Wars often begin inadvertently, and halfway through the crossing of the river by Li Dingguo's army, the Tartar cavalry was ready to charge, and under the leadership of the heroic condor archer Gu Litai, they began to attack Li Dingguo's cavalry.

A group of cavalry rushed down from the top of the hillside, and there was really a thunderous momentum, and for a time the whole battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, arrows flew one after another, shouts of killing shook the sky, and horses' hooves trampled the earth, causing the whole earth to tremble.

However, Li Dingguo had already prepared, when he crossed the river, he only sent a part of the cavalry over, and the heavy artillery and other equipment in the army were left on the other side of the river.

Boom, boom, boom!

With each cannon shot, a cannonball plunged into the enemy's cavalry, shattering all obstacles along the way, and finally exploded with a bang, and countless pieces of iron flew and dealt a devastating blow to the enemy.

Lantian rarely uses solid shells now, but uses flowering shells that can explode twice, flowering shells are a good thing, and they can destroy everything along the way by physical inertia, and in the end, there will be a loud bang, followed by a second damage to the flying iron pieces.

The cannonballs bombarded and bombarded the Tartars, Gulitai was still very brave, picked up the big bow and arrow and shot at Lantian is a burst of shooting, and the first wave of cavalry crossing the river on Lantian side raised the big shield and began to block, and the old Hui Ma Shou should personally hold the big shield to command.

Therefore, the first wave of Manchu Qing attacks on Lantian did not play a great lethal role.

But the strength of the cavalry was close combat, and seeing that the bow and arrow had little effect, Coulee was not discouraged and continued to urge the horse forward.

I have to say that the Han people who were able to fight in Liaodong were defeated and retreated, and they still had their strength.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo waved his hand at this time, and immediately all the cavalry raised their horse pistols and shot at the Tartars that came from the impact.

The barrel of the gun spewed wisps of flames, and the bullets brought out took away the lives of the Jianzhou cavalry one by one.

Seeing this, Gulitai saw that a large number of cavalry in front of him were killed, and he was angry that he wanted to attack desperately, but at this moment, there was a sound of bullhorns in the Tartar military camp, and this melodious voice actually told Gulitai to retreat.

Gulitai was stunned for a moment, and unwillingly looked at the Lantian military formation that was still a hundred steps away, and immediately shouted angrily, followed by the cavalry automatically divided into two parts, distanced itself from Lantian, and dodged this wave of powerful attacks from Lantian.

Gulitai looked at the hillside in confusion, and then saw that old Aji was wearing armor, and next to old Aji was the Guerjia clan who was wearing armor.

Guarjia was still a little sober at this time, his eyes were glazed, and he was flushed.

It can be seen that he really has not drunk less, but at this time he is no longer important, because the command of this battle has been handed over to old Aji.

In the first wave of cavalry attacks, Lao Aji wanted to learn the Han people's art of war, and attacked halfway, but unfortunately he didn't expect the enemy to prepare again, and the artillery and muskets were too dense, so the charge continued, and the damage of the cavalry was too heavy, and the cavalry was not consumed like this.

Old Aji Mingjin withdrew his troops, followed by the horn sounding again, and the next moment he saw a group of Jianzhou people slowly appearing on the hillside, these Jianzhou people were wearing half armor and holding a big shield in their hands, and they were lined up in a neat formation at this time.

This is the heavy shield soldier of Jianzhou, but also the elite of the infantry in Jianzhou, Jianzhou is not only cavalry, of which the infantry also occupies a very important position, in fact, the people of Jianzhou did not start with cavalry like Mongolia, they are actually better at foot combat.

Some military scholars believe that the soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not be regarded as cavalry, but at most could be regarded as infantry who could ride horses.

They're better at tackling tough battles.

At this time, the Jianzhou infantry began to gather to form a shield array, slowly walking up the slope of the mountain, at this time Li Dingguo's cavalry also crossed half of the river, seeing this, Li Dingguo immediately asked the soldiers to shoot the shield array.

However, the shield soldiers were very resistant to musketeers, and the big shield of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a wooden shield with a layer of iron skin, while the horse pistol used by Lantian was made of iron sand, and the shield could not penetrate the shield at all, so after a burst of gunfire, the shield soldiers were not damaged.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo waved his hand and said: "Stop firing, artillery preparation, three consecutive rounds of preparation." ”

Li Dingguo raised his hand, this kind of heavy shield soldier, it is difficult to hurt with muskets and bows and arrows, if it is changed to the previous time when he was a rebel, when he encountered such a shield soldier, there is no other choice but to fill it with human life.

But it's different now, now Lao Tzu has artillery in his hand, who is afraid of anyone with artillery, fuck it.

