I am one year older than Chongzhen

The rebels are not stupid. After suffering many losses, they lost their energy and began to behave badly.

They stayed at the camp as soon as it got dark and did not go outside the camp at all.

Tonight, the autumn air is clear, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse. Huang Yi is here again, and the journey is smooth.

He even climbed up and saw that the rebel army's large account was brightly lit and saw the rebel generals holding a meeting.

But the rebels knew nothing about it.

There is no way, how could Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and others know that Huang Yi has a modern telescope capable of night vision!

People in the Ming Dynasty may not be able to imagine this kind of thing!

After deliberation, Li Jiucheng decided to continue bombarding the Xinghe Army camp tomorrow morning, and the cannons would go straight to the road when they returned to the camp.

An hour later Mao Chenglu led his troops to set off, and an hour later Chen Youyou led his troops... Li Jiucheng personally led 3,000 troops to cut off the rear.

This is the reason why Li Jiucheng, the "Marshal of the City", is supported.

He really fights first.

I really did not fear life and death.

When retreating, be willing to go last.

Historically, it was because Li Jiucheng rushed forward and was killed by Guan Ning's army.

Li Jiucheng was actually the soul of the rebels, and he was supported. If he did not die as a rebel, he would not necessarily defect to the slave establishment.

However, history cannot be assumed!

The last survivors of the Denglai rebels are all traitors and executioners who destroyed the Han nation. They all deserve death!

Try not to let any of them get away!

Huang Yi took a closer look with the binoculars. It was obvious that the rebel camp tonight was very different from the previous days.

There were many soldiers from the general and the academy who were packing their things overnight.

This is preparing to run away!

Huang Yi came to a conclusion.

After waiting for a long time, I finally got a good opportunity, and of course I couldn't let it go.

The next day, the Xinghe military camp looked normal.

The actual situation is that there are less than 1,800 cavalry here.

As if they had completed their mission, the rebels turned around and left after firing each cannon ten times. They were preparing to take the first step.

Walk? It's not that easy!

After Cannon got on the car and walked two miles, the ground suddenly trembled, and a group of men and horses came with murderous intent.

At the same time, the Xinghe Army camp, which had been silent for nearly half a month, suddenly heard the sound of artillery, and more than a hundred artillery shells flew towards the rebels who were still waiting in formation for an orderly retreat.

This is of course Huang Yi's plan.

After many days of not fighting back, the rebels mistakenly believed that the Xinghe Army had too few or even no artillery.

Therefore, the rebel artillery formed a formation and fired one mile away from the Xinghe Army Camp. The rebel infantry and cavalry formed their formation only 200 steps away from the wall of the Xinghe Army Camp.

This is a safe distance, and infantry bows, bird muskets, three-eyed muskets, and crossbow arrows are all out of reach.

So Huang Yi personally led the cavalry to launch a cavalry assault when the rebel artillery began to move and walked two miles.

Sorry, Huang Yi is also afraid of being bombarded, not only by the rebels' artillery fire, but also by his own artillery fire.

Therefore, the battlefield for the cavalry raid is preset outside the range of your own artillery.

In this era, how easy is it to fire the Hongyi cannon once it's mounted on the vehicle?

Steering, unloading, assembling, loading, and aiming cannot be done in half an hour without a well-trained professional gunner.

The rebels' artillery came from capture, and most of their artillery was patchwork.

In the face of a surprise attack, not many of them thought about shooting as quickly as possible, and everyone was running as fast as possible.

"Slimy..."

"Angsh..."

"Mom..."

"very painful……"

"Help..." On the battlefield, wolves were running, tutu men were shouting, horses were neighing, and limbs were flying everywhere!

The uniform shouts were like thunder: "The Xinghe Army suppresses the rebellion, surrender and avoid death!"

"The Xinghe Army will not kill prisoners!"

"Throw away the weapon and let me see your hands!"

"Your Majesty!"

"Anyone who doesn't want to die, kneel down for me!"

"Boom, boom, boom..."

More than a hundred artillery pieces, large and small, fired three rounds at the Xinghe Army camp, and four to five hundred large and small iron balls fell into the ranks of the rebels and rolled and jumped...

There are no trenches or artillery defenses here, and the ground here is mostly rugged and rocky, so stone chips are flying everywhere.

Although the rebels numbered 30,000 to 40,000 men, unfortunately more than half were ruffians or ordinary people who had been kidnapped.

How do they know about artillery defense?

The rebels were like headless flies, including the veterans of Dongjiang Town. No one realized that lying on the ground was the wisest choice.

"Ah! Ah! It hurts so much..."

"Help! Mom..."

Amid the cries of crying for father and mother, the rebels were in chaos and unable to organize effective resistance.

"Boom!" The wall of the Xinghe Army camp suddenly collapsed, and rows and rows of infantry soldiers filed out in rhythm.

Some of them were holding long spears with pewter poles measuring one foot or two, some were holding loaded flintlock guns, and some were carrying sharp steel swords and shields...

"Bah~"

Nine hundred matchlocks and six hundred flintlock muskets were fired three times, and the number of misfires thrown away was probably more than 1,400 projectiles.

This was the largest salvo since the mass production of matchlocks and flintlock muskets, and the Xinghe Army array was suddenly filled with smoke.

There's nothing you can do about it, black powder is very smoky.

The quality of the flintlock rifles mass-produced in the base should be better than the French Charleville rifle and the American 1795 rifle.

This is not bragging, but Huang Yikai’s golden fingers improved the steel craftsmanship in the base area.

Huang Yi's mobile phone has always saved pictures and videos of the French Charleville rifle, also known as the Napoleon musket, and the American 1795 rifle.

When you have land, people, money and food, of course you have to build a better flintlock gun.

This large-scale use is equivalent to a review of this cross-era weapon.

The climate in the north is relatively dry, and flintlock guns that are afraid of tides are fired here, with a firing rate of more than 80%.

Being violently battered by three rows of bullets, the already chaotic rebels collapsed and ran away, whether they were cavalry, infantry or gun soldiers.

The artillery output in the base area is getting higher and higher. In order to increase mobility, heavy artillery was not brought during this expedition.

They only brought eighteen twelve-pound, thirty-six six-pound, and seventy-two three-pound cannons.

Huang Yi reported to the court that he had brought thirty-six imitation Hongyi cannons, each weighing more than three thousand kilograms, just to justify the slow march.

The barrel of the twelve-pound all-steel artillery produced in the base area is one-quarter lighter than the barrel of the Napoleon twelve-pounder, about eight hundred pounds.

Because the gun carriage used bearings, steel wheels and Eucommia rubber tires, the mass doubled and the weight dropped sharply. It was only 70% of the Napoleon gun carriage and could run with three horses pulling it.

The six-pound cannon is also much lighter than the same model of Napoleon cannon. It weighs more than 700 kilograms in total and can be pulled by two horses at a high speed.

The three-pound cannon is lighter, with a barrel of 200 kilograms. It can be carried by four people, or pushed by a wheelbarrow produced in the base area, and can be transported to the mountains for assembly.

The discipline of the rebels was so poor. The reason why they were able to fight more and more troops was because they won one victory after another.

An army formed by this kind of ragtag group of people cannot be tenacious. It can rise up and disperse at once.

(Book friends are recommended to read the newly released work "The Soul of the Late Ming and Han Dynasties" and the old works "The Sun Never Sets on the Ming Empire" and "1981")