Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 989 The advantage of long hands

At this time, the Ming army did not have the concepts of "trial shooting" and "school shooting". According to historical records, it was probably at the time when the Liao incident almost collapsed that the Ming Dynasty introduced the artillery instructor of Flangji. Teach some officers how to handle guns.

But under the Jinghua system, no matter land or sea, there is this concept brought by high pragmatism, so... the first cannon on the Jinghua gunboat was actually a live ammunition calibration.

Of course, although the school shooting emphasizes the correction of shooting elements, it does not mean that it is firing randomly. In fact, this shot is aimed at the most densely populated part of the flower - because if you shoot at the front , it may be because of the deviation that they can't reach them at all, other times it's fine, now they are standing by the river, if they can't reach them, they will be thrown into the river, it would be too embarrassing.

It's hard to say whether the gunner's gunnery skills were not in place or the river fluctuated too much in the wind and rain. In short, the shot missed, or more precisely, it hit far.

This shot was fired at the center of the forward cavalry of the Chaohua Department. In the end, it almost ran out of the edge of the rear of the cavalry. In addition to the blood-splattered rotten meat, the remaining shells broke the legs of several cavalry horses behind him. Five or six cavalrymen who were affected immediately fell off their horses, and the horses with broken legs screamed and neighed miserably.

The Duo soldiers around were taken aback, and subconsciously regarded the actions of the Ming army as a "catch-up", that is, they wanted to "catch them all together", and they all scattered to avoid them, so anxious that their immediate leaders and even the leaders Shouting loudly, trying to restrain military discipline.

Chaohua Taiji had planned to turn around and hide in the rear just now, seeing the situation, he didn't dare to go straight to the rear in a daze, but ran to the side and rear without saying a word, riding the horse and holding the reins, his movements were quick.

Several generals and little chiefs around him followed suit and ran away one after another. Only the general who had issued the warning before ran away while shouting, "Retreat, the whole army retreats!"

The entire army retreated after only one shot. This situation was completely beyond Ming's expectations. The boss of the ship could clearly see it from the high bridge. He became anxious for a while and ordered the gunners to fire a second shot as soon as possible.

The second shot was fired a little earlier due to the urging of the boss of the ship, but because the opponent was a fast-moving cavalry, there was some error between the previously corrected shooting elements and the current actual distribution of the enemy forces. People were still hit-nearly ten cavalrymen who were huddled together and fled either smashed to death, or killed the horses and fell to the ground.

From the perspective of the cavalry of the Chaohua Department, fortunately there is rain today, the ground is already a little muddy, the soil has become softer than usual, and part of the kinetic energy of the solid shells has been removed, otherwise if the shells bounce on the hard ground, casualties There must be more of them.

But in all fairness, the actual damage caused by these two cannons is actually not as good as the previous four-round Wanli salvo, but... Like other armies that were almost hit by artillery for the first time, the shock effect brought by the artillery is far from comparable to that of the musket. Coupled with the inaction of Chaohua Taiji himself and even fleeing, a small defeat was formed.

Zhang Wanbang could see it clearly from the bridge. He knew that there was actually another most important reason for the defeat of the Huahua Department. , they simply can't reach it!

Under normal circumstances, he predicted that after the opponent was attacked by the first artillery fire from the rear army, the first reaction would definitely not be to retreat, but to press forward directly, or even rush forward decisively, entering the Ming army's position, and fighting with the Ming army. If they were strangled together, the artillery of the Ming army would naturally dare not fire again, or they would abandon the artillery and flee for their lives. If the infantry couldn't resist, it was common for the artillery without the ability to fight close to each other to break up.

So in the short fight just now, although the Ming army seemed to be powerful and overwhelmed the enemy with only two shots, the enemy's thousands of cavalry were destroyed, but the premise of everything was based on "I can beat you, And you can't hit me" This is based on the obvious "unfairness", but it doesn't mean that as soon as the army artillery comes out, the Huahua Department will be wiped out so simply.

Here I would like to add that the Chaohua in the history books of the Ming Dynasty is the name of a person, that is, the Chaohua Taiji just now, whose real name is Shuha Zhuolik Tuhun Batulu.

