Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

This is the only chance for the Peasant Army to repel the Runing Army in today's battle.However, due to the timidity of the cavalry of the Peasant Army, no results were obtained.

The waste of time allowed more soldiers of the Runing Army to rush into the earth wall, forming a larger phalanx.Seeing that there was no chance, He Yaoqi could only order Ming Jin to make his cavalry retreat.

As the trenches were filled and the earth walls were removed, the tanks and artillery of the Runing Army were also brought up.Followed by the cavalry of the Runing Army.After forming a complete cavalry artillery formation, today's battle situation is doomed.

"Old Tian! Take people to Yanggu Town quickly, withdraw the troops there, and run to King Chuang!" He Yaoqi ordered Tian Jianxiu.

"Eh!"

"Two tigers! You take someone to King Chuang's place yourself, and tell him that this place can no longer hold up, and ask him to assemble his team and retreat to Henan Mansion!" He Yaoqi let out a long breath, with a helpless expression on his face. Added a sentence, "Don't worry about Kaifeng City anymore."

"Yes!"

"I'll just stand here! I can block as long as I can." He Yaoqi finally said.Although these words sounded very tragic, He Yaoqi's voice became smaller and smaller, and in the end it was as if he was talking to himself, showing that he was extremely unconfident.

Seeing that the Runing Army captured the trenches and earthen walls swiftly and swiftly, they had no intention of stopping at all.But the current pause and rest is just that the Runing Army is reorganizing the team.But He Yaoqi knew that as long as the whole team was finished, the Runing Army would launch a new round of attack.

He Yaoqi felt very bitter in his heart, he never thought that the gap between the two armies was so great.As if a child was fighting a strong man, the Runing Army completely crushed the Peasant Army in every way.What a hopeless situation!

In fact, He Yaoqi does not need to be so desperate. To be honest, the gap between the two armies is not as big as it is today. The main reason why the peasant army lost is: the gap in economic strength, the gap in combat will, and the logistical equipment. gap etc.If you only compare the quality of individual soldiers.Those veterans of the Peasant Army who survived by licking their blood are actually not bad.

The most important thing is that the Runing Army has taken the brand-new weapon of firearms as its main equipment, and has developed new tactics around firearms that are suitable for exerting the power of firearms.Even for the defense and mobility of firearms, various types of chariots were developed.

And what about the peasant army?They have quite a few firearms, but their sophistication varies greatly.To make matters worse, the tactics of the Peasant Army's firearms still follow the old pattern of the bow and arrow era. How can it be undefeated?In a word: This is the victory of the era of hot weapons over the era of cold weapons.

Compared with Yang Rusong and Shumobu on the right, who fought one after another, the Runing Army in the middle was slow.After deciding to urgently assist Kaifeng City, Wu Shigong's personal guards also moved forward, joining forces with Xue Yongli's troops.Jointly attack the main force of Li and Luo's coalition forces.

A long row of chariots covered the approach of the Runing Army, and the Peasant Army had obviously been ravaged by the artillery fire of the Runing Army. The earth wall was not very complete, and all the artillery disappeared.

But because of the heavy labor, the Li and Luo coalition forces did not just dig a trench.Ditches, earthen walls, fences, horse refusal...The fortifications were built layer upon layer, just to stop the progress of the Runing army.

And the Runing Army has successfully captured several lines of defense of the Peasant Army.But the current one is bigger.In addition to trenches and earthen walls, a large number of peasant soldiers gathered behind the earthen walls.

The soldiers of the Peasant Army were hiding behind the earthen wall. They were holding knives, guns, firecrackers, bows and arrows, and they were waiting for the Runing Army to fill in the ditch and attack.Even behind the gap in the earth wall, there are a large number of peasant soldiers ambushing, and they are also preparing to fight hand-to-hand with the Runing army.

And at the rear of the Runing Army, a huge watchtower had long been built.Wu Shigong, Xue Yongli and other officers are watching the battle with binoculars from the watchtower.Although because of the craft problem.The telescope was not very clear, but the densely packed peasant army soldiers ambushing behind the earth wall could still be seen.

Seeing this scene, Wu Shigong smiled at Xue Yongli: "Haha! Those bastards are dreaming, they are waiting to fight us head-on."

After listening to Wu Shigong's words.Xue Yongli smiled slightly. He pointed to the row of chariots behind which a dozen new siege machines were being installed under the cover of the chariots, and asked Wu Shigong, "My lord! Have you tried that thing? How does it work? "

"Don't worry! The director of the workshop is in a hurry to make it, but he has tried it a few times, and I heard that the effect is good. But if the effect is not good, then I will go back to Runing tomorrow to beat Yang Goudan." Wu Shigong joked.

There was a burst of laughter from the watchtower.

When Wu Shigong went north to King Qin in the first year of Chongzhen, he once obtained the gunpowder weapon unique to the Ming Dynasty-a swarm of bees and ten thousand enemies.And swarms of bees have been widely used in the Runing army, but Ten Thousand Enemies only produced a few hundred, and equipped them in various cities as auxiliary defensive weapons.

At that time, the generals of King Qin's Runing Army had seen the might of Ten Thousand Enemies, and Ten Thousand Enemy's killing effect in dense crowds was quite good. Even soldiers in heavy armor couldn't resist this primitive flamethrower. .Therefore, the soldiers of the Runing Army always feel a little pity for such a sharp weapon.

So someone thought of a kind of throwing device-the catapult, using the catapult to cooperate with tens of thousands of enemies to enhance the range of this weapon, and inflict huge damage to the dense enemy army.

But after the final calculation, the performance of the catapult is far inferior to that of the artillery, and it is inconvenient to move. The enemy will not be so stupid as to line up in a dense formation and stand in front of the huge catapult.So if you want to use it, you can only use it in siege warfare.

In addition, the Runing army has been keeping a low profile in the two prefectures of Runing and Guide, and is not in a hurry to attack the cities outside the two prefectures. Therefore, after the workshop division built a few experimental catapults, it terminated this weapon manufacturing plan.

Of course, the technical research and development of the catapult has been going on. After all, the Runing Army will go out one day, and the catapult will always be useful to increase the enemy.

And when Wu Shigong returned from Liaodong, he immediately decided to devote himself to the struggle for hegemony in the world.So the workshop director also arranged for a batch of ten thousand enemies to be manufactured by hand, and then manufactured the core components of more than a dozen catapults according to the previous drawings.And the Runing Army brought this weapon to the battlefield this time.

In today's battle, the Runing Army began to assemble catapults, just to see the effect of using this weapon.Therefore, the Runing Army has already regarded this battle as a testing ground for new weapons. (To be continued..)