Water Margin: I, Wang Lun, will have many children and many blessings in Liangshan.

"Set up your gun position!"

"Compact the gun mount!"

"Apply medicine!"

"Put in the pellets!"

"Compaction!"

"Put in the match rope!"

When Wu Er and Du Xing arrived, nearly 3,000 urgently mobilized infantry had already overtaken more than 300 Gaotang soldiers and surrounded the opponent. The trapped beasts were still fighting, and the more than 300 Gaotang soldiers had no idea or intention of surrendering..

They clenched the weapons in their hands, set up a complete attack array, and began to break out toward the northwest.

"This group of soldiers can be called elite."

Wu Song also did not hesitate to praise.

The more than 300 soldiers in front of him are indeed rare elite soldiers in the Song army.

They are tenacious, powerful, and courageous.

They are also very skilled.

The array method is also quite clever.

They used shrubs and sparse woodland to cover them. , kept charging forward.

The few Liangshan Army infantry formations that stepped forward to block were all repelled by these guys with sharp attacks.

Wu Er looked at it for a while, and there was indeed admiration in his eyes.

These more than three hundred Basically, they are all top-notch masters.

They are regarded as a role in the green forest.

Their skills are similar to those of Du Qian, Song Wan, Zhu Gui and others.

In other words, they are worse than serious heroes, but three or five people are just as good as others. A hero with Zhu Gui's skills can be defeated.

This is already very strong!

No wonder these more than 300 people can defeat the main force of Liangshan's minions twice, and there are also several Tiangang generals by the way.

But at this moment, Lian People also feel extremely strenuous.

The Liangshan army is cautious and cautious, and is not in a hurry to fight.

It just keeps blocking, shooting arrows, and narrowing the encirclement.

It is obvious that the army on the opposite side is familiar with the rhythm of the battle, and is not in a hurry to swallow the prey in one bite, and consumes as much as possible The prey's will, determination, and physical strength will disrupt the formation.

If this continues, these three hundred people will only become more and more tired and impatient under the siege of thousands of people.

And after dawn, there will definitely be a large number of The Liangshan cavalry rushed over to assist.

The possibility of breaking out and escaping would become less and less.

Under Gao Lian's order, more than 300 people began to trot forward with all their strength, trying to escape before the main force of the Liangshan army formed a formation or more reinforcements arrived. Open the gap and run away with all your strength.

Fortunately, the opposite side is also full of infantry.

As long as they break out of the encirclement, many people will still be able to escape.

At this time, the artillery team on the opposite side has been completed.

In an emergency, only More than forty people came and set up twenty-two small cannons.

Under the command of the artillery commander in charge, the gunners skillfully set up the gun positions, put in gunpowder, lead, and stuffed the muzzles. It was ready to fire at any time.

When Gao Lian and his men rushed forward, they saw more than 20 people holding artillery pieces less than a hundred paces away from 340. There were small artillery pieces in front of their feet, with the muzzle elevation facing them. When people were young, everyone including Gao Lian was in a daze.

"Oops……"

"Is this the rumored Liangshan artillery?"

At this time...

Gao Lian only had this thought in his mind.

He subconsciously raised the sword in his hand. Although Gao Lian was a civil servant, his martial arts skills were quite good. He would not suffer too much against Wu Er, at least dozens of The round can be fought.

But at this time, there are only artillery pieces on the opposite side. Where is the sword in his hand going to fall?

For a moment, this relatively brave magistrate of the Song Dynasty only had a look of confusion on his face.

Fortunately , , Gao Tangbing and Gao Lian still had the last courage.

They made terrifying shouts, waved various weapons in their hands, and rushed towards the artillery position opposite with all their strength.

……

The tiger crouching cannon is 2 feet long from head to tail, less than one meter.

There are 7 iron hoops added around its body, the cannon head is supported by two iron claws, and there is an iron trip. The total weight is 36 kilograms.

This kind of figure holding the ground and raising its head looks very majestic and powerful, like a big cat lying on the ground, hence the name"Tiger Squatting". Before each launch of the artillery, the cannon body must be fixed to the ground with large iron nails. Each launch can be loaded with 100 small lead or pebbles weighing 5 taels, and a large lead bullet or large stone projectile weighing 30 taels is used to top it. , when fired, large and small bullets fly out together with a roar like thunder. The lethality and radiation range are very large. It is especially suitable for field battles.

