The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

As soon as the artillery stopped, the rapid sound of war drums sounded from the Ming army's formation.

More than thirty huge chariots were successively pushed out of the army formation.

These chariots are different from ordinary Ming army chariots, which generally have shooting holes for firearms and artillery, all of which are closed, like a large shield.

It is not appropriate to call it a chariot, it is more appropriate to call it a shield chariot.

The main body of the large shield in front of the shield cart is made of wood and is five or six inches thick.

Two decks are laid on three sides of the carriage, the space between the two decks is filled with sand, and the outside of the deck is covered with a layer of soaked quilt.

This kind of shield chariot is the most commonly used shield chariot for the Qing army to attack the city and pull out the village on the Liaodong battlefield.

This kind of shield car is extremely strong, neither the tiger crouching gun nor the Frang machine can smash it, only the Hongyi cannon and the Shenwei general cannon can effectively kill it, not to mention the fire gun and the three-eyed gun shot.

In "Ming History Chronicles", there are records of the tactics of the Houjin soldiers.

"The soldiers in Jianzhou formed an array. The front floor was about five or six inches long, and the machine was used to turn like a chariot to avoid guns."

"Archers are used on the next level, and the ditch is filled with mud on the next level, and iron cavalry is still used on the last level. Both men and horses are heavily armored."

"Once the artillery is fired, it bursts out, and the left and right wings fight to the death. The officers and soldiers can't support the people who are the best."

When rushing into battle in the field, the Houjin soldiers often used shield chariots as the first, and then hid the heavy armored infantry.

The Ming army and Mongolia have been in dispute for many years, because Mongolia is mostly light cavalry, in order to deal with Mongolian light cavalry, they admire fast horses, light knives and soft bows.

The number of bow and arrow stones of the Ming army is not high, and neither the shooting range nor the armor-piercing effect is strong.

However, Hou Jin respected heavy bows and arrows, and all the bows and arrows used were strong bows.

Moreover, they often use the cover of the shield car to reach about forty steps before they start to shoot arrows.

The distance of forty steps has already reached the armor-piercing range of the Qing bow. Whether you are wearing cotton armor or cloth armor, as long as you are shot by an arrow, you will lose your combat power on the spot.

Even a slightly poorly made shield will be pierced by heavy arrows.

After shooting several arrows in a row to disrupt the Ming army's formation, the Houjin soldiers will start to attack and attack the formation in one go.

The predecessors of Houjin were not nomadic tribes. To be more precise, they were fishing and hunting tribes, living between white mountains and black waters.

Unlike Mongolia, which has no iron ore and backward iron smelting technology, Houjin already had a complete set of industries at this time.

Kong Youde's defection even brought artillery technology into Houjin, and Houjin had already started to develop Hongyi cannons by itself, making bird guns, three-eyed guns and other firearms.

This is why in the Songjin battle that followed, the Qing army even dispatched hundreds of artillery pieces at one time and launched an artillery battle with the Ming army without even losing the wind.

The strongest Houjin soldiers are not in cavalry combat, but in foot combat.

The Houjin soldiers are not so much cavalry as heavy infantry on horseback.

In the initial cavalry confrontation, the Liaodong cavalry often had the advantage in small-scale conflicts.

It's just that with the passage of time, Hou Jin has now made up for the shortcomings of the cavalry.

Originally, in the sequence of Hou Jin, there were many Mongolian tribes who belonged to them.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Lin Danhan died of illness on the bank of Qinghai Lake, which forced the Mongolian tribes in Monan to submit to Houjin.

Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor and established the system, and officially changed the country's name from "Dajin" to "Daqing"; he established the capital in Shenyang and changed his name to Shengjing.

The Qing army also completely made up for this shortcoming at this time. From then on, whether it was infantry or cavalry, the Qing army occupied a great advantage, and the situation of the Ming army in the north took a sharp turn for the worse.

Although Houjin's tactics look crude and sound simple, on the battlefield, the simplest tactics can often reap the greatest effect.

War is not a child's play, nor is it the exaggerated words recorded by literati.

Whether it is logistics or the establishment of the army, it needs to be refined to the point where it cannot be refined, and it should be as simple as possible.

Because the more complicated it is, the more troublesome and error-prone it is.

On the battlefield, once a mistake is made, it may often be fatal.

"Move the artillery position one hundred steps forward and bombard the enemy's hilltop."

Chen Wang raised his hand and issued the military order again.

"Move the army forward a hundred steps."

Three hundred steps is a fairly safe distance.

There should be only Franji and Tiger Crouching Cannon in the rogue camp.

It is not a common thing to fire a cannon. Li Zicheng was able to get it at the beginning because of his luck.

No one thought that there were so many firearms hidden in Qingyangwei's arsenal.

Although the Francophone can directly fire a single shell with a range of hundreds of steps, the Northern Army often uses the Francophone to launch shotguns, so the general range is the same as that of the Tiger Crouching Cannon.

Speaking of which, this is also a choice made to deal with the quick-response Mongolian Qingqi.

The opponents of the Ming army have been Mongolia for hundreds of years, so the artillery is basically light.

So Chen Wang was not worried that the bandits would bombard the army with artillery.

Bugles burst out and drums sounded again.

Chen Wang led the horse in front of the formation and moved forward slowly.

More than [-] shield vehicles were divided into two rows and lined up in the word "two".

There are hundreds of carts carrying soil and sand behind them, which are also protected with shields, but the specifications are much smaller.

Behind each shield chariot, there are nearly ten armored soldiers, half of these armored soldiers are Liao cavalry under his command, and the other half are veterans who were originally subordinate to Ai Wannian.

A part of the armor that was previously free has been allotted by Chen Wang.

