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The matter of new grain varieties and foreigners did not attract anyone's attention in the huge city of Beijing. However, Zhu Youxiao's inscription on Guangde Tower spread among the literati circles in the capital!
Many people have gone to Guangde Tower to see it. Although these people have different opinions on the ci itself, Zhu Youxiao's one-stroke calligraphy is widely praised. Many people even copied it on the spot to show their respect for the imperial pen. !
Of course, the big shots in the court would not pay attention to such trivial matters. What they were concerned about was that the little emperor sent a cavalry of two thousand people to the south. The little emperor had no intention of hiding this from anyone, so the entire capital paid attention to the little emperor. Everyone who moves knows it.
Someone from the Donglin Party went to Liu Yishen to get the purpose of this cavalry from Liu Yishuo. Liu Yishui did not hide this. He said to the people who came to inquire: "The Holy One said that he would give Surprise the obedient, and that cavalry is there to deliver surprises!¡±
The visitor asked: "Since it is a reward, why do we need to send cavalry?"
Liu Yishuo sneered: "Surprises no longer exist in the cavalry, but in the hands of Li Jinzhong, the cavalry is there to surprise!"
Liu Yishen then invited the guests out of the mansion and thanked the guests behind closed doors. He did not even leave the house except to go to court!
Although no one in Liu Yishen has disappeared, the news has been revealed enough. Countless people in the officialdom of the capital are writing and delivering letters. I don¡¯t know how many servants have been sent out to deliver letters to the south on flying horses!
Just when Beijing was bustling with life, a cavalry force of 30,000 people on the grassland was galloping like the wind on the grass that had just turned green!
Wherever this cavalry went, all the Mongolian camps were uprooted, old people and children were directly killed, young men and women were tied up in groups, and the Han slaves who had just been rescued were riding horses to herd their past. The master!
This is the Guards Cavalry led by Li Rubai, and the extra 4,000 people are the Datong First Army led by Cao Wenzhao!
Although the First Army of Datong is now considered the strongest army in the Nine Borders, compared with the Guards Cavalry, these domineering soldiers can't help but feel dwarfed by them. If nothing else, they are only equipped with the Guards Cavalry. It can¡¯t be compared!
The Guards Cavalry currently has 25,000 troops, all equipped with new sabers, hand crossbows, and steel cloth face armor. There were also five thousand people equipped with flintlock muskets, and the most important thing was that they also brought twenty Franco machine steel cannons!
This all-steel Folan machine gun cast by the firearms workshop of the Manufacturing Office has a body weight of 240 kilograms and is equipped with five all-steel muskets. An artillery piece of this weight can be mounted on a two-wheeled gun mount. A horse can pull it and run away.
Of course, the artillery must also be equipped with ammunition, so the people in the manufacturing office also built a four-wheel box truck. This box truck is actually very similar to Qi Jiajun's box truck, except that it is used to load gunpowder and shells, and can also drag the artillery. The box truck has no defense and can't even be attacked, otherwise it would be like a chicken flying egg!
The reason why Li Rubai brought this newly produced artillery out was actually to test the performance of the artillery. Even the people who operated the artillery were craftsmen sent by the manufacturing office!
At first, Li Rubai was not optimistic about this kind of thin artillery, and even thought that this kind of gun would explode as soon as it was fired.
However, when the new Franco machine steel cannon was put into battle, Li Rubai completely changed his view!
The rate of fire of a twenty-breath gun and the range of three and a half miles show unparalleled power in wild battles, especially when using blooming bullets. Although the range is shortened to one mile, the power is greater than that of solid bullets. Dozens of times more!
History records that before the Ming Dynasty's blooming bombs appeared in the Jiajing Dynasty, they used wrought iron to make a shell, leaving a hole, filling it with gunpowder, arsenic and other things, and adding cork and medicine twist.
When using it, you must first ignite the powder on the cannonball, then throw it into the muzzle, then quickly light the cannon and shoot the shell out. When the powder on the shell burns out, it will explode in the air and kill the enemy!
Of course, this kind of explosive ammunition has great disadvantages. It has a short range, low power, and is easy to explode. However, explosive ammunition represents the future of artillery, so Zhu Youxiao issued a huge reward to allow craftsmen to research safer explosive ammunition!
Of course, this kind of research cannot be completed in a short time, so the explosive bullets used in the new Folang machine gun are still old-fashioned ignition fuse explosive bullets!
