At the foot of Baishan Mountain, arrows are like locusts.

Three to four thousand warriors in front of the tent, behind hundreds of carriages, formed ten square formations. Under the command of the generals of each battalion, they began to attack the Han warriors who were forty or fifty steps away in waves.

Shoot feather arrows.

Guitu Taiji, who was inserted into the Han tribe, also went to the front line, leading more than a thousand armored cavalry to escort more than 10,000 armed herdsmen, and used the Mongolian soft bows to weakly throw arrowheads to counterattack.

The arrows from both sides came and went, and they were almost as dense as raindrops. Soon, a large piece of white hair was planted in front of the formation of the two armies, which looked like a heavy snowfall.

Although the arrows shot like rain, the losses on both sides were not great. The lethality of bows and arrows cannot be compared with that of fire guns. The lead bullets shot by fire guns really penetrated into the flesh. In these days, that was

Ten dead and no life!

And if arrowheads are stuck on the body, even if there is no iron armor to protect the body, it is not necessarily dead or disabled. Wearing a few layers of cowhide and sheepskin robes and placing wooden plaques on the vital parts of the body can still sustain a few arrows.

Therefore, the herdsmen of the Han tribe, who had no armor and no good bows and arrows, were able to withstand the dense rain of arrows shot by the soldiers in front of the tent, and they were still able to fight back.

If you just look at the scene, you won’t be at any disadvantage if you join the Han tribe!

The condescending Lindan Batur finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene... He doesn't seek a big victory now. The idea of ​​taking over Datong and the rise and fall of the Yuan Dynasty are all lies to deceive the people below. How can he win from the Zhu family?

The emperor pocketed hundreds of thousands of taels of market reward every year, and he was content to be the "Western Khan" in the Tumote River.

The battle at Baishan Mountain is, to put it bluntly, a war to seek peace. No matter how the battle ends, it will be a bargaining chip for future peace negotiations! For Lin Dan Batur, it doesn't matter if he can't win, as long as he doesn't lose badly.

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Because as long as he can fight evenly with the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he will have the capital to ask for money... Because the emperor of the Ming Dynasty still has to fight against Hou Jin Tiancong Khan, so it is impossible to stay in Datong for a long time!

So with the fight like this, Lin Dan Batur felt that he still had a bargaining chip in his hand...unless the Ming Emperor could beat him away from the Baishan Mountain in three strokes, five divisions, and two.

And this is impossible!

Even if the young emperor Zhu Youjian learns the Jianzhou Jurchen's Chariot Chariot tactics, it is unlikely that he can break his Gulieyan defense. After all, Zhu Youjian's soldiers are few, only twenty or thirty thousand.

"Okay, it's over here! This seat is good...here comes someone!" Zhu Youjian moved forward another hundred or dozens of steps at this time, and was already twenty or thirty steps behind the carriage line.

Then he looked around, nodded, and started yelling.

It's not very safe here. From time to time, exhausted arrowheads are falling from the air. The two bodyguard leaders, Wu Sangui and Hei Wentao, are already looking at the falling arrows from time to time, with beads of sweat on their foreheads.

Although Zhu Youjian is wearing heavy armor that is impossible for arrows to shoot through, his "dragon face" is smooth and he is not wearing a face shield. If there is a feather arrow and he shoots it skillfully, he will shoot an arrow.

Face-piercing... Because the two of them were concerned about Zhu Youjian's safety, they didn't hear the young emperor's call. Zhu Youjian roared again before the two of them reacted.

"Long live the Lord, are you going to use black guns again?"

"Long live my lord... don't take action yourself, let me and your uncle teach the Tatars a lesson for you!"

Both of them were afraid that Zhu Youjian would be hot-headed and get into the rain of arrows to shoot black guns!

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhu Youjian was not happy, "What does it mean to use a black gun? I am the emperor and I have always been upright and upright!"

Yes, can the emperor secretly shoot a gun and call it a black gun?

Wu Sangui and Hei Wentao realized that they had made a mistake and hurriedly wanted to dismount and kowtow to apologize, but were stopped by Zhu Youjian. "Hurry up and send the order and bring all the generals and artillery to me!"

Wu Sangui and Hei Wentao said to themselves while receiving the order: The emperor really stopped using black cannons and instead used black artillery. This is to kill the tiger and the rabbit Dun Khan!

