Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 1012
There are many styles of scull carts, among which a huge box car is depicted in many military books. The side of the box car facing the enemy is full of protruding steel nails, and it also depicts lion patterns. It looks like a religious ceremony. General equipment.

However, the meaning of the scull cart is a movable shield wall, which is large enough and thick enough to cover the pawns behind. The scull cart built by the Jianzhou people is very simple. It is a wooden frame with a large wooden board at an acute angle to the ground in front. Then the wooden frame has four wooden wheels, and someone pushes it forward.

If you get close to the wooden board, you can know what material it is made of. The door panels, wooden fences, etc. are dismantled from the houses of the villagers. They are covered with sandbags and fur. The wooden wheel is sawn directly from the log. The lower section was treated as a wheel after a simple treatment. From the continuous bumping up and down of the scull cart, we can know that the wheel is not a circle, and even the four wheels under the wooden frame may not be equal in size.

There are about [-] scull carts in a row, and the shields covered by them are both high and wide enough. From the very beginning, the infantry of the Huwei Army can't see the Jurchen's main formation, but can only see what the scull shields can't cover. Flag of the Jianzhou Army.

Rows of scull carts approached, like rolling waves, and it was also spectacular. The two wings of the scull carts pushed by infantry were the weakness and flaws, but the Jianzhou Army had a lot of cavalry, and they had already protected the two wings. Cavalry, in such a formation, can only fight immediately to test the ability of individual soldiers. Although the Eastern Expeditionary Army has an advantage, it is not absolute, and it cannot be quickly attacked from the flank.

Wang Tong turned his head and gave an order. After the three guards cleaned up briefly, they yelled. The three rode out on horseback. Seeing the movement here, the other side also had cavalry to meet them.

But the three personal guards were not too close. They dismounted about a hundred steps away from the scull cart array. One of them was holding a firecracker to prepare, and the other two were still on the horse.

There was a sound of "bang", but the three of them didn't continue. They got on their horses and circled forward. Seeing that the enemy cavalry was about to come and pursue them, they turned and retreated.

Returning to Wang Tong's side on the right side of the formation, the personal guard immediately reported:
"Commander, the firecracker can't penetrate within a range of seventy steps!"

Wang Tong nodded, turned his head and sent an order and said:
"The musketeers of each regiment withdrew from the front line, supported by the two wings of the pikemen, and gathered after the formation of the surplus men, and stood in line for orders."

Several messengers agreed, and they all rode out to the regiments to deliver orders. Of the six infantry regiments of the Huwei Army, four regiments lined up in the front row, and two regiments followed behind. on the right.

If there is no other arrangement before the battle, as usual, the firecrackers will line up in a large horizontal line before the spearmen, and the enemy will have to face the shooting of the firecrackers when they charge, but this situation is not possible.

When the messenger arrives, the firecrackers retreat one by one and return to the gap between the spearmen's formations. Each regiment has six hundred firecrackers. Now the spearmen's ranks are quite compact, and there are not many troops arranged , [-] gunfire soldiers lined up behind the formation.

The Jianzhou army also saw this scene. The order was passed over there, and the speed of the scull carriage team accelerated a little. The distance between each other was only a few hundred steps, and the distance between each other was now about [-] steps. Wang Tong Turning his head to look, the artillery team of Huwei Army had already settled down.

"Command, fire!"

Wang Tong gave the order, and the messenger beside him drew out a square red flag, held it up high and waved it back and forth.

Mu En, who was standing in front of the artillery formation, saw the waving of the red flag, and he turned his head and shouted:
"Are you all ready?"

"Shooting ready!"

"The three-pound cannon fires one round first, then fires freely, fire!"

The following suddenly agreed, Mu En also saw the enemy's scull chariot formation, and also saw the firecrackers retreating from the formation, he understood the meaning of the commander sending out personal guards, it was nothing more than trying to see if he could penetrate the enemy's cover, At this time, Mu En felt an inexplicable sense of pride in his heart. It was nothing if the firecrackers couldn't penetrate them. Even if the enemy's oar cart was made of iron, the cannon could smash them to pieces.

Give an order, and slightly correct the direction of the lower muzzle. The three-pound cannon on the artillery array fired first, because the artillery array was on the right side of the Ming army's position. When shooting, it was actually at an oblique angle, and the right side was built. On the left wing of the state army, the Jurchen cavalry over there were also at the back, obviously also thinking of the sharp artillery fire of the Ming army.

At this distance between the two armies, if the three-pound cannon is adjusted to a higher firing angle, it can actually hit the enemy's formation, but Wang Tong did not make this arrangement. If this is the case, it is very likely that the enemy will be bombarded and scattered. In such a situation, the victory or defeat is very fast. It can be distinguished, but it is not conducive to the war of annihilation.