Qi Jiguang's tribe was good at using this cannon, because the Japanese troops were in infantry formations and had almost no cavalry.

The Japanese army's method of fighting was close combat with Japanese swords.

For the Ming army, hand-to-hand combat was quite terrifying and terrifying.

Because the Ming army in the south has not been trained for a long time, and there are not as many firearms as those in the north. The number of archers was originally 60 people per 100 households. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it would be good to have 20 military households per 100 households, and most of the military households fled..

The rest mainly farm, a small number are stationed in guard posts or cities, and have almost no training.

The generals in the south do not have as much wealth as the generals in the north, so they do not have retainers.

In addition, peace in the south has lasted for a long time, and 99% of the generals have not fought much.

Unlike the northern generals, from the Mongolian Emperor's Court to Grand Master Yexian, Grand Master Guilichi, and then to the little prince, Itu Khan, Tumen Khan, Lin Dan Khan... there has been no time to calm down.

Either fight Mongolia or go to Korea to fight the Japanese.

Or the Chenghua raids during the reign of Emperor Xianzong, and the Jurchens were attacked.

Anyway, the fighting basically never stopped.

The south... is basically peaceful.

Only during the reign of Emperor Xianzong did we sweep the seedlings, which was a large-scale operation with fruitful results.

So later the literati said that Xianzong was a foolish emperor. How should I put it? He was belittling the emperor with his personal ethics. He was simply out of his mind.

During the reign of Emperor Xianzong, the Ming Dynasty's national strength was not compromised, and the Chenghua expedition successfully wiped out the Jurchens, ensuring peace for the next 150 years.

Sweeping the southwest, shocking many Huguang and Sichuan chieftains.

Many chieftains, including the Ma family and the Qin family, as well as the Yungui chieftains, became the court's powerful help.

From then on, whether it was the crusade against Japanese pirates or the attack on Jurchens, these chieftains were on the front line.

It was not until the Apocalypse at the end of the Ming Dynasty and during the Chongzhen period that the Ming Dynasty's national power declined seriously, and major chaos such as the She'an Rebellion occurred. Nearly two hundred years before that, the chieftains of Southwest Sichuan had always been loyal and made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty.

Such an emperor, just because he likes a woman who is more than ten years older than him and is devoted to her, has become a faint king in the writings of civil servants.

It also leaves people speechless.

After Chenghua swept through the southwest, it can be said that the entire south of the Ming Dynasty was safe and sound for a hundred years.

Too much peace has caused the generals, troops, and weapons to tilt towards the north.

There are very few battalions in the south, 90% of the war horses are also deployed in the north, and the cavalry is basically all in the north.

In this way, the military equipment of the South will be extremely empty.

When the Japanese pirates appear... fifty Japanese pirates can land from Zhejiang and fight their way to the gates of Nanjing.

Thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed and injured.

Many coastal states and counties were plundered and even conquered.

At that time, Anda Khan was still wreaking havoc in the north, seizing Hetao and attacking the city of Beijing twice.

Emperor Jiajing had no choice.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty was still financially bankrupt and officials could not pay their salaries.

Jiajing only cared about his own spiritual cultivation, and also played power checks and balances on officials. The governance of the country can be said to be in a mess.

With the Japanese captives in the north and the south in the south, the finances were bankrupt, the army was powerless, and the people were in poverty.

Hai Rui's statement that every house is clean is no exaggeration.

The people of the world are not worthy of Your Majesty, and it is not an exaggeration.

Because what Hai Rui said was true, Jiajing knew it and in his rage, he did not kill Hai Rui directly.

But if Jiajing hadn't died soon, Hai Rui would still have been killed.

Because Jiajing was not a broad-minded emperor.

He is a scheming, narrow-minded, ruthless and incompetent emperor who plays tricks on people's hearts.

Later, some people always boasted about Jiajing's power and intelligence, and that he was the emperor who had the most complete control over the court in the Zhu family after Lao Zhu.

Even if it's true, what's the point?

It is true that the Ming Dynasty almost collapsed during the Jiajing period.

