A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 393 Hard stubble, not easy to mess with
Those intruders scrambled and retreated, and soon, the north bank of the Jinshui River was clean, and there was no standing figure.

These hungry soldiers have never been in the army, and they fight with their blood. Their blood comes up like a wolf like a tiger, and when their blood retreats, they disperse in a rush. Not to mention compared with the Shunxiang army, they are incomparable with ordinary officers and soldiers.But Gao Xun knew that Chuangjun still had a way to go, and it couldn't be just such a wave of offensive.

Sure enough, after the figures of the hungry soldiers dispersed, dense layers of shields appeared on the north bank of the Jinshui River. Gao Xun's face sank, he put down his hand holding the binoculars, and shouted: "Battlebird, put down the mask."

"Put down the mask."

The officers shouted orders, there was a sound of metal swishing, each of the Shunxiang military bird musketeers put down the iron masks on their eight-petal hats and iron pointed helmets.Immediately, there was a change behind the wall of sheep and horses, and a large group of bull heads and horse faces appeared.

Those masks look like evil spirits, if you see them at night, you will definitely be shocked.

"Pay attention to cover."

Not only the sergeants of Gao Xun's subordinates, but also the sergeants of the vanguard battalion, all of them hid on the wall.They didn't have the fine equipment of the Shunxiang army, and many of them didn't even have iron helmets, and of course there were no iron masks to protect their faces. They just tried their best to shrink their bodies behind the earthen wall.

Everyone has seen clearly that on the north bank of the Jinshui River, behind the shield soldiers who invaded the army, there are sergeants with rocket launchers in their hands. It seems that they will also use rockets to attack.It seems that the number of rockets they hold is several times more than that of the officers and soldiers behind the wall of sheep and horses. It is possible that they have removed all the rocket stocks in various counties and counties of Henan Province.

The sky and the earth seemed to be quiet for a while, like thunder rolling across the sky, and thick smoke billowed up from the north bank of the Jinshui River, like a rain of arrows overwhelming the shield soldiers who invaded the army.

The arrows either flew straight, or slanted, or fell from the sky, covering the entire sheep and horse wall at once.

Immediately, the earth wall, or the ground inside the horse barrier, was densely covered with rocket arrows like hedgehogs.

Waves of roaring arrows shot into the city wall of Beiguan, or flew into the city.

The battlements of brick and stone structure and the tower of wooden structure are also blossoming, full of arrows one after another.

The defenders on the city wall either hid behind the walls or raised their shields to avoid the waves of arrows.

Wang Dou also dodged to the back of the crenel wall, seeing waves of light smoke from the crenel beside him, shooting dozens of rocket arrows continuously.

In terms of the number of arrows, I am afraid that there will be tens of thousands of arrows in this round of rocket launches by Chuangjun.

Fortunately, they are defending the city, protected by the city wall. If it is in the wild, with such dense arrows, many people may become hedgehogs.

As soon as the thunderous sound of rockets fell, the drums from Chuangjun's side sounded again.Just then there was a shout from the other side, and waves of hungry soldiers rushing to fight against the earthbags came from the side of the Chuangjun Rocketeer.

For a while, several sections of the Jinshui River were flooded by hungry soldiers in red turbans.

"Rocket, let it go!"

Amidst the sound of thunder, the officers and soldiers fired rockets again. In the roaring rain of arrows, the soldiers who rushed to the south bank fell down one by one.

The rest of the people blushed, shouted wildly, and rushed forward desperately.

Soon, waves of dark crowds rushed dozens of steps closer to the sheep and horse wall.

"Bird shooter is ready!"

"Prepare!"

Yang Shiqi, an officer of the Gaoxun Division A, also shouted orders. After serving in Gaoxun in the Jiukouzi Camp in Xingtang County in the 11th year of Chongzhen, he has now become an officer of the new army of Shunxiang Army.The man who used to snatch rice porridge from his wife and daughter now has a hundred acres of land on East Road and a big house where his wife and daughter live a good life.

There is a strong contrast in life, the heaven on the east road contrasts with the hell life outside, Yang Shiqi, like other officers, is a fanatical supporter of the Wangdou Group.There seems to be a phenomenon that the more backward people join the Wang Dou Group, the more loyal and fanatical they are, and they do everything possible to show their loyalty in front of Wang Dou.

Like other military officers' wives, Yang Shiqi's wife also follows Gao Ming's wife, Wang Douzheng's wife, behind Xie Xiuniang, who is known as the "loving mother" on Donglu.This large group of wives of military officers helps victims of disasters and comforts orphans every day, and is very well-known.

Yang Shiqi's team is the blunderbuss guarding a section of the crenel on the earth wall. Hearing his order, the blunderbuss soldiers under his command all put the blunderbuss on the crenel and focused on aiming at the rushing ones. Rogues.

Chen Sheng slightly moved his frozen index finger. The weather was too cold. Even though he was wearing warm wool gloves, the fingers inside the gloves were still frozen and stiff.

When Wang Dou attacked Zhuozhou in the 12th year of Chongzhen, Chen Sheng, who was captured by the Qing soldiers at that time, was rescued, and the life of the captive suffered a lot.Coupled with the death of his father and younger brother, Chen Sheng had a blood feud against the Tartars. When Wang Dou attacked the Yuetuo barracks, Chen Sheng also signed up to join the trench filling team.

