Chapter 090
Just when Ning Haijun's artillery started to light the fuses, the Jiannu cavalry, which was originally in a dense formation, suddenly dispersed. The entire cavalry charge formation of more than 300 cavalry suddenly expanded by nearly ten times.
The distance between the Jiannu cavalry and the cavalry expanded to more than ten meters, and their bodies were almost pressed against the horse's back, and their hands hugged the horse's neck tightly.
Cheng Shijie felt a little regretful when he saw this scene. With such a loose formation, not to mention the French artillery shells fired, even the howitzers of later generations, as long as they were not of large caliber, would have very limited damage to this cavalry.
as expected.
A cannonball flew over, hit the ground and bounced up, breaking the head of a Jiannu cavalry into pieces. It penetrated the chest of a cavalryman behind with blood and flesh, fell to the ground, bounced up again, and hit a war horse. The horse's neck suddenly came down.
Although this one shell caused three kills, some of the other shells missed, and some only killed one. The eight shells only caused the casualties of a dozen cavalrymen in the Jiannu cavalry formation, and this was without any miss. , these Jiannu cavalry watched the cannonballs flying by, blowing up the bodies of the people around them, but they turned a blind eye and accelerated their charge.
Even though there were less than three hundred Jiannu cavalry, they still created the momentum of thousands of troops. The speed became faster and faster, and the kinetic energy became stronger and stronger. In the end, it was like lightning, with countless horse hooves raised high and then falling heavily. The sound is like thunder, making people change their color!
It's just a pity that the Franco machine artillery equipped by Ning Haijun is not the kind of artillery that only has a range of three or four hundred steps, but has a range of more than 1,300 steps.
Speaking of which, Sun Yuanhua's contribution is still huge. His improved and invented wedge-type structure of the Folang machine gun almost allowed the Folan machine gun to have the range of the medium-sized Hongyi cannon, but still maintained the firing speed of the Folan machine gun. .
"Boom boom boom..."
When the Jiannu cavalry charged less than 800 steps in front of Ning Haijun's formation, the second round of artillery bombardment by Franco's artillery officially started. Since the distance this time was closer and the kinetic energy of the shells was stronger, the casualties of this Jiannu cavalry also increased. is continuing to rise.
Although he saw another twenty or thirty Jiannu cavalry falling from their horses, Azig was not worried about the casualties of his troops, but was even happier.
In his understanding, the Ming army's artillery fire rate was extremely slow. There were eight artillery pieces in the first round, and eight pieces in the second round. The shooting interval between the two rounds of artillery was only a dozen breaths. In such a short period of time, , it is only possible that sixteen artillery pieces were fired one after another.
"Get rich!"
Azig's eyes flashed with green light, three to four thousand sets of armor, plus sixteen artillery pieces, this was a lot of money. Although the Eight Banners established as slaves had a standard full strength of 7,500 people. This is actually a theoretical number.
Before Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, the three strongest brothers of the Eight Banners were actually the Azige brothers. They controlled a total of 65 Niulu, followed by Daishan, who controlled 51 Niulu, and Amin. , he has thirty-three Niu Lu, Sanbeile Mangguertai has twenty-five Niu Lu, and Huang Taiji has eighteen Niu Lu.
Before he succeeded to the throne, Huang Taiji was actually only a little better than Azige. Azige had fifteen Niulu at that time. But now, Huang Taiji, the leader of the Zhenghuang Banner, plus Hauge, the leader of the Xianghuang Banner, father and son The two mastered a total of 115 Niu Lu (117 when Huang Taiji died)
Huang Taiji was a political master. He first promoted Dorgon, the youngest of the three Azige brothers, and made Dorgon the leader of the Zhengbai Banner and Azige the leader of the Bordered White Banner. However, the Bordered White Banner only There are twenty-five Niulu, while Duduo and Dorgon hold 30 Niulu and 33 Niulu respectively.
Azig, who was the oldest and had the most credit, became the last among the three brothers. This also planted the seeds for Azig and Dorgon to turn against each other.
