Chapter 272 Shanxi Governor Geng Ruqi "Master Quan, I can't figure it out!"
”As the commander of the first artillery regiment and also the instructor of the artillery of the whole family army, Liu Quan found Quan Xu to express his dissatisfaction."
Can't figure out what?"
Quan Xu actually understood a long time ago that Liu Quan felt sorry for those artillery, especially on the battlefield, a burst of artillery bombardment, killed more than 500 Houjin cavalry, but did not give the Houjin cavalry a chance to play."
Why sell the artillery, what a good cannon!"
Liu Quan's eyes were red when he said this, he knew that Quan Xu's focus was to cultivate Liu Honggui and Qiao Mengen, and brought them over, hoping to persuade Quan Xu to change his mind.Quan Xu smiled: "These cannons, how many cannons have you fired in total, do you have points in your heart?"
”"This ......"
Liu Quan really couldn't remember for a while.Liu Honggui said: "There must be at least eight or nine hundred cannons!"
”If it is an ordinary Ming army, if an artillery piece is used for three or five years, it may not be able to shoot eight or nine hundred cannons, but since Quan Xu formed the artillery unit, he has been training to the death.The artillery used by the whole family army in one month was more than that used by the ordinary army of the Ming army in ten years, and the loss of the barrel wall was also very large."
That's right!"
Quan Xu said with a smile: "Every time it is fired, it is a damage to the barrel, eight or nine hundred cannons down, these barrels are almost damaged, even if you use it again, it won't take long, do you dare to put twice as much propellant now?"
As long as you dare, I can tell you responsibly, ironclad will blow up!
”In fact, with so many artillery pieces this time, Quan Xu just looked at the idea, it was best to sell it, and if it couldn't be sold, then it would be returned to the furnace to make molten steel and be reused.Quan Xu really thought that if he sold it to other Ming troops, after a period of time, he would run into the hands of Huang Taiji.Quan Xu had actually thought about it a long time ago, after all, this kind of artillery is not a professional alloy steel, and the chamber pressure is limited, if it is a TNT propellant, I am afraid that even eight or nine hundred cannons will not be able to hold on.The barrel of any artillery has a service life, just like the barrel service life of Chinese tank guns in later generations is only eight seconds, and many netizens who do not know the truth spray the poor quality of Chinese artillery.Little did they know, however, that eight seconds was enough for a tank to fire four hundred shells.The reason is the same, the seamless steel pipe used by Quanxu is just ordinary high-carbon steel, which is used to make high-pressure pressure pipelines, which is not military-grade quality, and it is not even industrial-grade."
Even if we can't last long, what will we use after we sell it?""
Very good question!""
As long as it is delivered, you will still have a new cannon to use, it is the kind of new cannon that has just been made, even if you put two and a half times the amount of propellant, it will not explode, it can hit farther and be more powerful!"
Quan Xu is actually a huge transport team now, as early as when he left the Daimyo's Mansion, he had already stored some of his equipment, including artillery, gunpowder, and food, in the warehouse of later generations.When he needed it, he could move over, and even if all the ninety-six guns were sold out, his troops would not be short of artillery, and even if the city was besieged by 100,000 troops, his troops would not be short of food.Quan Xu's subordinates still held the position of striker and continued to advance in the direction of Beijing City.On November 25, the second year of Chongzhen, Qi Yuanbi, who served as the forward sentry horse, found a large puff of smoke in front of him."
Dog-day mongrel!"
Qi Yuanbi cursed indignantly, and then turned to look at Hu Wandao: "Inform General Quan, there is a situation!"
”As the saying goes, Qi Yuanbi's First Cavalry Regiment now has less than three full outposts, which is only equivalent to a cavalry company in later generations, and they dare not break away from the brigade too far as they used to be.At this time, the marching sequence was the cavalry regiment in the first twenty or thirty miles, followed by Quan Xu's whole family army troops, then the troops under Lei Shisheng, and finally the Lu Xiangsheng department behind the palace.Just as Hu Wan passed through Quanxu, Qi Yuanbi climbed a small hill about 100 meters high and looked into the distance with a telescope.I saw a village that was not very large, different from Zhangdian Village, this village had a wall made of adobe, although it was not high, at least it was still supported.Thick black smoke rises from the watchtower in the middle of the village, which is supposed to be a warning to the surroundings and ask for reinforcements.The village had not yet fallen, and from time to time there would be a dull sound of cannons from the village.The two sides of the war are very well recognized, on the one hand, the Houjin cavalry, numbering at least a few thousand.On the other side, everyone is wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, although the uniforms are not neat, at least the clothing is still uniform, this Ming army is about five or six thousand people, although it is less than this Houjin cavalry, but it is very tough, they are facing off against this small village and the Houjin cavalry.There are also some young and strong people who are dressed up as ordinary people, and the weapons in their hands are even more varied, including hunting bows, guillotines, firewood knives, and even axes, and some holding a flat weapon.There are even people who don't even have a decent weapon, and just hold a wooden spear, the so-called wooden spear, which is a wooden stick that sharpens one end, and then puts it in the fire to burn it to harden the spearhead.Such a weapon, if you want to say that it is