Because Emperor Longqing attached great importance to this "debut" of rifles and mortars, he specially equipped the three thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion with horses.
This is how the Ming Dynasty's first high-mobility lancer appeared.
Three thousand cavalry, led by Xue Hong on a long-distance attack, did not go to Liaodong Town, but went straight to Jizhou Town.
From Jizhou Town, he showed off the gold medal given by the emperor, and then led three thousand soldiers to ride away from the pass.
During the break, a deputy guard couldn't help but ask: "Sir, aren't we going to support Liaodong Town? Why did we get out of Jizhou Town?"
Xue Hong: "After leaving the capital, the soldiers have become familiar with the power of this rifle. How do you feel about it?"
The deputy guard answered truthfully: "This rifle has a very fast rate of fire. In the past, it only took a cup of tea to fire a dozen shots. Now this rifle can fire more than a hundred rounds, and it can break through armor like paper from a hundred meters away!"
Xue Hong: "What about the power of this mortar?"
Deputy Guard: "Easy to carry, powerful firepower. The most important thing is that it is not affected by the weather."
Xue Hong: "Then tell me, if we people, using these rifles and mortars, encounter the Houjin army with a strength of 10,000 people, who will win and who will lose?"
Without even thinking about it, the deputy guard replied: "Of course it's us!"
A rifle powered by mercury fulminate has a range of 300 meters! At this distance, if the infantry wants to rush over, it will take 40 to 50 seconds!
In these forty or fifty seconds, three thousand soldiers holding rifles can fire at least nearly thirty thousand rounds of ammunition! They can directly smash the opposing military formation!!
Besides, aren't there mortars? One hundred and twenty mortars, one round of bombardment, and the other side will be haunted if the camp is not blown up!! Not all armies are called Beiwei Army and trapped in the camp.
An ordinary army will basically begin to collapse if it loses one-tenth of its troops. Even if it is an elite army, only four-tenths of it will survive. Those who can annihilate the entire army without retreating even a step are all magical troops! Obviously, in the future,
Jin doesn’t have this kind of magical weapon!
Xue Hong: "Do you want to make some achievements? Just don't ask so many questions!"
Deputy Guard: "But... our supplies..."
Xue Hong: "Don't worry about supplies. The three thousand of us will eat wherever we go! The Houjin people will provide us with supplies!"
"Tell brothers, keep your gun close to your body and be ready for battle at any time! I want to draw a circle outside this pass, from Jizhou to Liaodong Town!!"
Xue Hong stuck the dagger heavily on the map, took out a piece of dry food and started to eat it quickly.
Sure enough, not long after leaving Jizhou, after running for dozens of miles, they encountered a cavalry force of about several hundred people. It looked like they had just returned from a robbery.
Xue Hong directly ordered everyone to catch up. The cavalry charged in a wall-mounted style, and the first row of cavalry opened fire indiscriminately.
Before it could reach his face, the entire army on the other side was wiped out.
The three thousand soldiers seemed a little excited. This was the most enjoyable and relaxing battle they had fought since joining the army! They were completely crushed by equipment!
Xue Hong ordered his men to cut off the opponent's little finger as a proof of military merit, and then three thousand people were spared again in the hinterland of Houjin.
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In Liaodong Town, Sun Chuanting looked ugly, not because Hou Jin's fighting power was too strong, but because the border troops were too corrupt!
If you don’t check, you won’t know. If you check, you will be shocked. Not even half of the annual military pay actually falls into the hands of the Liaodong garrison!
The rewards given by Emperor Longqing to the soldiers of Jiubian during the New Year and festivals were also withheld one after another, and the soldiers did not even see a cent of silver!
Even the weapons of many soldiers were severely rusted, and the warehouses that originally held artillery and ammunition were empty.
The treasury is empty, and the food and grass supplies are only one-third of the quota! The soldiers in the frontier army are all sallow and thin!
Sun Chuanting was itching with hatred. He also knew that the generals drank the blood of their soldiers. This was the default thing in the imperial court!
But Niu Jizong was not just drinking the blood of his soldiers! He was breaking bones and sucking out marrow!!
In fact, the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty's army has always been high. It was only at the end of the period that military pay was not paid and there were no supplies of food and grass. This led to the decline in the combat effectiveness of the army!!
The soldiers are as hungry as telegraph poles. Where do they get their fighting power?
The Qi Family Army led by Qi Jiguang created the strongest battle loss ratio in the history of cold weapons in the world: "1:125!"
The Yuanyang Formation is known as the number one formation in the field! But in the original history, such a powerful army was actually killed by the imperial court because it asked for military pay! It has to be said that it is a big mistake!!
In this world, although the Qi family army was not unjustly killed for asking for food and pay, they were dispersed and incorporated into the Beijing camp for various reasons.
Sun Chuanting promised the border army officers and soldiers that the imperial court would provide additional military pay, and at the same time ordered people to check the number of troops.
It’s impossible without checking! In the past few days of fighting with Houjin, Sun Chuanting discovered that there was a huge difference between the written number of border troops and the actual number, right?
Normally, the number of Liaodong defenders is constant and should be about 40,000.
But in the past few days, Sun Chuanting and Hou Jinyi were fighting, and they found out, how can there be enough for 40,000 people? There are not even half of them!! Niu Jizong, this wretched calf, is living on empty wages!! I x his old mother!!!
Later Jin used 80,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry to suppress the town. Sun Chuanting originally relied on 40,000 frontier troops plus 20,000 Beijing troops to hold Liaodong Town confidently.
But your fucking numbers were cut in half by me! Now Sun Chuanting can only pray for reinforcements to arrive soon. Before that, he can only close the city gates tightly, fortify the walls and clear the fields, and defend Liaodong.
Defending a city in ancient times was not as easy as in the TV series. You just squat in the city and act like a turtle. The siege team knew how to build mountains of earth and use siege equipment!
To defend the city, you need to constantly go out to harass and challenge the city. The city wall is only the last line of defense. If you have no choice, you will not let the opponent get under the city wall!
Sun Chuanting has now scolded Niu Jizong for eight generations.
He scolds his ancestors, scolds his ancestors, and scolds his ancestors.
He scolded his family for having no sons. I wish his family would have six surnames for four generations, three sons and five fathers! Anyway, it’s okay to scold him for whatever is unpleasant.
At this moment, a general in his thirties walked quickly towards Sun Chuanting: "Master Qi! All arrangements are in place."
Sun Chuanting: "Thank you for your hard work, Wu Tongzhi."
Wu Sangui saluted and said: "Serving the country, there is no need to talk about hard work!"
Sun Chuanting nodded with satisfaction: "Have you finished checking the number of border troops?"
Wu Sangui said: "The verification has been completed. After the continuous battles in recent days, many brothers have been killed and injured. There are probably more than 10,000 people left."
Sun Chuanting's face turned even darker: "In the past few days, the border army and the 20,000 elite defenders of the Beijing camp have suffered more than 10,000 casualties in total, and the Beijing camp alone has suffered 3,000 casualties! In other words, the total number of border troops was only a mere handful.
Seventeen to eight thousand people!! Niu Jizong is so brave!!!"
But now that the matter has come to this, it is useless to be angry. We still need to think more about how to defend Liaodong.
There have been constant natural disasters this year. Houjin is located in the north. Although it is half-cultivated and half-nomadic, the harvest will definitely not be good. Otherwise, there would not be a national effort to attack the Ming Dynasty border to rob things!