Chapter 295: Hang Gai
Horses from the Mongolian steppe with oblique bangs and small eyes have extremely strong legs, and although they are not nailed to the horseshoe, two horses and a cart pull a three-hundred-pound Franco cannon through the pebble beach on the riverside, which is the origin of their name.
Here, like their hometown, is Wuliyanghai and Hangai.
It is a world of blue skies, white clouds, grasslands, rivers, mountains and forests.
Of course, there is also a solemn military array and a fluttering dragon inlaid red sun flag.
The Xuanfu horseman, who was born as a horseman, held the reins of his head horse, and shouted the notes of taming horses mixed with Chinese and Mongolian, and commanded twenty-four healthy horses to make a haughty gesture in the upper reaches of the turbulent river—flicking their long tails and facing their butts at the enemy line.
Twelve Franc cannons, unloaded from two French merchant ships, were placed.
Heiyunlong did not ride a horse, his Chinese military camp stood on the south bank of the upstream, and the Liaodong Guangning Guard, who was wearing a blue cloth iron armor, raised his hand to untie the iron armor that protected his neck tightly, picked up the telescope and glanced at the mouth of the Sancha River downstream, quickly put down the telescope, and said with a tooth: "It's a little far." ”
Suddenly, he turned his head, raised his two fingers and asked the artillery soldiers under his command, "Okay?" ”
The artillery Baihu, who was in standard Beiyang officer attire, raised his fists, and the sound of the iron arm binding colliding was crisp, and said: "Back to Shuaiye, seven hundred steps is far away, but we are high, and we can hit the left side of the enemy camp with the fourth degree with the cannon ruler, under cover——"
He wanted to cover the Iroquois downstream to cross the river and attack, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the Black Cloud Dragon.
"I know it's high here, I'm asking Fayi these cannons, are they okay?"
Heiyunlong raised his hand and pointed forward: "It's all old cannons, don't blow up and hurt the soldiers." ”
"If it really doesn't work, just follow the meaning of the kid in Hulan, he is building a dam in the back, we have a lot of time, it's a big deal to let Haifa Sand go to the front to build two more dams, and flood this broken camp with water."
Hearing this, the artillery hundred households chuckled lightly and said: "Let it go, it's not bad, look at the inscription on it It seems that the words engraved on it are made by Fayi himself, and it is much better than the Western Kingdom to make a Francophone." ”
"It's not simple, let the former army who followed the tiger squat be careful, which country in this world can build the cannon well, it's amazing."
Heiyunlong is telling the truth, in this era, which country can build the Franco cannon well, it is already very remarkable, don't look at this thing has no technical content, but it is the most test of the craftsman's ability and work attitude.
Because it can't be built well, it leaks.
It's not that if it's made well, it won't leak, but if it's good, it will leak, but it will leak less.
It's like saying that muskets are all leaking, no matter which country you have a bird gun or a musket, no matter what arquebus, wheel, flint, no matter how well it is made, you have to leave a hole in the medicine pool, then it will leak.
However, if the air leak is good, the power can also be guaranteed.
As he spoke, the Mongolian horse in front of him had been pulled away, and more than 20 small Spanish donkeys continued to step forward, some carrying a Franc machine gun on their backs, and a donkey carrying exactly six guns; Some pulled wooden carts, and the small round barrels on the carts were full, all of which were gunpowder cartridges dug up by Heiyunlong's subordinates on the road, and gunpowder and cannonballs were all in them, which were specially used for this batch of French-made Franc machine guns.
In terms of gunpowder reserves, Heiyunlong was much richer than Hulan on the other side of the river, and the gunpowder reserves on two French ships alone were enough for his subordinates to fight a few big battles.
Li Yuxi's Anhai merchant under the name of Hexing sent the Iroquois warriors from the Haifa Sand tribe to the Gulf of Mexico some time ago, and the Black Cloud Dragon asked them to come back and bring back some gunpowder from Mexico.
Deng Zilong of the Kirinwei on the east coast of Panama struggled with the transfer of ships from the west coast to the east coast, but now that more and more merchant ships had been built by merchants, the entire coastline would soon be at the disposal of the Oriental military government.
The most interesting thing here is that Li Yu's Xi'an Maritime Merchants have not yet won the warship from the Oriental Military Government, and they already have two 600 warships to escort the route.
This ship is not from the Ming Dynasty but has the same bloodline, Li Yuxi exchanged it from Yang Ce directly with broken corn kernels collected from Spanish plantations - flying sharks from the Han Kingdom with blue and white paint.
Instead of skids, the French ship uses an iron valve attached to the gun body with a long iron chain to jam the sub-gun, which looks strange and exquisite.
