The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 138 Egg Shield
10 month 30 day.

Early in the morning, Ding Yi asked if Song Fei and Zhao Dashan had returned.

Everyone said they didn't come back.

Ding Yi was a little worried. They were both old brothers. He didn't want anything to happen to them.

Fortunately, in the afternoon, Yang Yong came back and told Ding Yi that both of them had successfully entered Jinzhou City.

Ding Yi was overjoyed, but although he knew that the Houjin soldiers would enter the pass in October, he couldn't remember the exact date, and after the Houjin entered the pass, the capital knew about it, and it must have been several days before it was reported here.

It will be smooth and calm in Lushun, and nothing will happen. The newly formed [-] troops in the South Camp are training in their respective camps.

Ding Yi is taking Ruan Wenyan and others to look at the shield today.

A craftsman improved the shield last month because he found that the shields in Ding Yi's army were different from those in the Ming army, and he wanted to stand on the ground.

So he added movable feet on the left and right sides of the shield, usually folded on top to be flush with the edge of the shield.

When you want to stand the shield on the ground, pull it down directly, and immediately face the shield to form a triangle.

In this way, the shield can be stood on the ground without using hands.

If you want to fight against cavalry, add an iron rod in the middle, insert one end into the bayonet in the middle of the shield, and the other end can be nailed to the ground.

Even if it is not nailed to the ground, with the buffer formed by the triangle and the iron rod, the shield is extremely strong.

Li Zhongyi specially used a scalper to be killed as an experiment.

First set up three layers of shields, with people in the middle, wear iron armor to prevent collisions, and then wrap quilts.

He remembered Ding Yi's words, the people must be densely packed and close to each other.

After squatting on the ground, the body turned sideways, the hind legs knelt on the ground, the front legs leaned against the shield, and the left arm firmly pressed against the shield.

It is equal to half the body pressed on the shield.

An adult scalper rushed forward, and bang, the formation formed by the three-layer shield remained motionless.

Those in the first row were hit, but not seriously.

Li Zhongyi made two kinds of shields.

The first type is carried by the first line of spear and shield soldiers. All shields are relatively heavy because a layer of steel skin is nailed on the surface.

The second type is carried by the 23 rows of spear and shield soldiers in the back. It has a wooden structure and is relatively light.

The fourth column used steel shields, and the 56th column used wooden shields.

Of these two shields, the former weighs twelve catties and the latter ten catties.

In Chinese history, this is one of the heaviest shields.

When Ding Yi's soldiers and horses were training, the spear and shield soldiers marched with their shields on their backs every day.

It is quite difficult to train in the queue every day, holding a gun in one hand and a shield in the other.

There is also a strap on the back of the shield, like the strap of a backpack in later generations. When marching normally, it can be carried on the back like a turtle shell.

The first time Ding Yi saw it, the word "Danshield" flashed in his mind.

He had played World of Warcraft in his previous life. At T6, he had a classic tank shield, an egg shield worn by soldiers on their backs.

Right now, his shields are all rectangular, 1.2 meters high, and the sergeant carries them on his back, just like carrying an egg shield in the game.

"Is it heavy?" Ding Yi asked a group of soldiers who were training.

"It's not heavy." The soldier was not very old, in his early twenties, when he saw Ding Yi asking himself, he blushed and replied loudly: "As long as you can beat the Tartars, no matter how heavy you are, you won't be afraid."

"Haha, good." Ding Yi smiled: "Everyone work hard first, and we will have more horses and cars in the future, so we don't have to carry it every day."

He was thinking, when he became more stable, he would start to buy more horses, make some cars, and form a fleet.

Because he will definitely have a lot of firearms in the future, and he will need a convoy to pull cannons, ammunition, and food.

It can also relieve the burden of the sergeant.

But practicing like this right now is only good for the sergeants, improving their physical fitness.

After watching the spear and shield soldiers, Ding Yi went to see the gun soldiers.

Right now he has a total of more than 140 Lumi guns in his hand, and one hundred of them are in Xu Wei's first division.

