The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 511 The Battle of Changshan
Civil officials don't know how to arrange troops, but it doesn't mean they can't see good soldiers and bad soldiers. The troops of Heihu and Qing Getai are the most valued by Qiu Jiahe, and he is very annoyed to see them insist on marching along the seashore.

Because of the barren seaside and strong winds, when more than 4 Ming troops set up camp, it was difficult for tents to take root, and fresh water had to be searched far away. Qiu Jiahe and Zhang Chun, two civil officials, firmly disagreed.
The Ming army did not determine the command of troops according to rank. Qiu Jiahe was only from the third rank. Ma Shilong, Heihu, Song Wei, etc. were all first and second rank generals. Ma Shilong even had the title of Wu Jinglue.

However, the commanding power was controlled by Qiu Jiahe, the third-rank governor, and Zhang Chun, the fourth-rank civil servant.

In the end, Qiu Jiahe reluctantly agreed to Ma Shilong's troops, Qing Getai and Heihu's team to advance along the coastline because of giving face to Ma Shilong, the old peacemaker.

Heihu was asked to keep in touch with the team led by himself, Zhang Chun, Song Wei and other generals.

More than 4 troops lingered for less than [-] miles in a day, and the actions of the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty had long been known by Houjin Tanma, and Hong had arranged a reinforcement team to set up a net to wait.

On September 29th in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Qiu Jiahe led an army of [-] across the Xiaoling River and approached Dalinghe City. Later Jin army ambush circle.

In this era, arranging a siege is not about encircling the enemy as soon as the gun is fired, there is no such stupid enemy.The probing horses of Qiu Jiahe's main force were also constantly probing, basically ensuring that they would not encounter a sudden attack by a large group of enemy troops within five miles.

The encirclement plan conceived by the Jin army was exactly the same as Huang Sheng's calculation of the enemy before. They used the advantage of the cavalry's mobility to spread a large net and wait for the Ming army to appear in an area conducive to the encirclement. The cavalry suddenly rushed out and dragged the Ming army.

Then the Jin army could have time to mobilize infantry and artillery to attack the trapped Ming army.

The marching Ming army encountered a surprise attack by Mongolian light cavalry, and hastily formed a formation of chariots to fight against it. Unexpectedly, the Houjin heavy cavalry soon arrived.

Zhang Chun's chariot battalion in the Yongping Military Preparation Road prevented Jiannu's cavalry assault well, and the random firearms in the chariot were fired one after another, such as swarms of bees, sacred fire flying crows, and hundreds of tigers galloping together. It is also spectacular.

At the beginning of the battle between the two sides, the Hou Jin and Mongolian coalition forces suffered some small losses and failed to charge several times. The Ming army's chariot formation formed a circle, and the matchlock gunmen of Yongping Prefecture under Zhang Chun's command kept hiding behind the chariot and fired. pistol.

The three-eyed blunderbuss of the cavalry of the Ming army kept firing, and the small Frang machine equipped on the chariot was also firing three or four two-shot guns, and some of them fired shotguns. Although the effective range was not ideal, the Jin army could do nothing for a while. no.

After persisting like this for less than an hour, something unexpected happened suddenly, Jiannu's infantry came up, the general's guns had been set up and roared, and then [-] Korean musketeers also shot at the Ming army in three stages. , Immediately afterwards, the whole army of Mongolian light cavalry and Jiannu heavy cavalry pressed on.

This is the disadvantage of being unable to maneuver quickly. When Jiannu's general Pao joined the battle group, the failure of the Ming army was doomed.

The dense army array was nearly one mile square, and the target was too big to aim at. The general guns of the Hou Jin army fired directly, and every iron ball would penetrate the Ming army line, causing more than [-] casualties.

Who can stand in line and be beaten to face death?The Ming army, which had been fighting with courage, collapsed in an instant, and rushed to the beach in a swarm. At this time, they all remembered that there was still an army marching along the coastline.

