Jingdu is deeply saddened by thousands of years of injustice, but the loyal soul can never be restored once it is gone.
When the country is destroyed and the body is destroyed, what will happen now? Only Li Sao is left in the world.
During the Dragon Boat Festival that year, Zhang Cheng accompanied his wife Ji Xuanzhu in his mansion. He looked at the fragrant rice dumplings on the table and asked, "Madam, do you know how to eat these rice dumplings to make them most delicious?"
Ji Xuanzhu replied without hesitation: "Would you like to eat it while it's hot?"
"No, I'll feed it to you."
Snail wishes all book friends a healthy Dragon Boat Festival and spend more time with your family!
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Yang Guozhu, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu Town, rode forward on horseback. Guo Yingxian, a soldier in the army, caught up with him and rode with him. He said to him: "Handsome, the vanguard seems to have rescued the West Shimen, but we haven't seen the Tatars yet."
Yang Guozhu raised his eyes and looked at the mountains and hills on both sides of the mountain road, which were covered with weeds as tall as a person, and said: "The less movement there is, the more careful we must be.
Send an order to He Zhenxiong: the front troops should not move in a hurry, be careful of Tatar ambush, and then send elite cavalry to go up the slopes of the mountains on both sides to cut grass and scare the rabbits."
From the moment he entered this mountain road, Guo Yingxian intuitively felt something strange. His army had gathered from Songshan Mountain and moved in here. It was impossible for the Tatars to be unaware of such a big movement.
But now there was no sign of a Tartar thief, not even a Tartar thief's sentry rider. How could he not panic?
Yang Guozhu raised his whip and pointed at the mountain on the right, saying: "Send someone to send an order to Kuang Yongzhong and tell him not to spread his troops too far, lest the Tatar bandits arrive suddenly and fail to form a formation to fight."
After ordering the soldiers to gallop away, he shouted loudly: "My sons, please cheer up. We will meet the Tatars later, but we must not ruin the reputation of our Western Army!"
Suddenly, there was a sudden movement on the mountains to the east. Guo Yingxian looked around with wide eyes, only to see that the flag of the guerrilla Kuang Yongzhong over there was moving quickly, running from the southeast to the northwest slope.
Then a white square flag kept swaying on the hillside, and the white tiger embroidered on it was clearly visible. Before Guo Yingxian could scream, Yang Guozhu shouted: "Quick, the whole army is ready. Lao Guo, return to the army quickly."
, the whole team is on standby.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a cloud of smoke rising from the mountain road in front of him. In the smoke, there were several Ming soldiers galloping forward. Before Yang Guozhu could give the order, dozens of elite cavalry rode forward to meet him.
They fanned out to the two wings, leaving the mountain road in the middle to allow the Ming army to come over. They ran straight to Yang Guozhu's horse, then stopped, and reported with a slight breath: "Commander, the front army encountered Tatar thieves.
Now we are engaged in battle. How can we, the guerrillas, beg for help from the commander-in-chief?"
"How many men and horses do the Tatars have? How many are they on foot and on horseback?" Yang Guozhu asked.
A flag commander reported: "Commander, it is roughly estimated that there are four to five thousand Tatar thieves, with hundreds of elite cavalry inside. Why are the guerrillas already in formation and waiting for the enemy. Please lead the troops to the rescue."
Yang Guozhu waved to Guo Yingxian and said to him: "Old Guo, hurry up and assemble your team. Lead the cavalry from the hills on the left to the front and attack the right wing of the Tatars."
After receiving the order, Guo Yingxian was about to leave. He seemed to suddenly remember something. He turned around and asked again: "Master, I will leave you another thousand cavalry to protect the Chinese army."
"No need!" Yang Guozhu said flatly.
Seeing his refusal, Guo Yingxian said unwillingly: "How about leaving five hundred?"
Yang Guozhu said resolutely: "No, you go to rescue the front army quickly without delay."
Guo Yingxian had no choice but to turn around and run towards the cavalry formation. Yang Guozhu looked at the flags on the ridge on the east side, and it seemed that Kuang Yongzhong's troops had already formed their formation.
He called an ordering soldier and said: "Send the order to Tang Xiancheng and order him to form a formation and march quickly to the mountains to the east to help Kuang Yongzhong fight the Tatar bandits."
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The lookouts from the Shenji Battalion ran up to a stone platform on a mountain ridge, holding a viewing tube, also known as a telescope, and looked at the mountains ahead. They seemed to quickly determine the locations of several piers and platforms, and at the same time selected the location for the bombardment.
