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There are many styles of the carriage, among which in many military books depict a huge van, the side of the van against the enemy is protruding steel nails, and the lion pattern is also depicted, which looks like a religious ritual instrument. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, the meaning of the rook is the movable shield wall, large enough, thick enough, to cover the back of the foot can be, the Jianzhou people to build the rook is very simple, a wooden frame, in front of a large wooden board with an acute angle to the ground, and then the wooden frame has four wooden wheels, someone pushes forward.

If you get closer, you can know what kind of material it is made of, the door panels, wooden fences and other things that have been removed from the homes of the people in the village, covered with sandbags and furs, the wooden wheel is the section sawn directly from the log, and after simple processing, it is used as a wheel, and from the continuous bumping up and down of the car, you can know that the wheel is not a circle, and even the four wheels under the wooden frame are not necessarily the same size.

There were about thirty oars in a row, and the height and width of the shields were sufficient, and the foot soldiers of the Huwei army could not see the Jurchens' main formation from the beginning, and could only see the banner of the Jianzhou army that could not be covered by the rugs.

Rows of oars approached, as if the waves were rolling, and it was also spectacular and abnormal, so the oars pushed by the foot soldiers, the two wings were the weaknesses and flaws, but there were a lot of cavalry in the Jianzhou Army, and the two wings had been protected, and the cavalry against the cavalry, in such a formation, it could only be a horse fight for the ability of individual soldiers in the school, although the Eastern Expeditionary Army had an advantage, it was not absolute, and it could not be quickly broken from the flanks.

Wang Tong turned his head and ordered, and after the three guards simply cleaned up, they shouted, and the three of them rode out of the ranks, and when they saw the action here, the other party also had cavalry to meet them.

But the three guards did not get too close, and dismounted about a hundred paces away from the array of the carts, one of them was preparing with a firearm, and the other two were still on horseback.

There was a "bang", but the three of them did not continue, but directly got on their horses but went forward, watching the enemy cavalry come over to pursue before turning around and retreating.

Returning to Wang Tong's side on the right side of the large array, the guards reported on the horse and said:

"Marshal, the firearm can't be pierced within a range of seventy paces!"

Wang Tong nodded, turned his head and said:

"The regiments of firearms withdrew from the front, responded on the two flanks of the spearmen, and gathered behind the array of surplus men, and lined up to stand by."

Several heralds agreed, and they all rode out of the ranks and went to each regiment to give orders, and the six infantry regiments of the Huwei Army, four regiments were in the front line, two regiments were in the rear, and the horse team and artillery team were on the right side.

If there is no other arrangement before the engagement, it is customary for the firecrackers to form a large horizontal column before the spearmen, and the enemy charges to face the fire of the firearms, but this is not the case at the moment.

When the heralds arrived, the musketeers closed the line one after another, and returned to the gap between the spearmen queues, each regiment had 600 musketeers, and now the spearmen's queues were quite tight, and the forces arranged were not much, and 1,200 musketeers were all lined up behind the array.

The Jianzhou army also saw this scene, the order was passed over there, and the advance speed of the lug queue was slightly accelerated, and the distance between each other was only a few hundred steps, and they were dealing with each other, and now it was about three hundred steps, Wang Tong turned his head and looked, and the Huwei army artillery team had been settled.

"Herald, fire!"

Wang Tong ordered, and the herald on his side drew out a square red flag, held it high, and shook it back and forth.

Mu En, who was standing in front of the artillery array, saw the shaking of the red flag, and he turned his head and shouted:

"Are you all ready?"

"Shoot ready!"

"The three-pound cannon shoots one round first, then shoots freely, fires!"

The following agreed, Mu En also saw the enemy's array of firearms, and also saw the withdrawal of the firecrackers in this formation, he understood the meaning of the marshal sending personal guards, it was nothing more than to try to see if he could penetrate the enemy's cover, at this time, there was an inexplicable sense of pride in Mu En's heart, it was nothing if the firecrackers could not be pierced, even if the enemy's firearms were made of iron, the cannon could smash them.

Ordered, slightly corrected the direction of the lower muzzle, the three-jin cannon on the artillery array fired first, because the artillery array was on the right side of the Ming army's position, and it was actually an oblique angle when firing, and the right side was facing the left flank of the Jianzhou army, and the Jurchen cavalry over there was also far behind, obviously thinking of the sharp artillery fire of the Ming army.

At this distance between the two armies, if the three-kilogram cannon is raised to the angle of fire, it can actually hit the enemy's position, but Wang Tong did not make this arrangement, if this is the case, it is likely to directly bombard the enemy and disperse, such a situation, victory and defeat can be quickly distinguished, but it is not conducive to the annihilation of the metal projectiles fired by the war guns It is indeed impossible to shoot through the wooden planks covered with sandbags and furs, but the metal balls weighing several pounds at high speed are different.

