Xia Yan is the commander in charge of a legion in the Guards.
After the Han army learned that Chang Yuchun had entered the hinterland of Jianghan to plunder, his army was sent by Xia Yue to intercept Chang Yuchun.
In order to quickly intercept the attack, he divided his army into three and tracked Chang Yuchun in the three directions where he was most likely to advance.
In the end, the unit he personally led finally found traces of Chang Yuchun in Mianyang.
The armored chariot riveted with copper nails and iron sheets was pulled by four draft horses and galloped across the muddy Jianghan land.
Some of the tanks carried soldiers, and some carried artillery.
The shock-absorbing springs mounted on the hubs make the chariot's wheels less bumpy when it rolls over potholes.
They learned the whereabouts of the Ming army from Mianyang City and pursued them all the way.
After half a day, they discovered the traces of the Ming army Chang Yuchunbu.
The scouts running at the front had already fought against the Ming army's scout cavalry.
The scouts at the front, sweating profusely, rode towards the advancing convoy and reported to Xia Yan that Chang Yuchun had led his troops to attack directly towards him.
A smile appeared on Xia Yan's lips, and he immediately used his telescope to look around the area and found a terrain suitable for defense.
This is a high-lying open space about fifty or sixty paces in radius.
Most of the terrain around the open space is covered with ditches, ponds and rice fields.
Four gravel-paved roads about two to four miles wide merge into this open space, making this open space form a square where many roads gather.
Xia Yan simply said: "We are waiting here for the Ming army."
Not only him, but all the officers of the Guards system spoke so concisely.
Half an hour later, Ming troops gathered here from all directions.
In front of a stick of incense, Chang Yuchun was informed that the Han army had set up a formation and was waiting for him.
He did not dare to neglect, and spread out his troops.
The soldiers detoured from the rice fields and fields back to the Han army, and surrounded the Han army from four directions.
At this time, the four roads leading to this open space were filled with neatly arranged black Ming troops.
At the front are the strong men holding up the oars and shields.
One characteristic of these strong men is that they all have a pair of unicorn arms.
Their incomparable arm strength allows them to lift this thickened gun and shield.
Pieces of sandbags are attached to the surface of the large shield.
These large shields indeed played a role.
When they were more than 150 steps away, the Han army began to fire volleys of guns.
Amidst the banging gunfire, some of these strong men were pushed to the ground by the impact of lead bullets.
However, at this distance, the flintlock projectiles were still There is no way a shot can penetrate such a sand shield.
They got up, held up their big shields, and moved on.
The morale of the Ming army, which was originally on tenterhooks, was greatly boosted.
The densely packed crossbowmen at the rear of the Ming army kept throwing arrows at the Han army.
However, due to the rainy weather, the bow tools and bow strings of the crossbows were affected, and the range was greatly reduced.
In addition, these crossbowmen had just participated in the battle to attack the Dragon King Gouwu Fort, and they were physically exhausted.
Therefore, although the arrows poured down like a torrential rain, very few actually landed on the Han army's position.
When the Ming army got closer, Xia Yan, who had been silent for a long time, issued another brief military order: "shoot with eagle cannon."
Chariots acting as movable walls were lined up on the edge of the Han army's hollow phalanx.
At this time, black holes of gun muzzles were protruding from the panels of some of their carriages.
Chang Yuchun couldn't help but feel his heart in his throat when he saw this.
Having experienced the siege of Guangji and the Battle of Guishan, he certainly knew the power of this kind of artillery.
He never expected that a small Han army of about a thousand people would carry such heavy firearms.
Chang Yuchun hurriedly ordered the Ming army to disperse, but it was too late.
Twenty eagle cannons continued to bombard the Ming army, and each gun used five consecutive sub-cannons.
Use solid heart bullets to shoot at long distances, and shot with shotguns at close range.
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In addition, when the Ming army entered the hundred-step range, the Han army also used light ballistae to throw grenades.
