"My good man, division commander, the Tartars are ruthless this time, and the chariots and heavy armor are all used."

Just as the large army attacking Guihua City was setting off, on the dirt slope ten miles away on the other side outside Guihua City, Li Chaohu stood there with a company of cavalry and looked at the attacking troops with binoculars.

At this time, the commander of the reconnaissance company said with some surprise, Li Chaohu glanced at the commander of the reconnaissance company when he heard this, and said: "This battle is not easy to fight in Guihua City, but we are easy to fight, by the way, where is Lu Xiangsheng's troops?" ”

Hearing this, the soldiers behind Li Chaohu said: "Yesterday we were a hundred miles away from Naturalization City, and today should be almost there."

Hearing this, Li Chaohu said: "Inform Lu Xiangsheng that after an hour, our troops will attack on all fronts, if he comes, leave an opening for him in the southeast corner, if he doesn't come, hahaha, then wait to eat ready-made." ”

Hearing this, he said: "Division commander, do we want to talk to the commander of the army commander for the general attack on the whole front, and make a report." ”

Li Chaohu said: "I have contacted the army commander last night, and the army commander means to give me the right to act cheaply. ”

Hearing this, the soldiers nodded reassuringly, this is Li Chaosheng's influence on the Lantian Army, although he did not go deep into the bottom to communicate with every soldier, but Li Chaosheng's prestige is in the hearts of every low-level soldier, and they have always regarded themselves as Li Chaosheng's loyal and brave subordinates.

Therefore, these generals, division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders obey the Lantian military order and obey Li Chaosheng's command, they are army commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders, but if they rebel, maybe one or two pro-soldiers will follow and rebel, but the large army will definitely not follow, and when Li Chaosheng wants to quell the rebellion, he doesn't even need to send other troops, he only needs to say a word, and the soldiers under them can arrest them and send them to Li Chaosheng, which is the meaning of Li Chaosheng's grassroots line.

It is also the credit of the political commissar who has penetrated into every grassroots company over the years, and the political commissar is a position in the army that is completely unused when fighting in the war, because most of these people are not strong in force.

However, they are students who graduated from the political science major of Lantian College, which is the second batch of specialized departments to expand after the establishment of Lantian College, and the selected students are the elite of the elite.

And after these years of development, the political major has become a key department of Lantian Academy, and its dean is Li Chaosheng's former political commissar, Yang Shubai, who is also the current minister of the Lantian Political and Ideological Department.

The Political and Ideological Department is a unit that manages the political commissars assigned to divisions, brigades, regiments, companies, and platoons in a unified manner, and its powers are very great; as long as it is not wartime, they are responsible for the ideological and moral character of the soldiers and for the study of serious cultural courses.

It can be said that they are not only the ideological teachers of the fighters, but also the cultural teachers of the soldiers, and they are in the same relationship with the fighters, and they also act as the psychologists of the fighters.

However, they had no way to interfere in the military operations of the military commanders, and Li Chaosheng restricted the rights they gave them very tightly, that is, the political commissar was in charge of life, the general was in charge of the war, and the general was the first person in charge when he went to the battlefield, and he listened to the general in everything.

And with the ideological transformation of these political commissars, and under the guidance of Yang Shubai, these political commissars also began to mythologize the leader, mythologize Li Chaosheng, and make the low-level soldiers more loyal to Li Chaosheng.

Moreover, Li Chaosheng still came to the grassroots level at every turn, so that the soldiers knew who they were loyal to, a person with a nose and a face, who could talk and laugh, so that when they thought of the county lord and the army commander, that face would automatically appear, not like Emperor Chongzhen, except for those ministers and eunuchs around him, even the defenders of the capital may not have seen what Chongzhen looked like.

Such a character who is only in legends gives people the feeling that they are very empty, and falsehood will lead to these people not being able to find a reason to fight for you.

In addition, the army does not have a corresponding political commissar responsible for propaganda, so the entire army gradually tends to become corrupt.

In fact, if Emperor Chongzhen is smart, he can train the eunuchs to be candidates for political commissar, these guys who have no descendants are still very loyal to the emperor, you must know that in the Ming Dynasty, there were many tyrannical eunuchs, and there were many people who brought disaster to the country and the people, but none of them thought about killing the emperor, they came to do it.

As strong as Wei Zhong's sage, Chongzhen's words can make this nine-thousand-year-old who covers the sky with one hand obediently hand over his authority, not to mention others.

So these eunuchs are definitely the most loyal to the emperor, if these eunuchs are cultivated well, the Ming Dynasty still has the habit of eunuchs supervising the army, let them go deep into the army, and promote the emperor's goodness with the soldiers, then the soldiers will definitely be brave in battle.

