prosperous age

On the vast prairie, two distinct groups of troops lined up with each other. Although the formation was still being adjusted, the true military appearance of the Alda Department had been completely exposed to the eyes of the Ming army.

"It's a bit troublesome. There are at least 3000 people in this team of Tartars who are Altan Khan's guards. The remaining few thousand people should also be elites from some ten thousand households. Our information is wrong."

At this moment, Liu Han said to Yu Dayou with a tense face. In fact, he still wanted to say that it is best not to fight this battle. Before the opponent is ready, he immediately ran back. For four miles, most of the Ming army should be able to fight. Run back to the fort.

According to the information obtained by the Ming army before, it is presumed that Wanhu was recruited temporarily. Such a team is not enough to compete with the ordinary Ming army, that is, the superiority in numbers makes Liu Han a little worried.

But now, what appeared in front of his eyes were the herdsmen recruited temporarily. From the stern expressions of the Tazi soldiers on the opposite side, he knew that they were professional soldiers on the grassland, and they would have the upper hand against the most elite soldiers under him. how to spell?
"Elite? Hehe. Only after you fight will you know who is the elite."

Yu Dayou is still full of confidence in the soldiers he has trained. There are more than 100 Franc cannons and a thousand bird guns. Such firepower was unimaginable in Zhejiang before.

Although the soldiers in the south of the Yangtze River used Western firearms early, they did not have the opportunity to carry out such a large-scale intensive use of firearms.

This is also impossible. When Japanese pirates attack, there are often a few boats with more than a hundred people all the way. It seems that the Japanese pirates are used to not concentrating their forces to plunder. They only gather teams when attacking county towns and other fortresses. The reason for doing so It is often that there is no main force of the Ming army around.

In Yu Dayou's feeling, the soldiers he took in were really not afraid of fighting the Japanese pirates, but they never had such a chance.

The only time, that is, in the battle of Cengang, the Japanese pirates unexpectedly assembled a brigade to fight them to the death, and of course the final result was to be wiped out.

As for the Japanese pirates who broke out, Yu Dayou was an accident at first, but after so many things happened, he understood. It is no wonder that Hu Zongxian wanted to intervene in command.

Thinking about it, Yu Dayou didn't have the slightest worry in his heart at this time, but became more and more excited.

When he was in the capital, Lu Bing was the most skeptical person about firearms. Although Jin Yiwei was also equipped with a large number of firearms, he didn't think much of them.

Yu Dayou is very interested in firearms, and he also supports a large number of deployments, but he is not as courageous as Wei Guangde, who actually wants to use a large number of Franco cannons and bird guns to form an independent army.

Well, with such courage, Yu Dayou didn't dare to think that he still needs weapons such as sword shield and spear to guard against the enemy's close approach.

Today, you can try what the kid said. Intensive firepower projection is the only way to destroy the enemy on the opposite side. As long as there is enough firepower to strike, no matter whether the opponent is copper-skinned or iron-skinned, there is only one way to collapse.

Although Wei Guangde also said that the current bird guns are still a bit inferior, but the quantity makes up for the quality.

Thousands of blunderbusses fired, and Yu Dayou felt afraid that no matter where the Ming army was in this era, there would be no more powerful firepower than this army.

After the formation of the Ming army was completed, Yu Dayou began to press forward slowly while the opponent seemed to be still adjusting the formation.

The soldiers in the front row pushed their unicycles forward, and the four rows of musketeers behind them followed in formation, followed by hundreds of cavalry behind them.

This is all the central ranks of the Ming army, and the cavalry on the two wings are slightly separated, and they are not close to the ranks of the central ranks.

They need to leave a distance to facilitate the acceleration of the cavalry charge.

Seeing that the Ming army did not follow the normal routine and waited for his side to complete the arrangement before attacking, although Wan Hu of the Tartars was a little surprised, he was soon relieved.

The rest is just some fine-tuning, and he doesn't feel that the remaining little adjustment will affect how much combat power, just relying on it like this, or use the things passed down by the Mongols, long-distance projectiles to defeat the Ming army first.

What the Ming army placed in front of them was a long formation. If it weren't for the cavalry on both sides, 2000 people could go up and surround the Ming army and shoot arrows to wipe them all out.

Don't look at the chariots in front of the Ming army looking bluffing, after all, there is only one side.

At this time, in the eyes of Wanhu of the Alda Department, the three thousand Ming army led by Yu Dayou was not as powerful as the cavalry on his two wings.

