Win the Ding 1617

PS: Well, I apologize to everyone.In the previous chapter, there is a description of "Liu Zongmin also led Lao Huihui, Ge Liyan and other troops to go northward in the starry night, and more than 1 Qingqi have arrived in Luoyang." This is purely a clerical error, and it should be Nanyang.Sorry everyone.

Wulichuan is located in the west of Henan Province, which is exactly the hub of the transition zone from plains to hills and mountains.Several roads leading to Shanzhou and Tongguan pass through here. It is more than 100 miles away from Lushi County. It borders Tanghe and Zhuyangguan in the east and Shuanghuaishu and Shiziping in the west. Adjacent to Wayaogou Township in the south and Hengjian Township in the north with Xionger Mountain Ridge - Laojie Ridge as the boundary.

Because Wulichuan is located at the southern foot of Xiong'er Mountain, the main ridge of Xiong'er Mountain winds in the north of the town, and connects the main ridge to the south with many mountains and valleys, forming a terrain that is high in the north and low in the south. There are two main roads in the north, Yutanggou and Waxuezi. The ditch; the south is the Wulichuan Basin, which runs from northwest to southeast, is five miles long and two miles wide, and the land is fertile.

Luo Hu's Zhenshan Battalion blocking position was set up at this critical point.

Not only is the entire Zhenshan Battalion here, but Luo Hu's elder brother, Zhang Nai, is also from the Chuangying Boy Scouts, and under Li Zicheng's general order, he led the Pao Battalion under Luo Hu's command in Wulichuan.

"Little Huzi, the commander-in-chief has orders from you, everything is up to you, you can just assign it!" Although he is also Li Zicheng's adopted son, Zhang Nai's age and military achievements are much stronger than Luo Hu's, but right now he is in the camp. There are not so many problems in it, and everything is based on winning the battle.

"Brother Naizi, then I won't be courteous to you! My soldiers are blocking the frontal attack. The gunmen and swordsmen are in the middle, and the cavalry are on the two wings. They are ready to attack at any time. Divide the army and eat them one bite at a time. Your artillery battalion, built artillery emplacements at the rear of the army formation and on the hills on both sides, and beat his deaf grandson with shells! Let's make him suffer a lot in front of Tongguan as well!"

Speaking of this, the eyes of the two little guys couldn't help but be full of flames of revenge and pleasure. It is also a happy event in life that Sun Chuanting, one of the culprits who fought against the camp in Tongguan, was also wiped out in front of Tongguan. .

present.Zhang Nai led the officers of his battalion to measure the terrain nearby, dig the artillery emplacements, and set up the artillery.Above each cannon, a wooden frame was carefully erected.The top was covered with oilcloth and vegetation, in order to fear that it would be difficult to ignite the artillery in the continuous autumn rain.

In the autumn rain, the road was muddy and slippery, and Zhang Nai even used the horses of his own soldiers to drag the artillery.It is also a drop in the bucket.Before all the cannons could be put in place, more than [-] heavy cannons and more than a hundred Dafolang machines were lined up in front of the formation, and Sun Chuanting's army vanguard rangers had already appeared in the field of vision.

Immediately following the hundreds of forward riders are the forwards appointed by Sun Chuanting, a team of [-] new troops!

Seeing the Ming army marching for tens of miles in the bitter cold autumn rain, the formation was already in a mess, the flags were tilted here and there, and there were constant complaints, cursing and crying from among the troops, Zhang Nai's relatives couldn't hold back.

"Master Zhang, one volley from our artillery can send these dogs to heaven!"

Zhang Nai was also quite moved.Looking at Luo Hu with questioning eyes, "Brother, what do you think?"

"Brother Naizi, don't worry! The group of officers and soldiers in front of me are just forwards. If they fight too hard, it's time for Old Sun to adjust his deployment and change the marching route. Right now, the troops of Father Commander and Cao Shuai are still on the way." If the deployment is not in place, we have to attract Old Sun's attention to Wulichuan! Let him feel that as long as we work harder, we can be defeated. He can escape back to his old nest in Shaanxi!"

Looking at the Ming army team on the mountain road far away, Zhang Nai swallowed a little greedily, "Damn, it's cheap for them!"

"Brother Naizi, don't worry! After beating Old Sun, his train soldiers will all be your subordinates! You are beating too hard now, and those big and small cannons will be smashed to pieces."

