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Chapter 127 Battle!

Chapter 127 Battle! (two in one)

The march of the army is still relatively slow.

Moreover, Peng Ke deliberately slowed down to give Wu Xuanshu time to expand the encirclement.

So even though the three thousand infantry and artillery he led were only five miles away from the Rhona tribe.

He was also in no rush to attack.

Under one order after another, the army moved three miles north again, and came to a small plain only two miles away from the Rhona tribe.

In order to avoid being raided by the wildling warriors of the Rhona tribe.

As the main force on the front, Peng Ke's troops brought a thousand heavy armored soldiers, including the entire Tiger Roaring Guard's heavy armored soldiers.

A thousand heavy armored soldiers had already put on steam armor when they were still ten miles away from the Rhona tribe. At this time, they were emitting steam all over their bodies, and they were walking in the front.

On the left and right sides, there are five hundred shield axemen, each guarding a thousand musketeers.

In the center is the artilleryman Qianhu with 24 heavy artillery pieces and mortars dismantled into parts.

As for the army?

Penke was not prepared at all.

Wu Xuanshu was arranged to block the back road.

Lu Ming led his troops to march from the southwest, blocking the possibility of the Luona tribe retreating downstream along the stream that is a tributary of the Nalin River.

Land and waterways have to be blocked.

As for the three steam chariots, they need to undertake the work of the fire brigade.

Once the battle started, if the young and middle-aged fighters of the Rhona tribe assembled their forces to break through, the steam chariot would support them in whichever direction they broke through.

After all, this thing is fast, and it is still a tracked chariot, and it is like walking on flat ground in the wild.

There are no extra troops to deploy the rear army for Penke.

Fortunately, there were guard scouts in the direction that Penke and the others came from.

Even if those two tribes have some strong men from the sky, they can make a support decision within a day, and bring the tribe's warriors, without eating or drinking, and come here day and night.

Then Penke can also get information through the scouts in advance, and then adapt to the situation and change the army formation.

There was no attack along the way, and Penke led the troops out of the forest in such a swaggering manner.

Two miles away, the soldiers in front could already clearly see the Rhona tribe and the wildling warriors outside the tribe.

Similarly, the savage warriors on the opposite side also saw the figure of Penke's subordinates.

When they saw that Peng Ke only brought 4000 people, and there was no endless army of [-] people, the high priest felt a little rejoiced in his heart.

The high priest regained his composure, and said confidently: "It seems that the Ming people are not ready either, and the whole army cannot attack!"

"There are only [-] fighters, and they want to take down our Rona tribe. The Ming people on the other side look down on us too much!"

About 30 years ago.

The Rona tribe was once oppressed by the Borjijin tribe who ruled the Northern Man, and sent out soldiers to follow the Northern Man to the south to suppress the uprising movement that was set off by China at that time to expel the Hulu and restore China.

At that time, he was not a high priest, but a novice priest. He once led the warriors of the tribe, crossed the Great Wall with the northern barbarians, and went south to "put down the rebellion."

Although, the rebellion was not put down in the end, but the Beiman was completely expelled from the land of China.

But at that time, he had also seen the combat level of the Ming army.

The soldiers wrapped in iron cans are indeed very fierce, and they can fight against barbarian warriors blessed with shamanism.

And the muskets of the Ming army are indeed very powerful, and can cause great damage at a distance of 80 meters.

However, the musket needs to be reloaded after firing a shot. In a frontal battle, the soldiers of the Ming army have to fire three or four salvos at most before they have to enter a short-handed battle.

Although the Ming army's close combat ability is also very strong, at most it is one against two. Sometimes the battle loss ratio between the Ming army and the Northern barbarian army is maintained at one to one.

The reason why Ming was able to expel the Northern Man from the Great Wall.

Mainly rely on the crowd tactics.

After all, the Han Chinese had a much larger population than the barbarians controlled by the Northern Man.

Back then, Emperor Hongwu recruited millions of troops, relying on matchlock guns and later flintlock guns, plus cannons that fired solid bullets, and the first generation of steam-powered armor, was able to drive the northern barbarians out China.

The high priest also personally experienced several wars back then.

He thought that with the bravery of the Rhona warriors, he could defeat the Ming army with twice the number of people when the Ming army was less than [-] people and the number of cannons was not enough!
So when he saw that there were only more than 20 people in Peng Ke's department, and the cannons he was pulling seemed to be more than [-], his uneasy heart immediately calmed down a lot.

There are more than 8000 elite fighters who can fight, plus more than 3000 old fighters who are old but have rich experience.

This battle, some fight!
However.

If the idea of ​​the high priest is known to Pen Ke.

He had to laugh his teeth out.

The armament of Ming Dynasty 30 years ago.

