Chapter 090

Just when the artillery of the Ning Navy began to ignite the fuse, the Jiannu cavalry, which had been in a dense formation, suddenly dispersed, and the entire cavalry charge formation of more than 300 cavalry suddenly expanded nearly tenfold.

The distance between the Jiannu cavalry and the cavalry widened to a distance of more than ten meters, and their bodies were almost attached to the horse's back, and their hands were clasped around the horse's neck.

Cheng Shijie saw this scene and felt a little regretful, such a loose formation, not to mention the Franc machine shells fired, even if it was a howitzer in later generations, as long as it was not a large caliber, the damage to this cavalry was very limited.

Sure enough.

A cannonball flew over, smashed on the ground and bounced again, breaking the head of a Jiannu cavalryman into pieces, and piercing the chest of a cavalryman behind him with blood and flesh, falling to the ground and bouncing again, hitting the neck of a war horse, and the horse's head immediately came down.

Although this cannonball caused three kills, some of the other shells missed, some only killed one, and the eight shells only caused more than a dozen casualties in the Jiannu cavalry formation, and this was still not missed, these Jiannu cavalry watched the cannonballs fly by, blowing up the robes around them, but they turned a blind eye, but accelerated the charge.

Even if there are less than 300 Jiannu cavalry, it still creates the momentum of thousands of troops, the speed is getting faster and faster, and the kinetic energy is getting stronger and stronger.

It's just a pity that the Franc machine artillery equipped by the Ning Navy is not the kind of artillery that only has a range of three or four hundred steps, but has a range of more than one thousand or three hundred steps.

To put it mildly, Sun Yuanhua's contribution is still huge, he improved the invention of the Franc machine cannon wedge structure, almost so that the Franc machine cannon has the range of the medium-sized Hongyi cannon, but still maintains the firing speed of the Franc machine gun.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

When the Jiannu cavalry charged less than 800 paces in front of the Ninghai formation, the second round of shelling of the Franc machine artillery officially began, because this time the distance was closer, the kinetic energy of the shells was stronger, and the casualties of this Jiannu cavalry continued to rise.

Although he saw that another twenty or thirty Jiannu cavalry had fallen from their horses, Azig was not embarrassed by the casualties of his troops, but was even happier.

In his cognition, the artillery of the Ming army was extremely slow, the first round of eight guns, the second round was also eight, and the interval between the two rounds of artillery was only a dozen breaths, in such a short period of time, it was only possible that sixteen guns were fired one after another.

"Rich!"

Azig's eyes gleamed green, three or four thousand sets of iron armor, plus sixteen artillery pieces, which was a lot of money. Although the eight banners of Jiannu, the standard full strength is 7,500 people. This is actually a theoretical number.

Before Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, the strongest in the Eight Banners was actually the three Azig brothers, who had a total of sixty-five Niu Lu, followed by Dai Shan, who had fifty-one Niu Lu, and then Amin, who had thirty-three Niu Lu, and Sanbeile Mang Gurtai who had twenty-five Niu Lu, and Huang Taiji who had eighteen Niu Lu.

Before the succession, Huang Taiji's was actually only a little stronger than Azig, Azig had fifteen Niu Lu at that time, but now, Huang Taiji, the owner of the Yellow Flag, plus the Yellow Flag Lord Haoge, the father and son mastered a total of 115 Niu Lu (117 when Huang Taiji died)

Huang Taiji was a political master, he first promoted Dolgon, the youngest of the three Azig brothers, and made Dolgon the owner of the white flag, and Azig as the owner of the white flag, but the white flag was only twenty-five bulls, while Duoduo and Dolgon held 30 bulls and 33 bulls respectively.

Azig, the oldest and most credited, became the bottom of the three brothers, which also planted the seeds for Azig and Dolgon to turn against each other.

After the victory of the battle of the Daling River, Jiannu is not as weak as the Ming imagined, in fact, the existing Niu Lu of the Eight Banners is 115 Niu Lu of the two yellow flags, and 65 Niu Lu of the two red flags, and the two blue flags have been divided and suppressed, only 31 Niu Lu remain, 16 Niu Lu of the Blue Flag, and 15 Niu Lu of the Blue Flag.