Soon after entering Baoan Prefecture with the Shun Township Army, Chen Sheng brought his family, one wife and one concubine, two sons and one daughter, from Anqing to run some business temporarily.After the East Road Datuntian, he and his family were placed in a settlement in Huailai.

When the Shunxiang Army recruited recruits, because he was proficient in firearms, had good fists and feet, and had experience filling trenches in Zhuozhou, he successfully became a member of the Shunxiang Army.Chen Xu, who joined the army at the same time as him, joined the logistics department. Although his daughter Chen Shuniang married Wu Zhengchun, the general manager of the new army, Chen Xu still had to start as a soldier.

According to Wang Dou's regulations, these new troops can retire after five years. After retiring, they have the household registration of the East Route Army, and they will be allocated [-] mu of cultivated land, farming tools and other things.The armor and weapons used in daily combat are also owned by their families.

Unlike some new troops, Chen Sheng did not intend to retire by then. He planned to join the army professionally and strive to become the leading officer of the Shun Township Army, and then kill all the Tartars and avenge his family.

Anyway, after joining the army for five years, you can become a military household and be allocated fields.With fifty acres of land, I can let my family live in peace of mind without any worries.Not to mention that I have rewards for killing enemies in daily battles, and my family's life is more affluent.

What interested Chen Sheng was that General Dingguo planned to implement a new system on the East Road.That is to reward military achievements with land, and those who kill the enemy will be rewarded with silver, which can be exchanged for corresponding land points, which will be distributed every five years and rewarded to the corresponding land.

Although these lands can only be outside the Great Wall, and the fields in the East Road are not allowed to be rewarded, they still arouse the general interest of the soldiers of the Shun Township Army.Like some veterans who have participated in the war for many years and obtained a lot of gold and silver, they have long since lost interest in gold and silver, but the land is different.

The fields of every military household on the East Road cannot be bought or sold, and must be passed on from generation to generation, and transferring and buying and selling is a serious crime.And if anyone has a sudden need for money, they can apply for official loan assistance. The bank established in the Shun Township Army is happy to help, so there is no need for military households to buy land.

However, the Chinese people's desire for land is unlimited, and everyone wants to own more fields, so Wang Dou launched that system in response to the situation.

The land rewarded with military merits can be said to be unlimited. Within the East Road, a military household can only own [-] mu of land, and an officer can only own [-] mu of land.But outside the Great Wall, if you have military merits, the rewarded land may eventually reach thousands of acres, tens of thousands of acres. It is exciting to think about it, although these lands need to be taxed on a per-acre basis.

Of course Chen Sheng was tempted, and he often thought that if one day he got his revenge and owned a big manor and a big ranch outside the Great Wall, then life would be very beautiful.

Chen Sheng is just an ordinary blunderbuss soldier, and this kind of beautiful prospect can only be imagined now.Of course, Chen Sheng is confident to achieve this goal. He has a child's education, which has an advantage over many recruits. He also has a foundation in martial arts, can punch, and can shoot.

After entering the Shunxiang Army, he trained hard, and now he can be regarded as a sharpshooter in the headquarters. As long as he has military merits, he will definitely be promoted quickly.

Beside Chen Sheng, stood his good friend Ju Yiwu. Ju Yiwu was a handsome young man. Because of his expressionless and serious expression, he won the nickname Ju Yiwu in the team.

Ju Yiwu kept silent all day long, and rarely talked about his own affairs with others. Only Chen Sheng knew that his family members were also killed by the Tartars, and he had a deep-seated hatred for the Tartars, and all he thought about was revenge.So although this Liaodong craftsman was good at making firecrackers, he did not enter the military factory but joined the army.

Like Chen Sheng, Ju Yiwu is also a sharpshooter, but the two people who are also taciturn are rare close friends.

At this time, both of them were using flintlock Lumi blunderbuss, and each general in the Shunxiang Army would be allocated more than 100 Lumi blunderbusses, which were distributed to some sharpshooters in the department.

For flintlock guns, that is, self-generating firecrackers, the Shunxiang Army has long summed up the rules of their use.The misfire rate is high, so it cannot be used in array battles, but it can be used generally in city defense battles, because there is enough time to pull the trigger again.

If it is a field battle, Chen Sheng and others are also holding matchlock guns, so he has two guns.

……

The hungry soldiers who broke into the army still rushed forward with roars, and their distorted and hideous faces could be seen.

Fifty steps!
"put!"

There was a deafening sound of blunderbusses, and a large number of hungry soldiers who shouted and charged fell down.

What Chen Sheng aimed at was a man in the form of a supervisory whistler among the crowd of intruders, wearing a white felt hat and armor, brandishing a waist knife and shouting wildly.Chen Sheng pulled the trigger, and his flintlock Lumi shot out a sharp flame, and a long bloody arrow shot out from the chest of the Chuangjun sentry chief.

Although the whistle is always wearing a full armor, that is, a breastplate, it is still the kind of cotton armor that is not inlaid with iron leaves.Even the double-layer heavy armor of the Qing soldiers could not stop the firecrackers of the Shunxiang Army.Not to mention this simple cotton armor.

The whistle always staggered backwards and fell out, pressing the wound tightly and rolling to the ground, he couldn't die for a while, and shouted loudly.

After Chen Sheng shot, he retreated immediately, leaving the position for the gunmen behind him.

The front wall of sheep and horses is defended by [-] Shunxiang army birds and musketeers. They are divided into four layers, forming a steady stream of firepower.

(End of this chapter)