"Khan Ahai cursed. This is a dialect of Ordos Mongolian, and the Haraqin language is also somewhat influenced by Ordos Mongolian.
In Ordos, this sentence refers to people or things with eccentric personalities.
Mongolians in the Ordos region are very keen on using this word. The original meaning of this word is a person or animal with only one egg.
Mang Gurtai couldn't understand Mongolian, but he was a little suspicious. He didn't know whether Rashid Khan was scolding those Ming people, or whether he was scolding him for taking away his beloved monocular telescope.
Khan Ahai clearly knows the history of sidecars.
This thing was invented during the reign of Ming Dynasty Zong.
At that time, Guo Deng was defending in Datong and felt that he had no offensive ability against the Mongolian cavalry.
After all, infantry fighting cavalry is courting death. When the infantry arrived on the grassland, they had no way to fight against the cavalry.
If you win, you can't catch up. If you lose the fight, you can't run away.
How can we fight this battle?
After thinking hard, he finally figured out a way.
That is a sidecar built for defense. The sidecar he designed has a shaft length of 1.3 feet, a width of 0.9 feet, and a height of 0.75 feet. The carriage is made of thin plates, with a gun mounted on top, and can be used by 10 people.
"When they come out, the left and right sides match each other, and the front and back are connected with the hooks and rings to hold each other, and the vehicle carries clothes, food, equipment and antlers."
Soon Guo Deng tasted the benefits and sent troops to the grassland several times to achieve great success.
By moving the mobile castle to the grassland and fighting Mongolian cavalry in siege battles, it was natural to maximize its strengths and avoid its weaknesses.
This method of warfare was quickly promoted by the imperial court.
Later, sidecars were built during the Chenghua, Jiajing and Longqing years.
In the third year of Longqing (1569), Qi Jiguang built a sidecar in Jizhou. Its external form only requires one compartment facing outward, and each vehicle weighs more than 600 kilograms.
There is a horse gun in the middle of every two vehicles to fill the gaps. The upper and lower parts of the vehicle frame are surrounded by cotton tents to prevent stones from being lost.
The vehicle is equipped with two Fran machines, a thunder cannon and six rapid guns each.
Each horse-fighting gun has 12 long spears on the top, thunder cannons on the bottom, and six quick guns each. Each car has 25 pawns.
A few years ago, Sun Chengzong also developed a car camp, and the sidecars used were roughly similar to it.
Duoyan is the tribe that fought most frequently between Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty, and they are very familiar with this kind of equipment.
At that time, Qi Jiguang's heavy-duty sidecar weighed 600 kilograms and was only equipped with a large-caliber musket. Similar to a heavy matchlock gun, similar to the Japanese big barrel.
Over in Guangdong, it's called Turtle Dove Gun, carrying a gun or something like that.
And now, this car camp is unknown to which part of the Ming army. There is actually a copper-fired cannon at the rear of every vehicle.
This is a heavy artillery! The correct purpose of this thing is not to put it on the city wall. (The red cannon is a super-heavy artillery, generally weighing 2-4 tons.)
The bronze hair basket weighs more than 500 kilograms, making it a heavy cannon.
This thing is twice as heavy as the heaviest sidecar of the Ming Dynasty. How did they carry it? Aren't the wheels broken and the axles not afraid of being crushed? Aren't you afraid of crushing the draft horse to death?
Even if all of these are fine, when the cannon is fired, the huge impact will cause the carriage to scatter flowers.
At this time, Khan Ahai had a question mark on his head.
Look at the old immortal Khan Ahai in a daze. Mang Gurtai coughed heavily.
Only then did Khan Ahai come back to his senses and said anxiously: "Look clearly, in those cars, there is a copper-haired cannon in each car. Those are heavy artillery. Sanbeile, please withdraw your troops quickly, we will not fight." .”
Mang Gurtai was stunned for a moment, with an incredible expression on his face. He didn't doubt that the old guy was talking nonsense. Looking at him, he looked like a cat that had stepped on its tail, and he knew that what he said was true.
Bronze hair, can the shield car block it?
Mang Gurtai sighed, and for the first time he said to Khan Ahai in a calm tone: "Rashid Khan, at this time, it's too late to say anything. The shield chariot has already reached seventy steps in front of the muzzle. I want to withdraw." There is no way to retreat, so I have to bite the bullet and charge forward.”