Can it be compared with the current Ming Dynasty's military equipment?

The Ming Dynasty is not like these savage tribes, which have not changed much for hundreds of years. They used stone axes and bronze spears 500 years ago, and they still use these things 500 years later.

Daming's rifles have all evolved from flintlock guns to fixed-load flintlock guns, and then to breech-loaded fixed-load rifles!
The steam armor has evolved to the fourth generation, and its power is several times higher than that of the first generation!
The first generation of steam armor back then really only had the function of a tortoise shell, mainly for defense.

And the current steam armor is completely a violent war machine!
The cannon revolution was even greater.

Back then, it was still the kind of "cannon" that fired solid bullets and relied on the kinetic energy and impact force of the shell itself to kill.

But now, they are all "cannons" that fire anti-personnel shells, explosive shells, anti-explosive shells, and shotguns!
The two are not the same thing at all, and the lethality produced cannot be compared at all!

And these savages, the impression that Ming's armament is still 30 years ago, really makes people laugh out loud.

But this is normal.

After all, the Northern Man withdrew from the Great Wall, after the Liaodong Capital was established by Ming Dynasty.

Jianzhou, and later on, this large area that will be called the Nuergan area in the future has not been the main strategic direction of Ming Dynasty.

And almost no troops of Ming Dynasty would come here to make any big moves.

The Northern Expedition against the remnants of the Northern Barbarians in the Nuergan area in the 20th year of Hongwu also took place in the Songhua River and even the Heilongjiang River Basin. The savage tribes in Jianzhou did not know it at all.

With their small heads, they would not have imagined how much military power has changed in the past few decades due to the emergence of steam technology in the Ming Dynasty.

Not to mention them, even the northern barbarians, who have local conflicts with Ming Dynasty every year, now know about Ming's armaments, and they have only stayed at the level of Hongwu for 20 years.

After eight years of innovation and change of costumes again, Emperor Hongwu is still holding back, and he didn't let Beiman know at all.

If these savage tribes can have a clear understanding of the current Ming Dynasty's armaments, that would be hell.

Take binoculars.

Standing on a high place, Penke looked at the situation of the Rhona tribe.

These savage warriors naturally have no army to speak of.

They were simply divided into three or four teams by the priests. On the side facing Peng Ke's headquarters, they leaned against the simple rammed earth mud wall and watched the Ming army vigilantly.

It may be that they noticed that the Ming army stopped.

There was a dull sound of horns from the Rhona tribe.

After hearing the sound of the trumpet, the warriors of the Rhona tribe beat their chests with their hands one by one, roaring loudly.

In addition to the roar, there was also a bunch of chirping birdsong roaring.

It's a bit like shouting before.

Even if Penke's headquarters is still two miles away from the Rhona tribe.

But the sound of thousands of people roaring together still clearly reached Penke's ears.

With great interest, he called over to the mature woman who was accompanying the army and asked, "What are those savages shouting?"

The mature woman who was called over looked a little embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, and said, "My lord, what they yelled are all vulgar words, which are unbearable."

"It's not scolding our army, it's just boasting how brave they are. It's as ridiculous as a clown."

Dialogue before the battle.

It's nothing more than some words boasting how awesome you are and how rubbish your enemies are, so hurry up and get out or surrender.

This is also the reserved link of classical warfare.

Pen Ke rubbed his chin, looked at the seemingly energetic and fearless Rhona warrior, and grinned.

"Yes, they all seem to be very strong, and they should be good at mining and repairing railways."

"It's not rude to come and go."

"We also have to give a little response."

"Old Pao Liu!"

"Shoot a volley into the open space one mile north of the Rhona tribe!"

"Just say hello to them!"

Liu Chaosheng, the artilleryman Qianhu who was assembling the mortar, was directing the artillerymen to build the artillery positions, and immediately shouted, "Follow orders!"

24 howitzers with diameters ranging from five inches to eight inches are arranged in three rows, with small-caliber guns in front and large-caliber guns in the back.

One inch in Ming Dynasty is about a little more than three centimeters, and the diameter of the five-inch artillery shell is 16 centimeters.

The shell diameter of the eight-inch cannon is 26 centimeters, which is currently the largest caliber among the army cannons of the Ming Dynasty that can maneuver with the army.

As for the larger [-]-inch gun, it is an unconventional weapon that can only be mounted on armored trains or mobile war fortresses.

It is impossible to drag and run around with the army at will.

Artillery with a caliber of more than [-] inches is the navy's favorite, and the army basically can't use it.

A shell costs half a ton, not to mention the weight of the cannon itself.

It is impossible for the army to carry mobile.

On the contrary, the mortars that have just been installed by the frontier army in the past two or three years are very popular among the troops.

