Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 505
"In the car stand the watchtower, two large carts are free, and they are separated on the left and right. The firecrackers get on the cart and load the ammunition, and get ready for battle!!"

Wang Tong ordered in a cold voice, the soldiers who delivered the order obeyed the order, and went to arrange on horseback. Not every cart was fully loaded. With an order, the goods on three carts were emptied, and one of them was two rows large. In the middle of the convoy, the young adults walking among them brought wooden and iron pieces from another cart.

Ordinary civilians couldn't get involved in this kind of thing. There were dozens of bosses busy there. The wooden squares were of different sizes and thicknesses, and numbers were written on them with red paint.

The wooden squares are mortised together, and fastened with iron parts to reinforce them, and the shelves are built up layer by layer. In a short time, the height of six feet is raised on the cart, and a roof can be added to the cart. This six-foot height It's on the roof.

Ding Zhuang, who was following them for the first time, was dazzled and fascinated. It seemed like a miracle. After the watchtower was built, the top platform was actually covered by railings.

They talked a lot below, and the leaders who got off the bus after taking the watchtower heard their discussions, but they were silent, but there was a look of pride on their faces.

Some leaders couldn't help showing off and said:

"This is on the roof of the car. The base is floating. It can't be raised too high. If there is a peg under the car, it can be raised another six feet!"

It is natural to be amazed to say so, and there are many.

It is also the advantage of the establishment of the workshop. The wooden squares and iron parts can be disassembled at leisure, and can be assembled and erected when in use. There is no shocking technological breakthrough, but it is simple and practical.

In particular, there is not much wood on the grassland, and you can only rely on earth and rocks to climb high and look far, or step on horseback. The height is not enough, which is very inconvenient, but this watchtower is just used here.

After the watchtower was set up, a guard with good eyes came here on horseback, and climbed up swiftly. Each of the four-horse carts can hold 20 people, and there are twenty firearms on each cart, and they are lined up in teams. outside the left and right sides.

After all the preparations were completed, Wang Tong nodded, raised his hand and waved forward, the generals and soldiers sent orders layer by layer, the brigade moved forward again, and walked forward for a while, but there was no harassment.

Wang Tong walked a few steps, but asked:
"Mu En, can your artillery team fight like the musketeers on the carriage?"

Tan Huo is a steady person, staying at Tianjin Guard to guard the forts, and mobilizing people from various places to train new artillery. The artillery team Baihu Muen is the commander at this time.

Hearing Wang Tong's question, Mu En, who was riding a horse, followed two steps, pondered and said in a deep voice:

"Returning to my lord, a two-pound cannon is probably not enough, and the tiger crouching cannon is too close, so I can only use a one-and-a-half-pound cannon, but it's hard to tell if it's accurate!"

Wang Tong nodded and said:
"A cannon and a car, let's do it!"

Mu En agreed, and hurried over on horseback to make arrangements.

As soon as the people here left, they suddenly heard the guard on the upper floor behind him shouting:

"On the left, between No.30 car and No.30 car!!"

The queue of carriages is numbered in order from front to back, and the sequence number is called out, which is the approximate position. The carriage with the firecrackers is just at the position of No. 60 carriage. Hearing this, the coachman hurriedly drove the horses forward. rush to.

"No.30 four cars!"

The brigade was on the move. When they rushed over, the position had changed. The sentinel was condescending, staring at the front, and said loudly:
"About 150 steps away!"

The cart stopped, leaning against the outside baffle, and the firecrackers jumped down. A group of infantry marching on the outside of the No.30 fourth cart stood on both sides of the firecrackers. Mingbaihu stepped forward and aligned their formation, forming a horizontal team and walking forward.

Counting the number of steps, he listened attentively to the shouts from the watch tower at the back. When he reached fifty steps, the vision was blocked by the swaying dry grass in front of him, and he couldn't see anything vaguely. They lined up in two rows, and with a shout, they all pulled the triggers and fired a salvo.

Gunshots roared, a lot of dead grass in front of them was interrupted, fluttering around, and then heard a few screams, and the neighing of horses, hundreds of infantry shouted in unison, stopped in front of the fire gun soldiers, and lined up walk forward.

At this time, in the withered grass dozens of steps away, dozens of Tartar cavalry emerged from the grass, got on their horses and ran out without hesitation.

"There is no one on the left, go back and back!!"

The people on the watchtower shouted loudly again, and the soldiers retreated calmly after the spearmen broke through. During this period, the brigade was always in action and was not affected in any way.

The musketeers stepped on the lowered carriages and got into the carriage, and the spearmen ran back to their own team. There was a commotion in the team, and many people cheered in low voices. The Tarbarian cavalry had been harassing them a little impatiently, but now they I am very motivated.

Wang Tong looked back, smiled and said:

"Pass down my general's order, even if you don't see the head of the enemy here, it will be counted as meritorious service by defending the city and rescuing them, and they will not be treated badly!"

The soldiers listened to the order solemnly on the horse, and rushed over to pass the order on horseback. When the order was delivered, there was another round of cheers, and the morale was already high.

