Chapter 168 Artillery Power

Therefore, Sun Chuanting quickly ordered that the generals should collect their generals and not mix together. They should first sort out their establishment before crossing the river.

At the same time, Sun Chuanting ordered 3,000 soldiers and horses to line up behind the soldiers and horses on the north coast to be ready to deal with sneak attacks at any time. In this aspect, Sun Chuanting can be said to indeed have the quality of a famous general. He should consider what he should consider as much as possible. This time he was also forced to have no way out. He was very clear about his hand. It can be said that these soldiers and horses are the best soldiers and horses that the court can bring out at present. If he loses again this time, it will be a small matter if his head is not guaranteed. I'm afraid that Daming will no longer be able to take out decent soldiers and horses to deal with Xing Tianjun in the future.

A large number of auxiliary soldiers were driven into the river and stepped up the construction of several stool bridges. One by one, the auxiliary soldiers froze their upper teeth in the cold river and only hit their lower teeth, and their lips were also frozen to blue. They stood in the deep river, scolded while working. Many people were sent to collect materials for building bridges and cut down some trees on the river embankment. It is continuously transported to the river for bridge use. Without these convenient bridges, even if it is only because of this not-deep Jindi River, their supplies cannot be transported across the river.

After Ma Dazhi got the order, he secretly scolded bad luck in his heart. He knew how deep his water was. Thinking about Wu Sangui's proud soldiers and tough generals in Liaodong, they were not the opponents of the criminal thief. Yesterday, he was lucky. He met an auxiliary soldier of the criminal thief and won a small victory. Now it must be the criminal army. Soldiers, he certainly can't please him, but he was bragged to the sky yesterday, and now he is a vanguard officer. It is also reasonable for Sun Chuanting to send him to support Wu Sangui. He can't help him to say no. Otherwise, Sun Chuanding dares not kill those Liaodong soldiers, but he dares to kill him. Please come out Shangfang's sword. There are so many people who beheaded him. There is no place for him to shout injustice!

Therefore, Ma Dazhi had to honestly order the soldiers and horses on the south bank, and tried his best to search for some tiger squatting cannons and more than a dozen light French cannons that had been carried across the south bank to the front of the two armies.

Taking advantage of Wu Sangui's opportunity to collect troops and rest, Liu Yao did not order the pursuit. He knew very well that the officers and soldiers would definitely carry out a more fierce attack. Here is an unobstructed place, and it is a very dangerous thing for him to fight against the enemy with only an array of more than two thousand people.

So after Wu Sangui retreated, he immediately ordered the generals to start building simple fortifications on the spot. Around the camp, he asked the generals who accompanied the army to dig the earth on the ground with the shovel carried by the army, dug a shallow trench around the array, and used the excavated soil to pile up a low chest and abdomen on the inside of the shallow trench. Wall, and now many marchers and even cavalry of the Xingtian Army are used to carrying such a delicate small shovel with them, and this thing can not only be used for temporary construction fortifications, but also can be pulled out as a close weapon to fight with the enemy after the long spearman's long gun is broken or lost if necessary. On the way, it can still break the enemy's brain and fracture. There is no problem in killing people. One more weapon is more guarantee for them. Although they carry more things, the march will be a little more tired, but the soldiers are still willing to take a guy like this.

Wu Sangui watched Xing Tianjun busy from afar. He was afraid that Xing Tianjun would build fortifications, which would be unfavorable to his next attack, so he sent cavalry to attack the array of Xing Tianjun and wanted to interfere with their construction of fortifications, but Liu Yaoben left some firemen on the four corners, waiting for their coquettishness. As soon as the cavalry arrived, they opened fire. As a result, Wu Sangui damaged 20 or 30 cavalry in a while, and dozens of war horses were also killed and injured. It is estimated that even the injured horses that ran back alive were abolished.

Wu Sangui couldn't stop the Xing Tian thieves from digging trenches and building fortifications on the ground, so he simply stopped sending troops to attack. Before the heavy artillery was transferred, he felt that he could not fight with them like this, otherwise he would suffer too much, so he watched this group of Xing Tianjun build a simple building around their position. Low chest wall.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wu Sangui did not let his men stare at Xing Tianjun's busy work. He also ordered to find some wood on the spot and temporarily piece together some baskets to provide cover for his subordinates during the next attack. The two armies were fighting on the empty plain, and they were all fighting for the next step. Prepare for war.

Near noon, Ma Dazhi led his troops from the river and brought 2,000 reinforcements. In addition, he brought more than a dozen tiger squat guns and Fran machine guns. After looking at it, Wu Sangui felt that it was too little, and the range of the tiger squat guns was not as far as that of the thief's army. If you want to fire, you must send gunners to get close to the Xingtian Army. It's very dangerous to open fire in front.

However, Sun Chuanting also sent an order to ask Wu Sangui to defeat this group of thieves who blocked the way as soon as possible. After all, it is a great threat to have such an enemy army nearby when crossing the river. It is better to expel them as soon as possible.

On this point, Wu Sangui also agrees with Sun Chuanting's opinion. Although the firearm is still not powerful enough to suppress the opponent, at present, before the bridge has been built and the heavy cannons can't cross the river, he can only use these light guns to bomb the opponent. I hope that the opponent can't stand it and retreat by himself. In that case, he will It saves a lot of energy.