??It¡¯s just that the shells currently used contain two kilograms or thirty-two ounces of gunpowder. The shells are also embossed when they are cast to ensure that the shrapnel is spread more evenly when the shell explodes!
The first time the Folang machine steel cannon and new explosive ammunition were used was when they encountered a large camp with three to four thousand people.??.
It was early in the morning. According to Li Rubai and Cao Wenzhao's plan, they would launch a large-scale raid and directly level the camp, but they encountered a very difficult problem!
Because the camp was built in a river bend, this place can be said to be surrounded by water on three sides, and there is no way to rush through it. It would obviously be unwise for the cavalry to turn back in the camp!
Just when Li Rubai and Cao Wenzhao were at their wits end, the artillerymen who accompanied the army requested to bombard them with artillery first, and then kill the fleeing Mongols!
Although Li Rubai and Cao Wenzhao had a distrustful attitude towards the Fo Lang machine steel cannon, which only weighed more than 200 kilograms, they could not think of any other way for the time being.
In fact, it¡¯s not that they couldn¡¯t defeat the camp, but they couldn¡¯t capture the Mongolian camp while retaining slaves and livestock as much as possible!
Otherwise, as long as the five thousand musketeers are placed at the entrance and exit of the river bend, no matter how many thousands of troops the opponent has, they will not be able to rush out. However, for the Ming army dedicated to robbery, the "loss" will be too great!
In desperation, Li Rubai and Cao Wenzhao could only listen to the craftsmen's opinions and advance to less than one mile of the Mongolian camp before dawn. Then, taking advantage of the darkness, they lined up twenty French steel cannons!
When the first ray of dawn descended on the earth, a thunderous roar sounded on the grassland, and then five orange-red flames exploded in the newly awakened camp!
Ten breaths later, there was another round of shelling. At this time, the Mongolian camp had completely exploded, but the Mongolians, who turned around with their heads covered, had not figured out what was going on. Another round of shells fell!
In this way, the craftsmen accompanying the army fired twenty rounds, and the Mongols in the camp collapsed. After grabbing the horses, many men directly jumped into the river to escape, and some people rushed out of the camp desperately. He soon fell under the muzzle of the Ming Army's musketeers!
When the sun fully rose, Li Rubai and Cao Wenzhao had entered this wealthy camp. Not only did they capture a large number of young people and livestock, rescued five hundred Ming people, they also harvested twenty boxes of gold, silver and jewelry!
Regarding these gold and silver jewels, Li Rubai and Cao Wenzhao had the same opinion, that is, they should be sent to the capital and dedicated to His Majesty the great emperor!
It was precisely because of this hearty victory that Li Rubai and Cao Wenzhao regarded the accompanying artillery team as a treasure. Not only were the artillery craftsmen invited to join the cart, but a young man was even assigned to each of them. Mongolian women serve!
Even the military police didn¡¯t say anything about this, because craftsmen are not soldiers, so they are not within the scope of military regulations. As long as they don¡¯t surrender to the enemy and run away, the military police don¡¯t care about other matters at all!
Of course, after the power of the Folang machine steel cannon was demonstrated, the military police with the army specially assigned a small flag to protect these craftsmen. Another meaning of this protection is that at the critical moment, none of these artillery and craftsmen can be left behind!
With strong soldiers, sharp weapons, and strict military discipline, the Ming army seemed to have returned to the Hongwu and Yongle periods, setting off huge waves of blood on the grasslands. Wherever the iron hooves passed, they took away slaves and wealth, leaving behind There are only burning tents and countless corpses!
The news of the Ming Dynasty¡¯s army sweeping up the grassland soon spread on the grassland, and the news became more and more fierce. In the mouths of many people, the Ming Dynasty¡¯s army was like the hungry ghosts in hell, leaving nothing behind wherever it went!
Under this atmosphere of terror, small tribes began to move closer to larger tribes, and the scattered Mongolian herdsmen gradually gathered together. Even their great Lin Dan Khan also received news!
Just when Lin Dan Khan was about to summon all the tribes to rob and kill this bold Ming army, new news came. The Ming army had already retreated towards Datong with more than 10,000 prisoners and countless livestock.
It was spring at this time, and the herdsmen had just survived the winter and needed to recuperate, and the livestock needed to take advantage of this time to fatten and breed. It was obviously not a wise move to start a war with the Ming Dynasty at this time, so although Lin Danhan smashed his beloved in anger, Gold goblet, but I can only bear this breath! (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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