"Jinglong, Ying, and Jiezang are in the firearms field, and people and horses encounter them, and they are rotten. The battle was solved, the king of Yan from the back of the three cavalry palace, lost the way, dismounted and fell to the ground, looked at the river, distinguished the east and west, knew the camp, and crossed the river from the upper stream to the north. - "The End of the Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty".

This passage refers to the Battle of Baigou River in the Battle of Jingyan in 1400 AD. At that time, Li Jinglong, Guo Ying, Wu Jie and others had a combined army of 600,000, known as one million, stationed in Baigou River, ready for battle, and Ping'an also took 10,000 elite cavalry to prepare for guerrilla attacks nearby.

The two sides fought for a long time in this battle, because Li Jinglong planted a mine in the ground, the power was amazing, and the people and horses would basically be blown up if they stepped on it, so Zhu Di only had three cavalry left, and he was almost captured alive, and he got lost, and finally he could only get off his horse and lie on the ground to listen to the sound of the water, so as to discern the direction and find the way back to the camp.

Here appeared a firearm, which could be hidden in the ground, and was very powerful. There is no doubt that this thing can only be a landmine, or a precursor to a mine.

Since the early mines were mainly stone shells, they mainly relied on the gunpowder explosion stone shells inside to kill the enemy, so they were called "stone blasters" - note that the words of this cannon are next to the stone characters. Later, the mines of the Ming Dynasty began to appear iron, and the ignition device was improved.

The first ignition is the line of fire, and when you see the enemy coming, estimate the time, and then light the fuse in advance, so that when the enemy arrives, it will almost explode. But this disadvantage is too obvious, in case your estimate of the time is not accurate, or the other side suddenly changes the speed of the march, then the mine will not be able to explode.

So later, the steel drum was used to ignite - this device can be regarded as a touch ignition device, as long as you step on it, the flint inside will rub against the steel wheel to make a fire, ignite the lead, and can explode accurately. It is said that Qi Jiguang made it at the beginning, but this point is doubtful - Gao Pragmatic learned that this thing may have existed before Qi Jiguang, but it is not very easy to use, and Qi Jiguang later mobilized manpower to improve it more successfully.

However, Qi Jiguang's improvement can only be said to be a great improvement compared with the previous steel wheel ignition mine, but it does not satisfy Gao Pragmatic. Long before the military industry was private, Gao Pragmatic already knew that the ignition success rate of Qi Jiguang's steel wheel ignition mines was not more than half, and others were too easy to ignite, resulting in inexplicable self-explosion, so that the errand of transporting mines at that time was similar to playing Russian roulette, and it was uncertain whether he would take his life by the way during the transportation.

So during the Longqing period, Gao Pragmatic sent Qi Jiguang with the atlas he had drawn, asking him to continue to find someone to improve the mines.

However, Gao Pragmatic himself is also a half-ass, he just knows the basic principles, and the drawings he drew actually have some small problems, such as cumbersome design, etc., so after the successful implementation of the military industry, Jinghua Ordnance Industry can be regarded as really starting the great development of the mine series.

When it comes to Jinghua's series of mines, mines, and grenade products, there is one person who can't get around, and his name is Gao Yi.

Gao Yi was originally a fugitive military family, because of his family tradition of outstanding firearms manufacturing skills, in the early years by Gao Shishi's uncle Gao Jie in the commander of the river, you are good at making all kinds of thunderbolt fireballs. Later, when Gao Pragmatic got Sanshenyuan, he was recommended to Gao Pragmatic by Gao Mo. [See Chapter 044 of the book "Little Pavilion Elders" volume with a lot of talents]

At the beginning, Gao Pragmatic used him more extensively, and as a result, Gao Yi did not make any particularly good things, and later Gao Pragmatic found that this person was not particularly good at firecrackers and artillery, but he was talented and skilled in the nature of mines, so he began to use them only in quantity, so he specialized in making "mines".

This decision played a decisive role, Gao Yi designed thirteen kinds of "mines" in five years, including mines, mines, palm mines (grenades), and even a whim to engage in rocket mines - the development of Daming's rockets is not bad, of course, it is not the variety of launching satellites in later generations, it is a rocket-like rocket. Therefore, Gao Yi also wanted to take advantage of it and designed two "mine-carrying rockets", saying that they could be used both for capturing fortresses and for naval battles.

It's a pity that this idea died because it was vetoed by Gao Pragmatic, who believed that these two things could be solved by handing over to artillery, and there was no need to consider what "mine-carrying rockets" to use for the time being.

In fact, Gao Pragmatic himself also felt that the idea of "mine-carrying rockets" might not be impossible, but he knew that Jinghua couldn't fool around at that time.