The Jiannu who won the Battle of Dalinghe were not as weak as Ming Dynasty imagined. In fact, the current number of Niulu of the Eight Banners is 115 Niulu of the two yellow flags, and 65 Niulu of the two red flags. The two blue flags were divided and combined After the suppression, there were only thirty-one Niulu left, including sixteen Niulu from Zhenglan Banner and fifteen Niulu from Xianglan Banner.
There are 309 Niulu in the Eight Banners, with a full complement of 92,700 people.
Azig was dissatisfied, but he was eager to expand his strength. He had slaves. He not only had the prisoners of war who defeated the Yehe tribe, but also the prisoners of war of the Haixi Jurchens. These prisoners of war were his own people who could be trained into slaves. , but lacks equipment, artillery equipment. In fact, Huang Taiji and the Jiannu nobles, as early as January of the third year of Chongzhen, Azige attacked Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou, which was the heavy-armed gathering place of the Ming army. In this battle, Azige captured more than 5,000 Ming troops, including More than 200 artillery pieces of various types were seized.
Huang Taiji actually did not like these artillery pieces, but as Sun Chengzong took over the command of the Ming army, he divided the Ming armies under the jurisdiction of the Sixth Route Army, guarded the two wings with vehicle formations, and used artillery as the vanguard, leaving Huang Taiji very passive. At that time, Huang Taiji had already attached great importance to artillery.
In the Battle of Daling River, Huang Taiji concentrated hundreds of artillery pieces to attack Zhang Chun's chariot camp. It was the artillery's meritorious service that caused Zhang Chun's men to collapse...
For Azig, these artillery pieces were like a good rain after a long drought, and they came just in time. He had more than 13,000 Ming army prisoners in his hands, and among these prisoners there must be artillerymen of the Ming army. Azig knew these Ming army prisoners very well. As long as they were given a mouthful of food, they would be loyal and good dogs, even more loyal than Jiannu's own people.
However, what Azig did not expect was that Ning Haijun's artillery was not so easy to capture.
When the Jiannu cavalry withstood two rounds of artillery bombardment at the cost of forty or fifty casualties, they had now entered within three hundred steps in front of Ning Haijun's formation.
Artillery commander Yuan Shiliang immediately ordered: "Change to red-marked shells, quick!"
"Boom boom..."
As Ning Haijun's Folang machine gun fired its third round, this time it used explosive ammunition. This explosive ammunition is actually two different things from the howitzers of later generations. The warhead part of this kind of artillery shell is made of small lead bullets, which are glued together. When fired, the small lead bullets will disperse as the glue heats up.
It can be said that the working principle of this blooming bullet is exactly the same as that of later shotguns.
It is indeed very difficult for eight shells to hit the scattered Jiannu cavalry, but the problem is that this kind of explosive shells are different. They will form a fan-shaped strike surface within a range of fifteen to fifty meters.
The charging Jiannu cavalry began to suffer a large number of casualties. At least hundreds of Jiannu cavalry were hit by shrapnel from explosive shells. The Jiannu cavalry and horses in the front rows were spattered with blood stars. They screamed and hissed miserably. He fell down suddenly...
Only then did Azig realize something was wrong: "What's going on?"
Borji now saw clearly through the thick smoke of the artillery, Ning Haijun's thunder blunderbuss began to fire blunderbuss.
"Bang bang bang..."
Those Jiannu cavalry who were lucky enough not to die under the shells of artillery shells immediately encountered the rain of steel from Ning Haijun. The 32mm caliber thunderbolt hit the human torso at a distance of 120 meters. , can directly cut people in half, and now these slave cavalry are all within their effective range.
A large cloud of blood mist suddenly exploded on the bodies of the more than one hundred surviving Jiannu cavalry. This mass of blood mist was larger than that of the Folang machine cannon. These Jiannu cavalry faced a thunderbolt attack for the first time, and they suffered a huge loss immediately. They didn't even have time to retreat before they fell to the ground in grief and anger, becoming Ning Haijun's trophies.
This battle sounds slow, but in fact it takes less than a stick of incense.
After winning the first battle, Ning Haijun took advantage of the range and reorganized a group of cattle outside the range, killing all three hundred cavalry. It sounds simple, but in fact it is not simple.
After winning the first battle, the morale of Ning Haijun's officers soared to the extreme. Countless Ning Haijun raised their arms and shouted: "The commander is mighty, Ning Haijun is victorious!"
