Chapter 222 221 side van

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong"

After three dull fighting drums, the Ming army began to change. The soldiers in the front row slowly advanced amid the command of the commander of the commander. Most of them carried bows and arrows, and were mainly archers and archers, in front of them.

Nearly a hundred people pushed more than twenty large cars forward slowly.

People who are familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty may see at a glance what these more than 20 large cars are. They all have huge bodies. There is a high baffle on one side of the car, and there is also a size on the baffle.

Different shooting ports.

A cannon was placed there at the huge shooting mouth located at the bottom of the car body. If Wei Guangde were here, would he recognize these cannons at a glance, wouldn’t they be the bowl-mouth gun he had seen?

In fact, if you look closely, you will find that in addition to the bowl gun, there is also a Franca machine cannon.

In this era, the Ming army, especially the Ming border army, used the Fran machine cannon for a long time. Although it cannot be compared with the bowl gun, it has a history of 30 or 40 years.

After the Fran machine cannon was sent to the border town, it was quickly loved by generals at all levels of the border army because of its rapid launch. However, this thing is still using all copper for safety, which leads to a higher cost. Naturally, no matter it is the Military Weapon Bureau.

Neither the military battle nor the military battles can be produced on a large scale and delivered to military towns in various places for use.

Some of the large Franco cannons were already placed on the walls of important cities and fortresses because of the inconvenience of transport. The Ming army infantry carried some small Franco cannons.

Just as the chariot and the archers advanced, several figures were already running in front of them. They quickly found the right position and removed the dry firewood from their backs. When the chariot was pushed to them, the fire had already started.

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The changes in the wilderness were naturally discovered by soldiers patrolling the night in Altan's military camp. At the beginning, the sensitive Tartar soldiers felt a slight tremor on the ground, which was a sign that a horse team was moving around here.

The drum sounds followed, and then there was a fire about a hundred steps away from the military camp. The dogs they raised were not required to call the police. They knew they had been attacked by the Ming army, and they picked up the swords, guns, bows and arrows around them, and looked at them.

The military camp warned and ran to the wooden fence of the camp, preparing to shoot arrows after the Ming army approached.

The appearance of the Ming army was still very sudden. The Altan army had been stationed here for quite some time. When the Ming army was at first confronted with the Ming army, the Altan army was relatively cautious. Not only would light and dark whistles be arranged every night, but there would also be

The cavalry went out to patrol the military camp for more than ten miles, and even often ran around Bao'anzhou and the Ming army camps to observe the movements of the Ming army.

But after a long time, when he saw that the Ming army opposite seemed to have no intention of starting a war, his vigilance gradually relaxed at this time.

It has been more than ten days since the barracks have not arranged people to patrol outside at night, but only arranged guard soldiers at the gates of the barracks, as well as patrols within the barracks.

The patrol in the camp was naturally not to guard against the Ming army's sneak attack, but to guard against accidental fire and the noise of soldiers at night causing unpredictable events.

It is precisely because of the arrogance of Altan's army that the Ming army had the opportunity to complete the assembly preparations very close to Altan's army camp.

The chariots were placed in place, but the archers were still advancing. They passed through the gaps between the chariots. They had to get closer to Altan's military camp to pose a threat to the enemy camp with the arrows in their hands.

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As footsteps sounded, the gunners were already full of Ming army infantry, and the red double-breasted mandarin duck battle jacket under the flames seemed even more bloodthirsty.

At this time, the young soldiers of the Ming army were excited. They had never seen such a large formation formed by tens of thousands of people since they joined the army.

For those veterans who have experienced the Gengwu Incident, they have seen a lot of troops gathered, but it is the first time they have set up an attacking army.

Even the commanders of each team became excited at this moment, and it was the first time they had such an experience.

It was many years ago that the Ming army had set up such a military formation of tens of thousands of people in the field. It should have been Zhengde Dynasty at that time.

That is, when Emperor Wuzong was still in power, the nine-sided official troops of the Ming army began to have the opportunity to gather and break out of the Great Wall, launching repeated attacks on the Mongolian tribes, plundering their resources and weakening their strength.

But now, such a thing is no longer possible, and it would be nice if the Mongolians didn't fight.

In addition to guarding the garrisons in various places, the border troops of the Ming army were mainly battalions led by generals and guerrillas. The number of troops under their tent was uncertain, with the largest number of three to four thousand and only a few hundred, so the Ming army was

During the battle with the invading Tartars, the number of troops invested in a single time was often only a few thousand, and battles with more than 5,000 people rarely occurred.

Only when defending the city and fighting, more soldiers may be involved in the city to defend.

The Altan tribe is similar. Their attacks on the Ming Dynasty were mostly aimed at looting, so they often divided their troops.

There are as few as dozens of people, and as many as two or three thousand.

Whether it was intentional or unintentional, both sides seemed to be intentional to avoid the battle between large corps. Perhaps no one could afford to lose.

But at this time, the situation seemed to have changed. The Ming army gathered tens of thousands of troops outside the Altan army camp, which was unusual.

The news was soon reported to the Mongolian households, and when he heard the news, his scalp felt numb.

The Ming army did not appear early or late, but now the ten thousand families under his command came out to fight when the number of troops was at least at least. This was a good place to come.