The cannon roared like thunder, the cannonballs whistled and smashed into the oar, and the Jurchens who pushed the oars in the back stared at the situation in front of them through very few gaps, judging their own direction, their viewing angles were very narrow, and they didn't know the shooting of the artillery position, the roar sounded, and many people even subconsciously looked up at the sky, most of the people who pushed the oars were not soldiers, but just captured village people, they thought it was thunder, how could it thunder at this time.

It was only a moment, and they knew at once that the thunder was a prelude to disaster, and that sandbags and thick planks covered with fur had nothing to stop the shells. The shield of the cart was shattered by the cannonball, and the people pushing the cart behind were torn apart by the shells before they could react to what was going on.

In fact, for these Jurchen folk who tore their bodies, immediate death was lucky, after all, there would be no pain, the cannonballs shattered the wooden planks, the sand and stones in the sandbags, and the crumbs of the thick wooden planks burst out, and the same told that the debris penetrated the leather robes and clothes on the people, and opened blood holes in the people's bodies, and many people rolled and fell to the ground, and they were not dead for a while, screaming and howling on the ground.

The shells of the three-catty cannon did not just penetrate one row, but the second row was the same, and the array of rows of oars that had been stacked was immediately opened, and the Jurchen people who pushed the oars saw their companions so miserable, they all shouted in horror, and some people left the oars and ran away regardless of them.

After opening the opening, Wang Tong saw that in addition to the people pushing the cart behind the cart, there were also soldiers of the Jianzhou Army, and for the people who escaped, they immediately slashed and scolded, and forced the people back, but the time of this process was also very short, because the six-pound cannon of the Huwei Army began to shoot.

Twelve three-pound guns, ten six-pound guns, Fangcai's three-pound guns have already torn a hole in the stacked lug array, and this time, the six-pound cannon shooting is almost through.

The more powerful, heavier metal ball can shoot through at least three rows of oars when it flies, and then it rebounds on the ground, and the still hard ground makes the ricochet effect very good, and it directly smashed through two rows, and the people who were directly killed by the shells do not say, the high-speed flying debris and sand and gravel caused more damage than the last time, not to mention the people, even the Jianzhou army that supervised the formation was a little unbearable.

What is really unbearable is the third round of shelling, the Jianzhou Jurchens are naturally also observing the Ming army, all the artillery is fired, then it will take a while to reload, taking advantage of this gap, they can move forward, in fact, in this short period of time, they advance the distance is shorter.

The shoddy oars are advancing on such a ground, and there are slightly larger obstacles on the ground that cannot be crossed, corpses, broken oars, these must be cleaned up, and the Jurchen people and Jianzhou foot soldiers have to go around from the back of the oars to clean up, otherwise the oars will not be able to move forward.

Then the third round of artillery rang out, and the damage caused this time was even smaller than the first time, because the array of the lugs had been torn open, and the formation was already a little sparse, but the shock of this third round of artillery bombardment to them was much greater than that of the front, and they found that the artillery of the Ming army could fire at such a fast frequency, so all the plans were empty and completely meaningless.

The core force of the Jianzhou Army that followed Nurhachi did not have any contact with the artillery of the Huwei Army, they had only heard of it, and what they heard would always subconsciously think that it was exaggerating, but when they saw it in person this time, they realized that the description was actually not excessive, and it was actually inferior.

When the fourth round of artillery bombardment came, it seemed like a storm blew by, as if the "wooden walls" between the two armies had been riddled with holes, and there was no way to form a queue at all, but one after another the oars appeared on the battlefield alone, and such caravans could no longer cover the foot soldiers behind them.

Now the artillery is no longer a salvo, and in such a situation, the remaining rows have no way to push on the battlefield full of disarray, and there is no meaning.

Mu En simply adjusted the shooting, each time the three guns fired, they took turns to shoot, shooting those places where the carts were still dense, and it didn't take too long, and the people and soldiers behind the carts on the battlefield, as long as they could move, fled back.

Wang Tong noticed a problem, after the carriage was cleared, the opponent's own formation only had foot soldiers, these infantry soldiers were walking forward reluctantly, it should be to launch the next impact, even if you count the cavalry on both sides of the carriage array just now, this number is too small for the Jianzhou army.

"Great marshal, the man who looked upstairs just now said that he saw donkeys and oxen among the cavalry on both flanks of the enemy"

The guards who came to report had a disdainful smile on their faces, Wang Tong was stunned, there were a lot of cavalry in the Jianzhou army, and it was definitely not to the point of using donkeys and oxen as mounts, Wang Tong groaned slightly, and said:

"Gather the musketeers who are not in the spear formation, and stand by!"

The infantry of the Jianzhou army on the opposite side was about to rush into battle, didn't he let the firecrackers go to the front, the herald had a question in his heart, but he still went to give the order immediately.

Under the watchtower on the left side of the army, the cavalry was hurrying forward