Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 77 Who thought of this bad move? (Fifth watch completed, begging for a monthly pass)

Jian slaves have a habit of fighting.

This habit is the essence summed up by the Jurchen ancestors in countless huntings.

Every time there is a battle, Jiannu will send a certain number of skirmishers to the battle area, and these skirmishers are all white armored soldiers with strong individual combat capabilities.

These white armor soldiers are responsible for three tasks.

The first is to detect enemy intelligence, the second is to exhaust the enemy through small-scale harassment, and the third is to intercept the enemy's battlefield information, making the enemy blind and deaf.

For example, now, more than [-] white armored soldiers serving as the vanguard have already been scattered.

Just after Shenchu ​​passed, some white armored soldiers came back and reported to Baiyintu: "Master Ezhen, a large number of Western gun platforms were found in front of us."

"Huh? Western blunderbuss? There are still a lot of them?" Bai Yintu was obviously stunned when he heard this. Of course, he was no stranger to Western blunderbuss.

Back then on the Ningjin front, the Western Guntai caused a lot of trouble for Jiannu.

But even on the Ning Jin front, the number of Western gun platforms built by the Ming army is not large, because the cost of these things is much more expensive than ordinary rammed earth cities.

At that moment, Baiyintu asked again: "How many?"

"Still counting." Bai Jiabing said in a deep voice, "It is estimated that there are hundreds of them."

"What are you talking about?" Bai Yintu heard the words and was there, Aobai, Zu Zerun, Gao Di and others also looked at each other in blank dismay. Hundreds of Western blunderbuss?Is there a mistake?How could there be so many?
After a long while, Bai Yintu finally came back to his senses: "Go to the boat and see what's going on."

……

Chongzhen took a bird boat of the Navy and went north along the Huitong River for nearly two kilometers.

This location is more than a thousand meters away from the outer edge of the Xuzhou defense line (radius 2880 meters). According to Chongzhen's meaning, it will go one thousand meters further to the edge of the defense line.

But Zheng Hongkui refused to go any further.

Chongzhen did not continue to persecute Zheng Hongkui.

Zheng Hongkui also had good intentions, and he couldn't make things too difficult for his courtiers.

The bird boat of the Ming army had three masts, one large, two small, and the main mast in the middle was 24 meters high.

There is a lookout at a height of nearly 20 meters, and sentries can stand on it to observe the enemy's situation.

Zheng Hongkui also wanted to stop Chongzhen, but Chongzhen ignored it this time. He not only climbed to the 20-meter-high Wangdou, but also brought Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong up.

The three of father and son are squeezed into the watchtower, which makes them look cramped.

Wang Chengen, Gao Qiqian and the eunuchs guarded below, anxious.

But Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong are very excited, this is completely different from the life experience of living in the palace before, they prefer the fighting experience in front of them.

The little brothers can only observe with the naked eye.

But Chongzhen had a telescope.

Pulling out the binoculars and adjusting the focus, Chongzhen soon discovered the army of slaves coming along the east bank of the canal, almost covering the entire east bank of the canal.

An army of [-] people is such a large area.

An army of [-] people is simply unimaginable.

Zhu Cihong and Zhu Cijiong also changed their faces.

The two younger brothers were worried that the surrounding Ming army would not be able to defend the gun platform.

"Father, why don't you gather the bird guns and tiger squat guns to the periphery?" Zhu Cijiong couldn't help asking, "Each gun platform has only 20 bird guns and 2 tiger squat guns, can it be defended?"

Chongzhen immediately asked Zhu Cijiong: "Then how many tiger squat guns and bird guns do you think can ensure the protection of the outer gun platforms?"

"Ah..." Zhu Cijiong was dumbfounded.

Zhu Cihong said: "How many tiger squat cannons, how many bird guns can't defend it."

"Langer is right." Chongzhen said, "If there are only one or two blunderbusses, no matter how many tiger squat cannons or bird blunderbusses there are, they will not be able to defend. , but lies in the saturated defense of more than [-] blunderbusses with a total of more than [-] blunderbusses in the front and back. If you concentrate a large number of tiger squat cannons and bird blunderbusses on the outer blunderbusses, then the rear blunderbusses will become decorations, and the entire defense line Wouldn't it be useless?"

"You can focus on the periphery for a round first." Zhu Cijiong was still unconvinced, "Wait until the first heavy blunderbuss platform falls, and then quickly transfer the tiger squatting cannon and bird blunderbuss to the second heavy blunderbuss platform, so that it can be done The best of both worlds? It can ensure that there are enough firearms on the outer turret platform, and it will not prevent the other turret platforms behind from becoming decorations."

Chongzhen shook his head: "You have a good idea, but the premise is that you can return it."

"What's so difficult about this?" Zhu Cijiong said, "The tiger crouching gun only weighs a few dozen catties."

Chongzhen didn't argue with his son, he said with a smile that we will wait and see.

To educate bear children, we must speak with facts.

……

"What shape is this?"

Baiyintu at the other end of the canal was also confused.

At this time, Bai Yintu also climbed to a nearby hill with Aobai and other generals.

"Master Gu Shan'er, show me." Obai was a little anxious.

"Give it back to you." Bai Yintu handed the telescope back to Aobai.

Aobai took the binoculars, took a quick look and gasped.

"So many? I'm afraid there are hundreds of them, right? But this gun platform is a bit small."