The sand shields of the Ming army could also be penetrated by flintlock guns at this time.
Amidst the roar of gunpowder smoke, one can imagine the heavy losses suffered by the densely packed Ming army.
Those strong men holding large shields floated backwards like dead leaves in the strong wind.
When they landed, their bodies and their large shields had been torn apart.
The grenades that exploded in the formation injured countless Ming army soldiers.
Each grenade could seriously injure one to three people and lightly injure three to five people.
The Ming army's formation suddenly fell into chaos, and the Han army's fusiliers continued to fire intensive volleys.
"Get out, get out quickly," Chang Yuchun shouted regardless of his status.
Without him shouting, the Ming army was already retreating along the four roads like a tide.
Some people accidentally fell to the ground, and countless feet trampled over him.
The Han army did not pursue it, because Chang Yuchun still kept 5,000 men behind, guarding the position with crossbows and large and small blunderbuss.
He quickly gathered the retreating soldiers.
Looking at the Ming army corpses on the ground and the wounded soldiers squatting and crying in the mud, Chang Yuchun felt as if he was fried.
But he can't withdraw now.
Firstly, he is unwilling to do so.
Secondly, he cannot withdraw either.
As long as he withdraws his general formation and the opponent pursues him with all his strength, the Ming army will collapse.
After all, Chang Yuchun is a famous general who has been on the battlefield for a long time.
After thinking about it for a while.
He ordered the Ming army to attack the Han army's positions in the fields from all directions, and gathered all 2,000 cavalry to charge towards the Han army from four gravel roads.
Those Ming soldiers approaching the Han army in the muddy fields became living targets within fifty steps of the Han army's position.
Amidst the banging gunfire of the fusiliers who fired freely, and the several-foot-high water column raised by the grenade explosion, one by one fell into the muddy water.
The crossbowmen who advanced as skirmishers approached the Han army's formation and opened their bows and fired crossbows, but it had basically no effect.
This kind of skirmisher crossbowman's long-range projectile is extremely difficult to hit the opponent unless he is an archer who has been specially trained for five or six years, not to mention that the opponent is protected by a tank body that acts as a bunker.
The Ming army attacking from the fields was just to distract the Han army's firepower.
Chang Yuchun pinned all his hopes on the cavalry.
At this time, the four lines of cavalry pressed hard against the Han army.
The eagle cannons had all the prepared sub-cannons in the last round, and there was no time to reload them now.
Since the Ming army attacking in the fields dispersed the firepower of the Han army, there were only sixty fusiliers on each road firing in three rounds.
Although the Ming cavalry was continuously shot down, such firepower obviously could not prevent the Ming cavalry from charging into the Han army's formation.
The Ming army's cavalry surged forward, splashing water on the water-logged gravel road.
The speed is getting faster and faster.
"Prepare the matchlock and gun," Xia Yan said with an indifferent expression.
The carriage panels of the eight chariots fell down, and eight strange-looking guns and cannons were displayed in the Han army's formation.
To be precise, there should be eight strings of blunderbuss, with hundreds of thick blunderbuss tubes connected together by chains, similar to the machine gun bullet chains of later generations.
It's just that this large chain is equipped with a whole blunderbuss tube.
Each blunderbuss tube is more than three feet long and more than two inches thick, which is twice the caliber of a heavy matchlock gun.
The soldier who operated the device lit the match.
Then one soldier manipulated the handle to control its direction, and the other soldier turned a turntable.
Driven by gears, chains, cams and other transmission mechanisms.
The gun chain brings the gun tube into the slot of the gun rack.
The moment it enters the slot, the lid of the medicine chamber is pushed open by a horizontal frame.
After entering the groove, the hook head holding the match rope just fell down, fell into the medicine chamber of the gun tube, and fired a bullet with a bang.
Then the empty gun tube is taken out by the chain, and at the same time, the next gun tube is loaded into the slot and enters the next cycle
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