Lao Tzu has never fought such a rich battle in his life.

Thinking of Li Dingguo, he waved his hand, and suddenly the new artillery built by the Lantian Military Factory behind him spat out tongues of fire and began to bombard the shield soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The power of the artillery is still enough, a burst of artillery fire in the sky, and immediately tear a hole in the neatly arranged shield soldier camp, looking at the Tartar shield soldiers who are gradually scattered in formation, Li Dingguo stared and said: "The lethality of artillery alone is limited, we must send cavalry to strike." ”

Hearing this, Wang Jiadong said, "I'll go." ”

Li Dingguo frowned slightly, and before he could speak, Ma Shouying came over with a spear in his hand and said: "Dingguo, this can't be done, our artillery is a stake, but with such consumption, the killing is always limited, I want to lead people to kill a wave." ”

Hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "I think so too, but this is very dangerous, Jia Dong just said that he is going to lead the troops." ”

Ma Shouying looked at Wang Jiadong and said, "Jiadong, I came out of the special brigade, I am very good at this kind of charge, let me come." ”

Wang Jiadong heard this and said: "You are the political commissar, it should be my job with the regiment commander to charge into battle, and the regiment commander needs to take care of the overall situation, so I will deal with the work of charging into battle this time." ”

As soon as Wang Jiadong finished speaking, Ma Shouying said: "No, Jiadong, we don't know each other, you are good at defending and counterattacking, and I am good at cavalry running, I'll do this." ”

After Ma Shouying said this, he looked at Li Dingguo and said: "And when our special brigade was training, we deliberately trained to fight in conjunction with the artillery rifle artillery, and when we charged, we could still bombard the Tartars with artillery without delay." ”

Li Dingguo heard this, looked at Ma Shouying and said, "Infantry and artillery coordination? ”

Ma Shouying nodded and said: "That's right, that is, the infantry and artillery work together, and the infantry can also be replaced by cavalry, which is not in the way, and the artillery of our regiment are all special gunners who served in the special brigade back then, and I have a tacit understanding with them." ”

Li Dingguo nodded when he heard this: "Okay then, but you must be careful." ”

Hearing this, Ma Shouying agreed, and the next moment he waved his hand, and immediately five hundred cavalry were ready, at this time Ma Shouying got on his horse and shouted angrily: "Brothers, rush with me and kill the Tartars." ”

Saying that, Ma Shouying raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Gun in hand, follow me, kill the Tartars, avenge the blood, kill!" ”

Ma Shouying rushed towards the Tartar shield array with the cavalry, and it was common sense for the cavalry to restrain the shield soldiers.

At this time, the cavalry charged, and the shield soldiers of the Tartars suddenly felt great pressure and began to gather, and a single shield soldier could only be slaughtered in the face of the cavalry, but the shield soldiers in the formation were different.

But as long as the shield soldiers form a formation, Lantian's artillery will fire, and the shells will be accurately sent by the artillery to the place where they are most needed, and where they are most needed, that is, they are scattered by the cavalry, or the Jianzhou people who have the intention of forming a formation, as long as the Jianzhou people gather there, the cannonball will definitely fall accurately on the gathering place, and blow up the people and horses who have just gathered and turn them on their backs.

In the end, Jianzhou's shield soldiers still did not stop Ma Shouying's cavalry and the infantry of Lantian artillery, and after several charges, there began to be signs of rout.

Ma Shouying pulled out the spear from the chest of a Jianzhou shield soldier at this time, looked at the weakest point of the Jianzhou shield soldier, raised the spear in his hand, and shouted: "Kill!" ”

With a roar, the cavalry gathered again to charge, and at this time, the old Aji standing on the hillside frowned, but the big man of the Guerjia clan next to him roared angrily: "Waste, waste, only five hundred cavalry can't stop it, they are not worthy of being the slaves of the Qing Dynasty, they should be the slaves of the Han dog." ”

Hearing the noise of the big man of the Guerjia clan made Lao Aji's heart irritable, and then Lao Aji waved his hand, letting the Gulitai who had just broken up come back with the cavalry, and the shield soldiers were really at a loss to the cavalry.

So if you want to deal with the cavalry, you still have the cavalry.

Lao Aji waved his hand, followed by Gu Litai and waved the order flag in his hand and said: "Gather, kill the Han dog with Lao Tzu!" ”

Gulitai was still very authoritative as an archer, and at this time, he roared angrily, and immediately the cavalry began to kill back to Ma Shouying's side.

At the same time, Old Aji waved his hand and said, "Pull it up." ”

The next moment, a group of Jianzhou people actually pushed up eight cannons, this artillery is very large, it was captured by Jiannu from the Daming border pass, and it has also become the big killer of Jiannu now.

