The Ming army was under heavy shelling. The Qing army on the Huangtu Ridge could see it very clearly. At this time, Shi Tingzhu laughed wildly and said: "Okay, it's really fun to beat the Ming dog to cry for father and mother." !”
Dorgon, Duoduo, and Abatai also laughed. Previously, the garrison on the first line of defense was hit by the Ming army's artillery and suffered heavy casualties. At this time, the Qing army regained its position, and the Ming army had a taste of being beaten. The taste of artillery bombardment.
However, after Dorgon laughed, he felt something else in his heart. All the credit in front of him was attributed to the Han Army's Wuzhen Chaoha camp. Could it be that the once invincible Qing cavalry had taken a back seat and would dominate the battlefield in the future? Are they all artillery and blunderbuss?
Of course, this idea only flashed through Dorgon's mind. As for Duoduo, Kong Youde, Abate and others, they had no such idea at all. At this time, they just laughed wildly.
On the side, Jin Zidian watched with eyes twitching, thinking that the Manchus had the advantage of cavalry and infantry unparalleled in the world. Now that they have artillery to help them, North Korea is no longer an opponent.
"If North Korea wants to continue to survive in the future, it must embrace the lap of the Qing Dynasty and must not arouse the anger of the Qing Dynasty!" 33
At this time, there was also laughter and laughter in the Rufeng Mountain Mountain City.
Daishan, Ying Erdai and other civil and military ministers all congratulated Huang Taiji loudly and congratulated the outstanding performance of their artillery battalion.
Huang Taiji also had a smile on his face and was relieved about the battle at Huangtu Ridge.
At this time, Huang Taiji thought to himself: "Sophisticated firearms are indeed powerful weapons to dominate the world! In the past, the elites in the Ming army who dared to fight could often block the attacks of our Qing cavalry with their chariot camps, but they could not block the bombardment of artillery. .The Zhejiang soldiers who invaded back then were so outstanding in combat power that even our Qing cavalrymen, who were dead and wounded, couldn't break into their formation. In the end, weren't they blasted away with cannons? Our bodies of flesh and blood cannot be compared with cannons! "
So Huang Taiji thought that in order to win this battle, the Qing Dynasty had vigorously expanded the Wuzhenchaoha camp of the Han army flag, built a large number of firecrackers and artillery, and would continue to expand the number of firearms and equipment in the future.
However, the amount of iron produced in the Qing Dynasty was limited, and it was difficult to expand the scale of firearms production.
In recent years, almost all the iron materials mined in the Qing Dynasty have been consumed by these guns and artillery. Even the iron materials looted from the Ming Dynasty in previous years have been used up. Huang Taiji wants to continue to expand the production of firearms. , it is really difficult.
Moreover, Huang Taiji also had a worry in his mind. Using firearms to fight would consume a huge amount of gunpowder and gunpowder in stock after this battle, causing the Qing Dynasty's gunpowder reserves to be frequently in short supply.
In order to ensure that the artillery and gunpowder in this battle could receive a sufficient supply of gunpowder, Huang Taiji even spared no expense to transport a large amount of gunpowder from North Korea, which cost a lot of money, food and manpower.
"The use of firearms is different from swords and arrows. It seems that in addition to smuggling and robbing from North Korea, we have to go into Ming Dynasty to plunder, and plunder more iron materials and gunpowder!"
Amidst the rumbling sound of artillery, the Qing troops and horses in the Huangtu Ridge area cheered endlessly, while the Ming army's positions were silent. The soldiers in each town were furious. Seeing the friendly troops being killed by the Qing's artillery fire, everyone's hearts They all had unstoppable killing intent.
At this time, Hong Chengchou, Zhang Ruoqi, Ma Shaoyu, Qiu Minyang and others all had pale faces and clenched their fists.
Several general officers were also very anxious. Zuo Guangxian, the chief of the reinforcement and suppression army, kept mumbling: "The artillery of the slave thieves is so powerful, what should I do, what should I do? Can Xuanfu Town and Shanxi Town hold on?"
