"Are you still going to take the initiative to go out of the city to look for enemies?"
Xiao Ruxun looked at Su Hao and asked in surprise... Everyone had agreed to stick to the fortified city the first day. Why did Su Hao change his mind after sleeping?
"That's right, I think that before Kuai Bai's army arrives, we can go out of the city and annihilate some of the enemy. On the one hand, it will consume the number of enemy troops, and on the other hand, it will dampen the morale of the enemy troops, which will be beneficial to my defense of the city." Su Hao said.
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"But, have you thought about the risks of doing this?" Xiao Ruxun said.
"There is no way to fight without taking risks." Su Hao said, "Didn't Brother Xiao once say that offense is the best defense? I'm just implementing Brother Xiao's ideas."
Xiao Ruxun smiled and corrected: "This sentence seems to have been changed by you, right? Besides, Brother Yu was talking about the strategy against the Tatars, and it was based on the situation of relying on it. Now Pinglu City is an isolated city,
If the initial attack is unfavorable, it will be even more difficult to defend when we retreat."
Su Hao said: "I have discussed with several generals in the camp, and everyone feels that if our army takes the initiative to attack Yiyun, the worst-case scenario is to return without success, and the chance of defeat is slim. I think that if
If we can find a way to go out of the city to fight the enemy, the number of troops sent by the court to counter the rebellion can be reduced, which can save the country's financial resources, which is good for the country."
"Isn't this what Mr. Chen meant?" Xiao Ruxun asked.
Su Hao said: "Mr. Chen also had this idea. He said that if Pinglu Suo can not only hold back Kuai Bai, but also take the initiative to weaken Kuai Bai's power, then in the future, Xiao Shen will definitely be the leader in this battle.
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"Haha, this Chen Dao is looking down on me, Mr. Xiao." Xiao Ruxun laughed. Chen Dao's words were obviously trying to seduce Xiao Ruxun with benefits, but this move had no effect on Xiao Ruxun.
It was really useful. After Su Hao and others left yesterday, Xiao Ruxun also seriously thought about going out of the city to annihilate the enemy. He knew that the credit for defending the city was completely different from the credit for actively annihilating the enemy. Therefore,
He had already had some ideas in his mind. Now that Su Hao had taken the initiative to go out of the city to annihilate the enemy, it actually suited Xiao Ruxun's thoughts.
"To be honest, Xiao has been feeling very uncomfortable these past few days. I have a battalion of men and horses in Pinglu City, which is similar to that of Yiyun, but I can only close the city gate to avoid the battle. This is not Xiao's fault.
If you change your habit and dare to go out of the city to find the enemy and fight, then we brothers will join forces and do it together. You will send 400 musketeers, and I will send 400 cavalry, and we will give him a good blow." Xiao Ruxun said with high spirits.
"It turns out that Brother Xiao is testing me." Su Hao laughed, "Then let's do it together."
The Pinglu city gate, which had been closed since Yiyun led his troops to invade, suddenly opened, and a group of cavalry walked out of the city gate. The riders on horseback were in shiny armor, each holding a long weapon in their hands.
They carried spears and bows on their backs. Behind them, there was a neat group of musketeers. They held long flintlock guns in their hands, a sachet with bullets on their waists, and each on their backs.
Carrying a ghost-headed sword on his back, he was preparing to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy when the gun could not stop him.
The cavalry team was led by a general named Zhang Lanfang from Pinglu Station, and the leader of the musketeers was Xiong Minyang, the chief firearms commander of the Kanyu Camp. The two rode on horses and rode side by side, leading their troops toward the
The rebel camp slowly advanced.
"Mr. Xiong, today you are playing the leading role, and I am playing a supporting role for you." Zhang Lanfang said to Xiong Minyang with a smile. After the first day of fighting, the officers and soldiers of the Pinglu Station have become quite friendly towards the survey camp.
Xiong Minyang smiled and said: "How dare you, how dare you, without Mr. Zhang Qian's protection, we would not even dare to come out of the city gate, so if we can defeat the enemy today, Mr. Zhang Qian will be the first to do it."
Zhang Lanfang said: "Zhang doesn't care whether he is the first to succeed or not. I just want to ask Mr. Xiong to say a few kind words for Zhang in front of General Su later. Zhang will be very grateful."
Zhang Lanfang laughed loudly and said: "Xiong Ba has misunderstood. The kind words Zhang said were that after the war is over, please ask General Su to allocate more glazed tiles to our Thousand Households Office so that my military households can use it this winter."
Plant several acres of vegetables. We started late last year and didn’t make a lot of money. Everyone said I was incompetent as a CEO.”
