Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 595
During this time, Huang Taiji always felt flustered.

He wasn't afraid of anything, but the feeling of panic always popped up inexplicably.

The situation is indeed extremely unfavorable to him at the moment.

The Ming army in the south has already captured the Chahar Grassland, and the Ming army in Liaodong has also appeared on the southeastern edge of the Horqin Grassland. These two Ming armies are obviously here to surround him.

At this moment, there were not many people he could mobilize. Dorgon led the elites of Zhengbai Banner and Xiangbai Banner to support the Chahar Department, but in the end they all fell there together with the nearly 2 troops of the Chahar Department.

Alas, if I knew this was the case, it would be better to transfer all the troops from the Chahar Department and just give up the Chahar Grassland.

Now it's all right, the Chahar grassland is lost, and Dorgon's Zhengbai Banner Bordered White Banner Elite and nearly 2 horses from the Chahar Department are gone.

Alas, it's really a house leak and it rains all night. There were not enough troops in the first place, and so many troops were lost in vain.

He was sighing to himself, when suddenly there was a rush of horseshoes outside the tent.

Could it be that the Ming army started a massive attack?

The flustered feeling popped up out of nowhere again, the rapid sound of the horse's hooves seemed to be stepping on his heart, and he was so flustered.

He really wasn't afraid of anything, and he had never seen a big storm before, so this little thing didn't make him afraid at the moment.

He didn't even know why he was flustered.

Soon, a scout hurried in, waved his sleeves, and then knelt down on one knee and said, "Report, Dahan, tens of thousands of Ming army cavalry came from the direction of Chahar, and now the southern edge of the grassland is occupied by them." gone."

The Ming army did this again, the iron cavalry opened the way, followed by the Hongyi cannon!

In fact, Huang Taiji already knew about this, because this is the news that Nomenda brought back.

This was also the case in the Chahar Grassland at the beginning. The Ming army seemed to be divided into more than ten groups and advanced with iron cavalry. As a result, Dorgon led the army and was blasted back by the red cannons as soon as they rushed over.

Then, the iron cavalry of the Ming army swarmed up and surrounded them. Dorgon and his [-] cavalry did not run away because they were short of men and horses.

It seems that the news brought back by Nomenda is not wrong. The iron cavalry of the Ming army in front is not the main force, and the chariots and red cannons behind are the killers of the Ming army.

If he led an army to charge up with more than a thousand tiger squat cannons, he would probably be devastated.

Now, only by using the terrain, setting up an ambush in advance, pulling all the Hongyi cannons, and stacking all the tiger squatting cannons, can it be possible to defeat the Ming army.

At least, he thought so.

To be honest, he now also thinks that armored cavalry is not so important, and muskets and artillery are the protagonists in the future battlefield.

He even felt that firearms were useless, only artillery was the key to victory.

That's why he ordered people to work hard to cast cannons.

Facts have also proved that as long as there are enough artillery, cavalry is really useless.

Now, it is not too easy for him to conquer the tribes of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. First, he uses the Hongyi cannon to bombard from a long distance, and they will keep bombing until they rush over.

In this way, people have only two choices, either to run away, or to rush forward and desperately.

If they run away, he will rush forward and continue to bombard them with Hongyi cannons.

If he rushed over, he would set up the tiger squatting cannon and wait. As long as hundreds or even thousands of tiger squatting cannons blasted for one round, his charge formation would basically be messed up. Chopping melons and vegetables is average.

The only problem right now is that the Hongyi Cannon is too troublesome to carry.

Because the Hongyi cannon is too heavy, and it must have an iron seat, otherwise, once the cannon is fired, the barrel will be thrown off the carriage.

With the Hongyi cannon and the cannon mount, it was too much effort to pull it up on the carriage, and it couldn't run fast at all. Moreover, as long as the grass was a little soft, it would sink in, and once it sank, a group of people had to be summoned to push it up.

He estimated that the Ming army was the same as them. The Hongyi cannon could not be moved, so the Ming army let the armored cavalry go up first, and the Hongyi cannon moved slowly behind.

In this case, ambush is the best option.

Set up the artillery array in advance, attract the Ming army cavalry, and after a fierce bombardment, the Ming army cavalry will inevitably be defeated and flee.

As for whether to chase or not, it depends on whether the Hongyi Cannon can keep up.

If other people's Hongyi cannons fail to keep up, then lead the cavalry to chase after them and destroy their cavalry.

Dorgon was hit by this trick. As a result, he was exhausted and surrounded by cavalry, and he couldn't even run away.

Of course, it is very likely that the Hongyi cannons of the Ming army followed the cavalry to support them.

If this is the case, then they can't charge forcefully, they can only continue to lure the Ming army to charge.

Alas, it's a pity, I didn't think so much at the time, so I hurriedly sent Dorgon to support. As a result, [-] cavalry were lost in vain.

If he had thought of these things at the time, and directly sent an anti-ambush to the Ming army, it is estimated that the Ming army would have been defeated and fled by now.

Needless to say, he thought too much.

The development of Ming Dynasty has exceeded his imagination, and the equipment of the Ming army has also exceeded his cognition.

Taichang didn't intend to hide the infantry fighting vehicle on purpose, so as not to let others know that the Shenwu Battalion was equipped with such a terrifying weapon.

The reason why Huang Taiji has not discovered infantry fighting vehicles until now is mainly because the gap between the two sides is too great.

Whether it is weapons and equipment, or the comparison of military strength, or even the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers, the gap between the two sides is not generally large.

In terms of weapons and equipment, not to mention infantry fighting vehicles, just a simple telescope allows the two sides to extend the line of sight on the battlefield by four or five miles.

It's not that Huang Taiji doesn't know about telescopes, he also worked hard to build one.

The problem is, what he got was an ordinary telescope like Oulu's, with a viewing distance of only about one mile.

Moreover, none of his generals have this thing.

The Ming army was different. Telescopes were already a fairly common piece of equipment in the Ming army. Almost all generals and schools with over a thousand generals were equipped with them. They are all special telescopes with a viewing distance of about five miles.

This makes the situation detected by both parties unequal at all.

It was impossible for them to pass through the densely populated scouts of the Ming army and detect the infantry chariots behind them. When they saw the infantry chariots, they were basically surrounded by cavalry and could not escape at all. .

This is also the main reason why they never knew that the Ming army had infantry fighting vehicles.

When the Ming army dispatched infantry chariots, it was the last time to settle the battle. Moreover, the Thor cannon on the infantry chariots had a range of five miles. They only saw a black spot in the distance, and they fired up.

In this case, unless they rushed up to have a look, otherwise, they would not even know that the artillery of the Ming army was mounted on infantry fighting vehicles.

The problem is, even if you don't die, you will be captured after rushing up desperately!
Therefore, except for the captives and the dead, no one has ever seen an infantry fighting vehicle.

It was precisely because Huang Taiji didn't know that the Ming army had infantry chariots, so he wanted to lay an ambush and turn defeat into victory.

If he knew that the Ming army had such terrifying weapons as infantry fighting vehicles, he might have run away long ago.

Perhaps this was the main reason for his inexplicable panic.

Ordinary people panic for no reason that something big is about to happen, and he is indeed about to have something big happen.

Because they are not the Ming army's opponents at all, if he confronts the Ming army head-on, he will definitely be defeated.

Of course, this may also be a precursor to his illness.

He is really sick, and very sick.

This is recorded in historical data. He vomited blood when he got sick, and there was no law to cure him!

(End of this chapter)