The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 24
In the past few days, everyone worked at sunrise and rested at sunset. Huang Sheng didn't dare to let everyone camp near the official road, leaving only two or three people on duty at the ambush point.

I would rather take my servants to walk the rugged mountain road for an hour every night back to the camp to rest, and then walk back early the next day to start work.

In fact, this is also beneficial. When I led the team to retreat, everyone had walked this road more than [-] times, and they knew each other very well, and the escape efficiency was much higher.

On the tenth day, early in the morning, General Manager Ma Shihu passed the ambush point and headed east as promised.

Huang Sheng could see clearly through the binoculars. The more than 200 cavalrymen looked very mighty and murderous. They didn't realize that Huang Sheng was hiding under their noses with more than [-] people.

Huang Sheng distributed cold weapons to the new servants, and each of them gave cotton armor, not to let them attack Jiannu, but to let them have the ability to protect themselves.

Huang Sheng left Quan Yong and four people to stay at the campsite, where all the supplies for this small team were available, so there was no need to be careless.

Liu Liangcai led two people to take care of the horses, and Guan Zhicheng led two people to follow Huang Mingli and the others to help them put on their armor. When the explosion sounded, they went to the place where the horses were hidden and took Heihu, Huang Mingli and other soldiers' horses. bring.

The horses were all hidden in the woods behind the small hill, about a mile away from here. One was afraid that the horses would neigh and expose the target, and the other was that the huge explosion would startle their horses.

Two new servants volunteered to take part in the battle against Jiannu, and they seemed to be competing with each other.

They were Hu Jianfeng and Cao Hucheng. Li Dagang had been in contact with these two strong men for more than half a month, and he affirmed their fighting skills.

Both of them have some brute strength, they can draw a strong bow, the accuracy and speed of shooting arrows are of course not as good as Heihu's, but they are stronger than him.

Huang Sheng agreed to the request of Hu Jianfeng and Cao Hucheng, and also equipped them with three layers of armor, but asked them to follow behind when Huang Mingli and the others attacked and use step bows to attack from a distance.

The chief horse Shihu took two hundred powerful Ming cavalrymen and ran all the way to the official road in the southeast near Jinzhou, only to find three Jiannu sentry horses.

This kid is not a vegetarian either. Knowing that he came suddenly, Jianu is not a god and cannot know his reality, let alone have time to arrange an ambush.

He jumped on his horse and swung his whip to chase after the three sentry horses. Seeing that it was a rare opportunity for many people to bully few people, all the servants under his command rushed forward and prepared to fight in groups.

There were three groups of Jiannu post horses, ten people in total. The first group of three were discovered by a large group of Ming army cavalry.

The two groups of Jiannu sentry horses who followed behind saw the menacing approach of the Ming army, dozens of times their number, and fled together.

Ma Shihu led his men and horses to chase him for twenty miles, and felt that he had completed the task of showing his face to the letter, and was about to stop for a short rest and then run back after showing off his power here.

Unexpectedly, he was lucky today, and saw one of the fleeing Jiannu sentry horses stumble and fall down.

It can be seen that riding a horse is very dangerous, and even a skilled horse-bowman will have a safety accident.

The Ming army has seen it, and there are people giving gifts?Excited, he rushed over at once, and finally the Ming army got the head of the slave sentry horse, but he didn't know whether he was beheaded by the Ming army or fell to death by himself.

Ma Shihu grinned from ear to ear, came out to show off his muscles and won a lottery, picked up the head of a Jiannu vest for nothing, and hurried back to the teacher.

He was very happy, and the general who guarded Jiannu here was mad. Niulu Erzhentunbulu brought his Niulu to set up defense here, and such a strange thing hadn't happened in a year or two.

It has always been the post-golden cavalry who robbed Daming, when will it be the turn of the Ming army to harass him?He also beheaded a vest under his command!
Damn, it's too hateful!We must take revenge and wipe out that hateful cavalry team of the Ming army, and we must not lose my great gold and the prestige of the army.

He immediately arranged for messengers to report the provocations of the Ming army to his immediate superiors Jiala Ezhen and Luogashan, and at the same time let his sentry cavalry go around to find out where the Ming army came from.

Tunbulu's Niulu is considered medium in Houjin. There are 70 Ba Yala, more than [-] armored men, and more than [-] armored bannermen.

He immediately dispatched five Ba Yala with [-] vests and infantry to track down the Ming army who dared to provoke.

Ask them to find out the situation and come back to report quickly, and ask Jialaerzhen to send troops to help, and lead everyone to take the Ming army's lair together.

Tun Bulu believed that there was a cavalry team of more than [-] people, and there were five Ba Yala accompanying them. As long as they didn't rush forward and be surrounded by the Ming army, they should not be able to suffer from the Ming army again.

Huang Sheng waited patiently at the ambush point. He knew that there would be no battle today, so he didn't arrange an ambush at all. He just tried to let the servants ambush to see if Ma Shihu and the others could find his whereabouts.

The final arrangement must wait for Ma Shihu to lure the enemy troops back through here before starting to place them, such as the six bombs.

The Ming army who lured the enemy until the evening talked and laughed loudly all the way. Everyone looked very happy. They passed by here and went back. Huang Sheng looked at their happy expressions through the binoculars and was very surprised.

Huang Sheng had no way of knowing that Ma Shihu beheaded the head of Jiannu's vest. Seeing that it was getting late, he knew that no Jiannu would come here today, and he would come at noon tomorrow.

