Today is a rare good weather, and there is no wind.
But after all, it was already mid-October, and it was only mid-morning, so there was not a trace of heat in the sun. Zheng Sen stood on the gondola of the flying car in thin clothes, shivering from the cold.
"Damn it, it's so cold here."
Zheng Sen cursed and put his fingers to his mouth to breathe hot air.
The scholar in the same car said angrily: "Zheng Jiejian, there is a fire here."
As he spoke, the scholar vigorously pumped the bellows, and the flames ejected from the furnace became more intense, forming a long tail flame that extended into the hull of the boat.
More heat makes the car rise faster.
"Yeah, look at my brain. It's freezing in this weather."
Zheng Sen patted his forehead, turned around and leaned in front of the stove, stretching out his hand to warm himself.
However, less than half a second later, Zheng Sen suddenly turned around and looked forward again.
"Zheng Jiejian, has Jiannu arrived?" The scholar who was riding in the car was frightened when he saw this and asked.
Zheng Sen ignored his companions, just raised the telescope and pointed it to the west, and then slowly adjusted the focus. At a certain moment, the field of view of the monocular telescope finally became clear, Jianu!
Zheng Sen immediately blew the whistle.
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Hearing the whistle, Xu Yingwei, who was busy, immediately raised his head and looked up.
Gu Yanwu, Lu Xiangtong, Jiang Tianyi and other more than a dozen Qinwang scholars, as well as Xu Yinglong, Xu Laohu and other officers also gathered around.
Prince Qin had all learned sign language before.
So everyone can understand Zheng Sen's gestures.
"The slave-building army is coming from the west, about ten miles away from the battlefield."
"The strength of the troops is about 100,000, including about 20,000 cavalry."
[Note: The slave-building army has 60,000 soldiers, and there are 40,000 soldiers who are accompanying the army]
"The carriage, the side carriage, the thief, Jian Nu actually brought more than 3,000 of them."
"In addition, there are about 20,000 mules and horses. Hey, there are also about 500 camels."
"The good news is that we didn't see the Hongyi cannon, nor the Fran machine cannon. It seems that the Holy One was right. In order to speed up the march, Jiannu threw away all the heavy artillery."
"That way there shouldn't be any big problem."
"Without cannons, it is absolutely impossible for the Jiannu to break through our hollow phalanx."
After receiving Zheng Sen's sign language, Gu Yanwu, Lu Xiangtong, Jiang Tianyi and other scholars could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.
However, Xu Yingwei shook his head and said: "Don't be careless. We still need to prepare for the worst. The Jiannu Cavalry has already suffered the losses of the hollow square formation in Guting Town, so it is impossible to be unprepared this time."
After a pause, he added: "Hurry up and dig another trench outside the antlers."
Xu Yingwei's order was quickly conveyed, and the Ming army became busy again.
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Zheng Sen looked down from a height of tens of meters and could see the entire Ming army formation.
I saw that the Ming army had deployed a circle of sidecars around the central main artillery position and four hollow square formations, forming five independent but horn-like cities of sidecars.
Outside the carriage city, there is a chaotic and chaotic Jima.
These horse-fighting marching costumes are carried in sidecars and tied with hemp ropes when in use.
After setting up a layer of Juma, the Ming army still felt that it was not safe enough and began to dig trenches outside the Juma.
However, the soil in the Liaohe Plain had been frozen into lumps of iron, so it was very difficult for the soldiers of the Ming army to dig. It is estimated that they might not be able to dig three feet before the arrival of the slave army.
But even if you can only dig to a depth of two feet, it's still better than nothing.
Zheng Sen took a breath of hot air and was about to continue adjusting the focus when he suddenly noticed something unusual out of the corner of his eye.
After being stunned for about three seconds, Zheng Sen suddenly turned around and pointed the monocular to the due north.
The next moment, countless, dark, ground-to-ground cavalry appeared in the field of view of the telescope. It was roughly estimated that there were at least 20,000. The Horqin Mongolian cavalry really knew how to choose their time.
In fact, as early as the morning of the fifth day after the Ming army regained Shenyang, Horqin's Mongolian cavalry appeared.
However, the Horqin Mongolian cavalry was very cautious and did not dare to get too close to Shenyang. Instead, they just kept sending Ye Bushou to fight with the Ming army's scout cavalry, even if they suffered losses in the outpost battle.
Afterwards, the Ming army withdrew from Shenyang and broke away from Horqin's Mongolian cavalry.
Unexpectedly, Horqin's Mongolian cavalry appeared again.
Then Zheng Sen blew the whistle again.
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"It's the big Kongming Lantern again!"
"There are really a lot of weird things in Nanming."
Just when Zheng Sen was reporting the details of Horqin's Mongolian cavalry, several die-hard traitors such as Dorgon and accompanying Hong Chengchou had also seen Zheng Sen's flying car.
This is not the first time Dorgon has seen the Ming army's flying chariot.
At the Xuzhou battlefield two years ago, Dorgon had seen the Ming army's flying chariots more than once, and he also knew that the Ming army could spy on the military situation from a high position through the Kongming lantern.
Fortunately, Dorgon was also prepared.
"Pass the message to Lvying to be more careful."
"Especially the blanket on the camel's back must be covered tightly."
"Be sure not to let Ming army spies see the camel revolving gun."
