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Chapter 87 Zazuo

 "Report, the Ming army is still five miles away from our army."

"Explore again!"

"Here!"

King Li Dingguo of Anxi, who has bright eyebrows and starry eyes, a heroic spirit, a dark complexion, and a sense of battle on the battlefield, is mobilizing his troops.

Li Dingguo, courtesy name Hongyuan, is only twenty-six years old this year. Although he looks young, he has been fighting for sixteen years. When he was ten years old, he could not survive and joined Zhang Xianzhong's rebel army. Zhang Xianzhong saw his extraordinary appearance.

Adopted as an adopted son.

Zhang Xianzhong had many adopted children, but only four survived: the eldest, Sun Kewang, the second, Li Dingguo, the third, Liu Wenxiu, and the fourth, Ai Nengqi.

"Report, our army's scouts have engaged the Western bandits, and the main force of the Western bandits is still five miles away from our army."

"Prepare the formation!"

"Here!"

Zhu Hengjia's army arrived at the outskirts of Zazuo City.

One after another, seven-foot-five-inch (2.5 meters, this height is the height of the carriage, the wheels are only over 1 meter high) stopped.

In order to prevent the cattle from being frightened during combat, and to make it easier to change formations, when approaching the enemy, the sergeants took out the cattle pulling the carts and replaced them with human push and pull.

The military formation of the Ming army was divided into three formations, left, middle and right, with each formation having five levels.

The first floor is the gunmen, divided into three rows.

These gunmen carry swords on their waists and carry small bucklers on their backs. They are both gunmen and shieldmen. Zhu Hengjia canceled the specialized sword and shield soldiers and changed them into comprehensive arms. In order to save the physical strength of the soldiers, each team has five soldiers.

, there is also an auxiliary soldier who pushes the cart and loads the weapons and armor of the soldiers. When the enemy approaches, the soldiers don their armor and wield swords.

The second floor is a sidecar carrying a thousand-pound Fran machine gun. This gun has a range of up to two miles. It is mounted on a seven-foot-five-inch high sidecar and faces the enemy at the front.

The third layer is a sidecar carrying a squatting tiger cannon. Each vehicle is equipped with two squatting tiger cannons on the body to face the enemy from the side.

The fourth floor is a sidecar loaded with rockets. These rockets have a range of more than two hundred steps, and the front of the car is facing the enemy.

The fifth floor is Zhu Hengjia's personal guards, infantry, and cavalry.

A giant high platform cart that is one foot and three feet high is particularly eye-catching. Unlike the two-wheeled sidecar, this cart has four wheels and is not pulled by oxen, but by horses. A large dragon scroll is inserted in the center, fluttering in the wind.

This is Zhu Hengjia's royal chariot, which is also the command chariot of the entire army. The chariot is covered with large and small command flags.

The royal chariot pulled by eight horses passed in front of the formation, and then followed the reserved passage to the center of the fifth floor and stopped.

The five-clawed golden dragon on the Panlong scroll is embroidered so lifelike that it spreads its teeth and claws in the strong wind, making it very majestic.

"Chitose!" "Chitose!" "Chitose!"

Seeing this dragon-coiled banner, the morale of the Ming army officers was greatly boosted, and they shouted a thousand years ago and prepared for battle.

You have the king's flag, and I have the handsome flag.

On the opposite side of the Daxi Army, Li Dingguo, the king of Anxi, galloped in front of the formation to boost morale. The flag officer followed closely, holding the Chinese army's big banner.

"All troops advance!" The flags flew and Li Dingguo issued the military order.

"Stop!"

The Daxi Army stopped more than two miles away from the Ming Army. Li Dingguo was experienced in combat, and this distance was just outside the range of the Ming Army's artillery.

"Your Majesty, this seems to be a military camp, it's difficult to deal with." General Zhang Hualong said to Li Dingguo.

Although the vehicle and artillery battalions of the Ming Dynasty were famous all over the world, they were mostly used in the north and the flat areas of the Central Plains. The south was mountainous and hilly, so they were not used much. The Western Army only encountered them when they attacked Xiangyang.