There are a total of 309 cattle records in the Eight Banners, with a full number of 92,700 people.

Azig was not convinced, but he was eager to expand his strength, he had slaves, he not only had the prisoners of war who defeated Yehebu, but also the prisoners of war of the Hercynian Jurchens, these prisoners of war were their own people who could be trained into Jiannu, but they lacked equipment, artillery. In fact, Huang Taiji and Jiannu nobles, as early as January of the third year of Chongzhen, Azig captured Zhangjiawan in Tongzhou, which was the heavy assembly place of the Ming army, in this battle, Azig captured more than 5,000 Ming troops, which captured more than 200 artillery pieces.

Huang Taiji actually didn't fancy these artillery, but with Sun Chengzong taking over the command of the Ming army, he divided the Ming army into the jurisdiction of the six general soldiers, guarded the two wings with a car formation, and drove forward with artillery, so that Huang Taiji was very passive, at that time, Huang Taiji had already attached importance to artillery.

In the battle of Daling River, Huang Taiji concentrated hundreds of artillery pieces to attack Zhang Chun's car battalion, and it was the establishment of artillery that made Zhang Chun's command collapse......

For Azig, these artillery pieces were just a long drought and a rainy day, and they came at the right time, and he had more than 13,000 Ming prisoners in his hands, and there must have been Ming artillery among these prisoners. Azig knew these Ming captives very well, as long as they were given a bite to eat, they were a loyal and good dog, more loyal than Jiannu's own people.

It's just that what Azig didn't expect was that the artillery of the Ning Navy was not so easy to capture.

When the Jiannu cavalry paid the price of forty or fifty casualties and withstood the bombardment of two rounds of artillery, they had already entered within three hundred paces in front of the Ning Navy's formation.

Artillery commander Yuan Shiliang immediately ordered: "Change the red flowering shell, quickly!" ”

"Boom ......"

With the third round of the Ning Navy's Franc machine artillery, this time it used a flowering shell, which is actually different from the howitzers of later generations. The warhead part of this kind of shell is made of fine lead bullets, glued together, so that when fired, as the glue heats, the small lead bullets will disperse.

It can be said that the working principle of this flowering bullet is exactly the same as that of later shotguns.

Eight shells are indeed very difficult to hit the very scattered Jiannu cavalry, but the problem is that unlike this flowering shell, they will form a fan-shaped striking surface within a range of fifteen to fifty meters.

At least hundreds of Jiannu cavalry were hit by shrapnel from flowering bullets, and a few rows of Jiannu cavalrymen and horses splashed with blood stars, and they screamed, neighed, and fell down with a bang......

Only then did Azig realize that something was wrong: "What's going on?" ”

Borzi saw clearly through the thick smoke of the artillery, and the Ning Navy's thunderbolt began to fire guns.

"Bang ......"

Those Jiannu cavalry, who were lucky enough not to die under the artillery shells, immediately greeted the steel rain of the Ning Navy, and the 32 mm caliber thunderbolts, at a distance of one hundred and twenty meters, hit the torso of the human body, and could directly cut people in half, and now these Jiannu cavalry are all within their effective range.

The surviving more than 100 Jiannu cavalry suddenly burst out with a large cloud of blood mist, this blood mist can be bigger than the Francophone artillery, these Jiannu cavalry faced the blow of the thunderbolt for the first time, and suffered a big loss at the moment, they didn't even have time to retreat, they fell to the ground in grief and anger, and became the trophy of the Ning Navy.

The battle was slow to say, but in fact it was less than a pillar of incense.

The first battle was successful, and the Ning Navy took advantage of the advantage in range to shoot a reorganized Niu Lu and 300 cavalry outside the range, which is simple to say, but in fact it is not simple.

The first battle was won, and the morale of the officers and men of the Ning Navy skyrocketed to the extreme, and countless Ning Haijun raised their arms and shouted: "The handsome and mighty, the Ning Navy wins!" ”

The cavalry units, which also belong to the tactical sequence of the Ning Navy, have always acted as spectators.

