1863, I came to the battlefield, but no one returned
Hu Qing didn't understand poetry, but he could recognize 800 common words. He went to night school to learn it so that he could understand military orders and documents when he was a corps commander and team leader.
He couldn't understand Tuanzuo's poems.
"Tuanzu, is the war about to begin?" Hu Qing asked.
"Well, I don't know when, it may be the next moment, or it may be a few days later, the Heshuote army will rush over. You must be vigilant at night and don't sleep secretly. If you miss the big event, you will be beheaded." Zhao
Said quite seriously.
Hu Qing immediately put his legs together and said loudly: "Don't worry, regiment. This time we have recruited the best militiamen. They are all veterans. They have fought against bandits and rebels. We guarantee that there will be no problems."
Zhao Ting nodded and took his staff to inspect elsewhere.
In the early morning, the sentry on duty was holding a steel crossbow and walking back and forth behind the camel wall.
I can't walk around because my feet are freezing.
Winter nights in the wilds of Xinjiang are very cold. As long as you don't move, your toes will become numb from the cold.
The thermal insulation effect of their own leather boots is far inferior to the felt boots of the Northeastern Corps.
Hu Qing wrapped his military coat tightly and was sleeping on the camel. The camel's fur is thick and it is very warm to sleep on. The sentry will change guard every half an hour. Everyone else can sleep.
Suddenly, he heard the sound of the earth shaking from the hollow pillow.
These auxiliary soldiers are farmers in Yang Fan's territory, and they have been issued hollow cowhide floor pillows. This kind of Mongolian good stuff is specially promoted by Yang Fan. Whether it is cavalry or infantry, as long as there is a large troop movement, they can listen.
arrive.
He sat up all of a sudden. His expression changed, and he suddenly stood up and began to look around.
There was so much mist in the distance that nothing could be seen and the sound of horse hooves could not be heard.
But the pillow shows that 10,000 people are less than two miles away.
At the same time, other team leaders also stood up.
The team leader next door, Wang Dacheng, took out a monocular telescope he bought at his own expense and opened it to observe. Now, militia officers of Yang Fan's system are also eligible to buy monocular telescopes. However, they must not be lost or resold, and must be registered.
Product number.
Soon squadron leader Li Deli also arrived.
"As we approach 10,000 cavalry, please notify the regiment and supervise the troops immediately. Everyone should prepare for battle." Li Deli shouted loudly. The messengers immediately ran towards the Chinese Army's Camel City.
Others hurriedly began to open ammunition boxes and prepare muskets for the camel cannon. Others quickly put on cotton armor, leather armor, and pierced armor. Some with muskets began to charge the muskets.
The Chinese Army's Tuocheng is stationed with the Third Pirate Regiment and the Chinese Army's tent.
At this time, a loud bugle sounded.
The Chinese Army Camel City was buzzing with people. Apparently, everyone there also got up and formed a team.
A nest car was erected. It was a simple marching nest car with a steel tube folding structure. It was usually towed by three camels for marching. This kind of nest car has a simple structure, is strong and durable, is very light, and can be deployed quickly.
This is the only command platform assigned to the pirate group before setting off.
On the ten-meter-high platform, acting regiment leader Zhao Ting, military supervisor Li Ningguo, military police captain Hou Xian, and staff leader Liping all took out their binoculars and began to observe the enemy's situation.
"Let the auxiliary troops retreat. After all, they are not professional soldiers." Zhao Ting ordered.
"The auxiliary troops retreated to the second line and used steel crossbows to launch weapons to support the first line."
The Third Pirate Regiment mainly operates eagle cannons and other light French cannons on the ship's side rotating brackets.
The camel cannon is very easy to use. It is basically a ship's side cannon.
When the French fleet used the small rotating cannon on the side of the ship to bombard the Egyptian Mamluk soldiers, they were discovered by the Mamluk soldiers, so they copied it and creatively installed it on the back of a camel.
This idea opened up and immediately allowed Mamluk soldiers to run rampant in the Middle East.