The camel revolving gun was a secret weapon that the Qing army had been preparing for a long time. Dorgon originally wanted to save it for the decisive battle, but because this Liaodong battle was also a serious matter, he had to move it forward.
The reason is very simple. If Liaodong cannot be recaptured, even if the camel revolving cannon is reserved for the decisive battle, it may not be able to reverse the Qing's geographical disadvantage.
Dorgon's decree was quickly conveyed.
After a while, Vasinga turned back again.
"Master, the Ming army's scout cavalry has been defeated by us."
"Now the area within a radius of twenty miles of the battlefield is under our control."
After a pause, Vasinga said triumphantly: "The Ming army has become blind and deaf."
"I see clearly that you have become a fool." Dorgon's face fell when he heard this.
Countless question marks suddenly appeared in front of Vasinga's eyes. What did you say? I spent thousands of nights to block the battlefield and finally got scolded at a huge cost.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Dorgon said angrily: "You didn't look at the top of your head?"
"Above the head?" Wa Xing'a then remembered the large Kongming Lantern high in the sky.
Thinking of this, Vasinga's big head drooped, thinking that all his work was in vain.
If the Ming army has this thing, how can they block the battlefield if they don't close it at night? It's impossible to block it.
Dorgon then asked: "Did you suffer a loss when you fought against the Ming army's scout cavalry?"
Vasinga didn't dare to look into Dorgon's eyes, and said with some guilt: "Ming Gou didn't take advantage either."
At this time, Hou Fangyu asked: "General Vasinga, have you captured the self-generated fire blunderbuss used by the Ming army scouts?"
"The self-generated fire gun used by the Ming army scouts?" Vasinga thought for a moment and said, "It seems that Mangtu took a self-generated fire gun used by the Ming army scouts."
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"Master, please quickly get this self-generated fire gun." Hou Fangyu said happily after hearing this.
Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo also looked happy when they heard this. Now they could finally figure out why the Ming army's self-generated fire cannons were so accurate and far away.
Once the whole story is figured out, the Qing soldiers will be able to use this sharp self-generated fire blunderbuss.
Dorgon immediately said: "Wa Xing, go quickly and get Mangtu's self-made fire gun."
"Hey!" Vasinga agreed, and immediately returned to the battlefield to find Mangtu who was on guard duty, and brought back the self-made fire blunderbuss that Mangtu had captured from the Ming army's scout cavalry.
"Is this the self-generating fire gun used by the Ming army's scouts?"
Hong Chengchou, Hou Fangyu and several other die-hard traitors gathered around.
Dorgon held the self-made fire gun in his hand and looked at it repeatedly.
It doesn't look special at all, it's almost the same as the self-made fire guns of the Qing Dynasty.
Dorgon also ordered Cao Eryu to bring a Qing Dynasty's own self-made fire gun.
Comparing the two, the self-fired blunderbuss of the Ming army was longer, and the barrel was also longer. It seemed to be more than three feet long, but the self-fired blunderbuss of the Qing Dynasty was only two feet and five inches long.
The caliber of the gun barrel is about the same.
Dorgon took out a lead from the Qing army and was able to insert it into it.
It was also when stuffing the lead that Dorgon discovered that the inner wall of the barrel of the Ming army's self-made fire blunderbuss was actually engraved with patterns.
"Hey, there are actually withered flowers on the inner wall of the gun tube?" Dorgon said in surprise, "Are the Ming soldiers stupid? Carving patterns on the inner wall of the gun tube is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and it will also affect the airtightness of the self-generated gun tube.
sex."
"Yes, yes, I heard Tang Ruowang talk about it." Hong Chengchou nodded.
The concept of air tightness must have been brought to Dorgon and other Manchu emperors and ministers by Tang Ruowang.
Tang Ruowang once told Dorgon very clearly that due to the craftsmanship, the inner diameter of each blunderbuss tube made by the Bingzhan Bureau was slightly different, but the size of all the lead pieces was the same, so it caused
Some self-generating gun tubes have better air-tightness, while others have poor air-tightness.
The direct manifestation is that the accuracy and penetrating power of self-generated fire guns will vary between good and bad.
Dorgon had heard twice from Vasinga and Yabulan that the Ming army's self-generated fire cannons were very accurate and far-reaching, so he wanted to see with his own eyes how sharp the Ming army's self-generated fire cannons were.
At that time, Dorgon ordered Cao Eryu to make a temporary target.
Then he couldn't wait to test-fire the Ming army's self-generated firecrackers.
However, the results of the test launch surprised Dorgon and others.
Facts have proved that the self-generated fire blunderbuss of the Ming army not only had extremely poor accuracy, but also had far less penetrating power than the self-generated fire blunderbuss of the Qing army. It could not even penetrate cotton armor fifty steps away.
"Is this really a self-generated fire gun used by the Ming army's scout cavalry?"
Dorgon had serious doubts about the self-generated fire gun in his hand.
Doesn't it mean that the self-generated fire guns of the army's scout cavalry can hit far and accurately?
Vasinga was also confused about this: "Master, this is really the self-made fire weapon of the Ming army's scout cavalry. My subordinates died for more than ten nights without stopping, and it was not easy to kill a Ming army's scout cavalry."
, and then captured this self-generated fire gun from the Ming army’s scout cavalry, it can’t be wrong.”