And the importance of the logistics supply place is still very great, after all, a large amount of grain and grass can be stored here in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so much grain and grass land, Dolgon left these eight cannons at the bottom of the box.

This cannon is the most primitive red-coated cannon, but the primitive does not mean that his power is not good, at this time the old Aji said: "Load, give me a bomb!" ”

Hearing this, Jiannu immediately loaded the cannon with ammunition and aimed at the Lantian military formation.

Shout~

Rumble!

A cannon rang out from Li Dingguo's left ear, and when he looked over the sound, he saw countless black dots flying in the air, and the next moment there was the sound of artillery fire.

Hearing the sound of artillery fire, Li Dingguo was stunned at first, he didn't expect that Jiannu still had artillery, and then Li Dingguo yelled: "Get out of the way, let Lao Tzu dodge." ”

Hearing this, the Lantian soldiers immediately dispersed quickly, and looked for cover, for artillery, no one in the entire Ming Dynasty should know better than the Lantian people.

They usually not only use artillery, but also do counter-artillery training, and the artillerymen need to know that the artillery is a key position, and if they want to retreat and blow up this key position, this artillery is a pile of scrap metal, which is of no use to the enemy at all.

These are all things that need to be learned in military training.

At this time, Li Dingguo roared angrily, and the next moment, all the soldiers dodged, the cannonballs fell from the air, naughtily knocked on the hard rock, smashed the powder of the rock, and then flew out, and landed ten meters away from Li Dingguo with a snap.

The shell fell to the ground and gurgled around a few times, and finally stopped five meters away from Li Dingguo, but the imaginary explosion did not sound.

Li Dingguo pulled away the two guards on his body, followed by looking at the cannonballs and scolded: "Damn, solid bullets." ”

The most primitive artillery of the Ming Dynasty still uses solid bullets, and the main lethal effect is to smash, this cannonball can directly smash the hard granite, if it is smashed on people, it can directly smash people into meat pies.

And Lantian's flowering shell, that is, there is gunpowder in the shell, after landing, the gunpowder in the shell explodes for the second time, and the iron pieces that fly out in the next moment hurt people.

The killing area is larger, just now, if it is a flowering bullet, I don't know if Li Dingguo will die or not, but the possibility of the death of the guards who pounced on him is even greater.

Li Dingguo took the big iron ball that was still hot from the guard, padded it and said, "It's quite heavy, sixteen or seventeen pounds." ”

At this time, the soldier on the side said: "We heard from my husband when we were in class that this primitive solid cannonball is a standard eighteen-pounder cannon, and its power can blast open the gate of an ordinary county town. ”

Li Dingguo heard this and said: "Well, I just didn't expect that the Tartars also have artillery, don't they claim to be archers and horses to fight the world?" ”

Hearing this, the soldier said: "Regiment commander, have you ever heard of a military class, Mr. said in it, Jiannu bullshit bow horse to fight the world, when the old slave Nurhachi, they really only use bow horses, but since Huang Taiji ascended the throne, they have actively used firearms, and even recruited Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, Geng Jingzhong and others, named the king of Sanshun, and successfully inherited Mao Wenlong's legacy on Phi Island, with artillery and craftsmen all in the bag, so there is no fuss about Tartar artillery. ”

Li Dingguo was taught a lesson by his soldiers, but Li Dingguo couldn't be annoyed and angry, because this is the rule of Lantian, knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and the master is the teacher.

In the Lantian army, if the soldiers are not malicious, they can popularize knowledge to their superiors, which will not cause the rejection of their superiors, if this is in the Ming army, the commanders have to kill you, and you actually let them lose face in person.

Li Dingguo did not dwell on this matter, but looked at the place where the Tartar artillery attacked, which was obviously preparing to hit Lantian artillery, because it could be seen that the opponent's artillery was all hitting the other side of the river.

The other party's strategic purpose is obvious, Lantian is powerful artillery, as long as Lantian's artillery is scrapped, in terms of white-knuckle warfare, it is impossible for their Jianzhou warriors to lose to the Han Chinese.

Li Dingguo looked at the artillery that was fired on the other side of the river, but he smiled after looking at it twice, because Li Dingguo found that the range of the opponent's artillery was not as long as that of the Lantian artillery, and the Lantian artillery could easily hit the Tartars, but the Tartars could not hit themselves.

Li Dingguo thought, looking at the other side of the battlefield, Ma Shouying had already exchanged hands with the cavalry of Gulitai, and at this time, the shield soldiers of the other party were still preparing to assemble, seeing this, Li Dingguo roared: "Jiadong, gather the cavalry, attack the shield soldiers, don't let them gather." ”

"Yes."