"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

As soon as the cannon fire stopped, the rapid war drums were already sounding from the Ming army's military formation.

More than 30 huge chariots were successively launched into the military formation.

These chariots were different from ordinary Ming chariots, which generally had firing holes for firearms and artillery, all of which were enclosed, like a large shield.

It's not a good idea to call it a chariot, it's more appropriate to call it a shield chariot.

The main body of the large shield in front of the shield cart is made of wood, and it is five or six inches thick.

The carriage is covered with a double deck on three sides, filled with sand between the two decks, and covered with a soaked quilt outside the deck.

Such a shield car is the most commonly used shield car used by the Qing army on the battlefield of Liaodong to attack the city and charge the village in the field.

Such a shield car is extremely strong, neither the Tiger Squat Cannon nor the Franc Machine can smash it, only the Hongyi Cannon and the Shenwei General Cannon can cause effective damage to it, not to mention the Fire Gun and the Three-Eyed Gun.

In the "Ming History Chronicle", there is a record of the tactics of the Later Jin soldiers.

"The Jianzhou soldiers formed a formation, and the front floor was about five or six inches with a board, and the machine was rotated like a chariot to avoid guns and cannons."

"The next layer is filled with archers, the next layer is filled with mud in small carts, and the last layer is still ridden with iron, and the men and horses are heavily armoured."

"As soon as the artillery is fired, it bursts out, and the left and right flanks fight to the death, and the officers and soldiers can't support it."

In the field battle, the Houjin soldiers often use shield chariots as the first and hide the heavy infantry later.

The Ming army and Mongolia have been in dispute for many years, because Mongolia is mostly light cavalry, in order to deal with Mongolian light cavalry, so fast horses, light swords and soft bows are admired.

The number of bows and arrows of the Ming army is not high, and the effect of both range and armor breaking is not strong.

However, Houjin admired heavy bows and arrows, and the bows and arrows used were all strong bows.

And often under the cover of the shield cart, they reached about forty paces before they began to fire arrows.

The distance of forty steps has reached the range of armor piercing of the Qing bow, whether it is wearing cotton armor or cloth iron armor, as long as it is shot with an arrow, it will lose its combat power on the spot.

Even poorly crafted shields can be pierced by heavy arrows.

After firing several arrows in a row to disrupt the Ming army's military formation, the Houjin soldiers would begin to attack and attack the formation in one go.

The predecessors of the Houjin were not nomadic tribes, to be more precise, they were fishing and hunting tribes, living between the white mountains and black waters.

Unlike Mongolia, which had no iron ore and backward iron-smelting technology, Houjin already had a complete set of industries at this time.

Kong Youde's defection even brought artillery technology into the Houjin, which had already begun to develop the Hongyi cannon on its own and make firearms such as bird guns and three-eyed guns.

This is also why in the subsequent Songjin War, the Qing army actually discharged hundreds of artillery pieces at one time and launched an artillery battle with the Ming army.

The strongest of the Houjin soldiers was not cavalry combat, but infantry combat.

The Houjin soldiers were not so much cavalry as heavy infantry on horseback.

In the early cavalry battles, the cavalry of Liaodong often had the upper hand in skirmishes.

It's just that with the passage of time, Houjin has now made up for the shortcomings of the cavalry.

Originally, there were many Mongolian tribes attached to the sequence of the Later Jin.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Lin Dan Khan died of illness on the shore of Qinghai Lake, which made the Mongol tribes of Southern Mo have to submit to the Later Jin.

Huang Taiji was called the emperor and officially changed the name of the country "Dajin" to "Daqing"; The capital was Shenyang, and the name was changed to Shengjing.

The Qing army also completely made up for this shortcoming at this time, and since then, whether it is infantry or cavalry, the Qing army has a great advantage, and the situation of the Ming army in the north has taken a sharp turn.

Although Hou Jin's tactics look simple and sound simple, on the battlefield, the simplest tactics can often reap the greatest results.

War is not child's play, nor is it the exaggerated words of the literati.

Whether it is logistics or the establishment of the army, it needs to be refined to the point that it can no longer be refined, and it needs to be as simple as possible.

Because the more complex it is, the more troublesome it is, and the more prone it is to make mistakes.

And on the battlefield, if you make a mistake, it can often be fatal.

"The artillery position moves forward a hundred paces further and shells the top of the enemy's hill."

Chen Wang raised his hand and issued the military order again.

"The army moved forward a hundred paces."

Three hundred paces is a safe distance.

There should only be Franc and Tiger Squat Cannons in the camp of the Rogues.

The fire cannon is not a common thing, and Li Zicheng was completely lucky at the beginning.

No one thought that there were so many firearms hidden in Qingyangwei's arsenal.

Although the Franc machine can directly fire a single shell and the range is hundreds of steps, the Northern Army often uses the Franc machine to fire scattered shells, so the general range is the same as that of the Tiger Squat Cannon.

Speaking of which, this is also a choice made in response to the fast-reacting Mongolian light horse.

The opponents of the Ming army have been Mongols for hundreds of years, so the artillery is basically light.

Therefore, Chen Wang was not worried that the Liukou would bombard the military formation with artillery.

Trumpets burst out, and war drums beat again.

Chen Wang dragged the war horse in front of the formation and walked slowly.

More than 30 shield cars are divided into two rows and lined up in a "two" line.

Behind it were hundreds of carts carrying dirt and sand, also with shields, but much smaller in size.

Behind each shield car, there were nearly ten armor soldiers, half of these armor soldiers were Liao cavalry under his command, and half were veterans who were originally subordinate to Ai Wannian.

The original free part of the armor had already been transferred by Chen Wangquan.