More than 40 strokes were in the third division of Wang Weizhong.

Other soldiers who don't have Lumi blunderbuss still learn how to load ammunition first, practice with bird blunderbuss or bamboo tubes, and practice with Lumi blunderbuss in turn every two days.

Every five days, one shot was fired with live ammunition.

Now that Ding Yi had few guns, he didn't dare to give them more shots, so he could only take turns to let the gunners shoot one round every month.

After watching the gunmen training, suddenly, there was a commotion not far away.

Then someone ran to this side.

Ding Yi looked up, it was Zhang Jing.

This guy ran all the way over, with a happy expression on his face.

"Is there going to be a war? Someone is coming from the capital?" Ding Yi didn't expect to arrive so soon.

"My lord, my lord, someone from the capital is here." Zhang Jing called from afar.

Ding Yi smiled, but he didn't understand, it was impossible for Chongzhen to come here to mobilize troops?
He hurriedly led people to meet him, and at the same time turned his head to Ruan Wenyan and said, "Go and get some silver taels and bank notes."

"En." Ruan Wenyan responded softly, turned around and left.

After walking forward for less than a moment, I met Zhang Jing.

"Someone from the capital is here, it seems to be a reward." Zhang Jing exclaimed excitedly.

"..." Ding Yi.

Not long after, he saw someone coming.

The leader was a fair-looking eunuch, followed by two brocade guards wearing embroidered spring knives and flying fish uniforms, and four soldiers from the Beijing camp, all in armor, very powerful.

It looks a bit like preaching an imperial decree.

Ding Yi looked at the eunuch's expression, which was quite gentle, and immediately stepped forward: "Ding Yi, the last general in Lushun, sees the eunuch, I don't know the eunuch—"

"You are Ding Yi." A Jinyi guard next to him suddenly shouted sharply, glared at Ding Yi, and then said loudly: "This is the prince from the capital, you kneel down to accept the order."

"General Ding, our Wang Cheng'en." Wang Cheng'en said softly and smiled: "General Ding, please accept the order." After finishing speaking, he turned his head and glanced at Jin Yiwei.

Jin Yiwei kept his face and didn't speak, and stared at Ding Yi as if he had some serious hatred.

"Lushun guard Ding Yi accepts the order." Wang Chengen held up the imperial order in public.

Ding Yi felt strange, why did I become defensive again?But he didn't hesitate, and immediately led someone to kneel on the ground.

Ordinarily, receiving the imperial decree would require a ceremony, such as setting up an incense table, but Wang Chengen did not expect to read the imperial decree in public.

"Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said——"

When Ding Yi heard the first few words, he knew it was the imperial decree for promotion.

The imperial edict has the meaning of admonishment. Generally, when the emperor intends to promote officials to ranks, he warns them to avoid being coquettish and impetuous, and to continue to encourage them not to be complacent.

Sure enough, the imperial decree this time was because of the beheading of [-] Tartar spies in Dengzhou City last time.

Ding Yi served as the guerrilla general of Lushun because of his meritorious service, and he was given a sword and armor, and 300 taels of silver.

All the kneeling generals were overjoyed and couldn't believe it.

Master Ding, is he truly a general now?

Ding Yi lowered his head, his mind was running fast, thinking about what was going on.

After the last trip to the state, Yuan Chonghuan reported himself to the capital department to become a regular. According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, the local military officers below the generals were reported by the governor and commander, and the Ministry of War reviewed them.

Yuan Chonghuan reported it last time, and the Ministry of War generally would not strip it back.

But now that the imperial decree comes down, it has changed from a capital to a guerrilla, and it has been raised by half a level out of thin air.

This is definitely not what Yuan Chonghuan meant.

Is Wang Cheng'en a close eunuch of Chongzhen?
Ding Yi seemed to understand something.

This trick is so similar, when he asked Xu Wei and others for meritorious service, Yuan Chonghuan gave them all to Qianhu in front of him.

Xu Wei and others were moved to tears.

Old Yuan, old Yuan, do you still have today?

(End of this chapter)