The two brothers teased Sun Chuanting for a while, and went to prepare separately.

The large and small cannons of the Ming army train soldiers that Luo Hu generously allocated to Zhang Nai in advance were not in the forward team at this time.Because of the slow marching speed, Sun Chuanting put them in the rear army.Followed closely by his Chinese army.

Right now, the marching sequence of the Ming army is like this.The [-] new troops who had already arrived at Wulichuan were the vanguard, and Niu Chenghu, the Lintao commander-in-chief, was the rear team. Following Niu Chenghu's troops was another team of [-] new troops, and behind them was the Guyuan commander-in-chief. Zheng Jiadong's main army battalion, similarly, the troops of Yulin General Soldier Wang Ding, Ningxia General Soldier Fumin and others were all mixed with the new army, and they covered each other alternately and meandered for tens of miles across the west of Henan. Lushi, Baofeng and other counties.

Sun Chuanting's own Chinese army, in addition to commanding the rest of the tens of thousands of new troops, was accompanied by Lintao Town Vice General Lu Guangzu and Yulin Town Vice General Hui Xian. The train soldiers he trained painstakingly followed the Chinese army walk.Shaanxi General Soldier Gao Jie's unit was in charge of the rear as the rear of the whole army.

Sun Chuanting has already promised in person that as soon as the whole army returns to Tongguan, the inscription recommending him to be promoted to General Hangyin will be sent out immediately!

This tens of miles long team is like a giant python covered in broken scales, struggling and slowly wriggling westward along the mountain road bit by bit, soldiers slipped and fell on the ground constantly. The ground was muddy, and the horses were not much better. Occasionally, there would be a mournful cry, which came from the long line. The deep trench made by the rolling broke the horse's leg.

A burst of short and intense gunfire interrupted the dull atmosphere condensed over the marching team.

Niu Chenghu tried his best to open his tired eyelids. This kind of ghostly weather forced him to wrap an oilcloth poncho outside his cloak. The tedious march made him drowsy.

"What happened?"

"Commander! The brothers in front reported that there are bandits blocking the advance of the army! We are fighting with them!"

"Disappointment!" Niu Chenghu, who was having sex with his newly married concubine while half asleep and half awake, cursed, and wrapped his poncho tightly around him, "Send the order, everyone rest, and wait until the battle ahead is over!"

The soldiers and horses in Lintao Town immediately stopped in place. The infantry sat down on the drier ground to take a breath. He joined the marching ranks and went to the nearby woods to find some firewood to burn fire and water.

However, Niu Zongbing forgot to report to the rear troops that Luo Hu's troops were blocking the way ahead.The brigade is still marching towards Wulichuan in an endless stream!

For a large corps of more than [-] horses, whether it is combat, marching, or camping, it is extremely difficult to test the commander's level of commanding the troops.At the same time, it also has extremely high requirements for the relationship between the various departments of the internal discipline.

However, these are exactly what the various ministries of the Ming army lack at the moment.To be honest, in this evacuation to Tongguan, which seemed to be a bit of a rout, no ministries fled.The matter of snatching the friendly army's supplies, mules and horses, and abandoning the commander-in-chief to go first, has already shown Sun Chuanting Sun Dushi's ability to control the army in his hand.At the same time, it also shows that his achievements in military training in Shaanxi during this period are extraordinary.

When Sun Chuanting followed the brigade and found that something was wrong, the forward's messenger who came to report the military situation also arrived.

"Governor! In front of Wulichuan Town, the bandit Luo Hu's troops set up an ambush to stop our army's forward. The casualties were heavy! The lieutenant general was hit by a gun, and only 1 of the [-] horses escaped!"

"What?!" Sun Chuanting was so startled that he almost fell off his horse. He has worked so hard for so long, recruited the sons of good families in northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong, and practiced hard day and night. The Nanyue Army and the Liaodong Tatars, known as the best soldiers in the world, may not be able to lose the wind. How could they lose so much in just over an hour, leaving only 1 of the [-]?

"Come on! Clear the way ahead! The Governor is going to have a look!" With an order, hundreds of soldiers and officers who were blocking the road rode westward, yelling at the soldiers and officers who were blocking the road to get out of the way.Don't block the way of Master Supervisor.

In fact, even if Sun Chuanting himself arrived, he might not be able to see any way.

