The Ming army is coming!
In the faintly discernible sky, groups of camel cavalry figures suddenly appeared in the distance. Needless to say, these camel cavalry in the lead must be Concubine Wu Liangha's ace unit - the Fire Gun Camel Soldiers!
This kind of camel soldiers formed a team of a hundred cavalry and formed a horizontal team. Under the cover of the night, they divided into two directions. One team after another rushed towards the defense line where the three Dorgon brothers were stationed.
The camel's explosive power is not strong, but now it is speeding up as much as possible under the urging of the rider. The fire gun cavalry riding on the back of the camel maintained a strange posture of holding the gun with one hand and holding the reins with the other hand while using their sleeves to cover the gunpowder pool and match rope of the turtle dove gun.
Because it was still very dark, no one could see how many camel soldiers there were. One could only see that they had once again obscured the already bright line in the eastern sky into flickering light.
The camel soldiers just surged over layer by layer like a wall!
As they got closer, the sound of camels' hooves roared like thunder, and they couldn't distinguish the points. They just rumbled together and enveloped the heads of the two white flag soldiers.
"Enemy attack! Camel soldiers!"
A Manchu soldier's shrill cry rang out.
Then more shrill shouts followed, and the sound of golden drums and horns also followed. The exhausted Eight Banners soldiers jumped up from behind the camp wall they had just piled up. Pick up your sword and shield and prepare to go into battle. After all, the Eight Banners soldiers of this era are still at their strongest state in history, and of course they are not afraid of the Mongolians' camels. Officers at all levels were even more calm and calm. They all shouted orders in an orderly manner and led their respective troops to their positions.
There were many people and horses of the Two White Flags on the battlefield of Yinmaquan, a total of 6,000 people, of whom there were about 5,000 from Zhen Manchuria!
The current Two White Banners of Manchuria are the Two Yellow Banners of Manchuria that followed Nurhachi in his eastward and westward expeditions... They are the direct subordinates of Nurhachi. Not only are there many Niulu, but each Niulu has many households and more combat effectiveness. It's extremely powerful.
In addition, since the Liangbai Banners sent out troops in an organized form this time, the original Niulu, Jiala, and Gushan formations were brought out together. Those who go into battle are all elite soldiers, father and son soldiers, brother soldiers, who know each other and are united. It's completely different from Ding Chengjun, who was able to track down three or five people.
Dorgon also reacted and ordered loudly in a hoarse voice: "Each Niulu will draw three people to watch the formation, and the rest will hide behind the camp wall to avoid the gunfire!
Send an order to the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery team, and when the enemy comes within 100 steps, use iron to kill them!
In addition, bows, arrows, and muskets are not allowed to be fired indiscriminately. Today's battle will probably last a long time, so you have to save some strength, arrowheads, and gunpowder!
Inform all Niulu, General Benbeile, and those who retreat will be killed without mercy! "
Most of the white-armored soldiers behind Dorgon responded loudly and left, conveying the order of the banner leader Beile to various Gushan, Jiala, and Niulu.
After Dorgon conveyed the order, he said to the two brothers: "Brother Twelve, go and stare at the white flag. Old Fifteen, go and stare at the white flag... Remember, the white flag in your hands is The armored soldiers must be retained! No matter how difficult it is, they cannot be used!"
There are many Niu Lu in the Two White Banners, so of course there are also many white-armored soldiers. There are hundreds of white-armored soldiers in the Two White Banners alone in Manchuria. This time, the three Dorgon brothers brought out a total of 300 white-armored soldiers, each of whom was responsible for 100 men. This was the capital for the three of them to save their lives!
Don’t waste it casually!
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"Zhang Xiaoqi, the cowhide is strong... No, is the cowhide strong?"
"It's strong! It's strong! It's strong! It's strong!"
"Okay! I'll leave this cowhide cannon to you!"
"嗻!"
Zhang Xiaoqi, who followed Fan Wencai from being a soldier to the Han army, has recently been promoted a little bit, from an archery firearms soldier to a gunner.
For an ordinary Eight Banners Han Army soldier, there is no one better than a gunner, and there is no one worse than a gunner.
The reason why I say this is because the gunner has the highest status among the soldiers of the Eight Banners Han Army, and of course he gets the most benefits. But ever since Tong Yangxing, who deserved a thousand cuts, "invented" the cowhide cannon, Wu Zhenchaoha's gunners have been in bad luck.