The more than [-] people behind the more than [-] shield chariots are almost all wearing two or three layers of armor.

The "neck" in the high-top helmet refers to the protective parts that are connected with the helmet to protect the face, neck, and shoulders.

Half of them are pierced with a piece of armor to surround or surround the helmet.

There are two forms, the first is to turn it up and attach it to the top of the helmet, and the other is to put it down.

After the neck of the full set of high-topped helmet is put down, the neck will cover a lot of the lower half of the face, only revealing a pair of eyes and nose and mouth.

Iron shield arms, long cloth face armor, mail armor, battle skirt, and heart guard cover his whole body so tightly that it is almost airtight.

Chen Wang raised his eyes to look at the formation of shield chariots.

More than [-] armored soldiers in the formation are walking forward slowly, all of them are hidden behind the shield chariot.

With the gradual in-depth understanding of this era, Chen Wang's thoughts are constantly changing.

Originally he wanted to raise an army that would use firearms extensively.

But the reality is extremely skinny. Due to its characteristics, the arquebus cannot form fire coverage and suppression. Even the burst fire method is still not enough to stop the enemy's charge.

In the face of rogues who lack armor, you can also use tiger squat guns and Francophones to make up for the lack of firepower.

But once you encounter the Houjin soldiers, the effect of the tiger squatting cannon and the Frang machine will be greatly weakened.

Many of the firecrackers issued by the Ministry of Industry are fake works, the armor-piercing effect is extremely poor, and the power is not up to standard.

It is okay to fight bandits, but it is difficult to penetrate the heavy armor worn by the golden soldiers. On the battlefield, this will be fatal.

There are too many defects and limitations of matchlock guns. If it is to be widely used, it is necessary to have its own ordnance factory to produce matchlock guns that are powerful enough to penetrate heavy armor in order to cope with the intensity of the battle between Houjin and Houjin.

The technological difficulty of flintlock guns is too high. Although flintlock guns have been developed long ago, their development and whether they can be installed on a large scale are completely different things.

Furthermore, because of the steel and iron smelting process, even if a flintlock is installed, it is difficult to install a qualified bayonet.

A fusilier without a bayonet can only be slaughtered in the face of a cavalry charge.

Now there is no chance, and there is no place for Chen Wang to develop steadily. He will have to wait until next year at least to go to Hanzhong.

It is not easy to establish an ordnance factory and so on.

Now Chen Wang had to think of a way to apply to the current situation, instead of applying it mechanically.

It's like Li Zicheng didn't use arquebus after seeing his tactics, but chose to install a faster-firing weapon such as a three-eyed gun.

As for applying the Western-style tactics and organization at this time, Chen Wang never thought about it.

Western-style warfare is not much advanced, the intensity is different, the battle situation is different, and the situation is also different.

In this era, the West is indeed in a leading position in terms of navy, but not in terms of land warfare.

As for the tactics and organization of later generations, there is no way to implement them without corresponding weapons, and forcing them will only lead to worsening of the situation.

This time the attack on the mountain was actually an experiment.

If the technology for installing flintlock guns can't be developed for the time being, then don't use it.

Hou Jinbing has already told the world with reality that the tactics of heavy armor and heavy soldiers and heavy artillery and shield vehicles are extremely useful, so use their tactics and methods.

In the early stage, when the data of bows and arrows was not large, the reason why firearms could replace bows and arrows was because they were easy to learn. You only needed to know how to load the gun, aim and pull the trigger.

A musket can easily take the life of a skilled soldier, even a child holding a gun can easily kill an adult.

This is the advantage of muskets, but as a guerrilla, the limit Chen Wang can lead now is more than 500 people.

If there were more people, the military order of Hong Chengchou's reprimand would probably be handed down, ordering him to disband the army.

It is now the eighth year of Chongzhen, not the 13th year of Chongzhen, even if he is as arrogant as Zuo Liangyu, he would not dare to raise so many troops.

Since the army cannot be expanded, then move closer to the elite soldiers.

The battlefield in the mainland facing the rogues is undoubtedly the best training ground. The intensity is not high, but there is more than blood.

Although it is cruel to say so, it is the reality.

It is very difficult to obtain armor legally, but this difficulty is much lower than that of installing flintlock guns.

Money can make ghosts turn the millstone, use more silver and get some military exploits.

Overreporting in the midst of loss, working up and down, taking more ordnance is easy, even if it is found out, at most it is just reprimanded.

This era is the era of alternating hot and cold weapons, and hand-to-hand combat is inevitable.

In the future, the new army of the formation company will use flintlock guns again. The current two battalions of soldiers are specially trained in hand-to-hand combat. The mainstream uses cold weapons, heavy armor and heavy arrows, and artillery shield vehicles.

Teaching and educating people should teach students in accordance with their aptitude.

Reforming the military system and training the army should be done in accordance with the circumstances.

"call----"

Chen Gong let out a foul breath. Although it was safe to wear three layers of heavy armor, it took a lot of physical energy to take every step.

The sound of war drums echoed rhythmically behind him, and beside his ears was the sound of the wheels of the shield chariot rolling across the grass, as well as the continuous sound of heavy footsteps.

Chen Gong said nothing, just moved forward in silence.

What he was thinking about now was not the enemy in front of him, but the enemy in the north.

This method of warfare is the method of the Houjin soldiers. The Houjin soldiers in Liaodong were pushing this kind of shield chariot and attacking them with heavy armor.

Neither the tiger squat gun nor the Franco machine gun can blast away this kind of shield car. Once it enters the stage of hand-to-hand combat, the battle will enter a one-sided situation in an instant.

The roles they are playing now are those Houjin soldiers who are hiding behind the shield car and are about to charge.