Nanming Engineer

Chapter 406
The harsh sound of the suona suddenly sounded, startling the Mongolian prince Kaer Chuhun who was not used to this kind of sound. When he saw clearly that it seemed to be the sound coming from the Ming army, he relaxed and cursed a few times. , leading his five thousand Mongolian cavalry, slowly ran along the edge of the battlefield.

The battlefield is a rectangle, which is a flat land between the mountains. Although it is vast, it is not enough when tens of thousands of people from the Ming and Qing Dynasties are deployed. Almost touched the edge of the mountain, not far from the slopes and cliffs full of trees.

Sending Karchuhun to attack the Ming army does not mean that he has to force his cavalry to attack the Ming army's large formation. To do so is to let five thousand Mongolians die. No matter how powerful the cavalry is, they can directly attack The infantry with long spears standing in formation waiting to be equipped with additional firearms all hit the iron plate.

Therefore, Nikan needed positive containment, so that the Ming army could not concentrate its firepower to guard against Kaer Chuhun who was circling around, and the means of containment was to slowly push his own large formation forward.

Nikan squinted his eyes and looked at the Kuizhou Army's formation for a long time. In his heart, he had already silently made a plan.

"The central army of the Ming army is strong, the wings are a bit thin, and the front army is even more pitiful. There are bird commanders and sword shield players. Although there are sidecars forming a car formation, they are not strong. They can easily be crushed if they attack well. Nikan thought secretly, without any anxiety about facing the enemy, and everyone could see the relief on his brows: "The cavalry on both sides shrank far behind the cannons. There are quite a lot of cannons on both sides. There must be more than ten doors each."

He stared at the extremely abnormal gun emplacements on both sides of the Kuizhou army for a long time. If anything is out of the ordinary, it is a monster. The Ming army that was able to continuously conquer Pingyang Mansion and besiege Taiyuan City should not be as incompetent as it seems, Nikan said. Although he said it contemptuously, in his heart, he still valued it very much.

"The cannon is huge, comparable to a cannon in red clothes. Those wheels are taller than a horse. I don't know how the Ming army made it. It seems that Wang Huan put his treasure on the cannon."

However, he looked and looked again and again, but he didn't see anything unusual about these cannons. Except that the muzzles of the cannons were not directly facing the front, but were pointing obliquely at a certain angle, there was nothing wrong with it.

"Bombardment? Hmph! I made a wrong calculation!" Nikan tapped his horsewhip on his palm and sneered, "The maximum range of the cannon shot in red is no more than five or six miles. It is impossible to hit him. If the Ming army dares to turn the muzzle and follow Karchuhun’s cavalry to aim, then it will give me a chance to attack head-on. , which delayed a lot of time. When he was ready to fire the second shot, my warriors rushed to the Ming army, and no matter how good the cannon was, it was just scrap metal!"

Shaking his head, Nikan was certain, and after careful reconsideration, he felt that he had counted all the possible countermeasures the Ming army might take, without missing anything. These possible countermeasures, in his opinion, were all like a child's past. Family fun.

"Fighting on the battlefield is all about speed and ruthlessness!" Nikan twitched the corner of his mouth, snorted coldly again, and said to Bolo: "The Ming army used these mysterious tricks, thinking they could bluff them. We two don’t know how to talk about brats in front of real people. I think Kaerchuhun can conquer the pass without our Eight Banners."

Bolo was tall and strong, as strong as a bear. Hearing what Nikan said, he said with regret: "What a pity, what a pity! I still have some hope for Wang Huan, I think it can be done Isn’t it boring to hear what the prince said when you meet a good opponent and kill him seriously?”

The two looked at each other and laughed, all the princes and eunuchs behind them laughed, and the arrogant and undisguised laughter was carried far away by the wind.

After a pause of laughter, Nikan shouted solemnly: "Where is Cao Zhenyan?"

Cao Zhenyan, the commander-in-chief of the Han army, stepped forward when he heard the sound, knelt in front of the Nikan horse and responded loudly: "The last general is here!"

Nikan was motionless on his horse, and said as steadily as Mount Tai: "I order you to lead the three thousand Han army, urge the army forward, attract the attention of the Ming army, and do not allow the cannons to turn around and shoot at Kaer Chuhun's cavalry. There must be no mistake!"

"Hey!" Cao Zhenyan responded again, stood up, lifted his thick cotton armor, turned and left.

After a short rest, the three rows of Han troops placed in front of the Qing army, under Cao Zhenyan's order, gathered into a team and rolled out shield chariots one after another. Three vehicles formed a group and were divided into several groups to form a big wild goose In formation, slowly push forward.

