On the front line of Hunhe River in Liaoyang, in the Ning Navy camp, Ning Navy soldiers were talking in small groups about the good news about Xingu's high yield, about the fire ox carts in Liaodong, about who had a daughter-in-law, and whose daughter-in-law was fierce. Whose daughter-in-law is virtuous and has no sense of nervousness about the approaching war.
When Cheng Shijie arrived at the front line, he saw that Ning Haijun's soldiers were very relaxed and had no sense of frustration at the attack.
Cheng Shijie was very satisfied with the performance of Admiral Ning. A lion should be relaxed before it pounces on its prey. If it is trembling and walking on thin ice, then it is a fart hunt!
Located in front of an artillery position, except for a few sentries, most of the soldiers were sitting in the artillery cave, listening to what a young soldier was saying.
When Cheng Shijie arrived, a team member recognized Cheng Shijie and hurriedly stood up and saluted: "Commander!"
Cheng Shijie waved his hand and asked him to sit down. He looked at the soldiers with a smile and asked, "What are you talking about?"
The team member said: "Xiao Wang, you are telling us the story of Prince Yue."
Cheng Shijie said calmly: "Prince Yue... He is a very remarkable person. He has brought out a well-disciplined iron army that can compete head-on with the Jin Kingdom's cavalry on the North China Plain without falling behind. Although he He is dead, but his loyalty and his ambition to fight the enemy invaders back to his hometown will be remembered forever."
Zhongning navy officers said: "So we must learn from Prince Yue!"
"Yes, we must learn from Prince Yue and fight back all the enemy invaders who dare to step into our homeland. We are about to have a decisive battle with Jiannu. Are you nervous?"
Cheng Shijie looked at these young faces and realized that Ning Haijun's military expansion was actually very fast. Four years ago, Ning Haijun had less than 10,000 people. Three years ago, there were more than 40,000 people. Two years ago, it was close to 100,000 people. Now There are more than 300,000 horses and horses.
Captain Zheng patted the gun on his back: "You're so nervous! With such a good gun and enough ammunition, Jian Nu is nothing!"
Now Ning Haijun's equipment has changed. Originally, Ning Haijun's infantry and crossbow shooters accounted for two-thirds. Now, although the number of Ning Haijun's crossbows is still nearly 20%, most of these equipment are concentrated. In the hands of the reconnaissance force, the crossbow has a greater advantage than the firegun when it comes to detecting sentries or assassinating.
The muskets currently equipped by Ning Haijun are actually transitional products, so they are not equipped on a large scale. This type of musket is a flintlock type, with a caliber of quarter, about 12.6 millimeters.
For muskets, the caliber between 12 and 13 millimeters is ideal. If the caliber is smaller than this, the lethality will be greatly weakened. If the caliber is larger than this, the musket will become very heavy and must be mounted on a stand before it can be fired. .
After repeated experiments, the Ning Haijun Gun and Artillery Bureau determined the caliber at four points, which is 12.6 mm. This bullet is just right.
Different from ordinary firecrackers, the bullets of ordinary firecrackers are round, but this kind of bullets are cylindrical, with a sharp front and a concave back, and are wrapped with several layers of saltpeter in the middle, which is very strange.
In particular, there are four rifling lines in the barrel, and the range is much longer than that of ordinary fire guns. It can break through double-layer iron armor within a hundred steps, and can break through the three-layer iron armor of Jiannubai armor soldiers within fifty steps. In other words, , even Jiannu's most elite white-armored soldiers were defenseless in front of Ning Haijun's firecrackers.
The rate of fire of this kind of firecracker is also faster than that of ordinary firecrackers, and can even catch up with later generations of bolt-action rifles, reaching twelve to fifteen rounds per minute, and its performance is very reliable. Soldiers who have tried it said It's easy to use, has great firepower, and doesn't have much recoil.
In this battle, Ning Haijun actually participated in this new type of fire musket. Ammunition was openly supplied. Each musketeer's bullet bag contained sixty rounds of bullets. If it was a crossbowman, two pots of arrows would cost thirty Support, this is standard.
It's useless to have more, because after one battle, the crossbow machine can shoot thirty arrows, which is already very impressive.
