Chapter 166

It is actually impossible to achieve the supremacy of firepower and completely suppress it at the end of the Ming Dynasty. First of all, the machine gun has not yet played, there is still an obvious gap between the Thunderbolt gun and the real machine gun, followed by the breech-loading rifled gun, Cheng Shijie only achieved half of it, and the breech-loading smoothbore gun appeared, but the rifling has not yet appeared.

What's more, there are only twenty-four artillery pieces now, which is still too far from hundreds or thousands of artillery pieces. In order to make up for the gap in firepower, Cheng Shijie adopted the Flying Thunder Cannon as a supplement to the short-range firepower. Although there are many disadvantages of the Flying Thunder Cannon, no one will doubt the power of the Flying Thunder Cannon.

"Daikin Wansheng!"

Yue Tuo's legs clamped the horse's belly, the war horse galloped out like a wind, and rushed towards the artillery position of the Ming army, with Yue Tuo's roar, thousands of Jiannu cavalry, like a beast, almost shook the clouds in the sky, thousands of horse hooves rose and fell at the same time, the ground rumbled and shook, like an earthquake, making people untenable!

Cheng Shijie nodded and said: "It is worthy of being the strongest army in East Asia, thousands of light horsemen are coming from all over the field, like an avalanche!" ”

The officers and men of the Guan Ning Army and the Dongjiang Army couldn't help but change their colors in shock, and the excited look on their faces froze in a blink of an eye.

Sun Chengzong's expression was solemn, and he muttered: "The momentum is like thunder, unstoppable...... It's so strong, it's really strong! ”

Zhao Wencai stepped forward and arched his hand: "Great handsome, the last general asks to fight!" ”

"No, it's just a group of archers who are in a hurry to reincarnate, while resting!"

Huang Long couldn't help but clench his fists, his palms were full of cold sweat, and he muttered, "Jiannu is so fierce...... Can it be blocked? ”

Sun Chengzong was secretly nervous, but his face was expressionless, for the generals must be able to Taishan in front of him and not change his face, because they are the courage of an army, if even they are afraid, the morale of the entire army will fall to the freezing point, and a cowardly general will not be able to bring out a soldier who is not afraid of death.

Cheng Shijie saw Sun Chengzong's nervousness, and smiled disappreciatively: "Teacher, please rest assured, if Jiannu only has this means, we will definitely win this battle!" ”

Huang Taiji also looked at the direction of the Ning Navy's artillery with a telescope, and the Ning Navy's artillery at this time fired a salvo, and the target was no longer Jiannu's artillery unit, but instead aimed at the elite cavalry with red flags under Yue Tuo's command.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

Twenty-four flowering shells fell on the cavalry formation under Yue Tuo's command without accident, and the shells exploded, setting off a large rain of blood in the cavalry array with red flags......

Yue Tuo was a little surprised, he found that the artillery power of the Ming army seemed to be a little weak, yes, these twenty-four shells only caused casualties of two or three hundred cavalry, this price, the red flag can still bear.

"Scatter, scatter, attack on the stragglers!"

Yue Tuo unexpectedly found that as long as their formation was dispersed enough, the lethal effect of the Ning Navy's artillery would be much smaller, and they rushed into the five hundred steps range of the Ning Navy's artillery.

Huang Taiji also clenched his fists tightly: "You must rush forward!" ”

Yue Tuo really lived up to Huang Taiji's high expectations, and successfully broke through to within two or three hundred steps of Ning's naval artillery, which was only an instant time for the cavalry charging at high speed.

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

In front of the artillery position of the Ning Navy, the 36 flying thunder guns that served as cover for the artillery of the Ning Navy spewed out large clouds of choking gunpowder smoke and dark red flames at the same time, and the sound was so dull that it made people's hearts palpitate. 、

The explosives exploded in the barrel, and the blast wave of the explosion poured outward, throwing out the large bag of explosives, spinning all the way, drawing a thousand strange ballistics, and more than a dozen packs of explosives fell crookedly between the two armies, but there were still more than 20 packs directly smashed between the Jiannu warriors.

And then......

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

Clouds of terrifying gunpowder smoke wrapped in flames rushed up more than 20 meters high, and a thunderous and violent loud bang shook the pores of everyone present, and the explosion swept everything.

