The time entered the end of March in 1617, and the spring arrived, and the rain gradually increased.

A few days ago, a rainstorm hit the rain, and the water level of the Xiaoqing River southwest of Beijing skyrocketed.At that time, the North Entry detachment was stationed in a Zhuangzi in Hexi, and Du Song, who learned the news, immediately led the army to raid, and only took two hours to march for 50 miles, and the speed was very fast.

On rainy days, the anti-thick fire and gunpowder cannot be used.This is equivalent to folding the other side's half of the force and the strongest means of attack.The rush of the river is equivalent to truncating the road to the east of the anti-throw, it can only go south or west, and it is much easier to pursue.

After half a month of waiting for such a great opportunity, how can Du Song let go?He personally brought two thousand troops, and quickly marched in the rain and night, and finally rushed to the ground with enough suffering - it was found that the anti-thrabster's combat engineers had repaired a pontoon bridge in an hour and ran away.

Du Song looked at the demolished pontoon bridge with his family, and they never thought that there were still people in the world who could play this hand-in-hand life - just by stakes and ropes, the thieves pulled out such a pontoon bridge.Ming Jun does not say whether there is this technology, this command and organization ability alone is seriously insufficient.No craftsman would be so happy.

After realizing that the official army was seriously insufficient in mobility, Du Song could only report that the court should no longer pursue the model, and changed to the fixed card point mode of the four-sided network.

Hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in Gyeonggi were not called troops at all, and many of them were people's husbands who were recruited by the official government.These people also remembered that the spring of the family had not cultivated a few acres of land and tried their best to escape.It is better to let these people chase the thieves than to let them guard the towns.

I don't know if this trick is really effective, anyway, like a rat-like anti-thrabster who runs around and runs away this time to stay in Tongzhou.Du Song did not dare to care for this, he did not ride and chase again, but returned to the rear to reorganize the troops, and another member of the pursuit of the general Liu Jiao in the Xiaoqing River confluence.The two of them would stand by the river and watch a section left behind by the anti-throat demolition bridge a few days ago.

“Was the river rushing?”Liu Qiaoling, known as Liu Dajie, is a member of the late Ming Sui, and has been nearly 60 years old.He was old and strong, brave and brave, tens of thousands of horses under his command, including three thousand elite family, two thousand Zhejiang soldiers are also very brave to fight.

“It was a rainy night, the river was more than thirty feet wide, and the water was rushing, and the horse could not cross it.”Du Song sighed, “Du asked the craftsmen in the camp, saying that it was impossible to repair the pontoon bridge in such a weather.”But the people around them are rumored to be like thieves, and there is still God's help in the rain and night.My generals, though half-doubtful, have also affected morale.”

Liu Qiaole said, “It’s just a bridge, maybe it’s just some of the doorways we didn’t want to go through.”It is reported that the anti-throws have stopped in Tongzhou, and the two of us have joined forces to kill, breaking the thief's ears."

Easy ears?

Dou Song laughed bitterly, but it was not good to refute it face to face.It has been almost a month since this gang of anti-throws, and the army has not taken advantage of it.Tens of thousands of horses listened a lot, but they could really fight.Such a bunch of people chased the back of the ass of the anti-thick running around, accidentally to be eaten by it, really tired of everyone.

Liu Yan was quite optimistic, laughing: "I heard that there are strange birds that can fly gunpowder, and Liu specially prepared a group of 'God fire ravens'."The return of the enemy bird can be broken.As long as the thief no longer ran, the two of me would just kill them from the ground.If Du Brother is in trouble, let my brother and let me grab a head job this time.”

You have never tasted the evil of thieves!

Du Song's heart was in his heart, but he wished Liu Yi could touch Zhou Qingfeng's musty head.He said: "Du Mou's son pursued the day, really tired."Brother Liu is willing to help, I am better to hide than to hide."

The two general soldiers set a policy of attack and defense, so they took thousands of Ding first and rushed to Tongzhou City five miles away in one day.When they learned that the anti-thrabster did not go into the city, the two suddenly rejoiced, rushed to take the soldiers up, cut off the road, and guarded the gate.They also did not attack immediately, and when tens of thousands of troops followed by them, they surrounded the three-story group outside the three floors of Tongzhou.

