At this moment, Arutai is confident that the Ming army has fallen into a trap!
Benya did not expect that the clever Zhu Di would sneak into this preset battlefield without any precautions.
underestimate the enemy!
This is probably a common problem among military generals who achieve great success.
Back then, Xu Da wanted to completely eliminate the main force of Yuan Ting, but he also underestimated the enemy, which led to a disastrous defeat. Zhu Di's talents are not as good as Xu Da's, but his ability to underestimate the enemy is no less than Xu Da's.
That's fine, Zhu Di brought the Ming Dynasty's capital army, the absolute main force. Once these people die here and suddenly become hypothermic, the decline of the Ming Dynasty is foreseeable.
Benya looked at Arutai, then looked sideways at the setting sun, and asked, "Why haven't you attacked yet?"
Arutai chuckled and said nothing. It was not until the sergeant came to report that Angkeboluo and Malaqin had blocked the Ming army's retreat, that Fang raised his hand and said in a deep voice: "Blow the horn!"
Woo, woo!
The heavy horn rang in the mountains, passed through the jungle, and blended into the cold wind.
War horses jumped out one after another, appeared on the hillside from behind the mountain, drew their sabers, and their fighting spirit rose.
The horses neighed and the people were speechless.
Silent sergeants, silent Tatar elites, like eagles watching the prey below, this is a group of lambs!
Zhu Di was sitting in the middle of the army and said to Tie Xuan, Xuan Qingshu and others on the side: "Eleven years ago, faced with such a situation, I would have been at a loss. I would have led the army to break out and sacrificed countless sergeants to escape. But now Eleven years after the Jianwen Dynasty, the situation was completely different from that of the Hongwu Dynasty. The emperor was right, the era of cold weapons would eventually give way to hot weapons. The poor thing about the Tatar cavalry was that they still didn’t know how far the Ming Dynasty’s army had developed. , I don’t know where Ming’s technology has developed!”
Tie Xuan looked at Zhu Di bitterly: "To be honest, although I have been in charge of the Ministry of War for many years, and have been in the cabinet, and have the right to read all kinds of documents, I still only know half a dozen of the progress and achievements of firearms, but I don't know half a dozen."
Zhu Di's eyes were deep and the corner of his mouth twitched: "I heard that when quelling the rebellion of King Dai, the emperor used a special type of firecrackers, which can be used to hit wherever you point. Its accuracy far exceeds that of firecrackers. It can be seen that in the Second Artillery Bureau, there are already More advanced firearms have appeared. Not to mention that Iron Pavilion is ignorant of Qi Ba, so is this commander. The establishment of the Craftsman Academy, the Second Artillery Bureau, and a series of factories have made the research on firearms more in-depth. There are rumors that the Second Artillery Bureau is working on Looking for other substances, I want to improve gunpowder and create a divine machine gun that can hit ten miles away."
Tie Xuan, Xuan Qingshu and others nodded slightly.
These news are not groundless, but real. It can even be said that they are news that came out after the Second Artillery Bureau was instructed.
Zhu Kan turned his attention to Qiu Fu: "The war is about to begin, let's raise the hot air balloon!"
Qiu Fu took the order.
Then the sound of drums came out, and after a burst of rapid drum beats, there was a rhythmic beat of one point after another.
When the front and rear and left and right armies heard the news, a group of special craftsmen, all dressed in tight clothes and with their hands wrapped in cloth, tore open a large piece of cloth with a radius of nearly ten feet, and a bamboo basket that could accommodate six sergeants was tied up. Getting up, the craftsman blew the fire stick and lit a device similar to an oil lamp.
This is not an ordinary oil lamp, but a special oil lamp made by the craftsman academy after thousands of experiments. Not only can the nozzle be adjusted, but it can also make it leak-proof at all. Inside the fixed oil lamp was a mixture of nearly a hundred kilograms of black oil and alcohol.
When the fire was ignited, the oversized fabric was ripped apart.
As the flames burned, the fabric began to bulge, as if it had been blown with air and began to expand.
Shocking shouts of killing began to be heard in the distance. The Tatar cavalry had already begun to charge, and they were only three miles away from the Ming army's camp!
The craftsman did not panic and continued to operate on his own.
As the cloth was stretched open, the sergeant entered the bamboo basket, and the bamboo basket began to shake, and was pulled up little by little, off the ground. However, the bamboo basket was only half a person's height above the ground and was held by two thick ropes.
A group of sergeants pulled the rope and slowly released it, and the bamboo basket began to rise into the air.
In the huge military formation, pieces of cloth stretched into the air. Under the baking of the flames, the patterns on the cloth
become brighter.
Zuojun Qinglong stepped on Yun Aokong.
The white tiger in the right army roars in the mountains and forests.
The former army Suzaku rose from the fire.
The rear army's Xuanwu army is as solid as a rock.
Above the central army, there is a yellow golden dragon, giving orders to all directions!
It's just that the golden dragon in the Chinese army does not have five claws, but four claws. This is also the difference between a coach and an emperor. As a member of the royal family and a coach, Zhu Di had nothing wrong with using a four-clawed golden dragon.
The rope was hung on the ground hook and stopped ten feet above the ground.
Standing high and looking far away, the sergeant can clearly look around and broadcast the movements and troop arrangements of the Tatar army to the messenger below, who will then immediately pass the information to the general not far away.
This is something new from the Craftsman Academy. It has been secretly tested before and has not been put into actual use on the battlefield. It is said that many people sacrificed their lives for this magical cloth, and some of the surviving people were so miserable that they couldn't even wish to die. ap.
Later, Emperor Jianwen strictly ordered that no direct contact with the material be allowed with the body, and protective measures were taken. Only then were these fire-huan cloths, which were rumored to be immune to fire, produced.
This kind of thing that can fly into the sky was ruined by the lunatics from the Craftsman Academy. It is said that a few unlucky people got on this thing and floated directly from the mountains to the sea. I don’t know if they came back later...
Zhu Di knew that if it were not difficult to control the direction and was too affected by the wind, it would be a magic weapon. If a batch of these hot air balloons were released when the southeast wind blows, they would fly directly to the heads of Tatar and Wala, and drop a bunch of them. There is no need for gunpowder bombs to travel thousands of miles...
But this thing is really good. At least at this time, it can allow the Ming army to grasp the overall dynamics in a low-lying area.
The Tatar cavalry also saw something flying in the sky among the Ming army. The beast-like patterns seemed to convey a trembling coercion. Some war horses actually slowed down when they saw this!
Xu Hui, the leader of the front army, stared at the approaching Tatar cavalry and just waved the flag. The fire rifle soldiers and crossbow soldiers were all lined up. This was no longer a three-line thing, but an upgraded version of the three-line tactics. Thirty lines...
Zhou Dazhi grinned, looked at the sergeants, and shouted: "How powerful are firearms? The Second Artillery Bureau has not tested them yet. Let us give them a try. We have to tell them when we get back. Brothers, this time we Just take out all the firearms and let these ignorant *** see that the Ming Dynasty is far more powerful than they imagined!"
"Prepare!"
Xu Huizu squinted his eyes. The Tatar cavalry had reached its highest speed. There were only 500 steps left from the Ming army's camp!
This will be a peak battle, a feast of firearms!
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I need to send Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to my relatives tomorrow, so I will take a day off. Please forgive me.