After all, in this era, maneuverability with heavy firepower has always been a problem. Other Arabs, Ottoman Turks, and Persians immediately followed suit. They imitated this light artillery derived from the ship's side eagle cannon.
So in less than fifty years, camel cannon was spread to India. In one hundred years, it was spread to the Mongolian Junggar tribe in the desert.
Later, Galdan fought with Kangxi, killing and wounding many Manchu kings, Beile and Beizi with camel cannon.
However, Kangxi had field heavy artillery, which was the red cannon.
The Camel Cannon and Camel City are not enough.
Tuocheng was hit with thirty-six pounds of lead bullets, leaving blood and flesh flying everywhere. It was so horrific that Galdan retreated in defeat.
The pirates rushed out of the squadron and quickly took over the outer camel city.
They all took control of the revolving camel cannon mounted on the back of the camel.
Others began to load their flintlock rifles.
The four battalions of militiamen who had withdrawn formed four square formations of five people in columns and a hundred people in rows on the western front. They squatted on the ground collectively and began to cock the steel crossbows.
These steel crossbows with charging handles are very easy to cock because there is a pulley block inside the receiver.
The pulling force is all above twelve forces, which is equivalent to the entry-level level of the Tiger Bow. As long as the arm has strength, it can be adjusted to a maximum of fifteen forces. This is already the intermediate and advanced drawing force of the Tiger Bow.
If there is no pulley block to save effort, you need to use foot pedals and waist strength to pull the winding string. This greatly reduces the rate of fire.
Now, you just need to pull the charging handle from the beginning to the end. You can cock it with one hand. This kind of steel crossbow has a rifle butt, and the shoulder shooting is very stable. It can be thrown much further than the big bow. It also has a front sight.
The door is aimed at three points and one line when shooting horizontally, which is very accurate.
In the distance, the Heshuote cavalry stirred up dust all over the sky. They stopped a mile away and did not attack directly. Because they believed that the other party was Yang Fan's main force.
They themselves don't have enough troops. They have the intention to hold Yang Fan back.
Only by waiting for Altyn Mountain's army to return can they launch a devastating blow to Yang Fan's partial army.
Zhao Ting looked at it for a while and smiled.
Now it's like a weakling fighting a wolf, and both sides are scared.
Zhao Ting only had one regiment of soldiers, but there were nearly three regiments on the opposite side. He did not dare to attack, and they also thought that his troops were several times theirs and they did not dare to attack.
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"Let the front row camel cannon fire and hit them first." Zhao Ting ordered.
If you don't fire, it will make them confused, so you have to fire.
Five hundred meters is the ultimate range, but it's barely reachable.
After receiving the order, the pirates immediately found the solid spherical bullets.
Take the fixed ammunition out of the box and put it into the gun. Then put the gun into the open rear barrel, rotate it sideways, and screw the screw in front of the gun into the screw in the barrel.
This combination is similar to the locking device of later generations. It has a certain effect on sealing when shooting, and can shoot farther.
Isma is from Brunei. As the team leader, he pierced the ignition port of the gun with a steel needle and then inserted a flame tube into it.
"Kabu, Kuroiwa Ichiro, you two raise the breech of the cannon, and I'll take aim." Isma said in blunt Ming Dynasty Mandarin.
The rotary camel gun can rotate up, down, left and right, so it requires two people to lift the tail of the gun and one person to aim with the rear sight and front sight.
Isma saw a man who looked like an officer on a white horse, coming out of the ranks of the Heshuotes, running in front of the cavalry formation, shouting loudly, as if to boost morale.
"It's you, you hit the muzzle yourself." Isma murmured.
He aimed the cannon at him, measured the advance, and then jerked the firing tube.
With a squeaking sound, the fire tube ignited and quickly ignited the propellant powder.
There was a loud bang. The camel cannon spewed out flames and thick smoke.
A one-pound solid shot ball whizzed towards the nobleman riding the white horse.