As long as the ideological construction is done well, it is impossible for soldiers to surrender without a fight.

But Chongzhen couldn't have thought of this, he couldn't think of it, and the eunuch couldn't think of it, the only idea of the eunuch being sent out was to make money, giving money is a good official, and not giving money is an incompetent person.

Let them go deep into the lower level of the soldiers, grandma, Qiu Ba is so dirty, they don't want to stay with Qiu Ba, in their words: "Yo Yo Yo, if you stay with this group of Qiu Ba for a long time, you will get lice." ”

So a very sad scene happened, the emperor thought that sending eunuchs could help him keep an eye on the generals and the army, but the eunuchs only thought about making money, and if they didn't make money, they not only didn't work, but also made things difficult for the ministers, so they went to Lu Xiangsheng's supervisor of the Heavenly Army, if you don't scold me, Lao Tzu won't give you gunpowder, and if you have the ability, you can fight with the enemy.

In the end, these eunuchs did not play a good role, but played a very poor role.

At this time, twenty miles away from the Naturalization City, Lu Xiangsheng and Lu Xianglin were looking at the map there, when someone outside reported: "Supervisor, Supervisor." ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked up and saw that it was his own soldier and said, "What's the matter?" ”

The soldiers heard this and said: "Supervisor, just now Lantian Li Chaohu sent someone to deliver a letter, they will attack the Manchu Tartars in an hour, I have come to ask the Inspector if he wants to participate, they said, if the Inspector comes, they will leave an area for the Inspector in the southeast corner, if not, just wait to eat ready-made." ”

"Hmm."

Lu Xiangsheng frowned when he heard this, people have faces and bark, he is the governor of the Ming Dynasty, how can he be looked down upon by the Lantian army, and it is not his Lu Xiangsheng's character to eat ready-made.

This matter is also Lu Xiangsheng asked by Li Chaohu, if he asked Hong Chengchou and Li Chaohu the same way, this old Yin Bi replied affirmatively: "The old man is old and frail, let's eat ready-made." ”

But Lu Xiangsheng is not a person who likes to take advantage of others, especially in the matter of fighting Tartars, he still has his own blood.

"This Li Chaohu is the cousin of Li Chaohu who is in charge of a division and more than 10,000 horses under Li Chaosheng."

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Lu Xianglin and asked, Lu Xianglin nodded when he heard this, "Yes." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "It's really not a fuel-efficient lamp." ”

"Brother, what do you mean, will we participate in the attack on the Tartars this time?"

Lu Xianglin looked at Lu Xiangsheng and asked, Lu Xiangsheng said: "Participate, how can we go back after a trip, doesn't this make Li Chaosheng laugh off his big teeth, I don't want to take advantage of them." ”

Lu Xianglin heard this: "That's right, since we agreed to participate in the meeting to hunt Tartars, how can we not fire a single shot or an arrow." ”

Lu Xiangsheng said at this time: "Inform the whole army, leave the baggage battalion, and the rest of the combat troops, set off immediately, and rush to the city of naturalization within half an hour." ”

"Yes."

After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, his subordinates immediately conveyed the order, followed by 15,000 soldiers of the Tianxiong Army, carrying artillery, muskets, broadswords, spears, bows and arrows, and rushed to the battlefield.

The Tianxiong Army is not an all-firearms army, it's not that they don't want to be fully equipped with firearms, but they can't afford to raise them.

The court was reluctant to pay for the first firecracker, and the Ministry of Industry thought that it would cost a lot, but it also gave about 5,000 firecrackers, plus the seizures over the years, adding up to Lu Xiangsheng's enough firecrackers for 8,000 people.

Each firecracker was given enough ammunition to shoot four rounds this time, and fifty other cannons, all of which were carried in carts, and in order to speed up the time, the carts were doubled in size.

In this way, 15,000 people rushed to the direction of Naturalization City, and on the other side, Li Chaohu also led more than 10,000 people to move to the vicinity of Naturalization City.

And at this time, the siege of Naturalization City had already begun.

Whining......

The melodious charge horn, at this time, saw the charioteers appear on the battlefield intensively, the first soldier is the van soldiers, the van was first used in Qi Jiguang's Qi family army, and was later inherited by the famous general Sun Chengzong in Liaodong, and the so-called car battalion was formed.

Kong Youde was Mao Wenlong's subordinate at the beginning, and Mao Wenlong was a general in Liaodong, and he also served as a subordinate to Sun Chengzong, so he naturally learned the method of chariots.

I didn't expect it to be used on Lantian Army today.