The white-armored soldiers with red flags beside Yue Tuo bore the brunt of the explosion, and the shock wave of the explosion hit them head-on, and the three-layer iron armor worn by the white-armored soldiers could ignore the swords and spears, under normal circumstances, the Ming army wanted to kill a white-armored soldier on the battlefield, and pay at least twenty or thirty times the casualties.

However, the three-layer iron armor on their bodies was like paper paste in front of the shock wave of the explosion of the Flying Thunder Cannon, and the shock wave tore through their armor and their bodies without delay.

The white-armored soldiers with red flags are still like this, and those ordinary armor soldiers are even more unbearable, I don't know how many Jiannu warriors only feel as if they are standing on the erupting crater, the dazzling fire flashes, the ground trembles violently, spears, armor. The body, the war horse, everything was shattered, including their bodies.

Many people's bodies were torn apart by the blast wave, and then thrown around, and many were so shocked that their feet flew several meters high off the ground and then fell heavily to the ground, bleeding from their seven orifices, and they could never stand up again, and their internal organs were shattered.

The most immoral thing is that the damned Ming army actually put a lot of iron nails in the explosives bag, which undoubtedly greatly enhanced the lethality, I don't know how many people were hit by those iron nails that were burned red by the high temperature of the explosion, wailing and falling to the ground and rolling, and some people even broke their eyeballs!

Those who were lucky not to be injured were also scared silly, standing there stupidly like clay carvings and wood sculptures, letting the blood rain drain on their heads, splintering limbs and broken arms and organs smashing on their bodies, motionless, their faces were pale, their expressions were terrified, their eyes were completely out of focus, and they only felt that the sky had collapsed, the earth had cracked, and the end of the world had come!

Cheng Shijie was very satisfied to see that the front line of the Jiannu army had become a slaughterhouse, the ground was full of minced meat, the blackened and mutilated body, and the wounded with blurred flesh and blood, as well as the soldiers with a section of intestines hanging on their bodies and trembling legs, all proved how terrifying the thunderous blow just now was.

When testing the defense line of the Ming army, the flying thunder cannon fired by the garrison of the Ning Navy was generally fired by a single cannon, and at most two groups were fired at the same time, so the Baylors of Jiannu did not pay attention to the flying thunder cannon, they thought that although the power of the flying thunder cannon was great, the target was a hard injury.

But the problem is that when the thirty-six flying thunder cannons are fired in a salvo, the accuracy is really not important, with a round of flying thunder shelling, Jiannu's war horses are roaring wildly, people are crying and shouting, how lively and lively it is, the phalanx of more than 4,000 horsemen under Yue Tuo is already a little chaotic, and then let the Ming army continue to fire artillery, this battle will not be able to fight!

Huang Taiji's fingers had been inserted into the flesh of his palm, and he was very nervous in his heart: "Rush up, don't stop!" ”

Huang Taiji knew very well that he couldn't retreat now, and once he retreated, the soldiers killed by the Ming artillery would all die in vain, and their deaths would become meaningless.

"Keep attacking!"

Yue Tuo did not live up to Huang Taiji's expectations, he actually knew very well that if he retreated now, he would fall short.

Yue Tuo roared, "Don't be intimidated by their vain firearms, only cowards will rely on these things to fight!" Jurchen warriors, mount your horses, draw your bows, swing your sabers, crush them, crush them, spread their corpses all over the battlefield, and let them know who is the king of the battlefield! Cavalry attack! ”

After regrouping, the elite cavalry under Yue Tuo's command formed a huge bull horn and crashed towards the artillery position of the Ning Navy. These Jiannu cavalry straightened their waists and raised their riding bows in their hands. The range of their riding bows was generally between 80 and 120 meters, and if they used heavy arrows, those within 50 meters were killed instantly.

Sun Chengzong was nervous, sweat appeared in his palms, a cup of tea, served for half an hour, but did not take a sip.

It's just that Cheng Shijie is relatively relaxed, he uses a small red clay stove to roast a few sweet potatoes, and as the sweet potatoes are ripe, they exude a sweet and greasy fragrance.

"Teacher, try this sweet potato!"

"Jiannu is rushing up!"

"They can't rush in!"