Indeed, the Mongols once fought from east to west, and they have already summed up many fighting skills, which is the main reason why their ancestors were able to advance all the way to the Danube River Basin.

"Lord Wanhu, go directly to the middle army of the Ming army."

At this time, a short general with a face that obviously did not look like a Mongolian rode up to Mongolian Wanhu and whispered.

"Chief Qiu, I also have the same intention. I wonder if your subordinates can take on this task?"

Mongolian Wanhu said to the guy who should be Han.

"Right on my mind."

The person who spoke was Qiu Fu. He, Zhao Quan, and Li Zixin were all named chiefs by Alta Khan, which meant that the Han people they led formed a tribe on the grassland.

The attack on Daming this time naturally had their credit behind it, so this time he led the [-] cavalry that Bansheng City could piece together to attack Ming together with Altan Khan.

After receiving the news of the attack from Bansheng City, Qiu Fu immediately begged to see Altan Khan, and from the Great Khan he asked for an army to come to Datong. He vowed to completely wipe out the Ming army who dared to go out. .

Qiu Fu knew very well that if the idea of ​​going out of the fortress could not be completely wiped out from the minds of the generals of the Ming army, the consequences would be very serious if the generals on the Nine Sides would run to the prairie if they had nothing to do in the future.

At the same time, knowing that his lair was destroyed, Qiu Fu naturally wanted to take revenge.

"As long as your department rushes into the Ming army's middle army, I will lead the two wings to attack the Ming army's flanks, and don't let them disturb you to eliminate those Ming people."

Mongolian Wanhu said to Qiu Fu with a smile.

To be honest, Wan Hu actually looked down on this Han man, and even his subordinates.

Obviously he is a Han Chinese, but he thinks about going south to attack Ming all day long.

In fact, as far as Wan Hu knows, although Al Da Khan seems to use the people in Bansheng City, he has always been wary of them.

These people are careerists, they should not really be attracted by Altan Khan's brilliance, but because of their own ambitions.

What they want is nothing more than to use the mighty military power of the Mongols to consume the power of the Ming country so that they have the opportunity to rebel.

If it is really according to their intentions, the Great Khan pours all his troops south to attack Ming, and when he finally wins, I am afraid that these people will make trouble, and in turn they will fight the Mongols to death, and finally compete for the so-called Central Plains.

The Central Plains, in the words left by the Mongol ancestors, is a land of prosperity, with milk flowing in the rivers, gold, silver and iron pots everywhere, and tea leaves growing on the trees.

All the Mongols hope that the Great Khan can lead them south and return to that land, but
While Mongolian Wanhu was still thinking about it, the Ming army in front continued to advance and the distance between the two armies continued to narrow.

"Is this trying to limit our cavalry charge?"

Mongolian Wanhu couldn't help thinking, "It seems that the camp is too close to the military fort in front."

For the Mongols, when fighting, they must leave enough distance between them and their opponents to ensure that the horses have room to accelerate.

What the Ming people are doing now is obviously to compress this distance so that their war horses cannot run.

If the speed cannot be raised, the natural impact will be reduced exponentially.

Cunning wise man.

At this time, a cavalry unit in the middle of the Alda army began to move. While the battle flag was waving forward, this cavalry began to slowly step out of the army formation, and as it continued to move forward, the speed also began to slow down. accelerate.

"Let Mingren fight for a while first."

Mongolian Wanhu couldn't help thinking in his heart, you want to use us Mongolians, why don't we want to use you.

The Mongols were not happy about the Han people who gathered in Bansheng City to farm there at first, but who told the Mongols not to work well?

Altan Khan stopped the tribal people from doing unfavorable actions against those Han people, and instead exchanged cattle and sheep for food with them.

Well, everyone didn't understand at first, why waste cattle and sheep when they thought they could be solved with a knife.

But after a long time, everyone will know, especially after the arrival of these special Han people, Bansheng City will send a lot of food to the Great Khan every year, and even build a palace for the Great Khan in the city. Great people also have houses in their stories.

As the horse team continued to accelerate, thunderous hoofbeats sounded, interrupting Mongolian Wanhu's thoughts. We should wait until we win this battle before talking about other things.

He stopped thinking wildly, but carefully observed the battle ahead, and he wanted to command his subordinates to destroy the Ming army in front of him.

"aim."

At this time, seeing thousands of cavalry marching out of the Tartar army formation, the unicycle chariots lined up stopped still.

Following the order of the team officer, the soldiers who were still pushing the carts ran to their respective positions one after another, and braziers appeared behind the unicycle.

