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Chapter 139 The Battle of Three Rivers (Part 2)

Sanhe, Dachang.

After a long and severe winter, the Baoqiu River in Chaobai River finally resumed its flow, nourishing the long-dried Jingdong Plain.

The earth is still full of lifeless yellow, but if you bend down and look carefully, you will find that the hay is green and the tiny buds are quietly poking their heads out.

I believe that this ancient land will regain vitality in no time?

Suddenly, a horse's hooves were stomping on the ground, causing dry grass to fly around and smoke and dust to rise.

A huge cavalry rolled in like dark clouds from the direction of Chaobai River camp. Thousands of cavalry rolled over the plains, making the earth tremble!

They wore red tassels and iron hats with iron armor on their leather hats, blue foam nail cloth armor with iron armor on their backs, and arm armor on their arms. The Mongolian war horses with clear water under their crotch not only had saddles and belly belts, but even had leather armor with iron armor on their key parts of the horse.

Even if they abandon the triangular yellow dragon flag they held high, they can tell at a glance that they are the most elite ace troops of the Ming Emperor!

Yes, this is the three thousand battalions formed by Emperor Chengzu with three thousand Mongolian cavalry as the core! Although it has been renamed Shenshu Camp, it is still the most powerful cavalry force in the Ming Dynasty!

The 5,000 Zuoye cavalry of Shenshu Camp are moving to the designated position on the battlefield. After the war begins, they will join the 5,000 Youye cavalry and attack the rebels at the same time!

The task of attacking the middle lane was left to the famous Shenji Camp!

This most famous invincible army in the Ming Dynasty was the earliest pure firearm unit in the world. It was already famous all over the world during the Yongle period. Although it has experienced many ups and downs, it has always been the number one ace with the highest professionalism and the most powerful firepower in the Ming army!

Other troops think that the firing steps of muskets are cumbersome and easy to explode, so they tend to use simple and safe three-eyed guns... Even the Shenshu Battalion and the Fifth Military Battalion are no exception.

The Shenji Camp is not the case. They have always regarded themselves as the most powerful firearm unit, and of course they have to master the most advanced muskets.

Not only were they replaced with Longqing rifles many years ago, they also had a large number of light and heavy artillery, from the Folang machine, the Dafa Gong to the red-clothed cannon!

As the army with the strongest sense of honor in the three major battalions, the main task of the front attack was actively fought for by the Shenji Battalion. They had long wanted to meet the rebels, but they wanted to see who is the strongest pure firearm unit in the world!

The three major battalions and the first battalion are the five military camps with the largest number of people. They are field troops composed of elite troops selected from the various ministries and border towns. They are mainly infantry, auxiliary cavalry, and chariot troops.

The fifth army camp was responsible for protecting the Shenji camp and launched a general attack after the enemy's defense line was defeated to carry out the final harvest!

In addition, Yin Bingheng also has an elite dragon cavalry of tens of thousands of people as a strategic reserve team.

Well, Yin Junmen doesn’t know what the dragon cavalry is.

As we all know, in the battlefield of the cold weapons era, those with horses were more capable of fighting, while those without codes were much weaker.

Moreover, the Ming army had too weak cavalry and had to use firearms to fight against the ancestral craftsmanship of the Tartars. However, the tedious steps of loading muskets cannot be completed on horseback, and aiming is also a big problem.

Therefore, this compromise method was adopted. When marching, the infantry was on the horse, and then dismounted after entering the battlefield, and fought in the form of muskets.

Although I struggled a little, I finally could keep up with the rhythm of the Tartar cavalry, and the range of the musket could suppress the bow and arrow.

In addition, since Altan's tribute was granted, the Ming Dynasty could steadily obtain a large number of Mongolian war horses, so the border army and the Beijing camp were equipped with a large number of "dragoons"...

This is the troops and arrangements of Admiral Yin in this battle.

In fact, last night, he sent a team of cavalry from the Five Army camps to attack the enemy at night.

This is a routine routine when fighting with more and less. Even if the sneak attack cannot be successful, it can make the enemy worry and be exhausted all night, and be in a state of no state the next day.

However, the cavalry of the Five Army camps worked hard all night but could not break through the barbed wire that the rebels pulled outside the camp. In the end, they could only return with bruises and bruises...

I thought the rebels had been tossed all night and would definitely fall to bed today. Unexpectedly, as soon as the sky was dawn, the scouts discovered that the rebels had set up their camp again. At a constant speed, they slowly and firmly came to the Central Army camp established against Chaobai River.

There is no choice but to attack as planned!

The soldiers here.

Without scout reports, the rolling smoke and dust that had yellowed half of the sky in the distance, it would have already shown everything.

The duty officer immediately ordered the troops to step on the stairs, and then used the battalion as units to transform from the marching formation into dense square formations.

This is not a formation to welcome the enemy, but a commander who wants to speak out.

Queue training is the boy's skill of the soldiers. In a blink of an eye, ten thousand soldiers formed ten square tofu blocks with the commander's flag as the center.

