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Chapter 730 The quieter you are, the more careful you are

Race for thousands of years of injustice, and the loyal soul will be able to pay it back once it is gone.

Why is the country dying, leaving only Lisao in the world.

During the Dragon Boat Festival that year, Zhang Cheng accompanied his wife Ji Xuanzhu in the mansion, looked at the fragrant rice dumplings on the table, and asked, "Ma'am, do you know how to eat these rice dumplings to taste the best?"

Ji Xuanzhu replied without hesitation: "Eat it while it's hot?"

"No, I'll feed you."

The snail wishes book lovers--Dragon Boat Festival, be healthy and spend more time with your family!

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Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu Town, rode his horse forward, and Guo Yingxian, a member of the army, caught up with him and rode with him, saying to him, "Handsome, the forward seems to have rescued Xishimen, why haven't we seen the Tartars yet?"

Yang Guozhu raised his eyes and looked at the mountains and hills on both sides of the mountain road, which were covered with weeds as tall as a person, and said: "The more there is no movement, the more careful we should be.

An order was sent to He Zhenxiong, the front army should not rush, be careful of the Tatars ambushing, and then send Jingqi to go up the slopes on both sides of the mountains, to beat the grass and scare the rabbits. "

Since Guo Yingxian entered this section of the mountain road, he intuitively felt a little bit weird. His own army gathered from Songshan and marched here. It is impossible for the Tartars to not be aware of such a big movement.

But now there is no sign of a Tartar, not even a sentry rider of a Tartar, so why not make him flustered.

Yang Guozhu raised his horsewhip and pointed to the mountain on the right, saying: "Send someone to send an order to Kuang Yongzhong, tell him not to let the troops spread out too much, lest the Tatars come suddenly, and there is no time to form a formation to fight."

After ordering the soldiers to gallop away, he yelled loudly again: "Boys, cheer up, you will meet the Tartars soon, and you must not lose the reputation of our Western Army!"

Suddenly, there was a movement on the mountain to the east, Guo Yingxian stared wide-eyed and saw that the guerrilla Kuang Yongzhong's flag was moving quickly from southeast to northwest slope.

Immediately afterwards, a white square flag kept shaking on the hillside, and the white tiger embroidered on it was clearly visible. Before Guo Yingxian yelled out, Yang Guozhu yelled: "Quickly, the whole army is in formation. Old Guo, hurry back to the army!" , The whole team is on standby."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a stream of smoke and dust rising from the mountain road in front of him. In the smoke and dust, several Ming soldiers were urging their horses to gallop. Before Yang Guozhu could order, dozens of elite horsemen rode forward to meet him.

They spread out to the two wings in a fan shape, giving way to the middle mountain road to bring the few Ming troops over. They went straight to the front of Yang Guozhu's horse, and then stopped, reporting in a hurry: "Commander, the front army encountered a Tartar bandit, The battle is now underway. He Gueran ordered the humble officer to come and beg for help from the commander in chief."

"How many horses and horses are there for the Tartars? How many cavalry?" Yang Guozhu asked.

A Qiling Xiaoxiao reported: "Commander, it is roughly estimated that there are four to five thousand Tatars, and there are hundreds of horsemen inside. He guerrillas have formed a chariot and waited for the enemy. Please lead the army to rescue."

Yang Guozhu beckoned Guo Yingxian to stop, and said to him: "Old Guo, hurry up and regroup. The cavalry leader will go around the hills on the left and attack the right flank of the Tartars."

After receiving the order, Guo Yingxian was about to leave, when he suddenly remembered something, he turned around and asked: "Master, I will leave you another thousand cavalry to guard the central army."

"No need!" Yang Guozhu said decisively.

Seeing his refusal, Guo Yingxian said unwillingly, "How about keeping five hundred?"

Yang Guozhu said resolutely: "No, you go to rescue the former army as soon as possible, without delay."

Guo Yingxian had no choice but to turn around and run towards the cavalry formation. Yang Guozhu looked at the banners on the mountain to the east, and it seemed that Kuang Yongzhong's troops had formed the formation.

He called a soldier and said: "Give Tang Xiancheng an order to form a formation and rush to the east to attack the mountains to help Kuang Yongzhong fight against the Tartars."

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The lookout from the Shenji Battalion ran up to a mountain stone platform, held a spy tube, that is, a binoculars, and looked at the mountains in front for a while. It seemed that they quickly determined the positions of several piers, and at the same time they chose the one to prepare for the shelling. land.

