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Chapter 626 Artillery and Car Battalion

The chariot is a very retro military equipment in the Ming Dynasty. Due to the extensive use of firearms and the threat of the northern nomadic cavalry, it was "resurrected" again after the middle of the Ming Dynasty.

There are various types of chariots in the Ming Dynasty, including baggage carts for transportation, screen carts for defense, and various rushing chariots for siege, oil-carrying trains, ladder carts, and Linchong Lu public chariots, but the most commonly used ones are for field battles. Front and side vans.

In particular, compared with the main van, the side van lacks half of the baffle, which makes it much lighter and more popular with soldiers.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Yuanzhang, elite spearmen have run across the world. The Mongolian cavalry who chased the once invincible Mongolian cavalry fled miserably and fled back to the bitter cold land of Mobei. Elite infantry has always been the military tradition of the Ming Dynasty.

However, with the continuation of the dynasty, the military and government became increasingly decayed, and the court became more and more powerless to deal with the harassment of the Mongolian cavalry who came back, and the chariot camp as the main method of warfare came into being.

Although this kind of car camp looks similar to that of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, its tactical thinking is completely different.

Sun Chengzong, a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, put forward the idea of ​​"learning from fire with cars and using fire with cars" in his "Compilation of Che Ying Kou Da".

The use of chariots by other generals is generally similar, almost the same as that of Sun Chengzong.

They all loaded the supplies such as supplies, food, armor and weapons on the carts, and the soldiers rode on the carts. "When you move, you form a vertical array, and when you stop, you form a horizontal camp."When encountering the enemy, use chariots as the city, artillery and firecrackers as defenses, use less to hit more, and destroy everything.Therefore, some people call the Cheying of the Ming Army "the city with feet."

Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces, has served in Yansui, Shaanxi and other places for many years. He has been in border affairs for a long time, and he has a special liking for Cheying.

This time to attack Luoyang City, he listed a large car formation of [-] people.And the lineup in the lineup, the big lineup and the small lineup, it is spectacular from a distance.

Looking over the city, Zhang Shun couldn't help but feel shocked.A large phalanx of [-] people, with vans as walls, and small hollow phalanxes neatly divided the large phalanx into dozens of areas, looked indistinguishable from a small moving county town from a distance.

Coupled with the "inside the city" flags like forests and soldiers like ants, it looks even more shocking.

Not only Zhang Shun, but other generals, civil servants, and soldiers in the city even changed their faces and turned pale.

When some of the officers and soldiers left the "city" and fought with the rebels for a while, the situation was unfavorable, and they easily retreated back into the "city".

The [-] troops led by Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces, formed a mobile city, which could be used as a basis to attack and harass the rebels at will without worrying about being taken advantage of by the rebels.

It seems that if the attack of the officers and soldiers is repelled, only by breaking this "army city" can there be a chance of victory.Thinking of this, Zhang Shun couldn't help laughing.

Gao Guiying followed Zhang Shun in her rather old padded jacket, her brows were already wrinkled.

At the beginning, "Chuangwang" Gao Yingxiang and "Chuangjiang" Li Zicheng had not seen the power of Hong Chengchou's "car array".

They dealt with the officers and soldiers in Shaanxi, Huguang, Sichuan and other places for a whole year. When they were at their peak, they also attacked Xunyang and forced Xing'an, "spreading four provinces, and the flow is uncertain." As a result, they suffered a big loss when they met Hong Chengchou. .

Now Hong Chengchou has been promoted to the governor of the five provinces, with [-] elite soldiers under his command, forming a city, and Luoyang City is in danger.Seeing Zhang Shun's smile, she couldn't help asking strangely: "Why is Dad laughing? Is there a countermeasure?"

Zhang Shun laughed and said: "Hong Chengchou's train is a wall, and even a car is a city. There is nothing to be afraid of. This wall is not a real wall, and this city is not a real city. Although it can block arrows, it can't avoid shells. Let me use cannons Break it!"

Everyone in the city felt at ease when they heard the words, they saw Zhang Shun give an order, and a battalion of cavalry came out in a file.

Every ten riders were surrounded by a cannon, and quickly came out from the north gate of Luoyang City, and lined up on the right side of the rebel formation.

Not long after, after all the "flying iron cannons" left the city, cattle, donkeys, mules and other livestock continued to march outside the city, pulling various cast iron long and short cannons.

The people who had good deeds in the city and in the city had already counted them carefully, and couldn't help but click their tongues: "Oh my God, there are a total of one or two hundred red barbarian cannons, even the iron-cast officers and soldiers outside the city can't withstand such firepower! "

It turned out that the last time the rebel army used the iron mold casting method to gather together a hundred cannons, which defeated Chen Qiyu, Governor of Henan, and made Zhang Shun keenly aware of the status of the "King of War" of artillery.

Taking advantage of the defeat of the officers and soldiers last time, the rebel army also captured more than ten cannons of the general.These cannons were also wrought iron cannons with different calibers and shells weighing between seven and nine catties, roughly equivalent to the nine-pounder and twelve-pounder guns of Western Europe in later generations.

Although these cannons still have the structure of nine iron hoops, the cannon bodies are solid and the bores are smooth, except for a slightly unreasonable design structure, it does not affect the power of the cannons.

Zhang Shun simply incorporated these cannons into the "Flying Iron Cannons", and ordered Dudu Zhang to build [-] more, making a total of [-] "Field Cannons".

As a result, the "Second Artillery Corps" gathered enough troops, and Li Shi'an led the battle in person.The remaining [-] cast iron guns were not organized, and were only equipped with livestock tow, equipped with strong support and gunners to fire.

When the fifty field cannons, ten gold cannons, and sixty cast iron cannons were dragged out, some officers and soldiers understood that they would not stop at night and reported it to Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces.

The first reaction of Hong Chengchou, governor of the five provinces, was: Just kidding, how could the "Shun thief" have so many artillery in his hands?

It's no wonder that Hong Chengchou couldn't believe it. Don't say that the rebels have so many cannons in their hands. Even if they have so many cannons, where can they find so many gunners?

After Chen Qiyu's defeat, it wasn't that no one reported to him: "The thieves cannoned fiercely, hundreds of them, and the sound of the cannons was continuous. The officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the army was defeated!"

Although Hong Chengchou is quite knowledgeable, he is also quite conceited.However, due to his limited vision, he only felt that this was an excuse for the defeat of Chen Qiyu and other officers and soldiers. He did not believe that the rebel army had so many artillery in their hands.

Of course, they also don't know about Zhang Shun's "iron mold casting method" and the general methods of training command and technical personnel in military academies.

It wasn't until the facts were in front of him that Hong Chengchou was terrified and realized that the "Shun thief" really had so many cannons in his hands.

That Hong Chengchou is not a stubborn person, since his guess was wrong, it is not too late to make up for it.

In an instant, he thought clearly, and couldn't help but ordered: "Commander He Renlong listens to the order, I order you to lead a thousand elite cavalry to attack and harass the thieves and artillery. If you can seize it, you can seize it, and if you can't seize it, you will destroy it. It is really impossible. It is also a great achievement to harass the other party and not be able to fire!"

"Deputy General Ai Wannian listened to the order and immediately led [-] troops and [-] general cannons to capture the left fort in one fell swoop, which is a great achievement!"

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