Nikan saw it, and looked in the direction of Karchuhun, and saw that the Mongolian soldiers had circled seven or eight miles away, and began to run slowly along the edge of the battlefield, towards the direction of the Ming army's left wing artillery position.

"Blow the drum! Sound the trumpet!" Nikan shouted sharply: "Cheer for the Han army, cheer for Kaer Chuhun!"

The order was passed down neatly, and several big cowhide drums set up in the middle of the Qing army immediately started beating "dong dong dong". The low horn horns were like ocean waves rolling sand, rippling in all directions from the top of the Qing army's formation.

Amid the extremely rhythmic drumbeat, the shield chariots of the Han army moved very slowly, basically three times a step.

"Slow down!" Cao Zhenyan's shield chariot was in the back position on the left side of the wild goose formation. He knew that his mission was to attract the attention of the cannons placed in front of the formation by the Ming army, but judging by the caliber of those cannons, the firing The iron bullets coming from the shield car might not be able to stop them. Self-protection is the most important thing, so he carefully controlled the speed. His eyes passed through the gap in the shield car, and kept staring at the movement of the Ming army artillery on the opposite side.

Those Baijia Ming soldiers started to be busy just after a strange suona sound. Judging from the movements, they seemed to be loading ammunition and ammunition. Preparing for launch.

Cao Zhenyan's heart tightened immediately, and he stared nervously at the muzzles of those giant cannons. Fortunately, the Ming army did not turn the muzzles, and the cannons on both sides were still placed diagonally. The guns were pointed to the right of the battlefield, none of the guns were facing the front.

He breathed a sigh of relief. Cao Zhenyan had to admit that he was scared. Everyone knew the power of the red cannon. Even though the cannon fired extremely slowly, what if the cannon had no eyes and came towards him? ?
This place is still five miles away from the Ming army's main formation, so he should not be able to hit him. Although there is an unobstructed plain in front of him, the Ming army's firearms will not pose a threat to the Han army. Cao Zhenyan steadily suppressed his speed and watched secretly. Kaer Chuhun's cavalry team was extremely excited. As long as the Mongols could successfully bypass it, they would wait for the Ming army to be in chaos, and then rush over to break the formation and take advantage.

Ka Erchuhun was also full of excitement, and an uncontrollable joy filled his brain. Five thousand Mongolian soldiers had already approached the artillery position on the left side of the Ming army along the distance that the cannon could not hit. There seems to be no reaction, the muzzle of the cannon on the left is still facing the right, which is completely different from the direction of the Mongolian soldiers. I really don't know whether these Ming soldiers are reckless or not afraid of death.

His face became ferocious. At this moment, he was only four or five miles away from the Ming army's artillery position. Once the cavalry accelerated, they would be able to arrive in a few seconds. How could the sprinting cavalry be the flesh and blood of the Ming army? unstoppable.

The spear in his hand was slowly raised, and the spurs under his feet lightly touched the horse's belly. The horse began to accelerate slowly, and the horse's hooves with iron palms stepped on the yellow ground, turning from a slow walk to a canter.

At this moment, a burst of thunder exploded over the battlefield, "boom boom boom" like a "boom boom boom" beside him, which made Kaerchu jump all over and looked at the sky in confusion, was it going to rain?
The sun was high in the sky, and there was not even a cloud, but someone around him screamed: "The Ming army has fired!"

Kaerchuhun looked down anxiously and saw that on the other side of the Ming army's formation, more than ten cannons lined up on the right side were emitting green smoke.

Ka Erchuhun's pupils shrank, and then immediately relaxed, almost laughing, the cannon position over there was at least eight miles away from him, the red cannons of the Qing Dynasty were not capable of this, the inferior ones of the Ming army would do?Don't blow up the chamber without firing a few shots.

A smile appeared on his face, but before it spread out, it froze, like a piece of dried mud.

More than a dozen iron bullets whizzed towards the face, hitting the dense cavalry queue with strong winds, cutting a dozen bloody paths like waves. Whether they were heavy cavalry with two layers of armor or light cavalry wearing armor, they were like thunderbolts. In front of the iron bullet that crossed the sky, it collapsed like tofu.

Flesh and blood flew everywhere, and blood splattered everywhere.

All the people or horses blocking the path of the iron bullets were turned into flying pieces of meat, flying into the sky. There were screams and exclamations. The cavalry wanted to hide, but it was too late. The entire cavalry formation was like The cloth, which had been cut into countless pieces by a dozen scissors, was pierced by the iron bullets fired and divided into sections.

The horses were stunned, and the cavalry who had just started to charge were killed in the sound of cannons.

(End of this chapter)