A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 482
Liu Yongzhong is the head of the front battalion of the New Army in the town of Xuanfu. His small family used to be an ordinary military household in Chang'an. He lost his parents, lost his brothers and sisters, and was full of deep hatred for the Tartars.

After the war in the 11th year of Chongzhen, there was a wave of training new troops across the Ming Dynasty. Yang Guozhu, Marshal Yang, also organized new troops in the town and recruited young men from all over the town.

Liu Yongzhong had just passed his birthday at that time, he was young and strong, and he was honest and honest, meeting the standards of recruiting an honest man from the countryside, and successfully became a member of the new army.Because of his good eyesight, he eventually became a bird gun soldier.

Marshal Yang loves soldiers like his sons, and when Liu Yongzhong joined the army, he was rewarded with several taels of silver from the An family, and then he was allocated nearly ten acres of land near Longmenwei.I heard that a few years later, I will own all [-] acres of land under my name, and the rest of the new army will do the same. This makes the soldiers of the new army boil, and everyone is grateful.

Liu Yongzhong doesn't know a lot of Chinese characters, but he still knows the truth that a drop of water should be repaid by a spring.His real name was Liu Mancang, and in order to express his respect and gratitude to Marshal Yang, he packed a generous gift and asked the comfort officer in the army to change his name to Liu Yongzhong, which meant to be loyal to Marshal Yang forever.

As far as Liu Yongzhong knew, many soldiers in the new army also changed their names, and there were countless names in the army, such as Zhongguo and Zhongzhu.

After joining the New Army for two years, Liu Yongzhong suppressed bandits and went out to fight the Mongolian Tartars. Due to Liu Yongzhong's hard training, he was very accurate in shooting the blunderbuss, and made a lot of military achievements. He was promoted from a soldier to a commander.Not long ago, he was also allocated a Donglu bird gun and several rounds of powerful medicine.

This is one of the [-] fine blunderbusses that Marshal Yang ordered from Marshal Wang, Uncle Zhongyong of the East Road. This is the world-famous East Road blunderbuss, and it also has powerful medicine, which can break heavy armor with a hundred steps.

After being assigned the blunderbuss, Liu Yongzhong couldn't put it down, but the potency was limited, so during the training in the new barracks, Shangguan only asked everyone to shoot three shots, just to feel it.The rest of the mighty potions still had to be used on the battlefield.

Liu Yongzhong went to Liaodong with the army. Either he had never been on the battlefield, or he had killed Tartars, but this was the first time that Manchurian Tartars played the real card.Although he was eager to take revenge and longed for this day to come, he still felt a little nervous when he was on the battlefield.

He followed in the army formation, surrounded by continuous drums and flags, which surged wave after wave according to the terrain.

The Manchurian Tartars are indeed different from the Mongol Tartars. He went out with the army to fight the Tartars before. Those Mongols' bows and arrows, under the blunderbuss and chariots of their own side, had no power to fight back. They only dared to ride their horses and escaped far away. Far.

And these Manchurian Tartars actually have artillery, and the artillery is very powerful.

As he marched, one after another shells whizzed past him.

He saw with his own eyes that a solid chariot, covered with thick quilts and leather, was blasted into powder by artillery.Some of the blunderbuss brothers behind the carts and the folks who pushed the carts were unlucky. Their bodies were covered with sharp wooden thorns, and they lay on the ground crying in pain.

The invincible chariots in my impression can't stop the artillery of the Tartars. I heard that they still have a lot of bird guns, which is quite different from the legendary Tartar soldiers who can only ride and shoot.

Seeing the miserable state of the brothers in the army, the Tartar artillery continued to roar, and the soldiers in the armor were a little uneasy.Liu Yongzhong comforted them loudly, saying that as long as they survived, the Tartar artillery would stop firing soon.Because the Tazi Hongyi cannons have to dissipate heat, usually after firing three shells, they have to stop for a quarter to two quarters of an hour to dissipate heat. This gap is safe.