At the same time, I would like to add some questions about Wuliangha and the five tribes of Neikalka: Wuliangha is the Ming people's name for the eastern part of Mobei Mongolia, also known as Duoyan Sanwei.In the 22nd year of Hongwu (1389), Zhu Yuanzhang set up the commanders of Taining, Duoyan and Fuyu.Because Duoyanwei is dangerous and strong, and he is from Wuliangha, so Wuliangha is used to summarize the three guards.

However, in the middle of the sixteenth century, the Sanwei of Wuliangha repeatedly refused to obey the control of the Khan court and continued to have frictions with other ten thousand households. Geerboluote raised troops to attack Kalkhavan, but the Khan court sent envoys to mediate and completely ignored it.

At this time, Bodi Khan (grandson of Dayan Khan), the great Khan of Mongolia, made four successive crusades in 1524, 1531, 1533, and 1538, and finally divided up Wulianghawan households with Altan Khan, who was ordered to send troops— —I Da Khan actually went there to share the spoils, so I don’t need to elaborate on this point.

After that, the Neikalkha tribe, which occupied the territories of Taining and Fuyuwei, traded with the Ming Dynasty under the guise of the two guards.But the Ming people did not make a distinction between them, and called Neikalka Wuliangha afterwards—in fact, the Wuliangha after that was completely different from the Wuliangha in the early Ming Dynasty.

As for the Inner Khalkha Tribe, after Dayan Khan entrusted his sons, his five sons, Alchuborot, were entrusted to live in the five Otoks east of the Khalkha River in the Kalkhawan households, called Neikarka. Khalkha.

The five divisions of Neikarka are Jarut, Bahrain, Hongjiyet, Bayawut and Uziyet, also known as Bahrain, Hongjila, Jarut, Bayat, Ujiyet or Zharut. Lute Department, Bahrain Department, Ongirat Department, Bayue Special Department and Uziyet Department five.

Hulahachi, the son of Alchuborot, went south to annex Wuliangha's Tainingwei.Hulahachi had five sons: the eldest son, Ubashiwei, led the Zalut tribe; the second son, Subahai (Subahai in the Ming Dynasty), owned the Bahrain tribe; There is the Hongji Citi Department; the fourth son Suoning Daiqing leads the Bayawuti Department; the fifth son Shuhak Zhuoli Ketu leads the Ujiyet Department.

"Liaoyilue" says that Chaohua is one of the five sons of Hulahachi and the leader of Uqiyet.Therefore, in the documents and historical materials of the Ming people, Chaohua is not only the name of a person, that is, Shuhak Zhuoliketu, the leader of the Uqiyet tribe in the Five-Party Alliance of Neikalkha, but also "Zaohua" is used to refer to the entire Ziyet belongs to this tribe.

With this explanation, it is easier to understand why the Huahua Department is willing to follow the order of Tumen Khan to send troops more honestly, and obviously send more troops than Tumen Khan. Fundamentally speaking, their family has always been mixed with the "central ten thousand households" of the Chahar Department.

Because Zhang Wanbang has fought against the Mongols for generations, he has a relatively clear understanding of these origins of the Mongols, so he judges that since the Chaohua Department is going south at this moment, there must be Tumen behind.

Therefore, he didn't care whether it was a fighter opportunity if the Huahua Department was collapsed after two shots, and he directly asked the boss of the ship not to care about the other party, but to send himself back to the south bank first.

The boat boss obeyed naturally, not only because Gao Yushi had given the order before, but also now that the other party has retreated, and he can't go ashore, it doesn't make much sense to stay here.

But this time, Zhang Wanbang didn't hesitate any more about what Gao Bingxian called the "necessary moment". As soon as he arrived at the Sanchahe Wharf, he immediately began to order the Shuizhai camp at the Sanchahe Wharf to send out ships to closely monitor the area within its capabilities. Corresponding river section, and maintain a state of combat readiness at all times, once there is a change on the other side, not only must detect the strength of the other side, but also "must stop the Tartars from crossing the river."

The Jinghua Fleet at the Sanchahe Wharf gladly took orders, and several hundred guards were also in place, ready to "conquer" at any time.

Zhang Wanbang was very satisfied, and sent a few servants to stay at the Sanchahe camp as contact messengers, and then hurried back to Dongchangbao himself to prepare for the next stage of the arrangement.
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