Although the caliber is not large, there are only two calibers of two inches and three inches.

But this thing is light!

A mortar with a 30-inch caliber weighs more than [-] kilograms, and a shell weighs two or three kilograms.

A three-inch caliber mortar weighs more than 100 kilograms, and a shell weighs ten kilograms.

And the mortar can be disassembled into three parts!

The gun barrel, gun mount, and tail can be distributed to three soldiers to carry, and they can be assembled when needed.

In this way, two or three people can carry a gun without any tractor or manpower.

A thousand households of artillery can carry more than 30 mortars, and they are very mobile, and can basically run around with large troops.

Since this thing was installed in the frontier army and tried it out, all the generals in the frontier army shouted that it smells so good!
Although the power of a mortar is not as powerful as that of a howitzer of the same caliber, it can be made up for in quantity!
The most important thing is that this thing can be equipped to the level of a hundred households, which greatly increases the firepower of small groups of troops!

It even changed the combat system of the Ming army!

In the past, small units of less than 5000 men could not carry many artillery pieces, at most twelve howitzers.

This led to insufficient fire support when the small group of troops confronted the northern barbarian cavalry!
The priests of the northern barbarians also have some witchcraft that can cause lethality and effects similar to artillery!

However, the priests did not say that it was difficult to move. Any northern barbarian army could bring priests along with the army.

As a result, during small-scale contact battles, the Ming army basically did not take much advantage.

Emperor Hongwu's Northern Expedition had always organized a large army to fight, and at every turn, an army of 30 to [-] troops would be sent out together, so that the northern barbarians could not hold their heads up.

But now with mortars, the situation is different.

A thousand households of infantry can organize their own hundred households of artillery and bring ten mortars!

With these ten mortars and the son-mother mines that everyone carried, the Ming army of about a thousand people is not bad in terms of heavy weapon firepower.

This made the Ming frontier army, who was already obsessed with artillery, and always had some fears of insufficient firepower when facing the northern barbarians, very satisfied!

Now the mortar has been in service in the frontier army one after another.

The Shanhaiguan defenders were relatively early to get this new weapon. When Peng Ke took over, the Zhenhai Battalion already had 24 two-inch mortars and twelve three-inch mortars.

He took them all.

It is being assembled at the artillery emplacement now.

In a few minutes, 36 mortars were assembled.

The 24 howitzers are also ready.

With a wave of Liu Chaosheng's hand, the gunners took out shells one after another from the shell box.

Howitzers, unscrew the screw breech at the rear of the howitzer, load the shells in, and retwist the breech.

The mortarers also held the shells in both hands and placed them on the muzzle of the mortar, waiting for the order to shell.

See your soldiers are ready.

Liu Chaosheng raised the red flag in his hand and waved it down vigorously.

The mortarmen who received the shelling order immediately let go of their hands.

One by one, the mortars slid in from the muzzle and hit the firing pin on the bottom of the barrel with force.

Howitzers, pull hard on the rope too!
24 howitzer shells with extremely large calibers and 36 mortar shells that were several sizes smaller made different roars and flew towards the open space one mile north of the Rhone tribe.

The ballistics of the two shells are completely different, one is direct fire and the other is projectile, and the muzzle velocity of the shells is also different.

This led to the fact that although the two types of shells were fired together, they did not land together, but landed one after another.

"boom--"

"call out--"

"Boom-"

A series of continuous explosions and flames rose beside the Rhona tribe.

The explosion of dozens of shells was enough to cause the earth to shake.

All the warriors of the Rhona tribe looked to the north.

Groups of explosion flames reflected in their pupils.

Even if they were separated by a mile, they could still feel the shock wave of the shell explosion, the incoming heat, and the lingering smell of gunpowder smoke.

The shock wave wrapped in the smell of gunpowder smoke made the animal skin clothes on their bodies rustle.

All the fighters of the Rhona tribe froze.

"Is this a god descending into the world?"

"High Priest, even the Heavenly Fire Technique descended by the God himself is not so powerful."

"This must be some kind of blindfold! It's a lie!"

"Such divine power is beyond the power of human beings!"

"Could it be that the Ming people have mastered the power of the gods?!"

"No, it's impossible!"

Even the priests of the Rhona tribe.

Under the power of the Daming artillery formation, they all panicked.

In their limited imagination, even the power of the gods is nothing more than that, right?
 It's the end of the year, and I really want to take a break.

  Today is just this chapter, but it is a lot more, [-] words.

  It will still be updated normally in the future, and it will be updated normally on New Year's Eve.

  However, the first or second year of junior high school is still the third year of junior high school, and there may be a day off, and some Chinese New Year activities cannot be postponed.

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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