During this period, the anti-thrabster bird did indeed come out to make trouble, and Liu Qiao hurriedly used the "God Fire Raven" built by heavy money to expel and prevent the strange bird from approaching his own position.On the ground, his son Liu Zhaosun, as a pioneer, repeatedly tested and confirmed the layout of the anti-throat formation.

"The righteous father, the anti-thrabster entered Tongzhou, and forced the people of the city to build for them, obviously trying to stay here."However, they are not good at building, and the extremely hasty repair is to dig some trenches that are not wide and deep inside and outside the city's east entrance, which is ridiculous.

In addition, the anti-thrabster is not enough, and other walls outside the east are not guarded, allowing my army to seize it.They only built some barricades in the city and laid out some spear fire.These thin defenses are obviously unscrupulous and put themselves in danger of dying.”Liu Zhaosun was young and full of breath, and he spoke his own opinion.

Liu Qiao is a veteran of the sand field, reminiscent of the anti-threat rain night to build a pontoon bridge escape, slightly shook his head: "The abnormal things must have a demon, if this group of anti-threat really do not know the army, has long been annihilated, how will it wait until now into a big disaster?"If you take someone else to investigate, my army will be wide, and some of the dead will not matter."

Liu Zhaosun Lima nodded and said yes, and took someone to check.The city is clear at a glance, and it is unlikely to want to ambush.So he took people into the city and drove some of the tyrannical soldiers to explore the crooked streets.

The search did solve a lot of problems - a large number of mine-explosive bags were laid in the complex streets.There were stumbling hair, there was hair pulling, rushing into more than a hundred miscellaneous soldiers, bombarding a few times and almost dead.

Anti-throbs have formed a consensus in the army, and Liu Zhaosun did not dare to take his small life to try the opposite of the explosive bag that was like the nine-level magic bombardment.So he went back and suggested that Liu Qiao use miscellaneous soldiers to attack and control in the city and kill him from the east of the city.

Liu Qiao and the army were arranged outside Tongzhou City, and Zhou Qingfeng was also arranged in the city.He saw a large number of officers surrounded, and he wanted to use the three-winged aircraft to throw explosives, but he did not expect the officers opposite him to use a strange puppet that could fly into the sky.That thing is not afraid of death to jump up and explode, to scare Zhou Qingfeng enough.The three-winged aircraft did not have the ability to attack in the air, so the throwing of explosives could only be stopped.

No one on both sides of the war wants to easily launch an attack from the air, so the battlefield returns to the ground.Zhou Qingfeng wanted to give the army a hard lesson, but he also suffered from insufficient strength to defend only half of Tongzhou City.Except to the east, all the other walls were abandoned and the enemy was allowed to enter the city for street fighting.

In view of the lack of combat enthusiasm in the feudal army without the supervision of officers, Zhou Qingfeng, who laid a large number of mines, did not worry that the enemy could form a breakthrough from the direction of the city.And the good play he arranged for the army was also in the east of Tongzhou City, which had been blown up before, there were ruins of a wall more than ten meters long, and now the ruins have been cleared out of two or so 45 degrees of the line of fire.

At the back of the passage was two 150 mm 1617 short-barreled heavy guns.

Since Zhao Ze, who was in charge of engineering development, had a hard scalp to guard the sea cover defense line, he did not have time to develop artillery for Zhou Qingfeng.Cannon-making is not necessary for Zhao Ze himself, "Revolutionary Army" from the Nanjing Military Bureau recruited a lot of craftsmen with experience in building firearms, the Ming Army has long had the experience of using artillery.So Zhao Ze simply issued a mission to let the recruited craftsmen build their own guns.

The technical details of the gunbuilding were formulated by Zhao Ze, and the 1617 short-pipe heavy gun imitated the famous Napoleon Mountain howitzer.The receding structure, the tall two-wheeled gun frame, with the high and low aircraft to adjust the shooting angle, the direction adjustment can only rely on the adjustment of the gun frame.

The biggest feature of this thing is that it can be removed lightly, because it is a wooden structure, the barrel is short, and the total weight is only more than 300 kilograms.The heaviest barrel after decomposition is only 100 kg, and its maneuverability is very good.If necessary, it can even drag and walk with a four-wheeled carriage to keep up with the pace of the troops.

