In the wilderness to the west of Songshan Castle, tens of thousands of troops were waiting in formation, with swords and guns like a forest, banners densely covered, and the sound of hunting in the wind.
Chen Jiugao, the commander of the Shenji Battalion's front camp, also led the soldiers and horses of the Shenji Battalion to gather into the Chinese army's formation and lined up behind Yang Guozhu and Wu Sangui's army formation.
The artillery of their Shenji Battalion will be led by General Chen Jiugao to accompany Yang Guozhu to attack West Shimen, and deputy general Fu Yingchong to lead a section to attack East Shimen with Wu Sangui.
In the Ming Dynasty, the Shenji Camp still existed like the emperor's personal soldiers. It was like other towns with numerous banners and bright helmets. Needless to say.
I saw that all the officers and soldiers in their camp were wearing cloud-winged helmets and long crimson armor, with sophisticated iron arms and brass shoelaces tied around their waists.
He also picked up two bright red pom-poms, which looked really majestic.
The muskets held by their soldiers were all of the same color and were flintlocked. The equipment and weapons of the Beijing camp were indeed unmatched by the armies in the border towns. They were decorated with the entire arsenal of the Ming Dynasty!
The children of the Beijing camp are not as tough as the frontier army. The officers among them are regardless of their official position. Many of them come from families that have inherited military positions for several generations, and each family has its own inheritance of armor.
Of course, they also pay more attention to their appearance. This time they go to battle, everyone has straightened and polished their armor, and they all look taller and more powerful, with bright clothes and angry horses.
However, this appearance is indeed superior to other armies, but is it really powerful?
I'm afraid it still depends on the actual performance on the battlefield. You can't kill the enemy with words or bright armor!
Moreover, the military formations and vehicle formations formed by the Shenji Battalion were in a straight line, front, rear, left and right. Just looking at the appearance of the military formation, people who didn't know would think that they were the strongest army of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, ever since the Shenji Battalion set out to conquer the capital, there have always been people who couldn't stand the hardships on the road and secretly became deserters and ran back privately. A total of nearly a thousand people dispersed.
However, those who can hold on to the front line of Songshan all show some strength. If they can experience the baptism of war again, they may not be able to become a strong army and restore the temperament and majesty of their ancestors!
The front camp of the Shenji Battalion went to Liaodong this time. It brought with it 300 rocket vehicles, 200 light vehicles carrying Folan cannons, nearly a thousand Shenhuo Feiyang and other large rockets, and 26 Shenwei generals.
Cannons, fifty large-caliber mortars, and nearly a hundred small-caliber mortars were also pulled out. Wherever they passed, they attracted the attention and cheers of the soldiers of other armies.
The tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty’s army gathered in the wilderness west of Songshan Mountain were all looking forward to the artillery fire from the Shenji Battalion!
Especially those mighty general cannons, each one seems extremely heavy. Each one requires ten, even twelve, or fifteen strong oxen to pull the cannon cart. The extremely thick black muzzle causes unsettling
Young people are in awe.
Looking at these cannons and giant cannons in front of me, I feel that firing a ten-pound cannon is just trivial. Even if it is a fifteen-pound or twenty-pound cannon, there are not a few cannons.
Most of these cannons are made of iron, and occasionally there are a few made of bronze. Looking at the effort of those strong oxen pulling the cannon carts, and wherever they pass, the land has passed through deep ruts, you can imagine that from the capital
How difficult it is to transport artillery thousands of miles to Liaodong.
In fact, in order to transport these artillery pieces, the Shenji Battalion had exhausted countless horses and oxen along the way.
Chen Jiugao had more than 7,000 soldiers in the Shenji Battalion. Although only less than 6,000 regular soldiers arrived in Songshan, in order to supply the Shenji Battalion with gunpowder, cannons and other supplies, there were many civilians from the capital to act as pullers.
The postmen followed the troops and were used as the army's baggage team, and they also enjoyed the treatment of the baggage soldiers.
