Chapter 270

Zhang Xianzhong's way of using troops was very cruel. Most of the troops under his command, except for the elite of the old battalion in Shaanxi, are cannon fodder, and these cannon fodder troops were divided into 369 and so on by Zhang Xianzhong, and different supplies were arranged.

Under Zhang Xianzhong's order, these cannon fodder troops began to flock to the direction of the Ning Navy's big array, and in the process of charging these cannon fodder troops, there were also rogue gangsters with Shaanxi accents who kept bewitching the rogue cannon fodder.

"We haven't opened Macheng yet, everything that can be eaten around has been eaten, and the only way for Ji Zai is to defeat the official army, and the official army has food!"

"There are tens of thousands of horses in the official army, if we defeat the official army, horse meat can be eaten!"

"If we don't defeat the official army, we will starve to death!"

"If there is no food, no official army to fight, we will die seventy-seven-eighty-eight!"

"Rush up and eat the official army!"

"Rush forward!"

As more and more rogues unified their slogans, the faces of these rogue cannon fodder troops showed a crazy color, they were like a flood bursting the embankment, pouring in large groups and in large numbers, as if endlessly. Their expressions became more and more crazy, and they used practical actions to tell Cheng Shijie that Liukou was not afraid of death.

The relaxed look on Zhao Wencai's face was swept away, and it was replaced by solemnity: "Dashuai, there are too many of them, this battle is not easy to fight!" ”

"A rabble is always a rabble, and no matter how many troops there are, it is still a rabble."

Cheng Shijie smiled disapprovingly: "No matter how many rabble, how long can we hold out in front of our Ning Navy cavalry?" A rush to solve the battle! ”

"No, Dashuai, what the last general means is that if we are facing Jiannu, don't say that they are just this person, even if there are ten times more, the last general will not blink his eyes!"

Zhao Wencai smiled bitterly: "After all, they are bewitched people, so do you want to persuade them to surrender?" ”

"According to their momentum, whoever goes to persuade them to surrender will die, and it is not too late to persuade after the fight is over."

After Cheng Shijie finished speaking, he slowly raised his right hand: "Let them see the true strength of our Ning Navy!" ”

Ning Navy's cavalry division is just a troop number, not that they are just cavalry, although the current cavalry is important on the battlefield, but the problem is that artillery is not a new thing, whether it is a slave or a rogue, let them take out a few artillery pieces or dozens of artillery pieces at will, it is not a big problem.

In the era of hot weapons, Cheng Shijie's biggest feature is that he suffered from a phobia of barren firepower, and it was still a late period, as early as the beginning of the establishment of the cavalry of the Ning Navy, the cavalry could have infantry fire support posts, that is, the cavalry ran with the thunderbolt, which was different from the infantry version of the thunderbolt, and the cavalry version was disassembled into three parts, thirty barrels, pedestals, and ammunition supply plates.

After being disassembled into three parts, the Thunderbolt has become the long-range support firepower of the cavalry of the Ning Navy, especially in the research and development of guns and artillery, and the fire dragon has been improved, which is a second-class rocket launcher, which is very lightweight, and is naturally equipped with cavalry troops, of course, infantry troops.

With the establishment of the Ning Navy cavalry for more than four years, the Ning Navy cavalry found that no matter how they trained, they were always inferior to the Jiannu cavalry in terms of horsemanship, and their skills were not good, so they were equipped to make up.

In fact, if they really let the Ning naval cavalry pursue the Jiannu cavalry on the prairie, they really can't do it, because they carry too much weight, which is the real reason why Cheng Shijie is anxious to improve the horse breed.

At this time, the originally well-organized cavalry of the Ning Navy suddenly scattered left and right, revealing the support firepower of the Ning Navy at the level of the Du Division, and the thirty-six thunderbolts without wheels had already been loaded and were just waiting to be fired.

In addition, there are more than 60 quadruple fire dragons out of the water, the non-cavalry version is called the fire dragon type two, this is a self-use type, compared to the fire dragon type one sold to Catherine, the range is nearly doubled, reaching 1,500 to 2,000 meters, and the power is more than double.

