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Chapter 322 I, Lu Xiangsheng, Don't Take Advantage of Others

"My darling, teacher, the Tartars have played a tough role this time, using chariots and heavy armored soldiers."

Just as the large army of Tartars attacking Guihua City set off, Li Chaohu and a company of cavalry stood on the slope ten miles away from Guihua City and watched the attacking troops with binoculars.

At this time, the commander of the reconnaissance company said in surprise, Li Chaohu glanced at the commander of the reconnaissance company after hearing this, and said: "This battle is not easy for Guihua City, but it is easy for us to fight, by the way, where is Lu Xiangsheng's troops? "

After hearing this, the soldiers behind Li Chaohu said: "Yesterday we were a hundred miles away from Guihua City, and we should be here soon.

After hearing this, Li Chaohu said: "Inform Lu Xiangsheng that after an hour, our troops will attack across the board. If he comes, leave a hole in the southeast corner for him. If he doesn't come, hahaha, then wait and eat the ready-made ones." .”

After hearing this, the soldier said: "Master, if we want to attack across the board, please tell the commander and make a report."

Li Chaohu said: "I contacted the army commander last night, and the army commander meant to give me the right to do things cheaply."

After hearing this, the soldiers nodded in relief. This is Li Chaosheng's influence on the Lantian Army. Although he did not go deep into the bottom to communicate with every soldier, Li Chaosheng's prestige was in the hearts of every bottom soldier. Zhongyong's subordinates call themselves.

So these generals, division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders obey the Lantian military order and Li Chaosheng's command. They are the army commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders. However, the large army would definitely not follow. When Li Chaosheng wanted to put down the rebellion, he didn't even need to send other troops. He only needed to say a word, and their soldiers could arrest them and send them to Li Chaosheng.

Moreover, Li Chaosheng would often come to the grassroots to condolences, let the soldiers know who they are loyal to, he is a person with a nose and a face, who can talk and laugh, so that when they think of the county lord and the army commander, that picture will automatically emerge. The face is not like that of Emperor Chongzhen, except for the ministers and eunuchs around, even the defenders in the capital may have never seen what Chongzhen looks like.

Such a character who is only in the legend gives people the feeling that it is very imaginary, and the imaginary will cause these people to find no reason to work hard for you.

In addition, the army has no corresponding responsibility for propaganda, so the entire army gradually tends to become corrupt.

In fact, if Emperor Chongzhen was smart, he could have trained eunuchs as candidates. These guys without descendants were still very loyal to the emperor. You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, there were many eunuchs who were domineering and domineering, and there were also many people who harmed the country and the people. , but no one thought about killing the emperor, they came to do it.

Stronger than Wei Zhongxian, Chongzhen can make this nine-thousand-year-old who covers the sky with one hand obediently surrender power, let alone other people.

So these eunuchs are definitely the most loyal to the emperor. If these eunuchs are well cultivated, the Ming Dynasty still has the habit of eunuchs supervising the army, let them go deep into the army, and tell the soldiers that the emperor is good, then the soldiers will be absolutely brave in battle.

As long as the ideological construction is done well, it is impossible for soldiers to surrender without a fight.

But Chongzhen couldn't have thought of this, he couldn't think of it, and the eunuch couldn't even think of it. The only idea of ​​the eunuch was to make money.

Let them go deep into the lower ranks of the soldiers, grandma, Qiu Ba is so messy, they don't want to stay with Qiu Ba, in their words: "Yo Yo Yo, if you stay with this group of Qiu Ba for a long time, you will get lice."

So a very sad scene happened. The emperor thought that sending eunuchs could help him keep an eye on the generals and the army, but the eunuchs only wanted to make money. Gao Qiqian, the supervisor of Lu Xiangsheng's army, if you don't flatter me, I won't give you gunpowder. If you have the ability, fight the enemy with a knife.

In the end, these military eunuchs did not play a good role, but played a very bad role.