Because wrapping cowhide around the thin "gun core" to strengthen the artillery, the method to prevent the barrel from exploding is very unreliable... Even Tong Yangxing himself, who invented this method, has little confidence.
Just look at the fortifications he prescribed for the cowhide cannon. Sandbags were piled up on the front, back, left and right! The cowhide cannon and the cowhide gunner were operating in this circle of sandbags. If anything happens, the gunners like them just have to be loyal to the Kingdom of Jin, but don't implicate others.
If not, how could Zhang Xiaoqi, who had no backing (Fan Wencai didn't count), become this dangerous and frustrated gunner?
Oh, being angry has little to do with being a gunner. The main reason is that the artillery team Zhang Xiaoqi was in was temporarily handed over to Dorgon for command, and Dorgon sent his own capable and powerful Zhangjing Cao Zhenyan to take charge of the artillery team. 4 cannons (4 cannons assigned to Zhengbai Banner).
This Cao Zhenyan is actually an old man of the Wu Zhen Chao Ha Army. When the U Zhen Chao Ha Army was established, he joined it. But he is not the Eight Banners Han Army, but a coated slave with a lower status than the Han Army, and he is still a coated slave now.
But this coated slave is not an ordinary coated slave, but a big slave! He is Dorgon's direct slave, and he also has an official position - Zhengbai Qigong Niu Lu Zhangjing.
A slave takes his place, and even if you ask him to carry the flag, he will not carry it. It is much more comfortable to follow Dorgon as a coater than the ordinary Han army. So what if the status is low? The ordinary Han army, Korean army, and even the Mongolian army have to treat him as their boss!
If you want to be on an equal footing with Cao Da's slave, you have to be carried to the Eight Banners of Manchuria... Such a noble Cao Da's slave will certainly not be too close to the cowhide cannon. Although he is in charge of 4 cowhide cannons, he still can't Dare to be with the cannon, but command from a distance with a red flag.
Raise the red flag before firing!
Zhang Xiaoqi and four other gunners huddled together in a small anti-gun bunker (not against other people's guns, but against their own guns), guarding a cowhide cannon wrapped in cowhide...
At this time, the sky was getting brighter again, and the camel soldiers on the opposite side were getting closer and closer, reaching a hundred steps away from Zhang Xiaoqi's position.
"Red flag! The red flag is raised!"
Someone yelled in his ear. Zhang Xiaoqi looked back and saw that 20 steps away, a red flag embroidered with the word "cannon" in white had been erected.
"God bless, Grandpa the Artillery God bless, Grandpa Cowhide bless..." Zhang Xiaoqi muttered something in his mouth, prayed a few times, and then nodded to several gunners who looked as pale as him, "Light, light the fire! "
"嗻!"
"Boom, boom, boom, boom..."
The cattle-hide cannon of the Great Jin Kingdom finally fired, and what was shot out were dozens or hundreds of small iron pieces... As soon as the cannon was fired, a few camels fell down a hundred steps away, making miserable sounds. Neighing!
The cowhide cannon is still awesome! After all, there are five or six kilograms of bullet weight lying there.
At least when it was first put into use, it was awesome!
The roar of the cowhide cannons reached the formation where the Imperial Concubine Wu Liangha had just set up. The Imperial Concubine was no longer an amateur with weapons such as artillery. When she stretched her ears and listened, she knew that those artillery were not tiger squatting cannons or squatting cannons. 3-pound cannon, but a cannon with a heavier bullet weight.
The eldest concubine's brows furrowed, and her eyes swept across the formation and landed on Sun Dapao's face.
"Counsellor Sun (Sun Yuanhua's official position is the artillery counselor of the Zhangqian Army)," Wu Liangha asked, "Long Live the Lord, what new test cannon did you bring? Where is it? Can it be taken out for use?"
Sun Yuanhua smiled and pointed at a row of very slender and very light four-wheeled carriages placed outside the formation, "Grand Imperial Concubine, those are the ones!"
"These are cannons?" Imperial Concubine Wu Liangha was stunned, "Why is there no cannon barrel?"
Sun Yuanhua said: "My dearest concubine, these artillery pieces are called rocket launchers. They do not have barrels, only a launcher."
