The 160,000 troops and horses adjusted their layout and moved the men and horses responsible for the attack to the front.
The seventy-nine heavy artillery pieces of the Huben Division were calmly pulled to the front of the formation. The artillerymen unloaded the cannons from the artillery carts and worked together to turn the muzzles. The artillery soldiers turned the screws to adjust the gun mounts, and the gun cleaners removed the gun mounts.
Clean the gun barrel with a wooden pole wrapped in cotton cloth dipped in water, back and forth three times, and then clean it three times with a dry wooden pole wrapped in cotton cloth.
The charger took out packages of fixed-weight black powder from the cartridge, cut open the package and loaded the black powder into the gun barrel. The charger immediately came up with the pressure rod and compacted the gunpowder. The spent shells were carefully lifted
It came out, and the wooden sabot was loaded into the barrel of the gun with the wooden holder facing downwards. The charge-pressing soldier once again held the pressure rod to compact the cannonball, and pressed the projectile holder and propellant together.
At the same time, the deputy gunner of the gun crew opened the scythe of the cannon's ignition device, poured some black powder into the fire door, and then closed the scythe.
The artilleryman continued to adjust the muzzle of the gun until it was pointed at the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp two miles away. The gunner aimed the rear sight at the enemy, shouted at the artilleryman to adjust the angle a few more points, and then completed the launch.
preparation.
It took only forty seconds for the sixty-nine cannons to complete a complete set of preparations for firing.
The nine generals stood behind the cannon and looked at Li Zhi's artillery. Seeing the artillery loading the ammunition smoothly, all of them had expressions of envy on their faces. Jin Guogong's artillery was so sharp. In the Battle of Jinzhou, these
The cannon killed countless Tatars. It was truly a weapon of war.
These cannons are lighter than ordinary heavy Hongyi cannons, are more maneuverable, and have stronger firepower than ordinary heavy Hongyi cannons. These cannons are well-made, have unified parameters and clear operation methods, and there is no problem of blasting and boring. What is even more frightening is that these cannons can
If you shoot a shell, it will explode again when it hits the ground.
I don’t know if Jin Guogong’s cannons can be sold or not. If I buy a few of them, I will get twice the result with half the effort in defending and attacking the city.
However, the Duke of Jin is now in a high position and the cannon is the trump card of the Duke of Jin. No one dares to buy it casually until they know his temper.
The soldiers from the Beijing Camp on the opposite side were still guarding the instructions given by Wu Zong, the Second Assistant to the Cabinet, and were guarding the countryside with a confused look. The generals looked over with telescopes and saw the commander of the Beijing Camp, Huang Degong, standing in the middle of the army, constantly talking to the people around him.
Several generals were talking about something, and seemed a little anxious because the cannon was pulled out.
Wang Pu put down his telescope and asked Yang Guozhu: "Mr. Yang, how do the soldiers from the Beijing camp compare with your Xuanfu soldiers?"
Yang Guozhu said that he would call himself Yang, so Wang Pu jokingly called him this name.
Yang Guozhu stroked his beard and said: "The Beijing camp is well-equipped and has bright armor, which is better than a certain Xuanfu soldier. However, the noble sons are a bit arrogant and are not as hard-working as the border troops. After all, their combat power is lower than that of the Xuanfu soldiers.
, above Datong soldiers."
The Datong soldiers were Wang Pu's soldiers and horses. When Wang Pu saw Yang Guozhu taking the opportunity to belittle his own soldiers and horses, Wang Pu laughed and said nothing.
A swan sound echoed through the Tiger Division, and sixty-nine heavy guns opened fire.
With a loud rumble, sixty-nine heavy cannons fired explosive shells forward. The recoil of the cannon hit the ground hard, and the nearby ground undulated like waves, like a small earthquake. The nine commanders
This was the first time that the soldiers' horses were so close to a burning cannon. They were all frightened, and they all neighed loudly and raised their hooves to run away.
The nine general soldiers worked hard for a while and finally managed to stabilize their horses.
