Hong Chengchou couldn't help but sigh.

The heart says what the hell is going on?

Why are Daming's firearms so sharp?

What's even more surprising is that the speed of update iteration is also so fast.

Only two years ago, the Ming army only had very ordinary self-generated firearms, which were not much different from the self-generated firearms of the Qing soldiers in terms of range and lethality.

But by the time of the Battle of the Hunhe River, the Ming army had a new self-generated firearm.

Although the number of this new self-generated firearm is small, the range is doubled, and the lethality is far from that of ordinary self-generated firearms.

Now it's even more incredible, the Ming army actually has a new self-generated firearm, the range is twice as high as the new self-generated firearm, and the lethality has also been greatly increased, how can this be obtained?

Hong Chengchou couldn't figure it out even if he wanted to break his head, what was going on?

Is it because Chongzhen Coal Mountain has enlightened the Tao and received the guidance of the immortals?

If there are really immortals who have instructed Chongzhen, then what else will the Qing soldiers do?

No matter how powerful a person is, can he still fight with immortals? Hong Chengchou felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart.

Hou Fangyu was still dominated by bitter hatred, gritted his teeth and said: "Hong Butang, no matter how sharp the Ming dog's self-generated fire gun is, it is just a self-generated fire gun, and my Qing soldiers still have camel cannons, Franc machine guns and red-coated cannons, so there is still a chance to win, so the outcome of this war of annihilation is still unknown!" ”

"That's right." Kong Youde echoed, "No matter how sharp the self-generated fire gun is, it can't beat all kinds of cannons, even the Tiger Squat Cannon, which has the closest closest range and is the most powerful, can crush the self-generated fire gun." ”

Hong Chengchou frowned and said, "What do you mean, do you want the green battalion to carry camel cannons to follow the cavalry into battle?" ”

The red-coated cannon and the Franc cannon are very cumbersome, obviously there is no way to follow the cavalry to fight, although the weight of the tiger squat cannon is light, but the operation is cumbersome and complicated, and it cannot deal with the cavalry.

Only the camel cannon was not only light enough to keep up with the cavalry, but it was also extremely easy to operate.

"Hong Butang Mingjian." Hou Fangyu said, "If you can't cut off the grain route of the Ming army, it will be difficult for the Qing soldiers to defeat the Ming army, so it shows that the grain route of the army must be cut off no matter what!" ”

"What if it doesn't work out?" Hong Chengchou hesitated.

To date, a total of 1,200 camel cannons have been built.

200 of these camel cannons were left in Beijing by Dolgon to defend the city.

The remaining 1,000 were given to Hong Chengchou, which is also because the camel cannon has high mobility, and it has little effect on defending the city, and it can give full play to the advantages of mobility when it is used in field battles.

Hong Chengchou regarded these 1,000 camel cannons as treasures.

Because the intuition of the commander of the army for many years told him that the key factor in this war of annihilation was neither the red-coated cannon nor the tiger squat cannon, nor the small number of Franc machine guns, but the thousand camel cannons!

So Hong Chengchou was reluctant to take the risk with a camel cannon.

The last attack on the Chenguantun camp lost 200 red-coated cannons, which has already made Hong Chengchou regret it, and this time if he loses a large number of camel cannons because of miscalculation of the opponent, the situation will be even worse.

Because Hong Chengchou had foreseen that if the two sides were forced to fight in the field, the comparison of the number of artillery would be the decisive factor, at least so far, the Qing army still had an advantage in the number of artillery.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou did not want to easily squander the only advantage that the Qing army had.

Hou Fangyu immediately retorted to Hong Chengchou: "But, what if it happens?" ”

Hong Chengchou's eyes immediately swept a haze, to be honest, he was really annoyed by such a thing as the prison army, there was a prison army in the Ming Dynasty before, and now there is still a prison army in the Qing Dynasty.

Can't you let him go and fight as he wishes?

However, reality is reality after all, and the opinions of the prison army should still be respected.

At that moment, Hong Chengchou asked Hou Fangyu in a consultative tone: "Then transfer 200 camel cannons to the Eight Banners Mongolia to try?" ”

Hou Fangyu didn't want to force Hong Chengchou to be anxious, so he immediately nodded in approval: "With these 200 camel cannons, it is enough for the Eight Banners Mongolia to severely damage the cavalry town of the Ming army, but how to fight this battle still needs to be combined." ”

Hong Chengchou's heart moved and said: "You can follow the example of the Ming army and catch a fish." ”

"Hong Butang Mingjian." Hou Fangyu smiled and said, "Xia Guan thinks so too. ”

……

For the next three days, the Ming cavalry continued its all-out sortie.

The Eight Banners Mongolia had no choice but to gradually gather forces, that is, to take back the thousand cavalry teams that had been scattered before one by one, and converge them into several huge cavalry clusters.

Seeing the Eight Banners Mongol gathering troops, the Ming army also gathered troops.

Because with one thousand to one, the cavalry of the Ming army could rely on the advantage of firearms to form a crush.

Even if it is a thousand against three thousand, the cavalry of the Ming army can still occupy a certain advantage.

However, when the difference in strength between the two sides reaches five or even ten times, it is not only the advantage of firearms that can be smoothed out, but must be wiped out with the help of hollow phalanxes.

However, the hollow phalanx has a minimum number of troops.

That is, the strength of at least one brigade should not be less, four thousand!

So in the end, the Ming cavalry also converged into two clusters.

Seeing this, the Eight Banners Mongolia on the opposite side simply converged into a cluster.