Qiao Siniang beside Zhao Wencai, dressed in men's armor, and the Ming Dynasty's poor breasts were beautiful, although Qiao Siniang's body was short, she did not belong to the shortest, but it just looked like she was a thin soldier.

Qiao Siniang was puzzled and said: "Jiannu is not as powerful as you say!" ”

"Siniang, you just don't know!"

Qiao Siniang didn't look at the time when she followed Kong Youde, she had fought a few battles, and she had more than a dozen heads cut off by herself, but she was really a fledgling on the battlefield.

Lu Xincheng, the general manager next to Zhao Wencai, said: "This is also when I met our unreasonable handsome!" ”

"Unreasonable?"

Lu Siniang was even more puzzled.

Zhao Wencai explained: "Our artillery fired twenty-four shells in a short period of time, eight of which cost as much as fifteen taels of silver, and the manufacturing cost of one special shell was as high as fifteen taels of silver, and ordinary shells were also worth seven taels of silver, and only twenty-four shells were fired out of more than two hundred taels of silver!" ”

"Is this a war? Isn't this smashing people with silver? ”

Qiao Siniang is right, more than two hundred taels of silver can indeed kill a few people.

Of course, Zhao Wencai's judgment was actually incorrect, the manufacturing cost of the round of shells just now plus 360 rounds of shells was as high as 350 taels of silver, which was still no middleman to make the difference, and it was worth at least 500 taels in the hands of other Ming army generals.

Cheng Shijie was willing, but other Ming generals were not willing to take silver to smash the enemy.

"Assault of the whole army!"

Although Cheng Shijie has little experience in battlefield command, the problem is that he knows some common sense things, such as cavalry, if cavalry wants to raise speed, it needs at least 300 steps to buffer. The main formation of the Jiannu army was in a very unfavorable uphill phase, so the charge accelerated farther.

Ning Haijun pressed Jiannu forward, so that Jiannu lost the buffer distance to accelerate the charge, and at the same time, it was also to provoke Jiannu. Because people can act irrationally when they are angry.

Cheng Shijie hoped that Jiannu could launch a collective charge, and only in this way could he give full play to the firepower advantage of the Ning Navy.

"Forward!"

With Cheng Shijie's order issued, the four general and twenty divisions of the Right Capital Division of the Ning Navy began to move slowly.

"They even dare to launch a counter-charge!"

Azig was successfully angered by Cheng Shijie, but soon, Azig reacted, he was originally twenty-five Niu Lu, and now there is a total annihilation, if he angrily charges, let this Ming army use firearms to inflict great damage on them, he may not be able to explain to Huang Taiji when he goes back, don't look at the fat old man laughing every day, but the problem is that he is a poisonous snake, Amin is already unlucky, he doesn't want to leave the fat old man to clean up his truth.

Although it is said that Jiannu is superior in force, the problem is that they also know the power of firearms, as early as in the Battle of Salhu and the Battle of Hunhe, more than 3,000 Qi soldiers used superior firepower to cause great casualties to Jiannu. Later Jin founding generals Yabahai, Buha, Sun Zaqin, Bayan, Yamubri, Siltai, Lange, Dunbudaha, Mubu, Luwangge and other generals died in this battle.

It can be said that any Jiannu general was afraid of the firearms troops of the Ming army.

"If they want to enter, let them in!"

Azig gritted his teeth and said, "Let's take a thousand steps back!" ”

The Jiannu cavalry received the order and slowly retreated, although it was only a thousand steps back, but it allowed the Jiannu cavalry to occupy a geographical advantage, and it was a downhill slope five hundred steps away, and it was a thousand steps away, which happened to be a hill that was not considered high. The Jiannu cavalry can gain the advantage of geographical advantage, and let the war horse quickly speed up through the hillside, not only will not cause passivity, but will be more advantageous.

Zhang Yu was overjoyed: "Jiannu has retired!" ”

"As soon as they retreat, we will be passive!"

Cheng Shijie looked at the forward of the Ning Navy who had already received the corpse of Jiannu on the battlefield, and his heart moved, and an idea immediately flashed: "Order Liu Qingsong's department to clean up the battlefield immediately!" ”

The Ning Navy cleans the battlefield and has always been known as the iron broom. They are really ruthless, not only will they take away weapons and blades, but they will also take away the clothes on the corpses of the enemy, and they will not even let go of the torn clothes on the bandits on the battlefield.