Now the more than 300 people behind the more than 30 shield carts are almost all wearing two and three layers of armor.

The "don item" in the high-top tun helmet refers to the protective parts that are connected with the helmet to protect the face, neck, and shoulders.

Half of it is made of armor pieces that are threaded around or behind the helmet.

There are two forms, the first is to turn it up and stick it to the top of the helmet, and the other is to put it down.

After the tun item of the full set of high-topped tun neck helmet is lowered, the tun neck will cover the lower half of his face a lot, revealing only a pair of eyes, mouth and nose.

Iron arms covering, long cloth face armor, chain mail, battle skirts, and heart goggles cover their whole body tightly, almost impermeable.

Chen Wang raised his eyes and looked at the formation of the shield cart.

More than 400 armor soldiers in the formation were slowly moving forward, their figures hidden behind the shield cart.

With the gradual understanding of this era, Chen Wang's ideas are constantly changing.

Originally, he wanted to develop an army that would make extensive use of firearms.

However, the reality is extremely skinny, and the arquebus, due to its characteristics, cannot form fire coverage and suppression, even the use of rotational fire is still not enough to block the enemy's charge.

In the face of the lack of armor, you can also use the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Furlong Machine to fill the lack of firepower.

However, once the Houjin soldiers are encountered, the role of the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Franc Machine will be greatly weakened.

There are many firecrackers issued by the Ministry of Industry, and the armor-piercing effect is extremely poor, and the power is not up to standard.

It's okay to beat the rogues, but it's hard to penetrate the heavy armor worn by the Houjin soldiers, and on the battlefield, it will be fatal.

There are too many defects and limitations of the arquebus, and if it is to be widely used, it must have its own ordnance factory, and make an arquebus that is powerful enough to penetrate the heavy armor, in order to cope with the intensity of the battle with Houjin later.

The scientific and technological difficulty of the flintlock pistol is too high, although the flintlock pistol has already been developed, but whether it can be developed and installed on a large scale are completely different things.

In addition, because of the steel and iron smelting process, even if a flintlock pistol is installed, it is difficult to install a qualified bayonet.

The flintlock musketeers, without bayonets, were only slaughtered in the face of cavalry charges.

Now there is no opportunity, and there is no place for Chen Wang's stable development, and he will have to wait until at least next year to go to Hanzhong.

It is not a simple matter to set up an ordnance factory and so on.

Now Chen Wang has to come up with a way to apply the current situation, not just to do it.

It's like Li Zicheng didn't use an arquebus after seeing his tactics, but chose to install a three-eyed gun, a weapon that fires faster.

As for applying the Western-style tactics and establishment at this time, Chen Wang never thought about it at all.

Western-style tactics are not much advanced, the intensity is different, the battle situation is different, and the situation is not the same.

In this era, the West is indeed in the lead in terms of the navy, but not in terms of land warfare.

As for the tactics and establishment of later generations, there is simply no way to implement them without corresponding weapons, and forcing them to implement them will only lead to the deterioration of the situation.

This time the mountain attack was actually an experiment.

If the technology of the flintlock pistol cannot be developed for the time being, then it will not be used.

Houjin Bing has already used reality to tell the world that the tactics of heavy armor and heavy artillery and shield vehicles are extremely useful, so use their tactics and tactics.

In the early stage of firearms in the face of bows and arrows in the face of various data of the bow and arrow, it can replace the position of the bow and arrow because it is easy to learn, only need to be able to charge, aim and pull the trigger.

A musket can easily kill a skilled warrior, and even a young child can easily kill an adult.

This is the advantage of muskets, but as a guerrilla, the limit that Chen Wang can lead now is more than 4,500 people.

If there are more people, the military order reprimanded by Hong Chengchou will probably be handed down and he will be ordered to disband the army.

It is now the eighth year of Chongzhen, but it is not the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, even if he is as arrogant as Zuo Liangyu, he does not dare to raise so many troops.

Since the army cannot be expanded, then move closer to the direction of the elite army.

The battlefield in the interior facing the rogue is undoubtedly the best training ground, the intensity is not high, but it is more than bloody.

It's cruel to say, but that's the reality.

Obtaining armor legally is difficult, but much less difficult than attaching flintlock pistols.

Money can make the devil grind, make more money, and get some military exploits.

In the midst of attrition, it is easy to report more, operate up and down, and take more ordnance, even if it is found out, at most it is only a reprimand.

This era is the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, and white-knuckle battles are inevitable.

In the future, the new army of the company will use flintlock pistols again, and the current two battalions of soldiers are specially trained in white-knuckle combat, and the mainstream uses cold weapons, heavy armor and arrows, and artillery shield vehicles.

Teaching and educating people should be taught in accordance with their aptitude.

To reform the military system and train the military, we should adapt measures to the needs of the times.

"Hoo ————"

Chen Gong exhaled a breath of turbidity, wearing three layers of heavy armor, although it was safe, but every step required a lot of physical energy.

Behind him, the sound of war drums echoed rhythmically, and the sound of rolling wood from the wheels of the shield cart rolling across the grass was in my ears, and there was the sound of heavy footsteps.

Chen Gong didn't say anything, just moved forward in silence.

He was thinking not of the enemy in front of him, but of the enemy to the north.

This method of warfare is the tactics of the Houjin soldiers, and the Houjin soldiers in Liaodong pushed this kind of shield cart and attacked them with heavy armor.

Neither the Tiger Squat Cannon nor the Furlong Cannon can blast this shield car, and once it enters the white-knuckle battle stage, the battle situation will enter a one-sided situation in an instant.

Now they play the role of those Houjin soldiers who are hiding behind the shield cart and are about to charge.