The explosive charge of the Fire Dragon 1 is 689 grams, but the charge of the Fire Power 2 is two kilograms, which is almost equivalent to the charge of the 120 mm mortars of later generations, of course, the power is slightly inferior.

Despite this, this Fire Dragon II type is already quite powerful. However, the biggest problem is that the shape of the Fire Dragon II rocket launcher is very simple, this thing is one meter and five long, with a warhead similar to a mortar shell, which is filled with two kilograms of collodion glue and a certain amount of fire cotton as a propellant, and then a long iron pipe acts as a balance bar, and there are four flying wings behind the iron pipe to balance the role.

When you fire the torches when you launch them, you will see all four rockets swishing out. Of course, this is only the cavalry version, and the infantry version of the rocket artillery is quite frustrating, and there are as many as twenty-four units, that is, a fire dragon rocket artillery vehicle can have the strike firepower of quite an artillery battalion, but the range is closer.

Seeing that the Liukou army was getting closer and closer to the Ning Navy and had entered the effective range, Zhao Wencai's hand fell heavily: "Fire!" ”

As the artillery of the Ning cavalry approached the torches, the fuses at the tail of the rocket artillery began to sizzle and smoke.

A moment later.

"Woo Woo ......"

The screaming sound that made people's scalps explode, the dazzling fires like meteors catching the moon, not to mention the killing effect, this sound and light effect alone made the rogue army confused.

After the sixty-four rocket launchers were fired, as the two hundred and fifty-six rocket shells flew towards the Liukou array, these rocket artillery shells did not miss, after all, there were too many Liukou, even if they shot with their eyes closed, they could not hit the Liukou.

As the rocket shells landed, orange fireballs exploded in the rogue array, and the shrapnel of the exploding rocket shells and the shock wave of the explosion began to cut the body of the rogues, and many rogues from the explosion point were lifted into the air, turning into human body fragments or a rain of flesh and blood.

One-third of Rao Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses are veterans of the rest of the battle, and they can't help but change color in shock when they see the purgatory-like sea of fire!

In fact, not to mention that the rogue was frightened, even the Ning Navy officers who used this thing for the first time in actual combat couldn't help but turn pale, suspecting that it was a ghost and god's anger.

Sun Kewang, the general under Zhang Xianzhong, is still called Zhang Kewang, his face was pale, and he muttered to himself: "Witchcraft, Witchcraft, Witchcraft!" ”

In just half a pillar of incense, two hundred and fifty-six rockets fell in the Liukou array, and then, after the launch, the Ning Navy soldiers who had finished firing quickly loaded the rockets and artillery shells and prepared for the second round of launches.

With these 256 rockets and artillery shells, the casualties of the rogues were at least thousands, however, the casualties of thousands of people were actually within the range of bearability compared to the hundreds of thousands of rooks.

Zhang Xianzhong was not intimidated by Ning Haijun's artillery, but he was very excited, his eyes burst out with a greedy gaze, looking at the bloody and bloody scene, listening to the terrible scream, Zhang Xianzhong thought that he could capture these artillery, with these artillery, wouldn't the world let him break in?

Zhang Xianzhong sneered: "Hopefully, Dingguo, you give it to me, take down those cannons for me!" ”

Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo responded to the call, and each led the three or four thousand iron cavalry of the headquarters to rush towards the artillery position of the Ning Navy.

Zhao Wencai sneered with a sneer on his face: "Marshal, Zhang Xianzhong is arrogant enough, he thinks that he can take us by sending seven or eight thousand cavalry, he is simply looking for death!" The last general is going to fight! ”

"Cut!"

Cheng Shijie smiled disapprenously: "While playing, whoever gives them to play mounted archery, the real role of the cavalry is to pursue the defeated enemy." Just wait and see! The rocket adjusts the firing range, adjusts the target to the rear of the enemy horseman, and the thunderbolt is ready to fire! ”

Playing cavalry battles with the Ning Navy, not to mention Zhang Xianzhong, even if Huang Taiji comes, he has to kneel, not to mention the cavalry under Zhang Xianzhong, even the Mongolian cavalry. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the Guan Ning army to chase after them with more than 20,000 horsemen with 3,000 horsemen and flee in embarrassment.