The cavalry units, which also belong to the Ning Navy's tactical order, have been acting as spectators.
Qiao Siniang next to Zhao Wencai is wearing a men's armor. In addition, in the Ming Dynasty, poor breasts were regarded as beautiful. Although Qiao Siniang is short, she is not the shortest. It just looks like she is a thin woman. Just soldiers.
Qiao Siniang said in confusion: "Jiannu is not as powerful as you say!!"
"Si Niang, you just don't know!"
Even though Qiao Siniang had fought several battles and chopped off more than a dozen heads with her own hands when she followed Kong Youde, she was really just a fledgling on the battlefield.
Lu Xincheng, the general manager next to Zhao Wencai, said: "This is also the case with our unreasonable commander!"
"Unreasonable?"
Lu Siniang was even more confused.
Zhao Wencai explained: "Our artillery fired twenty-four shells in a short period of time, eight of which were explosive shells. The manufacturing cost of a special shell is as high as fifteen taels of silver, and ordinary artillery shells are also worth seven taels." Silver, just twenty-four shells, more than two hundred taels of silver were fired!"
"Is this a war? Isn't this using money to hit people?"
Qiao Siniang was right, more than two hundred taels of silver could indeed kill several people.
Of course, Zhao Wencai's judgment was actually incorrect. The manufacturing cost of the round of artillery shells just now and the 360 rounds of bullets was as high as 350 taels of silver. There was still no middleman to make the difference, and it would be worth it in other obvious situations. In the hands of military generals, it is worth at least five hundred taels.
Cheng Shijie was willing to do so, but other Ming army generals were not willing to use money to hit the enemy.
"The whole army attacks!"
Although Cheng Shijie lacks battlefield command experience, the problem is that he knows some common sense things, such as cavalry. If the cavalry wants to increase speed, it needs at least a distance of more than three hundred steps for buffering. The main formation of the Jiannu army was in a very unfavorable uphill stage, so the charge accelerated over a longer distance.
Ning Haijun moved forward to press Jiannu, causing Jiannu to lose the buffer distance to accelerate his charge, and also to anger Jiannu. Because people can act irrationally when they are angry.
Cheng Shijie even hoped that Jiannu could launch a group charge. Only in this way could Ning Haijun's firepower advantage be fully utilized.
"go ahead!"
As Cheng Shijie's order was issued, the four headquarters and twenty divisions of Ning Haijun's Right Capital Division began to move slowly in order.
"They actually dare to launch a counterattack!"
Azig was successfully angered by Cheng Shijie, but soon Azig realized that he was originally twenty-five, and now his entire army was wiped out. If he launched an angry charge, let this Ming army use firearms. The troops caused great damage to them. I'm afraid he won't be able to explain to Huang Taiji when he goes back. Even though Fat Laoba smiles every day, the problem is that he is a poisonous snake. Amin is already unlucky, and he doesn't want to leave anything for Fat Laoba. Let's clean up his excuse.
Although Jiannu relied on their superior force, the problem was that they also knew the power of firearms. As early as the Battle of Saarhu and the Battle of Hunhe, more than 3,000 Qi soldiers used superior firepower to defeat Jiannu. Caused huge casualties. The founding generals of the Later Jin Dynasty, Yabahai, Buha, Sunzaqin, Bayan, Yamubuli, Sirtai, Lange, Dunbudaha, Mubu, Luwangge and other generals died in this battle.
It can be said that any general who built the slaves was extremely afraid of the Ming army's firearms troops.
"If they want to come in, let them in!"
Azig gritted his teeth and said, "Let's take a thousand steps back!"
The Jiannu cavalry received the order and slowly retreated. Although they only retreated a thousand steps, they gave the Jiannu cavalry a geographical advantage. Five hundred steps away was a downhill slope. A thousand steps away, it happened to be A hill that is not too high. The Jiannu cavalry can take advantage of the geographical location and quickly speed up the horses through the hillside. Not only will they not be passive, but they will have an advantage.
Zhang Yu looked delighted: "Jian Nu has retreated!"
"As soon as they retreat, we will be passive!"