As the Jiannu cavalry under Yue Tuo's command rushed into the range of the Thunderbolt, the Thunderbolt took the lead in firing.

"Bang bang ......"

The 32-millimeter thunderbolt and more than 800 firecrackers spewed out tongues of fire at the same time, and the sound of gunfire shook people's eardrums like thunder.

One hundred and twenty meters away, hundreds of Jiannu cavalrymen or war horses suddenly burst out with a large cloud of blood mist, screaming, neighing, and falling down with a bang, and the people on the entire front line were almost swept away.

Yue Tuo almost fell off his horse: "Hell, the Ming army's firecracker actually hit so far and so accurately?" ”

This is actually the credit of nitrocellulose, because nitrocellulose, as a firing gunpowder, has a higher chamber pressure and a faster muzzle velocity of the bullet, so it is also more powerful.

If it weren't for the fact that the rifling problem had not been solved, with rifling, the bullets fired would be more accurate, and with the cotton wool as a propellant, the bullets would hit farther and harder.

Despite this, the Jiannu under Yue Tuo's command suffered a big loss this time!

And at this time, the Houjin light cavalry was still far from being in the effective range of the cavalry bow!

I'm afraid there won't be a few people left under Yue Tuo's command this time.

Several white-armored soldiers threw Yue Tuo to the ground, bullets flew over their heads, and as long as they were still riding on horseback, or standing Jiannu cavalry, without exception, they were all shot and fell to the ground.

However, everyone learns in the war, especially Yue Tuo, who, after this attack, learned two tricks, dispersed the attack, which can reduce casualties, crawling on the ground, the musketeers of the Ming army have nothing to do with them.

I don't know how long it took, but the terrible gunfire finally stopped.

The soldiers of the Ning Navy came out of the formation and began to harvest the heads, and at this time, Yue Tuo took advantage of the slap of the war horse, and the war horse jumped up......

Because the infantry of the Ning Navy blocked the firing range of the Thunderbolts, Yue Tuo successfully escaped back, but the problem was that he attacked with more than 4,000 men and horses, but lost more than half.

Only more than 1,300 people returned, and there were hundreds of wounded soldiers.

Yue Tuo was defeated and returned, the entire Jiannu camp was filled with a frustrated atmosphere, you couldn't gnaw a single hair of people for half a day, and a salvo from people killed and wounded you, how can this battle be fought?

"Master, there is no way to fight this battle!"

Yue Tuo didn't speak, and knelt directly in front of Huang Taiji, but it was the Quarqua Beizi of the Mongolian right battalion who spoke up: "Minggou has a large number of strong bows and crossbows, as well as firearms, we can't beat them, we can't fight anymore, let's withdraw, otherwise our army will be greatly injured!" ”

Quarqua is Nurhachi's son-in-law and Huang Taiji's third brother-in-law, so he dared to speak in front of Huang Taiji, of course, the butt decided the head, and now this attack is an attack with a red flag, and the red flag has suffered heavy losses, but it has not caused any casualties to the Ming army.

According to Huang Taiji's habits, the next thing was the Han army and the Mongolian servant army attacked, and Qualkwa led his troops to Nurhachi back then, just to follow Huang Taiji to live a good life, but to follow Jiannu to die.

All Baylor was silent. Just now they all saw clearly that Yue Tuo did his best, and he let the Ming army's strong bows and crossbows and firearms kill and wound a lot during the attack. The most terrible thing is that the artillery of the Ming army has been bombarding their phalanx non-stop, and every time the cannon comes down, they will be killed and wounded.

Huang Taiji glared at Cheng Shijie's general flag, gritted his teeth, and roared: "Keep attacking!" Their crossbow arrows are not infinite, and their firebolts will become hot and even explode after a long time, and then our chance will come! Offensive! Can't give them any respite! ”

Quarqua was stunned, almost crying: "Master, calm down!" If we fight like this, even if we win, few of us will survive! When we fight in Dajin, we have always been moving, avoiding the enemy's edge, and attacking their weak brigades......

At this moment, Hauge suddenly stabbed Qualqua's head, and Qualqua's voice stopped abruptly, and the big head flew out with a spinning blade, bringing a rain of blood.

Everyone was stunned.

Huang Taiji looked at Haoge with a satisfied expression, Haoge finally did something that satisfied him.