"Kill!"

Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang were on the left and right, like a pair of huge horns, slamming into the Ning Navy with a thunderous momentum, and the flying knight on horseback straightened his waist and raised the sword and gun in his hand, or rode a bow.

Only one-third of the cavalry under Zhang Xianzhong's command was equipped with a riding bow, and it was obvious that only one-third of the people who could play mounted archery could play cavalry, that is, more than 2,000 horsemen, which was far worse than the people in Jiannu who could hold a bow and ride and shoot.

"Eight hundred steps!"

"Six hundred steps!"

"Five hundred steps!"

"Four hundred and fifty steps ......"

As the observer reports the distance from time to time, in fact, these cavalry have already entered the effective range of the Thunderbolt, although the Thunderbolt is defined as a gun in the eyes of Cheng Shijie, in fact, this is actually artillery, if you return to the anti-Japanese battlefield with the Thunderbolt, even the Douding tank of the small day can't carry it, let alone the human body?

"Bang ......"

More than 30 thunderbolts spewed out tongues of fire, and the sound of gunfire shook people's eardrums like thunder, and three hundred and fifty paces away, hundreds of rogue light cavalry people or war horses suddenly burst out with a large cloud of blood mist, screaming, hissing, and falling down, and the people on the entire front line were almost swept away.

Sun Kewang almost fell off the horse: "Hell, the guns of the official army actually hit so far and so accurately?" ”

Seeing this scene, Cheng Shijie showed a cruel smile.

Thanks to technological breakthroughs, these Thunderbolts have four rifling wires per barrel, and the propellant is no longer black powder, but nitrocellulose, and the bullet hits farther and more powerful.

These improved versions of the Thunderbolt are actually prepared for Jiannu, but since the Battle of Baliwan, Jiannu has been honest, and this time Zhang Xianzhong's department has suffered a big loss!

As the thunderbolts and rocket artillery fired one after another, the menacing rogue cavalry was killed and wounded!

Sun Kewang gritted his teeth and cursed: "Damn, where did these officials and soldiers get so many firearms, and they are so powerful that they are unheard of!" ”

He raised his saber high and roared: "Rush over!" Rush over and cut down all these damn gunners! ”

The Liukou cavalry was subjected to a round of rocket artillery shelling, coupled with thirty-two thunderbolts, and thirty semi-automatic machine guns swept through, and they couldn't help but be a little flustered, but seeing Sun Kewang charging ahead, he calmed down and rushed behind him.

They all know that it is definitely not a good idea to retreat now, and retreating will only give the officers and men gunners the opportunity to calmly reload their ammunition, calmly aim, and blow them up all over the ground.

Fortunately, the cannon reloads slowly, and I don't know how long it will take to fire again after firing a shot......

It's just a pity that the loading method of the Fire Dragon II is a bit like the guerrilla warfare artifact of later generations, seeing that the rogue cavalry is getting more and more crazy, these rocket launchers are no longer loaded, and they are directly piled up with dirt on the ground to form a small slope, and the rockets are roughly aimed at the rogue cavalry.

"Whew......"

A Fire Dragon II rocket launcher flew towards the Liukou cavalry, and as for the Thunderbolt reload, it was more convenient to reload, in short, the Thunderbolt worked a bit like a revolver, which was actually an enlarged version of the revolver.

The tragedy of Zhang Xianzhong lies in the fact that although his subordinates claim to have hundreds of thousands, they can really fight only 50,000 or 60,000 people.

Now nearly half of Zhang Xianzhong's elite cavalry is basically within the range of the Ning Navy's rocket artillery and thunderbolts, and they can't retreat now, and they can't rush up if they want to.

As Cheng Shijie said, the rabble is always a rabble, and no matter how many people there are, they are still a rabble.

Zhao Wencai said: "Dashuai, the last general will fight!" ”

"No hurry!"

Cheng Shijie said: "These are Zhang Xianzhong's elite veterans, even if we give them well, they can't follow us, these are old thieves who have eaten human flesh, it's too difficult to change them, the best way is to eliminate them physically!" ”

With Cheng Shijie's order, the rocket artillery and the thunderbolt continued to fire, especially the movement of the rocket artillery, which was too big, one by one the fire dragons flew towards the Liukou, and the entire battlefield seemed to be like Shura purgatory.

