This habit is the essence summed up by the Jurchen ancestors during countless hunts.
In every battle, Jiannu will send a certain number of skirmishers to the combat area, and these skirmishers are all white-armored soldiers with extremely strong individual combat capabilities.
These white-armored soldiers have three tasks.
The first is to detect enemy intelligence, the second is to tire out the enemy through small-scale harassment, and the third is to intercept battlefield information on the enemy, making the enemy blind and deaf.
For example, now, more than fifty white-armored soldiers serving as vanguard have already dispersed.
Just after the first day of Shenchu, a white-armored soldier came back and reported to Baiyintu: "Lord Erzhen, a large number of Western guns were found ahead."
"Huh? Western muskets? There are a lot of them?" Baiyintu was obviously stunned when he heard this. Of course, he was no stranger to Western muskets. In fact, every slave general remembered them freshly.
At that time, on the Ningjin Front, the Western guns caused great trouble to the Jiannu slaves.
But even on the Ningjin front, the number of Western gun towers built by the Ming army was not large, because the cost of building them was much more expensive than ordinary rammed earth cities.
Then Baiyintu asked again: "How many are there?"
"Still counting." The white-armored soldier said solemnly, "I estimate there are hundreds."
"What did you say?" Baiyintu stood there dumbly after hearing this. Aobai, Zu Zerun, Gao Di and others also looked at each other. Hundreds of musket stations? Is there any mistake? How could there be so many?
After a long while, Baiyintu finally came to his senses and said, "Go find a mountain and see what's going on."
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Chongzhen took a bird boat of the navy and headed north along the Huitong River for nearly two kilometers.
This position is still more than a thousand meters away from the outer edge of the Xuzhou defense line (radius 2880 meters). According to Chongzhen, it means that it needs to go further one thousand meters to the edge of the defense line.
But Zheng Hongkui refused to go any further.
Chongzhen did not continue to persecute Zheng Hongkui.
Zheng Hongkui also had good intentions and could not embarrass his ministers too much.
The Ming army's bird ship had three masts, one large, two small, and the middle main mast was 24 meters high.
There is a watch tower at a height of nearly 20 meters, where sentries can stand to observe the enemy's situation.
Zheng Hongkui also wanted to stop Chongzhen, but Chongzhen ignored him this time. Not only did he climb to the 20-meter-high Wangdou, but he also brought brothers Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong up with him.
The three of them, father and son, were squeezed into the living room, which made it look cramped.
Wang Cheng'en got up and dived, and several eunuchs were guarding him below. They were extremely anxious.
But brothers Zhu Cixiang and Zhu Cijiong were very excited. This was completely different from their previous life experience living in the palace. They preferred the fighting experience before them.
The two brothers can only observe with the naked eye.
But Chongzhen had a telescope.
Opening the telescope and adjusting the focus, Chongzhen soon discovered the army of slave slaves coming along the east bank of the canal. They were so densely packed that they almost covered the entire east bank of the canal.
An army of ten thousand people is so large.
An army of 100,000 people is simply unimaginable.
Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong also changed their expressions.
Both brothers were worried that the Ming troops outside would not be able to defend the cannon tower.
"Father, why don't you concentrate the bird cannons and tiger squatting cannons on the periphery?" Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but ask, "Each cannon station only has 20 bird cannons and two tiger squatting cannons. Can it be defended?"
Chongzhen immediately asked Zhu Cijiong: "Then how many tiger cannons and how many bird cannons do you think can ensure the defense of the outer cannon tower?"
"Ah this..." Zhu Cijiong was speechless.
Zhu Cixiang said: "No matter how many tigers are squatting and cannons, how many bird cannons can't defend it."
"Xun'er is right." Chongzhen said, "If there are only one or two muskets, no matter how many tigers squatting cannons or bird muskets, the key to the defense line built by my father is not a single musket.
, but lies in the saturated defense of more than 500 gun platforms in the fifteen-fold circle at the front and rear. If you concentrate a large number of tiger crouching cannons and bird guns on the outer gun platforms, then the gun platforms behind will become decorations, and the entire defense line
Wouldn’t it be useless?”
"You can focus on the periphery for a round first." Zhu Cijiong was still unconvinced, "Wait until the first level gun platform is lost, and then quickly transfer the tiger crouching cannon and bird gun to the second level gun platform. In this way, we can do it."
The best of both worlds? It can not only ensure that the peripheral gun stations have enough firearms, but also prevent other gun stations behind from becoming decorations."
Chongzhen shook his head: "Your idea is good, but the premise is that you can retreat."
"What's so difficult about this?" Zhu Cijiong asked, "The squatting tiger cannon only weighs a few dozen kilograms."
Chongzhen didn't argue with his son, he smiled and said we'll see.
To educate naughty children, you must rely on facts.
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"What kind of look is this?"
Baiyin Tu on the other side of the canal was also confused.
At this time, Baiyintu also led Obai and other generals to climb to a nearby hill.
"Master Gu Shanerzhen, show me." Obai was a little anxious.
"Give it back to you." Baiyintu handed the telescope back to Obai.
Obai took the telescope and took a deep breath after just one glance.
"So many? I'm afraid there are hundreds of them, right? But this gun platform is a bit small."
"It's not big, and there aren't many Ming troops in each gun platform. It's completely different from the guns built by the Ming army in Ningyuan and Jinzhou. But, Obai, have you noticed that these Western gun platforms are arranged in a certain direction?"