Of course, Ning Haijun's Guns and Artillery Bureau not only launched this new type of firecrackers, but also made improvements to the Thunder Guns. First, the thirty-gun Thunderbolt Guns were simplified. It became a six-pack, and the ammunition supply method was also a revolver type, which made it more portable.
Each team now has six flintlocks, plus a six-gun, two shooters each, plus two revolvers, and is also equipped with two shields and two lances to act as cover units.
With such a firepower configuration, Ning Haijun's close combat is still very poor. Of course, Cheng Shijie is not equipped with a bayonet, because even if it is equipped with a bayonet, the length of the flintlock gun with the bayonet is just over 1.8 meters. In later wars, with such The bayonet stabbing is not a disadvantage, but the problem is that this is the last afterglow of the cold weapon. There are a large number of spearmen in the slave army, and the spears are generally more than two and a half meters long.
Cheng Shijie equipped Ning's navy officers with a revolver. The revolver has six bullets. If the bullets are used up, they can use an engineer's shovel imitating the Type 65 for close combat. The engineer's shovel is 60 centimeters long and has an excellent steel mouth. It has two sides. The shovel head is triangular and very sharp. If you hold it with both hands, it is like an axe. If you swing it on the shoulder, the whole arm will fall off. If you swing it on the leg, the leg will be broken in two. It is very useful. very.
With such sophisticated weapons and equipment, and well fed and clothed, the morale of Ning's navy officers was extremely high. In the past, they had never had the chance to fight against the slaves, but now they were eager to rush forward and tear them apart!
Now that the decisive battle was finally about to begin, they relaxed, chatting about their daily routines, driving while driving, and telling nonsensical jokes. There was no sense of tension at all about the impending war.
Cheng Shijie chatted with the soldiers for a while. He was deeply satisfied to see the soldiers so relaxed. He gave a few instructions and then came to the forefront.
The forward position was only about a hundred steps away from Jiannu. At this distance, countless sharpshooters and crossbowmen aimed at the opposite side. As long as Jiannu dared to show his head, they would fire freely.
Cheng Shijie looked at Jiannu's defense line and frowned slightly.
This kind of trench is actually quite disgusting. It will prevent the side with the firepower advantage from exerting its firepower advantage. Although Jiannu's firepower counterattack is not as intensive as that of the Ning Navy, the problem is that most of them are superior archers. They are on the breastworks. There is no need to reveal the head at the end. You can use bows and arrows to shoot down the attacking Ning navy soldiers.
Everyone will learn in war. If four years ago, Jiannu would have been very panicked when Ning Haijun's artillery was fired. Now they seem to have become accustomed to surviving in Ning Haijun's artillery fire.
The Jiannu soldiers under Hu Erqi held an iron trumpet and shouted to the Jiannu: "Brothers, stop struggling. The Ming Dynasty is more powerful than you think. You can't defeat the Ming Dynasty. You will never win this war. Smart If you say so, surrender, surrender to the Ming Dynasty, let bygones be bygones, you can have enough to eat every day...you don’t have to worry about the cold anymore!”
Although Cheng Shijie could not understand the Jurchen language, he also knew that this was a psychological attack. There were many such Jurchen soldiers in the Ning Haijun Army. They participated in combat as soon as possible and now serve as propaganda.
Yue Tuo heard the Jurchen language coming from his ears and his teeth itched with hatred.
In these propaganda slogans of establishing slaves, there is so much food in Liaodong that you can eat it all, there is so much cotton in Liaodong that you can pile up mountains, and you can eat unlimited salt in Liaodong, so you don’t have to worry about not having enough food all year round. There is no way out for those who follow Huang Taiji to rebel against the Ming Dynasty. They starve to death every day. Their families follow Huang Taiji and can only have no clothes to cover their bodies and no food to eat. It is a futile effort.
If Huang Taiji or someone from the Aixinjueluo family can be kidnapped, Ning Haijun will be rewarded heavily...
Yue Tuo looked at the slave-building warriors around him and felt a little moved. He said angrily: "Fire the cannon, fire the cannon!"
The Han Army Flag Artillery under Yue Tuo received the order and immediately fired at the Jurchen propaganda team members at the front. Several shells flew over the trenches without causing any damage.
It can be said that the trench warfare caused earth-shattering artillery bombardment from both sides, but the losses caused were very small. Jiannu fired dozens of artillery shells, and only one shell fell in the trench of Ning Haijun.