In order to make up the two guns, the engineering department of the "Revolutionary Army" made a series of technological leaps forward.Sand mold casting alone is an extremely versatile black technology.In addition, the hydraulic styling bed has also been built to solve the problem of processing a meter deep barrel.As for adjusting the thread and card lock structure of the high and low machines, it is a problem that must be faced in mechanical production.

Due to the lack of copper, this gun is made of cooked iron.However, due to the lack of steel testing equipment, the steel plant is not too confident in the quality of its own steel, and the loading of this gun will not dare to use too much, for fear of blowing up.

This led to the caliber of this gun is not small, but the range of the real bomb is only about 500 meters, and the shotgun is shortened to 200 meters.The burst shot is two rounds per minute, and the continuous shooting can only be dropped to one minute.

A total of four guns were built, one of which was damaged in extreme tests.One remained in the Golden State for training, and the remaining two doors were transported by the newly formed artillery company to Tongzhou, where it was placed among the ruins of the city walls.

In addition to the five hundred tons of barges, a large number of spare fire rope guns, armorial, gunpowder, projectiles, medicine and grain were brought.These things are enough to make the northward detachment stick in Tongzhou for a long time.

Zhou Qingfeng had high hopes for these two artillery pieces, and the Ming Army asked the artillery company to conduct live-fire drills before it came.He is also very satisfied with the results of the training, and is very much looking forward to the attitude of the Ming Army to face his new toys.

By the end of March, both sides of the war felt ready and couldn’t wait to kill them.The veteran Liu Jiao has been unable to vent the water that Tongzhou has been surrounded, and tens of thousands of horses have been arranged.He took the advice of Yizi Liu Zhaosun, hit both sides, and attacked the east side.The first one is the headquarters from Nanjing transferred from the city of Yao Guoxian.

They all say that anti-throwing firearms are powerful, and Yao Dushi has nothing else, and they are also powerful firearms.He took two thousand horses with him to follow Liu Yi, and the army carried a large number of caravans.On the first day of the war, these external inlaid iron flakes and even additional wooden shields of the bias were pushed to the east side of Tongzhou and killed.

Each car was equipped with antipyrex guns, as well as two fire-cutter soldiers.

There are many kinds of firearms in the Ming Dynasty, although most of them are joking, but some can be used.This gunner is one of them.It belongs to the medium-sized artillery in the Ming Army, which is installed directly on the car and discharged three.The gun is reinforced with an iron hoop, each weighing 50 kilograms, and can fire about one kilogram of projectiles.

Don't laugh, this thing, like a tiger squat, is really a practical firearm in the Ming Army.As for the fire-rhoppers, it is similar to the musketeers used by the guard women's soldiers.Just when the manufacturing is rough, the appearance is awkward, the weight is larger, and it can fire and kill weapons.

These cars are cheap, there are two or three hundred on the first line, and the front row is all shield vehicles that strengthen defense.The front of the shield is two layers of one-finger board, and the middle of the board is filled with mud.During the war, it also filled the water into the mud and sand, and even covered with a thick quilt of water.

This thing is similar to the earth tank, stupid and heavy, four or five people push up hard.It is difficult to move forward with a little pothole on the ground.But its defense effect is really good, ordinary fire whees is absolutely not worn.Ming military's own artillery to fight, but also to guard the city with the general's gun fired four or five pounds of lead bullets to break.

But the general cannon thousands of pounds, and the inconvenience of handling is not allowed.There is no such thing in the city.Although it was not long ago that there was news that the anti-throws also brought artillery, it could be said that the anti-throw artillery was small.The Ming army speculated with the power and weight of its own artillery, and believed that the artillery power of the anti-throw should be extremely limited and play no major role.

At this moment, the war began, and Yao Dushi, who was in charge of the command, stood hundreds of meters away from a distance, only to see that the anti-throws did seem to have arranged artillery in the ruins of the city wall.Look at the size, the gun is really not big.More importantly, there are only two.

“What’s the use of two guns?”Yao Dushi disdainful in his heart, "This will be this side of the light shield car will have 50, the extinguishing of the rhododendrons hundreds of guns."I just listen to how much the anti-throws hit, hit the thumping and how much?As long as my car is approaching, the follow-up soldiers can naturally kill it.The first thing about this thief is mine.”