"Break this Zhuangzi, the official army will break and flee, and we are also working hard to operate the Guide Mansion, and those rout soldiers will harm the place, so we must use better methods!" Zhao Jin said with a smile.

After saying this, Zhao Jin solemnly raised his voice and said, "You listen to my arrangement!" ”

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Lujiazhuang's drumming has stopped, but I don't want the Xuzhou people outside to know the specific time, but Zhao Ziying has its own way of timing, observing the night, the hourglass and dripping can be estimated, and at the darkest moment before dawn, the teams of Zhao Ziying began to move.

From a distance, I saw that the bonfires in the camp of Zhao Ziying were always lit in so many places, but from a distance, I couldn't see that these bonfires kept boiling water and hot rice, and then arranged these meals, just so that the early teams could eat less cold water, and the main team of the second regiment of the pro-guard brigade were telling their subordinates to make sure that they must not make a noise during the march, and the firearms brigade was also making similar arrangements.

As for the horse team, the family members feed the horses while eating, and the fast ones are tidying up the horse harness, they are not so anxious, because they will not be ready to set off later, and the group trainers are also awake, in addition to the elite forces that have been drawn, the others have been ordered to wait in the camp tent, they look at the family members with envy, for them can go into battle to fight, can charge ahead, representing the future of the future, and is really valued.

"The master should stay and sit in the town, and his subordinates will go." Before leaving the camp, Zhang Hubin asked again, but Zhao Jin patted him on the shoulder, and he stopped talking in interest.

Meng Zhiqi walked in the artillery team, and the artillerymen were oiling the joints and axles of the gun carriages of the artillery trucks, and some people were bringing chewing cocks and the like to the livestock dragging the artillery, so as not to make a sound.

After waiting for a qiē to stop and prepare, the night was still dark, the order was conveyed, and the brigade began to set out, the spearman was only wearing chest armor, and the other structures were tied into a burden and carried up, so as not to make a sound when marching, and the team did not walk in unison, but marched forward and spread out, also in order not to make too much movement.

Zhao Jin is also wearing chest armor, other armor on the saddle, and then leading the horse to follow the brigade forward, the brigade in the implementation of the march still has a variety of sounds, but at such a distance, Shangjiazhuang can not find out, in the dark early morning, let alone see these, as for the Shangjiazhuang officials and soldiers arranged outside the dark sentry and rangers, were killed last night, Zhao Ziying invested all the light cavalry and volunteers last night, cleaning and strangling again and again, and finally the officers and soldiers did not dare to move at night.

"You don't have to stand in front of me, they can't beat me!" Zhao Jin said with some tears and laughter, the guards were all marching in front of Zhao Jin, covering him tightly, but in this quiet moment, what enemies could there be.

was walking forward, and the family behind him said to Zhao Jin: "Master Jin, the open air is light." ”

There are special people in this team to look at the sky to see when the light appears, in this plain terrain, once the sky is white, the earth will soon light up, and the Zhao Ziying brigade that is traveling through the darkness will also be discovered.

"It's inconvenient to have no clock!" Zhao Jin muttered, and the people around him couldn't understand the meaning, in fact, the time was not much, but at this moment, this gap was enough to kill.

Zhao Jin looked back and forth, it was still dark in front of him, and the sky behind him was already white, "Order, before being discovered, continue to maintain this speed, not to speed up, but be ready to speed up at any time, let the firearms brigade first roughly estimate the distance." ”

The heralds ran quickly to disperse the heralds, and the atmosphere of the team began to become tense, such a quiet march did not last long, and there were less than two hundred steps forward, and shouts and hurried gongs sounded in the direction of Shangjiazhuang, and torches could be seen on the wall, and the figures surged, and Zhao Jin's team was discovered.

Zhao Jin turned over and got on the horse, did not drive the mount, but stepped on the saddle and looked forward, there were more than 500 steps from the village wall to the east of Shangjiazhuang, Zhao Jin turned over and rode on the horse, and then beat the horse to the firearms brigade, at this time, all the teams of the Zhao battalion have accelerated the speed of forward, the firearms brigade is driving the horse and the cattle are shouting and whipping angrily, and the families pushing the gun carriage and the gun carriage behind also let go of their throats and began to shout.

"Meng Zhiqi, fire if the range is enough, raise the muzzle of the gun, fire when you are in position, don't be injured by mistake, and don't be afraid of accidental injury!" Zhao Jin rushed to Meng Zhiqi's side and shouted.

Meng Zhiqi, who was standing on the gun carriage and observing with a clairvoyant mirror, was stunned for a moment, and then understood, Zhao Jin turned his horse around, and heard Meng Zhiqi shouting behind him: "Twelve pounds and sixteen pounds set up cannons on the spot, and each cannon advances." ”

The order was given, and the six guns of the largest caliber immediately stopped in place, and the men in charge of this artillery immediately began to untie the cattle on the gun wagon, put down the guns and began to prepare.