Some Liaodong officers and generals in the military formation looked at it with pale expressions, and secretly rejoiced in their hearts that it was not them who attacked the mountain. Otherwise, the slave thieves' artillery was so sharp that our own army would be defeated by the slave thieves' artillery before they could attack the mountain.
Wu Sangui also looked solemn, and at the same time he was sighing in his heart: "The Xuanzhen Army is indeed elite. After being bombarded by slave artillery until now, it can still continue to advance despite the slave artillery fire!"
Wu Sangui asked himself, considering the condition of his soldiers and horses, they probably wouldn't be able to hold on now.
Liu Yan looked at the situation in the distance with the same anxiety. He held up his telescope and looked intently. Suddenly, Qian Qian, the artillery battalion commander, shouted beside him: "Look over there, sir!"
Liu Yan was startled and hurriedly looked through his telescope. Following the direction pointed by Qian Qian, Liu Yan saw a shell from the Qing army hit an earthbag cart in Xuanfu Town. What is different from other tanks is that this simple earthbag vehicle survived the roaring artillery shells of the Qing army, both the tank and the civilians.
Liu Yan's eyes suddenly brightened, and he shouted that he was delaying things and actually forgot about the bulletproof sandbags. Although Liu Yan reminded Hong Chengchou and the general officers before the war to prepare more sandbags for battle, he forgot to instruct Yang Guozhu and Li Fuming to arm the sandbags on the chariot to withstand the Qing army's artillery fire. .
At this time, the Ming Dynasty's chariots were used to deal with the Hu cavalry and their bows and arrows, so it was enough for the wooden chariots to be equipped with cards. But now that the Qing army is equipped with a large number of firearms, the situation on the battlefield is different. Ming's opponents are no longer purely cold weapon armies, but semi-firearmed armies equipped with sharp artillery and a large number of firearms!
Hong Chengchou, who was next to him, paid attention to Liu Yan from time to time. At this time, he saw that Liu Yan seemed to be thoughtful, so he hurriedly said: "Did Mr. Liu think of something?"
Liu Yan nodded and said to Hong Chengchou, "Director Hong, look over there."
Hong Chengchou quickly raised his telescope and looked in the direction pointed by Liu Yan. Zhang Ruoqi, Ma Shaoyu and others also looked quickly, and then everyone shouted in unison: "Sack truck!"
"The earth basket cart!"
"Dirt bag cart!"
Zhang Ruoqi shouted: "We should have thought of it a long time ago. General Liu's Changling Mountain defense line uses a large number of sacks and earth baskets to prevent the slave thieves' artillery shells? Why did we forget about it when we got here!"
Hong Chengchou also said with a tone of self-blame: "Yes, I should have thought of using vehicles to bag soil to protect the advancing soldiers."
In fact, it’s no wonder that people can’t remember it. The army is the most conservative and stubborn group, because every habit or rule in the army was purchased with countless lives and blood. If there were no opportunities, they wouldn’t be able to remember it. changed.
And sometimes it's just a thin layer of window paper, and if it is broken by chance, another world will appear. Before the opportunity comes, maybe for hundreds of years, you may not even think of going there.
Just like the fixed paper tube ammunition equipped by the new army in Qinglai Town, in fact, as early as the Qi Army, they had already begun to use granular gunpowder and classified bird gun ammunition, but they did not merge the two together.
Many things are just a layer of paper and an idea, just like a chariot. Maybe people will say that an expensive chariot is not as good as a push-pull cart used by ordinary people? This is the fact. Facing artillery, chariots are useless. Folk vehicles with earth bags and baskets stacked on top of them become a powerful weapon.
At this time, everyone knew that sandbags, bamboo baskets and other objects could be used to block the Qing army's artillery shells, so they hurriedly ordered the civilians in the rear to prepare a large number of longboards, at least two-wheeled, four-wheeled is better, and wheelbarrows are not required. Because facing artillery, the wheelbarrow was too light and could not block the vibration of enemy shells. Then a large number of earth bags and earth baskets are loaded on it. Once prepared, they will be rushed to the front of the formation. These modified chariots will be used to block the soldiers and their camps to protect the soldiers in Xuanfu Town and Shanxi Town. go ahead.