As Liu Qingsong's Ning Navy soldiers walked to the corpse of the Jiannu cavalry, they waved their knives to cut down the leader of the Jiannu, and then pulled off the clothes on the corpse, and then classified the Jiannu's bows, arrows, knives, guns, iron armor, leather armor, and even the dried meat and milk lumps that they carried on their bodies, and the soldiers behind them sorted these things into cars.

Ning Haijun not only found bursts of cheers, but also used his spear to provoke the head of Jiannu and mocked unscrupulously.

"Daddy bird, Borzi, press them all up, Benbel is going to tear them apart!"

Azig has always been smooth, fighting Mongolia, North Korea, and the Ming Dynasty, and he has never suffered a loss, but he won more with less, but he didn't even touch the enemy's hair, and more than 300 people died. More than 300 dead people are nothing to Azig, and he can rebuild the slave at any time.

Although a Niu Lu is a staff of 300 people, in fact, it is the same as the guard post of the Ming Dynasty, a guard post is full of 5,600 people, but in fact, any guard post has tens of thousands of military households, even if a few thousand people die, as long as there is money and equipment, it will immediately replenish the lost men and horses.

But the problem is that these Ming soldiers are really insulting, and in front of the Jiannu soldiers, they directly strip the corpses, so that these corpses are exposed to the ice and snow.

Uncle can bear it, and aunt can't bear it.

"Master, stop your anger!"

Borji said with a nervous face: "This group of Ming dogs has cannons, there are so many firearms, it must be difficult to deal with, our whole army can press up, although we can tear apart Ming dogs, but there is no such way to fight in a war...... Hasn't the master always liked to use his brain to fight? ”

Borzi, as Azig's henchman, knows his temper very well, this Azig is also a donkey temper, ordinary people really can't persuade him, his temper comes up, and a few cows can't pull it back. Of course, Borzi can, because Borzi is not only his subordinate, but also his eldest brother.

"You say, is that all?"

"No, never!"

Borzi smiled and said, "Master, have you forgotten? More than 20 miles to the south of us, there is a Ming army, these two Ming armies are a group, the most capable part, the top in front, can not fight, will definitely fall behind, we might as well bypass this group of Ming army, let's go to fight their baggage troops, once the baggage troops are finished, they have no baggage, can they hold on for a few days? ”

Azig nodded and said, "Yes, this is exactly the tactic that Benbel had in mind!" ”

"The master is wise, then you see ......"

"Go ahead, give Benbel a vent, and chop off some more heads of the dogs!"

As Jiannu divided more than 1,500 horsemen and bypassed the defense line of the Ning Navy, Zhang Yu's face changed greatly: "It's not good, they rushed to Shen Mingyu!" ”

Although Jiannu used the advantage of riding to isolate the connection between Shen Mingyu and Cheng Shijie, the problem is that Jiannu did not know that Shen Mingyu and Cheng Shijie could use the radio to communicate, as long as they were no more than 30 kilometers away from the mountains and no more than 50 kilometers on the flat land, they could contact each other directly.

Cheng Shijie picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Zhao Wencai! ”

"Humble duty!"

"Take the cavalry troops, follow!"

"Handsome ......"

Zhao Wencai's voice was bitter: "This more than 1,500 Jiannu riders, even if they fight all the men and horses, they can't deal with them!" ”

"Ben Shuai doesn't have to deal with them, you just need to take the cavalry to bite them to death, if they attack Shen Mingyu's department, you will rush up and interfere with their attack, if they turn their heads to deal with you, you turn around and run, Ben Shuai knows that you can't beat Jiannu, you can always run past them!"

"Yes, do your best!"

"Finally, Ben Shuai told you that the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, the enemy retreats and I chase, stride forward and retreat, lure the enemy deep, concentrate forces, and break through each one, understand?"

"Humble duty understands!"

Ma Shilin listened to Cheng Shijie's order and secretly admired Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie has always said when he is in a meeting with the generals: "This marshal knows a little about military affairs!" ”

Cheng Shijie understands a little bit about this, this is simply proficient.