"Shoot flat a round and shoot backwards, and the angle of each round should be adjusted higher, and the landing point should be forward." After Meng Zhiqi finished giving the order, he rode towards the artillery in front of him, and the nine-pounder gun in front also began to settle down and prepare to shoot, Meng Zhiqi would order the specific firing sequence of each caliber of artillery.

After the six cannons were placed, there was no one from the Zhao Zi battalion marching in front of the muzzle, and the men and horses were all deployed to both sides, with the first artillery to be www.biquge.info the pen, slowly spreading towards the two wings, but it formed the shape of a half-moon arc.

The bore of each gun is cleaned before the battle, but it must be cleaned before firing, first using a rifling hook to rotate the gun bore, then brushing it once with a dry brush, and then putting in a medicine bag wrapped in silk, then stuffing a lead at the gun hole, adding shells, and tamping the ammunition with a rifled stick, before leaving the camp, the iron rod that ignites the fire is heated in the brazier, and it has been burned red.

Zhao Jin opened the clairvoyant mirror again, observed the wall of Shangjiazhuang, and could see the officers and soldiers hurriedly waiting for a few artillery, tearing off the camouflage on the cannon, and then began to load ammunition

Looking, Zhao Jin heard someone blow the copper whistle in his ears, he hurriedly put down the clairvoyant mirror, covered his ears with both hands, after the copper whistle sounded, everyone in the team set off from the Zhao Ziying did this, just covered their ears and heard the sound of muffled thunder, at this moment the ground seemed to be trembling, after the loud bang, I saw that the wall of the earthen village of Shangjiazhuang collapsed, and the flesh and blood flew on it, and two artillery pieces also fell down.

Zhao Jin was just about to take a closer look, the whistle sounded the first time, he had to cover his ears not to freeze, he could hear the rumbling sound from near to far, the guns that were arranged in place were fired one after another, when the twelve-pounder and sixteen-pounder guns fired, the front three-pounder guns had not yet been placed, but the three-pounder guns were loaded and fired faster than the large-caliber heavy guns, and they also started quickly.

There is only roar and smoke on the battlefield, the first round of artillery bombardment has been hit, there are still people at the head of the wall of Shangjiazhuang to look around, who would have thought that fifteen three-pounder guns fired at this time, the metal projectiles roared past, there was no one on the wall anymore, and then the heavy artillery roared again, the wall of Shangjiazhuang facing the artillery array had been broken, and the rammed earth fragments of the earth enclosure had collapsed into the trench, and now Shangjiazhuang had been opened.

At first, you can see more clearly, but then the vision is covered by the smoke after the artillery fires, and the battlefield is full of this smoke, thanks to the fact that there is always wind near the Yellow River, so that you can see the situation in Shangjiazhuang intermittently, and see the tragic situation inside.

"Do the officers and soldiers think that the first round of artillery is over, and the second round will take work, so they still want to rush out and grab the artillery?" Zhao Jin said to himself.

The first round of artillery fire was completed, and at that small pause, you could see that there were cavalry and foot soldiers rushing out in Shangjiazhuang, but this small pause did not last long, and the six heavy guns fired again, because the angle was adjusted at this time, and the shells hit the middle of the cavalry queue, and the twelve and sixteen-pound shells contained great power, whether the cavalry or the horses hit, they would be immediately interrupted or even shattered, and the weapons and armor and horse harness were also shattered, and the fragments became deadly killers.

In this way, the shells of the heavy artillery will not be stopped by flesh and blood, and after smashing the people and horses in front of them, they will pass through the wall, and then bounce up on the ground, and continue to harvest life, and the shells of the nine-pounder and six-pounder cannons are also scythes that harvest life, and every time the cannon sounds, a large number of soldiers will fall, and the walls and houses near the village wall will also continue to collapse in such a bombardment.

There was a brief pause in the second round of shelling, and the officers and soldiers in Shangjiazhuang could be seen rushing out, everyone seemed to be crazy, and Zhao Jin seemed to be able to hear the shouting of "seize the artillery", but this effort was immediately covered up by the artillery bombardment.

Thirty-six guns, two sixteen-pounder guns, four fourteen-pounder guns, seven nine-pounder guns, ten six-pounder guns, and thirteen three-pounder guns, each round of shooting had to shoot out hundreds of pounds of lead and iron, these metal projectiles were indestructible in the fortress Shangjiazhuang, every time the cannon fell, someone would die, and each shell killed more than one.

Shangjiazhuang itself has a population of nearly 5,000, plus more than 10,000 soldiers and soldiers and masters, it is almost 18,900 looks, Shangjiazhuang's regulations take into account the troubled times and wartime, it is not a problem to accommodate so many people, but so many people are here, there will definitely not be too much space, and it is good to ensure the calm deployment of people and horses.

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