Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

The Eight Banners Han army like Huang Deheng is not afraid of death.

The combat effectiveness of the servant army has been the same since ancient times.

To say that the servant army can fight as bravely and skillfully as the "imperial army" is either stupid or stupid.

But because of the strict discipline, they knew very well that if they stopped moving or turned around and fled with just this casualty, they would definitely be caught and beheaded by the supervising team.

Retreat is only allowed when heavy casualties are encountered.

So now, they have no other choice but to move forward bravely.

After about 100 more steps forward, the scream of tearing the air sounded again in the air ahead.

Huang Deheng's heart immediately rose to his throat. This is the second row of artillery shells fired by the Ming army. Whoever hits and misses can only rely on everyone's luck. Ancestors, ah, bless me.

Maybe it was the ancestors of the Huang family who really heard the prayer.

The second row of shells still missed Huang Deheng, but one shell landed behind him, plowing a path of blood in the dense infantry formation of the Eight Banners Han Army in an instant.

The tiger squat gun equipped by the Ming army has a maximum range of exactly five hundred paces.

Just when Xu Yingwei was at a loss, the more than 100 camels were actually driven by Jian slaves to lie down sideways in front of the two armies, and then Jian slaves tore off the blankets on the camels' backs.

But please don't let anything happen.

The emperor is rich in soil.

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"Ok?"

Moreover, the number of camel cannons built by Jiannu is quite a lot.

These ricochets and direct hit shells will basically plow a bloody path in the two infantry formations of the Eight Banners Han Army, killing or wounding several or a dozen Eight Banners Han troops.

"Pass me the order, all field artillery commanders..." Xu Yingwei's eyes widened as soon as Xu Yingwei's order was halfway through, because he was surprised to see that the Jiannu artillerymen just moved the camel's back. The cannon on his back was turned around, and the muzzle of the black hole was already aimed at the hollow phalanx of the Ming army in the northwest corner.

Jiannu's cannon was fixed on the camel's back?Can it be turned?

The blanket was ripped off, revealing the swivel cannon hidden underneath in an instant.

Therefore, artillery in this period can only be an auxiliary arm, not the main combat arm.

Of course, shooting shotgun at close range is another matter.

Because the camel soldiers on both sides of the Jiannu infantry formation suddenly started to accelerate.

Because he found that the chance of being hit by a shell is not high.

Although the 4-inch field guns in the main artillery position can reach them, the 10 field guns are always blocking the advancing Jiannu infantry phalanx, and there is no time to attack the Jiannu camel soldiers.

But overall, the casualties were not great.

The ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.

They expected that Jiannu would throw away the bulky Hongyi cannon in order to speed up the march, but they did not expect that Jiannu would find a camel cannon to replace the Hongyi cannon.

After the two platoons of shelling came down, Huang Deheng was no longer afraid.

Compared with stopping the advance of the Jiannu infantry, it is obviously more important to attack the Jiannu artillery.

This means that Jiannu has at least [-] camel cannons. With so many camel cannons in Jiannu, can the Ming army's infantry hollow phalanx and side car formation still be relied on?
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The damage to the side van is also good.

A few more Eight Banners Han troops were instantly shattered.

After all, the distance of a thousand steps is a bit far, and the hit rate can only depend on fate.

The one hundred camels, driven by Jiannu, sped forward and quickly left the infantry formation.

A small number of shells also fell on the ground, and then formed ricochets, jumping into the formation of the Eight Banners Han army.

He had a premonition that there would be trouble in this Hunhe battle.

The key is that there are only a hundred camel soldiers, and the target is too small.

Am I so blind?The cannon can still be fixed on the back of the camel?
"Xu Guijian, is there any problem?" Gao Qiqian was keenly aware of Xu Yingwei's mood swings, and suddenly became nervous for no reason.

Xu Yingwei's order was conveyed quickly.

But it is actually not easy to get hit by a cannonball from the red cannon on the battlefield, the probability is very small.

Xu Yingwei could clearly see white smoke continuously rising from the muzzles of hundreds of camel cannons.

I'm high and diving, but I haven't become the eunuch king yet.

After a while, the shells hit the Ming army's hollow phalanx in the northwest corner. Because the distance was only [-] steps, Jiannu's camel cannons aimed directly and fired horizontally, so the hit rate was very high. All the shells hit the wall of the sidecar of the Ming army accurately, and only a small part of the shells hit high or low.

At that time, the artillery will be against the artillery, and the Jiannu artillery will not be the opponent of the Ming artillery at all.

Thinking of this, a ferocious smile appeared on the corner of Dorgon's mouth.

Seeing the swivel cannon, Xu Yingwei's pupils shrank slightly, cannon! ?
The thief who entered the mother, Jiannu actually hid the cannon?This camel caravan is actually an artillery?

The so-called semi-fixed paper shell shells have only half of the gunpowder and are specially prepared for close-range shelling.

At the moment Xu Yingwei is going to give the general order to the 10 field artillery to adjust the shooting parameters.