Sun Kewang was lying on the ground at this time, he was already scared by the rocket artillery, and Li Dingguo was even worse, he was knocked unconscious by something, and when he woke up, he found that this was actually a thigh, a human leg that was smashed by a rocket shell.

"Woo Woo Woo ......"

"Bang ......"

At this time, there were only these two voices left on the battlefield, and the slaughterhouse-like scene created by the rocket launchers and thunderbolts still made everyone frightened, and I don't know how many people shouted and ran wildly.

Zhang Xianzhong shouted loudly and told them not to move, but where could they control it? As rockets rained down, his army grew more and more chaotic and on the verge of collapse.

Without faith, without common pursuits, a team that is kept up by looting, no matter how large its number, is ultimately vulnerable. Zhang Xianzhong's side was hit to the brink of collapse by heavy shelling, while Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang had completely collapsed.

Defeated by the rocket artillery of the Ning Navy cavalry!

This was a cavalry battle that made them feel extremely aggrieved, seven or eight thousand rogue cavalry roared over, but they couldn't rush within two hundred steps of the Ning Navy cavalry, whether their cavalry bows, spears or sabers, they couldn't reach the Ning Navy at all.

I tried my best but couldn't hit the other party, the other party fired a volley, and my side was killed and wounded, how should this battle be fought? How else can it be played?

Sun Kewang was lucky, his war horse died, and he was thrown to the ground, so whether it was rocket artillery or thunderbolts, it didn't hurt him, and the only injury he was was by his own war horse, and it wasn't a big problem.

But the cavalry under Sun Kewang's command didn't have such good luck, looking at the corpses all over the ground, Sun Kewang was a little desperate.

Zhang Xianzhong watched his eight thousand elite cavalry rush forward, but a large number of them fell, and the smoke was filled, and he couldn't see what was going on the battlefield.

Zhang Xianzhong said angrily: "What kind of hellish fighting methods are these dog officers and soldiers using!" Is there such a war!? ”

Enchi sucked in his breath and said, "They've always fought like this...... Against them, no matter how many people there are, it is useless, and they have been completely overwhelmed by them a few times. ”

Zhang Xianzhong said with some frustration: "Since a certain army, the northwest, swords and guns are like forests, and the rain of arrows has been added, but in the end I have ......been defeated."

"Father-in-law!"

When Ai Nengqi heard Zhang Xianzhong's despair, he hurriedly persuaded: "Father-in-law, the number of officers and soldiers is too small, let's withdraw and throw these homeless people to them!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "Why don't you surrender Cheng Shijie?" ”

"No surrender!"

Zhang Xianzhong said: "Why can't you surrender? Surrender first, if the government can't give us a good placement, and then turn against the damn, have we been like this all these years? ”

Ai Nengqi said: "That's because the officers and soldiers don't have enough strength to forcibly disband us and confiscate our weapons, so we can surrender if we want to, and rebel if we want to!" However, this is Cheng Shijie! ”

"What about Cheng Shijie?"

Ai Nengqi smiled bitterly: "But Cheng Shijie is different, father-in-law, look at it, will he still give us such a chance?" Once we do, we'll never have a chance! ””

"If we can't descend, we won't be dead!"

"We don't surrender, we can retreat!"

"Where else can I retreat?"

"Let's go into the mountains!"

Ai Nengqi was Zhang Xianzhong's advisor before he accepted Wang Zhaoxuan, and many opinions came from Ai Nengqi's mouth, including the strategy of going south to Fengyang.

Zhang Xianzhong is actually just posturing, how could he want to die?

Besides, he is not undefeated, he cooperates with Ainengqi, as long as Ainengqi speaks, he reluctantly agrees and lets Ainengqi carry the black pot.

Said to retreat, retreat, Zhang Xianzhong didn't care about Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, and directly took the men and horses of the old camp and retreated in the direction of Macheng.

"I'm not reconciled!"

"Father-in-law, as long as you stay in the green mountains, why worry about no firewood?"