If it was in the past, Huang Taiji would indeed not fight this kind of tough battle, especially using cavalry to gnaw on the strong defense line of the Ming army, but the problem is that he has no chance to choose now, Chongzhen Jiannu encountered a snow disaster in four years, Chongzhen did not recover in five years, and what made Huang Taiji even more uncomfortable was that he originally wanted to extort some food from North Korea.

But the problem is that with the support of the Dongjiang Army, North Korea has also rarely hardened up, not only expelling their envoys from the Daejin Kingdom, but also preparing to resist the Daejin State by force.

Huang Taiji looked at the belles and said, "Use your brains and think about it seriously!" More than a year ago, how many people were there in the Ning Navy? ”

With the improvement of Cheng Shijie's status, he officially entered Huang Taiji's field of vision, and public information about Cheng Shijie was also collected in front of Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji knew that Cheng Shijie was originally an official of Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu, and he was an official who spent 8,000 taels of silver to buy from Sun Yuanhua, and later with the support of Sun Yuanhua, he became a garrison of the Ning Navy.

"A year ago, how many people did the Ning Navy have, and what kind of equipment did they use? In just over a year, they have grown several times larger, and they have even possessed extremely powerful cannons! ”

Huang Taiji pointed to Cheng Shijie's general flag: "If they are allowed to continue to develop like this, in a few years, my Dajin will face a catastrophe!" This is our last chance! ”

Huang Taiji is right, give Cheng Shijie a few years, without the power of the Ming court, Cheng Shijie himself can overturn the Dajin Kingdom, there is no doubt about it, this is also Cheng Shijie's strategic plan.

Huang Taiji had actually discovered Cheng Shijie's left-wing army, and the forward army were all soldiers of the Ning Navy, well-equipped and had many firearms, but the right-wing army was dominated by the Dongjiang Army and the Guanning Army, which had low combat effectiveness.

For Guan Ningjun, an old opponent, Huang Taiji is really clear, this is an army that specializes in pitting teammates, and the key to his victory is also pinned on Guan Ningjun.

Huang Taiji did not attack immediately, but ordered the sheep to be killed, and the whole army had a full meal.

Of course, when Jiannu slaughtered sheep and prepared for a full meal, Cheng Shijie also realized that the direction in which Huang Taiji was preparing to focus on breaking through was in the Dongjiang Army.

It's just that Huang Long has his own pride, and he said to Cheng Shijie: "Cheng Shuai rest assured, Huang Long will not die, and the defense line of the Dongjiang Army will not be broken through by Jiannu!" ”

For Huang Long's insistence, Cheng Shijie also has to give him face, after all, if he strongly refuses Huang Long's insistence, it will hurt morale too much.

In Jiannu, there was fragrant meat of roast mutton, and the Ming army also began to cook here.

After half an hour, Jiannu, who had eaten and drunk enough, Yue Tuo said with red eyes: "The red flag has never suffered such a big loss, I will fight them to the death!" ”

As he spoke, Yue Tuofei got on his horse and rushed down the mountain with a group of Red Baya soldiers and blew the horn.

The cavalry with red flags mounted their horses one after another, and the knights with red flags rushed forward with red eyes and screams.

Mang Gurtai scolded: "Daddy bird, as long as you are the boss of the good family, you are a hero, we are all bad seeds?" Sons of the blue flag, charge! Let Minggou know how good we are! ”

Without saying a word, Hauge drew his saber and led his six thousand elite horsemen to rush down as if a torrent had erupted.

Huang Taiji looked at Bao Chengxian and Sun Youguang silently.

Bao Chengxian bowed helplessly and said: "Master, the slave leads the Han army flag!" ”

At this time, the battlefield suddenly became lively, and Jiannu took advantage of the strength of the number of people to attack the Ming army from all directions.

"Daikin Wansheng!"

The Jiannu cavalry was speeding faster than Ben Lei, and in the past few decades, no Ming army had been able to withstand such a crazy onslaught.

Fate played a terrible joke on them, and at this time, the Jin state was thriving, and the Ming Dynasty met a real opponent when it was dying.

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Pass on the marshal's order, the whole army shrinks its defense!" ”

"Yes!"

For this kind of attack and harassment war of Jiannu, there is actually no very good way, the cavalry, holding the initiative, they can choose any point as the direction of attack anytime and anywhere, and the Ning Navy can only passively defend.