Liu Yongzhong heard this from Dui Guan Yang in the team, and Dui Guan Yang had a lot of friends and knew several brothers from the Jingbian Army. He heard this from the brothers of the Jingbian Army.The Jingbian army is recognized by Ming Dynasty as the strongest army with the most experience in the use of artillery and firecrackers. Of course, what they say is not wrong.

Of course, Liu Yongzhong is no stranger to the Jingbian army. Many military households in the Chang'an office where he originally worked went to work on the East Road.I heard that there are many opportunities to make a fortune there, even if you can't make a fortune, there is always something to eat.Every Chinese New Year, these people go home with big bags and small bags. Those who have not seen them are envious. Listening to them brag about what they have learned on the East Road is also yearning for them.

They also use a kind of paper called food stamps, which I heard can be used instead of silver.Several stores in Chang'an also began to use food stamps, but Liu Yongzhong still felt more at ease using silver.

On the way to Liaodong, Liu Yongzhong also met several Jingbian Army brothers, such as Zhao Rongsheng, the chief of the B Division D at the rear of the Jingbian Army's right battalion, Chen Sheng and Ju Yiwu, the sharpshooters at the front of the rear battalion, and others .

I feel that they are kind and kind, but they are eloquent, all of them are like scholars, and they speak in a different way.What about the debate between Hua and Barbarians, the peace of Shenzhou, etc., even the scribes in the army, comfort officials, etc., they don't know how to talk about it.When facing them, it is a bit like Meng Sheng facing his husband. Apart from being at a loss, he is obediently taught.

Liu Yongzhong didn't know as much as his brothers in the Jingbian army, but he believed that a man should repay his kindness with gratitude. In short, there would be nothing wrong with being loyal to Marshal Yang forever.

The artillery roared, some shells from the Tartar soldiers came, and some artillery from the Shenji Battalion fired at the Tartar positions.Along with the artillery, the passionate marching drums in the army continued, and became louder and louder. With the sound of the drums, the continuous army formation continued to advance.

The huge sound of drum music also made the fear of the sergeants in the formations drop a lot. Liu Yongzhong strode forward with the music.

He hoped that he would be able to get close to the trenches of the Tartars, and then he would use the blunderbuss in his hand to smash the heads of a few Tartars to avenge his parents!

……

In the artillery formation of the Qing army in Huangtuling, there was a constant rumble, and the artillery formation was filled with pungent smoke. The gunners of the Qing army kept reloading their chambers, and then shelled!
Their artillery was well-trained, especially the Portuguese gunners among them, who were even faster and more accurate than the gunners of the Shenji Battalion.

special……

Their four-wheel grinding disc gun mounts can be rotated left and right. When a valuable target is found, a few thick gunners will insert thick wooden rods into the wooden holes of the gun body.Then they used force to rotate the cannon body and adjust the angle to bombard the target.

Big and big shells kept shooting towards the undulating Ming army formation and fell into their formation.Especially when the Ming army was more than two miles away from the main ridge and not far from the first Qing army defense line in Huangtuling, the artillery they deployed in Zhongling, those six-pound, eight-pound, and ten-pounder guns also fired.

For the Qing army here, the Ming army was only more than a mile away from them, within the effective range of their own artillery.

The Shenji Battalion artillery formation of the Ming army, although less than two miles away from the Qing army's first line of defense at Huangtuling, was more than three miles away from the Qing army's at Zhongling, and four miles away from the Qing army's artillery formation at Main Ridge. Shout out to their artillery.

The artillery of the Qing army in Zhongling and Main Ridge took turns to shell. When one side cooled down, one side fired, and one side fired, and the other side cooled down again, making their shelling almost continuous.

Later, some Hongyi three-pound guns on the first line of defense of the Qing army also fired, but they were severely shelled by Fu Yingchong, the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion, who vented his anger on them.