"It's not big. There aren't many Ming soldiers on each gun platform. It's completely different from the gun platforms built by the Ming army in Ningyuan and Jinzhou. But have you noticed, Oboi? These Western gun platforms are arranged in a certain direction."

"Really." Obai's expression turned serious, and he said in a deep voice, "Could it be Zhuge Liang's Eight Formation Diagram?"

Zu Zerun and Gao Di stood behind the two of them, and when they heard Aobai talking about the eight formations, they all looked contemptuous, thinking that these Jurchens are really speechless, and they really regarded the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as a book of war.

"Huh, that's not right, this blunderbuss platform is a bit strange." Obai suddenly called out again, "Although the blunderbuss platforms built by the Ming army in Ningyuan and Jinzhou were not high, they were still one to two feet high. As high as the ground? Even if wooden fences are added to the outer edge of the gun platform, and trenches are dug, it is only about ten feet high."

"At this height, there is no need for a ladder, and you can go up by stepping on a cart."

"Hey, and what's the matter with the dirt slope outside the gun platform? Is it a slope protection?"

"In the past, the blunderbuss platforms in Ningyuan and Jinzhou also had slope protection, but they were shorter than the blunderbuss platforms."

"Is the Ming army stupid? The slope is higher than the gun platform, so our Eight Banners warriors can rely on the cover of the slope to attack the Ming army's gun platform within fifty steps."

"Our warriors can shoot them all like rabbits, unless they stay behind the fence."

At this moment, in the eyes of Oboi, the Ming army on the opposite side are all fools.

Bai Yintu was also in a daze, completely unable to understand the Ming army's intentions.

The repair of this gun platform is weird.

Is there any conspiracy in it?
However, Baiyintu is also a veteran who has fought in the battlefield for more than ten years. He has seen many strange things on the battlefield, and he knows how to deal with this situation.

"Zu Zerun!" Bai Yintu immediately turned around and shouted behind him.

"You are sending a Niulu from the Yellow Banner Han Army to try to attack once, first to find out the reality of the Ming Army."

"Hey!" Zu Zerun promised, and shouted at the Eight Banners Han army arrayed on the bank of the canal, "Geng Jimao, immediately lead a Niu Lu to attack the nearest gun platform!"

The Eight Banners Han army on the east bank of the canal immediately moved.

Baiyintu sent two more Niulu's Eight Banners soldiers to sweep the formation.

Soon, about 300 Zhenghuang Banner Han troops pushed 12 vans and approached the outermost gun platform on the east bank of the canal.

Since the early days of Huang Taiji, the Eight Banners soldiers have become more and more mature in their organizational system, and their equipment has gradually become more complete, including a large number of wagons and side wagons.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners use the chariot, each with 12 carts.

The Eight Banners Han army could only use relatively simple vans, each with 12 vehicles, of which 4 were loaded with artillery and the other 8 were loaded with luggage.

The protection of the van is far inferior to that of the car, and it can't even defend against the tiger squat cannon, so it is used to resist the bird gun.

However, when the Niulu of the Eight Banners Han Army advanced, the two tiger squatting cannons on the gun platform never fired, because the shooting range was blocked by the slope protection in front of the gun platform.

Obai couldn't help laughing again: "Ming Jun is really stupid!"

Bai Yintu had a faint feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Soon, a Niulu Eight Banners Han army advanced to the back of the slope protection, and the straight-line distance from the Ming army on the gun platform was less than [-] steps, but due to the cover of the slope protection, they could not see each other.

During this process, the two sides did not exchange fire from beginning to end.

The Zhenghuang Banner Han army advancing behind the slope protection also seemed a little confused.

After a quarter of an hour, the Zhenghuang Banner Han army began to move forward again, pushing the van up the slope. They wanted to fix the van on the top of the slope, and first used the vehicle-mounted Flang machine gun Confront the Ming army on the blunderbuss platform, wait until the fence of the Ming army blunderbuss platform is destroyed, and then invest in infantry to seize the blunderbuss platform.

The height of the slope protection is only five feet, but the length is four to five feet. It is a very gentle slope.

So after pushing it up less than three feet, the van was exposed to the muzzle of the blunderbuss defenders.

The Ming army guarding on the blunderbuss platform began to fire cannons with yelling. The two tiger squatting cannons fired one after another, only two cannons were heard, and thick gunpowder smoke immediately filled the air.

A van that bears the brunt was immediately smashed to pieces.

Two of the Zhenghuang Banner Han soldiers who were hiding behind the van were also killed.

The tiger squatting cannon can fire 100 lead or stone bullets weighing 5 cents, or it can also fire a single 30 double-weight compound ammunition. .

Fortunately, there are only two tiger squat cannons on the gun platform, and it takes time to load them.

Taking advantage of this interval, the Eight Banners Han army stepped up to push the cart up the slope.

The van was quickly pushed to the top of the slope protection, and then the Eight Banners Han army began to scold their mothers.

"Which wicked ghost thought this bad move? It's too fucking bad! You have a son without an ass hole!"

Why did the Eight Banners Han army scold their mothers?Because the platform on the top of the revetment is very narrow, there is no way to place the van, but if the van is not leveled and then fixed, there is no way to shoot at the Ming army tiger squatting cannon on the blunderbuss platform, because the firing angle cannot be suppressed.

With such a dirt slope, the Frang machine guns on the side vans of the Eight Banners Han army became a display.

(End of this chapter)