"It's true." Ao Bai looked serious and said in a deep voice, "Is it Zhuge Liang's Eight Formations?"
Zu Zerun and Gao Di stood behind them. When they heard Obai talking about the Eight Formations, they both had expressions of contempt on their faces. They said to themselves that these Jurchens were really speechless. They really regarded the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as a military book.
"Hey, that's not right, this gun platform is a bit weird." Obai suddenly shouted again, "Although the gun platform built by the Ming army in Ningyuan and Jinzhou is not high, it is still one to two feet high. Why is it that the gun platform here is only
Is it as high as the ground? Even if a wooden fence is added to the outside of the gun platform and a trench is dug, it is still only a foot high."
"At this height, you don't need a ladder. You can go up on a carriage."
"Hey, also, what's going on with the dirt slope outside the gun platform? Is it a slope protection?"
"In the past, the gun towers in Ningyuan and Jinzhou also had slope protection, but they were shorter than the gun towers."
"Are the Ming army stupid? The slope protection is higher than the gun platform. Our Eight Banners warriors can rely on the cover of the slope to get within fifty steps and attack the Ming army's gun platform."
"Our warriors can shoot them all like rabbits, unless they hide behind the fence and never come out."
At this time, in Obai's eyes, the Ming army on the opposite side were all fools.
Baiyin Tu was also confused, completely unable to understand the Ming army's intentions.
This musket is built in a weird way.
Is there any conspiracy inside?
However, Baiyin Tu is also a veteran who has been on the battlefield for more than ten years. He has seen a lot of weird things on the battlefield and knows how to deal with such situations.
"Zu Zerun!" Baiyintu immediately turned around and shouted behind him.
"You are sending a Niu Lu from the Yellow Banner Han Army to try to attack once and find out the strength of the Ming Army first."
"Hey!" Zu Zerun agreed, and then shouted to the Eight Banners Han Army arrayed on the bank of the canal, "Geng Jimao, immediately lead a Niulu to attack the nearest gun platform!"
The Eight Banners Han Army on the east bank of the canal immediately moved into action.
Baiyintu sent two more Niu Lu's Eight Banners soldiers to raid the formation.
Soon, about 300 Zhenghuang Banner Han troops pushed 12 sidecars and approached the outermost gun platform on the east bank of the canal.
Since the early Huang Taiji era, the structure of the Eight Banners Army has become increasingly mature, and its equipment has gradually become more complete, including a large number of carriages and side carriages.
The Eight Banners soldiers used carts, each with 12 carts.
The Eight Banners and Han Army could only use relatively simple sidecars, each with 12 carriages, of which 4 carried artillery and the other 8 carried baggage.
The protection of sidecars is far inferior to that of carriages, and even the Crouching Tiger Cannon cannot protect them, so it is only used to ward off bird cannons.
However, when the Eight Banners Han Army advanced, the two squatting tiger cannons on the gun platform never fired because the firing range was blocked by the slope protection in front of the gun platform.
Obai couldn't help laughing again: "The Ming army is really stupid!"
Baiyin Tu had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Soon, a Niulu Eight Banners Han army advanced behind the slope protection. The straight-line distance between them and the Ming army on the gun platform was less than fifty steps, but due to the obstruction of the slope protection, they could not see each other.
During this process, there was no exchange of fire between the two sides from beginning to end.
The Zhenghuang Banner Han army that advanced behind the slope protection also seemed a little confused.
After a quarter of an hour, the Zhenghuang Banner Han army began to move forward again, pushing the sidecar up the slope protection. They wanted to fix the sidecar on the top of the slope protection, and first use the vehicle-mounted Folan cannon.
Fight against the Ming army on the cannon platform, wait until the fence of the Ming army's cannon platform is destroyed, and then add infantry to seize the cannon platform.
The height of the slope protection is only five feet, but the length is four to five feet. It is a very gentle slope.
So after pushing it up less than three feet, the sidecar was exposed to the muzzles of the cannon defenders.
The Ming army guarding the cannon platform began to fire loudly and loudly. Two squatting tiger cannons fired one after another. Only two booms were heard, and thick smoke quickly filled the air.
A sidecar that bore the brunt of the attack was immediately beaten to pieces.
Two Zhenghuang Banner Han troops hiding behind the sidecar were also killed.
The Tiger Crouching Cannon can fire 100 lead or stone bullets weighing 5 cents, or it can fire a single 30-weight closed-mouth bullet. This time it fired a closed-mouth bullet, which was more than enough to penetrate the sidecars of the Eight Banners and Han Army.
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Fortunately, there are only two squatting tiger cannons on the gun platform, and it takes time to load them.
Taking advantage of this pause, the Eight Banners and Han troops accelerated their pace and pushed the cart up the slope.
The sidecar was quickly pushed to the top of the slope protection, and then the Eight Banners and Han soldiers began to curse.
"What kind of evil spirit thought of this? This is too damn damaging! You will give birth to a son without a butthole!"
Why did the Eight Banners Han Army scold their mother? Because the platform on the top of the slope protection was very narrow, and there was no room for the sidecar. But if the sidecar was not leveled and then fixed, there would be no way to fire at the Ming army's squatting cannon on the gun platform.
Because the shooting angle cannot be reduced.
On such a slope, the Fo Lang machine gun on the sidecar of the Eight Banners and Han Army became a decoration.
