Daming Military Empire

Chapter 45 Flintlock Grenade
Time has entered the summer unknowingly. Although the capital is located in the north, the heat wave is also rolling during the day. On such a hot day, the school ground of the Shenji Battalion is full of banners, and a thousand officers and soldiers are lined up in neat formations. In the middle of the school field, although sweating profusely, he remained motionless.

It turned out that Qin Liangyu led Lu Xiangsheng and the others to train for several months, and finally practiced a more practical formation called stacking waves. Move back and forth, if the enemy is aggressively attacking, the front row shoots and retreats immediately to reload, and the rear row shoots and retreats in turn; if the enemy is in a rout, the front row quickly steps forward and shoots, then reloads on the spot, and the rear row quickly steps forward one by one Go forward and shoot.

Hearing that the battle formation was almost matured, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but came to review it. At this time, he had already sat on the south general platform. Seeing that the formation was lined up below, he shouted excitedly: "Start."

Qin Liangyu next to him heard the words and immediately raised the command flag in his hand. Lu Xiangsheng on the school field immediately raised his right hand when he received the signal, and said loudly: "Raise the guns in the first row and aim."

With a bang, the two hundred soldiers in the first row immediately raised their flintlock guns, leaned their heads against the butts of the guns, and aimed ahead.

Lu Xiangsheng swung his right hand downwards and shouted, "Shoot."

There was a loud "pop", and a plume of white smoke rose from two hundred flintlock guns almost at the same time. Of course, this was a drill, not actual combat, so they only loaded gunpowder and did not load bullets.

Lu Xiangsheng immediately ordered: "The first row reloads on the spot, the second row moves forward ten steps, raises the gun, and takes aim."

The soldiers in the first row smashed their guns to the ground at the same time, took out the gunpowder and began to reload; the soldiers in the second row quickly passed through the gap between the soldiers in the first row, sprinted ten steps forward, stood still, raised their guns, aim.

Lu Xiangsheng then ordered: "Shoot."

There was another loud bang, and Lu Xiangsheng kept ordering three rows, four rows, and five rows to step forward and shoot. A thousand soldiers moved forward like waves, and they advanced two hundred steps in less than a cup of tea. At this speed, if there are infantry in front, they will basically be beaten by their buttocks, and they will not be able to run away.Of course, if there are cavalry in front, such a speed cannot catch up.

This kind of simple flintlock gun was originally used to deal with the peasant uprising army. This method of warfare is naturally perfect for those peasant troops who do not even have complete weapons.But what to do with the Golden Cavalry?When Zhu Cijiong was thinking about how to deal with the cavalry, the voice of the beauty of the system suddenly sounded in his mind:

"Ding Dong, congratulations on completing the fourth survival mission, the rewards will be distributed below, the blueprint of the flintlock grenade."

Zhu Cijiong felt a little dizzy again, and there were two more sets of drawings in his mind, one was an exploded diagram of a flintlock grenade, and the other turned out to be an exploded diagram of a flintlock mine.

Before he could take a closer look, the beautiful voice of the system continued:
"Ding Dong, please pay attention, new task reminder.

Your fifth survival mission: Survive in this world for a year.

Task Reward: New Flintlock Blueprint. "

When Zhu Cijiong heard this reward, he almost jumped up from his chair with joy. The new type of flintlock is finally coming, and then the musketeers will be able to compete with the post-golden cavalry in the wild.

He was happy for less than two seconds, and the beauty of the system immediately poured cold water down: "Friendly reminder: The Golden Cavalry is about to attack the capital, please be prepared! The reminder is over, I wish you a happy game."

Zhu Cijiong collapsed before jumping up, and the Houjin cavalry came to attack at this time, is it fatal?He's not ready for anything yet!
How to do how to do?This time Zhu Cijiong really panicked. It was not a joke when Jin came to commit crimes. This is a war between two countries. It is extremely cruel. You can win or lose. There is no mercy at all, and there is no room for maneuver. !
After watching the battle drill in a daze, he hurried back to the palace, and began to ponder over the map to see how to get through this crisis.

