Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 521
Today is a rare good weather, and there is no wind.

But after all, it was already mid-October, and it was only in the middle of the morning, so there was no heat in the sun. Zheng Sen was standing on the gondola of the speeding car in thin clothes, shivering with cold.

"Mother thief, it's really cold in this hell."

While cursing, Zheng Sen put his finger to his mouth and breathed out.

The scholar in the same car said angrily: "Zheng Gejian, there is fire here."

While speaking, the scholar vigorously pumped the bellows, and the flames ejected from the stove became more intense, forming a long tail flame that continued into the hull of the boat.

More hot air makes the flying car rise faster.

"That's right, look at my brain, it's been frozen by the weather."

Zheng Sen patted his forehead, turned around and leaned in front of the stove, stretching out his hands to warm himself.

However, less than half a second later, Zheng Sen suddenly turned around again, looking forward again.

"Zheng Gejian, has Jiannu arrived?" The scholar in the same car asked with a chill when he saw this.

Zheng Sen ignored his companions, just raised the binoculars to the west, and then slowly adjusted the focus. At a certain moment, the field of view of the monocular finally became clear, Jiannu!
Zheng Sen immediately blew his whistle.

……

Hearing the whistle, Xu Yingwei, who was busy, immediately looked up.

Gu Yanwu, Lu Xiangtong, Jiang Tianyi and more than a dozen of Qin Wang's scholars, as well as Xu Yinglong, Xu Huhu and other military officers also surrounded them one after another.

Prince Qin had learned sign language before.

So they can understand Zheng Sen's gestures.

"The founding slave army is coming from the west, about ten miles away from the battlefield."

"Strength, about 10 troops, including about [-] cavalry."

[Note: There are [-] active soldiers in the Jiannu army, and [-] are coats for the army]

"Travel carts, vans, thieves, Jiannu actually brought more than 3000 of them."

"In addition, there are about [-] mules and horses, and there are about [-] camels."

"The good news is that I didn't see the Hongyi cannon or the Fran machine gun. It seems that the Holy Majesty is right. In order to speed up the march, Jiannu dropped all the heavy cannons."

"In that case, there should be no big problem."

"Jianu doesn't have cannons, so it is absolutely impossible to break through our hollow phalanx."

After receiving Zheng Sen's sign language, Gu Yanwu, Lu Xiangtong, Jiang Tianyi and other scholars could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, Xu Yingwei shook his head and said: "Let's not be careless, we still need to prepare for the worst. The slave cavalry has already suffered from the hollow phalanx in Guting Town, so it is impossible to be unprepared this time."

After a pause, he said, "Hurry up, dig another trench beyond the antlers."

Xu Yingwei's order was quickly conveyed, and the Ming army began to get busy again.

……

Looking down from an altitude of tens of meters, Zheng Sen could have a panoramic view of the Ming army formation.

I saw that the Ming army had deployed a circle of sidecars around the central main artillery position and the four hollow phalanxes, forming five independent but mutually horned sidecar cities.

Outside the Pianxiang Checheng, there is a layer of chaotic refusal horses.

These horse-resisting marches are fashioned in side-cars, and then tied with hemp ropes when in use.

After setting up a layer of Juma, the Ming army still felt that it was not safe enough, and began to dig trenches outside the Juma.

However, the soil layer of the Liaohe Plain had been frozen into lumps of iron, so the soldiers of the Ming army had a hard time digging. It is estimated that they might not be able to dig three feet before the arrival of the army of slaves.

But even if you can only dig to a depth of two feet, it is better than nothing.

Zheng Sen took a deep breath, and when he was about to continue adjusting the focus, he suddenly noticed something abnormal from the corner of his eye.

After being stunned for about three seconds, Zheng Sen suddenly turned around again and turned the binoculars to the north.

The next moment, countless black cavalrymen appeared in the field of vision of the telescope. It is roughly estimated that there are at least [-] cavalrymen. Horqin Mongolian cavalrymen are really good at timing.

In fact, as early as the morning of the fifth day after the Ming army recovered Shenyang, Horqin Mongolian cavalry appeared.

It's just that the Horqin Mongolian cavalry was very cautious and didn't dare to get too close to Shenyang, but just kept sending Ye Bushou to entangle the scout cavalry of the Ming army, even if they suffered losses in the outpost battle.

After that, the Ming army withdrew from Shenyang and disengaged from the Horqin Mongolian cavalry.

Unexpectedly, the Horqin Mongolian cavalry appeared again.

Immediately, Zheng Sen blew his whistle again.

……

"It's a large Kongming lantern again!"

"There are quite a lot of these weird things in Nanming."

Just when Zheng Sen reported the details of the Horqin Mongolian cavalry, Dorgon and Hong Chengchou, who was accompanying him, and several hard-core traitors had also seen Zheng Sen's speeding car.

This is not the first time Dorgon has seen the speeding cars of the Ming army.

On the Xuzhou battlefield two years ago, Dorgon had seen the speeding cars of the Ming army more than once, and also knew that the Ming army could spy on the military situation from a condescending position through Kongming lanterns.

Fortunately, Dorgon was also prepared.

"Pass the decree, let the green camp be more careful."

"Especially the blanket on the camel's back must be covered tightly."

"Be sure not to let the spies of the Ming army see the camel swivel cannon."