Cheng Shijie looked at Ning Haijun's forwards who had received Jian Nu's body on the battlefield. His mind moved, and an idea immediately came to his mind: "Order Liu Qingsong's troops to clean up the battlefield immediately!"
Ning Haijun cleans the battlefield and has always been known as the iron broom. They were so ruthless that they would not only take away weapons and blades, but also take away the clothes from the enemy's corpse. On the battlefield, they would not even let go of the tattered clothes from the bandits.
As Liu Qingsong's Ning navy soldiers came to the corpse of Jiannu's cavalry, they chopped off the leader of Jiannu with their swords, then pulled off the clothes on the corpse, and then took Jiannu's bow, arrow, knife, gun, Iron armor, leather armor, and even the dried meat and milk pimples carried with them were all sorted, and the soldiers behind them sorted these things and loaded them into vehicles.
Ning Haijun not only saw bursts of cheers, but also used a spear to pick up Jiannu's head and ridiculed him unscrupulously.
"Father, Borzi, press them all, Ben Beile will tear them apart!"
Azig has been going smoothly, fighting Mongolia, North Korea, and the Ming Dynasty. He has never suffered a loss. He always defeated more with less, but he didn't even touch the enemy's hair. More than 300 people died. The death of more than 300 people is nothing to Azig. He can rebuild the slave record at any time.
Jiannu meant that all the people were soldiers. Although each Niu Lu had an establishment of 300 people, in fact, it was the same as the Ming Dynasty's guard station. A guard station had a full strength of 5,600 people. But in fact, any guard station had a few Even if thousands of soldiers die, as long as they have money and equipment, they can immediately replace the lost men and horses.
But the problem is that these Ming soldiers were really insulting. They stripped the corpses naked in front of the slave soldiers, leaving these corpses naked in the ice and snow.
My uncle can't bear it, but my aunt can't either.
"Master, calm down!"
Borji said nervously: "These Ming Dogs have cannons and so many muskets. It will definitely be difficult to deal with them. If we press the whole army, we can tear the Ming Dogs to pieces, but there is no such way of fighting... Master, doesn’t he always like to fight with his brain?”
As Azig's confidant, Borji knew his temper very well. Azig also had the temper of a donkey. Most people really couldn't persuade him. When his temper got worse, even a few cows couldn't pull him back. Of course, Borji can, because Borji is actually not only his subordinate, but also his uncle.
"You said, that's all?"
"No, absolutely not!"
Borji smiled and said: "Master, have you forgotten? There is another Ming army more than 20 miles south of us. These two Ming armies are in the same group. The most capable part is the top one. Those in front who cannot fight will definitely fall behind. We might as well bypass this group of Ming troops and attack their baggage troops. Once the baggage troops are destroyed, how long can they hold on without their baggage?"
Azig nodded and said: "Yes, this is exactly the tactic Ben Beile had in mind!"
"Master is wise, then you see..."
"Go ahead and give Ben Beile a break and chop off a few more Minggu's heads!"
As Jiannu detached more than 1,500 cavalry and bypassed Ning Haijun's defense line, Zhang Yu's expression changed drastically: "No, they are heading for Shen Mingyu's place!"
Although Jiannu used his riding skills to isolate the contact between Shen Mingyu and Cheng Shijie, the problem was that Jiannu didn't know that Shen Mingyu and Cheng Shijie could use radio to communicate, as long as they were not far from the mountainous area. They can contact them directly if the distance is more than 30 kilometers and no more than 50 kilometers on flat ground.
Cheng Shijie picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "Zhao Wencai!"
"The humble position is here!"
"Take the cavalry and follow us!"
"Commander..."
There was bitterness in Zhao Wencai's voice: "These more than 1,500 knights are slaves. Even if we use up all the men and horses, we still can't deal with them!"
"I don't have to deal with them. You only need to lead the cavalry to kill them. If they attack Shen Ming's troops, you can rush up and interfere with their attack. If they turn around and deal with you, you can turn around and run away. I I know you can’t defeat Jian Nu, but you can always outrun them if you run!”
"Yes, I will try my best!"
"Finally, I tell you, when the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy is stationed, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue; advance and retreat with long strides, lure the enemy deep, concentrate our forces, and defeat them one by one. Do you understand?"
