The current Zhao Xiaoming can be described as high-spirited, he not only controls one of his original columns, but also controls the sharpest artillery column of the entire Fuliao Army.
Since Lu Hanqiang built a huge steel plant in the Beipiao area and directly refined molten steel in the furnace, the quantity and quality of equipment of the entire Fuliao Army have made a qualitative leap.
With the support of a large number of artillery casting experts sent by Sun Yuanhua in Shandong, the military factories of the Fuliao Army were able to cast cannons by themselves, and they were superior in quality.
Originally, a powerful red-coated cannon, each of which was originally a foot long, with a caliber of about three or four inches and 3 meters, a caliber of 110,130 mm, and a weight of three or four thousand catties and two tons, although this thing was powerful, but because it could only be cast with cast iron and bronze, its bulky and heavy was indeed outrageous, and it could hardly be used in field battles, and could only defend the city.
The Liaoning West Iron and Steel Plant directly produced molten steel, which completely broke through this bulky bottleneck, and was much better than the original product in terms of quality and performance.
Now, a four-inch caliber of the red-coated cannon, the entire cannon body is less than about 1,500 catties, not only under Lu Hanqiang's proposal, the increase in the front sight of the door, improve the accuracy of the strike, but also the cannon directly pressed on the two wheels, not only make it more convenient to adjust the angle up and down, with four pack horses or four mules, you can easily drag with the movement of the army, greatly enhance the mobility.
After being equipped with the powerful redcoat cannon, it was equipped with a rapid-fire cannon Franc cannon specifically for cavalry.
This Franc cannon is good, compared with the red-coat cannon, there are fundamental changes in the structure, much superior to the artillery equipped by the Ming army before, the current Franc cannon is a steel rear-loading smoothbore gun, the whole gun is composed of three parts: the barrel, the belly, and the sub-cannon.
When the cannon is fired, the gunpowder projectile is first filled into the sub-cannon, and then the sub-cannon is loaded into the belly of the gun, and the sub-cannon fire door is ignited for shooting, the structure of the mother gun and the sub-gun is adopted, the mother gun is the barrel, the sub-gun is actually a small gun, each mother gun is equipped with 49 sub-guns, each sub-gun is loaded with ammunition in advance for use, during the battle, first a sub-gun is loaded into the bullet chamber of the mother gun, after firing, the empty gun is withdrawn, and another is loaded, because the sub-gun can be changed in turn, the time of temporary loading ammunition is reduced, and the firing speed is greatly improved, so it is also called " The Franc cannon is also equipped with sights, which increases the firing range and improves the accuracy, and is indeed an invincible weapon in the world to deal with the enemy's group charge.
The Franc cannon is lighter, mounted on two wheels, and can be pulled around the world by only two horses.
With this advanced artillery, the Fuliao Army set up a special artillery column not long ago, although the whole number of people, compared with the combat troops, only 4,000, but equipped with 100 red-coated cannons, 200 Fran cannons, which is unique in the entire Ming Dynasty, even in the whole world.
This time, Zhao Xiaoming hurriedly went south with his infantry column and artillery column, and he also knew that the battle situation was urgent, and he didn't dare to delay at all on the road, but even so, the military order issued from Wang Dazhuang and the letter of help sent from Chen Liang still flew into his hands like snowflakes, so that Zhao Xiaoming's entire army had to take out the strength to rush forward.
Seeing that he was about to arrive at the Niuzhuang battlefield, Zhao Xiaoming just wanted to take a breath and sort out the formation that had been out of order, but from a distance, he saw Kong Bangguo rushing over like a few hungry dogs behind him, and shouted at Zhao Xiaoming from afar: "Don't stop the army, run forward immediately." ” Huang Shengyuan, an old man who joined the third column, saw Kong Bangguo's embarrassed appearance, and immediately greeted him in a panic: "The army has been traveling day and night, and the march has exceeded 500 miles, and it is urgent to rectify and rest, if the army is pulled to the battlefield at this time, it will not play any role." ” Kong Bangguo rolled off his horse, regardless of the muddy water, he stomped his feet and shouted: "Chen Liang has gone crazy, he is going to attack overnight, my fourth column is only 12,300 men and horses, at this time, I think my men and horses are left, my brother, in order to give me the seeds that the fourth column can still leave, I beg you to go to the battlefield immediately, and immediately take over my column to continue the attack on Niuzhuang." ” Huang Shengyuan was taken aback: "Why is it that your 20,000 full column has 12,000 people left, how did you get it?"
Kong Bangguo stomped his feet again and again: "When I came, there were 12,000 people, and now maybe there are less than 10,000, if you don't go up to support, my fourth column will be completely wiped out by Chen Liang's kid."
So he simply told Huang Shengyuan about Chen Liang's judgment.
Huang Shengyuan was also shocked by Chen Liang's judgment, but as long as he thought about it a little, he immediately understood that this possibility existed, Huang Taiji was already crazy, and he could send his positive yellow flag or yellow flag together with the yellow flag to Gyeonggi again when Lu Hanqiang was only 20,000 horses and horses, and with an absolute overwhelming majority of troops, the 20,000 troops of the Governor and the little fat man would be annihilated in front of Zunhua City, which would be a disastrous consequence.
Now it seems that Chen Liang's judgment is right, this decisive attack is absolutely correct, and now his army must rush into the battlefield all the time to help Chen Liang take Niuzhuang.
So, Huang Sheng looked at Zhao Xiaoming from afar.
Zhao Xiaoming yelled at his tired brothers: "Brothers, the brothers of the fourth column are almost exhausted, now it's time for us to go up, brothers, we have to keep reinforcing all the time, follow me, and run." ” Those soldiers who had already been exhausted, as soon as they heard that their brother troops had reached the level of fighting, immediately lost all their fatigue, and began to gallop towards the Niuzhuang battlefield with Zhao Xiaoming, and the horsemen of the artillery column also desperately waved their whips, whipping the horses pulling the carts, and rushed forward all the way in the dust.
After running for a distance, Zhao Xiaoming ordered again: "The whole army is lightly armed, throw away all the uniforms, etc., and run with all your might." ” So all the warriors threw away what they had on their bodies, and the speed of the march increased again.
But as the running time became longer and longer, the physical exertion of the soldiers also increased, and at this time, from a distance, a fast horse, it was the sergeant of the fourth column, who ran in front of Kong Bangguo, and reported loudly to Kong Bangguo: "My lord, we have blown up a section of the city wall, and now the brothers are fighting frantically with the enemy on that gap. ” Finally opened a gap in the city wall, Kong Bangguo couldn't help but take a breath a little, "How is the battle situation?"
The sergeant replied with red eyes: "General Chen Liang is crazy, the brothers of our column are crazy, the enemy is also crazy, and on that gap, we have killed and wounded a full 6,000 brothers. ” Kong Bangguo stumbled, only to feel that his eyes were black, and he couldn't hold on any longer, and fainted directly to the ground. t1706231537: