Yang Fan knew this was fire reconnaissance. If the guns are fired, it's a trap.
Yang Fan wants to keep his trump card and reveal it bit by bit.
Around the entire outer wall, gunshots would be heard every once in a while.
The Mongolian scouts, after being beaten to death, immediately began to leave the distance. And galloped around the outer wall. After all, sports targets are not easy to hit.
The three sides of the outer wall are one thousand meters long. Each side is defended by 1,200 truck soldiers. They mainly operate artillery on side cars. At the same time, there is a five-meter-wide steel plate wall between the two cars. There were also some soldiers behind.
A little further back, there is a regiment of militia on standby, with 3,600 reserve soldiers. The defense is very tight.
Ma Xiaowu was a soldier in a vehicle camp. He pulled away the small steel plate that could slide laterally and looked outside.
He stretched out the barrel of the repeating rifle from the shooting port, put the butt of the rifle on his shoulder, and held the rifle in one hand.
Calmly wait for the enemy scouts to come over.
Before the war started, Xiaoqi had already said it. When counting military merits after the war, the accuracy of firing ammunition is a separate reward.
Therefore, be confident before shooting and don't waste ammunition.
When I usually practice firecrackers, I almost vomit. I often shoot hundreds of rounds a day. They have muscle memory for firing now.
The instructor said that the fire gate gun has a short range and a low muzzle velocity. When it exceeds nine meters, the trajectory begins to sag.
Therefore, when hitting an enemy head-on, if you want to hit the chest, you should raise the muzzle appropriately when aiming. At the same time, adjust the elevation angle according to the firing meter on the tail of the gun.
At a distance of thirty meters, if you aim at the neck, the probability of hitting the chest is relatively high.
If shooting high-speed maneuvering enemies, such as cavalry.
The muzzle of the gun must be advanced and aimed at the horse's head. The possibility of hitting the cavalry is high.
At this time, because no horn was heard to withdraw troops. These Mongolian scouts could only bite the bullet and roar around thirty meters away, running around the outer wall of the camp. Continue to draw fire.
Due to a lot of training, Ma Xiaowu and the others now have half a single shot hit rate against enemies that are thirty to forty meters away.
He squinted his eyes, and suddenly a horse's head appeared in front of him. He fired without hesitation.
The fuses currently used in fire door guns are all high-speed fuses, because the opportunity to aim is fleeting. When the fire break is poked, it burns out immediately, and then fires. The time is only a fraction of a second.
boom! Fire and smoke erupted from the muzzle. The butt of the gun was pushed back, and Ma Xiaowu hunched over. He had long been accustomed to the recoil when shooting.
Hu Tuqian hid under his feet and escaped the first salvo. Then he got on his horse and ran a distance of thirty meters quickly.
Judging from his experience, the Ming Dynasty's firearms, whether they were magic guns, three-eyed guns or other firearms, were inaccurate as long as they were separated by a distance of three feet, and they were basically inoperable if they were separated by a distance of ten feet.
So he rode along the outer ring again and galloped outside.
While shooting towards the inside of the camp with a riding bow.
He couldn't see what was going on inside the camp, but in such a large camp, arrows would definitely fall inside. As for whether he could hit it or not, he didn't care.
Their mission is to conduct fire reconnaissance, harass the Ming army, and increase pressure on them. In fear of the bows and arrows being thrown, the Akito soldiers would open fire.
However, these scouts soon discovered that Akito's counterattacks were sparse. However, with every gunshot, almost a cavalryman fell. Some hit people, and some hit horses.
At this time, when he ran across the wall on horseback, because of his high speed, many people opened fire, but they all failed. After all, the shooting opening was very small. If you react a little slower to deal with the cavalry passing by, the enemy would rush over. .
At this time, he didn't pay attention to the gunshot. He thought it was an afterthought and hit the back directly.
But before he could finish the thought, he felt as if his neck had been hit by a hammer, and he seemed to hear the sound of his neck bone breaking.
Everything went dark before his eyes, and then he fell from his horse.
Ma Xiaowu excitedly waved his fist and killed one of them.
He excitedly took out the knife he used for eating and carved a horizontal line on the butt of his gun like other comrades. If he kills five, he can also carve a positive character on the butt of his gun.
Khan Ahai, Buyan Ahai and others watched for a while.