Solid artillery shells, poisonous smoke shells, gray shells, thunderbolts and other shells, just greeted the Qing army on the first line of defense, making them cry for their parents and mothers, and they were in a panic.

However, under the alternate shelling of the Qing army's artillery in Zhongling and Zhuling, Yang Guozhu's troops and Li Fuming's troops, who were forced to form a formation, also suffered huge casualties.Along with a large number of mountain attacking equipment at the position of the middle army in the second town, as well as four car battalions, they were also in a mess under the artillery of the Qing people...

Yang Guozhu stood on the Yuanrong chariot. This chariot was pulled by four strong horses, and it was built extremely strong, which could prevent the bombardment of [-]-jin shells.This was Wang Dou's car. When Yang Guozhu attacked Huangtuling, Wang Dou forced Yang Guozhu to take his own car. Yang Guozhu couldn't refuse, so he had to accept it.

Fortunately, I was riding on this Yuanrong chariot. A shell just now happened to hit this chariot, but it bounced away from a distance, and the chariot was unharmed.

Fortunately for Yang Guozhu, if it wasn't for this chariot, he might have died under the Huangtu Ridge today, and died before he could leave the army.Although Yang Guozhu was not afraid of death, and often died as a general in a hundred battles, Ma Ge's shrouded body encouraged himself, but he didn't kill a single enemy, and he died silently like this, which he didn't want to see.

However, Yang Guozhu was safe, but the soldiers under his command were not so lucky. Qing artillery shells had been continuously fired into his central position.

Their huge shells whizzed over, often accompanied by groups of shells. Each wave of shells consisted of hundreds of shells, large and small.They fell into the army formation, rolling and smashing, and soldiers kept losing their hands and feet, and their flesh and blood flew all over the place.

In particular, some artillery shelled the cavalry in the main barracks. Among the howling cannons, there were cavalry soldiers who had experienced many battles, and they couldn't stop the power of the cannons.If you are hit by a shell, you will be broken and die.Even the battle-tested war horses, being hit by shells, kept neighing miserably and jumping around.

Yang Guozhu's face was ugly, and he was resentful in his heart. Although his own army was sparsely arrayed, it couldn't withstand such a damaged shelling.

In addition, the chariot soldiers of the friendly army of the Central Military Department, and the civilians who pushed and pulled the carts, pointed carts, nest carts, curtain carts, trench bridges and other mountain attack equipment, faced the artillery of the Qing army, panicked and confused... …

Yang Guozhu's thoughts turned, and he was approaching the first trench of the slaves. Most of his army was also under several layers of artillery fire on the mountain. Attacking Huangtuling was more difficult than he imagined.

While thinking about it, there was another sharp sound of swans on the mountain, the booming of cannons, and another wave of heavy shells whistling.

There was a loud rumbling sound, and large and heavy solid shells were shot on the ground, rushing towards them.

boom!
A chariot of a chariot battalion was blasted away, and the gunner pushing the cart screamed and fell down. The chariot was scattered and crooked on the ground, and even the Franco cannon on the car fell far away. go.

boom!
A nest cart also fell apart, and several of the folks pushing the cart fell down. The rest survived and ran away screaming...

boom!
A big iron ball weighing more than ten kilograms whizzed over, facing a few peasants pushing a long scooter.The long scooter was full of heavy sacks and soil baskets, which were originally used to carry soil for filling trenches later.

Seeing the cannonball coming over, the faces of the civilian husbands were ashen, it's over!

They wanted to run, but their steps became weak, but they couldn't move at all.

In the blink of an eye, the cannonballs were shot into the soil bags on the car, and there was a loud noise, causing the car body to vibrate violently.

But what surprised the peasants was that although the soil and rags were flying, the shell was embedded in the bag and remained motionless.

All of us are safe and sound!
Several civilian husbands could not help crying with joy!

(End of this chapter)