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As early as the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Catholic Jesuit missionary Tang Ruowang presented a monocular telescope to Emperor Chongzhen. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was shocked that it was a military artifact, and immediately organized efforts to copy it in large quantities.
The manufactured telescopes, called telescopes or telescopes according to the Ming Dynasty tradition, were first equipped in the various armies of the Beijing camp. Needless to say, the Shenji camp was definitely the first priority.
The sight tubes held by these lookouts are all well-made, made of fine copper, and sparkle in the sun.
The Shenji Battalion led by Chen Jiugao originally followed Li Fuming's Shanxi troops, but the mountain road became narrower and narrower, and the army's march slowed down, so the Shenji Battalion caught up with them.
Their main artillery position was located on a protruding hilly highland, facing the Qing army's Empress Temple station.
The mountains there are not high and the slopes are flat and gentle, making it easy to attack and difficult to defend. It will be the main attack area of the Ming army in the early stage.
This place is nearly two miles away from the Qing artillery station at the Empress Temple. Fu Yingchong bullied the Qing army into not placing red cannons at the Empress Temple artillery position, so they could not hit him. Even the cannons on the main ridge of the Qing army were only four miles away from him.
Many... are equally difficult to hit.
However, safety measures still need to be in place just in case.
As early as when the Ningyuan armies were training together, Zhang Cheng, Chen Jiugao and Fu Yingchong discussed how to fire iron cannons shot by artillery.
He came up with a trick for the two of them, which was to stack linen bags and baskets filled with soil in front of his artillery array and in the surrounding empty space, or even turn up all the surrounding land.
When turned loose and soft, it also has the function of shooting cannonballs and jumping.
At this time, Hong Chengchou's Chinese army was located on a hill, less than two miles away from Chen Jiugao's artillery array.
Governor-General Hong Chengchou, Commander-in-Chief Zhang Ruoqi, Governor Qiu Minyang, and other generals such as Ma Shaoyu, as well as Zhang Cheng, Liu Zhaoji, etc., all gathered curiously on the hill to watch the artillery arrangements of the Shenji Battalion.
When he saw Chen Jiugao laying sacks and earthen baskets in front of the artillery array, Zhang Cheng smiled and sighed in his heart: "Brother Chen, I am really a model of learning and applying. I have not forgotten what I have done to you."
He reminded me of this!"
Although the Xuanbei military vehicle camp under the control of Wei Zhice also had many artillery pieces, they were all small Franconian cannons. Now looking at those huge Hongyi cannons, his eyes were full of desire and jealousy, and he wished he could get all of these cannons.
Go to the car camp.
In fact, the Yunzhou Craftsman Camp of the Xuanbei Army also made this red barbarian cannon, but Zhang Cheng renamed it "Hongyi Cannon".
The barbarian-blasting cannon manufactured by the Yunzhou Craftsman Camp of the Xuanbei Army weighed more than 2,400 kilograms and could shoot at a distance of up to five miles. It was quite accurate at a distance of three miles. Six such cannons were built before the expedition to Liaodong.
However, because of its inconvenience in moving, each cannon requires about six strong mules to pull. If it is pulled by oxen, each cannon also requires three strong oxen. Moreover, the number is too small to form a concentrated fire.
Zhang Cheng did not bring the power of Liaodong.
Even so, Wei Zhice, who was surrounded by more vehicles than artillery in the camp, was still envious of the mighty general cannons on the Shenji camp's artillery array in the distance.
However, he also knew that although this cannon was very intimidating, it was also too heavy. He thought to himself: The commander-in-chief has ordered the craftsman camp to develop a four-wheeled artillery carriage. I don’t know what it will be like after it is completed. What does it look like?
Just as his mind was flashing, the cannons on the distant artillery array had been deployed. On the high ground, thirteen Divine Power General Cannons and twenty-five large-caliber mortar cannons were lined up.
There are also some other artillery, which are also arranged less than half a mile in front of the artillery position here, for the purpose of preventing the enemy. The small artillery array there can go forward to bombard the enemy, and can also block the incoming enemy.
As for rocket vehicles and other portable firearms, the shooting distance is usually three hundred steps or one mile, but this is far from the time to launch.
Large rockets such as the Divine Fire Flying Crow also depend on the direction of the wind, otherwise they will not be able to shoot two miles away. The range of small-caliber mortars is only a little over one mile, and they are also not deployed for the time being.