In fact, he had known for a long time that Houjin would bypass the Ningjin defense line and attack the capital, but he did not expect it to come so soon.Now the training of the Beijing camp has just started. Except for Liaodong's 30 troops, the other armies of the Ming Dynasty have no strength at all to fight against the Houjin cavalry. Huang Taiji chose to attack at this time, which is really troublesome.

Zhu Cijiong looked at the Great Wall stretching thousands of miles from Jizhou Town to Xuanfu Town on the map. How could people defend it? Even if a hundred thousand troops stood up, there would be less than one person within ten steps.It seems that it is impossible to defend the Great Wall, unless there were more than 200 million troops in the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

He can't remember exactly where the Houjin army broke into the customs. It was probably near Zunhua. In order to make Daming panic, Huang Taiji would definitely lead his army to the capital. All the cities along the line from Zunhua to the capital fell. danger.

Zhu Cijiong calculated the soldiers and horses that could be mobilized along the line. Adding the more than 5 imperial guards in the Beijing camp, the total was only more than [-], and the army that invaded the Jin Dynasty was also more than [-]. According to the current combat effectiveness of the Ming army, there is no need to fight at all. As for the problem of victory, the current Ming army is no match for the Houjin cavalry outside the city at all. Only the defense of the city consumes Houjin's strength and forces it to retreat.

Of course, all the Liaodong troops in Liaodong can also be dispatched to fight to the death with Houjin. But once the Liaodong army moves, it is hard to say whether Huang Taiji will sneak attack on the capital or the Ningjin defense line. , then Daming is not far from subjugation.

Zhu Cijiong vaguely remembered that some historians in later generations analyzed that this time Huang Taiji’s goal was actually Jizhou Town between the capital and Liaodong. outside the enclave.He never thought that he would be able to take down the capital of Ming Dynasty. The reason why he rushed to the capital was to mobilize all the mobile forces of the Ming Dynasty to the vicinity of the capital. Then he turned around and went straight to Jizhou Town, and he could easily take down Zunhua Several nearby cities.

This is a typical tactic of attacking the west, but Daming's army has to be led by the nose. No one can bear the crime of losing the capital, and Chongzhen will kill anyone who dares to hesitate a little bit!

Judging from the current situation, Jizhou Town really can't keep it. If all King Qin's troops are not gathered near the capital, if Huang Taiji gets mad and tries to attack the capital, then Daming will be completely finished.

Zhu Cijiong looked at the map for a long time, but he really couldn't find a perfect solution. He couldn't help closing his eyes tiredly, wanting to rest for a while before looking again.

As soon as he closed his eyes, he suddenly remembered that there were still drawings of flintlock grenades and landmines in his mind, and he couldn't help checking them carefully.

I don’t know if I don’t look at it, but I was shocked when I saw it, these flintlock grenades and landmines are too poisonous!

Although limited to the power of gunpowder, flintlock grenades and landmines do not do much explosion damage, but there are countless steel needles mixed in them. When the explosion explodes, it is like a rainstorm pear blossom needle. Within a few meters nearby It is estimated that all the people and horses will be tied into hedgehogs!
Zhu Cijiong took another look at the structure of grenades and landmines. In fact, it is not complicated. He just changed the flintlock device of the flintlock gun to a vibration excitation. Just pull out the safety pin of the grenade and landmine, and vibrate the shrapnel inside. It will smash the steel plate of the medicine room with flint, which is the same as pulling the trigger.

This steel needle is also very easy to make, just use a bamboo stick to pierce the holes densely on the solid fine sand, pour the molten steel on it, and don’t care what the needles come out of it, anyway, it’s not for embroidery. It is used to hurt people, the rougher the better, you don't need to grind it, just take it out and wash it clean.

With such a vicious 'Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needle', Zhu Cijiong's mind is active again. This thing may not be able to match Houjin's riding and shooting in field battles, but if it is used to defend the city, it will be effective!A single grenade can injure at least ten people. Unless the enemy is made of iron, ten times as many troops will not be able to capture a city!
With this sharp weapon, there is hope for defending Jizhou Town.

(End of this chapter)