The professional level of the artillerymen of the Ming army is not low, and the response speed is not bad, and the parameters have been determined in advance, but no matter how fast it is, it still cannot catch up with Jiannu's camel swivel cannon.

But even a small part of the shells that hit high or low mostly form ricochets.

According to the current rate of casualties, when the Han army of the Eight Banners approached within 50 steps of the Ming army's phalanx, the artillerymen of the Ming army would fire five or six cannons at most. At most, there were two to 300 casualties, which was not unbearable for the Eight Banners Han army who attacked.

Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, the two traitors, are also celebrating each other.

With flowering bombs, a large number of people will die from a single shot.

"Good fight!" Hong Chengchou also clenched his fists vigorously.

In less than a moment, the more than 100 camels had arrived at the middle area between the Jiannu soldiers formation and the Ming army's hollow phalanx, about [-] steps away from the Ming army's hollow phalanx in the northwest corner.

"This distance..." Xu Yingwei frowned even more.

The artillery of the Ming army had just started working, and the first row of the Jiannu artillery fired over.

If you really want to die and charge directly, the soldiers of the Ming army will use rifles to beat these camels into sieves. The vitality of camels may be slightly stronger than that of war horses, but it is absolutely impossible to block the lead of rifles.

Xu Yingwei couldn't figure out, what was the purpose of Jiannu sending these hundreds of camel soldiers?Charge directly?

As a general, he is most afraid of impetuousness, so he must calm down.

However, Xu Yingwei was still not very worried, because Jiannu just used camels to transport the cannons to the front of the two armies, but it took time for the Jiannu artillerymen to unload the cannons from the camels, install them, and then measure the parameters. By the time the Jiannu Artillery had finished these preparations, the Ming army's 4-inch field artillery had already been prepared.

"It's nothing, just a small problem." Xu Yingwei quickly regained his composure.

According to the original trajectory, artillery will have to wait at least until the eighteenth century to become the main combat arm, which is still more than a hundred years away, so the current main combat arms are still infantry and cavalry.

There is no flowering ammunition, and a few people will die in one shot.

After a pause, Xu Yingwei shouted again: "Field artillery commanders, aim at the Jiannu camel artillery in the northwest direction, reset the shooting elements and switch to semi-fixed cardboard shells!"

In an instant, the refusal horses and the walls of the sidecars in front of the formation were smashed into pieces, and dozens of soldiers of the Ming army guarding behind the walls of the sidecars were killed or injured, and even the artillery in the hollow phalanx There were a few casualties, which were caused by ricochets caused by the high-firing shells falling into the hollow phalanx.

What's more, the red cannons of the Ming army will soon have to shift their targets.

At the same time, remove the full-packed paper shells stacked next to the field guns and replace them with semi-fixed paper shells.

If you really use a 4-inch field gun to fight, it belongs to using a cannon to fight mosquitoes.

Zheng Sen had clearly reported to him just now that Jianu owned a total of four to five hundred camels.

But Dorgon and the others stood at a high place, so they could see very clearly.

Dorgon finally laughed when he saw that the attacking Green Battalion had smashed at least a dozen vans in the Ming Army's hollow phalanx in the northwest corner to pieces with only one round of shelling.

Although the red cannons of the Ming army are sharp, they are not terrible.

One is because the accuracy is not so high, the other is because the rate of fire is slow, and it takes three to four minutes to reload at the fastest, and the third is because no flowering ammunition has been produced so far.

"How is it possible?" Xu Yingwei almost exclaimed.

Huang Deheng's cognition is not wrong, at least in this period, the threat of the red cannon is not that great.

It would be terrifying to be hit by a shot from the red cannon at close range.

It's bragging to ruin a dozen miles with one cannon. If you are hit by a cannonball from the red cannon, you will either die or be injured.

Xu Yingwei's heart trembled suddenly.

Because this distance is just outside the maximum range of the tiger squat gun.

In addition, there is another more important reason, Xu Yingwei is not yet aware of the threat of camel soldiers.

"Mother thief!" Xu Yingwei's face collapsed.

The 100 4-inch guns in the main artillery position quickly adjusted their shooting parameters.

The more than 100 red-clothed cannons of the Ming army were divided into two clusters, and launched shelling on the two lines of the Eight Banners Han army. However, more than half of the shells failed to hit the target in the two shellings, either far or near. Or it was off, less than half of the shells hit the two Eight Banners Han army arrays that were attacking.

Huang Deheng was in the army formation, so he couldn't see clearly.

Xu Yingwei was in a bad mood, but Dorgon was in a good mood.

The only fly in the ointment is that the power of the camel swivel gun is still slightly insufficient.

If this cannon in red, after piercing through the side wall of the Ming army's hollow phalanx, it would definitely be able to cause fatal damage to the Ming army arrayed behind the wall of the car. no problem.

But now, the camel swivel gun has been exhausted after penetrating the van.

But it doesn't matter, two shots if one shot doesn't penetrate, and three shots if two shots fail.

As long as the wall of the Ming army's side car is destroyed, the Ming army infantry inside the wall is a living target.