Dalinghe City west of the cannon roared and shouted, Zu Dashou in the city turned a deaf ear to it, and never thought of bringing out his subordinates to fight for the rescue troops. Dare to go out of town again.

The advance of the army was always about scouting horses and sentry cavalry. Heihu and Qing Getai's men knew that Qiu Jiahe was in an ambush, so they didn't dare to leave the seaside to rescue them.

More than 8000 Ming troops formed an array close to the sea, and Ma Shilong's more than [-] infantry and Heihu's [-] infantry quickly formed a formation.

The long spear array that was more than ten feet bright was spectacular, and it was very effective against cavalry in a cold weapon duel.

It is a pity that the era has developed to the stage of semi-hot weapons. The enemy only needs to attack with artillery fire from a distance.

Black Tiger has been cooperated with the navy many times and has rich experience. He led the Ming army to have enough time to choose the best place to form an formation.

The Huang family has been operating in Liaodong for seven or eight years, and they are well aware of the situation and hydrology of the Liaodong coastline. In order to better receive naval artillery support, the seaside where the formation is formed is a deep-water area, and sea-going ships can dock as much as possible.

Huang Mingli has been cruising along the beach with his naval warships, contacting the Black Tigers from time to time. After learning through the semaphore, the Jin army will kill them immediately. Thirty warships are ready to bombard. Cruisers, these thirty ships are all the new warships left behind.

With the range advantage of the Huang family's artillery, and of course the absolute advantage in numbers, there is no possibility of the Ming army by the seaside being bombarded by Hou Jin unilaterally. Besides, the Tartars and Jiannu were killed by cavalry, and they will "hum chi hum chi" I don't know how long it will take to push the cannon.

When the panic-stricken Ming army rout appeared, the menacing Houjin army and Mongolian cavalry also killed them.

The Huang family's navy was not polite at all, and more than two hundred artillery pieces were projected at the maximum elevation angle. Among them, the large-caliber rifled naval guns might hit the flowering bullets eight or nine miles away, and the smoothbore guns could also hit three or four miles away.

The increase in the range of the artillery is entirely due to the improvement in the technology of the Huang family's cast steel cannon. The range is closely related to the airtightness and the quality of the gunpowder. The inner wall of the barrel of the Huang's steel gun is not as rough as the Houjin General's cannon. .

The uniform rifling on the smooth inner wall fits the shell better, and the filler at the tail of the flower shell expands instantly to make the soft lead stick to the rifling, causing the shell to rotate at high speed and leave the muzzle, flying in a controllable trajectory until it hits the target.

The shells of smoothbore guns are still round shells widely used in this era, because the shells will roll irregularly when they are unloaded, and it is the same thing to flip round shells casually.

The shells of the rifled guns are similar to the shells of later generations. The oval shells are spinning and flying at high speed, far and accurate.

Since most of the warship artillery are large-caliber heavy artillery, the range of the 24-pound naval gun is much longer than that of the six-pound and twelve-pound field guns.

More than 200 flowering bombs came with a wide range of seeds and a small harvest. With such an indiscriminate bombing, the Hou Jin army, who was in sight of victory, came aggressively. Frightened by the sudden and violent shelling, they did not dare to charge towards the seaside.

Because they braved the artillery fire, even if they broke through, there was no formation. The Ming army's long spear array stabbed indiscriminately, how many cavalrymen would be killed, and there were thousands of Ming army cavalry ready to launch an assault at any time.

Huang Mingli ordered Heihu not to be afraid of casualties and lead the cavalry to charge back for three or five miles. At the same time, the navy's artillery continued to roar to deter the Mongolian and Houjin coalition forces.

Heihu's men and horses were unambiguous, and orders and prohibitions could be fully complied with. Immediately charged and counterattacked, some of the Mongolian light cavalry who charged too hard were beheaded by the cavalry under Heihu's command.

(End of this chapter)