not lethal, it can easily stab a person without armor to death, if it is lethal, in the face of armor, let alone iron armor, even if it is the most ordinary cowhide armor, just like a rifle hitting a tank, it is purely tickling.The Houjin army did not rush forward, they used the speed advantage of the cavalry to find the weakness of this rabble, and moved quickly with the small Houjin cavalry.Seeing the confusion of this army, and even some signs of collapse, a cyan war horse slowly appeared in front of the team.Riding on a white horse, he wears a black hood, a crimson official robe with a round neck, and soap-colored official boots on his feet.Qi Yuanbi also has some insight, and he thinks that the official on horseback is a cloud goose, which means that the official riding on the white horse opposite is a civil official of the fourth grade.This civil official of the fourth grade is none other than the right imperial history, and the governor of Shanxi, Geng Ruqi.He was in a hurry to throw the peasant rebellion in Shanxi when he received the edict of King Qin, who was in Shanxi to exterminate the peasant rebellion, and hurried to King Qin, the capital division.Unlike the young and strong men of the Daimyo Mansion led by Lu Xiangsheng, although this army is not very well equipped and its uniforms are tattered, it is an elite soldier who has been fighting for nearly half a year, beating the peasant rebels like chopping melons and vegetables.Three days ago, he arrived in Shunyi, but received an order from the military department to go to Liangxiang to rescue Liangxiang County.However, it is a pity that the county seat of Liangxiang has been conquered by the Houjin, the people in the city have been slaughtered, and the rest have also been abducted to the city of Beijing.Just as Geng Ruqi was about to return, he happened to bump into Yue Tuo's department.Although most of Geng Ruqi's subordinates were exhausted, he did not complain, because he offended Wei Zhongxian at that time and was going to be beheaded by the Autumn Queen, but the apocalypse died, Chongzhen ascended to the throne, and Wei Zhongxian fell.As an old humanist thinking, his kindness to Emperor Chongzhen can only be repaid with death.Geng Ruqi saw that the troops were a little shaken, and raised his arms and shouted: "Jiannu broke through the pass, ravaged the Beijing division for more than a month, slaughtered my city, killed my people, humiliated my women, and had a lot of blood debts.Today, the official is here, fighting to the death with Jiannu!
”"Fight to the death!"
Under Geng Ruqi's encouragement, this army has the evil spirit of an iron-blooded army.Yue Tuo was sitting in a sedan car at this time, he could understand Chinese, and when he heard this, his face was even more excited: "Stomp them to death for the master!"
”Later the Golden Cavalry began to attack.The two sides attacked fiercely in a white-knuckle fight.However, to Yue Tuo's surprise, this army, which was obviously a rabble, did not collapse immediately when it encountered an attack by the Houjin army like other Ming troops.The rabble fired with shoddy artillery or hunting bows, with wooden spears on the ground and pointed in the direction of the Houjin army.Although the Shanxi army was in the border fortress, although there was no chance to fight the Houjin people, there was no shortage of opportunities to fight the Mongols.The Shanxi army is not as vulnerable as the Shandong army, at least in the battle sequence of the Ming army, it is also a capable soldier, they have rich experience in fighting against cavalry, long-range attack weapons are mainly bows and crossbows, relying on the advantage of the long range of the infantry bow and crossbow than the riding bow, the two sides shoot each other, and they will not show defeat for a while and a half.The only advantage of the Shanxi army is that it is backed by this village, and for the time being, there is no need to worry about the back and side back, and the village still has artillery support from time to time.The two sides attacked and defended each other, although it was true that the elite cavalry under Yue Tuo's command would easily capture this army, of course, the premise was to bear a certain number of casualties.Don't look at the outermost outermost only three thin spear formations, but the Houjin cavalry rushed over, and they had to prepare to die a few hundred people.The battle record of killing a few hundred people in exchange for annihilating an army of five or six thousand people was still not cost-effective in Yue Tuo's opinion.Anyway, he had time, and he threw cavalry at the Shanxi army again and again, and did not engage in battle.The two sides exchanged arrows and arrows, and the fight was very lively, but in fact, the damage was not as heavy as in the film and television drama, as long as you were wearing armor and hitting a few arrows, you would still be alive.The infantry of the Shanxi Army held improvised shields, endured casualties and fired at the Houjin cavalry, one soldier fell, and the other soldier immediately took the position.This military formation is like a flat boat in a storm, although Wei may capsize at any time, but it has been holding on to it steadily.With four attacks and no success, Yue Tuo's face became more and more ugly.Just as the Houjin army launched its fifth attack, a terrible scream rang out in the village, and Hurha Thorn used more than 20 soldiers under his command, dressed in civilian clothes, to escort dozens of captive civilians, and forced them to ask to enter the village for shelter.The old people in the village didn't pay much attention to it when they saw that there were all old and weak women and children outside, and there were only more than 20 young and strong men.As a result, the village began to fall from the rear.The Shanxi army didn't have anything, but the young people in the village hurriedly turned around and rushed towards the village, where there were their families.The left flank was in chaos, and the Houjin army naturally would not give up this opportunity.