If you were Li Zicheng's Dashun Army, you would be very familiar with this kind of chariot camp. Back then, Sun Chuanting brought the chariot and artillery battalion to fight against Li Zicheng from Shaanxi. He won ten battles in ten battles and made the invading army frightened. Unfortunately, there was no food in Henan, and Sun Chuanting ran out of food and collapsed. Otherwise, whether Li Zicheng can enter Beijing is really a question.

Li Dingguo observed the Ming army's battle formation: on the left were Dingbei Hou Fan Youxian's troops with 15,000 men; in the middle were Zhu Hengjia's Chinese army with 30,000 men; on the right were deputy general Wang Xiang's 15,000 men. The formation was neat and silent.< /p>

Such a strong army!

Li Dingguo ordered generals Gao Minggui and Qi Sansheng to lead an army of six thousand to tentatively attack the central army of the Ming army.

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On the royal carriage of the Ming army, Zhu Hengjia was observing the enemy's situation with Dongge University scholar He Wuzou and Zheng Feng.

Zheng Feng is Zhu Hengjia’s think tank, so naturally he should be taken with him.

He Wuzou was a famous writer and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Hengjia was counting on him to write a masterpiece such as "Jing Jianguo's Pursuit of Thieves" so that he could be famous throughout the ages and be famous for generations to come!

He Wuzou was a little nervous when he went to the battlefield for the first time: "The Daxi Army is also powerful in supervising the country, why not appease it?"

"Gu also wanted to appease them, but Sun Kewang was too ambitious and wanted to be a duke. Among Gu's old tribe, only the ones with the highest military merits were granted the title of marquis. They wanted to be granted the title of duke even before they had achieved any merit. How can such a good thing happen in the world? If we can’t agree, we can only fight!”

Zheng Feng smiled: "First fight to scare his mind, then use it. It's a good way to supervise the country!"

Zhu Hengjia laughed: "Zheng Qing is the one who knows how to be lonely!"

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The vanguard of the Daxi Army entered the firing range of the Ming Army's second-tier Fran machine gun.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" There were several loud noises, and the gun test was completed.

Zhao Erhu, deputy general of the vehicle and artillery battalion, waved his flag, and one hundred and fifty sidecars and one hundred and fifty thousand-jin Fran machine guns began to roar.

These guns are mounted on a frame that is more than one meter high (the side of the sidecar with the carriage is 2.5 meters high, and the frame on which the guns are mounted is only more than one meter high). The gun barrels are fired upwards, so they will not accidentally damage the first enemy. Layer of gunmen.

Following sharp whistles, one black cloud after another bloomed among the soldiers of the Western Army, and one soldier after another was overturned.

"Four hundred and fifty steps!"

"Flanji Camp withdraws, Tiger Camp prepares!"

As Zhao Erhu's flag waved, the Fran machine gun battalion on the second floor retreated along the reserved passage to the fifth floor where Zhu Hengjia was.

The soldiers pushed the sidecar and turned it around so that the side of the car faced the enemy. They unloaded the artillery and replaced it with six gunners. There were six shooting ports on the four-meter-long car, and each gunman stood behind the shooting port.

A gunman. The two-meter-high carriage is like a city wall. The gunman is fully protected except for his face and head, and he shoots outwards along the shooting port.

One hundred and fifty sidecars, each with a hook on the shaft, and every two cars are hooked together to form a simple "city wall" in 75 sections, each section is nearly nine meters long.

"There is a gap of one foot wide between the two sides. When defending, a carbine gun one foot wide is set up in this gap. Twelve long guns are placed in each of them. There is a gunman behind the carbine gun. When attacking, move the carbine gun away.

Horses, infantry and cavalry troops rushed out from the interval.

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Soon, one hundred and fifty sidecars formed a 900-meter-long "city wall" to the north of Zhu Hengjia's command vehicle. The Ming army also surrounded the carriages with cotton tents on top and bottom to avoid arrows and rocks;

It was a sidecar, and two antlers were set up ten meters in front of the car to block the enemy.

"Four hundred and twenty steps!"

"Tiger crouching cannon ready!"

"Four hundred steps!"

"Shoot!"

One hundred and fifty sidecars and three hundred tigers crouched. When they fired, they fired like a pack of tigers roaring in the forest. They fired a single salvo, whizzing out countless small and large shotguns.