"Oh, hahahaha." Xiong Minyang couldn't help laughing and laughed, "It turns out that such a trivial matter is all taken care of by me. However, Mr. Zhang Qian, with our General Su here, don't just stare at him.
It's such a small amount of money to grow vegetables in a greenhouse, but we, General Su, have many ways to make money. I'm afraid you don't have that much money to store it."
"Is that true? That's great, Mr. Xiong. From now on, Brother Yu's fortune will all depend on you, brother." Zhang Lanfang said with a smile. The two of them were chatting and laughing, not taking the rebels opposite at all.
, it seems that they have already secured victory in this battle.
"Report to the general, the Ming army in Pinglu City has come out!"
The rebel sentries had been keeping an eye on the movements in Pinglu City. When they saw the enemy opening the city gates to fight, they quickly ran to report the news to Yiyun.
"The Ming army has come out?" Kuaiyun was stunned, "Does this Xiao Ruxun really not take our Ningxia army seriously? Come on, let's go out and have a look."
Ma Zhengguo, Saihan and other generals followed Yiyun out of the camp and stood in front of the fence to watch the enemy. Behind them, thousands of Ningxia troops lined up with weapons in hand, ready to attack the provocative Ming army at any time.
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"General, please see, those sergeants are the firecrackers of Kanyu Camp. The firecrackers in their hands are very different from the ones we use." Saihan pointed to the soldiers of Kanyu Camp and said to Yiyun.
Yiyun raised his telescope and carefully observed the Ming army and their equipment that had stopped two to three hundred steps away from his headquarters. He noticed that the firecrackers in the opponent's hands were indeed the same as the Ming army's standard firecrackers in his own camp.
It's different, it looks a little slender, and there are some tricks on the back, I don't know what they are for.
"Who is going to meet the enemy?" Kuaiyun turned around and asked.
"This..." Sai was a little frightened when he saw the flintlock rifles of Kanyu Camp. After retreating from the city wall yesterday, he thought about it all night, but could not figure out how to deal with this three-stage musket shooting.
.Recalling the scene in front of him with fire and projectiles flying around, he felt a chill in his back.
"The Ming army dared to challenge our army with 800 men, but they only relied on their new fire guns. The reason why General Qianzong failed yesterday was just because the space on the city wall was narrow and there was no room to move. In the opinion of the last general, if we
If we charge with cavalry, no matter how fast their firecrackers are, can they be faster than our horses? When the cavalry rushes in front of them, those firecrackers can't even burn fire sticks." Ma Zhengguo offered advice.
Saihan nodded repeatedly, not caring that the other party called him Mr. Saiqian. In fact, Saihan is a transliteration of Mongolian, and there is no distinction between surname and first name. Han people are not clear about the names of Tatars, and they often misinterpret them.
The first character of the transliteration is regarded as the other person's surname for convenience. Some Mongolians simply accept the surname according to the habits of the Han people and accept this kind of address. This can be regarded as the erosion of the weak culture by the strong culture.
"What Mr. Ma Qian said is absolutely true. Regarding the opponent's fire tactics, we can only win by using speed to defeat the speed." Saihan said. The Cangtou Army he led is an infantry formation. If we want to use cavalry to charge,
It was not his turn to go into battle, so he very much agreed with Ma Zhengguo's suggestion.
Wei Yun thought for a while, nodded and said, "Then just follow what General Ma Qian said and pass my order to the cavalry to prepare for attack."
The Ming Dynasty lacks pasture, so the army has always had relatively few cavalry. The Ningxia Guard in Kuaibai is located at the border, and it can buy some horses from the grasslands through mutual trade, so the cavalry is relatively abundant in the Ming Dynasty army. This time, Kuaiyun Dai
Among the 5,000 people who came, there were 1,000 cavalry. When they attacked the city on the first day, these cavalry were not used. Now that they were going to fight in the field, Kuaiyun mobilized the cavalry.
"Be careful, Xiong, the thieves are about to send out cavalry." Zhang Lanfang reminded Xiong Minyang on the Ming army's position.
"Got it." Xiong Min agreed, and then ordered his men: "The thieves are going to send out cavalry. The second team will change into shotguns and wait for my order to specifically attack the horses."
"Got the order!" A small group of soldiers immediately removed the solid bullets from their flintlock rifles and replaced them with shotguns. The warheads of these shotguns are composed of several small iron sands. After being fired, they can scatter into one piece and hit a large area.
Guang. Because the iron sand is too small, it will not cause fatal injuries if it hits a person or a horse, but it will be extremely painful. If a person is hit, he may grit his teeth and hold back, but if it hits a horse, it will be extremely painful.
This can cause the horse to be frightened by sudden pain.