At this time, twenty miles away from Guihua City, Lu Xiangsheng and Lu Xianglin were looking at the map, when someone outside reported: "Master, Master."

Lu Xiangsheng raised his head and saw that it was his own soldier and said, "What's the matter?"

After hearing this, the soldiers said: "Master, Li Chaohu from Lantian just now sent someone to deliver a letter. They will attack the Manchu Tartars in an hour. They are here to ask if you want to participate. They said, If the supervisor comes with a handsome army, they will leave an area for the supervisor in the southeast corner, if not, just wait and eat the ready-made ones."

"Ah."

Hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng frowned, a man has a face and a bark, how can he be looked down upon by the Lantian Army as the dignified governor of the Ming Dynasty, it is not Lu Xiangsheng's character to eat ready-made ones.

This is exactly what Lu Xiangsheng asked Li Chaohu. If he asked Hong Chengchou and Li Chaohu the same way, this old Yinbi would definitely answer: "This old man is old and weak, let's eat ready-made ones."

But Lu Xiangsheng is not a person who likes to take advantage of others, especially when it comes to beating Tartars, he still has his own blood.

"This Li Chaohu is the cousin of Li Chaohu you mentioned who is in charge of a division under Li Chaosheng with more than 1 horses."

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Lu Xianglin and asked, Lu Xianglin nodded and said: "Yes."

Lu Xiangsheng said: "It's really not a fuel-efficient lamp."

"Brother, what do you mean, are we participating in the attack on the Tartars this time?"

Lu Xianglin looked at Lu Xiangsheng and asked, Lu Xiangsheng said: "Participate, how can we go back after watching the fun after we come here? Doesn't this make Li Chaosheng laugh out loud, I don't want to take advantage of them."

Lu Xianglin heard the words and said: "That's right, since we agreed to participate in the Tartar hunt, how can we not shoot a single shot or an arrow?"

Lu Xiangsheng said at this time: "Notify the whole army, leave the supply battalion behind, and the rest of the combat troops should set off immediately and arrive at Guihua City within half an hour."

"Yes."

After hearing Lu Xiangsheng's words, his subordinates immediately conveyed the order, followed by 5000 soldiers of the Tianxiong Army, carrying artillery, muskets, swords, spears, bows and arrows to the battlefield.

The Tianxiong Army is not an all-firearms army. It's not that they don't want to be fully equipped with firearms, but they can't afford it.

The court was not willing to pay for the first firecrackers. The Ministry of Industry thought it would cost a lot, but it also gave about 8000 firecrackers. In addition to the seizures over the years, Lu Xiangsheng made up enough for an [-]-person firecracker. Gunners.

Each musketeer was given enough ammunition to shoot four rounds, and there were fifty cannons, all of which were carried by carts. At this time, in order to speed up the time, the carts were doubled in size.

In this way, 5000 people rushed towards the direction of Guihua City, and at the other end, Li Chaohu also led more than [-] people to the vicinity of Guihua City.

At this time, the siege of Guihua City had already begun.

woohoo...

The melodious charge of the bullhorn, at this time, the chariot soldiers appeared densely on the battlefield. The soldiers in the lead were the soldiers of the side car. The so-called car camp.

Kong Youde was originally Mao Wenlong's subordinate, and Mao Wenlong was a veteran general in Liaodong, and he was also a subordinate of Sun Chengzong, so he naturally learned how to use chariots. The Chinese army trained chariot soldiers and used them to deal with the Ming army.

I didn't expect it to be used on the Lantian Army today.

There are three types of sidecars. One is a lightweight one-wheeled sidecar. This kind of car can be operated by two people. It looks like a wheelbarrow. A protective baffle is added to the front, and there is a small hole in the baffle. , During the battle, one person pushes the cart at the back, and one person in the cart can use firecrackers to attack the front.

There are also unicycle vans that are operated by one person. The front fender is not smooth, but a lot of sharp wood is installed. Like a dragon, who dares to stop you.