Luo Hu's tactics were worthless to put it bluntly, but they relied on terrain and features to maximize the lethality of artillery, gunfire, and cavalry.

Luo Hu divided the [-] firecrackers in the Zhenshan camp into two teams, with a team of [-], lined up face to face in the middle of the road.A team of two thousand soldiers, all equipped with flintlocks, served as a mobile reserve in the hands of the chief general.

"Tiger, can this work? Now the rain is getting more and more annoying! Or should I break them up with my cannon first. Your firecrackers go up again? Brother is afraid that your firecrackers won't catch fire! "

"Brother Naizi, don't worry! I'm also afraid that ordinary firecrackers won't ignite, so the ones I sent to the front are all high-quality firecrackers!" Luo Hu pointed to the four teams of firecrackers lying across the road. Those six thousand gunfire soldiers.

In order to prevent the ignition powder from being fired.All the firecrackers wore big bamboo hats woven from huge bamboo strips to keep out the rain, and also to prevent the rain from wetting the gunpowder and extinguishing the matchlocks.On both sides of their formation, there are [-]-blade shield soldiers and pike soldiers acting as guards, because Luo Hu's gunfire soldiers cannot get so many sleeve gun stabs for a while.Therefore, many firecrackers could not be equipped with thorns, so Luo Huo simply concentrated the sleeve thorns of the entire army in the hands of the two thousand firecrackers.Therefore, this hand-to-hand combat can only be done to others.

On the farther sides, in the deserted fields, there were two or three thousand cavalry standing there with reins in their hands.They are ready to rush to the front of the formation at any time to meet the infantry brothers.

"Brother Naizi, please give orders. After two rounds of firecrackers are finished here, the Dafolang machine you arranged on the top of the mountain will open fire. The more chaotic and rotten the army's forward team, the better! After one round of fighting After one round, I stopped to rest. My gunmen will fight two more rounds! Then the sword and shield soldiers and pikemen will rush up to fight the remnants of the enemy. At the same time, the cavalry will rush to the rear of the officers and troops to cut off their retreat, Then cut them into small pieces and destroy them!"

Seeing that there was a team of rebels standing in front of the avenue to stop them, the hundreds of rangers who were the vanguard of the whole army were quite courageous, so they rushed up with just a shout.In the rain, hundreds of riders on fierce horses and horses rushed towards the thousands of gunfire soldiers lined up on the official road without evidence or evidence like dragons in the water.

"First column, go up!" Wan Xizi, the deputy general of the Zhenshan Battalion, just issued the password.

"Ha! Ha! Ha!" With three tiger roars, the more than [-] firecrackers in the first row stepped forward in unison, each raised their firecrackers, and carefully used their huge firecrackers. The bamboo hat sheltered the rain and prevented the problems of gunpowder and kindling.

Seeing that the cavalry had advanced a hundred paces, Wan Xizi shouted, "Fire!"

The recruits, already frightened by the momentum of hundreds of cavalry pounced on the narrow road, were about to come out, subconsciously fired according to the commander's order, and as the trigger was pulled, a short cloud of smoke formed above their heads, and in a blink of an eye The room was wiped out by the rain again.

The more than one hundred fierce horses rushing forward were rolled and rolled by the bullets that rushed towards them.Lie down on one side.The fallen war horse not only knocked down the rider on horseback and injured his bones and tendons, but also created a huge obstacle for the cavalry behind.

In the blink of an eye, half of these hundreds of pioneer rangers were overturned, and the rest had to turn their horses' heads and report back angrily.

The kindling rope used in Zhenshan camp is different from gunpowder.The gunpowder has to be carefully checked to see if it is possible to use the gunpowder guns of the Nanyue Army, so as not to explode the chamber when the gunpowder is loaded.But Yishi bought the matchsticks from Long Shengxing.They are all boiled in yellow wax with lime, which can ensure that a little spark will not go out even in a stormy day.

Seeing that the rangers of the Ming army retreated, the gunfire soldiers did not chase after them.Just retreat quickly, go to the end of the line to check the firecrackers, load the ammunition, and prepare to move forward again.

Those Ming army cavalry who were knocked to the ground, and the ownerless horses screaming in the wilderness naturally had auxiliary soldiers to collect and rectify and clean the battlefield.

Before they had time to count the horses, swords, guns, and armor one by one, the Ming army of the brigade rushed forward.