After the Ming cavalry found out the news, they also merged into a cluster.

Then the two cavalry began to slowly move closer together and put on a decisive posture.

When the cavalry of the two sides was still thirty miles apart, the outpost battle broke out between the night and the scout cavalry of the two sides, and the situation was still overwhelming, and the Ming army scout cavalry crushed the Mongols at night.

Even so, the Eight Banners Mongolia did not flinch at all this time.

It wasn't until the cavalry clusters of the two sides were ten miles apart that the other side's cavalry lines could already be seen on the horizon in the distance, and the scout cavalry and Ye Bu on both sides finally withdrew.

Because by this time there is no longer any need to cut off the battlefield.

Both sides have already looked directly at each other, and it is impossible to temporarily dig a trap or something.

At this time, no matter what the two sides do, they are under each other's noses.

Of course, even under your nose, sometimes you can fool the enemy.

……

For example, at this moment, the Ming army is ready to do something that the Mongolian cavalry can't see.

Hu Guozhu, who was riding a horse parallel to Zhu Cijiong, suddenly turned his head and said to Xie Yuancai, who was riding a horse and following him on his right hand: "Xie Zhi, thank you for your hard work." ”

"It's all for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, why don't you work hard."

After Xie Yuan finished speaking, he slowed down his horse and disappeared into the cavalry formation behind him.

The large cavalry formation of the Ming army, which was originally moving forward quickly, also gradually slowed down.

After a while, the Ming cavalry stopped in the wilderness, and set up a strange cavalry formation with the word "human", and the tip of the word "person" was facing the Mongolian cavalry that came forward, and then with the cover of the cavalry formation on both sides of the herringbone, Xie Yuancai quickly dismounted with two thousand horsemen.

Xie Yuan came over last night, and the 2nd Mountain Artillery Brigade came with him.

The reason why Xie Yuancai came over was because the Ming army had already received a secret report.

The Eight Banners Mongolia was ready to take 200 camel cannons to fish and plot against the Ming cavalry.

When Yan Yingyuan learned of this, he urgently ordered Xie Yuancai to lead the 2nd Brigade of Mountain Artillery to rush to help.

At this moment, Xie Yuancai was leading the officers and soldiers of the mountain artillery brigade to quickly assemble the mountain artillery.

Although there were many trainings, it was the first time to assemble them in real combat.

Therefore, it is inevitable that the officers and men will be a little nervous, and the speed will not be as fast as in the usual training.

It's not a big problem, though, and time is certainly enough.

……

In front of the Ming cavalry.

Hu Guozhu smiled and asked, "King Ding, can you see the camel soldiers behind Jiannu?" ”

The camel is larger than the horse, and the height of the horse is much higher than the height of the horse.

Under normal circumstances, the cavalry cannot cover the camel soldiers, but it is another matter if there is smoke and dust to cover it.

"I can't see clearly." Zhu Cijiong said hatefully, "Hong Chengchou, this traitor is really insidious, if it weren't for the secret report we got in advance this time, maybe we would really suffer a big loss." ”

"That's providence." Hu Guozhu said with a smile, "The national fortune is in Ming, and that's what I said." ”

"Providence? National Fortune? Zhu Cijiong was quite disapproving, what kind of providence or national fortune was this, it was obviously the secret son buried by his father's painstaking efforts that began to play a role.

While the two were talking, the Eight Banners Mongolia also began to change formations.

Because the Ming army placed a "human" array, the Mongolian cavalry put up an inverted herringbone formation-for-tat, that is, the herringbone was turned upside down, and the two edges were facing forward, so that the Ming army could be wrapped through this opening.

Between the horse's heads, the Mongolian cavalry rolling forward continued to pull away towards the two wings.

The distance between the two cavalry was less than a thousand paces, and the Mongol cavalry finally separated completely, revealing the two hundred camels that followed behind the cavalry, and as soon as the two hundred camels appeared, they lay on the ground under the control of the camels, divided into two rows, front and rear, and then the Persian carpet on the camels' backs was also uncovered, revealing the camel cannons underneath.

The gunner of the camel gun began to adjust the angle of fire, reload ammunition.

However, at this moment, the cavalry of the Ming army suddenly scattered to the two wings.

After the Ming cavalry dispersed, the artillery positions behind them were immediately revealed.

I saw that 90 2.5-inch mountain guns had been lined up and had been loaded.

As soon as the cavalry of the Ming army dispersed, Xie Yuan decisively gave the order to fire artillery.

The 90 gunners immediately inserted the ignition rods into the fire door, and the next moment, 90 mountain guns roared at the same time.

With a huge roar, 90 solid bullets weighing 4 pounds instantly let out a scream as if they were about to tear the air, and the camel artillery in front of them was shot like lightning.

The camel artillery on the opposite side was caught off guard and was bombarded all at once.

What's even more unfortunate is that the camel artillery formation is still very dense, although there is a gap between the camels in each row, but after the two rows of camels in the front and back are superimposed, there is almost no gap.

The artillery of the Ming army had already calculated the trajectory, and when the solid iron bullet hit about 500 paces, it was almost three feet above the ground, which was just right to hit the torso of the camel and the crotch of the artillery.

A total of 90 solid iron bullets, about half of which were off target.

The remaining half of the solid iron bullets hit the intended area.

Suddenly, Jiannu's camel artillery position was a piece of flesh and blood.

At least 30 camels suffered fatal blows, others were also severely frightened, and the entire artillery position was thrown into chaos in an instant.