In order to prevent the slave cannon from getting through the bottom of the cart and breaking the legs of everyone on the cart, a lot of earth bags need to be tied to the bottom of the cart in front, leaving as few gaps as possible. In order to prevent the car from being knocked backwards by the slave cannon, the front and back of the car need to be specially reinforced.
Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, was in charge of the army's logistics. He immediately followed Hong Chengchou's order and recruited a large number of craftsmen and civilians to rebuild the earthen vehicles.
Due to the urgent fighting on the front line, the modified vehicles were temporarily unavailable. Qiu Minyang commanded a large number of civilians to select some suitable long vehicles filled with sacks and earth baskets. Many earth bags were tied to the front bottom and both sides of the vehicle and were urgently transported to the front line. go.
At the same time, Hong Chengchou also hurriedly sent people to Yang Guozhu and Li Fuming's army to inform them of this method.
Then Hong Chengchou said to Liu Yan: "The slaves' artillery fire is sharp. General Yang and Lieutenant General Li have suffered many casualties. We also need General Liu to provide medical assistance!"
Ever since Liu Yan led the new army from Qinglai Town to the Liaodong battlefield, there are many well-trained and skilled medical officers in the new army, and they are well known in every town. There are thirty medical officers in each department, and each medical officer also has a dozen or twenty assistants, which is a very sufficient number.
In terms of the logistics capabilities of the Ming army at this time, even including Hong Chengchou's Supervisor Biao Battalion, the number of medical officers in each army was not as many as that of Liu Yanyi Town.
So after listening to Hong Chengchou's words, Liu Yan solemnly said: "No need for the governor to say anything, this is a natural thing!"
So Liu Yan immediately summoned Bao Xuezhen, the director of the Medical Department, and ordered him to lead people to immediately support Xuanfu Town and Shanxi Town and treat the wounded people who had been withdrawn from the two towns.
Bao Xuezhen immediately took the order and led more than a hundred people to the temporary "hospital" in front of the Chinese army.
Medical officers such as Bao Xuezhen all wear uniform equipment and uniforms. They wear simple breastplates and bright red round-neck robes with blue water patterns embroidered on them. Each person also has a special first aid box, which is filled with various medicines and equipment, such as scissors, hemostatic powder, Jincang medicine, alcohol, gauze bandages, marching pills and other items, which are very complete.
Since the Qinglai Town shogunate was established, Liu Yan also thought about having the Medical Department set up one or several medical schools to recruit and train a large number of medical officers and develop various drugs.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty's medical level was still the highest in the world. Before the emergence of antibiotics, Western medicine at this time was a commodity. No matter what the disease was, Europeans were accustomed to using bloodletting to treat the disease. This was completely ignorant. This behavior is a waste of human life.
However, Liu Yan's idea of building a medical school was put on hold because of the urgent war in Liaodong. He could only wait until the war was over before making any plans.
At this time, Hong Chengchou and others watched Bao Xuezhen bring a large number of medical officers to support. Everyone skillfully set up tents at the temporary rescue site in front, boiled water to sterilize various instruments they had never seen before, and then cooperated with each other to sterilize all kinds of equipment. The debridement, diagnosis and treatment of the wounded are all very emotional.
It can be seen that the strength of the New Army in Qinglai Town lies not only in how well the New Army soldiers fight, but also in the strength of the New Army's armament and military system. The New Army in Qinglai Town has such a complete system and logistics capabilities. Looking at today's Ming Dynasty, it can be said that it is unparalleled. People are comparable!
At this time, Hong Chengchou also ordered that a large number of civilian men from the Hit Army obey Bao Xuezhen's command and undertake chores such as carrying stretchers and transporting the wounded. At the same time, Hong Chengchou also mobilized some soldiers and horses from the Supervisory Biao Battalion to protect the safety of the medical officers of the New Army in Qinglai Town, which was also a show of goodwill to Liu Yan.
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