He said to Mang Gurtai: "Dear Heshuo Baylor, I think the reconnaissance is almost done. The main firearms of the Ming army in these car camps are fire gate guns. They are probably all junks like magic guns and three-eyed guns. They should be able to Retreat the scouts."
"I think so. These Ming people are just a piece of shit. You go ahead and attack. If you can't defeat them, I'll let my Zhenglan Banner go into battle." Mang Gurtai said fiercely.
The Mongolian Taijis all nodded in agreement.
If Huang Taiji can send people, they will burn high incense. This shows that they successfully attracted Jian Nu to fight against Lin Dan Khan. What they didn't expect this time was that Huang Taiji would pay so much attention to them.
The one sent turned out to be Mang Gurtai, the third beile, one of the four great beelles. The soldiers and horses that came turned out to be the powerful Zhenglan Banner.
Naturally, you have to solve your own problems by yourself. If you let Daikin's soldiers and horses charge into the battle, it will be a slap in the face.
Only if you can't take it yourself can you ask Mang Gurtai to take action.
Khan Ahai looked at Buyan Ahai, and Buyan Ahai nodded.
At this time, Su Budi had been slipping away since he was attacked last time, hiding behind everything. Automatically gave up the leadership position to Khan Ahai and Buyan Ahai.
The two of them were also very confused, wondering what this old guy from Duoyan was thinking.
"Then let's start. If we attack this chariot city, the cavalry will be too disadvantaged. Let's send 50,000 armed tribesmen to attack on foot." Khan Ahai said.
Na Yan, the man behind him, immediately waved his hand. In the Mongolian team, groups of tribesmen held temporary shields made of wood and held scimitars and spears in the other hand. They formed formations one by one and headed towards Checheng a mile away. Go.
There were cavalry behind them, and on one side they were supervising them to prevent them from escaping. On the other side, when attacking, prepare to throw bows and arrows to suppress the defenders of Checheng.
Zhou Yuji watched the harassing scout cavalry retreat. But the grasslands on three sides were densely packed with herdsmen levy soldiers holding shields and surrounding them.
There were 40,000 to 50,000 people, looking at the darkness.
Outside the three walls, there were about 20,000 people on each side, because there were cavalry behind them.
Fortunately they had no siege weapons. This is grassland and wood is scarce.
The walls of the camp are made up of two layers of steel pipe scaffolding at the front and back. The outside of the front steel pipe is fixed with a three-millimeter corrugated steel plate painted with blue paint.
Scaffolding must use two layers, front and back, connected horizontally. Otherwise it won't be strong.
"Defend on the wall, three shifts." Zhou Yuji shouted loudly.
The semaphore soldiers behind him immediately conveyed the order.
The steel plate outside is three meters high. Between the two layers of scaffolding, there is a steel plate with a height of about 1.8 meters. If you stand on it, there is still a 1.2 meter wall to block your body, and you can attack the city wall from a high position. of enemies.
In this way, the outer wall is divided into upper and lower layers, and soldiers on the upper layer attack enemies who climb the wall. The soldiers on the lower level opened the shooting port and opened fire with firearms below. Or use a spear to stab outward from the shooting port.
On the 1,000-meter outer wall, there are 200 sidecars with their buttocks facing outward. There are six people in the car, who are responsible for operating the cannons and shooting firecrackers.
The five-meter steel plate wall between the two vehicles was left to the militia group to defend.
The militia group was divided into three waves and took turns climbing the wall. Each wave lasts for half an hour to maintain physical strength. Defending a city is very physically demanding work.
Yang Fan's troops are enough to cover every meter of the wall, and there are two soldiers at the top and bottom in three shifts.
From the highest point of the mound, Yang Fan looked at the Mongolian infantry approaching in darkness, and took a deep breath. Today, it is still a bit risky to put all the militiamen who have no war experience on the city wall for defense.
However, Yang Fan was not afraid. After all, there were so many artillery pieces, as well as gunpowder-propelled grenades and hand grenades from the grenadier camp. If they couldn't withstand it anymore, they would go up and bombard them randomly, but they were repelled no matter what.
This opportunity is rare, just to train these militiamen.
After all, the militia is a reserve force. If there is a need to expand the army in the future, priority will be given to recruiting experienced veterans who have been on the battlefield.
At this time, the Mongolians increased their speed and began to trot.
The officers of each squad were shouting: "Don't fire, obey the order. Fire uniformly. Anyone who disobeys the order will be beaten with a military stick."
To make up for yesterday’s chapter, there are two more chapters today.