With a smile on his face, Wang Tong asked General Tan and said:

"The horses we brought back from outside Zhangjiakou seem to be tall horses. It's hard for these tartars to come up with so many horses as big as donkeys."

Tan Jiang smiled and said:
"Master was only optimistic about the horses that time. In fact, there are some such horses, but they are not suitable for the cavalry of the adults. They are all sold to the landlords in Yanqing Prefecture and Baoan Prefecture. Don't look at this short horse. It can dig itself in the grass. Bingxue looks for grass roots to eat, and it has great strength and durability, and the Tartars probably chose pony horses specially this time, so that we won’t be able to find them even if they get close!”

Mongolian horses are indeed an advantage, Wang Tong nodded, but his idea of ​​building cavalry, strong horses, and armored cavalry seek impact power, after all, Tianjin Wei's main foreign enemies are not on the grassland.

After saying a few words, Wang Tong thought of something again and asked:
"Are there many people among the Tartars who understand what we say?"

General Tan shook his head and said:
"Those who understand Chinese are either nobles or serve nobles. There are very few of them. If our words are good, it is better to be a long-term worker for a landlord than to suffer on the grassland!"

Wang Tong nodded. The environment on the grassland is really harsh. The winter is long and the summer is short. In recent years, people have heard that the grassland looks like a sea of ​​green grass and cattle and sheep are running, but such a scene only lasts a year. For several months, when winter came, every time it snowed heavily, it was a disaster for all the tribes. A large number of cattle, sheep and people were frozen to death. The only way to survive was to seek refuge with the big tribes, but those big tribes could do nothing. It is to organize people, go south to plunder in winter, and act as cannon fodder in front.

The only way to live better is to trade with Daming, but from east to west, several openings are occupied by Altan Khan, and there is no room for small tribes to intervene. Every year in autumn and winter, apart from being frozen to death , the only option is to seek refuge, and then Altan Khan can't afford to support so many tribes, so he can only drive them south to plunder. This is also a vicious circle.

However, Wang Tong didn’t ask whether he understood Chinese. The guards on the watchtower shouted loudly there. If the Tartars sneaking over could understand it, it would be meaningless. , but now you don't have to worry about this.

The artillery team Baihu Muen and Wang Tong reported a few words in a low voice, then rode towards the watchtower, and when they reached the bottom of the watchtower, they talked to the sentry on the watchtower. The sentry looked in Wang Tong's direction, and Wang Tong raised his hand. After making a gesture with his arm, the sentinel on the watchtower nodded.

The brigade walked forward for more than half an hour, and there were no more Tartar horses that suddenly appeared in the grass on the road. The peasants gradually relaxed, talking and laughing with each other while they were busy.They didn't notice that the sentry on the watchtower stood up and leaned out several times.

At some point in the carriage under the watchtower, a soldier came up and looked up at the sentry on the watchtower.

It was already noon, and the higher-ups had already ordered them to stop later, and everyone would eat some cold and dry food first, and then have hot food in the evening. Everyone thought it was okay, anyway, the multi-grain pancakes were placed next to the body, which was not considered a problem. It's too cold.

The soldier sitting under the watchtower carriage raised his head and chatted with the sentry, then jumped off the carriage immediately and got out from the gap of the carriage on the right.

Not long after, a small cannon pulled by a horse arrived at the position of the No. 40 carriage on the right, and the artillerymen ran after it. Another person took a wooden stick with rammed ammunition and rammed it a few times into the barrel of the gun, and another person used a small cart to push a brazier filled with charcoal fire, and used iron bars to stir up the charcoal fire.

There were two people standing on each side of this small cannon, with their hands on the cannon body. The cannon body was cold in this cold weather, so they were not afraid of freezing their hands.

Just after finishing his work, the man upstairs blew a whistle, and at the same time, more than twenty Tartar cavalry suddenly appeared from a few dozen steps away on the right, each with their bows and arrows, screaming loudly, and the firecrackers The soldiers didn't even have a defense, so why did the Tartars suddenly appear, and they were so close.

The small flag behind the cannon stared at the Tartar cavalry, with its right arm pointing forward, constantly moving in the direction, and the soldiers on both sides of the cannon also followed the direction of the cannon with their right arms and "fired!"

The little flag gave an order, and the people behind pulled out the red-hot iron rod from the brazier, and moved towards the fuse of the gun's fire door. This time, the fuse was cut short and burned out quickly.

With a "bang", the sharp whistling suppressed the strange screams of the Tartar rangers. More than [-] people gathered together, and the target was not small. One person was almost hit by a shell. It was as if the flesh and blood on the upper body exploded suddenly, the momentum of the shells continued unabated, and the two cavalrymen behind them were also pierced through their bodies.

Flesh and blood splattered, and the strange screams of the Tartar cavalrymen were distorted and changed into loud screams. These people dropped their bows and arrows, turned their horses and fled to the outside, followed by sky-high applause and applause
From the time of the cannonball to the camping at night, there was nothing to do all night, it was peaceful and quiet...
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