If dozens of horses in a cavalry team are frightened, the entire charge formation will be disrupted. The cavalry's attack power comes from speed. Once the speed is damaged due to the chaos of the formation, the power of the cavalry will be greatly reduced.
The tactic of using solid bullets and shotgun shells to deal with cavalry was originated from the design of Xu Guangqi and others. Xiong Minyang studied it all night and taught it to his own soldiers. Now he just wanted to try it with Yiyun's cavalry.
"Send my order, prepare, charge!"
Kuaiyun personally stood beside the cavalry and gave the order.
"Come on!"
"Kill all the Ming army!"
A cavalry officer, Qian Zong, took the lead in leaping forward on his horse. The rebel cavalry followed behind him, urging their horses to charge together, preparing to trample all the bold Ming troops in front of them into pulp with their iron hooves.
"Fire!"
The moment the rebel cavalry launched, Xiong Minyang also waved the red flag in his hand.
"Bash! Bash! Bash!" The musketeers standing in the first row opened fire with their guns. More than a hundred flintlock guns fired at the same time. The gunshots were fired in succession. The Ming army's position was immediately shrouded in smoke.
More than a hundred solid iron projectiles flew out of the smoke and flew towards the rebel cavalry.
"The Ming army panicked. They were still three hundred steps away, so they fired the muskets first. What's the difference between this and tickling us?" Kuiyun, who was standing behind to watch the battle, said with a smile. In his experience, fire muskets were also used.
It is only lethal within a hundred steps. If it is three hundred steps away, the projectile cannot fly that far at all. To say it tickles is a bit exaggerated.
However, before he could finish his words, a shocking situation occurred. The dozens of riders rushing at the front suddenly fell backwards as if they were hit by something, and were immediately followed by those who followed.
The cavalry stepped under their feet. The horses that lost their riders were at a loss. Some ran to the side, while others stopped subconsciously, and the horses behind them bumped into the front horses' buttocks.
"Three...three hundred steps!" Yiyun opened his mouth wide and couldn't believe his eyes. At a distance of three hundred steps, the Ming army's fire blunderbuss could actually send the rider flying. How terrifying it was.
So powerful.
Yiyun dared to send cavalry to attack because he was betting that the opponent's fire cannons had a range of only a hundred steps. For the galloping horses, one hundred steps meant a blink of an eye. The opponent's fire cannons could only hit part of the cavalry and the rest.
The cavalry can break through the opponent's line and render the firecrackers completely ineffective.
But who knew that the opponent actually had a firecracker that could hit three hundred steps, which meant that the opponent's shooting time increased three times. In fact, since the cavalry will not sprint until the last one hundred steps, the first two hundred steps are just a run-up.
, the speed is slower, so the time for the opponent to shoot is not only increased three times, but four times or five times.
In this way, how many cavalry can you have to fill this hole? Even if you can have surviving cavalry rush into the opponent's camp, and the opponent has 400 cavalry protecting them, how can you have enough survivors to fill the gap between the opponent's teeth?
However, it is now impossible to withdraw the cavalry. The cavalry charge is like an arrow leaving the string and is irreversible. Now we can only see whether the Ming army's shooting speed can match the speed of the cavalry charge.
"Bash! Bash!" The second round of gunfire from the opposite side rang out again. Xiong Min pointed the direction of shooting with the red flag in his hand, asking the gunners to fire at the place where the enemy cavalry was the densest. Although the distance was more than 200 steps,
You don't need to care about accuracy when shooting this kind of hedgehog group target. As long as the direction of the muzzle is correct, the bullet will always hit a target.
"Bang! Bang! Bang bang!" The rebel cavalry fell off their horses one after another. Some were hit in vital parts by bullets and died when they fell. Some were only hit in their hands and feet and could not sit still for a while.
Stable and fell off the horse, before they could rejoice at their good luck, they saw the horseshoes of their colleagues flying overhead, and the cold horseshoes stepped directly on their faces and bodies.
After several rounds of gunfire, the rebel cavalry lost more than a hundred cavalry, but the following cavalry had already crossed half the distance and were only a hundred paces away from the Ming army. Fortunately, thousands of rebel cavalry were not hit by bullets.
Always shouting loudly, he ordered his men to speed up and start sprinting.
"Fire the shotgun!" Xiong Minyang issued a new command.
The musketeer who had already loaded the shotgun picked up his gun and pulled the trigger. The running rebel cavalry saw a mist-like rain of bullets suddenly flying in front of them, and countless iron sand rushed towards their faces like flying flies, followed by all of them
I felt a sharp pain in all the exposed parts.
"Slimy!"
The war horses, which had never experienced such abuse, lost control at first. Their front hooves left the ground and almost stood up, causing the rider to fall to the ground. (To be continued.)