Although the Mongolians were generous by nature, they were not fools. The Mongolian households clearly felt that the division of troops in Huailai County might have been deceived by the Ming army.

"Command assembly."

While giving orders to his opponent, he got up and dressed. He wanted to go out and see if the Ming army really organized an army of tens of thousands to attack him.

This is in the wild, and if you want to attack the Mongols, what a joke, as long as his army gathers together, he can destroy the Ming army and even take down Baoanzhou in one fell swoop.

The Mongolian households quickly recovered from the initial shock. Not only was they not afraid, but they also felt a burst of ecstasy.

"The Ming army formation gathered to the west of our army's camp"

At this time, the soldiers who reported the message began to introduce the situation, but were interrupted by Wanhu before they finished speaking.

"You mean the army did not gather in the front of our army's camp?"

Wanhu was a little disbelief and took his ears. Why did he go to the side? Do you think the wooden fence can't stop their impact?

In fact, the function of wooden fences is to prevent wild creatures from coming in. The reason why low wooden fences are built is not to facilitate the attack of cavalry troops.

Walking out of the big tent where he was resting, Wanhu looked to the west of the camp, but at this time he could not see anything and was blocked by other tents.

In the distance, the generals already called their warriors loudly to start the team. Soon they would go to the stable outside the tent to pull out their war horses and turn them into a warrior who made the Ming army frightened.

At this time, the news soldier told him that it was shocking, "Someone had seen signs of horse team activity before. Behind our army's camp, there seemed to be no horse team activity near the Ming army's army formation."

"Is there any situation in the Khan military camp?"

Wanhu asked in a hurry.

"No news is sent to the rear camp"

Just as he finished speaking, a fast horse in the distance had already run to the front. A Mongolian soldier turned over and got off the horse and came to Wanhu, half-kneeling to report: "Mr. Wanhu, the Khan's military camp behind him caught fire, it seems that there was a

Shouting and killing.

In addition, there was a Ming army cavalry outside the gate of our army's rear camp, as if they were planning to rush to the camp."

"Bang bang bang bang bang."

Suddenly, a sound of thunder broke out from the west of the camp. All the Mongols of Altan knew that it was the sound of Ming army cannons being fired.

The Ming army archers had already stood at sixty steps outside the Altan army camp. Amid the command of the team officer, the Ming army archers took out arrows, and soon others walked past them with torches.

The ignition object in the front section of the Yaqiu was ignited.

"Zhang Gong. Shoot."

Without waiting much time, after the Rockets in the Bower's hand were ignited, the team officer began to shout and order loudly.

According to the command of the team officer, the archers set their bows and arrows to aim at the Tartar barracks ahead. After the sound of the word "shoot" came into their ears, they let go of the bowstrings in their hands.

"Swoosh swish swish"

Countless small fire balls were shot into the air, and then quickly descended to the height and flew over the wooden fences of the Tartar military camp, but most of them fell on the open space.

Hundreds of rockets were shot out, and only dozens of them were shot into the tent, because the Tartars' tents were really scattered.

But there are other effects, that is, a few wailing sounds came from the Tartar military camp, and it was obvious that in the dark, Tartar soldiers were shot by rockets.

Soon, more than a dozen arrows were scattered from the opposite side. The Tartar soldiers who had already rushed into the fence opened their bows and shot arrows to counterattack.

The team officer made a quick decision and ordered again: "Reduce the height and shoot behind the wooden fence."

Since the attempt to ignite the Tartars tent with rockets seems a bit unworkable, then shoot the people.

What is their purpose? It is to attract the Mongols to come and shoot with the Ming army at the fence, so as not to give them the energy to support Altan Khan's camp behind.

Soon, the command of the team officer was passed through the small flag to all the archers. After the second shooting order was issued, they lowered the arrow height one after another, and the range was controlled at about eighty steps.

Just as the second wave of arrows hit the wooden fence of the military camp, the Ming army gunner not far behind the archer was also ready to complete it. Without asking the above whether to fire the artillery, the team officer directly issued an order to fire the artillery.

"Bang bang bang bang bang."

The Fran machine cannons carried on the chariot opened fire and sprayed solid bullets at the Altan military camp in front.

This time, twelve medium-sized Franchise cannons were brought out from more than 20 chariots in the car camp. They were made more than ten years ago and are well maintained until now. The cannon is about 4 feet long and weighs 100 kilograms.

Several soldiers need to take turns to lift, each time they load 6 taels of projectiles, and each time they load 6 taels of medicine.

The solid projectile flew out of the muzzle under the impeller explosion, broke through the air, and rushed into the Altan military camp with unparalleled kinetic energy.

Several tents near the fence were instantly penetrated into a large hole. The Mongolian soldiers in the tent who had not yet been dressed in armor were still wailing inside. Although there was no one inside the tents that had been lit by rockets, the shells penetrated into the tent.

The impact force caused it to completely break, and the tent fell to all sides.

Soon, the Franco gunners had taken down a sub-cooker, quickly replaced the second one, and ignited the leads again after they were installed.

"Bang bang bang bang bang."

From time to time, thick smoke surged out of the Ming army's chariot, and then a thunderous sound came.

After hundreds of archers in front shot more than a dozen rounds of arrows and suppressing the Mongolian soldiers behind the fence, they began to slowly retreat under the command of the team officer, and they were still the route they came, passing through the gaps between the chariots.
To be continued...