Sixty-nine rounds of explosive shells were like sixty-nine meteors, shooting straight at the soldiers in the Beijing camp two miles away. With a bang, the shells smashed into the crowd in the front row, and suddenly blood and flesh flew everywhere, and six people were smashed in the queue.
Nineteen alleys of flesh and blood.
After the explosive bullet crashed through several layers of human bodies, it stayed among the soldiers in the back row. Huang Degong's soldiers had never seen this kind of explosive bullet, and they were all in a daze looking at the smoking fuse of the explosive bullet.
"boom!"
"boom!"
Explosions one after another rang out in the crowd, and it was unknown how many soldiers were killed. Not to mention the soldiers who were killed near the shells, their arms and legs were broken, and they fell to the ground covered in blood. Those who were not killed were
The soldiers fled in panic, but Huang Degong's entire formation was disrupted.
The feeling of being bombarded by artillery shells on the spot is too terrible, let alone explosive shells. The panic of the soldiers was like an uncontrollable mountain fire, which tore the formation of the 10,000-person Beijing camp into chaos.
Huang Degong did not expect that 160,000 border troops would dare to attack the Beijing camp, and was stunned. He whipped the nearby commotion soldiers in an attempt to stabilize the situation. But in the face of the terrifying and intimidating power of explosive bombs, Huang Degong's move was useless.
significance.
Fifty seconds later, there was another loud noise, and another sixty-nine shells were fired at Huang Degong's soldiers and horses. The rumbling explosions once again sounded among the soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp.
This time, the soldiers in the Beijing Camp knew that the shells would explode, and they panicked to avoid the stopped shells. As soon as the shells landed somewhere, the nearby soldiers ran away like frightened wild deer. Sometimes there were even no shells nearby.
, but the soldiers were shrouded in fear and ran away in chaos.
Huang Degong's 10,000 soldiers and horses were in chaos and turned into a pot of porridge.
Cao Bianjiao shouted: "Now!"
The messenger behind him sounded the conch horn. Six thousand Jizhen cavalry rushed out on their horses and rushed towards the soldiers from the Beijing camp two miles away.
Not to be outdone, Zu Dashou screamed and jumped on his horse to rush out. Behind him, eight thousand Jinzhou cavalry were like a galloping dense forest, galloping towards the target in front of them.
Fourteen thousand cavalry galloped out from both sides of the Chinese army, rolling away with iron hooves. The sound of hoofbeats was like a dull thunder exploding on the ground. More than 10,000 chariot-like cavalry were overwhelmingly pressing towards the 10,000 Beijing soldiers.
, and were about to run into the chaotic Beijing camp.
160,000 people surround and fight 10,000 people. As long as the border troops dare to take action, the Beijing camp has no chance of winning. This numerical comparison makes the morale of the soldiers in the Beijing camp very low. Moreover, the soldiers in the Beijing camp have been bombarded by artillery, and the infantry has become such a mess.
If the cavalry swarms to meet the impact of more than 10,000 cavalry, the result will be very tragic. The cavalry rushes over, and the soldiers in the Beijing camp who have been blown into chaos by the cannons still have fighting spirit? The soldiers turned around and ran away one by one.
Before Cao Bianjiao and Zu Dashou's cavalry could rush forward, the 10,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp had already turned into a rout and fled in panic across the wilderness.
Huang Degong, the commander-in-chief of the Beijing camp, did not dare to fight and fled to the capital on horseback.
As soon as he saw the defeat of the Beijing camp, Cao Bianjiao's six thousand cavalry slowly stopped their horses and stopped pursuing them. Zu Dashou was stunned when he saw the deserters, but he didn't know whether he should go after them.
Li Zhi looked at the battle situation in the distance and said: "We are not here to rebel, so we will not hunt down the emperor's deserters from the Beijing camp. Ming Jin withdraws the troops!"
When Zu Dashou heard the golden sound of the Chinese army, he restrained his murderous intent and stopped his troops.
With almost no bloodshed, the border troops who asked for orders defeated the 10,000 Beijing camp.