Of course, Ning Haijun's artillery blasted over with ten times the firepower, and hundreds of artillery shells hit it, but only caused the casualties of more than a dozen Jiannu. If the Jiannu did not dig trenches and arranged their formations as before, only I was afraid that this round of shelling could kill hundreds or even thousands of them.
"How about it?"
Cheng Shijie looked at three rather strange-looking steam engine bulldozers. These bulldozers were about the size of a fifteen-horsepower four-wheel tractor in rural areas in later generations. Although the bulldozers were small and had low power, Cheng Shijie wondered whether they could level the trenches dug by the slaves. There is no bottom.
"It should be possible to report back to the commander-in-chief!"
“Can such a small fire bulldozer bulldoze the trenches where slaves were built?”
A technician smiled honestly and said: "It really can, we have already tested it!"
"That handsome guy needs to take a good look at it!"
At this time, on the Ning Haijun artillery position, the fire dragon emerged from the water, which meant that the rocket launchers were making final preparations. More than twenty six-unit rocket launchers began to fire. Half of the sky turned red, and fire dragons rose into the sky and flew towards the trench where slaves were built.
The screaming sound that makes people's scalp explode, and the dazzling firelight like meteors chasing the moon. Not to mention the killing effect, the sound and light effect alone makes people feel like they are out of their minds.
Some Jiannu soldiers were frightened and ran away. As the rocket launchers fell to the ground and exploded, orange-red fireballs exploded from the Jiannu defense line. It was a pity that these rocket launchers had very limited damage effect.
Only dozens of Jiannu were killed or injured. Yue Tuo looked at the effect of the blow and felt very proud. If they had adopted this method in the Battle of Baliwan three years ago, how many fewer people would have died. ?
As this round of rocket launchers fell, the Franco machine artillery also opened fire. For a moment, the artillery roared and smoke filled the air. Under the cover of the artillery and rocket launchers, three Fire Ox bulldozers roared and slowly drove towards Jiannu's camp. moat.
Seeing the Fire Ox bulldozer getting closer and closer, Yue Tuo became anxious: "Set the arrow, shoot the arrow!"
"Whoosh whoosh..."
The archers who built the slaves fired arrows at the Bulldozer. Arrows rained down for a while, but when the arrows landed on the Bulldozer, they would fall to the ground. If you want to shoot an ordinary car with a bow and arrow, use the "Little Days" series of With thin-skin coffins, penetration is not a big problem.
But the problem is that the oxcarts of these eras have an obvious industrial style, especially the casing of the steam engine, which is made of thick steel plates and there is no possibility of being shot through.
Some Han army flag fire guns also fired, but the result was the same, only leaving a shallow mark on the fire bulldozer.
Of course, Ning Haijun's gunmen and crossbowmen were not experienced. They kept staring at Jiannu. As soon as Jiannu showed his head, a row of bullets flew over, and screams continued. Seventy or eighty Jiannu firemen The gunman was shot in the face and fell down screaming.
Yue Tuo looked at this scene and felt a huge loss.
The range of Ning Haijun's fire muskets was more than three times that of Jiannu's matchlocks. Letting Jiannu and Ning Haijun's officers shoot at each other was almost like forcing the musketeers to commit suicide.
Soon a Fire Ox bulldozer arrived in front of the first trench. The bulldozer was operated and pushed a pile of soil into the trench. Then the bulldozer retreated, and then the second bulldozer started.
In Cheng Shijie's opinion, this bulldozer is almost like a big toy. It can only push one or two hundred kilograms of soil into the trench at a time, and it is also very slow.
But the problem is, this bulldozer filled the first trench at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Yue Tuo hurriedly commanded: "Fire, use artillery!"
The artilleryman of the Han Army Flag looked as if he was constipated. Although the army's artillery was more accurate than the navy's naval guns, the problem was that the muzzle velocity of the shells was low, and the solid shells could only cause damage if they hit directly. , and those fire bulldozers are always moving.
It is very difficult to hit such a target. Let alone them, even the artillery of the Ning Navy, if they do not fire explosive ammunition, it is also very difficult to rely on ordinary live ammunition to hit a moving target.
But Yue Tuo's order had to be carried out. They only had to fire at the moving fire bulldozers. However, when they fired, the artillerymen of the Ning Navy also discovered the coordinates of the Jiannu artillery position, which immediately triggered an overwhelming of bombing.