In order to turn the passive into the active, the Ning Navy shrank across the board, and on the bright side, it seemed that the Ming Army was afraid of Jiannu, in fact, Cheng Shijie asked the Ning Navy soldiers to bury more than 6,000 mines.

At this time, the officers and men of the Ning Navy were like a sophisticated killing machine, musketeers and thunderbolts were arrayed majestically, and powerful crossbow rockets were constantly shooting at them, the metal storm was roaring, the bowstring made the air tremble, and the tongue of fire pierced by the musket was like a sickle swung by death, and the rain of arrows and bullets with almost no gap drew a cold line of death a hundred meters in front of them, and they would die if they touched it!

There were constantly Houjin knights screaming and falling down with men and horses, and the blood quickly accumulated into a puddle, and when he stepped down, blood splashed everywhere.

The heavy arrows fired by the Houjin cavalry also did little damage to the Ning Navy, and the main casualties still appeared on the right flank, the defense line of the Dongjiang Army, and people continued to fall from arrows.

However, to the despair of the Jiannu cavalry, they finally shot down one, and the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army immediately made up for one, picked up the bloody crossbow, skillfully wound the arrows, and aimed and shot with the companions around them.

The Beylers of Jiannu gritted their teeth and endured heavy casualties, and continued to storm non-stop. They didn't expect to be able to overturn the frontal defense line of the Ning Navy head-on, but they used archers to constantly attack, and the main force bypassed the terrible firepower net and launched a crazy attack on the Dongjiang Army again and again.

If it weren't for Cheng Shijie equipping the Dongjiang Army with a large number of crossbow machines, it would not be easy for the Dongjiang Army to block the attack of the Jiannu, but the problem was that the Dongjiang Army had more than 18,000 people and was equipped with more than 8,000 mountain mulberry crossbows.

This is very terrifying, the Dongjiang army soldiers in the front row with spears and heavy shields, forming a simple line of defense, an archer with a wound crossbow machine, aimed at the Jiannu cavalry or the Mongolian cavalry is an arrow, and then throw the crossbow machine on the ground, let the companions pick up the winding arrows.

This is also a matter of no choice, the Dongjiang army is too poor, many soldiers do not know how to shoot arrows, they can only take this way, crossbow shooters are manual work, especially winding.

The Jiannu company launched several attacks with the aim of depleting the Ming army's crossbow arrows and ammunition. They firmly believed that the Ming army relied on nothing more than strong crossbow muskets to fight them, and as long as their crossbow arrows and ammunition were exhausted, they could win.

However, they were disappointed, the gunfire and artillery of the Ning Navy have not stopped anyway, as Cheng Shijie, who attaches importance to the supremacy of firepower and completely suppresses it, how could he make such a low-level mistake?

As for the crossbowmen, the crossbow arrows have not yet been used up, and dozens of carriages have driven from the rear, unloading bundles of crossbow arrows from the four-wheeled carriages, which are continuously replenished into the hands of each crossbowman.

As for the grenades and shells, they are all assembled on the position in an open and honest manner, and Ning Haijun is blatantly doing all this, and he is not at all taboo to let Jiannu see it.

The Dongjiang army also received supplies, more than 4,000 spare spears, more than 2,000 shields, and the key was crossbow arrows, which were sent to 30,000 pots in one go.

Fifteen per pot, almost fifty or so arrows per archer, trying to run out of our crossbow arrows? You have to ask if your people are enough to die!

"Cheng Shuai ordered, no one is allowed to go out of the battle to harvest the head!"

Huang Long looked at the front of the Dongjiang army, and Jiannu threw down the corpse and retreated like a tide. He stroked his beard and looked at Cheng Shijie's flag, only to see that Cheng Shijie's flag was always flying on the front line.

Huang Long couldn't help but admire: "Cheng Shuai is really capable, not only does he defend the city well, but he also has no ambiguity in the wilderness wave battle, if every battle is fought like this, Jiannu would have been destroyed a long time ago!" ”

Shang Keyi sighed and said, "If there had been a commander like Cheng Shuai who led us to fight against Jiannu earlier, why would we Liaodong Han people suffer so much?" ”

(End of chapter)