The camel revolving cannon was a secret weapon that the Qing army had been preparing for a long time. Dorgon originally wanted to save it for the decisive battle, but because the Liaodong battle was also a big deal, it had to be brought forward.

The reason is very simple. If Liaodong cannot be recaptured, even if the camel cannon is saved for the decisive battle, there is no way to reverse the geographical disadvantage of the Qing Dynasty.

Duo ErGun's will soon conveyed.

After a while, Va Xing'a came back again.

"Master, the scout cavalry of the Ming army has been defeated by us."

"Now the area within a radius of twenty miles of the battlefield is under our control."

After a pause, Wa Xing'a said triumphantly again: "The Ming army has become blind and deaf."

"I see clearly that you have become a fool." Dorgon's face collapsed upon hearing this.

Numerous question marks suddenly appeared in front of Va Xing'a, what did you say?I took thousands of nights and spent so much money to finally block the battlefield, and ended up being scolded?

Dorgon said angrily, "Didn't you look at the top of your head?"

"Above the head?" Wa Xing'a remembered the large Kongming lantern in the sky.

Thinking of this, Va Xing'a's big head drooped, well, it's all a waste of work.

The Ming army has this thing, how can they block the battlefield if they don't take it at night?It is impossible to block at all.

Dorgon then asked: "Did you suffer a loss when you fought against the scout cavalry of the Ming army?"

Wa Xing'a didn't dare to meet Dorgon's gaze, and said with some guilt: "Ming Gou didn't take advantage of it either."

At this time, Hou Fangyu asked: "General Va Xing'a, have you captured the self-generating firecrackers used by the scouts of the Ming army?"

"The self-generated firecrackers used by the scouts of the Ming army?" Va Xing'a said after thinking for a while, "It seems reckless to snatch a self-generated firecracker from the scouts of the Ming army."

"Master, you can quickly get this self-generating firecracker." Hou Fangyu said happily when he heard the words.

Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng, and Ning Wan and I were also happy when we heard this, and now we can finally figure out why the Ming army's self-generated firecrackers were able to shoot accurately and far.

If you figure out what's going on, the Qing soldiers will be able to use this sharp self-generating firecracker.

Dorgon immediately said: "O Va Xing, go quickly and get Mangtu's self-generated firecracker."

"Hey!" Wa Xing'a agreed, and immediately returned to the battlefield to find Mang Tu, who was on a security mission, and brought back the self-generated blunderbuss that Mang Tu had seized from the scout cavalry of the Ming army.

"Is this the self-generating gun used by the scouts of the Ming army?"

Hong Chengchou, Hou Fangyu and other hard-core traitors all surrounded him.

Dorgon held the self-generated firecracker in his hand, and looked at it repeatedly.

It looks nothing special, similar to the self-generated firecrackers of the Qing Dynasty.

Dorgon ordered Cao Eryu to bring a Qing Dynasty's own self-generated fire blunderbuss.

Comparing the two, the self-generating firecrackers of the Ming army are longer, and the barrels are also longer, which seems to be more than three feet long, but the barrels of the self-generating firecrackers of the Qing Dynasty are only two feet and five inches long.

The barrel caliber is about the same.

Dorgon took out a piece of lead from the Qing army, and it was able to be inserted.

It was also when he was stuffing the lead that Dorgon discovered that the inner wall of the Ming army's self-generated fire blunderbuss was actually engraved with patterns.

"Hey, there are carvings on the inner wall of the barrel?" Dorgon said in surprise, "Aren't the Ming army stupid? Carving patterns on the inner wall of the barrel is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and it will also affect the airtightness of the barrel of the self-generating fire. "

"Yes, yes, yes, the slave also heard about Tang Ruowang." Hong Chengchou nodded.

The concept of airtightness must have been brought to Dorgon and other Manchu rulers and ministers by Tang Ruowang.

Tang Ruowang once told Dorgon very clearly that due to the artisans, the inner diameter of each barrel of the self-generating firecrackers made by Bingzhanju has slight differences, but the size of all the leads is uniform, so the Some self-priming guns have better air-tight barrels, while others have poor air-tight barrels.

The direct expression is that the accuracy and penetration of self-generating guns will vary.

Dorgon had heard twice from Vaxing'a and Yabran that the Ming army's self-generated firecrackers were accurate and far-reaching, so he really wanted to see for himself how sharp the Ming army's self-generated firecrackers were.

At present, Dorgon ordered Cao Eryu to make a temporary target.

Then he couldn't wait to test fire the Ming army's self-generated fire blunderbuss.

However, the test results surprised Duo ErGun and others.

Facts have proved that the self-generated firecrackers of the Ming army are not only extremely poor in accuracy, but also far inferior to the self-generated firecrackers of the Qing army. They cannot even penetrate cotton armor fifty paces away.

"Is this really the self-generating firecracker used by the scout cavalry of the Ming army?"

Dorgon had serious doubts about the self-generated firecracker in his hand.

Doesn't it mean that the self-generating guns of the scout cavalry can hit far and accurately?

Va Xing'a was also confused about this: "Master, this is really the self-generated fire blunderbuss of the scout cavalry of the Ming army. The servant died for more than a dozen nights, and finally killed a scout cavalry of the Ming army. , and then seized this self-generating firecracker from the scout cavalry of the Ming army, there is no mistake."

"That's weird." Dorgon frowned.

(End of this chapter)