Brothers Chen Li and Chen Yi used crowbars to open the shell box. Get the shells out. Arrange them one by one to facilitate the delivery of ammunition, loading, and firing.
Zhao Liangren shook the handles of the helicopter and the steering machine, adjusted the direction of the muzzle, and slowly aimed at the shield car that was squirming forward in the distance, about a hundred meters away.
"Load artillery shells, one round, spherical solid bullet." Wu Commander Zhang Ning issued the command accurately in accordance with the requirements of the artillery drill.
Loader Zhao Erhu took the artillery shell that had been sealed with oil paper from ammunition hand Chen Li, loaded it from the muzzle, and then drove it in with a long stick, directly to the bottom of the barrel.
"Install the lead!" Zhang Ning ordered.
Gunner Chen Yi used an iron pick to prick the fire door. The silk powder bag broke and the maroon propellant inside flowed out and entered the fire door.
"Are you aiming?" Zhang Ning asked.
"Aimed" shouted Zhao Liangren.
"Fire!" Zhang Ning shouted.
Gunner Chen Yi directly pressed the fire rod onto the fuse. This section of fuse was a high-speed fuse. It burned in immediately.
boom!
A burst of flames spurted out from the muzzle, and a spherical solid bullet weighing five kilograms flew out of the muzzle under the push of the bullet holder, and went straight to the shield car a hundred meters away, which was still moving forward slowly. .
The copper-fired cannon recoiled quickly. There were many small copper rings on the gun body for tying ropes. The ropes were fastened to the gun body through these copper rings, and then passed through the responsible pulley system to restrain the gun's recoil and reverse the movement of the gun. Force the cannon to reset.
With one shot. The entire sidecar shook violently, and the entire frame of the car made a heart-wrenching sound.
Limiter wooden blocks are installed underground on all four wheels, so there is no major movement of the vehicle body.
After a cannon was fired, the four people immediately pushed the cannon back to its maximum range and pushed the cannon back to the firing position.
At this time, one after another turned towards the rear of the car, with the protruding muzzles firing.
Countless muzzles were pushed out, sprayed with flames, and then took the back seat again.
For a moment, the roar of artillery resounded throughout the battlefield.
The 5.5 kilogram shell weighed a full 12 pounds, and the heavy lead balls roared towards their respective targets. The sonic boom caused by the supersonic speed of the artillery shell was deafening.
With a bang, a spherical solid bullet hit the large shield in front of the shield vehicle.
There are wooden walls made of three-inch ash hardwood at the front and back, and two layers of quilts are hung in the middle. The shield car filled with sand in the middle is like a paper lake, which was directly penetrated.
The shells penetrated without any hindrance.
The roaring heavy artillery shells directly punched a large hole with a diameter of one meter, and sawdust flew backwards like an explosion.
Aha, who was pushing the cart behind, and the Mongolian soldiers who were following to avoid missing fire guns and arrows were directly swept away by the flying sawdust. These wood chips travel faster than the speed of sound under the impact of the cannonball.
When the board cracks, it will produce countless sharp wooden thorns. When scattered at high speed, these wooden thorns have huge lethality against targets that cannot touch armor.
There were screams and wailing all over the field, and a large number of people's bodies were stabbed by wooden thorns, howling in pain.
Tu Hachao was riding on his horse. He was very proud and was about to order the ladders to climb the wall and prepare to climb the city for hand-to-hand combat. Suddenly, a change occurred. Countless cannon muzzles protruded from the wall, followed by blazing flames and countless black spheres flying outward.
He stared dumbfounded as a black sphere shattered the shield cart in front of him, then fell into the dense crowd of Mongolian soldiers behind the shield cart, smashing out a bloody alley, then jumped up again and smashed into the crowd again.
Before he could react, a spherical solid bullet that bounced repeatedly and lost kinetic energy rolled over from the ground visibly to the naked eye. It was about to stop.
The cannonball rolled in front of his horse's leg and only made contact with the horse's leg. He watched as his horse's leg was turned into a pile of flesh and blood by the slow-moving cannonball and spattered out.
With a roar, the horse fell down, and Tu Hachao was hit hard by the horse's body.
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