Looking at an army advancing on the official road, Sun Chengzong's brows frowned.

This army is really strange. There are not many people. There are about 300 infantrymen passing by the official road in uniform steps, without looking sideways, silent. The young and cold faces, pairs of eyes that are sharply tempered by the wind and sand outside the gates, give people an unparalleled sense of oppression.

However, their equipment was really strange. They were wearing breastplate made of steel, shiny boots, meticulous backpacks, and the engineer shovel tied outside the backpack. These surprised Sun Chengzong, but what surprised him the most was the equipment configuration of these infantry soldiers.

The most common weapons such as shields, spears, crossbows, broken sabers, and muskets cannot even see a shadow. By the way, those infantrymen have a dog-legged scimitar that is more than one foot long on their waists. This scimitar is sharp enough, but isn't it too short for them to fight head-on on the battlefield?

Sun Chengzong was a little confused: "Champion Hou is also a soldier-knowing person? Why did he fight against Jiannu with such an army?"

Mao Yuanyi also shook his head. Although he was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, he really couldn't see what Liu Mingyu was doing. There was more than one strange army like this. He had just walked over one, and then passed another one. The number of this infantry unit was slightly larger, with about five hundred people.

The equipment exactly the same as the infantry unit in front is that it holds a flag and says it is directly under the engineering company of the Fourth Infantry Regiment of the Liu Family Army.

"Brother...please ask!"

Mao Yuanyi was puzzled by what kind of unit this engineer was, so he saw a person who looked like an officer and stopped him, took out his trust and waist sign, and showed his identity.

He is now the deputy general of the navy under Sun Chengzong, the general of Ji Liao. Looking at Mao Yuanyi's identity, the Liu family army officer raised his right hand and saluted Mao Yuanyi from a later generation: "In the lower house, Du Jingxian, the company commander of the Engineer Company directly under the Fourth Infantry Regiment of the Zhangwu Army!"

Mao Yuanyi asked, "What kind of military branch are you, an engineer?"

"We are a branch of the service that belongs to the logistics support of the baggage!"

After saying that, Du Jingxian saluted Mao Yuanyi and said, "I am in military affairs and it is inconvenient to stay for a long time. Please forgive me!"

Then, the engineer unit passed by, and another unit that made Sun Chengzong feel inexplicably strange appeared, because the troops were all composed of young girls. These girls had neither armor nor engineer shovels. They had a box with a red cross on their bodies, not even a dog-legged knife, and they were tied to their waists with a short knife about one foot long.

Sun Chengzong was a little unhappy and thought to himself that Liu Mingyu was also a famous general who had experienced many battles. With these infantry weapons, once the Jiannu's cavalry rushed over, what was waiting for them would be a one-sided massacre!

How could he make such a low-level mistake?

What made Sun Chengzong even more incredible was still behind. Whether it was the engineers or the female soldiers, after they left the city, they no longer marched on foot, but got on a carriage.

One carriage after another, I could not see the end at first glance.

Of course, I can't see it. A carriage from the Liu family army is about 18 feet long, and with the mule and horse drag device in front, a carriage is about 28 feet long. More than 6,000 carriages are lined up in two formations, which is more than 26 kilometers.

Seeing these carriages, especially almost all of them were equipped with single-case shields, so that the car city could be formed, Sun Chengzong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He was also a master of commanding troops in a side van like this. However, the problem was that the most elite Guanning Army in the entire Ming Dynasty had 128 chariots under one chariot, and a total of 17 chariots in the entire army, less than 900 chariots, or even less than one-seventh of the Liu family army.

This is the gap.

Mao Yuanyi bowed to Sun Chengzong and said, "Gei Master, it is not easy for Zhangwu Army to accumulate these wealth. The last general suggested that the Pavilion Master should stop the champion Hou and not fight hard with Jiannu, avoid the real and attack the virtual. The Ming Dynasty is now so elite soldiers, we can't afford to fight!"

Sun Chengzong looked at Mao Yuanyi and sighed: "Zhisheng (Mao Yuanyi's face) Do you know why you can only be a general, but not a general?"

Mao Yuanyi shook his head: "I won't understand!"

"You don't understand!"

Sun Chengzong said solemnly: "The reason why the Champion Hou fought with Jiannu wholeheartedly was to use this head-on method to smash the myth of Jiannu's "Juzhen is not satisfied with ten thousand, and cannot fight for it"! Since the rebellion, Jiannu has been invincible and has been invincible in every battle. He has a small tribe of a mere millions of people to fight against the Ming Dynasty with a population of over 100 million. It is because of this spirit. If they can knock out their spirit, they will know that they will be defeated and will be wiped out. If their spirit is defeated, even if they have several times more troops, it will not be a big deal!"

Mao Yuanyi did not understand at all. At the reminder of Sun Chengzong, he understood Liu Mingyu's true intention and suddenly realized: "Donghu, Xiongnu, Rouran, Xianbei, Turkic, Khitan, Jurchen, Xixia, Mongolia and Jiannu, for thousands of years, the most powerful stage of nomadic peoples was when their spirits were full of strength. They relied on this spirit and the angry horses and strong bows to stir up the wind and rain, destroying the once powerful empires, and making the entire earth tremble under their iron hooves. But once this spirit is destroyed or wiped out, their combat power will quickly deteriorate and eventually die!"

Sun Chengzong smiled and said, "If we can win this battle, Jiannu will be nowhere to die."

Mao Yuanyi said in confusion: "What if you lose?"

"If they fail, they will just live a few more years."

Sun Chengzong pointed to the surrounding Kuanhe City and laughed: "From the moment I saw Kuanhe, I knew that Jiannu's good life was over!"

War is still economic.

The Ming Dynasty was far inferior to Jiannu in terms of military combat effectiveness, but the Ming Dynasty was more than a hundred times stronger than Jiannu. The artillery of the Zhangwu Army, that is, the Liu Family Army, was very powerful. He had known this for a long time, but every time the Liu Family Army had to fight under the cover of the long spear formation. If it was independent, it would be easy to be defeated. Liu Ming could not know about this.

Fighting with Jiannu’s cavalry on the grassland, no matter whether it is a spear or a firearm unit, it cannot last long. The only thing that can be invincible is the chariots. The chariots are put together to form a huge chariot city. Faced with such a chariot, Jiannu is definitely a dog biting a hedgehog and has nowhere to go.

The Liu Jiajun's musket bureau is intensively producing the stock of musket fire tubes, which are installed together to form thirty-six gun barrels. This Thunder gun barrel is of good quality and has high chamber pressure resistance. It can hold more gunpowder, fire larger projectiles, and have greater power.

What surprised Liu Mingyu the most was that the musket system was getting further and further on the wrong path. They learned the firing principle of the mother cannon of the Folang machine and son, but did not create a gun that could be like bullets in later generations, but created a wheel similar to a revolver in later generations. This wheel was about three inches thick. There were thirty-six holes. The huge wheel was placed directly on the ground, poured in gunpowder, and stuffed into the gun, and the loading of the gun could be completed.

When it is necessary to fire, you only need to carry the turntable equipped with gunpowder and gun, buckle it on the tail of the Thunder gun, and screw it to death with a closed bolt to launch. Although there is no development along the development direction of firearms and machine guns, it has successfully improved the launch efficiency.
Chapter completed!