"Your Majesty," Hei Wentao volunteered, "I also learned how to shoot artillery when I was in Shanhaiguan. How about I come to command for you..."

Zhu Youjian glared at Hei Wentao: "What do you know about cannon shooting? Do you know what range measurement is? What is the shooting angle? What is ballistics? How much gunpowder should be loaded for what kind of cannonball to hit the target at how far?"

Ah? What do you mean?

Hei Wentao was dumbfounded when he heard it... It was just a slap in the face. Is it that complicated? What did Long Live Master say?

Seeing that he couldn't answer, Zhu Youjian asked again: "Then can you build a fort?"

"I know a little bit..." Heiwen Tao replied, "I just dig soil and pile up forts..."

Zhu Youjian nodded, "Then you go to Man Gui's place and ask for camp troops. Bring your shovels and come over to dig the soil and build the base."

Yes, he is a good general, but now he has become a country master.

Wu Sangui and Hei Wentao did not dare to persuade them any more, so they had to receive Zhu Youjian's general order to mobilize the artillery and personnel. After about half an hour, one after another "black artillery" was pushed up by the gunners under the jurisdiction of Datong Zhenbiao.

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These "black cannons" are the so-called general cannons. They are actually smoothbore cannons, either front-loaded or rear-loaded (like Lang cannons). Most of the guns weigh between one and two thousand kilograms. When fighting in the field,

These cannons are generally placed on a three-wheeled gun mount called a rolling car - this is really an imaginative design! Because the gun mount is three-wheeled, the recoil generated by each shot

, can make the cannon retreat a long way. In order to offset this recoil, it is necessary to use iron claws, iron tripping and other things to fix the cannon to the ground, and at the same time, earth must be piled behind the cannon to build a fortress to block the cannon.

In addition, the earthen rampart piled behind the cannon can also protect the gunner from being injured by the explosion of the cannon...

In addition to the two shortcomings of unreasonable gun mount design and perfunctory cannon casting technology, the poor quality of the Ming army's artillery was the third reason why their cannons could not exert their power.

Masturbation is a technical job!

Measuring distance, calculating ballistics, calculating angle of attack, calculating charge... and even preparing propellant are all knowledge.

However, few people studied this knowledge in the Ming Dynasty. Civil servants did not understand it, and generals did not care. It was left to the artillerymen below to play with themselves. If it was okay to fight every day, I was afraid that the art of artillery would be lost as time went by.

Fortunately, Zhu Youjian is knowledgeable. Of course, he has no practical experience, but he still knows some knowledge from books. So now he can personally command more than a dozen general cannons pulled out from Datong Town...

Seeing these cannons, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but frown!

Needless to say, they were shoddily made, and they were of different sizes, and of course the bullet weights were also different. To make matters worse, the shells used by these cannons were also different, some were iron bullets, some were stone bullets, and some were iron sand.

Zhu Youjian called together the cannon heads of each cannon and asked. Basically, everyone did not know the correct amount of charge, and the gunpowder they used did not look quite right. There was probably something wrong with the formula (it was not unknown)

formula, but in order to cut corners), most of the sulfur and fire salt used have not been refined. So Zhu Youjian had to let people test it on site - using a general gun of about a thousand kilograms, in front of Zhu Youjian, pretend

For the test firing, first load a little less powder, and then gradually increase it. After working for a long time, I finally estimated the difference between the gunpowder used in Datong Town and the standard black powder, and thus calculated a more accurate amount of powder.

Zhu Youjian then selected twelve relatively reliable bronze cannons from the eighteen general cannons brought from Datong Town - they all looked very old and should be antiques left over from Zhang Juzheng's reign.

, although it is a bit older, the Ming Dynasty at that time was relatively wealthy and caring, so the bronze cannons cast should not be too bad.

However, these twelve bronze cannons were of different sizes, and the cannonballs used were iron and stone, so Zhu Youjian had to calculate the amount of gunpowder one by one, and test-fire one by one to find out the shooting angle.

I kept busy until around lunch and finally managed to service all twelve "black cannons".

At this time, the archers in front had changed several batches, and the number of arrowheads they shot was over ten or two hundred thousand.
Chapter completed!