Yang Chunhe is Zhou Yao's deputy, used to be the border army of Liaozhen, escaped all the way from Kaiyuan, ran with the defeated soldiers of Xuanda Jizhen at that time, and later became a bandit with Zhou Yao, and was secretly rebelled by Yusheng together, and later became an officer of the Lancer Regiment together, Yang Chunhe is much kinder than Zhou Yao, this time the military top level adjusted the Lancer Regiment, and left a large number of fierce generals in the Lancer Regiment after consideration, mainly to keep the combat effectiveness of the Lancer Regiment not declining, At the same time, a considerable number of officers were transferred to augment the newly formed dragoon regiment, and the strength of the new dragoon regiment was raised as much as possible in the shortest possible time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Seeing the Beiyu cavalry that was bombarded by artillery shells and chaotic, and watching the pillars of smoke rising in the air on the grassland, Yang Chunhe said with some implicit hatred and satisfaction of revenge: "These Beiyu still think that we are defeated soldiers who fled from Kaiyuan and Tieling and through the grassland outside Guangning. The enmity of the day, sooner or later, must be settled! ”

After the battle of Salhu in history, there were indeed large and small Ming troops fleeing in all directions, mainly to the Xuan army, Qinwang soldiers and horses mutiny halfway because of lack of pay and lack of food and clothing, Chongzhen once in the second year, Qinwang soldiers gathered in the capital, as a result, the civil officials of the military department and the household department did not pay or live, nor did they provide food, Qinwang soldiers and horses had no pay and no food, and finally a large number of border army soldiers mutinied angrily, and turned around to join the rebellious peasant army, it can be said that the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are stupid and stupid, where can there be anything" A mature civil service system "can be spoken!"

Yang Chunhe and Zhou Yao and others took the most dangerous route, detoured the grassland and then returned to the Ming Dynasty from the side walls everywhere, in that year, the Ming army was defeated, the Mongolian departments in Liaodong have always been enemies with the Ming Dynasty, these fugitive soldiers were pursued and killed by the northern captives, or killed, or captured as slaves, the end was very miserable, only a few lucky people fled all the way south to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and then they were endlessly wanted and arrested, and finally the fugitive soldiers hugged together, gathered as bandits, and made a lot of trouble, Yang Chunhe's thoughts are here, and he is also very grateful in his heart, If it weren't for Zhou Yao and He Yusheng connecting their heads, and he would have surrendered anyway, it is estimated that he would have been exterminated a long time ago, and even his body would have rotted.

Lakshin frowned and said: "Actually, we have two companies of lancers, if we attack at this time, we can directly defeat the enemy in front of us, why waste so many things." ”

Lakshen was sent to the merchant army by the silver ingot, and has not been requisitioned back, he is also good in the Yusheng system, much stronger than following the silver ingot, the military division also understands the meaning of the silver ingot, although they trust each other, but it is best to have some people in the military to put it here, and it is possible to use it urgently, this kind of thinking about the silver ingot, and Yusheng is not disgusted with it, Lakshen also stayed, and is now an excellent middle-level officer of the lancer regiment, with the courage and boundless arrogance of the lancer regiment.

"Recently, I have been practicing the mobility of mounted artillery and coordinating with the dragoons, calculating different logistical needs and extreme speeds, average speeds, and so on in different terrains." The one who introduced the situation was the battalion commander of the dragoons, and he said politely: "So let's call the artillery to give full play, and when the dragoons can go to battle in another month, I think the top will make proper arrangements." ”

Everyone nodded silently...... Yang Chunhe was appointed deputy commander of the 3rd Dragoon Regiment, a step up from his position in the lancers, and the regimental commander Wang Yiji, originally Yang Sisun's deputy...... Now the dragoons have three regiments, two mounted infantry regiments, an artillery regiment, and a division direct hunting cavalry battalion, division direct combat engineer battalion and other troops to form a division of 11,000 to 12,000 people, the number has not yet been determined, the division command is not surprising by Yang Sisun, Yang Sisun also concurrently serves as the regimental commander of the original infantry regiment, Wang Yiji was transferred to the commander of the dragoon regiment, and Duoer also commanded a regiment of dragoonsIt is estimated that after he has made a small contribution, he will directly add the name of a division deputy commander, and in the future, he will finally have the opportunity to take charge of a division alone.

On the line from Xinghe to Shangyi, from Xiaohebao to Qingcheng, from Dongshengwei to Jiuyunzhou, and even on the front line of Mobei, it is estimated that about five divisions will be formed within a year or two, and if the scale of ten divisions can be reached in the future, a command unit at the army level may be formed, but it is estimated that it will be two or three years later.

In the rumbling artillery, thousands of people were directly scattered, and the sound of artillery also sounded on another hill, the two mounted artillery companies had a total of sixteen guns, eight twelve-pounder heavy guns, the longest range was four miles, the effective range was half a mile, eight nine-pounder guns, the maximum range was three miles, the effective range was one mile, under the bombardment of sixteen heavy guns, the northern captives were already in chaos outside the mile, and when they barely rushed to within a mile, they were already in chaos, and all the herdsmen and armor soldiers had no intention of continuing to fight, so they simply pulled their horses and fled, When each artillery was fired more than nine rounds, there were only a few hundred scattered horses on the battlefield, more than 100 to 200 knights who were injured and fell off their horses or died by direct bombardment, the flags thrown away, the weapons or baggage thrown away were all over the grass, and there were big craters smashed out of bullet points everywhere, some of the freshly shot ones were still steaming, and most of the shells fell on the bodies of people and horses, and the round iron balls were stained with the flesh and blood of humans and horses, and at this time the blood was rolling on the ground or in the pile of corpses of people and horses. It looks shocking.