There are three types of side cars, one is a lightweight unicycle side box, this kind of car can be operated by two people, it looks like a wheelbarrow, a protective baffle is added in front, there is a small hole in the baffle, one person pushes the car in the back during the battle, and one person can attack the front with a fire gun in the car.

There are also unicycles that are operated by one person, the front baffle is not smooth, but a lot of sharp wood is installed, the main purpose is to rush the formation, push the car you rush, the impact is like a raging triceratops, who dares to stop you.

However, the most prepared in the German formation was the two-wheeled partial van, the wheel of this car was one foot and three feet long, the front and rear transverse wheels were nine feet wide, and the height was seven feet and five inches, and there was a huge baffle in front of each car, and there were holes in the baffle, which could accommodate five people to shoot together.

This chariot is usually managed by ten people, and when there is no war, they take turns to push, and when there is an incident, five people get on the car to return fire, and the rest hide behind the car, holding spears, and the enemy attacks, kills from behind the car, and assassinates the enemy.

This time, in order to show himself, Kong Youde took out all the 1,000 chariots at home, and behind the chariot was the accompanying Manchurian armor man, the armor man was wearing heavy armor, holding a huge horse chopping knife in his hand, and followed step by step, like a walking corpse, I don't know what fear is.

Behind are 3,000 heavy armor soldiers, heavy armor soldiers wear full body armor, but the so-called whole body armor is not like the medieval European knights with iron armor, but the kind of chain mail used by the Ming army, composed of pieces of iron, the defense is extremely strong, not only to the knife and gun resistance, even to the ordinary fire gun can also be effective defense, although not 100%, but can also greatly reduce casualties.

And the cost of such armor mentioned earlier, starting from a hundred taels, and the most important thing is to maintain it from time to time, which is quite expensive, which is why Dolgon can have the luxury of engaging in such heavy armor.

There are very few such heavy armor soldiers among the other subordinates of the Lord of Baylor, and Duoduo does not have them, and the reason is very simple, in addition to the high cost of this kind of heavy armor, the biggest disadvantage is that it moves slowly, and the cavalry is not used, it is too heavy, and the horses do not move.

Therefore, the Tartars who like to ride horses are generally equipped with light armor, which can defend against swords, and the loss is fine, and there is not enough defense against muskets, so yesterday it was like queuing up to shoot.

At this time, Dolgon took out the heavy armor of his family, which shows that Dolgon is really angry this time.

At this time, the charioteers pushed the cart and gurgled over, and at this time, Li Chaosheng on the city wall saw this scene and frowned: "Tartars are not stupid, they know that the cavalry is not good, and now they will start sending charioteers." ”

"Millet"

"Here."

"Dolgon has made a lot of money this time, notify the artillerymen, enter the firing range, and give them some shells to try first."

"Yes."

When Gu Zi heard this, he immediately ran down to inform, and soon the artillerymen all got the order, and watched the chariot approach to a distance of three miles, when the artillery captain shouted: "All the artillery, boom!" ”

Boom, boom, boom!

At this time, the cannon sounded, and one after another shells blasted out, and with a bang, a chariot was directly punched out of a big hole, and the fragments of the cannonballs flew out, killing the surrounding enemies in an instant.

Immediately followed by the bombardment of the cannonballs as if they didn't want money, this section of the road instantly became a hell for Kong Youde's charioteers, boom, boom.

The charioteers pushed the chariots forward, braving the rain of cannonballs, and almost instantly the entire convoy would destroy dozens of chariots, but this was not fatal to the huge chariot team, and the chariots continued to move forward.

The lieutenant shouted: "Resist, don't be afraid, the enemy's artillery fire is just like this, withstand it, and it will be fine." ”

Rumble!

The captain shouted, but what he didn't notice was that a cannonball smashed on his body, and the next moment his body was instantly gone, but Kong Youde's men were also brave, one captain was killed, and the other captain immediately rushed up and shouted: "Rush, rush, don't be afraid." ”

Snort~

The lieutenant shouted, and sure enough, the cannon stopped, and then the artillery on the city wall quickly poured cold water on the cannon, and the cannon was a red-hot soldering iron at this time, sneering and steaming, which is also the progress of the forging technology of the Lantian steelmaking furnace, otherwise the cannon would have been abolished long ago.

And just when the cannon was resting, the opponent once again broke through a mile, and after another round of artillery fire, the opponent's chariot was damaged by more than 200 vehicles, and then finally came to the last mile, 500 meters away is the trench of the Naturalization City.

Kong Youde saw this scene with a telescope at this time and said distressedly: "This group of dogs, the cannon doesn't need money, this hasn't reached the place yet, so they will destroy my 200 chariots first, this is all money." ”

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