The gunners took out the Franco gun cartridge from the frame and put it into the barrel, and inserted the insert plate to fix the cartridge. In the brazier behind them, the end of the tongs had been burnt red, and the air exuded a pungent smell of coal. .

On both sides of the back of the chariot, a thousand bird musketeers lined up in four neat rows, the barrels of which had already been loaded with ammunition. At this moment, the barrels were all held up obliquely, waiting for the order to shoot.

Because the gunners need to fire in the front, the Ming army's gunners lined up to give way to the chariots. Each chariot is the boundary of a queue, so that the gunners can fire according to the password without worrying about accidentally injuring the front. gunner.

The gunner can also fire with peace of mind, without worrying about being shot black by his own people.

The Fran cannon can fire both solid bullets and shotguns. Because it entered the grassland, most of the shells brought by the Ming army this time were also shotguns.

Of course, the result of this is that the range of the Fran cannon, which is not far away, will be greatly reduced.

Judging from Yu Dayou's test situation in Datong, the effective range of the Fran cannon using shotguns is not far from that of the bird's gun.

Therefore, before this battle, Yu Dayou made careful preparations, that is, the first three guns used solid bullets, and the last three sub-cartridges were all shotguns, and the newly loaded sub-cartridges were all shotguns.

Seeing the cavalry on the opposite side rushing and about to enter the effective range of the Fran's cannon, Yu Dayou gave the order to fire without hesitation.

A red flag began to wave continuously, and the gunner who saw the military order immediately gave the order to fire.

"boom boom"

The dense sound of artillery exploded in front of the Ming army column, and more than a hundred drums of smoke rose into the air. The dense cavalry column on the opposite side reacted almost instantly, and dozens of cavalry rushing forward dropped their horses.

The solid bullets flew into the Tazi army, and it was not clear how much damage the first round of artillery fire caused, but those who fell off their horses in front could still see it.

No one cheered, the splint was pulled out, the gunner reached out and took out the sub-cartridge, quickly replaced it with a new one, and the companion on the side immediately reinserted the splint.

"boom boom"

There was another series of cannon shots, and hundreds of stone bullets were fired at the rushing enemy. The gunners still did not see the effect of this shooting. They still mechanically replaced the empty sub-powder cartridges and replaced them with new ones as before. Canister, and then launch, like a machine.

In order for these gunners to develop such abilities, Yu Dayou didn't know how many wooden sticks he broke.

In the Ming army, corporal punishment was commonplace. If they didn't practice well, they would be beaten and starved. Although it seemed cruel, it was the most effective method. Just like now, these soldiers only know how to fire mechanically after they touch the artillery.

As for the powder kegs that were replaced, the companions behind him cleaned them up and reloaded the ammunition.

After three rounds of solid ammunition, the rest is shot ammunition.

Because they are all small Francois machine guns, the caliber is not too large, and there are only a dozen small iron bullets wrapped in rough paper in each sub-cartridge, and the gunpowder is the same.

These were all proposed by Wei Guangde.

In fact, this kind of fixed installation is in the bad streets of later generations, and the artillery of that era is like this. This is a necessary skill for time travelers, and Wei Guangde naturally knows it.

It's just that this kind of thinking was actually first proposed in the imperial prison of the capital of the Ming Dynasty. If it is recorded in the annals of history, I don't know how future generations will evaluate it.

And Yu Dayou forced the Tatars back in the Battle of Niuxinbao, gained the trust of Datong Governor Li Wenjin, and gained more support. When he trained the standard battalion, he would naturally use the method proposed by Wei Guangde.

Yu Dayou is considered a practical man, or in other words, firearms in this era are really not complicated.

Few people may explain the theory clearly, but everyone knows how to use it.

Wei Guangde's proposal, Yu Dayou only needs to think about it in his mind to know that it is practical, and the effect is surprisingly good in Datong training.

Fixed equipment can partially offset the time spent by the gunners in accumulating experience, and the rest is practice, and it is enough to refine the cost of firing cannons to respond.

The three rounds of fierce artillery fire by the Ming army were very short, almost completed in a few breaths, while the Tartar army array rushing on the opposite side was riddled with holes by hundreds of stone bullets.

Hundreds fell off their horses, causing fear among the remaining cavalry.

"boom boom"

With the shotgun shooting that started in the fourth round, the lethality of the Ming army's artillery was fully revealed at this time.

"what"

Continuous screams came from the cavalry ranks, and there were cavalrymen and war horses lying on the ground, howling and wailing.