Under the spotlight of everyone, Commander-in-Chief Chen Jiugao led the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion and gathered into the Chinese army formation. He also enjoyed the feeling of being in the spotlight. From time to time he turned his head and clasped his fists at all parties, nodded and smiled.
At this moment, Fu Yingchong, the deputy general of the front camp of Shenji Camp, also rode his horse to follow the commander-in-chief Chen Jiugao. Like Chen Jiugao, he had a proud look on his face, his head slightly raised and he couldn't help but smile and nod.
Fu Yingchong, who was good at socializing, actually liked to show off more than Chen Jiugao, but as a deputy general after all, he could not go beyond the commander-in-chief to highlight himself, so he always suppressed himself.
For more than a month, he had become very familiar with the lieutenants, generals, and guerrillas under the generals in various towns. It can be said that he had a wide circle of friends. Even Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, and Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Ningyuan, regarded him as brothers.
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But now it was different from the past. He was riding on a tall white horse. He only felt how powerful and powerful he was at this moment, and he was so attracted by so many people. He thought to himself: "Okay, wait. I will definitely call you."
Take a good look at the power of Shenji Camp’s artillery!”
In terms of the position of the Chinese army, all the generals and officers including Zhang Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the reinforcements and suppression, Liu Zhaoji, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, Zhang Ruoqi, the commander-in-chief of the army, Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, Ma Shaoyu, who joined the army, and Zhang Dou, the military commander, have all arrived.
When Zhang Cheng sent troops from Yongning, he brought two general command vehicles with him. He placed his golden gun-topped banner on one of the general vehicles and used it as his own flag vehicle along the way.
March to Ningyuan.
Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, was also stimulated by Zhang Cheng's flag chariot. He sent troops from Ningyuan to Songjin, and also built a large chariot and hung his own flag on it. The big flag with the word "Hong" stood high on it.
In the car, it was flying in the wind and making a hunting sound.
In addition, the Chinese army array is also filled with various types of tanks, including one-wheeled, two-wheeled, and the standard side-box tank brought by Zhang Cheng, which was the standard tank used in Qi Jiguang's era.
The weight of the car alone is more than 600 kilograms.
On the chariot, there are countless small cannons such as Folan cannons, rocket boxes, prisoner-killing cannons, Baizi guns, and tiger crouching cannons. There are also flying cannons brought by Zhang Cheng from the north. Although the number is not large, Zhang
Cheng is looking forward to it very much.
In addition, there are various tools for attacking fortifications, such as spoke cars, rush cars, curtain cars, trench bridges, light ladders and other equipment gathered together. There are even tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers pushing and pulling small carts, which are filled with earthen baskets and sandbags.
, used for filling trenches.
There were many people inside carrying hoes, iron picks and other tools. They were preparing to dig the walls of the Tatar stronghold or dig trenches for the Ming army's attacking troops to move forward.
The Ming Dynasty king's army gathered more and more, and the mountains and seas of people covered the entire wilderness. When the morning breeze blew, the only sounds were the flags fluttering in the wind and the sound of hunting.
Under this situation, anyone would be filled with pride and pride. Zhang Ruoqi smiled sympathetically. He looked at the majestic military formation in front of him, his face was full of joy, and he murmured something to himself from time to time, which seemed unusual.
Excited.
The governor of Jiliao, Hong Chengchou, surrounded by his staff and officials, climbed onto the high platform that had been set up in advance. He looked at the surrounding military formations in front of him with a reserved expression.
Qiu Min, the governor of Liaodong, stood beside him and whispered something to him, but Hong Chengchou remained calm, only occasionally wiping his beard and nodding slightly.
After the generals from each town arrived with their own troops, they went to Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, to retaliate. Finally, all the Ming troops and horses from Shimen Mountain and Rufeng Mountain arrived.
There was silence in the continuous military formation, and the air of chilling filled the whole place. Even the civilian soldiers who were pushing carts to dig walls and fill trenches were intimidated by the momentum of the army, and they all remained silent with solemn expressions on their faces.
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Occasionally, the neighing of war horses cut through the empty wilderness and reached the ears of the soldiers, which seemed particularly beautiful.