Today was a rare good day, and there was no wind.

But after all, it was already mid-October, and it was only half of the morning, so there was no heat in the sun, and Zheng Sen stood on the hanging basket of the flying car in thin clothes, shivering from the cold.

"Thief, this ghost weather is really cold."

Zheng Sen scolded while putting his finger to his mouth and breathing hot.

The soldier in the same car said angrily: "Zheng Zhizhi, there is fire here." ”

As he spoke, the scholar vigorously stirred the bellows, and the flames that erupted from the furnace became even more intense, forming a long tail flame that continued into the hull.

The more heat there is, the faster the car rises.

"yes, look at my brain, I'm stupid by the weather."

Zheng Sen slapped his head, turned around and leaned over to the stove, and stretched out his hand to bake the fire.

However, less than half a second later, Zheng Sen reluctantly turned around and looked back at the front.

"Zheng Zhizhi, is Jiannu here?" When the taxi in the same car saw this, his heart sank and he asked.

Zheng Sen ignored his companions, just raised the telescope and pointed it at the west side, and then slowly adjusted the focus, and at a certain moment, the vision of the monocular finally became clear, Jiannu!

Zheng Sen immediately blew the whistle.

……

Hearing the whistle, Xu Yingwei, who was busy, immediately looked up.

Gu Yanwu, Lu Xiangtong and Jiang Tianyi and more than a dozen Qinwang scholars, as well as Xu Yinglong, Xu Laohu and several other officers also surrounded them.

Qin Wang Shizi has learned sign language before.

So they can understand Zheng Sen's gestures.

"The army of Jiannu is coming from the west, about ten miles from the battlefield."

"Troops, about 100,000 troops, including about 20,000 cavalry."

[Note: There are 60,000 soldiers in the Jiannu army, and 40,000 are coated with the army]

"The car, the side car, the thief, the Jiannu actually brought more than 3,000 cars."

"In addition, there are about 20,000 mules and horses, and hey, there are about 500 camels."

"The good news is that I didn't see the Hongyi cannon, and I didn't see the Fran cannon, it seems that what the saint said is right, Jiannu threw down all the heavy artillery in order to speed up the march."

"That shouldn't be a big problem."

"Without artillery, it is absolutely impossible for Jiannu to break through our hollow phalanx."

Receiving Zheng Sen's sign language, Gu Yanwu, Lu Xiangtong, Jiang Tianyi and several other scholars couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, Xu Yingwei shook his head and said: "Don't be careless, we still need to prepare for the worst, the Jiannu cavalry has already suffered the loss of the hollow phalanx in Guting Town, so it is impossible to be unprepared this time." ”

After a pause, he said, "Hurry up, dig another trench beyond the antlers." ”

Xu Yingwei's order was quickly conveyed, and the Ming army began to get busy again.

……

Zheng Sen looked down from a height of dozens of meters, and he could take in the Ming army's large array.

I saw that the Ming army had already set up a circle of partial vans around the central main artillery position and the four hollow phalanxes, forming five independent but partial van cities.

Outside the car city, there is a chaotic layer of rejection horses.

These horse-rejecting marching fashions were made in side vans, and when used, they were tied with hemp rope.

A layer of rejection horses was set up, but the Ming army still felt that it was not safe enough, and began to dig trenches on the outside of the rejection horses.

It's just that the soil layer of the Liaohe Plain has been frozen into iron lumps, so it is very difficult for the soldiers of the Ming army to dig up, and it is estimated that before the arrival of the Jiannu army, they may not be able to dig enough three feet.

But even if you can only dig two feet deep, it's better than nothing.

Zheng Sen let out a hot breath, and was about to continue to adjust the focus, when he suddenly noticed a trace of abnormality in the corner of his eye.

After being stunned for about three seconds, Zheng Sen turned around again and cast the monocular in the direction of due north.

The next moment, there were countless black, black-pressed, ground-to-earth cavalry in the field of vision of the telescope, roughly estimated to be at least more than 20,000, and the cavalry of the Horqin Mongols would really pick the time.

In fact, as early as the morning of the fifth day after the Ming army recovered Shenyang, the cavalry of the Horqin Mongols appeared.

It's just that the cavalry of the Horqin Mongols was very cautious and didn't dare to get too close to Shenyang, but just kept sending out the scout cavalry of the Ming army to entangle with each other, even if they suffered losses in the outpost battle.

After the Ming army withdrew from Shenyang, it disengaged from the cavalry of the Horqin Mongols.

Unexpectedly, the cavalry of the Horqin Mongols appeared again.

At that moment, Zheng Sen blew the whistle again.

……

"It's a large Kong Ming lantern again!"

"There are really a lot of these strange things in Nanming."

Just when Zheng Sen reported the details of the Horqin Mongol cavalry, several hardcore traitors such as Dolgon and Hong Chengchou who was accompanying him had also seen Zheng Sen's flying car.

This was not the first time Dorgon had seen the Ming army's flying car.

Two years ago on the battlefield in Xuzhou, Dolgon had seen the Ming army's flying car more than once, and also knew that the Ming army could spy on the military through Kong Ming lanterns.

Fortunately, Dolgon was also prepared.

"Spread the word, let the green camp be more careful."

"Especially the blanket on the camel's back must be tightly covered."