First, in his personal positioning, Jinghua is to point out the direction for the development of science and technology, and whether the "mine-carrying rocket" is the right direction, because there is no historical proof, so he is not sure, after hesitating for a few days, he still chooses to be cautious and not to do it first.

Second, Jinghua did not have that kind of financial resources at that time, and it could "be as bold as people are, how productive the land is", and the development of a weapon does not really need to draw a diagram to finish, it requires more than one key talent to design and perfect, and it needs to know how many trial products to verify, if you go the wrong way, it will not only waste financial resources, but also waste manpower.

So Gao Yi was ordered by Gao Shi pragmatically this time, and only focused on three things: mines, mines, and grenades, and don't do the rest of the stuff yet.

With the gradual consolidation of the position of the political group of the Shixue school and Gao Shishi himself in the imperial court, the military industry and private industry have also become the "inertia system" of the imperial court, and Jinghua's "Lei series" firearms, like muskets and artillery, slowly entered the ranks of the standard weapons of the Ming Dynasty and began to equip the army in batches.

However, due to the limited funds of the imperial court, the equipment of these various "mines" also followed a similar priority order as muskets and artillery, first equipping the Beijing battalion (including the later Praetorian Guard), followed by Xuanda and Jiliao, and then the local sailors (mines). In general, it has not been fully rolled out, and the three sides of Shaanxi have not been obtained.

Due to the suppression of Hannaji and Che, the three towns of Xuanda have not fought any serious battles for many years, so the new mines in Jinghua, not to mention the Ordos Department, have little understanding, and even Tumut does not know that the "Thunderbolt Artillery" of the Ming army has developed by leaps and bounds.

This was not a problem in the first place, but today it has become a nightmare for Bosoktu.

Bo Shuoketu was fortunate enough to be the second leader to taste the Ming army's "Jinghua Zero Zero Three Mine" mine - the first was Mang Yingli, who was bombed by Liu Ling last time, and Liu Wei also used this mine at that time. It's just that because Liu Wei was far away, the reserves in his hand were a little small, and he was almost given a batch of samples by Gao Pragmatic as a new weapon actual combat test, so although his performance at that time was also eye-catching, it did not cause a strong response.

However, this time it is different, Gao Pragmatic himself has personally come out, can these things be missing? Not to mention that Magui directly took half of the inventory accumulated in Datong Town in three or four years, and the Praetorian Guards brought a lot of them - anyway, Jinghua's mines are different from the past, they have "insurance" and will not explode by themselves casually, so you can be prepared with a little more. On the contrary, the pragmatic family guards did not carry many mines, and they mainly carried guns and grenades.

However, at the beginning, the Praetorian Guards brought these mines not to fight an ambush war, but to assist in the breakthrough of Ningxia - the most recent appearance of this method of fighting was that the Buzhihatu Sect was in the Red Sect and the Rabbit Brothers were trying to break through Xining, but they used a more primitive method, which was to directly plant explosives, and the mines could actually be used in the same way, and they required less "yield".

Boshoketu didn't think much about it when he saw Ilduzi's sudden acceleration, he only thought that Ilduqi was worried that Gao Shipra would rush to Iksibar ahead of schedule and affect the battle plan, so he was in a hurry and sped up.

Because of this, Bo Shuoketu didn't react much, but subconsciously accelerated his horse speed. However, he didn't mean to catch up with Ilduqi immediately, because in his opinion, Ilduqi only needed to deceive Gao Pragmatic, and he didn't take on many combat missions, and he needed to maintain a certain amount of horsepower to fight with Gao Pragmatic's troops next.

With a single thought, Bo Shuoketu's bad luck came even more unstoppable. If he had caught up with Ilduqi faster, since Ma Gui didn't want to injure Ilduqi's troops by mistake, the ambush facing Boshoktu might have been a little lighter, but now he had no chance.

As the Mongol army has always been accustomed to, although Boshuoktu's position is not a "sharp arrow", it is also quite forward, so he waited until he ran past the foot of Huri Huliang Mountain, and everything around him was still quite calm. 666 Literature Network

However, just as he continued to move forward defenselessly, he suddenly heard a series of loud rumbling sounds not far behind him.

"Bang bang ......"

Every loud noise was accompanied by a huge earthquake under their feet, and many people were thrown off their horses by panicked horses, and people turned over on their backs, even if they were Mongolian warriors, they could not stabilize their horses at such times.

Boshoketu himself was a little farther away, and the situation was better, although his war horse also stood up, but he relied on his excellent riding skills to fix himself on the horse's back, and waited for the four hooves of the war horse to land, he turned to look behind.