According to the calculation of the time when Ma Shihu had been away for a whole day before returning, the distance from the Jiannu camp to here should exceed half a day's time for a war horse to run.

If there is no accident, there should be a war with Jiannu tomorrow. Huang Sheng left Huang Dongshan and Gu Shanhai here to observe the enemy's situation with binoculars, and he took everyone back to the camp to rest early and recharge their batteries.

The next day, the weather was fine, and Huang Sheng wandered leisurely until it was three poles into the sun before arriving at the ambush point. There were already a lot less things in the camp, leaving only two guards.

It was obvious that the war was about to break out, but Huang Sheng deliberately acted nonchalantly, looking like a coquettish woman with a well-thought-out plan.

Huang Mingli and the others don't care about Huang Sheng's attitude now, but those newcomers are different. Seeing Huang Shengyun's calm appearance, their nervousness eased a lot.

The army of this era is all illiterate, they have no knowledge, and most of them follow what others say, that is, follow the trend.

That's why the army has the theory of camps. The ancient Chinese military camps were strictly regulated, and the military camps were places where people were killed. Even shouting loudly and running quickly were forbidden. Spreading rumors and telling nonsense would be life-threatening. .

Especially before the war, everyone's life and death were uncertain, and they didn't know when they would die. At this time, the spirit of soldiers was on the verge of collapse.

The so-called Yingxiao means that the soldiers were suddenly frightened at night, screaming and hacking and killing. Before they could meet the enemy, they beat themselves up and collapsed.

Maybe it was just a soldier screaming in a nightmare, and everyone was infected with this hysterical and crazy atmosphere, completely breaking free from the shackles of military discipline and venting wildly.

Why is there no such thing as battalions in the modern army?Modern soldiers are educated and thoughtful, and they will not hear a ghost screaming at night, and they will also scream.

In the Ming Dynasty, the calm and composed general was the spiritual pillar of these soldiers, and they would have a sense of security, and if they were not nervous, there would be no camp screams.

What Huang Sheng did now was to reassure everyone and not to panic, so as not to be too nervous and expose himself prematurely during the ambush, ruining the ambush plan this time.

As soon as he arrived at the ambush point, Huang Dongshan, who stayed behind to observe the enemy's situation, told Huang Sheng that everything was normal and Jiannu had not been found for the time being.

Huang Sheng arranged for them to sleep, get up for lunch at noon, and asked others to start planting bombs according to the steps of many drills.

In the end, Huang Sheng carefully checked the positions of the six bombs before letting everyone start an ambush according to the plan, and he himself used a telescope to observe Jiannu's movements.

Huang Sheng is concentrating on observing the movements on the official road, and the fixed Galileo telescope he uses can theoretically achieve a magnification of 32 times.

That is to say, seeing an object at a distance of 300 meters is as clear as seeing an object at a distance of ten meters.Because of the telescope, Huang Sheng was more confident and felt safe.

When Jiannu appeared ten miles away, he would notice it, and when he came seven or eight miles away, he could even see the expressions on their faces clearly.How could these uncivilized and barbaric Tungus people know that they were being watched by themselves all the time.

At this moment, Huang Dongshan's voice came from next to his ear: "My lord, you don't have to work so hard to watch it yourself, let the little one come. Don't worry, once you see the young Jiannu, let the adults come and see it."

Huang Sheng said: "Huang Dongshan, didn't I let you sleep? Why? Too nervous to fall asleep?"

Huang Dongshan said: "Go back to the adults, the younger one is not afraid to follow the adults, the younger one took turns sleeping with Gu Shanhai last night, so I'm not tired."

Huang Sheng likes this educated servant Huang Dongshan very much. This kid is clever and quick at learning everything. Now he is his right-hand man, helping to teach the servants how to read.

Although Huang Mingli and Huang Mingdao can also read and write, it's a pity that they don't like reading at all, and practice military skills with other servants every day.

What they longed for most in their hearts was to stab the "armor-piercing gun" into Jiannu's body fiercely. The deep hatred of twenty members of the Huang family would be repaid by Jiannu's blood.

Huang Sheng was more at ease with Huang Dongshan's work, so he asked him to observe the enemy's situation, and checked the flintlock rifle again by himself.

When Huang Sheng was a child, he used lead wire, bicycle chains, and rubber bands to make pistols that could fire.

At that time, it was not easy to obtain gunpowder. It was just to use a small knife to collect the little gunpowder on the heads of each match.

When Huang Sheng came to Daming, he made the flintlock rifles by hand. He used the bolt to trigger the gunpowder pellets used to make the primer.

Daming's method of pouring a little bit of primer powder into the gunpowder pot is too unscientific, and it may not be able to pour it in if there is a strong wind.

What Huang Sheng adopted was to make the primer gunpowder into granules as big as soybeans, put them in a half-foot-long copper tube, and pour one granule directly into the gunpowder pot when using it.

The most important thing is the quality of the spring that drives the bolt. For this reason, Huang Sheng tried countless times, and finally met the minimum requirements.

But in the future, the spring, the bolt and the flint used for friction will become vulnerable parts. After dozens of effective firings, the flint must be replaced, and the spring and bolt must be replaced after firing one or two hundred times.

When to replace it depends entirely on his own feel, so Huang Sheng believes that it is impossible for such a gun to be mass-produced to equip large troops.

It is unrealistic for those peasants who have just put down their hoes to play with such guns. The guns will probably break in three days after they are in their hands, but if they are carefully maintained and used, they can be used until the rifling is smooth.

(End of this chapter)