RNP Chapter 174
Chapter 174
"Set up the gun position!"
"Compact the gun carriage!"
"Drugging!"
"Put in the projectile!"
"Compact!"
"Put in the arquebus!"
When Wu Er and Du Xing arrived, nearly 3,000 urgently mobilized infantry had already caught up with more than 300 Gao Tang soldiers and surrounded the opponent.
The trapped beasts were still fighting, and more than 300 Gao Tang soldiers had no idea or intention of surrendering.
They clenched the weapons in their hands, set up a complete attack array, and began to break through in a northwesterly direction.
"This group of soldiers and horses can be called elite. "
Wu Song did not hesitate to praise.
The more than 300 soldiers in front of him are indeed rare elite soldiers in the Song army.
Tough, tough, courageous.
He is also strong.
The method of array is also quite clever.
Sheltered by shrubs and sparse woodland, they kept pushing forward.
A small number of Liangshan army infantry formations that stepped forward to block were all repelled by these guys with sharp attacks.
Wu Er looked at it for a while, and there was indeed appreciation in his eyes.
These more than 300 people are basically good at entering the stream.
It's a one-party character in the green forest.
The skills are similar to Du Qian, Song Wan, Zhu Gui and others.
In other words, it is worse than a serious hero, but three or five people can bring down a good man like Zhu Gui.
That's already strong!
It's no wonder that these more than 300 people can defeat Liangshan's minions twice head-on, and there are several Tiangang generals by the way.
But at this moment, Lian Ren also feels extremely difficult.
The Liangshan army was cautious and did not rush to battle.
It's just a constant block, archery, shrinking the encirclement.
Obviously, the opposing army formation is familiar with the rhythm of the battle, and is not in a hurry to swallow the prey in one bite, but tries to consume the will, determination, and physical strength of the prey as much as possible to disrupt the formation.
If this continues, these more than 300 people will only become more and more tired and impatient under the siege of several thousand.
And after dawn, a large number of Liangshan cavalry will definitely rush over to help.
If you want to break through and escape, the possibility will become less and less.
Under Gao Lian's order, more than 300 people began to trot forward with all their might, trying to open the gap and flee with all their might before the main force of the Liangshan Army formed a formation or had more reinforcements.
Fortunately, the opposite side is also full of infantry.
As long as they break out of the encirclement, there will still be many people who can escape.
At this moment, the artillery on the opposite side had already completed the whole formation.
In an emergency, only more than 40 people came, and 22 small cannons were fired.
Under the order of the artillery commander in charge, the gunners skillfully set up the gun positions, put in gunpowder and lead, and plugged the muzzles, which were already in a state of ready to fire at any time.
When Gao Lian and his subordinates rushed wildly, they saw more than 20 people holding artillery at a distance of less than 100 paces from 340 on the opposite side, with small artillery in front of them, and the muzzle elevation angle was facing them and others, everyone including Gao Lian was stunned.
"Oh no......"
"This is the rumored Liangshan artillery?"
At this time......
Gao Lian only had this one thought in his heart.
The sword in his hand was subconsciously raised, although Gao Lian is a civil official, his martial arts are quite good, and he will not suffer too much against Wu Er, and he can fight at least dozens of rounds.
But at this time, there is only a cannon on the other side, and the sword in his hand is going to fall in a certain direction?
For a while, this brave Song Zhizhou only had a blank look on his face.
Fortunately, Gao Tangbing and Gao Lian still have the last courage.
They let out terrifying shouts, waved their weapons in their hands, and rushed with all their strength to the artillery positions opposite.
......
The tiger squat cannon is 2 feet long from the end to the end, less than a meter.
There are 7 iron hoops around its body, and the gun head is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron stumbling blocks, with a total weight of 36 catties.
Such a gripping and holding head high, it looks like a tiger and a tiger, and it is majestic, like a big cat lying on the ground, which is in the name of a tiger squatting.
Before each firing of the artillery, the cannon body must be fixed on the ground with a large iron nail, and each launch can be filled with 100 small lead or small stones weighing 5 yuan, and a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 taels is used to press the top, and when the bullets are fired, the large and small bullets fly out together, the roar is like thunder, and the lethality and radiation range are very large, especially suitable for field combat.
