open sea

Chapter 1382
The dream of plunder was quickly shattered.

Corizzo led forty Cossacks into the tribe of the Karacha chief, who gave them a warm welcome.

Not only did they entertain them with a banquet, but they also chopped off their heads at the banquet.

The old and vigorous Xibai took a closer look at the so-called Cossacks at the banquet, but he didn't think it was special.

At best, his hair is a little longer than before he surrendered to the Ming army when he ran south to Kouguan.

After that, he moved with the leader of Karacha, and parted ways further away from the incident, and quickly reported all the information he knew to Dong Yiyuan, who was stationed in the army.

"Robes, quilted mail, mail, plate mail, leather caps, mail caps, cone-crested helmets, cone-crested helmets with earflaps."

"Machete, long axe, short axe, bone, short bow, longbow, firecracker, birdcrack, handgun."

"There is still a car formation, but there are too few soldiers going to the Karacha tribe, and it is useless to get into the car camp."

He did not disgrace his mission, and brought back all the equipment belonging to the three Cossacks for Dong Yiyuan. He slowly introduced these equipments to Dong Yiyuan, saying: "The leader of Karacha got [-] guns, and I would like to ask the Heavenly Army to assign them. An instructor who is proficient in firearms, teach them how to use them."

Dong Yiyuan frowned and looked at the many armors on the ground. He stood up and knocked on the thick plate chain armor, looked at the rivets with rough edges at the joints of the mail armor, and weighed the enemy's equipment. .

The so-called plate chain armor is a kind of armor made of iron plates, armor plates, and lock rings. It looks economical and affordable, and it has good defensive capabilities in key protection positions.

He has basically seen all these equipment, and the ones he has never seen are similar. For example, the ugly monster like the Moonblade Ax can be seen at a glance.

The muskets looked nothing special. There were two pistols, a flintlock and a matchlock. The caliber of the old firecrackers was as large as a small cannon. They didn't look standard and were full of traces of use.

The patchwork of equipment fit Dong Yiyuan's perception of this Cossack army very well. This is a motley army.

However, the two long muskets attracted Dong Yiyuan's attention. Although these two long muskets did not have the markings like the Ming army's muskets, they looked like standard equipment, which helped him understand the Raksha country behind the Cossacks.

Dong Yiyuan did not regard the Cossacks occupying the city of Isker as the enemy of this battle. The target of the Ming army was the Raksha Kingdom behind the Cossacks.

Along the way, he heard a lot of news about the Raksha Kingdom's teeth and claws. In addition, Qi Jiguang sent him as the vanguard to go north, so it is easy for people to draw hasty conclusions.

For a period of time, the main opponents of their Ming army will be the Raksha Kingdom in the northwest and the Kazakh Khanate in the southwest.

The lack of firearms in the Kazakh Khanate is not worrying, but as a major exporter of furs, Rakshasa will inevitably use nitrate for cooked fur, and if there is nitrate, it is likely to have a large number of firearms.

It was relatively difficult for the Ming army to supply firearms and gunpowder. Tong Deng, the commander of the Yili capital, presided over the transportation, transferred it northward via Qi Jiguang of Dayuz, and finally sent it to the front line through 46 post stations set up by Dong Yiyuan along the way.

Such a long supply line determines that they are like the Raksha Kingdom. On the one hand, only a small number of soldiers can fight on the front line, and most soldiers have to travel between post stations to transport supplies; on the other hand, gunpowder supplies will always be on the road.

The advantage is that it is difficult for the troops of the Raksha country to attack their supply lines, and the disadvantage is that it is also difficult for the Ming army to do anything to the supply lines of the Raksha country.

It is especially important to understand the handicraft capabilities of the enemy country.

On this point, Daming has always had the capital to be proud.

The two service muskets have almost the same features and qualities.

It feels heavy in the hand, almost half the weight of the Tianxia Taiping blunderbuss of the Ming army, but the caliber is so small that Dong Yiyuan dare not try to shoot these two muskets.

He saw the fringe on the Cossack armor, he saw the thick, thick barrel of the gun, and he saw the rough workmanship where the barrel ends joined.

For muskets and armor, the lighter the better, the medicine chamber at the end of the barrel is the most difficult part of making muskets.

If these muskets are made by the Raksha Kingdom, it means that their craftsmen have the ability to be a powerful country in the world.

Poor workmanship is less of a problem.

At least for Dong Yiyuan, the danger of the Raksha Kingdom should be raised in his heart. A country that can make its own guns can also make artillery, but it may not be able to cast iron guns.

In this era, casting iron cannons meant that cheap large-caliber artillery could be put into war; if iron cannons could not be cast, then forging iron cannons meant that cheap small-caliber artillery might also be put into war.

Casting bronze guns meant that expensive large-caliber artillery could be used in warfare.

This was Dong Yiyuan's common sense a few years ago, but in the past two years, the Oriental Army has updated the information reported to the country. The emerging Netherlands has sold forged large-caliber coiled steel cannons with excellent performance to other places, which means that forging is also a must. Can manufacture large-caliber artillery.

Nothing more than a little more expensive.

The power of this kind of Raksha country musket should be pretty good, at least it is made so heavy, even if the quality of the iron is not good, it can still withstand double charge, so the power is not small.

The armor made Dong Yiyuan realize why it was difficult for the Siberian Khanate to defeat and kill them in battle.

The military equipment of the Khanate is basically the same, with sabers, bones, spears, bows and arrows, and ordinary troops rely on leather jackets for defense.

The tribe can prepare everything by itself, and a tribe of 3000 people can easily pull out [-] riders to run wild on the Great Plains.

But this will also make them face the same dilemma under the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty. Except for Alda's armored cavalry, other Mongolian hunks almost run naked when confronting the Ming army, and their three-eyed guns can smear their faces with blood.

Several hundred soldiers of the Raksha Kingdom, dressed in three layers of burqa, padded armor, and mail armor, entered behind the chariot bunkers of the chariot camp holding muskets in hand.

Head-to-head majestic formation, can't beat it.

Even disembarking on the river bank and dealing with infantry in the swamp, it is very likely that they will be killed with a single charge with a moon blade axe.

The same is true for the guards of the newly formed Yili Command and Envoy Division led by Zhu Yu. The Mongolian light soldiers of six hundred households of a thousand households can only fill up the number of people in such a contest.

"In the final analysis, the dignified battle of this battle still depends on the Long Live Army."

Comrade Zhu Yijun, director of the General Logistics Department of the Ming Dynasty, supervised the Long Live Army in winter uniforms and imperial firearms.

Dong Yiyuan collected enough information about the enemy through the hands of Qi Bai, and after praising Qi Bai for his ability to do things, he began to dispatch troops.

Deploy six Mongolian light soldiers from the front line to spread out on the flanks, and send [-] long-lived army infantry to the front line, forming two light cavalry, one heavy cavalry hundred households, one Zhe army artillery hundred households, and six long live army heavy cavalry infantry hundred households. The main combat force is advancing towards the Cossack-occupied city of Isker with the van and Fran cannon.

(End of this chapter)