Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Zhang Erquan got up this morning when the sky was brightened, and then he ate on the pier wall for a long time in the wind and sand, followed by another fierce battle, and finally ran for more than [-] miles, and there was another battle in the middle, and his nerves were tense all the time. Really tired.

He followed Zhao Gang's suggestion, and went down to rest first in order to deal with the battle of defending the fort later.

Although Zhang Erquan was worried about his flamboyant comrades-in-arms and knew that there would be a big battle coming, the psychological quality he had trained in the army for ten years still made him fall asleep when he touched the bed and closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, he was awakened by the rapid whistle after another.

Ishigaki Fort has only one post, so there are no military drums and horns, only military posts.In the new army of Ming Dynasty, copper whistles and command flags were used for commanding posts, steel whistles were used for teams, and bamboo or wooden whistles were used for senior officers.

The whistle system is in the same line as the previous Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, without much change.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Erquan heard the whistle, he knew that a large number of enemies were coming, and he informed the whole fortress to prepare for the battle.

When Zhang Erquan came to the wall of the fort fully armed, he found that the wind and sand that filled the sky today had stopped at some point. Looking around, he saw that Shiyuan Fort had been surrounded by countless Oirat cavalry.

"My good boy, the Oirats are in a big battle. I'm afraid they have dispatched three or five thousand horses to attack our stone wall castle?" said a man with a long beard next to him.

Zhang Erquan knew this man, he looked mature, he looked forty, but in fact he was only two years older than him, 29, and his name was Li Liangxi.

Zhou Tieshan, who was next to him, said: "Look at their banners, there are at least 3000 people."

The reason why everyone was free to chat was because the Oirat cavalry were two miles away and hadn't started attacking Ishigaki Fort yet.

Moreover, the sun was already very westward, and it was about to set. Even if the war started, it would only be enough for the two sides to fight for half an hour.

This means that as long as Ishigaki Castle persists for half an hour, most of today will survive.

Even the Wala people will not go to war-but this is not a good thing, because it means that the Wala people have the confidence to deal with the Ming army who will come to rescue Ishigaki Fort tomorrow, or deliberately encircle and fight for help.

Thinking of this, Zhang Erquan asked: "Mr. Zhou, how many people from the post have been called back? Has the post chief asked for help?"

"Zhang Erquan," said Zhou Tieshan, who was more friendly. He was also stationed in Maotou Dunlun, so he had a good relationship with Zhang Erquan and the others. He heard the words, "About [-] people from the post have returned. As for asking for help." The letter cavalry has already been dispatched.

By the way, someone told you, right?Now you temporarily belong to our group, and listen to the command of the forehead. "

Zhang Erquan nodded, "Yes, I got it."

Woo~woo~!

A low and desolate horn sounded in the Oala cavalry formation, and several people suddenly looked serious and stopped chatting—it was the Oirats who were going to attack Shiyuan Fort.

To the surprise of some Ming soldiers, during the sound of the horn, the Oirats did not rush over like the Mongolian cavalry and rain arrows around the stone wall, but pulled out nearly ten carriages.

There are cannons on the frame!

"The Oirats actually have cannons?!"

"Could it be the Hongyi Cannon?"

"I haven't seen Hongyi Cannon before, so I don't recognize it."

For a while, the soldiers of the Ming army on the wall of the fort were a little commotion, and buzzing voices arose everywhere.

This is the front wall of the fort, facing the most captives, so Wu Mingwei, the post chief, personally sits in the fort.

Seeing this, he immediately blew a copper whistle, and shouted: "What are you talking about? If there are cannons for cavalry, there are cannons. No matter how powerful their cannons are, are they as powerful as our steel cannons?!"

Hearing this, the wall immediately fell silent.

Not only because of Wu Mingwei's order, but also because the soldiers of the Ming Army thought that although there were only four cannons in their Ishigaki Fort, they were Guangming Cannons, and they also had thirty Tiger Crouching Cannons.

These are steel cannons, not to mention lightweight, more powerful than the previous iron cannons, and have a longer range.

As Wu Mingwei said, the artillery of the Oirats may not be their opponents.

Sure enough, when Wu Mingwei learned that the Oirats in the other three directions did not pull out their cannons, he issued an order: "The artillery team will pull the other three bright cannons to this side!"

Ordinary sentries do not have artillery units, and it is impossible to have four bright cannons, at least the sentries in the garrison cannot have them.