Qi Jiguang's department is good at using this cannon, because the Japanese army is all in foot formation, and there is almost no cavalry.
The way the Japanese army fought was to use the Japanese sword in close combat hand-to-hand combat.
For the Ming army, hand-to-hand combat was quite terrifying and terrifying.
Because the Ming army in the south has not been trained for a long time, and the firearms are not as many as those in the north, the archers were originally 100 households and 60 people, and after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it would be good to have 100 households and 20 military households, and most of the military households fled.
The rest are mainly farming, and a small number are stationed in the guard post or city, and there is little training.
The generals in the south are not as big as the generals in the north, so they don't have any families.
In addition, the south has been peaceful for a long time, and ninety out of nine generals have not fought much.
Unlike the northern generals, from the Mengyuan Khan court to the Yexian Taishi, the Ghost Li Chi Taishi, and then to the Little Prince, Itu Khan, Tumen Khan, Lin Dan Khan...... There has been no time to stop.
Either to fight Mongolia, or to fight devils in North Korea.
Either the Chenghua sweep during the Xianzong period and the Jurchens.
Anyway, the war basically never stopped.
South......
Basically, it's peaceful.
Only during the reign of Emperor Xianzong went to sweep the seedlings, and that (ajci) was a large-scale operation with fruitful results.
So later, the literati said that Xianzong was a faint monarch, how to say it, it was to belittle the emperor with private virtues, which was simply dizzy.
During the reign of Xianzong, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty was not damaged, and the Chenghua Great Expedition successfully swept away the Jurchens, ensuring that the next 150 years were peaceful.
Swept the southwest, shocked many Huguang, Sichuan Tusi.
Many toasts, including the Ma family and the Qin family, as well as the Yungui toast, became the right-hand man of the imperial court.
Since then, whether it is to crusade against the Japanese or to fight against the Jurchens, these toasts have rushed to the front line.
Until the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Apocalypse, Chongzhen years, the Ming Dynasty's national strength declined seriously, there was a great chaos such as the Extravagant Rebellion, nearly two hundred years before that, the southwest Sichuan Tusi has been loyal, for the Ming Dynasty to make great contributions.
Such an emperor, just because he likes a woman who is more than ten years older than himself, has become a faint monarch in the pen of civil officials.
It also leaves people speechless.
After Chenghua swept the southwest, the entire southern Ming Dynasty can be said to be safe and sound for a hundred years.
Too much peace has led to the generals, soldiers, and weapons all tilting to the north.
There are very few battalions in the south, ninety percent of the war horses are also deployed in the north, and the cavalry is basically in the north.
In this way, the armament of the south is empty.
As soon as the Wokou appeared......
Fifty Japanese were able to land from Zhejiang and kill all the way to the city of Nanjing.
Killed and injured thousands of soldiers and civilians.
Many coastal states and counties have been plundered and even conquered.
At that time, Altan Khan was still raging in the north, seizing the Hetao and attacking the city of Beijing twice.
Emperor Jiajing had no choice.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty's finances were still bankrupt, and the salaries of officials could not be paid.
Jiajing only cares about his own cultivation, and the other is to play power tricks and balances on officials, and governing the country can be said to be a mess.
The north captivated the south, the finances were bankrupt, the army had no combat power, and the people were in misery.
Hai Jui's statement that every house is clean and clean is not an exaggeration at all.
The people of the world are not worth Your Majesty's long-term service, nor are they exaggerating.
Because what Hai Rui said was the truth, Jiajing knew it, and in a fit of rage, he didn't kill Hai Rui directly.
However, if Jiajing hadn't died soon, Hai Rui would still have died.
Because Jiajing is not a broad-minded emperor.
He is a black-bellied, narrow-minded, ruthless, and imbecile emperor who plays with power and tricks.
Later, some people always boasted how powerful and smart Jiajing was in power, and he was the emperor who controlled the court most thoroughly after Lao Zhu.
Even if it's true, what's the point?
It is true that the Ming Dynasty almost lost the country during the Jiajing period.