The most terrible thing is that Jiannu's luck was so bad. When Ning Haijun's rocket launchers were bombarding Jiannu's artillery position, a rocket shell was about to hit, and the rocket shell detonated Jiannu's gunpowder barrel.
Buckets of gunpowder exploded, and the living and dead who had no time to escape were thrown into the air. The soldiers Rao Jiannu were all veterans of hundreds of battles, and they couldn't help but change their colors in horror when they saw the purgatory-like sea of fire!
Faced with the double blow of Ning Haijun's artillery and rocket launchers, the Jiannu soldiers had no choice but to get into the holes they dug to see the artillery fire.
Just when Jiannu was hiding in the defense cave, three fire bulldozers finally filled up a trench about ten steps wide. Although it was still more than three feet deep, the problem was that the three-foot-deep trench could no longer stop it. Ning Haijun charged.
At this time, Navy officers Ning regarded the three Fire Ox bulldozers as tanks. They followed the Fire Ox bulldozers directly to the first breast wall, and with the three Fire Ox bulldozers, they pushed down one breast wall.
Seeing the gap open, and before Jiannu could react, more than 300 Ning navy soldiers took out grenades and pulled the fuses. More than 300 grenades were fired at the anti-gun holes and trenches in Jiannu's second trench. Throw it away.
Although more than one hundred grenades were thrown away from the trench, more than two hundred grenades were still thrown into the second trench of Jiannu.
When hundreds of Jiannu saw the grenades flying in the air, they were immediately frightened. Then, before Jiannu had time to react, more than 200 grenades exploded in Jiannu's trenches. , the potent nitrocellulose turned into light and heat.
The shrapnel of the grenade and the shock wave of the explosion spread with overwhelming force, sweeping across the entire trench. No one knew what happened in the trenches at the moment before the end. Ning Haijun, who was watching nervously, felt the ground shake violently.
Immediately afterwards there was a thunderous and violent noise, lightning flashed on the ground, the earth was torn apart, and tons of soil and stones were sprayed into the sky like peanut shells swept by the strong wind. Under them, a ball of orange smoke. Flames rise from the ground...
Cheng Shijie looked at this scene, full of joy, a bit like a war in later generations.
However, Shen Mingyu commanded Ning Haijun to move the flying thunder cannon forward and bury the flying thunder cannon position in front of the second parapet just occupied.
The firing range of the thunder cannon was very short, and under normal circumstances could not reach the second or third trenches of the slaves. Their ability to penetrate the first trench was of little use because there were no soldiers of the slaves in it. ,
As the deployment of the sixteen thunder cannons was completed, Navy officer Ning lit the fuse of the explosive cannon, then covered his ears and ran back.
"Dong dong dong..."
The dull sound of thunder cannons sounded, and sixteen packs of explosives flew towards Xuan'er towards the third trench of establishing slaves. Each thunder shell was as powerful as a heavy howitzer shell, especially when it landed on Explosive packs in trenches, the power of explosive cannons in narrow trenches increases exponentially.
Yue Tuo stared stupidly at the smoke and fire rising twenty to thirty meters from the third trench, feeling that there might be something wrong with his understanding of the world...
Yue Tuo's lips trembled slightly, and just as he was about to say something, the whistling sound started again, and another round of shelling came unexpectedly.
"Master, we can't let them continue fighting like this!"
Zhepo said anxiously: "We must destroy their three strange cars!"
"how to spell?"
Yue Tuo panicked a little.
Zhepo said numbly: "Use explosive packs..."
Before Zhepo Ma Gu could finish speaking, a ball of fire rose up from the trench in front. This was the scene of Ning Haijun's sulfur incendiary bomb exploding.
"Ruined!"
At this time, Jiannu was stunned.
The Jiannu soldiers were blown out of their bodies by the overwhelming artillery fire, grenades, thunder cannons and incendiary bombs. They no longer dared to hide in the artillery holes. The artillery shells could not protect against thunder bombs and grenades.
The soldiers on the front line had collapsed, and Yue Tuo was being held hostage by the guards and retreated.
Cheng Shijie watched Jian Nu fleeing. At this time, gunshots rang out, and the fire gun, which had an absolute advantage in shooting range, called out the escaped Jian Nu one by one. (End of chapter)