"I understand the humble position!"
Ma Shilin listened to Cheng Shijie's order and secretly admired Cheng Shijie. Cheng Shijie always said in meetings with generals: "I know a little bit about military affairs!"
Cheng Shijie doesn't know anything about this, he is simply proficient.
However, Cheng Shijie is too low-key.
Ma Shilin immediately thought that the political correctness of the Ming Dynasty was to use civility to control military force. The more eye-catching Cheng Shijie showed, the more severely he would be suppressed.
As soon as Borji left with his more than 1,500 cavalry, Zhao Wencai led Ning Haijun's 2,000 cavalry to catch up.
Borji also knew that if there was a tail behind him, he would not be able to attack the Ming army's baggage force in the south, so Borji ordered: "Stop advancing and turn around..."
Just as Borji's men turned their horses around, the Ning navy cavalry also turned around. Borji led the chase for three or four miles, but saw that the Ming army cavalry was running faster and faster, and the distance was getting further and further away.
This is the most bitter advantage of Ning Haijun's cavalry. As a cavalry, if you want to run fast and far, the weight of the cavalry cannot be too heavy, otherwise the weight of the war horse will be too heavy and it will not be able to attack long distances.
Ning Haijun's cavalry were all from Kong Youde's old corps in the Dongjiang Army or from Shandong local horse farmers who were good at horseback riding. Almost all of them were skinny, but they had a weight advantage. Unlike Jiannu, Ning's navy cavalry are all as strong as cattle.
Seeing that he could not catch up with the opponent, Borji could only order with hatred: "Stop chasing!"
But when Borji just ordered to stop the pursuit, the Ning navy cavalry, which had disappeared, appeared in their sight again, so the two sides started a cavalry chase.
The two sides went back and forth, and after less than half an hour, Borji not only failed to attack Shen Mingyu's troops, but instead let Shen Mingyu and Cheng Shijie's troops meet.
When Shen Mingyu learned that the cavalry scouts had discovered that Jian Nu had appeared in southern Liaoning, he asked craftsmen and military households to attack the Jinzhou Acropolis, and on the other hand mobilized the military households of the Ning Army and Navy. After half a day, Shen Mingyu summoned the 17 hundred households that had been mobilized to farm in Jinzhou Acropolis and told them directly: "Do you want the land?"
"think!"
"Beheading a Jian slave costs fifty taels of silver, or fifty acres of land. Two can get one hundred acres of land!"
The eyes of these hundreds of farming households suddenly turned red, and they handed over the task of guarding the Jinzhou Acropolis to Zhou Yandong.
Song Xiance didn't care whether the Jinzhou Acropolis would be lost, nor did Shen Mingyu. They were Cheng Shijie's original team, which included Song Xiance, Shen Mingyu, Cheng Shi, Cheng Hu, plus Cheng Anjing and Cheng Jingjing. An Ning, Yang Yunniang and several others.
These properties were built in just over four months. As long as Cheng Shijie is here, they are not worried about the future.
Song Xiance and Shen Mingyu took all the Zuo Dusi soldiers of the Ning Navy and took the warship again, all the way north from the Bohai Bay, and arrived at Gaizhou Port to disembark.
They came here non-stop, all so tired that they stuck out their tongues. Unexpectedly, dozens of marching cauldrons rose up in the military formation on Cheng Shijie's side, and horse meat was being stewed in the cauldron.
Ning Haijun's cooks are really good at cooking. They use a small amount of seasonings, but they stew the horse meat until it is fragrant. Large pieces of horse meat are tumbling in the broth.
Cheng Shijie looked at Shen Mingyu, Song Xiance and others and said: "It's better to come early than to come by chance. The horse meat is just cooked now. Come and eat together!"
Ning Haijun started eating. Cheng Shijie arranged for Ning Haijun's soldiers to eat in batches. Each Ning Haijun soldier who received the meal got at least half a catty of horse meat. The large pieces of horse meat tasted a bit bad and had some firewood. But the problem is, these Ning Haijun soldiers are never picky eaters.
These days, food is more valuable than human life. It would be good to eat some, not to mention eating meat?
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