"Be sure not to let the spies of the Ming army see the camel whirling cannon."

The camel whirlwind cannon is a secret weapon that the Qing army has been preparing for a long time, and Dolgon originally wanted to save it for the decisive battle, but because the battle of Liaodong was also extraordinary, it could only be advanced.

The reason is very simple, if you can't recapture Liaodong, even if you save the camel whirling cannon for the decisive battle, I'm afraid you won't be able to reverse the geographical disadvantage of the Qing Dynasty.

Dolgon's will was soon delivered.

After a while, Waxinga turned back again.

"Master, the scout cavalry of the Ming army has been defeated by us."

"Now the area within a twenty-mile radius of the battlefield has been controlled by us."

After a pause, Wa Xing'a said triumphantly: "The Ming army has become blind and deaf. ”

"I see you've become a fool." When Dorgon heard this, his face fell.

Countless question marks suddenly floated in front of Waxing's eyes, what did you say? I spent so much money on thousands of nights to cut off the battlefield, and I ended up scolding?

Dolgon said angrily, "You didn't look at the top of your head? ”

"Overhead?" Only then did Wa Xinga think of the large Kong Ming lantern in the sky.

Thinking of this, Waxing's big head drooped, and he was so busy that he was busy.

The Ming army has this thing, how can it block the battlefield if it is not collected at night? It is impossible to block at all.

Dolgon then asked, "Did you suffer a loss when you fought with the Ming scout cavalry?" ”

Waxinga didn't dare to face Dorgon's gaze, and said with a little weakness: "Minggou didn't take advantage of it. ”

At this time, Hou Fangyu asked, "General Waxing'a, have you captured the self-made firearms used by the Ming army scouts?" ”

"The self-generated firearm used by the Ming army scouts?" Wa Xing'a thought for a while and said, "It seems that he is trying to snatch a self-generated fire gun from the Ming army scouts." ”

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"Master, you can quickly get this self-generated fire gun." Hou Fangyu was overjoyed when he heard this.

Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan were also overjoyed when they heard this, and now they can finally figure out why the Ming army's self-generated fire guns are fighting so accurately and far.

If you figure out the reason, the Qing soldiers will be able to use this sharp self-generated firearm.

Dorgon immediately said, "Go and fetch the self-generated fire of the reckless plan, O Vaxing. ”

"Huh!" Wa Xing'a agreed, and immediately returned to the battlefield to find Mangtu, who was on guard, and brought back the self-made firearms captured by Mangtu from the scout cavalry of the Ming army.

"This is the self-generated fire gun used by the Ming army scouts?"

Hong Chengchou, Hou Fangyu and several other hardcore traitors all came around.

Dolgon held the self-generated fire gun in his hand, and also looked at it repeatedly.

It doesn't look special, it's similar to the self-generated fire gun of the Qing Dynasty.

Dolgon ordered Cao Eryu to bring a self-generated fire gun of the Qing Dynasty.

Compared with the two, the Ming army's self-generated fire gun is longer, and the gun pipe is also longer, which seems to be more than three feet long, but the self-generated fire gun pipe of the Qing Dynasty is only two feet and five inches long.

The caliber of the barrel is about the same.

Dolgon took out a piece of lead from the Qing army, and was able to stuff it into it.

It was also when the lead was stuffed that Dolgon discovered that the inner wall of the Ming army's self-made fire gun was actually engraved with patterns.

"Hey, there's a withered flower on the inner wall of the pipe?" Dolgon was surprised and said, "Isn't the Ming army stupid? It is time-consuming and time-consuming to engrave patterns on the inner wall of the gun, and it will also affect the airtightness of the self-generated fire-fired gun. ”

"Yes, yes, the slave has also heard John Tang talk about it." Hong Chengchou nodded.

The concept of air tightness must have been brought to Dolgon and other Manchu monarchs by John Tang.

John Tang once told Dorgon very clearly that due to the reasons of craftsmen, the inner diameter of each self-generated fire gun made by the War Bureau has slight differences, but the size of all the lead is uniform, so the air tightness of some self-generated fire guns is better, and some guns have poor air tightness.

The direct manifestation is that the accuracy and penetration of the self-generated fire gun will be uneven.

Dolgon had already heard from Waxinga and Yabran that the Ming army's self-generated firearms were accurate and far away, so he was eager to see with his own eyes how sharp the Ming army's self-generated firearms were.

At that moment, Dolgon ordered Cao Eryu to make a temporary target.

Then he couldn't wait to test fire the Ming army's self-generated firearms.

However, the results of the test shot surprised Dolgon and others.

Facts have proved that the Ming army's self-generated firearms are not only extremely poorly accurate, but also far inferior to the Qing army's self-generated firearms, and even the cotton armor fifty steps away cannot be penetrated.

"Is this really the self-generated fire gun used by the Ming army's scout cavalry?"

Dorgon was seriously suspicious of the self-generated firebolts in his hand.

Doesn't it mean that the self-fired guns of the scout cavalry hit far and accurately?

Wa Xing'a was also confused about this: "Master, this is really the self-generated fire gun of the Ming army scout cavalry, the minions died for more than a dozen nights, and finally killed a scout cavalry of the Ming army, and then captured this self-generated fire gun from the hands of this Ming army scout cavalry, it will not be wrong." ”

"That's weird." Dorgon frowned.