"That's it?" Rao is Yang Chunhe is proud of himself, but he is still surprised by the scene in front of him.

Thousands of northern captives came in a rage, but after more than 100 shells, they directly collapsed and fled.

Rakshen's face was slightly red, before he came here, he swore that the left-wing Mongolia had been fighting all year round, and the elite level was far above the right-wing, and the result was such a speechless performance in front of him.

"It may be so," the dragoon battalion commanded: "The opponent of the left wing of Mongolia has always been the Liaodong Ming Army, and the tactics of the Liaodong Ming Army are also based on elite cavalry, a small number of hundreds of horsemen to two thousand cavalry is the limit, and the nest tactics are mainly used to attack the Mongolian tribes, and the elite cavalry light cavalry rushed forward, rushed into the Mongolian tribes to burn and behead, and mainly to capture the head of the Northern Captives to repay the merits, as for the Northern Captives to attack the Liao Town, they could only shrink and defend the city, and the Eastern Captives have risen in recent years, and have repeatedly defeated the Northern Territories, and its tactics are also based on longbow and broadsword cavalry battles, It's just that they are better at battle, the Mongolian tribes have suffered a lot, and the two are actually a teacher-student relationship, Donglu and Liaozhen are said to be enemies, or they can be said to be father and son, but now the father and son are enemies, and the son is stronger than Lao Tzu, and the apprentice is more than the master, which is not surprising. All the divisions of the left wing of Mongolia have seen the cavalry battles of Liaozhen and Dongyu, and they have little experience in firearms warfare, not to mention that the artillery of our merchant army is far from being comparable to the firearms of the Ming army, and the difference is too far. In this way, everything in front of you is perfectly normal. ”

"I see." Yang Chunhe praised: "This explanation is very good. ”

Rakshen said: "In the future, we will confront the Chahars, just find a suitable place to fire?" ”

"Not necessarily." Yang Chunhe objected: "Timing, location, and people are all indispensable, and it is difficult to replicate success in perfect battles and battlefields." And as long as the Chahars are not stupid, they will always find a way to restrain our artillery, and even if they can't, they will try to reduce the threat of artillery as much as possible. ”

Rakshen nodded, "That's just as well." ”

As he spoke, the Sentinel Rangers set out, spreading out from the side of the hill and running out into the distance.

Two squadrons of dragoons went to clean up the battlefield, drove away the scattered horses, gathered up the banners and weapons of the northern captives, and piled the corpses in one place, ready to be dug and buried or burned by the baggage soldiers.

Twenty years ago, the heads of these northern captives were enough to change the official position of guerrilla generals, but now no one cares, but in the process of closing them, if they hear the northern captives moaning, the soldiers will make up for them.

After making sure that there was no threat to the battlefield, the artillerymen had already packed up their positions and were ready to set off at any time.

Everyone looked at these battlefield gods with awe.

The twelve-pound cannon weighs three thousand pounds, a well-deserved battlefield weapon, the Hongyi cannon cast by the Ming army is also a heavy artillery, generally weighs six or seven thousand catties, and the cannonballs that are shot out are ten to twelve pounds, and the process progresses after a few years, the same caliber and weight, the cannonballs can reach about eighteen pounds, but the Ming army's artillery regulations are different, and it is difficult to say that it is a product of mass production.

Li Zhuang's Firearms Bureau has been in strict accordance with the specifications of Western-style artillery test casting firearms, from the first four-pounder guns to six-pounder guns, then nine-pounder guns, and finally twelve-pounder guns, battlefield artillery ended with twelve-pounder guns, and at the same time began to test cast eighteen-pounder guns for sea installation to twenty-four-pounder guns, and then thirty-six-pounder guns, Li Zhuang's cast artillery has been shipped to Tianjin in batches, from Tianjin to Taiwan, due to the transit capacity, and too easy to attract all kinds of accidents, Zhang Han has decided to transfer part of the firearms bureau elite soldiers. To open a sub-bureau in Taiwan, after all, the requirements for artillery there are extremely high, and in the future it will even far exceed the headquarters, so it is necessary not only to open a sub-division, but also to send more elite soldiers and strong generals.

Both twelve-pounder and nine-pounder guns were placed on two-wheeled gun mounts, and each gun had a front cart for ammunition, also two-wheeled. When transporting and marching, the gun carriage and the front carriage are connected together to form a four-wheeled carriage, which is convenient for dragging, the weight of each gun is different, and the number of horses required is not much, like the twelve-pound gun, because the weight of the gun body and the gun carriage plus the ammunition of the front car is more than two tons, the number of horses required for each vehicle is eight to twelve, and eight horses are enough for the repaired road, like the grassland, which is undulating, but generally flat, and there is no rugged mountain road or damage to the terrain of the road, and eight to ten horses can also complete the marching task, However, according to Zhang Han's requirements, all artillery crews were allocated to the horses at the highest capacity...... The merchant army may be short of other things, but in any case there will be no shortage of horses, which have become abundant after a few great victories, and in addition to the use of dragoons, a large number of horses that are not suitable for war horses have become horses, which are used just for the use of mounted artillery.