This ancient mortar mainly focuses on deflection. In one shot, it can shoot one 30-pound lead bullet and one hundred small lead or pebbles weighing 5 cents. Although it is not as powerful as the thousand-pound Fran machine gun, it is

Large killing radius.

Thousands of bullets were fired, and the charging Daxi Army fell again.

"Two hundred and fifty steps!"

"Tiger Crouching Camp withdraws!"

Upon seeing the flag, they moved to camp one hundred and fifty sidecars. Along the reserved passage, one after another "knotted" to the east of Zhu Hengjia's command car.

Soon, a 900-meter-long simple east "city wall" was completed.

"Two hundred and thirty steps!"

"Rocket ready!"

"Two hundred and twenty steps!"

"Shoot!"

The Ming army lit up three hundred "hundred tigers running together" and "swarm of bees". These rockets had extremely poor accuracy, but they were large in number and could shoot thousands of them. A blind cat would always hit a dead mouse, and their power was comparable to that of a bow and arrow.

There are too many. But if you are hit by an arrow, it is extremely difficult to survive.

After the bombardment, Li Dingguo's face was ashen, and nearly half of the six thousand vanguards fell.

"Your Majesty, the Ming army's cannons and artillery are too powerful, please ask the soldiers to withdraw." Generals Wang Dingguo and Zhang Hualong knelt down to beg for mercy.

"Withdraw? How can we test the opponent's trump card if we withdraw?" Li Dingguo gritted his teeth and ordered to continue the attack.

Looking at King Anxi's command flag, Gao Minggui, Qi Sansheng gritted his teeth and charged quickly.

At this time, the 300 sidecars of the Ming Army's Rocket Battalion had already formed a 900-meter wall to the west and south of Zhu Hengjia along the reserved passage. The "city" was built.

One hundred and fifty cars, 900 meters long.

"The enemy has reached one hundred and ten steps!"

"The first row is ready!"

"Ninety steps!"

"Shoot!"

Three rows of gunmen, each with 4,800 people.

After the first row has finished shooting, retreat to the back of the third row.

Then the second row shoots and the third row prepares??

Row after row, forming a hail of bullets, killing the enemy.

This kind of three-stage shooting is not a new tactic. The Ming Dynasty's "Military Bei Zhi" records that Li Rusong used it in Korea during the Wanli Period. Because the quality of the gun was too poor at that time and the effect was not good, it was not promoted. Later, Toyotomi Hideyoshi used it in Japan.

It was vigorously promoted in the West and was first used by King Frederick II of Prussia. Kong Youde and other Liao soldiers of the Sanshun King had invited Francois to teach this method when they were in Denglai. After they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they used this method.

The Dharma taught the Qing army.

In one salvo, 4,800 bullets flew out, and the Western army fell to pieces.

Second round, third round, fourth round??

The Daxi Army collapsed and turned around and retreated, ignoring military orders. General Qi Sansheng was killed in battle.

Li Dingguo counted the losses and found that out of 6,000 pioneers, only a thousand were left.

"The crime will be punished by death!" Gao Minggui knelt down to plead guilty,

"It's not your fault that the army's guns and artillery are too powerful. Go down and have a rest."

Although he lost more than 4,000 soldiers, Li Dingguo achieved his goal. He saw the Ming army's trump card: the "city" behind the gunman.

"Withdraw!" Li Dingguo didn't hesitate and left immediately.

The timing was chosen well. The Ming army's cavalry and pikemen were all in the "city", and the gunners had not returned to the team yet.

By the time the Ming army's gunners returned to their positions and formed formations to pursue him, Li Dingguo had already withdrawn from the battlefield.

??

On the command platform of the Ming army, Zheng Feng smiled and said to Zhu Hengjia: "This man seems to want to surrender. Why doesn't the supervisor persuade him to surrender?"

"Oh, how could Zheng Qing tell?"

"You will retreat immediately after a small setback, and you will not have enough fighting spirit."

"Well, let's send someone to try to caress him."

Zhu Hengjia sent someone to persuade Li Dingguo to surrender. Li Dingguo told the envoy that he had long wanted to return to the Ming Dynasty. He was just four brothers who lived and died together. He was unwilling to surrender alone and was willing to go to Longchang Station to persuade Sun Kewang to surrender together.

Zhu Hengjia did not dissuade him and patiently waited for the news.


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