As early as the seventh year of Chongzhen, Tang Ruowang, a Catholic Jesuit missionary, presented a monocular to Emperor Chongzhen. At that time, the Ming court was amazed that it was an artifact in the army, and immediately organized a large number of imitations.

The binoculars produced were called spy tubes or binoculars according to the Ming tradition, and they were first equipped in the various armies of the Beijing camp. Needless to say, the Shenji Battalion must be the first priority.

The spy tubes held by these lookouts are all well-crafted, made of fine copper, shining brightly in the sun.

The Shenji Battalion led by Chen Jiugao originally followed Li Fuming's Shanxi troops, but the mountain road became narrower and the army slowed down, so the Shenji Battalion caught up.

Their main artillery position was set up on a protruding hilly highland, facing the Qing army's Niangniang Temple garrison.

The mountains there are not high, the slopes are flat and gentle, easy to attack and difficult to defend, and will be the main attack of the Ming army in the early stage.

This place is nearly two miles away from the artillery station of the Qing army in Niangniang Temple. Fu Yingchong bullied the Qing army for not deploying red cannons at the artillery position of Niangniang Temple. Many... are also difficult to hit.

However, just in case, security measures still need to be in place.

As early as during the joint training of the Ningyuan armies, Zhang Cheng discussed with Chen Jiugao and Fu Yingchong how to set off the iron cannons fired by the artillery.

He made a move for the two of them, that is, in front of his artillery formation, and in the surrounding space, stack burlap soil bags, and baskets filled with soil, or even turn up all the surrounding land, If it is turned soft, it will also have the function of firing cannons and jumping.

At this time, Hong Chengchou's central army was located on a hill, less than two miles away from Chen Jiugao's artillery formation.

Governor Hong Chengchou, Commander Zhang Ruoqi, Governor Qiu Minyang, Joining the Army Ma Shaoyu and others, as well as Zhang Cheng, Liu Zhaoji and other generals, all gathered on the hill curiously to watch the arrangement of the artillerymen of Shenji Battalion.

When he saw Chen Jiugao covered with sacks and earthen baskets in front of the artillery formation, Zhang Cheng smiled and sighed secretly in his heart: "My old brother Chen is really a typical example of learning and applying, but I haven't forgotten what we gave He reminded me of this!"

Although the Xuanbei Army Vehicle Battalion in charge of Wei Zhice also has a lot of artillery, they are all small Franco cannons. Looking at those huge Hongyi cannons, his eyes are full of desire and jealousy, wishing to get all of these cannons for himself to the car camp.

In fact, this Hongyi Cannon was also manufactured by the Yunzhou Craftsman Camp of the Xuanbei Army, but Zhang Cheng renamed it "Hongyi Cannon".

The bombardment cannon manufactured by the Yunzhou Craftsman Camp of the Xuanbei Army weighed more than [-] jin, and could be fired up to five miles away. It was quite accurate at a distance of three miles. Six such cannons had been manufactured before the expedition to Liaodong.

But because of its inconvenient movement, each cannon needs about six strong mules to pull it. If it is pulled by oxen, each cannon needs three strong oxen. Zhang Cheng did not bring Liaodong with such power.

Even so, Wei Zhice, who had more car camps than cannons, was still envious of the mighty generals' cannons on the artillery array of the Shenji camp in the distance.

However, he also knew that although the cannon was extremely deterrent, it was also too heavy. He thought to himself: The commander-in-chief has ordered the craftsman camp to develop a four-wheeled artillery vehicle. what does it look like
Just as his mind was spinning, the cannons on the artillery array in the distance had been deployed, and on the high ground there were 25 Shenwei General Cannons and [-] large-caliber mortars lined up.

There are also some other artillery, which are also arranged less than half a mile before the artillery position here, for the purpose of defending against the enemy. The small artillery formation there can go forward to bombard the enemy and block the invading enemy.

As for rocket vehicles and other portable firearms, the shooting distance is mostly three hundred steps or one mile, but it is far from the time to launch at this time.

And big rockets such as Shenhuo Flying Crow also depend on the direction of the wind, otherwise they will not be able to shoot two miles away. Small-caliber mortars also have a range of only a little more than one mile, and there is no deployment for the time being.

(End of this chapter)