If you are really smart, you will not govern the country like that.
It was Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou who really rose up to save the situation, and these generals were Gao Gong in the court, Zhang Juzheng and other outstanding civil officials.
It can be said that in the past three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the Huaixi Group at the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the end of Jiajing to the Longqing period, and then to the early years of Wanli, it was also the most brilliant 30 years of talents.
In addition to Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, there are also a large number of outstanding figures such as Yan Song, Xia Yan, Xu Jie, Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, Hu Zongxian, Tan Lun, etc.
There are also generals such as Ma Fang and Li Chengliang.
The stars are shining!
Zhang Juzheng inherited the high arch, followed by Shen Shixing and others, and improved the law, which was an extremely successful reform.
Huaxia's so-called changes failed, before Zhang Juzheng.
Including the most famous Wang Anshi's reform, it was also a failure.
Only Zhang Juzheng succeeded, in power for more than ten years, many changes are to the point of the times, when Zhang Juzheng came to power, the Ming Dynasty was full of holes, after his death, the Ming Dynasty had 20 or 30 million stone of accumulated grain, hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, millions of taels of silver savings.
There is also an efficient bureaucratic team, and generals who can fight well to guard the frontier. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
The decades of decay of the Ming dynasty from Jiajing's succession were terminated.
Qi Jiguang is with the support of outstanding civilian officials to create an invincible army.
The tiger squat cannon in front of him is also a sharp weapon in Qi Jiguang's hands.
Unlike the Ming army, which later took the wrong path, Qi Jiguang paid attention to practicality in making firearms.
Unlike the Ming army a few decades later, the artillery became bigger and heavier, and the power was greater, but there was no way to push it to the battlefield to participate in the field.
Artillery that cannot fight in the field and can only defend the city has an effect equal to a direct halving.
The artillery, which cost a lot of money to cast, became a dead thing.
And Qi Jiguang only cast two kinds of firearms in large quantities.
The first is the tiger squat cannon, this kind of small artillery is only 36 catties, and the iron nail is only 30 catties after removing the bracket.
A gunner can pick it up and run.
The other man followed with a gunpowder projectile.
To the battlefield smashed into the iron nail, put the bracket, and launch at an elevation angle.
It can be operated by two people, and it can fire several rounds a minute, which is better to control and more convenient than the Hongyi cannon, and has a greater role on the battlefield.
That's the good stuff that really works.
The bows and arrows of the Japanese army seem to have grown, but their power cannot be compared with the clear bow. []
They are adept at charging and fighting hand-to-hand with their swords.
The Ming army in the south was afraid, and Qi Jiguang's department used the sharp weapon of tiger squat cannon to carry out large-scale killing and wounding of the Japanese army.
Another weapon is the imitation bird gun.
Qi Jiguang is not ashamed to imitate the Japanese birds, and the Japanese are also imitations of the Portuguese.
The imitation of the bird gun Qi Jiguang personally supervised the production, and it was built with 20 catties of Fujian iron, which was not comparable to the shoddy fire guns in the later Apocalypse and Chongzhen years.
Tiger squatting cannons, firearms, and wolf swords restrain the enemy's sword charge.
The Qi family's military combination often plays an extremely beautiful exchange ratio.
Thousands of Japanese were killed and tens of thousands were captured, and the Qi army was killed and wounded no more than 100 people.
There was even one time when only seven people were killed or wounded.
It's not a symmetrical war at all.
The same is true of the battlefield in front of us.
Wu Er and Du Xing stood behind the artillery array, and Wu Er had a complicated expression.
He had wanted to go straight with a knife.
As a result, he was stopped by Duchenne.
If Yu Baosi was here, the two of them should rush over with the elite.
Gun arrays, swords, knives, crossbowmen, a few thousand people can't take three hundred?
But Duchenne didn't do it.
Twenty-two Tiger squat guns were urgently transferred, and the gunners rushed to the artillery with their guns, and within a few minutes placed the artillery array in front of the enemy, waiting for the enemy to arrive.
By the time the enemy army came within 100 paces, the matter was over.