If you are really smart, you will not govern the country like that.

It was Qi Jiguang, generals such as Yu Dayou who really rose up to save the situation, Gao Gong in the court, and outstanding civil officials such as Zhang Juzheng.

It can be said that in the past three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, apart from the Huaixi Group at the founding of the People's Republic of China, the period from the end of Jiajing to the beginning of Longqing and the beginning of Wanli was also the thirty years when talents were most brilliant.

In addition to Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, there are many outstanding figures in the civil service including Yan Song, Xia Yan, Xu Jie, Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, Hu Zongxian, Tan Lun and so on.

There are also generals such as Ma Fang and Li Chengliang.

Stars twinkle!

Zhang Juzheng succeeded Gao Gong, followed by Shen Shixing and others, and improved the method. It was an extremely successful reform.

The so-called reforms in China had all failed before Zhang Juzheng.

Including the most famous Wang Anshi's reform also failed.

Only Zhang Juzheng succeeded. During his more than ten years in power, many reforms were made to address current shortcomings. When Zhang Juzheng came to power, the Ming Dynasty was riddled with holes. After his death, the Ming Dynasty had 20 to 30 million stone valleys, hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, and millions of people. Two cash deposits.

There is also an efficient bureaucratic team and generals who are good at recruiting and fighting to guard the border. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

The decades of decline that followed Ming Dynasty’s succession from Jiajing were ended.

Qi Jiguang created an invincible army with the support of outstanding civilian officials.

The squatting tiger cannon in front of him is also a sharp weapon in Qi Jiguang's hand.

Unlike the Ming army that later went astray, Qi Jiguang paid attention to practicality in making firearms.

Unlike the Ming army a few decades later, the artillery was getting bigger and heavier, and it was more powerful, but there was no way to push it to the battlefield to participate in field battles.

Artillery that cannot fight in the field and can only defend the city has its effect directly halved.

The artillery that cost a lot of money to cast became dead.

However, Qi Jiguang only cast two types of firearms in large quantities.

The first is the Crouching Tiger Cannon. This small artillery weighs only thirty-six kilograms. Without the bracket, the iron nail only weighs thirty kilograms.

A gunner can pick it up and fly away.

Another man followed with gunpowder pellets.

Go to the battlefield and smash in the iron nails, put the bracket in place, and launch at an elevated angle.

It can be operated by two people and can fire several rounds per minute. It is easier to control and more convenient than the Hongyi cannon, and it is more useful on the battlefield.

This is the good stuff that really works.

The bows and arrows of the Japanese army seemed to be grown, but their power was incomparable to that of Qing bows.[]

They are good at charging and fighting hand to hand with Japanese swords.

The Ming army in the south was afraid, so Qi Jiguang's troops used the tiger crouching cannon, a sharp weapon, to carry out large-scale damage to the Japanese army.

Another sharp weapon is the imitation bird gun.

It was not shameful for Qi Jiguang to imitate the Japanese cannons. The Japanese also imitated the Portuguese.

The imitation bird gun was personally supervised by Qi Jiguang and was made with twenty kilograms of Fujian iron. It was not comparable to the crude fire gun made in the later Tianqi and Chongzhen years.

The squatting tiger cannon, fire blunderbuss, and wolf cannon can restrain the enemy's Japanese sword charge.

Qi Jiajun often uses this combination to create extremely beautiful exchange ratios.

Thousands of Japanese pirates were killed and tens of thousands captured. Qi's army suffered no more than a hundred casualties.

There was even a time when there were only seven casualties.

It is no longer a symmetrical war.

The same is true for the battlefield in front of me.

Wu Er and Du Xing stood behind the artillery array, Wu Er had a complicated look on his face.

He originally wanted to go straight up with the knife.

As a result, he was stopped by Duxing.

If Ikubo was here, the two of them should have rushed over with their elite troops.

Spear array, swords, swords, crossbowmen, thousands of people can't defeat three hundred people?

But Duchenne can't do it.

Twenty-two Tiger Crouching Cannons were urgently mobilized. The gunners rushed over with the cannons in their arms. Within a few minutes, they placed the artillery array in front of the enemy, waiting for the enemy's arrival.