This is hopeless, and Bo Shuoketu is stunned.

Just now, the elite of the Ordos sweat tent was in chaos, and the explosions that continued to appear from the ground turned their people on their backs, stumps and broken arms flew everywhere, and blood, brains, and even the colorful intestines in the stomach were all splashed all over the ground.

Boshoketu was indeed a man who had been on the battlefield at a young age, and he could smell the strong smell of sulfur and gunpowder in the air, and he knew that the explosions that were still going on to this day could not deceive people. It wasn't an earthquake, it was a firearm of the Ming army, a thunderbolt or something like that.

Ambushed.

The word immediately appeared in Bo Shuoketu's mind, but in this case, his thinking was also affected after all, and he didn't have time to think about how this ambush was caused, and what problems arose behind it.

A familiar voice shouted: "Jinong, Ilduqi must have reversed!" Jinong quickly gather people and horses, and evacuate here first and then make plans! ”

Boshoketu was awakened by this shout, his mind was much clearer, and he didn't care about what happened to Ilduqi now, and whether it was really the other way around, in short, it was definitely right to gather people and evacuate first!

"Blow the trumpet! Raise the flag! Boshoketu knew that there was no point in shouting at such times, and few people could hear their voices clearly, only the horn had such ability, so that everyone subconsciously gathered towards the source of the sound. And when they find the source of the sound, they will find their flag, and then slowly come out of the panic and regain their calm.

I have to say that Boshoketu did have a lot of knowledge of war since he was a child, and the elite performance of the Ordos Khan Tent also made him proud - they didn't care about casualties, and the moment the horn sounded, they began to slowly and resolutely approach the Jinong banner of Boshoketu.

It's a pity that this series of explosions was too powerful, and the part of Boshuoktu was blown into two, and the ground in the middle part was almost collapsed, and there was an irregular, but roughly four or five zhang wide and more than one zhang deep big pit, so that its follow-up part could not come over immediately. Some of them were nervously trying to see if they could get through the "subsidence", while others looked like they were planning to take a detour.

Boshoketu's position was a little far away, and he could only see a piece of subsidence, but he couldn't see how deep the subsidence was, so he didn't dare to urge the order, so he had to collect as much of the Mongol cavalry as possible to gather at him.

At this time, he was particularly worried that the Ming army in ambush would rush up, because in that case, even if he could rush out, he would inevitably suffer serious losses.

However, the Ming army didn't seem to be doing very well, and Bo Shuoketu himself felt that his army was bombed extremely badly, but there was no Ming army that suddenly came out to surround him.

However, just as he was rejoicing, he suddenly heard someone laughing very loudly in the distance to his left.

Bo Shuoketu immediately turned his head to look, only to see that a few columns of Ming troops appeared less than a mile away, and there was a large line of words standing in the middle of the front, and a line of words was written on the big line: The chief military officer of the town guarding Datong and the former military governor are all about to do nothing.

Ma Gui!

A cold light flashed in Boshuoktu's eyes, and the fierceness of hatred was like substance, staring directly at the famous army general riding a tall horse in front of the formation.

Bo Shuo Ketu wanted to scold, but Ma Gui opened his mouth first, and laughed sarcastically: "Bo Shuo Ketu, you milky and uneducated Tartar!" My emperor Nian'er and others are hungry on the plug, and Zhun Er and others are given tribute cities, you don't thank God for your grace, pray day and night, but take revenge and raise troops to help the rebellion? Boshoketu, what a thing like you does, how different from a beast! Today, there is my imperial court's young Sima and the seven towns through a slightly high pivotal platform, pointing up the heavenly soldiers to rebel, but with a little trick, you can cut off the dog's head, pass on the first Beijing division, and correct the way of heaven! Bo Shuoketu, your death is approaching now, this handsome body Tianxin, Shi En asked you: Do you have a last word to explain? ”

Bo Shuoketu was extremely angry when he heard this, seeing that there were only three or five hundred people around Ma Gui, he expected that the high-level pragmatic army would not have time to arrange, so he had to send a small number of elites to set up an ambush here, and the number must not be much, so he couldn't help but be angry from his heart, and he sneered: "Last words?" It's not as expensive as you! ”

Then he roared: "Ordos Khan Tent warriors! You are the warriors guarding the tomb of Genghis Khan, the most glorious people in all of Mongolia, are you willing to let the Han people slaughter you! ”

"Can't!"

"Genghis Khan!"

Bosoktu took a deep breath and shouted again: "Since you can't, let me take this man, and I will use his head to pay tribute to the warriors who died under the conspiracy today!" Genghis Khan will watch us fight heroically from the Tengri (Immortal Heaven, Heaven)! ”

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