This is the choice of the best Ming army generals hundreds of years later, Du Xing didn't know Qi Jiguang, but he knew that this small artillery was called by the big masters, and it turned out to be very useful.
The expressions of the Gao Tang soldiers on the opposite side were distorted, and they ran forward with all their might.
The weapons in their hands are also quite mixed, but the array is still relatively intact.
can hold weapons to maintain the battle formation and charge bravely, these Gao Tang soldiers really showed extraordinary combat power and quality.
But Duchenne just smiled coldly.
Then he waved his hand suddenly.
The gunners of the twenty-two Tiger Squat Cannons lit the arquebuses one after another.
The fiery arcore of the muzzle fuse glowed orange and then quickly burned out.
The propellant in the tail of the gun was ignited.
The huge recoil force caused the gun body to shake violently.
The original gunpowder was not something that these 30 catties of artillery could withstand, so there were seven iron slaps on the barrel to strengthen the gun body, and the tail should be fixed with a large iron nail.
Otherwise, after a shot, this small cannon will roll over directly, and I am afraid that it may even hurt my own people.
Nowadays, it is used with granular black powder, and the effect is even stronger and amazing.
Thunderous bombardments rang out one after another.
The Tiger Squat Gun is not fired at a flat angle, but at an elevation angle.
This is somewhat similar to the mortars of later generations.
Of course, the two are two different things.
At the muzzle of the cannon was a larger lead bullet, which, after being fired, instantly arrived at the opposite military formation.
A three-tael-heavy cannonball instantly collapsed the chest of a Gao Tang soldier, and the huge clattering sound of bone cracking kept sounding, and the person's internal organs were directly broken, and his eyes rolled white, and he fell to the ground and died.
This kind of situation also happened one after another.
More than 20 large lead seeds almost missed.
Only a few shrubs hit the edges, and from them, countless low trees were broken, and one of them hit directly on the small branch of a small tree the thickness of a fist, and suddenly the small tree was cut in two in the air.
Such a majesty frightened Gao Tangbing and Gao Lian himself in the impact.
But that's just the beginning.
Next came a hundred small buckshot bullets weighing three pennies from each muzzle.
It is said that it is small, but it is not much different from the fire gun lead bullet.
There were more than 20 artillery pieces, and the lead splattered out at this moment was more than 2,000.
It was made into a huge fan.
The original Tiger Squat Cannon was a weapon for close range killing.
The main reason is that whether it is a Japanese soldier or a Han pirate, the low armor rate is terrifying.
Qi Jiguang's tiger squat cannon is not very powerful, but it doesn't feel too cool to kill and injure ordinary people who have no defense at close range.
How did the ratio of tens of hundreds to tens of thousands of casualties in the Qi family army come from each time?
It is a one-sided massacre similar to the one in front of us.
Not the same as the mode of war.
The front is more asymmetrical.
The twenty-two Tiger Squat Cannons used granular black powder, which was more than twice as powerful.
The shrubs, small trees, and even tall weeds in front of me were cut off in an instant!
More of them are the Gao Tang soldiers who bear the brunt of it!
At least two-thirds of them were only fifty or sixty paces away after the impact, and even if they were armored, they were flattened like grass and trees under such a bombardment.
Countless screams and howls rang out one after another, and the blood flowers were like layers of blood mist that spread out, enveloping the small battlefield!
"Uh......"
Gao Tang Zhizhou Gao Lian bore the brunt, his chest was broken, and his throat was pierced, this brave civil official Zhizhou opened his eyes, and seemed to be unwilling to let himself be finished like this!
It is not terrible to lose this battle, and it is not terrible to annihilate the whole army.
The terrible thing is that he didn't even see the face of the enemy clearly, and he was directly killed!
Under the strong reluctance to reluctance, Gao Lian didn't struggle for a long time before he lost his breath.
Beside him, more than 300 Gao Tang soldiers also fell one after another.
After three rounds of bombardment, no one was standing.
"If we invent any new firearms after that, I'm afraid there will be no place for us heroes......"
Looking at the bloody and tragic battlefield, Wu Er also sighed with heartfelt emotion.
Duchenne smiled and said, "Fortunately, we are following the big bosses and will never face these terrible weapons." "。