He looked coldly at the corpses of Ming army officers and soldiers lying in the muddy water, but the lieutenant general leading the new army was very calm, and just issued orders one after another to adjust the deployment.Order your soldiers and horses to enter the attack position.There are also nearly a thousand cavalry in line in front of the formation, fastening their armor, needless to say to rectify their weapons.

In front of their queue, there were several layers of archers. More than a thousand strong bows were drawn by the archers, and the arrows made of fine steel were drawn from the quiver and placed on the bowstring made of raw cowhide.Behind the archers, there are dense melee fighters holding shields and broadswords.

With the sound of a letter cannon and the beating of war drums, a guerrilla personally stepped forward with a knife to lead the battle.With a knife in one hand and a flag in the other, he led his servants and soldiers to charge forward.

"Don't be afraid of the firecrackers of the thieves, it's useless to rush to the front! In this heavy rain, the firecrackers are not easy to ignite!" Half of it was to boost morale.Half to reassure himself, the guerrilla ordered his subordinates to yell loudly.

As their attacking vanguard got closer and closer to the formation of firecrackers in the Zhenshan Camp, a sharp suona sounded from the Shaanxi soldiers, "Fire the arrows!"

Thousands of bowstrings made bang bang sounds almost at the same time, and the dense rain of arrows made one feel that the sky became darker in an instant.

"Avoid the arrow!"

In this round of arrow rain, more than a hundred firecrackers lined up on the front mountain road were immediately shot through by sharp arrows.Nailed the body to the red clay.In a blink of an eye, the blood flowing out of the body turned the red soil even more scarlet.

"Take away the dead and injured brothers! Line up! Anyone who dares to scurry, behead!"

The charging new army had already rushed through the area where the cavalry was beaten to the ground. The guerrilla saw that the enemy had not yet opened fire, and suddenly became more courageous.

"Brothers, follow me! A thief's firecracker is useless in rainy days! Go up! Use a big blade to kill his ancestors!"

"The ancestors of Japan!"

More than [-] people shouted in unison, ready to take advantage of the good weather, use their swords and spears to teach a lesson to the group of thieves who tried to block their way home, and by the way, make a military contribution to them, make a small fiscal!

One hundred steps, eighty steps, seventy steps, sixty steps.The acknowledgment flag held high in the hand of the guerrilla became the best target in Wan Xizi's eyes. He used it to observe how far the Ming army's charge formation was from him.

Sixty steps!Right here!

"Fire!"

More than [-] firecrackers fired a crisp thunder on this intermountain basin again.The charging wave composed of more than two thousand Ming troops suddenly stagnated!

Projectiles flew across, bloody flesh, broken limbs and broken bones, crying and wailing filled people's sights and impacted people's eardrums.

Didn't it mean that the firecrackers of the rogues in rainy days couldn't ignite?How can it still be so fierce and sharp when fired?

Without waiting for the officers and soldiers of the Ming army to react, the gunfire soldiers in the second row also took a step forward, pulled the trigger, ignited the primer in the medicine pool, and fired the projectile from the gun barrel!

After the second row of firecrackers was released, the firecrackers immediately gathered and retreated, and went to the rear to do what they should do.

"Damn it! Bully me for not bringing artillery!"

The lieutenant who led the team was so angry that his teeth were about to be gritted.He pointed out a few trusted generals in the past, each with a team, ready to attack like a spinning wheel, "I don't believe it! How fast his firecrackers can hit!"

This lieutenant general also knows a lot about firecrackers.Matchlock guns are better than flintlock guns.Its shooting steps are much more complicated. There are several steps such as pouring the powder, charging the powder, pressing the fire, loading the bullet, and loading the matchlock. Skilled shooters usually only shoot once a minute, and some gunners with poor psychological quality , When I arrived on the battlefield, I was in a hurry.It's fine if you can shoot one shot in 1 minutes.

And 2 minutes is enough to decide the life and death of an army.

"kill!"

After the denser Ming army assembled, they rushed towards the formation of the Zhenshan camp.

"Brother Naizi, you can issue an order for the brothers on the mountain to fire!"

Zhang Nai burst into joy, and ordered his generals to wave the red flag.Signal to the artillery of the artillery battalion on the mountain.

As the red flag waved, the artillery on the mountain rang! (~^~)