By the time the enemy is seen within a hundred steps, the matter is over.

This was the choice of the best Ming army general hundreds of years later. Du Xing didn't know Qi Jiguang, but he knew that this small artillery was ordered by the boss, and it proved to be very easy to use.

The Gaotang soldiers on the opposite side had distorted expressions and ran forward with all their strength.

The weapons in their hands are also quite mixed, but the array is still relatively intact.

Able to maintain battle formations with weapons in hand and charge bravely, this group of Gaotang soldiers indeed demonstrated extraordinary combat power and qualities.

But Duxing just smiled coldly.

Then he waved his hand suddenly.

The gunners of the twenty-two squatting tiger cannons lit the matches one after another.

The matchlock of the muzzle fuse emitted an orange-red light, and then burned out quickly.

The propellant in the rear of the gun was ignited.

The huge recoil force caused the body to vibrate suddenly.

The original gunpowder could not withstand the thirty kilograms of artillery, so there were seven iron slaps on the barrel to secure the gun body, and large iron nails were used at the tail to fix the gun position.

Otherwise, the small artillery rolls directly after one shot, fearing that it may also hurt one of its own people.

Nowadays, granular black gunpowder is used, and the effect is even more amazing.

Thunderous bombardments sounded one after another.

The Tiger Crouching Cannon does not shoot horizontally, but at an elevated angle.

This is somewhat similar to later mortars.

Of course, the two are two different things.

There was a larger lead bullet at the muzzle. After being fired, it reached the opposite military formation instantly.

A three-liang cannonball instantly collapsed the chest of a Gaotang soldier. There was a huge cracking sound of bone cracks, and the man's internal organs were directly smashed. His eyes turned white, and it was directly He fell to the ground dead.

Situations like this also happen one after another.

Almost all of the more than twenty large lead pieces were missed.

There were only a few that hit the edge of the shrubs, but countless low trees were broken. One hit directly on a small branch as thick as a fist, and the small tree was suddenly cut into two pieces in the air.

Such power frightened Gao Tangbing and Gao Lian himself who were in the attack.

But that's just the beginning.

Next, a hundred small three-cent lead bullets sprayed out from each muzzle.

Although it is small, it is almost the same as a lead bullet.

There were more than twenty artillery pieces, and more than two thousand pieces of lead were sprayed out at this moment.

It formed a huge fan.

The original Tiger Crouching Cannon was a weapon capable of killing people at close range.

The main reason is that whether it is Japanese soldiers or Han pirates, the armor coverage rate is shockingly low.

Qi Jiguang's Crouching Tiger Cannon is not very powerful, but it doesn't feel too good to kill ordinary people who are defenseless at close range.

How did the Qi Jiajun's casualty ratio of tens and hundreds to thousands and tens of thousands come from?

It was a one-sided massacre similar to the situation before us.

Asymmetric war mode.

The eyes are more asymmetrical.

The twenty-two squatting tiger cannons used granular black powder, which more than doubled their power.

The shrubs, small trees, and even taller weeds in front of me were all cut off in an instant!

It is the Gaotang soldiers who bear the brunt more!

At least two-thirds of them were only fifty or sixty steps away after the impact. Even if they were wearing armor, they were flattened like grass and trees under such bombardment.

Countless screams and howls sounded one after another, and the blood flowers were like blood mist spreading layer by layer, covering the small battlefield!

"Well……"

Gaotang Zhizhou Gao Lian bore the brunt of the attack. His chest was smashed and his throat was pierced. This brave civil official Zhizhou widened his eyes, as if he was still unwilling to accept that he had ended like this!

It is not terrible to lose this battle, nor is it terrible to annihilate the whole army.

The scary thing is that he was beaten to death without even seeing the enemy's face clearly!

In a strong mood of reluctance, Gao Lian died without struggling for a long time.

Beside him, more than 300 Gaotang soldiers also fell one after another.

After three rounds of bombardment, no one was left standing.

"reinvented laterSuch a new firearm, I'm afraid there will be no place for heroes like us.……"

Looking at the bloody and tragic battlefield, Wu Er also sighed sincerely.

Du Xing smiled and said:"Fortunately, we are with the master and will never face these terrible weapons.""

Người mua: Ryan