Their four bright cannons were actually equipped for Ishigaki Fort, including the thirty tiger crouching cannons.Wu Mingwei saw that there were many guns in Ishigaki Fort, so he specially selected a team to be in charge of operating the guns and maintaining the guns at ordinary times.

boom!
There was a muffled sound, but the artillery of the Oirats fired first.

The first test shot, the shell actually landed outside the moat of Ishigaki Fort.

Seeing this scene, some Ming soldiers who knew artillery laughed.

"It seems that the Wala people are not familiar with this cannon. Otherwise, it would be a test firing, and they would not be a hundred steps away from Baozi."

There was also a little confusion on the side of the Oirat gun carriage, apparently because other people were dissatisfied with the gunner's operation.

Immediately, the cannon carriage moved forward, approaching one mile of Ishigaki Castle before stopping.

After the Wala people fixed the cannon carriage, the remaining three cannons of Ishigaki Fort were also transported to the front wall.Moreover, the gunners of the Ming army were fairly proficient in operation, and quickly fixed the gun positions.

Seeing this, Wu Mingwei immediately ordered to fire at the Oirats' artillery position.

Although the Bright Cannon doesn't have much shooting accuracy to speak of, compared to other cannons of this era, its accuracy is pretty good.

The normal range of the normal caliber bright artillery can reach three or four miles. The Oirat artillery position is one mile away, and the bright artillery can already aim at the artillery.

Today's gunners of the Ming army are still old gunners inherited from the former army, and have not learned to use calipers to adjust the bombardment elements to achieve more accurate bombardment.

However, he will use the front sight on the Bright Cannon, plus some theory and experience, to achieve good bombardment accuracy within two miles.

No, the first live ammunition fired in the test fell on the edge of the Oirat artillery position, which shocked the Oirat gunners and the cavalry onlookers for a while, and even killed two people by live ammunition.

Then, without waiting for the Oirats to move the artillery, or to fire the artillery like Ishigaki Fort, the other three artillery pieces of the Ming army fired.

Boom boom boom!
This time, the Ming army used flower bombs. After three consecutive explosions, smoke and dust a few feet high exploded from the artillery positions of the Oirats. Many gunners were killed and injured, and several artillery vehicles were overturned. blow up.

"it is good!"

On the wall of the fort, the soldiers of the Ming army laughed and praised.

The Oirats seemed annoyed and lost confidence in their artillery.The horn sounded again, and thousands of cavalrymen who surrounded Ishigaki Fort rushed over on horseback!
They want to break through Daming's Ishigaki Castle with the traditional riding and archery skills of the prairie people!
"The Oirats are coming up, everyone is ready. As long as we withstand the first wave, the fort can be defended today!"

Wu Mingwei yelled, but he took his bow and was ready to fight.

On the other hand, Wang Yingxiang, the captain of the artillery team, ordered the gunners to prepare to fire the tiger squatting cannons. Naturally, the tiger squatting cannons would not be concentrated on one fort wall, but distributed equally to all four sides.

As for the gunner in charge of manipulating the four bright cannons, before the Oirat cavalry rushed up, they fired four more explosive shells, causing the Oirats' artillery positions to suffer another heavy blow.

"uproar!"

The Oirat cavalry screamers rushed within a hundred steps of Ishigaki Castle, but were stopped by a not wide ditch protecting the castle.

Although the river ditch is not very wide, it is just beyond the leap of an ordinary war horse.

However, the Oirats had obviously investigated the situation of Ishigaki Fort long ago and made preparations.The Wala cavalry who rushed to the front all carried a bag of sand, and threw it directly into the ditch when they reached the front.

But they had only thrown a round, and a series of cannon shots came from the top of Ishigaki Castle.

bang bang bang

Amidst the crisp shelling sound of the tiger squatting cannon, countless shotguns fell down in the form of life-harvesting nets.

Many Oirat cavalrymen were hit by shotguns before they could react, and died on the spot.

This is relatively lucky, there is the unfortunate one who was injured by shotguns and fell off the horse, howling loudly, not only failed to be rescued by his companions, but was also trampled to death by the rushing horses behind, it is not too miserable.

The first wave of attacks by the Oirats suffered heavy losses, but the attacks did not stop.

For one thing, compared with thousands of cavalry, the actual casualties just now were only one or two hundred people, which is not considered a serious injury.

Second, those who rushed to the front to fill the moat were all low-level herdsmen, not real cavalry, and the nobles of the Oala tribe did not feel so distressed.

Second more.

I'm late.

Good night~