It is true that the metal projectiles fired by the firecrackers cannot penetrate the wooden boards covered with sandbags and furs, but the metal balls weighing several kilograms flying at high speed are different.

The cannons roared like thunder, and the shells roared towards the scull cart. The Jurchen who pushed the scull cart behind watched the situation ahead through a small gap to judge their own direction. Their viewing angle was very narrow, and they didn't know There was a roaring sound from the firing of the artillery positions, and many people even looked up at the sky subconsciously. Most of the people who pushed the oar carts were not soldiers, but just captured village people. They thought it was thunder. How could there be thunder in this season.

It was only a moment, and they immediately knew that the thunder was the prelude to disaster, and the sandbags and fur-covered planks could not stop the shells at all.The shield of the scull cart was shattered by the shells, and the person pushing the cart behind was torn apart by the shells before he realized what was going on.

In fact, for these Jurchen peasant husbands who tore their bodies apart, immediate death was lucky. After all, there would be no pain. The shells smashed the wooden boards, the sand and stones in the sandbags, and the debris of the plank boards, splashed, It was also told that the splattered debris penetrated the leather robes of the people, opening blood holes one after another, and many people rolled and fell to the ground, screaming and screaming on the ground before they could die for a while.

The shells of the three-jin cannon not only penetrated the first row, but also the second row. The original layered array of scull carts was immediately opened, and the Jurchen peasant husband who was pushing the scull cart saw his companion Miserable, they all screamed in terror, and some people left their scull carts and ran away regardless.

After opening the mouth, Wang Tong saw that besides the peasants pushing the carts, there were also soldiers of the Jianzhou Army behind the scull cart. As for the escaped peasants, they immediately hacked, killed and shouted curses, and threatened them again. Come back, but the time for this process is also very short, because the six-pound guns of the Huwei Army began to shoot.

Twelve three-pound cannons and ten six-pound cannons. The three-pound cannon just now had already torn a hole in the stacked oar cart array, and the shooting of the six-pound cannon this time has almost pierced through.

The more powerful and heavier metal ball can shoot through at least three rows of scullers when flying, and then bounce off the ground. The still hard ground makes the ricochet effect very good. It directly smashed through two rows and was directly shot Not to mention those who were killed by shells, the high-speed flying debris and sand caused more damage than last time, not to mention civilians, even the Jianzhou Army who supervised the formation were a little bit overwhelmed.

What is really overwhelming is the third round of shelling. Jianzhou Jurchen is also observing the Ming army. All the cannons are fired, so it will take a while to reload. Taking advantage of this gap, they can move forward. In fact, in this short period of time, they have advanced a shorter distance.

The shoddy scull carts are moving forward on such a ground, and there are slightly larger obstacles on the ground that cannot be crossed. The corpses and broken scull carts must be cleaned up. Go around and clean up at the back, otherwise the scull cart will not be able to move forward.

Then the third round of cannons rang out, this time causing even less damage than the first time, because the array of scull carts had been torn open, and the formation was already a little sparse, but the third round of shelling had no effect on them. The shock was much greater than before, and they realized that the artillery of the Ming army could fire at such a fast frequency, so all their plans became empty words and completely meaningless.

The core force of the Jianzhou Army following Nurhachi had no contact with the artillery of the Huwei Army. Knowing that the description is actually not too much, in fact it is not as good as it is.

When the fourth round of shelling came, it seemed as if a storm had blown by, as if the "wooden walls" between the two armies had been riddled with holes, and there was no way to form a queue at all. The scull cart appeared alone on the battlefield, and such a scull cart could no longer cover the infantry behind.

Now the artillery is no longer salvoing, and in the current situation, the remaining oar carts can't move on the messy battlefield, which is meaningless.

Muen simply adjusted the shooting. Three cannons fired each time, firing in turn. It didn't take long to shoot at places where the scull carts were relatively dense. As long as the civilians and soldiers behind the scull carts were able to move, They all fled back.

Wang Tong noticed a problem. After the scull carts were cleared, the opponent's main formation only had pawns. These pawns were walking forward reluctantly. They should launch the next attack. The number of cavalry on both wings is too small for the Jianzhou Army.

"Commander, just now the people upstairs said that they saw donkeys and oxen among the cavalry on the enemy's flanks."

The personal guard who came to report had a contemptuous smile on his face. Wang Tong was taken aback for a moment. The Jianzhou Army had a lot of cavalry, and it was absolutely impossible to use donkeys and cows as mounts. Wang Tong pondered for a while and said:
"Let the firecrackers who are not in the spear array gather and stand by!"

The infantry of the Jianzhou Army on the opposite side was about to rush into the formation, shouldn't they let the firecrackers go to the front line?

Under the watchtower on the left side of the army, the cavalry is coming quickly.——
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