mounted artillery platoon was a success.

But......

"Platoon commander, look!" A mounted artillery soldier pointed to a clearing more than 100 meters away and shouted urgently: "Our enemy has not been defeated, they are attacking the high ground on our flank." ”

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