The black cloud dragon looked around with a telescope on the bank of the river again, and finally raised his hand and waved it lightly, saying, "Let it go, the Son of Heaven Yazhou, how can you let Fanyi go wild." ”
Red flags were unfurled, war drums were beaten, and twelve Francos guns were the first to bombard the Montreal camp on the banks of the upper river.
At this signal, the Iroquois warriors gathered on the east bank of the river moved at the sound of a loud battle cry to lift the rudimentary canoes on the rocky beach into the rushing water, and the warriors of the tribes carried their weapons across the boat.
Small shells flew towards the camp, and it was almost useless to bombard the wooden fence by inertia, but the shells that landed outside the camp really forced the Ottawa soldiers who had just run out of the camp back.
The Fran cannon in the camp also tried to bombard the gun position where the black cloud dragon was, and the three shells were raised and released, but they were not as steep as the river, and fell far away from the Chinese army 200 paces, and then a few scattered shells bombarded the Iroquois canoes in the river, but it was difficult to achieve effective results.
This incompetent rage made the Black Cloud Dragon, who was sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, very happy, and raised his arms to the left and right: "The natives themselves don't know where the wooden boat will be washed by the river, can they teach you to be accurate?" ”
When the gunners in the camp made up their minds to adjust the angle and prepare to bombard the scattered enemies ashore, the Black Cloud Dragon's shells attacked again, and this time they already knew where their artillery was, and aimed directly at the past.
Even if you can't hit it accurately, the shells fall not far from you, and the flying stones that splash out even scratch the gunner's face, where can you still calmly aim and fire, and I don't know where to go when I hit a few shells.
The Iroquois, who had successfully landed, were like raging waves, settling down and forming a little formation, heading straight for the camp.
They brought large shields painted with gods, which looked like the big cards of the Ming Dynasty's chariot camp, quite thick, neither bows and arrows nor muskets could penetrate them, but they had no horses and no wheels, and this thing was carried by two tall and powerful warriors.
The tribal warriors who exuded battle fanaticism in front of them all rushed out, and the big shields behind them were still moving slowly, seeing that the black cloud dragon was in a hurry, and then saw more than ten armored cavalry with spears on both sides of the camp, taking advantage of the fact that the Iroquois had not yet formed a formation, one left and one right to the vanguard to strangle the past.
The stabbing of war spears and the collision of war horses made a bloody way outside the camp, and only more than 30 cavalrymen rushed back and forth, and the aborigines' bows and arrows could not cause damage to them, and the throwing axes were thrown out of the way, but they could hit their own people.
The Black Cloud Dragon, who was observing the situation, couldn't help but sigh.
Even if some riders' spears broke during the charge, they could draw their long swords from the saddle and slash them, and when they ran away, they would easily pull out a long-barreled handgun with a complex structure and release a gun.
As if realizing that it was not possible to keep the camp under shelling, the camp gate was opened, and hundreds of Ottawa soldiers rushed out in a dense formation, replacing the cavalry and returning to the gap between the camp's spears and muskets.
Before the two aborigines had yet to fight, the two teams of cavalry put on new spears and rushed back on their horses, as if they wanted to repeat their old tricks.
"You have cavalry?"
Hei Yunlong watched from afar, his eyes kept searching the battlefield, and he muttered: "What about Hei's artillery team?" ”
Suddenly, without knowing what had happened to the Chinese army in Haifasa, the infantry in front of them retreated to the shore as if they had been routed by their riders, so that the French merchant cavalry, who had charged on both flanks, saw the hope of victory, and the charge became more and more courageous, as if it were about to penetrate the Iroquois formation.
When the infantry retreated halfway, the knight who led the pursuit of the fiercest suddenly reined in his horse, and the front hooves of the war horse were raised high, and the hind hooves ploughed half a foot long on the ground.
In front of him, a small group of Iroquois squads was waiting for them to charge, a small phalanx of five spears, the spearmen in the front row holding their spears in the Spanish way, and the spearmen in helmets and cuirass with their right feet on the tail of the spear and the spear in both hands.
The spearmen in the second row use the battle array spear technique, with the tail end of the thick spear pressed against the left thigh before the lunge, lining out the rigorous battle formation.
Behind them were three rows of infantry with bird's guns, slamming their guns at the command of the officer in the center.
This was not what scared the riders the most, but the two wings of the phalanx, the Iroquois spearmen formed two smaller, looser phalanxes, and in the middle of the phalanx the exotic warriors in helmets were crouching on the ground and doing something, when suddenly there was a shout from the left and right in the formation, and the Iroquois warriors in front of them dispersed.
Inside, several wide, short, stubby guns squatted on the ground like small tigers were exposed.
The next moment, gunsmoke and rubble shot out.