Zheng Yiluan was wearing shiny horse boots and jumped onto a Yongle cannon, looking at his subordinates from all directions with a majestic look:

"Soldiers, we finally forced out the ace of the official army before the main force arrived!"

The officers and soldiers of the inner guard burst into laughter, and the security detachment was reluctant to laugh, but the basic militia could not laugh.

Because now, smoke and dust can be seen from all directions, and even faint thunder can be heard... It was the horse hooves of countless cavalrymen, shocking the earth!

Before, there was no shelter from trenches and artillery positions this time. How could they laugh when facing cavalry several times their own on this large plain?

"Are we so anxious to attack? No, we are not that narrow-minded!" The young soldiers heard the shameless Zheng Yiluan and continued: "Your generation has all grown up in the group school. The education we received since childhood is that we are the great Chinese nation and we must fight to protect our nation!"

"But now because of a tyrant and a single husband, we have to fight with our compatriots, which makes us very uncomfortable, and the commander-in-chief must be very uncomfortable!" Zheng Yiluan said loudly: "That is why the commander-in-chief instructed that the civil war cannot be delayed, and this war must be ended as soon as possible!"

"In my opinion, nothing can destroy the opponent's will to resist more than a battle that makes the enemy completely desperate!" As he said that, he pulled out his sword and shouted loudly: "In this battle, you will show your strongest combat power, the strongest fighting will, and the fearless spirit that is least afraid of sacrifice! For our nation, our country, and our compatriots, we will achieve the most shocking victory, and let's stop the war with war!"

"Stop the battle with war!" The soldiers roared and thundered.

"Long live the people!"

"Long live the people!" Amid the roar of unity, the battalion commanders commanded their respective troops to run and move outward.

After reaching the designated position, the nine battalions of square formations will scatter from dense formations into sparse hollow square formations.

But the middle square formation is solid because the headquarters and artillery camp positions are all located here.

In fact, the other eight battalions are not completely hollow, because they all have more than a dozen Xuande cannons and Hongxi cannons of their own artillery companies.

At the same time, the nine battalions formed a huge hollow square array.

The dust settled and the array was completed.

In comparison, the movements of the government troops were too slow. When their cavalry arrived in detour, the Shenji Camp arranged the chariot array and artillery skills, and the soldiers even took time to have a meal to avoid having time to have lunch when fighting.

The battlefield food is even more unstoppable. Each person only has one and a half pounds of canned beef, with high sugar and high salt energy biscuits, and a few pieces of sweet candied fruit.

How to use the umbrella to expand the chain?/

This set of soldiers' meals on the northern battlefield was OK at first, but after eating for a month, I would really vomit. If it weren't for the hot drink made from one person with a cup of orange powder, the soldiers would be too tired to eat...

But there were actually some scouts from the government army who witnessed the food of their soldiers from afar and went forward to surrender and demanded to join the rebels. I didn't understand what I was thinking.

But now on the battlefield, everyone is consciously eating it. This battlefield meal can support them in high-intensity battle for six hours.

Seeing that there was still some time, the commanders and soldiers polished the helmets and leather boots to a shiny look, and sorted out every detail of their bodies meticulously.

This damn ritual sense made the militia very jealous and learned it as well.

Unfortunately, people rely on clothes, while Buddha rely on gold. Their gray militia uniforms do not have hat badges or collars, and only pieces of cloth that identify the identity are sewn.

It is completely impossible to compare with the security detachment badges and the brown military uniforms with military boots and belts.

Not to mention the dazzling and cool outfit of the inner guard detachment was a black woolen coat on the top, white military trousers on the bottom, red collar and piping, golden buttons and hat badges, and the three to five rows of honors on the chest were slightly shining!

‘This is our trump card…’ No matter what, the militia were relieved after seeing it.

At this time, a rumbling sound of artillery sounded from the distance of the battlefield, but the artillery soldiers on the side had not fired yet.

Obviously, this is the red-clothed cannon of Shenji Camp that has taken the lead!

However, dozens of artillery shells roared hundreds of meters in front of the soldiers' formation, and none of them caused damage, but instead exposed the artillery positions of the government army.

"Distance 1430 to 1543 meters, direction 21 to 37 left..." The artillery battalion commander immediately observed the accurate firing position with the artillery mirror.

The artillery staff immediately used a trigonometric function to calculate the shooting elements, and each gunners adjusted the shooting angle of the artillery. Soon, forty Yongle cannons raised their heads one after another!

"Test-fire and fire the cannon!" The artillery battalion commander gave the order, and amid the rumbling cannons, several artillery pieces from different positions spoke in turn!

The artillery battalion commander stared at the landing point of the shells in the artillery mirror. He found that it was a little shallower. He knew it and ordered loudly: "The distance is 50, and each shot will be fired in turn!"

After a burst of continuous artillery sounds, all the shells fell into the artillery positions of the government army.

The artillery battalion commander waved his hand excitedly: "Four shots are rapid!"

The integrated steel cannon chamber can withstand greater explosion impact, greatly increasing the charge of the launching medicine, even if the effective range of the Yongle cannon reaches one kilometer!
Chapter completed!
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