However, what Kong You prepared most in the German army was the two-wheeled sidecar. There are holes in the board, which can accommodate five people shooting together.

This chariot is usually managed by ten people. When there is no war, they take turns to drive it. When there is an emergency, five people get on the chariot and fight back with firecrackers. The rest hide behind the chariot and hold spears. Assassinate the enemy.

Such chariots are small tanks on the battlefield. This time, in order to express himself, Kong Youde took out all [-] chariots from his family. Behind the chariot was an accompanying Manchu armored man. Holding a huge saber, he followed behind and walked forward step by step, like a walking dead, without knowing what fear is.

Behind them are 100 heavy armored soldiers. The heavy armored soldiers wear full-body armor, but the so-called full-body armor is not like the medieval European knights who use iron armor all over their bodies, but the kind of chain mail used by the Ming army. Composition, the defense is extremely strong, not only resistant to knives and guns, but also effective defense against ordinary firecrackers. Although it is not [-]%, it can also greatly reduce casualties.

As mentioned earlier, the cost of this kind of armor starts at a hundred taels, and the most important thing is that it needs to be maintained frequently, which is quite expensive. This is why Dorgon can afford such a heavy armored soldier.

Other Lord Baelor's subordinates rarely have such heavy armored soldiers, and Duduo does not, and the reason is very simple. Apart from the high cost, the biggest disadvantage of this kind of heavy armored soldiers is that they move slowly, and cavalry cannot be used, and they are too heavy No, the horse won't move.

Therefore, Tartars who like to ride horses are generally equipped with light armor, which can defend against swords, and it is enough to lose it. They don't have enough defense against muskets, so yesterday they were just like queuing up to be shot.

At this time, Dorgon took out the heavy armored soldiers from his family, which shows that Dorgon was really angry this time.

At this time, the chariot soldiers came over pushing the cart, and Li Chaosheng frowned when he saw this scene on the city wall: "The Tartars are not stupid. They know that cavalry can't do it. Now we have started to send chariot soldiers."

"millet"

"arrive."

"Dorgon has spent all his money this time. Notify the artillery, get into the range, and give them some shells to try something new."

"Yes."

After hearing this, Gu Zi immediately ran down to inform, and soon all the artillerymen got their orders. Seeing that the chariot approached to a distance of three miles, the artillery captain shouted: "All cannons, boom!"

Boom, boom, boom!
At this time, the cannon rang, and the shells blasted out one after another. With a bang, a large hole was directly punched out of a chariot, and the fragments of the shells flew, instantly killing the surrounding enemies.

Immediately after the shells bombarded over like no money, this section of the road instantly became a hell for Kong Youde's chariot soldiers, boom boom boom.

The chariot soldiers pushed the chariot forward, braving the rain of shells, and the entire convoy would destroy dozens of chariots almost instantly, but this was not fatal to the huge chariot team. The car kept going.

The military school lieutenant shouted: "Hold on, don't be afraid, the enemy's artillery fire is only one round, if you stand up, you'll be fine."

boom!
The captain shouted excitedly, but what he didn't notice was that a shell hit him with a bang, and his body was instantly wiped out the next moment. However, Kong Youde's subordinates were also brave. One captain was killed, and the other The captain immediately rushed up and shouted: "Come on, go on, don't be afraid."

chi chi chi~
The captain shouted, and sure enough, the cannon stopped. At this time, the artillerymen on the city wall poured cold water on the cannon quickly. At this time, the cannon was like a red-hot soldering iron, steaming with steam. This was the Lantian steelmaking furnace. The forging technology has improved, otherwise the cannon would have been useless long ago.

And just as the cannons were resting, the opponent advanced another mile. After another round of artillery fire, more than 500 chariots of the opponent were damaged. At this time, they finally came to the last mile, and Guihua City was [-] meters away. the trench.

At this time, Kong Youde saw this scene with a binoculars and said distressedly: "This group of bastards, the cannons don't need money. They destroyed my two hundred chariots before they reached the place. It's all money."

(End of this chapter)