Wu Sangui immediately ordered to line up and advance again. This time, he learned to be a little obedient and evacuate as much as possible when the generals lined up. After a row of guns were fired, the generals on his side were knocked to the ground in rows. At the same time, he ordered the gunners brought by Ma Dazhi to carry their guns forward and put them together temporarily. Some of the came were handed over to them as a cover, and they began to cover up the Xing Tianjun's array from three directions.

Because Liu Yaoben has no advantage in land, he can't put the soldiers horizontally against the enemy. He can only use a stable phalanx to defend the enemy. The phalanx of 2,000 people is actually not very big. It can only control an area, so he is unable to open the front and can only take passive defensive measures. Otherwise, it is possible. If it will be broken through a little, the whole army will be scattered. In that case, if the officers and soldiers are dominant, the piles can also pile them to death.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers surged up again, the battalion commander Yan Shuting walked to Liu Yaoben and asked, "Liu Dutong, should our three-pound cannon also be pulled out and used?"

After looking at the situation of the officers and soldiers, Liu Yaoben nodded and said, "It can be used!" However, it's better for them to shoot after approaching, and it's better to fight with Sanzi! Kill more officers and soldiers!"

When Xiao Tianjian led Liu Yaoben's four barracks to cross the river, he was in a hurry and didn't have time to build a bridge at all. At the same time, he was afraid that their whereabouts would be exposed. Therefore, when crossing the river, he only brought more than a dozen three-pound cannons, and it was carried across the river by manpower. Yes, the amount of ammunition brought across the river this time is limited, and there are not many artillery. This is also the reason why Liu Yaoben did not use them just now. Now he sees that the officers and soldiers have also brought artillery. If they don't take them out and use them again, they may suffer losses. Therefore, Liu Yaoben agreed to invite these limited three-pound guns in the army.

More than a dozen three-pound cannons were immediately pushed out by the gunners, against the gap of the temporary framed chest wall. The gunners immediately got busy and quickly loaded the ammunition. The gunners acted according to the order, first loaded a solid bullet into the gun mouth as a bullet holder, and then stuffed it again. Enter a bag of loose bullets. In this way, you can shoot a fan when you go out. The enemy on the front can't prevent it. Some gunners simply stuffed a wooden bullet stand and then put in a bag of grape bullets, which is also quite lethal.

The officers and soldiers advanced tremblingly, and the Xing Tianjun's firearmed hand was immediately put in place behind the chest wall, aimed at the loaded self-firedged gun on the chest wall. When the two armies approached 70 steps, the Xing Tianjun's large array once again spewed out rows of gunpowter smoke and flames, and hundreds of bullets immediately became like He flew out like a flying locust.

Among the officers and soldiers, even if someone was hit by a bullet and fell to the ground, the injured rolled all over the ground in pain and made a non-human howling sound, which made the officers and soldiers a little scared. The archers and the fireman were at such a distance, so they hurriedly began to shoot arrows and fight back, but they panicked. The randomly fired bullets did no harm to Xing Tianjun at all. Instead, he messed up first.

Today, Ma Dazhi was not as powerful as yesterday. He was so scared that he hid behind the battle and shouted loudly, forcing the generals to move forward, and screaming for the gunners to fire back quickly.

And the gunners who carried the tiger squat cannon and dragged the Fran machine cannon hid behind the relatively safe raft, slowly arching forward step by step, and had not yet entered their effective range, so Ma Dazhi's roar was also useless.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian was able to cast cannons by himself, he basically eliminated those Fran machine guns and light tiger squat guns in the army. The main reason is that both guns have a shooting range that is too close. Because of the structure of the Fran machine, it is difficult to combine Ziqi and the female zi, and the Ziqi are seriously discouraged after firing. The wall of the gun is also very thin, and its pressure-bearing ability is not strong, so it is naturally limited in range, and the tiger squat gun is because of its short body tube. Although the quality is light and transportation is convenient, it is mainly fired. The effective range is about 50 meters, and even the effective range of the bird gun can't catch up, and it can only be roughly aimed. Loading is also very inconvenient. In wartime, you can only let the gunners approach the enemy to launch, or wait for the enemy to approach and then fire. The defense is okay. More than a hundred bullets are fired with one cannon. It is very effective to deal with the enemy who charge in the cluster, but it is reluctant to use it to attack. This is also Xiao Tianjian's final cancellation of the tiger in the main battle camp. The reason for the squat gun equipment is that even if the tiger squat gun is captured, it is basically distributed to the reserve battalion equipment.

And the barracks of the Xingtian Army, as long as it is equipped with the battalion's artillery team, it will be equipped with their own three-pound wild guns. Although the weight of this gun is much more than the tiger squat gun, it is mounted on the gun rack. There is a special aiming mechanism to operate the aiming, and the amount of gunpowder loading is far more than the tiger squat. The gun, so the range is also many times that of the tiger squat gun, and the muzzle velocity of the shell is much faster than the tiger squat gun and the Fran machine gun, and the power is naturally much greater.