It's just that Cheng Shijie is too low-key.

Ma Shilin immediately thought that the political correctness of the Ming Dynasty was to use literature to control martial arts, and the more eye-catching Cheng Shijie's performance, the more severely he would be suppressed.

As soon as Borji left with more than 1,500 cavalry under his command, Zhao Wencai chased after him with 2,000 cavalry from the Ning Navy.

Borzi also knew that if he was followed by a tail, he would not want to attack the heavy army of the Ming army in the south, so Borzi ordered: "Stop advancing, turn around and ......"

Just when Borji's command turned the horse's head, the Ninghai cavalry was also turning around, and Borji led the pursuit for three or four miles, but saw that the Ming cavalry was running faster and faster, and the distance was getting farther and farther.

This is the most bitter advantage of the cavalry of the Ning Navy, as a cavalry, if you want to run fast and far, the weight of the cavalry must not be too heavy, otherwise the weight of the war horse is too heavy, and it will not be able to run long distances.

The cavalry of the Ning Navy were all from the old unit of Kong Youde of the Dongjiang Army or the local horse households in Shandong who were good at horseback riding, and almost all of them were skinny, but they had the advantage of weight. The cavalry of the Ning Navy is not like Jiannu, they are all as strong as oxen.

Seeing that he couldn't catch up with the other party, Borzi could only order with hatred: "Stop pursuing!" ”

But when Borzi had just ordered to stop the pursuit, the Ning naval cavalry, which had disappeared, appeared in their sight again, so the two sides played a cavalry chase battle.

The two sides went back and forth, and after half an hour, Borzi not only succeeded in attacking Shen Mingyu's department, but let Shen Mingyu meet Cheng Shijie's department.

When Shen Mingyu learned that the cavalry scouts found that Jiannu appeared in southern Liaoning, on the one hand, he asked the craftsmen and military households to attack the Jinzhou Acropolis, and on the other hand, mobilized the Tuntian military households of the Ning Army and the Navy. ”

"Yes!"

"Cut the head of a Jiannu, fifty taels of silver, or fifty acres of land, two can get a hundred acres of land!"

The eyes of these hundred households in Tuntian suddenly turned red, and they handed over the work of guarding the Acropolis of Jinzhou to Zhou Yandong.

Song Xiance doesn't care about whether the Jinzhou Acropolis will be lost, and Shen Mingyu doesn't care either, they are Cheng Shijie's original team, and they were Song Xiance, Shen Mingyu, Cheng Shi, Cheng Hu, plus Cheng Jingjing, Cheng Anning, and Yang Yunniang.

These families have been operating in just over four months, and as long as Cheng Shijie is here, they are not worried about the future.

Song Xiance and Shen Mingyu took all the soldiers of the Zuodu Division of the Ning Navy and took the battleship again, went all the way north from Bohai Bay, and arrived at Gaizhou Port to disembark.

They came here non-stop, they were so tired that they stuck out their tongues, but they didn't expect that in the military formation on Cheng Shijie's side, dozens of marching cauldrons were raised, and horse meat was stewed in the cauldron.

Ning Haijun's men really have a set of cooking, they use a small amount of seasoning, but the horse meat is stewed fragrantly, and large pieces of horse meat are tumbling in the broth.

Cheng Shijie looked at Shen Mingyu and Song Xiance and the others: "It's better to come early, it's better to come by coincidence, now the horse meat is just cooked, come and eat together!" ”

Ning Haijun opened the meal, Cheng Shijie arranged for Ning Navy soldiers to eat in batches, and each Ning Navy soldier who received the meal was given at least half a catty of horse meat, and the large piece of horse meat tasted a little poor, and there was some firewood, but the problem was that these Ning Navy soldiers were never picky eaters.

In these days, food is more expensive than human life, and some are good to eat, not to mention meat?

PS: Lao Cheng went to the banquet today, I wish everyone to eat meat every day, Chapter 2, it may be very late, or it may be early tomorrow, I suggest you don't have to wait. If you have a buckle group or a WeChat group, please help promote this book. At present, this book is 653 high, 457 is average, and 43 is enough for 500.

(End of chapter)