Ai Nengqi said: "Our vitality is still there, and there may not be no chance of a comeback!" ”

As Zhang Xianzhong retreated, a large number of rogues also retreated.

Cheng Shijie also discovered Zhang Xianzhong's abnormal movements: "Zhao Wencai! ”

"The last general!"

"Zhang Xianzhong ran away, catch up, don't let him run!"

"Yes!"

Zhao Wencai didn't dare to take all the Ning Navy cavalry away, he needed to leave a few thousand people to protect Cheng Shijie, so to put it bluntly, Zhao Wencai finally took three thousand cavalry to bypass these rogues and pursue Zhang Xianzhong.

These rogue infantry watched Zhang Xianzhong run away, and the old battalion men and horses also ran away, they directly knelt down on their knees and raised their hands: "Official, don't fight, let's surrender!" ”

These rogues watched Zhang Xianzhong flee, and they no longer had the will to resist, so they abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

This battle is finally over, and the death of tens of thousands of rogues has fallen, and it has been wiped out in one day, which is like a myth.

But in the eyes of the Admiral Ning, this was nothing remarkable, and they had expected such a result before the war. For them, defeating the rogues has never been a problem, and how to place them is the biggest headache.

Although there are enough grain reserves in Liaodong, and there are enough farms and factories in Luzon to absorb these hundreds of thousands of people, Cheng Shijie definitely has no way to accommodate these many people in Macheng, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to rely on the dry food of the Ning Navy cavalry to settle these rogue prisoners.

The problem of feeding these hundreds of thousands of people must be solved immediately, otherwise, there will definitely be chaos, and we must consider it in the long run.

"Dashuai, what should we do now?"

Han Shi looked at the black-pressed rogue-captive, stared at by countless pairs of eyes, she felt a little hairy in her heart, and she was very uneasy.

Cheng Shijie said: "Integrate them, every ten households are one first, ten are one hundred, and each hundred households are managed separately!" ”

"What about the food?"

Cheng Shijie stretched out his hand and pointed to the dead horses on the battlefield and said: "Each hundred households have a few dead horses, let them find firewood by themselves!" ”

In fact, Cheng Shijie has no good way now, and fortunately, the shock caused by rocket artillery and thunderbolts is too great, even if there are only 3,000 Ning Navy soldiers guarding them, these rogue prisoners do not dare to run, let alone start a riot.

As time passed, one by one, the 100 households were reorganized, and these 100 households began to assign tasks.

After all, the space of Heshun Village is too small, and it can't accommodate so many people, hundreds of thousands of rogues and prisoners, covering an area of more than ten square kilometers alone.

Cheng Shijie can provide them with only a small amount of dead horses, as well as a small amount of fried rice or fried noodles, as for what kind of meal they can make to fill their stomachs, it all depends on their own ability.

Those who organized out a hundred households, or set up tents, or dug stoves, and began to bury pots to make food, fortunately, the rogues were not nothing, and they also had a small amount of food in their troops, especially Zhang Xianzhong's haste of escaping, and there were not a few belongings left behind.

The seized silver alone is as much as 3.5 million taels, 80,000 taels of gold, and a large number of treasures and antiques.

Cheng Shijie looked at the list and exclaimed: "There are 80,000 gold and 3.5 million silver, it's terrible!" ”

Han, who was in charge of counting the finances, put the account book in front of Cheng Shijie: "There are more than 100 carts of copper coins, in fact, we don't pay much attention to silver money during this time, and the most important thing is mules, horses and grain!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong's reputation in the Ming Dynasty was completely stinky, and even if he held silver, he couldn't buy anything, unless he broke it into pieces, pretended to be someone else in a decentralized way, and used silver to buy supplies.

The gentry of the Ming Dynasty would rather not do Zhang Xianzhong's business than sell Zhang Xianzhong's materials, which is the real reason why Zhang Xianzhong does not pay attention to treasures.

Cheng Shijie looked at Qiao Siniang beside him and said, "Urge Meng En, where did he transport the grain!" ”

If there is no food, these hundreds of thousands of rogues will become a volcano that can erupt at any time.

PS: Be cheeky and ask for a monthly pass.

(End of chapter)